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Safe haven DPS and the R.A.P.E. Center

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Ahead of the pack The Syracuse men’s basketball

encourage students dealing with relationship violence to seek help. Page 3

need for TSA to relax patdowns. Page 5

J. Cole steals the spotlight from Wiz Khalifa in Saturday’s concert. Page 9

team escaped from N.C. State Saturday to preserve its perfect record. Page 20

Babysteps

Along with successful finance changes, Barnhart moved unfinished initiatives in right direction

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andrew renneisen | staff photographer Jon barnhart, Student Association president, counts down the days until he turns over SA leadership to Neal Casey. Barnhart saw a number of successes in the realms of campus safety and fiscal reform.

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ext to Jon Barnhart’s office door is a whiteboard with the number of business days left in his term as Student Association president. Underneath the countdown is a list of goals he and the committees want to accomplish.

At one point, the list had 30 goals.

“Slowly but surely, almost all of them have been crossed off,” said David Woody, SA’s Student Engagement Committee chair.

When Barnhart campaigned for president of Student Association last November, he focused on the issues he thought were most important to students: safety, inclusion, financial responsibility and education.

Barnhart has been able to achieve some of those goals and has also made decisions on unexpected issues that came up during the year. Still, there are some goals he was not able to complete by the end of his term.

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SU to play Kansas State in inaugural Pinstripe Bowl Space issues h e a lt h s e rv ic e s

By Brett LoGiurato and Tony Olivero The Daily Orange

Syracuse accepted an invitation to play in the inaugural New Era Pinstripe Bowl Thursday, SU Athletic Director Daryl Gross announced at an afternoon press conference.

“We have such a great announcement,” Gross said. “It’s not the biggest secret in the world, but we have accepted a bid to play in the

Pinstripe Bowl.”

The Pinstripe Bowl will take place Dec. 30 at 3:30 p.m. at Yankee Stadium. The Orange will face off against Kansas State, which accepted a bid to the bowl Friday.

In addressing the media Friday at an afternoon press conference, SU head coach Doug Marrone said the bowl trip was a “dream come true.”

“This team has accomplished a great deal, and this is a great reward

for us,” he said. “We talked about it all year. We have our goals that we all signed on for.”

On Thursday, Gross rarely stopped beaming during a 14-minute press conference in which he wore cufflinks that displayed the interlocking “NY” logo of the New York Yankees.

After Syracuse’s season ended last Saturday with a 16-7 loss to Boston College, talks between the Yankees

and Syracuse started to heat up.

The Pinstripe Bowl gets the fourth selection from the Big East. But with the “mutual attraction” between the two parties, Gross said it made sense to accept the bid now than to wait for other bowl possibilities.

“We’re elated,” he said. “We’re happy to be back at a bowl. To be in the Pinstripe Bowl is a really nice thing for us. Like Doug (Marrone) see pinstripe page 8

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Former VPA professor, celebrated soprano soloist dies Wednesday Helen Boatwright, a former faculty member who taught in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, died Dec. 1 in Syracuse at 94 years old, according to a Syracuse University news release.

She taught at SU and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester from 1972 to 1979. Boatwright also served as a guest professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University and Connecticut College.

She continued to teach until three weeks before her death.

She was born in 1916 as the youngest of six children in a large family from Wisconsin. Boatwright went to Oberlin College and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music.

SU presented Boatwright with an honorary doctor of music degree in 2003.

During her long career as a soprano soloist, Boatwright performed with Mario Lanza in his operatic

stage debut and with Leonard Bernstein in the early 1940s and sang for President John F. Kennedy in the White House’s East Room in 1963.

She was decorated for singing the music of American composers, such as Charles Ives and her husband, Howard Boatwright, who became the dean of SU’s School of Music in 1964. The couple established an SUsponsored summer program, L’Ecole Hindemith in Vevey, Switzerland.

They taught and performed there

every summer until 1988. Howard died in 1999.

Helen, who lived in Fayetteville, is survived by two sons and a daughter.

Calling hours will be on Tuesday from 5-8 p.m. at the Eaton-TubbsSchepp Funeral Home on 7191 E. Genesee St. in Fayetteville. Her funeral will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at St. David’s Episcopal Church, 14 Jamar Drive.

— Compiled by Jon Harris, asst. copy editor, jdharr04@syr.edu

continue with no director

By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor

After more than a year without a formal director leading Syracuse University Health Services, the search is anticipated to end next semester.

During the period without a director, Health Services faced reaccreditation and dealt with space issues and a growing student body. But Kathy VanVechten, special assistant to the director of Health Services, said the center prefers to think of them as “challenges” the center will be able to overcome.

Health Services “absolutely” expects to assign a new director during spring semester, VanVechten said.

She said the search was ongoing.

Health Services received a threeyear accreditation in November from the Accreditation Association for

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Kentucky to build Noah’s ark

The state of Kentucky has promised tax incentives to a group that plans to construct a full-size version of Noah’s ark, according to The New York Times.

The group plans to stock the theme park, called Ark Encounter, with actors and animals and make it the center of the Bible-based tourist attraction. Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear announced the plan on Dec. 1 and has met concerns from constitutional experts regarding whether government funding for a project that promotes religion violates the First Amendment’s condition of separation of church and state. But Beshear, a Democrat, said the government backing of the theme park posed no threat to the U.S. Constitution. The theme park was conceived by the ministry, Answers in Genesis, the same ministry that built the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Answers in Genesis believes that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. Despite strong ridicule, the Creation Museum has had 1.2 million visitors in its first three years, according to The New York Times.

Iran creates material to enrich uranium

Iran claimed to use its own domestically mined uranium ore to make the material necessary for uranium enrichment, according to The New York Times. Iran’s ability to process uranium ore from its own mines suggests that the country has found a way around U.N. sanctions that ban them from importing raw uranium. The country created a uranium concentrate known as yellowcake. The yellowcake was produced at the Gachin uranium mine in Southern Iran. The creation of yellowcake shows Iran’s capability to gain nuclear power despite setbacks, such as economic isolation due to a number of sanctions the United Nations has placed on the country. The White House said it was not surprised, but that Iran’s actions have revitalized suspicions of its intentions, according to The New York Times.

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weekend briefs Students in Madrid held up by strike Syracuse University students studying abroad in Madrid have had their flights back to the United States delayed due to the air traffic controllers’ strike.

Spain declared a state of alarm on Saturday because of a strike by air traffic controllers who had closed air traffic at the start of the weekend. The controllers began returning on Sunday for their afternoon shifts, yet air travel in and out of Spain is likely to be slowed for the next two days.

Several SU students abroad in Madrid showed up for their flights on Saturday afternoon, but they found out the strike had canceled all the flights until Sunday morning at 6 a.m.

Students were stuck in line Sunday night trying to check into a flight that departs Monday afternoon at 1 p.m., although only a few spots are available for the SU Abroad students.

While waiting for a flight back home, students are staying with their host parents, checking into a hotel or are staying at the airport waiting for their flight.

— Compiled by Jon Harris, asst. copy editor, jdharr04@syr.edu

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Jump and jive Syracuse University students and members of the campus chapter of the United Nations Children’s Fund dance and celebrate at SU’s first UNICEF Snowflake Ball on Saturday. The event raised money to donate to the U.S. fund for UNICEF, which provides aid to underprivileged children around the world. The event included a light meal, a student DJ and a presentation by Rachael Swanson, program manager for the UNICEF campus initiative. The Snowflake Ball was the last of three major fundraising events the campus chapter held this semester.

RAPE Center to officially address relationship violence

By Dee Lockett Contributing Writer

The Syracuse University Rape Advocacy, Prevention and Education Center may expand to reflect being officially designated as the main office that provides advocacy and support for relationship violence next semester.

“We want to be able to communicate by our name that it is not only rape that the center assists students on, but that we are also here to assist students who are victims of relationship violence, stalking, sexual harassment and cyber bullying,” said Janet Epstein, associate director of the R.A.P.E. Center.

While the R.A.P.E. Center deals with cases of relationship violence, this is the first time the office will officially be designated as the main office that deals with relationship violence, Epstein said. SU has seen one case of criminal stalking and four cases of physical domestic incidents in the past year, said Jennifer Horvath, Department of Public Safety spokeswoman.

The R.A.P.E. Center currently provides mandatory programs during orientation that include the definitions of domestic violence and stalking, as well as available resources for those incidents, Epstein said. The center also has a

Work to update the buses on the Connective Corridor routes will begin over Winter Break, and government officials will begin the final construction on the corridor this spring by renovating the physical routes.

The ConWhat: Meeting to nective Correview streetscape ridor project is plans a collaborative Where: Tiffany effort between Room, Genesee the city, the Grande Hotel When: Dec. 15, 6:30 u n i v e r s i t y and Centro. p.m.

How much: Free The project was approved by the Syracuse Common Council in June, and some of the changes will be apparent after Winter Break. Ground construction will begin with the redesign of Forman Park, a small area near the Crowne Plaza Hotel, and continue on to East Genesee Street and University Avenue.

The city will be converting University Avenue into a two-way street and making general improvements downtown, such as building bike and walking paths, installing additional lighting and fixing curbs.

These renovations will hopefully accomplish the corridor’s mission of providing the students with a cultural link to the city, said Robbi Farschman, Syracuse University’s director of the Connective Corridor.

Syracuse will be holding a community meeting to review streetscape plans on Dec. 15 at 6:30 p.m. in the Tiffany room of the Genesee Grande Hotel.

Students are welcome to attend the meeting and express their opinion of the design plans, said Farschman, the director of the Connective Corridor.

Owen Kerney, the deputy director of the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, said he expects the project to carry on well into next summer but hopes it will be completely finished by the time classes resume in the fall.

The funding for this multimilliondollar project came from a variety of different sources, including SU, the city, Onondaga County and federal grants, Kerney said.

Centro used a chunk of its federal funding to purchase three new buses on the corridor and install new technologies on 10 to 20 buses that intersect with the Connective Corridor route.

The hardware is what Steve Koegel, Centro’s director of marketing and see corridor page 8

peer theater group that performs a skit about sexual violence, as well as the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program, which encourages students to become empowered bystanders who can detect and prevent abuse, Epstein said.

“We’re just refining the programs we have now and doing more outreach to let people know that these programs exist,” she said.

Relationship violence, and educating college students on how to deal with relationship violence, has been a much talked-about topic in light of the Jenni-Lyn Watson case. Watson, a 20-year-old college student from Liverpool, disappeared from her home the Friday before Thanksgiving and was found murdered in a park close to her home Nov. 27. Her ex-boyfriend was charged with murder.

After the arrest, DPS encouraged students to seek help from available campus resources if in an abusive relationship, according to a Nov. 30 article in The Daily Orange.

Epstein has been working with DPS to ensure SU is in absolute compliance with state legislation passed on April 7, 2009, called Chapter 13 NYS Colleges Address Domestic Violence/Stalking. The legislation mandates that state colleges must address stalking and domestic violence by giving incoming students

“We’re just refining the programs we have now and doing more outreach to let people know that these programs exist.”

Janet Epstein

associate director of the R.A.P.E. Center

information on the laws against those issues and how colleges deal with them.

In response to the legislation, Epstein and Horvath created a comprehensive 14-page document available on both the DPS and R.A.P.E. Center websites about the laws against domestic violence and stalking, as well as SU’s regulations toward them.

“The next step is to distribute brochures to parents before their kids even arrive on campus,” Horvath said. “We’re looking to implement this kind of information into

the presentations our officers give freshmen. We might even do a poster campaign for students.”

There was a serious need for this law to be passed, Epstein said.

“I think there’s a recognition that relationship violence is something that impacts college students,” she said. “So in order to be really consistent across universities in New York, I think the idea was to create an expectation that these issues will be discussed, because for too long these are issues that we’ve been silent about.” dclocket@syr.edu

Colleges address domestic violence New York state passed legislation April 7, 2009, mandating state colleges address stalking and domestic violence by giving incoming students information on the laws against those issues and how colleges deal with them. Both the DPS and RAPE Center websites provide information about the laws against domestic violence and stalking, as well as SU’s regulations toward them.

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DPS needs to inform SU community of all incidents The response by the Department of Public Safety to the recent burglaries on South Campus is an outrage. What makes it outrageous? This is not the first or even the second time that 151 Winding Ridge has been burglarized in recent years. Less than a year ago, my apartment in 151 Winding Ridge was burglarized, along with four others in the building. DPS did absolutely nothing to inform the SU community about this string of break-ins at the time, and to this day no one has heard of the incident other than through word of mouth. The burglars were never identified.

The worst part of the whole thing was that

letter to the editor DPS took zero responsibility for our losses, despite the fact that I could have done nothing more to secure my stuff: All the doors were locked, including the sliding glass door and my upstairs bedroom door, which were both broken through by the intruders. The apartments offered a completely false sense of security.

The location of 151 Winding Ridge makes it a painfully easy target. Thieves gain direct

access on foot from a next-door neighbor and can operate out of sight the whole time. I was never warned that my apartment was at a higher risk.

In a one-on-one meeting with one of the officers in charge of the investigation, I strongly expressed my dissatisfaction with DPS and told them how I should have been warned.

Furthermore I demanded that future residents of 151 Winding Ridge be warned. The officer’s response was infuriatingly lackadaisical, and he even blamed me for not having a lock box.

But what was I supposed to do — keep a 25-inch non-flat-screen television in a lock box? To

top it all off, the broken glass from the sliding glass door was never removed and served as a constant reminder of what had happened until I filed my own request to FIXit to have it cleaned up.

All in all, DPS seemed to show little concern for the well-being of South Campus residents, and this second undisclosed chain of thefts in less than 12 months is a testament to that. I believe SU students have a right to be notified of these incidents. What else hasn’t DPS told us?

Chris Bordne

Senior aerospace engineering major

SU should create athletic program for students with disabilities Syracuse University should have sports that are accessible for people with disabilities. SU says it believes in inclusion programs that include the abled and disabled, and to prove this they need sports that are accessible for people with disabilities. Sports are an activity in life that should be enjoyed by all. The fun, excitement and thrill of competition experienced in sports are feelings like no other experienced in life, as well as the great life lessons learned in the process. All people should be able to experience sports, including people with disabilities. There are sports organizations in place for people with disabilities but only at two universities in the entire country.

letter to the editor People in the community, including SU students, faculty and alumni, can help support the program by funding it and by bringing awareness to other people about sports for people with disabilities so that they can gain support. Greg Callen and Move Along Inc. are in contact with Upstate Medical University Hospital and SU to help spread awareness about athletes with physical disabilities and to gain resources to further expand sports programs for people

with disabilities. Move Along is for adults and kids and has sports for people with disabilities (but still includes able-bodied people), including wheelchair basketball, sled hockey and aquatics. According to Callen, Move Along and Syracuse should join together in this campaign to get more information out there on disabled sports and to get more athletes and more support from the community. If the campaign works and it gets more support and, therefore, more funding and more athletes, Syracuse can further justify the creation of disabled sports programs at the university. If Syracuse starts sports programs for people with disabilities, it will be helping many young people with disabilities realize their potential to do and overcome anything. And possibly get someone out of a depressed state of mind and into a jersey to start having fun. That’s the main thing: Sports are about having fun.

Bringing a sports program for people with

disabilities would be a wonderful addition to an already fantastic university. It will help support SU’s idea of inclusion and help change the ideas of people in the community about disability. It will give disabled student athletes an opportunity to thrive in competitive sports and learn many life lessons along the way, but most of all have a ton of fun. All it needs to get started is the support and funding from the athletes who attend SU, philanthropists and other alumni, as well as people who are trying to advocate for the concept of sports for people with disabilities, such as Greg Callen and Move Along. SU could have a great program that brings many disabled student athletes to SU from all over the country. Students want the great education that they can receive at SU, as well as to play in a new Division I disabled sports program.

Cory Cumber

Freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences

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TSA should treat travelers respectfully, not as terrorists

f you’ve already purchased your plane tickets for Winter Break, I’m sure you’re looking forward to trudging through the airport with millions of distraught travelers. It may not come as a surprise to hear many of them still complaining about the Transportation Security Administration. This isn’t exactly something new, but it is definitely something to keep an eye out for. But while individuals are being frisked, probed, scanned and every other sense of the phrase “pat down,” TSA personnel are also being examined.

Currently the TSA is one of many headliners of national news because of new protocols and an overall handling of what passengers are saying is a breach of personal privacy. If this particular post-9/11 administration wants to keep operating with complete support from U.S. citizens, it needs to make a few changes,

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which could start with its handling of travelers and a less terrorist-driven protocol.

Customers do not want to be treated like terrorists. They want to be treated for who they are — people.

Recently TSA has been under a string of attacks because of the way its personnel is treating passengers.

Airline customers are complaining that they are being treated with no respect and that security officials are overstepping their boundaries with enhanced pat-downs that could make a Bloomingdale mannequin feel used.

After Cathy Bossi, a North Carolina flight attendant, was forced to show her prosthesis, a result of breast cancer, to TSA personnel, many airline officials and regular customers started to believe enough is enough.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) was outraged at the latest TSA antics and is now proposing new legislation called

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i think i’m hungry again the American Traveler Dignity Act. This new bill, which obviously isn’t going to pass, requires TSA officials to have no physical contact with travelers, as well as a discontinued use of X-rays and high-tech scanners, and prevents the government from taking images of a person’s body, even if he or she has clothes on. I don’t know about anyone else, but this bill basically does away with the TSA altogether, thus opening up a range of terrorist entry points.

John Pistole, chief administrator of TSA, sat down with CNN’s Candy

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Crowley to respond to the many negative allegations by basically stating that pat-downs will continue because they are a safety procedure that has worked time and time again.

He didn’t rule out the possibility of removing any type of scanner system, but he does believe a balance needs to be reached between security and the people.

Before the 1970s, security checks and the idea of a TSA were unheard of, but things have obviously changed. Looking at all of the current information and recently attempted attacks, such as the cargo bombs, it would imbecilic to even think about a bill that removes the TSA or any security entity that maintains travel safety.

The problem is truly focused on how the TSA handles travelers and what methods are used to ease the traveler through the security

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process. Things like communication and an overall customer service mentality need to be taken into account when dealing with passengers who are annoyed before they even get their ID checked.

An excellent example is the Bossi fiasco. She had no idea why she was being checked, and the TSA personnel did not communicate with her as if she was a person. Simply stating “you are being checked for these reasons” and “sorry, but this has to be done for safety concerns” would have made a world of a difference.

If Pistole meant what he said about reaching a balance, he needs to play around with the mission statement of TSA and add something regarding customer satisfaction.

John Sumpter is a senior political science major. His column appears every Monday, and he can be reached at jfsumpte@syr.edu.

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Ambulatory Health Care for the sixth accreditation period in a row.

The AAAHC is a private nongovernmental, nonprofit group. To be accredited, an institution must meet standards on patient rights, governance, administration, care quality, quality management and improvement, clinical records and health information, infection prevention and control, and facilities.

On Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, a representative from the AAAHC was present to examine the site and conduct interviews with staff, VanVechten said. In November, the center provided Health Services with feedback on what it can improve on and what it is already doing well.

The lack of a director was not a problem for the accreditation process, said Alison Solway, marketing and communications manager for the AAAHC. When a new director is chosen, Solway said Health Services should contact the AAAHC to update its file.

Participation in the accreditation process is voluntary, Solway said. SU first sought and was granted accreditation from the AAAHC in 1995. Getting in contact with the AAAHC and participating in the lengthy process is a sign of Health Services’ dedication, Solway said.

“The school wanted to take this next step to show they are committed to quality care,” Solway said.

Health Services has continued to provide quality care despite the lack of a director, VanVechten said, and not having a director was not a hindrance in applying for or obtaining the accreditation. Health Services received the feedback that its staff was highly qualified and caring, that its senior leadership was engaged and that the center was well managed, VanVech-

ten said.

But Health Services will not be able to deal with issues like space until it finds a new director, VanVechten said. At a University Senate meeting during the spring semester, VanVechten, Health Services’ representative on USen, spoke about the search for a new director and “space challenges” at Health Services.

“More space would be an asset,” VanVechten said.

Additional area for clinical care, exam rooms and consultation rooms would help Health Services make room for more students, VanVechten said. She said she would like to have the space to “do things differently” and said she would like to see more educational programming available for students at Health Services.

Health Services currently operates with a staff of about 50, and hiring more staff would go with more space, she said. A new health educator will be joining Health Services early in the month of December, VanVechten said.

Health Services is trying to encourage more students to speak on the phone with a registered nurse about at-home care rather than go through the trouble of coming in, VanVechten said. Students coming in for cold symptoms are most common and usually require basic care, she said.

The busiest time for Health Services is in October and November and in February and March, she said. This is because of cold and flu season patterns, as well as the stress of returning to school, lack of sleep and nutrition problems students typically experience.

Emma Gregg, a freshman television, radio and film major, said she was hesitant to visit Health Services at first. She said she did not know what to expect but was very happy with her visit.

Gregg went to refill a prescription and was able to be treated for a cold she had at the same

time. The Health Services staff member who treated her gave Gregg her card and said Gregg could call her with any questions she had.

Gregg did call and heard back a day or two later, she said.

Waiting was Gregg’s only complaint, she said. But she said she expects that from doctors.

She said she was glad to see Health Services taking time to care for students.

“It would be very easy to dismiss us as college students,” Gregg said.

Putting more emphasis on prioritizing urgent health problems is one improvement the center could make, said Sephora Findling, a sophomore nutrition science major. She went to Health Services last year for the first time when she was sick with food poisoning.

Although she had to wait to get an appointment, Findling said she felt comfortable seeing Health Services, and the staff provided her with everything she needed.

“Getting an appointment takes a while,” Findling said. “But once you’re in, you’re in.” dkmcbrid@syr.edu

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Environmentalists worry Republican takeover could stall climate change legislation

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lobal warming could mean the potential for flooding and droughts in Syracuse — the kinds of disasters environmentalists like Cornelius Murphy work to prevent.

“Climate change is real. It speaks to 250 million climate refugees by 2100. That’s not enjoying a warmer-than-usual day. That’s a tragedy,” said Murphy, president of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

But with the official victory of Republican and self-proclaimed “global warming skeptic” Ann Marie Buerkle for New York’s 25th Congressional District, Murphy said the future of climate change legislation seems more uncertain now than ever before. With a divided government, the chance of passing serious climate legislation fades from the hopes of even the most optimistic scientists, he said.

A worried president Murphy said he fears the worst of climate change. He talks of abandoning low-lying cities, housing millions of climate refugees, fighting floods and turning the planet into an electric-heating blanket. Though Murphy sees Buerkle’s victory as a setback, Murphy said he’ll continue fighting what he called ignorance in politics.

Buerkle’s view of global warming is not isolated. Newly elected Speaker of the House John Boehner said the Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration earlier this year that carbon dioxide is harmful is “almost comical.”

Scientists like Murphy have worked to make gains in Congress throughout the past several decades, celebrating successes and suffering

losses with each new administration.

This summer, environmental activists were close to a major success. A week away from passing legislation against carbon dioxide emissions last summer, President Barack Obama permitted offshore drilling, and climate took a back seat again to the economy, said Brent Olson, a graduate student in the geography department.

“It’s sad how far we came, just to be shut down by midterm elections,” Olson said. “It goes to show you how climate takes a backseat to special interest groups.”

David Driesen, a Syracuse University professor of law and expert on climate change policy, said he believes it is very unlikely the House of Representatives could pass serious climate change legislation with a Democratic minority.

Buerkle told The Post-Standard on Nov. 28 that she plans to make health care the focus of her service in Washington, adding that climate change has “yet to be proven.”

“I think global warming politically has probably been decided, but scientifically I don’t think it has,” Buerkle said.

The local effect Central New York has become the new frontier in the battle against climate change and energy reform. At the top of the list of environmental controversies facing New York is high-pressure hydraulic fracturing, also known as hydrofracking.

New York rests on one of the nation’s most abundant sources of natural gas, called the Marcellus Shale, said Susan Christopherson, a city and regional planning professor at Cornell University. And Republicans and Tea Partiers looking to prove their success in strengthening

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Because residents in the Northeast consume the majority of the natural gas, companies lose less money in transporting it. The short-term economic benefits go to the companies, while the state’s benefits prove to be little more than null, Christopherson said.

“The way the question has been posed is economics versus environment, and the economics just don’t support that argument,” Christopherson said.

But the opportunity for energy independence resonates with locals, and some professors said they see hydrofracking as a necessity in burning cleaner fossil fuels.

“The leaders of opposition groups to hydrofracking have disseminated scientifically incorrect analogies, sometimes outright falsehoods and exaggerations of rare accidents to generate fear of hydrofracking and the gas industry,” said Don Siegel in reference to the Sundance Jury Prize-winning documentary “Gasland,” which showed the extreme affects of hydrofracking in the Midwest and Northeast.

Natural gas burns cleaner than crude or coal, said Siegel, an earth sciences professor at SU, and scientists cannot discuss alternative energies without considering natural gas’ future in the United States.

A moratorium banning hydrofracking passed the state Senate in August but could meet its demise this coming May when lawmakers will sit down with the EPA, a pool of gas companies, special interest groups and concerned citizens to hash out the future of hydrofracking in New York. Siegel said the meeting will hopefully develop a compromise that enables New York to benefit from natural gas extraction while also helping deter global warming.

Several of the environmental scientists and activists agreed banning together was most important, even among disagreement about when, where and how climate change will affect the global environment and economy.

“Climate change is something that we have to deal with now or pay for later,” Siegel said. “How we deal with it will come down to economics. It’s a consequence of an industrialized society.” rdjone03@syr.edu

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Barnhart said he takes pride in SA’s ability to adapt to unexpected issues that occurred during his presidency.

“I think it’s really the sign of a strong student government to be able to mobilize and act quickly on the things it’s not expecting,” said Barnhart.

In the spring, SA dealt with the merging of the advertising design and the communications design majors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The issue raised concern among students who felt the school did not communicate their intentions with those who would be affected by the change. SA worked to open communication between VPA and the students so that students were aware of the changes and why they were made.

In general, many student concerns stemmed from a lack of communication. Every time everyone was brought together to discuss an issue, someone would have different information, he said.

“One of the biggest problems students saw was that they didn’t think they had adequate say when, in reality, they did,” he said.

Safety The first meeting Barnhart had as SA president was with the Department of Public Safety.

Barnhart wanted to improve safety on campus by fixing and installing lights on and off campus, improving collaboration between DPS and Syracuse Police and creating a community watch program.

SA collaborated with National Grid, which unblocked and fixed 60 lights off campus during Barnhart’s campaign. Although some lights have been fixed, others have not been installed yet.

Barnhart said he met with DPS to discuss new safety programs and ways to promote them.

Such programs include Shuttle 44, a texting system for emergencies, and a Student Safety

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said, if we’re not going to be in a BCS bowl, there couldn’t be a more perfect bowl for us to be in.”

Later, Gross added that the novelty of the bowl made it such an easy choice for the department to accept.

The bowl is the first in the New York City area since the 1981 Garden State Bowl in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. It is the first bowl in New York since 1962, when Miami played Nebraska in the Gotham Bowl in the original Yankee Stadium.

Advisory Committee.

The Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services began a program similar to a community watch as Barnhart was campaigning. As a result, Barnhart did not pursue the initiative.

Neal Casey, Student Life Committee chair and president-elect, said he believes more could have been done. Casey plans to continue working on safety during his presidency, Casey said.

“I think that coming in, we wanted to do a lot more for campus safety,” he said, “and I don’t think we got to accomplish that.”

Inclusion When Barnhart began his presidency, he wanted to create a less segregated campus but did not have any specific ideas as to how to do this.

“This isn’t something we were going to solve or something we were going to fix,” Barnhart said.

“This was something that we were going to start.”

During Barnhart’s term, Assemblymember Bonnie Kong began the Student Leadership Roundtable to give student leaders the opportunity to speak with the chancellor and ask questions. A common theme was student concern about segregation on campus, Barnhart said.

Syracuse University is ranked the 20th most segregated school by the Princeton Review. During this semester, a student brought up the Princeton Review’s survey and how it influences students to think about segregation at SU, Barnhart said. Students are given the option of filling out a 50-question survey, but of those questions only two are used to decide which schools are the most and least segregated, he said.

Once SA received this information, it did not have time to act on it but began to brainstorm what it could do, Barnhart said.

The Non-Traditional Student Commission, created by Angelo Coker, SA vice president, was formed last semester and directed to groups, including commuter students, part-time students and transfer students. Although it was successful last semester, the commission did not have as much direction this semester, as

“It’s kind of a once-in-a-lifetime type of event,” Gross said.

For a team and program attempting to market itself as “New York’s college team,” a trip to the Pinstripe Bowl in perhaps the most iconic stadium in New York can “only enhance that,” Gross said.

“It couldn’t be any better,” he said. “There we are, for a whole week, to take over the town and paint it Orange. Not just taxi tops. We’ll be playing down there, as well.”

Marrone grew up in the Bronx, about nine miles from Yankee Stadium. His grandfather worked as an usher for Yankee Stadium.

So for the SU head coach, the bowl will also

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there was a transition in leadership for the commission, Barnhart said.

Despite the commission’s reduced involvement from last year, Barnhart and Casey have been drafting a bill to include a nontraditional student seat in SA. Barnhart said he wishes he could have made this official before the end of his presidency.

Financial responsibility With tuition on the rise, one of Barnhart’s goals was to put in place a lock-in tuition. But this was more complicated than anticipated because the university relies heavily on tuition revenue to improve, Barnhart said.

Instead, SA decided to focus on what it could control — the student activity fee.

SA made University Union the Official Programming Board, which Barnhart considers one of his biggest accomplishments. SA has been attempting to make this happen for years, he said.

“All of us had seen other administrations fail,” he said. “When we started working on this, we said we were going to get this done.”

The second accomplishment Barnhart is most proud of is the new student advancement fund, which will help SA fund necessary student services. The fund sets aside a small portion of the student activity fee to fund necessary SA expenses.

At the beginning of the year, the Student Engagement Committee attempted to run a bus from campus to Wegmans and Target. The program funding was to be split between SA and the two companies, but during its final step, one of the two companies chose not to help fund the program, Barnhart said. The student advancement fund would help prevent similar situations from occurring.

Education In an effort to inform students about SA and issues on campus, SA increased its use of media outlets, such as Facebook, Twitter, campus-wide

be a trip home, making it all the more special.

“I don’t know how many coaches get to play in a venue that they grew up around their entire life,” Marrone said. “I think it is, without a doubt, a dream come true to go home.”

Mark Holtzman, the Pinstripe Bowl’s executive director, was on hand during the Syracuse men’s basketball game against North Carolina State Saturday to present Marrone and SU with an official invite.

“We’re still high-fiving,” Holtzman said of Syracuse’s inclusion to the bowl after the presentation. “The smile hasn’t worn off.”

In Marrone’s second season at the helm, the Orange returned to a bowl game for the first time since 2004. Its 7-5 record was the first winning season for the program since 2001. And it came after a 4-8 season last year that led to a preseason pick of seventh in the conference in the Big East media poll.

But SU surprised with four road victories in the Big East, including signature wins at South

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communications, calls “bus-time technology.”

Select buses will be equipped with GPS locators, and a dozen or more bus stops will have LED signs that tell travelers exactly what time the bus will get there.

“If customers have the ability to anticipate up to the minute when the bus will be there, it will improve the convenience,” Koegel said. “It takes a lot of the guesswork out of it. You’ll actually have pinpoint knowledge of how much time you have before the bus arrives.”

“I think it’s really the sign of a strong student government to be able to mobilize and act quickly on the things it’s not expecting.”

Jon Barnhart

SA President

e-mails and press releases, in comparison to past years. It also has its own show called “SA Today” on CitrusTV. But Sima Taslakian, former SA parliamentarian, said SA is falling short in improving its image.

Taslakian resigned from her position as parliamentarian due to a death in the family and personal issues unrelated to SA. But the students’ lack of knowledge about SA also influenced her decision to resign, she said.

But others, such as Woody, the Student Engagement Committee chair, said Barnhart has shown his ability to focus on student concerns. Barnhart has improved the organization through the creation of new codes, such as the student advancement fund. He has also made the organization more efficient, Woody said.

“Anything he didn’t finish, he left a template for SA to follow in the future,” he said.

Although some of Barnhart’s original plans did not come through by the end of his presidency, he was able to make improvements regarding all the goals he originally set with the students in mind, said Coker, Barnhart’s vice president.

“He didn’t get caught up in the bureaucracy of working up with the administration,” Coker said. “He never forgot for a minute that he was a student first.” lgleveil@syr.edu

“This team has accomplished a great deal, and this is a great reward for us. We talked about it all year. We have our goals that we all signed on for.”

Doug Marrone

su head coach

Florida and West Virginia. In its final road conference win at Rutgers on Nov. 13, it clinched bowl eligibility with a 13-10 victory over the Scarlet Knights. bplogiur@syr.edu aolivero@syr.edu

Centro will rotate buses off the corridor routes over Winter Break to install and test this innovative technology, Koegel said. The technology should be operational by Jan. 17, which is by the time students get back to school, he said.

Ilana Goldmeier, a freshman in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, said having bus-time technology will make it easier to get to classes in The Warehouse downtown.

“The buses are already on time for the most part, but sometimes they don’t show up when they’re supposed to,” Goldmeier said. “Having a time when it is supposed to be there doesn’t account for the time in between.” egsawyer@syr.edu

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J. Cole outperforms headliner Wiz Khalifa at sold-out concert

By Danielle Odiamar

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hough not as crowded as expected, Goldstein Auditorium was the setting of a nonstop party that, despite all the hype, outshined the concert’s headliner Wiz Khalifa.

Khalifa was only one detail in the third annual Hope Benefit Concert that took place on Saturday night.

Held by the Syracuse University fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, the concert raised $1,300 for Home HeadQuarters, a nonprofit organization that creates housing and other opportunities for underprivileged people in the Syracuse area.

A DJ played between sets for crowds of people dancing on the floor and the balcony before the start of the show. The brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, appropriately dressed in their

fraternity colors of black and yellow, pumped up the crowd by dancing, yelling and even “strolling,” a combination of walking and dancing, on the floor in between J. Cole and Khalifa’s performances.

With J. Cole and Khalifa as this year’s headliners and tickets for the show selling out in a day, the concert had high expectations to live up to.

“I’m expecting it to be good because it sold out in three hours,” said Toni Green, a junior psychology major, who said neither Khalifa nor J. Cole was among her favorite artists.

Yet for a sold-out show, Goldstein Auditorium looked rather spacious with only half the floor filled and several recognizably empty sections of the balcony.

“It wasn’t even crowded,” said Justin Brantley, a freshman engineering see khalifa page 11

brandon weight | staff photographer (Left to right) wiz khalifa raps to an unenthusiastic crowd in Goldstein Auditorium Saturday night.

J. Cole gives the opening act, which students gave a stronger response to, compared to Khalifa’s set.

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Swing club holds Winter Dance for students, locals

By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor

Lou Pennacchia will dance anytime, anywhere.

On Friday night, he changed his routine by going to South Campus to join students for a swing dance.

“It’s been a blast,” said Pennacchia, an East Syracuse resident. “There’s a lot of different music.”

Syracuse University’s Swing Club held its Winter Dance on Dec. 3 at the Inn Complete on South Campus. About 20 students from the dance club and 30 adults from the community and the Syracuse Swing Dance Society came out for the group’s first dance this semester.

Pennacchia frequently attends events with the Syracuse Swing Dance Society. He and his dancing partner, Sally Senecal of Eastwood, have each been dancing for almost 10 years.

“It’s fun dancing with people who are learning.

They bring a lot of energy on the floor and we bring the experience.”

Lou Pennacchia

East Syracuse resident

They agreed the dance was a unique opportunity for the students and community members and encouraged younger members to give dancing a try.

“You don’t have to be the best dancer in the world,” Senecal said.

The dance was one of the most attended events the SU Swing Club has put on, said Leanna Mulvihill, club president and a junior environmental research engineering major in the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Though the group members usually only have the budget to do one dance a year, they were able to use the Inn Complete space for free, Mulvihill said. She hopes they will be able to hold another dance next semester. The

Syracuse Swing Dance Society also used the event as a test of the space, as the group is considering moving weekly practices there, Mulvihill said. The group normally practices in North Syracuse, making it difficult for the students to dance with the Syracuse Swing Dance Society regularly.

The SU club practices every Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the exercise room on the first floor of Archbold Gymnasium. She encouraged other students to come out to the practices and dances.

“You don’t need a partner, and you don’t need experience,” Mulvihill said.

Dancing is therapeutic for SU engineering professor and swing dance club faculty adviser Can Isik. Isik, a member of the Syracuse Swing Dance Society, said dancing is a chance for him to relax. His favorite style of dance is West Coast Swing, which he said is a chance for both men and women to be creative in their dance styles.

Isik was a DJ Friday night and mixed newer hip-hop songs with rock ‘n’ roll and blues. Playing a variety of music is a way to please everybody, he said.

Having the more experienced dancers around the students Friday night was a chance for the students to learn, Isik said.

“Everybody’s smiling, everybody’s having fun,” Isik said.

Dave Biles, a junior advertising and geography major, watched people dance when he wasn’t dancing himself. He said the East Coast Triple Step is his favorite move.

Biles watched the older members of the crowd, who he said were more secure in their dancing style.

“You can see all the different moves that people have,” Biles said. Then Biles pointed out a member of the Syracuse Swing Dance Society who was dancing. “See this guy? He has a very definite style. He’s very fly.”

Pennacchia, who was there from the community to dance himself, said he enjoyed the change of dancing with a younger crowd.

“It’s fun dancing with people who are learning,” Pennacchia said. “They bring a lot of energy on the floor, and we bring the experience.” dkmcbrid@syr.edu

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major. “I don’t know why it was sold out. There was a lot of room on the floor.”

Several other parts of the night distracted attention from Khalifa. The strong smell of marijuana filled Goldstein Auditorium throughout the entire performance, and puffs of smoke continuously rose from the crowd.

“The second the lights went out for (J. Cole), there was smoke everywhere,” said Josh Karnett, a freshman broadcast journalism major.

“Even if you weren’t smoking, you were getting high.”

J. Cole, the first to perform, exceeded the expectations of many people. While it was difficult to understand what he said when he spoke to the crowd, his rap verses came out strong and clear. Known for his songs “Who Dat” and “Lights Please,” J. Cole amazed the crowd by playing a few chords on the piano.

“I was surprised,” said Osar Pat-Osagie, a freshman finance and entrepreneurship major.

“I didn’t know he could play the piano.”

J. Cole kept the whole audience engaged, running back and forth on the stage, shouting to the balcony and encouraging everyone to imitate him as he pumped his hand up and down.

Though the crowd members carried their house-party antics with J. Cole, they did not have as strong of a response for Khalifa. Brantley said he thought Khalifa’s music was better but that J. Cole stole the show.

An unexpected highlight of the night was J. Cole’s DJ. In the middle of J. Cole’s performance, he began to scratch on the turntables with his elbows while spinning around. He even had a girl come on stage to cover his eyes, then dance and make out with him while he continued to scratch.

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“That DJ almost stole the show,” Osagie said.

Overall, Khalifa gave a solid performance, even if it did not fully live up to the expectations of the crowd. Khalifa’s set was shorter than J. Cole’s. The event, scheduled to go on until 10 p.m., ended around 9:30 p.m., with several of Khalifa’s most popular songs, namely “Say Yeah,” unperformed.

“Honestly, I was pretty disappointed,” said Dean Engberg, an undecided sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. “He didn’t perform most of the songs I wanted, and a lot of people didn’t know the lyrics. It had me really frustrated.”

The disappointment in Khalifa’s performance was evident in those seated in the auditorium’s balcony.

“Did you see how after his first three songs, everyone started sitting down?” Karnett said.

“It wasn’t until ‘Black and Yellow’ came on everyone got up.”

Aside from the performance of one of his most popular hits, there were only a few other times the crowd went wild. Several members of Taylor Gang, a circle of Khalifa’s close friends, climbed onto the stage, wearing some of his merchandise and dancing along in the background while he rapped. Khalifa received a wave of cheers as he screamed out.

“Where all my f***ing Taylors at?” Khalifa asked. He stripped off his shirt during “Ink My Whole Body,” which revealed his thin tattoocovered torso. The act received loud cheers from the crowd.

Though he continued the performance with energy, dancing on his toes and reaching out to the crowd, the members of the audience remained fairly calm. They spent most of the performance quietly nodding along, occasionally throwing a hand up. dmodiama@syr.edu

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Holiday swap 1. NOT SANTA BUT WALTER WHITE (“BREAKING BAD”)

The return of Father Christmas means two things: gift giving and a family-comes-first priority. Walt (Bryan Cranston) believes in these same things.

Santa passes out toys, sweaters and socks.

Walt passes out blue methamphetamine that has a better crystal structure than your mother’s Swarovski holiday ornament. For the record, the meth ranks as the better present. Face it, you’ll get more money back if you return that blue meth than if you try to return those black Nike tube socks. As for families, Santa loves Mrs. Claus.

Walt loves his family, too — so much so that he’s willing to deal that meth. Santa faces few dangers. Walt faces many: crazed Mexicans, an ex-wife and terminal lung cancer. Walt wins.

3. NOT FROSTY BUT ARI GOLD (“ENTOURAGE”)

“The Christmas 2. NOT TINY TIM BUT Carol,”In Bob Crachit’s son, Tim, kept him going through his KURT (“GLEE”) daily struggles. The young crippled

To celebrate the season, we match your favorite holiday characters with their on-screen counterparts

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oon you’ll grow tired of the marathon sessions of “A Christmas Story,” poorly animated versions of Santa Claus and all the other bland television Christmas offerings.

You crave a little something different this Christmas. So to spice up your holidays, check out these current TV characters instead of their holiday doppelgangers. adbrow03@syr.edu kaoutram@syr.edu

4. NOT THE GRINCH BUT SIMON COWELL

Frosty’s life goes on as long as he doesn’t have a meltdown.

Unfortunately, the spring thaw is as unpredictable as one of Ari Gold’s (Jeremy Piven) dramatic outbursts.

Ari has freaked out about his children’s school, clients’ futures and golf scores.

But he’s suffered the most from his meltdowns in the seventh season. After details of his workplace antics get out, he ends up taking a lot of heat. And after years of stress, his wife walks out on him in the season finale. Frosty can come back every winter. Let’s hope Ari can reconstitute himself next season.

child, who never gave up hope and wished everyone an emotionally charged “Merry Christmas,” tugged at the heartstrings of viewers. Chris Colfer has updated this role with Kurt Hummel in “Glee,” acting as the show’s inspirational glimmer of hope. Despite being bullied at school, dealing with his father’s stint at the hospital and feeling alienated, Kurt always manages to rise to the occasion. Whether it is through gaining a better understanding of himself, belting out “Rose’s Turn” or accepting that people are always going to harp on him for being different, Kurt’s perseverance through tough times makes him a holiday inspiration. Did Tiny Tim ever improve the way Kurt did? Who knows, but that final scene in “The Christmas Carol” sure was uplifting. A Christmas miracle, indeed.

5. NOT RUDOLPH BUT PEGGY OLSEN (“MAD MEN”)

There’s always that one person who can’t manage to smile under any circumstance. He could have a stocking full of presents, a well-lit tree and mistletoe, and he’ll still huff at holiday cheer.

Former “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell fits this bill year-round. From barely cracking a smile at William Hung’s depressing but unforgettable audition to telling some female competitors that they look like drag queens, Cowell has no problem raining on parades. Though he won’t be serving cold plates of insults on “American Idol” anymore, viewers can still look forward to his healthy dose of brutal honesty when “The X-Factor” makes its U.S. debut in fall 2011.

Rudolph saves Christmas Day when he leads Santa’s sleigh through the poor weather, his blinking red nose lighting the way. Peggy tries her best to save Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. In last season’s finale, she proudly declares she’s been the first to bring new business since the agency began its downward turn for the worse. Further, the other reindeer refused to let Rudolph play in any reindeer games. Peggy encountered a similar situation when she broke into the men’s world of 1960s advertising. Her male counterparts held after-hours client meetings at strip bars without her, while her boss made her first copywriting assignment about lipstick and weight-loss products. And then her co-workers didn’t even let her smoke weed with them. Peggy and Rudolph both play a dark horse character who tries to make things better for everyone around them, even if they aren’t initially appreciated.

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throw line but, as in Waiters’ two late freebies, made them when it needed to.

The Orange defense forced 10 second-half turnovers and only turned the ball over twice

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“We only turned it over five times, and that was the difference in the game. If the turnovers were any different, we had no chance to win.”

Jim Boeheim

Rick Jackson The senior forward was once again the steady force in the paint for Syracuse, scoring 16 points on 7-of12 shooting and grabbing a team-high eight rebounds.

He also had four steals and a blocked shot, guiding the Orange defense.

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Freshman guard Dion Waiters sinks two free throws to give SU a 65-59 advantage. Teammate Brandon Triche made 1-of-2 free throws with 17 seconds remaining, but N.C. State still had a chance. That was until Lorenzo Brown turned the ball over and subsequently fouled Waiters.

during the final 20 minutes, keeping the Orange alive.

“One good thing is that we turned it over five times,î Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said. “That was the difference in the game. If the turnovers are any different, we have no chance to win.”

Syracuse has made a habit out of winning

close games despite its poor shooting. In addition to its overall poor shooting on the night, the Orange made just 2-of-16 shots from beyond the arc. That’s something that could eventually catch up to Syracuse as it begins to face tougher opponents, beginning with No. 6 Michigan State at Madison Square Garden in New York City Tuesday.

To Boeheim, those shooting numbers just won’t get it done consistently.

“You’ve got to be able to make some shots out there,” Boeheim said. “And, you know, we’ve got to find a way to make some of those if we’re going to be good.”

The lessons from the previous seven games came in handy against a North Carolina State team that had all the momentum until Boeheim turned on the full-court press. Suddenly, SU created turnovers and got out in its transition attack. The Orange generated seven times the amount of points off turnovers as the Wolfpack. That swung some of the momentum back toward SU. This game was just another that allowed the Orange to continue to add to its experience and ability to win games down the stretch. It’s something the players hope continues.

“Every game you play, you want to learn something from it, even if it’s a blowout,” point guard Scoop Jardine said. “We’ve been having some close ones and we’ve learned from it, and we know we’ve got to always come together to win close ones like this. That’s how it’s going to be.”

And as the season continues to progress, these are the lessons teammate Rick Jackson believes will ultimately make Syracuse a contender.

“Whenever you come down to the wire and play a good team like that, it just prepares you for the future,” Jackson said. “You have to find a

N.C. State’s starting guard failed to make a single field goal Saturday, scoring just two points in 16 minutes of action. He also turned the ball over three times.

way to win when the ball isn’t going in.”

Boeheim said he expects the Orange to play better as the season progresses, but shooting the ball well will be essential. Playing better on offense is “the bottom line,” he said.

Until then, Syracuse has shown it can still win by staying poised and imposing its will defensively. For Joseph, those are two “habits” that have developed for this team. Even if, thus far, its shooting touch hasn’t.

“The more we go on through the season, I see that our team picks up new habits,” Joseph said.

“And they’re good habits. That’s what we’re going to need to build throughout the year.” ajohn@syr.edu

box score North Carolina State Player ASST REB

Scott Wood C.J. Leslie Javier Gonzalez Richard Howell Ryan Harrow DeShawn Painter C.J. Williams Lorenzo Brown Jordan Vandenberg

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Scoop Jardine Rick Jackson Kris Joseph Fab Melo Brandon Triche C.J. Fair Baye Moussa Keita Dion Waiters

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Despite scoring game-high 23, Jardine’s shooting struggles continue

By Brett LoGiurato Asst. Sports Editor

Scoop Jardine’s numbers jump off the stat sheet in Syracuse’s 65-59 victory over North Carolina State on Saturday. Twenty-three points. But further down the line, another number is more telling for SU head coach Jim Boeheim of the state of his team — 21 shots.

“Offensively we have to do better,” Boeheim said. “The only guy that is getting a lot of shots is Scoop, and he has to find people. He probably has to take six or seven fewer shots and give it to people.”

The 23 points, some of which came at clutch moments, marked somewhat of a rebound game for Jardine off his scoreless performance against Cornell that came on 0-for-5 shooting from the floor.

But the 21 shots were the other side, somewhat of a continuation of the Cornell game and his performance overall in the four games after his career night against Detroit. In those four games, he shot 9-of-42 (21.4 percent) from the floor.

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“We left Wood open twice,” he said. “You just can’t leave him open. He’s too good of a shooter.”

Still, Syracuse went into the locker room at halftime with momentum, as Jardine nailed a fadeaway jumper at the buzzer to give the Orange a 38-34 lead.

But the sluggish play carried over to the second half, as N.C. State opened up the period with an 8-0 run to take a 42-38 lead.

Each time the Orange attempted to make a run back, the Wolfpack responded. C.J. Fair knocked down a free throw, but Wood answered with a 3.

Rick Jackson threw down a monstrous dunk, but Javier Gonzalez answered with a jumper from the left baseline to get back to a six-point lead at 53-47.

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over margin.

So though the Orange has forced its opponents to shoot just 37.4 percent through eight games, the team only creates three more turnovers than it gives up per game. Prior to Saturday, the Orange only had a plus-1.4 margin per game. That’s against the likes of William & Mary, Canisius and Detroit. That won’t cut it against Big East teams, not to mention No. 6 Michigan State at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.

“We only turned it over five times, and that was the difference in the game,” Boeheim said Saturday. “If the turnovers were any different, we had no chance to win.”

Although shooting efficiency is down from a year ago, Boeheim has professed confidence that the Orange will turn it around eventually.

The open shots that are falling in practice need to carry over to games. Ultimately, it comes back to the turnovers.

Saturday, it was the turnover margin that allowed the Orange to escape unscathed.

“Being active and creating turnovers, I think that’s going to be a big thing for us,” forward Rick Jackson said Saturday.

A year ago, the issue was the same. Sure, SU had the highest scoring margin in the conference at plus-14.5, but Syracuse also led the league in turnovers — at an eye-popping 15.2 per game. The Orange was able to offset that by an unusually high field-goal percentage and by forcing just as many turnovers.

Hitting 7-of-21 from the field Saturday, Jardine shot just 33 percent. And that included just 25 percent (2-of-8) from beyond the 3-point line.

“I made some shots, and I was just being aggressive,” Jardine said. “Keep trying to make plays. I think I could have settled in a little bit.”

Boeheim, however, defended the number of shots Jardine put up. To Boeheim, it’s just the reality of where his team stands right now.

Kris Joseph was 3-of-12 from the floor. Brandon Triche shot the same percentage, going 2-of8. Overall, Boeheim’s team lacks shooters. That, he said, puts more pressure on Jardine.

“Scoop is taking a couple because he sees we’re not scoring,” Boeheim said. “He is probably trying to force that action a little bit.”

Like most of the Orange on Saturday, Jardine came out of the gate on fire. He found his big men down low — Rick Jackson and Fab Melo — for easy layups and dunks in the first three-plus minutes. He followed that up later with two 3-pointers to give SU a 19-11 lead.

But soon after, the struggles started. Even after his buzzer-beater at the end of the first half to give the Orange a 38-34 lead going into the locker room, he ran over to Boeheim, almost trying to excuse himself from taking a fadeaway jumper.

And as Syracuse mounted its comeback down 53-49, Jardine hit two clutch free throws and drove in for a score. He also assisted a Jackson shot that gave SU the lead for good.

But even for Jardine, that didn’t complete his performance Saturday.

“Some of them,” he said, when asked if he liked most of the shots he put up. “Some of them. A lot of them, I think going into the defense, I could have kicked to shooters. I’m going to do that next time.”

Syracuse wasn’t able to sustain a run until, down five, it ramped up the defensive intensity.

Boeheim instituted a full-court press that forced two consecutive turnovers.

Then SU forced a shot-clock violation. A Jackson bucket that followed gave SU the lead at 57-56.

“We limited our turnovers and forced them into a couple more,” Joseph said. “That was the key for us. … We forced them into some turnovers and some tough shots. Down the stretch, our defensive presence was what helped us win the game.”

That defensive presence started with a change on Wood. Joseph said the Orange was, in essence, playing a 3-2 zone instead of a 2-3, shading up to force Wood into contested shots.

And it worked. Wood started 4-of-6 from beyond the arc. He finished the game 2-of-9. And he missed four 3-pointers in the final five minutes, which would have either tied the game or given N.C.

State the lead.

“We had to locate that shooter,” Jardine said.

“Wood. He was making every shot. Every shot he took, I thought it was good. We located him.

We made it tough for him. He got some looks, but the reason he missed is because we made it tough on him.”

While the Orange played stingy defense — at one point not allowing a Wolfpack shot on four consecutive possessions — its offense added points little by little to finally get the lead and then build it slowly.

Wait…

In Jim Boeheim’s words, two consecutive Scott Wood 3-pointers in the first half, which started the N.C. State comeback, came because Dion Waiters didn’t shift over in the zone.

“Dion can make plays, he just can’t play

defense,” Boeheim said. “He left a guy open twice in a row. We had a 12-point lead to make a change and he did not get to the guy twice, and that can’t happen.”

After Wood made the second of those two 3-pointers to, in essence, cut SU’s lead in half, Boeheim was irate on Syracuse’s sideline and called a timeout. His eyes were on Waiters as the freshman guard strolled to the sidelines.

But from Waiters’ mouth, Wood wasn’t his responsibility.

“I didn’t leave him open,” Waiters said. “That wasn’t my position. I take the transition guy.”

Whatever the case, Waiters and the rest of the SU defense shut down Wood after those two 3-pointers. Wood started 4-of-6 from beyond the arc. He finished the game 2-of-9.

“We had to cheat out on him,” Waiters said.

“Spread the zone a little bit. We were able to get our big, key stops down the stretch. And we got the ‘W.’” bplogiur@syr.edu

And with 24 seconds left, Wood missed another 3-pointer. This time, Joseph was there to grab the rebound and get the ball to Brandon Triche.

Wood fouled Triche immediately, and SU’s guard sank 1-of-2 free throws to finally give his team a comfortable four-point lead with 17 seconds left.

Comfortable because SU’s defense hadn’t given up four points in nearly 10 minutes.

“We made some great defensive stops,” Boeheim said. “Our defense has been good down the stretch in those situations.”

When SU’s season ended prematurely at the hands of Butler, it wasn’t the shooting that doomed the Orange. It was SU’s 18 turnovers to Butler’s seven. Syracuse shot the ball better (from the field, beyond the arc and the same at the free-throw line) than the Bulldogs in that game.

This season, the press conference theme has remained focused on shooting. Boeheim said he expects his squad to start shooting the ball better. And, of course, that will need to happen if the Orange hopes to remain inside the Top 10.

But as witnessed Saturday, strong defensive play and a heavy advantage in the turnover margin will be the key to winning until that shooting improvement comes. And if it doesn’t, then at least the Orange knows where it can look in close late-game situations. In this case, it isn’t all about the shooting.

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Quentin Hillsman shied away from that pair of four-letter words, saying he had to be careful.

Even though every statistic from his team’s 70-point annihilation of Delaware State pointed toward those two words and even though Hillsman himself said he has syracuse 87 yet to see a better defendelaware state 17 sive effort, the Syracuse women’s basketball coach still wouldn’t agree with that one phrase. “‘Best ever’ is a little strong,” he said with a smile. “But it was good. It was very good.

“I’m just careful with using that word ‘ever.’”

Whether or not Hillsman anointed his team’s 87-17 dismantling of Delaware State as the best defensive performance in the history of the women’s basketball program is irrelevant, though. The numbers do it for him.

The 70-point margin of victory Saturday set a new Syracuse (6-0) record. The 17 points allowed are the fewest an Orange team has ever given up. The 1,102 fans in the Carrier Dome saw a record-setting performance in which SU’s relentless defensive pressure held the Hornets (1-5) without a field goal for all but 28 seconds of the second half. SU allowed just three points in the final 20 minutes.

It was sheer domination.

This marks the second consecutive season in which the Orange defeated Delaware State by at least 50 points. SU trounced the Hornets 72-20 in 2009, with the 20 points allowed setting a program record.

One year later, the Hornets were the victims of another record-setting blowout.

“We were very active all over the place,” SU guard Carmen Tyson-Thomas said. “We were shutting them down for quite a bit.”

The first half saw Syracuse turn a one-point deficit into a 24-point lead with a 27-2 run. SU’s full-court press stifled the Hornets offensively, preventing them from setting up their offense on most possessions.

With 2:26 left in the first half, Delaware State broke the press on a rare occasion. But the first pass over half court was deflected by TysonThomas, and she threw it off a DSU player out of

“I can’t say that I’ve seen one better. You’ve got to give our kids a lot of credit.”

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bounds to give Syracuse the ball back.

The Hornets finished the first half with more than three times as many turnovers as field goals.

“Our pressure sped them up a little bit and didn’t let them get into their offense in the half court,” Hillsman said. “Or if they did get into their offense, there was 12 or 13 seconds left on the shot clock, and that wasn’t enough time to reverse the ball against our zone.”

Already with a 35-point advantage by halftime, Syracuse increased the defensive intensity even more in the second half.

In the first five minutes, Kayla Alexander had six blocks. It took 2:54 for the Hornets to

have a shot hit the rim.

“I think just contesting shots on defense (was huge),” SU senior guard Erica Morrow said.

“Kayla was big down low. She had a lot of blocks.”

And that was just the beginning. For the first 19:32 of the second half, the team was held to one point. The Hornets missed its first 27 shot attempts of the second half.

With each and every miss by Delaware State, the snickers from fans inside the Carrier Dome grew louder.

Especially after the Hornets had a two-onnone breakaway but wasted it with a poor pass out of bounds. Especially after Delaware State’s Kianna Conner (six turnovers) made a doubleclutch 3-pointer just tenths of a second after the horn had sounded for a shot-clock violation.

“I can’t say that I’ve seen one better,” said Hillsman of the defensive performance. “You’ve got to give our kids a lot of credit.”

The Orange held Delaware State to just 14 percent shooting for the game, including a comical 1-for-28 clip in the second half.

Finally, though, the Hornets broke through on a layup by Kianna D’Oliveira with 0:28 left in the game. It broke a field goal drought of 20:05 dating back to the first half.

D’Oliveira’s layup, although meaningless with Syracuse leading by 72, left the Orange players disappointed. They didn’t want to give up a single field goal in the second half, no matter how insignificant.

“Honestly, yeah, we were disappointed,” Tyson-Thomas said. “That one was a little shocker. … We were a little upset.

“It was just that kind of game for us.” mjcohe02@syr.edu

Tyson-Thomas’ 1st-half offense propels SU in laugher

By Mark Cooper Asst. Copy Editor

Delaware State took the full 40 minutes to score more points than Syracuse’s Carmen TysonThomas did in 17.

The sophomore guard scored. She rebounded. She played tight defense. She did everything in the first half for SU. Her maximum effort in the first half allowed for her and the rest of the Orange’s first team to have a breather in the second half. Syracuse turned the game into a laugher.

“Personally, I was all over the place, yeah,” Tyson-Thomas said. “But our team, we were all really hustling.”

And until Delaware State hit a layup with 28 seconds to go, Tyson-Thomas was tied with the entire Hornets team at 15. Tyson-Thomas finished with 15 points, nine rebounds and two steals as SU blew away Delaware State, 87-17.

Despite an abbreviated day of work for the sophomore, who came into Saturday averaging 24 minutes per game, Tyson-Thomas put up big numbers.

“Carmen’s a good player, so nothing surprises me when she does this,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “She’s definitely one of our better players on the team, and she plays very hard. She’s very athletic on the boards, she can do everything on the floor.”

At times, it was easy. Tyson-Thomas caught an inbounds pass from Tasha Harris right under the hoop and for a quick layup early. But it was the other times, the hustle plays, when Tyson-Thomas made her mark.

She slashed under the hoop to rebound a Troya Berry miss and got to the line after get-

ting fouled on the putback. After a Phylesha Bullard miss, Tyson-Thomas was there to swarm the DSU rebounder, along with Bullard and Elashier Hall. Tyson-Thomas came out with the ball and took it in for another layup.

The sophomore finished a rebound short of her fourth double-double of the season.

“We were kind of all over the place and kind of rebounding, crashing,” Tyson-Thomas said.

Rebounding is the key to Tyson-Thomas’ success. Not a great shooter from 3-point range (22 percent on the season) or from anywhere on the floor (37 percent), Tyson-Thomas relies on getting offensive rebounds and putbacks to score her points. Despite being only 5-foot-9, Tyson-Thomas is SU’s leading rebounder, averaging two more rebounds per game than Kayla Alexander, the Orange’s 6-foot-4 center.

The six inches in height difference mean nothing to Tyson-Thomas. She averages almost four rebounds per game on the offensive glass and had six Saturday.

“It gets her going,” SU guard Erica Morrow said of Tyson-Thomas’ rebounding. “Carmen’s a little weird, a little different, so different things get her going. Not necessarily scoring, but getting rebounds, getting hustle plays.”

Alexander and Tyson-Thomas work together on the glass. In the second half Saturday, when a rebound was just out of the center’s reach, Alexander used her height to tip the ball back in the air. Somehow, Tyson-Thomas leapt through and ripped the board down on its second time falling.

On the ensuing SU possession, after a Hall miss, the ball was tipped around until it seemed to land in a Delaware State player’s possession.

“I can’t always get all the boards, and Carmen is a huge rebounder. It’s good to have her in the game, get the easy buckets.”

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But Tyson-Thomas tipped the ball away from her and took it, making a one-handed layup from the baseline.

“I can’t always get all the boards, and Carmen is a huge rebounder,” Alexander said. “It’s good to have her in the game, get the easy buckets.”

Late in the first half, Tyson-Thomas held the ball at the top of the key. She fed it down low to Shakeya Leary, but the guard wasn’t done with the play. Tyson-Thomas swooped around her defender, and Leary gave it right back as TysonThomas cut inside to receive the pass. She went up, made the basket despite a foul, and then sank the free throw to complete the 3-point play.

Right after that, she was subbed out. Her right hand was bleeding from the contact on the foul. And less than two minutes later, she was back on the court, right hand bandaged but her motor still at full speed.

“That was just a little cut, that was nothing,” Tyson-Thomas said. “But effort, we all had the same amount of effort. We’re all very fiery, all over the place, and we just kept it going.” mcooperj@syr.edu

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By Andrew Tredinnick Staff Writer

Syracuse head coach Paul Flanagan began to get nervous on the bench as the third period progressed. SU forward Jessica Sorensen fired a slap shot past Wayne State goaltender Delayne Brian to give the Orange a two-goal lead, but again the Warriors answered back. syracuse 5 Warriors forward Alyswayne state 3 sa Baldin moved Wayne State within a goal for the second time in the game when she reduced the SU lead to one with three minutes left in the third period.

“They played very smart,” Flanagan said.

“Their goaltender made some good saves, and all of a sudden, every time we got a two-goal lead, they answered back.”

But with only 36 seconds remaining, Sorensen stole the puck against the boards and created a two-on-one rush for the Orange. She fed the puck across to Kelsey Welch, who delivered a wrist shot past Brian. This two-goal lead wouldn’t be answered. SU (8-7-2, 2-0-0 CHA) went on to sweep the Warriors 5-3 in front of 140 at the Tennity Ice Pavilion Saturday.

With the game tied 1-1 entering the third period, the Orange knew it would need to punch one through to ease its worries. Although the

27-17 shot margin belonged to SU entering the final period of play, Brian enabled Wayne State (7-9-0, 1-5-0) to hang around through the first 40 minutes.

That all changed when the Orange began to crash the net in the third period. SU opened the floodgates when Stefanie Marty scored on a scrum in front of the net with 1:31 elapsed.

Megan Skelly would find the net off of a rebound on a power play with 11:44 remaining to give the Orange a 3-1 lead.

“We definitely stepped it up in the third period today,” Skelly said. “I think that sometimes we get a little bit back on our heels. Wayne State is a much slower team, and we sort of adjusted to that.”

Syracuse struggled to possess the puck in the first two periods, but during the second intermission Flanagan emphasized not turning the puck over. SU came out in the final period pestering Wayne State and rarely allowing the Warriors to escape their own defensive zone. Syracuse took every opportunity to throw shots toward Brian, earning a 13-5 shot advantage in the final session.

“As the game went on, we just kept moving our feet and doing good plays,” Isabel Menard said. “We were just trying to get some shots off, and even though they blocked a lot, we were just trying to get that opening.”

Sorensen nets tough game-winner, overcomes recent battle with flu

By Zuri Irvin Staff Writer

For many in attendance Saturday night, Jessica Sorensen’s score in the final minutes could be heard but not seen. Recognized but not certified.

The ricochet she fired off the right crossbar from about 30 feet out highlighted a very entertaining final period and helped seal Syracuse’s first conference series of the year.

When it was uncertain whether or not SU could keep Wayne State in check, Sorensen delivered a timely strike.

“I just joined the rush with (Akane Hosoyamada), our defenseman,” Sorensen said. “And I crossed the blind, she dropped the puck to me, and I just took a hard shot toward the net. I heard it go off the post, and I guess it went in. I saw the lights, so it was good.”

The Orange swept its way into conference play this weekend after defeating Wayne State 5-3 on Saturday. For its second consecutive contest, SU broke open the third period to pull away from the Warriors. Jenesica Drinkwater posted her second shutout of the season Friday night, and Kallie Billadeau followed with 19 saves on Saturday, 36 less than she handled in her last start. Syracuse improves to 8-7-2 overall. The players looked healthy and in control and are now ready to finish the first half of their season in stride.

“And then you get a player for us who is mourning and has been sick,” head coach Paul Flanagan said. “In and out of the lineup. Jess Sorensen comes in the last seven or eight minutes and gets a goal and a real nice assist.”

Sorensen scored what was the game winner Saturday after returning from a three-week absence with the flu. The slap shot goal was her first of the season and occurred during the middle of a frantic six-goal display from both teams during the third period. After earlier finishes from Stefanie Marty and Megan Skelly, the sophomore forward from Taber, Alberta,

entered the game for the final stretch to preserve momentum. Doing even better, Sorensen had her hand in two goals, which helped keep Wayne State’s comeback attempts at bay.

“I thought they were very patient,” Flanagan said. “If you were watching the game, numerous times in the first 40 minutes, we just gave them the puck. They were positionally sound, they didn’t try to do too much and they were just very patient, and we kind of played into that with them.”

Sorensen missed only one game her freshman season. She was a part of SU’s first real recruiting class and came to Syracuse after competing with the London Junior Devilettes and the Waterloo KW Rangers of the Provincial Women’s Hockey League from 2006-09. It is considered to be the highest level of women’s amateur ice hockey in Ontario and is sanctioned

by Hockey Canada and the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association.

The Warriors now stand at 7-9 overall and have already played six games in conference play. The two schools will meet again in late January in Detroit.

“It’s just a matter of putting all three periods together,” goalkeeper Billadeau said. “We were either tired going into the third period, or it was a one-goal game. That’s desperation time, you know? We should be handedly beating these guys more often.”

After playing a rather cautious opening 40 minutes, Sorensen’s role in her team’s lategame push proved to be instrumental. With two games left before Winter Break, Syracuse is happy with its first two conference victories and its first four conference points.

For Flanagan, these are good things to see, whether he can actually see them or not.

“I didn’t see the goal,” Flanagan said of the shot. “I turned my head and I was talking to someone, but he said it really nice.” zoirvin@syr.edu

As the Orange began to cycle the puck around, it found gaps in the Warriors’ defense.

SU players began to swarm the net and fired the puck through gaps that hadn’t been there in the first two periods. The puck sailed off Brian’s pads, creating opportunities for Syracuse forwards. The lack of space was something that plagued the Orange in the first two periods.

“The way they worked at it was they were blocking the shooting lanes,” Flanagan said.

“You got to just get that puck through. I don’t know how many times that we executed pretty well off the cycle, but we either shot it into somebody or we shot it wide off the net.”

The swell in pressure during the third period prevented the Warriors from getting many offensive chances of their own. The Orange was able to find its way through the offensive zone without problems in the third period. The pressure allowed SU to open up College Hockey America play with two victories.

“It’s huge for us because any game we can win in the conference is just a booster,” Menard said. “If we can always get our wins either home or away, I think that will be good for us leading into the league final and maybe more than that later on.” adtredin@syr.edu

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SELF-DEFENSE Syracuse defeats North Carolina State thanks to stingy late defense

By Brett LoGiurato

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Asst. Sports Editor

ris Joseph wouldn’t let Scott Wood get off another potential dagger of a 3-pointer. Wood was open once again from the right side, free to try to add to his 18 points — all of which came on 3s — to give North Carolina State the lead with fewer than two minutes left against Syracuse.

Joseph snuffed it out, leapt and rejected Wood’s attempt. He preserved SU’s two-point lead in yet another tight game.

“Oh my God,” SU guard Scoop Jardine said. “So big. I knew Kris was going to get one because we were just so close to blocking him every time.”

Late in the game for Syracuse, it was all about preservation. Preservation that came with shutting down Wood, the Wolfpack’s top scorer. The Orange (8-0) did just that, adjusting defensively and surviving against the Wolfpack (4-3) 65-59 in front of 22,334 inside the

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Carrier Dome Saturday.

N.C. State only scored a single point in the last 7:22 of the game, and only three in the last 9:47, as SU shut down anything and everything the Wolfpack tried. The Orange struggled offensively during the same time period, but its defense did enough to help chip away at the Wolfpack’s lead and slowly built up a lead of its own.

“Our defense has hung in there, kept us in,” said SU head coach Jim Boeheim. “We’d have two or three losses if we were playing just average or pretty good defense.”

In the first half, though, that Orange defense allowed the Wolfpack to quickly climb back from a 31-18 deficit. Wood’s two consecutive 3-pointers trimmed the deficit to seven in just 46 seconds.

Both came as Wood had plenty of space to get the shot off, which drew Boeheim’s ire.

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Creating turnovers key to offsetting SU’s shooting woes

ust eight games in, already too much is being made of Syracuse’s shooting woes. Seemingly each time Jim Boeheim steps to the podium following another Syracuse victory, the head coach emphasizes his team needs to shoot the ball better. Following a narrow victory over North Carolina State Saturday, it was the same story.

But against the Wolfpack, SU showed what else it needs to do to keep winning. The Orange committed just five turnovers to N.C. State’s 19, proving to be the difference in a 65-59 victory. Syracuse shot the ball nine additional times as a result.

Coming into the game, the Orange basically broke even in the turnover battle with its opponents. Nail-biting victories over Detroit and Michigan were largely as a result of an inability to dominate the turnover battle, as SU did Saturday.

In truth, Syracuse needs to shoot

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goin’ hog wild the ball better to reach the status of last year’s team. That’s not a secret.

But that is far from the only thing. And until Saturday against N.C. State, that may not have been completely evident.

The reality is that the Orange is shooting the ball rather poorly compared to a year ago, when it won the Big East regular season title. A quick glance at the season statistics confirms as much. The problem is that when the Orange hasn’t been shooting with consistency, Syracuse also has too slim of an advantage in the turn-

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nate shron | staff photographer kris joseph blocks a shot in Syracuse’s 65-59 win over North Carolina State Saturday. The Orange blocked three shots as a team, and forced 19 turnovers en route to its eighth straight win.

As inconsistency continues, Orange finds recipe for success in close-game situations

By Andrew L. John Sports Editor

With a wide grin, Kris Joseph raised his arms in celebration as teammate Dion Waiters sank the second of two free throws to clinch victory. Syracuse came back from a slight secondhalf deficit, and for at least one more

game, the Orange’s unbeaten mark would stay unblemished.

Once again, SU escaped an upset.

Trailing by as many as six points with 11:38 left to play, Syracuse clawed its way back to win against North Carolina State 65-59, with a combination of stingy defense and intangibles

that compensated for its shooting inefficiency. It’s the combination SU has developed through eight games of that shooting inefficiency. And on Saturday, the Orange needed that combination more than ever.

Shooting just 8-for-27 (29.6 percent) in the second half, the Orange

watched a comfortable 13-point lead from the first half turn into a growing deficit down the stretch. SU shot the ball well early but soon found that momentum shifted with the lead.

“We had been in this same situation before,” Joseph said. “We’re not going to panic, whether we’re down

or up. We know how to stay poised and execute.”

Having already played and won four games by single digits, Syracuse seems to have found the right recipe for success late in close games. SU shot just 65 percent from the free-

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