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Integration on campus continues to be issue By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor

he has reported in more than 150 countries. Kristof has bought the freedom of sex slaves in Cambodia, ran from warlords trying to slaughter him in the Congo and has spoken with women left to be eaten by hyenas because of a pregnancy gone wrong. He said he realized the power of educating girls after he wrote an article about the brightest 14-year-old girl in a rural school in

When Nicholas Jackson noticed Shelley Wang looking over the bus schedules in E.S. Bird Library, he thought she looked a little confused. Jackson, who spent over a year teaching in China, thought he would help and started speaking to her in Chinese. Wang, an international student from China, was amazed he had reached out. Wang finds it easy to get along with her American peers. “But sometimes I feel kind of lonely,� she said. Despite the almost 3,000 international students studying at Syracuse University, foreign students and their American peers say there is still a lack of integration. With the university campaigning for more geographic diversity, the number of international students is on the rise. This year’s addition of 299 firstyear and transfer international students — 130 alone from China — has caused university programs to try to do more to ease the transition, even as they face a strain in resources. At SU’s Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center for International Services, students are invited to socialize with people from various cultures. For students who do not have a solid grasp of English, they may attend group meetings to go over the language. In the Slutzker Center’s downstairs lounge Wednesday, an instructor went over American idioms to a group of about 10 foreign students. “Going Dutch,� the leader of the session said, pausing for students to offer a reply. “It’s terribly American,�

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andrew renneisen | staff photographer nicholas kristof, a columnist for The New York Times, described his reporting on human rights, poverty and education in more than 150 countries across six different continents in a University Lecture at Hendricks Chapel Wednesday evening.

New York Times columnist advocates education By Annie Knox Staff Writer

Nicholas Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist, told a packed audience in Hendricks Chapel the best way to chip away at poverty, climate change and civil conflict across the world is to send girls to school. “This century, the cause of our times is going to be the discrimination of so many

women and girls around the world,� he said. Kristof spoke in the chapel Tuesday night about educating women across the globe as part of the University Lecture series. His lecture, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,� shared its title with the 2008 book he wrote with his wife, New York Times reporter Sheryl WuDunn. A New York Times columnist since 2001,

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Buerkle pulls ahead in race after Olympic medal winner Ohno to sign books Wayne County’s initial reports By David Propper Staff Writer

Republican Ann Marie Buerkle pushed ahead of Democratic incumbent Dan Maffei on Wednesday afternoon in the race for the 25th Congressional District, which incorporates Syracuse, after Wayne County reported its unofficial results, according to several local news sources, including The Post-Standard. Maffei seemed poised to retain his

U.S. House of Representatives seat Tuesday night as initial returns showed him leading by 7 percent, according to an article published in The Daily Orange Tuesday. But as of press time, after Wayne County’s reports, Buerkle was in the lead by 659 votes, or 0.34 percent, according to an article published on The Post-

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Leah Deyneka’s phone has been ringing off the hook all this week. And before she hears the person What: Signing of his on the book “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than other end, Yesterday� she already Where: SU Bookstore k n o w s When: Saturday. 3 p.m. what it’s How much: Free going to be

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about: Apolo Ohno’s visit to Syracuse University. Ohno, the most successful speed skater in American history, will be at SU Saturday to promote his Oct. 26-released book, “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday,� in the University Bookstore in the Schine ohno Student Center.

The stop is part of 19 different book signings Ohno will do in as many days. He is also stopping at Johns Hopkins University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Deyneka, the academic support coordinator for the bookstore’s general book department, said the interest has been overwhelming with students, faculty, off-campus residents and people out of state. The Syracuse Speed Skating Club called to ask her see ohno page 7

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Federal reserve to buy $600 billion in debt

The Federal Reserve decided on Wednesday to jump start the economy with a risky move to put $600 billion into the banking system, according to The New York Times. The move comes a day after the Republicans took a majority in the House, a shift that guarantees conflict between the Republican majority and the Obama administration. This is the second time this year that the Fed has made a move in its struggle to decrease long-term interest rates to encourage economic growth. The Fed said in a statement that it was acting because the recovery is going slow and it didn’t rule out any purchases of government securities in 2011. The Fed is an independent body so its policy decisions are separate from today’s political pressures. According to The New York Times, the move by the Fed showed an understanding of methods governments traditionally use to upstart their economies, including deficit spending.

China holds major naval exercises

China’s Marine Corps staged naval exercises in the South China Sea on Tuesday, according to The New York Times. The exercises weren’t reported until Wednesday by the state-run media. The exercises numbered 1,800 troops and more than 100 submarines, ships and aircraft for a live-fire display of China’s expanding military power. The South China Sea has been the scene of increased tensions between China and its neighbors because of competing claims to islands. One well-known Chinese military analyst called the exercises a normal annual event. The exercises are code-named Jiaolong 2010 and were viewed by 40 nations and 200 military students. The Communist Party newspaper Global Times quoted an unnamed officer who said the exercises were staged to show part of the People’s Liberation Army and the marines, according to The New York Times.

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City school students taught law By Michael Boren Asst. News Editor

Brittany Kazmirski has stood in court as a judge, prosecutor, defense attorney and bailiff, and she’s only a junior in high school. Kazmirski is part of the Syracuse City School District’s student court program, in which students sanction other students who have broken the district’s Code of Conduct with the guidance of Syracuse University law students. Inside a classroom that resembles a courtroom setting, three student judges sporting black robes sit behind a table with a gavel, two defense attorneys defend their client and two prosecutors represent the school. The court officials are all students. “It’s like a feeling of power but not too much at once,” Kazmirski said. “You don’t get carried away with it because you have to keep in your mind that you’re trying to help the student.” The program has remained in

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Panel to explain Nazi property seizures case By Breanne Van Nostrand Contributing Writer

Organizers hope a second discussion on Nazi property seizure during World War II will draw more student attention after low turnout last April. The lecture, titled “Hitler’s Seed Money and the Legal Struggle to Get It Back,” will take place What: Panel F r i d a y discussion from 4 p.m. Where: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium to 6 p.m. in the Joyce When: Friday, 4 p.m. How much: Free Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III. The discussion is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Renee Crown University Honors and Judaic Studies programs. The panel will focus on the effects

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sean harp | contributing photographer Neal Casey, the uncontested candidate for Student Association president, discusses his platform to put students first to a crowd of a dozen fellow SA members and one student. Jeff Rickert, comptroller candidate, also presented his platform on Wednesday evening.

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Casey pledges to help students at low-attended debate By Laurence Leveille Asst. Copy Editor

The absence of competition for Student Association elections left presidential and comptroller candidates speaking to a nearly empty auditorium Wednesday night. Presidential candidate Neal Casey and comptroller candidate Jeff Rickert spoke to a handful of assembly members in Gifford Auditorium for SA’s annual debate leading up to election week. Although both candidates are uncontested, the debate was

meant to be a forum for questions for the candidates from students. A student panel was expected to question both candidates, but due to unforeseen circumstances, no panel was present at the debate, SA President Jon Barnhart said. Instead, a majority of questions asked came from student organization leaders that were collected prior to the debate. Rickert began by explaining his platform, which consists of three goals to improve the budget process: allow funds to roll over from spring to fall

semesters, fund student travel and implement a budget reform committee. Under the current system, student organizations can roll over funding from the fall semester to the spring semester, but not from the spring semester to the fall semester. Rickert hopes to change this. “I really don’t think that makes sense,” Rickert said. “We’re going to work on fixing that, and that’ll make a lot of groups happier.” Current SA codes also prevent the Finance Board from funding student

travel, which means the board often has to deny funding for potentially good programs, such as community service-based programs, Rickert said. Rickert also said he wants to create a student-run budget reform committee to improve the budget process as a whole to benefit student organizations. New York Public Interest Research Group sent in a question about what the biggest issue the funding process faces is and how Rickert intends to fix it if re-elected. see sa debate page 6

E-readers prove to be less popular than traditional print By George Clarke Staff Writer

Despite presumptions that digital media are overtaking printed works, a recent survey shows e-books are failing to gain popularity on college campuses. Three in four college students prefer printed materials to electronic text, according to an October survey by OnCampus Research. At Syracuse University, the e-book trend has also failed to gain attention with the library canceling an e-book rental program last year. There are no plans for SU to purchase more e-books or readers, but

some predict e-books will eventually catch on because of their affordability. Of the 13 percent of college students who purchased an e-book from July to October, more than half stated the e-books were required for their class work, according to the survey. The SU library department launched an e-reader pilot program in fall 2009, purchasing two Amazon Kindle DX devices and issuing them to E.S. Bird and Carnegie libraries. Librarians loaded each device with textbooks that many students had tried to borrow through interlibrary loans.

“Rather than buying one copy that one person could use at a time, we provided two-hour e-reader rentals for more access,” said Pamela McLaughlin, the library department’s director of communications and external relations. The rental program gained little interest in the two months it was active, McLaughlin said. Though SU originally planned to purchase more Kindles, it canceled its e-reader program amid the blind-accessibility concerns of the Burton Blatt Institute, an advocacy group for people with disabilities that has its headquarters at

SU. At the time, the Kindle’s text-tospeech capabilities were available only through visual menu options, prompting the institute’s complaints. The newest Kindles are fully blind-accessible, yet SU has no plans to purchase them for rental, McLaughlin said. “The people that need to be involved have been involved in other projects,” she said. The program disappeared after the blind-accessibility issue was solved because of the low student interest in e-readers, McLaughlin said. There see e-books page 7

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At the end of the 1970s, only 23% of American homes had cable TV, and the highest-rated shows on the air included “The Dukes of Hazzard,” “Little House on the Prairie,” “CHiPS,” and “Diff’rent Strokes.” That was about to change, however. This class will trace the history of prime-time TV from 1980 to the present. We’ll examine programs like:

*DALLAS *MTV *HILL STREET BLUES *The shooting of Ronald Reagan *CHEERS *THE A-TEAM *KNIGHT RIDER *THE COSBY SHOW *MIAMI VICE *The Space Shuttle Explosion *MOONLIGHTING *90210 *MY SO-CALLED LIFE *DARIA *Letterman/Conan/Jon Stewart *MARRIED…WITH CHILDREN *THESIMPSONS *THIRTYSOMETHING *TWIN PEAKS *SEINFELD *IN LIVING COLOR *The Gulf War *Clarence Thomas hearings *The Rodney King case *The O.J. Simpson case *THE REAL WORLD *Monica Lewinsky *SOUTH PARK *Reality TV *The 2000 Presidential elections *The 9/11 terrorist attacks *THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW *SEX AND THE CITY *THE SOPRANOS

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Obama out of touch with American public

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ear Mr. President Barack Obama, I came of age in the later years of George W. Bush’s presidency, a time when the American people lacked confidence in their president, their government and perhaps their country. I watched as my government abandoned its responsibility to its citizens and as my president marched our parents and siblings into wars that fed his ego, even as the wars starved us of all credibility on the world stage. Taxes were cut while spending increased, and these political moves were financed at the expense of our national debt. The economy was failing, and an entire American city was drowning.

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born a liberal ask, don’t tell” policy, you were a breath of fresh air for liberals. You even recognized the existence of global climate change, a fact I wish we could take for granted. More than that, I was inspired by your promise of a change to the institutions of our government that served their own good first. To me, you were the candidate of a good government, in contrast to those who called for no government. You called for unity against the division of the past. Your words inspired many, including myself, who may not have cared as much before to become involved in politics. Since assuming the office, you have been arguably one of the most legislatively successful presidents in decades. I wish that you had gone further and pushed harder, but your accomplishments continue to speak for themselves. But I’m sorry to say that you have failed in whatever mandate you had. Despite my own support of your policies, I would have forgiven you for not pressing health care reform. You

have failed because you have not pressed for the kind of changes that your election called for. This may include things like energy reform, but more important are the governmental and electoral reforms central to our democracy. We crave a change in the way our government interacts with the people, as well as a change in policy. Also consider that your inability to understand this has led to the most recent election results. In your failure, your challenge has grown. My own district is one of the over 60 seats Democrats lost this year. Now you face a Republican House of Representatives that was elected largely on the payroll of big businesses, with a sizable caucus that would roll back nearly a century of progress we have made as a country, if given such a chance. Then again, who really needs the Department of Education? Republicans will oppose electoral reform because unlimited, undisclosed donations played a large role in their victories. These developments obviously make the job harder, but not impossible, for a president committed to the cause. I sincerely hope you take this election for what it is. Americans want you to be doing what you told them you were going to: Change the way Washington, D.C., works. Colin Crowley is a sophomore political science major. He is a guest columnist, and he can be reached at cocrowle@syr.edu.

Fashion bloggers steering fashion industry in new direction

s a public relations major, I cannot tell you how many times the term, “social media” has come up during lectures. Outlets like Facebook, Twitter and especially blogs have taken the world by storm. Everyone is a part of social media whether he or she wants to be or not, and the fashion industry is no exception. Over the last few years, blogs have become the new magazine and newspaper. With the fashion industry heavily reliant on media placements and editorial opinions, fashion has become a huge part of the blogosphere. Designers and fashion houses have been hot on the new media trail by courting bloggers into their front rows with open arms. “Fashion bloggers have ascended from the nosebleed seats to the front row with such alacrity that a long-held social code among editors, one that prizes position and experience above outward displays of ambition or enjoyment, has practically been obliterated,” wrote Eric Wilson in a Dec. 24, 2009, article in The New York Times. Heavyweight bloggers, such as Tommy Ton of Jak and Jil, Susie Bubble of Style Bubble, Bryan Boy or even 13-year-old Tavi Gevinson, can now be seen front and center at major fashion shows, many only a few seats away from Anna Wintour. One of the most influential features about

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i’m judging you blogs is definitely their way of disseminating information. Every runway show, fashion event and new product launch can be instantly critiqued, photographed and uploaded onto the Web. And what makes this so powerful is that once it’s on the Web, it is permanent. “Do I think, as a publicist, that I now have to have my eye on some kid who’s writing a blog in Oklahoma as much as I do on an editor from Vogue? Absolutely. Because once they write something on the Internet, it’s never coming down. And it’s the first thing a designer is going to see,” said People’s Revolution’s Kelly Cutrone in the Dec. 24 New York Times article by Wilson. Newspapers and magazines struggle with instantaneous news because of their limited distribution. Once the next day or month arrives, that fashion article is gone forever. And while blogs are uploading their information the day of, publications have to wait until the next day to inform the public.

Another aspect to consider is how blogs have shaped the fashion industry of communicating to the general public. Bloggers are more relaxed and visual when it comes to writing techniques, giving readers a more comfortable and easier read. They encourage open commentary by allowing their readers to critique and discuss on the website itself. Cathy Horyn’s fashion commentary in The New York Times would not spark the same interest a blog would. Nor would its language be as relatable as that of a blog. Writers have to go through editors to create an article that represents the standards of their magazine or newspaper. Bloggers, however, are their own editors and don’t need to uphold anyone’s standards but their audience’s. This kind of ethic gives bloggers their credibility and makes them feel more significant to us normal folk. Bloggers are the new drivers of fashion and editors are in the backseat, going along for the ride. This new generation of tech-savvy fashionistas is changing fashion in a way that is both unpredictable and exciting — something the industry needs right now. And as this generation grows within our country, it is quickly making strides in Europe and Asia as well. This is world domination at its finest. Vicki Ho is a senior public relations major. Her column appears weekly, and she can be reached vho@syr.edu.

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SA elections, candidates poorly promoted Starting Monday, Nov. A member of SA for almost 8, elections for Student two years, Casey has develAssociation president oped concrete ideas but did by the daily orange editorial board and comptroller will a poor job of presenting begin. them. SA distributes the student activity fee and Since at least 2006, less than 25 percent of the acts as the voice of the student body. Ultimately, student body has voted in SA elections. For an it is the most important undergraduate stuorganization with so much power, students should dent organization on campus. SA should be be more concerned. An uncontested election was concerned about its image among the student the perfect opportunity for SA to inform students body. If it wants more students to get involved, it about the organization and encourage students — needs to show students why they should want to as it has in the past — to vote next week. get involved. One student outside of SA attended WednesThere is only one candidate running for each day night’s discussion with Casey and Rickert. position this year: Neal Casey for president With the elections being uncontested, there was and Jeff Rickert for comptroller. Barring a no means for a debate. But SA still had the option last-minute write-in candidate, both Casey and of gathering a student panel, something it has Rickert will be elected next week. But despite done in past elections. This would have at least this certainty, SA dropped the ball on promoting constructed a dialogue rather than having the elections, and the candidates missed a valuable two candidates speak to a relatively empty room. opportunity to showcase their platforms. Casey and Rickert are not just campaigning Casey campaigned on the platform of “Putfor themselves but also for the organization ting Students First” and turning SA into a they aim to lead. In addition, SA failed to more result-based organization, using social promote the importance of students voting for networking websites like Twitter and Facetheir representatives. This turned out to be an book. He also distributed fliers around campus exceptionally quiet election season in which and spoke with some student organizations. both SA and the candidates missed a valuable But despite these efforts, most students remain opportunity to inform students about who they unaware and uninformed about the election. are and what they plan to do.

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have been drunk since Thursday. I’m completely drunk as I write this. Thank God for spell check and my editor. Without them, the entire campus would just be subjected to mass reprints of my texts from last night. And the night before that. And maybe a couple of awkward ones from the morning after that… but anyway. That’s all beside the point. In light of my recently passed 21st birthday and my first alcoholic drink ever, I felt that it was time to shed some light on a topic that many of us know and love (those of us that are 21 and over, of course): alcohol — friend or foe? It’s so hard to say. As I’ve pleasantly (and might I add again, very recently) discovered, alcohol, much like Red Bull, gives you wings. It

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makes you do things you wouldn’t normally do, say things you wouldn’t normally say, go places you wouldn’t normally go. It can also make you miss things: deadlines, classes, menstrual cycles — you get my drift. And yet, where would we all be without alcohol? I think I officially realized just how much our lives revolve around it when I received the following congratulatory phone call from my mother on my birthday: “Happy birthday, sweetie! You can finally go to that Chuckies place now!” (This is coming from the same woman who wouldn’t let me eat chocolate since I was 4 years old so I “could learn the value of staying in shape early on.”) Honestly, though, without alcohol

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blondes know better in your life, what would you do with all that extra free time? You would study, and then everyone would have 4.0 grade point averages, and we wouldn’t be able to categorize one another as smart or dumb anymore. You would work out, and then everyone would be in shape, and we wouldn’t be able to make fun of fat people anymore. You would frolic in the grass, laugh and play, and enjoy

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sunshine and flowers. But then again, you would never lose your credit cards or your Blackberry, and bums off the street would never be able to find it and sell it and make some much-needed money for crack. You’d never make bad decisions, and your fondest memory of college would be of that one ridiculous study session when you got every question on the review sheet right. You badass, you. Part of the college experience is improving — or in some cases, developing — your social skills. Alcohol plays a big part in that. Your Facebook status has probably been “never. drinking. again.” on at least 20 separate occasions, and it never gets old. People will totally still “like” it and

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comment on it. And you’ll experience that warm, fuzzy feeling that comes with bonding, knowing that at that very moment, others just like you are also curled up in bed, in a half-pool of their own vomit, sharing your pain. Senior finance major Greg Orlowski said, “Alcohol is a social lubricant. Drinking is a great way by which to end a tough week and, most importantly, a lot of fun.” How can anyone argue with that? So go ahead. Pour yourself a little drink. Here’s to alcohol! Lubricating our lovely university since 1870. Marina Charny is a senior English and textual studies and writing major. Her column appears every Thursday, and she can be reached at mcharny@syr.edu.

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high schools since its inception in 2001, but the district plans to expand it this year to four middle schools: Clary, Danforth, Ed Smith and Bellevue Academy. Judy Wolfe, the student court program supervisor, met with Clary students last week and will meet Ed Smith students this week to teach them court procedures and eventually start mock trials. A panel of school district, college and federal government officials selects four SU College of Law students each year to come to the high schools at least once a week and help the student courts. The law students teach the high school students about law and criminal cases, aid them in writing opening or closing statements and relate personal experiences to the students, some of whom have dealt with crime and the courts in their own lives. There are a total of 45 students, mostly juniors and seniors, enrolled in the student court program, which is a part of two business law classes David Voltz teaches. The class averages one to two cases per week, during which

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China who dropped out because her parents did not pay the $14 tuition. This prompted New York Times readers to send a slew of donations to fund the school. The money allowed her to go back to school and eventually graduate high school, get an accounting degree, return to her home village and hire other women. “So many girls who otherwise would have been working in the rice patties or looking after goats ended up getting a great education,” starting a “virtuous spiral” that brought women into the work force and broke the cycle of poverty in the village, he said. Kristof also criticized the troop surge in Afghanistan, saying education has proved effective in fighting Taliban presence. In any given area in Afghanistan, he said, the more girls in school, the less prevalent the Taliban is. “I find it particularly frustrating that we can find $100 billion this year to finance American military activity in Afghanistan but not the far more modest sum of one-tenth of that amount,” which would pay for primary school for every kid around the globe, he said. Kristof said between 60 million and 120 million females have died around the globe — more than the total number of people who died in all 20th century genocides — because in some areas of India and Africa, families set aside food and health care for their sons first, leaving daughters sick and starving. There’s “no political will to save them because they’re poor, rural and female,” he said. On a reporting trip years ago to Cambodia, Kristof saw teenagers kidnapped and locked

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Standard’s website Wednesday afternoon. Republicans seized control of the House during Tuesday’s midterm elections, taking a 239-to-186 majority over Democrats. There are nine other House races besides the 25th District across the country that have yet to be officially called, according to The New York Times. Districts in Washington, California, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Kentucky and Vir-

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freshmen receive most of the punishments, Voltz said. The students in the court program are usually nervous the first time they run a trial and initially struggle with the law vocabulary they have to learn, Voltz said. But the students grasp onto court procedures through mock trials, and many of the judges bring the case down to a personal level to tell the sanctioned students that they don’t want to make the same mistakes they did. “I think it means more coming from other kids, not from some old guy telling them what to do,” Voltz said. Most students who face the courts receive sanctions for disruptive behavior in the classroom, chronic tardiness, skipping school or disrespectful behavior toward a teacher, Wolfe said. “It’s not a bad kid. It’s a kid who might be lost in the classroom, and they’re trying to cover it up,” Wolfe said. The student judges make the student defendants write apology letters, visit a student assistance counselor, attend tutoring, perform community service or write an essay about their offense, among other rulings. The referral does not show up on the student’s discipline record. “Instead of sending kids to suspension, we actually talk to them and try to figure out what’s

up in brothels. They were not paid and ended up dying of AIDS. “It’s slavery,” he said. With pressure from western governments, journalists and nongovernmental organizations, Cambodia has tightened restrictions on brothels. One he once visited is now a grocery store. “What we’re dealing with is not just tragedies but opportunities as well,” Kristof said. “You can take people with squandered assets and turn them into productive useful assets for their families, communities, countries.” He said the “dirty little secret of poverty” is that families who live under the poverty line spend 2 percent of their budget on education. If women were given control over purse strings, he said, they could fix this by spending on behalf of children, he said. “There are no quick fixes in development,” he said, “but maybe the closest we have is education.” Kristof also said college students are better at focusing on local solutions rather than broad, global ones compared to older generations. “Young people today are better at figuring out ways of making a difference in a particular place,” he said. ”Sponsoring a third-grade class in a refugee camp could make a difference, though not on a global scale.” Christen Brandt, a senior magazine journalism and English and textual studies major, is the executive director of She’s the First, an organization that pairs donors with schools in developing countries. “Nick Kristof really is one of the leading advocates for women’s rights around the world and for She’s the First,” she said, “so the opportunity to see him in person made me want to do a couple of back flips.”

going on,” Wolfe said. When the high school students are not trying cases, SU law students teach them anything, from rape to domestic violence to obeying police officers. Law student Ali Benchakroun taught the student court class last week how to talk and behave toward police officers if they pulled the students over or interrogated them. Benchakroun shared his experiences of getting pulled over as a cab driver in New York City, telling the students he put both hands on the wheel and talked to the officer in a nice or pleasant manner, he said. “I would just comply with the officer’s demands and say something like, ‘Good afternoon, officer, how are you,’” he said. Benchakroun said he wanted to enhance the relationship between police and the students, as some automatically have a negative perception of police from growing up in rough neighborhoods where they hear about cops firing their weapons. Some students would rather take matters into their own hands than report to police, he said. “What we basically tell the kids is, ‘Put yourselves in the officers’ shoes,’” he said. Benchakroun grew up in Queens near the projects and uses his personal experiences liv-

ing in the area to relate to students in the court program at Fowler High School, he said. “I know exactly what they’re going through because it’s an inner-city high school,” he said. Many of the high school students have had to deal with family court, criminal court or domestic violence issues at home, said SU law student Jessica Trombetta, who visits the court students at least once a week. “It’s a wide variety of situations that kids are coming from on the home front,” she said. Kazmirski, the high school student who has been a judge, prosecutor, defense attorney and bailiff, had to face the courts first before joining them because a teacher caught her copying part of a friend’s homework assignment. Kazmirski faced two options: go to in-school suspension or face the student court. She chose the latter. The judges spoke to her like they actually cared and told her to write an apology letter to the teacher, she said. She joined the program afterward because she wanted to become a lawyer and prevent other students from making the same mistakes, she said. “I wanted to help people like me who strayed a little bit,” she said. “And some of them actually learn from it.”

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A similar event was held in April featuring Paul Kerson, lawyer for the Nacher family, but only about five people attended and most were professors, Teres said. Kerson will return for Friday’s discussion, along with other Nacher family lawyers Marc Leavitt and Joseph Yamaner. Sebastian Schuetz, the Nacher family lawyer in Germany, and Ronnie Mandowsky, the executor of the Nacher Estate, will also contribute to the discussion, according to the news release. This year’s event is expected to draw a much larger crowd. The SU Video Production Unit will make a video of the panel discussion and a reception will follow the panel. At least a dozen faculty members are preparing to participate in the discussion, said Samuel Gorovitz, event organizer and philosophy professor, in an e-mail. Panel members have also been trying to increase awareness of the case by searching for filmmakers or an author to tell the story, Teres said. Gorovitz said the event is a rare opportunity to hear about the case from the people directly involved. Holzwarth said it is important for students to attend the panel and learn about the historic case. “Any student of history needs to attend,” Holzwarth said. “It was an event of epic proportions.”

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of the landmark Nacher v. Dresdner Bank case, which charged Nazis of stealing money to fund their party, according to a Syracuse University news release. Lawyers and SU professors will participate in the discussion. “It’s an unknown aspect of World War II and the Holocaust,” said Harvey Teres, director of the Judaic Studies Program. “Money to fund the Nazi effort came from property stolen from Jews.” The case was the first to prosecute the Nazis for using illegally acquired private property to finance their efforts in World War II. The Nacher family held a large share in the German brewery, hotel and restaurant company Engelhardt Breweries, which was seized by Dresdner Bank in 1934, according to the news release. Nacher v. Dresdner was filed in 1994 and has since spurred 56 related cases against German banks and corporations for similar reasons, according to the news release. The U.S. Department of the Treasury took control over all of the cases in 2000 and negotiated distributing a $5 billion settlement for compensation among every Holocaust survivor. “It’s a key part of our history,” said Eric Holzwarth, deputy director of the honors program. Holzwarth said he considers Friday’s discussion a step toward turning a moral corner and making amends.

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ginia still have votes to report. Wayne County officials said they were unable to report the county’s results Tuesday night due to print-outs from voting machines being picked up by trucks before inspectors could phone in the results, according to The Post-Standard. The 25th District race will now be decided by mail-in ballots, which will not begin to be counted for two weeks, according to an article published on the Your News Now website Wednesday evening. — Compiled by Rebecca Kheel, asst. news editor, rhkheel@syr.edu

Rickert said the main problem is that SA does not have enough money to fund everyone. This year, the Finance Board received $1.3 million in funding requests, but only $700,000 is available to distribute to organizations. Rickert plans to solve this by focusing more on the merit of the programs that need funding. “I have the power to increase the fee, but it’s not reasonable right now, especially at a school like SU,” Rickert said. “Students are all strapped for cash.” Casey spoke shortly after Rickert. His campaign focus is on putting students first and including them in campus decisions. “We need to make sure that our goals as

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students and both the administration and the university align,” he said. Casey said he would like to improve the budget process and find ways to make more money available to student organizations. He also said he wants to make SA into a result-based organization that focuses on its accomplishments rather than what it could do. One question an audience member wrote also asked, “It’s December 31st, 2011. Name three things your administration has accomplished.” Casey said his goals are to lay the groundwork for an eventual tobacco-free program on campus, make the new MayFest into a successful tradition and improve the budget process. Students can vote for SA president, comptroller and assembly members on MySlice from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11. lgleveil@syr.edu

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he said before describing the phrase as the cultural habit of going out to eat and sharing the expense. Pat Burak, director of the Slutzker Center, said it has been preparing since the summer to handle the increased number of students. The center received funding for a fall semester program, Connections, that provides additional mentors to reach out to new students. But the request for an additional foreign student adviser filed in August has gone unmet, Burak said. Already her staff is working more than 40 hours a week. The beginning of the year is the most difficult, as the center workers must make sure SU’s records match with all the students here

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said it can be hard for anyone at college to make friends and that it is often magnified by the preformed campus cliques. “How are we going to make friends with the basketball players or the boy in fraternity X or the girl in sorority Y?” he said. Interacting with others all depends on the person, said Wang, a sophomore television, radio and film major from Shanghai. Wang said she tries to become involved on campus and is part of CitrusTV and the Renee Crown University Honors Program. And many other international students she knows from China are not involved in greek life, she said. She said spending time with fellow international students helped her cope with sometimes being lonely. On the weekends, Wang said she will likely go to the movies or out to dinner with other Chinese students. She said she has seen that it is hard for Chinese

“Open yourself up to all the new experiences, don’t seclude yourself from new experiences because you’re afraid or because you might not fit in.” Pat Burak

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through a student visa, Burak said. Should the university ever be under a government audit and be found to have neglected this paperwork, SU could lose its student visa privilege. International students have resources at SU, but they should also explore campus, Burak said. “Open yourself up to all the new experiences, don’t seclude yourself from new experiences because you’re afraid or because you might not fit in,” Burak said. But often, students — Americans and internationals — will form cliques, she said. Jackson, who reached out to Wang in the library, received a doctorate from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in European history and political thought in 2006, but he is still frequently at Bird doing research on Sino-Western relations. He said he has many international friends. “I’ve found that the international students will tend to congregate with each other because it’s difficult to break into circles of Americans,” Jackson said. But the issue is a two-way street. Jackson

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questions about his visit as well. Ohno is part Japanese and was raised by his father who immigrated to this country. Ohno is the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history, amassing eight medals, including two gold medals from the 2002 and 2006 games. The short track speed skater also became recognizable during his appearance on the reality television show “Dancing with the Stars” during the show’s fourth season, coming in first place. “Apolo Ohno is an iconic Olympian,” said Mike Veley, chair of the sport management department. “He captured the pulse of America during his Olympic run, and a lot of people are just fascinated by the accomplishments he made as a speed skater and would love the opportunity to meet him live and in person.” Veley said now is the best time for Ohno to market himself. “Somebody like Apolo Ohno has a short shelflife in terms of his popularity and his ability to promote himself, so he’s got to get out and move from city to city and put as much hay in the barn

students to interact with the American students because the Chinese students might have learned English in grade school, but they did not learn about American culture. This year she is living with other Chinese students, but next year she plans to live with her freshman-year roommate, Devon Beebe, a sophomore communication sciences and disorders major from New Jersey. Last Thanksgiving, Wang went with Beebe to New Jersey for the school holiday. Beebe, who is currently studying abroad in France, requested to live in an International Living-Learning Community. She said when she discovered her roommate would be from Shanghai, she was excited the two would be able to learn about things from another perspective. “Meeting people from different countries helps me to realize how large the world is, how many views on issues there are, how many ways there are to express oneself and how much more open I must be to cultures, languages and points of view in order to be successful in this world,” Beebe said in an e-mail

“Somebody like Apolo Ohno has a short shelf life in terms of his popularity and his ability to promote himself, so he’s got to get out and move from city to city and put as much hay in the barn as possible.”

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as possible,” he said. David Brown, deputy director of publicity for Atria Books, reached out to Deyneka in late August, just around the time school was beginning, to see if the bookstore would be interested in having Ohno come in November, she said. Because Ohno is riding on a bus from city to city, Brown said the goal was to hit two or three cities a day, located close together. After determining the geography of the tour, Brown looked at demographics and appropriate college towns. Ohno is scheduled to arrive at the bookstore

from France. The secret to living abroad is admitting you have something to learn, said Brian Sheehan, an associate professor in advertising and part of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication’s diversity community. Sheehan worked abroad with the Saatchi and Saatchi advertising firm in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. He said living abroad can be rewarding if the person chooses to open him or herself up to new experiences and find common ground in a new place. The same can be said about American and international students at SU. “It’s challenging on both sides,” Sheehan said. “Often American students misunderstand the quietness of international students.” American students should make the effort to meet international students, Sheehan said. He said interacting with an international student could be more interesting than meeting another American. But integration is not always easy. Isabel Dong, a sophomore advertising major, said she typically spends time with other Korean students, who she said she has more in common with and more to talk about. Although she was born in the United States, her first language is Korean, and she has lived in South Korea since she was 8 years old. “When you go into the dining hall, you can see the race groups interacting with each other,” Dong said. But Burak, director of the Slutzker Center, said there is cultural interaction all over campus. This weekend will be an event to celebrate Diwali, Indians and Hindus’ festival of light. She said the annual event typically sells out of the 600 tickets available. Burak said she knows she is optimistic about getting different cultures to interact with each other. Someone can’t be forced to go to a Chinese New Year celebration or documentary on world water issues, she said. She said she would like to see students hold onto their own culture while exploring many others. Burak said she found the balance between gaining cultural knowledge and holding onto one’s background is best described in a poem by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. “‘Absorb all cultures, forget not your own,’” Burak said. “And I think this is a great motto to live by.” dkmcbrid@syr.edu

at 3 p.m. Attendees will have their book signed on a first-come, first-served basis with bookstore greeters handing out tickets when people arrive. Deyneka said the publisher told her Ohno could sign 400 books in an hour. Depending on how many people show up and how long Ohno stays at SU, there is no guarantee every book will be signed. Ohno is traveling from Albany to Syracuse and then leaving for a signing in Buffalo. “We’re telling people to get here as early as you can if you really want to meet him and get the autograph,” Deyneka said. “He’s going to do everything he can to get everybody signed, but if it’s so overwhelming, then he will have to get on his tour bus.” Brown said there is a risk not every book could be signed, but he does not see it as too much of an issue. “I would be surprised if any book is left unsigned. Apolo has said he doesn’t want to leave anyone disappointed,” Brown said. To get the word out that Ohno would be at SU, the bookstore has been putting up posters, spreading out postcards in the dining halls, placing sandwich boards outside and sending a mass e-mail to every SU student. Liz Reyes, a junior who plans to get to the

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was also an overall shift away from e-readers with limited capabilities and toward fewer devices with greater versatility, such as smartphones and tablet computers, she said. The SU library’s catalog of 23,000 e-books — more than one million digital resources overall, counting works stored on library databases — is available on the Internet and viewable on devices ranging from desktops and laptops to smartphones and iPads, she said. “I think they will gain in popularity,” McLaughlin said, referring to e-books. “More people I know and see are buying them and using them effectively.” Mengting Zhu, a freshman economics major,

“Offering e-books as texts will probably save many publishers who may not otherwise survive in this economy.” Marilyn Arnone

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uses her e-reader when she doesn’t want to walk from Sadler Hall to the library, she said. Zhu, who is from Shanghai, said e-readers are significantly more popular in China than in America. The SU Center for Digital Literacy published a free educational e-book on its website in September. The book, “From the Creative Minds of 21st Century Librarians,” is a 275-page compilation of lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school classrooms. “I think it is just the beginning and that this number will dramatically increase in the next couple of years,” said Marilyn Arnone, director of the center, in an e-mail. The center published the e-book because they wanted to publish a book that was useful and timely but could be made available as a free download, she said. E-books make financial sense for publishers and can save time for consumers, Arnone said. Arnone said: “Offering e-books as texts will probably save many publishers who may not otherwise survive in this economy.” geclarke@syr.edu

bookstore more than an hour before his arrival, said she finds Ohno inspiring because of his story coming from a family that has an immigrant background and his will to achieve. “I look up to him because he sets his mind on a goal and puts 100 percent toward it,” she said. “He doesn’t give up. I think that all of us can look up to that even if we are not Asian or sports fanatics.” dgproppe@syr.edu

Apolo Anton Ohno America’s most successful speed skater will be at Syracuse University Saturday to promote his Oct. 26-released book, “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday.” Ohno is the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history, amassing eight medals, including two gold medals from the 2002 and 2006 games. The short track speed skater also appeared on the reality television show, “Dancing with the Stars” during the show’s fourth season and came in first place.

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ex jeopardy, contraceptive displays and poetry will make their way into Schine Underground on Thursday. An Albany theater troupe called Too Deep Entertainment will perform “The Adventures Of Condom Man” to increase people’s knowledge about HIV and AIDS, substance abuse and other health-related issues, said Abdul Abdullah, the historian of Syracuse University’s Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., which is coordinating the event to begin at 7 p.m. The play follows a battle between characters named Condom Man and Seductress, who causes STDs. Condom Man helps save at-risk couples with information about the use of condoms, according to the website of Steamer No. 10 Theatre, where the show is playing in Albany. “It’s a play about healthy sexual practices,” said Abdullah, a senior psychology and biology major. “We’re trying to give advice to the audience, information about how to have safe sex, healthy sexual practices, getting tested and just being aware of society issues with sex.” Peer education groups from the SU R.A.P.E. Center will also participate in the event. Phi Beta Sigma is pushing to lower incidents of diseases commonly affecting men by using education and other activities that encourage healthier living, Abdullah said. “It’s not just about informing them about the subjects but letting them know where they can go to get help,” Abdullah said. “We want to increase their awareness on all types of issues.” The central themes of the play, which promote healthy relationships, communication and empowering individuals through education and dialogue, are consistent with the R.A.P.E. Center’s initiatives, said Janet Epstein, associate director of the R.A.P.E. Center, in an e-mail. “We hope to gain an interactive dialogue, which is at the heart of prevention education,” Epstein said. Dialogue about sexual health topics, such as the one on Thursday, can help create a culture on campus that encourages community members to help reduce sexual violence, harassment and abuse, Epstein said. Sexual and relationship violence affect all members of the community, and the center can create a more caring, safer community by educating people about those issues, Epstein said. At the R.A.P.E Center, there are violence prevention programs that use an “empowered bystander” approach to reduce gender violence and bullying, Epstein said. “Rather than focusing on young men as perpetrators or potential perpetrators,” Epstein said, “the focus is on men, women and transgender individuals as empowered bystanders who can develop strategies to intervene safely when faced with circumstances of abusive behavior.” rstorm@syr.edu

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AMBER ALE Empire Brewing Company, Syracuse, N.Y. ABV: 5.5 percent Rating: 3.5/4

Middle Ages likes to experiment with British-style ales and also follow seasonal trends, so this winter ale coincides perfectly with the changing weather. It pours slightly amber and smells like a combination of toasted malts, caramel and a little darkfruit sweetness. At first taste, one gets biscuity malts followed by slight toffee and finally finishes with a bit of alcohol and mild hop bitterness. This local brew will warm you up but may only be worth one pint at the most.

ZUUR With a light nose consisting of mild toasted malts, some caramel, butterscotch and nuttiness, this is a very inviting beer. Fresh from the tap at Al’s Wine & Whiskey Lounge on Clinton Street, it pours dark amber with minimal head retention. The taste first matches the smell and then tops it ten-fold. It has a well-balanced first taste of complex malt flavors with some sweetness, followed by a small bite from the hops at the finish. This is a must-try for anyone in search of a complex yet sessionable cold-weather beer.

WIZARD’S WINTER ALE Middle Ages Brewing Company, Syracuse, N.Y. ABV: 6.3 percent Rating: 2.5/4

Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown, N.Y. ABV: 6.0 percent Rating: 4/4

Zuur, Dutch for “sour,” is a collaboration between Ommegang and Belgium’s Brouwerij Liefmans. This beer is the epitome of uniqueness. Brown ale mixed with a sour ale creates a tartness and sweetness that combines to develop excellence. It pours slightly lighter and redder than standard brown ale. With real cherries added, it smells very fruity and tart, but mild malt sweetness comes through as well. It tastes more tart than sweet, but unlike sharp sour ales, there is a mild hop bite at the end. A malty sweetness tones down puckering caused by the black cherry. This is a must-try limited edition release. For more information on Syracuse Beer Week, be sure to check out The Daily Orange’s off-campus guide. — Compiled by Lucas Sacks, staff writer, ldsacks@syr.edu

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t may seem like ages ago, but there was a time when Syracuse University professors were once undergraduate students. As undergrads, they too had to endure the

stresses of finding not only classes in their major but electives as well. Somewhere along the way, they never had the chance to gain all of the knowledge and skills they wanted. If given the opportunity to study at a separate college within the university, these are the classes your professors would have registered for on Nov. 10, the first day of registration for classes for the spring semester. Hey, sometimes the grass is greener on the other side.

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Terrance Goode | Associate professor of architecture The other side: GRA 557: “Information Graphics” Terrance Goode has spent 16 years teaching architecture students the core principles behind his trade. But to be able to step outside the realm of architecture to diversify their education is what going to a university is all about, he said. Goode emphasizes the importance of being able to graphically represent both structures and information, which can be achieved in GRA 557: “Information Graphics.” “It’s an important skill for architects to have,” he said. “Information Graphics” focuses on creating visual narratives using both qualitative and quantitative research in advertising, journalism and public relations. Inspired by Edward Tufte, a professor and an expert in informational graphics like charts and diagrams, Goode realizes the practical benefits of being able to challenge the traditional representations of statistics. “He’s (Tufte) very clear and not reductive in explaining complex, special and temporal conditions visually,” Goode said. “And in a way, that’s what we’re trying to do here.”

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Ken Harper | Assistant professor of visual and interactive communications The other side: ARC 681: “Media I” Professor Ken Harper learned most of his graphics knowledge through trial and error. With this learning process, he learned the basic importance of self-promotion and vigilance, ideas that have carried into his numerous positions throughout his career. For Harper, design is all about establishing a reconnect, he said in an e-mail. “The divide between the person creating the message and story is great, and any tools you can implement to bridge that divide should be used,” Harper said. “I would be interested in (“Media I”) due to its relevance to my chosen discipline of interactive design.” In ARC 681: “Media I,” students learn the use of analogue, digital media and how to develop diverse drawing techniques. Extending his ongoing knowledge into a new field is a major draw to this class, Harper said. “The concept of innovative applications is broad, and the outcomes vary from discipline to discipline,” Harper said. “So viewing it from an architectural one would be both enlightening and interesting.”

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Michael Haynie | Assistant professor of entrepreneurship The other side: PSC 307: “The Politics of Citizenship” College students usually act before they think in terms of citizenship, said Michael Haynie, an assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. “Citizenship isn’t something people think about working on,” Haynie said. “I wish more young people understood what it means to be a good citizen and the responsibilities that come with being a citizen in this country.” He said citizenship isn’t as cut and dry as it may seem, and students could really benefit from taking a course about it. That’s where PSC 307: “The Politics of Citizenship” comes in. The class focuses on how the role of being a citizen has evolved within government and legal practices. Said Haynie: “I think this is an important class that I would definitely recommend.” —Compiled by Elora Tocci, asst. copy editor, ertocci@syr.edu

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Dessa Bergen-Cico | Assistant professor The other side: AED 612: “Creativity & Its Cultivation” Dessa Bergen-Cico, an addiction assistant professor in the College of Human Ecology, was actually an art education major while doing her undergraduate studies at Syracuse University. “It was called synaesthetic education back then because it was the ‘70s, and it was a ‘70s kind of word,” she said. Synaesthetic means something that crosses the senses, such as seeing sounds and feeling color. The connection between art and psychological studies came to Bergen-Cico when she student-taught. Several students would disclose their personal problems with her or the students revealed their inner feelings through artwork, she said. After she finished her undergraduate degree, Bergen-Cico went on to get a graduate degree in health and substance abuse because of the encounters she had with the students. She said AED 612: “Creativity & Its Cultivation” would interest her because of her background in art education and because the class could help her with the students she currently teaches. The class shows students’ different levels of creative behaviors and how they are influenced by environments and personal experiences. “The recognition of the use of art and creativity in recovery and in the mental health fields could transfer into (my students’) futures,” she said.

Mara Sapon-Shevin | Professor The other side: HTW 318: “Alcohol, Other Drugs, Sex and Gambling: Dynamics of Addiction” and HPM 217: “World Cuisines” Mara Sapon-Shevin’s attention is split between practical knowledge and personal hobbies. She said she has several family members facing problems with addiction. She said taking HTW 318: “Alcohol, Other Drugs, Sex and Gambling: Dynamics of Addiction” would help her understand more about what her loved ones are experiencing. “I know my perceptions of addiction are outdated and useless,” said SaponShevin, a professor of teaching and leadership programs in the School of Education, in an e-mail. She also said she would like to explore her own preferences. She said she always wants to learn about new foods, as she is a vegetarian. She thinks HPM 217: “World Cuisines” would be a perfect fit. “I am sure it would be yummy,” Sapon-Shevin said.

Kendall Phillips | Associate dean/professor The other side: AEE 342: “Aerodynamics” and ELE 231: “Electrical Engineering” Since he was an undergraduate student, there’s something Kendall Phillips has always wanted to tell people. “Why yes, I am a rocket scientist,” said Phillips, an associate dean at the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a professor of communication and rhetorical studies. With these dreams of the final frontier in mind, Phillips would enroll in AEE 342: “Aerodynamics.” As part of the aerospace engineering major, the class covers all the basic knowledge needed for interstellar flight. From drag reduction to the movement of 3-D wings, Philips should have the Millennium Falcon flying in no time. For his Earth-based educational pursuits, Phillips thinks the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science could also provide practical knowledge needed for everyday life. For a man who teaches the rhetoric of popular culture, ELG 231: “Electrical Engineering Fundamentals” serves one specific purpose. “I could avoid burning my house down,” Phillips said.

Duane Marcy | Assistant professor The other side: PTG 204: “Painting and Drawing for Non-Art Majors” A professor who focuses on electrical and computer engineering, Duane Marcy is a man of science. But that doesn’t mean he’s against using the left side of his brain. Just as Phillips would use the knowledge he gained in the College of Engineering, Marcy would call upon the College of Visual and Performing Arts for more personal and practical reasons. He would like to paint pictures and signs for his greenhouse back home. “I have the ideas, but I don’t know how to implement them,” he said. To bring out his inner Van Gogh, Marcy would enroll in PTG 204: “Painting and Drawing for Non-Art Majors.” The course introduces the principles of art on a very basic level, teaching drawing and painting techniques in a broad-enough manner so even technicians like Marcy can understand the concepts. —Compiled by Flash Steinbeiser, feature editor, ansteinb@syr.edu

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Karen Kirkhart | Professor The other side: SPA 101: “Spanish I” Growing up in Los Angeles, Karen Kirkhart encountered the Spanish language on a daily basis. Despite her constant interactions with Spanish, she could never understand the foreign words. Even after her long history with the language, she decided to learn French instead, thinking it was more exotic. “It was good, and I studied abroad,” Kirkhart said. “But in terms of day-to-day life, I feel that we should all be multilingual, especially in Spanish.” Kirkhart, who has taught at Syracuse University for 24 years, would learn basic writing and speaking skills in SPA 101: “Spanish I.” The entry-level class for several languages teaches introductory-level vocabulary, grammar and verb conjugations. After a semester in the class, Kirkhart said she would be comfortable talking to those fluent in Spanish, not only in LA, but everywhere. She said by talking to Latinos in their native language, she could converse with them in a respectful manner. —Compiled by Colleen Bidwill, asst. copy editor, cabidwel@syr.edu

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brilliant surrealist work in which disturbing violence is imbued with a sense of childlike wonder, “The Beast Pageant” is reminiscent of the works of master filmmakers like David Lynch and Terry Gilliam. Beautifully photographed in striking black and white, the film is at once gorgeous and gritty, harmless and yet deeply affecting. In its juxtaposition of urban claustrophobia and boundless freedom in the beckoning wild, the film has a dynamic quality in its exploration of real-world anxiety and dream-like bliss. The film is often entrancing, and its provocative images are occasionally complemented by an array of rich, original musical numbers. “The Beast Pageant” centers on Abraham (Jon Moses), who lives in a small, absurdly designed apartment in which a giant machine caters to his every need. His job at a fish manufacturing plant is wearing him out. At the same time, an alternate beautiful world of pine and rock-covered creatures calls out to him. The film was directed by College of Visual and Performing Arts alumnus Albert Birney and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumnus Jon Moses and produced by Nicholas Gurewitch, also an SU alumnus and the Perry Bible Fellowship cartoonist. This showcases a unique example of VPA and

Newhouse working together. The filmmakers said they were never concerned with their specific school affiliations, however, recognizing that the partnership was simply meant to be. “I met Jon my junior year at Syracuse,” Birney said. “At the time, Nicholas Gurewitch and I were the comic editors at The Daily Orange, and one night Jon came by to talk comics. Jon showed us some of his comics from high school, and I knew right away that Jon was a brother for life.” According to the film’s fascinating back story, Birney and Moses started production when they found a 16mm Bolex camera in a dumpster behind a hospital in Baltimore. They proceeded to shoot the film with a practically nonexistent budget, relying heavily on the support of friends who shared their passion. “We found most of the props and costumes in the garbage,” Birney said. “A friend was renovating a house so we got old floorboards, sinks and doors. We built a lot of the sets with paper-mache and discarded wood. Our crew was a beautiful bunch of friends that we met around town.” Despite the film being a three-year endeavor, Birney and Moses said they thoroughly enjoyed the process of making the film, which eventually took on a life of its own. “‘The Beast Pageant’ felt like a living thing, an organic master telling us what it wanted, making unusual demands like gathering pounds of dead fish and being covered in cottage cheese,” Moses said. “It constantly changed and evolved until the end product was clear and the monster was alive.” The filmmakers raved about the uniqueness of a setting that some might deem uninteresting, as the movie was shot mostly in Rochester, N.Y. “Upstate New York is a magical land where anything is possible,” Moses said. “You can drive 10 minutes in any direction and see endless blue skies and rolling green hills. There’s also old factories and decaying buildings that look great on film.” Dubbed a “neo-surrealist musical” by SU film professor Miso Suchy, the film has garnered a great deal of praise since its September premiere at the

George Eastman House in Rochester. Birney and Moses are currently preparing to send “The Beast Pageant” to film festivals across the country, where it is certain to draw attention. Jim Healy, who selected the film to be screened at the Eastman House, is one of Moses and Birney’s greatest supporters. “I’ve said before that the movie is like ‘Brazil’ and ‘Eraserhead’ as filtered through the sensibility of Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak,” Healy said. Healy is now the director of programming at the University of Wisconsin Cinematheque. A rare surrealist film that does not feel in any way pretentious, “The Beast Pageant” is truly a great achievement. There is not a single dull or lifeless frame in the 74-minute film, which constantly evolves as it hurtles toward its riveting, cathartic climax. Born in upstate New York and bound to find homes across the country, “The Beast Pageant” is that special, locally grown work of art indebted to its location. After three years of work, Birney and Moses are now ready to show the film to anyone willing to watch. “We’re submitting it to festivals now, but we’ll show it in a basement or on a barn or under a bridge,” Birney said. “Hopefully next summer we can drive around with a projector and see the country. I’ve had a dream since I was a little boy of seeing San Antonio.” smlittma@syr.edu

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After spinal injury to Norton, Luther College community bonds

By Abram Brown Staff Writer

The play happened so fast, many of Chris Norton’s teammates missed it. It started when Norton, a freshman special teams player, took the field for a kickoff. He lined up while his team, Division III Luther College, was losing to Central College. The play ended with a call for an ambulance and Norton staying on the field. Jordan Grimm, a senior and the Norse’s linebacker and placekicker, didn’t even notice Norton was down at first. But then to Grimm, it quickly became clear that something felt wrong. It took a long time to get Norton off the field. After that, the team felt distracted, Grimm said. “It was kind of just really tough,” Grimm said. “We were supposed to go out and play right after that. It kind of went downhill from there.” Luther lost that Oct. 16 game to No. 15 Central, 45-26. The ambulance that carried Norton went to Decorah Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa. Doctors diagnosed him with a neck and spinal cord injury. Because of the injury’s severity, a helicopter took Norton to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he required a threehour surgery. Since Norton’s injury, the team and local community around Luther have responded to his loss, as Norton began the road to recovery. Right after the game, head coach Mike Durnin addressed the team. He told them the

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news and told them they would have to keep going. “Keep your prayers and thoughts with Chris and his family,” Durnin told the team. In the weeks that followed, a local Decorah church held a service for Norton. Another service took place in his hometown. Luther established a fund for parents to donate to his recovery fund. “This has definitely been a case of the greatest of human nature standing up and supporting each other,” Durnin said this week. As the Luther community tried to rally, so did Norton, with the help of a few others. Durnin and his wife went to the Mayo Clinic, as did Luther President Richard Torgerson and his wife. When Norton’s family finally arrived, they spotted a man wearing Luther gear, who was neither Durnin nor Torgerson. Just a Luther alumnus who went to the Oct. 16 game, saw Norton’s injury and wanted to offer his family a place to stay. A neurosurgeon called the Norton family into a small, dim room and told them to expect a long surgery, probably eight to 10 hours, said Norton’s sister, Alex. “The other thing is, do not expect he will have any movement from the neck down,” the surgeon told the family, Alex said. The surgery took just three hours. After that, Alex began a blog about him and his road to recovery. She linked a donation fund to the blog so readers could contribute after they read about Norton. “It was a way everyone could see the information,” she said. “That day of the accident and the

day after, we couldn’t keep up. We were getting phone calls, texts. It was overwhelming. We kind of set up the site so people could keep up.” Soon after the site went live, Norton wiggled his shoulders. As the team moves forward, the squad continues to feel Norton’s spirit. The team receives updates on his condition often. Luther (4-4) will face two more opponents before the end of the season. And while keeping the game in perspective, Luther’s players want to win for Norton. “We’ve got a renewed sense of passion for the game, passion for life, knowing that every play could be our last,” Grimm said. “Every day could be our last, you never know what life is going to throw at you.” Grimm admits he thinks about Norton’s accident often. He tries to put it out of his mind when he approaches a kickoff. “It’s scary, it’s definitely scary,” Grimm said. He tells himself that the odds are too small. That Norton just suffered a strike of bad luck. “It’s given us inspiration to play for Chris and to give yourself to something bigger than yourself,” Grimm said. As for Norton, he continues to defy the first prognosis. Sensation continues to return to his body. Hopefully he can make a recovery and return to campus as a student next semester, his sister said. Each day, Norton undergoes physical therapy. His father has taken over blogging duties. On Tuesday, while in a wheelchair, therapists attached Chris’ legs to a stationary bike. The bike is powered by electricity and the motion helps rebuild Norton’s leg muscles. His father wrote, “I know the look he had on his face, it was his game face. He was ready to go.”

Louisville at Syracuse Prediction: Syracuse 30, Louisville 24 Last time the Cardinals came to the Carrier Dome in 2008, Syracuse came out on top 28-21. With the Orange winning five of its last six games, this year should be much the same. Syracuse gets its seventh win of the season and becomes bowl-eligible.

No. 4 Texas Christian at No. 6 Utah Prediction: Utah 32, TCU 28 In the week’s best matchup, the unbeaten Horned Frogs will journey to Salt Lake City

race standings In honor of Randy Moss and his recent media outburst, we name our racers after their favorite sports figures that have had similar spats with the media. LoGiurato Iseman Cohen Z. Brown A. Brown Olivero McInerney Marcus Cooper John Krakower Phillips Tredinnick Marfurt Ronayne Irvin

(H. Edwards) (M. Gundy) (J. Calhoun) (M. Tyson) (M. Singletary) (U. Meyer) (J. Everett) (K.Winslow, Jr.) (J. Mora) (M. Ditka) (R. Leaf) (S. Avery) (O. Guillen) (J. Chaney) (D. Green) (A. Iverson)

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to take on the unbeaten Utes. Last season, the Frogs demolished Utah 55-28. But the Frogs have lost the last two games at Salt Lake City. Look for Utah to continue the trend this week.

No. 13 Arizona at No. 10 Stanford Prediction: Stanford 20, Arizona 17 Look for offense to topple defense. Stanford brings in a great offensive package, led by quarterback Andrew Luck. The Wildcats boast a No. 10-ranked defense, but luck should hold out for Stanford.

No. 5 Alabama at No. 12 LSU Prediction: Alabama 30, LSU 14 Alabama rules over this series, 45-23-5. Expect that again this week. Alabama brings quarterback Greg McElroy to try and beat the Tigers. Even at home, LSU will not last past the Tide.

No. 17 Arkansas at No. 18 South Carolina Prediction: South Carolina 23, Arkansas 14 In a battle of conference foes, the Gamecocks will come out best in this fight. South Carolina’s road ahead will start at home against the Razorbacks. adbrow03@syr.edu

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Improved pass rush ignites Panthers’ surge to top of Big East By Mark Cooper Asst. Copy Editor

Pittsburgh was at the forefront of Big East disappointment in the first part of the season. The Panthers, the preseason choice to win the conference, lost two of their first three games, including a 31-3 blowout against Miami (Fla.) on Pitt’s home turf. And to complicate matters, the Panthers’ best pass rusher was on the sidelines with back problems. Greg Romeus, the Big East CoDefensive Player of the Year last season and a Chuck Bednarik Award candidate entering this year, had surgery to repair a disc in his back early in the season after playing just one ineffective game. But Pittsburgh head coach Dave Wannstedt knew he had someone who could step in and fill the void. He wasn’t worried because he had Brandon Lindsey. “Brandon will step up, and we’ve got all the confidence in the world,” Wannstedt said Sept. 20. “Is he Greg Romeus? He doesn’t have the experience right now, and you don’t just all of a sudden replace the Co-Big East (Defensive) Player of the Year and first-round draft pick overnight.” But Lindsey has filled the void and more since Romeus went down. And ever since conference play has come around, order has been restored. Pittsburgh (5-3, 3-0 Big East) has cruised, blowing out Syracuse, Rutgers and Louisville. With four games to play, the Panthers have a commanding lead on the conference. And the biggest reason for that has arguably been Pittsburgh’s surprising pass rush. The Panthers are tied for seventh among FBS teams in sacks with 24 (three per game). Pitt also has the No. 1 and No. 2 leaders in sacks in the Big East this season — defensive ends Jabaal Sheard (nine) and Lindsey (eight). The Panthers sacked Louisville three times in a 20-3 win last Saturday, knocking out UL quarterback Adam Froman in the fourth quarter.

“We could never sustain any type of rhythm offensively,” Louisville head coach Charlie Strong said Monday in the Big East coaches’ teleconference. Romeus began working out this week, and Pittsburgh hopes he can return for the conclusion of the season. But it’s not like the team has needed him in conference play. The Panthers have beaten their three Big East opponents by an average of 22.7 points per game. “It’s that much more fun just to know that we can dominate a game and we can do whatever we really want to do,” Lindsey said. Sheard is one of the frontrunners for Big East Defensive Player of the Year this year. After serving as a complement to Romeus with five sacks last year, he is now a Big East leader in the category. And he is improving week to week. He had two of the Panthers’ three sacks in the win over Louisville Saturday, giving him four in Pittsburgh’s conference games. “You have to really appreciate what he is going through to get to the passer,” Wannstedt said. “He just keeps coming and coming.” Pittsburgh hasn’t earned national respect yet, receiving only four votes in the latest AP poll, 18 fewer than a Syracuse team that it beat by 31 points just three weeks ago. But the Fiesta Bowl is there for the taking as was expected back in August, thanks in large part to that pass rush. The Panthers hold a de facto two-game lead on the rest of the field, as it already has head-to-head tiebreakers against one-loss teams Syracuse and Rutgers (the Scarlet Knights have one loss as of Wednesday). But despite the rush led by Sheard and Lindsey, Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt isn’t sure the team has gotten over all of its early-season woes. “This is going to sound like a typical coach’s response, but we got to get better in all areas,” Wannstedt said Monday in the Big East coaches’ teleconference. “Right now we’re not running the ball the way we would like to. We’re making

progress in the passing game, but we’ve got a lot of detail things we’ve got to clean up there. “We’ve got plenty to work on. It’s not going to be one specific thing.”

Quiet week for Big East For half of the Big East, Week 10 is a chance to get rested and prepare for the stretch run. There is only one conference game this weekend: Syracuse versus Louisville. Rutgers and South Florida played Wednesday night, and now each of those teams has over a week to rest as well. It’s an important week to shore up injuries as every Big East team tries to qualify for a bowl. No team in the conference is bowl-eligible yet, something only the Big East and the Sun Belt conferences can say. And other than Syracuse and Louisville, which both have bye weeks the week of Dec. 4, the other six teams won’t have a week off again until the regular seasons end. “I think the off week’s coming at an appropriate time,” Cincinnati head coach Butch Jones said Monday. “We have a lot of players that have been playing with the associated nicks, bumps and bruises that come with the football season. “Getting them healthy for this critical stretch of the last four is going to be very, very important to us.”

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Huskies took down the Mountaineers (5-3, 1-2). West Virginia jumped out to a 10-0 lead after the first quarter, but Moore shifted the momentum in the second quarter by forcing and recovering a fumble from WVU running back Noel Devine. The Huskies went into the half down a touchdown and tied it up in the third quarter. With the Mountaineers driving later in the third, Moore stopped quarterback Geno Smith from scrambling on third down, taking him down at the line of scrimmage and holding West Virginia to a field goal. And Moore made his most important play in the fourth quarter. With the Huskies trailing, 13-10, he took Smith down for a loss and the ball came loose. Fellow linebacker Lawrence Wilson scooped it up at the UConn 45, and the ensuing Huskies drive ended in a field goal to tie the game up. The Connecticut defense would recover another fumble in overtime, and then Huskies kicker Dave Teggart nailed his third field goal of the game to seal the win. mcooperj@syr.edu

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Last week: 17 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 2 forced fumbles, 2 fumble recoveries

Moore and the Connecticut defense had a banner day Friday against West Virginia, forcing four turnovers, including a crucial fumble in overtime, en route to a 16-13 upset victory. It was a much-needed win for the Huskies (4-4, 1-2 Big East), which came into the game on a two-game losing streak. UConn only produced 278 yards of offense, but playmakers like Moore on the defensive side were the reasons why the

• Rushing yards per game:153.7 • Points allowed per game: 12.7 • Total defense per game: 232.0 • Passing yards allowed per game: 140.3 • Rushing yards allowed per game: 91.7 —complied by Asst. Copy Editor Mark Cooper

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After sweep by Ohio State, SU aims to sure up fundamentals By Zuri Irvin Staff Writer

Following consecutive losses against Ohio State last weekend, the Syracuse ice hockey team is now faced with its first real adversity of the season and its fair share of work. But on a team with 10 rotating freshmen and 11 new players, adversity is a good thing. It’s a learning experience. And before the schedule begins to creep into conference play, the coaching staff is working to get through that adversity to restore the little things that make the team effective. “Not to say that they’re confused,” associate coach Graham Thomas said. “But the game happens so fast, and you have to worry about playing on instincts and making quick decisions. Sometimes I think there’s too much going on in their heads, and they’re not playing on instincts. Thinking too much instead of reacting and playing.” This week, Syracuse has replaced full-squad practices with individual workouts, stressing fundamentals, skill breakdowns and a reiteration of roles in the team’s system. At 4-4-1, SU has completed just over a quarter of its 34-game season.

The Orange had a frustrating weekend against Ohio State, cluttered with unlucky bounces and poor execution against the Buckeyes. While losing 4-2 last Saturday, SU was outshooting OSU by more than 20. Syracuse is doing what it can to take control of future momentum swings, as plainly as possible. And that can’t start halfway through its next second period. It has to start in practice. “What we’re really focusing on right now is that we don’t want to get too caught up and too carried away with what the other team is doing,” Thomas said. “‘Consistency in preparation’ is a term that we’ve been using with our players. I think that starts with focusing a lot about what we’re going to do to be successful and not worrying too much about them.” Syracuse will meet Clarkson twice in a homeand-home series over the next two weekends, beginning at the Tennity Ice Skating Pavilion Friday. The Knights, who have been 3-2-1 since mid-October, own a 3-6-1 overall record and are taking a break from their own conference play to meet the Orange. Clarkson has 11 juniors and seniors with a senior goaltender. Syracuse has just eight

upperclassmen, with freshman goalies seeing most of the work. Coaches stress preparation because this is a point in which the season can start to move very quickly for a young player. “I think together, it’s a good group,” head coach Paul Flanagan said of his new group. “They’re outnumbered, of course. There are just three seniors with so many freshmen and sophomores. If anything, that’s the tough part of it. It’s their first few months away from home, in a strange environment, all these freedoms as individuals and all this work they have to do. There’s a lot going on.” Early on, Syracuse was hanging with nationally ranked opponents and toppling lesser ones. Perhaps Ohio State was worth all the hype and Syracuse will have to lick its wounds and get up off the deck. But either way, this young Syracuse team and program will have to grow up fast. And for SU’s players, that means getting back to the basic skills that got them to this point. SU players won’t exactly know how good the opponent will be until they go over the game film on Thursday, and maybe even until they hit the ice on Friday. But in a sense, that’s not too important right now.

If Syracuse is going to get its work done on Friday, it will be because its players are able to focus on themselves and not their opponents. “I wouldn’t say that we’re over-preparing, but what we need to do is simplify our approach. Keep it more streamlined,” Thomas said. “More simple. More about what we have to do to execute to be successful on our end.” zoirvin@syr.edu

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Freshman Keefe goes from walk-on to Syracuse regular By David Propper Staff Writer

Chris Fox admits it. The Syracuse cross country head coach thought the Sean Keefe project was going to take at least two years. He never imagined Keefe, who last year entered the program as a walk-on, would be this good, this soon. “We probably thought of him as a two-year project, and he ended up becoming a six-month project,” Fox said. “He really accelerated his pace in training and obviously in racing.” Through hard work and tireless dedication, Keefe, a redshirt freshman, has pushed himself to be one of top cross country runners on the team. Fox said he thought of Keefe as a “20th runner” last season, and now he sees him clearly in the top 10. Keefe proved the naysayers wrong and ran in the Big East championship last Saturday, finishing seventh out of all his Orange teammates and 34th out of the 118 competitors. But at one point, Keefe might not have thought he would be able to contribute this quickly. Last fall, Keefe was injured and couldn’t run with

the team for most of his first semester because of the injury. While Syracuse was winning races and blazing a trail through Division I cross country, Keefe’s injury prevented him from even practicing with his teammates. Though frustrating, it inspired Keefe. Not only would he be practicing with the team next year, he would be racing alongside them, making his presence felt. “Last year was definitely tough when I was injured during the fall, and I wasn’t really running,” Keefe said. “But the team was just doing awesome, and so it really motivated me to want to be part of the team next fall.” Despite being the best runner on his high school team at Council Rock High School South in Holland, Pa., for all four years, he felt like he never reached his true ability. There was a lot of “untapped potential” he felt he had. By going to Syracuse, he felt like he could reach a whole new level of performance. “It’s an example of his confidence,” said Joe Warwick, Keefe’s high school coach during his freshman and sophomore years. “Instead of

going to a smaller school and getting scholarship money, it shows how important running was to him.” Keefe had offers to run for other Division I schools, such as Penn State, Villanova, Brown and La Salle. But ultimately, he gravitated to where he felt he could reach that hidden potential. He could tell that Fox was brewing something special in Central New York. When Keefe finally reached 100 percent last winter, he got to work and began running again. He credits Fox and assistant coach Brien Bell for putting him on a consistent routine that works for him. In addition, seeing such talented runners around pushed him to do better and keep up with them. Working hard and running more miles while practicing contributed to his better times. “He really just improved his training, he just got really focused and was confident, and it really paid off,” said freshman teammate Zach Rivers. Fox said there is no secret recipe to becoming a better runner. It comes down to the will-

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brandon weight | staff photographer david Neumann (center) and the Syracuse’s season ended with a 4-0 loss to Cincinnati Saturday. The Orange finished the season with only two wins.

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we were starting over again,” Neumann said. “Almost like it was my first year again, being able to start over.” Yet the team had little time to mature, individually and together. It took some time for players to figure out where their teammates would be, junior Nick Roydhouse said. The communication issues often led to turnovers and kept the Orange from stringing passes together. During the course of the season, four freshmen got playing time. Brett Jankouskas and Robbie Hughes started most of the games. But having such young players can be challenging. McIntyre said they had to get used to the physicality and speed of college soccer, which takes time. The burden was placed on them to truck on anyway. “We’re a work in progress,” McIntyre said. “We will continue to evolve as a team. A lot of young players got a lot of experience this year. … And perhaps players that we would

have liked to have slowly introduced to our program and Division I soccer really had a baptism by fire this year.” Looking ahead, however, the Orange has established its core group. In the offseason, Neumann anticipates the players will continue to work on getting to know each other. This will specifically take the form of ball work, to eliminate the communication issues. And with the season only over for four days, the team was already back on the field running. It struggled with fitness throughout the season and was unable to catch up given the short time between games. Next year there will be no excuses. As Roydhouse said, “You can never be too fit.” So with the first push behind it, Syracuse continues to get that boulder up to speed. “We’ve got a really good core group now to work off,” Roydhouse said. “Everybody kind of knows what’s going on. And it will be easier for new players to come and just to see what’s happening from the players that are already here so they can catch up and join them.” alguggen@ syr.edu

for new SU head coach Greg Robinson. Then came what is now nearing six years. Six years without a bowl for Syracuse and Lewis, a redshirt senior. Six long years — and Lewis has been through all of them. He was there for the plane ride back from Iowa after the Orange never had a chance, falling 35-0 in 2007. He was there for the torrential boos after Syracuse lost to Akron 42-28 in 2008. Lewis was there for all different kinds of postgames. He has been apart of the SU program for every postgame since the last postgame — the one in Orlando in 2004 — where bowl actually meant something to SU. “(Bowl eligibility) would be huge for the program,” Lewis said. “Huge for the community.” For the Louisville postgame scene on the Carrier Dome field to be one full of bowl talk, there still is a game that needs to be won. Lewis knows that. Because of it, the starting defensive tackle professes that he and his teammates aren’t looking past the Louisville game, much like they profess they haven’t looked past any SU game all year. Lewis knows he must stop Cardinals running back Bilal Powell if the Louisville running back is able to play. Powell is the Big East’s leading rusher, with 1,067 yards. But Powell exited the Cardinals’ 20-3 loss to Pittsburgh last week with swelling in his knee. Cardinals’ head coach Charlie Strong said Powell was “day-to-day” this week. The Cardinals may also be without their starting quarterback Adam Froman, who has a thigh bruise. The injuries to the Louisville offense would ease the matchup that would secure bowl eligibility for the Orange. But the main hurdle that may keep the Orange from securing a bowl spot this week comes with the Cardinals’ pass defense. Nassib will be tested by what he describes as an “athletic” defense overall. The Cardinals rank second in the Big East in pass defense, giving up

ingness to put the work in to improve. “Just hard work,” Fox said. “There’s no ‘anything’ you can do. You just go out and run hard and you run smart. There’s no trick.” Keefe and Fox declined to comment on whether Keefe is now on scholarship. But regardless, Fox hopes Keefe will be an example for the incoming runners to look up to, much like one specific runner who motivated and pushed Keefe. Fox would always tell Keefe to be like Forrest Misenti, a redshirt sophomore on the team who entered in the same shoes as Keefe: a walk-on. Now Misenti is a top-three runner on the team. Rivers sees the two in a similar light. He views Keefe as a great story to look at, improving so much with the help of his coaches and his own will to succeed. And for Keefe, that’s just more motivation. “Coach Fox was always telling me, pushing me to be like Forrest,” said Keefe. “Now maybe he’ll tell the current freshmen to be like Sean Keefe.” dgproppe@syr.edu

173 yards through the air per game. If Nassib goes for another five-completion performance like he did versus West Virginia, the Cardinals may be able to hold off the bowl celebration. Even if Powell doesn’t play. A loss for Nassib, Lewis and the Orange would mean a delay of at least a week in securing the bowl. For a team that goes week to week, it could be the detrimental blow. The guy who has waited forever, Lewis, doesn’t want a Louisville loss to change the bowl talk. He doesn’t want to take it to the road yet again. “(It’s a feeling of) ‘This is it right here. This might be it. This could be it,’” Lewis said. “But we realize that it may not be it for us. Because if we lose, it’ll be the next week. And if we lose that one, then the next week.” Lewis cherishes SU’s “1-0,” game-by-game approach. And despite the fact that talk of “1-0” for this team is getting old, Lewis is content with old habits when approaching the win-andin contest with the Cardinals this weekend. If the Orange win, Lewis professes his celebration after the game will be the same as always. He will take off his helmet, assemble with his teammates, face the Syracuse marching band and start to sing. The Dome fans will be serenaded with the SU alma mater Lewis always belts. Then will come the fight song. That’s it. Just like Marrone, mum was the initial word for Hogue when speaking of bowl eligibility. He said his teammates don’t want to talk about what the game means. But after tip-toeing around everything that his response pertained to, Hogue confronted what will confront SU Saturday. With a win, SU and the city of Syracuse will be talking bowl at an earlier point in the year than any season since 2001. And fans in the Dome won’t only be saying it. They will be shouting it. Screaming it. Singing it, as Lewis sings. The drowning out of six years will fill the Dome if SU wins. Said Hogue: “In the back of our heads, we know.” aolivero@syr.edu

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The Syracuse volleyball team’s road to the playoffs in Pittsburgh is taking a detour through New Jersey. A detour that involves two stops for two matches the Orange needs to win before it can continue on that road to the Big East tournament. “This is a big weekend for us,” outside hitter Mindy Stanislovaitis said. “It’s just important to come out and play hard and get the wins.” The Orange (22-6, 4-6 Big East) is entering into its most crucial time of the season, most likely needing at least three wins in its final four matches to clinch a playoff berth. SU is looking to get two of those wins this weekend against Seton Hall (11-15, 5-5) and Rutgers (10-14, 2-8). When Syracuse was dominating its non-conference opponents on its way to the best start in program history, the playoffs seemed right around the corner. Pittsburgh never seemed so close. But now the host city for the Big East tournament seems like it’s getting further and further away. Still, it’s close enough. When it hits the road this weekend, the Orange will undoubtedly know what’s on the line. “We don’t want to have to rely on anyone else to get into the tournament, we want it to be on our terms,” outside hitter Hayley Todd

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said. “That’s why it’s critical for us to win these games.” The final four matches of Syracuse’s season are, by far, the most important ones. The Orange closes out its season against the top two teams in the Big East — Cincinnati and Louisville. Both teams have just one conference loss, and both have already clinched a spot in the playoffs. Both teams won’t have much to play for at that point, which could be an advantage for SU. Win or lose, both teams are in. Syracuse could take advantage of that timing and manage to get two wins in its final weekend against two teams whose focus could already be on the playoffs. But first, the Orange has to take care of the Pirates and Scarlet Knights. Or else, whatever the team does the final weekend won’t matter. Seton Hall will be up for a fight. Like Syracuse, it’s vying for a playoff berth. Rutgers, on the other hand, is likely out. With just two conference wins, the Scarlet Knights look like a long shot to be making a postseason trip to Pittsburgh. SU’s best chance to get a victory will be against Rutgers. “Rutgers keeps getting better, year after year,” SU assistant coach Carol LaMarche said. “But I think Seton Hall’s going to be the tougher one.” SU hasn’t exactly been a road warrior this

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season. Four of Syracuse’s six conference losses have been on the road. But this weekend, the road may actually be of help to the Orange. There will be no distractions. The only focus will be on volleyball and the two wins Syracuse needs to get. Plus, for SU, there’s always added gratification to celebrate a win on another court. “You feel like you get a lot more accomplished when we’re on the road,” Stanislovaitis said. “It’s definitely nice to take a team on its home court.” Still, there’s nothing easy about going on the road with the added pressure of knowing that there’s no choice but to win. But for the Orange, that’s the reality of this weekend. As hard as it could be, as much pressure as there is, this is what it has come down to. Four final matches and, in all likelihood, three needed victories. That’s what’s keeping the Orange from getting back on the road to the playoffs. This weekend, it’s all about beating Seton Hall and Rutgers. For Syracuse, there’s no shortage of playoff hunger. Every player wants to continue on that road to the postseason. “It’s definitely something all of us want,” Stanislovaitis said. “All of us have a desire to win.” cjiseman@syr.edu

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Win and in Orange looks to secure bowl bid vs. Louisville By Tony Olivero Asst. Sports Editor

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he acknowledgment of Doug Marrone’s four-letter taboo finally came from Ryan Nassib Wednesday. It was prodded out of Andrew Lewis. It was prodded out of Doug Hogue. “Everyone knows what our record is,” Lewis said. “Everyone knows how many wins we have to have to become bowl-eligible. It’s in everyone’s mind. “Yeah,” Lewis admitted, “we talk about it.” Doug Marrone referred to the word “bowl” as “the four-letter word” just a week ago. The word is the topic that hovered over the start of summer practice and the beginning of SU’s season, as Marrone said the 2010 season was bowl or bust. And a bowl is the primary goal this program has crept closer and closer to with its surprising start to the season. But getting to a bowl game was the goal that soon turned taboo. Largely

matthew ziegler | staff photographer andrew lewis and the SU football team take on Louisville Saturday, in search of bowl eligibilty with its seventh win of the season. Lewis, a redshirt senior, commited to Syracuse before its last bowl appearance in 2004, and hopes his final season ends with an elusive bowl game. because it recently became an afterthought when the Orange (6-2, 3-1 Big East) ascended to the No. 2 spot in the Big East. Largely because the likes of Marrone, Nassib, Lewis and Hogue feel this Orange team can exceed the seven wins needed. However, with a win over Louisville (4-4, 1-2 Big East) Saturday (noon, Big East Network), Syracuse will get to the seven wins that will make the team bowl-eligible. The opportunity comes after an offseason in which Marrone’s

goal was one most pundits felt was unattainable for SU in the head coach’s second season. With an SU win, bowl is exactly the word that will reverberate across the city of Syracuse for the first time since the days of Paul Pasqualoni. From the time Lewis committed in 2004 as an SU recruit. A bowl is the postseason reward that Syracuse hasn’t earned since 2004. And with a win, SU and Marrone will reach a plateau that will suffice their starving football fan base.

Even if their fiery appetite has been doused with six sudden wins. The city might be happy with one more win. But the coach won’t be. “We haven’t really accomplished anything,” Marrone said Monday. To Lewis, that mentality that runs through the entire SU team is exactly why he says he loves this team. Loves this team. Marrone has maintained that he approaches every game and every win the same, and Lewis might be the one player who has bought in

the most. This is, after all, the 23-year-old who committed to what was at the time Pasqualoni’s program. He then signed with SU just more than one month after the last time the Orange played in a bowl game. On Dec. 29, 2004, Pasqualoni exited as head coach of the Syracuse football program a 51-14 loser to Georgia Tech in the Champ Sports Bowl. In February of 2005, Lewis signed on to play see louisville page 17

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McIntyre feels SU ‘moves boulder’ in coach’s debut season By Allison Guggenheimer Staff Writer

Syracuse men’s soccer has started to move the boulder. So says first-year head coach Ian McIntyre. In the first season — a season in which McIntyre’s team was primarily comprised of newcomers — SU was simply making that first push. It was building a team, establishing a core, learning to play as a unit and slowly trying to set the boulder that

is the SU soccer program in motion. Although McIntyre said the 2-105 season was “disappointing” given the high hopes for the program, he realizes this season was just the first step. “There’s high expectations in this program and that’s exciting,” McIntyre said. “We feel that we have a bright future. But you understand. You use the metaphor that you’ve got to get this boulder moving, and the

hardest work is always that initial force required and then as things get rolling, things get a little easier.” The team had the fewest wins of any SU team since 1971. It was unable to score in nine of its 17 games and amassed just 10 goals the whole season. But much of this disappointment is likely a result of the fact that this was a building year. Coming into the season, 10 players on a team of 30 were returners.

The team had no base to build from. The only way to describe the hodgepodge of returners, transfers and freshmen was “new.” It was this newness that encompassed the team all season. There was an upside for many of the returners as they were given a fresh start, but on the field a lack of familiarity was apparent. For the transfers and the returning players, the new coaching staff and the changes to the team meant

getting to start over. Particularly for the returners who endured a season of intra-team conflict over the ultimate firing of former head coach Dean Foti, the clean slate was important. Sophomore David Neumann said particularly after a bad season last year (3-15-0), it gave the players new hope. “Coming into the season with a fresh outlook, new faces, it was like see mcintyre page 17

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