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By Marwa EltagouriSTAFF WRITER

This year, Syracuse University did something a little different than years past: It held classes on the Jew-ish holiday Rosh Hashana and the Islamic holiday Eid al-Fitr. To allow students to be exempt from classes from religious observances, the uni-versity had students request the day off through their MySlice accounts — a policy hundreds of students have utilized this year.

During the fi rst two weeks of school, students logged into their accounts, clicked on a link that read “My Religious Observances” and selected the specifi c classes from which they wanted to be exempt. Professors were then notifi ed of the students’ requests and were able to work with students to prepare for their absences.

“About 600 SU students have submitted one or more notifica-

tions,” said Sandra Hurd, associate provost of academic programs, in an email.

The university has yet to deter-mine the number of requests for spe-cifi c holidays, but plans to do a hand count, Hurd said.

The university plans to analyze the statistics regarding students that sub-mitted a notifi cation on their MySlice at the end of the spring semester and relay the information to professors by making them aware of the most submitted holidays. That way, profes-sors could take religious observances into account when planning course syllabi, Hurd said.

“Most professors are sensitive to the needs of students who are observ-ing a religious holiday,” said Azhar Ali, president of the Muslim Students’ Association. “And students need to become more aware of it next year for it to be effective.”

More than 600 utilize online religious policy

By Liz SawyerASST. NEWS EDITOR

Despite Syracuse’s move to the Atlan-tic Coast Conference, ticket sales for sporting events are expected to remain relatively similar to what they are now, said Daryl Gross, SU’s athletic director.

Although SU does not have a “huge” contingency of fans that go to away games now, Gross said he is con-fi dent the fans who currently travel to Big East away games will continue to do so when the conference offi cially changes in 2014.

Gross said he thinks that join-ing the ACC — a conference which covers much more of the South-east than the Big East does — will expand the fan base to new regions of the United States, as well as cater to some of the many graduates who

live outside the Northeast.“I think what you’re going to fi nd

is when you go to Atlanta, we got a good Atlanta population. When we go to Florida, we got a good Florida population,” said Gross, adding that SU alumni and fans are located throughout the country.

Last year, when the SU men’s bas-ketball team played South Florida in an away game, 8,000 fans made the trip down to support the team, Gross said. He said he hopes this will contin-ue when SU plays Miami in the future.

Gross said he also expects athletes to receive roughly the same number of tickets to away games for friends and family members as before even though ACC stadiums tend to be larger.

“Everyone pretty much has the

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The Syracuse Center of Excellence received the highest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, Syracuse University announced Sept. 23. Located at the intersection of interstates 81 and 690, the build-ing catches the attention of those driving through Syracuse.

“It’s almost like we’re a bill-board on the thruway that some-thing interesting is happening in the middle of Syracuse,” said Ed Bogucz, executive director of the Center of Excellence.

The Center of Excellence, a part of SU, is a laboratory for environmen-tally friendly innovations. From its initial conception in 1998, the goal was to create a state-of-the-art build-ing for studying and testing new ideas in green constructing.

From the very beginning of the design process, the team was already aiming to get the highest rating on the LEED system.

“We’re the Center of Excellence, so we better make the highest grade,” Bogucz said.

LEED is a classifi cation created

by the U.S. Green Building Council that evaluates buildings based on their effect on the environment and its occupants.

“It’s like the nutrition label of a box of cereal, but for green build-ings,” Bogucz said laughing.

The Center of Excellence earned the Platinum rating, which is the highest

of the system. Everything from the location, to the design of the building and its energy performance made a difference in receiving the highest rat-ing, said Rachel May, coordinator of sustainability education at SU.

The building is “aesthetically pleasing, it’s pretty, but it’s also serv-ing a function,” May said.

“I think it connects the university

and the city, and it raises the profi le of the city’s architecture,” she said.

The fi ve-story building features a combination of green qualities that are open for tours offered every other Friday.

To start, it was constructed in an angle that takes maximum advan-tage of daylight, reducing the use of artifi cial lighting and electricity costs. The building is mostly cov-ered by glass to allow the entrance of natural light. But it also has a system on the windows that retracts heat, said Tracy Verrier, an intern at the Center of Excellence and graduate student at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The building can get really hot during the summer, so the sys-tem regulates the entrance of heat to the building to avoid excessive use of air conditioning, she said.

The building uses geothermal technology, which means it uses water to maintain a cool or heated environment for its occupants. Each work environment has its own tem-perature control to avoid wasting energy in cooling or heating places that are not being used. All of the fur-niture and carpeting in the building

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Showstopper“The Cradle Will Rock” shines with a talented cast and a timely plot. Page 9

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Stuck in the middleThe Daily Orange Editorial Board commends scholarships directed at middle-income students. Page 5

The Syracuse Center of Excellence, located at 727 E. Washington St., has secured commitments and awards of more than $44 million in state funds and about $28 million from federal sources since 1998.

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“I think it connects the university and the city, and it raises the profi le of the city’s architecture.”

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FROM THE MORGUE >>A BIT OF HISTORY FROM THE DAILY ORANGE ARCHIVES

Evangelist George “Brother Jed” Smock was assaulted twice Friday afternoon as

he preached the gospel to Syracuse Univer-sity students for the second consecutive day.

Smock had been given a permit by the University that allowed him to speak for two hours on Friday. But, the Moral Major-ity member was told to leave by university offi cials before the two-hour time limit had expired.

In addition to being verbally insulted by a crowd of about 700 to 800 students, Smock was attacked by two members of the crowd.

In one incident, an SU student attempted to throw a pie shell fi lled with shaving cream into the preacher’s face. Only a small portion of the pie actually hit the evangelist.

According to John Zrebiec, director of SU Security, the student was detained by SU Security offi cers and then brought to the Offi ce of Student Affairs for disciplinary action. University offi cials would not release the student’s name. ...

Although Smock was not injured in the fi rst incident, he was visibly shaken.

The evangelist continued preaching until he was attacked again a short time later, this time by what security is describing as “an older man.”

The man appeared from the crowd and attempted to tackle the Bible-carrying preacher. ... Smock escaped injury, but not before his Bible had been thrown into the crowd and several pages torn from it.

Security offi cials said they did not identify the man because he left the area immedi-ately following the incident.

Potential for dangerSmock continued to preach to the crowd

until the situation reached a point where “We felt that we could no longer guarantee the normal type of safety given to University personnel,” said Peter Baigent, assistant vice president for student programs.

The decision to stop Smock 16 minutes before his permit expired was a judgement call, Bacal said. “It had gotten to the point where the normal academic procedures of the University were being disrupted,” he said.

According to security, Smock was told to stop at 1:14 p.m. Friday after the crowd had begun to close in on him.

Precautionary measureSmock agreed with offi cials who asked

him to leave, realizing that the potential for further violence existed. ...

Friday’s incident was also marked by a somewhat organized effort to protest Smock’s presence on campus.

According to Zrebiec, the evangelist now is planning to go to the University of Mas-sachusetts and several colleges in New Hampshire and Maine.

—Compiled by Stephanie Bouvia, asst. copy editor, [email protected]

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Moving politicsKatrina vaden Heuvel will speak at Hen-dricks Chapel about the importance of grassroots democracy and independent journalism in her lecture, “On the Nation and Our Political Movement.”

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CORRECTION >>In an Oct. 3 article titled “Electronica band provides versatile set, enthralls crowd,” the drummer at the concert was misstated. Neither Darren Shearer nor Mike Greenfi eld performed at Westcott Theater. The Daily Orange regrets this error.

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Finance professor reviews lawA professor in the Martin J. Whit-man School of Management recently reviewed financial regulatory legislation brought to the table by U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), according a Whitman news release from Monday.

Comments from Jeffrey Har-ris, dean’s professor of finance in Whitman, were included in Shelby’s news release about the Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act of 2011. Shelby’s release stated that the bill, introduced Sept. 22, will hold financial regulators accountable for consistent economic analysis on every new rule. The legislation would require the identification of the economic effects of all new rules in addition to improving the regula-tory process.

“The proposed bill encourages rigor and transparency in the eco-nomic analysis that is used to support the federal rulemaking process,” Har-ris said in Shelby’s release.

Whitman to honor 2 at celebrationWhitman will play host to the 62nd anniversary of the Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Program on Thursday, according to a Sept. 30 Whitman news release.

Whitman alumnus Murray Sal-zberg, a graduate of 1937, founded the annual celebration of achieve-ments in supply chain management in 1949.

Recipients of this year’s Salzberg Medallion are: C&S Wholesale Gro-cers Inc. for leadership in logistics and supply chain management and for setting an example for social responsibility; and Yossi Sheffi, the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engi-neering Systems and director of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics, for lifetime achievement in that field.

Dream Freedom Revival to beginImagining America will launch an ongoing campus-community art, humanities and democracy project at 2 p.m. Sunday at La Casita Cultural Center in Syracuse, according to an Oct. 3 SU News release. The center is located at 109 Otisco St.

The ongoing project is “Dr. Rev-erend Ebenezer Abernathy’s Mellif-luously, Melodious and Medicative Freedom Revival of Greater Central New York.” For short, the project is called the Dream Freedom Revival, a character-driven, community-based musical theater project that is inspired by the 19th-century evangelical revivals that were famous in Central New York. The Dream Freedom Revival draws on the region’s history and is directed by Imagining America’s Associate Director Kevin Bott.

— Compiled by Jon Harris, asst. news editor, [email protected]

By Chloe HuttonContributing Writer

This year’s second University Lectures series event, featuring Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine,

will focus on the state of both the nation and journalism.

Heuvel will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Syra-cuse Universi-ty’s Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday. The lecture, “On the Nation and Our Political M o v e m e n t , ” will focus on the impor-tance of grass-roots democ-

racy and independent journalism. Heuvel will also be speaking at the Syracuse Peace Council’s 75th anniversary.

“She will be speaking about movements — their ability to remake the political and social landscape, but also the challenge of sustaining them in this new era,” said Barbara Stewart, Heuvel’s

assistant, in an email. “And she will also talk about the state of journal-ism — where it’s headed and what we can do about it.”

The Nation is a weekly magazine that has been devoted to starting crit-ical and unbiased conversation about political and social subjects for 150 years, according to the magazine’s mission statement.

Esther Gray, senior administrator for academic affairs, praised Heuv-el’s success in her career and said she

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By Rachael BarillariStaff Writer

The election of junior Jonathan Reyes to the Student Associa-tion’s general assembly caused a lot of deliberation at Monday night’s meeting.

Reyes ran for the assembly saying Latino students need better repre-sentation in SA and said he could provide a voice for the community. Reyes said at the meeting, which was held at 7:30 p.m. in Maxwell Audito-rium, that he was inspired to run for SA because he said he believes Lati-nos are not reaching high enough levels of involvement in the Syracuse University community.

Reyes said segregation is a large issue on campus and ethnic groups tend to stick together. He said he plans on starting initiatives to help the multicultural community integrate.

“Segregation is a testy, touchy subject. SA isn’t being bold enough,”

he said. The assembly deliberated the

election of Reyes with conflicting views on the topic of multicultural integration. Several members said SA was already an ethnically diverse group. Assemblymember Gregory Harts expressed concern that Reyes only spoke about multi-cultural issues and not about the College of Arts and Sciences, which he would be representing.

SA President Neal Casey said multicultural initiatives are sensi-tive and charged issues, but he is happy to see someone come in to the assembly passionate about making changes.

“That is what we support in Stu-dent Association, students bringing an initiative in and then going pas-sionately to make something hap-pen,” Casey said.

Although there was opposition, Reyes was elected to represent Arts and Sciences along with freshman

Ivan Rosales and senior Kemi Akin-dude. Freshman Elizabeth Kahn was elected to represent the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and sophomore Michael Downes was elected to represent the School of Information Studies.

The elections of Reyes and Akin-dude were significant because of their upperclassmen standing. Casey has previously said SA is underclassmen-heavy and mem-bers have been working to recruit upperclassmen.

Kahn’s election required minor deliberation because she is also a member of University Union, which was viewed by some assembly members as a conflict of interest. She was elected, however, on the grounds that as an assembly mem-ber, she would have an indirect role of money allocation to UU.

The final seat for the S.I. New-house School of Public Communica-tions was filled by sophomore Ben Jones. The position was contested by junior transfer David Fisch. Both candidates said they would work to reach out to Newhouse students with the use of social media. Jones argued he was the better candidate because he was more familiar with the uni-versity community. Fisch said even though Jones has been on campus longer, he was part of the student government at Brandeis University and had more experience.

Several members argued Jones was not a valid candidate to rep-resent Newhouse because he will transfer to Arts and Sciences for

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“on the nation and our political movement”Katrina vanden heuvel will speak during the second university lecture series event of the year.Where: hen-dricks ChapelWhen: today, 7 p.m.How much: free and open to the public

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Ali said that students tend not to take advan-tage of their ability to observe certain religious holidays without fear of falling behind in class or experiencing academic consequences.

Tanweer Haq, assistant Islamic chaplain at Hendricks Chapel, said he agrees with Ali.

“Participation in the MySlice policy was lower than it could have been even though students had a choice of being proactive and asking their professor to give them excep-tions,” he said. “But they’re worried that they may have a lot of writing, or that they’ll run into other issues.”

Hendricks teamed with the chaplains and religious organizations on campus to arrange activities for students to take part in when their religious observances fall during the week.

For Rosh Hashana last week, the Winnick Hillel Center held several activities for observ-ing students, including conservative services, reform services, a lunch and a dinner, accord-ing to a fl ier from Hendricks. MSA held a similar dinner at Hendricks earlier this year.

“When it comes to holidays, the MSA’s objec-tive is to make the days as celebratory and joy-ous as possible,” Ali said. “Holidays are tough on students who can’t go home and enjoy the holidays with their families like they would typically do in years past, so we try to plan a celebratory dinner.”

During the past year, 76,000 students have walked through the doors of Hendricks for religious events or services, said Tiffany Stein-wert, dean of Hendricks. She also said that many students are not focused on one particu-lar religion.

“Students are starting to look at religion in different ways,” she said. “Twenty-fi ve per-cent of students are atheist and agnostic and are looking at the big questions, such as what’s right and what’s just. Like many students, they look at religion in ways that are bigger than before.”

Hendricks continuously tries to provide for the religious needs of students with regular activities as well. Many religions have chap-lains stationed at Hendricks who are available to answer questions, attend to students’ con-cerns or provide spiritual advice, said Ginny Yerdon, administrative assistant and events coordinator at Hendricks.

“We give Chaplains a list of students that have said, ‘My religious preference is such,’ and then the Chaplains are able to contact the students by email and let them know what’s available if they’re ever interested in worship or special events,” Yerdon said.

Yerdon said that college students are usu-ally willing to explore new religious faiths.

“Studies fi nd that students are more spiri-tual then having a particular religious tradi-tion,” Yerdon said. “And so many participate in a lot of different things, they sort of pick and choose what they want.”

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same template on those things,” he said.But for many fans, especially those from Upstate

and Central New York, traveling to the majority of SU’s away games will be more diffi cult after the move. Only two schools — Boston College and Pitts-burgh — are located within 370 miles of Syracuse.

John Petosa, a professor of practice at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, said moving to the ACC was a good move for SU in terms of stability, revenue and competi-

tion. While he has never been one to travel for regular-season games, he attends at least one NCAA event each year, he said.

“I love college basketball and the idea of bring-ing back the rivalry between my other alma mater Boston College, renewing the Virginia Tech and Miami games, and creating new rivalries with Duke and North Carolina can only make all of our sports programs stronger,” he said.

Petosa, an SU men’s basketball season ticket holder since 1987, said he’s not sure there will be many more seats sold after the move, but will bet the attendance record gets broken when Duke or N.C. play in the Carrier Dome for the fi rst time.

In 2009, about 20,000 tickets were sold at the beginning of the SU football season, according to a Sept. 28 article in The Daily Orange. Last year, sales were already in the mid-20,000s at this point.

For students, SU football season tickets cost $100, and for the general public, the season tickets start at $100 and can go up from there depending on where fans want to sit, according to the article. Comparatively, football season tickets at Duke University cost $140, according to the Duke athletics website.

SU fans can also buy the Third-Down Package, which consists of tickets to three home games of their choice for $75. Students can purchase the

combo pack, which includes football and basket-ball season tickets for a discounted rate.

Petosa said he hopes the extra revenue from the move to the ACC will be shared across the entire university, enhancing not only the ath-letic department, but also all the academic and research programs SU has to offer.

Said Petosa: “Maybe this will take some pressure off of the budget process for the school as a whole.”

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are made from recycled materials.The Center of Excellence features a 17,000

square foot green roof on the third fl oor. It absorbs rainwater, reducing the runoff to the city’s sewers causing overfl ows that end up contaminating Onondaga Lake, a big problem the county is trying to stop.

Eric Beattie, the director of Campus Plan-ning, Design and Construction at SU, hopes the Center of Excellence will make the city stronger

and set an example for future buildings.“Maybe one day we’ll have many platinum

buildings, and we’ll have to come up with a higher certification to keep on going,” Beat-tie said.

For now, SU is committed to seeking a LEED rating for everything that it builds or renovates. Beattie said Ernie Davis Hall has been LEED certifi ed with the Gold rating and that the university applied to receive certifi cation for the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center, the Green Data Center, and the renovation of Bowne and Lawrinson halls.

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thinks Heuvel’s understanding of the political environment will benefi t the SU community.

“Besides being an amazing journalist for many years, she has been the recipient of several public service awards from numer-ous groups for her stand on such issues as

civil liberties, women issues and discrimi-nation,” Gray said. “Her experience and accumulated knowledge makes her a perfect person to speak to our students, faculty and community.”

Hoang Murphy, a sophomore policy stud-ies major, said he looks forward to Heuvel’s lecture and to hear her opinions on the cur-rent state of the nation’s politics as the 2012 election approaches.

Gray said she hopes students, like Murphy, who are interested in the country’s development will be inspired to continue to stand up to politi-cal and social injustices.

The Syracuse Peace Council supports this grassroots spirit.

Founded in 1936, the council is a community-based organization that is devoted to anti-war and social justice movements, according to the organization’s statement of purpose.

“Katrina vanden Heuvel is our tribute to its anniversary,” Gray said.

Andy Mager, a staff member of the council, described the organization’s newsletter as hav-ing similar responsibilities as The Nation.

“It does what The Nation does: It provides an alternative view to the political current,” Mager said. “It’s kind of our own grassroots movement.”

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the spring semester. Others expressed concern about Fisch and said he presented himself unprofessionally.

After the elections, Casey noted that SA has now passed the 75 percent capacity mark, but recruitment still needs to be done in the School of Architecture and the School of Visual and Performing Arts. The School of Architecture currently has no student representatives while VPA has three seats fi lled out of 10.

Bonnie Kong, Academic Affairs Committee chair, said in her report that Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management, is plan-ning to speak to the assembly Nov. 14 about the transparency in the SU ranking and admission

process. She updated the assembly on the prog-ress of the SA’s Academic Integrity Resolution to create a student board. Kong said the struc-ture of the student council is in the works.

Other business discussed:· Three bills were passed at Monday’s meeting after the recommendations were made by the Finance Board. The Obscure Cinema Society was granted $491 for a Halloween Double Fea-ture, UNICEF was denied $537 to fund their Halloween Dance Party and Alpha Tau Omega was denied $1,016 for a hot dog eating contest.· In his report, Casey was enthusiastic about the climbing number of assembly members and expressed optimism about fi lling the rest of the seats. He also spoke about members being inter-viewed on Citrus TV about their initiatives.

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S cience prides itself on being as objective as possible. There is the scientifi c method, which

provides a clear process for going about exploring research, and peer-reviewed journals to publish papers that are meticulously critiqued. That’s great, but following those rules isn’t everything.

When science, especially anything biological or ecological — anything alive — is your life’s work, it is not enough to hold it at arm’s length and be objective about it. You have to love it. A professor of mine likened this to having a girlfriend and telling her that you like the idea of her as a woman. She would dump you.

I’m such a sucker for ecosystems;

I’ve fallen in love again and again. My fi rst real job was as an

apprentice on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a wooden boat with environmental education programs. I quickly became smitten with both the river and boat. Clearwater is a replica of the type of sail boats that shipped goods up and down the river before the advent of highways and trucks.

The boat and its crew sailed from New York City to Albany, bringing kids on board to teach them about the Hudson River.

It was visceral to haul on rope every day to put our sails in the air and make the boat go places. Every muscle in your body works to bring up a sail, all pumping thighs and clenching abs as you pull the line in hand over hand. We became part of that pulsing, tidal river. Acting swiftly and as a team was crucial to safely and successfully maneuvering sails that weigh thousands of pounds with the aid of pulleys alone.

We were trawling every day, becoming intimately aware of the marine life we pulled up in our net.

We could anticipate catching different critters depending on where we were on the river. My favorite fi sh was the hogchoker, a fl at river sole the size of your hand that lives across the whole length of the river crew would glee-fully pull them out of the buckets and stick them on our faces for kicks.

The fi rst night I stood anchor watch, I was tiptoeing on deck check-ing lights, batteries and making sure the anchor remained fi rmly attached to the riverbed. It was an August night crisp with the onset of fall. We were in a dark cove north of West Point where you could see more stars than I had imagined existed — that night was the kind of beautiful that smacks you in the face and consumes

you. The whole crew was sleeping on deck that night, being lulled to sleep by salty breezes, just as enamored of this place as I was. This was the moment I knew that I couldn’t have tried to shake this river; it will always pull me back.

Since going to college I have always been drawn to study estuary ecosystems, tidal bodies of water where freshwater meets saltwater. I’m invested in what happens to the fi sh, the water and people who live there because they are real and they love me back.

Leanna Mulvihill is a senior forest engineering major and environmental

writing and rhetoric minor. Her column appears every Tuesday. She

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Targeted gifts for middle-income students vital as college costs grow

A year ago, trustee and alumnus How-ard “Howie” Phanstiel and his wife, Louise, donated $20 million to Syracuse University to fund partial scholarships for students from middle-income fami-lies. This freshman class is the fi rst to benefi t from the Phanstiels’ gift.

These target scholarships serve as a tremendous example of the kind of gifts that truly make a difference to young adults and their futures. The costs of college have become too bur-densome for middle-income families to shoulder without assuming tens of thousands — sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars — in loans.

SU has retained a reputation for generous undergraduate aid. But such gifts as that of the Phanstiels’ allow SU to expand its reach to Amer-ica’s working middle class without raising the discount rate, the amount of fi nancial aid, so high it takes away from other areas of the campus.

Research and commentary done by experts in higher education, such as Russell Osgood, president of Grin-nell College, have argued metrics like the Free Application for Student Aid overestimates the amount of money a typical middle-income family can

put toward tuition. Middle-income families, as Osgood refers to them, make $60,000 to $120,000 a year for a family of four.

State and federal programs make great and admirable efforts to aid college-bound young adults from poor or minority backgrounds. And need-less to say, students from wealthy back-grounds require little to no assistance. But middle-class students receive the short end of the stick, deciding their academic future based on fi nances rather than on program strength.

Adding to the fi nancial pressure of these students is the need to go to college to maintain a middle-class standard of living. A bachelor’s degree, if not a master’s, has become more and more of a necessity for aver-age middle-income jobs.

Gifts like the Phanstiels’ gift are prudent in their understanding of this system and the growing need of mid-dle-class families. They’ve established a model for scholarships that should be replicated by future donors.

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At risk Long-term exposure to pollution exacerbates danger of heart attack

By Katie Van BruntSTAFF WRITER

A recent study found living in areas with high traffi c pollution correlates to a higher rate of heart attacks, according to

a Time magazine article published online Sept. 21. The study found that although the risk is real, it is

also transient — meaning that those already prone to heart attack are more at risk than those who don’t currently suffer from heart ailments. Short-term exposure does not equate to a risk but prolonged exposure does, according to the article.

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine analyzed data from those who had a heart attack between 2003 and 2006 in 15 urban areas of England and Wales, according to the article. A team of epidemiologists then compared the recorded hour of each heart attack with regional air pollution data, which offered information about pollutant particles

and greenhouse gas levels, according to the article.Simon Hales, a senior research fellow at the Brit-

ish Medical Journal who wrote an editorial about the study, said the study’s results should be studied even further.

“Further evidence that effects of air pollution are complex suggests that policymakers should focus on effects of long-term exposure,” Hales said.

Not only will this study peak the interest of poli-cymakers and environmentalists, Hales said he also believes it will bring more general awareness about the dangers of pollution.

This isn’t the fi rst time pollution has been shown to negatively affect health. In regard to high rates of asthma and pollution, it has become a problem in the public health world.

Pollution has also been an issue in the city of Syracuse.

“We know that there are high rates of asthma

in people living in public housing adjacent to I-81,” said Maureen Thompson, associate professor and undergraduate program director of the public health at the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.

“Both ozone and fi ne particles have been found to cause an increase in atherosclerosis in adults,” Thompson added.

Syracuse monitors the amounts of pollution and has also been an advocate for the creation of things such as rain gardens and urban forests, Thompson said.

“Absolutely no good comes from constantly inhal-ing air pollution, hence the problems with asthma and heart risks related to pollution,” said Lauren Searles, a junior public health major. “I think SU needs to fi nd ways to take action against the city’s pollution and make it a safer place to live.”

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the show. A lowered scrim, a piece of cloth used as a screen, was present at the opening

and closing of the show and functioned like the front and back covers of a book. As the show progressed, the scrim lifted, with additional stage light following suit.

At the climax of the second act, the house lights illuminated, exposing the corrupt

Liberty Committee for what it truly was: a fi st-clenching union by another name. The fourth wall was broken and the situation extended beyond text and the performance. At the end of the show, the lights dimmed and the scrim lowered back into place.

Though “The Cradle Will Rock” is not an easy show to digest, the sheer quality of the performers save the production. Bringing the script to life, the performers deserve nothing less than a full house.

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O ne of today’s pressing issues is the assimilation of technology into the classroom. But as keyboards become

nothing more than extensions of our limbs, an entirely different angle on technology in the classroom is emerging resolutely. Rather than considering how we can best use technology to teach, the true question now is: How can we, as a society being catapulted into the information age and beyond, best teach technology?

Dave Molta, director of the information management and technology undergraduate program at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, believes the integration of technology into the school curriculum is a topic that deserves consideration.

“Reading, writing and arithmetic are still important, but technology is important as well. If you look at where the jobs are in the 21st century, there are a lot of opportunities for students in technology.”

As evidenced by the sheer volume of commercials advertising distance-learning programs in information technologies, these opportunities are boundless, and the skills needed to take advantage of them are not being adequately taught.

Christopher Azar, a senior graphic design and policy studies major, also recognizes this

need but is cautious about how to best approach a K-12 education in technology.

“There’s no doubt that there’s a gigantic demand for computer science that we’re not fulfi lling,” he said. “But programming is a very variable culture; there are so many different languages you can learn.”

Isaac Budmen, a senior policy studies major, thinks otherwise.

“I think the way technology is developing, the more people that can come out of high school with the skills to program and code, the better,” he said.

While the current initiatives taken by the U.S. government and companies like Hewlett-Packard and Samsung to get technology into classrooms to subsidize teaching are a step in the right direction, this approach may not be all that relevant to how tech-savvy a student emerges from the public education system.

Today’s youth is exposed to technology at increasingly younger ages. To them, its basic use is second nature.

“In most cases, students are learning tech-nology because they’re living it. I think that in a lot of areas, we probably don’t need to worry that much about students developing general computer profi ciency,” Molta said.

We live in a society that may advance to the point that its illiterate and ignorant population will not be those who cannot read, but rather those who cannot properly employ the use of technology. Basic comprehension of technology will no longer be the point the insidious line is drawn. Instead, it will be the ability and drive to innovate that will separate these groups.

The success of the upcoming generation in technology, and effectively the ability of the United States to be relevant and cutting edge, will be in the hands of its visionaries.

Azar believes future innovators are crucial to how we develop as a forward thinking nation and the best approach is to make educational opportunities available without forcing them.

“What professors need to do is open doors and open as many doors as possible so that people can step through them if they want to.”

Molta, though explicitly conscious of the need for a more effective approach to teaching

technology at a younger age, is also wary of seeing this executed in the public education system as a mandate handed down from the government.

“There’s a lot of variation at the local level in terms of the needs and the capacities,” he said. “This is something where people should have more fl exibility to be innovative.”

Although the teaching of technology may have a place in the public education system soon, it’s impossible to plan for a future that has no discernible outline.

In the meantime, those best attuned to tech-nology may be those borne of an innate passion for it, those who pursue it of their own volition. As the future changes, the holders will be a very different kind of person — an innovator, a visionary, a designer, storyteller, caregiver, creator, those made of their own desire and opportunity.

The generation born holding iPads will grow up to see opportunities that a lifetime of exposure to the wall-less rooms of technology have afforded them, boosted by a public educa-tion or not.

Jessica Smith is a senior information manage-ment and technology and television, radio and

fi lm major. Her column appears every Tuesday. She can be reached at [email protected].

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By Erin ScialabbaContributing Writer

S yracuse University’s drama department’s produc-tion of Marc Blitzstein’s musical “The Cradle Will Rock” strikes at the perfect time. With the New

York State Public Employees Federation facing more than 3,000 layoffs and Occupy Wall Street protestors

fighting for a voice in the media, the musical about workers revolting against upper-class greed feels wildly resonant.

Despite its relevance, “Cradle” and its

symbolic approach can often be dense and downright difficult to understand. Luckily, the show’s disjointed progression and Rodney Hudson’s meticulous direction allow the “Cradle” cast to deliver inspired performances that enlighten as much as they entertain. “The Cradle Will Rock” will play at Syracuse Stage until Oct. 8.

Set in the fictional Steeltown, United States, “Cradle” examines the relationship between labor unions and society’s upper crust. At the top of the ladder, a Rockefeller-meets-Big-Brother figure named Mr. Mister (Amos Vanderpoel, senior acting major) presides over a suspiciously union-like, anti-union group called the Liberty Committee. Several committee members are mistakenly jailed for the union activity of Larry Fore-man (David Siciliano), a worker hellbent on causing a shift in power. The story unfolds with flashbacks of the committees’ misdeeds.

Flashbacks gave each cast member a number to show-case his or her talents, allowing the performers to raise the bar. One such vignette belonged to junior musical theater major Katie LaMark, who played three different characters. However, it was her infectious portrayal of Sister Mister, Mr. Mister’s flirtatious daughter, that nearly stole the show. Though Sister Mister’s incestuous relation-ship with her perhaps too loving brother, Junior Mister (Eric Meyers), drew the audience’s attention, LaMark’s performance transcended the scene’s shock value. Her

every gesture was interesting and intentional. In each of LaMark’s three roles, her distinct voice shone through.

Mary Claire King, a senior musical theater major, also delivered a compelling performance as Mrs. Mister, Mr. Mister’s wife and subordinate. King’s ingenious character choices fueled her dynamic vocal performance. With each syllable, King’s voice fluttered back and forth in a sort of verbal slapstick. Her crooked posture and maniacal energy were also enhanced by her commitment to portray Mrs. Mister. Freezing for min-utes during multiple scenes, King never broke character.

However, Siciliano’s epic portrayal of union leader Larry Foreman was the show’s crown jewel. Making his first appearance at the beginning of Act II, the junior acting major brought freshness to the show, reigniting the audience’s interest. Uniquely human and movingly raw, Siciliano’s Foreman was the perfect relief to the caricatures of the elite. With a voice that somehow communicated both vulnerability and strength, and a sense of compassion that compensated for the Liberty Committee’s lack thereof, Siciliano’s character managed to channel the spirit of an entire revolution.

Though the cast was certainly talented, staging and choreography played a major role in the success of the performance. Choreographer Andrea Leigh-Smith’s well-defined blocking transitioned scenes from past to pres-ent, and her precise choreography illustrated personal and metaphorical relationships between characters.

Leigh-Smith achieved her greatest success in the final scene of Act I was with violinist Yasha (Maclain Whelan Dassatti, junior musical theater major) and painter Dauber (Sean Coyle, a senior acting major). With syn-chronized, mirrored steps, the two artists pushed and pulled each other into Mr. and Mrs. Mister’s good graces. Though consistently well executed, the choreography at times felt a bit too calculated, especially in the Steeltown University scene when the professors wove in and out of each other while pantomiming a game of football.

Creative lighting design and set functions also played a key role in unraveling the play’s message, inviting audience members to both understand and experience

By Nazia IslamContributing Writer

Most college students had a favorite children’s book that they couldn’t put down when they were young. This week is the time to dust off your favor-ite childhood book with Syracuse University Bookstore’s Children’s Book Week.

For more than 15 years, the SUB has coordinated book readings for local Syracuse children. This year, from Monday through Friday, there will be readings of picture books to children of the Syracuse community. The purpose of the event is to reach

out to the community and incorporate it into the university environment, said Leah Deyneka, the academic sup-port coordinator for the SUB.

Student athletes, professors and the Literacy Corps volunteers will participate in the event as readers for the children.

“This event is an outreach to the community. It’s a chance for the local children, parents, caretakers and teachers to be exposed and get famil-iar with the university,” Deyneka said. “Children’s books are still popu-lar and well read even amongst col-lege students.”

The first day of the event was held at the Sarah Loguen Child Care Cen-ter. Kathleen Bradley, book division manager at SUB, buys and organizes the books for this event and was one

of the readers there. She read “Pig Kahuna” by Jennifer Sattler, a book about a pig that overcomes its fears of

the ocean. Bradley said that although she had never read the book before, she enjoyed reading it to the kids.

From Wednesday through Fri-day, fourth- and fifth-grade chil-dren from local schools, including Dr. King Elementary School and Edward Smith K-8 School, and the Bernice Wright Nursery School will visit the SUB in the Schine Student Center to listen to vari-ous children’s books. On Tuesday the SU student readers will go off-campus to nearby areas to read picture books to children at the Sarah Loguen Child Care Center

and Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital.

“We really like students to come to campus,” Bradley said. “Then they can see the campus, and it kind of invigorates and enlightens them.”

In addition to the readers, book characters will also make appear-ances, including Clifford the Big Red Dog and one of the Wild Things from Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.”

“We just love it,” Bradley said. “The kids get so excited. It’s a great opportu-nity for us to share our love of reading.”

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“Children’s books are still popular and well read even amongst college students.”

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By Darren BlecknerSTAFF WRITER

I f it’s not broken, don’t fi x it. That’s the motto of Florida punk rockers New Found Glory. It’s tough for an aging band to stay relevant in the ever-

changing music scene, especially when its song-crafting formula is consistently the same. Songs become stale and sound redundant. But New Found Glory keeps releasing music that pleases both old-school and new-school punk fans, taking its signature pop-punk sound and revamping it for a new generation.

Following big pop-punk releases from Blink-182 and Saves the Day earlier this fall, New Found Glory’s seventh studio album, “Radiosurgery,” brims with the same high-energy punk anthems they have been known for since the late ‘90s. The band weaves songs about girlfriends, ex-lovers and best friends throughout the album’s eleven tracks. While singer Jordan Pundik’s shrill whine has lowered an octave since the band’s beginnings, guitarists Chad Gil-bert and Steve Klein channel their inner Ramones on this album and continue to play lead and rhythm in perfect harmony.

The only real fl aw on the album is title track and opener “Radiosurgery.” While the guitar riff and chorus will get lodged in your brain, the verse’s lyrics are cliché and dull. Pundik, now in his early 30s, wails: “I’m breaking down like a nervous wreck, my heart is beating out of my chest.” Instantly, the image of a sad teenager comes to mind. The line seems forced and not very believable from someone Pundik’s age. The chorus also lacks the classic New Found Glory lead guitar riff that made songs like “My Friends Over You” and “Hit or Miss” such enormous singles.

After the hiccup of “Radiosurgery,” the album settles down with 10 songs fi lled with banging snare drums, soaring choruses and palm muted guitars that dampen the sound of the strings. “Anthem for the Unwanted” is quintessential New Found Glory. The three-minute track features distorted power chords and a call and

repeat “oh, oh, oh” chorus. “Drill it in my Brain” is the album’s strongest track, with an unforgettable chorus that will have you instantaneously singing along. A powerful guitar riff mixed with well-placed handclaps, pick slides and Pundik’s upbeat wail make it a setlist staple for the future.

The band’s pop sensibilities shine in “Ready, Aim, Fire!” and “Summer Fling, Don’t Mean a

Thing.” Beautifully crafted pop-punk songs, both tracks are certainly worthy of being

the album’s next single. “Caught in the Act” is also a

pleasant surprise. It’s the album’s only

love song, featuring one of the album’s only

lengthy guitar solos with back and forth

vocals provided by Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino

and Pundik. Cosentino’s sensual voice is a refreshing break from Pun-

dik and the rest of the band’s deep-pitched backing vocals.

The album closes strong by showing the pain-ful side of love with “Memories and Battle Scars.”

Pundik paints a picture of what someone franti-cally in love would do to keep their partner: “I want

to kiss you so hard that your lips bleed /And I want to hold you so tight that your ribs break.” Album closer

“Map of Your Body” most resembles early New Found Glory. Distorted power chords, harmonies and pound-ing drums dominate the track as Pundik pines over a girl by comparing her to a map as he tries to escape a maze of sorrow.

While “Radiosurgery” does not pack the heavy hit-ting punch that previous album “Not Without a Fight” did, it is still fi lled with quality punk riffs and melodies. It’s a purely enjoyable album from one of punk rock’s most consistent bands. New Found Glory’s members continue to show they have the stranglehold on the punk genre, and their longevity attests to that.

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Sounds like: Good old New Found Glory

Genre: Pop punk

Top track: “Drill It in My Brain”

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By Elizabeth DreesonCONTRIBUTING WRITER

When Jordan Page arrived at Syracuse this fall, she quickly learned not to let others push her around. In earning an opportunity to start at midfield as only a freshman, Page has picked up some other important lessons about playing at the collegiate level right away.

“To not stand back and to be aggressive and not let someone push you around,” Page said. “Be strong on the ball and to just have confi-dence when you play and to know that you’re going to do what you need to do.”

Fellow freshman midfielder Stephanie Hussey feels the same way. She said playing for SU has taught her to remain humble regardless of status or year on the team.

Both Page and Hussey have applied the les-sons they’ve learned early this season on the field. The two United States U-19 team mem-bers have already made key contributions in their young Syracuse (9-2, 3-0 Big East) careers.

Despite being freshmen, they have each played in at least 10 of SU’s 11 games this season. Page reached a new height by scoring her first career goal in a win over Rutgers on Sept. 16, and Hussey has notched one assist so far.

Playing time at Syracuse is not purely hierarchical. Senior Martina Loncarica, who started every game as a freshman in 2008, said if SU’s freshmen work hard, they can earn spots in the starting lineup.

“We have a certain fitness standard, and every-one needs that standard so everyone is capable enough of playing good hockey, so they can earn their starting positions,” Loncarica said.

Page has already earned a role as a consis-tent starter for the Orange. But rather than getting caught up in her individual accomplish-ment, Page is keeping her focus on the team.

Each player has her own role, whether it is in a starting position or off the bench, Page said. And each player must be ready to contribute when her number is called during a game for the team to achieve its ultimate goal of winning.

Even when Page and Hussey were high school seniors still searching for the right school for them, they were impressed by the strong team chemistry at Syracuse.

“The fact that the girls have been so helpful and everything actually makes the transition 10 times smoother,” Hussey said.

Hussey said she instantly felt comfortable

upon her arrival. She didn’t feel like a recruit, she felt like she was part of the team.

Page’s reasons for choosing SU were simi-larly based on the strong team dynamic. She was also excited by the community’s strong support of the athletic programs.

The support system provided by Page’s vet-eran teammates has eased the transition, she said.

Loncarica is one of those veterans. And it was even harder for her to adapt her freshman year because, unlike Page and Hussey, Lon-carica isn’t from the United States. An added obstacle was her transition from life and field hockey in Argentina to life and field hockey in Syracuse.

Loncarica had to adapt to both a new culture and a new level of competition as well.

“Biggest challenge, just everything,” Lon-carica said. “Getting adapted to a new culture and getting to play in a different environment.”

Loncarica had to adapt to the faster pace of the college game coming from a high school level in her home country that was not very competitive.

Page has had those same difficulties in her time with SU. She said her experience on the national team has helped her cope with the change in the speed of the game, but she is still adjusting to other challenges that come with playing in college.

“My other experiences have really helped me with the pace of the game, but the physicalness is always a new thing coming from high school,” Page said.

For Syracuse to progress as far as it wants to in the Big East and NCAA tournaments, contributions from freshmen such as Page and Hussey are essential. The Orange’s 9-2 start to this season is partially a credit to the early contributions from the freshman class.

But there are still challenges ahead for the freshmen to be ready for the bigger games later this season.

“I think the biggest challenge is just trying to find where I fit,” Page said, “and I think just having confidence and playing to my ability. But I have been doing pretty well, and I have really enjoyed playing.”

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By Chris IsemanSTAFF WRITER

After a crushing double-overtime defeat to Pittsburgh, Ian McIntyre found a silver lining for his team to consider.

Even after his players’ unquestioned effort led to another loss — their frustration building up with seemingly every game — the head coach wouldn’t let them feel completely dejected. The constant fight for wins in the competitive Big East should provide enough of a reason not to dwell on a loss, but rather look forward to the next game.

“Talking to the guys tonight, this is why they came to Syracuse,” McIntyre said. “This is why our coaching staff came. To play these types of games. We will be working hard, and if we keep putting the effort we are in practice into games, good things will happen.”

So far, though, “good things” haven’t been too prevalent.

Syracuse began its season with a strong show-ing, winning its home opener after suffering a road loss to Colgate. There was one more win, but that spelled the end of the new beginning in 2011.

After that second win, SU (2-7, 0-2 Big East) has gone on to lose its last five games. Suddenly, the hope for a winning season has transformed into a state of concern, as the formula for winning games has become elusive once again.

The Orange has lost both Big East games it has played this season, but after each, McIntyre said his team didn’t lose because of a lack of hustle or heart. Instead, he said his team did what it needed to do to win, but ended up on the wrong side of the ledger because of the talents of SU’s opponents.

“We’re playing good teams,” McIntyre said. “We’re looking to find ways to win these games. But it’s not because of a lack of effort.”

And that’s certainly been the case at times. Syracuse gave then-No.16 New Mexico fits back on Sept. 18, but ended up losing 2-1 in overtime. The Lobos still haven’t lost a game two weeks later.

But other times — against worse teams — Syracuse has struggled. When the Orange played Marquette and lost 3-2, the Golden Eagles were 2-4-1 on the year. SU fell 2-1 to Binghamton after a poor offensive showing, and the Bearcats only improved their record to 4-5.

After beating SU this past weekend, the Panthers are still only 3-6-1. But even after losing to teams whose records were all below .500, McIntyre insisted they were formidable opponents capable of playing beyond the level their records indicated.

At some point, though, the Orange will need to expose the deficiencies of its opponents to notch a win. After Syracuse’s sloppy loss to Binghamton, senior forward Dan Summers said he still believed his team had a chance at the Big East tournament. Although after SU’s less than impressive performance, it became clear that its play on the field needs to improve drastically.

“We need to roll our sleeves up because that’s going to happen, especially in that Big East tournament games once the season gets there, and that’s our goal to get there,” Sum-mers said. But Syracuse has been losing too many battles.

One of the Orange’s bright spots has been the play of its back four, as the defense has given Syracuse a chance to tie the game or take the

lead in nearly every game. SU hasn’t lost a game by more than one goal all season.

And that’s with a defense featuring three fresh-men and a goalkeeper who’s in his first season at Syracuse after transferring from Evansville.

“I think as a group, as a defensive group, I think we’ve been pretty good,” McIntyre said. “Just that maturity and that comes with experience.”

Experience is one of the categories Syracuse lacks the most. Whether or not the Orange can make up for it in conference play remains to be seen. But right now SU remains on the cusp between salvaging its season and a third con-secutive disappointing year.

If there’s anything for certain, it’s that the Orange doesn’t have any easy games on its schedule from now until the end of its campaign.

And that’s something one of its veterans under-stands to mean the team will have to fight for victories.

“This is the Big East, you don’t get cupcake teams,” junior midfielder Ted Cribley said. “You don’t get easy points.”

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JORDAN PAGE (LEFT) has been effective as a freshman in the early part of SU’s sea-son. Page has played in all 11 games for Syracuse, contributing one goal and an assist.

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By Nick ToneySTAFF WRITER

There was no sugarcoating the in-your-face spike South Florida’s Andrea Rodriguez Gomez blasted at Lindsay McCabe.

Syracuse was barely leading late in the fourth set, and Rodriguez Lopez, the Bulls middle blocker, hardly jumped at the net before making McCabe pay for a late defensive slide. Behind the backdrop of loud USF cheers, McCabe wasn’t the only SU player cursing under her breath after the point.

But as her team regrouped before the next serve, Laura Homann wasn’t swearing. She was laughing. It was alright, she told her team-mates. She rolled her eyes and smiled before breaking the huddle.

“She keeps things in perspective,” McCabe said.

For a team whose roster features 50 percent first-year players, Homann, a junior, is a leader by age. Homann is also a setter, which means she’s a leader by position, too, SU assistant coach Kelly Morrisroe said. Experience or abil-ity aside, Homann also leads Syracuse (11-6, 2-1 Big East) by easing pressure-packed situations.

She talks her teammates through tough games, de-emphasizing opponents when they score and consoling teammates when they make mis-takes.

“She’s this team’s rock,” middle blocker Samantha Hinz said. “Without her, we’d all be going crazy.”

The team leaned on that type of leadership early in the season. Homann, named co-captain by head coach Jing Pu, maintained a smile on the SU side — even when the Orange trailed Youngstown State by two sets early in the sea-son. Before the start of the third set, Homann turned her back to the net, told her teammates to get ready for a comeback and clapped her hands in preparation.

SU won the next three sets and took the match in five.

“That’s something I do naturally,” Homann said. “I’m loud.”

Homann can lead quietly as well. The Orange lost those first two sets to Youngstown State by a total of four points due to hitting errors and a few service errors. During that time, Homann wasn’t joking with teammates when she told them to step up.

“We weren’t getting outplayed.” Homann said. “We were just beating ourselves. I had to say something.”

But in the third set, freshman Ying Shen entered the match for the first time and was given a simple pat on the back by a calm and col-lected Homann. It was exactly what the fresh-man needed in her first game, Morrisroe said.

Shen ended the match with eight kills and a pair of service aces in the last three sets of a comeback victory.

Morrisroe said Homann can easily relate to each of the team’s nine freshman, a valuable skill for SU.

“Laura’s been there before,” Morrisroe said. “She played every game as a freshman, and she’s still playing as a junior. She won her play-ing time by playing the way she has.”

Morrisroe, in her first year, wasn’t on the SU coaching staff to watch Homann’s ascent. What she sees now is the nearly finished product of two-plus years of hard work. Homann had 50 assists in a loss against Utah Valley. She hit the 50-assist mark twice two weekends ago against USF and Niagara.

Senior defensive specialist Ashley Williams

said Homann backs up what she says on the court with how she plays.

“She’s a very, very good setter,” Williams said. “And she makes us play better.”

The team needed better play last weekend to stop a two-game losing streak. With outside hitter Erin Little inserted into the lineup and a new libero — Noemie Lefebvre — behind her, Homann helped secure two victories against Big East opponents.

Against St. John’s, Homann assisted kills by Little and Lefebvre to key a game-clinching 25-22 third set. Homann’s 37 assists the next day at Connecticut gave her 3,000 assists for her career, making her only the sixth SU player to do so. Both victories were 3-0 sweeps.

Homann’s ability to lead vocally and by example has helped SU one year after losing three key seniors. As this team tries to make up for its disappointing end in 2010 — missing the Big East tournament — her leadership will play a big role for the Orange.

“Whenever things are quiet out there, she makes sure we hear her,” Lefebvre said. “On the court, she’s vocal, and we need that.”

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teams’ future. And for former Miami women’s basketball coach Ferne Labati, moving away from the Big East wasn’t easy to accept.

“It was sad because the whole idea with teams over a period of time in conferences is the camaraderie you develop in your confer-ence,” Labati said. “I really enjoyed every aspect of being in the Big East. From the commissioner on down, I thought it was a class organization.”

Labati said she remembers being called into a meeting with the other Miami coaches and being told the school was moving to the ACC. She had never been told a move was being discussed, which left her shocked that an era she cared deeply about was ending.

In Labati’s 17 seasons at Miami, the Hurri-canes made nine postseason appearances and had five consecutive 20-win seasons. But they struggled in their one and only season in the ACC under Labati, going 13-16 overall and 5-11 against conference opponents.

Labati and her players missed seeing the familiar faces on other teams, and especially longed for the rivalry games with Connecticut and Georgetown.

So much of what had defined Labati’s time at Miami had disappeared.

Sitting in that meeting with Shalala and then-Miami Athletic Director Paul Dee, Laba-ti and her fellow coaches were asked their thoughts on the move. While there was cer-tainly disappointment, they could only believe

Dee and Shalala when they said it was the right decision for Miami.

“When I was at the University of Miami, it was all about the teams,” Labati said. “It was all about the university. It was all about the athletic department. … So we just felt that if the president and the athletic director felt that it was in the best interest of the university, then it was in the best interest of us.”

For Skinner, even when Boston College made the move official, he couldn’t get himself to entertain the idea of coaching in the ACC. The switch in conferences created an odd feeling for Skinner, who was essentially a member of two different leagues but only coaching games in one.

Now, coaches at Syracuse and Pittsburgh are left in a similar position. Skinner said he’s certain SU men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim and Panthers men’s basketball head coach Jamie Dixon aren’t giving any serious thought to what life will be like in two years.

“I’m sure Jamie and Jim are just thinking about, they may even have two years in this league. That’s what they’re going to concentrate on,” Skinner said. “They’re not going to think about what the future holds because who knows what it does. Something can change drastically, and all of a sudden, you’re not in that scenario.”

While he said he missed the regular-season games with some of Boston College’s Big East opponents, Skinner found it most difficult to deal with no longer playing in the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden.

Both he and his players missed playing on that type of stage, especially with the increased exposure that week brought to the program.

“I think anyone that is a part of the Big East

loves going to New York to play in the Big East tournament,” Skinner said. “From a status standpoint, from the crowd, from the historical standpoint, it’s a great environment. It’s the one time of the year when college basketball captures the biggest city in the country.”

But in a new league and in a new tournament, Skinner had to practically start from scratch in building up BC’s credibility. Despite the team’s previous success, Skinner said he wanted to make sure the ACC teams knew that Boston Col-lege would bring that level of play with it.

In the Eagles’ first appearance in the ACC tournament in 2006, they lost to Duke 78-76 in the championship game. That, Skinner said, proved to his new conference that Boston Col-lege was as strong as every other team and would remain competitive for as long as he was the head coach.

It’s the exact same position Boeheim and Dixon will find themselves in a little more than two years from now, providing both are still at their respective schools and are forced to wait the full 27 months before officially moving to the ACC. They will lose the storied tradition and history of the Big East, but the start of a new chapter in the ACC will present a new set of challenges for their programs.

For now, though, Skinner said they can’t get caught up in what’s going to happen in 27 months. There are still too many Big East games to be played for both schools to look that far down the road.

“You need to take care of business at that time,” Skinner said. “And when the transition is official, then you can entertain the idea.”

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He said they would be involved in a limited role to “see where they are at this point.”

“If they do well today, then the question comes on how we’ll work them in,” he said. “I don’t know if we’ll throw them in there full time because I haven’t seen them run on the field. But they’ll be out there in a limited role in individual drills today. If things go well, then tomorrow we’ll increase that role and have a

better feel for what packages they’re playing and if they’re starting at all.”

That leaves Chandler Jones as the only uncertainty for the Orange. Marrone said the senior defensive end was going to be evaluated by the doctor on Tuesday, after which a decision would be made.

“I think that he’s much closer now than he’s ever been,” Marrone said. “I look forward to that.”

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T U E S D AYoctober 4, 2011

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Sophomore Gulley out for season

By Michael CohenSPORTS EDITOR

One week after Doug Marrone closed practice in response to the health issues surrounding his team, he announced that running back Prince-Tyson Gulley was out for the season.

Gulley, a sopho-more who served as the backup for Antwon Bailey, will miss the remainder of 2011 after undergoing an operation for a broken col-larbone — an injury that was

sustained off the field. “Prince-Tyson Gulley is out for

the year,” Marrone said Monday dur-ing his press conference. “Everyone else to my knowledge should be fine unless something happens during the week.”

Therein lies the silver lining for Marrone and his staff. The Orange came out of the game against Rutgers with far fewer injuries than it did following the previous week’s win over Toledo.

But Gulley is still a big loss for SU. Gulley had the best game of his

career against the Rockets, rushing for 66 yards on 10 carries in his role spelling Bailey. His shiftiness and quick burst of speed through the offensive line provided the Orange with a change of pace yet to be seen out of the offense so far this season.

Sophomore Jerome Smith moves up to the No. 2 spot on the SU depth chart, with freshman Adonis Ameen-Moore and sophomore Steven Rene behind him.

Marrone said all three of those players will receive reps in practice following the loss of Gulley.

“We’re going to play those play-ers because if, God forbid, something happens to Antwon (Bailey), now everything is increased,” Marrone said. “… We have to get those players involved in the system, and you’ll see all of those players involved in the game plan.”

But Marrone also shared some positive news with the media Monday, announcing that safeties Shamarko Thomas and Olando Fisher were scheduled to participate in practice later that day. Both have missed at least two games due to injuries.

Climate change

ACC benefits outweighed lost rivalries for BC, Va. Tech, Miami

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By Chris IsemanSTAFF WRITER

A l Skinner appreciated the ges-ture, but he still felt somewhat out of place.

Sitting among Atlantic Coast Con-ference coaches and officials at the league’s spring meetings in 2004, none of the decisions being made had any effect on Skinner or Boston College. With another season in the Big East remaining for the Eagles, Skinner had no interest in focusing on ACC issues.

“I realized they were talking about things that, yeah, I may be involved in, but right now it really didn’t impact me, so I had to concentrate on the Big East and prepare for that,” the former BC men’s basketball head coach said. “I think they were trying to be cordial and extend a hand. … But the business at hand, for me, was the Big East.”

Skinner was entering his seventh year at the helm when Boston College defected from the Big East to the ACC in October 2003, less than four months after Miami and Virginia Tech made the same move. The primary reason that fueled the ACC’s raid of the Big East was to expand from nine teams to 12, which would allow for two divisions of six teams. Most importantly, it would create a football conference champi-onship game, with the aim of raising television revenue for the conference.

While the three schools benefited from the move to the ACC, the coach-

es and players at each felt the disap-pointment of losing the familiarity of opponents and rivalries.

But what they lost in sentimental-ity, they gained in competitiveness and convenience. For Miami and Vir-ginia Tech, the change in conferences meant a less daunting travel schedule.

“The primary reason for us was that we’re right in the middle for the footprint of the ACC,” Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Jim Weaver said. “One of the main reasons for us was that we are now in a bus league. We cut down tremendously on our travel expenses.”

The ACC extended invitations to Virginia Tech and Miami at the same time in June, hoping to build greater television revenue with the addition of two illustrious football programs. At the time, Miami president Donna Sha-lala expressed disappointment that Boston College and Syracuse were not also offered invitations because the school would have benefited from increased exposure in the Northeast.

At first, Miami hesitated to accept the offer while it determined potential revenue gains that would come from leaving the Big East, according to a USA Today article published June 27, 2003.

For Virginia Tech, though, the decision wasn’t nearly as diffi-cult. Weaver said when the Hokies received the invitation, they didn’t need to consider it too deeply to figure out whether or not it was the right move. Virginia Tech knew immedi-ately that it had a brighter future in the ACC than it had in the Big East.

“We were more concerned as an institution that we should be a part of the ACC expansion,” Weaver said. “Now that there was an expansion effort underway, we felt it was in our best interest to put our best foot forward and move to the ACC.”

Because the decisions were made at the top of the institutional hierarchy for all three schools, coaches and play-ers were left in the dark about their

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daily orange file photosBOSTON COLLEGE (TOP, BOTTOM), VIRGINIA TECH (MIDDLE) AND MIAMI announced their decisions to move to the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2003. Virginia Tech and Miami were approved in June, and BC joined them less than four months later, beginning play in the new conference in 2004. The ACC expanded to 12 teams with the additions, creating a conference championship for football.

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“It was sad because the whole idea with teams over a period of time in conferences is the camaraderie you develop in your conference. I really enjoyed every aspect of being in the Big East. From the commissioner on down, I thought it was a class organization.”

Ferne Labati FORMER MIAMI WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD

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