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Making his mark Trevor Cooney is an unlikely recruit, but

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HIGHS AND LOWS SU Athletic Director Daryl Gross made more than his counterparts at Boston College and the University of Southern California. But Chancellor Nancy Cantor made less than the presidents at New York University, Boston University and USC.

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PAY IN 2008

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Prachi Mishra, an economist in the research department of the International Monetary Fund, lectured Monday in Eggers Hall, explaining her newest research project, which examined the effects a country’s imports and exports face after a debt or banking crisis. In October 2010, Mishra, along with two colleagues, put together the report “How Does Trade Evolve in the Aftermath of Financial Crises?” The research takes samples of data from 170 documents in 153 countries and is spread out over the past 40 years.

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$691,716 $598,758

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The way William Zumeta sees it, the high salaries of top college officials around the country are just the cost of business. “In general, you have got to meet the market,” said Zumeta, senior fellow of The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. On Nov. 14, The Chronicle of Higher Education released an analysis looking at 448 private college presidents nationwide and listed Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor as the 14th-highest paid with a total compensation of nearly $1.4 million. Despite earning six and sometimes seven figures, the salaries of top SU executive and athletic officials are within range of their counterparts at peer institutions. SU spokesman Kevin Quinn said New York University, Boston University, Boston College and the University of Southern California are among SU’s peers. Although SU is within range of all four private universities in terms of academics, Quinn said BC and USC have Division I athletic programs comparable to SU. Yet during a time when universities are facing significant budget cuts and tuition increases, the increasing

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Robert Brown Nancy Cantor President Boston University

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WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND? Made up of a total of 187 countries, the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, is an organization that seeks to create financial stability, lower worldwide poverty, enhance monetary cooperation across the globe, promote international trade and work toward high employment. Source: imf.org

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Researchers to test prototype of efﬁcient vertical wind turbines on campus next year By Heather Wentz STAFF WRITER

After four years of planning and developing their idea, engineers and designers from Syracuse University and Impact Technologies are ready to capture the wind and turn it into a sustainable energy source. The School of Architecture, the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science and Impact Technologies, a company that has

already found alternative ways to use wind energy, have created the Clean Energy Collaborative. They expect to have prototypes for their wind turbine around campus next year, said Michael Pelken, a professor in the School of Architecture and research fellow for the Syracuse Center of Excellence. “When I fi rst started working here, I had some ideas about harnessing wind technologies,” Pelken said.

He got in touch with Thong Dang, a professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department, in 2007, and the two have been working together ever since. The prototype Pelken and his team designed is a way to catch wind through a vertical turbine with blades that store the energy. The turbine is shorter than traditional windmill-style turbines and rotates on a vertical axis to capture the most amount of wind.

Their prototype, the Self-Sustaining Street Light, is an alternative form of energy in which wind is captured and stored during the day and then used during the night to provide illumination for a light post. Pelken said he hopes to start getting realworld data from this prototype by next year. After Pelken and Dang developed the principle and started the engineering work, a group of students from the

engineering and architecture departments developed various components of the light post and helped to build a functioning model, Pelken said. Laura Graham, a graduate student studying mechanical engineering and aerospace, worked on the Self-Sustaining Street Light project during her senior year at SU last spring. She said she had heard of the background and the plan behind the SEE WIND TURBINES PAGE 6

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What: An information session where students can learn the location, finances, length of time and educational goals while studying abroad Where: Schine Student Center Atrium When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. How much: Free

Speaker: Khalid Ismail Mustafa

What: Mustafa, an associate professor at the University of Koya, Kurdistan, Iraq, will present “The Kurdish Issue: Past and Present” Where: 400 Eggers Hall When: Noon How much: Free

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What: The Symphony Band will perform works by Jacob, Grainger, Reed and von Suppe Where: Setnor Auditorium in the College of Visual and Performing Arts When: 8 p.m. How much: Free

correction In the Dec. 6 article titled “Stealing the show: J. Cole outperforms headliner Wiz Khalifa at sold-out show,” the amount of money raised was incorrectly stated. The correct amount is $13,000. In addition, the incorrect fraternity colors were named. The colors are black and old gold. The Daily Orange regrets these errors.

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Texas’ death penalty begins trial

The death penalty went on trial Monday in Texas, which is where the most prisoners are executed each year than in any other state, according to The New York Times. John E. Green, who stands accused of murdering a woman in the presence of her children, has lawyers who are arguing the death penalty, as it is currently carried out in Texas, violates the U.S. Constitution because there is a significant risk innocent people will be executed. The hearing stems from the traditional argument made by lawyers in most death penalty cases. In most cases, judges don’t grant the motion because the Supreme Court has consistently said the death penalty is outside of the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Judge Kevin Fine, a Democrat elected last year, has surprised many Texas residents by giving the argument serious consideration. On Monday, his courtroom in Houston became a forum for defense lawyers to present a general indictment of problems in the criminal justice system, which they said led to wrongful convictions.

US officials question sale of military ship

When France announced in February it wanted to sell a military ship to Russia, American officials raised objections, according to The New York Times. The ship, a Mistral, carries helicopters and can conduct amphibious assaults. The transaction would be the largest sell by a Western country to Russia since the end of World War II. Some Eastern European NATO members protested the deal, as well as the United States. France’s prime minister argued that the sale of the ship would not change the military balance. The American ambassador to Georgia recommended that the Obama administration should discourage the sale, according to The New York Times. Russia will make a decision between the French proposal and others soon. If it chooses France, the first ship will be built in 2013, according to the New York Times.

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SU offers easy transfer from Georgia college By Haley Behre Staff Writer

well Auditorium, SA members gathered in event rooms alongside Schine Student Center’s Panasci Lounge on Monday night to conclude the end of session. The Assembly reflected on successes of the semester, as well as initiatives left undone. This September, SA elected

Students at Georgia Perimeter College are now able to seamlessly transfer from the Atlanta-area community college to Syracuse University. Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Anthony Tricoli, president of GPC, signed an agreement Nov. 11 allowing eligible GPC students to move from the community college to either SU’s College of Arts and Sciences or the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. GPC wants to offer its approximately 25,000 students seats at some of the best four-year institutions in the country, Tricoli said. “I am very excited that GPC is a partner of SU because it provides our students with another wonderful option for an institution,” Tricoli said. “SU is highly regarded around the nation as one of the finest institutions in the nation, and we are excited to have this agreement.” The agreement, which begins fall 2011, makes SU the 40th school that has such an agreement with GPC, Tricoli said. SU signed a dual admission/transfer admission guarantee agreement that gives GPC students guaranteed seats if they meet certain criteria. Under the agreement, the students will indicate if they would like to sign the transfer agreement with SU when they enter GPC, Tricoli said. When the students are set to graduate from GPC, they would apply to the university indicating that they have signed the agreement. The agreement requires students to complete their associate degrees with at least a 3.0 grade point average and at least 60 transferable credits. Tricoli worked to build transfer agreements at community colleges before he arrived at GPC in 2006. He was on the Transfer Admission Guarantee Committee at California State University Channel Islands and the Transfer Pathway Program Articulation Committee at California State University Northridge from 1999 to 2000. Six months ago, an SU representative approached Tricoli when he was giving a presentation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he said. Tricoli spoke about the success GPC has had with its transfer agreements. The SU representative was interested in a possible creation of a partnership between SU and GPC. About five months later, the details of the agreement were reached. Tricoli said: “This program desires to improve students’ success.”

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Amy Criss jumped up and down with excitement when she heard she would be receiving a five-year $440,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development CAREER award. It was her first application for the grant. “It was my first application ever, which is a little bit crazy because this doesn’t normally happen,” Criss said. “Usually you submit a grant and then don’t get it, and you revise and don’t get it, then you revise again and then you may get it. I was unbelievably surprised.” Criss, an assistant professor in the psychology department in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been teaching at Syracuse University for four years and focuses on researching episodic memory. Episodic memory is memory for a specific event. But remembering one specific event well is difficult to do, she said. Imagine eating breakfast every day and then having someone ask you to recall one specific breakfast over another, she said. When Criss was in graduate school at Indiana University, episodic memory was not what she wanted to pursue, she said. She was originally interested in the psychological subject of categorization. “I wanted to study questions like how people distinguish the difference between a dog and a bear, even though they look similar from a distance,” Criss said. But there was no more room available to work in the Indiana lab that studies categorization, so she switched to studying memory. She said she realized she loves studying memory and decided to stay with it. Criss’ research on episodic memory will contain two essential components. First, research will be conducted on what type of information is easy to remember versus what type of information is difficult to remember. The second component will focus on what things are effective or ineffective probes for retrieving specific memories. Criss will conduct a series of different experiments to gather her research. She uses a computer model that describes how people remember things. The program takes in the input information and outputs data. Her goal is to make the computer program remember and forget see criss page 7

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White out

Students trudge through almost two feet of snow Monday night in front of E.S. Bird Library as classes wind down. Temperatures around 50 degrees Fahrenheit a week ago gave way to this semester’s first heavy snowfall, which began in earnest Friday. The National Weather Service issued a lake effect snow warning through early Tuesday morning. Snow is expected to continue until Wednesday night.

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Members reflect on year at final meeting By Annie Knox Staff Writer

Comptroller Jeff Rickert, the first person to report at Student Association meetings each week, hopped out of his seat just after SA’s meeting began Monday night. Rickert said he planned on putting together a presentation of jokes and funny memories from

the semester and sessions past to begin. But he quickly decided against it. “A lot of our members now are too new, and they wouldn’t remember a lot of things,” he said, which, in his thought process, went “from hilarious to funny to only me to offensive to everyone in the room.” Normally assembled in Max-

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SU needs student organization focusing on environmental issues

yracuse University, one of the biggest research institutions in the Northeast, does not have its own recognized student organization focusing on environmental issues. The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry has the Green Campus Initiative and the Environmental Studies Student Organization, but SU only has a couple groups that approach environmentalism at all, such as SU College Democrats or Students in Free Enterprise. We need to change this because our generation needs aggressive environmental activism on a local level so as to push SU to be firm in its commitment to become carbon neutral by 2040. In the early 2000s, there was an organization that pushed SU administrators to buy 20 percent of the school’s energy from renewable sources, but it died as a campus organization soon thereafter. But why? Climate change still threatens ecological stability, and SU still contributes a large amount of carbon emissions to our atmosphere. Nobody wants the school to stop using power, especially during our current three-day blizzard, but there are so many ways the school could easily cut waste. For starters, how about weatherproofing all the buildings on campus? We’ve all been in classrooms that were either drafty or had the heat turned up too high to make up for the inefficient insulation. We need a student group that can do energy audits and push for energyefficient buildings. Currently there are only school officials working on such initiatives, and they don’t have the leeway that students have to demand firm action. One group, the Student Environmental Alliance, is trying next semester to become a recognized student organization. If enough students show that they care about having an organization on campus, the group

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give green a chance will likely become recognized in the spring. The main mission of SEA is to promote sustainability on campus, which its constitution defines as “polices and strategies that meet society’s present needs, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Sounds reasonable, right? This is a necessity for SU. Currently, our university is one of the most progressive in terms of administrative leadership on reducing our carbon footprint and making the school carbon neutral by 2040. However, students aren’t getting involved and trying to push for innovative solutions that could make us carbon neutral earlier. Also, environmentalism goes beyond climate change mitigation and carbon emissions. We need a group that fights against incredibly unsafe practices like hydrofracking, a process that contaminates groundwater and can make people sick from exposure. Currently on the ESF campus, ESSO is spearheading a hydrofracking campaign this spring with some funding from Campus Progress. SU College Democrats is also helping on this initiative, which coincides with New York state’s temporary moratorium on hydrofracking, to allow an environmental assessment to be completed. This needn’t be a partisan issue. We need a group focused on issues affecting the environment to be inclusive and open to different ideological leanings, to coordinate with all of these groups to be effective and to speak as a unified

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body. Through the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, there is SIFE, a group that focuses on several different initiatives having to do with sustainability and is open to all undergraduate students. Its Green Business Initiative works to certify local small businesses as “green businesses,” providing consistency when companies market themselves as environmentally conscious. Then, there is its Converting Organic Waste campaign, which aims to install a permanent anaerobic food waste digester on campus that would turn the waste produced by our dining halls into usable energy. SIFE is also working on a campaign to be launched next semester. SIFE’s Do One Thing campaign will aim to promote sustainability on an individual level. The campaign asks people to choose a single action they can perform in their normal routines that would save energy or be more sustainable than usual, such as by using a reusable water container instead of plastic bottles. Our collective environment is being destroyed, yet many see it as a necessary evil of industrial development. That’s a lie. We must work to better the natural world that has literally given the human race everything. It starts with young people, who have yet to fall into the ruts of cynicism that too many generations have been mired in. Below is some contact information for the groups I mentioned, which I urge you to join if you care about the environment. SEA contact: jnmeyer@syr.edu SU College Democrats (hydrofracking campaign): mcconroe@syr. edu SIFE: safogal@syr.edu

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salaries of college officials can cause concerns, especially as athletic officials continue to take over the reins as the top earners at universities.

Athletic officials Three of the top four earners at SU in 2008 were athletic officials, according to the university’s 2009 Internal Revenue Service Form 990 report, the most recent report available. Quinn, who declined to disclose current SU football coach Doug Marrone’s salary, said the high salaries of athletic officials is a direct result of today’s aggressive marketplace. “To have a strong Division I program in football or basketball, you need to be competitive in terms of salaries when it comes to coaches’ salaries,” he said. “If you want to be excellent, you have to be able to attract strong coaches across the board.” Men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim had the highest base compensation at SU with $1,133,428. Ranking second was former head football coach Greg Robinson, who made $1,095,987. Athletic Director Daryl Gross had a base salary of $490,155, making him the fourth-highest paid SU employee, directly behind Cantor. Although both Boeheim and Robinson had salaries on par with peer Division I athletic programs at USC and BC, Gross was the top earner among athletic directors at the three schools. At Boston College, Athletic Director Eugene DeFilippo made a base salary of $327,797. USC Athletic Director Michael Garrett made nearly $21,000 less than Gross with a salary of $469,248. BC’s football and basketball coaches also had a lower base compensation than their counterparts at SU. Former BC head football coach Jeff Jagodzinski earned $1,048,741, about $47,000 less than SU’s former football coach Robinson. Al Skinner, the former men’s basketball coach at BC, earned $964,184, nearly $170,000 less than Boeheim. But at USC, the salaries of former football coach Pete Carroll and former men’s basketball coach Tim Floyd were significantly larger than those of SU’s coaches. In 2008, Carroll, now the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, earned $3,466,772 in base salary. Floyd earned $1,426,237, almost $300,000 more than Boeheim. The high salaries of college athletic coaches and officials are not out of the ordinary. Zumeta, the senior fellow of The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, said although it is common to find football and basketball coaches in the top-earners list, the more interesting aspect is to find out where the money is coming from. At most universities, athletic coaches’ salaries are funded by the income brought in from athletics instead of the college’s revenue, he said. Ron Ehrenberg, director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, agrees and said undergraduate tuition and state appropriations are not paying a large fraction of the salaries. “Unfortunately, it is very common,” Ehrenberg said in regards to the high salaries of coaches. “But what many presidents will tell you is that the salaries of these high-paid people

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project, and she wanted to be part of the process because it interested her. “We had to optimize the design of the light post to make it work in Syracuse, then manufacture and build it,” Graham said. “We then came up with a prototype and worked on every aspect of that.”

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are covered by the revenue that the athletic programs bring in.” At SU, all athletic department salaries, which includes coaches and officials, such as the athletic director, are paid for out of athletics revenues, Quinn said. Income from athletics includes ticket sales, gifts, sponsorships and other income, he said. Ehrenberg said SU’s strong reputation for basketball helps to justify the high salaries of its coaches. “Syracuse fills up the Dome for every basketball game,” he said. “And the basketball players come to Syracuse to play for Jim Boeheim, so there’s a big connection there.”

Executive officials Similar to SU coaches, the salaries of top executive officials were within range of their counterparts at the university’s peer institutions. The midrange salaries of officials can be attributed to the Board of Trustees, Quinn said. The board has a committee that looks at the compensation for the chancellor and senior officer of the university every year, he said. They commission a salary comparison report each year from an independent consulting firm, which looks at a group of about 30 of SU’s peers, he said. The firm sets the core group of institutions that makes up the comparison group and provides information to the Board of Trustees for what the range of salaries are for top positions at peer institutions. “In each of the major jobs, the Board of Trustees’ goal is to have salaries that are competitive but yet in the midrange of the level of our peers,” Quinn said. “That’s essentially where the senior officer positions are in the midrange of that group.” Cantor made less in 2008 than presidents at BU, NYU and USC. BC’s president, the Rev. William Leahy, is not on the top-earners list for the college. Cantor’s base salary for the calendar year 2008 was $598,758, making her the third-highest paid SU official. Her salary was also nearly $93,000 less than BU President Robert Brown, who was the highest-paid official at BU. President Steven Sample of USC was the fourth-highest paid officer at $827,597, ranking behind athletic coaches Pete Carroll, Tim Floyd and Steve Sarkisian, the former offensive coordinator of the USC football team. At NYU, President John Sexton earned about $640,000 more than Cantor. Despite the seven-figure salary, Sexton was only seventh on the top-earners list at NYU, behind five doctors and the dean of the School of Medicine. College presidents’ high salaries are unsurprising to several experts. “The jobs certainly have become tougher and more complex, but another aspect of it is in the competition for top talent. People keep bidding against each other, and that sort of pushes the prices up,” Ehrenberg said. Ehrenberg said being a college president is a 24/7 job not many executive officials are willing to take on. In a Nov. 14 statement, David Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, cited a study from the Council of Independent Colleges that said about

Graham said working on the project with other students helped her learn more about wind technology. She said they put up anemometers, which measure wind and solar power, to collect data around campus and then compared the results from SU to other parts of the country to get a better idea of generating wind energy at low wind speeds. From this research, the group found that the most wind energy could be generated on South Campus, Pelken said. The prototypes will most

one in four chief academic officers at private colleges plan to pursue a presidency. With the lack of potential presidents, Zumeta said salaries have increased over the years because universities have to compete to get the best talent. Eric Spina, SU’s vice chancellor and provost, was the sixth-highest paid official at SU during 2008 with a base salary of $414,946. Like Cantor, he was also the lowest compensated among SU’s peers. But Louis Marcoccia, SU’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, was compensated more within range of SU’s peer institutions. Marcoccia was the fifth-highest paid university official in 2008 with a base compensation of $447,281. At BC, Executive Vice President Patrick Keating made more than $50,000 less than Marcoccia made in 2008. Keating was the fifth-highest compensated employed at BC. Martin Howard, the chief financial officer at BU, made $292,733. Howard ranked seventh on the university’s top-earners list. Both the executive vice presidents at NYU and USC earned more than $500,000. But one SU official did make more than his counterpart at NYU. Kenneth Shaw, a current professor in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and SU’s chancellor from 1991 to 2004, made $331,250 in 2008 and was the eighthhighest paid SU employee. NYU President Emeritus John Brademas made $321,376, and BU President Emeritus Aram Chobanian made $281,356, nearly $50,000 less than Shaw. Shaw negotiated, as part of his contract, an agreement that allowed him to return to the faculty for a certain number of years at a salary below what he was receiving as chancellor, Quinn said. The last two chancellors at SU have gotten dual appointment as a chancellor and a faculty member, he said. Unlike athletic officials’ salaries at SU, the money for executive officials’ salaries comes from the college’s general revenue, Quinn said. The university’s revenue for the 2008-09 fiscal year was $828,608,567, according to SU’s IRS Form 990. Quinn said the number includes tuition, gifts, sponsored research, investment gains and other income.

Concerns Although most of SU officials’ salaries are within range of their counterparts at peer institutions, there is still some room for concern. Zumeta said when college officials are paid more than $1 million, it causes a public appearance problem for the institution, as people think university officials should not be paid like corporate executives. “The appearance of higher-level salaries causes people concern,” he said. If salaries continue to increase down the road, problems may also arise, said Ehrenberg, director of the research institute at Cornell. “That’s problematic,” he said, “and the reason that’s problematic is because, in truth, although the salaries of these top officials are a very small part of the university budget, symbolically, it’s a problem if leaders’ salaries keep going up in a time when the universities are facing severe budget problems.” jdharr04@syr.edu

likely be placed on South Campus because of this, he said. The main difference between the Self-Sustaining Street Light and other wind energy designs is that the Self-Sustaining Street Light can be used in an urban setting like SU because it does not matter which direction the wind comes from, Pelken said. It can all be captured through their prototype, he said. “There are more turbulences in urban areas with changing wind directions,” Pelken said.

Middle Men Louis Marcoccia, SU’s chief financial officer and executive vice president, was within range of his counterparts at Boston University, New York University, Boston College and the University of Southern California. Marcoccia made more than the chief financial officer at BU and the executive vice president at BC. But Marcoccia did make less than the executive vice presidents at BU, NYU and USC, who all made more than $500,000 in base compensation in 2008. Michael Alfano Executive Vice President New York University

$549,700

Joseph Mercurio Executive Vice President Boston University

$519,816

Chrystostomos Nikias Executive Vice President, Provost University of Southern California

$511,164

Louis Marcoccia Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Syracuse University

$447,281

Patrick Keating Executive Vice President Boston College

$394,673

Martin Howard Chief Financial Officer Boston University

$292,733

SU men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim found himself in the middle among the coaches at BC and USC. Former BC men's basketball coach Al Skinner made less than Boeheim, but former USC men's basketball coach Tim Floyd made more than SU's head coach. Tim Floyd Former men’s basketball coach University of Southern California

$1,426,237

Jim Boeheim Men’s basketball head coach Syracuse Unversity

$1,133,428

Al Skinner Former men’s basketball head coach Boston College

$964,184

Source: IRS tax form 990

“We can use our prototype even at very low wind speeds, so it will be more effective in an urban setting.” The cost of making and implementing the turbine is currently unknown, Pelken said, because it is still in the prototype stage, and the amount of energy one light post can provide will set the price. Pelken said: “We have a grand proposal pending and are also applying for outside funding.” hawentz@syr.edu

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The report, cited as a Working Paper, is still a work-in-progress and does not reflect the views of the IMF, according to the report. To clarify the report’s findings, Mishra defined trade as “imports and exports of all goods from a certain country, excluding services.” Crises were said to be a banking or debt crisis or emergency. The research team attempted to avoid data from the current economic crisis to better focus on crises in the past 40 years, Mishra said. “Since the mid-1970s, both debt and banking crises have been relatively frequent, continuing a pattern that extends back to at least the start of the 19th century,” according to the report. “So it comes as no surprise that the effects of financial crises have been studied extensively.” By using various economic calculations to find the flow of people, goods or communication between any two places and comparing their outcomes with supportive graphs, the research team found results that Mishra described as unexpected. “Crises tend to depress imports for several years, but there is little effect on exports,” Mishra said.

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things just like people do. The CAREER award, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award, goes to a junior faculty member who embodies the components of an outstanding researcher, excellent educator and leader, said Lawrence Gottlob, program director for perception, action and cognition at the National Science Foundation. Criss was chosen for the award because she is working on important questions in the study

“Usually you submit a grant and then don’t get it, and you revise and don’t get it, then you revise again, and then you may get it. I was unbelievably surprised.” Amy Criss

psychology professor

The report concludes, “On average, in the year following a crisis, imports of the crisis country are 19 percent lower. … Imports recover slowly, taking roughly 10 years to return to normal. In contrast, exports of the crisis country are not as adversely affected. On average, exports are 4 percent below predicted in the year of the crisis and return to normal within one year.” In addition to the main find from the research, the graphs also proved imports from smaller, less powerful countries were hit harder after an economic downturn when compared to larger countries. Although she and her colleagues are unsure why this is, Mishra said, it is worth investigating. “Understanding the behavior of trade is very crucial,” Mishra said. Adrienne Muldoon, an undecided freshman in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was one of the few students who attended the lecture. She said she went to receive extra credit for her public policy class. “I thought it was boring, but I do understand a little more about importing and exporting and the effect they have on the economy and the national debt,” Muldoon said. “I have also realized that I don’t want to pursue economics in college.” About 20 people, the majority of whom were adults, attended the lecture. Muldoon said it was evident the only people in the room

of memory, Gottlob said. “She shows great promise as an earlycareer researcher and as a person to create broader impacts in the academic community,” Gottlob said in an e-mail. The grant can help further Criss’ career and memory research, but it must also be used to develop a five-year teaching plan. Criss has three undergraduate students and two graduate students who are helping with her research. She also works with students over the summer in the Psychology Research Initiative in Diversity Enhancement at SU’s Memory Modeling Lab program by conducting research on episodic memory. Criss teaches about her research and will involve undergraduate students, said Marc Howard, an associate professor in the psychology department at SU. Howard said he believes Criss is conducting innovative research within her field. He said he thinks Criss’ research could be considered working outside of what people in the field normally do. “She chose to do something that is highrisk and could be potentially transformative,” Howard said. The award is a wonderful achievement, said Peter Vanable, associate professor and interim chair in the psychology department at SU. By receiving a CAREER award, Criss has also made a mark for women in science, he said.

kirsten celo | asst. photo editor Prachi Mishra , an economist for the International Monetary Fund, presents her research Monday afternoon on the effects of financial crises on imports and exports. who had read the report were the teachers who were present because they were the ones actively engaged in the speech, making it harder for her to follow along.

“It was a good presentation nonetheless,” Muldoon said. “She definitely knew what she was talking about.”

“It is prestigious, not just for our department but for the university as a whole. SU is very much committed to bringing on more women in science, and Amy is a prime example of someone we are delighted to support,” Vanable said. Criss prides herself on what she can do best, she said. She said she hopes to make her field

approachable so everyday people can comprehend as well. “My whole entire professional life, I sort of feel like I made some mistakes, and I probably didn’t take advice I should have taken, but somehow things just work out,” Criss said. “Do the best you can, and things work out.”

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23 new members to its Assembly and to the Finance Board. The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s make-up consists mostly of freshmen. About a dozen of SAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s veteran members, some of them seniors who have been active in SA since their freshman year, were present, in addition to the new members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can defi nitely say it was bigger than any incoming group,â&#x20AC;? said Jon Barnhart, SA president, referring to the newly-elected members. Barnhart said the influx of new representatives made SA more effective. He said the new members have made for more diverse points of view in the association this semester. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good to have fresh faces in here because, too often, this association becomes about what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done in the past, and the members end up being older,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having new people in helps us to get out of that rut.â&#x20AC;? This semester, SA created the student advancement fund from 2.5 percent of the student activity fee. The fund would allow the associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cabinet to allocate money based on student requests to sponsor services it sees as beneficial to students or as one-time-only opportunities. It also made University Union the official programming board of the university, giving the organization more autonomy in planning events. SA also created a resolution calling for the creation of undergraduate majors geared toward political science, international relations and policy studies in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Another resolution called for the lone person convicted

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student support.â&#x20AC;? The committee is also looking to distribute more trashcans across campus and start its new ride-sharing program, which has been in the works since the summer, he said. Casey said members from the Residence Hall Association will be active in SA next semester, adding more diversity to the association. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just going to offer us a different perspective, which will help SA do more of what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to be doing: representing the students,â&#x20AC;? he said. After the committee chairs spoke, Barn-

hart, who was presiding over his last meeting, addressed SA members for more than a halfhour. Staying late is something Barnhart and Casey have been doing throughout their involvement in SA, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After SA meetings,â&#x20AC;? Barnhart said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neal and I used to sit in the office until four or five in the morning, talking about SA and different political parties.â&#x20AC;? He told SA members to â&#x20AC;&#x153;stay positive, be open-mindedâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;never, ever turn down an event where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s free food.â&#x20AC;? abknox@ syr.edu

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s liquor boards in states across the country move to ban Four Loko and other alcoholcaffeine combination drinks, a new product that has the potential to make a hit on college campuses is hitting shelves: alcoholic whipped cream. Whipped Lightning introduced a product called Whipahol, which combines whipped cream with 16 to 18 percent alcohol, depending on the flavor. It is marketed on the website as a topping for desserts and frozen drinks. The alcohol content equals about three beers for an entire canister, according to Time.com. The product is not considered a food product and therefore is not subject to fit Food and Drug Administration regulations, according to Whipped Lightning’s website. The product, although marketed as whipped cream, does not need to be refrigerated, according to the website. It recommends not chilling the product to avoid the cream and alcohol from separating. Whipahol is currently available to be freely purchased in only 12 states, and New York is not one of them. Three other states offer it on special order. One canister of whipped cream is marketed for $9.99. The distributor, Maple Grove Products, is based out of Atlanta, Ga., one of the 12 states that allows for distribution. Jason Fraser, a senior information studies and technology major, first heard about Whipahol when he read about it in the newspaper. He said the new specialty alcohol reminded him of Four Loko right away. “When I heard about it, I thought it must be taking over for Four Loko,” Fraser said. Although Fraser said he would not try the product, he could see it becoming popular with Syracuse University students because of the allure of trying something new and the popularity of Four Loko on campus.

illustration by molly snee | art director “I could really see it coming up in the market,” he said. Rosa Guambana, a junior international relations major, said she thinks the drink is targeted at females and thinks males will be embarrassed to use it. This could keep it from gaining the same popularity as Four Loko, she said. If Four Loko became popular on campus, then Whipahol can, too, said Dayhana Olivo, a senior psychology major. Olivo said she expected Whipahol to have a lower percent alcohol

than Four Loko, but Four Loko has an alcohol percentage of 12. Because the alcoholic whipped cream is so different from the fruity caffeinated alcoholic beverage, Olivo said she does not see Whipahol having the same effect. But Whipahol could be used in liquor drinks that already use cream, she said. “I don’t think that’s that bad,” Olivo said. “It’s just like an accessory to add to your drink.” knmciner@syr.edu dkmcbrid@syr.edu

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the sweet stuff in the middle

From Nancy Cantor to the favorite roommate, Pulp’s 2010 holiday gift guide has

something for

By Lauren Tousignant

everyone

OPINION EDITOR

he holiday season has finally arrived. But between finals and frostbite, spreading Christmas cheer is probably the last thing on people’s minds. On top of that, making sure to get presents for everyone on your list is often the most stressful part of the holidays. Figuring out who wants what can overwhelm you to the point where you just end up getting everyone a Starbucks gift card and a Syracuse University mug. We’ve all been there. Which is why this holiday gift guide will forever award you the title of greatest gift-giver. Santa Claus might even be put to shame. From a “Saved by the Bell” board game to a coffee cup warmer, there’s a perfect present that won’t break the bank for all of your special someones. Last-minute, meaningless gifts will become a thing of the past. More importantly, consider this an opportunity to focus on more joyous Christmas activities, such as building gingerbread houses, caroling down Euclid Avenue and making snow angels on the Quad. Not to mention that these amusing gifts are guaranteed to carry the laughter into the new year. letousig@syr.edu

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Nothing says “holiday season” like a beer funnel. Bongzilla’s six-tube funnels will show him how much you care. Not only were you thin king of him, but you were thinking of his bros, too. Spencer ’s Gifts: $49.99 If he’s already graduated from his Bongzilla days, show him that you’ve noticed with the gift of a sophisticated leather- covered fl ask. Bottoms up. J.Crew stores: $34.50

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Say “I love you, man” without actually having to say it. The gift of an easy-open bottle opener says it all. No longer will he risk chipping a tooth by opening a beer with his teeth. And no longer will you have to keep trying to one-up his party trick. Brookstone stores: $15

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t the world: It ’s trend y that, yes and practical, an ,s d and Third he is concerned it lets her show the world about th World co e child untrie school m s. For every FEE ren, povert y D eals are provided bag sold, 10 0 R wanda. to childre n in F EED b a g: $ 3 0.0 0 If she preten ds to care ab out the world: Then tha t pro doesn’t w bably means she ant a Chri s present that says tmas s o. G e t h the “Luc er ky bracelet. You” Swarovski Simple a nd chic, it is sure to thing. Plu go with every s, she’ll th spent a lo in t more th k you actually a n yo u did. Swarovs ki stores : $ 47.0 0

YOUR FAVORITE ROOMMATE I’m sure you love all your roommates, but the holidays are expensive enough already. Pick your favorite and spoil her with Philosophy’s Candy Cane Gift Set, which includes a bubble bath, body lotion and lip shine. Surprise the others with the gift of a Christmas hug. (Also available in Melting Marshmallow) Sephora stores: $22

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For the one with the a**hole humor:

If they weren’t enough of a jerk already, now they can tick people off in more than one language. Give them the gift of the “Dirty Language Book” and help them be an arschgeige in another country. Languages include Japane se, Italian, French, Germa n, Russian, Chi nese and Spanish. Urban Outfitters: $10

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or: Stand- up comic Judah Frie dlander’s book, “How to Beat up Any body,” will guarantee you hours of entertainment. Enj oy watching your friends attempt the comedian’s sacred fighting techniques. The nex t time they come in con tact with a three-armed hum unicycle or Big Foot, they’ll an, a kid on a be more than prepared. Your local bookstore: $18 .00

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lar perfect for the friend who’s ad presents the slopes. Th dicted to is waterproof watch fits into an active lifestyle, and pe rhaps your generous sp friend to invite irit will inspire your you on his or he double black di r next amond domin at Brookstone st ores: Duece Br ion. and spor ts watch $20 (or two fo r $3 0)

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lava lamp: classic. It ’s the underrated id mindless st eal for hours of ar physical co ing and meta nversation s ab the univers e and the m out of life. eaning Target: $20. 00

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What do you get the woman who has it all? A coffee cup warmer, of course. With a sleek stainless steel design, never again will she be a victim of lukewarm coffee. Brookstone stores: $25

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Everyone has that one friend who can outdrink them and considers that 27-second keg stand his or her greatest accomplishment. What do you get the partier whose stomach can withstand it all? Visit spencersonline.com, and for $19.99, you can design your friend a T-shirt that will show the world his or her weekend achievements. Choose an image from Spencer’s extensive clip art folder or upload a picture of your own. Let your friend proudly display a photograph of that 27-second keg stand.

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Let hood and relive the glor y days of d Zack, Kelly and Screech. Your frien until will be singing the theme song may the next holiday season, which and make you question the present the that red assu rest But ty. sani your hter laug us ctio infe and giddy smile out that will surely follow will cancel ” Bell the by ed “Sav ying anno the board game. Urban Out fitters: $28

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WATCHING PEOPLE SLIP AND FALL While on your way to class on a slushy winter day, you try your hardest to avoid sinkhole-sized puddles and the spray from passing cars. Getting to class on days like these becomes a major production involving the strategic layering of clothes and effective time management. But one thing will always brighten up all that gray slush: watching other people fall. For whatever reason, falling has always been funny. Just watch any episode of “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” We should probably feel bad laughing when a girl takes a digger on the sidewalk after she figured wearing heels during a blizzard was a good idea. The only exception to the rule is old people, because they stand the greatest risk of actually getting hurt. But bearing witness to a gravity-, ice- or alcohol-induced trip and fall is like seeing lightning strike twice: unpredictable and always worthy of a view. Whether it takes a few Jell-O-legged steps or a split second for the victim to greet the pavement, watching others take a fall never fails to bring a smile. If you find yourself facedown on the blacktop anytime soon, you must first admit that your unfortunate condition is no one’s fault but your own. The edge of the stairs didn’t move, so looking back at it post-crash won’t help your cause. Get up, brush yourself off and move on. Your ankle might be sprained, but no one feels sympathy for the bruised-up person if the injury was a cause of a simple human movement (even with that huge Ace bandage). Don’t construct some sort of somersault maneuver and then act like it never happened: It isn’t convincing anybody. Falls happen to the best of us, but like tornados, they are always entertaining from a safe distance. Go ahead and laugh, because you know the victim would chuckle at you if he or she had the chance. — Compiled by Aaron Gould, asst. feature editor, akgould@syr.edu

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Marshall Street performer Eli Harris Jr. displays rustic charm in holiday album By Alexander James

STAFF WRITER

hristmas with some funk! Eli Harris — every Syracuse University student’s favorite back alley minstrel — has delivered a holiday gift to all. “Eli’s Christmas Mission” is a fun little album packed with the trademark acoustic sound of Harris, who covers classic ditties with some festive funk. “Christmas Love” sets the album off in a cheery manner, encouraging lovers everywhere to kiss under the mistletoe. Harris’ mellow yet funky acoustic style lends itself well to these feelgood songs. Take “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” for example: It is reworked to sound more like a Dave Matthews Band jam than a holiday tune. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is similar, paced by some crisp drumming and funny lyrics. The layering of the tracks is simplistic, yet it pro-

CHRISTMAS CAROL HISTORY

A crooning

Every year, carolers come door to door, singing some popular Christmas songs. But do we know where they really came from? Here are the histories of some famous caroling tunes.

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“White Christmas” single sold more than 50 million copies. During World War II, several soldiers were known to have made their own version of the song while overseas, namely “I’m Dreaming of a White Mistress.” Source: christmascarnivals.com

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”

“White Christmas”

Christmas

vides balance to the songs. Harris’ gravelly yet soulful vocals sound raw and emotive, and they complement his guitar style well. Understated harmonies and vocal backings spice up the songs, and Harris’ improvisational ad-libs keep the mood appropriately lighthearted. The few original songs are a bit more serious, which provides “Eli’s Christmas Mission” with some more sober moments. “Angel” is a winter love ballad with flavor, as Harris incorporates some Bobby McFerrin-esque whistling into the mix. “Glory” is a religious hallelujah, urging us to give it up for the man upstairs. The religious tone of the songs is never off-putting, instead underlining the album’s Christmas theme. “Eli’s Christmas Mission” is a refreshing and fun listen. Harris’ mission is clear: Get your feet a-tapping, spread love and urge everyone to be thankful this holiday season. So give the album a spin and join Harris in a funky sing-along next time you catch the Christmas bug.

Irving Berlin wrote the words to this holiday favorite in 1940, which reminisces about an old-fashioned, snow-filled Christmas. Unseen in modern recordings of the song, Berlin had an introductory verse commenting on the orange and palm trees in Beverly Hills and “longing to be up North” where most Christmases were set in a snow-nestled town. The famous crooner Bing Crosby sang the song for the radio and made it a chart-topping hit. The Guinness Book of World Records claims the

You know Dasher and Dancer, but do you know how Rudolph actually started? He wasn’t part of Santa’s team of reindeer until 1939. Robert May, a copywriter for the Montgomery Ward department store, wrote up a poem about Rudolph to bring in more business during the holidays. Johnny Mays turned the poem into a song in 1949. It was then recorded by Gene Autry, which became the unofficial version we all know and love. The poem and song later inspired a movie narrated by Burl Ives and has become a holiday tradition for many families. Source: hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com

— Compiled by Sara Tracey, asst. feature editor, smtracey@syr.edu

Sounds like: Friday nights outside Chuck’s Cafe Genre: A funky, acoustic Christmas Rating:

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(8-0) SYRACUSE VS. MICHIGAN STATE (6-2) andrew l. john

Michigan state 82, syracuse 68

It’ll take a near-perfect performance for SU to remain unbeaten.

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michigan state 73, syracuse 65

Syracuse isn’t ready for this challenge yet. Too many questions.

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michigan state 65, syracuse 60

The loss is hardly a shocker. But Syracuse will stick with one of the best squads in the country. That will surprise people, Jim Boeheim included.

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point guard

FREE THROWS

small forward

The last time Syracuse played a Top 10 team, it beat Villanova 95-77 in a memorable game last February inside the Carrier Dome.

scoop jardine

6-2, 190, JR. 12.5 PPG, 6.9 APG

kalin lucas

6-1, 195, SR. 14.9 PPG, 2.9 APG

brandon triche

6-4, 205, so. 7.9 PPG, 3.3 APG

durrell summers

6-5, 205, SR 14.5 PPG, 4.4 rpg

Lucas is the Spartans’ leading scorer at 14.9 points per game. Jardine, meanwhile, has struggled with his shooting percentage since his career night against Detroit.

Triche is the epitome of SU’s varying performances this season, as he is shooting just 6-of-25 from 3. He’ll have a tough test in Summers, who shoots 42 percent from 3.

power forward

center

kris joseph

6-7, 210, jr. 13.8 PPG, 4.9 RPG

draymond green

6-7, 230, JR. 13.8 PPG, 9.4 RPG

Both players earned Sixth Man of the Year awards in their respective conferences last year. Green has been MSU’s do-everything player.

coaches

Michigan State’s bench has outscored its opponents’ reserves in seven of the team’s eight games this season.

STAT TO KNOW Syracuse converted 19 N.C. State turnovers on Saturday into 28 points. Meanwhile, the Orange only committed five turnovers, which led to only four Wolfpack points.

BIG NUMBER rick jackson

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shooting guard

6-9, 240, sr. 13.1 PPG, 12.4 RPG

delvon roe

6-8, 230, Jr. 6.5 PPG, 5.5 RPG

Jackson is SU’s one mark of consistency, putting up a double-double in six of eight games so far.

fab melo

7-0, 244, fr. 2.6 PPG, 2.6 RPG

garrick sherman

6-10, 240, SO 6.5 PPG, 3.9 RPG

Boeheim said Monday that Melo’s Achilles hampered him in SU’s win over N.C. State Saturday.

Jim Boeheim

W-L: 837-293 34 seasons

tom izzo

W-L: 370-148 16 seasons

One Hall of Famer and one that will likely come. This coaching matchup can’t get much better.

The number of turnovers by Michigan State per game this season.

17.9

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acuse’s first marquee matchup — against No. 7 Michigan State (6-2) Tuesday as part of the Jimmy V Classic in Madison Square Garden. “It was a lot different,” Melo said of the college game. “The other team wasn’t that tall. It was different. I think as we start playing Big East teams, it will get harder. I think I’m ready for it, though.” Melo is one of the four freshmen — along with fellow big man Baye Moussa Keita, guard Dion Waiters and forward C.J. Fair — who will need to be ready to take on the best opponent SU has faced thus far. The Orange and the Spartans come into the Garden on different paths. Michigan State enters with two losses — but those came in close games to No. 1 Duke and current No. 6 Connecticut. Syracuse, meanwhile, has played mostly close games. And against mostly inferior opponents. None of the Orange’s eight foes thus far have been ranked. “You have to look at the reality of the situation,” Boeheim said Monday in the Jimmy V Classic coaches’ teleconference. “We just haven’t played well enough. We’re going to have to play a lot better, and I think we can. I think we can get to be a better team, but we’re not now.” And the team’s inconsistency has gone hand in hand with that of its four freshmen. The last time SU played this many was in the 2007-08 season, when Scoop Jardine, Jonny Flynn and Donte Greene started and Sean Williams saw cleanup time. At times, this group of freshmen has dazzled. At others, it has drawn Boeheim’s glare from the bench. And it all starts with Melo, the bluest of SU’s blue-chip recruits coming into the season. In Syracuse’s first six games, Melo was a shell of what he was projected to be. He vastly improved against Cornell, when he scored eight points, grabbed seven rebounds and blocked four shots in the Orange’s 78-58 victory on Nov. 30. Melo continued that play against North Carolina State on Saturday, when he scored five points on 2-of-2 shooting from the field. But he only played 14 minutes because of what Boeheim said Monday was another bump in the road — a sore Achilles. “Fab is struggling a bit,” Boeheim said. “His Achilles has been sore for a couple of weeks now. It has held his progress up a little bit. He is having trouble getting up and down the court like we need him to.” Another example of the inconsistency came Saturday against N.C. State, when Waiters twice left Wolfpack sharpshooter Scott Wood open for two consecutive 3-pointers that brought his team back from a first-half deficit. In his press conference after the game, Boeheim singled out Waiters as the one to take the blame for those two 3s. But he realizes it’s what happens with the rotation he is currently put-

nate shron | staff photographer dion waiters and his fellow three freshman have had their ups and downs in the early part of the 2010 season. Tuesday’s game against No. 7 Michigan State will be the team’s toughest test so far, and the freshman need to step up for SU to remain undefeated. ting out on the floor. “We have four freshmen out of eight guys,” Boeheim said. “That’s probably the youngest that we’ve been since I can remember.” Against Michigan State on Tuesday, those mental lapses can’t happen. The freshmen, like Waiters, know it. The veterans, like Jardine, know it as well. Because as Jardine sees it, this Spartans

team is the best team Syracuse will play all year. Everyone needs to grow up fast. “It’s definitely a chance for us to grow up as a team,” Jardine said. “We had some close wins, they’ve had some close wins and close losses. We have to go down there and just play basketball.” bplogiur@ syr.edu

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Dion Waters C.J. Fair Baye Moussa Keita Fab Melo

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SU prevails despite opening half Harris dubs ‘top 3’ worst By Zach Brown Staff Writer

As the Syracuse women’s basketball team jogged through the tunnel following its runaway win over Albany, an Orange fan reached over the railings for high fives. When the SU players reached up to slap his hand on their way to the locker room, he yelled to each one, “Very nice second half.” But the Orange’s first 20 minutes didn’t warrant the same approval. Though Syracuse turned things around in the second half to pull away for a 69-38 win over the Great Danes Monday in the Carrier Dome, an ugly beginning kept the game close

finishing strong Monday was a tale of two halves for Syracuse’s sophomore center Kayla Alexander, as it was for the rest of the Orange. Here’s a look at her and SU’s performances in the first vs. the second.

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until halftime. The Orange’s go-to formula of scoring down low and capitalizing on second chances failed. Luckily for SU, turnovers and poor shooting seemed contagious in the Dome, as both teams failed to find any offensive rhythm in the first half. But senior point guard Tasha Harris still ranked it as one of the worst halves she has seen in her four years with the Orange. “That was a really bad half,” she said. “Probably top three.” Heading into the contest, SU was averaging 35.8 points in the paint per game. Second-chance opportunities accounted for 21 points per game. But in the first 20 minutes Monday, those buckets were all but eliminated. The Orange tallied just six points from inside and two points on offensive rebounds. Syracuse’s leading scorer, Kayla Alexander, was held to just two points on two free throws. SU held only a 17-16 edge on the glass. Without Albany’s similar dismal offensive performance in the first half (6-of-27 from the field), the Orange’s 23-17 lead at the break could have been a deficit. “Obviously, you can turn the ball over a little bit, and you can do some things that aren’t that good when the team only makes six shots in the first half,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “And that was the key. … We kind of played enough defense to not let the game get out of hand.” Had the Orange showed up on the offensive

end in the first half, the game could have gotten out of hand in its favor. A number of violations on the offensive end disturbed Syracuse’s offensive rhythm. Five of SU’s 15 turnovers in the first half came on three-

ing margin when Shakeya Leary cleaned up Erica Morrow’s final shot of the half. During the break, players said Harris and Morrow told the Orange things needed to turn around before the coaches came in. Hillsman

“We were trying to force the ball inside to (Alexander), and they were basically swarming the post. We had to just take more rhythm jump shots and swing the ball, get more movement. And we weren’t doing that in the first half.” Tasha Harris

SU point guard

second violations, and another two were traveling calls. Hillsman said he believes the three-second violations were good calls. And they certainly affected SU’s go-to scoring option in the sophomore Alexander, who was called for the violation four times in the first. “I think that threw us off a bit,” Alexander said. “Yeah, that definitely had an effect. We tried to just keep playing through it.” Alexander said she tried to focus on not drawing those calls. And with its center not able to post up in the paint, the Orange struggled. SU shot 7-of-18 from the field in the first half and only grabbed a positive rebound-

then intensely echoed those sentiments before the Orange ran away with the 31-point win. But the first-half struggles were enough of a concern that Harris, Morrow and Hillsman all felt they had to address the team in order to turn things around. “We were trying to force the ball inside to (Alexander), and they were basically swarming the post,” Harris said. “We had to just take more rhythm jump shots and swing the ball, get more movement. “And we weren’t doing that in the first half.” zjbrown@syr.edu

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“It was my first time introduced to basketball like that outside of Delaware,” Cooney said. “I was overwhelmed by the talent that was there.” Playing with the Reebok All-Stars AAU team was an awakening for Cooney. On his first drive to the basket, both he and the ball were sent flying into a wall after his shot was forcefully rejected. Eventually, though, his game earned the respect of his teammates — even if it took a few weeks. Cooney latched on with the RBK AllStars and played with them throughout middle school. In that time, Cooney’s father Brian said, he got used to being the outsider in the gym. “When we would go to other states and play, he was always the odd man out,” Brian Cooney said. But Trevor just relied on his talent and relentless determination to thrive in the oddman role. Like when Cooney became the only eighth grader to play high school basketball in his conference. From there, he earned a spot on the U18 National Team among countless McDonald’s All-Americans. Through his deadly shooting from long range and tireless work ethic, Cooney ascended to the No. 58-ranked prospect in the country, according to ESPN. After four standout years at Sanford High School in Delaware and countless AAU tournaments across the country, Cooney signed on with Syracuse as part of its 2011 recruiting class. When he arrives at SU next fall, he will have to prove himself once again to a new set of teammates and coaches. But the 6-foot-4 shooting guard isn’t worried. He has been earning people’s respect for years. “Down here in Delaware, Trevor was better than everyone else,” Brian Cooney said. “(In other settings) he earned people’s respect as a player.” ••• Stan Waterman remembers the buzz. He remembers the talk and the rumors swirling around a sixth grader from the Delaware Catholic Youth Organization leagues. It drew Waterman in. He had to see this kid play. In a middle school game between Cooney’s Pilot School and Sanford, where Waterman coaches high school, he sat in the stands to observe this young phenom. “In seventh grade he tried to go up and dunk the ball against our middle school team,” Waterman said. “I knew there was something special about him.”

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One year later, he became Cooney’s coach. After transferring to Sanford, Cooney began playing varsity basketball as an eighth grader. He started all 28 games and averaged 10 points per game on a team that made the state championship — all as a 14-year-old. It was in preparation for this first varsity season that Cooney began consciously working on his game. With the help of his brother and his father, he started honing his skills. Most specifically, developing his jump shot. “I never really had that above-average jump shot,” Cooney said. “I worked hard to get it.” His father often found Cooney shooting outside in his driveway every night, regardless of the weather. At 10 p.m., his parents would have to drag him inside to go to sleep. “There were nights that he would come out in January, and he’d shovel the driveway just so he could be outside shooting,” Brian Cooney said. Now that jump shot is Trevor’s best weapon. In 24 games last year with Sanford, Cooney made at least one 3-point field goal in 21 of them. He shot 43 percent from beyond the arc. Oklahoma head coach Jeff Capel, who coached Cooney this past summer with Team USA, considers it more than just a talent. Cooney’s ability as a deadly shooter goes beyond that. “He has a gift,” Capel said. “His ability to shoot the basketball.” ••• A chorus of boos erupted from the stands at Salesianum School. Fans organized chants of “overrated” and “Sanford sucks.” It was moments from kick off between Salesianum and St. Mark’s — the preseason No. 1 and No. 2 high school football teams, respectively, in Delaware. But the fans’ attention wasn’t directed toward the field. Instead, their eyes were focused on the kid in the basketball jacket. Cooney just walked in. “I had my state championship basketball jacket on, and I had some comments and some boos,” Cooney said. By now, though, Cooney is used to all of the attention. Not everyone plays five years of high school basketball or is ranked in ESPN’s Top 100 recruits. And most of all, not everyone gets a basketball scholarship from Syracuse. In Delaware — a state that has produced just four NBA players — word travels quickly about the next potential basketball star. Earning backto-back All-State honors, leading his team to a state championship and being named the state Player of the Year in 2010 meant Cooney has been thrust to the top of the Delaware hoops scene. “With it being such a small state, people know my name a lot,” Cooney said. “I definitely get some love and then some stuff that’s not so

much love.” The boos he heard at the football game on Nov. 12 follow him to each and every gym during the basketball season. No matter the opponent, Cooney is always the target. “He’s a marked man,” said Waterman, Cooney’s high school coach at Sanford. He’s a marked man both literally and figuratively. Averaging no fewer than 17.4 points per game since his freshman season, Cooney’s talent forces other teams to make him the sole focus of their game plan. Throughout a game, teams will play box-and-one, face guard him and rotate a new defender in every two minutes just to try and contain him, Waterman said. And Cooney always receives all the attention of opposing fans in every game he plays. Especially after one of his dunks from last season made it onto YouTube. That dunk — which received nearly 30,000 views — posterized a player from the same Salesianum School

“There were nights that he would come out in January, and he’d shovel the driveway just so he could be outside shooting.” Brian Cooney

Trevor’s father

whose fans booed Cooney at the football game in November. Cooney’s father, though, views the negative attention and criticism as a compliment. He thinks it fuels his son’s desire to work harder and prove the doubters wrong. “They know he can play, and that’s why they’re doing it,” Brian Cooney said. “They don’t yell at the bad kids.” ••• Paul Hewitt knew what he wanted. He had coached with the USA Men’s U18 National Team before, and he understood what the team needed.

“From my experience in 2006, I just felt that we needed a guy that could shoot it,” Hewitt said. “We needed a guy that could break games open.” As a result, Cooney tried out for — and subsequently made — the U18 National Team this past summer. On the way to a gold medal in the 2010 FIBA Americas U18 Championship, Cooney was the team’s second-best shooter, knocking down 39 percent of his 3-pointers. “There’s no question his shooting is a gamechanger,” Hewitt said. “People would go into a zone against us, and we threw him in there. Trevor definitely understood the value of staying ready.” Playing alongside the likes of Kyrie Irving (Duke’s starting point guard) and Austin Rivers (the No. 1 recruit in the class of 2011), Cooney was part of the second unit for Hewitt and Capel. His minutes varied drastically from game to game, but his ability to score instantly remained consistent. He scored 16 points in 16 minutes against Mexico on 4-of-9 shooting from 3-point range. Against the Virgin Islands, he poured in 15 points in 17 minutes with four 3-pointers. “I was in the second group,” Cooney said. “But I know that every time we went out there, we didn’t want to look like a second group. There was no lapse.” With the 2010 high school season just underway, Waterman says he has already noticed a change in Cooney’s game. The star shooter is more confident of himself on the court. In his first game with Sanford this season, Cooney poured in 29 points with four 3-pointers. Having played with some of the best players in the country on Team USA and his AAU team, Team Final, he trusts his talents now more than ever. After spending just three weeks with Cooney, Capel, too, sees the makings of a successful player at the Division I level. The makings of a player who will continue to stand out. “I think he will excel at the college level,” Capel said. “Will he ever be the featured guy? I don’t know. But I think he’s going to be a very good college basketball player.” mjcohe02@syr.edu

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SU adjusts offensively, coasts to blowout win over Albany By Mark Cooper Asst. Copy Editor

The objective was to get Iasia Hemingway the ball in the high post. Syracuse’s offense usually runs through her at that spot. She usually feeds Kayla Alexander down low or drives to the basket herself. But not Monday night. syracuse 69 Albany took it away. Pass albany 38 after pass from Hemingway to Alexander was picked off by a persistent double team. The Great Danes’ defensive game plan was working: SU’s lead was cut to three points early in the second half. “It actually bothered me a lot,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “Because we have to be able to get the ball anytime we want to and when we need to.” Syracuse adjusted by putting two players on the low blocks, taking away the double team on Alexander. That, combined with strong play at the point by Tasha Harris and Erica Morrow, led to a 25-0 SU run and a 69-38 Orange victory Monday night in front of 1,023 fans in the Carrier Dome. Syracuse overcame a shoddy first half offensively by making the right adjustment, and the Orange is now 7-0 for the second consecutive season. Kayla Alexander led the way with 15 points and a career-high 19 rebounds. Thirteen points and 12 rebounds came in the second half. “It was Kayla,” Hillsman said. “I really do (think she was the difference). She took

the game over because she really started to impose her will on the floor.” With Syracuse’s go-to play becoming ineffective, the Orange had to find other ways to score. Harris, who entered Monday averaging fewer than five assists per game, tied her season-high with seven, while also tying a season-high with eight points. She became the new way to feed the ball inside to Alexander. Harris pushed the ball up the floor at every opportunity and fed Alexander running the floor up ahead of her. Alexander made 5-of-7 shots from the floor in the second half after a 0-for-4 shooting performance in the first half. “We were just going up stronger and more focused,” Alexander said. “Not rushing our shots.” Harris’ ability to feed the ball inside on inbounds passes under SU’s hoop also keyed Syracuse’s rally. The senior point guard set up seven of SU’s 25 points during its big run on inbounds passes. She consistently found Alexander or Hemingway cutting through the lane for a layup. At the very least, they got to the free-throw line. From there, Alexander converts at a 79 percent clip for the season. Albany (6-2) fouled SU only five times in the first half but 11 times in the final 20 minutes. Those are assists that don’t show up in the stat sheet as Harris’ contribution. “Tasha makes great passes,” Alexander said. “And I happen to cut hard, had good hands to get

possession and was able to finish.” Hillsman said he was really proud of the way his team fought in the second half. Hemingway finding Alexander down low from the high post was a near-unstoppable combination for the first six games, but Albany combated it. The coach drew up different ways of getting the ball to Alexander. Syracuse took advantage of a team whose starting center is three inches shorter than Alexander. It outrebounded Albany by 28 in the second half. Hemingway wasn’t forgotten, either. She didn’t record a field-goal attempt or a rebound in the first half, but she put up eight points and six boards after halftime. And when she got the ball at the high post in the second half, she looked away from Alexander to find open players. “I was thinking too much today about where to pass it,” Hemingway said. “And like Coach said, sometimes I was wide open, and I wouldn’t even look at my shot.” Hillsman said he knew SU had to play well Monday because it could have been a trap game. An Albany team that came to play “with a lot of confidence” was the only thing separating Syracuse from its first real test of the season Saturday against No. 6 Ohio State. But Syracuse prevailed, despite its worst offensive struggle of the season. Despite the key that ignites the offense — Hemingway at the high post — being taken away. The Orange overcame its first offensive controversy and

found a way to win. Said Hillsman: “We’re just very excited to be at this point, 7-0.” mcooperj@syr.edu

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Long out for surgery on tumor By Tony Olivero Asst. Sports Editor

courtesy of the news journal trevor cooney (20) has risen from relative basketball obscurity in Delaware to become one of the Top-100 prospects in the country. He signed a letter of intent with Syracuse in late November.

The outlier A SU signee Cooney has always stood out no matter the situation

By Michael Cohen Asst. Copy Editor

s he set foot inside the Cobbs Creek Recreation Center, Trevor Cooney looked around and saw no one like him. The dark, dusty gymnasium in Philadelphia presented Cooney with an unfamiliar environment. To say he stuck out would be putting it mildly. Raised in Wilmington, Del., the 12-year-old Cooney was nothing like the kids he was about to take the court with. The 5-foot-11 guard who came from a private middle school back home had only one thing in common with this innercity crowd: basketball.

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SU freshmen look to grow up quickly vs. MSU By Brett LoGiurato Asst. Sports Editor

For Fab Melo, the welcome-to-college moment came less than two minutes into his Syracuse career. Unofficially. In an exhibition against lowly Kutztown on Nov. 2, Melo blocked forward Eric Brennan’s shot. He fol-

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Who: No. 7 Michigan State Where: Madison Square Garden When: Today, 9 p.m. Channel: ESPN

ing the play off with a thunderous dunk to give the Orange a 6-0 lead. “After my first dunk,” Melo said, “I was thinking, ‘I’m in the right place. I’m in the (Carrier) Dome.’” Those were the easy early goings for the No. 8 Orange (8-0) and its highly touted freshman class. With SU head coach Jim Boeheim play-

ing all four of those freshmen — which has been abnormal during his 35-year tenure as head coach — they have had to learn on the fly and grow up fast. And even after SU’s blowout win over Kutztown, Melo had an eye for the future. He almost forecasted Syr-

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Syracuse senior punter Rob Long will have surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, according to a press release from the university’s athletic department. The surgery will force Long to miss the inaugural New Era Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 30, the final game of Long’s Syracuse football career. Long will not practice with the team leading up to the bowl game at Yankee Stadium, in which the Orange will face Kansas State (3:30 p.m., ESPN), according to the release. The tumor was revealed in an MRI performed on Dec. 2. Long informed the Syracuse sports medicine staff that he was experiencing headaches for several weeks leading up to the MRI, according to the release. Long ends his Syracuse career second in yards per punt (43.3), behind only Sean Reali. He started for the Orange at punter for all 48 of his collegiate games from 2007-10. In 2010, Long punted 64 times for a total of 2,806 yards. He averaged 43.8 yards per attempt, second in the Big East. The news of Long’s benign brain tumor and the imminent surgery comes after Long was absent from the football program’s initial Pinstripe Bowl press conference last Friday. Long was originally scheduled to partake in the media opportunity alongside SU head coach Doug Marrone and Long’s fellow 2010 SU captains, Derrell Smith and Ryan Bartholomew. Marrone, Bartholomew and Smith attended the event. Long did not. There was no news of Long’s condition or why he was absent from the press conference at the time. Marrone has not commented as of Monday. Long commented regarding the news via his Twitter account Monday evening: “Thank you for all the support and prayers it is all appreciated by me and my family,” Long wrote. “We are staying strong and positive for a full recovery.” Long soon followed up the first Twitter post with another. He promised he will be with the Orange for the Pinstripe Bowl. “I will be in NYC on December 30 with my teammates at Yankee stadium,” Long wrote. “I refuse to let anything keep me from being there.” aolivero@syr.edu