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Cradle concerns SU increases the budget for

Obama and Karzai Columnist David Kaplan discusses the

Find~ing a happy place SU alumna Gabrielle Bernstein will

Year one After a long road, new Princeton

child care services on campus.

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growing problem in Afghanistan and Obama’s upcoming meeting with its president. Page 5

speak on her book, “Add More ~ing to Your Life.” Page 9

head coach Chris Bates succeeds the legendary Bill Tierney. Page 20

MAYFEST 2010

Free beer, food to be given out on April 30

By Laurence Leveille STAFF WRITER

MayFest has officially been recreated as a universitysanctioned event that will offer free beer to students over 21, free food and live music.

Following months of deliberation, Student Association, University Union and university administration have made April 30 a day for students to relax before finals and socialize with friends in Walnut Park.

MayFest 2010 will be held on the same day as UU’s Block Party and from 1 to 5:30 p.m. The area will be split into three sections that will offer food, music and alcohol for students above age 21. All Syracuse University and State

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samantha okazaki | contributing photographer SUSAN DONOVAN, dean of admissions, nears retirement this August after working at Syracuse University for 35 years.

During her time at SU, the number of minority students increased, as well as the average GPA of the incoming class.

A lasting connection

By Rebecca Toback

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usan Donovan sometimes gambles on young people. In her job as Syracuse University’s dean of admissions, her wagers can pay off.

Donovan recalled one student who was rejected for admission a few years ago who showed her a spark of persistence. The student asked to meet her in person for an interview, then glowed with passion for SU, Donovan remembered, so much so that the student’s mediocre grades seemed less important.

After informing the student that the university was going to change the original admissions decision, Donovan asked the student to not embarrass her by doing poorly.

The student not only graduated but was offered a chance to earn a master’s degree at Columbia University, and soon after began

Retiring dean of admissions leaves 35 years of working with incoming students

teaching in Harlem, Donovan said.

“Those are the kinds of stories that happen quite often,” Donovan said, “when you can look beyond the numbers and see potential and drive and a real eager personality.”

Those student successes mean a lot to Donovan as she nears retirement in August after 35 years at SU. Donovan’s peers said they have admired her passion for her job, her hard work to better the admissions office and how she connects with students.

Donovan admitted she never envisioned herself working at the university, let alone as dean of admissions. When she came to SU in 1975 as an assistant director in the admissions office, Tolley Hall was the admissions building, Newhouse II had just been built, the chancellor was Melvin Eggers and Jim Boeheim was in his final year as assistant basketball coach for the Orange.

Donovan studied to get her graduate degree in advertising while she was work-

ing at the university. She earned her undergraduate degree in sociology from SU as well. She said she was and still is a true Orange fan.

Donovan was working for the Syracuse mayor when she was approached to work at SU. After four years at the university, she was promoted to associate director and, in 1986, was named director of admissions.

Associate dean of admissions and financial aid was Donovan’s last title before becoming dean of admissions in 1999.

When Donovan was associate director of admissions in 1980, her son, Dave Donovan, an alumnus from the Class of 1992, was 10 years old and delivered newspapers each morning.

His routine started with bringing the papers inside, rolling them up with rubber bands and then heading out on his bike to throw them on lawns around the neighborSEE DONOVAN PAGE 6

andrew burton | special projects editor Students celebrate MayFest 2009 along Euclid Avenue on April 21. Houses extending eight blocks down Euclid hosted student parties on MayFest.

Students, university reflect on tradition

By Kathleen Ronayne ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Alex Gramajo didn’t know it at the time, but his creation of a single Facebook group in 2007 would launch one of the most wild and beloved days on Syracuse University’s campus. It was the beginning of something that, three years later, would be engrained in the minds of SU students as tradition.

MayFest — a day of partying on Euclid Avenue, not one of academics — was born.

“It was a senior, it was his last hurrah — he rallied a bunch of people to party,” said Department of Public Safety Chief Tony Callisto. “It was an interesting use of

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A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced, The New York Times reported. The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium. By scientific custom, if the latest discovery is confirmed elsewhere, the element will receive an official name and take its place in the periodic table of elements. For the moment, the discovery will be known as ununseptium, a very unwhimsical Latinate placeholder that refers to the element's atomic number, 117. Elements are assigned an atomic number according to the number of protons in their nuclei.

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Production facilities to be updated

By Dara McBride Staff Writer

Plans to update production studio facilities and technology for broadcast journalism and television, radio and film students are currently underway at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

A committee comprised of faculty, staff and Lorraine Branham, the dean of Newhouse, is currently assessing the needs of the school, and the project will likely take the next two years.

The group has been working on the plans to renovate Newhouse II over the past year. Gensler, an architecture firm, was signed on for the project and toured and assessed the building’s current needs in January.

Although the Newhouse III addition was completed in 2007, students and professors said they recognize the conditions elsewhere in the Newhouse complex are in need of updating.

“The lighting board is pre-Civil War. It’s really time for it to be

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Panel to examine violence in relationships

By Margaret Amisano Staff Writer

To raise awareness about violence within relationships and share ways to prevent it, Syracuse Univ e r s it y ’s R . A . P. E .

C e n t e r What: Abusive relationship panel will hold discussion a panel Where: R.A.P.E. Center d i s c u s When: Today, 7 p.m. sion titled “Recognizing Red Flags: Moving Toward Healthy Relationships” on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.

The event is the beginning of the annual Take Back the Night campaign and a precursor to the main event on April 14, when students will rally outside of Hendricks Chapel, march down to Marshall Street and back, and speak out about how vio-

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Championing children

Marian Edelman, founder and president of Children’s Defense Fund, speaks to students and faculty in Hendricks Chapel at 7 p.m.

Tuesday as part of the University Lecture Series. Children’s Defense Fund was founded in 1973 and focuses on helping children lead a healthy and safe life and providing them with a successful path to adulthood. Edelman spoke on the United States’ problem with impoverished children and how problems in the health care and education systems leave children, particularly minorities, at a disadvantage.

University addresses concerns about child care options

By Andrew Swab Asst. Feature Editor

The subsidy for Syracuse University’s child care center has been increased in response to graduate student and faculty concerns about the accessibility of university day care programs for their young children.

Other concerns graduate students and faculty have raised include the flexibility of the day care system and the cost of the university day care, which was also addressed in the fiscal year 2011 budget.

The fiscal year 2011 budget, which was passed by the Board of Trustees on March 11, will increase this year’s $100,000 subsidy to $500,000 in an effort to improve access to day care for graduate students and faculty.

“The university administration sees child care for graduate students as a very important priority — both to meet the basic family needs of current graduate students and to remain an attractive place for new graduate students,” said Kevin Quinn, the senior vice president of public affairs, in an e-mail.

A committee is in the process of being assembled to determine the best use of the funds, Quinn said. The subsidization of child care included in the budget may be used to solve space issues with the SU Early Education and Child Care Center and the Bernice M. Wright Child Development Laboratory School located on South Campus, he said.

The center, which is operated by the university, is presently at full capacity with 60 children enrolled.

“We don’t have any more space,” said Joan Supiro, the director of the SU Early Education and Child Care Center.

Because the university’s child care is at capacity, faculty and graduate student said they have had concerns about getting into the day care program.

“It took me a year to get in,” said Lynn Brann, a professor in nutrition sciences who currently has a child in day care at the SU Early Education and Child Care Center. “Some people have to wait even longer.”

If it has been this difficult for

faculty to get access to child care, then most graduate and doctorate students must be having difficulty as well, Brann said.

Paul Preczewski, a doctorate student in psychology and the chair of the Child Care Committee in the Graduate Student Organization, said demand for SU child care has grown in recent years as a result of less child care in the city and because there are more children from university employees and students.

“I think what has increased the demand at SU is, frankly, that the centers that we have are so good that everyone wants their children in them,” said Preczewski, who is also a father.

But that demand has not been met with an increased capacity at the day care, he said.

“It is certainly a concern for graduate students that there are not more day care spots available,” he said.

But it is “a communitywide problem as well as a Syracuse University problem.”

The passage of the budget that

includes the subsidy aims to change the lack of access to day care, which Evan Weissman, president of the Graduate Student Organization and a father, said was needed.

The GSO, under Weissman, had previously advocated for the effort to improve day care services.

“The GSO supports the efforts already underway that will improve child care at SU, including … the proposed dedication of new resources to child care initiatives,” said a statement sent to the Board of Trustees on March 11.

Weissman also said he would like the university to be more flexible with child care. He said graduate students should be able to drop off children for a brief period of time while they have classes.

“In terms of flexibility, I do think we need flexible options that would accommodate a wide variety of scheduling needs,” he said in an e-mail.

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University of New York College of Environmental School and Forestry students with a valid student ID can attend free of admission. Hip-hop artist Drake will headline UU’s Block Party starting at 7 p.m., following the day’s events.

In light of past MayFest traditions, Mayor Stephanie Miner informed the university that the Syracuse Police Department will be taking precautions on both April 19 and April 30 in order to prevent parties on Euclid Avenue.

“We’re going to have officers throughout the neighborhood, mostly on Euclid Avenue and on side streets,” said Officer Joe Cecile of SPD. Students over 21 who live on Euclid Avenue and choose to have friends drinking on their property will not be penalized if they comply with local ordinances, including those regarding noise violations and open-container laws, he said.

If students attempt to crowd Euclid Avenue, local ordinances will be strictly enforced, Cecile said. Syracuse police are prepared to begin ticketing students who attempt to carry on the

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social networking and an interesting dilemma for university leadership.”

Students began flocking to Euclid Avenue at noon on April 24, 2007. At the height of the party, there were more than 3,500 students lining the sidewalks, Callisto said.

Gramajo could not be reached for comment.

Darya Rotblat, director of off-campus and commuter services, provided his name to The Daily Orange as the creator of the Facebook group.

For the next three years, parties raged down Euclid during this day off.

In 2009, the university officially changed the name from MayFest to SU Showcase. The name

Euclid block party early in the day, said Department of Public Safety Chief Tony Callisto.

SA and UU began working with the administration following the Oct. 23 announcement that classes were reinstated the day of SU Showcase.

Their goal was to support SU Showcase as an academic day and to create a separate day dedicated to students. SU Showcase is scheduled for April 19.

“One of the things we really wanted was to keep this from becoming an entirely programmed event because MayFest isn’t programmed, Euclid isn’t programmed,” said Neal Casey, an SA member active in the planning of MayFest. “That’s what’s so great about it — that students go out and do their thing.”

When classes were reinstated for SU Showcase in October, students reacted by calling for the return of MayFest. They voiced their concerns at the SA meeting that followed the announcement, as well as created a Facebook group called “Operation Rescue Mayfest” that garnered more than 5,000 members.

SA and UU began to meet with the administration on behalf of student concerns the Monday following the announcement. Since then,

they have met once a week to discuss possibilities for the event with Thomas Wolfe, the senior vice president and dean of student affairs.

Students over the age of 21 will be served free beer along Waverly Avenue in the section closest to E.S. Bird Library. Chestnut Security will be checking IDs in order to prevent underage drinking.

Alcohol can only be served at campus events when more than 75 percent of the students attending are over 21. This is why a section of Walnut Park was specifically dedicated for beer.

Free food and beverages will also be offered in the park, which will extend to Harrison Street.

Students under 21 may not enter the section of the park where alcohol is being served, and students drinking alcohol must stay in the designated area until their drink is finished, Casey said.

There will be various performances in Walnut Park between Marshall Street and East Adams Street throughout the day. These concerts will include student-performer Delirium, Rapper XV and RJD2.

Both Casey and Darren Goldberg, UU’s president, said they were satisfied with the specifics

of the new event. They said the administration was open to all concerns.

“They really went above and beyond to listen to what we had to say,” Goldberg said.

Fraternities and sororities on Walnut Place must participate in a “social blackout” the day of the event, Casey said, which means they cannot hold parties on their lawns or porches during the event. Fraternities, sororities and other buildings on Walnut Place had to sign an agreement about the use of the park for the day’s activities.

Goldberg said he thought holding Block Party on the same day as MayFest would build momentum for the concert and increase Block Party’s ticket sales.

“We liked the idea of Block Party being at night, culminating the end of the day,” he said.

“We looked at the whole day as a picture.”

Casey and Goldberg said it’s impossible to predict whether students will attempt to party on Euclid anyway.

“We’ve been struggling with that a lot,” Casey said, “trying to forecast what’s going to happen on Euclid, if anything at all.”

of MayFest took on a new meaning, one fully dedicated to the parties.

On Oct. 23, 2009, Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina sent an e-mail to the university community stating classes would be held the day of SU Showcase, and would be held April 19. The announcement resulted in backlash from students, including the creation of another Facebook group, “Operation Rescue MAYFEST” — this time to save the party instead of create it.

Through the work of Student Association over the past several months, MayFest will re-emerge as a university-sanctioned party in Walnut Park on April 30. Although SA hopes to bring back a day students believe they have the right to enjoy, the beloved Euclid block party tradition may not die easily.

“I feel like it’s the only day where random people will walk up to your lawn and be like, ‘Hey, can I have a beer? Can I play?’ Everyone is just pleasant with each other,” she said.

As the block party grew, the focus on academics waned in many students’ minds.

“I know in some of my classes the teachers would have us vote if we wanted to participate in the academic part of MayFest,” Tebcherany said. “She asked how many people would actually show up and everyone voted against it. That’s when it really started to turn into a holiday off from school.”

many students as MayFest.

“The university did try to make a bigger deal of it when they changed the name from MayFest to SU Showcase,” Anthony said. “I don’t really think it was effective. Everybody still called it MayFest because that’s what it was known as — it was associated with a party.”

Rotblat, the director of off-campus and commuter services, said students began planning for the party earlier each year. The goal of Rotblat’s office is to talk to students who live off campus, especially on Euclid, about what behaviors are acceptable.

“People began talking about it earlier and earlier and looking at it and considering it a tradition,” she said.

Building the tradition The academic day of MayFest began in 2005 and was meant to celebrate student work and the arts.

“It was a day set aside for us to really show the academic thinking and products of the university,” said Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, “to bring what was best about inside the classroom outside for all to see.”

It wasn’t until 2007 that the focus began to shift. And by 2009, the block party mentality had become so established that current student residents on Euclid felt obligated to participate in the party.

“When you live on Euclid you feel it’s necessary that you go and buy all this beer and you have music playing or something to compete with the neighbors,” said Christine Tebcherany, a graduate student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications who lived on Euclid in 2009, her senior year of undergraduate education.

Tebcherany recalls setting up competing beer games between her house and a friend’s across Lancaster Avenue. Both houses had a flip cup table, and students would run back and forth to compete in the games, she said.

And for Tebcherany and many other students, MayFest is about more than just partying. It’s a day for students to have fun and meet new people. It’s a day where social barriers are broken down.

Keeping the party on Euclid Syracuse police have main jurisdiction over Euclid Avenue, and after hearing of the planned party in 2007, they developed a policy of containment, DPS Chief Callisto said. They’ve kept the same attitude for the past three years: “If you’re going to have a party, keep it clean and don’t walk in the street with alcohol,” Callisto said.

The number of students participating grew by about 50 percent from the first year to the second, and remained steady into the third, Callisto said.

“I think the containment model helped to perpetuate the continuation of it,” he said. “For three full years now, you’ve had a day off that the university has attempted to make a day of academics and arts that has turned into a day of partying.”

Jenna Anthony, an SU alumna who lived on the 700 block of Euclid her senior year, said she and her roommates blasted music from “frat-size speakers” on their lawn and the police never told them to turn it down until the very end of the day, when they were trying to clear people out.

Anthony, like Tebcherany, said it was a day when a continuous stream of people she didn’t know came onto her property — but it didn’t matter. As long as she kept people out of her house and her bathroom, she didn’t care who joined the party, Anthony said.

“I remember it as one of my favorite days of college,” she said. “Last year, it worked out with the weather — they called it the MayFest Miracle.”

Even when the university changed the day’s name to SU Showcase in 2009 to try and disassociate it from partying, it was still known to

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Planning ahead Even though the police and the university may have tolerated the tradition in the past, they plan to change the rules this year. And if students aren’t willing to continue the tradition at the new venue, Walnut Park, it might die out.

The mayor and the city police plan to fully enforce all ordinances on Euclid and stop the parties this year before they can even start, Callisto said.

“It’s not going to be a containment model of managing these parties. The attempt is to strongly and strictly enforce the city ordinances around open container, around noise, around open grilling,” he said. “Much of what was started out during the daytime with the police just maintaining a presence to keep people safe is simply not going to be allowed.”

The city of Syracuse has set its rules. Student Association has created what it hopes to be a new tradition. But what will become of the Euclid tradition remains in the hands of the students on April 30.

“I feel like people get so excited and plan way ahead, and there are always the houses that have the big infallibles that everyone is trying to run to — it’s almost like a competition of parties,” Tebcherany said. “I think it’s a good experience to have. I think most people I know at other colleges all have something similar to a block party, so for (the university) to try and completely take it away from students is a little unreasonable.” kronayne@syr.edu

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Student Association, Unia draw for some upperclassversity Union and Syracuse men who may stop on their by the daily orange University administration way to happy hour on Mareditorial board announced Tuesday the shall Street, but it will be reinstatement of MayFest for 2010. The new hard to attract most from the comfort of their and altered MayFest will take place April Euclid Avenue porches. Underclassmen might 30, the same day as Block Party, from 1 p.m. be deterred from attending because watching to 5:30 p.m. in Walnut Park. Free food will upperclassmen indulge in alcohol in a ropedbe provided and free beer will be offered to off area will not be appealing. those of legal drinking age. Classes will not be We commend the university for compromiscanceled that day. ing with students and providing free beer and Despite the efforts of the university and stufood but believe that the structured nature of dent groups, there is not a large pull for underthe event excludes much of the student body. classmen. Free food and music do not provide The inclusive nature of the event was what drew the same thrill as a Euclid block party. Also, students to MayFest in the first place, so dividstudents are still losing a day off from classes ing them by drinking age will counteract that. used to celebrate the end of the semester.

SA also deserves credit for attempting to MayFest was originally meant for academic recreate this newly beloved day and allotting a purposes, but five years ago students used it for portion of its budget to the event. SA’s willingpartying and bonding with other students. ness to not compromise on many large issues This year’s MayFest will ultimately serve is the reason the day was reinstated at all, as a pregame for Block Party. The free beer is even with some of the new guidelines.

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Situation in Afghanistan becoming worse, meeting with Karzai crucial

he situation in Afghanistan is becoming even more dangerous. When the United States originally went into the Middle Eastern nation, President George W. Bush said we needed to take the Taliban out of power and introduce democracy. Obviously, this has been much easier said than done.

Then the war with Iraq came along, which was hotly contested.

Because of the way the Bush administration led the public to believe that going in was absolutely imperative because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was partly responsible for Sept. 11, the overwhelming consensus was that we needed to go in immediately. Now we’re fighting two wars with goals that have become seemingly convo-

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luted and the current administration isn’t quite sure what to do.

Obama has made it clear that we need to focus on Afghanistan, because that’s where the Taliban is and that’s the most dangerous place right now. Republicans who were not so happy with the decline of troops in Iraq were then pleased to see that Obama felt a pressing need to put more troops in Afghanistan. This has recently caused much strife because the Afghani government seems to be tired of U.S. presence there, despite the essentiality of it.

So we’ve said that we’re going to refocus our efforts to where they are needed most. Check. We’ve put extra troops in there. Check. All reports coming from the country say we’re doing relatively well and the troop

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as confused as the next guy surge is working. Check. So what exactly is it that we’re doing wrong?

What is leading Hamid Karzai to say that he’s so fed up with America that he’s thinking about joining the Taliban?

The answers to these questions are among the most pressing in order to figure out when we can get out of the Middle East and really see what the fruits of our heavy-handed diplomatic labor will yield.

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Could it be American arrogance?

It seems like the Bush administration bit off more than it could chew, and now the Obama administration isn’t exactly sure how to digest it all. We’re taking a step in the right direction by attempting to meet with Karzai, but even that meeting is in jeopardy.

Are the things we’ve done irreversible? We need this meeting. We need it because we need to listen.

Karzai is corrupt and there’s plenty of evidence to support that. But transparency is key. We need this meeting because we need to understand what we as America can do to help Afghanistan, other than simply packing our bags and leaving.

The reasons the meeting might be canceled are not because Karzai refuses to meet with the U.S., but

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the U.S. might refuse to meet with Karzai. This could be potentially disastrous. The White House said that the meeting may not happen because of Karzai’s recent slew of anti-Western comments. Who cares? So what if he says some antiAmerican things — it’s not like he’s made any threats. He’s frustrated and so are we.

This government and nation is susceptible to the same fall it took in 1980, when the Russians turned it over to the Taliban in the early ‘80s. If the U.S. is not careful, it could see a dangerous repeat of the 20 or so years that preceded Sept. 11.

David Kaplan is a sophomore broadcast journalism and political science major. His column appears weekly and he can be reached at dhkaplan@syr.edu.

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hood. There were no sick days, but one day he was too ill to go out on his route. So his mother, without being asked, walked outside at 6 a.m., got the papers that were lying on the driveway and came in to start rolling them.

Together, mother and son rolled the newspapers, and then Susan delivered them.

“I think it says something about her dedication — she’s a pretty selfless person,” Dave Donovan said.

Dave said his mother leaving SU is bittersweet, and he believes it’s best to end on a high note.

“I think she has the next chapter of her life ahead of her,” he said. “And I think it’s going to be a good next chapter for her, too.”

Dave said that in today’s job market, staying in one job for three to five years is considered a long time. He said he believes there is something to be said for his mother’s presence at SU for 35 years and the longevity of her time in one place.

“Thirty-five years is long enough to do one thing,” Susan said.

Though she didn’t see herself doing college admission work, she said she did know she wanted to travel as part of her job.

“A lot of things I thought I’d like to do involved travel,” Donovan said. “When I was a student at SU, I spent a semester in Italy, and that just completely changed my perspective on everything.

So in my future was an idea that I’d have a job where I’d be traveling.”

And she did. This past year she traveled to Puerto Rico and Saudi Arabia to recruit students and facilitate programs for admitted students. In Puerto Rico, Donovan created recruitment programs for students and their families in their native language, Spanish, so

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they could fully understand the information being presented to them. She also facilitated programs with current students interacting with prospective international students.

“She used so many different ways to increase Puerto Rican recruitment,” said David West, associate director of admissions.

Twelve years ago, when recruitment in Puerto Rico began, the university only had about five to six first-year Puerto Rican students, Donovan said. This past fall 48 first-year students and 10 transfer students from Puerto Rico enrolled in the university. Next year, Donovan said, the university expects more than 50 first-year students from Puerto Rico.

Donald Saleh, vice president of enrollment management, has been working with Donovan for more than nine years. Saleh said he and Donovan have focused on common goals for the university and have played off each other’s strengths over the years.

One of Donovan’s biggest accomplishments in Saleh’s opinion is the removal of paper applications for the university. He said she worked to get the staff adjusted to the switch.

“The fact that we moved away from a paper application, nowadays that doesn’t sound like such a big deal, but it was,” he said.

Saleh explains Donovan’s accomplishments as something that cannot be completed in one day or one year but have come into play from ongoing commitment to the university.

“It’s 35 years of experience, it’s important relationships with alumni, guidance counselors across the country, and the deans and faculty across campus,” Saleh said in regard to what the university will lose come August. “We will lose, in addition to that, the personal commitment that she has to both excellence and equity.”

For Donovan, there is no typical workday, but there are certain expectations she has coming into work. A routine day on the road for

Donovan would be visiting four high schools, conducting interviews and meeting with high school counselors. In the office, answering e-mails from parents and students, talking with alumni and dealing with issues are all in a day’s work.

“There are always meetings and planning and organizing, so it’s just a very diversified set of responsibilities and something new all the time,” Donovan said.

She often deals with disappointed students who haven’t been admitted to SU or have been admitted but are facing financial difficulties.

Donovan said her office deals with a lot of problem solving.

Donovan is proud of developing a professional and effective staff in the admissions office, she said. She said she is pleased with the relationship her office has with other colleges and other offices within the university.

Donovan said her office has been able to increase diversity on campus significantly.

Minority students made up 32 percent of last year’s incoming class. This number has risen from less than 20 percent in years past, Donovan said. The average GPA of the incoming freshman class has risen to a 3.7, which Donovan said shows a higher quality of students matriculating at SU. Donovan deflected credit for many of her office’s accomplishments to her staff.

Nonetheless, Donovan has been honored several times throughout her career and has received numerous awards from the National Association of College Admission Counseling.

Last year she received the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence. Donovan described the award as the icing on the cake of her career.

“She is really an extraordinary dean of admissions,” said Eric Spina, vice chancellor and provost. “She is very effective with young people thinking about SU and their parents,

which is a very important part of the relationship with the university. She is warm and knowledgeable and very understanding of things.”

When Spina was dean of engineering, he said, there was a specific goal to increase the number of engineering students. He worked with Donovan and others at the university to put together a program to do so.

Donovan attacks each project she’s assigned with great ideas and passion, Spina said.

“She’s thrown herself totally into this position, which for her is a way of life,” Spina said.

“It’s always been a joy to work with her. She’s very positive, understanding, supportive and really is someone that loves the university and what it stands for.”

Steve Secora, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said he considers Donovan to be very good mentor. She was his boss for eight years when he worked in the admissions office, and he said he now considers her a peer.

“She is encouraging and uplifting,” Secora said. “I think the university is losing someone who really knows the institution. She’s been here for so many years, so I think we’re going to be losing someone who really knew how to get the message across to prospective students.”

Donovan said she has enjoyed the interesting yet challenging work she has done in the admissions office in terms of qualitative relationships and quantitative results that are visible to others.

“My nephew once said to me something like, ‘Aunt Susan, you’re the only one in the family who seems really excited and loves what she does,’” Donovan said. “And I really have. There are always ups and downs in every job, but it’s been a great experience and I just hope that I can continue to stay in contact with all the people that I’ve admired so much here.” rltoback@syr.edu

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wo Syracuse University students are the co-creators of the concept Google Envelopes, an online application integrating paper mail and the Internet.

Raul Mahtani and Yofred Moik, both fi fth-year industrial and interactive design majors, came up with an idea that could make sending letters in the mail more appealing. The online program they created would send messages in envelopes personalized with a map of the route the letter will take in the mail. The concept is still a workin-progress and is not yet affi liated with Google, but the two students have already seen the support of interested business and campus specialists.

The idea for the envelopes grew from conversations about the dying use of the U.S. Postal system to send personal mail.

“How do you keep in touch with your grandmother in a situation where she doesn’t understand technology?” Mahtani said. “Hopefully, this will make mail fun enough again that people will want to use it.”

Moik and Mahtani began devising the online application about a month ago and finished creating Google Envelopes in just two days. Theoretically, the Gmail user would

have the option to send messages as an e-mail or as a letter in a specially designed envelope with the map of its journey.

“With the advent of technology, mail has lost its course,” Mahtani said. “We wanted to bring snail mail back and make it fun again.

This is really about bridging the gap between generations. It would be something like a keepsake.”

Instead of printing the envelope out and sending the letter yourself, the creators conceptualized a system in which the letters would be printed and mailed by people from Google. The creators predict each letter will cost about 99 cents.

Mahtani and Moik submitted their project about a month ago to the Yanko Design blog.

The next day it was the blog’s top design.

Yahoo! Buzz also picked up the design and it gained momentum until it was in the top four on the site.

After it was posted on Yanko, it was also picked up by other design Web sites, such as PSFK, Mashable, Engadget, the Daily What, Swiss Miss and Geek, Mahtani said.

On March 31, the blog Engadget wrote that Google Envelopes “might just make the USPS as relevant as it was during the heyday known as 1985.”

Right now, Mahtani and Moik are weighing

their options.

“We did not expect this to blow up on the Internet, but now that it has, business people have contacted us,” Moik said.

While the designers couldn’t disclose exactly which companies they are talking to about realizing their idea, the businesses that expressed interest liked the idea of preserving the physical interaction of mail between receiver and sender.

The software is still in the development stage known as “Beta,” and the duo have received creative and professional support from iSchool adjunct professor Anthony Rotolo, SU’s Entrepreneur in Residence John Liddy and industrial design professor Don Carr.

The two creators plan on working with computer programmers for the more technical aspects of their design and will work with business experts as the idea nears its realizations, Moik said.

Both designers are surprised by how quickly the idea has spread.

“We’re a concept, not a business,” Mahtani said. “We are not a company and are in no way affiliated with Google or anyone else for that matter — yet.” rastrum@syr.edu afpopesc@syr.edu

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upgraded,” said Richard Breyer, co-director of Newhouse’s master’s program for documentary film and history. “Most of the facilities here in Newhouse are where they should be, but the studios are not.”

Using equipment from the 1970s or 1980s is considered a downside for those looking to become involved in the ever-changing media field, said Andy Robinson, an adjunct television, radio and film professor and general manager for Orange TV Network. Robinson estimates his students are in the studios about twice a week.

“In terms of being able to teach the basics, in terms of teaching students good storytelling skills and lighting and camera work, those studios serve the need,” Robinson said.

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lence has affected them. The topic of this year’s panel is dating violence. It will focus on preventing relationship violence and the difference between a healthy and unhealthy relationship, said Janet Epstein, the associate director of the R.A.P.E Center.

“The week before, we like to raise people’s awareness about how this does affect everybody’s life,” Epstein said.

A panel is organized by students and held each year to discuss different issues regarding violence, Epstein said. Previous years’ topics have included violence in the media and talking

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nology, Robinson said, from the need for highdefinition cameras to energy-efficient lighting.

Though the equipment is sufficient for students to work, Robinson said it is not the quality they need to keep up with current media standards.

“The studios are definitely in need of updating,” Robinson said. “Everything in there works fine, the technical aspect of everything in there is good, but the technology really needs to be updated.”

The project is not just a renovation for the building, but also for the Newhouse curriculum, said Neal Coffey, a video production manager who is providing technical representation for the project. The curriculum will be more extensive and include working with other media, such as print, photography and the Internet.

Coffey, a certified Avid instructor, said he would like to work on establishing a relationship with multimedia brands, such as Avid and Sony.

Plans are in the works to create a server with a large amount of bandwidth specifically for broadcast journalism majors to share files, Coffey said. This will also allow students working in production studios on the first level to store their project and continue editing on the fourth level.

He said the committee is also looking at creating a more open space with windows and an atrium area. The Newhouse II corner barrier may have windows that will broadcast student work out onto campus.

“Some of the questions we’re asking are, ‘What’s the future of an academic institution in terms of how do we move and manage media?’

We’re looking at a lot of state-of-the-art facilities, but we’re also thinking down the road,” Coffey said. “The technology is only going to get better. We’re in a world of high-definition television, and 3-D is right around the corner.”

to children about violence.

This year’s topic is based on the “Red Flag Campaign,” which originated in Virginia in 2005 with the aim of encouraging awareness and education of relationship violence among college students, according to the campaign’s Web site.

“Part of what we’d like to do is talk about how to identify, both for ourselves and amongst our friends, what might be a flag that there’s a problem within a relationship,” Epstein said, “and then discuss what we can do as a community to support one another and to get the message out that we all want our members to be respected.”

Amit Taneja, the associate director of SU’s LGBT Resource Center who will be participat-

ing in the panel, said the panel members are trying to deepen the conversation of a topic that is often seen as taboo or makes people uncomfortable.

“While our culture generally is very centered around the idea of love and relationships — and everybody’s trying to find love — it’s much harder to talk about what happens when the relationship’s unhealthy,” Taneja said. “But we’re giving voice to those concerns in a public way.”

The panel will discuss what some of the “red flags” of an unhealthy relationship are and what family and friends outside the relationship — “empowered bystanders” — can do to help, Epstein said.

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sity decided to freeze the cost, also part of the fiscal year 2011 budget.

The estimated total cost of attendance for graduate students for the 2010-11 school year is $39,850, according to the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships’ Web site. The cost of day care for a family of two parents that are full-time graduate students and an infant is $133 per week, according to the SU Early Education and Child Care Center’s Web site.

“It’s remarkable that they did because I know the cost of child care has gone up,” Preczewski said. “Yet for us it has remained the same, and I think that’s in response to the economic crisis that hit all of us.” ajswab@syr.edu

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to bring it to the attention of a loved one,” Taneja said. “It’s very difficult, but if you really care for someone, you should take that step. We’re hoping to cover all those different points.”

Epstein said she hopes the audience will gain a sense of how to assess the messages people receive every day that normalize violence in relationships, understand where they come from and know it’s not something people have to accept, she said.

“There are ways to prevent violence and help foster a respectful community,” Epstein said.

“It’s everybody’s issue, and everybody can do something to make this a safer campus.” mmamisan@syr.edu

Socrates observed that “The Unexamined Life is not worth Living”. The newly reconfigured Philosophy 191, Ethics and Contemporary Moral Issues, seeks to be an embodiment of this Socratic insight. Has modernity changed our conception of moral responsibility? Has modernity changed our conception of ourselves as moral creatures?

Using various classic texts, the aim of the course will be to see how the moral ideas of the great thinkers of the past shed light upon contemporary moral and social behavior. Does Kant’s view of lying work in 2010, where a little information is key to so very much about us? Does Aristotle’s conception of friendship need to be modified, given that we can readily “friend” and “defriend” people on Facebook? Is it more difficult to be courageous à la Plato, since technology makes it possible for us to take on numerous identities? In the 1700s, David Hume claimed that we are mirrors to one another’s soul. Has that become less so in 2010?

You come to class committed to learning and I shall come to class committed to teaching. Together, we shall mutually engage one another, and thus regularly experience an intellectual moment that is second to none.

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hol ever since that time, she said. She began meditation, took yoga more seriously and made the decision to give up red meat. Credit goes toward the core beliefs instilled in her by her parents, she said. Bernstein also said it was this experience that caused her to decide to become a motivational speaker and to write her book.

“I spent all of last summer writing the book, and it just flooded out of me because there was so much content that needed to be shared,” she said.

Bernstein will be returning to her alma mater, as a graduate from SU with a degree in drama. “One of my best experiences was acting in the play ‘Fool for Love,’” she said. “That’s a real easy transition from having been a theater major to being a motivational speaker.”

After graduation, Bernstein went back to New York City and started to work in the public relations industry. A year after college, she co-founded a nonprofit organization connecting female business professionals, called Women’s Entrepreneurial Network, and started SparkPlug Communications, a public relations company.

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“She has been successful since she’s left here, (and) that’s what we want to show students,” said Michael Cahill, the director of the Center for Career Services. “The basic message of sort of taking control is what we’d like to tell students to do.”

“Some of my friends who are PR majors have talked about going,” said Emily Hicks, a senior advertising major. Hicks heard about Bernstein’s visit because the author will also be doing a lecture at Delta Delta Delta sorority, she said.

Kate Brunkhorst, a junior public relations major, said she was interested in going to the lecture after she heard about the event. “Her concept of this ~ing reminds me of the law of attraction,” she said. “I want to hear what she has to say in regard to women and forward thinking.”

Bernstein said most people come to her speeches because she seems genuine. She also said that with the ~ing, it’s fun to see that successes happen on the inside.

“It’s less about outward success than inward,” she said. “When your ~ing is on, you are leading your life from a very positive perspective.” ajswab@syr.edu

nostalgia nook Middle School Dances

Believe it or not, we were all once nervous preteens attending our first middle school dance. The drinks were non-alcoholic, the fun was supervised and high fashion was not an issue.

Wild themes of togas and tigers, “Jersey Shore” characters and Jungle Juice weren’t involved, but braces, scrunchies, French braids and gelled hair sure were all the rage on the dance floor.

In the days of yore, there was no admiration for Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers, just Usher’s “Yeah,” 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop” and OutKast’s “Hey Ya” blaring out of speakers onto that tiny gymnasium floor. Even those “Now That’s What I Call Music” CDs testified to the majesty of these artisans who combined pop and hip-hop. It was not the age of innocence, but the age of the “Cha Cha Slide” and the “Cotton-Eyed Joe.” Only the fools didn’t know the proper steps to the “Electric Slide.”

Who could forget the girls decked out in their finest capris and tube tops (it’s a

shame skorts were just starting to lose their trendiness) and their first sleek sets of fake nails? Young gentlemen in sweaters without sleeves and patterned dress shirts were also a sight to see, especially when they were dropped off in their mom’s brightly colored minivan. And who could forget the embarrassment of the first awkward slow dance with a not-so attractive-looking partner. You just happened to get your picture taken as you awkwardly look each other in the eye for more than two seconds.

When busting a move wasn’t substantial enough, the dance floor was a newsroom with the juiciest details of who was caught kissing and breaking up outside the gym. Girls swarmed together in packs like hyenas, while boys stood idly on the sidelines to pick out the finest babes.

Girls ran from the bathroom with bras full of tissues or used the bathroom to cry after being denied that all-important slow dance. But through it all, the free pizza and orange soda were always there when a shoulder to cry on wasn’t.

— Compiled by Andy Swab, asst. feature editor, ajswab@syr.edu

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n Friday I was enjoying the beautiful day and sunshine when I ran into a group of prospective students near Watson Hall. Among the curious parents and wide-eyed high school kids was one girl wearing a loose-fitting blouse, black leggings and Ugg boots.

As I walked by in a T-shirt, shorts and sandals, I laughed out loud and said to the girl, “Wow, you’re definitely gonna go here.”

With one of the coolest, most stylish and attractive female populations in the country, Syracuse University has more than enough stone-cold foxes to keep a guy like me plenty pleased with his surroundings. That being said, whether it is by necessity, comfort, trend, evil mind-control device or unwritten law, about half of the girls on campus wear the exact same thing from October through March.

The legging-Uggs combination and The North Face look have a certain undeniable appeal, but a long winter at SU makes a guy weary of staring at the same getup for six months. Still, when I saw that adorable prospective student BBM-ing away to all her BFFs back home, I cracked a smile.

That’s because on Friday, for the first time all year, that outfit was the exception, not the rule.

Oh, there was summer wear galore!

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f*ck it, we’ll do it live course. Hotties in bikinis suntanning outside?

Totally. Naked swimsuit models playing volleyball in the Watson courtyard and caressing each other with suntan lotion, while Barry White serenades over a loudspeaker? You bet your sweet bippy.

With the females in mind, I packed up my Frisbee, found a spot on the Quad near a couple cuties and spent the afternoon pretending to play catch with my friends.

Some call it “the first day of spring,” others call it “halter top day” and it’s also known as “skirt day.” I don’t have a name for what happened on Friday. I just refer to it as “the greatest f***ing thing ever.” Whatever it was, it was pretty spectacular.

While beautiful days at SU are few and far between, most of us have at least one friend at a warm-weather school where random bikini sightings are the norm. They laugh at our frigid weekend Ice Capades and then complain for 10 minutes about how crowded the pool outside their dorm room gets on Thursday afternoons.

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It’s hard not to get jealous of their sunshine-fi lled lifestyle, even on those rare occasions when the Weather Gods grace us with sunshine and warmth. However, I wouldn’t trade our crappy winters for their eternal summers if I had the chance.

You see, watching an SU campus swarmed with sunbathing babes seven days a week would be the end of my life as I know it. I would flunk all my classes, blow off my deadlines and turn into a dirty old man who spends every waking hour trying to re-enact scenes from “Baywatch” by the swimming pool at Archbold Gymnasium.

That’s why, after getting a taste of what warm weather does to this school, I don’t mind putting my leggings back on, slipping on some Uggs and hopping on a campus tour with a bunch of prospective hotties dressed just like me. The sundresses, short-shorts and bikinis can wait until summer.

Though, on second thought, the nearly naked female volleyball players could totally hang in my Watson quad with me for the rest of the semester. As long as they promise to lather me up with sunscreen every day. I burn easily.

Danny Fersh is a sophomore broadcast journalism major and his column appears every Wednesday. He would like to assure his female readers that he will not be posting those pictures he took of you on Facebook. Also, check out the Fresh Squeeze’s triumphant return this week on dailyorange. com. Danny can be reached at dafersh@syr.edu.

from old feelings of darkness, which she refers to multiple times. Bernstein said in the book she found love and happiness through realizing that those were not things found on the outside, but are only provided on the inside.

If you truly follow the plan, read the book cover to cover and believe it’s possible that an addition of ~ing can effectively make you happier, maybe it is possible to see results. But, for people who read the book and see it as overexcessive psychological trickery, Bernstein’s results may not be seen. Looking at the book in a broad sense, some of the author’s examples seem unrealistic to the inquisitive and questioning reader.

Bernstein is serious in claiming that “rethinking, moving and receiving” during a 30-day period will result in personal changes.

But, philosophical advice from someone so young who speaks to readers on an immature level and without a background or education in philosophy — yet perhaps a background in drama — isn’t convincing.

Her anecdotes, such as her performance in “The Diary of Anne Frank” when she was 13, are good attempts at convincing the reader, but the style of the book and voice throughout aren’t good enough selling points to persuade readers to add more ~ing to their lives. As she ends the book, once again referring to the reader as her “dear friend,” the reader is reminded one last time of the lack of seriousness from the author and persuaded further that her advice is to be criticized before followed. rltoback@syr.edu

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Middle of the road Japanese restaurant Komachi offers decent food, strange décor, but adds nothing special to menu selection

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By Mary Murphy Staff Writer

omachi is a restaurants that falls somewhere in between the realm of good and bad, leaving neither a positive or negative impression. The small eatery, located on South Crouse Avenue in the alley next to Chuck’s Café, serves Japanese and Korean dishes, along with plenty of sushi options for both lunch and dinner.

At about 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Komachi was completely empty. Granted, no restaurant around Marshall Street is bustling at that time, but for a sushi place just steps from campus, a roomful of empty tables was unexpected and slightly off-putting.

At first glance, the décor in Komachi is charming. Japanese paper lanterns and paintings of dragons and geishas create an authentically Asian feel in the small dining room.

But at a closer look, Komachi begins to feel a little bit like that weird Grandma’s house — full of weird trinkets and strange collectibles that are not allowed to be touched. Case in point: Toward the front of the restaurant, tiny ceramic dog figurines line the window ledges.

Sit in this section, and prepare to eat while dozens of miniature poodle, beagle and German shepherd figurines stare you down with tiny glass eyes. The whole scenario is creepy, to say the least.

Navigating the lengthy menu is a challenge because much of it is written in Japanese. The safest (and easiest to understand) bets for food options are from the “Fresh Sushi Bar,” which offers salad, miso soup and a selection of “A La Carte Rolls” that range from $3.99 to $12.99 in price.

From the appetizer lineup, the Vegetable Tempura ($6) was tasty. Battered, deep-fried pieces of broccoli, onion and sweet potato are served with a savory soy dipping sauce. The piping hot vegetables were crispy, not overwhelmingly greasy and enough for two people to split.

For sushi lovers, the Golden Gate Roll ($6.99) is a good choice. It features both salmon and tuna, paired with tobiko (fish eggs), avocado and sesame seeds. The Golden Gate Roll tasted fresh and was served in a lovely little boat-shaped plate. The tobiko and sesame seeds added a pleasantly crunchy texture.

Photographs of this dish, along with several other specials included on the menu, make it easy for the sushi novice to order based on what looks good.

Aimed at famished diners, for whom raw fish alone just isn’t enough, the Syracuse Box ($18.99) is Komachi’s version of a “Hungry Man” TV dinner. The traditional Japanese bento box features beef or chicken teriyaki, shrimp and vegetable tempura, one California roll, five pieces of maki-style sushi, plus miso soup and a salad to start.

The beef teriyaki, paired with a generous scoop of white rice, was flavorful, tender and just spicy enough. The sushi components of the box, served separately on a small plate, were pretty standard. They weren’t terrible, but they weren’t amazing, either — it’s just what you would expect.

One thing you won’t expect? The wasabi at Komachi seems to be hotter than the versions of this sushi-friendly condiment served at other area restaurants. Be wary of the extra spice in the Japanese horseradish before it’s loaded it onto the chopsticks, or you (and your sinuses) will be very upset.

Overall, the dining experience at Komachi was predictable. The sushi is good, the service is fine and, with the exception of the questionable doggy décor, the ambiance is pleasant. If you head here for a tasty Japanese-style dinner or a quick sushi lunch, you’ll get exactly what you expect. mcmurp05@syr.edu

Komachi japanese restaurant 727 S. Crouse Ave. 315-476-2400 www.komachi.us

Price: Entrées from $10.99 to $20.99 Hours: Mon-Thurs, 11 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.; Fri, 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.; Sat, 4 p.m. – 11 p.m.

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Princeton job.

For the love of the game Bates remembers the office.

He was in New York City, and he was miserable. Stuck in a cubicle at Saatchi & Saatchi, an advertising agency, Bates wanted out of the corporate life.

“I was there a year and nine months, which was probably a year and six months longer than I cared to be there,” Bates said laughing Monday in a phone interview. “I just knew that wasn’t my future.”

Bates didn’t know where his future was, though. He graduated from Dartmouth as an All-Ivy League midfielder and attack in 1990.

From there, he bounced around the lacrosse world, ultimately playing eight seasons with the Philadelphia Wings of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League. Still, he had to work second jobs to pay the bills.

So he worked at Saatchi & Saatchi. Sold ad space for the Philadelphia Phillies. Delivered Staples catalogs door to door.

Not enamored with the corporate world, Bates found that diamond in the rough in the classifieds. Archbishop Ryan High School, a large Catholic school in northeast Philadelphia, had a group of kids who wanted to start a lacrosse team.

“I just happened to read it in the paper when I was supposed to be doing something else at a job I didn’t like,” Bates said. “From there, I just realized how much I loved teaching the game and how much I loved being around guys who want to learn.”

Anthony Bocchicchio was one of those guys.

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He remembers when he and a bunch of his friends went to a Philadelphia Wings game one night in the early 1990s.

The next day, they started drafting up the petition. They wanted a lacrosse team. One year later, Archbishop Ryan’s athletic department granted their wishes. And when they found out Bates, a player from the Wings, would lead the team, it made things that much better.

“They said they hired some guy named Chris Bates, and no one really knew anything about him,” Bocchicchio said. “But after some research, we found out that he played for the Wings. And that was like instant credibility for him.

“You know, how cool is that?”

It was a humbling experience for Bates, one he still carries with him today. As Bocchicchio says, Bates had just come from the pinnacle of playing Division I lacrosse. The challenges were there, as with any startup program in any sport.

His players were raw to the new game. Some players were athletes, and some weren’t.

But Bates still enjoyed teaching. That was his first inclination that coaching was what he was meant to do. And Bocchicchio, still a close friend who would go on to coach Archbishop Ryan for more than 10 years, knows it helped mold Bates for the future. It was the first part of his identity.

“He played at an elite program in Dartmouth and did really well there,” Bocchicchio said.

“Then he came back down with us, and it must’ve been like, ‘Woah.’ But I think his grassroots level at Ryan helped prepare him for any kind of situation he might get into.”

Vindication Nick Gannon never lost his faith in Chris Bates.

“If you ever play against him in any sport, he’s one of those guys that’s awful to play against because he’s one of those guys that if you knock him down, he gets back up. He’s the worst basketball player. But man, he’s an animal and you just don’t want to play against him.

That’s how he played, and that’s how he coaches.”

Nick Gannon Senior associate athletic director, drexel

Sure, Bates was mired in the midst of five out of seven losing seasons as head coach at Drexel. But Gannon, the Dragon’s senior associate athletic director, knew he would turn it around at some point. That’s just the person Bates is.

“If you ever play against him in any sport, he’s one of those guys that’s awful to play against,” Gannon said, “because he’s one of those guys that if you knock him down, he gets back up. He’s the worst basketball player. But man, he’s an animal and you just don’t want to play against him. That’s how he played, and that’s how he coaches.”

As much as he loved the game, Bates still wasn’t sure his identity would come in lacrosse.

But in 1999, he realized the inevitable.

When Drexel decided it was time for a change after a 6-7 season, the Dragons turned to Bates, who had been an assistant with Drexel — just six years removed from the start of his coaching career at Archbishop Ryan.

“It’s one of those things, if you’re an administrator, you kind of just know,” Gannon said.

“He’s got an unbelievable work ethic, an unbelievable integrity.”

But it didn’t come easily. Bates went 6-18 in his first two years on the job. He couldn’t find his niche in conference play either, never finishing above third in the Colonial Athletic Association in those first seven seasons.

Through it all, Bates learned to persevere.

He persevered through the team’s struggles and through his wife’s mounting health issues — a trying time he doesn’t care to elaborate on.

“As a young coach, you make mistakes and you learn from them,” Bates said. “I knew I was relatively green, but I knew I worked hard, and I think guys responded to what we were trying to do.”

Then it came. Vindication. Feb. 18, 2007, at No. 1 Virginia. Improbably, redshirt freshman Colin Ambler scored two goals in the last 10 seconds of the game to lead Drexel to an unthinkable 11-10 victory over the Cavaliers.

Bates was on the sideline in the frantic final seconds, calmly instructing his players to stay off the field.

He acted as if he expected it. Perseverance paid off.

“He called me from the locker room,” Gannon said. “He called me and just held up the phone in the locker room and said, ‘We got ‘em.’

It was just chills everywhere. For us, it was instant credibility for something we’ve worked really hard on.”

Replacing a legend Back then, Bill Tierney didn’t think Chris Bates would be taking his job. But even then, in his first couple years coaching at Princeton, he

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Syracuse finished with a 30-5 record overall.

Boeheim won his 800th game this season in the Orange’s season-opening win over Albany and is sixth all-time (second active) in Division I history with 829 wins. His teams have won 20 games for 32 consecutive seasons, an NCAA

does remember having to worry about scheming his defensive game plan around Bates when he played for Dartmouth.

Little did Tierney know, some 20 years later, Bates would be the man chosen to carry on the legacy he created.

“No, not at all,” Tierney said with a laugh when asked if he had any inclinations that Bates would be next in line with the Tigers. “I didn’t even know if I’d be the next coach at Princeton.”

Despite the move to Denver, Tierney is still very engaged in Princeton lacrosse. It’s the result of the emotional attachment that comes with 22 years at a program.

And from afar, at his mile-high perch, Tierney sees the new identity Bates is already creating. He respects it. As far as Tierney is concerned, there couldn’t be a better approach.

“He’s made statements saying things like, ‘Look, I’m not Bill Tierney. I’m not going to try to be Bill Tierney. I’m my own man and this is my program now. I’m going to do it my own way,’” Tierney said.

“And I admire that. I think that’s exactly the way he should be doing it.”

Bates considers Tierney one of his idols. A mentor, friend and lacrosse guru.

At the same time, he separates himself from history. This is the Bates Era. His chance to make a mark on Princeton lacrosse. And that’s why, as he inhabits Tierney’s old throne, he doesn’t feel the shadow of the legend bearing down on him.

“There’s a Hall of Fame coach with six national championships that sat in the seat I’m sitting in right now. I can’t be him,” Bates said.

“I would love to have that résumé when I’m done, but how he did it, when he did it, it was a different time of Princeton lacrosse.”

The second e-mail Chris McBride sat in that café in Florence for hours on end. He had to. In the ancient city, it’s the only place he could connect to the Internet.

McBride retreated nightly to the sole hotspot.

The attack eagerly stranded himself.

Refreshing his inbox day after day, McBride waited for the coming news on who would lead him in the last two seasons of his career.

Finally, late in June, word came. Bates was the man for the job. Not long after, another message popped into McBride’s inbox.

It was from Bates.

“The first e-mail he sent out, he let us know this was a brand-new team,” McBride said.

“Everybody’s starting from scratch. No positions are granted. So I think that right there just showed how he wanted us to be a new team.

“And it’s good. So far, so good.” bplogiur@syr.edu

Division I record.

“This season clearly illustrated why Jim is one of the top coaches in the profession,” said Gary Stokan, Atlanta Tipoff Club president.

“His ability to take good teams and make them great is what he does best, and we congratulate him for winning this prestigious award.” mrehalt@syr.edu

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SU hopes to ride hot streak into postseason

By Jason Krakower Staff Writer

For Luke Jensen, all the losing was enough.

Jensen had always been accustomed to winning. He has a high school state championship, a French Open doubles title and victories over some of the best tennis players of the past 30 years.

But in his first three seasons as head coach of the Syracuse tennis team, the Orange lost nearly half its matches — something had to give.

This year, Jensen has guided the Orange to its best season in program history, leading SU to a school-best 18-2 record with one match still to play. The team is undefeated at home and in the Big East and is riding a 12-game winning streak dating back to Feb. 26.

“I don’t think about losing. I don’t even think it’s an option,” Jensen said. “If we put the ball in the court, if we execute the way we’ve executed and play the way we do in practice, we can’t lose.”

Despite the string of wins and the extraordinary regular season, Jensen wants to break through the barrier that has been holding his teams back since he took over as head coach — the Big East tournament.

Jensen’s teams have not had much success in the postseason. SU’s highest finish in the tournament during his tenure was fifth in 2007. The winner of the conference tournament locks up an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament, which has eluded Jensen altogether in his four years.

“Everybody here wants to get into that tournament,” Jensen said. “That’s why they’re here.

They want to represent the Orange in the Big Dance, and we have to bust through the Big East tournament to do it.”

Though the Orange has come up short in seasons past, Jensen and his players know that there is something special about this team.

They have been able to accomplish something this season that has not been touched in school history, and players say the pieces are there to make a deep run in the postseason.

“The returning players have improved a lot and they’ve worked their tails off since they first got here, and the new players are really talented,” said Chelsea Jones, the only senior on the Orange roster. “We work harder than anyone in the Big East, let alone the country. We’re

alex pines | staff photographer luke jensen has the Syracuse tennis team on a 12-match winning streak and already at its highest win total in a single season.

The Orange will face Temple this weekend before embarking on the Big East tournament next week. going in to win, and we’re expecting to win.”

There is very little doubt that this team is more talented than in past years, partially thanks to the addition of freshman CC Sardinha and junior transfer Eleanor Peters, who fill the No. 1 and No. 3 singles spots, respectively.

But players believe that the Orange has more to its advantage heading into the postseason than just talent and work ethic. There is also a level of poise and composure surrounding the team that comes with an extended win streak.

“I think that momentum is very important,” Sardinha said. “You know that you have that confidence and you have a bunch of matches under your belt. Everyone else knows that, too, so it’s also a good intimidation factor.”

Jensen echoed Sardinha’s words but is more encouraged about the effect that the streak has on his players’ teamwork and cohesiveness.

He said that the main problem in the Big East tournament last year was the lack of execution, which happens when players are not performing as a team. Jensen does not see that as a problem this season.

“There’s great chemistry going on with this team,” Jensen said. “When you see your teammate up 5-0 and you’re up 3-0 and somebody else

is up a set, your game starts to come out. Instead of doubting yourself, you trust your big shots.”

Despite the hype surrounding the possibilities of this team, Sardinha doesn’t want to buy into anything just yet. Her style as a leader by example is patience and consistency, and she

doesn’t want to get ahead of herself before the tournament starts.

“I don’t think that much in the future. I like to focus on one match at a time,” Sardinha said.

“If we win it, we win it. We’ll just play our best.” jakrakow@syr.edu

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Watts draws motivation from grandma

By Mark Cooper staff writer

Before Stephanie Watts’ first at-bat every game, she leans over to the ground.

She writes something, gets up and goes to the plate. The initials “DJS” are left behind in the dirt.

“My grandmother passed away and she never got to see me play in college,” Watts said.

“It’s in memory, so Who: St. John’s she can always see Where: SU Softball me play.”

Stadium A little tribute When: Today, 3 p.m. for someone that meant a lot.

Watts’ grandmother, Dolores, died on Aug. 5, 2008, due to complications from diabetes. Her death occurred just a few weeks before Watts moved to Syracuse for her freshman year. It was a huge loss for the sophomore, who had a very close relationship with her grandmother.

“She told me she does that, and I bawled my eyes out,” said Mary Watts, Stephanie’s mother.

“She was very proud of (Stephanie’s) accomplishments. When Steph played during summer ball, she always called to find out how (the team) did.”

Watts has started all 81 games that Syracuse has played since she’s been on the team, and every single time she has written “DJS” in the dirt before she bats. She’ll pay her tribute twice more today as the Orange (15-15) hosts St. John’s (13-16) in a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m. at SU Softball Stadium. Syracuse is coming home and looking to rebound from a disappointing weekend at Georgetown, where the team lost

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michael rice | contributing photographer stephanie watts has 24 hits, two home runs and 14 RBIs through 30 games for the Syracuse softball team this year. Only a sophomore, she has developed into a mature leader for the Orange, who will play St. John’s in a doubleheader at 3 p.m. today. two of three.

Watts will be a key factor when Syracuse tries to turn things around against the Red Storm Wednesday. Despite being only a sophomore, the second baseman is growing both as a player and as a leader.

“She’s a kid that is open to growing,” head coach Leigh Ross said. “She is looked at as a leader as only a sophomore. That’s tough for a kid that’s still trying to grow and find herself, but she’s willing to take that on.”

Since the first time she stepped on the field for the Orange, Watts has been one of SU’s primary offensive players. She homered in each of her first three games of her collegiate career last season at New Mexico and finished tied for the team lead in home runs with seven as a freshman. She’s continued her contributions this season, hitting two home runs and driving in 14 runs through 30 games.

Grandma would be proud.

“She was very excited, very proud that Stephanie got a scholarship and was really excited to see her do well in college,” Mary Watts said.

“Then she took a turn for the worse and passed

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After opening its Big East schedule with two losses to rival Georgetown, the Syracuse softball team (15-15, 1-2 Big East) returns to Syracuse for just the second time this season to host two conference foes. The Orange will open its Big East home stint against St. John’s (13-16, 2-1) in a doubleheader this afternoon, followed by three games against Providence (8-16, 2-3) this weekend. Transfer Lisaira Daniels leads SU with a .380 batting average and a .500 slugging percentage. Freshman Veronica Grant is second on the team with a .340 average.

away before all this happened.”

Watts was the first person in her family to get an athletic scholarship. The tribute to her grandmother before the game is just one sign that she is growing more mature, Ross said.

She has also done away with tossing her helmet after a strikeout, a bad habit that hindered her ability to be a leader for the Orange.

“She kind of reminds me of myself with her passion,” Ross said. “Sometimes when you’re young, you don’t quite understand how to use that passion. Whenever you get so angry you want to throw something, you need to turn it into a positive. I see her doing that now.”

During Spring Break, Watts could not find the earpieces for her helmet. The earpieces usually fell out of her helmet when she would slam it down. Ross poked fun at her, “Did you throw it again?” A former sign of immaturity became a joke.

In the stretch run of her second season for Syracuse, Watts has harnessed her passion and is now one of the leaders of a young Orange team looking to climb to the top of the Big East. Her will to win and love for the game facilitate her success, and they are the reasons why she will leave a lasting image on Syracuse softball by the time she’s done, Ross said.

For now, Watts will leave an image in the dirt next to home plate for someone who left a lasting image on her life.

“My mom would be very pleased and touched that Stephanie would think of her to do something like that,” Mary Watts said. “She would realize how much Stephanie has matured.

(Stephanie) has accepted her challenges and deals with them.” mcooperj@syr.edu

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Jones looks to reclaim status as premier defensive tackle

By Andrew L. John Asst. Sports Editor

If Art Jones was looking for a platform to rescue a potentially fragile NFL Draft status, he got it Tuesday at the Carrier Dome.

Before suffering a season-ending knee injury Nov. 7 in Syracuse’s 37-10 loss to Pittsburgh, the former SU nose tackle was widely believed to be one of the top defensive linemen available in the 2010 NFL Draft. But the injury — his second major setback within a year — caused some around the league to question his durability.

“There were definitely questions,” an AFC representative who wished to remain anonymous said outside the Dome. “But today was just part of the evaluation process, and he showed a lot.”

Itching to get an up-close and personal look at Jones after he rehabbed that knee, 20 NFL representatives attended Tuesday’s Pro Day. Headlined by Jones, a total of five former Orange players participated in the workout, including quarterback Greg Paulus, wide receiver Lavar Lobdell, tight end Mike Owen and former safety Paul Chiara — who last played at SU in 2008.

Until Tuesday, Jones’ recovery was still a mystery. He hadn’t been on the field since November, and with the April 22 NFL Draft just weeks away, the jury was still out on whether he was one of the most high-profile interior line-

men available.

“It went well,” Jones said following his workout Tuesday. “I’m OK with my performance as far as my defensive line drills. I think I did a pretty good job. It was a little tougher doing drills by yourself. I’m used to having a couple other guys there. Overall, it went pretty well.”

In nine games this past season, Jones collected 19 tackles, seven for a loss, and 1.5 sacks.

He also finished his collegiate career with 38.5 tackles for loss, the most in program history by an interior defensive lineman. But despite his production, and combination of size (6 feet 4 inches, 293-pounds) and agility, the questions were about how he would recover and how he would look after not being on the field in months.

For one NFC representative who also wished to remain anonymous, those questions were answered at the workout.

“Nobody wants to show their cards this close to the draft,” he started, “but I think he showed today that, physically, he’s back to where he was.”

Just over a year ago, Jones had entertained the idea of forgoing his senior season and declaring for the 2009 NFL Draft. But a torn pectoral muscle that required surgery prevented him from doing so. One year later — and another injury rehabbed — the Endicott, N.Y., native

daily orange file photo art jones worked out in front of 20 NFL teams at his Pro Day inside the Carrier Dome Tuesday. Jones is expected to be a early-round selection in the 2010 NFL Draft,

was finally ready to show NFL teams what he’s capable of on the field.

Jones participated in every drill except the 40-yard dash, which he opted to skip due to a sore hamstring.

A few days prior to Tuesday’s workout, Jones made an appearance at SU’s two and a half hour spring practice on Friday. He said he had been in Arizona, working out and rehabbing for three consecutive months in preparation for Tuesday. Roaming the sideline and chatting

it up with those interested in his progress, he looked noticeably slim and lean, and appeared to have no lingering effects of the knee injury that ended his season in November.

And on Friday, Jones couldn’t help cracking a smile while giving his preference on where he would like to play as an NFL rookie next season.

Said Jones: “Whoever is paying the most money.” ajohn@syr.edu

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Accolades continue for Boeheim

By Matt Ehalt Staff Writer

courtesy of princeton university chris Bates took over for six-time national championship-winning coach Bill Tierney this season and has led the Princeton lacrosse team to a 7-1 record. The No. 4 Tigers will take on Syracuse in the Konica Minolta Big City Classic in East Rutherford, N.J., Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

Earning his stripes Just 8 games into tenure with Tigers, Bates appears comfortable replacing former boss, lacrosse legend

By Brett LoGiurato

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Asst. Copy Editor

hris McBride was in Florence taking summer classes when he heard the news.

Sitting in an Internet café in the rustic Italian city, McBride, now a junior attack for Princeton, stared at the e-mails that had poured in from the Tigers’ athletic department. E-mails from the only head coach he had ever known — Bill Tierney. The messages told McBride of the end of the 22-year coaching reign of the legendary Tierney, who won six national championships as the architect of Princeton lacrosse.

McBride knew when Chris Bates was announced as Tierney’s successor, things would be different. He found out at one of the first team meetings Bates held in the fall.

Walking into the meeting, Bates brought a souvenir with him — Princeton’s 1992 national championship trophy. It was the first championship in the program’s history. Tierney won it to cap his fifth season.

He held up the trophy. He told his new players to appreciate their history. He made them pass it around to each other. But that was the extent of it.

“He was basically saying that (the 1992 team) worked really hard,” McBride said. “But he just went off that and said that this was a brand-new team, and looking back on those guys, it’s a lot different now.”

With that first lesson, McBride met Chris Bates: the man chosen to continue the Princeton lacrosse legacy. A man who has looked to Tierney for advice more than a few times in his short career. He now hopes to make his own mark on the program.

Bates is the man who has helped Princeton pick up right where it left off after Tierney shocked the lacrosse world and left last May to coach at Denver, leading the Tigers to a 7-1 start and a No. 4 national ranking. This is the man No. 3 Syracuse (7-1) will see on the other sidelines when the two teams square off Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the Meadowlands in the second installment of the Big City Classic.

In time, Bates hopes to leave his own identity on a storied program. But to even get to that point, Bates had to first find his own identity.

And the formation of that was the culmination of the different spots that all led him to the see PRINCETON page 14

Tough Act to Follow

Chris Bates has the challenge of replacing Bill Tierney, who amassed a near-legendary tenure as Tigers head coach in 22 seasons.

Year

W

L

Result

1989

6

8

No tournament

1990

11 5

NCAA quarterfinal

1991

12 3

NCAA quarterfinal

1992

13 2

NCAA champions

1993

13 2

NCAA semifinal

1994

14 1

NCAA champions

1995

11 4

NCAA quarterfinal

1996

14 1

NCAA champions

1997

15 0

NCAA champions

1998

14 1

NCAA champions

1999

9

NCAA first round

2000

12 3

NCAA finals

2001

14 1

NCAA champions

2002

10 5

NCAA finals

2003

11 4

NCAA quarterfinal

2004

11 4

NCAA semifinal

2005

5

No tournament

2006

11 5

NCAA quarterfinal

2007

10 4

NCAA first round

2008

7

No tournament

2009

13 3

1988

2

13 No tournament

4

7

6

NCAA quarterfinal

The awards keep coming for the Syracuse men’s basketball team.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim was announced Tuesday as the 2010 Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year by the Atlanta Tipoff Club. Boeheim, who led the Orange to the Big East regular-season championship, beat out finalists Steve Alford (New Boeheim Mexico), John Calipari (Kentucky) and Frank Martin (Kansas State) to win the award. Boeheim also was selected The Associated Press’ coach of the year.

“This really is a tremendous honor,” Boeheim said in a press release by the Atlanta Tipoff Club, a group of basketball journalists, coaches and administrators. “It is a reflection of the great team I was privileged to coach this year.”

After being picked to finish sixth in the Big East preseason poll, Boeheim led the Orange to a 15-3 conference record to win the league title outright. For the first time in 20 years, the Orange was ranked No. 1 in the country.

Syracuse entered the Big East tournament as the top seed and also earned a No. 1 seed in the West region of the NCAA Tournament.

The Orange advanced to the Sweet 16 for the second straight year but fell to eventual runner-up Butler, 63-59. see boeheim page 14

INSIDEsports

Making a case Former Syracuse defensive

tackle Art Jones was a guarantee at the NFL Draft a year ago. But now he’s using Pro Day to try and reclaim his status. Page 19