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T H E I N D E P E N D E N T S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R O F S Y R A C U S E , N E W Y O R K
By Laurence LeveilleASST. COPY EDITOR
With a new fi nancial vision in place, members of student organizations will have a clearer idea of what is expected of them during this spring’s funding process.
The 55th Legislative Session of Student Association passed its new fi nancial vision Jan. 31 — a vision signifi cantly more specifi c than pre-vious visions. The vision serves as a guideline for the Finance Board, which reviews budget requests for the allocation of the $2 million student activity fee to student organizations at Syracuse University.
Unlike previous visions, which focused on programs that brought value to the campus community and collaboration between organizations, the new vision includes a four-tier sys-tem dependent on a student organiza-tion’s prior programming experience to determine fi nance allocation.
“Before, a new student group could apply for $10,000 and would assume they would get it because they thought it was perfect,” said Jeff Rickert, SA comptroller.
Sometimes organizations request funding, receive the money and then the event funded is canceled or a minimal number of students attend, Rickert said. The new fi nancial vision aims to prevent this by focusing on an organization’s experience.
Organizations with little experi-ence will receive no more than $5,000. As an organization plans more suc-cessful events, it will have the oppor-tunity to receive up to $12,000 or up to $25,000. Once an organization has proved it is capable of programming successfully, it can request funding for events that cost $25,000 or more, according to the fi nancial vision.
Organizations can move up a tier if they host successful events or down a tier if they do not. The fi nancial vision will give them a better idea about how much money they should expect to receive, Rickert said.
The new vision also includes a pro-vision that will allow no more than eight similar events per semester. If, for example, 10 student groups wanted to bring a comedian, not all ten events would receive funding because there could be another event that’s better,
Rickert said. This is meant to reach out to more groups.
The Finance Board will determine cost effi ciency by dividing the total amount of money requested by the expected number of students attend-ing the event. If the cost per student is above $35, the Finance Board must justify why the event deserves its rec-ommended funding.
“We had these rules before, but it was never set in stone,” Rickert said.
Since the vision was passed, SA has received positive feedback from stu-dent organizations, said SA President Neal Casey.
Hillel Jewish Student Union had diffi culty receiving funding for its 60th anniversary concert two semesters in a row. The new vision plan will hope-fully give Hillel better opportunities to receive funding, said Hillel President Michael Weiss.
In spring 2010, Hillel applied for $77,370 but was denied funding because SA does not typically provide more than $70,000 for Goldstein Auditorium events and because the Finance Board did not believe it refl ected the organi-
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Learning experienceThe ‘Cuse Spot Initiative brings together SU students and community kids. Page 9
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On the right trackAfter numerous injuries slowed Steve Murdock down in his SU career, the senior is healthy and ready to tackle his lofty goals. Page 16
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So right it’s wrongJimmy Paul discusses when political correctness goes too far. Page 5
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Speaking debateCampus groups host a discussion on the censored fi lm “A Fire In My Belly.” Page 3
kirsten celo | photo editorVICTORIA HUISH, a J. Michael Shoes employee for two years, works Monday in the store’s temporary location in Marshall Square Mall. After a water main break in January, the store was forced to move.
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Financial vision sees approval, concerns
Search for 2012 commencement speaker begins
J. Michael opens next to Follett’s
By Dara McBrideNEWS EDITOR
For the fi rst time since the store was established in the 1980s, J. Michael Shoes opened its doors to customers away from its Marshall Street location.
On Monday, the retailer began oper-ating out of its temporary space next to Follett’s Orange Bookstore in Marshall Square Mall. Due to a January water main break, J. Michael’s Marshall Street location will be closed for two to three months while repairs are made.
“The best part of having this space is the chance to be open again,” said
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By Laurence Leveille ASST. COPY EDITOR
Bill Clinton, Ted Koppel, Billy Joel and Vice President Joe Biden — each have been commencement speakers at Syracuse University in the past.
Now the 2012 commencement speaker is up for selection, and SU is accepting nominations on the university’s commencement website until March 18. Anyone can submit suggestions, including students, alumni, faculty, parents and mem-bers of the Syracuse community.
A couple hundred names are sub-mitted to the website every year, said Susan Germain, executive director of special events. All nomi-nations will be compiled into an unranked alphabetical list and sent to a student committee, she said.
The committee is made up of two senior class marshals, student mar-shals from each school and college, and student representatives of the Board of Trustees, Germain said.
“Syracuse University is fortu-nate that they take the marshals from each of the schools and col-leges, which is a pretty representa-tive group,” Germain said.
Although SU allows students to participate in the decision process, only the chancellor and president at other universities choose who the commencement speaker will be, Germain said.
“In many cases, it may be the chancellor or president who speaks,” she said.
On April 1, the student com-SEE COMMENCEMENT PAGE 7
SHARE THE WEALTHIn Student Association’s new fi nancial vision, student groups receive funding based on previ-ous programming experience. Groups are eligible for more fund-ing based on the success of pre-vious events. Based on the given criteria, groups can receive:
Little to no event programming experience
Some successful events
Multiple successful events
Proven success with event programming
+$25,000
$25,000
$12,000
$5,000
OPEN TO SUGGESTIONSTo suggest a commencement speaker, students, staff, faculty, alumni and Syracuse community members can fi ll out a form on the commencement website, commencement.syr.edu.
The form asks for the nominee’s name, title, area of expertise and achievements.
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FROM THE MORGUE >>A BIT OF HISTORY FROM THE DAILY ORANGE ARCHIVES
It’s sad news to report, but college students are still considered as a suspicious element
to society. The federal government, in fact, regards them as so dangerous that it demands a disclaimer affi davit from those who borrow its funds to fi nance higher education.
The farmer who gets a subsidy for his wheat isn’t asked what he believes in.
The veteran who wants hospital care isn’t asked what he believes in.
The manufacturer who signs a government contract isn’t asked what he believes in.
But the student is suspect: “I do solemnly swear that I do not believe
in and am not a member of and do not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods.”
Every student who receives a federal loan, and several hundred of them have been given out at Syracuse, must sign this affi davit.
The 3-year-old federal loan, included in the National Defense Education Act of 1958, carries with it this mark of some superpatriot anxious to “save” America by adopting a measure of thought control.
But unfortunately, not everyone has been asleep to this potential threat to one of our basic rights.
An effort was made to repeal the affi da-vit along with a loyalty oath requirement in the same act in 1958, but the bill foundered before the onslaught of Senate fl ag-waving.
... At Syracuse, the university administra-tion offi cially protested the requirement. The University Senate and various college facul-ties went on record in opposition to it, and the students, through Joint Student Legisla-ture, passed a similar resolution.
But many of these people have short memories.
Another year has passed and students receiving federal loans to fi nance their educa-tions are still a group discriminated against. They still must take the loyalty oath and sign the disclaimer affi davit.
The 1960 bill is dead, but another Con-gress has convened, and this time the man who co-sponsored both the 1959 and 1960 repeal bills is in the White House.
However, unless the action starts from the colleges and universities, it will be a simple matter for busy legislators to pass over the bill again. The time has come for renewed protest over this infringement of academic freedom. Government attempts to bring thought control into higher educa-tion even in as subtle a way as this must be repulsed.
... Action must start somewhere, and it would be refreshing to have it start in Syracuse. ...
— Compiled by Laurence Leveille, asst. copy editor, [email protected]
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brandon weight | asst. photo editorJonathan katz, co-curator of the Smithsonian’s “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” exhibit, speaks Monday in Watson Theater on the implications and dangers of censorship.
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Smoking ban still in works
Health Services starts spring flu vaccination efforts with free clinicBy Jon HarrisASST. NeWS eDiTor
In the three weeks since students returned to campus, Syracuse Uni-versity Health Services has seen the resurgence of a familiar foe: the flu.
“We had several cases of the flu up through the end of last week, which is expected this time of the year, but it reminded us that we wanted to reinvite students and let them know there’s still an opportu-nity to get vaccinated,” said Kathy VanVechten, special assistant to the director of Health Services
With more than 1,000 flu vac-cines remaining, SU decided to hold a flu clinic Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. at Health Services, she said.
Health Services has seen less than 20 cases of the flu during the first three weeks of the spring semester, VanVechten said.
An e-mail about the clinic was sent to students Monday morning. The vaccines were available to all SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Sci-ence and Forestry students. Forty-seven students attended the clinic to receive flu shots, she said.
Since fall 2010, approximately 2,500 doses of the flu vaccine have been administered at Health Servic-es, she said. Many students, faculty and staff have received the vaccine elsewhere, which offers some degree of immunity in the university com-
munity, VanVechten said.During the 2009-10 flu season, a
total of 5,800 seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccines were administered to stu-dents, according to an Oct. 18 article published in The Daily Orange.
VanVechten said unless Health Services officials see a surge in demand for the vaccine and decide to hold another clinic, students can continue to get flu shots by making an appointment at Health Services.
The vaccine is an inactivated form of influenza that can’t cause illness, VanVechten said. Each year’s vaccine comes out in Septem-ber or October, and Health Services starts immunization in October or November, she said. Health Services
held flu vaccine clinics throughout the fall semester until student inter-est dropped in December and Win-ter Break approached, VanVechten said.
Flu season stretches from November through February and early March, she said. Students who suspect they have the flu can treat themselves at home with Tylenol, fluids and rest, she said.
Of the cases Health Services has seen so far this semester, none are out of the ordinary or cause the same level of distress that was prevalent because of the swine flu outbreak last year, she said.
“There’s not the degree of con-
By Sean CotterSTAff WriTer
Student Association Vice President Jes-sica Cunnington announced possible plans during Monday night’s meeting to vote on a resolution that would cre-ate steps to implement a smoke-free campus initiative in the future.
Cunnington is organizing a com-mittee to draft the resolution, which would have to be approved by the SA cabinet for the Assembly to vote on at next Tuesday’s meeting. The resolution would lay out the four goals SA hopes to accomplish with the smoke-free initia-tive over time, Cunnington said.
But the resolution would not imme-diately be put into effect, and there is no timetable for implementing the goals. Cunnington gave the example of ban-ning smoking 25 feet away from campus buildings as one of the first goals.
“The first step is going to be the most important, and the goal is to have it done as soon as possible,” she said.
An SA member will tweet from the
By Elora TocciSTAff WriTer
A controversy about censorship at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery sparked a discus-sion in Syracuse about constitutional rights Monday night.
Jonathan Katz, an art historian and co-curator of the exhibit, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in Ameri-can Portraiture,” lectured in Wat-son Theater. The exhibit previously included the controversial video “A Fire in My Belly” before officials at the National Portrait Gallery removed the video Dec. 1. The video explores art history from a gay and lesbian perspective.
After pressure mounted from con-servative members of Congress and the Catholic League to remove the video, it was taken away from the exhibit.
Instead of focusing on the exhi-bition itself, Katz talked about the implications of the censorship and the danger it could spell out for American constitutional rights.
“This is not about queer art, and to some extent, this is not even about art at all,” Katz said. “This is about raw politics in America. Cynical, divisive, enemy within politics.”
To start off the lecture, Katz showed pieces of art from the 19th and 20th centuries to prove that contem-porary society is not as progressive as people often think. Several pieces he showed depicted gay erotic encoun-ters Katz said he couldn’t imagine seeing painted today.
“These pieces were done before the terms ‘homosexual’ and ‘gay’ were
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HeroJessica CunningtonSA Vice President Jessica Cunning-ton announced possible plans to create four goals for a smoke-free campus initiative. The announce-ment makes progress on the pro-posed initiative that SA has been discussing since last semester.
ZeroOutdated SA codesAmbiguity on dual majors in SA’s codes sparked debate on the legit-imacy of Perry russom’s candi-dacy to the assembly representa-tive position of the S.i. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
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zation’s mission. Hillel was also denied funding for the same event during the fall 2010 budget season, according to a Nov. 9 article published in The Daily Orange.
“Although we didn’t get funding for the con-cert, the financial vision can really give us an opportunity to go to SA and actually receive funding for future events and projects we plan to put on,” Weiss said.
Despite positive feedback about the new finan-cial vision from student organizations, some con-cerns have been raised.
David Woody, a representative of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, said he was wor-ried about student organizations trying to reach the highest level of the tier system too quickly.
“And along the way, they drop the ball because they try to aim too high,” he said.
Woody has also expressed concerns at SA’s Jan. 31 meeting because there was no mention of University Union, which became the Official Programming Board during the fall semester.
As the Official Programming Board, UU can now receive funding on an annual basis rather than every semester “to properly secure talent and programming for each consecutive year,” according to Bill 54-209: Revision to the Financial Code. This means UU is the only recognized student organization dedicated to programming,
according to the bill.“As a function of the title, they were to not
only have a different budget set up, but they were supposed to help assist other organizations bring high-caliber talent to campus,” Woody said.
Woody did not want to pass the Official Pro-gramming Board bill without some specifications, such as including a liaison to help organizations run successful events, he said. Even though the bill has passed, he said he is concerned no one will take care of it.
SA, UU and the Office of Student Affairs are still trying to figure out what responsibilities UU should have as the Official Programming Board, said Rickert, SA comptroller.
“We don’t want to weigh them down to the point that they can’t be a successful programming organization anymore,” he said.
Andrew Beyda, UU president, said the role of UU would not change just because it has a new title. The organization still plans to hold large-scale events, such as Juice Jam and Block Party.
“Not including us by name is probably because they didn’t want to single out one student organi-zation,” Beyda said.
He said UU’s job would not be to oversee other organizations planning their events, but he would be happy to answer their questions about the Finance Board. The new financial vision is some-thing Beyda approves of.
Said Beyda: “I think it’s a step in the right direction.”
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cern that there was with the H1N1, which turned out to cause not as much illness as we
thought it was going to,” VanVechten said. “And the illness wasn’t as severe as some folks predicted. Again, since we have vaccine and we’re seeing flu, we just wanted to make sure students knew they could get the shot.”
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Fort Hood report reveals danger in obsessive political correctness T o some extent, political cor-
rectness was responsible for the heinous shooting at Fort
Hood, Texas, in November 2009, leav-ing 13 dead and 32 injured.
These are the findings of a 91-page document released Thursday by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Buried in a week of news coverage devoted to the uprising in Egypt and another debilitating legal blow to Obamacare, it is unsurprising this report failed to make waves.
But more attention should be paid to the Department of Defense’s failure to discharge Nidal Hasan prior to his shooting spree. There were obvious warning signs that Hasan was a deeply disturbed individual influ-enced by violent Islamic extremism, but political correctness — concern about potential discrimination complaints — prevented what should have been an immediate dismissal from the Army.
The Senate’s report is almost pain-
ful to read. Two of Hasan’s associates at Walter Reed Medical Center sepa-rately describe Hasan as a “ticking time bomb.” He made statements sup-porting suicide bombing and defend-ing Osama bin Laden. Perhaps most damning of all, Hasan told colleagues his religion took precedence over the Constitution.
Despite all this, Hasan slipped through the cracks. His attack was completely avoidable, but a strict adherence to political correctness allowed Hasan to remain in service.
In 21st century America, there is no greater shame than being accused of racial or religious profiling. Appar-ently, political correctness has been so ingrained in our collective psyche that we are uncomfortable taking action against an obvious lunatic — merely because he is a Muslim.
Since when does religious affili-ation play a role in whether or not one should be terminated from an occupation?
Political correctness has mor-
phed into a powerful doctrine within the United States. It exaggerates and usually fabricates America’s bigoted, degenerative tendencies. Constantly pushing for group rights instead of individual rights, this dogma of multiculturalism attempts to impose a much-needed dose of morality to a sinful nation — one with much to apologize for and little to celebrate.
Specifically with regard to the Fort Hood shooting, the politi-cally correct interpretation is that Americans are ruthlessly bigoted against Islam. Accordingly, we must atone for this transgression by never rushing to judgment — especially
not about a troubled Muslim in the military.
After all, we wouldn’t want Hasan to feel discriminated against.
The “professional left” — a term used by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to describe radical progressives — has an unhealthy obsession with political correctness, especially when it serves broader aims.
Consider the contrast between the professional left’s reaction to the Jared Loughner shooting in Arizona and the Fort Hood shooting in Texas.
When Loughner, a lone psycho without any coherent political affiliation, opened fire in a Tucson Safeway killing six and injuring 14, the professional left wasted no time in blaming Sarah Palin for her “harmful rhetoric.” Without a shred of evidence, the finger was pointed at the quintessential liberal punching bag.
On the other hand is Hasan, even-
tually determined to be a religious extremist, who went on a rampage at an American military base. In the days following, mainstream leftist outlets were adamant that Hasan’s Muslim faith had nothing to do with the attack.
Not so quick to pass judgment this time. Here, they would say, is an example of a lone wolf who acted without external motivations. It would be politically incorrect to think otherwise.
The fixation with political cor-rectness must cease. It should no longer be employed as a supposedly harmless tactic to make everyone feel warm and cuddly.
The Fort Hood shooting could have been prevented if our govern-ment officials simply called a spade a spade. As of now, that appears to be too much to ask for.
Jimmy Paul is a senior political science major. His column appears
every Tuesday, and he can be reached at [email protected].
NY lawmakers would waste time banning texting while crossing street
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A New York senator proposed legislation that would ban text mes-saging and the use of iPod devices while crossing the street. Sen. Karl Kruger, a Democrat from Brooklyn, compares the possible offense to jaywalking and hopes to fine offend-ers $100.
The very proposal of this law insults the intelligence of every New Yorker, and that other states, such as Arkansas, have looked at similar legislation is even more frightening.
The prevalence of new media — iPods, iPads, cellphones — makes enforcing any texting and walking law futile and a waste of law enforce-ments’ time and resources.
Just as jaywalking laws are wholly ignored, this would also represent a useless ordinance passed in the
spirit of raising fine revenues rather than actually protecting pedestrians. Though students may catch them-selves every day before distractedly walking off the curb onto Waverly Avenue, only a handful of complete anomalies resulted in deadly car accidents nationwide.
The law ultimately aims to protect New Yorkers from their own stupid-ity. Perhaps it would make more sense to criminalize failure to look both ways before crossing a street. This would protect pedestrians from a host of dangerously distract-ing behaviors, such as eating a sandwich, reading the newspaper or
digging through a purse for some lip balm.
A public awareness campaign — or even stickers or signs around major crosswalks, while still slightly absurd — might be more effective. At the very least, it wouldn’t waste the valuable time of New York lawmak-ers, who quite frankly have enough on their plates with a $10 billion state deficit.
But students, if you see the merits of being responsible new-media users and citizens, keep an eye out on the corners of Comstock and Euclid avenues, in front of the Hall of Lan-guages and most corners of Walnut Avenue. An obsession with texting may get the better of us in these high-traffic areas.
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Jim Hicks, store manager of J. Michael.A handful of customers trickled in and out
of the store Monday, Hicks said. The store was stocked with racks of new tops and dresses, and
staff members were busy unloading an afternoon shipment of Hunter boots.
The temporary location is a third the size of the store’s original space, and the stock room area is separated from the fl oor space by shelves and dividers. Hours at the new location will be the same as those of its original location, ranging from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday through Satur-
day and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. But Hicks said he does not anticipate to see the same kind of weekend traffi c the store had on Marshall Street. With Follett’s closed, Marshall Square Mall is quiet on Saturdays, he said.
“It’s not the same as Marshall Street,” Hicks said.
The staff has been working nonstop for the past few weeks, going through inventory, fi xing shelv-ing and preparing for the move, Hicks said.
Space issues and damaged inventory have led store operators to make stock changes. North Face down jackets are currently on sale at half price, Hicks said, and the So Low pants are also on sale.
The store has always tried to keep up with fashion trends, and the move is another reason for J. Michael to update its inventory and make room for spring fashion, Hicks said. Because the new location lacks the room, the store managers have decided to stop selling Vera Bradley products permanently.
There is still some “fi ne tuning” that needs to happen at the temporary location, such as setting up a fi tting room, but so far J. Michael is off to a good start, owner John Vavalo said.
When the store was closed, Vavalo said he felt
bad for his customers, many of whom are Syra-cuse University students. Though he wishes there were more room, Vavalo said he is glad to have the temporary space.
“It’s fun. It looks cute,” Vavalo said.Ahra Kim, a junior modern foreign languages
and political science major, was in the store Mon-day afternoon to buy a pair of shoes for her sister’s birthday. Kim said she is not a frequent J. Michael customer but would run into the store when she needed to make a quick purchase.
The temporary location was “more cramped” than J. Michael’s original space, Kim said, but it still had a wide range of products.
“They still have the same things they had before, it’s just different,” Kim said.
Customers have been surprised to see the store up and running so soon after the water main break, said Victoria Huish, who has been a J. Michael employee for two years.
She said she would like to see J. Michael back in its original location, better than it was before. Until then, she said, even though the temporary location may be small, it’s cozy.
“It’s still the same vibe,” Huish said. “We’re still having fun.”
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New York State Tobacco-Free College Conference on Tuesday in hopes of getting student opinion on topics the conference covers, Cunnington said. The conference will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center.
This conference has also taken place in New York City, Albany and Buffalo, but Syracuse’s conference is specifi c to tobacco-free programs on college campuses, Cunnington said.
SA plans to announce in detail its plans for the smoke-free campus initiative in about a month, she said.
Separate from the smoke-free campus initia-tive, SA also discussed plans to create a program to recognize student groups for their good work, SA President Neal Casey said. The program will have a nomination process and provide some kind of incentive or reward for a group’s efforts. SA will
need to create qualifi cations for what it considers “good work,” Casey said.
Casey said SA also needs to decide what sort of incentives it will offer the groups. The incen-tives will not have anything to do with funding from SA for programs but rather something along the lines of money for a pizza party, Casey said as an example.
During Monday’s meeting, the Assembly also debated whether or not Perry Russom, a sophomore broadcast journalism and political science dual major, was eligible to run for the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Assembly representative.
When someone declares a dual major before he or she has fi nished sophomore year, the person’s “home school” is considered whichever college is older. This posed an issue when Russom wanted to run for the Assembly representative for Newhouse because his home school is the College of Arts and Sciences.
But it doesn’t mention anywhere in SA’s codes that a student’s home school should determine which college he or she represents, SA Parlia-mentarian Alex Hemsley said. SA’s codes are ambiguous about this issue because the codes probably existed before the dual major option did, Hemsley said.
Hemsley also said Russom identifi es more with Newhouse than the College of Arts and Sciences, allowing for the Assembly to elect Russom to the position.
Hemsley and others will look at the codes and see if they need to be changed to mirror the Assembly’s ideas when dealing with future cases like this one.
Other business discussed:• The Assembly elected Lucia Ha, a fresh-
man chemistry major; Lynde Folsom, a freshman neuroscience major; and Jennifer Osias, a sopho-more political science and international relations major, as Assembly representatives of the College of Arts and Sciences.
• The Assembly elected Assel Baitassova, a freshman computer science major, as an Assem-bly representative of the L.C. Smith College of Engineering.
• SA plans to begin posting regular reports from its committees on a blog people can access from the current SA website, said Eileen Clark, SA’s communications director.
• SA will host its fi rst town hall meeting in Lawrinson Hall on Friday, Feb. 11, at 4 p.m., said Jen McKay, chair of the Student Engagement Committee.
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mittee will meet with Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Germain, who will thank the students for taking part in the decision process and advise the committee to select a list that is representative of the student body, Germain said.
After the first meeting, the student com-mittee will meet on its own — without any member of the administration — at least four more times, Germain said. During these meetings, the students will narrow down the original list of candidates so it includes 30 to 40 suggestions. Every member of the com-mittee must agree on a candidate to include him or her on the final list, which is passed on to the chancellor May 1, Germain said.
Commencement speaker suggestions should be eligible for an honorary degree, but this is not a requirement, according to the commencement website. Suggestions should be based on the nominees’ outstand-ing and innovative achievements, humani-tarian deeds, achievements that represent sustained efforts, connection to the uni-versity, the degree to which the candidates have touched others’ lives and the extent to which the candidates represent models to the graduates, according to the website.
Once Cantor receives the final list, she
will choose the commencement speaker based on the speaker’s availability, rele-vance to the community and cost.
“It’s a difficult process because there are hundreds of schools and colleges who are competing for the same individuals,” Germain said.
The commencement speaker decision process used to begin in the fall, and the chancellor would receive the list of sug-gestions in November, she said, but the availability of speakers has become more difficult to determine.
“It’s really too short a time to get the cali-ber speaker that we’d like to have,” Germain said.
As a result, the process was moved up so there would be more time to decide who the commencement speaker would be.
Last year’s commencement speaker, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Executive Director Jamie Dimon, faced backlash when students protested the decision by chanting and danc-ing on the Quad, according to an April 16 article published in The Daily Orange.
The same decision process used now and in the past was used when Dimon was select-ed to be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2010. Many students protested the decision because they questioned whether Dimon was actually on the list provided to the chancellor, Germain said.
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even coined,” he said.Students found his perspective enlighten-
ing and unexpected.Kassie Brabaw, a sophomore English and
textual studies and physics major, said she would have never made the connections Katz did in his lecture.
“It was really interesting to hear from someone who knows what he’s talking about,” Brabaw said.
Katz talked about the perception of queer-ness in the 19th and 20th centuries and said people were only deemed queer when they engaged in acts that were not natural for their particular gender.
“It didn’t matter what gender your partner was,” he said. “We always assume that the past looks like us, but when we dig deeper, we find out it doesn’t.”
Katz then showed the censored video, a gris-ly compilation of footage from an AIDS protest and metaphorical snapshots, including the one the Catholic League and other opponents of the
video were most offended by: an 11-second clip of ants crawling over a crucifix.
The original video, crafted by late artist David Wojnarowicz, was a silent film, but Katz added a soundtrack to grab more attention in the exhibition. He used chants from the AIDS protest, such as “1, 2, 3, 4, civil rights or civil war” and “black, white, gay, straight, AIDS does not discriminate” to tie the images and the meaning of the video together.
“This was designed to be symbolic and indi-rect and to force people to think about issues in the gay community in new ways,” Katz said.
The gallery’s censorship of the video was the most stupid decision he could think of, he said.
“I find it very, very ironic that the same Republican-led Congress that read the Con-stitution out loud is now threatening the separation of church and state and freedom of speech,” he said.
Katz ended his lecture with a reminder to stay focused on the big picture, calling his exhibition a canary in a coal mine.
Said Katz: “We have to remind Congress that the Constitution still holds sway.”
By Kelly CriscioneContributing writer
The emotional health of college freshmen has dropped to a record low, according to an annual survey from the University of
California Los Angeles released in January. The survey, “The American Freshman:
National Norms Fall 2010,” asked more than 200,000 first-time, full-time freshmen to self-rate their emotional health. The students were enrolled in 279 different universities across the nation.
The number of students who reported having an “above average” level of emotional health declined from 55.3 percent to 51.9 percent between 2009 and last year, according to the most recent data in the study’s research brief. When the survey started in 1985, 64 percent of incoming students reported an “above aver-age” emotional health level, according to the research brief.
“Universities need to pay attention to how students are in college and create conditions for students that are anxious and stressful. That’s going to be important for students to learn dur-ing school,” said Linda DeAngelo, one of the five authors of the study and assistant director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA, where the study began 25 years ago.
UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute issues the survey and works with universities so they can learn more about their students, DeAn-gelo said. Responses from the survey are used for campus improvements at the participating schools, such as more support and counseling services for students, she said. The survey is also a good representation of the feelings of students around the country, DeAngelo said.
“You’re away from home and don’t have the guidance from your parents or teachers like you did in high school,” said Deanna O’Keefe, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The study’s past two versions have revealed that the country’s economic state could be responsible for causing additional stress on
incoming college students. Out of the first-time students for fall 2010, 53.1 percent are using loans to attend college, according to the study’s research brief. Two-thirds of students reported on the survey that the “current economic situa-tion significantly affected my college choice.”
“When it came down to my final two schools, I chose Syracuse University because of the money they offered me,” said Mina Johnson, an undeclared freshman in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Though the emotional level of students is declining, their drive to achieve is increasing, which many contribute to the overall problem, according to the study’s research brief.
“Students put a lot of pressure on themselves to make the most of their experience,” said DeAngelo, one of the study’s authors. “This can cause students to feel more stressed and anxious.”
The survey revealed an increase in students who believe they will participate in different extracurricular activities in college. One-third of the students believe there is a “very good chance” they’ll participate in community ser-vice, a record high since 1990, when the question was first introduced on the survey.
About 47 percent believe there is also a “very good chance” they will participate in clubs or groups, an increase from 44.1 percent in 2000, according to the research brief. And 31.5 percent believe they will study abroad, according to the research brief.
Men have always reported a higher level of emotional health than women, although both the levels of men and women dropped similar amounts from 2009, according to the research brief. Nearly 46 percent of women in the sur-vey reported having a high level of emotional health compared to 59 percent of men, a dif-ference of about 13 percent, according to the research brief.
“It could be that women are more likely to report lower levels,” DeAngelo said. “Not that they are actually more stressed.”
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endeavors. The reality is college students seek out
information through the Internet, Blust said. Blogs can appeal to current students but more importantly to prospective students who are researching potential schools, she said. Col-lege offi cials hope to not only inform students but also feature blogs that bring the VPA experience to life, Blust said.
“We also wanted the new site to embrace the technologies prospective students use to com-
municate online,” Blust said. “The blogs are a key part of both of these goals.”
Any current student or faculty member in VPA may blog for the website. The blog-gers are usually recommended by faculty members or recruited through the Offi ce of Recruitment and Admissions. They volunteer their time to write regularly about their classes, extracurricular activities and expe-riences in VPA and at SU.
Many student writers fi nd it to be a reward-ing experience and a great outlet, said Smith, a senior communication and rhetorical studies major.
Another blogger, Bree Donnelly, values the authenticity of the blog.
“I think it is just a great outlet to see the real
side of student life and not from some general brochure or tour,” said Donnelly, a junior inte-rior design major.
Some students said other colleges at SU should look into integrating blogging into their websites as a way to reach out to appli-cants and provide an interactive way for students to stay involved with their home colleges, said Leeanna Cota, a senior interior design major.
“I would defi nitely recommend that other colleges adopt VPA’s blogging idea,” Cota said. “I think it makes the students who represent the school seem accessible and personable.”
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opers worldwide, adaptations may be made for usage on PCs, the Wii, smart phones and every other form of interactive technology you could dream of. Technology in the hands of the public has limitless potential.
Second Life users could manipulate their avatars sans remote. Sims lovers could run to catch their carpool to work by actually run-ning. Roller Coaster tycoons could use their hands to manipulate their creations.
The development version of Kinect that PrimeSense is selling to developers has been dubbed “PrimeSensor” and shares the same foundation as Microsoft’s version. Complete with the same camera technology needed to capture general movements and small gestures alike, the company’s intent is for developers worldwide to tinker with this technology and bring it to a host of different technological mediums.
And the best part is this technology will by no means be limited to gaming purposes. With the mass popularization and development of motion-capture technology, this could benefi t simulation environments and virtual training in every industry, ranging from the military to the medical fi eld.
With 8 million Kinect devices sold as of the close of 2010, according to Xbox’s website, it seems this technology will have no problems fi nding an accepting market.
For those of you who embrace the comical clumsy catastrophes resulting from tangible gaming remotes, fear not. I’m sure the mishaps caused by an unbalanced human body will usurp the humor of a free-fl ying Wii remote.
Jessica Smith is an information management and technology and television, radio and fi lm
dual major. Her column appears every Tuesday, and she can be reached at [email protected].
kids as often as their schedule allows. Commit-ments can be big or small.
SU fi rst collaborated with the community center, one of the seven maintained by the City of Syracuse Parks, Recreation and Youth programs, about 15 years ago. Since then, the
university provided the center with a com-puter lab through a grant, courtesy of Maxwell, and offered learning programs for its Syracuse youth. Now, with the help of SU undergradu-ates, the program is offering a set of interactive classes during the school district’s February break.
Walker, along with her colleague Bill Cop-lin, department chair of the public affairs program at SU, extended the opportunity to their students this past fall, hoping to gain considerable interest. They had a slow start, Walker said, but students came trickling in over time. There are currently nine students signed up to head individual classes with six assisting volunteers.
Christine Ward, a junior policy studies major, acts as a student contact for the program. She relays the student interest to the admin-istration at Wilson Park and helps develop a structured agenda of classes and activities. Ward said she got involved because most of the activities she partakes in are on campus, and she wanted to branch out into the community.
Ward’s interest lies in the Syracuse youth. She said her main goal is to help the kids develop interests and passions in a safe learning environment.
“I want them to think about their dreams and goals and know they aren’t limited,” Ward said.
Sarah Walton, a sophomore public relations and policy studies major, is the publicist for the program. She jumped on board to manage pub-lic relations, design a logo and recruit students. Walton said she hopes the program will become self-suffi cient over time.
“Hopefully student volunteers realize that not only are they having fun themselves, but they are having an impact on these kids’ lives,” Walton said.
She said she believes SU students act like mentors for the Syracuse youth and can stimu-late interest, creativity and goals.
Coplin said the public affairs program has a hidden agenda. The goal is to expand the community center into a learning center, with regular classes taught by SU students. With a strong focus on community service and Schol-
arship in Action, Coplin said a larger facility would provide greater teaching opportunities for SU students.
Undergraduates will receive funding as needed to cover the cost of teaching supplies. The program is completely free of charge to Syracuse residents, and the City of Syracuse Parks, Recreation and Youth will provide chil-dren with lunch and transportation.
“The kids down there really appreciate our presence,” Walton said. “They look up to us.”
HOW TO PARTICIPATEIt’s not too late to get involved with the ‘Cuse Spot Initiative. The program is accepting applicants to help out during Syracuse City School District’s winter break until Feb. 11. Applications for semester-long classes can be submitted by Feb. 18. Anyone interested should con-tact Christine Ward at [email protected]
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“I thought, ‘My God, we have to offer these kids another outlet.’ There are other things todo besides joining a gang.”
Michelle WalkerDIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS AT THE MAXWELL
SCHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
“I think it is just a great outlet to see the real side of student life and not from somegeneral brochure or tour.”
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AND MARKETING MINOR
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By Victoria IpacsCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Terrance Smith has become a rec-ognized face at Syracuse University. And it started with a school-spon-sored blog.
“In the past, applicants have come up to me and said, ‘Oh my God, You are Simply Terrance from the blog!’ and I am always so fl attered by this,” Smith said. “It is truly rewarding to know that my work and dedication is not going unnoticed.”
Smith is part of an initiative taken by the joint efforts of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and SU’s Offi ce of Recruitment and Admis-sions. The two groups started posting blogs from members of the VPA com-munity on the school’s homepage this semester.
The homepage displays the words “VPA is…” followed by various headings, in either blue or orange text, that complete that phrase. The blue text links to current events and information of interest VPA posts on its website, as most SU websites do. But the orange text links viewers to personal blogs, directly run by VPA students and faculty members.
Once at the blog page, the contribu-tor’s headshots are collaged on the screen, enticing readers to further explore.
Maureen Carroll, a recruitment fi eld representative in VPA’s Offi ce of Recruitment and Admissions, came up with the idea to create a VPA blog. In February 2008, the blog was initially launched on blogger.com, and posts were written by a small group of undergraduates. The posts were linked to the VPA Face-book page, Carroll said in an e-mail interview.
The transition from blogger.com to the redesigned site started dur-ing spring 2010, said Erica Blust, VPA’s director of communications. It was expanded to include graduate students and faculty members as blog-gers, she said.
“Our current group of 34 bloggers spans nearly all of the academic disci-plines in VPA,” Blust said.
The Offi ce of Recruitment and Admissions hoped to raise its social media presence and gain visibility, Carroll said.
With social media on the rise, VPA has made a successful move by integrating blogging into its web-site and is taking advantage of the new social media trend, Blust said. The VPA blog offers students a way to engage prospective students, cur-rent professors and peers in their
VPA links SU blogs on website
F or those plugged into the viral epidemic, one of the best forms of entertainment is
people accidentally throwing their remotes into television screens, yanking gaming systems from their shelves and breaking mouse after mouse in gaming-induced frenzies. Sadly, this lowbrow humor may be ushered into extinction by the comet of Kinect.
This motion-capture gaming technology dominated the world stage at the end of last year when Microsoft introduced Kinect, an external add-on for its Xbox 360 gaming console. This peripheral
employs the multifaceted attributes of depth censors, voice-recognition technology and a seemingly fl awless ability to extinguish the need for a remote control in the Xbox gaming environment.
“Well,” you may say, “I’ll always be able to watch Wii users throw
their remotes through multiple household breakables.” For now, yes, but the future of this technology could imply the abolishment of all ball-and-chain or cord-and-control-ler gaming. Xbox could be nothing more than a steppingstone on the way to gaming domination.
As early as the beginning of this year, reports were made worldwide that PrimeSense, the creators of the chip that enabled the birth of Kinect, would release development versions of the code in an open-source format.
For the non-tech-savvy, that basi-cally means developers worldwide will be able to mold this technology as
they see fi t and release it to the public to be used in a variety of manners.
For the very non-tech-savvy, think of it in terms of a puzzle. At fi rst you could only see the fi nished product of the pieces assembled, but with open-source policies, you are provided with all the pieces and can fi nd your own ways of putting them together. This gives you the pos-sibility of making a better picture than the one you were fi rst shown or tailoring the picture to your own likes or needs.
With the pieces of the motion-capture puzzle in the hands of devel-
Unique gaming software Kinect gives ‘wireless’ a whole new dimension
By Yelena GalstyanSTAFF WRITER
W hen Michelle Walker read a newspaper article about a recent shooting that took the life of
an infant, she analyzed the diagram that depicted gang activity in Syracuse. The Wil-son Park area was included in the danger zone. It sparked an idea.
“I thought, my God, we have to offer these kids another outlet,” said Walker, director
of community programs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “There are other things to do besides join-ing a gang.”
The Syracuse University Public Affairs program is taking its relationship with Wilson Park Community Center, located between 117 S. McBride St. and Taylor Street, to the next level. The ‘Cuse Spot Initiative will launch its program for elementary and middle school kids in the Syracuse City
School District on Feb. 22. Walker expects 50 to 100 kids to participate in the Winter Break program.
The initiative offers a wide range of activities, from dance to chess to healthy cooking. The classes are based on the talents and passions of SU students interested in getting involved with the local community. Students have the opportunity to channel their interests into a structured class for
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By Erik van RheenanSTAFF WRITER
C onor Oberst, folk genre’s wunderkind, has been compared to Bob Dylan one too many times. Since founding Bright
Eyes and releasing his critically acclaimed opus “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning” in 2005, Oberst’s naysayers have been quick to remind listeners that Bright Eyes is just a bad case of deja entendu: We’ve heard it all before. With Bright Eyes’ two follow-up albums, critics called out Oberst for pilfering his trademark rough-around-the-edges vocals, outspoken lyrics of social awareness and experimental instrumentation from the Dylan songbook.
With “The People’s Key,” the Bright Eyes’ newest effort most likely to be its swan song, how was Oberst supposed to step out of the shadows of his freewheeling forefather? By taking his trustworthy folk sensibilities to a brand new level — literally. “The People’s Key” only sonically resembles “Highway 61 Revisited” if Dylan had written, recorded and produced the album from the moon. Oberst shifts gears from his usual tendencies to take a more avant-garde, science-
fi ction approach to his songwriting. The album opens on an off-putting bizarre
note with “Firewall,” which starts with a two-minute narration with what sounds like an intellectual Forrest Gump discoursing on science fi ction and reptilian aliens from outer space. But don’t touch that dial just yet: Oberst’s simple three-chord guitar sneaks into the track, and with some despondently rugged vocals and marching band-esque drum rhythms, Bright Eyes is back in business.
“Shell Games,” minus a synthesizer that sounds as out of place as a UFO in the Old West, is a toe-tapping ditty that illustrates Oberst’s penchant for juxtaposing despairing lyrics into optimistically upbeat melodies. “Jejune Stars” drops the acoustic guitar and, thankfully, the synthesizer for progressive-rock guitar riffs. This leaves Oberst sounding like a second-rate Morrissey impersonator. The track is so inher-ently catchy, however, that
Oberst shoves his bubblegum pop tune into our faces so that most listeners are too busy hum-ming along to realize that Oberst has sacrifi ced his social-raconteur self to play it safe lyrically.
“Approximate Sunlight” plummets right from low-quality directly to no-quality produc-tion, and it is the musical equivalent of the kid who sprawls out nonchalantly in the back of your philosophy lecture, defi antly keeping both his book and eyes shut. Oberst’s stab at seamlessly segueing his post-punk mindset into his folk instrumentation falls fl at on its face. “Haile Selassie” redeems its lead-in track as a true Bright Eyes’ tour de force: witty lyricism fi ts hand in hand with energetic drum fi lls and Steely Dan-reminiscent guitar work.
The optimistic vibe rings true in “A Machine Spiritual (In the People’s Key),” which takes its foot off the experimentation pedal. This track sticks to what Bright Eyes knows it’s good at
doing, which is letting Oberst’s reverb-laden vocals soar over patchwork
instrumentation.
Listeners will fear for the worst when experi-mentation rears its ugly head upon the entrance of “Triple Spiral.” Instead of tearing the track apart, experimentation wipes its feet off at the welcome mat, carries a case of everyone’s favorite drinks, comes in, turns up the volume and invites everyone to sing along to a boozy ‘80s-style romp that seems tailor made for the air-guitar crowd.
After a rushed dose of adrenaline, the effort closes on a melancholy note. “Beginner’s Mind” slows the tempo and recalls the protest songs from Dylan’s past. “Ladder Song” is a dreary piano ballad that will leave no dry eyes in the venues at which it is played live, and “One For You, One For Me” is a spacey track that leaves no instrument on the shelf for a rousing fi nish.
Despite overusing some forthrightly bizarre narration that could come straight out of a Ray Bradbury novel, “The People’s Key” leaves the Bob Dylan parallels back on Earth and instead blasts listeners into 10 tracks of spacey folk triumph.
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Out of this w rldBright Eyes moves beyond traditional folky feel to synthesized, spacey sound in new album
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By Jarrad SaffrenStaff Writer
A commemorative plaque hangs high above Webster Pool on the left wall. Across the bottom are the words “Mr. SU Swimming,” and four pictures of the same man surround the plaque.
From his perch above the water, Ted Web-ster has been watching over the SU swimming and diving program since his retirement as coach in 1965 (after a 36-year career begin-ning in 1929). Though the swimming complex may bear his name, it is, in many ways, the house that current Syracuse swimming coach Lou Walker built.
“I swam my first meet here in the fall of 1971,” Walker said. “And it’s been home ever since, for the last 40 years.”
Walker set seven school records during his own SU swimming career from 1971 to 1975. In 1976, he took over as coach and has held the position ever since. Joining him is his wife Ellie Walker, a former swimming coach at nearby Baldwinsville High School. She became Walker’s assistant and recruiting coordinator in 1994.
The Walkers have instilled a family atmo-sphere that makes Webster Pool a figurative second home for the SU swimmers.
“I’m going to miss the coaches most,” SU senior Kuba Kotynia said. “They just care so much about us, not just in the pool but in the rest of our lives. This pool is our home because they make it a home.”
For Walker, it’s a home that hasn’t changed much since he’s been here. After it opened in 1950, the six-lane, 25-meter, 600-seat Webster Pool was utilized frequently as a site for the NCAA Championships.
But with current standards mandating more expansive venues for all conference and NCAA championships, Webster Pool is no longer suited to host such events.
Yet Webster Pool had one last weekend of
competition left in it. This past weekend, SU hosted its first home meet of the season and just its eighth in the last three seasons. But it was also the last home meet in the history of the pro-gram, in a pool that will always hold emotional significance for the thousands of SU swimmers who have called it home over the course of the last 61 years.
“Every time I swim in this pool, I think about all the great swimmers that have swam here,” SU senior swimmer Katie Lewinski said. “It’s an honor to be able to share this pool with them.”
In a setting that has hosted more than 500 swim meets with more than 1,000 swimmers, Walker’s face sticks out among the blur.
With the final meet over, Walker takes a moment to himself and looks up at the pictures of Ted Webster. He lets out a sigh. Not much has changed since he’s been here, but that doesn’t mean he’s ready to give it up.
The blue and orange Big East champion-ship banners from 1980, 1982, and 1996 hang on the wall. But one thing stands out to the legendary SU coach. He points specifically to the pictures lining the walls of his former swimmers and teams. All memories now but all serving as small reminders of a rich family-oriented history.
Walker’s moment is interrupted by a mother and her young son. It’s a young swimmer who just won his first race, his mother says.
Suddenly, the disappointment and sadness fades away as the love of the sport comes out in Walker. He picks up the kid, hugs him and tells him to make sure he has fun every time he jumps in the pool.
The young boy smiles and says, “I promise.”“This really tugs at your heartstrings,”
Walker said. “But the history of this pool and this program will never be lost because the sport is in good hands.”
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waiting on the bench. Coffey was Hillsman’s top-rated freshman in his 2010 class, but she hasn’t appeared in seven of the team’s games. This is partly due to a few nagging injuries and an illness, Hillsman said.
But even in limited minutes — she averages nine per game — her talent has shown. In the team’s second game against Cornell, Coffey had three points, three assists and four steals in 20 minutes. And against Arkansas Pine Bluff, Coffey contributed a season-high six points and three assists.
“Her play in practice, that’s where it all starts,” SU guard Carmen Tyson-Thomas said. “Coach looks for hard play, competitive play with passion, wanting to work hard. And toward the end of the season, right now, she’s starting to figure that out.
“I think that her minutes should increase.”Tyson-Thomas and Coffey are both members
of the “Orange” practice squad, along with Shakeya Leary, La’Shay Taft and Troya Berry. Lately, Coffey’s play in practice has been stel-lar. For the past week, the “Orange” squad, for which Coffey is the floor leader, has dominated
the starters, Tyson-Thomas said. Perhaps Coffey’s biggest asset is her ability
to handle the ball. To Hillsman, a former point guard himself, that’s huge.
“She’s probably the best ball handler that I’ve coached,” he said.
Coffey admits she wants more playing time, mainly to alleviate the pressure of brief min-utes. In such a short time, one mistake means she comes right back out. She’s hoping for a longer leash.
“I don’t get nervous thinking I have to impress him,” she said. “I just think that I have to do more for everyone. Him and the team.”
Coffey has earned the respect and admira-tion of her teammates on the “Orange” squad and at least the verbal praise of Hillsman thus far. It’s just a matter of when and if he will pull the plug on Harris.
But she’s becoming more antsy on the side-line. Sitting isn’t easy for one of the best high school players in the country.
“Coming in, it was a little tough,” Coffey said. “Everyone thought I was going to get more playing time than I am. … I get frustrated. But at the end of the day, I’m the one that has to do it all. So I can’t really worry about what every-body else thinks.”
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On the court at the Bradley Center, the Cente-nary players stood as the definitive underdogs. Overmatched and with far less talent than the tough Marquette team it faced, Centenary had only three scholarship players on the floor.
For the Gents, it was the beginning of the end of playing top-end Division I teams. The start of a new life in Division III was rap-idly approaching.
“When we’re playing Big East or SEC-type teams, it’s just a tough thing to compete with,” Centenary head coach Adam Walsh said. “You try to do whatever you can as a coach — slow the tempo, speed the tempo, whatever you think will work. But it always falls back a little bit to the talent level.”
But for Walsh, those days of trying — unsuc-cessfully — to find what works are coming to a close. Beginning on July 1, 2011, Centenary College of Louisiana will officially leave Divi-sion I and descend to Division III. It ends a more than 100-year run at the D-I level after subpar results and long travel distances were too much to ignore.
In its game against the Golden Eagles on Dec. 18, the Gents fought to try to stay close. An eight-point deficit quickly grew, and the chance at an upset faded away. Centenary suffered yet another loss in a season in which the prospects of a D-III future provide the only glimmer of hope.
At 0-25, there hasn’t been much for Cente-nary to feel good about. This year seems not much more than a year of transition. One where players are trying to decide if they want to stay and compete in D-III or transfer somewhere else to remain a Division I athlete. Some will stay with Centenary, placing academics and their degree above their athletic future. For them, a move to Division III was welcome. But for those who expected to play in Division I, the move was
not well received. “It was mostly positive,” interim athletic
director Dave Voskuil said. “There was a lot of communication to the students. Of course, there were some that were really disgusted and discouraged.”
But since Division III schools cannot give scholarships, the future for the current athletes becomes murky. The school can continue to honor the athletic scholarships of its players for the next two seasons as a part of the transition. That means when the current freshmen become seniors, they will have to choose between play-ing a season without a scholarship or trying to transfer somewhere else and play. If they choose to participate, Voskuil said the school would have to essentially “repackage” them as a D-III athlete.
Those freshmen, though, could be the foun-dation of Centenary’s future in Division III. They will be the ones who will carry with them the experience of playing teams like Marquette. And to Walsh, they’re the reason why a move to the American Southwest Conference will sig-nal the turnaround of the program. Centenary could end up being one of the strongest teams in an already competitive conference.
“The addition of Centenary will strengthen the competitive profile of the ASC champion-ship sports,” conference commissioner Amy Carlton said at the press conference announc-ing the move on April 12, 2010. “In the broader picture, Centenary’s Division III membership benefits not only the ASC, but Division III institutions and conferences across the South and Southwest.”
A move to a lower level would make it easier for winning seasons to be a part of Centenary’s future, especially with a more limited travel schedule. The American Southwest Conference consists of 16 teams that are spread throughout only four southern states. Less travel means less strain for the players.
A drawback for Centenary, though, is that it won’t be eligible for the D-III tournament
until the 2014-15 season. It won’t even qualify to win its division until 2013. For Walsh, it’s a drawback in terms of recruiting but not one big enough to dismiss hope for the future.
Right now, it’s an obstacle that doesn’t mini-mize expectations. It doesn’t lessen the excite-ment of winning on a consistent basis and avoiding thousands of miles of travel.
“I don’t expect to have to deal with a .500 record or a losing record over the next two or three years,” Walsh said. “My impression of the guys we have right now, and how recruit-ing is going so far, is that we’re going to be fine and that our expectations are to be a winning program next season.”
No. 12 Syracuse vs. No. 16 LouisvilleAfter two much-needed victories, the Orange is back to its winning ways. Louisville has played fairly well against ranked teams, including a double overtime over Connecticut, but also lost by 14 to Villanova. Last season, an unranked Cardinals team beat the Orange at the Car-rier Dome. This time, it’ll be close, but Syracuse wins.Prediction: SyracuSe 65, LouiSviLLe 62
No. 20 North Carolina vs. ClemsonThe Tar Heels have only one loss against ACC teams — a 20-point loss to Georgia Tech on Jan. 16. North Carolina beat Clemson two days later by 10. Since then, the Tar Heels haven’t lost, and they won’t lose to the Tigers. North Carolina will take the season series.Prediction: north caroLina 72, cLemSon 66
No. 4 Pittsburgh vs. No. 9 VillanovaPitt’s the best team in the Big East right now, with only two losses overall. Its lone conference loss was to Notre Dame, a hard-fought 56-51 defeat. Villanova has three Big East losses, one coming against Providence, but the Wildcats are coming off wins over Marquette and West Virginia. The Panthers, though, are the better
team and will beat the Wildcats. Prediction: PittSburgh 60, viLLanova 56
No. 1 Ohio State vs. No. 13 WisconsinWisconsin is good, but Ohio State has been great all year. Jared Sullinger has helped get the Buckeyes to 24-0, and there’s not much of a reason to think the Badgers can stop him. In a battle of the top two Big-10 teams, Ohio State gets the win.Prediction: ohio State 72, WiSconSin 62
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Michelle Tumolo skipped the freshman learn-ing curve.
Referred to as a “super sophomore” by Syra-cuse women’s lacrosse head coach Gary Gait, the SU attack rewrote the freshman record book last year after posting the highest single-season totals in points and assists for a Syracuse new-comer. After her first start, she became the first SU freshman to put up a seven-point game since 2007.
She was named to the All-Northeast Region Second Team and to WomensLax.com’s All-Rookie Team after last season. But Tumolo said it’s Gait, a lacrosse guru, who deserves much of the credit.
“I play for Gary Gait, one of the best stick handlers in the world,” Tumolo said. “A lot of coaches don’t let players do what we can here at Syracuse.”
Tumolo spent the last weekend of Janu-ary at Disney’s Wide World of Sports as a member of the U.S. senior national team taking part of the Champion’s Challenge. The event is a showcase for the top male and female lacrosse players in the country, and it features the U.S. men’s national team, the U.S. women’s national senior and under-19
team, and five collegiate squads. “I definitely learned a lot playing there,”
Tumolo said. When the week was over, Tumolo was the
youngest player on the field and one of three sophomores to make the final roster.
“It’s a very excruciating tryout,” Tumolo said. “It’s three days long, all day. And you just play. When I found out that I made the team, it was awesome finding my number up there. I honestly forgot my number, and I was nervous that I was just making it up.”
Gait was in attendance the last day of the tournament to see Tumolo play. Recently, the 43-year-old head coach departed from the Roch-ester Knighthawks and the National Lacrosse League, announcing his second retirement from professional lacrosse after an 18-season career.
Gait was more than happy to spend a day watching one of his current pupils compete with the national team. And he thinks the experience will prepare Tumolo even more for the upcom-ing season.
“She’s coming into this season ready to take it to the next level,” Gait said. “Full of confidence and energy and ready to improve her leadership skills. We’ll be looking to her to make a huge impact this year.”
As a player, Gait led the Orange to three
NCAA Championships, graduated as the school’s all-time goal leader and was named the NCAA Player of the Year in 1988 and 1990. At the professional level, he has achieved almost all that is achievable, donning a career resume that includes three National Lacrosse League titles, three Major League Lacrosse titles, three Mann Cups, the Heritage Cup and the International Lacrosse Federation World Championship.
And as a coach, Gait led Syracuse to the national semifinals a season ago. It was an opportunity Tumolo wants to experience again this season.
“I think it’s an advantage going there as a freshman, because you know how it feels,” she said. “And you don’t ever want to let that go,
every single year. … Every year I’m going to keep fighting until we get to the national cham-pionship and win.”
Gait also created his own shot, the “air gait” — a maneuver in which the ball handler leaps from behind the crease to dunk the ball under the top crossbar. It was a move that spurred creativity throughout the sport and also a move that, if done improperly, is illegal in NCAA play.
And Tumolo said the uniqueness she exhibits in her play is a product of her head coach letting her experiment like he did.
“I like to do weird things with my stick. I think he knew that from when I came in here,” Tumolo said. “We connected on that level because I kind of play like a boy. And I kind of look up to him. When he tells me to try some-thing, I try it.”
In scrimmages against Maryland and Vir-ginia on the final day of the tournament with the national team, Tumolo recorded a goal and four assists in a pair of victories against two future Syracuse opponents.
Elevated competition has taught Tumolo a lot about the game. But she knows it would be foolish to overlook the effect of an instructor closer to home.
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On a day when the Syracuse offense struggled to put points on the board, there remained one constant in SU’s offensive attack in Saturday’s exhibitions: Jovan Miller.
A lack of chemistry among the offensive play-ers didn’t seem to affect the senior midfielder, who scored four goals over the course of two games.
“Me and my comrades, my fellow seniors, it’s really up to us to relax everybody,” Miller said. “So anytime I saw an open shot or an open opportunity, it’s definitely in my best interest for the sake of the team just to calm them down.”
During the offseason, Miller said he worked on shooting from longer distances and picking his spots better to improve his accuracy. He said he missed some goals last season because that part of his game wasn’t as good as it could be. This season, though, he should have the ability to pick his target when he shoots. All because of some offseason work.
Miller scored the Orange’s first goal of the day, finding the lower right corner of the net in SU’s game against Hofstra. But that was only the start for Miller. Against Le Moyne, he scored 43 seconds into the game, sending a shot from about 15 yards out into the top of the goal.
Miller scored in the second quarter when he took a pass from Stephen Keogh from 10 yards and sent the ball into the net while running to his left across the field. He scored once more in the second period to complete his hat trick against Le Moyne.
In the offense’s first experience of 2011 play-ing against a defense that wasn’t on its own team, Miller had no problem making the adjust-ment. After the losses of Cody Jamieson and Chris Daniello, two of SU’s leading scorers over the past couple of seasons, the Orange is looking to Miller for increased production. One more reason why that increased accuracy is going to be crucial for Miller’s individual success and that of the team.
“We’re going to have to go to Jovan,” SU head coach John Desko said. “We’re expect-ing him to be one of our biggest threats offensively as a dodger. … He’s one of our seniors, and we’re going to look for him to go to the goal.”
Defense shaky to startTwo goals in 40 seconds.
That’s the way Hofstra started off against the Syracuse defense in their exhibition game Saturday. For a unit that’s considered one of the best in the nation, the Orange came out slowly, and Hofstra took advantage.
“Coming into the first scrimmage, the first game, everyone’s got a little bit of the jitters,” senior defender Brian Megill said. “As soon as we all settled down, we all came into our own.”
It was an inauspicious start for Syracuse in its first exhibition game of the season, going up against Hofstra and Le Moyne on Saturday at the Carrier Dome. The Pride bested SU’s defense 6-5, but the Orange rectified any defen-sive issues in the second game, a 10-5 win over the Dolphins.
Perhaps most surprising was that both early goals were against John Galloway, one of the best goalkeepers in the nation. But other than those two quick goals, Hofstra never scored in the first quarter. In the third quarter, with Mat-thew Lerman in the goal for SU, Hofstra scored twice more in the span of only 31 seconds. Desko said the Pride may have been more ready than the Orange, having already played a game against Le Moyne earlier in the day.
“Hofstra had the first game, they were ready to go against us, they were all warmed up,” Desko said. “I thought we came out a little cold in the first quarter and gave up some goals and tightened up as the day went on.”
With any nervousness gone, the Syracuse defense came out stronger against Le Moyne. Galloway didn’t give up a goal until there were only seven seconds remaining in the first quarter. But like the Pride, the Dolphins also found a way to score back-to-back goals, scoring two in 11 seconds in the third quarter on Lerman.
Still, there isn’t any concern about the defense, especially because it’s the first exhi-bition game of the season. Overall, Megill said the defense played as well as he would have wanted it to play. If anything, those early goals gave Syracuse something to think about going forward.
“We just gotta communicate more,” Megill said. “I thought our intensity was there. We can’t let those early two goals score next time. I think a thing we can work on is coming out a lot faster.”
Bratek steps upDesko expected to give some true freshmen playing time Saturday, letting them have a chance to prove themselves in a game. He said the ones who step up will get more play-ing time, and those who don’t will remain on the sidelines.
If Desko sticks to that idea, then Jake Bratek might be getting some opportunities in the regular season.
The freshman midfielder scored against Hofstra with 5:25 left in the game, sending the ball to the left corner of the net past Pride goalkeeper from about 10 yards out. Bratek said he felt he had shown his coaches enough in prac-tice to earn the chance to play in the exhibition but wasn’t positive he’d get in.
“After I got my nerves out, it all kind of clicked,” Bratek said. “I had my first goal, and that felt great. … I think I came out here and did exactly what I was hoping to do, just a support-ing role that the upperclassmen can trsust that I’ll get the job done for them.”
It’s possible Bratek may have done plenty to prove himself, impressing Desko with an aggressiveness that isn’t always typical of freshmen.
In Desko’s eyes, Bratek was one freshman who stepped up.
“He came out playing hard,” Desko said. “He didn’t play like a freshman waiting for some-thing to happen. He went out and tried to make things happen. He played well.”
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back. Not again.“I’m not completely healthy,” Murdock said.
“I have some issues with my sacrum, but other than that I’m pretty healthy.”
One of the nagging injuries that plagued Murdock was iliotibial band syndrome, one of the most common injuries for distance runners.
Without much injury concern for Murdock this season, Molke expects Murdock to reach his lofty goals. But if he doesn’t, Molke knows Murdock offers more than just results. His value stretches off the field, too.
Murdock is one of the oldest members on the team. That leaves the younger runners, such as the sophomore Molke, to take advantage of the senior’s wisdom.
“He’s been through everything that I haven’t really been through yet,” Molke said, “so he’s the guy to go to to ask questions.”
Murdock and Molke are only two of the men’s distance runners with goals reaching further than Syracuse into the Big East, regional and national meets. Molke said the team is build-ing its strength and endurance so it will be prepared for the latter part of the season and not be worn out.
As the season wears on, qualifying times are crucial for outdoor competitions. For indoors, having one of the fastest times places a runner higher on a list, giving the runners a better shot at being selected for the bigger meets.
“I think a lot of us have a good shot at that list and getting up as high as possible,” Molke said of the indoor season.
“And then for outdoors,” he said, “a lot of the guys on our team, since we’re going to be geared for the end of the season, will be ready for the end of the season.”
Murdock hopes to be one of those guys. And
he expects to be one of those guys as long as he stays healthy.
The injuries, for the most part, are in the past. Though Murdock won’t say he’s 100 percent this season, Fox expects him to be at the top.
“It’s (his) time,” Fox said. “We’re really look-ing for (him) to have a good output this season.”
Murdock has shown flashes of his potential that had previously been hidden beneath all of his injuries. Last year, in addition to qualifying for the IC4As, he placed fourth in the mile at the Cornell Upstate Challenge.
Murdock has small goals in store for himself and the team that will lead to bigger moments. He said the team wants to drop its times in every category and thinks it’s a possibility.
He also raves about the freshman class and its impressive showing at this early point in the season. Even though Murdock won’t be running with them after this season, he knows the future of the team is capable of continuing the success of the individuals and teams of recent years. Another one of his goals is bringing along that freshman class.
And he has big goals as well. This is his last year to do what he has tried to do since he got to SU: perform at his highest level and not get injured.
“Now that I’m a senior, I should be able to meet the potential that coaches have in store for me,” Murdock said.
Molke has no doubts about Murdock compet-ing up to his potential and fulfilling those goals. He believes in his abilities and knows Murdock himself does, too. He hopes this is the year Mur-dock can put those injuries behind and show everyone what they’ve been missing.
“Especially for Steve Murdock,” Molke said of the high expectations of Murdock. “It’s his last season, and he’s got a lot to accomplish still, so he’s going to try to get it done.”
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By Michael CohenAsst. sports Editor
On the opposite side of the gym from her teammates, Tasha Harris tries to get better. The Syracuse guard fires off jump shot after jump shot inside the Carmelo K. Anthony Center with
a personal r e b o u n d e r feeding her basketballs.
The rest of the players are
laughing and joking with one another
across the gym prior to practice on Feb. 4, but not Harris. She needs that extra work.
“I just try to make people respect my jump shot,” said Harris, a senior guard on the Syracuse women’s bas-ketball team. “Just so people won’t help off me. My job is just to knock down open shots.”
Though that may be her job, Har-ris has proven incapable of that this season for the Orange. The senior is struggling to score and protect the ball in her new role as a two-guard
for head coach Quentin Hillsman. Meanwhile, freshman guard Rachel Coffey sits on the bench, yearning for more minutes.
Coffey played six minutes in SU’s loss to Rutgers on Sunday, and her minutes have been steadily increas-ing throughout Big East play. She’ll look to continue that as SU (16-6, 4-5 Big East) plays host to No. 10 DePaul (21-3, 8-1) Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.
With Hillsman’s decision to move senior Erica Morrow from shooting
guard to point guard, Harris’ best attribute was nullified. A self-pro-fessed “pass-first” point guard, she is now forced to play off the ball for the majority of games in Morrow’s former role.
Harris has started all 22 games this season for Syracuse. And she has failed to score in double digits 22 times.
Even when she does run the point — when Morrow is not in the game or in a fast-break situation — Har-ris’ lackluster play continues. True
enough, she’s had a game with 10 assists and another with nine. But she’s also had a game with nine turn-overs and two others with six.
“We don’t want her to turn the ball over,” Hillsman said. “Being a good passer also means taking care of the ball. So we can’t afford for her to come down the court and make the brave play. But overall, she’s been great for us since she’s been here.”
As Harris struggles, the heir apparent at point guard sits eagerly
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By Rachel MarcusAsst. Copy Editor
T hroughout Steve Murdock’s career with the Syracuse track and field team, the injuries piled up. For Murdock, a senior,
those included thigh problems, broken ribs, broken bones, sacrum issues and an Achilles injury that required surgery.
Enough missed time ensued that he now calls himself a sophomore.
“Just everything,” Murdock said of his injury-prone past. “I’ve had countless injuries every year.”
All from running. Yet those injuries have done little to stop him from being one of SU head coach Chris Fox’s most talented distance runners on SU this season.
With Murdock healthy for the most part, the Orange will look to him to provide top numbers for the distance runners. Healthier and coming off a season in which he qualified for the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America competition — the step between Big East and national qualification — the expectations for Murdock are to accom-plish something special.
“He’s definitely one of the top distance runners on the team,” fellow distance run-ner Robert Molke said. “He’s been through a lot of struggles, but he’s overcome all of them, and he’s really someone you look to to learn from.”
For Fox and for the team as a whole,
expectations are higher. Many performers expect themselves to qualify beyond the Big East championships.
And that starts with Murdock. Though he does not have as much experience as other seniors, he still hopes to qualify for nationals.
When asked what he wants to accomplish this season, he starts rattling off times for multiple events. Under 8:15 for the 3K race in the IC4As in Boston. Under 14:20 for the 5K in the IC4As. And eventually, close to 4:05 in the mile run.
“I’ve been pretty inconsistent with injuries, so staying healthy would be a big accomplish-ment,” Murdock said. “I’d like to make region-als in outdoor and possibly even nationals if I can qualify.”
Fox said he expects a lot out of Murdock because he’s now one of the senior members of his team. Along with fellow distance runner Steve Weeks, Fox said the two Steves should be contenders at the Big East championships. And this season, the goal is more.
“The ultimate goal for them is to qualify for the NCAA regionals,” Fox said.
Qualifying for those regionals or even scor-ing points in the Big East championships would be a big deal for Murdock. He knows he can do it. Fox knows he can do it.
But he can’t have injuries holding him
courtesy of syracuse university athletic communicationssteve murdock has battled multiple injuries during his time at syracuse. Now, as a senior and healthy, Murdock is one of the team’s integral distance runners.
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