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Pure imaginationNon-majors get the chance to let their creative juices flow with an intro-level art class. Page
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Out at homeWhen Syracuse joins the ACC, it’ll be the only school without a baseball team, and plans for one can’t get off the ground. Page 16
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Balanced budgetThe Student Association finalized fall 2012 funding for student organizations at Monday’s meeting. Page 3
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Primary purposeThe remaining primaries before the presidential election create a new opportunity for student voters. Page 5
photo courtesy of bernheimer architectureBernheimer Architecture firm designed blue prints for a new practice facility for the Syracuse football team, which would be located three miles off campus. The project has been stalled for the past year.
Schumer plans to halt loan interest rate increases
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Syracuse officials discuss how high poverty levels relate to increasing inner-city violence
andrew renneisen | photo editorCHARLES SCHUMER, senator of New York, announces his support for a bill that would reduce student loan interest rate increases in front of the Hall of Languages on Monday.
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Plans to build practice facility still stalled
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DETAILING THE DISTRICTSThe Syracuse Common Council describes the city of Syracuse as being broken down into five districts:• The Syracuse Northside is made up of Teall Avenue, Grant Boule-
vard and Butternut Street.• The Eastside comprises SU’s main campus, Comstock Avenue and
Westcott Street.• The Southside includes South Avenue, West Brighton Avenue and
Midland Avenue.• The Westside is composed of West Genesee Street, Erie Boulevard
West and West Fayette Street.• Downtown is made up of East Adams Street, Harrison Street and
Lancaster Avenue.Source: Syracuse.ny.us
By Jessica IannettaSTAFF WRITER
Sen. Charles Schumer announced his support for a bill that would halt student loan interest rate increases on the steps of the Hall of Languages on Monday at noon.
Unless a bill is passed, interest rates on federal Stafford loans will nearly double on July 1, rising from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Stafford loans, offered by the
federal government, are given to students based on need and are not expected to be paid back while the student is in college or for a six-month period after. While the student is in college, the federal government pays the loan interest, according to an April 16 press release on Schumer’s website.
Currently, 9,483 Syracuse University students and 965 State University of New York College of
Environmental Science and Forest-ry students have Stafford loans and would be affected by the increase, according to the release.
Flanked by students and officials, Schumer said a college education is very important in today’s world and can lead to higher income and lower unemployment. However, financial obstacles are making it increasingly difficult for students to obtain a col-
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By Stephanie BouviaASST. NEWS EDITOR
B etween July and September 2011, the city of Syracuse saw more than 1,700 crimes total on
the North, East, West and South sides of the city.
These crimes include murder, non-
negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, lar-ceny, larceny from a vehicle and motor vehicle theft, according to data on the Syracuse Police Department’s website. SPD officials keep track of crime rates in the different districts of the city and
By Liz SawyerNEWS EDITOR
Plans to construct a 100,000-square-foot practice facility for the Syracuse University football team have been on hold for about a year, said Eric Beattie, director of campus plan-ning, design and construction at SU.
A competition was held in conjunc-tion with the athletic department one year ago, in which three architecture firms based out of New York state presented design plans for an updated
practice facility, Beattie said. Bern-heimer Architecture won the competi-tion last year after presenting blue prints for a facility located about three miles south of Main Campus.
Beattie said the project is not cur-rently moving forward because officials in the athletic department changed their priorities from raising enough money to construct a new facility to focusing on improving the existing Manley Field House building instead. Some of the renovations to Manley would include
updating the locker rooms, he said.The firm proposed plans to build a
top-of-the-line facility complete with light trusses erected every 10 yards and translucent wall panels to reduce energy. The current site is a cluster of practice fields and parking lots locat-ed west of a residential neighborhood and to the right of Manley, according to Bernheimer’s website.
Architects were hoping to create an identity for a “middle campus,”
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Three-year-old Nyshia Edwards got her father back Thursday afternoon.
The girl is the daughter of Corey Edwards, the man charged in connec-tion with the stabbing of Syracuse Uni-versity starting senior cornerback David Byrd in a fight last October at Sadie’s Place, 104 Seymour St.
Byrd suffered several stab wounds in his shoulder and neck that placed him in University Hospital’s critical care unit for almost one week.
But a jury Thursday found Edwards not responsible for both injuries. ...
Edwards, 21, was charged in con-nection to the incident on counts of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and third-degree crimi-nal possession of a weapon.
On April 4, Trequail Stackhouse, of McLennan Avenue, pleaded guilty for his involvement in the brawl, landing the 22-year-old in a New York state prison for seven years.
Stackhouse’s actions were directly related to injuries suffered by Myles Thomas, a high school friend of May-nard “Duke” Pettijohn, a starting defen-sive end for the Orangemen, who also suffered cuts to his head and ear in the brawl.
Giovanni DeLoatch, a reserve offen-
sive tackle, suffered cuts to his arm, head and back while a fourth man, Daniel Moore, was treated and released from St. Joseph’s Hospital immediately after the brawl.
But the SU football players’ injuries far overshadowed the wrongful charges against her song for his involvement in the incident, Mrs. Edwards said. While she admits her son was at Sadie’s on Oct. 31, 1999, he did not participate in the stabbing, she added. …
Byrd testified Wednesday regarding the specifics of the night and was unable to identify Corey Edwards as the cause of his injuries. Byrd could not be reached for commnent. …
Edwards’ friends include Stackhouse and Cheiron Thomas, but they are not members of the rumored “Boot Camp” gang, his mother said. Thomas’ trial is expected later next month for his involvement in the case. ...
But the incident has changed many lives, Mrs. Edwards said, noting that her son and his friends have a changed per-spective since last Halloween.
“Those boys, they used to look up to the football players,” she said. “Not anymore.”
—Compiled by Maddy Berner, asst. copy editor, [email protected]
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Assembly confirms budget recommendations
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Students develop website to buy, sell books on campus more easily
chase gewski | staff photographerLYNDE FOLSOM, member of the Student Association’s Judicial Review Board, spoke to representatives at Monday’s SA meeting held at 7:30 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium. She presented ideas concerning what are and are not legitimate reasons for missing a meeting.
HERO Dylan LustigThe SA president was assertive in ensuring members took the budget meeting seriously and thoroughly described the initiatives he is work-ing on.
ZEROMembers of the Judicial Review Board Though the members only intro-duced their ideas, representatives did not appear to receive them well.
BIG NUMBER
The difference between what CitrusTV requested in its initial budget and what it was granted through the appeals process.
$138,832.37
By Tyler GreenawaltCONTRIBUTING WRITER
After feeling like he was being ripped off by his university’s bookstore, Tito Bohrt wanted to find a new way for students to sell their books on campus and get more money for them.
Bohrt, along with Fabio Berger, Yang Zeng and Silvia Seceleanu, were sophomores at Duke University when they created a website called ShelfRelief.com. Incorporating ideas from Craigslist and Amazon, ShelfRelief looks to eliminate the irritations of shipping and lower
buyback prices by allowing students to sell books to other students on their campus.
Five months after developing the website idea, Bohrt and his col-leagues launched ShelfRelief in fall 2010. Originally for Duke students only, ShelfRelief gained a large fol-lowing during its first year of opera-tions, Bohrt said.
“We got a lot more users than we thought.” Bohrt said. “People are really excited about it.”
After Zeng and Seceleanu left the company to pursue other interests,
Bohrt said he and Berger opened the website to other schools across the nation, including Syracuse University.
The concept for the website is simple: Students create an account associated with the college or university they attend using their school email address and then post the books they want to sell on the website at a price set by the user. When a book is sold, the buyer pays online using the website’s “Book Budget” system, which allows cus-tomers to reuse funds they already used for textbooks. They can also
use PayPal or a credit card, and then meet the seller on campus to receive the book.
“Our core competency is to be really student-oriented,” Bohrt said. “Buying and selling books was a pain, and we wanted to be that solution.”
Since the beginning, Bohrt said he and Berger have not been looking to make money, but instead help fellow students. To show this, Bohrt said ShelfRelief donated all of its profits to the SOS Children’s Village in Mal-lasa, Bolivia, during its first year of
CAMPUS DELIVERY ShelfRelief is campus-specific. Stu-dents can receive and deliver books quickly and get paid that same day. After selling a book, the seller will have access to the buyer’s informa-tion. The seller must contact the buyer to arrange a place to meet on campus to deliver the book order. ShelfRelief has the ability to verify each student’s identity by their uni-versity email address. Unlike Ama-zon or eBay, this site has the ability to verify the identity of sellers.
Source: shelfrelief.com
HE SAID IT“I think budget season went pretty smoothly, and I’ll look forward to next season.”
Stephen DeSalvoSA COMPTOLLER ON THE CONCLUSION OF
THE 56TH SESSION’S FIRST BUDGET MEETING
• A Department of Public Safety officer was acquitted Monday for a domestic violence incident at his girlfriend’s home, according to a Post-Standard article.
Stanley Prue Jr. was previously charged with a misdemeanor count of criminal obstruction of breathing in the incident, according to the article.
Salina Justice Andrew Piraino found Prue not guilty after a nonjury trial in town court Monday, accord-ing to the article.
Defense lawyer Thomas Murphy said Prue was visiting Charlene Yablonski at her house when they got into a fight about one of his ex-girlfriends, according to the article.
Yablonski said Prue started to choke her after she slapped him in the face during the dispute, Murphy said in the article. But Prue testified he never touched Yablonski after she slapped him, and instead went to the bathroom to cater to his bruised eye.
DPS suspended Prue without pay after his arrest in January, according to the article.• Police responded to a call at the inter-section of Waverly Avenue and Walnut Place regarding a car accident Thurs-day, according to a police report.
Upon arrival, police interviewed a woman, 20, who said she was stopped at the red light when her vehicle was struck from behind.
Police then interviewed Sami Bin, a SU senior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, who said he hit the vehicle in front of him. Officers observed that Bin’s eyes appeared to be glassy and he smelled of alcohol, according to the report.
When police asked Bin if he had been drinking, Bin said, “I had three liquor drinks at Chuck’s,” according to the report.
Bin was charged with driving while intoxicated with a blood alcohol content of more than .08 percent, aggravated DWI with a BAC of more than .18 per-cent, following too close and operating in violation of restrictions.
—Compiled by Stephanie Bouvia, asst. news editor, [email protected]
By Dylan Segelbaum STAFF WRITER
The budget season of the 56th Stu-dent Association officially ended Monday after the general assembly approved all of the Finance Board’s budget appeal recommendations for the fall 2012 semester.
President Dylan Lustig began by reasserting the importance of this process to members of the general assembly at the meeting,
which took place at 7:30 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.
“This is an important meeting, and everyone in the gallery is count-ing on us to make some big decisions tonight,” he said.
The assembly began by vot-ing on an adjusted funding bill for CitrusTV. The station was denied the $261, 468.30 it requested during SA’s meeting last week for failing to attend its budget meeting.
Student organizations that miss budget meetings must wait until the end of the appeals process to reapply for funds.
The station was approved for $122,635.93, with no dissenting votes and only one abstention.
The largest modification was that the Finance Board did not grant Cit-rusTV funds for a new set because they felt it was not essential for the day-to-day operations of the station,
said Comptroller Stephen DeSalvo. “The board had difficult decisions
to make because of the way the pro-cess works,” he said. “They do have a set right now. While the board may or may not think that set needs to be redesigned in the future, they think that it can make it another year.”
Members of CitrusTV, including Associate General Manager Chip Angeles, were in attendance and
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T he word sustainability gets tossed around casually. It is used synonymously with
green or eco-friendly. It has been defined a thousand different ways, without getting any clearer.
On Thursday, the State University of New York College of Environmen-tal Science and Forestry’s Green Campus Initiative held a State of Our Campuses forum. Representatives from SUNY-Morrisville, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse Uni-versity and ESF discussed how sustainability was being addressed on the respective campuses.
Sustainability is about changing institutional cultures. This is harder than rearranging the budget to fund a recycling program. Students can make incremental changes, but eventually there will be a paradigm shift in how
universities and the world use resourc-es. Taking care of today’s needs without infringing on the ability of future generations to take care of themselves will become business as usual.
Unsurprisingly, the schools were facing the same hurdles. For example, student-run compost operations must be carefully maintained to avoid odors and rats. Publicizing sustain-ability initiatives on campus is vital for increasing student involvement.
At the institutional level, some projects can be very expensive, like LEED-certified construction. Leader-ship in Energy and Environmental Design is a checklist for designers and contractors of sustainable building practices. Buildings earn a certain amount of points for each item implemented.
Although helpful, the system is arbi-
trary. Building practices are not con-sidered as systems that interact within the building and with surrounding landscapes. This can lead to decisions that do not optimize installations, like placing solar panels in the shadows.
There are other changes that require effort but no budget. Both ESF and Morrisville have employed de-lamping, taking half the bulbs out of light fixtures, to reduce energy costs. ESF saves $2,000 a year lighting Moon Library this way.
Habits are hard to break, and insti-tutions are slow to change. Sustain-ability is seen as something for privi-leged people to make a hobby out of, or possibly a career. If you do not choose to pay attention to it, it’s OK, someone else cares. The SU representative on the panel said the greatest challenge was gaining student participation.
Good design and good resource management has always been sustain-able. There are so many changes that could be made easily. Campuses could turn the heat down. Here in Central New York, we could do away with air conditioning in favor of better ventila-tion. Why do campuses build new facilities without considering retrofit-ting existing buildings? Why is growth the accepted state of being?
Sustainability does not have to be a burden — it can be reframed as an
opportunity to solve puzzles. Barriers to sustainability initiatives are not inventing new technologies, but effec-tively using ones that already exist.
It is a matter of making business decisions, changing management strategies, advertising and educating. Sustainability cannot only be about environmental science majors, it needs to be about a wider cross-section of the student body.
Sustainability on campus needs to be packaged as something to rally around, as innovative projects to be proud of and participate in. Not just empty suggestions to car-pool and recycle.
Leanna Mulvihill is a senior forest engineering major and environmental
writing and rhetoric minor. Her column appears every Tuesday. She can be
reached at [email protected] or followed on Twitter at @LeannaMulvihill.
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Although the general election candi-dates appear to be solidified, voting in the primaries is still very important, especially for college-aged students.
Because Rick Santorum exited the presidential race last week, Mitt Rom-ney is the likely Republican nominee to face President Barack Obama in the November presidential election.
For many students, voting in the 2012 presidential election is their first time voting because of age require-ments. The primaries serve as an opportunity for students to familiarize themselves with the system.
Once students learn voting proce-dures from the primaries, voting in the general election will be simpler. The machinery and system for voting will not be a concern, and students can focus on casting the ballot for the candidate they think is best for the position. This also applies for students who will have to use the absentee ballot system for the primaries and the general election.
For students from states whose pri-maries have passed, paying attention to the other primaries can foster new perspectives. Students can see issues with which other states are concerned.
For students who still have upcoming primaries, now is the time to check in about voter registration and the absen-tee ballot voting systems. The absentee ballot voting systems vary state by state, and students must be informed about how their home state operates.
A large number of young adults turned out for the 2008 presidential elec-tion, but their involvement has ebbed since. If young voters begin to vote more consistently in elections, includ-ing the 2012 primaries and general election, politicians running for office will be forced to be more receptive to the concerns of the young adults.
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operations. “We always said that if we started making
money we would donate it,” Bohrt said. “It would be a way to show people that we are not doing this for the money.”
The SOS Children’s Village, which has loca-tions around the globe, provides orphans with a stable home life and education. Bohrt said he chose the Bolivian location because it is where
he is originally from and because he said a large percentage of Bolivians live under a dol-lar a day in wages.
ShelfRelief is still a start-up, but it is gaining users and schools every day. Bohrt said the web-site reached 4,500 users a few days ago. He said the website has been a huge success and became bigger than he had ever expected.
“Success to us doesn’t mean getting the most users possible or getting the most money as pos-sible,” Bohrt said. “Success for us is making our customers happy.”
lege degree.“We don’t want the cost of this SUper-
card to go up any higher than it has to,” he said, holding up one student’s card. “Col-lege is so important, for their future and for America’s future.”
The loan increase would affect all new student loans taken out after July 1, mean-
ing that students still attending school, as well as seniors who are graduating after the July 1 deadline, would have to pay the increased rate. The proposed bill Schumer is advocating for, which was introduced by Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, would extend the current 3.4 percent interest rate for one year,
Schumer said.“Student loan debt is almost like quick-
sand,” he said. “It swallows you up before you can get your footing.”
The senator’s office set up the press confer-ence because they wanted a backdrop for his announcement of his stance on student loans. College Democrats found out about the event because one of the senator’s staff members is a former College Democrats president, said Amy Snider, the current president. The senator spoke for 20 minutes.
Dylan Lustig, president of the Student Asso-ciation, also spoke and encouraged students to come together in support of Schumer and the bill.
“This summer, students need to stand up with Chuck Schumer and other senators and say that this is enough. We are paying enough to come to this school,” he said.
Taylor Brady, an undeclared freshman in the Martin J. Whitman School of Manage-ment, said she thinks the cost of student loans is a problem at SU because of all the financial aid the university gives out.
She said the increase in student loan interest rates could hurt the economy in the future because more money will be put toward student loans instead of spending within the economy.
Said Brady: “Education shouldn’t have to be so expensive.”
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organize the data in three-month increments.For years, high crime rates have been an
issue in the city. Approximately 156 crimes were reported in Syracuse in the last two weeks, according to The Post-Standard’s reported crime database.
SPD Sgt. Gary Bulinski said crime rates tend to increase as summer approaches because there are more people on the street. Also, he said, teen-agers contribute to the increasing crime rates in the summer because they are not in school.
“That’s more time that they can be involved in something that might lead them to commit a criminal act,” Bulinski said.
Although the city’s crime rates are consistently high, Syracuse officials say pinpointing the cause is a task that has proven to be quite difficult.
Though many residents think crime is racially- or culturally-driven in the city, Com-mon Councilor Bob Dougherty said he believes there is a different motivating factor for those committing crimes.
“I don’t think it’s an ethnic thing. I think it’s a poverty thing,” Dougherty said. “A lot of the people who commit crimes are poor people.”
Dougherty said this makes sense because
many people in the city are living under the poverty level. He said he often believes crimes such as robbery are committed out of necessity.
From 2006-2010, 31.1 percent of people living in Syracuse were considered to be living under the poverty level. In all of New York state, 14.2 percent of people were considered to be below the poverty level, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Dougherty, who is the councilor for the Syracuse Southside, said the majority of resi-dents are black. In Syracuse, there are more minority groups than white residents who live in poverty, he said. Because of this, he said, minority residents are more likely to get involved in crime and drugs.
“I think poor people are going to be the people who are dealing drugs,” he said. “If you’re gonna say that a lot of the people on the Southside are poor, then that’s who’s going to be doing the crimes.”
Common Councilor Jake Barrett’s district is the Northside of Syracuse. He said this district is the only one of the four largest districts that has seen an increase in population. This, he said, is largely due to the rising number of immigrants who are moving to the city.
Barrett said he agrees that crime, in general, is a direct result of the lack of economic oppor-tunity in an area.
Between July and September 2011, there
were 260 larcenies recorded on the Northside, according to the SPD website. This is in com-parison to 193 on the Eastside, where Syracuse University is located; 179 on the Westside; and 169 on the Southside.
Barrett said crimes such as larcenies or rob-beries are called “crimes of opportunity” and are more common on the Northside than violent crimes, such as murder, assault or rape.
Violent crimes are more prevalent on the Southside, Barrett said, because most of the vio-lent crimes are being done by black residents to other black residents. The Southside of the city has the highest population of black residents.
Barrett said he thinks it is hard to say what city officials can do to help curb the high crime rates.
“We’re talking about a very large problem,” he said.
But Dougherty, the councilor of the South-side, said he believes one great initiative city officials have already taken was the installation of security cameras on the Near Westside.
Last year, Syracuse police moved to install the cameras on the Near Westside in hopes of curbing the frequency at which gun and drug crimes were occurring.
Crime significantly decreased in that part of the city from 2010 to 2011, according to data released by SPD officials. Arrest charges in the area decreased by 49 percent, overall reported
crimes decreased by 29 percent and drug-relat-ed arrests decreased by 47 percent.
“The cameras have really done a great job,” said Dougherty, who spends a lot of time on the Near Westside. “I think the neighborhood feels a lot safer.”
Dougherty said there is a noticeable differ-ence in the number of young adults who are selling drugs on the street corners because of the cameras.
He said he is lobbying to have security cam-eras installed on South Avenue because of the amount of gang violence in that area.
“They’re not gonna be hanging around on the corner, selling drugs with a camera there,” Dougherty said.
There are many other positive initiatives city officials have made, such as the revival of the Syracuse Citizen Review Board, Dougherty said. The board’s purpose is to review citizen-filed complaints against SPD officials. This, Dough-erty said, will help keep police officers in check.
Although the city is taking great strides to help curb the amount of crime in the city, Dougherty said it is still a major issue that officials need to continue to address.
“This is something we can’t turn a blind eye to,” he said. “People shouldn’t be afraid to travel through the city.”
“Student loan debt is almost like quicksand. It swallows you up before you can get your footing.”
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where student athletes and students could prac-tice and socialize, according to the website.
There is currently no timetable for when the project will begin to break ground, Beattie said, as the decision to move forward is up to the athletic department.
Beattie did not release the cost of construct-ing such a facility.
Sue Edson, assistant director of athletics for communications at SU, said in an email the information provided on the Bernheimer web-site was inaccurate, but she did not elaborate on the statement. Edson did not provide a comment
regarding the renovations to Manley or the plans for a new facility.
Bernheimer, based out of Brooklyn, N.Y., is known for its work in collaboration with Jared Della Valle and creates buildings that are affordable as well as high-end residential, commercial, hospitality and other designs.
Andy Bernheimer, principal of the firm, said the plans for the “hypothetical project” are on the firm’s website. He also said his team was thrilled to participate in the design competition and enjoyed working with SU.
Said Bernheimer: “We designed a structure that was sensitive to the environment, relied heav-ily on daylight and was meant to be a place for, to paraphrase Vince Lombardi, ‘perfect practice.’”
thanked the general assembly for its decision. SA also approved all of the Finance Board’s
recommendations for fully funded, partially funded and non-funded bills without debate.
All the bills passed totaled $330,781.35, and their approval marked the conclusion of the first budget meeting of Lustig’s term.
“I’d like to thank the assembly for all their hard work this week and last week,” DeSalvo said. “I think budget season went pretty smooth-ly, and I’ll look forward to next season.”
Later in the meeting, Lustig gave an update on the campaign for no-fee ATMs and two new initiatives he is working on.
Lustig said he met with Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president
and dean of student affairs, and it was deter-mined the plan to sponsor the ATMs is feasible. The next step in the process is pitching this idea to local businesses, he said.
He also discussed a new initiative that would allow students to give back to Syracuse Univer-sity through their SUpercard purchases.
Purchases made with these funds would be rounded up to the next dollar and given to various SU colleges for projects that benefit stu-dents, he said. This program would be optional, and students would be required to consent to it on MySlice, Lustig said.
SA will also look into changing its reader-ship program, which provides copies of The New York Times and USA Today to students free of charge.
The program costs $80,000, and SA currently funds half of this, he said. The change involves the addition of online passes, which will be
available to students proportional to the num-ber of physical newspapers being taken, he said.
This change is expected to lower SA’s cost for the program, he said.
Toward the end of the meeting, members of the Judicial Review Board proposed a measure to define acceptable academic absences and a bill to streamline the election process of gen-eral members.
Lynde Folsom, a member of the board, said in a report that the Judicial Review Board believes missing SA meetings for social frater-nity or sorority events should not be excused. The board felt this is only acceptable in certain cases, she said.
“Would it be beneficial to your career and is this fundamental to your academics?” she said. “Clearly some fraternities and sororities are, and some aren’t,” she said.
During new business, Nick Iaquinto, also
a member of the Judicial Review Board, introduced a bill that would fundamentally change the way members are elected to the general assembly.
Prospective members would have to go through an interview with members from their home college, he said. Debate would occur at home college committee meetings instead of at general assembly meetings. This would maxi-mize the time SA has on Mondays to accomplish other objectives, he said.
Candidates would be given a recommendation from their home college committee, and members of the general assembly would only be able to accept or deny this suggestion, Iaquinto said. The election process would mirror the way members vote on student organization budgets, he said.
Both of these proposed measures incited debate and will be discussed at a later meeting.
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By Kirkley LuttmanSTAFF WRITER
N ew research is explaining nature’s role in the tragedy of the Titanic and is helping to explain how a ship
deemed “unsinkable” could sink. Original theories have emerged 100 years
after the event, as the anniversary of the sink-ing is April 15.
One theory states a superior mirage, formed from the icy waters, created a hazy horizon and shielded the iceberg from lookouts. The hazy effect also prevented the nearby ship, the Californian, from identifying and ultimately helping the Titanic, according to an April 9 article in The New York Times.
Another theory states the Earth’s nearness to the moon and sun caused record tides, which
explains why the ship had to navigate around so much ice, according to the article.
“Dense air near the surface caused light to bend downward to show the object above the horizon. This camouflaged the outline of the ice-berg, and that’s why they didn’t see it earlier,” said Tim Maltin, author of the new book “A Very Deceiving Night.”
Lookouts on the Titanic that night claimed it was a clear night, except for some haze. But Maltin’s research unearthed that mol-ecules in the clear air scattering light caused the haze. Because the iceberg was the same height as where the lookouts climbed, the tip could not have reached higher than the haze, therefore preventing an advance warning that it was there.
“At one mile away, the iceberg wasn’t mirag-ing at all, but the sea behind an object removes the contrast,” Maltin said. “The distance looked hazy and made it seem like the iceberg came out of nowhere.”
Maltin also said he believes the mirage effect
distorted the Titanic, making the crew on the Californian mistake it for a smaller vessel and not come to its aid sooner.
“When an object looks nearer, but not bigger, it appears smaller. This made the Titanic look 400 feet, not 800,” Maltin said.
Maltin said his research takes the blame off of any involved with the cause of the Titanic’s sinking. Cathryn Newton, dean emerita and professor of interdisciplinary sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse Univer-sity, said she agrees there were other factors to blame for the sinking.
“There’s almost always more than one big factor in a shipwreck like this. Almost always that factor is the ocean itself,” Newton said.
Although it has taken 100 years for these theories to emerge, Newton said she is excited about these developments and appreciates the attention oceanographic factors now play in explaining the sinking of ships.
“We are now much more attuned to ocean processes in shipwrecks,” Newton said. “That’s what’s changed. People interested have realized the ocean itself is a character in a great portion of sinkings.”
Newton said the science of today is now catch-ing up with the reasoning behind the sinking.
San Diego State University astronomy pro-fessor Andy Young, who Maltin cited as an aid to developing his mirage theory, said he is also not surprised it has taken so long to discover the mirage effect.
“First, somebody had to think of the possibility of mirages on the night Titanic sank,” Young said in an email. “It often takes a long time for ideas to occur to someone. It took years before Tim took up the search, and dug into the archives and the log books to find the bits and pieces of evidence buried in old weather records and ships’ logs, and put them together.”
Though Young said he is appreciative of the attention the mirage effect on the Titanic has received, he said he does not rule out the possibility there is still more to learn about the sinking.
Said Young: “The recovery of rivets and other physical pieces of the remains allowed the sub-standard nature of the ship’s construction to come to light. There might be other such discoveries to be made.”
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Scientific theories may explain mirages that possibly contributed
to Titanic’s sinking
“There’s almost always more than one big factor in a shipwreck like this. Almost always that factor is the ocean itself.”
Cathryn NewtonDEAN EMERITA AND PROFESSOR OF INTERDISCIPLINARY
SCIENCE IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Ghost ship
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ON JAN. 3, 1912, THE EARTH WAS AT THE POINT IN ITS ORBIT CLOSEST TO
THE SUN.
ON JAN. 4, 1912, THE MOON WAS AT THE POINT IN ITS ORBIT
CLOSEST TO EARTH.
The celestial configuration before the Titanic set sail in 1912 caused especially high tides.
Icebergs normally grounded in Labrador and Newfoundland might have been set adrift by these high tides. These icebergs would have been carried into the path of the Titanic.
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GULF STREAM
LABRADOR CURRENT
TITANIC SITE
NORTH ATLANTIC DRIFT CURRENT
Because of the high tides in 1912, the Labrador Current would have flowed further south than usual. Ships’ logbooks from 1912 show the colder Labrador Current did indeed flow into the warmer Gulf Stream current that year.
The colder Labrador Current may have cooled water otherwise warmed by the Gulf Stream. The cold water would have cooled the air closer to the surface of the water, creating a thermal inversion.
Mirages caused by thermal inversion would have made the Titanic appear higher and closer than it actually was. Crews on the nearest ship, the Californian, believed the Titanic to be about five miles away, but new evidence shows it was actually 10 miles away, making rescue efforts more difficult.
A mirage could also have distorted the Titanic’s appearance, rendering it unrecogniz-able to nearby ships.
OBSERVED (MIRAGE)
BENT LIGHTWARMER AIR
COOLER AIR
In the standard atmosphere, cool air lies over warm air. Thermal inversion occurs when warm air lies over cold air.
Cool air has a higher density, and the difference in density causes light to bend downward, toward cool air. This distorts the appearance of faraway objects, making them appear higher and closer — an effect called a superior mirage.
ACTUAL OBJECT
OBSERVER
Collision courseNew research on the Titanic disaster shows human error may not be the only reason the death toll was so high. A series of planetary and atmospheric events may have triggered especially perilous conditions.
Sources: ecn.ac.uk, nytimes.com, seagrant.umn.edu graphic illustration by rebecca mcgovern | the daily orange
Scars on 45Scars on 45April 10th Record Label: Chop Shop Records3 out of 5 DecibelsTop Track: The Way That We AreSounds Like: The Fray, but folky and British
Ibet InyangStaff Writer
Alternative music isn’t really all that alternative hits that have not only lit up the small screen, but can shed a bit of encouraging light in listeners’ lives as well. know you think those pretty eyes/are nothing much to see/but beauty’s running wild on your face.” Commence female listeners swooning and tearing up. Not only can these lyrics make a girl’s heart melt, but are downright lovestruck.
The band also delivers with great musicianship. Scars on 45 features Bemrose on lead vocals and vocal-ist Aimee Driver backing him up on most tracks. The two are an indie match made in heaven; Bemrose has a melancholy voice with hints of his lovely British accent drifting in, per-fectly complemented by Driver’s in-nocent and sweet sound. Their vocal talents soar over minimal production and instrumentation. The band usu-ally just uses an acoustic guitar with piano and drums barely sneaking in, creating a wonderfully mellow and folky sound in songs like “Burn the House Down” and ‘Beauty’s Run-ning Wild.”
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square has grown not only in number of users, but in services offered. What began as an app meant to bring friends together is rapidly growing into something greater.
Since its creation, Foursquare not only stays ahead of trends, but it also sets them. Since 2009, Foursquare has offered the cre-ation of lists that users can make on their own to decide where to go and what to do. We’ve seen the emergence of the “radar” feature that picks up on your location and finds places that may end up on your “to-do” list. And we’ve seen the marriage of financial incentives and the check-in.
Despite Foursquare’s innovative creations, the game aspect of the app remains one of its
most alluring characteristics. Berg cites the ability to garner more points than her friends and earn coveted “mayorships” as some of her favorite features.
“I really love reading the tips and recom-mendations when I check into a restaurant,” she said. “I’m a big foodie and always looking for something new to try.”
It’s a tribute to our times that an app in its toddler years is changing the social dynamic of a society. As much as Foursquare has achieved in the past three years, the growth and innovation we see in the future will out-shine the tremendous leaps thus far.
So happy 4sqDay to you all. May your check-ins be abundant and your mayorships secure.
Jessica Smith is a senior information man-agement and technology and television, radio
and film dual major. Her column appears every Tuesday. She can be reached at [email protected].
final project required for PTG 503: “Drawing and Painting for Non-Majors.” As the title suggests, the class does not require proficient level of skill sets. Each class, taking place in the Schaffer Art Building, is taught differ-ently depending on the graduate student in charge. Aloisio, whose syllabus also includes sculpting and portraits, enjoys watching peo-ple’s styles come through each assignment.
Aloisio isn’t new to teaching. This is her second semester with this class, and she previously taught and helped high school students in Denver and Michigan get into art programs across the country. And though she envisions living off the revenue of her abstract paintings, teaching is something she
doesn’t take off the table. Outside the classroom, the fourth floor
hallway in the Schaffer Art Building is a graveyard of used canvases that lean against the walls. The students work on their own, during Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:15 to 5:05 p.m.
Though Aloisio gives them a break at 3:30 p.m., she laughs and explains that they don’t
take them. When break time rolls around, only one student, Amanda Imundo, leaves her area to quickly shuffle through her bag and grab a banana.
“I’m multitasking,” said Imundo, a junior psychology and forensic science double major, with a smile. In one hand she holds her food and in the other a paintbrush, continuing work on a detailed half of a cake on a plate. The frosting is rendered crisp, blotched with strokes of paint.
Long moments of silence fall on the room, interrupted by students moving to re-dip paintbrushes in white and sienna, a soft brown, paint. The clinking of mugs is heard when someone cleans a paintbrush. Their eyes, fixed on the canvas, rarely falter except for brief chatter with one another and Aloisio.
Aloisio moves around the group of stu-dents encircling the display, each creating
their own workspaces. Each possesses a black easel taller than them. Some insert head-phones into ears and tune everything out while others converse with their neighbors once in a while. Some sit on stools, keeping their eyes level to the painting. And some stand, frequently moving away to dip their paintbrushes on the tray beside them or to stare at their work.
Clutching a sheet with paint and her paint-brush, Julissa Collado stands up on top of a cinder block that she pushed across the room. Collado, a senior communication and rhetori-cal studies and Spanish dual major, occasion-ally peers over the easel.
The last art class she took was in high school. She smoothly dips her paintbrush onto the sheet and back onto the canvas with-out breaking her balance. Her strokes create three diagonal pieces of cake and cupcake holders in the upper right-hand corner. She says the class is a stress reliever from school-work and activities in campus organizations.
“Don’t fall,” Aloisio says, squeezing through the space available. She passes a large whiteboard sprawling with sketches of figure drawing toward the back of the room.
Frequently talking to each student is a style of teaching her fellow graduate students dub “helicopter.” She constantly peers over students’ shoulders to offer advice or answer any questions. She speaks with her hands, constantly gesturing to explain her points and motioning to stroke styles in the paint-ing. She constantly throws around the word “texture,” adding observations like: “This side is more shadowy” or “All the frosting on this side is brighter.”
Paint is everywhere. It’s splattered on the wall above the sink where students some-times wander to quickly wash off paintbrush-es. Their backpacks rest on brown tables with big splotches. The mugs show their worn nature, their rims crusted with paint. Aloisio watches as the students work.
She says: “I want people to leave with some-thing they can actually show and hang up.”
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History4sqDay is in its third year running. It is the product of collaboration between Four-square, the location-based Smartphone application co-founded by Syracuse Uni-versity 1998 alumnus Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai, and Meetup.com, the self-proclaimed “world’s largest network of local groups.” Founded by Scott Heifer-man and Brendan McGovern, the day is an opportunity to create and follow different parties happening across the globe.
Who’s checking in?SU gave away ice pops and T-shirts on the Quad in celebration of 4sqDay, and the NEXIS office in the School of Information
Technology gave away decorative cup-cakes. The University of Wisconsin held the Media Arts and Game Development Expo. Foursquare engineer Matthew Rathbone was a speaker at the event. The Nines, a restaurant and bar on College Avenue in Ithaca, N.Y., held a meet-up with Foursquare developer David Wasserstrum. Twenty-two cities across the world official-ly proclaimed April 16 to be “Foursquare Day,” including New York City; Ithaca; Casablanca, Morocco; and Victoria, British Columbia.
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the sweet stuff in the middle
T U E S D AY april 17, 2012
T he social media scene observed the third annual Foursquare Day on Monday,
or as the Foursquare community dubs it, 4^2. This celebration of the young but robust geolocation social media service takes place each year on April 16.
For the mathematically chal-lenged, four squared is 16 and April is the fourth month. Clever.
In 2010, Nate Bonilla-Warford, a Foursquare early adapter, started the celebratory trend. Since then, Foursquare’s loyal user base and the company have embraced the social media holiday.
At Syracuse University, the alma mater of Foursquare co-founder 1998 alumnus Dennis Crowley, the momentous occasion was not overlooked. While the average Foursquare user ended the day with at least a 4sqDay 2012 badge, Four-square fans on campus celebrated the app with a bit more flair.
The SU Foursquare Campus Ambassador team appropriately lev-eraged Foursquare to offer prizes for the holiday honoring the app. Joshua John, a senior economics major, and Shira Berg, a senior public relations major, are two of the three students.
Berg said students who checked into the Quad with three other friends received four floor tickets to Block Party. They also awarded stu-dents who checked in with a friend with the chance to win a free T-shirt.
But this day offers a larger take-home message than concert tickets and T-shirts. On Monday, the com-pany announced that it hit 20 million users. For a start-up born on a kitchen table in the East Village in 2008, the growth since the app’s official launch in March 2009 is staggering.
A Foursquare user for more than two years, John believes the app changed the way we communicate and even how we form decisions on where to grab a coffee or what to see when visiting a new city.
“I don’t explore new places on a limb anymore,” he said. “I read peer reviews and make sure I know what I am getting into before I go there.”
In the past three years, Four-
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Foursquare Day celebrates
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emilia vest | design editorAMANDA IMUNDO, a junior psychology and forensic science double major, paints half a cake as part of the final project for PTG 503: “Drawing and Painting for Non-Majors.” She is one of the 13 students enrolled in the course that welcomes all skill sets. Imundo has always loved drawing, and this is her first art class.
Editor’s note: This story is the fourth in a series appearing occasionally that is intended to give readers a glimpse into unique courses available at Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Sci-ence and Forestry.
By Colleen BidwillASST. FEATURE EDITOR
F or the 13 students inside the cluttered studio space of Room 432, they can’t have their cake and eat it, too. They have to paint it.
A white cake topped with red frosting with a few slices around it. Small brown cupcakes with finishing touches of fluffy white frosting and sprinkles. A simple white cylinder cake.
The three desserts sit on the gray table in the middle of the room, with not only the students’ eyes upon them, but also two table lamps shining blue and red spot-lights. Rebecca Aloisio, who teaches the class, moves closer to the display. She glances at the desserts and does a double take with a quizzical look.
“Someone has eaten a cupcake,” said Aloisio, also a graduate painting student, unleashing a loud rise of laughter from the class. The desserts, the subjects of their acrylic paintings, have been there for about a week.
The small group of students worked on this painting, inspired by pop art artist Wayne Thiebaud, for the
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By Ibet InyangSTAFF WRITER
A lternative music isn’t all that alternative anymore.
Everywhere you turn, there’s another indie band for hipsters to obsess over. And Eng-lish group Scars on 45, formed in 2007, is taking over as the next indie band to pop up on the scene. With a debut album packed with catchy and feel-good songs, it’s good they came along.
The band’s name was inspired by a 2011 Huffington Post interview with singer Emmy-lou Harris, who recalled being chastised by her father for “getting scars on his 45s” while playing with his record player. The band gar-nered a large audience when single “Beauty’s Running Wild” played on “CSI: NY,” and other TV dramas like “Grey’s Anatomy” soon featured its songs.
With its debut self-titled album, the band offers hits that have not only lit up the small screen, but shed a bit of encouraging light into
listeners’ lives as well. The album is solid, but nothing cutting edge. Its message is its main strength. Lead singer Danny Bemrose crafts his vocals like a real ladies’ man. In all of the band’s songs, he sings sweet and endearing lyrics.
In “Hearts on Fire,” he pledges his devo-tion to a girl in his sweet British accent. Then, in “Beauty’s Running Wild” he says, “I know you think those pretty eyes / are noth-ing much to see / but beauty’s running wild on your face.” Commence swoons and tears from female listeners. Not only can these lyrics make a girl’s heart melt, but they can make them downright love struck.
The band also delivers with great musician-ship. Vocalist Aimee Driver backs up Bemrose on most tracks. The two are an indie match made in heaven. Bemrose’s melancholy voice drifts through the album, perfectly complemented by Driver’s innocent and sweet style. Their vocals soar over minimal production and instrumenta-tion. The band usually just uses an acoustic
guitar with piano and drums barely sneaking in, creating a wonderfully mellow and folky sound in songs like “Burn the House Down.”
However, “Scars on 45” doesn’t exactly offer a lot of variety. The band avoids providing songs suiting everyone’s tastes and just sticks to what it’s good at. It’s a smart move, but Scars on 45 did it so much that many songs sound relatively the same, like the soothing “Change My Needs” and “Insecurity.”
On nearly all 10 songs on the album, Bemrose and Driver use solemn vocals with minimal backing, a formula that gets old pretty quickly. Their closest shot at diversity is on “The Way That We Are,” which is up-tempo and turns up production a notch with its driving bass.
With its newly attained exposure, the band is the soundtrack to every prime-time love story. Even if Scars on 45’s sound isn’t completely polished just yet, their mellow tunes will make them an “aww”-inspiring favorite of many.
Sounds like: The Fray, but folky and British
Genre: Alternative rock
Top track: “The Way That We Are”
Rating:
3/5 soundwaves
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Release Date:April 10
Endless loveScars on 45 retains similar sound in transition from TV to stereo
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quicker in defending midfielders who are smaller and faster. He has also been taking yoga classes to improve his flexibility on the field.
Ianzito said his matchups against players like 5-foot-9 Johns Hopkins midfielder Rob Guida showed how critical speed can be.
“I’m a fast guy, but I don’t have the quickest speed, so it’s hard to go around people some-times,” Ianzito said. “To be on defense, you have to dictate where you want the offensive player to go. You have to have speed to do that.”
With his speed improved, Ianzito’s still work-ing on scoring in transition. He has spent his previous two years looking for scoring opportu-nities in settled situations.
Fellow defensive midfielder Kevin Drew is per-haps the fastest player on SU and one of the fastest
in the Big East. He is also one of the best at scoring transition goals. Drew said learning to score in unsettled situations is something that’s perfected over time, especially when it comes to understand-ing when it’s the right time to take a shot.
“Just going in transition is totally different than dodging middies. You’ve just got to be in the right place, cut,” Drew said. “And a lot of it, too, is we’re trying to settle the ball down, get some pos-sessions on offense, so sometimes it’s not the right time to go, sometimes it is the right time to go.”
Ianzito’s playing time increased, and the Orange now has a strong, quick defensive mid-fielder to stifle opposing scorers.
It’s worked so far, and Ianzito’s not longing for his old spot.
“I can always make opportunities out of some-thing when I’m bringing the ball up,” Ianzito said. “It’s exciting. It’s a new role, and I love the challenge.”
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Fairfield fighting for respect in best year in program historyBy Andrew Tredinnick
ASST. COPY EDITOR
Michael Roe feels a little disrespected.Despite all Fairfield’s accomplishments this
season, the sophomore midfielder takes notice of critics’ claims that the Stags don’t belong with the upper-echelon teams across the nation.
But Roe also understands his team has the power to change those opinions in the next two weeks.
“A lot of people out there say our strength of schedule isn’t that great, and the teams we play aren’t the best teams in the world,” Roe said. “We have the opportunity right in front of us to prove that we can beat teams like (Denver) or teams like Ohio State, and we can play with anyone in the country.
“I think we just have to prove all of our hat-ers wrong.”
The No. 17 Fairfield lacrosse team (10-2, 3-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) is one step from turning a good season into a memorable one. The Stags need one win to match a program
record with 11 wins, a mark set during the 1998 and 2005 campaigns. But the team is also set on creating a new identity for the program. It starts with ending a six-year NCAA tournament drought and making that the expectation for every season. That journey begins when Fair-field takes on No. 12 Denver at home Saturday.
None of Fairfield’s players have ever beaten the Pioneers. It’s a frustrating fact for many of them.
The largest hiccup came when the Stags squared off against the Pioneers in last season’s ECAC tournament. After the Stags defeated Loyola 10-9 in the ECAC semifinals, the Pioneers dropped Fairfield by two goals in the title game
It was Denver that halted the one chance Fairfield had to reach the NCAA tournament. All those losses to the Pioneers stir in the back of the minds of Fairfield’s players, including junior attack Sam Snow.
“I know, personally, I’ve never beaten Den-ver,” Snow said. “I’ve lost the past two years in a row by two goals, and they kicked us out of the tournament, so this next week is going to be a
lot of motivation for a lot of guys to get this win.”But Fairfield is better this season. It started
early in the year when the Stags emerged victo-rious in three straight overtime games.
For head coach Andy Copelan, those three contests proved that this team was hungrier than in years past. The Stags have won all four of their one-goal games in 2012, compared to last season when they went just 2-5 in similar games.
“It gave me some pretty high blood pressure. I don’t think my wife was too thrilled about it,” Copelan said. “ … It’s a resilient group, and I felt during those moments where nothing was coming easy to us I still think there was just belief for the guys out on the field and the guys on the sideline. We just thought that we were going to get it done.”
Snow said the success of the team has led to a better practice environment.
The belief has translated to the field. The Stags are beating the teams that they should, winning its games by an average of four goals since March 7. Fairfield’s two lone losses came to No. 1 Loyola and No. 11 Massachusetts.
And that has been the one flaw that has led the skeptics to voice their opinion. The Stags still have yet to capture a marquee win to catch the eye of the NCAA tournament selection committee.
“I’ll also say that a lot of that stuff is out of our control,” Copelan said. “We just need to worry about trying to get as many wins as we possibly can and what happens on the other end we have zero control over.”
But all that could change when the Stags square off against Denver on Saturday. It would be a defining win for a program that hasn’t defeated the Pioneers since 2005, the last time it made the NCAA tournament. And players feel that this may be their one shot to change the legacy of Fairfield lacrosse and make the nation take notice.
“We are right there, and every goal that we’ve had this year is right within arms reach,” Roe said. “We control our own destiny in a lot of ways, and it’s a goal that every lacrosse player has, let alone every program (to make the NCAA tournament), and it’s no different here.”
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By Stephen BaileyASST. COPY EDITOR
Despite the rushed exchange, Devon Collins vividly remembers the day she met a legend.
Standing on the sideline during the Syra-cuse-Towson game March 13, her attention was
drawn away from the blur of players running on the field in front of her. In the middle of a possession,
Floyd Little, one of the all-time greatest SU football players, greeted her.
Little introduced himself and told Collins that in his playing days with the Orange, he wore the same number — 44, a number with more meaning than any other in Syracuse history.
“It was a pretty big deal because people don’t just usually come down to talk to us on the side-lines in the middle of our game,” Collins said.
Though she has yet to achieve the great-ness Little did wearing No. 44, Collins has emerged as an immediate contributor and potent offensive threat for the No. 2 Orange in her freshman season. She has 22 goals through 12 games this season, and her 25 points rank fourth on the team.
Collins will look to build on those totals when the Orange (10-2, 4-0 Big East) plays No. 13 Cornell (8-3, 3-2 Ivy League) on Tuesday in Ithaca.
She scored a career-high five goals Satur-day against No. 12 Georgetown, helping extend SU’s winning streak to nine games. The last seven victories have come by an average mar-gin of 9.6 goals per game.
“They’re feeling it right now,” SU head coach Gary Gait said. “They’ve got great chemistry in the locker room, on the field, and when you have that, you have opportunities to blow out teams, and that’s what they’ve been able to do against some quality opponents.”
Coming to SU for preseason training, Collins quickly immersed herself into that chemistry. She worked closely with fellow freshman Kailah Kempney, who also has 22 goals this season, and seasoned veteran Michelle Tumolo, who is one of the best crease attacks in the nation.
“When she stepped on the field, she just had a really quick step and had a shot that was really quick, and really hard and accurate,” Tumolo said. “… It was really good to see that she had a lot of potential.”
Still, when she was given the No. 44 before the season, she knew nothing of its meaning or the running backs in SU lore who had donned it.
It wasn’t until an assistant coach men-tioned its legacy to her that she realized its significance.
“I’m going to be honest, I didn’t know how spe-cial 44 was to the school initially,” Collins said.
But now, she has grown to understand the
magnitude of the number she wears on the field each game. And in turn, she’s thriving as a key cog in the Orange offense.
Collins is turning the potential Tumolo saw in her before the season into tangible results.
“In the first game, I was really nervous,” Col-lins said. “I was so nervous about everything, every little part of it.
“Now, I just go out there. I’m excited to play and not nervous.”
Racking up goal after goal against the Hoyas, she certainly did not look like a freshman. Extra time on the field and help from her teammates
has sped up her learning curve.But that short talk with Little is still
ingrained in her mind.Before running back onto the field in the
Towson game, Collins gazed up into the Car-rier Dome rafters and saw Little’s picture hanging with the other iconic figures who proudly wore the No. 44.
“It’s all over the Dome, like on the field, up in the corners,” Collins said. “It’s been an honor to play in it.
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Freshman Collins establishing herself as threat on offense
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DEVON COLLINS has become a consistent threat as a starting attack for Syracuse this season. The freshman has scored 22 goals and dished out three assists in 12 games.
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Gross “expressed that he will always explore new ideas to enhance our program, but we (athletics department) have a respon-sibility to be fiscally sound and in compliance with Title IX,” Sue Edson, assistant director of athletic communications, said in an email to The Daily Orange.
Gross could not be directly reached for comment.
Syracuse University discontinued its base-ball program in 1972. The school’s first inter-scholastic sport lasted 94 years before budget-ary restrictions and a change in the academic calendar doomed America’s pastime at the university for the last 40 years.
Money and Title IX are among the main reasons baseball remains in Syracuse’s past. The cost to start a program that will likely lose money is too steep, and SU must keep an even
balance of athletic scholarships for men and women. If the university adds a men’s sport, it would probably have to add a women’s sport.
Though money ended baseball’s run at SU, a shortened academic year that ended in April 1973 didn’t help matters. Still, it all came down to the bottom line.
“I’m sure that money was the bigger factor because everybody in the United States has a shorter season, and they all seem to still be playing,” said Dick Woodridge, a pitcher on the final Syracuse baseball team.
In the decades that followed, each chancel-lor left DeFrancisco with the same impression.
“It’s really a question of money,” DeFran-cisco said. “Baseball brings in no money.”
About five years ago, though, Doug Halliday reinvigorated attempts to bring baseball back to SU. Halliday, a local plastic surgeon and baseball enthusiast, had nearly every obstacle accounted for, from finances to a coaching staff to complying with Title IX.
He met with Gross twice to sell him on his
vision for Syracuse baseball. Halliday said about 20 families, local busi-
nessmen and doctors vowed to raise money to start a program. He planned to help out, too, donating all revenue from Botox sales to the cause. He estimated a $200,000 donation could help the team get off the ground for the first year, paying for uniforms, equipment and other expenses.
“I felt you could develop funding long term with donations, but get a program now and start working with it, have a shoestring budget and you could get it done, and I think it would grow,” Halliday said.
To save money, Halliday’s grassroots cam-paign included provisions for a volunteer coaching staff led by Woodridge, now the co-founder of Sports Zone, a training facility for amateur baseball players in Central New York.
Woodridge has helped 25-30 players sign pro-fessional contracts throughout the years, and 91 players he has worked with have earned Divi-sion-I scholarships since 2004. With his experi-ence and knowledge of local amateur baseball, Woodridge said he was willing to get involved either as a coach or as an adviser and supporter to help bring life back into the program.
Halliday asked him if SU would attract the Division-I talent in the area.
“Well, certainly they would,” Woodridge said. “I think it would be a big draw. It would be a great draw, especially to start a program.”
Steve Grilli, who Halliday also envisioned as a part of the coaching staff, knows the appeal to play at home in college can be a powerful recruiting tool. Grilli, a major league pitcher in late 1970s, said his son and Pitts-burgh Pirates pitcher Jason Grilli considered Le Moyne College before deciding to attend Seton Hall from 1995-97.
Grilli said his son likely would have consid-ered SU for that reason if it had a program. And the ACC would only add to the intrigue now.
“I think it would play into the fact that the kids would say, ‘Yeah, I’d like to stick close to home because it’s a D-I program, it’s an ACC program, which would be challenging,’” Grilli said. “The ACC is known for some of the better baseball schools.”
Halliday proposed starting a women’s cross-country skiing program to account for Title IX. With top-notch facilities less than 60 miles from Syracuse, in Osceola, Halliday felt it was a perfect match.
With an ideal climate in Central New York, SU could be competitive immediately in a sport in which only 21 NCAA programs qualified to compete for the 2012 NCAA Championship. But that program would also come with expenses.
Like DeFrancisco, Halliday described Gross as receptive and even excited by the idea of baseball at Syracuse. But in the end, the excite-ment didn’t outweigh the challenges.
Gross pinpointed $800,000 as the aver-age cost to run an elite baseball program each year, Halliday said — well above the $200,000 he felt was attainable. Woodridge said the university would need to back it, and it would need a stadium to play its home games. And Halliday admits a salaried coaching staff would eventually be needed for a program to take off.
“You could tell he’s a baseball guy and would love to have baseball, but I think he was kind of stuck at getting an endowed program,” Halliday said. “And I think what he didn’t want was to have a program that was a drain on the budget and also that could potentially be a los-ing program at the time.”
Gross is focused on getting every current program to compete at an elite level. Adding another program requires Gross and his staff to conduct an analysis on a wide range of factors, including financial aid and alloca-tion of scholarships.
“Our focus as an administration and Dr. Gross’ focus is to have a great group of head coaches in place,” said Jamie Mullin, associate athletic director for team services, “which he’s done, and then continue to provide them with the operational resources necessary to com-pete at a high level. So that’s really our focus and that’s really Dr. Gross’ focus.”
While Gross and his staff continue to put their energy into their teams, the ACC has started to prepare for having an odd number of baseball programs in the conference. With Pittsburgh joining, the conference will have 13 members, leading to possible changes in the regular-season schedule and conference tournament.
Currently, the teams play 10 of the confer-ence members, missing one opponent during the regular season. And the ACC tournament features the top eight teams.
Boston College head coach Mike Gambino said the options being discussed by the con-ference for the future include playing every conference member or missing two during the regular season, and the conference tourna-ment could stay at eight or expand to 10.
“I think there will be some changes in our conference because of it,” Gambino said. “But I think overall it’s a great move for our confer-ence.”
DeFrancisco and Halliday, among others, hope the move to the ACC, though it doesn’t require baseball, generates more discussion surrounding baseball at Syracuse.
After failing to see any progress made on his previous four attempts, DeFrancisco is ready to try a fifth, eager to see if the change in conference affiliation makes a difference.
“(Since) it was first announced that Syra-cuse was going to go into the ACC,” DeFran-cisco said, “I have a note to myself to meet with the chancellor and to meet with Gross to
talk about it and see what impediments they now are going to claim for baseball.”
“I felt you could develop funding long term with donations, but get a program now and start working with it, have a shoestring budget and you could get it done, and I think it would grow.”
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PA G E 16the daily orangeSP ORT ST U E S D AY
april 17, 2012
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Ianzito completes seamless transition to defensive midfield
By Ryne GeryASST. SPORTS EDITOR
ohn DeFrancisco made his case to reinstate the Syracuse baseball program on four
separate occasions. A New York state senator and 1968 SU baseball captain, DeFrancisco tried to shed light on the sport’s significance in college athletics to the university’s administration.
Former Chancellors Melvin Eggers and Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw dismissed his plea without much thought. Nancy Cantor, the chancellor since 2004, showed interest but ultimately fol-lowed the actions of her predecessors.
When Athletic Director Daryl
Gross arrived, DeFrancisco tried again. This time was different.
“He basically said we should have a baseball team, and I’ll do what I can to make it happen,” DeFrancisco said.
But despite Gross’ interest in the possibility, baseball remains a retired sport at Syracuse seven years into his tenure. When the Orange officially joins the Atlantic Coast Conference — right now set for the 2014-15 athletic season — it will be the only school in the 14-team league without a baseball program. Regardless of the ACC’s proud tradition and reputation as a national powerhouse on the diamond, though, SU will only be required by
the ACC to field a football, men’s and women’s basketball, and either a women’s soccer or women’s volleyball team, an ACC spokeswoman said.
In his seven years, Gross ended the men’s and women’s swimming programs and added a women’s ice hockey program that just finished its fourth season of competition. The athletic director has also looked into adding men’s ice hockey in that span, keeping an open mind to possibilities for the future of Syracuse athletics. But he also must keep his focus on the programs currently competing.
Despite efforts to bring baseball back to Syracuse, obstacles prevent real progress
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Steve Ianzito was exhausted. He had never played this much in any game during his first two seasons at Syra-cuse. Cornell won faceoff after faceoff,
earning con-stant pos-session, and Ianzito was on the field for nearly the entire
game trying to stop the Big Red. One year ago, he would have been
standing on the sidelines. This season, his new spot at defensive midfield has given him ample opportunities to see the field. At a time when the Orange is struggling to earn and keep possessions, Ianzito’s work is even more important.
“I didn’t expect us to be play-ing that much defense during that game, so I have to continue to get better,” Ianzito said. “If we’re going to see more games like that, you never
know, I could be on the field a fourth of the time, or like Cornell, three-fourths of the time, you never know.”
Ianzito’s playing time took a hit this year when head coach John Desko began using two four-man mid-field lines, rotating players in and out. With his minutes on the field decreas-ing, Ianzito became frustrated and his coaches could see it, but they had the perfect solution. They took advan-tage of his size and switched him to defensive midfield. Ever since, he’s
been getting better every game. Ianzito will get another chance to
improve when Syracuse (6-5, 3-1 Big East) takes on struggling Hobart (3-7, 1-3 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Con-ference) Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Geneva.
A safety and quarterback in high school, his frame gives Syracuse some added strength at both ends of the field.
Moving him exclusively to defense is a way to utilize his size more effectively.
“We’ve noticed it since he was a freshman, he’s very solid defensive-
ly,” Desko said. “He’s a 6-foot-1 athlete, tough kid, he played football in high school, he competes, he has the per-sonality for that position.”
Ianzito played his first game at defensive midfield on a grand stage, when the Orange played then-No. 1 Virginia on March 4. From the open-ing faceoff, Ianzito was on the field for seemingly all four quarters. The Cavaliers won 20-of-28 faceoffs.
Ianzito lost about 10 to 15 pounds to be
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