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By Dylan Segelbaum STAFF WRITER
I f he hadn’t taken a shortcut home four years ago, there’s a strong possibility John Adams
would not be the first representative for University College in the history of the Student Association.
The decision to cut through Max-well Hall would change his life when he stumbled upon an SA meeting.
“I need to go that way to go home, so I cut through the build-
ing,” he said, cracking a smile. “When I went through the building — there they were.”
On March 26, SA elected Adams, a senior paralegal studies major, as the first representative for Univer-sity College, Syracuse University’s school for part-time students. As an official member, Adams is no lon-ger confined to passively observing from the upper gallery of Maxwell Auditorium — a spot he has occu-pied longer than most current SA
members have attended SU. For the first time in 56 sessions
of SA, University College students now possess a formal voice in the general assembly.
But the process of obtaining this seat was a protracted battle, plagued by bureaucratic processes.
Jon Barnhart, president during the 54th session, authored the bill that paved the way for making the addition possible. Any change to the SA constitution, like this proposal,
must be approved by a majority of the student body through a referendum on the November presidential ballot.
Because the bill was present-ed after elections had already occurred, the vote was delayed until the next election cycle, Barn-hart said.
SA began to consider this provi-sion during the 53rd session, when Adams presented a desire to the then-administration to get involved,
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Continuing careOfficials at the campus day care center must continue offering updates to parents. Page 5
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Silver foxCNN’s Anderson Cooper will be the emcee at this year’s Mirror Awards ceremony, sponsored by Newhouse. Page 3
By Marwa EltagouriASST. NEWS EDITOR
Strong disapproval of the 2012 Block Party lineup is prompting Univer-sity Union to take action.
UU will host an open forum in response to the negative reactions toward DJ and electronic artist Kas-kade and indie-rock band Cold War Kids on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Life Sciences Complex auditorium. UU officials plan to specifically address the
concern that the organization is out of touch with the student body regarding the performers it brings and how the organization spends its funding.
Members of UU’s Board of Directors plan to discuss in detail how the organi-zation works, its main goals and tasks, the number of factors that contribute to how concerts are booked and how headlining performers are chosen.
“The premise of the forum is to inform students on Block Party and
clear up a lot of misconceptions,” said UU President Rob Dekker. “We’ve seen comments ranging from people saying that UU isn’t a student organization to comments saying the concert is a multimillion-dollar concert when it’ws not.”
Students will be invited to ask ques-tions after the forum during a Q-and-A session. Those who cannot attend are encouraged to send their questions to [email protected] or tweet
at UU’s Twitter handle, @UUInsider, using the hashtag #AskUU.
UU members see the discussion as a way for students to voice their opinions and concerns, and for UU to provide students with a clearer explanation of how UU operates, Dekker said.
Said Dekker: “It’s (the job of) an Official Programming Board to open up multiple avenues to con-verse with students.”
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Officials to hold forum in response to Block Party lineup criticism
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By Rachael BarillariASST. NEWS EDITOR
Boba Suite Tea House will be forced to close if owner Glenda Nunez and her staff cannot raise about $10,000 by April 15.
Nunez, a 2011 graduate of Syra-cuse University, bought the tea house located on South Crouse Avenue on March 15 and was told she had one month to make the first down payment of $25,000 to the pre-vious owners. With her own funds, Nunez has already put forth a little more than $15,000.
Now at the two-week mark, Nunez said she is starting to panic because there are many changes she and the employees had planned to make to the business, such as adding food and more drink options to the menu, and now they may be unable to do so because of their looming payment deadline.
“We don’t have enough time to see it all through,” she said. “It is heartbreaking.”
Since Nunez became the owner, the tea house has already seen financial improvements, recently making its best sales to date. Deliveries have also
chase gaewski | staff photographerJOHN ADAMS was elected to the position of the first Univeristy College representative by the Student Association on March 26. Adams has been attending SA’s weekly meetings for four years and has also served on the Committee on Administrative Operations.
Finding his voiceStudent Association elects first University College representative after waiting more than a year
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THE FINANCESBoba Suite’s Glenda Numez bought the tea house March 15 and was told she had one month to make the first down payment of $25,000 to the previous owners. With her own funds, Nunez has already put forth a little more than $15,000. Nunez is now at the two-week mark and said she is beginning to panic because there are several changes her and employees wanted to make to the busi-ness, such as increase selec-tion choices to the menu, that they can no longer do because of the payment deadline.
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• Police responded to a call about a fight on the corner of Euclid and Ack-erman avenues Sunday at approxi-mately 1 a.m., according to a Syracuse Police Department report.
Upon arrival, police observed about 25 people walking away from the inter-section. Police noticed a suspicious-looking male with blood on his face and shirt. The man started to run from police but was quickly detained by Department of Public Safety officers.
The man, a student at Onondaga Community College, told police he was fighting with four unknown men. He said he was walking from a house party on Lancaster Avenue when he was “jumped” by the men, who then took off. The man suffered an abra-sion to his left eye and a laceration to his upper lip. He was treated by Rural/Metro ambulance and then released. The case remains open. • On Friday, police responded to a call on the 100 block of Marlett Street regarding a burglary, accord-ing to a police report.
A male resident told police an unknown individual broke into his house. Upon coming home, the man told police he noticed a window in the back door of his home had been smashed. He also said he noticed an empty water cooler jug full of loose change was spilled out on his living room floor.
The man told police he then entered his bedroom and saw that it had been ransacked. His mattress had been moved and his PlayStation 3 video game system was missing. His son’s piggy-bank, containing $100 in cash, was also missing, according to a police report.
The man’s roommate also told police he noticed a diamond ring and watch was missing from his bedroom. The case remains open.• Police arrested an 18-year-old woman Saturday on a charge of petit larceny, according to a police report.
Police said the woman was caught attempting to steal property from an H&M clothing store at the Carousel Center. She was observed putting two sweaters in her purse and attempt-ing to leave without paying for them, police said. The items totaled $29.90.
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By Meredith Newman STAFF WRITER
CNN’s “silver fox” Anderson Cooper will be the emcee at the sixth annual Mirror Awards ceremony, an event sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Wendy Loughlin, director of commu-nications and media relations at New-house, said Cooper was chosen as emcee of the event because of both his connec-tions to Newhouse and his accomplish-ments as a professional journalist.
“Anderson Cooper is a very charis-
matic guy,” Loughlin said. “We couldn’t think of anyone more perfect to emcee the Mirror Awards.”
Cooper has reported on several major news stories around the world and has been a key journalist in cover-ing political elections and presiden-tial debates, according to a release on the Mirror Awards’ website. He has earned many journalism awards, including multiple Emmys, for his work on his show “Anderson Cooper 360.” Cooper also serves as a corre-spondent for CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
The Mirror Awards, which will take place June 13 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, celebrates excellence in media industry reporting, according to the event’s website.
The Mirror Awards were estab-lished in 2006, Loughlin said, as a way to celebrate the media industry. The idea stemmed from Newhouse alumni wanting to recognize the importance of media reporting and the important work media reporters do in informing the public.
The judges for the ceremony con-
sist of two tiers. The top tier of judges picks the actual winners. The judges themselves have very accomplished resumes, Loughlin said. Both tiers consist of working journalists, alumni and faculty from Newhouse, as well as other journalism professors. The judges for this year will be announced in the upcoming weeks, she said.
The Mirror Awards comprise seven categories, including best single article and best commentary, and are valued at $1,000, according to the website. The highest award is the John M. Higgins
Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting, valued at $5,000. The catego-ries break down into either traditional media or digital media.
Loughlin praised the Mirror Awards for the message it sends to journalists and its overall uniqueness.
“It’s called the Mirror Awards because the journalists that are acknowledged are the ones that hold a mirror up to their own industry,” Loughlin said. “It’s the only awards of their kind.”
chase gaewski | staff photographerDYLAN LUSTIG, Student Association president, hands out slips of paper to members of the general assembly to cast their ballots on at Monday night’s meeting held in Maxwell Auditorium.
Event held for green campuses
Journalist, Emmy Award winner Anderson Cooper to host sixth annual Mirror Awards
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By Shannon Hazlitt STAFF WRITER
Students and professionals shared ideas for making their schools greener Monday at the eighth annual Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium Conference. The confer-ence was held at the Sheraton Uni-versity Hotel and Conference Center.
Rick Martin, principal sus-tainability analyst at the Energy Systems and Sustainability Man-agement department at Syracuse University and an event organizer, said the purpose of the conference is to promote sustainability on college campuses in the Northeast.
“It’s in many ways a regional working session for campus sus-tainability coordinators across the Northeast,” Martin said.
The event officially began Mon-day at noon with a president’s panel after optional tours of the Syracuse Center of Excellence, Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center, the Hotel Skyler and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Both professionals and students involved in promoting sustainability on their campuses listened to speak-ers from nearby schools, such as the Rochester Institute of Technology.
The keynote speaker of the event was Onondaga Chief Jake Edwards, as the previous speaker could not make it. In his speech, Edwards emphasized the connection between people and their environment. He said that in Onondaga, people are very connected to the environment.
Edwards discussed the shared responsibility all people have for protecting the environment.
“It is not my Mother Earth,” SEE SUSTAINABILITY PAGE 4
By Dylan Segelbaum STAFF WRITER
A series of contentious elections incited extensive debate among members of the Student Associa-tion during their Monday night meeting.
Michael Cacciatore, a represen-tative from the College of Arts and Sciences, went before members of
the general assembly to run for a position on the Judicial Review Board during the 7:30 p.m. meeting in Maxwell Auditorium.
He addressed concerns about his ethical stance on approaching cases, which caused him to not be elected to the board several weeks before.
“I forgot to mention I was a phi-
losophy major, so in terms of ethical arguments this is what I do,” he said. “I like to see every single per-spective before a decision is made.”
Many members of the general assembly did not agree with the statements Cacciatore made during the 10 minutes of initial question-ing, especially his comment that
HERO Daniel HernandezThe School of Education rep-resentative presented a reso-lution calling for SU officials to define how they would act in the event of an unlawful student protest.
ZEROMike Cacciatore The College of Arts and Sciences representative ran for a position on the Judicial Review Board for a second time Monday night, but again failed to clarify his approach to decision making. He was not elected to the board.
BIG NUMBER
The percent of SU students the New York Public Interest Research Group found to be concerned about ATM fees. The group is advocating for no-fee ATMs on campus.
80.39 PERCENT
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Barnhart said. Angelo Coker, vice president under Barn-
hart, identified with Adams because as a vet-eran, transfer student and commuter, he fell under the label of “nontraditional” student, Barnhart said.
SU has historically brought in students who defy the stereotypical classification of a college student, being one of the first schools to accept veterans on the G.I. Bill, he said.
“The typical definition of a college student has changed quite radically, and we wanted to make sure that regardless of what kind of student you were, you were still considered a student,” he said.
To fall under the jurisdiction of SA, a group must pay at least a portion of the student activ-ity fee, which is why students of the State Uni-versity of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry have representation in SA, Barnhart said. University College students do not pay any part of the fee.
“So it was a question about whether or not we should still represent them and still have a seat for them, even though they don’t pay the student activity fee,” said Chief of Staff Taylor Carr.
SA members deliberated on whether part-time students had to pay the fee to receive representation in the assembly. It was deter-mined University College students did not have to pay the fee, but in return they were only granted one seat in the assembly, Carr said.
Home colleges usually have one seat for every 300 students enrolled. The University College enrolls several thousand students.
Like many SU students, Adams sports Orange gear head to toe. He is thankful for the position and the people who made its addi-tion possible.
A native of Syracuse, Adams attended Hen-ninger High School, located in the city’s East-wood neighborhood.
Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in paralegal studies was not Adam’s first time at SU. He was previously a student in the College of Arts and Sciences but did not complete his degree, he said.
“I had to go to work,” he said. “Family obligations.”
He speaks softly, often taking drawn-out pauses between sentences to think.
He decided to move to Utah, where he became employed at the state’s Disability Law Center with the help of a friend. He advised attorneys on mental health issues in the community and interned doing paralegal work, he said.
Adams became involved with the state leg-islature in Utah and was a part of political campaigns for candidates such as Gov. Michael Leavitt, who would later become the adminis-trator of the Environmental Protection Agency and secretary of the U.S. Department Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush, he said.
He carried out tasks such as filling out enve-lopes, making phone calls and occasionally campaigning door-to-door with candidates, he said.
The quest for a higher degree, something
the local community college did not offer, and the goal of attending law school led him to return to SU five years ago, he said. He is on track to complete his degree in 2014.
When University College did not have a seat in the general assembly, Adams had limited power in pushing for initiatives that benefited his constituents.
“I would just go to the sessions at the assem-bly and just sit down and listen,” he said. “I was there to advocate and be a cheerleader to the administration.”
But as a representative, Adams said he wishes to bridge the connection between Uni-versity College students and the SU campus. University College students do not receive dis-counts for SU sporting events and speakers, making them feel out of the mix, he said.
Many part-time students are also unaware of the events and organizations SU hosts — a result of the limited amount of time they spend taking classes on campus, he said. “Chancellor (Nancy) Cantor talks about Scholarship in Action, working with people off-campus,” he said. “I’m trying to do it in a reverse manner, and getting people hooked up to the campus.”
When obtaining the 25 signatures required for his petition, many part-time students were not aware University College had obtained a seat in SA, he said.
“But when I told them that we finally got a seat, their eyes lit up,” Adams said. “I could see them light up.”
President Dylan Lustig said SA is always open to more representation and that Univer-sity College obtaining a seat in the general assembly was “a long time coming.”
Lustig said he has faith Adams will be able to make a difference, especially because he has been unofficially involved with the organiza-tion for so long.
“Whether or not John was recognized as a member of SA, he was here,” Lustig said. “It’s just nice that now he’s going to get to be able to vote, the chance to join a committee and some recognizable work — other than what he’s already done.”
Neal Casey, president during the 55th ses-sion, shared this sentiment that representation for part-time students was long overdue. Many of the decisions SA makes affect all students, even those attending SU part-time, he said.
Not only did Adams show dedication by attending the meetings, but he also worked with Casey on initiatives like better lighting for certain areas of campus, he said.
And though University College did not have a seat at the time, Adams was elected and served on the Committee on Administrative Operations, he said. The committee reviews each piece of legislation before it is presented to the general assembly to make sure it adheres to the standards outlined in the SA codes.
It’s difficult for anyone in SA to immediately make a huge influence, but this experience, coupled with his unique insights, will allow Adams to succeed, Casey said.
Barnhart said Adams is the most logical choice, as he has been involved in this process from the beginning.
Said Barnhart: “There is nobody to be bet-ter representing the University College than John Adams.”
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Edwards said. “It is our Mother Earth. We all share the responsibility of stewardship.”
Edwards also stressed the importance of considering future generations.
“Earth can be a place that will be comfort-able and pure for future generations if we do our part today,” he said.
Hannah Morgan, an ESF alumnus, said she thought Edwards’ speech had great themes.
“I think his most important point was get-ting rid of the disconnect between people and
the environment,” Morgan said. After the first panel, attendees partici-
pated in various other panels about recycling and managing waste.
About 25 students from schools all over the East Coast are currently attending the conference, said Brooke Wears, a public rela-tions coordinator and project manager in the Energy Systems and Sustainability Manage-ment department.
“I think that the significance of this pro-gram is having so many different colleges and universities and professionals all in one area to brainstorm ways to solve problems schools are having promoting sustainability,” Wears said.
She said one of the challenges of the panel was making sure as many speakers as pos-sible were able to share their ideas about promoting sustainability.
“We had so many good proposals,” Wears said. “There are also a lot of sessions that are really great for promoting different perspectives.”
She said there are roughly 80 to 100 differ-ent schools attending the conference.
The entire conference lasts until Wednes-day. Participants who registered by March 23 were able to stay at the Sheraton for all three days of the event. The conference concludes at noon Wednesday with closing remarks by Sherburne Abbott, vice president for sustain-
ability initiatives at SU. Wears said students who are interested in
attending other days of the conference are still welcome to sign up at a registration desk on the second floor of the Sheraton if they send her an email stating their interest in advance. Students are welcome to listen to the speakers for free but will not be provided with meals.
Zachary Goldberg, a sophomore interna-tional relations major, said he thought the first day of the conference was interesting and would recommend others attend.
Said Goldberg: “I think it shows how we are taking sustainability into our own hands.”
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A ny environmental project has many parties invested in its out-come. Consider the stakehold-
ers. Listening to everyone is critical.For any restoration or conserva-
tion endeavor there are certain groups involved. Government, whether it is local, state or federal, sets and enforces regulations and tries to increase tax revenue.
Business owners are concerned about how these projects and their publicity will affect business in their establishments and whether regula-tions or projects will hinder their abil-ity to do business. There may also be other institutions invested in a site like nonprofit organizations or schools.
Residents care about how their lives will be affected in terms of environmental quality and cost of liv-
ing. Different groups of residents are likely to have diverse perspectives on environmental projects. No project will be successful without com-munity support. The people directly affected by a project need to welcome it into their community.
For a restoration class, we took a walking field trip to the Near Westside of Syracuse to get a better understand-ing of the conditions in that neighbor-hood. This was never better illustrated than by a sign that said something to the effect of “penalty of dumping is 15 days in jail,” with four or five TVs underneath it that appeared to have been dropped far enough to crack the screens. I think the city of Syracuse hoped its signage would help clean up the neighborhood. Didn’t seem to work.
A classmate and I were invited
in by a woman getting her hair done to talk about cleaning up Onondaga Creek in her neighborhood. Without a formal education on the topic, she had still figured out all of these principles of ecological restoration on her own. She hadn’t given up.
Another creek restoration project I was involved with was in a similarly economically depressed neighbor-hood where the creek was in a tunnel underground. There was a park
where the creek could potentially be brought to the surface, at the expense of getting rid of athletics fields used by the neighborhood.
The group I was working with want-ed to create a complete design before talking to the residents and people who use the park and ask for their blessing. It left me with the uneasy feeling of taking ownership of a place where I don’t live and don’t fully understand its needs. This neighborhood needs to be a partner from the beginning, not a recipient of a finished design.
Collaboration is changing as the means of communication change. Open source communities are popu-lar online in software development and moving into environmental do-it-yourself projects. The idea is to make all of the information necessary to
understand a problem available and allow people to contribute their own ideas. The more people looking at a problem, the greater the potential is for innovative ideas to surface faster. Every stakeholder is empowered to be part of the conversation.
This model, as far as I know, has not been applied to projects that would involve major regulatory hurdles like a municipal sewer system or site reme-diation because there are limitations on what information is released. But it is comforting to know that this sort of collaboration is possible.
Talk to everybody.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
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The Early Education and Child Care Center underwent large staff changes in November. The day care center management also switched depart-ments from the Division of Student Affairs to the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. The changes prompted some parents to worry about the consistency in the staff who cared for their children.
Parents began calling for more involvement and information from the day care center, as they were upset these changes occurred with-out parents’ input or knowledge. A lengthy discussion ensued at Febru-ary’s University Senate meeting. Officials at the day care center have started to involve parents more, but there is always more the center can do to appease parents’ worry.
The parent newsletter and monthly meeting are a good first step for the center. Employees should also be sending out emails to parents if news or changes happen between
newsletters. For example, if there is a staff change that occurs between newsletters, an email can be sent out to parents with that information.
Day care administration should also consider holding more meetings each month to accommodate more parents. There are 60 children in the center now, and between 12 and 15 parents come to each monthly meet-ing. To try and increase that number, officials should hold meetings on different dates and times to fit with different schedules.
Officials must remember the bottom line of the center is to care for and educate the children.
High rates of staff turnover in a short period of time can be discon-certing for children. Center officials must continue concentrating on put-ting children’s needs first.
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he “doesn’t think it’s possible to have a decision that is not biased.”
But Lynde Folsom, member of the Judicial Review Board, assured the committee this only reflected Cacciatore’s belief on approaching the discussion process and said he would be impar-tial when ruling on cases.
“His personal beliefs and philosophy are irrelevant,” she said. “In all three of his inter-views he says what’s in the codes — you go by the codes.”
Cacciatore failed to secure a position on the board a second time by a vote of 35 in favor of his election, 12 against and one abstention. The Judi-cial Review Board requires four-fifths majority to be approved for a seat.
Earlier in the meeting, the election of Harris Leung, a sophomore political science major, also divided the general assembly.
Some SA members, like Student Engagement Committee Chair Sean Dinan, expressed concerns related to the vagueness of Leung’s intentions.
“A lot of it sounds like political things to say,” Dinan said. “A lot of them are very open, like raising awareness through social media. But when we asked for specifics, he never really went into that.”
Other members, like S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Rep. Musu Sirleaf, thought Leung discussed many plans that relate to Syracuse University students.
“I thought his ideas were original enough,” she said. “I also thought his ability to speak pub-
lically and his voice was very good, and I think he’ll be great for communicating to people.”
Leung was narrowly approved by the general assembly.
SA members also voted on a resolution call-ing for a clause to be added to the student hand-book to define what SU’s response to an unlawful protest would be. This is presently absent from the handbook.
School of Education Rep. Daniel Hernandez presented the bill, which is a response to the violent breakup of protests that transpired at the University of California-Berkeley and UC-Davis a few weeks before.
Though the resolution condemns any mea-sure that would put student welfare at risk, some members expressed displeasure about how this allows university officials to outline a response that could potentially lead to violence.
Chief of Staff Taylor Carr, however, was dis-appointed that the specifics of the resolution were not thoroughly researched before it was presented for a vote.
“It worries me this is the first step in your process,” Carr said. “I’m putting out something on behalf of the entire campus, and you’ve done no work with administrators and the people
actually involved in it.” Despite the concerns raised about the resolu-
tion during a pro-and-con debate, it was passed with only one dissenting vote and abstention.
At the end of the meeting, officials from New York Public Interest Research Group presented their initiative for no-fee ATMs at SU.
They said their opinion polls show 80.39 per-cent of students are concerned about this issue and that each SU student utilizes the ATMs about 2.39 times per week. The $1.75 charge could be offset through third-party sponsorship of the machines, they said.
President Dylan Lustig said this is an initia-tive SA will work on during his administration.
Said Lustig: “I’m literally giving all that I can to do it right now.”
Other business discussed:• A bill solidifying the existence of vice chairs in SA committees was passed without opposition. • Ben Jones, a Newhouse representative, was elected to a seat on the Board of Elections and Membership. • Zipped Magazine was denied a $6,194.35 special programming request for a speaker event, as only $119.73 remains in the account for this semester. The Finance Board will not take any requests for special programming until the fall. • Comptroller Stephen DeSalvo announced SA will conduct budget deliberations at its next meeting, which will be held April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Life Sciences Complex. • Lustig announced the White House National Youth Summit will be held April 18 in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium.
jumped from about two to 20 a night since Nunez put the business on GrubHub.com.
She said, theoretically, if Boba Suite makes at least $1,000 a day, they will be able to accumulate just enough money in a little less than two weeks. Nunez said the tea house usually makes about this much daily, but she believes the fluctuating temperatures and rain have been keeping people from coming in and buying tea.
Though the business is doing much bet-ter under new management and with more advertising, as Nunez said the previous owners were “running it into the ground,” it is still not enough to save the shop, she said.
In response to the situation, employees at the tea house have created a Facebook page, aside from the business’ regular page, to make the SU community aware of Boba Suite’s financial difficulties. Nunez said the staff is not just looking for dona-tions, but for more people to come into the shop and purchase products.
Looking ahead, the monthly payments will be affordable, Nunez said. The prob-lem is that it is difficult to come up with this amount of money in a month.
She and her staff are trying to reach out to the community or else the shop will be forced to close its doors.
Said Nunez: “It’s all 12 of us together trying to do this.”
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By Kirkley LuttmanSTAFF WRITER
D issolvable tobacco products have been on the market since the early 2000s. Tobacco companies like R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. brand them to be healthier, yet a U.S. Food and Drug Admin-istration scientific advisory panel said they could have the potential to increase the number of tobacco users.
Dissolvable tobacco products are made of finely milled tobacco and act as an alter-native to cigarettes and moist snuff for adult consumers. Companies similar to R.J. Reynolds brand them to be more social-ly acceptable than cigarettes because they are spit-less, produce no secondhand smoke and no cigarette butt litter, according to a 2010 R.J. Reynolds statement.
The introduction of dissolvable tobacco products began about 10 years ago with the introduction of Ariva and Stonewall-branded tablets from Star Scientific Inc., according to a March 22 Time magazine article.
Offering products in three different varieties, Camel Orbs, Sticks and Strips, R.J. Reynolds began marketing dissolv-able tobacco products in 2009 to provide a variety of different products, according to the company’s website.
Richard Smith, manager of digi-tal communications at R.J. Reynolds, declined to comment.
The products range in nicotine con-tent, but R.J. Reynolds officials say they are all priced comparably to other smoke-less tobacco products, carry the same health warnings and have the same tax rates as other tobacco products, accord-ing to the statement.
The FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee report found that exclusive use of dissolvable tobacco prod-ucts would greatly reduce an individual’s
health risks, compared with regular use of cigarettes. It could also reduce population-level disease burdens by reducing the number of people who smoke or don’t start smoking, according to the Time article.
But the report also found that the avail-ability of dissolvable tobacco products might make people think tobacco in general is safer.
Areesh Haq, a senior psychology major, said she has never tried dissolvable tobac-co and does not find it appealing.
“I smoke cigarettes because I enjoy it, not because I’m addicted to it. If I stopped, I wouldn’t need nicotine to not do it again,” she said.
Although Haq has not heard much about dissolvable tobacco before, she said she believes it could be a healthier product.
“I don’t know much about it, but if it’s better for you than smoking and you are doing it for the nicotine, then I guess it’s better,” Haq said.
Sarah Cullen, a senior art history major, said she also has never tried them and would not want to. She said she would prefer to not use tobacco altogether rather than using an alternative method.
“I haven’t heard of many people using them, but the ones I have are mostly kids playing around with tobacco products like Camel Snus,” she said.
On the other hand, Cullen said she does not believe dissolvable tobacco could be healthier. She said society is repeat-edly lectured on how tobacco has negative effects, so a product with nicotine is still addictive and no better than cigarettes.
“I think it’s a way to keep people addicted to nicotine,” Cullen said. “I don’t think they are a good idea. You either smoke tobacco or not, that’s how I see it. And if you do, you should quit the old-fashioned way.”
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Freshmen Lis Webber, a photojournalism major, and Krislyn Engelke, an information technology major, aren’t intimidated by the talk of risk. The friends are the only scuba students who choose to wear full wet suits to class, and they call themselves Team Black.
“It’s actually pretty relaxing once you get used to it,” Webber said.
Like many of their classmates, they took the class so that they can eventually enroll into PED 223: “Underwater Photography,” the next class in the sequence.
Resembling penguins sliding off a glacier, students waddle to the edge of the pool wearing inflated buoyancy control vests, masks and fins. They dip their feet in — it doesn’t seem too cold
because of the insulated booties underneath, but then they fall in the rest of the way and shiver.
Once they are in the pool, students grab hold of the oxygen tanks, which are kept lying horizontally for safety reasons. When handing them out, head instructor Marc Turenne gave students a warning.
“If it falls over and just happens to land on that shiny nozzle there, the PSI will send that thing into the air and through the wall like a bottle rocket,” he said.
No one wears a dry suit, a nylon and neo-prene shell that keeps the entire body dry and
warm except for the head and hands. That comes at the end of the course, and getting adjusted to one makes for an adventure of sorts.
“The first time they get in with the dry suits, they kind of look like big dumplings floating on the surface. It’s humorous,” co-instructor Ken Cameron said.
Separate certification in the suits is nec-essary because the class will dive into Ska-neateles Lake, about 40 minutes away, at the end of April when the water is typically still about 45 degrees, Cameron said.
Turenne said he once taught a girl who asked whether there would be fish in the lake. Of course, he told her. She didn’t want to see fish. “Then what the heck are you diving for?” he asked. The purpose of scuba, he said, is to see things that humans normally do not encounter.
“You’ve got to watch out for freshwater jel-lyfish,” Turenne said to the class. “Don’t worry, they’re so small they look like snot.”
Scuba diving is gear-heavy. Divers work with buddies for safety purposes in an open water set-ting. They help each other into dive vests, regu-lators and mouthpieces for breathing, weights for sinking and fins for swimming.
Once they deflate their vests and sink to the bot-tom of the pool, students push down on their regu-lators to receive oxygen. The compressed air they breathe feels just like normal air. Some students need to put extra weights in their pockets, depend-ing on how much “flotation assistance tissue,” as Turenne calls body fat, they have.
Underwater, dozens of students dove further down in the same direction, constantly bump-ing into each other. Fins don’t make for the sharpest turning devices.
“You need to be able to swim, but you do not need to be a great swimmer,” said Turenne, who has been teaching scuba at Syracuse University for the past seven years.
Every so often, dive buddies check in with
the “OK” sign, an “o” shape made with the thumb and index finger. They don’t use the thumbs-up sign because that signals they want to return to the surface. When they’re not underwater, they put their masks on their necks. Masks on foreheads signal a distressed diver. Students study signs like this in the classroom session that takes place before pool time.
The instructors teach a bit of science, like how to combat pressure on the eardrum when diving deep. But Turenne tries to keep the class equally educational and light-hearted.
“There are two kinds of divers,” he said to
the class. “Those who pee in their wet suits and those who lie about it.”
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MARC TURENNE, instructor of PED 221: “Scuba,” pretends to be in pain after a student refers to her scuba fins as flippers. He has spent seven years teaching the class at SU.
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PICTURE PERFECT After taking PED 221: “Scuba,” many continue on to PED 223: “Underwater Photography.” The one-credit class shows the newly certified divers how to capture moments beneath the surface. Next semester, it will be offered from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday nights in the Katharine Sibley pool in the Women’s Building.
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B ubbles are everywhere. Push them away with a free hand and dazzling colors become visible.
Green Hawaiian flowers and citrus patterns float all around. Though this pool has nothing to discover but your classmates’ bathing suit patterns, someday you could be swimming in a coral reef.
That’s because every student
enrolled in the PED 221: “Scuba” class has the chance to become a certified diver with the National Aquatic Ser-vice. Before they can scour the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, they must con-quer the Katharine Sibley pool in the Women’s Building. The class, available to all students, meets from 7:10 to 10:10 p.m. Tuesday nights.
After strapping gear weighing about
the same as a 5-year-old to their backs, divers splash into the shallow end. Before diving in, students sign medical waivers. At the start of the semester, students watched a video warning about equip-ment misuse that could lead to drowning or oxygen toxicity. But six professional divers are on hand during pool time to assist students.
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Students in PED 221: “Scuba” dive under the Katharine Sibley pool in the Women’s Building on Tuesday night. Instructors prepare the class to earn diving certification. At the end of April, the class will take a trip to Skaneatles Lake, about 40 minutes from campus, when the water is still typically 45 degrees.
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T he days when a whoopee cushion or a plastic snake constituted an acceptable
April Fools’ Day joke are long gone.With the elevated capabilities of
technology comes a heightened stan-dard for pranks. In the tech world, April Fools’ Day is a chance for a whole workforce of geeks and nerds to prove that their programming-adept fingers share a limb with their funny bones.
This year, the first day of April
brought in a new wave of jokes from some of the biggest players in business and binary. From Internet blogs to tech guru sites, the World Wide Web was overrun with mischievous misinformation. Here are a few of my favorite April Fools’ fallacies.
Google Really Advanced SearchEver wish you could narrow down your Google search results with more specific search queries? Google
knows that, and the innovative com-pany capitalized on this common need by releasing Google Really Advanced Search in the first few
hours of April. On the page, visi-tors could specify searches in many categories. These included “rhyming slang for,” “calque or loanword ori-gin” and my personal favorite: “loop-ing midi music in the genre of,” for which I chose dubstep. The bottom of the page stated that searchers could also tickle a unicorn or search by odor. All the links led to a Google page with search results for the phrase “April Fools” because whoever was actually searching with these tools
obviously needed an explanation.
Google TapAnother prank up Google’s sleeve was Google Tap. This feature prom-ised to revolutionize the art of com-munication by restricting users to dots and dashes so that everything was entered in Morse code. Unless you reached the upper echelon of Girl or Boy Scouts, are an avid climber of Mount Everest or are a
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Genre: R&B
Top track: “Creep” (Radiohead cover)
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W hen artists cover songs well, they make tracks their own by transforming the original into some-thing new and often better. Unfortunately, Macy
Gray didn’t quite get the memo.Her latest album, fittingly called “Covered,” features songs
that stray far from the originals in the worst way possible. Listen-ers should try not to forget that Macy Gray is an amazing artist. She entered the music scene with her signature raspy and soulful voice in 1999 with her debut album, “On How Life Is,” featuring smash hit “I Try.” She’s since won a Grammy, released four more albums and stands out with her larger-than-life boa-adorned out-fits — and even larger afro.
With “Covered,” she decided to step outside of the box, but it just did not come together. Gray gives slowed down, jazz-inspired renditions of many well-known tracks, which make the songs worse instead of better.
Gray first takes a stab at Colbie Caillat’s “Bubbly,” the dis-gustingly catchy pop song from summer 2007. However, Gray’s version of the mellow tune is strange and won’t make listeners want to sway along like the original did. Instead of actually singing the lyrics, Gray seems to recite the lyrics like spoken word, a strange choice for the singer. To wrap it up, Gray col-laborated with actor and singer Idris Elba, who doesn’t help elevate the song either. His unnecessary monotonous vocals clash in the duet.
I felt similarly disappointed about the covers of Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” and Sublime’s “Smoke 2 Joints.” A strange, com-puterized auto-tune effect overtakes the track, failing to create the lonely feeling of West’s version. The latter’s sloppy vocals only sound good if you follow the directions in the title.
But Gray’s cover of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” might be the album’s biggest flop. The ‘90s rock ballad is known for its somber verses and powerful chorus. Gray’s cover showed potential with a bluesy sounding start, matching the somber lyrics. Howev-er, she refuses to speed up the tempo in what is supposed to be an emotional chorus. It takes listeners on a roller coaster that creeps up to the top of a hill with suspense as the chorus builds. Instead of having an exciting drop, listeners get stuck at the top in disap-
pointment.On the positive
side, there are a few tri-umphs on “Covered.” In her cov-ers of Eurythmics’ “Here Comes the Rain” and Radiohead’s “Creep,” Gray sets aside her complicated interpretations and simply sings the songs. Lo and behold, it actually works. Both songs were beautiful in their original states, and Gray’s choice to not mess with them was not only wise, but also gave the album some substance.
In a March 28 radio interview with Mike Ragogna of The Huff-ington Post, Gray said she recorded the album because she always wanted to cover songs she liked. She also talked about the songs she chose to record: “There are a lot of great songs out there, but some of them should just be left alone, and some of them I didn’t sound very good on at all. So those were the ones that came out the best and that I felt I could interpret and make my own.”
My thoughts exactly. Gray’s intentions as an artist are admi-rable. But the complicated arrangements and unimpressive vocals bring the whole album down. Despite its few high points, “Cov-ered” simply messed with too many good things. As the saying goes: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
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Nzyuko Munguti likes that his tattoos cause people to take a second look.“When people see it, they really think it’s hanging around my neck and swaying off my chest,” said Munguti, a senior child and family studies major. “Truthfully, it’s a great conversation starter.”He decided to get inked in his home-town, Paterson, N.J., with something that only he would have and expressed his religion. Going to Catholic school all of his life, Munguti always wanted to keep God close to his heart wherever he went.The rosary tattoo is Munguti’s second ink job. The one on his back, which he got at age 15, has a similar design. It’s a cross with rosary beads swaying to the side and a crown on top. His initials are etched into the front.He said the next piece of art he gets inked on his body will represent his fra-ternity Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
But, of course, it will be one of a kind.Said Munguti: “When people stop and have to take a double-take, then I know my tattoo is a winner.”
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spy, odds are that you don’t know Morse code. In case you hoped the feature was real and worried about your ability to type messages, Google thoughtfully put together an easy-to-learn Morse code chart. The video accompany-ing the release promised that typing from your pocket would be easier than ever before and those with fat fingers would benefit most significantly. Quite devastatingly, when hit-ting the “download this app for your phone” button, it redirected to a page informing that “Oops! Gmail Tap is a bit too popular right now. We suggest you try downloading it again next year.” Until next April Fools’ Day, I guess it’s manual entry for us all.
TechCrunch report on Facebook ‘hate’ buttonSince the birth of Facebook’s “like” button, users have clamored for its other half, the “dislike button.” According to a post by TechCrunch blog, the “hate” button is mak-
ing an entrance. The opening lines of the post stated, “In 2010, TechCrunch broke the news that Facebook was going to release a ‘Like’ button for the whole darn Internet. Now, TechCrunch has learned Facebook is considering a “Hate” button as well.” As a considerably gullible individual, I believed this until I stumbled across the following line: “Other buttons under consideration are the ‘Meh,’ ‘Love,’ ‘Who Cares’ and ‘+11’ but there is also a fear this could lead to a button explosion.” Although I’m saddened that I can’t “hate” the status of that girl from high school who always posts pictures of her cats, I appreciated the humorous blog post nonetheless.
April 1 has come and gone. But with 363 days until April Fools’ Day 2013, there’s no doubt that tech giants are working on another batch of comedic calamity to release upon the world.
Jessica Smith is a senior information man-agement and technology and television, radio
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asking if she could play. Impressed by her initia-tive, Riggleman made an exception.
Harman found her challenge.“A lot of other sports you could probably pick
it up and do pretty well right away without much technical help or anything of that nature,” Har-man said. “But it was always a huge challenge for me to succeed in the game, and I think that’s something that really drew me to it.”
Harman’s natural athleticism carried over to the tennis court. By the time she was 11, Harman impressed a former high school coach, who insisted to her mother that she take lessons from John Dokken, a coach in Winchester, Va.
Winchester was a 90-minutelong car ride from Petersburg. For five years, Harman and her mother made the trip to Stonebrook Club for sessions with Dokken.
The lessons with Dokken fostered an already developing passion for the game.
Harman was working with Dokken for about a year when she wrote a portfolio book. Harman showed off the seventh-grade English assign-ment left and right. She loved it.
Inside, there was a drawing of her holding a tennis racket. The book plainly stated to her teacher and anyone else she showed it to that she wanted to win the U.S. Open.
She still loves the book. She still wants to win the U.S. Open.
“Looking back on it and reading it now — I actually read it last weekend when my parents were here — and it brought a smile to my face because that really pushed me to get to this point,” Harman said.
It was her first year of tennis instruction. She was just starting to compete in regional United States Tennis Association tournaments, working her way toward nationals between playing baseball, basketball and soccer.
Yet time spent playing anything other than tennis put her at a disadvantage to her tennis-only junior competition.
“I think I’ve always been a little different, you know, in tennis,” Harman said. “I come from an area that has pretty much zero tennis background in terms of making tennis players, and I would roll up in a mud-beaten Trailblazer
to these tournaments in (Washington,) D.C. and Virginia and be parked by a Porsche on the right, a BMW on the left, a Ferrari and all this and the others, so I was different.
“I was different from the start,” Harman said. “… That never changed in college.”
Aware of where she came from in the tennis world, Harman felt the need to prove herself. The need pushed her, but it also plagued her.
“I think she’s just always had that, which works for her, but also when you get to a big stage sometimes it can work against you and I think that’s where,” Dokken said, “and this is just my opinion, and I think that’s where she’s at, and I think she can pull right through when she gets more opportunities.”
Harman’s ability to overcome that mental obstacle has improved this season, going 6-0 in three-set matches for the Orange.
At 9:11 a.m. Feb. 26, Harman struck the first serve in what proved to be the defining match of SU’s season to date. She followed her natural momentum into the net where she quickly closed out the point, giving her and Alessondra Parra the lead over the then-No. 27 doubles team of Hanna Yu and Vicky Brook of then-No. 25 Yale.
Fresh off a loss to then-No. 59 William and Mary, the match represented perhaps the two seniors’ last chance at getting their team into the national spotlight. They rolled to an 8-3 win, and SU took the team match 4-3.
Two days later, the Orange was ranked No. 39 in the country.
After practice that day, Jensen told the team about their new ranking. The usually reserved Harman, who had preferred to dismiss the rankings as “just a number,” opened up.
“You have to know that some people are going to be jealous. They’re going to try to tear you down. They’re going to try to do any-thing they can to make you not successful,” Harman said, “and for me, I just put a smile on my face and realize that that’s my motiva-tion every day.”
This past weekend, she was in Charleston, S.C., playing doubles with former SU teammate Simone Kalhorn in the Family Circle Cup on the Women’s Tennis Association tour.
Harman finally felt like she was making it on the professional level. She was No. 1076 in the world and had just lost to No. 117 Paula
Ormaechea in the singles qualifiers. In six weeks she’ll graduate from the
school where she’s had a successful career, winning more than 120 matches while reshap-ing the program and etching her name into the history books.
But it’s not enough for Harman.
“For me, success is defined as making my career and making a life of this game and not having to get up and go to a 9-to-5 job,” Harman said, “to be able to wake up in the morning and say, ‘I get to go play tennis, and I get to play a game as my life.’”
By David WilsonSTAFF WRITER
A knee injury could have led to a freshman year full of frustration for Alyssa Murray. A star at West Babylon High School, a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her knee cut her senior season short.
She arrived at SU with mixed expectations because of it. Bouncing back from a ruined high school senior season provided a challenge in itself.
“I was most upset because my high school team was having a really great year, so it kind of was a letdown that I wasn’t going to be able to finish out the season,” Murray said. “But it was comforting to know that I would have a good training staff to help me get back at Syracuse.”
Murray completely recovered and tallied 48 points as a freshman. Approaching midway through this season, the sophomore has nearly matched that production with a team-leading 25 goals and 36 points for the No. 3 Orange (6-2, 1-0 Big East).
Murray came to SU as the nation’s No. 6 recruit, according to Inside Lacrosse. She had
numerous Division-I offers and eventually nar-rowed down her list of prospects to Syracuse, North Carolina and Florida. Murray was a standout player, but when she tore her ACL during her senior year, her path to the D-I level became much more challenging.
The questions of her ability with the Orange were rooted in her knee, as the degree of her recovery would dictate her value to SU. Head coach Gary Gait still expected her to be a poten-tial star, but he was cautiously optimistic about her first season with the Orange.
What Murray gave him — 24 goals and 24 assists — was about what Gait expected out of her freshman campaign.
“I think she delivered what I expected,” the head coach said. “I just wanted her to get back and be a part and contribute, and she did that. And now she’s stepped up her game and that’s kind of what I expected out of her.”
As last season progressed, Murray lived up to Gait’s loftier expectations more and more. The attack was inconsistent to start the 2011 cam-paign, but she eventually showed flashes of the dominant force she would become this season.
In a 10-9 victory over eventual Big East
champion Loyola (Md.), the freshman tallied four points, and just a week later, she matched a then-career high with five points against the Greyhounds in the first round of the Big East tournament.
“You saw that she can be a very good finisher, and she’s a smart player,” Gait said. “The second half of her season last year was exceptional. She really turned it on and was really one of our impact players the whole second half of the season, and I think that she’s just continued from there and built on it.”
Now in her sophomore season, Murray is growing more accustomed to the collegiate level of play. She also says her knee has been at 100 percent since the start of the season, letting her put up the stellar numbers that she has been all year.
Gait said Murray’s greatest asset is her speed. An ACL injury especially affects mobility, so for a player that relies on speed as much as Murray does, being completely healthy is imperative.
“Coming back from my ACL has been really what’s gotten me more confident,” Murray said. “My speed and strength have
come back this year a lot better than they did last year.”
Although the attack was still getting back to full strength last season, Murray was pain-free when the season began. She felt the bigger issue for her was missing out on fall practices.
“I got cleared after fall ball, and by the time I came back the first actual practice that I had was the first day of two-a-days in January, so it was just being thrown right in,” Murray said. “And I was able to get going a little bit, but just confidence-wise I would have loved to have the fall.”
Perhaps most importantly, the experience of returning from injury has been a learning experience.
For all the frustration she experienced while missing out on a chance to guide West Babylon to a county championship her senior year, Murray’s father, Ray, believes she has taken a lot away from dealing with this adversity.
“No question about it,” he said. “It was dif-ficult for her, but I think going through that has helped her grow a lot.”
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Looking at Syracuse’s offensive statistics this season, it’s hard to argue with the philosophy Wally King preaches at the plate.
When SU hits a home run, the Orange holds an astounding 15-3 record. When the team has failed to leave the park, it stands at just 6-6. That’s why for King, SU’s hitting coach, clear-ing the fence is critical to any success the Orange will have this season.
“We’re predicated on driving the ball, and that’s what we work on every day,” King said.
And in Syracuse’s (21-9, 2-1 Big East) last three games, the players are responding emphatically to King’s teaching. In two wins during the weekend against St. John’s, the Orange smashed 11 round-trippers. In the sole loss from the weekend, Syracuse didn’t go deep once.
It’s a microcosm of the season for Syracuse so far. King figures that if his players have at least
21 at-bats, there’s no reason they shouldn’t go up there aggressively.
Every player in the SU starting lineup now has at least one home run to her name. And with the power Syracuse displayed last weekend, it doesn’t surprise him. It’s what he expects from them.
“One thing coach King goes by is not taking off at-bats. Not wasting at-bats,” Lisaira Daniels said. “That’s the one thing he kind of stresses. Don’t waste at-bats. Take your hacks. … If you take your hacks, you’ll more than likely drive the ball.”
Even more impressive is how every player in the lineup is a long-ball threat, making the Orange a daunting challenge for opposing pitchers.
In the series finale against St. John’s, fresh-man Julie Wambold was struggling at the plate, saddled without a hit in her first three at-bats. But on her fourth trip to the plate, Wambold launched one over the fence.
She was one of seven different Orange play-ers to hit a home run last weekend.
“We really say there’s no excuse for us with the power we have in our lineup to not leave the yard every game. So we spend a lot of time on that,” King said. “We spend a lot of time on a mentality of being the predator, not the prey.”
And that means being on the hunt during every inning.
Though King understands that manufactur-ing runs is how many teams get runs on the board, Syracuse relies on the long ball for its offense output.
And with the dominant pitching Syracuse boasts, King knows a few home runs often lead to all the offensive output it needs.
“If we play small ball and every time we give up an at-bat, that goes a little bit of what we talk about, and if we all get our hacks in, we should never not leave the yard,” King said.
Going into Syracuse’s first conference games of the year, SU head coach Leigh Ross said
that different players had been stepping up for the Orange, but she still thought the Orange had only scratched the surface of its offensive potential.
Once everyone gets going, she said she thinks the team could be “unstoppable.”
“You see sparks coming from different peo-ple,” Ross said. “Once they all tie that together, once everyone gets on the same page and gets hot at once, you’re probably going to see a big difference.”
And with pitching proving to be tougher as the competition improves in the Big East, the chances to hammer pitching mistakes are going to decrease.
The mentality to be a “predator” at the plate must continue the rest of the season.
“The mistakes we make are the ones we aren’t going to square up, are going to be magni-fied,” King said. “We can’t miss the mistakes as we (face) better and better pitching.”
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Orange hitters provide powerful boost with 11 homers in weekend games
By Ryne GeryASST. SPORTS EDITOR
Cameron Lao-Gosney and his Lehigh team-mates looked around at one another after yet another disappointing season came to an end last spring.
Despite experiencing their share of low points all year, they repeated what they had said the previous two seasons.
Next year was finally going to be “the year.”“We’ve been saying that for the past two
or three years,” Lao-Gosney said. “It’s just everybody’s older now. I don’t know exactly at what point we knew it, but I think coming in our mindset this year has just been a little dif-ferent, you know, ‘This is it. There’s no doubt anymore.’
“That’s really what it was. We were just get-ting the doubt out.”
The doubt is now gone as the Mountain Hawks (10-1, 3-0 Patriot League) are off to their best start in program history, rising to No. 7 in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. Lehigh has won 10 games for just the fifth time and the first time since 1997 when the team won 11 games.
This year, though, the Mountain Hawks have three games remaining before the Patriot League playoffs begin April 27. Lao-Gosney and his teammates are trying to bring their school its first conference championship since 1999 to follow through on their promise to make this year special.
After going 19-27 the last three seasons, the eight seniors came back determined to leave their mark on a mediocre program.
Like his players, head coach Kevin Cassese knew the team had the talent to live up to its
lofty goals, winning conference titles and play-ing in NCAA tournaments. But Cassese didn’t see the leadership in the locker room they saw.
That changed this year.“They’ve done a nice job of coming together,
realizing we’ve come up short on a lot of our goals over the last couple years,” Cassese said, “and that this year, they were going to make it different.”
For Cassese, the turning point for the pro-gram came after Villanova trounced his team 17-7 in the team’s home opener and second game of the season.
The doubt that had lingered over the Moun-tain Hawks was back, threatening another promising season. But it also served as a needed wake-up call that Lehigh still had one more hurdle to get over before it could achieve its goals.
The leadership that had been lacking among the players was forced to develop. In previous seasons, Cassese said players didn’t want to step on each other’s toes and speak up to push each other at practice or during games.
After the loss to the Wildcats, the players called a meeting and vented their frustra-tions. They didn’t want this year to become like every other year.
“In that meeting the players addressed a lot of topics, but really called each other out and asked each other to step up in a variety of ways,” Cassese said. “And that ability to be hon-est with one another and to really confront the brutal facts of what we were doing and how we were going through the motions has been the difference in us being able to turn this thing around.”
For Lao-Gosney, this year also serves as his
last chance to erase the memories of the “dark days” of the program.
The senior midfielder arrived as a confident freshman, expecting to compete for conference and national championships.
The Mountain Hawks went out and won only four games.
Lao-Gosney remembers the pain that came with blowing a 7-1 lead to Bucknell and losing 12-11 last season. The embarrassment of getting run off the field by the Bison 13-5 in the team’s final game in the conference semifinals still creeps into his memories of the disappointing year.
But Lao-Gosney said the team has made all the necessary plays this season. It starts with more focus and attention to detail at practice.
“In years past, we’ve let everything slip, but this year they’re really holding everything down,” junior attack Dante Fantoni said. “They want to make sure everything goes right for their senior year.”
And everything has gone right since the team’s loss to Villanova on Feb. 18. The Moun-tain Hawks have reeled off nine straight wins.
It hasn’t been easy, as they’ve had to over-come multiple deficits. But this year’s experi-enced group is confident after playing the last three years together.
So when the team fell behind 2-0 early in the season against Penn State in University Park, Pa., the doubt that once surrounded the program stayed away. And it didn’t return with the streak in jeopardy again last Friday when the Mountain Hawks trailed Navy 4-1 into the second period.
Lehigh beat then-No. 17 Penn State 9-5. And it beat then-No. 19 Navy 9-4.
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SP ORT S PA G E 16the daily orange
T U E S D AYapril 3, 2012
By Mark CooperSPORTS EDITOR
The majority of Syracuse’s spring practices will remain closed. The only open practices for the Orange the rest of the spring will be a prac-tice in Rochester on April 7 and the Spring Game on April 21, SU athletics announced in a press release Monday.
Spring practices were “closed until further notice” in a March 22 press release. Originally, 10 of SU’s 14 spring practices were scheduled to be open, along with the Spring Game, which culminates the spring practice session.
Now, one practice — held at Sahlen’s Stadium in Rochester, home of both a men’s and women’s profes-sional soccer team — and the Spring Game will be the two opportunities to see the Orange this spring.
It’s the second straight year Syra-cuse will hold a practice in Rochester.
Syracuse head coach Doug Mar-rone said in the release that he wants to make sure his players have a true understanding of the changes made within the team, without any outside distractions.
“I did not want someone to come in and give a false impression of who we are going to be to everyone on the outside,” he said. “It has been a very good spring for us. I am extremely happy with the direction we are going.”
Syracuse has seven practices remaining before the Spring Game in the Carrier Dome, which is less than three weeks away.
By Jacob KlingerSTAFF WRITER
A 3-year-old girl and her older brother scampered around their home, making up
games, throwing a ball, always com-peting. Their mother’s nerves were on edge as lamps and other house-hold adornments were at risk.
But they didn’t miss their targets. Not even the 3-year-old Emily Harman.
“They had a pretty good aim with the ball as well, so it’s just that I was always very nervous about it,” said Sharon Harman, their mother. “ … If she had a choice between reading a book and tossing a ball somewhere, she was always tossing a ball somewhere.”
Harman would tag along with
her older brother, John, and sister, Heather, who set the bar for their younger sister in athletics and aca-demics. She went where they went, played what they played and did what they did, always trying to beat them.
Yet the youngest Harman was a natural athlete in her own right. Baseball, basketball, soccer and ski-ing all came to her easily. Her parents told her doing her best in anything was good enough. But for Harman, only winning was good enough.
She brought the same mental-ity to Syracuse as a 17-year-old freshman, starting at No. 1 singles in her debut and developing into the face of the program in four
years. Now the senior leader of the team, Harman has amassed more than 120 wins in her career at Syracuse, taking the program to new heights. With Harman lead-ing the way with a 14-2 record at No. 1 singles, the Orange rose to its highest ranking under head coach Luke Jensen at No. 39 in the nation earlier this season.
“Every program has their start-ing point, and I think when it’s all said and done, it will be Emily Har-man being the starting point of what is going to become Syracuse tennis,” Jensen said.
Harman’s relentless need to win helped her make the recreation leagues of Petersburg, W.Va., her per-
sonal proving grounds.“I put everything into everything
I did from the time I was born,” Har-man said.
Eight-year-old Harman needed a new challenge. As she walked through Petersburg Elementary School, she found one.
A flier in the school for a tennis recreation league. It was something different, something Harman want-ed to pick up.
She couldn’t. The recreational league was for children ages 10 and up.
So she called the league organizer, Dottie Riggleman, a retired gym teacher and distant family friend,
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EMILY HARMAN is enjoying a breakout season as Syracuse’s No. 1 singles player in her senior year. Harman holds a 14-2 overall record in singles play.
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Climbing the ranksThe No. 7 Lehigh Mountain Hawks are enjoying their best season in well over a decade.Page 14
All in Harman’s competitiveness, vigor makes her fitting leader for SU
““Every program has their starting point, and I think when it’s all said and done, it will be Emily Harman being the starting point of what is going to become Syracuse tennis.”
Luke JensenSU HEAD COACH