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After an unexpected loss to Marquette in the Third Round of last year’s NCAA Tournament, Syracuse has its sights set on a deep run through the postseason in 2011-12. The Orange enters the season ranked fifth in the nation behind returning veterans Scoop Jardine, Kris Joseph and Brandon Triche. The upperclassmen are joined by a slew of talented young players on what is the deepest team head coach Jim Boeheim has ever had.

Inserted in today’s paper is The Daily Orange’s annual basketball preview to kick off the 2011-12 season. Syracuse plays its first regular-season game Saturday when it hosts Fordham in the Carrier Dome.

Two Maxwell departments merge names

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‘Compelling in its ordinariness’ A look at Lockerbie more than two decades after Pan Am Flight 103 crashed into the quiet town

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haos descended on the calm, shattering the quiet of Lockerbie, Scotland, for years to come.

Syracuse University and Lockerbie, two communities on separate ends of the 2011-2012 BASKETBA LL SEASON world, once nameless and faceless to one PREVIEW another, were joined by a shared grief on Dec. 21, 1988. Thirty-five SU students

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returning from studying abroad were among the 259 passengers killed when a terrorist bombing destroyed Pan Am Flight 103.

Chunks of the plane’s falling debris landed in Lockerbie, killing 11. In the years since, the small Scottish town, replete with decaying castles and striking scenery, has become synonymous with the disaster. For some, the mention

of Lockerbie still drudges up recollections of the bombing that captivated the spotlight more than two decades ago.

But Lockerbie, beyond that fateful day, exists. It exists in the compassionate nature of the townspeople. It exists in the people’s bond with the land. It exists in those who were told of or still remember the tragedy but are not defined by it.

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Although the University Senate meeting lasted about 10 minutes, several motions were passed, including a name change for the Department of Public Administration to the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs.

Harvey Teres, an English professor, presented the senate Committee on Academic Affairs’ report at the meeting, held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Maxwell Auditorium.

The program is a master’s degree program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, according to the Maxwell website. Teres recommended the name change on behalf of the Academic Affairs Committee.

According to the motion, the name change is the result of the Department of Public Administration and the International Relations Program recently merging together. The faculty of both the department and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs approved this change.

The senate passed the motion without any discussion or opposition.

Barbara Kwasnik, a professor in the School of Information Studies, present the Committee on Curricula’s

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WHAT IS USEN?

University Senate is an academic governing body with powers such as proposing policy on grading, student life and athletics, among many others. It also approves new curricula and recommends faculty for promotion.

USen meets once a month on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.

Follow the events at Penn State on dailyorange.com In the midst of a sexual abuse scandal involving a former assistant football coach at Penn State University, the university’s Board of Trustees fired Joe Paterno, 84, in the middle of his 46th season as head coach.

In light of the subsequent events at Penn State, as well as SU’s ties to its program, The Daily Orange sent two reporters and a photographer to State College, Pa., on Wednesday.

Penn State President Graham Spanier also stepped down.

At press time, there were reports of riots on campus. People gathered outside Paterno’s home in support, and there were reports of news trucks and light posts being overturned as people gathered in the streets.

For up-to-date information regarding the events surrounding the Penn State controversy, follow @dailyorange and @DOsports on Twitter. Articles, photos, multimedia and other information will be available on dailyorange.com.

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Work in KOREA Video Conference Sponsored by Work In Asia 12:30 pm, School of Management 104 Join us to learn about internships/jobs in South Korea, and what it is like to live and work there.

Cost: Free Arsenic and Old Lace Sponsored by Warehouse Architecture Theater 7 pm, Slocum Auditorium, Slocum Hall Two elderly sisters are famous in Brooklyn for their acts of charity.

Unfortunately, their charity includes poisoning lonely old men. Cost: $3 Cowboys and Aliens Sponsored by University Union Cinemas 8 pm, HBC Gifford Auditorium UU Cinemas presents Cowboys and Aliens as part of its FREE weekly screening series.

11/12 Arsenic and Old Lace Sponsored by Warehouse Architecture Theater 7 pm, Slocum Auditorium, Slocum Hall Two elderly sisters are famous in Brooklyn for their acts of charity.

Unfortunately, their charity includes poisoning lonely old men. Cost: $3 Laughing for Education featuring D.L. Hughley and Dean Edwards Sponsored by Phi Beta Sigma 7 pm, Goldstein Auditorium Homecoming Comedy Show featuring one of the “Kings of Comedy,” D.L. Hughley. Tickets go on sale October 31, 2011!!! Cost: $10 w/SUID, $15 w/o The Mandarins Fall Invitational Sponsored by The Mandarins 7 pm, Hendricks Chapel The Mandarins are celebrating our 15th anniversary with this concert, and the release of our album. Cost: Free Cowboys and Aliens Sponsored by University Union Cinemas 8 pm, HBC Gifford Auditorium UU Cinemas presents Cowboys and Aliens as part of its FREE weekly screening series.

Student Association Presents Weekly Student Organization Calendar

FEATURED EVENT SUN The Debate for Student Association President and Comptroller 11/13 7 pm, Grant Auditorium

Come out and see our two candidates for Student Association President state their cases for election and answer your questions as to why they would be the best to lead you into the 56th Session. Questions will be taken in person and live via twitter by tweeting at @SAatSU. Cost: Free

11/14

Fundraising and Clothing Drive for Earthquake Relief Sponsored by Turkish Student Association 10 am, Schine Atrium Please visit us at Schine Atrium for monetary donations. Additional clothing boxes will be at various locations on campus until 11/18.

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Student Association Assembly Meeting Every Monday of classes 7:30pm Maxwell Aud. Student Association is the official student governing body of Syracuse University and SUNY ESF undergraduate students.

We serve to represent students in all facets of university life.

Everyone is welcome to come get involved!

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Fundraising and Clothing Drive for Earthquake Relief Sponsored by Turkish Student Association 10 am, Schine Atrium Please visit us at Schine Atrium for monetary donations. Additional clothing boxes will be at various locations on campus until 11/18.

Contact us at tsa@syr.edu for more information. Cost: Free

8th Annual Talent Show Sponsored by Kappa Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc co-sponsored by Sigma Beta Rho Fraternity, Inc 7 pm, Schine Underground Have a talent you would like to showcase? Contact Mimi Wu at moirae.kpl@gmail.com if you are interested by November 4th. Cost: Free

Starry Night for Secular Students Sponsored by Secular Student Alliance 8 pm, Hall of Languages 500 Listen to the stories of secular students!

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5pm, Competition to win prizes by completing clue stops around campus

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Back" 8pm Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center. Tickets are $3.

Cowboys and Aliens

presented by University Union Cinemas 10pm 201ABC Goldstein Student Center Free screening and free food provided.

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Fundraising and Clothing Drive for Earthquake Relief Sponsored by Turkish Student Association 10 am, Schine Atrium Please visit us at Schine Atrium for monetary donations. Additional clothing boxes will be at various locations on campus until 11/18.

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Orange Central Bash, 5:30pm Goldstein Aud., Schine Student Center.

Football SU v. South Florida 8pm Carrier Dome

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Basketball SU v. Fordham 4pm Carrier Dome

The Mandarins Fall Invitational

7pm, Hendricks Chapel. Free.

“Laughing for an Education featuring D.L. Hughley and Dean Edwards”

7pm Goldstein Aud., Schine Student Center. Tickets available at Schine Box Office.

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stacie fanelli | asst. photo editor TIM O’CONNOR , the store manager, stands in the new Verizon Wireless store on Marshall Street, which is set to open Friday. O’Connor, who has been in the wireless phone industry for more than 25 years, says the store will offer student discounts up to 25 percent.

Verizon Wireless to open location on Marshall

By Nick Cardona STAFF WRITER

Verizon Wireless will open a branch on Marshall Street on Friday, offering student discounts and diversifying the storefronts on campus.

Tim O’Connor, the store manager and member of the wireless telephone industry for more than 25 years, said Syracuse University students would benefit greatly from the store being on Marshall Street and hopefully cause them to switch carriers to Verizon.

Marshall Street is known for its wide variety of restaurants. The addition of the store will offer a new option in the historical area and will help SU students who have Veri-

“The cellphone has become something you cannot leave home without.”

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zon with any cellphone problems, O’Connor said.

The store will officially open Friday, but there will be a grand opening ceremony at the start of spring semester with giveaways, special deals and discounts for all students and Syracuse residents.

As a die-hard SU sports fan, O’Connor said he is very excited about opening this store on campus.

Students who have Verizon as their provider will have the opportunity to receive 20 to 25 percent discounts at the Marshall Street location only, O’Connor said.

“There is no better deal out there,” O’Connor said.

He said he believes the discount will attract more SU students to the store and make Verizon more appealing to undergraduates on campus.

O’Connor said multiple people have come to him in the past two months saying that having a cellphone is vital in college. If students don’t have their cellphones with

them in the morning, “you might as well say I didn’t get dressed,” O’Connor said.

Katie Bachler, a freshman communication and rhetorical studies major, said she is excited about the store because it will provide her technological support for her phone if she needs it.

O’Connor said he is glad students feel this way and hopes he can be of service to the university that has been such a big part of his life.

So many students are using phones for email, Twitter and Facebook, and he said he believes this store will help those students get phones with the capabilities they need.

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Late Orange Central to feature sporting events, parade

By Dylan Segelbaum STAFF WRITER

This year’s Orange Central Homecoming will feature a parade, multiple sporting events, award ceremonies and events run by distinguished alumni.

“They’re all traditions. We want students to remember the events of this week after they graduate,” said Cristina Swift, assistant director of alumni relations at Syracuse University.

Orange Central, which takes

place this weekend, builds on primarily student-targeted events held during the week. This year’s Homecoming marks a slight departure from previous years because it is being held several weeks later, in mid-November.

Swift said several key factors influenced the change of date.

Coming Back Together, a triannual reunion of African-American and Latino alumni that was held Sept. 22-25, pushed back the date of Homecoming because it was sched-

uled almost two years in advance, Swift said. Holding Homecoming so close to this major event would cause logistical problems, she said.

An estimated 900 to 1,400 alumni are scheduled to attend, she said.

There has also been an especially high response from Generation Orange, SU alumni who graduated within the last decade.

A result of this change was a separate weekend for senior alumni, held in early September. The university recognized that senior alumni might

have had other commitments and might not want to travel to Syracuse in November, she said. Coupled with the fact that there are only a few home football games, this weekend was the most logical choice.

The later date, however, does have a few upsides.

“Having the basketball game this weekend makes the draw for alumni even greater,” Swift said.

The SU football team will host University of South Florida on Friday

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Fifteen-time NBA all-star Shaquille O’Neal will appear at halftime during the men’s basketball game against Fordham University on Saturday to promote “The Stupid Drink.” O’Neal will also be on campus to film a commercial developed by students.

In 2009, a group of Syracuse University students created “The Stupid Drink” in the National Student Advertising Competition. “The Stupid Drink” is an advertising campaign encouraging students to recognize the difference between “drinking and drinking too much.”

The students received first place for the idea.

The campaign was funded and launched this year by the Century Council, a group of distillers in Washington, D.C. “The Stupid Drink” posters hang throughout campus.

The Century Council hired O’Neal to put a celebrity face with the campaign. O’Neal will shoot a commercial developed by students as part of the campaign’s one-year test trial at SU, said Ed Russell, associate professor in the S.I. Newhouse school of Public Communications. Russell has been a leader in the campaign since it began.

The Century Council called Russell and proposed bringing in O’Neal, Russell said.

During halftime, O’Neal will be introduced and will tell students why he’s on campus, Russell said.

“I think the idea of Shaquille O’Neal coming out and saying something about ‘The Stupid Drink’ suddenly gives it more than just a campus feel,” Russell said. “It’s more of a national prominence.”

O’Neal will also be filming a commercial on campus. The commercial idea is a parody of a SportsCenter broadcast, Russell said. It will air on CitrusTV and local stations.

The commercial was chosen from three finalists, said Lauren Silverman, a junior advertising major.

Silverman was in one of the three groups.

“Our professor presented us with a book that the competition team developed a couple years ago that ended up winning,” Silverman said. “We were asked to develop a television commercial that we’d pitch to the class.”

Silverman’s commercial did not win, but she said she sees the positive effect O’Neal can have.

“His celebrity status is hopefully going to get more people to pay

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Provost, CFO’s figures defending SU’s educational strength don’t hold up Recently, Provost Eric Spina and Executive Vice President Lou Marcoccia offered a set of basic facts for judging the performance of Syracuse University. We applaud their shift to a fact-based discussion.

But their op-ed in The Post-Standard sometimes clouded as much as it clarified.

They state that “since 2009, the university has hired 250 full-time faculty members.”

This leaves the impression that SU has 250 more faculty members today than then.

Other public data offer a clearer picture. Our sources are SU’s own Web page, the university’s Office of Institutional Research and the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors. All three provide readily accessible public data. We take 2005 as the base year for our calculations because the current administration would have no influence on hiring practices before that time. AAUP says there were 873 full-time fac-

ulty members at the university in 2005, the SU Web page shows 958 and OIRA publishes 879. In 2011, the same three public sources present these totals for full-time faculty — 976, 1062 and 981, respectively. Taking the average gain across the three sources, SU’s full-time faculty has increased by 103 during Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s years. If you use the same sources and calculate the increase from 2009-11, the time frame in the op-ed, the number is less than 40.

Spina and Marcoccia state that expenditures per student “have kept pace with growth” and cite a range of data, not all of which is open to inspection. Drawing again on publicly available data from university reports, our calculations suggest a slightly different conclusion. We are primarily focused on what happens to the tuition dollars moms and dads pay to SU each year. We simply take the amount in billed tuition;

subtract the cut the administration takes out of that income for its own use along with the financial aid that is immediately paid out to discount tuition in the marketplace; and then we use the remaining figure as the amount left to be directed to the academic mission of the schools and colleges. The resulting amount has indeed gone up, from $168.5 million in 2006-07 to $195.8 million in 2010-11.

So has student enrollment during that time frame, from 12,144 undergraduates to 13,878.

Using those numbers and adjusting for inflation over that time period, the average spent per student drops from $15,520 to $14,109, which represents roughly a 9 percent decline.

We all agree the university endowment has not markedly increased in the last decade. Spina and Marcoccia cite the recession and stock market ups and downs for the lackluster performance. They also note that many other academic institutions show simi-

lar poor results. Yet, when we look back over the last decade at our retirement accounts (our personal endowments so to speak), they have performed far better, roughly doubling, and we had no billion-dollar fundraising campaign to enrich our portfolios. Granted, we were conservative and highly diversified.

Unlike the university, we sold nothing into a declining market, as IRS declarations document SU must have done, taking a $120 million real loss in 2008. We puzzle over how we two could have weathered recent financial storms seemingly so much better than the best and brightest in America’s academic institutions.

Bob McClure

Chapple Family Professor Citizenship and Democracy Emeritus

Jeff Stonecash

Ma x well Professor of Political Science

Discussion on SU’s reputation, direction lacks serious inquiry Robin Wilson’s article about Syracuse University in The Chronicle of Higher Education has generated much national attention, but little serious inquiry. The attention is mostly assertions. These are the undisputed goods: diversity of all sorts, an expanded recruiting base, globalization, realizing that a city and its leading university are stronger when they help each other thrive. The Post-Standard has provided a venue for opinions about how Chancellor Nancy Cantor pursues her vision and has endorsed her views. That’s fair and fine. Local civic leaders even sent a simultaneous cascade of letters, extolling accomplishments that are not in dispute. But the paper has done no reporting on the questions roiling the SU campus.

The Chronicle article missed them, too.

Cantor’s supporters howl that it failed to reveal her accomplishments; her critics complain that it gave her a supportive platform and ignored the corrosive internal problems.

The only serious investigative reporting has been by The Daily Orange, which has started

looking into the facts and has editorially called for “honesty from everyone involved in the conversation.”

The central issues are internal to the university. They concern the cost at which Cantor’s social agenda is pursued and the management practices that suppress informed discussion on campus about those costs. Consider these examples: • Members of our University Senate budget committee complain of being denied budgetary information that exists but is kept confidential, even while the administration claims transparency.

• Enrollment statistics are presented with a shallowness that prevents serious scrutiny.

(The faculty knows medians and ranges can hide the realities. We seek the shape of the distribution, not aggregated figures that obscure realities.)

• The extraordinarily rapid growth in enrollment has brought more students than we can serve well; on the front lines of teaching them, there is considerable chaos. Basic disciplines

like mathematics have too little space for the present students, let alone capacity for more.

• The First Year Forum program, once a bright spot of our curriculum, had groups of 15 students mentored by a professor who often maintained connection with them for years.

Now more than a third of the groups are led by instructors who are not regular faculty; in many cases they are office staff who are not faculty at all — commandeered in desperation by an administration that cannot manage the hordes without a dilution of quality, which it steadfastly denies.

• The rhetoric claims we teach students the skills, including writing, they need for success.

In reality, our underfunded Writing Center fails to help many of the students sent to it.

• As construction of the Connective Corridor disrupts our teaching environment, many classrooms are in disrepair and so badly maintained that students complain of the filth.

These problems flow from Cantor’s priorities. I don’t claim that my view of those priori-

ties should prevail — only that they merit serious inquiry and discussion on campus. Every week, I hear from faculty who agree. Reporting on why that open and informed discussion does not occur would be a contribution by serious journalism.

The D.O. reported Wilson’s view that “finding sources to talk about SU on the record was, at times, more difficult than getting people to talk about illegal behavior.” But student journalists are undeterred and are doing serious investigative reporting. They want to understand the costs in educational quality, in reputation, in value to the student experience, of all the good that Cantor’s social agenda incurs.

The Post-Standard does superb reporting on many problems within the institutions in our community. Having devoted so much space to opinions about Cantor’s vision, it’s time to shine a reportorial light on the problems and practices keeping this debate alive.

Samuel Gorovitz

Professor of Philosophy

Referenda other than Mississippi’s Prop 26 deserve attention, too As a single mother, a woman and someone who grew up in Mississippi, I have immense pride in my home state for rejecting Proposition 26, which would have banned abortion, in vitro fertilization and many types of birth control.

The move to put Prop 26 on the ballot was a highly strategic one — conservatives knew the only state with a fighting chance to pass the measure would be Mississippi. After all, they will vote religion, not morality. They are simple, uneducated people who are ignorant to major political issues. Hell, they’re racist, sexist, inbred rednecks, right?

All of those stereotypes are grossly unfair and blew up in the face of the right wing that sought to take advantage of the state’s faith to advance their political agenda.

These stereotypes exist not only in politics, but here on campus, as well.

A cartoon which appeared in the Oct. 21 issue of The Daily Orange depicted West Virginians as “banjo playing, sister kissing and squir-

rel eating.” It haphazardly lumped an entire culture into a stereotype that has plagued the South for decades. This is downright offensive, and I have a hard time believing a similar characterization of other cultures, such as African Americans or Latinos, would have been tolerated.

That said, concern over Prop 26 wasn’t unwarranted. The fact that it was put on the ballot at all says something about how unsettled the abortion debate is in this country. For some, at least.

Mississippi proved that you can use every scare tactic possible to evoke people’s emotions and prey on their faith. But when it comes down to one person alone in a booth, he or she does the right thing.

California voters overturned gay marriage in 2008 with Proposition 8, which goes to show that even states thought to be more modern or progressive than the Deep South still can’t overcome partisan politics when it comes to personal freedom.

What isn’t getting the attention it should

is not the failed attempt of a small, extreme religious group to circumvent Roe v. Wade, but the overwhelming success of a measure in more than 14 states to require voters show government-issued ID at the polls.

The supposed goal of this bill is to fight voter fraud — an occurrence the Brennan Center for Justice says is rarer than being struck by lightning.

What it actually does is make millions of voters ineligible to vote. It’s a modern-day Jim Crow law, adding a tax onto voting that will leave the most vulnerable populations unable to participate in our democracy. And that’s happening everywhere.

Rebekah Jones

Senior geography and newspaper journalism major Jones is a staff writer `at The Daily Orange.

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Homecoming offers great opportunity to network, schmooze with alumni Dear Editor, Although this letter is addressed to you, it is really a letter to all SU students who are currently on campus about Orange Central.

Granted OC is generally known to be an event associated with alumni coming back to campus to reconnect and reminisce. However, it is most definitely not solely for alumni. This is your week as well.

There have been so many exciting and interesting programs and

activities specifically planned for students by the student OC committee, chaired by Danielle Matfess.

The committee spent last week pre-tabling at the dining halls to get people pumped up for OC. Some of the highlights include SU Idol on Monday evening; Slice of Orange Days on Tuesday and Wednesday; Battle of the Bands on Tuesday evening; Lil B and Tayyib Ali with student opener Kay Con on Wednesday evening; showcase “Bring the

let ter to the editor Beat Back” on Thursday evening; the parade and pep rally followed

by Orange Bash on Friday; and D.L. Hughley and Dean Edwards on Saturday evening. For a complete schedule of events, see syr.orgsync. com/OrangeCentral.

There are also many other alumni events during OC that students would enjoy. For a schedule of these events,

see orangecentral.syr.edu.

Much more important than all of these events is that OC is a once a year opportunity for you to mix, mingle and network with many alumni at one time. We who preceded you and — because of the great start in life SU afforded us — give our time, talent and treasure should be your target for seeking guidance and advice (and maybe that job or internship connection), or perhaps just to talk to and hear about life

after your college days are behind you. So don’t be shy. Approach alumni at these events or on campus and tell them about you and ask about them. You may be very surprised at how receptive they are, how very willing they are to provide you with some words of wisdom and maybe even their business cards. After all, we are all Orange!

Brian Spector

President, Syracuse Universit y Alumni Association

Students should vote in referedum to fund NYPIRG in elections next week A referendum will appear on the ballot when students vote for Student Association president and comptroller next week on MySlice.

The campus chapter of the New York State Public Interest Group will ask students for their consent to directly receive $3 of everyone’s student activity fee. Collectively, this makes up part of the group’s budget to supplement money it raises each summer by going door-to-door.

NYPIRG is a nonprofit, nonparti-

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san organization run entirely by students at New York state colleges and universities. The group works to keep local and state politicians accountable, carries out public awareness campaigns about various legislation and fights for students’ rights in Albany, among other programs.

For instance, the campus chapter runs legal clinics to help counsel students filing or collecting small claims from landlords. They have been educating the campus about

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editorial by the daily orange editorial board hydrofracking, a divisive local issue that could incur negative environmental and health consequences on the one hand and economic benefits on the other. The group also employs a handful of students from various majors to get policy and public relations experience.

NYPIRG urges students to ask for

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their $3 back if they don’t want to give it to the organization. Students need only stop by their office above Faegan’s Café and Pub on South Crouse Avenue and ask for a $3 check.

In a mock vote among the 11 members of The Daily Orange Editorial Board, we voted to pass the referendum and give $3 of the student fee to NYPIRG by 7-4.

Those who consented thought the above student and public services were worth the relatively small payment.

t h e i n de pe n de n t s t u de n t n e w spa pe r of sy r acuse, new york

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Those who opposed giving the money said they didn’t reap any benefit from the organization. They said $12 over four years was too much and said they wished more was done on campus to inform students about the donation. They also suggested the referendum be on the ballot every year, as opposed to every three years.

The board encourages students, regardless of their views, to vote in the elections next week.

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report. Kwasnik presented a motion including curriculum changes to several schools and colleges.

The School of Education gained six new courses and lost two programs. Both the Doctor of Education and Certification of Advanced Studies Reading Education programs were discontinued because the School of Education has not admitted students to these programs for several years, and there are also no active students in them, according to the report.

A request from the Reading and Language Arts Department to change the name of the Reading Education doctorate program to the Literacy Education doctorate program was also included in the motion. The request was made to keep the name parallel with the master’s certification program and to be a more compatible title to an evolving field in which the new name is considered more current, the

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Lawrence Mason, a professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, has journeyed to Scotland 15 times in search of this identity. As the tragedy lingered and years passed, Mason sought to look outside the disaster that tainted the town’s humble and quiet existence. In his search, Mason found a sense of serenity at Tundergarth, the site opposite where the plane’s nosecone fell and many of the victims’ bodies were recovered, he said.

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“This is the time for department chairs and various colleges to be collecting information for nominations for emeritus for the faculty that will be retiring at the end of this year.”

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report stated.

The School of Information Studies also received one new class and courses were altered in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The motion, containing all the curriculum

fallen and impinged on this ground,” Mason said. “It’s so spectacularly beautiful and serene and spiritual.”

Mason taught eight of the students who perished in the disaster and was especially close with Julianne Kelly and Alexia Tsaris. When Mason returned from photographing Lockerbie during one of his trips there, he showed a photograph of Tundergarth — rays parting the gray skies and reflecting pools of sunlight on the sweeping green expanse — to Tsaris’ mother. At that moment, Mason learned he photographed the spot where Tsaris’ body was found.

“If Alexia could have chosen a place to die, this is the place she would have chosen,” Tsaris’ mother told Mason.

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changes, was passed without contention.

Doug Anderson, a mathematics professor, presented a motion for the senate Committee of Appointment and Promotions to promote associate professor Randall Jorgensen to the title of full professor. The Senate voted unanimously to promote Jorgensen.

In his report, Anderson also motioned to honor Michael Sickler, associate professor of art, and John Orentlicher, professor of transmedia, with the title of emeritus. This again resulted in a unanimous vote for approval from the senate.

Anderson stressed the importance of the emeritus title.

“This is the time for department chairs and various colleges to be collecting information for nominations for emeritus for the faculty that will be retiring at the end of this year. In the past, these nominations have tended to trickle in,” Anderson said. “I am asking that everybody pay attention to that so can be handled in timely way.”

attention to the campaign,” she said. “A lot of people respect him.”

O’Neal’s appearance is one of many promotions the campaign will run this weekend.

It also has plans for the football game. The campaign will give out 4,000 T-shirts at Friday’s game against the University of South Florida.

Coasters will be delivered to bars and sororities, Russell said. Students from Newhouse will also be handing out mini-posters with the campaign’s logo, as well as the “Symptoms of Stupid.”

Among the symptoms listed are slurred speech, regrettable texting and verbal abuse of a complete stranger.

Though the group will push forward with its advertising, Russell expects the four-time NBA champion to be a lot of fun.

Said Russell: “If all goes well, hopefully he’ll give a great big ‘Go Orange!’”

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Mason included the photo in “Looking for Lockerbie,” a book he collaborated with Melissa Chessher, chair of the magazine journalism department, that details how Lockerbie was affected by, but also removed, from the disaster.

In December 2001, Chessher began a sabbatical in Lockerbie, researching and interviewing for the book as she lived among the townspeople.

Chessher said she was “immediately charmed” by the quintessential small town and was struck by its idyllic nature.

During her stay in Lockerbie, a lawn chair factory opened miles in the distance to the dismay of Chessher’s neighbors, who complained of light and noise pollution despite being reasonably far from the factory.

“It’s just softer, rounder, greener, quieter than any place I’ve ever been in, in America,” she said, adding that she was fascinated by the number of grazing sheep.

Since 1988, images of Pan Am Flight 103’s charred wreckage have become almost inseparable from thoughts on Lockerbie. Seeing people in Lockerbie, their lives not bogged down by the weight of the tragedy, was refreshing, she said.

“I just found it to be compelling in its ordinariness,” Chessher said.

••• When Judy O’Rourke visited Lockerbie a little more than a decade earlier than Chessher in May 1990, she packed the largest bottle of aspirin available.

Before leaving for Lockerbie, O’Rourke said, she became physically ill at the mention of “Pan Am” or “Lockerbie.” Unsure of what to expect, she braced for the worst, but she was pleasantly surprised by the comfort she found in Lockerbie’s kind and welcoming spirit.

“The town was still very much in recovery.

But they were extremely, extremely compassionate and welcoming about it. And it just set the tone for years and years of relationships between us,” said O’Rourke, a member of the Remembrance Scholarship selection committee and director of undergraduate studies at SU. O’Rourke’s visit to Lockerbie was prompted by the university’s desire to cement the first pair of Lockerbie Scholarships, a yearlong scholarship awarded to two Lockerbie Academy students. The first pair of scholars graduated in 1991 and the scholarship has been awarded annually ever since.

Samuel Gorovitz, a philosophy professor, played a large role in creating the scholarship that was created to bind two communities that “developed profound respect for each other.”

In the beginning, Gorovitz said, it was “an act of tremendous courage” for the parents of the first scholars to send their children to SU, con-

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sidering the distance and mainstream coverage of New York centered on violence in the Bronx.

One of this year’s scholars, Fergus Barrie, wasn’t alive when Pan Am 103 rocked the quiet country town forever, but decades later, it is still affected by the repercussions of that day.

Barrie, whose home is six miles away from Lockerbie, said he was on vacation in New York City and visited Rockefeller Center when an older man, recognizing Barrie’s accent, asked where he was from. After being pressed, Barrie responded with “Lockerbie,” altering the course of the conversation.

“As soon as I said Lockerbie, his face completely changed,” Barrie said.

Barrie said he believes the sequence of events surrounding the bombing is intriguing.

To the east and west of Lockerbie are stretches of field. Had the plane gone down miles in either direction, Lockerbie would have been unaffected, he said.

“No one would be killed in Lockerbie,” Barrie said. “It’s weird how everything happened the way it did.”

Months into his first semester at SU, Barrie said the differences between university life and life in his hometown are apparent. In the quiet seclusion of Lockerbie, Barrie said, he could remain holed up in his home and go days on end without seeing another person.

Life at SU and the United States is a far cry from the slower paced, more agriculture-based existence in Lockerbie, Barrie said.

“I haven’t seen a cow or sheep for three months. It’s a little strange,” he said.

••• One of Lockerbie’s traditions, the Gala, is usually held on a Sunday in June every year, Barrie said. The Gala is a town-wide celebration with a carnival-like atmosphere, in which a parade marches through the community and the townspeople join in on obstacle courses and street games.

It was at one these Gala’s, 19 years after the disaster, that Mason, professor in Newhouse and co-collaborator of “Looking for Lockerbie,” said he felt the town was no longer weighed down by the sorrow of that day. Pipe bands played in the background as children sat smiling on their parents’ shoulders and many waved the Scottish flag. A generation after the bombing, he felt Lockerbie was fully healed.

“You figure a generation is 20 years. This was roughly 19 years,” Mason said. “It seemed to me there were enough children who didn’t have the horror of this experience, who put smiles back on faces of their parents, grandparents and had innocence and joy in their lives.” dbtruong@syr.edu

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wo Smith College professors have been pulling pranks on students for years. Their latest stunt: telling students the school would only be serving local vegetarian food.

Introductory logic classes on campus simulated the hoax to promote public debate on campus. The two professors behind the prank were Jim Henle and Jay Garfield, and they have been pulling stunts like this for a dozen years now.

In previous years, the professors have spread rumors about the cancellation of intramural sports on campus and Smith College sponsoring the J. Crew clothing line. This year’s rumors similarly affected the all-female student body.

“There were students who were excited and in favor of going ‘locavore’ (eating only local food) vegetarian. Lots of students were excited but opposed,” Henle said.

“Some thought the debate wasn’t real. Some didn’t even know it was going on.”

The purpose of these rumors has always been to engage the whole campus in “rational civil discourse,” Garfield said. Students in the class agree on a controversial topic and begin discussing it with classmates outside of class. These rumors continue to spread by word of mouth, through social media and chalking on sidewalks.

In general, the students in the Logic 100 classes enjoy the pranks very much, said Henle, and the reaction is mixed among other students. Upperclassmen familiar with the pranks of the past are usually amused or annoyed, and new students typically find it exciting, he said.

Even the administration got a kick out of this rumor, Garfield said. Most years, Henle and Garfield do not consult the administration with their ideas, but this year was different.

The school board was informed so that it could brace itself for potential student backlash. Despite the complaints, Smith College administrators played along with the prank.

Garfield and Henle do not want people to remember these pranks as a class’ attempt to ruffle feathers. Although Henle said there never was a real question of whether Smith College would go vegetarian, the spread of these fictitious accounts was driven by a very real motivation. The professors strongly emphasized that this attempt was not just for fun. The rumors had a far deeper purpose than that.

“It’s not a prank, it’s a way to teach logic, a way not only to teach in the classroom but in the entire campus,” said Garfield. “We are trying to show that logic is a fun and attractive

thing to do.”

Henle and Garfield repeat this exercise every year because they said they feel it successfully involves individuals on campus in a larger public discussion. Conversation between students and faculty increased because of rumors regarding dining hall changes. Over time, students also find new

outlets in which to engage their peers, like Facebook.

The professors said they hope this assignment helps students realize the importance of addressing major issues. By creating a fictitious scenario to provoke student responses, Henle and Garfield were encouraging a young generation accused of tiptoeing around big problems.

“Part of this has been lost. This is what I call logic outreach.

There are some issues that people don’t want to debate,” Henle said. “The long-term goal of this exercise is to allow debate, show that it’s fun, toy with ideas and open up the campus to a freer expression of ideas.” asmuckel@syr.edu

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night at 8 p.m., and the basketball team will play Fordham University at 4 p.m. in the Carrier Dome on Saturday.

Brian Spector, president of the SU Alumni Association, said he has received a positive response from alumni looking to come back this year.

Spector said the variety of events makes Orange Central appealing. Students should take advantage of this large influx of alumni, who are essential to the university, he said.

Alumni can provide contacts in fields students wish to enter, leads on job openings, and college and career advice from those who have already experienced it, he said.

“I think students have to realize that Orange Central is not just for alumni,” Spector said.

“There’s a lot of programming for students, and at the programming for alumni, students should feel comfortable and encouraged to attend.”

Spector said events such as the Orange Circle Awards, an informal ceremony that honors Syracuse community members who do extraordinary things for others, is expected to be a large attraction. The event is part of the larger Orange Central Bash.

Similarly, the George Arents Awards, the highest honor that can be given to an alumnus, will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. This year’s recipients include Joanne Alper, circuit court judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit of Virginia;

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Spirit Team and Otto from 5-8 p.m. on the Quad. There will be a bonfire at 5:30 p.m.

SU Football game SU will kick off against the University of South Florida at 8 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.

Tennity Ice Skating Skating is available throughout the weekend from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.. Admission is free with an alumni button and skate rentals are half price.

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Alumni Book Signing Distinguished alumni Taye Diggs, Shane Evans, Scott Pitoniak, George Hauer, London Ladd, Rick Burton and Sandra Caron will sign copies of their books.

SU Men’s Basketball game SU will take the court against Fordham University at 4 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.

Shaquille O’Neal will make an appearance.

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Rick Fedrizzi, founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council; Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation; and Sean O’Keefe, CEO of EADS North America and former NASA administrator, according to the website.

Other scheduled events include an alumni book signing, greek reunion, and a pep rally and biggest fan competition.

John Marino, a freshman environmental engineering major, only heard about Orange Central from the banners hanging outside of Schine Student Center.

“I’d imagine there would be a football game, so I’ll probably go to that,” he said. “Other than that, I don’t think I’ll be attending any of the other Homecoming events.”

Rose Zusinas, a junior chemical engineering major and a resident adviser at SU, said she plans to attend a few of the Homecoming events in addition to taking her residents to some.

“I usually attend the parade,” she said, “and the dance showcase.”

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Homecoming Showcase by DanceWorks Student vocal and dance groups will perform from 8-11 p.m. at Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center. Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office.

Remembrance Scholar Rose Laying SU Remembrance Scholars will lay roses at 2:03 p.m. at the Place of Remembrance to honor the lives of the student victims from the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.

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“They’re all traditions.

We want students to remember the events of this week after they graduate.”

“The cellphone has become something you cannot leave home without,” O’Connor said.

Students are not the only ones who will benefit from this new store, O’Connor said.

Workers from the nearby Syracuse hospitals can also take advantage of the new branch and the special discounts.

“People, when they break their phones, need to get a new phone that day,” O’Connor said.

Hospital workers will now have the same access students have, he said. More people will be attracted to Verizon because it is the largest wireless provider in the United States. It makes more sense to have a Verizon store than any other carrier, O’Connor said.

Amanda Mackoul, a sophomore television, radio and film major and a Verizon customer, said she is not as excited for the store as other

students. Mackoul said the store will be useful if students need a phone, but for those who don’t need one, “it’s just another store opening up on Marshall Street.”

O’Connor said many people would benefit from the store no matter what they need. The store will carry cases, headphones and other accessories to go along with the phones.

Workers and students will have many options to choose from when the branch opens, he said.

Two retailers located next to Verizon’s new storefront told O’Connor they are excited to see a cellphone carrier on Marshall Street because it will help differentiate the area. This new store will “change things up a bit” and make it more appealing to everyone around the campus, they told O’Connor.

Said O’Connor: “You now have a more diverse group of retailers instead of just food establishments.” nrcardon@syr.edu

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Q&A with rapper Lil B

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The Daily Orange: What does it mean to be “The BasedGod?”

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Lil B: Being based means accepting yourself for who you are and living your life how you want to live it. I see myself as the ultimate man to live the based mentality, so that’s where the “BasedGod” name came from. It’s all about being a Good Samaritan, spreading love and serving humanity. I learned that when people are young, they make mistakes because they don’t know how to live the right way. Everyone is human, but making mistakes doesn’t make you a bad person if you learn from them. It’s all a part of being based.

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What can fans expect from the new album?

It’s going to be a mainstream album, and it’s going to surprise and not surprise people at the same time.

I’ve been working on it for five or six years now, and it’s going to be about 13 songs. I’m so proud of it so far, and I can’t wait for it to get out worldwide. It should come out in 2012, but I can’t tell you what it’s called yet.

I’m also writing a new mixtape that I think will really touch people.

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onning a pair of gold-rimmed sunglasses and a white tank top, Lil B walked onto the stage with a cocky swagger, flashing a peace sign to an audience feverishly scrambling to push closer to the young rap star.

For an hourlong set in the Schine Underground, the notoriously reclusive Lil B spread his message of love and having a positive attitude to Syracuse University students Wednesday night. The concert was the first show in the University Union Bandersnatch Music Series this semester.

“I love you all with all my heart,” the rapper said after finishing his first song, the slowbuilding jam “Last of the Basedworld.” “I’ve never been to Syracuse, but I’m here 100 percent in the flesh. It’s going to be a spectacular, positive night.”

Although the audience clamoring at the barricade blocking off the stage danced and sang along with every song Lil B threw at them, the energy stalled during the show’s openers.

New Jersey hip-hop emcee IamG first took the stage at 8 p.m. with student rapper Marcus Neal, who goes by stage name Indo, hopping around the stage frenetically against a background of hazy red and blue stage lights.

Although the rappers tried to entertain the crowd with handclaps and familiar samples, only a scattered group of individuals nodded their heads to the beat.

“Make some noise, you’re all too quiet,” the emcee said after only a few halfhearted shouts answered his call for the crowd to get loud.

The audience warmed up to Philadelphiabased rapper Tayyib Ali, whose laid-back flows and easygoing demeanor charmed the students. Ali promoted and played music from his newest mixtape, “Keystone State of Mind,” while keeping the audience involved by demanding them to shout back the choruses to his songs.

“People come to Philly for me, not the cheese steaks,” Ali said during an a cappella freesee lil b page 11

How did growing up in California influence your music?

It’s a beautiful thing. There’s not a lot of judgmental people out there, and no one sees you as “weird.” It’s one of those places where I can just walk around and be myself. I have so many diverse friends in California, and it’s not a sheltered place. Everyone is so welcoming, and everyone smiles to you when you’re there. It makes you hella happy.

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How do you stay motivated after writing so many songs?

(From Top) Lil B, a Bay Area rapper also known as “The BasedGod,” gave a high energy performance Wednesday in the Schine Underground. Opener IamG, a hiphop emcee from New Jersey, performed with Marcus Neal, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences who goes by Indo.

I get motivated by you guys and everyone who came out tonight.

Even having just one person say he likes your music is enough because he’s really saying that he likes you as a person. I don’t have a single on the radio or a music video in rotation on TV, but so many good people come out to my shows and it’s humbling. I love making music because it brings people together.

“Lil B is one of my favorite rappers, and I have a hard time picking one of his songs that’s my favorite. I can’t believe he came here.”

Steve Rwayitare

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How do you balance such a heavy workload?

I just set a lot of goals for myself. I’m making history doing what I feel I was put on this earth to do, which is entertaining and spreading a positive message. I’m nowhere near done putting out music. I have enough beats to write songs for the rest of my career. My equity as an artist grows every day, so I keep that in mind, too. ervanrhe@syr.edu

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How have you been taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather?

“I dress differently. I look around a lot more. I look at the nice trees, like the foliage.”

“I was thinking about running around campus for as long as possible in the sun to the point of exhaustion.

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“I’m enjoying being on the Quad and looking at the leaves without snow on them.”

“I did some studying for an exam outside and got some research done.”

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everyone’s invited to Orange Central’s biggest party!

Join host Emme ’85—supermodel and nationally recognized women’s advocate for positive body image and self-esteem— at the Orange Central Bash and enjoy great food, a rockin’ DJ, and a fun and festive ’80s atmosphere.

While you’re there, help us applaud this year’s Orange Circle Award recipients: >> Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee, an organization of SU students committed to creating a more supportive, inclusive campus. >> The SU/ESF chapter of Habitat for Humanity, one of the country’s top three campus chapters and the group behind five homes built in Syracuse.

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We’re making a splash at the Orange Central Bash!

>> Peter G. King ’77, managing partner of King + King Architects and an innovator in green building design and construction. >> Marc Klein ’03, the fraternity brother who established the James Lyons ’03 Sons and Daughters Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Everything’s happening at the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium on Friday, November 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. There’s no cost to attend, but you must be at least 21 and have a state-issued I.D. to drink. So join us!

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style performance, drawing some of the biggest cheers during his set.

Steve Rwayitare, a freshman economics major, enjoyed the openers’ performances, but after 50 minutes of anticipation, he was ready for the headliner to take the stage.

“Lil B is one of my favorite rappers, and I have a hard time picking one of his songs that’s my favorite,” Rwayitare said. “I can’t believe he came here.”

Shouts of “Lil B” and “Thank you, BasedGod” rang out as the Bay Area rapper prepared for his set. As soon as the first notes of a melodic electronic beat blared from the amplifiers, the audience piled together in front of the rapper, who held out the microphone to students shouting out his lyrics.

“I feel like Axl Rose in his prime,” the beam-

Loud and clear

Due to his extensive online presence, Lil B helped popularize phrases such as “swag” and “Thank you, BasedGod.” He cultivated a cult following by using popular social media websites and is a successful Twitter mogul. Lil B tweeted about his show before he arrived at Syracuse University: hit me on DM if your at SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY!!! ITS GOING DOWN TONIGHT!!

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ing artist said. “It feels great to be here. You guys are like my Syracuse family. It’s not easy coming from the West Coast, but you guys are giving me infinite love.”

Lil B interjected snippets of stories about his Internet stardom between songs, even going as far as to apologize for swearing during one of his hit singles.

“Sorry for my potty mouth,” he said. “It’s nothing personal.”

After promising a set filled with all of his hits, he quickly played smash YouTube phenom “Wonton Soup” and performed an off-the-cuff freestyle namedropping SU and college students in general. Several members of the delighted crowd reveled to the song by performing Lil B’s infamous “Cooking Dance,” made famous by one of his videos.

Although the sound system malfunctioned for a brief moment during the latter half of his extensive set list, his only complaint was to joke around while the problem was fixed.

He demanded a round of applause for both the technicians working the turntable and UU for putting on the show.

“You’ll be like, ‘This was the best thing in my life’ and say, ‘I saw Lil B,’” he said. “There will never be another me, and the best is still

yet to come.”

Whenever he had the chance, the rapper bestowed positive life lessons to the audience, who echoed his statements. Lil B touched on topics ranging from following dreams to healthy eating habits.

“Listen to me telling you to eat raw veggies,” he said, laughing. “I feel like a mom saying that.”

After closing an emotional set with “Beat the Odds,” Lil B implored fans to join him in a group hug and stuck around after the house lights came back on to share stories and sign autographs for his adoring followers.

Rwayitare, who had waited a long time to see Lil B perform live, was enthralled by the performance.

“I can’t put it into words,” he said. “He’s just such an incredible act.” ervanrhe@syr.edu

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Yet typical Syracuse weather is as bipolar as ever, and we’ve yet to see anything but some strong winds, raindrops and, at most, a couple of fake-out flurries. And even that wasn’t so bad.

But don’t get me wrong, no one’s complaining — not at all. Any speculation of colder days is immediately shot down with: “You don’t know what you’re talking about” and “You must be insane.”

The sunlight keeps shining and everyone on campus is soaking up the great weather as if it could disappear in an instant. This mentality isn’t particularly farfetched. Thanksgiving Break is just a week away, and people are still walking around without jackets and with sunglasses on their faces. The grassy patches around campus are as green as the first week of school, and yes, there’s sun.

For the first time in a while, Syracuse can actually enjoy the fall season. Think of all the things students can do unburdened by snow. Bike riders, skateboarders and joggers, usually gone by this time, are everywhere. The Quad plays host to Ultimate Frisbee, soccer games and picnics. Students can even catch sightings of shorts and sandals. Unheard of. That’s not to say everyone is enjoying the warm weather. But it’s undeniable that there’s something pleasant about waking up to sunshine pouring through the windows and stepping out into warm weather. At least we can go a little longer without seeing Uggs everywhere we look.

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n array of ornamentation adorns its many shelves along the walls. Wooden shoes hang from a line of fancy china dolls, and decorated plates are fixed between flower paintings with elaborate gold frames.

“A lot of the things came from Poland,” said Eva Zaczynski, owner and namesake of Eva’s European Sweets Polish restaurant. “But a lot came from customers also.”

In a bright voice with a thick accent, Zaczynski describes how every Christmas her relatives in Europe remembered to tuck some Polish trinket into her gift to add to the restaurant’s decoration. Sometimes, she said, a customer will come in with something that reminds them of the place or of an old Polish family member, and they will ask if they can hang it up.

“Over time, things started collecting, and now it’s more and more,” she said. The colorful embellishment gives the place a familiar feel, amplified by the fact that Zaczynski runs the restaurant with both her son and her daughter. Happiness pours out of her like a sunbeam.

My dining partners and I arrived to a packed restaurant Saturday night. Although the venue is not big in the first place, Eva’s manages to feel even cozier with its three separate dining areas.

We settled at a table in the back room, where the dim, multicolored lights cast a warm glow over everything.

The extensive menu offers salads, sandwiches and specialty Polish meals. Eva explains how she’s never used strict recipes for any of her meals. Instead, she prefers a more test-and-taste methodology. From kielbasa and golabki to kopytka and gulasz, everything sounded very good — and very Polish.

“It’s the old style food. It’s very homey,” Zaczynski said. “It’s hearty. As it gets chillier, the hearty food is really popular because it keeps you filled and warm.”

I struggled to pronounce my order: Gnieciuchy, Polish-style gnocchi served with Parmesan cheese, butter and sour cream ($7.25), and finally resorted to flashing a helpless smile and pointing at the menu. My dining partner chose the Placki Hungarian Style ($10.94), potato pancakes topped with ground beef and a tomato sauce. We couldn’t resist ordering a variety of pierogies as well — potato, Ruskie (potato and cheese) and beef.

The gnieciuchy may have been unpronounceable, but from the moment it arrived, I knew it was going to be delicious. A dozen thick potato dumplings, glistening with butter and cheese,

shira stoll | staff photographer Eva’s european sweets serves homey Polish dishes, including its twist on gnocci with Parmesan cheese, butter and sour cream. The owner, Eva Zaczynski, fills the intimate eatery with vibrant trinkets, such as fancy china dolls. packed my plate. Big enough for two bites, they were soft and chewy. Eva serves the gnieciuchy warm, making them the perfect comfort food.

The placki appealed to a different palate. The potato pancakes came with a layer of sauce. Spicy and savory, the sauce reminded me of a thicker version of chili. Though smothered in the sauce, the crisp pancakes maintained their satisfying crunch.

Zaczynski tops her plump pierogies with sautéed onions and serves them with tangy sauerkraut. When I tried my first bite of the meat pierogies, I fell in love with a certain spiced taste that I didn’t recognize.

“Marjoram,” Zaczynski explained. “I use it in almost everything. Like the Italians use basil, I use marjoram.”

A bit sweeter than oregano, the marjoram gave the meat pierogies an authentic taste. Although we loved everything, we ended up filling to-go boxes because there was so much food.

Just as you start to leave, Eva traps you. A case by the front counter gloriously displays all of her homemade desserts: tiramisu, strawberry mousse, orange cream cake, cheesecakes, pies and more. I was hard-pressed to pick just one. In the end, the chocolate banana mousse cake won me over.

It might sound silly, but the best thing about the dessert was just how strong the taste of the banana came through. No artificial flavors here, just pure banana. Light and fluffy, the banana mousse wasn’t too sweet, so the chocolate cake bottom layer added the perfect amount of sugar. Little flowers made of chocolate sauce bloomed on the side of my plate and were all that remained after a mere 10 minutes.

Leaving the restaurant, I felt completely content. Eva’s has it all: different and delicious food, an interesting atmosphere and a sparkling personality behind it all. jidonfro@syr.edu

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International players lead SU into NCAA tournament

By Stephen Bailey ASST. COPY EDITOR

Martina Loncarica clenched her fists and let out a roar in celebration.

The senior midfielder had just given Syracuse a 3-0 lead over Connecticut in the first half of Sunday’s Big East championship game, smacking a Who: Richmond Where: College Park, Md. penalty stroke into When: Saturday, 11:30 a.m. the bottom-right corner of the goal.

Turning around, she sprinted out of the shooting circle and upon reaching the top of the arc, she flung her stick toward midfield and leapt into the arms of Amy Kee. “It’s just the way I react when I score. I might get in trouble sometimes for doing that, but it’s OK,” Loncarica said jokingly.

This unhindered passion originates from Loncarica’s childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She and fellow Argentine Stephanie Hussey bear the traditional strengths of players from their homeland: strong dribbling ability and individual flair.

But the Argentines are just two of seven international players on No. 3 Syracuse (18-3, 5-1 Big East). Five different countries are represented on SU’s roster, and players from each of those nations bring a unique skill set that stems from their cultural background.

The diverse group of players has bonded into

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a cohesive unit that not only won the conference tournament, but earned the No. 3 overall seed in the NCAA tournament. In Saturday’s openinground game in College Park, Md., the Orange faces Richmond (16-6, 5-1 Atlantic-10) at 11:30 a.m.

“Everyone has a little bit of something that they bring from their countries,” Loncarica said Nov. 2. “ … I use my skills — which is typical from Argentina — to just dribble and I’ll find the passes after.”

Over the course of the season, the senior midfielder has showcased a series of on-ball maneuvers, sometimes flicking the ball into the air and juggling past a defender.

In the opening minutes of SU’s Big East tournament semifinal victory over Villanova, Loncarica received a pass on the left side of the shooting circle roughly 15 feet from the goal. Facing away from net, she turned her stick and popped the ball backward through her legs. The shot missed just wide left, but it was an attempt few would try.

Loncarica credits these abilities to juggling sessions and pickup games with friends growing up. Now at SU, though, she is tactful in implementing those tricks.

“Of course you have to have fun, but be efficient for the team,” Loncarica said. “ … But yeah, if we’re controlling the game, at some points if you can do some things to enjoy what you’re doing, then why not?”

In contrast to Loncarica and Hussey, senior midfielder Liz McInerney, who is from Dublin,

chris janjic | contributing photographer MARTINA LONCARICA (RIGHT) is one of seven international players on Syracuse. SU’s diverse roster has helped carry it to the NCAA tournament as the No. 3 overall seed.

Ireland, excels on defense. She displays excellent vision and structure on the field, frequently filling lanes to intercept passes.

In comparison, sophomore midfielder Leonie Geyer and sophomore Laura Hahnefeldt, or “the Germans,” as Kee called them, bring a comprehensive understanding of the game and a mastery of the basics: pushing, hitting and blocking.

“They’re smart, they’re skillful and very gifted intellectually, both of them,” Bradley said.

Like Geyer and Hahnefeldt, junior backs Kee, from Hertford, England, and Iona Holloway, from Glasgow, Scotland, were also taught the fundamentals at an early age — something that has helped them playing out of the back, Holloway said.

After first being taught to push the ball, Holloway soon learned how to “drag.” But it wasn’t until six months after first picking up a stick

that she learned to actually strike the ball, and another year before she played a game.

Holloway has shut down opposing forwards all season long. She repeatedly lowers herself toward the ground, squares her stick to the turf and knocks the ball off the opponent’s stick.

Friday against Villanova, she actually flipped a Wildcats player after taking the ball away.

Together, the seven international players have helped lead the Orange to its fourth NCAA tournament in as many years. But four victories remain between SU and its ultimate goal of becoming the national champion.

On Saturday, Syracuse can take the next step against the Spiders.

“I’m very happy and very proud of what we’ve accomplished, and we still have one more thing to accomplish,” Loncarica said. sebail01@syr.edu

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Syracuse looks to earn auto bid to NCAA championship

By Alex Ptachick STAFF WRITER

Individual performances were a primary focus in a lot of Syracuse’s early season meets.

But with the Northeast Regional this weekend and NCAA championships the following week, personal accolades are set aside — so much so, that the Syracuse men’s and women’s teams will run What: NCAA together, in a pack, in Northeast Regional their meet this weekend.

Where: Buffalo If no one is left When: Saturday, noon behind, Syracuse’s cumulative team score will prosper.

“We always try to run as a team,” redshirt sophomore Sean Keefe said. “We will go out pretty conservatively at the start because we feel like our strength is in the second half of the race. Really, the last 3K we hope to move through the pack and finish hard.”

Seventeen SU runners, nine women and eight men, will travel to Buffalo this weekend for the Northeast Regional meet. Syracuse is looking to win the regional on the men’s and women’s sides for the third straight year. But the Orange’s top seven men and women will race what could potentially be their last race of the season if their performance isn’t up to par and doesn’t help them qualify for nationals.

To secure an automatic bid to the NCAA championship Nov. 21 in Terre Haute, Ind., the teams will have to place in the top two this weekend. But in addition to the automatic bids, 13 at-large bids will be given to teams.

Syracuse plans to clinch its bid for nationals with an automatic bid. That way there’s no worry at all about whether SU would receive an at-large invite.

“Both teams are in a perceived fine position to receive an at-large bid,” associate head coach Brien Bell said. “But we prefer to take the auto and just get out of town.”

In the men’s race, there is a clear-cut regional favorite, and it isn’t Syracuse this year. Iona is the frontrunner, and Providence and Columbia pose challenges as well.

By running in a pack and taking it slow from the start, the men’s team plans to finish in consecutive top spots, knocking off some of the other teams that could potentially snatch the two automatic bids.

“I think it’s all about the team right now and just making sure we qualify for nationals,”

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Keefe said. “We don’t really care so much about individual performances. We’re just going to run in a pack as a team like we have been throughout the season.”

Keefe said to place in the top two this weekend Syracuse needs to have five runners finish in the top 20. But an even higher goal would be for the men to place five runners in the top 15, earning all-region honors.

The women’s side will be racing some similar competitors. The Orange harriers will battle it out with Providence, Cornell, Columbia and Boston College to defend their regional title and garner an automatic bid to the NCAA championship.

The women’s team has had a stellar season, head coach Chris Fox said, and nothing less than perfection is expected this weekend.

The same top seven women that ran at the Big East championships will be running this weekend, with sophomores Lauren Kersjes and

“We don’t really care so much about individual performances. We’re just going to run in a pack as a team like we have been throughout the season.”

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Alexandra Clinton traveling as alternates.

Freshman Jessie Petersen, who will be appearing in her first regional meet Saturday, said she and her teammates plan to approach this race no differently than the others.

“A first-place team finish would be good this weekend,” Petersen said. “I am going to work with the girls on the team, give it my all and see how the results turn out.”

Championship season is the time of year when individual goals are set aside. The regional race is about placing in the top two as a team to make it to nationals. Because it’s not until SU qualifies for nationals that the objective can be to make the podium at the NCAA championship.

“This race is 100 percent important,” Bell said. “If you don’t run well here, you’re not going to nationals.” acptachi@syr.edu

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Triche only played 16 minutes against St. Rose on Tuesday, scoring seven points. Frazier started 26 games as a freshman and averaged double figures in scoring. He scored 26 on 11-of-15 shooting in Fordham’s exhibition game against Northwood.

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Head coach Jim Boeheim said after Tuesday’s game against St. Rose that Joseph isn’t where SU needs him to be yet in returning to his normal form after bringing his knee back to health. He did manage to lead the Orange in scoring against St. Rose with 12 points.

Fordham lost its only exhibition game in the preseason to National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics school Northwood, 76-71.

Northwood, which jumped out to a 14-point first half lead, is coached by longtime former Villanova head coach Rollie Massamino, who led the Wildcats to the 1985 NCAA championship.

STAT TO KNOW Syracuse has not lost a season opener since 2003, when the Orange was upset by Charlotte 96-92 in the Carrier Dome.

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Two good exhibition games for Melo and there’s some hope that he’ll be much-improved this season. Bristol averaged nearly two blocks per game last year.

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most Big East teams,” Boeheim said. “You don’t want to draw a lot of conclusions about games like this. They got our big guys away from the basket, which is what they should do. … But at the same token, when we see that, we have to adjust to it better.”

Boeheim didn’t seem to think it was a huge issue, but some of the veteran players took losing the rebounding battle to a much smaller team personally.

Junior guard Brandon Triche said he has seen it occasionally in the past with this team.

Despite having advantages in size and athleticism, the Orange has been outworked by its opponents on the boards.

“The last two years, we had athletic guys at the 3 and the 5, and we should outrebound everybody,” Triche said. “All that comes down to is if we want it or not and our energy and our passion for the game. Just being lazy out there is definitely not going to cut it.”

Kris Joseph, who at 6-foot-7 was the same height as St. Rose’s starting center, agreed with Triche.

Especially considering he felt it was a matter of hustling for loose balls that gave St. Rose the edge Tuesday.

“They got a lot of loose ones, the scrambles,” Joseph said. “They were a scrappy team. They beat us to a few balls, and that’s something that we can’t allow to happen going forward.”

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Though Fordham will bring more height to the Carrier Dome this weekend than St. Rose did, SU will still have a size advantage and should be the more athletic team.

And even though Boeheim felt the rebounding problem won’t carry over into future games, Joseph said it was definitely a concern looking ahead to the regular season.

“We have to use our height, our physicality to our advantage,” Joseph said. “Across the board at every position, we were probably taller (than St. Rose). And that’s something that when you get into the Big East and we’re evenly matched, that can’t happen. We’re going to have to rebound the ball a lot better going forward.” zjbrown@syr.edu

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.056 Fordham’s winning percentage on the road in the last three seasons.

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Quarterback Davis excels in 3rd offensive system at ECU

By Andrew Tredinnick ASST. COPY EDITOR

With Kathleen (Fla.) High School’s lone quarterback sidelined due to injury, head coach Brian Armstrong needed someone to step up.

Armstrong asked his players who should take over under center, and they felt Dominique Davis was the man for the job.

Davis wasn’t really sure how to throw a football, but he made the most of it.

“I was playing receiver and my transition to quarterback, it felt comfortable because I knew how the receivers ran their routes and what they expect from a quarterback,” Davis said. “It was just a blessing from God pretty much, that I can change my position from receiver to quarterback.”

Davis has had a long, disjointed journey since he was thrust into playing quarterback in his junior year of high school. Since he graduated high school in 2007, Davis has dealt with more adversity than most quarterbacks in college football. He has made stops at Boston College and Fort Scott Community College and played in three different offensive systems. But Davis has finally found his niche as East Carolina’s starting quarterback.

This season at ECU (4-5, 3-2 Conference USA), Davis has etched his name on many NFL Draft watch lists. Thus far, Davis has thrown for 2,604 yards and 17 touchdowns and leads the team with five rushing touchdowns. His success has him thinking about the NFL, what he hopes will be his next stop.

His college career began at Boston College in Jeff Jagodzinski’s pro-style offense. After redshirting his freshman season at BC, waiting behind Matt Ryan, Davis was dealt his first blow when he lost out on the starting quarterback job to senior Chris Crane the next season.

When Crane suffered a collarbone injury late in the season, Davis was given his first chance to shine against Wake Forest in the second-tolast game of the regular season.

And he did just that, delivering the gamewinning touchdown on a quarterback sneak from one yard out.

Davis led the Eagles’ pro-style offense for the final three games of the season and helped the Eagles clinch a trip to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.

But Davis was unable to hold on to the starting quarterback position after that season. He was suspended for academic reasons that summer, and he needed somewhere else to turn.

“He’s used to adversity,” East Carolina offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said. “He’s used to being in tough situations, and he’s handled it well everywhere he’s been. I think it’s shaped him.”

Davis landed at Fort Scott Community College in 2009 to play quarterback.

In a Power-I offense built around the running game, Davis led his team to the junior college national title game in his only season with the team. In the championship game against Blinn (Texas) College and its star Cam Newton, Davis rushed for three touchdowns in a narrow five-point loss.

Davis later received a call from former ECU head coach Skip Holtz, who wanted him to come play quarterback for the Pirates.

After visiting the campus and learning about the rich football tradition, Davis said he was sold and committed to ECU. East Carolina head coach Ruffin McNeill, who took over the program after Holtz left

for South Florida, said the experience Davis brought to the table made him an unquestioned leader for the Pirates.

That experience and his winning attitude earned him the starting quarterback job to open the 2010 season despite missing spring ball and practicing just 25 times.

“He’s experienced,” McNeill said. “He’s won everywhere he’s been. At Boston College, led them to the ACC championship (game). Fort Scott Community College, he led them to the junior college national championship against Cam Newton and those guys. He’s done great here.”

With his new home, Davis had the challenge of learning yet another offense in his third collegiate stop in four seasons. But McNeill’s prolific spread offense suited Davis well, and the quarterback simply had to find consistency.

With many more opportunities to throw the ball than in the Power-I set at community college, Davis flourished. In his first season as the Pirates’ starting quarterback, Davis broke single-season records in touchdown passes, completions and passing yards.

“The spread offense and the Power I is two different things,” Davis said. “The Power I is more about run the ball all the time and the spread offense is more pass the ball. It’s a quarterback’s dream within the spread offense.”

His passing accuracy has been the key to his success this season. Davis set the NCAA record for consecutive completions in a game when he completed 26 straight passes against Navy on Oct. 22. The record put Davis in elite company, as he passed former California quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Tennessee quarterback Tee Martin’s previous mark of 23 straight.

Now, Davis has set his mind to playing in the NFL. After bouncing around from system to system, Riley feels Davis has proven he is capable of succeeding once he finds his comfort zone.

“I think he’s a guy that can get in an offense and learn and have some consistency,” Riley said. “I think that would be the biggest thing I see, just getting in a place and having some consistency — which he’s never had — and I think his best football is ahead of him.” adtredin@syr.edu

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Freshman Hirsch shares bond with father through hockey

By Austin Mirmina STAFF WRITER

In the driveway of his Minnesota home, Tom Hirsch fired one-time passes to his daughter.

Casey Hirsch learned to “shoot on the fly” by slamming those 10-mph passes into the back of the net.

“In the driveway we had a shooting tarp, and he would make me shoot pucks,” Casey, a freshman forward for Syracuse, said. “And he would be like, ‘No, snap your wrists more.’”

Casey attributes much of her current success to her father. Tom played collegiate hockey at Minnesota before he was selected to play for the NHL’s Minnesota North Stars in the second round of the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. Tom’s professional experiences helped Casey learn the fundamentals and nuances of hockey and also strengthened the father-daughter relationship between them. Her current position as a Syracuse forward is a direct result of her father’s attention to detail on the ice.

While starring for Minnesota, Tom’s progression was closely monitored by scouts, who liked how he combined an offensive touch with his big, rugged frame of 6 feet 4 inches and 210 pounds. After finishing

school, Tom joined Team USA and played with the national team for the entire 1983-84 season. Because of his temporary absence from the NHL, anticipation began building for his rookie season with the North Stars.

But persistent shoulder injuries sidelined him for two NHL seasons. After Tom dislocated his arm several times, doctors gave him the choice of playing hockey again, but warned that his arm could become limp if another injury occurred, Casey said.

Though Casey and her older brother weren’t born yet, Tom was conscious of his future. He wanted to be able to play hockey and toss the ball around the backyard with his kids.

Facing loss of function in his shoulder, Tom decided to walk away from the game of hockey, retiring at age 25.

“I could tell it was a tough decision for him,” Casey said. “And when he tells the story at home, it’s sad.”

His retirement in 1988 offered a renaissance of sorts. When his two children were born in the early 1990s, they cultivated a similar passion and love for hockey.

Tom said he benefited as a player from having a list of impressive coaches to look up to — former

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Team USA coaches Herb Brooks and Bob Johnson — and wanted to give Casey that same advantage.

“These people have given me a real good background in hockey and taught me the game so well that it is able to rub off (on Casey),” Tom said. “I’ve learned all those lessons and passed it on to the next generation.”

Tom became the youth hockey coach and administrator in the Osseo Maple Grove Hockey Association in Maple Grove, Minn. Casey wanted her father to be her coach, so she played on the boys team he taught.

Casey originally played as a defender, partially because her father was a former NHL defenseman who knew the tricks of the trade.

Casey said her father was very helpful in teaching her that aspect of the game, from the advantages of cycling in the corners to the precision of angling passes and the importance of using her physical strength.

SU head coach Paul Flanagan said he and his coaching staff noticed Casey’s strength and athleticism right away they recruited her.

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Casey also picked up on Tom’s offensive flair — thanks to plenty of Sunday practice sessions — and incorporated it into her game when she played the forward position in high school. During her senior season at Maple Grove, Casey served as team captain and broke out as the team’s star player, tallying 30 goals and 20 assists.

Being a girl, Casey was naturally very close with her mother. But playing hockey strengthened the bond she shared with her father.

“Hockey really connects my dad and I. If I have a good game, you can tell how proud he is,” Casey said. “It leads us to talk way more.”

Now a freshman at SU, Casey is far away from where she first learned the game under her father’s tutelage. But the No. 22 she sports is a symbol of her roots, the same number Tom wore during his professional career.

“Ever since I was little, my dad would stand behind the net on the opposing end,” Casey said. “Whenever we had a face-off, he would give me a little smirk or smile.

“It’s hard not having him here, it really is, but it means so much more now.” awmirmin@syr.edu

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left off, obviously,” Hillsman said. “I thought that last year winning 25 games was very, very big for us. We want to continue doing the things we’ve done to get the ball into the high post to Iasia and getting the ball down to Kayla. That’s been very good for us.”

Sunday will also be the first time the Orange gets to see whether it can absorb the loss of point guard Erica Morrow, who is now on the bench as a graduate assistant. Morrow was the third-leading scorer on the team last season, averaging 10.1 points per game.

Sophomore Rachel Coffey will likely take over as the starting point guard after starting only two games last season. As a freshman, Coffey only averaged 8.3 minutes per game and one point per game.

Having Morrow on the bench is only going to help both Coffey and La’Shay Taft, who is also going to be seeing time at the point. Morrow will be able to mentor them through the process and give them pointers on leading the offense.

Hemingway said Coffey and Taft both offer different abilities that can make them forces on the floor, and in turn, are two of the steady options she has confidence in passing to.

She said Taft brings speed and quality shooting, while Coffey’s overall IQ of the game can immediately upgrade Syracuse’s level of play.

Although Syracuse lost one of its most consistent scorers from a year ago in Morrow, it could be gaining two more in her place.

And Hillsman said he could already see in preseason that Coffey’s been more vocal than she’s ever been when directing the offense.

“Obviously, our skills are getting better.

We’re playing more faster,” Coffey said. “Talent-wise, it’s been there since last year. It’s just

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Defensively, SU will be employing a faster, more up-tempo style of defense to force turnovers and minimize scoring opportunities for the other team. The pressure defense will also create opportunities for easy baskets in transition for the Orange, which will put points on the board even when the SU offense isn’t clicking.

“I thought that last year winning 25 games was very, very big for us. We want to continue doing the things we’ve done to get the ball into the high post to Iasia and getting the ball down to Kayla. That’s been very good for us.”

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And that new defensive system coupled with its dynamic offense could be just the formula the Orange needs to attain its postseason aspirations.

For Hemingway, it means helping to lead a faster, more athletic team that’s hungry to ends its streak of seasons without an NCAA tournament appearance.

“It’s going to be real intense,” Hemingway said. “Honestly, I think it’s going to be a great year. On Sunday, you’re going to see a lot of different things.” cjiseman@syr.edu

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Within reach SU must use height to win rebounding battle against Rams

By Zach Brown STAFF WRITER

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mmediately following Syracuse’s exhibition win over St. Rose on Tuesday, Fab Melo was thinking about getting into the film room. He needed an explanation.

The 7-foot sophomore center could not understand how the Golden Knights, whose tallest player is 6 feet 8 inches, managed to pull in five more rebounds than the much taller Orange squad that had a height advantage at every position.

“I couldn’t figure out what they were doing,” Melo said. “I told coach I wanted to watch the video tomorrow to see what we can do differently. Sometimes, some things just happen some way. We just had a bad night rebounding.”

St. Rose outrebounded SU 38-33 on Tuesday despite having just two players taller than 6 feet 6 inches see significant action. In the locker room after the game, it seemed that the Orange players’ pride had been bruised by allowing the Golden Knights to grab more boards. And rebounding was the first thing head coach Jim Boeheim discussed in his postgame press conference.

“I think the one thing that happens when you play a smaller team, you get spread out and you get stationary,” Boeheim said. “And I thought they did a great job of getting us spread out and then rebounding. We did not rebound because we were kind of spread out and we weren’t aggressive.”

No. 5 Syracuse gets its first chance to fix any lingering rebounding

issues in the season opener against Fordham on Saturday at 4 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. And though Boeheim said the rebounding disparity was a concern going forward, he wasn’t at all ready to hit the panic button.

In his mind, St. Rose did exactly what it needed to do to hang with the Orange on the boards. They spaced the floor on offense to pull SU’s big men away from the basket. They also drove to the hoop against Syracuse’s man defense, forcing the Orange

“They got our big guys away from the basket, which is what they should do. … But at the same token, when we see that, we have to adjust to it better.”

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defenders to slide away from their men and help on the ball.

Although the head coach would have liked to see his team adjust to St. Rose’s style of offense better, he doesn’t believe it will be a major issue moving forward.

“The one thing about this team is they’re not like Big East teams or

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chris griffin | staff photographer FAB MELO (51) and the Orange were outrebounded by St. Rose in an exhibition Tuesday, often getting beaten to loose balls. In Saturday’s season opener against Fordham, SU will look for an improved effort.

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Multiple scoring threats to key Orange offense

By Chris Iseman STAFF WRITER

Iasia Hemingway could only smile as she thought about the number of options she’ll have when deciding who to pass to. She could go to the perimeter to any of Syracuse’s c ap able shooters, or she could Who: Long Beach dish it off State to Where: Carrier Dome inside When: Sunday, 1 p.m. Kayla Alexander.

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With so many scoring threats surrounding her, Hemingway has reason to smile. Wherever she goes, she can do so without apprehension.

“Our perimeter shooters are shooting well,” Hemingway said.

“And with them shooting well and Kayla finishing well around the basket, with me getting the ball at the high post and making decisions, it’s easy now. I don’t have to worry about who I’m passing to. I know for a fact that they’re going to make a play.”

For a team looking to break out of a

streak of Women’s National Invitation Tournament appearances and earn a berth in the NCAA tournament, that’s going to be key. Syracuse hasn’t been in the tournament since 2008, repeatedly held back with a lack of big victories to make its case to the selection committee. Now, the Orange has five of its top six scorers back, and with that experience on offense and a new up-tempo defensive system, SU head coach Quentin Hillsman and his players say the pieces are in place to finally get over the WNIT hump.

The Orange has its first game of the season on Sunday against Long Beach State at 1 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.

Hillsman said he doesn’t want to completely forget last season.

If anything, the 2010-11 season, in which SU won 25 games and finished its campaign with a 71-68 overtime loss to Toledo in the WNIT quarterfinals, should provide extra motivation for a team that’s returning most of its starters.

“We’ve got to continue where we

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Breaking out Syracuse takes on South Florida

in a Big East matchup in the Carrier Dome on Friday night. The Orange looks to snap a twogame losing streak, while USF searches for its first conference win. SU currently sits in seventh place just ahead of the lastplace Bulls. To break through with a win, Syracuse will have to contain USF’s dual threat quarterback B.J. Daniels.

Check out The Daily Orange’s In The Huddle on Friday for a preview of Syracuse’s game against South Florida, including a breakdown of key matchups, statistics and scouting.