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andrew renneisen | staff photographerben aghajanian, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, studies in the Safire Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library. The Safire Room is already home to a collection of approximately 1,700 books donated in the 1990s by William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Students fly out of Cairo to safety
Bird receives grant to archive honored columnist’s personal papersBy Haley Behre
STAff WRiTER
An $86,000 grant will help archi-vists at E.S. Bird Library orga-nize the personal papers of the late William Safire — a collection that includes scrapbooks and cor-respondence with politicians.
The grant from the Dana Foun-dation will allow Bird officials to pay an archivist to process the per-sonal papers of Safire, who attended Syracuse University. He was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and senior speechwriter for former President Richard Nixon.
Bird recently acquired Safire’s personal papers, which range from materials connected to Safire’s “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine to corre-spondence with politicians, such as former President Bill Clinton, as well as lecture videos and scrap-
books, according to a Feb. 2 SU News release.
“The archivists’ job is to create order from chaos, though Safire’s collection was well organized from the beginning,” said Sean Quimby, director of the special collections research center at SU.
The Safire Room, located on the sixth floor of Bird, is already home to a collection of roughly 1,700 books, which Safire donated to SU from 1994-98, Quimby said. Books in the collection cannot be taken out of the library, but students will be able to use them as reference.
“Getting this recent collection completes the picture in terms of papers that document his career,” Quimby said.
Bird has most of Safire’s collec-tion, but the Library of Congress is home to other Safire papers. Safire’s family still owns the
papers, but they have entrusted Bird with preserving and keeping the collection in good condition for five years, Quimby said. At the end
of the five years, Bird is hoping the family will give the papers to the library as a gift, Quimby said.
By Susan KimCoPy ChiEf
After global economic troubles for more than a year, the endowment for Syracuse University bounced back for the 2010 fiscal year and was ranked higher in comparison to those of many other institutions.
SU’s endowment increased by 29 percent from $658 million to $849 million, according to the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. Among 865 U.S. and Canadian insti-tutions that were ranked by their endowment market value for the 2010 fiscal year, SU came in at 76th, according to the NCSE.
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By Laurence Leveille ASST. CoPy EDiToR
The four students who were studying abroad at the American University in Cairo in Egypt were all safely evacu-ated from the country by Feb. 2.
The students were told to evacuate from Egypt on Jan. 30 by officials from the Syracuse University Abroad program and began leaving Jan. 31. The AUC transported students from Cairo to the airport using its bus sys-tem, and the U.S. Embassy organized flights to one of four safe havens: Ath-ens, Frankfurt, Istanbul or Nicosia in Cyprus.
Jon Booth, executive director of SU Abroad, said he encouraged the
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andrew renneisen | staff photographerAn $86,000 grant was given to the library by the Dana foundation to archive William Safire’s papers, scrapbooks, and lecture videos.
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DPS looks into cases of larceny
Professor’s findings to be published in physics journal
SU rises in Peace Corps national college rankings for third year
By Jake KlauContributing Writer
Two scientific papers were submit-ted for publication last Tuesday on a hypothesis verified by Syracuse University physics professor Shel-don Stone, who used data from the other side of the globe to make the discovery.
In early December, a team led
by Stone experimentally verified a hypothesis about a subatomic par-ticle using data from the recently constructed Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. Stone and Liming Zhang, a research associ-ate in high-energy physics, jointly formulated the hypothesis.
The two scientific papers will be published in Modern Physics
Letters B, a European journal in the field of high-energy particle physics. The submission for publica-tion has brought recognition to the Experimental High Energy Physics Group at SU. Stone is the head of the program.
The recent discovery deals with a type of subatomic particle known as a meson, which is a combination of
a quark and an antiquark. Quarks, which are some of the fundamen-tal building blocks of matter, are divided into subcategories known as flavors, and combinations of these flavors yield what are known as flavorful mesons.
The discovery details the behav-ior of a flavorful meson known as
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By Nick Gallagher WarrenStaff Writer
Syracuse University is continu-ing its ascension in the national Peace Corps rankings, with 36 alumni volunteers participating this year.
For the third year in a row, SU has risen in the Peace Corps nation-al college rankings for its bracket. SU ranks 11th among medium-sized
colleges and universities, which are schools with 5,000 to 15,000 under-graduate students, according to the Peace Corps Top Colleges 2011 rankings released Feb. 1.
Peace Corps recruiters at SU could not be reached for comment.
Each year the Peace Corps ranks the Top 25 colleges in the nation based on the number of currently serving alumni from each univer-
sity. The 2011 rankings are based on 2010 financial data, which are self-reported by volunteers.
There are currently 36 alumni from SU volunteering in the Peace Corps, according to the 2011 rankings. George Washington Uni-versity has 72 volunteers, placing it first in the nation among medium-sized colleges and universities, according to the rankings. Since
1961, there have been 760 SU alumni who have served in the Peace Corps, which puts SU 52nd in the national rankings, according to a Feb. 2 SU News release.
The ranking “speaks volumes” about SU, Chancellor Nancy Cantor said in the release. Since the Peace Corps began, SU students have volunteered to make a difference,
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managing musicRichaRd cohen (left) and bRian winton, managers and partners at foundations artist Management in new York, speak in the Lender auditorium on tuesday as part of the bandier Program’s Soyars Leadership Lecture Series in the College of Visual and Performing arts’ Setnor School of Music. Cohen, a 2000 graduate of the College of arts and Sciences, joined foundation artist Management in 2010 and represents international recording artists, including Passion Pit. He oversees touring, recording and marketing for the group.
By Dara McBrideneWS editor
Using camera footage, the Depart-ment of Public Safety is continuing to investigate a string of campus lar-cenies that began in January. DPS has increased area patrols as well.
Since Jan. 1, DPS has reported 28 larcenies in the university area, according to DPS crime logs. Many of the larcenies have occurred in buildings on University Place, Crouse Drive, College Place, Uni-versity Avenue, Waverly Avenue, Marshall Street, Sims Drive and Stadium Place.
There have been no new develop-ments or arrests since a larceny in Eggers Hall was reported during the weekend, said Jenn Horvath, public information officer for DPS, who referred to the increase in lar-cenies as “rash.” More larcenies were reported on DPS crime logs since Friday.
The Syracuse Police Department has been alerted of some of the inci-dents as well.
Camera footage is being exam-ined to help the investigations, Hor-vath said. But even though cameras were in the areas of the crimes, Hor-vath said not all images are reliable because some cameras were facing the wrong angle or did not capture the image best.
“Cameras are only so good,” Hor-vath said.
Of the six larceny cases from the Main Campus area filed so far in February, four are still open. Thirteen of the 17 cases from the Main Campus area filed in January are still open.
Several larcenies have also occurred on South Campus and the off-campus area this semester, according to DPS crime logs, but not to the same extent as on Main Campus.
What iS a larCeny?a larceny is the theft of per-sonal property.
grand larceny is the theft of per-sonal property which exceeds one thousand dollars
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“We’ve made significant gains after the effects of an 18-monthlong global crisis,” said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs.
The 29 percent increase in the endowment market value was a result of the university’s investment performance and gifts to SU, Quinn said. Long-term fixed income invest-ments that had not been a part of the uni-versity’s endowment were also transferred during the 2010 fiscal year, he said.
The endowment provides the annual income for the university’s overall budget and for specific budgets across campus, Quinn said.
SU’s endowment funds were allocated to four different categories, according to the university’s website: 11 percent to educational and other funds, 13 percent to professorships, 34 percent to scholarships and 42 percent to general uses.
At 17.2 percent, SU’s investment return for the 2010 fiscal year — the period from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010 — was higher than the national average. The national average for institutions’ investment return was 11.9 percent, according to the NCSE.
“A high return is a goal that all universi-ties want to meet,” Quinn said.
The investment returns were an improve-ment from those recorded in the previous fiscal year. The national average investment return was -18.7 percent for the 2009 fiscal year, according to the NCSE. SU’s invest-ment return for that period was -25.5 percent, according to its website.
The study results were based on data from 850 U.S.-based participating institutions, according to the NCSE. The increase in the investment return for the 2010 fiscal year is primarily due to improvements in the stock market, said Kenneth Redd, director of research and policy analysis at NACUBO.
More than half of an institution’s assets are usually invested in stocks, Redd said. When stocks improve, it helps to increase the endowment funds for the institutions that invested in those stocks, he said.
The asset allocation for SU’s endowment fund spanned five categories, most of which were invested into U.S. and international equities at 31 percent and 27 percent, respec-tively, according to the university’s website.
SU allocates more of its assets to equities than the national average amount. Institu-tions invested an average of 15 percent in domestic equities and 16 percent in interna-tional equities, according to the NCSE.
“When you’re investing in the stock mar-kets, you’re going to have a lot of fluctua-tion year to year in terms of the investment return,” Quinn said.
The goal is to have a “long-term, positive return,” he said.
SU’s asset allocation for its remaining funds were distributed to private equity at 25 percent, hedge funds at 11 percent and fixed income at 6 percent, according to the univer-sity’s website.
In the past, SU’s endowment fund totaled $1.086 billion for the 2007 fiscal year and $1.005 billion for the 2008 fiscal year, accord-ing to its website.
The national endowment funds are still about 25 percent below those recorded from before the recession for the 2007 and 2008 fis-cal years, Redd said.
“They will probably reach that level again in the next year or two, but that is a conser-vative guess,” Redd said. “But it certainly will happen.”
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The Syracuse University Abroad office did the right thing by providing the four students studying in Cairo, Egypt, opportunities to study at other universities in the Middle East after evacuating them in response to Egyp-tian protests.
SU Abroad originally offered the students in Cairo places at the London center, but wanting a more unique experience, three opted to study at SU’s newest center in Istanbul and one decided to attend a college in Beirut, Lebanon.
The four students in Cairo could have watched history unfold in Egypt. Every major American news agency has its eye to the east, and these students could have seen some-thing they will never see firsthand in the United States. Though all four students agreed to the evacuation, had one of them wanted to stay behind, Cairo would have undoubted-ly offered an unmatched educational experience.
With classes temporarily sus-
pended at the American University of Cairo and with the country’s stability in limbo, SU Abroad was justified in pulling scholarships or support for any who wished to stay in Egypt, as they likely would not have completed a traditional course of study. But SU should have made a greater effort to allow the single student who origi-nally expressed an interest in staying with a means to stay. The experience could have changed that student’s life.
For the students who wished to leave, the SU staff was astonish-ingly fast in flying them to safety and quickly integrating them into new programs. The final educational obligation SU has will be to provide those students expecting to immerse themselves in Arabic with classes or other means to learn the language.
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Protests in Egypt show America’s relative lack of political injustices, unrest
SU rightly let students studying in Cairo stay in Middle East
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T he Arab street has erupted over the last month, ejecting a Tunisian despot, toppling
the government in Beirut and filling front pages with pictures from Egyp-tian protests, the outcome of which remains undetermined. Some worry about destabilization in the Middle East while others cheer in fervor of revolution.
In Tahrir Square, students not much different from those at Syra-cuse University put themselves in the path of paid thugs this weekend, showing extraordinary restraint and courage in the face of provocateurs. As we watch the revolt in Egypt, we have to wonder whether the Ameri-can street has the same power and if it could awaken. Our street seems awfully mum, and it could be the
case that Americans just don’t have enough to complain about.
Given a superficial familiarity with recent American history, the last time any movement of a remotely comparable scale happened was the antiwar movement against Vietnam that culminated in the early 1970s. Today we look upon the period with nostalgia — American youth culture was electrified, stood up against a horribly misguided regime and ultimately found some success with the war’s end. On our campus, plenty of students long to take part in something like the struggles of our parents. Protests are like rock concerts with a point — it’s perfectly natural to want the experience.
Professors and lefty parents blame us. Your generation has been co-opted
by the bourgeoisie; your brains are melted into Facebook; you care more for the “Jersey Shore” than the injus-tice that still infests the American political system. For some students, they’re right. Look at Euclid Avenue any weekend. But Euclid probably looked the same in the ‘70s — there’s no way today’s youth could be so dif-ferent from just a generation before.
Or maybe the State Machine has become too dominant that the street
has no chance. State-sponsored mass media placates us; the police state is hopelessly oppressive; our political discourse is a red vs. blue charade. These conspiracy theories offer tempting narratives, but again the evidence boils down to circumstance.
Revolution, however sexy, does not catch on without widespread injustice ugly enough to anger a popular movement much greater than any rock concert. Injustice on this scale simply doesn’t exist in today’s America. We are at war, but the soldiers in Afghanistan signed up for the job. Our financial system is a mess and our schools broken, but we have the freedom to report freely and complain. Presidents step down after their terms are up — compared to other “democracies.” This fact of
our 250-year history is amazing. Our streets are empty and our students quiet because there isn’t enough to complain about, and we have robust systems to make things better.
While we watch Egyptians agitate for political freedom, we should appreciate the political system our parents’ generation fought and, in some cases, defeated. We will not share in the excitement of a revolu-tion in our time. But we can look on Egypt, stand in solidarity with the revolutionary movement and appreci-ate how great America is — and that’s coming from a reluctant patriot.
Scott Collison is a senior phi-losophy and physics major. His
columns appear occasionally. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Cantor said.In 2008, SU was not included in the Top
25 schools in the country. Every year since then, the university has sent more and more alumni to the Peace Corps. In 2009, SU ranked 24th in the country with 19 alumni volunteers and moved to 15th in 2010 with 23 volunteers, according to the Peace Corps Top Colleges rankings from 2009 and 2010.
The Peace Corps is an independent govern-ment agency that provides volunteer assis-tance to any country that requests it. The Peace Corps has three main goals, according to the fact sheet: to provide interested countries with
their need for trained men and women, to pro-mote an increased understanding of American citizens to the people volunteers serve and to give Americans a better understanding of the world’s people.
The Peace Corps was at the Feb. 3 career fair and will be back on campus Friday, Feb. 25, at the Schine Student Center, according to the Peace Corps website.
Volunteering is a 27-month commitment, and the benefits of volunteering include a read-justment allowance after serving, according to the website.
John F. Kennedy founded the Peace Corps in 1961 by executive order. Since then, more than 200,000 people have served in the Peace Corps, according to the website.
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four students to go to Istanbul because SU Abroad offers a program there. They also had the option to go to London or another country in the Middle East or to return to SU.
“None of them wanted to come home because they wanted an SU Abroad experi-ence,” Booth said.
All four students accepted that they had to leave the country, he said. If a student had decided to take a leave of absence, he or she would have been able to stay in Egypt but would have lost his or her financial aid, Booth said.
At first, one of the three students did not want to go to Istanbul because he had already been in Egypt for the fall semester, Booth said.
“He had made friends with other Americans who were from other American universities, and it was unclear whether those universities would stay or not,” he said.
Students had made their decisions regarding their plans for the rest of the semester by Feb. 4. Three students chose to enroll in the Istanbul program. The fourth student went to Beirut, Lebanon, Booth said.
Booth said he encouraged the students to stay together when traveling to Istanbul, but they were separated at the airport. Two students were able to get on a flight to Istanbul, and the other two went to Athens after missing a flight at a different airport. An SU Abroad travel agent then set up a flight from Athens to Istanbul.
There was a limit of one bag per passenger because there was an evacuation, so the stu-dents had to leave a bag behind. If a bag was
too heavy, they had to take belongings out, Booth said.
Three of the four students arrived in Istanbul on Feb. 1 and were housed in residence halls. The last arrived Feb. 2 but stayed at a youth hos-tel with friends he met in Cairo. The students kept in touch with Booth and their academic advisers through conference calls via Skype to discuss their options, Booth said.
One of the main concerns facing the students in Istanbul is the lack of Arabic courses. Booth and the students’ academic advisers are look-ing for a way to implement an Arabic course in Istanbul to help students complete require-ments. If they can’t put together a course for the students who need it, a Rosetta Stone-type CD is being considered, Booth said.
The students all arrived in their respective locations just in time for orientation and for
classes to begin. Booth said: “I think it was a fantastic uni-
versity team effort to support these students and their families as they’ve gone through this disruption.”
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“I think it was a fantastic university team effort to support these students and their families as they’ve gone through this disruption.”
Jon Boothexecutive director of su abroad
The Dana Foundation grant will allow SU to digitize approximately 500 of Safire’s items so they are available on the Web, Quimby said. Everyone will have access to Safire’s papers, manuscripts and books once they are processed into the system, he said.
Along with paying an archivist to sort through Safire’s paper, Bird will use the grant money to create a searchable index for the documents and place the materials in boxes and folders, Quimby said. This is not the first time the Dana Foundation has been supportive of a university project. The foun-dation also supported the construction of the Safire Room, he said.
Bird officials approached the Dana Foun-
dation for the grant, said Barbara Rich, vice president of communications at the Dana Foundation. Rich said she believes the board of directors at the foundation awarded the grant in honor of Safire. Safire was the chairman of the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization with particular interests in brain research, from 2000 up until his death. He died on Sept. 27, 2009, due to pancreatic cancer.
The foundation mourns Safire not only because he was the chairman, but because he was a good friend and devoted to his work, said foundation President Edward Rover on a memoriam for Safire on the foundation’s website.
“During his tenure, Bill was our greatest champion, always working to enhance and build Dana’s mission and outreach,” Rover said.
Safire attended SU in the 1940s. He dropped
out after two years but returned a decade later to deliver the commencement address, according to the memoriam on the Dana Foundation website.
Safire’s professional career is extensive, ranging from being a U.S. Army correspon-dent to a New York Times columnist. In 1978, Safire was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. Safire also wrote numerous books on grammar, usage and etymology, which have left him as the most widely read writer on the English language, according to the memoriam on the Dana Foundation website.
About three years before Safire died, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
“Mr. Safire was a man who had much prominence as a well-known commentator in culture, language and politics,” said Quimby of SU’s special collections research center. “We are thrilled to be home to a bulk of his papers.”
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What are the Peace corPs?
the Peace corps began in 1960 when sen. John f. Kennedy challenged students at the university of Michigan to serve their county in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. since then more than 200,000 people have volunteered in the Peace corps in 139 host countries to work on issues ranging from aids information to information technology and environmental preservation.
volunteers serve in 77 countries, including africa, Latin america, eastern europe, asia and the Pacific islands, among other areas.
there are currently 8,655 volunteers and trainees. sixty percent of the volunteers are female while 40 percent are males. the average age of volunteers is 28. Ninety percent have at least an undergraduate degree.
source: peacecorps.gov
“Mr. Safire was a man who had much prominence as a well-known commentator in culture, language and politics. We are thrilled to be home to a bulk of his papers.”
Sean Quimbydirector of sPeciaL coLLectioNs at su
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BEYOND THE HILLevery wednesday in news
By Stephanie BouviaCONTRIBUTING WRITER
A lan Gansberg, dean of Columbia College Holly-wood, was skeptical when
he was approached with an idea to create a class about Oscar-nominated actor James Franco’s work. But after Tyler Danna, a teacher at the college and professional fi lm editor, brought up the idea, Gansberg said he was on board.
“Overall, it was a really good situation with a lot of edu-cational value,” Gansberg said.
Danna, who is currently teaching “Master Class: Edit-
ing James Franco… With James Franco,” came up with
the idea for the course with Fran-co. Franco, who has appeared
in fi lms such as the “Spider-Man” trilogy, “Date Night” and
“127 Hours,” has been involved in the class. He communicates with
the students via e-mail and Skype and even makes personal appearances at the school when his schedule allows him the time, Gansberg said.
“He is participating when he can,” Gansberg said. “He is very much involved with the conception of the class.”
The class is made up of 12 editing or cinema majors, and another student is acting as a videographer for the class, taping the course and collecting footage that could be used for their fi nal project. All students had to apply for the course. The application required instructor recommendations, faculty recommen-dations and a reel of student work. But with a student body of 325, administra-
tors are familiar with students and know
“who’s really good,” Gansberg said.In the class, the students are taking
behind-the-scenes footage of Franco from Franco’s own video library. From that, the students are turning the footage into a multifaceted project, Gansberg said.
“They’re putting their heart and soul into creating something,” Gansberg said.
The project will not be a standard documentary, nor will it be a biography of Franco’s life. The project is still being developed between Danna and Franco.
“I don’t even know 100 percent of what they’re doing,” Gansberg said. “It is not just an ego trip for Mr. Franco.”
Gansberg said that within two hours of releasing a press statement, news about the course had spread all over the world. But the purpose of the course has been misrepresented in the media, Gansberg said. Franco asked all of the students tak-ing the course to refrain from reading any articles about the course because of the misrepresentation and criticism coming from the media.
Gansberg said Franco was not present in the classroom during the fi rst week of classes. But Gansberg is excited for the course because he feels it holds a lot of educational value for the students, he said.
This is not the fi rst time a celebrated actor has entered the college. Gansberg said it is not uncommon for a school in Los Angeles to have recognizable faces walking through the building or teaching at the campus.
But the class and Franco have created a stir of excitement among students, Gan-sberg said.
“Students were going by and sticking their heads in because they thought he was coming in,” Gansberg said. “They were like little kids.”
Campus cameoJames Franco aids Columbia College Hollywood students in editing class
illustration by alejandro de jesus | art director
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the BS meson. The behavior of this meson is expected to shed light on why the universe is full of matter.
Stone has a long history with B mesons. He theorized the existence of B mesons in the late 1970s, confirmed their existence in a 1983 experiment at Cornell and theorized the recently confirmed behavior in a paper from
2009 co-authored with Zhang, he said. He said the confirmed behavior will allow
physicists to indirectly study previously inac-cessible properties of the cosmos.
“It’s a tool,” said Stone, referring to the BS meson behavior. “We now have another screw-driver that we didn’t have before.”
Bilas Pal, a graduate student and member of the Experimental High Energy Physics Group at SU, had a hand in the recent discoveries and works with Stone.
“I’m really excited,” Pal said. “For the Syracuse physics community, this is a great achievement.”
But Pal said few students are interested in the discoveries of high-energy physics.
“This is an abstract thing, and high-energy physics is not for some particular company or something like that,” Pal said. “If someone invents something like a computer or some-thing like that, students would know easily.”
Even though recent attention has been drawn to the Experimental High Energy Physics Group, Stone said there will be more papers on discover-ies within the field of high-energy physics.
“This will change quickly,” Stone said. “By next summer, instead of having the first three papers, there will be a lot of other papers. Hopefully there will be 20 or 30 more.”
Stone said he will not mind relinquishing the limelight in the interest of science.
Said Stone: “It will be good for all of us when more results start coming out.”
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There have been similarities in the vari-ous cases, but officers do not know if one per-son is behind multiple larcenies, Horvath said. In Friday’s Eggers Hall larceny, a Mac-Book was stolen when it was left unattended for about 10 minutes in a basement study area for graduate students. In a Sims Hall
larceny from Feb. 1, a wallet was stolen from an unattended purse. E.S. Bird Library and Huntington Hall have also been the scenes of recent larcenies.
Because of the rash of larcenies on cam-pus, DPS has stepped up area patrols, Hor-vath said. Officers are also reminding those in the campus community to watch belong-ings, as leaving items unattended has been a common trait for several of the larcenies.
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By Zach BrownStaff Writer
Quentin Hillsman outlined a simple game plan before Syracuse’s game against DePaul on Tuesday: stifle the Blue Demons’ shooters.
Syracuse would try to shut down the Big East’s f o u r t h - b e s t 3-point shooting team by shut-
ting down DePaul’s perimeter play-ers. But much to Hillsman’s dismay, that strategy was not executed by his players.
“I’m not very happy with us not
getting out to shooters,” said Hills-man, Syracuse’s head coach. “We had a game plan in place, and the game plan was ‘do not help off shooters.’ And we helped off shooters tonight. And that got us beat.”
Syracuse (16-7, 4-6 Big East) fell 77-61 to DePaul as the Blue Demons torched the Orange’s zone in front of 1,008 fans inside the Carrier Dome. DePaul knocked down 13 of its 23 3-point attempts, the most for an Orange opponent since Northeastern hit 14 in the first game of the season. After sticking with the Blue Demons (22-3, 9-1) in the first half, the Orange
could not keep up with DePaul’s torrid shooting pace for the full 40 minutes and suffered its third consecutive loss.
“Every time we would get some-thing going, they would come back,” SU sophomore guard Carmen Tyson-Thomas said. “Dagger 3 at the top, 3 at the top, offensive rebound. Every time we did something good, they did something better.”
DePaul was dialed in from the opening tip, as forward Keisha Hampton nailed a 3-pointer from the top of the key on the Blue Demons’
SP ORT S pa g e 9the daily orange
w e d n e s d ayfebruary 9, 2011
By Brett LoGiuratoSportS editor
As Scoop Jardine brings the ball past half court, Brandon Triche is con-stantly on the move. In Syracuse’s
practice Tuesday, Triche cuts through the lane and weaves past imaginary George-town defenders.
Triche runs around while Jardine dribbles up top in the role Triche played one year ago on this Syracuse team. After a flurry of passes, Triche cuts to the right corner. He catches the ball and hits an open 3-pointer.
“Nice, Brandon!” SU assistant coach Mike Hopkins says.
This is the role Triche has come to embrace in his sophomore season with the Orange. A year ago, he split time at point guard with Jardine, and his primary job was to find Andy Rautins and Wes Johnson for open shots or Rick Jackson and Arinze Onuaku down low. This season, his job is to get open and create from the off-guard position.
After struggling with the transition during the early portion of the season, Triche has adapted and become a major fac-tor from the position in Big East play. And as No. 11 Georgetown (18-5, 7-4 Big East) comes to the Carrier Dome for a conference rivalry game with the No. 12 Orange (20-4, 7-4) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Triche will look to continue his hot streak.
“The coaches are always telling me to be
aggressive,” Triche said after SU’s 66-58 vic-tory at Connecticut last Wednesday. “That’s what I did. I try to get shots up there and give Rick, Baye and Kris chances to rebound.”
That change in Triche’s timid shoot-ing attitude from the early goings — he attempted double-digit shots in just two of SU’s first 16 games — started in the Orange’s win at Seton Hall on Jan. 8.
In that game, Triche attempted only one shot in the first half — a missed layup. But right out of the gate in the second half, he came out firing. Two minutes into the half, he broke an early tie with a 3-pointer. Then he came up with a steal and raced down the court for a layup.
“I just said to myself, ‘I’m going to shoot,’” Triche said after the game. “First half, I shot one shot. Second half, I figure when I’m open — even if I’m not open — I’m going to try to look at the basket and put the shot up there. And the first four shots went down and helped us out.”
He shot 5-of-6 from the field in the half, including 4-of-5 from 3-point range. After a narrow five-point escape against the Pirates, SU head coach Jim Boeheim said that without Triche, the Orange “wouldn’t have been in the game.” Triche said the game boosted his confidence.
And Hopkins said it was the start of the turn from Triche’s early-season struggles to his newfound success.
“I thought the point where Brandon
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courtesy of mark diorio photographybrandon triche and Syracuse will face Georgetown on Wednesday in a key Big east matchup. the Hoyas have won six straight games after a slow start to conference play. see georgetown page 11
Role playTriche adapts to off-guard spot, improves through Big East play
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Orange burned by 3-point shooting
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andrew renneisen | staff photographeriasia hemingway defends a depaul player in Syarcuse’s 77-61 loss tuesday. SU allowed the Blue demons to knock down 13 3-pointers.
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Syracuse 76, Georgetown 75After the Seton Hall loss, the abyss of the los-ing streak, Triche said SU needed to come together. Boeheim said SU needed to fi nd bal-ance. Chipper days have returned for a balanced Orange team.
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FAB MELO7-0, 244, FR.
2.1 PPG, 1.9 RPG
JIM BOEHEIM849-297
34 seasons
JULIAN VAUGHN6-9, 250, SR.
9.0 PPG, 6.5 RPG
JOHN THOMPSON III225-109
10 seasons
CENTER COACHES
The freshman Melo is still soft, and Vaughn will exploit
that. But if Melo can get up and down the court like during the USF game, he
could play enough minutes for some timely tip-ins and
defensive positioning.
Thompson hasn’t had the success his father had
inside the Carrier Dome, going 0-5 since taking over prior to the 2004
season. But playing twice a year, few coaches are
as familiar with Syracuse and its tendencies as
Thompson.
“The chemistry with (Triche) and Scoop is getting better. That’s an important issue. That was a whole new relationship that needed to be built.”
Mike HopkinsSU ASSISTANT COACH
“When we’re losing, my team needs me. That’s when I put my foot on the gas pedal, be aggressive and put up shots.”
Brandon Triche SU GUARD
BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS
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FREE THROWSWednesday’s game will be the fi rst between the teams since Georgetown eliminated Syracuse from the Big East tournament last March.
Syracuse has won three consecutive regular-season games against the Hoyas. Georgetown last beat the Orange, 88-74, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 14, 2009.
Georgetown is the sixth nationally ranked team Syracuse will face this season. SU will be the seventh ranked team the Hoyas have faced.
STAT TO KNOWGeorgetown senior Austin Freeman has connected on 46 percent (53-of-116) of his attempts from beyond the arc this season, including 42 percent in Big East play.
FORTUNE COOKIE
Syracuse 79, Georgetown 76Georgetown is on fi re right now but has nobody to contain Rick Jackson.
Syracuse 72,Georgetown 67
Top dogs. Jack Russells.
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SCOOP JARDINE6-2, 190, JR.
13.6 PPG, 5.9 APG
BRANDON TRICHE6-4, 205, SO.
10.4 PPG, 3.0 APG
KRIS JOSEPH6-7, 210, JR.
15.0 PPG, 5.0 RPG
RICK JACKSON6-9, 240, SR.
13.5 PPG, 11.5 RPG
CHRIS WRIGHT6-1, 209, SR.
12.8 PPG, 5.4 APG
AUSTIN FREEMAN 6-3, 235, SR.
18.7 PPG, 2.6 APG
JASON CLARK6-2, 170, JR.
12.5 PPG, 4.2 RPG
NATE LUBICK6-8, 238, FR.
3.9 PPG, 3.4 RPG
STARTING LINEUPPOINT GUARD SHOOTING GUARD SMALL FORWARD POWER FORWARD
Relatively even matchup here between two of the Big East’s more seasoned point guards, all the way
down to the negative stats. Each point guard is averag-ing 2.9 turnovers per game
on the season.
The Orange will look to keep Triche constantly
moving to get him open for his shot. Freeman is the Big East preseason
Player of the Year and has backed it up all year long.
Joseph will get an edge through his hungry effort all over the court, like he showcased against USF on Saturday. Clark is a
scrappy scorer, though, evidenced by his 50 per-cent clip from the fi eld.
Rick Jackson made a statement for SU in
the team’s last game against USF. Will he have
the same performance against the Hoyas and Lubick? No. But he will feast on another spot where Georgetown is
undersized.
1. Ohio State (65)2. Kansas3. Texas4. Pittsburgh5. Duke6. San Diego State7. Brigham Young8. Notre Dame9. Villanova10. Connecticut11. Georgetown12. Syracuse13. Wisconsin14. Purdue15. Arizona16. Louisville17. Florida18. Kentucky19. Missouri20. North Carolina21. Utah State22. Texas A&M23. Vanderbilt24. Temple25. West Virginia
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Syracuse beats Cincinnati to earn the No. 3 ranking. On the same day, it loses its fi rst game to Pittsburgh.
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50.5The percentage George-town shoots from the fi eld, best in the Big East. SU ranks second in the conference in holding its opponents to 39 percent shooting from the fi eld.
BIG NUMBER
The Orange drops 14 spots in two weeks after four consecutive losses.
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started looking like the guy we all think he is was the second half of the Seton Hall game at Seton Hall,” Hopkins said. “We were playing horrible. He just carried us. Three. Three. Get in the lane. Steal.
“That Brandon Triche we all know and love.”Soon Triche scored in double figures with
regularity. He has done so in eight of 11 Big East games.
Hopkins credits Triche’s rapid ascent to key contributor to two things. First, growing com-fortable playing with Jardine in a two-guard set. Hopkins said the pair has learned to play
together after splitting time last year at one position. That was evident in the duo’s play in SU’s transition game against South Florida last weekend.
“The chemistry with him and Scoop is get-ting better,” Hopkins said. “That’s an important issue. That was a whole new relationship that needed to be built.”
And Triche also worked on his shot. Specifi-cally, what Hopkins refers to as a “pre-shot” — the movement to get open and the balance to go up for the shot quickly. With the improved “pre-shot,” Triche is ready to shoot before the ball is in his hands.
Triche displayed this at Connecticut when, with the Orange nursing a 53-52 lead with less than five minutes remaining, he caught a pass
from Jardine in the left corner and nailed a clutch 3-pointer.
“We promote a lot of what Andy Rautins did as the two-guard,” Hopkins said. “How hard he came off screens. Always being ready to shoot. Always having your hands ready. Always being in position to be the dagger in the game.
“And I think Brandon’s become that guy.”On Wednesday against Georgetown, SU will
look for Triche to be that guy again. The Hoyas collapse on their opponents driving into the lane, leaving the potential for shooters like Triche to get open with that constant movement.
“When we’re losing, my team needs me,” Triche said. “That’s when I put my foot on the gas pedal, be aggressive and put up shots.”
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second possession. Hampton continued to lead the charge early, knocking down her three first-half triples within the game’s opening seven minutes.
When she finally missed her first shot of the game, the junior Hampton chased down her own rebound and buried a floater in the paint, giving DePaul its largest lead of the half at 20-11.
SU willed its way back into the game, bat-tling and clawing for points in the paint. While the Orange struggled for every basket, DePaul was the side constantly getting wide-open looks.
But in spite of this, Syracuse took the lead a few times before halftime. After the break, though, the Blue Demons maintained their scorching pace, and SU couldn’t keep up.
“I feel like we were getting there, but we were
just a second late,” junior guard Iasia Heming-way said. “And they had some good shooters. They shot crazy good.”
That shooting percentage was aided by the Blue Demons’ ability to pick apart the SU 2-3 zone. Of the 13 3-pointers DePaul made, 11 of them were assisted as its players worked the ball flawlessly around the Orange defenders.
As a result, the shooters weren’t creating room for themselves. DePaul worked the ball around the zone until a hole opened up. And once Syracuse left someone open, the Blue Demons found a shooter for the easy look.
“That’s what we work on right there is assists,” Blue Demons head coach Doug Bruno said. “We want our baskets scored by people sharing. … Today, I thought we really came back and shared the ball well in the second half.”
While Hampton led the attack for DePaul early, senior guard Deirdre Naughton came off the bench and caught fire the rest of the way. She
tallied a season-high 19 points on 5-of-8 shooting from beyond the arc.
And in the second half, it was Naughton who provided the daggers that killed SU’s comeback hopes.
Her first 3 after the break extended the DePaul lead to double digits for the first time with 12:22 left. Her second — just two minutes later — extended the margin to 14. The last triple just two possessions later put the score at 66-51. SU never got closer than 12 after that.
After the game, Hillsman said the problem was not that the Orange stayed in a 2-3 zone. Instead, in his mind, the team’s issue was its execution of that trademark defense.
“It’s about playing a better zone,” he said. “It’s not about wavering on what you believe in and what you stand for as a coach and as a program. … It’s about playing a better zone. It’s about not giving up open looks.”
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By Andrew TredinnickStaff Writer
Alessondra Parra’s opponents were confused. And they had good reason. As she warmed up across the court for a doubles match with part-ner Simone Kalhorn, they saw the right-hander take a few left-handed serves.
“The girls across the net were like, ‘What the hell? What’s going on? Did I just see them hit a left-handed serve?’” Parra said.
The Syracuse tennis team’s opponents see left-handed serves often. It’s all part of head coach Luke Jensen’s game plan to have each of his players be able to serve with both hands.
Jensen said he was the first-ever player to serve with both hands on the professional tour. And so he was given the moniker “Dual-Hand Luke.”
Jensen’s skill added an element to his game many opponents could not deal with. It was so effective that when Jensen became the Orange’s head coach, he wanted to implement a similar type of creative tennis to the program.
Now, five years later, players know that when they are recruited to play at SU, they will be given the task of learning to serve from both sides.
“It keeps it fresh,” Jensen said. “It’s not the same old forehand and backhands or the same old practice. You’re learning shots and tactics in a forward movement of the game, so when
you leave, you’re armed to play anybody. We’re going to push you and test you with these shots in competition.”
Jensen said the Orange is the only college team he knows of that implements this unique style of play. The learning curve is different for all players, but Jensen explained it takes two or three months on average for players to be com-fortable enough to use it in a game situation.
Freshman Eva Raszkiewicz had no idea what she was getting into when she signed her Nation-al Letter of Intent merely 24 hours before school began. Prior to her decision, she never thought she would actually be expected to serve with her weak hand by the end of her collegiate career.
“Even if I joke around with my friends and serve lefty, I’m really bad,” Raszkiewicz said. “I came here, and I started doing it, and it was really bad in the beginning, but I’m getting bet-ter at it. Still not great, but my lefty overhead is coming along, so it’s a good start.”
Players such as Parra and Emily Harman, the No. 1 and No. 3 singles players for the Orange, respectively, have already mastered serving with both hands. With three years under Jens-en’s wing, Parra and Harman have baffled their opponents with the occasional lefty serve.
Although the tactic is used sparingly during matches, if it is used at the right moment, it can truly surprise an opponent.
“If you switch between lefty and righty in a match, it totally throws off your opponent,” Parra said. “Mentally, if your opponent sees you throw in a lefty, not only are they confused, but they are caught off guard and they start thinking about it.”
The left-handed serve is effective for many rea-sons, Harman said. Often, players get in a rhythm with their opponent. They begin to time their swing off their opponent’s toss and motion to strike. But when all that is done with the other hand, that focus is broken and the rhythm is interrupted.
Once the ball hits the court, the ball spins in
a different fashion. Since the player sees a slow shot, she feels she can attack the ball, but often the opponent overplays and misjudges the ball, hitting it long or into the net.
The left-handed serve simply adds another weapon to Syracuse’s arsenal.
“We do this every day, so it’s not a big deal for us to pull out a lefty in a doubles or singles match,” Harman said. “We do it all the time. That’s a scary factor from their point because they don’t see that every day.”
Orange confuses opponents with ambidextrous serving
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alessondra parra (center) and the Orange hope to gain an edge over their oppo-nents as they learn ambidextrous serving from head coach Luke Jensen.
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SU falters in chance for statement win
By Mark CooperASST. SPORTS EDITOR
As the fi nal minutes ticked off another disap-pointing loss, Quentin Hillsman squatted next to the Syracuse bench. Other than calling out defensive plays, he was silent, unlike his usual fl amboyant nature as head coach.
When Iasia Hemingway was called for a trav-el, he smiled and covered his face with his hand, shaking his head in frustration. Syracuse’s head coach was disappointed at an opportunity left at the wayside Tuesday.
His team had a lead on a Top 10 opponent. Had the momentum, too. And he knew SU let it slip away.
“This is a very disappointing loss,” Hillsman said. “This hurts. This hurts as much as any loss I’ve had since I’ve been here.”
After falling behind by nine in the opening minutes, Syracuse came storming back on a valiant comeback to take a lead over DePaul. But that comeback was short-lived, as DePaul squeaked out a four-point lead by halftime and ran away from the Orange in the second half, winning 77-61. Syracuse’s 12-0 run after falling behind 20-11 early couldn’t be sustained, and SU suffered its third straight loss.
And Hillsman knew after the game that it was as important a loss as any. With SU — which has missed the NCAA tournament the past two seasons — on the bubble once again, the
fi fth-year head coach knew it was a win his team could use.
“I don’t believe that we’re an NIT team every year,” Hillsman said. “I don’t think we have those kinds of players on our team. I’m a fi ghter, and I’m not going to settle for just every year being a spectacle and then being OK.”
Syracuse’s slow start lasted eight minutes before the Orange found a rhythm. It was around the same time Hemingway, a usual starter, entered the game. Hillsman said the junior was benched for sleeping in and missing practice Monday, but when she came on the court, she was active. Hemingway and backup forward Shakeya Leary spurred the Orange’s run, combining for nine of the 12 points during the spurt.
As Syracuse went into a media timeout up 21-20, Hillsman stormed onto the court to greet them, yelling, “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!” Leary said the team was excited to get in the huddle after taking its fi rst lead since 2-0.
But the Orange never reached that level of excitement again.
“When you see them start to cut the lead, cut the lead, and then you’re down at four at halftime,” SU guard Carmen Tyson-Thomas said, “you go into halftime thinking you know you have it.
“But when you come out, you don’t have a
quick start like you need to, it’s really disap-pointing.”
DePaul head coach Doug Bruno said he felt like the 3-pointer his team made with 31 sec-onds left before halftime swung the momentum toward his team, as the Blue Demons led 39-35 at the break. That momentum never switched back to SU in the second half, and the four-point lead only grew.
Bruno said it was a big win for his team over a good Syracuse team, and the Orange still has “a great chance” to make the NCAA tournament.
But Syracuse has work to do. Hillsman said he always talks about reaching 10 Big East wins, through a combination of regular-season and Big East tournament wins. The Orange only has four right now, with six regular-season games left.
“I feel like we got to go on the road and take one, like they took one from us,” Hemingway said. “Everybody’s got to get 10 times better than what we do when we’re home.”
Hillsman took this loss to DePaul harder than most losses, he said. His postgame state-ment, refl ecting on both the disappointment of the loss and his belief that the Syracuse pro-gram should be better than it looked Tuesday, lasted nearly fi ve minutes.
He said the only thing left is for his team to show the fi ght he talked about in its fi nal six games.
“It’s my responsibility as the coach of this program to put us in the NCAA tournament every year,” he said. “And I think that for what we get and the resources that are available to us and the support we have … we’re going to turn the corner.”
WO M E N ’ S B A S K E T B A L L
andrew renneisen | staff photographerQUENTIN HILLSMAN looks on in Syracuse’s 77-61 loss to DePaul Tuesday. The loss was SU’s third straight and drops the Orange to 16-7 overall and 4-6 in Big East play. Carmen Tyson-Thomas led the Orange with 16 points and 13 rebounds on the night.
SyracusePLAYER ASSISTS REBOUNDS POINTSTyson-Thomas 1 13 16Hemingway 3 5 14Leary 1 6 13Hall 1 4 7Alexander 0 1 4Morrow 3 2 4Harris 4 0 3
DePaulPLAYER ASSISTS REBOUNDS POINTSNaughton 1 2 19Hampton 3 7 18Martin 7 5 11Chester 2 4 8Harry 3 1 8Quigley 5 3 6Pikes 1 6 4Threatt 0 1 3
“This is a very disappointing loss. This hurts. This hurts as much as any loss I’ve had since I’ve been here.”
Quentin HillsmanSU HEAD COACH
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Mouphtaou Yarou has enough familiarity with Isaiah Armwood that he almost always knows Armwood’s next move on the court. The two sophomore forwards for Villanova did, after all, play high school basketball together for a year.
“I basically know where he is going to be,” Yarou said.
Yarou and Armwood, who played their senior years of high school basketball together at Montrose Christian School in Rockville, Md., have become key contributors for the Wildcats this year in their second seasons with the team.
Yarou has started all 23 games for the Wild-cats and averages 8.8 points per game and 7.2 rebounds while shooting 48 percent from the field. Armwood has started the last two games after coming off the bench in every game he played previously.
Even though they aren’t always on the court together, when they are, their play is different from the play of any other two Wildcats team-mates.
Villanova assistant coach Jason Donnelly can see their close relationship translate onto the court.
“They know how to play together,” Don-nelly said. “They’re both friends, and they’re very competitive with each other in practice. They’re very physical how they go after each other. It’s kind of like two brothers that when
they get matched up, brothers are a little more competitive when they go against each other.”
The two remain close off the court, too. They lived together their senior year at Montrose, and though they’re not roommates at Villanova, they live in the same building. Donnelly can see that, too.
“When they get off the court, there’s a tight-ness and there’s a bond there that you have,” Donnelly said. “It’s a friendship because you had a relationship before you got to college. They’re definitely close in that way.”
At the start of the season, Yarou saw more minutes than Armwood. After missing time at the beginning of last season because of an illness, Yarou has stepped up this season and recorded three double-doubles. He has scored in double figures in nine games.
He scored 18 in the Wildcats’ win over Mar-quette on Feb. 2. In Armwood’s first start of the season against that same Marquette team, he notched five rebounds. Donnelly attributes their improvements to experience.
“It takes a little while in the Big East, I think, to adjust to being ready to play at this level,” Donnelly said.
Although Armwood hasn’t put up numbers to match Yarou, he was the player Villanova coaches first noticed. They started recruiting him when he was a sophomore at Montrose Christian, and he was the first out of the two to commit to Villanova.
Yarou, who is originally from Benin, a country in Africa, came to Montrose after spending his junior year at Massanutten Mili-tary Academy. It was his summer before going to Montrose that Villanova started recruiting him, too.
“It definitely helped in terms of the recruiting process that they had a relationship,” Donnelly said. “But the recruitments were actually sepa-rate because we knew them before they knew each other. And as they made their commit-ments, they kind of worked hand in hand.”
And now, with the two at Villanova, their cohesiveness on the court is expected to help the Wildcats in the stretch run of the season.
“We’re working on getting better as a team and coming together as a team,” Armwood said.
Donnelly said it’s good to have two players on the team who have played together before. He compared the relationship of Yarou and Armwood to that of Syracuse forward Rick Jackson and guard Scoop Jardine, another pair of Big East teammates who went to high school together.
Jackson, a senior, and the junior Jardine played together at Neumann-Goretti High School in Philadelphia and now start for the 20-4 Orange.
“Scoop and Rick are close, and you see Syra-cuse having success,” Donnelly said. “So them having played together in high school only can help them when they get to the next level.”
Yarou and Armwood provide camaraderie
and familiarity to the team. Their relationship and ability to gel on the court is beneficial for the Wildcats, Donnelly said.
And it all started back in Maryland at Mon-trose Christian, a school coached by the leg-endary Stu Vetter and the same school that produced NBA star Kevin Durant.
Now that relationship is continuing at Vil-lanova for the 19-4 Wildcats, who are 7-3 in Big East play.
“I’ve known him for a long time,” Yarou said. “We’re all like a family. We hang out together.”
If Armwood continues to start for the Wild-cats, he has the chance to form a forward duo with Yarou.
Times would be similar to their days from high school. Their relationship will help drive each other’s success.
“Basketball on the court, off the court, it’s all relationships,” Donnelly said. “And they’ve got a great relationship.”
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After starting 1-4 in Big East play, George-town has recovered nicely to win six straight games. If the Hoyas get by Syracuse, they will face Marquette, looking to win their eighth straight game. In the Hoyas’ 83-81 win over Providence on Saturday, Austin Freeman scored 23 points as the Hoyas withstood the Friars’ Marshon Brooks and his 43 points.
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Wildcat sophomore duo continues bond forged in high school
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By David WilsonContributing Writer
Most people told Donald Pollitt he was too tall to run hurdles at the collegiate level. Most schools didn’t recruit him for that reason.
Syracuse was the exception.“Everybody told me that recruited me that
because of my height, I probably won’t be that good of a 42-inch hurdler,” Pollitt said. “With (assistant) coach Dave (Hegland), it was differ-ent. With him, it was like, ‘If you work hard, it’ll be just like doing 39 (inches) in a few months.’”
And Pollitt has made the Orange coaching staff look good for taking that chance. The fresh-man took home first place in the men’s 60-meter hurdles at the Cornell Upstate Challenge in his first race after the long Winter Break layoff. Pollitt was a two-time Pennsylvania state cham-pion in the hurdles in high school and is one of a talented group of freshmen making an immedi-ate contribution for Syracuse.
Part of what helped Pollitt be so successful at Cornell was his decision to stay on campus for Winter Break. He took full advantage of the Syracuse indoor training facilities.
“I stayed up here because I had that advantage to stay up here with the better facilities,” Pollitt said. “In high school I didn’t do indoor track, but here in college you get to train year-round and don’t have to worry about the weather.”
Pollitt hasn’t been the only freshman to have success either. Ashley Keyes has been an imme-diate contributor as well.
The freshman placed first in the women’s 60-meter dash at Cornell for SU. And she didn’t even stay on campus during Winter Break. The
layoff may have set her back a little bit training-wise, but she didn’t show it in her first meet of the spring semester.
“You don’t have the facilities at home that you do here, but it’s all about the personal moti-vation,” Keyes said.
When runners like Pollitt and Keyes come in, it does not take coaches long to realize their potential. While some athletes are still growing when they come into college, others enter the collegiate ranks with the talent to compete at the same level as upperclassmen right away.
“On the top end, it’s really pretty easy to tell who’s going to be great, but it’s not always easy to tell who has the ability to be great,” Hegland said. “So many things happen between the ages of 18 and 22 that makes it hard to predict.”
For some freshmen, unlike Pollitt and Keyes, the transition to college life gets in the way of the
transition from high school to college athletics. Those who struggle to adjust to college life will experience a learning period on the track as well.
As the season grinds on, the stress of the long collegiate season will test the freshmen. With tougher workout regimens and a longer schedule, freshmen are at risk of running into the “rookie wall,” and their performance may dip in the stretch run.
For Hegland, though, he hopes Pollitt and Keyes can continue to stay ahead of the game and avoid that wall.
“Freshmen are still just getting adjusted to col-lege life,” Hegland said. “Obviously the typical life-style is not conducive to being a successful runner, so the sooner they figure that out, the sooner they can start learning. For some people, that takes a year or two, and some never figure that out.”
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OutlookSyracuse hasn’t competed in a meet with a team score since the Cornell upstate Challenge on Jan. 22 in ithaca, n.Y. individually, junior Matthew Callanan and freshman Donald Pollitt finished 10th and 11th, respectively, in the 60-meter hurdles last weekend in the new bal-ance Collegiate invitational. Amber Passalagua also came in fourth in the high jump.
Munjed’s Middle eastern cafe530 Westcott St.(315) 425-0366
Directions: Between Alto Cinco and Dorian’s Pizza
Hours: Monday through Thursday: 11 a.m to 9 p.m. and Friday through Saturday: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Menu: Falafels, hummus, tabbouleh and other standard Middle Eastern fare.
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By Josephine PimentelConTriBuTing WriTEr
M unjed’s Middle Eastern Cafe provides a tasty local alter-native for Mediterranean food while King David’s Res-taurant is closed. But even when King David’s reopens,
Munjed’s will hold its own with its cheap prices and delicious food.Munjed’s is located between Alto Cinco and Dorian’s Pizzeria at
530 Westcott St. Open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., this cafe serves a wide array of traditional Middle Eastern foods, including hummus, falafel, shish kebobs, lamb or chicken gyros and tab-bouleh.
When we walked into Munjed’s at about 3 p.m. last Friday, the restaurant was completely empty. Although slightly off-putting at first, we only had to wait a short period of time for our food. Upon entering the café, the aroma of warm pita bread and rich Mediter-ranean spices filled the air and was only complemented by the opulent Arabic-inspired décor. Middle Eastern paintings line the walls, and vivid red and gold accents give the small eatery an exotic and lavish feel.
To start, we ordered the Mazza Sampler ($7.99), which includes falafel patties, stuffed grape leaves, hummus and baba ghanoush served with warm pita bread. Though the presentation was a bit sloppy and disorganized, it was by far the highlight of the meal. What the dish lacked in aesthetics, it certainly made up for with flavor. All four items in the sampler were simply mouthwatering. The falafel, a mildly spiced fried chickpea patty, was made to per-fection. These flavorful patties were crispy on the outside, soft and velvety on the inside and not overwhelmingly greasy despite being
deep-fried. The hummus (pureed and flavored chickpeas) and baba ghanoush (pureed eggplant seasoned with garlic and lemon) were delicious on their own and tasted even better when spread over the warm, toasted pita bread.
For lunch, the chicken shawarma ($6.49) proved to be a serious disappointment after such a delicious appetizer. Grilled boneless chicken breast, topped with hummus, onions, tomatoes and tahini sauce, were stuffed inside a warm pita pocket. The grilled chicken was charred, bitter and overwhelmingly dry. And to top it off, a watered-down tahini sauce drenched the entire shawarma, result-ing in a soggy, falling-apart pita pocket and messy hands.
A more satisfying lunch option was the kifta, also known as “The Arab Burger” ($6.49). A warm pita pocket is filled with ground beef, hummus, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and tahini sauce. The ground beef was succulent, richly seasoned and nicely complemented by the fresh, crunchy cucumbers and tomatoes.
Finally, for dessert, the baklava cheesecake ($1.75), which the menu described as “soon to be famous,” was another shining star in the meal and a sweet way to wrap up our Mediterranean experience. This dish combines a classic American dessert with a baklava topping made of crunchy toasted walnuts, tossed in a sugar and rose water syrup.
Overall, eating at Munjed’s was an enjoyable experience. The service was friendly and speedy, and the food was tasty. If you’re feeling in the mood to try some classic Middle Eastern dishes, head down to Westcott Street. Your taste buds — and your wallet — will leave happy.
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Munjed’s Middle eastern cafe serves traditional Middle Eastern cuisine, from its appetizers to its desserts. Clockwise from left: Munjed’s baklava cheesecake combines two popular desserts. The Mazza Sampler compiles bites of four different dishes. The chicken shawarma did not meet the high expections set for the restaurant.
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to student-inspired apparel. “During my freshman year, the only shirt I
used to wear was ‘Real Women Wear Orange,’” Gallagher said. “Now they have all these dif-ferent brands, like these sort of vintage-in-spired T-shirts and the PINK label, but we also thought, ‘Why not see what other students have in mind?’”
Hailey Shellhammer, a freshman fashion design major, is interested in the competition.
“I think it’s a great idea,” she said. “It gives students a chance in a competitive field a shot at getting their feet wet.”
She also mentioned what she would do if she entered the contest.
“I would probably want to incorporate more of the positive energy a lot of Syracuse students have at this school and the sports teams’ school pride,” Shellhammer said. “It’s always a sea of orange, you know.”
Shellhammer found out about the compe-tition through Zipped’s social media efforts. Gallagher said the Web initiatives have been valuable for the magazine.
“There’s just so many opportunities nowa-days with the Internet and blogs and Twitter and Facebook to do so many different things, and it’s an interesting project with the maga-zine,” Gallagher said.
Krista Johnson, assistant director of public relations for Zipped and sophomore public rela-tions major, said she thinks the project will make a statement.
She said: “It’s the fact that ‘Hey, I made this T-shirt, and everybody’s wearing it.’”
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Wolfe had a love of learning. But for him, things at SU changed quickly. Toward the end of receiving his degree, the dean of Hendricks at the time retired, and his colleagues sug-gested Wolfe fill the position. He questioned if that was the next step. He decided it was.
After eight and a half years of being a chap-lain, he moved down the hall and spent the next 10 years as dean of Hendricks. Then Chancellor Nancy Cantor asked for him to step in and become the senior vice president and dean of student affairs. This year marks his third year in the position.
“By then I was ready for a bigger challenge,” he said. “I just would not have imagined this. Not in a million years.”
Wolfe credits obtaining the position to his own positive undergraduate experience and the relationships he formed with the faculty, who always encouraged him. He still main-tains friendships with many of those who taught him.
Wolfe decided he’d adopt the role of a faculty member who participated in student develop-ment, worked collaboratively with others and mentored students.
His word of advice for students: Don’t be afraid to face problems head on.
“Walk closer to anxiety, closer to things that are uncomfortable. Embrace them and learn from them,” he said. “When you do that, something good happens.”
Many people may be unaware of what the dean of student affairs does, but Wolfe explained that he’s in charge of all nonaca-demic programs. Public safety, health and well-ness, student organizations — you name it, he does it.
“We are interested in their experiences and building a community with students starting with their first moments on campus,” he said.
Wolfe has a strong connection to SU. His old-est daughter, son-in-law, father, aunt, uncles, cousin, wife and grandfather graduated from the university with degrees from either under-
graduate or graduate programs. His youngest daughter currently attends the university.
He smiled: “I bleed orange in that regard.”•••
So, what’s a typical day for Wolfe? Accord-ing to him, there isn’t one.
But on Tuesday, Pulp followed him and chronicled a day in the life of Wolfe:
8 a.m.Wolfe has been awake since 5 a.m. He already cleared his driveway and car to get to work.
Once he arrived, the self-proclaimed great list-maker creates new records of things to accomplish.
“If it’s not in a list, I am holding it in my head, and that’s distracting with everything else,” he said.
He also works on his to-do folder, filled with documents he has to consult people about.
E-mails flood his inbox. When Wolfe is not in meetings, he’s checking e-mails. He starts answering them at about 6:30 a.m. and doesn’t stop until 10 p.m.
10:30 a.m. Wolfe treks across campus to meet with Doug Marrone, SU’s head football coach, and three other individuals.
This isn’t unusual, Wolfe said. He and Mar-rone have had previous meetings about pro-cedures, programming and communication strategies.
“It was a positive meeting that strengthens our relationship and gives support to student athletes,” Wolfe said.
11:50 a.m.Wolfe doesn’t have much time before his next meeting at noon, but he heads to Schine Stu-dent Center to pick up a sandwich. Wolfe said he enjoys walking through Schine because he always runs into people he knows.
“I like to get out of my office as much as pos-sible,” he said. “It is always a better day when I can get out.”
Once he heads back to his office, he runs into a student he is helping. They discuss the student’s assignment, and he promises to send her an e-mail with more information and his thoughts.
Noon Wolfe eats his sandwich while in a meeting with a business officer of student affairs. In these weekly meetings, they discuss issues, such as those concerning the budget and human resources.
1:30 p.m.Wolfe is on a phone call regarding greek life.
With 10 minutes to spare before his next meeting, he sends more e-mails.
2:30 p.m. Wolfe meets with one of the associate vice presidents of student affairs. They discuss protocols and progress reports.
3:30 p.m.Wolfe notes all his responsibilities can’t be chronicled in just one day.
“To really get a flavor of my life, you need to look at it over two weeks,” he said.
For example, Wolfe has weekly meetings with Student Association President Neal Casey and meets frequently with Chancellor Nancy Cantor and students. He will even travel with the basketball team later this month for the Feb. 26 men’s basketball game at Georgetown University.
Usually, Wolfe works in his office until about 6:30 p.m. At end of the day, he has a period of reflection.
“I like that quiet moment without any appointments to just think through the day,” he said.
Wolfe and his wife always have dinner together, so he returns home to spend time with her.
If he has more work to do, he’ll return to the office, grab a tall cup of coffee and play quiet music in the background. It depends on his mood, but he enjoys listening to jazz vocalists and National Public Radio. (He is a self-pro-claimed NPR junkie.) Wolfe said he sometimes works until 2 a.m., goes home and then returns the next morning to start another day.
Said Wolfe: “Sometimes you have to do that to get caught up.”
“By then I was ready for a bigger challenge. I just would not have imagined this. Not in a million years.”
Thomas Wolfedean of student affairs
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T his year for Valentine’s Day, I have a special girl in mind. She’s smart and sexy, and every weeknight she tells me
amazing news — as long as I turn her on before it’s too late.
Unfortunately, Katie Couric hasn’t returned any of my phone calls. So I’ll have to find myself a Valentine’s Day date using Plan B: buying a personal ad on a dating website.
Unfortunately, I have no money to pay for a personal ad. So I’ll have to find myself a Valen-tine’s Day date using the column inches available to me free of charge in today’s Daily Orange.
If you’re a single(ish) woman between 18 and 55 years old, stand 4 feet 10 inches to 6 feet 4 inches tall, weigh between one and two Olsen twins, and are willing to experiment with tantric yoga and interfaith gambling — keep reading. If not, put the newspaper down and calmly walk away. You want nothing to do with this:
Dating Profile #231678: @Fersh_PrinceBasic info: I’m a 20-year-old junior broad-
cast journalism major at Syracuse University. I’m 5 feet 10 inches tall and weigh 155 pounds. I have brown hair, brown eyes, broad shoulders and a smile that says, “I´m too afraid to look down, but I hope I´m wearing pants.” Born and raised in Bethesda, Md., I have three siblings, two parents and one Cal Ripken bobblehead doll that agrees with everything I say.
Likes: Food, sports, bears, dogs (if properly trained), kids (if properly cooked), Harry Potter, John Stamos, sharks, turtles, ninjas,
ninja turtles, “Beverly Hills Ninja,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” Beverly Cleary, long walks on the beach, short sprints at the pool, water, fights, water fights, gasoline fights, the Baltimore Orioles, the Washington Redskins, Otto the Orange, frisbee golf, Nicolas Cage, Matthew McConaughey, Celine Dion and North Dakota.
Dislikes: South Dakota, “Grey’s Anatomy,” Derek Jeter, Edward Cullen, laughing hyenas, somber hyenas, low-carb diets, hybrid cars, Justin Bieber and all Bieber-related products, eating salad at a steakhouse, eating steak in a salad, eating salad, BlackBerries, Chuck Berry, Barry White, white Russians, Russian roulette, Chatroulette, the Dallas Cowboys, the Dillon Panthers, Brett Favre and Voldemort.
About me: When I was a kid, my parents used to tell me, “Danny, one day you’ll find a woman who thinks you’re cute enough to tie your shoelaces for you. Until then, you’re wear-ing Velcro.” Nearly three years later, I’m still looking for that special someone who will laugh with me when things are going well, hold me when they aren’t and help me put on my big-boy boots during all the times in between.
I know you’re out there somewhere, even if you’re too scared to admit it — or to lift your restraining order on me. Sure, your friends might think you’re crazy. And yeah, it might be tough to find some privacy with an E-list celebrity like myself, but I know we can make it work. So if you’re out there, give me a call, shoot me an e-mail, send me a telegram, use a carrier pigeon, shout at me on the street or light the beacon of Gondor, and I’ll do the rest. Don’t worry — if things don’t work out between us, I’ve always got Katie Couric. As soon as she returns my phone call.
Danny Fersh is a junior broadcast journalism major, and his column appears every Wednes-
day. He would like to thank his relationship counselor, Abram, for his help on this article.
If you’d like to go on a date with Danny, contact him at [email protected]. If not, seek therapy.
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Look for love in all the right places — I’m up here, ladiesUPdrink
Valentine’s day drinksHearts of Pom cocktailCourtesy of Alexandra McDougald of Stuntman Public Relations
2 ounces Riazul Premium Silver tequila•1 ounce pomegranate juice•1 ounce Cointreau•1 ounce fresh lime juice•Pomegranate seeds (optional)•
Mix together ice, Riazul Silver, pomegranate juice, Cointreau and lime juice into a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a glass.Garnish with a few pomegranate seeds.
Champagne cocktailA twist of orange liqueur brightens up an already bubbly drink.
1 ounce triple sec•Champagne•Orange peel (optional)•
Pour triple sec in a champagne flute. Pour champagne to fill the glass. Gar-nish with a piece of orange peel.
Cranberry KissAside from the adorable name, this cranberry juice-infused cocktail pours with a bright red hue typical of Valentine’s Day.
2 cups cranberry juice•1 1/2 cups vodka•3 tablespoons orange juice•Ice to chill•Frozen whole cranberry (optional)•
Combine the juices and vodka in a pitcher. Pour into a shaker with ice, then shake. Pour into a glass and pop in a frozen cranberry — it’s a festive way to chill your drink.
— Compiled by Sara Tracey, asst. copy editor, [email protected]
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Recipe BoxComfort foodWhen Syracuse gets hit with freezing snow and rain, the stomach aches for something warm and filling — stick-to-your-ribs kind of food. Here are some recipes that are sure to satisfy.
Creamy, homemade mac and cheeseMy personal recipe for a baked macaroni and cheese with a creamy sauce. - 1 box of pasta (a rotini or traditional elbows works well)
2 tablespoons butter•1/2 cup onion, finely chopped•2 cloves garlic, minced•2 tablespoons flour•1 pint heavy cream•1 block extra sharp cheddar cheese, •shredded (approximately 3 cups)Salt and pepper to taste•Bacon, cooked and crumbled•
Cook pasta in salted water until slightly undercooked. Put into a brownie pan that is 13 by 9 by 2 inches. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a medium-sized pot over medium heat. Put in onions and garlic, sweating them until the onions are tender. Mix flour into the pot, making sure not to get any lumps. Here’s that roux again. After the roux cooks for a minute or two, pour in the heavy cream slowly while you stir. When the cream comes to a boil, take off the heat and melt in cheese little by little until you get a thick sauce. Pour sauce over the pasta and crumble bacon on top. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the sides get toasted.
French onion soupGet ready to cry a bit. It takes more than a few onions to make this delicious soup.
1 1/2 sticks butter•7 large onions, red or white, sliced•2 cloves garlic, minced•8 cups beef or vegetable stock •
(depending on your personal eating habits)1 bay leaf•1/2 teaspoon thyme, dried•Salt and pepper to taste•Bread, toasted•Sliced provolone or Swiss cheese•
Preheat oven to 400 degrees or broil. Melt butter in a large pot. Cook onions down for a long while, about 30 to 40 minutes. Add garlic after onions have softened. Add stock, bay leaf and thyme, and simmer for an additional 30 minutes. Pour soup into oven-safe bowls, top with a piece of bread and a slice of cheese. Set bowls on a sheet tray and pop into the oven until cheese melts, about three to five minutes.
Strawberry upside-down cheese-cake
A decadent dessert for Valentine’s Day •or whenever you want a cheesecake. For me, that’s just about every day. 2 cups frozen strawberries, thawed•2 packages cream cheese, brought to •room temperature1/2 cup and 1 tablespoon white sugar •2 eggs•1 tablespoon vanilla extract•1 prepared pie crust•
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place straw-berries in a bowl, mix in tablespoon of sugar. Pour mixture into pie crust. Cream the cream cheese and half-cup of sugar until thoroughly combined. Add eggs one at a time, and then add vanilla extract. Mix until smooth. Pour into pie crust and put in the oven. Let cake bake for 30 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test. (Stick a toothpick in the center and pull out. If it’s clean, take the cake out of the oven. If not, leave in for a few more minutes.) Let the cake set until it’s completely cooled. Cut and serve.
— Compiled by Sara Tracey, asst. copy editor, [email protected]
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Wolfe arrives at his offi ce at Crouse-Hinds Hall. He makes up his to-do list for the day.
Wolfe walks to a meeting with Syracuse
University football head coach Doug Marrone.
Wolfe treks back toward his offi ce and grabs a sandwich at
the Schine Student Center.
He meets with a business offi cer from the Division of Student Affairs.
Wolfe meets with another offi cial from student affairs
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W E D N E S D AYFEBRUARY 9, 2011
By Madelyn PerezCONTRIBUTING WRITER
For Molly Gallagher, editor in chief of Zipped magazine, this year’s March Madness means more than just bas-ketball. It means new apparel for the Syracuse University community.
Zipped, a campus fashion publica-tion, is making this opportunity pos-sible. Since last fall, Zipped has been working to get its fi rst Gear Design Competition up and running. The winning student design will be pro-duced and sold in the bookstore. The winner will also have photos of their work featured in Zipped.
“We plan on featuring them in the magazine, so they’ll have some sort of profi le and photograph of the designs,” Gallagher said.
The competition calls for one T-shirt, one sweatshirt, one pair of sweatpants and one apparel design of choice to be sent to [email protected]. The new deadline for sub-missions is Friday, Feb. 11, extended from the original Feb. 7 deadline.
About 15 submissions have been entered, Gallagher said, but there is always room for more, and entries are not limited to art majors.
“We want to stress the fact that this is not just for fashion design majors,” she said. “If you’re a biology major and you’ve always had an interest in art and you like fashion, you should defi nitely submit something.”
The judges of the competition are SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor, men’s basketball guard Scoop Jardine and a few members of the Zipped staff. Gallagher stressed the magazine staff wanted a basketball player’s opinion on the designs because they will be sold during March Madness.
Gallagher said one of the major criteria for judgment is original-ity because although the bookstore has come a long way with its cloth-ing selections, it has never been home
SEE ZIPPED PAGE 21
packLeading the
Thomas Wolfe heads student affairs with 21 years of service
Magazine seeks SU gear designs
brandon weight | asst. photo editor
THOMAS WOLFE, dean of student affairs, started his career at the university as a chaplain at Hendricks Chapel. He expected to stay at SU for only a few years.
By Colleen BidwillASST. FEATURE EDITOR
Editor’s note: “Day in a Life” is an occasional series chronicling the responsibilities of the newsmakers, charac-ters and public fi gures on campus.
When Thomas Wolfe arrived at Syra-
cuse University to be a Protestant
chaplain at Hendricks Chapel, he
expected his presence on campus to be brief. That
was 21 years ago.
“I came here, and I fi gured I would be here for four or fi ve years, and then I would be moving on and doing some-thing else,” said Wolfe, now the dean of student affairs. “One morning I woke up and realized, ‘Wow, you really like this.’ So the question became, ‘What do I need to do to stay here?’”
The answer: a Ph.D. from Syracuse in higher education. But Wolfe’s decision didn’t take him too far away from his religious roots.
“We have always had this real emphasis on higher education,” he said. “Someone said, ‘Why did I leave the church?’ I didn’t. I just moved over into another aspect.”
Wolfe has used his time at SU to build relationships with all aspects of the university that affect the lives of students.
coach Doug Marrone.
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WHAT IS ZIPPED?Zipped magazine is the only fashion- and beauty-focused print publication at Syracuse University. With a circulation of almost 2,000, the entirely stu-dent-run magazine is directed toward both college-age males and females. Zipped highlights trends on the university campus and follows national fashion and beauty news. Zipped also touches on issues within the related industries, and the impact these issues have on the SU community.
Source: www.zippedmagazine.com.
SEE WOLFE PAGE 21
IN HIS SHOESPulp followed Dean of Student Affairs Thomas Wolfe for one day. Here is his schedule on Tuesday.