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“We don’t study the disability community, we work as members of and part of the disability community.”
Peter BlanckCHAIRMAN OF THE BURTON
BLATT INSTITUTE
““We don’t study ““We don’t study
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A way with foodPulp chronicles a day in the life of Sigma Phi Epsilon’s chef. Page 9
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Band of brothersMawuena Agbossoumonde and his family have relied on an extensive support network since coming to Syracuse from the African country of Togo. Page 20
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A spring thingThe Daily Orange Editorial Board suggests the university turns MayFest celebrations into a yearly tradition. Page 5
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What’s the count?An FDA law proposed on April 1 would require chain restaurants to include calorie counts on menus. Page 7
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Budget meeting proceeds quickly, little debate occurs
andrew renneisen | asst. photo editorBEN SLUTZKY (SECOND FROM LEFT), general manager of CitrusTV, sits in Monday’s meeting in Maxwell Auditorium with other members. The station’s budget was the focus of discussion at the meeting.
Burton Blatt Institute continues to represent
people with disabilities with latest US Court
of Appeals case
alyssa stone | contributing photographerPETER BLANCK, chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute, founded the BBI in 2005 at Syracuse University to work with people with disabilities. The institute has more than 60 workers, many of whom have disabiliites.
By Micki FahnerSTAFF WRITER
wo members of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University will stand before a
court in Florida on Tuesday morn-ing and defend a woman who claims she was fi red from her job because of her disability.
Peter Blanck, chairman of the BBI, and Matthew Dietz, a Burton Blatt Advisory Board member, are both presenting in the case, which will occur at the 11th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Jackson-ville, Fla.
The BBI, housed in Suite 300 of Crouse-Hinds Hall, works to advance the participation of people with disabilities in society. It has a staff of more than 60 individuals, many of whom have family mem-bers with disabilities or are disabled themselves.
Tuesday’s case will involve Sherrie Kaw, who was fi red in 2006
because her condition, cardiogenic syncope, caused her to faint while at her job. The School District of Hillsborough County called her a danger to herself and the children around her.
When Dietz presented this case last year, the jury ruled Kaw’s termi-nation was in violation of the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act.
“They based their decision on the negative stereotypes that the ADA is all about,” said Dietz, the lead lawyer on the case.
Though the jury ruled in Kaw’s favor, the judge overruled the deci-sion in what is called a judgment as a matter of law.
The American with Disabilities Act was originally written in 1990 and amended in 2008. The amendments in 2008 expanded the defi nition of people with disabilities and made it easier for people with disabilities to get recogni-tion from the law.
But since Kaw’s case began in 2006, and since laws that change rights do not have a retroactive effect, Blanck and Dietz are fi ghting the older and narrower law. Dietz said if Kaw’s case was considered under the new law, it wouldn’t be an issue.
“If you don’t look at issues with disabilities in a multidimensional
Alumna in talks with SU lawyers about clothing trademark issue
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By Debbie TruongSTAFF WRITER
After disagreement about whether or not a Syracuse University alumna’s business idea interfered with SU’s trademarking policy became public last Thursday, the university is look-ing to resolve the issue this week.
In 2009, then-SU student Alyson Shontell had the idea for Syracutie, a clothing line for girls and women, and began the application process to trademark Syracutie in 2009, accord-ing to an article she published to the
Business Insider website Thursday.Because she is in the process of
talking with the university, Shontell declined to comment for this article.
Shontell’s idea was met with enthusiasm during an initial phone call with SU’s trademark and licens-ing director, according to the Busi-ness Insider article. The director said he did not believe Syracutie would infringe on any of SU’s trademarks and referred her to a number of appar-el vendors, according to the article.
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By Sean CotterSTAFF WRITER
Student Association’s budget meet-ing ran without major dispute and lasted 45 minutes Monday, a contrast to prior years when meetings have run more than an hour.
Comptroller Jeff Rickert, who pre-sides over the Finance Board, said he was “amazed” about the shortness and ease of the meeting.
“It defi nitely went smoother than
it has in the past, and for lack of anything better to contribute it to, I’m going to say it defi nitely had some-thing to do with the fi nancial vision,” Rickert said.
Student organizations requested a total of $600,713.45 in funding for their fall 2011 budgets and received $237,825.57 from SA, with $119,702.43 available for appeals. There is $429,442.17 set aside for spring 2012
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FROM THE MORGUE >>A BIT OF HISTORY FROM THE DAILY ORANGE ARCHIVES
Former Dean Harlan Cleveland of the Max-well School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has called for the development of a United Nations Peace Corps as a means of combat-ing a probable move by the Soviet Union to copy the United States program now getting underway.
Cleveland, now assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, said existing United Nations and other internation-al agencies are in great need of assistance of the kind dedicated young people can provide in underdeveloped countries.
International Peace Corps volunteers could serve as staff assistants and technicians’ helpers in United Nations programs in various capacities, he told the Washington Council of the Experiment in International Living.
Construction and Archeology “The UNESCO education program, which
is going to concentrate in Africa this next year or two, could use Peace C orps volunteers as teachers or teachers’ helpers,” Cleveland said. UNESCO is the United Nations Educa-tional, Scientifi c and Cultural Organization.
“It could put some of them to work in the actual building or schools with native materi-als, using cheap and effi cient designs that have already been worked up,” he said.
“For some volunteers, a particularly excit-ing prospect might be to help in the archeo-
logical digs in the upper Nile Valley, part of UNESCO’s attempt to save some of the Nubi-an monuments that will otherwise be lost forever under the waters that pile up under the Aswan dam,” Cleveland added.
Disease, Pest Control Peace Corps members also could serve in
malaria eradication and sanitarian programs of the World Health Organization and in the Food and Agricultural Organization’s fi ght against animal diseases and locust control, he said.
“The work will not be easy,” Cleveland warned. “It doesn’t take very much skill, but it does take a good deal of dedication to go out into the countryside jabbing the fl anks of animals with inoculation needles and spray-ing dirty one-room hovels with DDT.
“But for Americans to do these things in company with people from other countries would doubly intensify the experience and help a whole generation of Americans learn not merely how to work for, but how to work with, the people.”
— Compiled by Laurence Leveille, asst. copy editor, [email protected]
This excerpt was taken from the full ver-sion of this article published April 12, 1961.
APRIL 12, 1961Cleveland Urges UN Peace Corps
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n e w sHeaded to the top The South Side Innovation Center, which was founded fi ve years ago, is now one of two fi nalists for the National Business Incubator Association’s Incubator of the Year award.
p u l pContinuing the journey The fi lm “300 Miles to Freedom,” created by an SU professor and an alumnus, chronicles the life of an Underground Railroad hero.
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Against all odds Syracuse football fullback Tombe Kose has embraced the underdog role all his life, dating back to his childhood in Sudan.
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CORRECTIONS >>In multiple references in the April 11 paper, including in the article titled “Back for more: Ra Ra Riot energizes crowd in 1st Syracuse performance in two years,” the last time Ra Ra Riot played in Syracuse was misstated. Ra Ra Riot performed at Funk ‘n Waffl es and The Sound Garden in August 2010. The Daily Orange regrets these errors.
In the April 11 article titled “Music industry must reinvent business model to attract paying subscribers,” the writer’s last name was spelled wrong. The correct spelling is Bamford. The Daily Orange regrets this error.
CLARIFICATION >>In the April 11 article titled “Relay For Life | Teams raise more than $150,000,” the fi nal amount of money raised was unclear. The number in the story was as of Saturday at 5 p.m., before the start of Relay for Life. The fi nal amount announced on Sunday at 4:30 a.m. was $165,753.04. The Daily Orange regrets this miscommunication.
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Fashion sensekelly cutrone, a reality television star and fashion publicist, signs copies of her latest book, “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You,” in Shemin Auditorium in the Shaffer Art Building Monday. The Syracuse University student-run fashion publication, Zipped magazine, brought the New York Times best-selling author to campus for a lecture. She shared her knowledge in fash-ion and entrepreneurship with attendees. Cutrone has appeared in the MTV reality shows “The Hills” and “The City.”
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By Diana PearlSTAff WrITer
When Hillel at Syracuse Univer-sity came to campus 60 years ago, it called the basement of Hendricks Chapel home.
It wasn’t until 2003 that the Win-nick Hillel Center for Jewish Life, the organization’s current building, opened after an alumni donation.
The Winnick Center is only one of the most recent changes for Hil-lel, the central organization for Jew-ish students at SU. The group began celebrating its 60th anniversary on campus earlier this month, and on Tuesday will host the Eternal Light Gala Award Dinner, a formal gather-ing in New York City. The event will include a performance by College of Visual and Performing Arts students and presentations commemorating Hillel’s anniversary.
“Being a part of Hillel is not just a Jewish experience, it’s a human experience,” said Lowell Lustig, the executive director of SU’s Hillel who headed a campaign to build the new center. “We want this to be a place where all students can feel free to come and spend time with friends.”
Hillel first came to SU in response to the university’s growing Jewish student population, said Brian Small, Hillel coordinator of programming. SU was one of the few universities at the time that had a welcoming atti-tude toward Jewish students. Due to this welcoming attitude, in addition to the support of two nearby syna-gogues, Hillel was formalized at SU.
Throughout the rest of the 20th century, the organization grew in size, at one point becoming the largest Hillel chapter in the nation. Small said he believes Hillel will continue to bring quality programs to campus and, by doing this, increase student involvement.
The first Hillel center in the nation was established in 1923 at the Univer-sity of Illinois, according to Hillel’s national website. Today, Hillel is the largest collegiate organization for Jewish students in the world, with more than 500 chapters internation-ally, from South America to Syracuse, according to the website.
Hillel’s purpose on the SU campus is to provide a nurturing community for Jewish students, Small said. It also looks to provide engaging pro-gramming that will attract students
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esF student remembered as intelligent problem solverBy Michael Boren
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After losing a leg, Lloyd Eldred saw his dream come to life when his grandson, Weston, used farm equip-ment to build a 2-plus acre pond.
Weston’s grandfather stocked the pond with fish and went up to it nearly every day before he died.
The pond was one of many proj-ects Weston tackled until his own death on April 2. Funeral services for Weston, a State University of New York College of Environmental Sci-ence and Forestry student on leave, were held Saturday.
The cause of his death remains inconclusive, though it may be linked to pneumonia, said Weston’s father, Randy.
“We buried him up at the pond, and he wanted to be buried next to his grandfather,” Randy said. To fulfill Weston’s wish, his family plans to move the body of Weston’s grandfather from Owasco Cemetery to the pond.
Family members recall Weston
as an ultimate problem solver, even at the age of 10, and a selfless student who loved to tutor others. He had planned to return to ESF this fall.
“He was very giving, and to a fault almost,” said his mother, Ellisa. “He would put other people before him all the time.”
After Weston started attending ESF in 2009, his mother convinced him to leave school temporarily to focus on his biodiesel project, she said. Weston started collecting veg-etable oil nearly six years ago for the project, which would have allowed him to make quality biodiesel on a larger scale than he had before with previous projects. He was two months away from completing his latest project before his death.
Not even his parents understood the biodiesel project completely. But there wasn’t anything Weston couldn’t do or couldn’t fix, Randy said.
“I taught him how to weld, and I’ve been welding for 30 years, and he can weld better than I can,” Randy
said. Weston’s mother still remembers
how he wrote chemistry books for lei-sure. Between the ages of 10 and 12, Weston also discovered a way to dry his hockey equipment by connecting a box to a furnace in the basement.
By those young childhood years, Weston had already become a prob-lem solver, Randy said.
“Actually, it was abnormal,” he said. “I mean, I couldn’t compare how smart he was, and not because I’m his father saying that, he just — you don’t realize how intelligent he was.”
Weston started attending Cayuga
Community College in 2003, six years before he enrolled at ESF. As Weston would later recall in his graduation speech at CCC, he left college to fulfill his grandfather’s dream of building the pond.
He returned to CCC in 2007 and discovered another passion a year later when he walked into the col-lege’s Academic Support Center. He helped tutor someone in biology and continued tutoring from then on, allowing him to meet other teachers and students. Weston loved tutoring because it allowed him to help oth-ers, Randy said.
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DonationsWeston eldred’s family has established a scholarship at Cayuga Com-munity College in his memory. Gifts can be made to:
Weston eldred Scholarship fundCayuga Community College foundation197 franklin StreetAuburn, NY 13021
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Total Relay for Life fundraising exceeds previous year’s by more than $13,000
As event co-chair of the 2011 Syracuse Univer-sity and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Relay For Life, I owe it to my committee to write a response to Monday’s story “Relay For Life: Teams Raise More Than $150,000.” The head-line is factually correct yet misleading and not representative of our total fundraising efforts. At the 4:30 a.m. Closing Ceremony, in front of a few hundred students, we announced we had raised $165,753.04 , and the total has crossed $170,000 since.
The $152,214 fi gure in The Daily Orange article was grabbed from our website’s ticker, which represents online fundraising only, and included none of the money raised from the dozens of on-site fundraising events or the 238
attendees who registered at the door. We are so proud to have reached $150,000 online before the event kicked off Saturday night. One other news organization made the same mistake but immediately corrected its article when we reached out Monday morning.
Two years in a row, The Daily Orange has neglected in its post-Relay coverage to mention that the fundraising total has broken the previ-ous Syracuse Relay record. I am so proud of my committee and Relay’s 2,400 participants for breaking last year’s record Closing Ceremony total by more than $13,000, a fact that I hope does not go unnoticed.
Janae DeRussoRELAY FOR LIFE EVENT CO-CHAIR
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On April 29, Student Association and University Union will host the second Syracuse University-sanctioned MayFest celebration, including free beer for those of age and free food and entertainment in Walnut Park.
Although partying is bound to return on Euclid Avenue this year, the continuation and improvements to the Walnut celebration show the university’s willingness to support a spring celebration for students, given it can monitor students’ safety.
In fall 2009, many students expressed shock when the university reinstated classes on SU Showcase, a day off formally known as MayFest, which students turned into a day for a massive Euclid block party. And though the memory of the Euclid party remains a source of resent-ment for some upperclassmen, the university-sanctioned party on Wal-nut has the potential to become a new — albeit tamer — student tradition.
SA responded to student feedback — namely the need for guest passes to the event. This important change
will allow the hundreds of friends in town for Block Party to share the day alongside their SU cohorts, and will provide more incentive for students to at least split their time between Walnut and Euclid.
As the memory of MayFest as a Euclid party fades with each graduating class, the university should seriously consider giving the full day of MayFest back to students as a spring weekend, with canceled Friday classes. As this past weekend reaffirmed, SU students, who spend the majority of their spring semester cloistered inside or trekking through ice and snow, are genuinely thrilled when temperatures creep up in the final weeks of the semester. SU should offer a day, as hundreds of other universities in far more man-ageable climates do, that welcomes the beautiful weather.
MayFest in Walnut has potential to become long-term spring tradition
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In light of federal government almost shutting down, campus must take U.S. debt seriouslyThe federal government’s near shut-down is a great opportunity to reflect on the basic tenants of our political system.
Speaking in sweeping generaliza-tions, the Democrats would rather see more services and higher taxes, while the Republicans would rather see fewer services and lower taxes. The American public, of course, wants more services and lower taxes. Sometimes agreement is so hard to achieve that the politicians stop trying and shut down the govern-ment. Thankfully, this outcome was avoided this time. The eventual compromise between the two par-ties has resulted in spending that is higher than revenue from taxes in all but four of the last 41 years. Each year the gap is bridged by borrowing,
and each year the amount the United States owes increases.
How much does the U.S. govern-ment owe today? $100 billion? $500 billion? Try $14.3 trillion! Here is how that looks: $14,300,000,000,000. To put it in perspective, if a stack of hundred-dollar bills worth 1 million dollars is 43 inches tall, a stack of hundreds equaling our national debt is 9,704.86 miles high.
Even scarier is the fact that this stack is projected to double in height in just 10 years if the government continues to spend and tax as it does now. Unfortunately, with more baby boomers retiring and health care costs rising, spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, three of the biggest federal programs, will increase. So the stack is heading
for the moon. The problem with borrowing is
that the money, trillions and trillions of dollars in our case, has to be paid back at some point. If lenders don’t think it will get paid back, they stop lending. And this would be what Leonard Burman, a professor and former executive director of the Tax Policy Center, calls “catastrophic budget failure.” The United States would not have enough money to pay its army, its postal service or any federal employees. The only solution would be to print more money. Infla-tion would skyrocket. The economy would collapse.
So how do we avoid this doomsday scenario?
First of all, start caring! Not knowing what your country owes is like going on lavish shopping sprees and never checking your credit card balance. It’s just not smart. The solu-tion will require higher taxes and lower spending, so whether you are a Republican or Democrat, you are not going to like it, but it’s much better than the alternative. We have to start voting for politicians who are ready to address the rising debt by spend-ing less than we tax and taxing more than we spend. We have to demand this of our politicians. Sounds crazy, I know. But what’s really crazy is spending 14 cents of every dollar we pay in taxes just on interest. We will be doing that in 2021.
Policy Students for Fiscal Sustain-ability, a graduate student group at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, is holding a conference to better inform students and com-munity members of this issue and to discuss a range of solutions. Experts from different sides of the political spectrum will share their insights on Friday. On Saturday, a panel featur-ing Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and New York State Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli will discuss fiscal challenges on the local and state level. Both events are free and open to the public. More information is avail-able at www.ourbudgets.org.
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framework, you’re going to get bad law, and that’s what’s happened in regard to the ADA,” Dietz said.
The BBI has been instrumental in disabil-ity awareness and change across the globe, said Blanck, chairman of the institute. The BBI has several other offices across the country, includ-ing Washington, D.C., New York and Atlanta.
The BBI employs a variety of professionals from many different fields, including lawyers, policymakers, psychologists, social workers, economists and many others, all working toward improving disability services, Blanck said.
“That’s what makes it so interesting. It’s an eclectic and interesting group that approaches problems in real time and from multiple per-spectives, but also with the disability commu-nity,” Blanck said. “We don’t study the disability community, we work as members of and part of the disability community.”
The Equal Employment Opportunity Com-mission cited Blanck’s research in its final rules and regulations for the employment provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to a March 25 news release from the BBI.
“That’s the whole point. What you want to do is write things that are useful, that the govern-
ment can use to help people,” Blanck said. Blanck said his economic research showed
that the benefits of the law outweighed the costs.He founded the BBI in 2005 when he came to
SU. Blanck is a University Professor, the highest faculty rank granted to only eight people before him. Blanck has worked with Chancellor Nancy Cantor to create an institute that focuses not only on research and writing, but also on taking action.
“We want to do things that are credible and scientifically rigorous, but have a real impact,” he said. “And we’ve been really fortunate, I think, to do a lot of those things.”
The institute takes its name from Dean Bur-ton Blatt, who died in 1985. Blatt came to SU in 1969 as a professor in the School of Education. He was named dean of the School of Education in 1976, according to the university’s website.
Blatt was a forerunner in the field of disabil-ity services, according to the website. He wrote
more than 100 books and articles, including his famous photo story “Christmas in Purga-tory,” which highlighted the awful conditions of asylum living. He was honored with awards for his work.
“He inspired a whole generation at Syracuse to focus on civil rights, human rights, particu-larly around disability,” Blanck said. “I think the key is to build on what is a very strong dis-ability culture here.”
Rachel Patterson, a graduate student in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs working toward her master’s in public administration, is a research assistant at the BBI. Patterson, who has two younger siblings with disabilities, was drawn to SU because of its expansive history in disability work.
Patterson has spent most of her time at the BBI working with Michael Morris, CEO at the BBI, tracking Medicaid changes in New York state and how they will affect people with disabilities.
She said it is important to have something like the BBI on SU’s campus because of the university’s history and reputation in the field. She also believes the BBI can have a broader effect, she said.
“Broadly, it’s important to have organiza-tions writing, publishing and thinking about disabilities because it’s not something that’s always considered,” Patterson said. “Compar-
ing it to issues of diversity or equality, it’s on its way, but it hasn’t quite gained that status.”
Morris, the institute’s CEO, heads the Washington, D.C., office, analyzing and writ-ing policy and working with Congress and the White House. Before joining the BBI, Morris was the national executive director of United Cerebral Palsy, which works to provide sup-port services to people with disabilities. Morris came to Washington, D.C., 30 years ago, after he was named the first Joseph P. Kennedy Fellow in Public Policy.
Morris’ research has been implemented by Congress, according to the BBI website. He said disability services have always been the focal point of his professional career.
In addition to providing strategic direction for the office, he oversees the day-to-day manage-ment of the office’s projects. The goal is to make people more aware of how disabilities affect individuals and their families, Morris said.
“We are focused on problem solving and really building solutions for the 21st century so that the next generation of people with disabili-ties really has all the opportunities that anyone else has,” he said.
Blanck and Dietz plan to argue under this principle during the court case on Tuesday.
“In some ways, I think we’ve already won,” Dietz said. “We’ve won in the sense that we’ve raised awareness, we’ve made a statement on behalf of our client that this sort of discrimina-tion is going to be fought against.”
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Study the chemistry, biology, and physics of the oceans, while you explore the traditions of mariner culture and today’s major policy issues affecting the world’s seas.
You can choose from research opportunities in the Atlantic/Carribean or the Pacific. Each program features six weeks on land and six at sea on a traditional vessel. This program is open to all majors and earns SU credit.
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— both Jewish and non-Jewish. In addition to offering an annual summer
Taglit-Birthright trip to Israel, SU’s chapter is working with a consultant from national Hil-lel headquarters on a five-year strategic plan to expand and connect with more students on campus, Lustig said. Hillel just received a grant from the Hillel national office to hire student interns next year to help carry out this five-year plan.
In the past, Hillel has struggled with issues such as space and involvement. But with the creation of the Winnick Center, the campus
group has come a long way since its days in the basement of Hendricks.
“When the building opened, we saw the true potential for Hillel,” Small said.
For many students who have been involved in their synagogues or Jewish life at home, they want the opportunity to maintain this involve-ment in college, which is what Hillel provides, Small said. Hillel acts as a second home for many of the students involved, he said.
Michael Weiss, student president of Hillel, said it has become the place he views as home at SU.
“Some students find their home in their fra-ternity or sorority, some in their sports teams,” Weiss said. “For me, Hillel has become my place at SU.”
Chelsea Wagner, former social action vice president for Hillel, has been involved with Hillel since attending FreshFest, the Hillel pre-orientation program, before her freshman year.
“I met many of my closest friends through Hillel, and even more friendly faces to smile at around campus,” Wagner said.
Wagner also credits her former position on the Hillel student board with offering her the ability to give back to Hillel. It is worth the responsibility of serving on the board to give back to an organization that has given her so much, she said.
For the future, Weiss said he would like to see Hillel connect with all the Jewish students on campus.
“We know that there are almost 3,000 Jewish students on this campus,” Weiss said. “And there’s no reason that we shouldn’t be reaching all of these students.”
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“I met many of my closest friends through Hillel, and even more friendly faces to smile at around campus.”
Chelsea WagnerFormer social action vice president For Hillel
What is the Burton Blatt institute?the institute, located at syracuse Univer-sity, is an organization that works to make progress on the economic, social and civic participation of people with disabili-ties in a global society. the organization is working to achieve this vision by creating a collaborative environment — with busi-ness practices and entrepreneurship — to promote public-private conversation and create the ability to change policy, people and systems through education, commu-nities and the workforce. the BBi seeks an endowment of $50 million or more to allow $2.5 million per year for the expan-sion of centers and operations.
the institute, commonly known as the BBi, is named after Burton Blatt, who lived from 1927 to 1985. Blatt was a pio-neer in civilizing services for people with mental retardation, an avid advocate of deinstitutionalization and a countrywide leader in special education. Blatt, who was dean of the school of education and centennial professor at sU, was the direc-tor of the university’s division of special education and rehabilitation. Blatt also founded the center on Human policy.
source: bbi.syr.edu
“We want to do things that are credible and scientifically rigorous, but have a real impact.”
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In an effort to curb obesity in America, the Food and Drug Administration has proposed a law that would require certain food establishments to clearly label nutrition
information on their menus.The requirements were proposed April 1 and would man-
date chain restaurants and vendors with 20 or more locations to post the calorie count for each menu item.
Approximately one-third of people’s total calories are prepared outside the home, said Diana Monaco, an FDA public affairs specialist for New York state. Although con-sumers can generally fi nd nutrition information on packaged foods at home, restaurants do not typically supply them, Monaco said. By making this information readily avail-able to people, they are able to make the best choices for themselves and their families, Monaco said.
About half of the consum-ers in a study saw the calories posted, and approximately 28 percent of those who noticed the posted calories said the information infl uenced their ordering, according to an article published in The New York Times on Oct. 6, 2009.
New York is one of six states, two cities and two counties to already have a law that requires labeling of nutrition information to some degree, Monaco said. States and local areas are able to cre-ate their own provisions when they see fi t, Monaco said.
As part of the proposed law, movie theaters, bowling alleys and other establish-ments would not be required to display nutrition informa-tion because their primary goal is not to sell food, Monaco said. The law also would not cover alcoholic beverages.
The proposed law is not the only measure FDA is tak-ing to curb obesity, Monaco said. A lot is being done with public education to teach peo-ple about healthier options, Monaco said. The FDA also provides information on labeling and eating for a healthy heart and lower sodium intake, among other tips, on its website.
Blake Catlin, general manager of Red Lobster on Erie Boulevard, said he believes the law will positively affect Red Lobster, which has 648 locations in the United States.
“Seafood is the healthiest choice out there,” Catlin said.
“I truly believe it will help let the general public know how genuinely healthy seafood is.”
Jane Uzcategui, an instructor of nutrition science and dietetics at Syracuse University, said the law would change the eating habits of those who are interested, but would not affect those who are not.
“Large restaurants have standard menus and the custom-er base is larger,” Uzcategui said. “They tend to be frequented more, which increases the impact to dietary health.”
Venues such as movie theaters were removed from the proposed law after much outcry from theater chains, accord-ing to an article published in The New York Times on April 1.
The National Association of Theatre Owners does not think it would be helpful to supply nutrition informa-tion because a tub of popcorn could be more than 1,000 calo-ries, Uzcategui said.
“The movie theater indus-try is pushing back because they do not want to be seen in a negative light,” Uzcategui said. “And they are trying to make money.”
Brian Wettering, general manager for AMF Strike ‘N Spare Lanes on Brewerton Road, said he thinks it is a ben-efi t that bowling alleys would not be included in the law. The bowling alley has nutrition information available for peo-ple who want to see it, but it does not want the information to be displayed for everyone to see, Wettering said.
“If people see how many calories there are, they may not purchase the item,” Wet-tering said. “It would hurt the revenue I bring in. A cookie is a large number of calories, and they are more likely to go with the healthier choice or no choice.”
Uzcategui said New York City conducted a survey to see how effective displaying calorie information was in persuading people to choose a healthier option. The results indicated it had little effect.
People should pay more attention to nutrition educa-
tion, push others to educate children and monitor what is offered to children, Uzcategui said. But Uzcategui also believes the proposed law could be somewhat effective.
“I am an advocate that consumers should have as much information so they can choose to use it,” Uzcategui said. “This is a personal right.”
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He graduated from CCC in 2009. His family has established a scholarship at the college in his memory.
CCC faculty were deeply saddened by Weston’s death, said Margaret Spillett,
director of public relations and institutional communications at the college, in an email.
“By all accounts, he was an exceptionally gifted student and he touched the lives of many people here. Wes will be sorely missed,” she said.
Individuals had written nearly 40 entries of their memories of Weston on his online Guest Book page by Monday night.
Ellisa said she has been approached by peo-ple she did not know, explaining how her son helped them. One girl told her she was made fun of in high school and Weston was the only person who was kind to her. The girl eventually left for the Army. When she came back, Weston reached out to her to give her connections and make her feel at home.
“It didn’t matter who you are,” Ellisa said. “He would help you, he would be compelled to help you.”
programming, with $50,000 extra allocated for appeals that semester. Talk about CitrusTV’s operating budget lasted longer than any other budget discussion.
Passing the financial vision for this semester was one of the early goals for SA, said SA President Neal Casey. SA successfully passed the vision Jan. 25, several weeks earlier than it did in past years. Casey said in addition to the early passage, groups benefited from this year’s financial vision being longer and more detailed.
“In the past, groups have been very confused as to where they stand. This year expectations were clearly set, so that was able to quell some of the concerns,” Casey said.
Rickert said this year there was better com-munication between the groups requesting
money and the Finance Board. He said this was probably because everyone seemed to have read and understood the financial vision, which provided more specificity for groups seeking money.
“I think our recommendations this year have been much more straightforward than they have been in the past,” Rickert said.
The $119,702.43 designated to be allocated for appeals is more than twice the amount allocat-ed last spring for the same purpose. Rickert said the large amount of money for appeals might have contributed to the calmness of the groups that were denied funding or did not receive as much as they had hoped.
Appeals are due Thursday and will be voted on by SA next Monday, Rickert said. He said many of the reasons for turning down requests were clerical and communication issues that can be sorted out next week.
The longest discussion at SA’s meeting was on CitrusTV’s budget.
Assemblymembers Eugene Law and David Woody said they found the lengthy description of the funding breakdown difficult to follow, causing the voting for the bill to be postponed until the end of the meeting. Rickert said the Finance Board spent four to five hours on Cit-rusTV’s budget, which was the most time they spent on any organization’s budget.
The assembly ultimately voted in favor of the Finance Board’s recommendation that Cit-rusTV receive $299,642.02 of the $490,321.02 it requested in its operating budget. The money for operating budgets does not factor into the amount granted or requested for fall 2011 pro-gramming.
This amount requested is $100,000 more than CitrusTV requested last year, in large part due to a desire to make more of the technology high-definition, Rickert said. He said the orga-nization was granted about $40,000 more than it received last year.
Rickert said he spoke to CitrusTV’s general manager, Ben Slutzky, after the meeting. Slutz-ky questioned some of the choices the Finance
Board made in allocating the money for Cit-rusTV’s budget. Rickert said CitrusTV was free to appeal for more money. Slutzky could not be reached for comment by The Daily Orange.
After many groups’ budgets were consid-ered and passed, representatives from many of the groups present at the meeting stood and thanked the assembly and the Finance Board for granting the group money or considering its request. University Union, Syracuse University Ambulance, Pride Union and National Pan-Hel-lenic Council representatives were among those who received money and thanked SA.
Organizations whose requests were denied, such as the Student African American Society, also thanked SA and said they would apply for appeals, which will be allocated at next week’s meeting.
Both Rickert and Casey said they were pleased with the way the meeting went and how financial decisions have been made so far this year.
Said Casey: “A great financial vision like this — I think you saw tonight it’s made a huge impact.”
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But in July 2010, a day before Syracutie was to be legally trademarked to Shontell, she received a call from SU’s licensing director, who told her SU lawyers advised against the trade-mark application due to Syracutie’s likeness to SU’s name. Shontell argued the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office didn’t oppose the trademark, and that Syracutie was based off the city of Syracuse, not the university.
The licensing director persisted and told Shontell the lawyers recommended she grant the trademark rights to SU, for which she would not be compensated.
Shontell consulted a number of faculty and
students for legal advice in a mass email titled “SU alumni needs your help by EOD tomorrow! Trademark issue.” Receiving positive feedback and encouragement from advisers, Shontell composed an email opposing SU’s offer, accord-ing to the article.
SU was given three months to stake their claim after filing the opposition. Eventually, the Nov. 15, 2010, deadline to oppose the trademark passed, and Syracutie legally became Shontell’s, according to the article.
When she met with SU’s lawyers in January 2011, Shontell was asked to sign paperwork allowing her to be the sole licensor of Syracutie, which would prohibit anyone, including the university, from using the word without her permission. As compensation, she would have to grant the trademark to SU for free, according
to the article.Shontell was told by SU lawyers the univer-
sity could sue or cancel the trademark if she disagreed, according to the article. Months have passed and Shontell is still mulling over the offer.
“If I take SU’s deal, I’ll have to turn myself into a full-blown distributor without being able to reap the easy benefits of licensing my mark, which was my plan all along,” she wrote in the article.
Shontell and SU lawyers will meet this week to try to work out an agreement.
Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, said in an email that the university is eager to settle the Syracutie trademark issue with Shontell.
“Alyson is an outstanding example of the
entrepreneurial spirit emblematic of our stu-dents and alumni, and we look forward to reach-ing an agreement with her that will enable her to bring her work to the marketplace,” Quinn said.
Shontell is now selling Syracutie apparel online; but without the university’s support, outside vendors are afraid of purchasing her merchandise. She has also received an offer for her trademark by an entity outside the univer-sity, which she is also considering.
Shontell’s trademark is now at a crossroad. She wrote in the article: “Do I sell my com-
pany in its very early state and in a sense admit defeat? Do I give the university my trademark and become the sole licensor? Or do I hold strong and keep trying to sell Syracutie myself?”
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237,825.57The amount of money granted by SA for fall 2011.
600,713.45The total amount of money requested from SA by student organizations for fall 2011.
307,528.00The amount of money available to SA to grant to student organizations for fall 2011.
119,702.43The amount of money available for fall 2011 appeals.
Source: Student Association meeting minutes
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Experienced Sigma Phi Epsilon chef ignites personal passion for food
Students start business selling DJ equipment to fraternitiesBy Liz Sawyer
STAFF WRITER
When Barnett Klane decided to start his own business, his father wasn’t happy. He worried his son would have a diffi cult time juggling academics and a social life, let alone all the work that comes with being the CEO of a company.
But at 19 years old, the sophomore marketing and management major successfully launched Klane Con-
sulting LLC this past February, a business dedicated to providing high-quality audio and lighting equipment to fraternities.
“The general consensus among fraternities is that they just aren’t sat-isfi ed with the current way of buying their speakers,” Klane said.
Klane attributes his knowledge of the speakers business to his father, who works as a sales manager for Electro-Voice, a major manufacturer
of audio equipment. When Klane’s friends discovered this connection, they badgered him about getting speakers, and he realized the high demand for such products.
Klane profi ted on this need and has started touring other college cam-puses to sell equipment. On April 3, Klane Consulting traveled to Cornell University, broadening its appeal to other universities.
Klane founded the company as a
sole proprietor, but recently decided to become a limited liability com-pany, or LLC. The transition estab-lished Klane Consulting as a more legitimate business, he said. This is when Klane enlisted the help of his friends, fellow Syracuse Univer-sity sophomores Keegan Slattery and Jack Farley.
“We’re putting out a very profes-sional brand, but with a little swagger to it,” Klane said.
Now the three students act as part-ners and market a variety of products from Electro-Voice, as well as 150 other brands to their fraternity-based clientele, Klane said.
Before, fraternities were limited to getting equipment online, such as Guitar Center, which is more tedious than having suppliers come to their houses and letting them test the prod-ucts themselves, Klane said. His com-
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Editor’s note: “Day in a Life” is an occa-sional series chronicling the responsibilities of the newsmakers, characters and public fi gures on campus.
P atrick Mahar always had a drive to be in the food industry. Pursuing his passion at a young age led to feeding
the likes of Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones through his work at a local hotel.
“The Rolling Stones were performing at
the Dome,” he said. “Their concerts were over Thanksgiving, and I and the staff was working on the Thanksgiving buffet, and they came down for dinner. Here I am, 18 years old, carving meat for Mick Jagger.”
Mahar fondly remembers the band’s extra tip for the meal: tickets to the sold-out concerts at the Carrier Dome.
Mahar, a Syracuse native, hasn’t ever strayed far from the Dome, as his career has flourished within the city’s limits. His business ventures,
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O ne of the most popular byproducts of technology has become one of the most newsworthy, too. It found
fame in Justin Bieber and induced fi ts of discomfort in millions with Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” Yes, I’m talking about the viral video.
YouTube, one of the more popular sources for popular videos, is making it easy for every-one to strive for his or her own 15 minutes of embarrassing yet entertaining fame.
This pursuit is being enabled by YouTube’s Video Editor, which offers a free editing process that links directly to your account and is insult-ingly easy to use.
Want in? Here’s how.Go to YouTube, log in and voila! As long
as your video doesn’t require fancy effects, you can become a viral video sensation with some good footage, preferably of babies singing, dancing or laughing. Go to your Account page and click the tab that says “Video Editor.”
As you’re redirected to the page with the simple interface, you can select the clips you want and drag them to the boxes next to the camera symbol at the bottom of the screen.
Video clip too long? YouTube’s Video Edi-tor developers fi gured that might happen. Just select the clip and trim it down using the visual arrows. Then go ahead and make basic edits, such as brightness, contrast and stabilization.
From here, you can choose to rearrange your video clip lineup, add transitions and, yes, even
add music. Video Editor’s audio library has hundreds
of songs linked right to the page for easy access and insertion. Just click, hold and drag, and you can have Otis Redding’s “Sit-tin’ on the Dock of the Bay” over the video of your family reunion at that lake you like so much.
To make your video live, type in a name for the video in the box that prompts you to do so, and click “Publish.” Eureka, you’re either going to get a lot of hate mail for committing an atrocity to anyone who has eyes and ears, or you’re going to feel like a failure when your video accumulates 11 views over a three-year period.
If editing software has been the only thing standing between you and a viral video, go off and fi nd some funny children or a really bad song. Thanks to YouTube’s Video Editor, you can become insanely popular for your hidden talent in playing spoons.
Jessica Smith is a junior information manage-ment and technology and television, radio and fi lm
dual major. Her column appears every Tuesday, and she can be reached at [email protected].
YouTube’s untapped Video Editor is the key to your next viral video
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including catering companies and being a part-ner of four restaurants, began in Syracuse.
Mahar also grew up surrounded by people in the food industry. His mother was a bak-ery manager and his brother managed fast food restaurants. He currently spends his days feeding the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers, something he’s done on and off for seven years.
Looking back at his successful career, such as helping to cater 10,000 private banquets, Mahar can’t complain.
“I’ve already accomplished a lot of my career goals, now it’s kinda like relax and enjoy life,” he said.
What once began as satisfying the general public shifted to satisfying those in greek life. He’s also done brief stints at fraternity houses Tau Kappa Epsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Mahar not only feeds the brothers on campus through a food service manage-ment company, he also pervades his business model, such as a la carte lunches, to other campus’ chapters.
Mahar, who credits his successful business model to his background in owning restaurants, offers a little tough love to his clients.
“I know you’ve been doing this way forever, now we’re going to do it my way,” he said.
What’s his way? A fairly laid-back day. A la carte lunches. Buffet dinners. Preparing menus and ordering and receiving stocks of food.
“Some days I wonder, ‘I’m surprised they actually pay me to do this,’” he said.
10 a.m.: Mahar stands calmly nearby a silver counter. It’s quiet in the basement kitchen, except for
the occasional banter between Mahar and the brothers who walk by to say hello or grab their lunches.
A louder noise, a phone’s vibrating tone, breaks through the kitchen, and Mahar grabs his cellphone to read a text. A brother has
ordered pancakes. Mahar’s model consists of three options: a
meal plan consisting of two meals a day for five days out of the week, 40 lunches for $200 or a single meal for $7.
But the brothers have an advantage: the option to text their order.
“They roll out of bed, order their lunch, take a shower, thank God and then come down,” he said.
As he starts preparing the pancakes, he says he never knows what he’ll be asked to make for lunch.
He smiles and says, “My first order was chicken fingers, and my last order can be pan-cakes.”
When the order is done, Mahar places the meal on one of the Styrofoam plates stacked on the counter. He puts the meal on another coun-ter beside the door for the brothers to eventually pick up.
11 a.m.:More orders pile up. Eggs. Toast. Chicken Cae-sar wraps. Bacon cheeseburgers.
When the brothers pick up their meals, they politely thank Mahar, and many stop and make
small talk. Mahar credits his happiness toward his job
to his positive relationships with the men in SigEp.
“It’s really rewarding, I think, and I also get to watch these guys mature and have successful careers.”
Their comfortable nature with each other is seen by constant teasing, such as when a brother asks if he could have an omelet, and without missing a beat, Mahar responds with a cheeky smile and says, “No.”
Noon:A deliveryman arrives later than expected. His fellow worker has fallen out of the back of the truck, meriting a hospital visit. Mahar talks with the man, signs a form and begins unpack-ing the boxes.
One of the first items he pulls out is a huge bucket filled to the brim with chicken.
He smiles and says, “I go through an average of four of these a week.”
To put it into clearer terms, Mahar claims to use up to 80 pounds of chicken breast a week.
It’s the busiest time of the day as many broth-ers file down to order wraps, paninis and more breakfast items.
1 p.m.: Scoping out the boxes, Mahar finds there are items missing. He makes a phone call to the sup-plier and leaves a message recounting what’s missing. Before he hangs up, he pauses and remembers to say, “Oh, this is Pat from SigEp.”
“Probably should have told him that before,” he says with a smile.
He begins unpacking large quantities of food to stuff into the two refrigerators located in the kitchen. As he grabs a large bag of ravioli, which requires him to use two hands, he laughs and says, “They are growing boys.”
2 p.m.:Mahar doesn’t serve any food to the brothers past 2 p.m. For the next three hours, he begins prepping and preparing a dinner buffet.
He turns on a classic rock radio channel and becomes immersed in his cooking. He is con-stantly moving, putting items in refrigerators and placing things in the oven or on the stove. A pile of boxes, which once held food, is stacked outside the door.
He needs this time. Although he says he mainly prepares chicken and eggs for lunch for the brothers, these next few hours let him actu-ally do what he wants to do: cook.
“I get to be creative,” he says. Hours later, he proudly smiles as the broth-
ers dive into his buffet line consisting of salad, rolls and linguini with clams. Through continual compliments and conversations, Mahar’s presence is easily seen. And he knows it.
“When the pledges start, the brothers explain to them, the person not to piss off is me,” he says. “Not if you want to keep eating.”
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Patrick Maharchef at Sigma Phi ePSilon
food for thoughtWhen a brother of Sigep consistently orders his own, unique and peculiar lunch item, it becomes permanently remem-bered by being tagged as an item on the "legacy lunch" list, which hangs on the basement kitchen door.Items include:• Chocolate chip pancakes with grilled
chicken• Grilled burger topped with Philly chees-
esteak, bacon and smothered in cheese• Pepperoni, turkey, bacon, lettuce, green
pepper, black pepper and mayo in a wrap with fries.
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Slattery, an information management and technology and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major, is a brother of Sigma Chi and sees firsthand how many speakers are damaged during the school year. Klane Consulting tries to counter this by providing higher-quality, reliable products rather than cheaper brands that don’t measure up.
“We found that (Electro-Voice) fits the mar-ket for fraternities because of the capabilities of the speaker,” Slattery said.
Slattery acts as the chief operating officer for the company and heads the design of business cards and the website. The partners hope the site will add another dimension to the business by making products available to everyone — even those outside of their door-to-door cus-tomer service range.
Jack Farley, chief sales officer for the group, wasn’t initially on board with the idea of a startup, but quickly changed his mind when he realized what kind of opportunity it could be.
Farley, an international relations major, said having three opinions on everything works well because it creates a checks-and-balance system for the group.
Klane and his partners are currently hold-ing demonstrations at SU and Cornell to test a new product line. At Cornell’s April 3 dem-onstration, the majority of the university’s fraternities came out to hear their sales pitch, Klane said.
The partners are now in the process of clos-
ing some of those deals, but because it’s the end of the school year, many of the fraternities’ bud-gets are strained. However, some are interested in buying for the fall.
“When the semester starts and all the fra-ternities are collecting their dues, they have a budget to spend on certain social aspects,” Slattery said. “That’s when we can help them upgrade their systems and make sales.”
Carlos Cancela, a sophomore American studies major at Cornell, got in contact with the company through the representative in his fraternity. Cancela is a DJ and purchased a stereo from Klane Consulting after its dem-onstration.
“It’s a good group of guys who are very relatable,” Cancela said. “We got to test the speakers, and they were unbelievable. Every-one who walked in was blown away because it was insanely loud and you could hear it throughout the entire house with perfect quality.”
The ultimate goal of the company is to get a representative on every major college campus in the country, Klane said. The partners hope to have at least 25 campuses on board by the end of 2011, he said.
“Not many people have the chance to start a business in college,” Slattery said. “It will be a great experience for the rest of our lives to have started one on our own.”
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By Erik van RheenanSTAFF WRITER
T he Foo Fighters’ “Wasting Light” is the best rock album to hit record store shelves in the past five years. Most bands try to pigeonhole themselves into convo-
luted subgenres that litter the music industry, following the cookie-cutter format of tacking on a colorful adjective to the word “rock” and focusing on squeezing themselves into one specific sound.
The Foo Fighters, on the other hand, are the grizzled vet-erans of the scene, a machine cranking out angst-driven rock songs for 16 years. Instead of changing their ways, the super group, featuring former members of grunge legends Nirvana and emo-genre forefathers Sunny Day Real Estate, have honed their sound and perfected their music. The result — an honest, sincere album that deserves to be blasted at eardrum-rupturing levels.
“Wasting Light” was recorded entirely in lead singer Dave Grohl’s garage, and it adds a charming rawness to the group’s 11-track effort. Sure, it’s not as fully produced as previous records, but the not-quite-fully-fleshed sound fuels the album over the course of its breakneck pace.
“Bridge Burning” is an absolute tour de force to start the album, and sounds its best with the volume cranked all the way up. Grohl’s vocals are ferocious and bitterly shouted, while guitarist Pat Smear astonishes with lightning-fast guitar riffs that accentuate Taylor Hawkins’ dynamic drum-ming. Whereas many of the band’s previous opening tracks are hit or miss, “Bridge Burning” is a dead-on bull’s-eye.
“Rope” is the Foo Fighters’ strongest single since “Learn to Fly” and “Everlong.” The song starts with some echoing guitar riffs that could be the introduction to a U2 song, at least until the staccato drumbeats charge into the track. Grohl’s voice is at his most melodic, easing off the screaming that sneaks its way into most of the band’s songs, but he manages to flaunt his range in the rollicking chorus.
Smear and Hawkins make for a dynamic duo on “Dear Rosemary,” a track that lacks in meaningful lyrics and struggles with uncharacteristically dull singing, but more than makes up for its shortcomings with some cleverly con-structed instrumentation that highlights nifty guitar solos and drum fills.
“White Limo” diverges from the rest of the album with its unique garage-band feel, featuring distorted screams from Grohl. It’s the Foo Fighters at the peak of their ferocity. Though it is sure to alienate some of the band’s more casual listeners, die-hard fans will clamor for the brutally raw anger the song delivers.
Each track on the album maintains the Foo Fighters’ familiar sound, but with a new trick up their sleeve with every song. “Arlandria” and “Back & Forth” have a bluesy swagger that sounds like the band has deep Southern roots, a lovechild between bayou blues and rebellious metal influ-ences. “These Days” opens as a heart-wrenching ballad, but halfway through the track, the adrenaline snaps into place and the tempo picks up to stadium-rocker level. Even the hacksaw guitar riffs that compose “A Matter of Time” seem to have slight pop-punk influences on a song that should move to top the alternative charts.
The Foo Fighters take the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” to heart. Though some of the album’s similar sonic consistency may be construed as uncreative sameness, the band hasn’t reinvented the wheel. Rather, “Wasting Light” is a record that cements the Foo Fighters as the torchbearers for rock ‘n’ roll of the cur-rent generation.
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By Zuri IrvinStaff Writer
Alyssa Costantino holds her goalie stick in her hand, mimicking the routine she uses time and time again in net as a ball flies toward her goal.
The top hand should lead to the ball to make a save. Step to the ball, not the shooter. A proper goaltender brings forward the back leg and ends in the position she started.
The more time a goalie is in the proper stance, the better chance she has at making the save. Good position consists of plenty of things: feet shoulder-width apart, stick parallel to the body, top hand gripping the bottom of the stick head, and eyes focused on the ball.
And the final part is mental. Reacting, not thinking. With everything put together to stop a shot, the Syracuse women’s lacrosse freshman goalie said goaltender is the toughest position to play in the sport.
“It’s all mental, really,” Costantino said. “Obvi-ously it’s the last line of defense, so the more a goalie can keep players out, the more you realize this might be the hardest position on the field.”
Such is life for the two goalies who have seen the most time this season — starter and team captain Liz Hogan and freshman backup Costantino.
They are playing, as Costantino said, per-haps the toughest position on the field. And in the Orange’s recent two-game winning streak and perfect 3-0 start in Big East play, the goal-tending played a major part. After the Orange allowed double-digit goals in all but two noncon-ference games, Hogan has given up just 6.7 goals per game in Big East play.
Hogan credits the recent turnaround to an increase in preparation.
“I don’t know if it’s so much prediction, but it’s a lot of preparation,” Hogan said. “I’ve cer-tainly been taking a lot more shots in practice. The attackers have been getting a lot of shots off. It’s really just getting in the mindset of, ‘I’m not going to let one go by me.’”
This past week, Hogan earned her third career Big East Player of the Week award for a perfor-mance that included 26 saves, seven groundballs and four caused turnovers in the Orange’s past
three games. Both games against Connecticut and Notre Dame ended in SU victories.
On the season, she leads the conference with 8.8 saves per game. She has been the “quarter-back” on the field for the Orange, as teammate Costantino describes the goaltender position.
“You have to be able to communicate to your players on the field because you have a bird’s-eye view of everything,” Costantino said. “You’re almost the quarterback out there, so helping your defense and letting them know what they can’t see is huge.”
Costantino has also contributed to the Orange’s success at the position in her first year at SU. She began goaltending in third grade because her father was a goalie, and she wanted to be just like him. In high school, she received multiple distinctions, including All-Suffolk County and 2010 Under Armour All-American honors.
This season, Costantino has played in three games for the Orange and earned the first vic-tory of her career. She is the heir apparent to the senior Hogan next season.
After SU’s season-opening victory over Col-gate on Feb. 17, SU head coach Gary Gait said he was impressed with the play of Costantino, who was making her first career start.
“For a freshman coming in and starting, I
thought she did a great job,” Gait said. “That’s a tough situation to be in, coming in and knowing that you got the Goalie of the Year (Hogan) sitting up in the stands and watching you, and you have to jump in goal and try and lead the defense.”
In the end, the two SU goalies go back to that routine. The only thing a lacrosse goalie can do is cut off the angle and get into a position for a
chance to make the save.To do that, she must remain both physically
and mentally secure.“We try to keep each other in check,” Hogan
said of the goaltenders’ relationship. “If some-one’s having a bad day, we can pull each other up. It’s all mental.”
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Liz Hogan (2) has helped SU get to a 3-0 Big east record, playing what she considers to be the toughest position of the field. in the three wins, Hogan gave up an average of only 6.7 goals per game. Last week, she made 26 saves to garner Big east honors.
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to be filled. Catholic Charities had reached out to St. Fran-
cis of Assisi Parish in Bridgeport, N.Y., asking if anyone would be willing to sponsor refugee families. Hart and his wife agreed and became the personal sponsors of the Agbossoumondes.
During the first few weeks, the Harts saw them almost every day. They explained how to use a stove, a washing machine and any other foreign device that Mawuena Agbossoumonde — cur-rently a sophomore midfielder on the SU men’s soccer team — and his family had never seen.
“We didn’t know (Hart) before we came,” said Djifa, Mawuena’s older brother. “But we heard there would be a lot of people waiting to help us.”
And what Djifa and his family heard proved to be true. Since their arrival in February 2000, it’s the network of support the Agbossoumondes have received from the community that drives them.
Multiple families have assisted in the devel-opment of Mawuena and his siblings in Syra-cuse, stemming from compassion and appre-ciation for the character and backstory of the entire bunch.
For that, the family is eternally grateful. Mawuena realizes he wouldn’t be where he is today were it not for their assistance.
“I can’t really describe it because there were so many people on the way,” he said. “Growing up, there were so many people that helped us.”
•••Karma, fate and providence. Those are the words Kenneth Schoening uses to describe how the Agbossoumonde family got to where it is today.
Less than two months after the six children and their mother, Adjo, arrived in Syracuse,
Schoening initiated their soccer careers. Coaching his son’s East Side Soccer team in
Berry Park during April 2000, Schoening had the gumption to approach two African boys with “sad, long faces.” A migrant from Africa himself, Schoening conversed with the two in French. He invited them into his practice, and a few weeks later Mawuena and his younger brother Gale were part of the team.
“I always try to go back and say, ‘What if I hadn’t run into them?’” Schoening said. “What if I hadn’t walked up to them? Would they have been where they are now?”
Where they are now is quite remarkable. Mawuena is at Syracuse, and Gale, his younger brother, plays professionally in Sweden and made an appearance with the U.S. National Team in November. Their older brother, Mes-san, played soccer at St. Lawrence.
But before all that came East Side Soccer, a recreational league. There, Mawuena was intro-duced to Daniel McGowan and Kenneth’s son Charles. Both would eventually be Mawuena’s teammates at Syracuse.
Through that team, Schoening introduced the Agbossoumonde boys to the Syracuse Indoor Sports Center in Liverpool, N.Y. It became a second home.
The original owner, Bob Escobar, said Mawuena and Gale were there almost every day after school playing until the center closed for the night. He never charged them because he knew they wouldn’t have been able to pay.
He just wanted to give them an outlet. “To me it’s tremendous,” Escobar said in a
phone interview. “I look at this and know that I was part of it and helped to provide them some-thing when they were in real need of it.”
Schoening and Escobar got Mawuena and Gale involved with the Syracuse Blitz F.C. — a
traveling premier team that practiced at the Indoor Sports Center. It’s what allowed their names to begin swirling among college and high school coaches later on.
In all those years — from the time Mawuena was 10 until he enrolled at Christian Broth-ers Academy — Schoening will never forget the winter of 2000-01. Less than a year after Mawuena’s arrival, he and Gale won their first trophy on Schoening’s team.
It was a lasting achievement for the former refugees.
“It was like gold to (Mawuena),” Schoening said. “One of the older brothers made a comment and said, ‘You know, Coach, back in Africa, this is like gold for us to have something like this.’”
•••Nick Ashenburg wasn’t sure how Anani found his way onto the Syracuse Blitz, but he was curious about the newcomer. So when Anani — the fourth of the six Agbossoumonde brothers — needed a ride home, he asked Nick’s parents to help.
“I think we were all intrigued,” Nick said. “So one ride turned into many rides, and many rides turned into coming over to the house and spending holidays together.”
That one ride was the beginning of what would effectively become an invitation by the Ashen-burgs for the Agbossoumondes to join their family.
With Anani and Nick playing together on the Blitz, the Ashenburgs were introduced to the rest of the family. Nick’s younger brother Ben would become a teammate of Mawuena’s at CBA after his family helped get him into the school.
Ben and Mawuena became best friends. “Mawuena and Ben lived like brothers,” said
Alicia Ashenburg, the mother of Ben and Nick. “They went to school together every day. They came home together almost every day from eighth to 12th grade. And then they went to practice together. They were literally like glue.”
Mawuena began playing varsity soccer for CBA in the eighth grade. He played four seasons of soccer at CBA and was named to the 2006 Post-Standard All-CNY First Team. In his senior year, he was the kicker for the football team.
Between school, homework and soccer, Ali-cia washed Mawuena’s school uniform nearly every night. And the whole family helped the young boys with schoolwork.
“The Ashenburg family kind of like took me in as their son,” Mawuena said. “They helped me with everything.”
The help was appreciated by Adjo, who worked on an assembly line as her first job. She later worked for Arcom and then at the old Hotel Syracuse. Often, she worked two jobs at once.
The Ashenburgs had the family over for holidays as well. Ben, Nick and their mother all remember the Christmas of 2001, in which they
took most of the Agbossoumondes to a midnight mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
After the mass, the Ashenburgs gave gifts to the Agbossoumondes. The prize was an Xbox.
“They were just so happy and so grateful,” Ben said. “And now they’re giving us presents. It’s really just come full circle.”
•••Inside the St. Francis of Assisi Parish, the suc-cess of the Agbossoumonde family resonates. Pinned to the Youth Events bulletin board is a story from The Catholic Sun about Mawuena and his sister Dovenin.
Directly beneath it is a newsletter request-ing contributions for a linen drive that ben-efits the Catholic Charities Refugee Resettle-ment Program.
Perhaps it’s a sign. Above is the example of what a refugee family can become. Below is what one can do to give another family a chance to be like the Agbossoumondes.
“We’ve remained very close personal friends,” Hart said. “Not just my family with them, but other families in our parish have maintained that type of relationship with them.”
The people of the parish aren’t alone. Mawuena and his family have remained close with everyone who has helped them since their arrival in Syracuse. And now that they are settled, they give back.
L.J. Papaleo, Mawuena’s teammate at SU, went through a devastating stretch in which both of his grandparents passed away in the span of two weeks. By his side was Mawuena, asking to attend the funeral services.
“That meant a lot because he didn’t know my grandparents,” Papaleo said. “He knew me, and he knew we needed someone to lean on in a hard time.”
McGowan, who played with Mawuena years ago through East Side Soccer, said his choice to come to Syracuse was based largely on Mawue-na being here to help him transition.
“I transferred from Hamilton College mainly because Mawuena was here,” he said. “If he wasn’t here, I probably wouldn’t have come.”
Looking back on where they were, Adjo said she could never have imagined a life like this. Coming from where they did, it seemed absurd.
But Papaleo didn’t see it unfolding any differ-ently. The Agbossoumondes entered the hearts of the people in the Syracuse community so quickly that their bright future was inevitable.
“They’re such great people that you want to help them,” Papaleo said. “If it wasn’t these three or four families we’ve been talking about, it would have been three or four other families. Everyone wants to help them.
“It wouldn’t have been a problem for them to succeed here in America.”
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Trophies and medals displayed in Mawuena Agbossoumonde’s house symbolize the success the SU midfielder has achieved since arriving in the United States from Togo.
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By Katie McInerneyEDITOR IN CHIEF
Last July, Ben DeLuca was left “shocked.” Jeff Tambroni, the head coach who hired
DeLuca and tutored him during the past nine seasons, had announced his decision to leave the Cornell lacrosse tradition. He was headed to Penn State to try and rebuild a Nittany Lions program that has never won an NCAA tourna-ment game. And no one, especially his closest assistant DeLuca, expected it.
“He had a great situation here and a great program,” DeLuca said. “Shocked was the fi rst thing that came to mind.”
Tambroni immediately offered an assistant position at Penn State to DeLuca, who thought it over with his wife. They toyed with the idea of uprooting their young and growing family to State College, Pa., to abandon the Big Red for the Nittany Lions.
Fortunately for Cornell, the perfect replace-ment for Tambroni was already in Ithaca, N.Y. He had been there for years. And Cornell offi -cials knew that.
The same day Tambroni stepped down, DeLuca said he was offered the job. And Deluca, a former Cornell defender himself, didn’t have to think more than “a day or two,” discussing it with his wife and his family before he made his decision.
After serving as an assistant coach under the previous three Cornell head coaches — Tambroni, current Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala and program legend Richie Moran — DeLuca fi nally took over as head man. He remained in Ithaca and became the head coach of a program for which he had played and coached most of his life.
“It’s been great,” DeLuca said. “It’s been a whirlwind for sure.”
So far, so good. In DeLuca’s fi rst season, the Big Red is 8-2 as it comes to the Carrier Dome
for a matchup with No. 1 Syracuse on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Recruited by Moran, DeLuca played for Pietramala during his senior season at Cornell. Pietramala offered him the second assistant coach position immediately upon graduation, and he took it.
But after two years, DeLuca wanted to put his nutritional sciences and biochemistry degree to work.
He went to New York City — “a different world,” but a cherished experience for DeLuca — to work with a sport marketing and manage-ment fi rm in Manhattan after graduate-school plans fell through. Soon after, he took a front offi ce role with the National Lacrosse League. He said it was his way to stay involved with the sport of lacrosse in any way he could.
But it wasn’t just lacrosse DeLuca loved — it was Cornell lacrosse.
He would listen in whenever he could fi nd games on the radio or the Internet. DeLuca never let himself stray far from the program. On Sept. 11, 2001, DeLuca was in Manhattan when two planes struck the World Trade Center. That, he said, brought him perspective.
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” DeLuca said. “After 9/11, I found out you don’t realize what you have until you don’t have it anymore.”
He missed working with the student-athletes. He missed having an effect on people’s lives, the way he did when he served as second assistant coach for Pietramala in 2000. He wanted to get back into it.
So when Tambroni had an opening on his staff in 2002, DeLuca didn’t just accept the offer to leave the city and become an assistant coach.
“I jumped on it,” DeLuca said.DeLuca admitted the paycheck didn’t com-
pare, but it didn’t matter. For him, life in New York City was an experience necessary to bring
him back to his passion.“I felt like I needed to do that to see my true
calling is to be a lacrosse coach,” he said. “It gave me a great deal of perspective and ulti-mately helped me fi nd my way back here.
“When I left Cornell after coaching, I didn’t think I was going to go back into it. But it was about having the offer to come back to coach at my alma mater.”
Nine years after getting back into the game, DeLuca has taken the reins of a Big Red team that is ranked No. 5 in the nation.
DeLuca hired assistant coach Matt Rewkows-ki in early July. In Rewkowski’s fi rst month on the job, he was introduced to what it meant to be a Cornell alumnus in the biggest way — the annual alumni weekend event. The weekend was “unreal” for the former Johns Hopkins player-turned-coach.
But not everything has been perfect since July. Rewkowski admits there have been some “early bumps in the road,” as the Big Red fell to Army and Virginia early in the season.
But the team is on a fi ve-game winning streak as it enters the Dome on Tuesday. Rewkowski is participating in his fi rst Syracuse-Cornell game after he served as an assistant at Hofstra for four years.
And although Rewkowski was content at Hof-stra and didn’t feel the need to leave a school so close to his hometown of Bethpage, N.Y., DeLuca didn’t need much convincing to bring him up. The legacy of the Cornell tradition — and the
extent to which DeLuca was involved — was enough of an argument.
“Any of our players will agree that Coach DeLuca’s passion for Cornell is unrivaled,” Rewkowski said. “He played here, then he was the assistant coach and now he’s the head coach and he loves it. They’re caught by his passion for this place.”
Second assistant coach Paul Richards went through the traditional hiring process, getting picked for the job in early August. Richards said his experience at Cornell has been “unbe-lievable.” Growing up in Baldwinsville, N.Y., he knew what lacrosse meant to the Cornell program.
“I had an idea of the tradition,” he said. “But it’s been what I’ve expected and more.”
Rewkowski remembers sweating in DeLuca’s offi ce on the hot June day when he visited Ithaca for the fi rst time to meet the newly minted Cor-nell head coach. The pair had been “friendly” after they both were assistant coaches and both played for Pietramala at different programs.
But he was taken aback by the vision DeLuca gave him and humbled that he was considered for a position in a program with such a storied history. For Rewkowski, the decision on wheth-er or not to become part of the Big Red tradition was obvious.
Said Rewkowski: “The opportunity to jump on board with Coach DeLuca at Cornell was something I couldn’t pass up.”
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BEN DeLUCA took over for Jeff Tambroni as Cornell’s head coach prior to this season. The former Big Red defender has led No. 5 Cornell to a 8-2 record thus far.
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same time. “Over the past couple of years, he’s turned
into a very good dodger, so it’s a double-edged sword,” SU head coach John Desko said. “You can’t just play him as a feeder. You can’t just play him as a dodger. So he’s got a very com-plete game.”
One of the things that makes Pannell such a good dodger is that he keeps his head up and his eyes focused on exactly where he plans on mov-ing. With such good vision of his destination, he’s able to get around most of his defenders with relative ease.
When asked how to stop Pannell, Megill didn’t have to think too hard before giving a quick answer: John Lade. But that’s assum-ing Lade can play. It’s no guarantee, as the defender is still recovering from an ankle injury he suffered in SU’s game against Duke last week. Desko made a game-time decision to keep him out of the lineup against Princ-eton on Saturday.
Desko said it will come down to another game-time decision Tuesday.
“We pretty much left it up to John,” Desko said of the Princeton game. “We’re a little miffed that he still had some swelling in there. We expect him to play in the game.”
If Lade’s out, then the Orange will have to adjust early to look for other ways to contain Pannell. That could mean sliding to cover him, but Megill said SU won’t call for a double team because of the other goal scorers Cornell fea-tures. With Pannell, Mock or midfielder David Lau, who has 18 goals, the Big Red has a profi-cient scoring trio.
If Lade does play, something even he isn’t sure about, then Syracuse can look forward to having arguably its best defender cover Pan-nell. Lade said Cornell, unlike most teams this season, won’t slow down its tempo against the
Orange. Instead, the Big Red will simply look for its best opportunities to score.
“They know they have a very strong nucle-us with Rob Pannell,” Lade said. “I think they look for him to spark the offense. I think they’re not really going to slow the offense down that much, they’re going to wait for their
opportunity, they’re going to see it and they’re going to have it.”
Similarly, Desko said Cornell will have enough confidence in its game plan to believe it’s good enough to take down the Orange.
With a quick turnaround from Saturday’s game to Tuesday, Syracuse only had one day to
watch film. That’s all it needed, though, to see where it needs to put most of its attention. It all comes down to stopping Pannell.
“He’s doing unbelievable. We have to watch out for him,” Megill said. “He’s a threat scoring, feeding, and the list goes on from there.”
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brandon weight | photo editorbrian megill (10) and the rest of the Orange defense will try to tackle the challenge of Cornell’s high-paced offense Tuesday when the Big Red comes to the Carrier Dome. SU will look to stop Cornell’s Rob Pannell, who leads the NCAA in points per game.
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Extended family
By Michael Cohen | Asst. Sports Editor
Guy Hart laughed as the Agbossou-mondes battled their knee-high boots. After plucking the Togo-
lese refugee family from the Syracuse Han-cock International Airport, he brought them directly to Kmart.
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SU looks to contain near ‘fl awless’ play of Big Red’s PannellBy Chris Iseman
ASST. COPY EDITOR
When the Syracuse defense watched fi lm of Cornell’s offense, one player stood out more than any other. Rob Pannell’s all-around abili-ties were so evident that the question of how
to stop him had no easy answer.
In so many ways — scoring, dodging or passing — he can beat a defense. And
to SU defender Brian Megill, Pannell as a player is nearly “fl awless.”
“His IQ of the game, it’s phenomenal,” Megill said. “The way he dodges with his eyes up, the way he can work into a transition game or fast-break. … His all-around game is almost fl awless.”
No. 1 Syracuse (9-0, 2-0 Big East) will attempt to stop Pannell and the rest of the Big Red attack Tuesday when it takes on No. 5 Cornell (8-2, 4-0 Ivy) at the Carrier Dome at 7 p.m. Pannell is the catalyst of the Big Red’s high-scoring attack, as every other Cornell scorer waits to take one of
his passes to have the chance to put the ball in the cage. That’s how Pannell has racked up 28 assists on the year, and he also has 27 goals to match.
Syracuse’s defense has been challenged all season and forced to shut down other teams’ offenses while the Orange struggles to score. When it goes up against Cornell, that’ll be no different.
The Big Red averages 13 goals per game on the season and 14 in its last fi ve games. Pannell is the team leader in goals, and attack Steve Mock is right behind him with 21. But most of
the focus will fall on Pannell because if SU can shut him down, then it has a better chance of shutting down Cornell’s entire offense.
The junior is fi rst in the nation in points per game with 5.5 and second in the nation in assists. Syracuse’s defenders said they are going to look to keep their sticks in on Pannell’s hands, not letting him make any easy passes.
But that still leaves his dodging ability. Unfortunately for the Orange, it can’t take away both his effi cient passing and dodging at the
UP NEX TWho: No. 5 CornellWhere: Carrier DomeWhen: Today, 7 p.m.
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