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GET YOUR VOTES IN Student Association is the student governing body of Syracuse Uni-versity and State University of New York College of Environmental Sci-ence and Forestry undergraduate students.
Voting for Student Association for the 56th session begins Monday, Nov. 14, and runs until Thursday, Nov. 17. There are two candidates for SA president — Dylan Lustig and Taylor Carr — and there is one can-didate for SA comptroller, Stephen DeSalvo.
Voting is available online through each student’s MySlice page. If less than 10 percent of the student body casts their ballots by the end of Nov. 17, voting will extend until Nov. 18.
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kristen parker | asst. photo editorSTEPHEN DESALVO, a member of the Finance Board, plans to mandate that all SA members take some form of fiscal training to better serve students.
Juggling actLone SA comptroller candidate hopes to bring financial responsibility to forefront
to heart
SEE REMEMBRANCE PAGE 9
Syracuse community recalls feelings of dread unraveled by Pan Am Flight 103
SEE DESALVO PAGE 6
I N S I D EN E W S
Spreading wealthSA doles out funding to some student organizations during the bud-get meeting.Page 3
I N S I D EO P I N I O N
Election beyStudent PAC endorses Khalid Bey for District 4 of the Com-mon Council. Page 5
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Up close and personalSA candidates share personal insights through quirky survey answers.Page 11
I N S I D ES P O R T S
Soccer start-upThe Syracuse Silver Knights, a new profes-sional indoor soccer team, has the com-munity excited for its inaugural season. Page 20
Editor’s note: This week marks SU’s annual Remembrance Week, during which the campus comes together to remember the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
By Debbie TruongASST. NEWS EDITOR
W hen Pan Am Flight 103 was reduced to wreckage and rubble on Dec. 21, 1988, a pall
was cast on members of the Syracuse University community, near and far.
A bomb went off aboard the plane and killed 16 crew members and all 243 pas-sengers, including 35 students returning from semesters in London and Florence, Italy, through SU’s study abroad program. Falling debris also claimed 11 lives in
Lockerbie, Scotland, when large sections of the plane fell crashing to the ground.
The workday was wrapping up at Cas Marino’s advertising agency in Manhattan. He stepped into the lobby and glanced at the television airing news reports of a plane crash. Coverage of the disaster was too premature for Marino, who graduated from SU the semester before, to realize how close to home the tragedy hit. He left for drinks with a co-worker that evening, just as information surrounding the crash began to surface.
As Marino sat in the bar, TV screens flashed with new details and the situa-tion grew direr. Everybody on board per-ished, news reports confirmed. Authori-ties suspected a terrorist plot.
Feelings of dread began to creep up as Marino thought of his friends who spent the semester studying abroad in regions across Europe and likely booked flights home for the holidays around that time.
“I was getting very, very tense,” he said.
On edge, Marino rode the Express Bus to meet his awaiting fiancee, a then-SU undergraduate who already left campus for Winter Break, at his parents’ home for dinner.
The door burst open just as Marino neared the doorway; his mother and
fiancee stared back at him. Marino’s fiancee delivered the word — Rick Monetti, a close friend and a fraternity brother Marino helped initiate the year before, died in the bombing.
Marino buckled, nearly fainting at the news, as his fiancee and mother braced him. He spent the night consuming media coverage and waiting by the phone, Vali-um and a bottle of scotch by his side.
As Marino grieved in the comfort of family, some of those left on SU’s campus gathered at a service in Hendricks Chapel.
By Liz SawyerASST. NEWS EDITOR
S tephen DeSalvo enjoys politics. The Student Association comp-troller candidate spends a great
deal of time watching CNN and always has news websites open on his laptop.
But what DeSalvo enjoys most about being politically active is the ability to give students a voice.
“Any time I join something or any time I take an action, it’s always with other people in mind,” said DeSalvo, a sopho-more chemical engineering and math major. “And as comptroller that wouldn’t change. I’m not doing this for me. It’s more to help fill a void on campus by taking on a position — which is quite tough and quite time-consuming — to help students receive what they need to receive.”
DeSalvo said it was this mentality that led him to join SA and the Finance Board, and run for comptroller. DeSalvo is the only declared candidate. He was a part of student government activities in high school at the local, state and national levels.
courtesy of su archives MARIO CUOMO, former New York governor, speaks at the Jan. 18, 1989, memorial service held at the Carrier Dome in honor of those who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Thirty-five students were on board.
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FROM THE MORGUE >>A BIT OF HISTORY FROM THE DAILY ORANGE ARCHIVES
S easoned Student Association members will lead the association as well as the student
body during the 47th SA session, thanks to the votes of the student body.
The results of the fi rst SA online election came in Thursday night, after the polls closed at 9 p.m. The Board of Elections has declared incumbent comptroller Erin Maghran and for-mer Parliamentarian Andrew Thomson the winners of the elections for comptroller and president, respectively.
“I’m very excited to be serving as the asso-ciation’s fi rst third-term comptroller and to be serving the student body,” said Maghran, a junior triple major in political science, policy studies and public relations. “We both know the positions and the association very well, this is a reform session, it’s going to be great.”
Maghran was re-elected to the comptroller position with 797 votes compared to her chal-lenger Jose Zapata’s 550 votes. ... As for the presidency, junior information management and political science major Thomson received 634 votes to defeat junior political science and international relations major Yolanda Norton, who received 577 votes. ... The results of the votes for assembly members will be available today. ...
The race for comptroller received 83 more votes than the race for president. On Monday from 12:30 to 4 p.m., students in the L.C. Smith School of Engineering and Computer Science could vote for comptroller; assem-
bly members and the referendum question, but could not vote for president. Students in all colleges experienced the same problem Monday from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. The BEM decided that students who voted during this time period would not be able to recast their votes for president.
As of early this morning, Norton was trying to contact Yamin to fi nd out the exact number of students that weren’t allowed to vote for president. Depending on what Yamin says to her, Norton may decide to challenge the results of the election.
“The numbers seem fuzzy,” Norton said. While not unhappy about the outcome, Nor-ton said she would challenge the results if students who couldn’t vote were upset and wanted to take action. It is just as likely that the votes would have gone to Thomson, Nor-ton said. ...
With the campaign now behind them, Thomson and Maghran are looking forward to the start of the 47th session. Thomson has plans in store, including conversations with current president Colin Seale and meet-ing with members of the administration. He will focus on campus safety by working with Director of Public Safety Marlene Hall.
“I think Erin and I will make a great team ,and I look forward to doing everything we can for the students,” Thomson said.
—Compiled by Stephanie Bouvia, asst. copy editor, [email protected]
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CLARIFICATION >>The “Money matters” box accompanying a Nov. 7 article titled “Funding to be based on groups’ past successes,” incorrectly linked Z89 and WERW based on budget information provided by Student Association. The two organizations do not share the same budget.
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By Nicki GornyCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Honest, passionate feminine voices can find outlets in online magazines, according to a panel of female staff members for three online magazines.
“When you care about what you’re posting, your content is that much better,” said Jessica Coen, editor in chief of Jezebel, an online women’s interest magazine.
Coen spoke as part of a panel for “The Digital Mystique: Women’s Editorial Online” presentation Monday in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium. The panel spoke on the unique feminine voice in online publications.
Fellow panelists included Anna Holmes, founder of Jezebel; Edith Zimmerman, founder and editor of general interest blog The Hairpin; and Lori Adelman, writer for online feminist community blog Feminist-ing.
During the presentation, the pan-elists discussed online publications’ relationship with print magazines, the selection of content for feminist sites and the role of men in online feminine websites.
The panelists stressed the com-munity aspect of online forums that results from the immediacy of con-tent and the ability to comment on topics.
Speaking of traditional print magazines, Coen said, “It kind of feels like they’re talking at you, and I think it feels that way because you can’t actually talk back to them … whereas online we have comments and you can respond to what we said immediately.”
For Holmes, an additional dif-ference in the two media forms is volume.
“Online sites are loud. A lot of the sites agitate against and for certain things and do it constantly and very loudly,” Holmes said.
Holmes attributed the relentless-ness of online forums in presenting issues as a major difference from the superficial formula of traditional women’s magazines.
“The web saw an opportunity to be
By Rachael BarillariSTAFF WRITER
Representatives passed the Finance Board’s recommendations to fully, partially and not fund bills, dur-ing the Student Association annual budget meeting. SA President Neal Casey said the meeting ran smoothly.
The bills were voted on and passed as packaging bills in three votes at the meeting Mon-day in Maxwell Auditorium. The packages were the 41 fully funded bills, the 10 partially funded bills and 79 of the 80 not funded bills. One bill that wasn’t funded was pulled for later discussion and one special programming bill was passed.
Several student organizations attended the meeting to thank SA for funding, and other groups that did not receive funding questioned the reasoning and argued against the decisions. Student organiza-tions raised questions about how the system works.
Veronica Abreu, president of La L.U.C.H.A., spoke up at the meeting after the organization’s events did not receive funding. Funding was not granted because of issues with the events’ date confirmations, and the board did not believe the group had the pro-gramming capital or was in the correct tier to receive the amounts requested.
Abreu said she and her organiza-tion do not understand the process of finding budgetary information or why the organization did not receive partial funding, but she said the organization would appeal both events.
Christina Jones, the National Association of Black Journalists president, spoke to the assembly about her issues with the tier sys-tem after the organization did not receive any funds for an event. The budget notes on this bill questioned whether the organization held the programming capital to be funded that amount of money.
“I understand that your new sys-tem is based on past excellencies, but I do not agree with this at all,” Jones said. “I don’t like that system
because it will put us in the same pattern year after year, and we are always going to have to go through the appeals process in order to get money.”
Comptroller Jeff Rickert said the financial vision does not state that past failures mean an orga-nization’s event will never get funding. The system is based on building programming capital.
“If you have a bad event, maybe you should consider requesting less money if you are in a lower tier,” Rickert said. “The tiers are all capped at a certain amount, so have an event that costs less money, build your programming capital and build up into higher tiers. So my best advice would be
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SHE SAID IT “I understand that your new system is based on past excellencies, but I do not agree with this at all.”
Christina JonesTHE NATIIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS PRESIDENT
BIG NUMBER HEROMeeting efficiencyThe meeting ran smoothly and stayed concise com-pared to long budget meet-ings held in the past.
ZEROTier system claritySeveral student organiza-tions expressed their lack of understanding with the tier system, buildning capital and how the financial vision works.
132 Number of bills passed at Monday’s meeting.
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CHRISTINA JONES, National Association of Black Journalists president, speaks on her issues with the Finance Board tier system after the organization didn’t receive any funds for an upcoming event.
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Money allocation system debated
Protesters prepare for winter cold
By Andrew FeldmanSTAFF WRITER
The upcoming Syracuse winter isn’t causing Occupy Syracuse to go away. Instead, the expected snow is forcing the movement, aimed at fighting social and economic injus-tice, to adjust.
To allow for continued protests throughout the winter, Occupy Syracuse is taking down most of their small tents in Perseverance Park, the location where many of the demonstrations are taking place, and constructing one 18-by-18 military surplus tent in its place, according to an Occupy Syracuse news release.
“This has reduced the footprint of the occupation site, allowing passers-by to move more easily through the park,” according to the release. “With one communal area to watch and maintain, campers will be better able to keep track of each other’s health and security.”
Occupy Syracuse protesters who set up Oct. 2 at Perseverance Park near Washington and Fayette streets said they plan to stay indefinitely, according to the release.
Now in its sixth week, the Occupy Syracuse movement gained support from the community as well as the Syracuse Cooperative Federal Credit Union.
“Syracuse Cooperative Federal Credit Union stands in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Syracuse, and the nonviolent Occu-py demonstrations now occurring in communities across the globe,” according to the Occupy Syracuse website. “Our credit union’s mis-sion is closely aligned with that of the Occupy movement. We oppose the domination of our economic and political life by giant banks and multinational corporations.”
The movement gained support from Syracuse University. Rachel Tribble, a freshman social work major, said she thinks the move-ment in general is positive because it provides a place for American citizens to express their confusion and frustration about the state of the economy.
“It’s obvious to see that the move-ment has made progress due to its global popularity,” she said. “Hun-dreds of cities have joined in the movement hoping to inspire some sort of change in the current eco-nomic conditions.”
Though many SU students agreed with the reasoning behind the move-
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Elections for the next Student Association president and comptroller will begin next week. The elections will decide in which direction the university’s student government will go for the coming year and what issues facing students will take priority.
The Daily Orange Editorial Board offers its suggestions for improving the organization and its effectiveness. The suggestions include electing the vice president, reaching out more often to the general student body and updating the website.
Candidates and assembly members have raised all three of these issues. Some members have already started organizing updates to the website. The D.O. fully supports all three of these measures:
• Taylor Carr, one of the two presidential can-didates, suggested redefining the roles of vice president and chief of staff to better distinguish their duties.
The job of the vice president has, in some ways, been consistently unclear in the past two sessions. Electing the vice president, either by the assembly or in the general elections on the same line as the presidential candidate, would
foster healthy competition and ensure a dedi-cated student wins the spot.
• With many assembly members from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, SA should step up its public relations effort.
Last week, a mass email was sent out to the undergraduate student body about SA’s shuttle service to the local airport and bus station. SA should utilize this listserv to send out a regular newsletter, reminding students of upcoming programs, meetings, open forums and who to contact with issues. Though a weekly email may seem annoying to some, in general, cam-pus would understand it is a public service and appreciate SA’s outreach.
• Finally, SA’s presence on Twitter and Face-book has increased in recent years, but more work needs to be done to update the website and promptly upload information addressed at meetings. The website is the most accessible way for students to learn more about the organi-zation and those who represent their school.
Several organizational updates should come to fruition in next SA session
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On behalf of the Sport Management Club at Syracuse University, we would like endorse Taylor Carr for Student Association president.
The Sport Management Club at SU is a student-run organization recognized by the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and the Department of Sport Management. Our goal is to provide expe-riential learning and community service opportunities to all SU students to enhance their sport industry experience and allow them to serve the Greater Syracuse Com-munity.
In addition to the vast charitable con-tributions generated through our annual Charity Sports Auction, we have also set a high standard for community service. In six years, our members have raised more than $125,000 for nonprofit organizations and completed more than 5,000 hours of community service within Syracuse. Because of our commitment to civic engagement, we value Carr’s initiative to mandate the members of SA to partake in projects “off the Hill” to further engage with the community. Community service is important to us as an organization, and we look forward to working with SA in con-tinuing to better the Syracuse area.
Furthermore, as athletics transitions both to the Atlantic Coast Conference and possibly moving some home football games
to the Meadowlands Stadium, it is important to consider the implications this puts on students as well. As students interested in the sports industry and its future, we believe that it is vital to have a leader who has experience in interacting with the athletic administration to ensure the student voice is heard during these transitions.
Carr’s dedication to improving the uni-versity and student life is seen through his hard work on the Non-Traditional Student Commission, his time at the Residence Hall Association, his cyberbullying resolution and his position as chair of SA’s Student Life Committee. Carr has proven that he can work with a wide range of student organiza-tions to achieve great results quickly and effectively. His success in bettering campus life is true evidence that Carr will be a great leader for this university.
On behalf of the Sport Management Club, the Sport Management Club Executive Board and all active members, I hereby state our official endorsement of Taylor Carr for the president of the 56th session of Student Asso-ciation here at SU.
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Sport Management Club endorses Taylor Carr for SA president
l e t t e r t o t h e e d i t o r On behalf of the Undergraduate Student Asso-ciation at SUNY-ESF, I would like to express our endorsement of Dylan Lustig for president of Syracuse University’s Student Association. Contrary to rumors and jests at Demetri Martin’s performance, students at the State University of New York College of Environmen-tal Science and Forestry do contribute to the SU student activity fee. So, yes, we can vote in the SA elections.
ESF enrolls more than 1,600 undergradu-ate students, and we are affected by SA’s decisions as well. We represent a small per-centage of the overall student vote that both candidates are trying to engage. Oftentimes, it’s easy to forget the needs of a minority con-stituency. At a recent open forum with our students and Undergraduate Student Associa-tion body, Lustig displayed an impressive amount of knowledge regarding ESF’s administration and workings. A leader must reflect the voices of the entire student body. Such concerns came to light after SA decided to allocate $1 million to a single student organization, while a recent poll on The Daily Orange website had 41 percent of respondents vote that the money should have gone to other organizations.
Lustig’s vision for SA is one that challenges the status quo and processes that lead to unilat-eral decision making. Throughout these past few years, our SA liaisons and executive board officers have been impressed with Lustig’s willingness to reach out to our campus. Consid-ering his efforts to improve communication and relations with “Stumpies,” we believe he is the best candidate for SA.
We hope Lustig’s campaign will encourage SU and ESF students to become more associated with the other side of the Carrier Dome through student organizations and co-sponsored events.
Kevin Phu, Class of 2012chemistry major
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Erin Jackson Class of 2015environmentaL resource engineering major
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SUNY-ESF student government endorses Dylan Lustig for SA president
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I f you’re wondering what hap-pens over at SUNY-ESF besides tie-dyeing on the Quad and wor-
shipping an oversized acorn, wonder no more. Some of us are studying ecological engineering, and you are welcome to join in.
Ecological engineering is design-ing ecosystems for the mutual ben-efi t of people and the environment. It is the one place in my engineering studies that allows for gray area. The answers are qualitative and supported with calculations rather than cold, hard numbers and factors of safety for wiggle room.
A classic example is using con-structed, or man-made, wetlands for treating wastewater. After the wastewater has been given a preliminary treatment to remove solids, or poop — I’m trying to catch up to Danny Fersh in the number of times I mention poop in my column — the plants in the wetland take up nitrogen and phosphorus in the water. Clean water is released with-out wreaking havoc on the nearest waterway.
Nitrogen and phosphorus are necessary for plant growth, but if too much is released into a water-way, algae can grow uncontrol-lably and choke all the aquatic life. Conventional wastewater treatment removes nitrogen and phosphorus in a more mechanized and energy-intensive way.
Because ecological engineering
is about taking advantage of func-tions that nature already performs, the designs produced are frequently less reliant on expensive infrastruc-ture that requires heavy mainte-nance. This makes these solutions highly appropriate for developing nations that cannot devote the resources to conventional facilities, like a wastewater treatment plant.
Other ecological engineering designs include rain gardens, which capture stormwater to take the pres-sure off of sewer systems that are already overloaded. For instance, Syracuse uses rain gardens to keep sewage from going into Onondaga Lake. Using plants or fungi to take up heavy metals in soil or wastewa-ter and hydroponic farming (grow-ing plants without soil) are also ecological engineering applications.
I love that this is about harness-ing ecosystem services that already exist and directing them for a purpose. Environmental conserva-tion certainly has its place, but ecological engineering feels like taking the plastic slip covers off your grandmother’s furniture and
building a fort in the living room. It’s something magic, a little irrever-ent and a marked improvement on the couches and chairs that were there before.
There is an emphasis on includ-ing all of the design stakeholders — engineers, government, community members and the environment. Because of the nature of ecological engineering, people who tradition-ally don’t think of themselves as engineers are involved in these designs. Ecologists and biologists are obvious contributors, but architects, city planners, industrial designers, resource managers, policy makers, farmers and govern-ment offi cials at the local, state and federal level get involved, too.
The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry is hosting the American Ecological Engineering Society’s annual conference this coming June with workshops to get certifi ed in ecological design. This is the fi rst international conference ever hosted by ESF; as a leader in the fi eld, this is kind of a big deal. The call for abstracts goes out Tuesday. For information, visit ESF’s website.
It’s going to be a party, you should come.
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].
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Nature offers solution to waste treatment
The upcoming election will present a unique opportunity for residents in the Common Council’s District 4 seat, where many off-campus students live. Without an incumbent running for re-election, the student vote can bring either candidate to victory on Tuesday.
Earlier this semester, College Democrats endorsed Democrat Khalid Bey. After listening to both candidates during the debate Monday night, it
became clear they endorsed the right candidate. Though we recognize Howie Hawkins’ contribution to the community and can identify with the Green Party platform on many issues, Bey presents a much more grounded vision for the city he grew up in.
As a small business manager and former regional coordinator for the New York State Senate, he has a fi rm grasp on the pulse of this city
and what its citizens need. As Bey said during the debate, a council seat should not be viewed as a means to promote a political party’s platform. The primary duty of any city council-or is to serve constituents, not party interests. Hawkins has represented the Green Party in four different
coveted political offi ces in the last fi ve election cycles.
Hawkins’ previous elections include a run for Senate, Congress and governor. This will be his second attempt to obtain the District 4 council seat. Unlike his competitor, Hawkins’ contribution is personally fi nancing almost a quarter of his campaign’s budget, according to his latest fi nance fi ling from the New
York State Board of Elections. With such a record, it is question-
able whether his commitment is to the residents of District 4 or to furthering the Green Party. To ensure that rep-resentation in District 4 can be objec-tively met, students and citizens should vote for Bey on Tuesday in Row A.
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ment’s protests, they disagreed with the actual form of the protests.
“Although it’s great to show that everyone is unified and wants change. If people are getting hurt and arrested, there’s no point because we’ve learned over the years that it’s never going to change anything,” said Aaron Lassin, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.
But not all SU students approve of the Occu-py protests.
Brittany Lerman, a sophomore psychology major, said she has doubts about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“Obviously, if you are a U.S. citizen you have the right to your freedom of speech. There’s a boundary line,” she said. “Yes, you need to have your voice heard, but on the other hand, there is so much that the government and people can do in this type of economic situation.”
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Brad Monroe, DeSalvo’s campaign manager, sees the comptroller candidate’s passion. Mon-roe said that DeSalvo’s intellect and competence are obvious by his ability to juggle school, SA and his own company, DeSalvo Web Sites, a business started in 2005.
“He’s the most mature kid I know,” said Monroe, a sophomore finance major. “Pretty much anything he puts his mind to he handles extremely well.”
DeSalvo said his priority is to bring greater transparency and equality to the student fee. He has already begun this by adding information from last budget season to SA’s Your Student Fee website, a site that allows students to see where money is allocated.
By creating more communication between the Finance Board and organizations, DeSalvo hopes to make financial information more accessible.
The site shows groups that receive funding, but DeSalvo said he would like to add details showing what each individual organization received in terms of what budgets they submit-ted and requested. DeSalvo said he plans to look into putting information on why the Finance Board made the recommendations to approve, deny or partially fund the requests.
That information is public, but students must go to the SA office to request the minutes and hope someone can find them, he said.
“To me, that’s not considered public. Public is something that can be duly accessed,” DeSal-vo said, adding that the concern is whether the organizations in question will want the information online.
SA Comptroller Jeff Rickert said he is happy with the changes made to the website and with DeSalvo’s decision to run for office.
“He doesn’t think of what’s in the best inter-est of himself. He thinks of what’s in the best interest of the student body and the student activity fee as a whole,” Rickert said.
Another goal is to continue to improve SA’s roll-over policy and to strengthen the Finance Board. By changing the policy so that funds roll over from the spring semester to fall semester, the organizations could put their money to better use, and it would decrease the number of funding requests, DeSalvo said.
DeSalvo is striving to fill the seats on the Finance Board. Filling the seats will allow more people to get involved and help student organiza-tions requests get met faster, DeSalvo said.
DeSalvo would like to mandate all SA mem-bers undergo a form of fiscal training.
Students come into the SA office looking for information on special programming, budgets and contingency requests, but the comptroller or other Finance Board members are not always around to answer questions. Assembly mem-bers would be better equipped to meet the needs of the most students possible, he said.
“I think it’s important to have all the assembly members — who are required to do office hours anyway — know briefly the basics about all these things so that when someone comes in and asks for a contingency request form, they can point them in the right direction,” DeSalvo said.
Rickert, who DeSalvo has been shadowing all semester, said he regrets not implementing a similar mandate. Rickert said he took the time to show DeSalvo the activities of the comptroller because Rickert wasn’t sure what he was expected to do.Rickert said DeSalvo is the best for the job.
“There are a lot of juniors who don’t even know how to do this stuff,” DeSalvo said. “So in this posi-tion, I don’t think age plays much of a role. Having someone who’s competent and who knows what they’re doing is really what’s necessary.”
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to request a lesser amount for your events.” Many organizations did not receive fund-
ing at the meeting and will appeal to the board. Jerk magazine, a publication that has received funding in the past, did not receive any funds from SA. Flash Steinbeiser, editor in chief of Jerk, said in a phone interview after the meeting that the lack of funding was because of an error in the applica-tion, but Jerk would be appealing for the $15,944.40 originally requested. Steinbeiser was the feature editor at The Daily Orange in fall 2010.
The only bill to be pulled from any of the three packages for debate was a request from the Chinese Students and Scholars Association for an event titled Blind Date. Budget notes state that at the hearing, it was expressed that attend-ees would need to speak Chinese to understand the event. SA Parliamentarian Eugene Law took issue with this for being the reason for not granting the organization funds.
Law said he felt the Finance Board did
not follow codes because there is nothing in the codes stating events cannot be held in different languages. He said he feels it is discriminatory to deny funding based on language.
“That is like saying we can’t fund for a dance party because physically disabled stu-dents can’t dance,” Law said.
The motion to approve the bill failed, and Law made a motion to refer the bill back to the Finance Board for reconsideration and the organization’s ability to makes changes. The second motion passed without conten-tion.
A separate bill — Representation for Uni-versity College — passed without contention.
“It will put the option to have a seat in SA up on the ballot this November on MySlice for a referendum vote, so students who go in to vote for president, comptroller and assembly will also be able to vote on whether or not they want to see University College have a seat in SA,” said Taylor Carr, Student Life Committee chair.
Carr said if the vote passes, a seat will be added immediately.
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By Katie Van Brunt STAFF WRITER
A lthough the idea of the freshman 15 may con-cern many students entering college, a new study shows it may just be a myth.
According to a nationwide study — the National Longi-tudinal Survey of Youth 1997 — though freshmen usually gain a bit of weight in college, the No. 15 is just a myth.
“The freshman 15 is a media myth,” said Jay Zagorsky, co-author of the study, in an Ohio State University news release. “Most students don’t gain large amounts of weight. And it is not college that leads to weight gain — it is becoming a young adult.”
The study used data from 7,418 young people from around the country. The study interviewed people from ages 13-17 in 1997. Ques-tions of weight and college status were included in the study, among others, accord-ing to the release.
“I agree with this study that the freshman 15 is a myth, but I also think it’s eas-ier to gain weight in college,” said Alyssa Steckel, a junior in the School of Education.
Other studies have shown that college students underestimate their weight between 1/2 and 3 pounds. Women on average gain 2.4 pounds during their fresh-man year, whereas men gain on average 3.4 pounds their freshman year, according to the release.
But no more than 10 percent of college freshmen in the study gained 15 pounds or more, and a quarter reported losing weight during their first year, the release stated.
“I think the study is true, for the most part, especially with girls,” said Mari Couasnon, a senior biology major. “I think there has been so much discussion about the fresh-man 15 that girls are doing everything they can to take measures to not be associated with that label. So much so that they are actually doing the opposite of gaining weight. They’re losing it.”
The researchers looked at a variety of factors that are
usually associated with the myth of the freshman 15, such as dormitory life, if they were full- or part-time students, pursuing two- or four-year degrees, or consumed six or more alcoholic drinks on at least 4 days per month, accord-ing to the release. None of these factors made a significant difference on weight gain, except for heavy drinking.
Zagorsky, the co-author of the study, said that it was significant that dormitory living did not add to weight gain because one general idea has been that the dormitory environment equates to weight gain during freshman year, according to the release. That seems to hold true with
students in Syracuse as well.“I personally agree that the
freshman 15 is a myth. Food options in dining halls aren’t as bad as made out to be. People think that living in a dorm means lack of convenience to quality and healthy options, hence why you would gain weight,” said Frankie Squad-rito, senior communications and rhetorical studies major. “But at least here at ‘Cuse you have dining halls everywhere with good diet options, and it’s possible to maintain a healthy weight.”
College will not determine your weight gain, but healthy lifestyle choices will, according to the release.
“Students should begin developing the habit of eating healthy foods and exercis-ing regularly,” Zagorsky said. “Those habits will help them throughout their lives.”
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Within a matter of hours, John Spadafora, a senior communications and marketing student, went from studying for final exams in his Alpha Tau Omega bedroom to mourning the death of friends in Hendricks.
Spadafora, one of Monetti’s fraternity brothers, also developed a close bond with Amy Shapiro, a senior photojournalism student. The two were floormates freshman year, and Spadafora said he considered going abroad with Shapiro but elected to remain on campus for the sports scene.
On the night of the bombing, the university proceeded with a basketball game at the Carrier Dome. That was the only game Spadafora said he missed all season.
Spadafora went home a couple of days later. Although removed from campus, the grief was still raw, as friends from home asked questions and friends from SU remained in contact.
“Even though you were off campus, you really couldn’t get away from it,” he said.
More than 20 years later, whenever Spadafora leaves for business trips and sets foot in the airport those on the ill-fated flight traveled through, he recalls memories of Shapiro and Monetti sharply in his mind.
“I’m always going to think about Rick and Amy when I’m in the U.K.,” he said.
Thousands of miles away in London, Malcolm Ingram was struck powerless by the words that were relayed to him through the phone as he sat in his sister’s kitchen in the West Country.
Ingram, an associate professor in the drama department, just capped off teaching a semester in London with some of the students who perished on the flight.
Students studying in London each wrote essays during their time abroad, Ingram said.
“It’s really hard to read them because they’re so full of energy and promise,” he said. “It’s tough.”
Seeing the lives of these “vivid human beings” with untold potential extinguished made Ingram aware of life and death from a different vantage point, he said.
“Me, you, anybody could just disappear at any moment,” Ingram said, adding that life becomes more precious for those who live with the memory of those lost.
Ingram returned to the SU campus to teach the following semester, and though the administra-tion offered space and resources for the grieving, the disaster “permeated everything.”
That semester, Ingram often acted as an emo-tional crutch for the three students who studied abroad with their classmates, but were not on Pan Am Flight 103. The experience was exhaust-ing and emotionally painful, but Ingram said he appreciated the opportunity to foster a deeper relationship with the students.
“I found it kind of liberating in a sort of weird type of way,” he said. “You could get a little bit closer to somebody.”
Upon the return from Winter Break, a larger memorial service was held in the Carrier Dome, where members of the SU campus shared in their collective grief.
The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra played, the victims’ families were in attendance, as were the study abroad students who booked different flights home, said Joan Deppa, associate professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
If any bright spot can be learned from the trag-edy, Deppa said she believes the university grew into more than an institution of higher learning — it became a university that cared deeply for the students left behind.
“Our mission is educating young people. And here was this whole group of young people that we had been educating, that was just snatched right away from us,” she said. “That makes you pay attention to the ones that are left behind.”
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“Me, you, anybody could just disappear at any moment.”
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different from mainstream media and to speak to an audience that was tired of being spoken down to,” she said.
The selection of content for women’s web magazines is based on the critical balance of topics like style and celebrities and heavier social issues, like reproductive health, panelists said.
Coen said that the editorial decisions of article location are important in maintain-ing balanced, diverse posts. The diversity of posts attracts readers who might not oth-erwise be interested in deeper social topics, Holmes said.
“There might be a younger readership that would be attracted by the celebrity and fashion stuff but would become politicized because of the conversations not only amongst the writers, but the conversations going on in the com-ments,” Holmes said.
Holmes, Coen and Zimmerman said they
were hired by men to produce female-oriented content. They noted this allowed them a greater degree of freedom in production. Coen said pub-lishers trusted that they knew what they were talking about. Both Hairpin and Jezebel employ male writers.
“It’s been cool to see the kind of pitches we get that have nothing to do with any type of gender relation type things,” Zimmerman said.
Sarah Schmalbruch, a sophomore maga-zine major, said she loves print magazines and enjoyed hearing about online opportuni-ties.
“It opened my eyes to a positive side of online magazines,” Schmalbruch said.
Emily Shearing, doctoral candidate in maga-zine, newspaper and online journalism, said she is a fan of Coen and Zimmerman.
She said, “I feel like there’s something to be said for women to start their own blogs like this, and I think that anybody in this building here is more than capable of doing that.”
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#RemembranceWeek, used for communica-tion about the Remembrance Week events, reached 66,893 people through 50 tweets, and that’s before the week even got into the full swing of things.
Jennison cites Twitter as “the best tool in terms of both communicating amongst us as the Remembrance Scholars and communicating with the school and public as a whole.”
The Facebook group has 500 confirmed attendees for events throughout the week and is waiting on RSVP’s from more than 1000 other users. The schedule of events can be found on the Facebook groups, blogs and the official website. Materials the Scholars are handing out have Quick Response barcodes that cor-respond to individual Web pages of each of the 35 victims. The power of this type of technology drives home the point of the week — remember-ing those who were taken too soon and perpetu-ating their stories for future generations.
Though much of this may seem common-
place, comparing these tactics to those of past Remembrance Weeks may rekindle the wonderment and awe deserving of this kind of technology.
Jennison knows just how big that bridge is. “When speaking to people that were at
Syracuse when the terrorist attack occurred, it is weird to think how far we have come in terms of technology since that time,” he said. “Many of those who were impacted by the attack say how unnerving it was for students and families to have no way of staying informed about the attack as news developed since there was no easy way to communicate.”
Now, with the influence of power and abili-ties of technology, we can share a memory to larger audiences and in greater depth than ever before possible.
O’Rourke said: “I think now we use the media in every form that we have in order to remember those who were close and dear to us who are gone.“
Jessica Smith is a senior information manage-ment and technology and television, radio and
film major. Her column appears every Tuesday.
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REMEMBERING PAN AM 103Twitter plays a role this week in connecting those who wish to commemorate Remem-brance Week 2011. TweetReach, which measures the effectiveness of Tweets, shows the hashtag #RemembranceWeek reached about 66,893 people with approximately 50 tweets.
@Firdalish: Candlelight Vigil- 1st event of #RemembranceWeek. Beautiful and touching.
@RemembranceWeek: “So long as we live, they too shall live, for they are part of us. We remember them.” #remembranceWeek
@RemembranceWeek: Spotted: random student taking picture of newly painted Ernie Davis windows. #yes #remembranceweek
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T he evolution of technology gives us the ability to aggre-gate, cultivate and share
memories better than ever before. This enables mankind to better com-memorate those that most deserve remembering.
With this week marking the 23rd anniversary of the tragic Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the start of this year’s Remem-brance Week, the effects of these newer practices are particularly obvious. I’ve been able to see this fi rsthand as a Remembrance Scholar.
This year, Syracuse University is employing many technological tools to honor the 35 students killed during this attack. Christopher Jennison, a 2011-12 Remembrance Scholar and senior policy studies and public rela-tions major, believes the evolution of technology helped make Remem-brance Week accessible.
“The emergence of social media and communication tools has only increased our ability to remember and honor the victims,” Jennison said. “Through the speed and audi-ence size of these tools, we are able to spread the word and encourage par-ticipation in Remembrance Week.”
Judy O’Rourke plays a large role in the university’s efforts to memorial-ize the 35 lost students. As a member of the Syracuse community for more than 25 years and current director of the Offi ce of Undergraduate Studies, O’Rourke said the transition ushered by technology is remarkable.
“With this new era, where so much of it is online, you can share pictures much more easily, and there are Facebook pages for every-thing and everyone,” O’Rourke said. “So the ‘evolution’ of technology is true in that the way we remember has changed.”
Not only have new means of technology changed the way we remember, but they have also shaped the way we share a memory. Twitter is one of the most heavily traffi cked avenues for getting the word out and bringing people into the cohesive memory.
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TAYLOR CARRJunior public relations majorChair of Student Life Committee
SA presidential candidate
I t’s Student Association election season, and by now you probably feel beaten over the head with poli-tics. You’re wondering what these candidates would be like if they shed their politician personas.
Well, we did the dirty work for you. Voting for SA’s 56th session runs Nov. 14 through Nov. 17. Before hitting the polls, see how the three candidates vying for positions in offi ce answered Pulp’s questionnaire. Their stances on all things un-political just might swing your vote.
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TAYLOR CARRJunior public relations majorChair of Student Life Committee
SA presidential candidate
Sophomore international relations and economics major
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When you were younger, what did you want to be?A professional soccer referee
If you could pick one super power, what would it be?I’m super busy, so I’d love to be able to Apparate like in “Harry Potter” to just vanish to a different place.
If you were a cartoon character, who would you be? Tommy Pickles. He was always pushing the limits and being imaginative.
Where is your favorite place to eat on Marshall Street?Chipotle
What’s your biggest fear?Death. I like being in control of my life, and it scares me that it will be taken away.
If you could say something to Nancy Cantor, it would be: “I think you’re really cute.”
One thing you want to do before you graduate:Play the Crouse Chimes
When you were younger, what did you want to be?A lawyer
If you could pick one super power, what would it be?To fl y, which is ironic because I’m not fond of heights.
If you were a cartoon character, who would you be? Tommy Pickles from “Rugrats”
Where is your favorite place to eat on Marshall Street?Varsity Pizza
What’s your biggest fear?Snakes
If you could say something to Nancy Cantor, it would be: I would make a comment on what a great job she has done in bridging the gap between the university and the local community through Scholarship in Action.
One thing you want to do before you graduate:I would like to publish a paper on a new fi nding in chemical engineering before I graduate.
When you were younger, what did you want to be?A superhero named Balloon Man so that I could fl y. I would never get hurt, but most importantly, I would never hurt my enemies either.
If you could pick one super power, what would it be?I would choose the ability to heal others. I’ve wanted to just help people for as long as I can remember.
If you were a cartoon character, who would you be? Absolutely Tommy Pickles. I always emulated his sense of leadership and adventure. But at the same time, he is a loyal and humble friend.
Where is your favorite place to eat on Marshall Street?I love Roly Poly. I get the same thing every time: a buffalo chicken melt with nothing but ranch.
What’s your biggest fear?Spiders. They make me scream like a girl.
If you could say something to Nancy Cantor, it would be: “It’s nice to see you.” After that, I would ask her how we can best involve the student body in policy-making decisions.
One thing you want to do before you graduate:I would love go abroad to Beirut even though my parents won’t hear it. I’d also love to do a semester in D.C.
STEPHEN DESALVOSophomore chemical engineering and
math majorFinance board member
Underneath it allCandidates share candid tidbits, talk
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A fter a handful of subpar mixtapes, Washington, D.C.’s Wale returns to the drawing board.
During the last three years, young upcoming rap-pers like Drake, Kid Cudi and Lupe Fiasco made big splashes in the rap game. Wale also burst onto the scene in 2008 with the critically acclaimed “The Mixtape About Nothing,” but his debut album, “Attention Defi cit,” did not have the same effect. It lacked the go-go sampling of his self-released mix-tapes and featured high-profi le artists like Pharrell, Gucci Mane and Lady Gaga, who all overshadowed him. But now he’s back with a new attitude — and Rick Ross.
“Ambition” pairs the two unlikely rappers together — sports- and shoe-loving Wale and drug-pushing boss Rick Ross. Wale’s lyrics set “Ambition” apart from “Attention Defi cit.” After a female voice coos the name of the label on “Don’t Hold Your Applause,” Wale bursts in with a more than two-minute freestyle-type verse over 808 drumbeats similar to the ones that made Ross so famous.
The song’s lyrics show that Wale’s ego and swag blossomed in the last two years. “GQ man of the year — Cudi, Drizzy and me / Went away for a little, let my wisdom increase,” he boasts. Ross’ infl uence has clearly rubbed off on the usually clean
Wale, whose verses now contain the word “bitch” and drug refer-ences in almost every sentence.
“Legendary” is a prime exam-ple of this. Produced by DJ Toomp, the snares and stirring horns sound tailor-made for a Ross verse, and Wale’s big fl ow seems to support it. But he makes the record his own, with an intoxicat-ing, nonchalant hook: “F*** fame, f*** money and f*** anything anyone can take from ya.”
In “Chain Music,” Wale spits metaphors with a swift tongue as he fl aunts his new chain. The track boasts a heavy bass and a
well-placed Ross sample on the hook, “chain so big / can’t pop my collar.”
The guests on “Ambition” work better with Wale’s fl ow, and unlike his debut, he can hold his own. “Focused” features Kid Cudi’s typical auto-tuned voice laying down the hook over a spacey synth and snare beat. Producer Diplo creates the perfect beat for Big Sean’s cameo on “Slight Work.” Both rap-pers trade verses over a mixture of police sirens, congas and block drums. The boss himself appears on title track “Ambi-tion” with protégé Meek Mill. The beat builds slowly until it climaxes during Wale’s passionate and explosive verse.
Wale is at his best when spitting his quick and witty fl ow. “Ambition” falters when he tries to explore rhythm and blues territory. “Lotus Flower Bomb,” “Sabotage” and “Illest Bitch” lack the creativity and variety of some of the more upbeat tracks. They bleed together in the middle of the album, killing the high energy that is created at the start of the album. Wale sounds uncomfortable with the low-tempo beats and forces his wordplay.
“Ambition” has its ups and downs, but with the help of the cocky Ross, Wale has come out of his shell a little bit. He crafted a handful of songs that will not only please old fans, but also get some more recognition from the rap community. The album marks Wale’s offi cial departure from the underground and move into the commercial rap world. It will be interesting to see where he goes from there.
ON THE RISEWashington, D.C.-based rapper Wale has been heard on Syracuse University’s campus in places other than students’ earbuds. In spring 2011, he per-formed at Fashion’s Conscience’s eighth annual fash-ion show, “90210: Classic Hollywood.” He closed the show with a short 40-minute concert. He was the only hip-hop artist to perform that semester. Wale also per-formed in front of a crowd in Schine Underground for the only Bandersnatch series show that spring 2009.
“I just think he’s one of the best rappers out there,” said Andrew Friedman, then-co-president of Band-ersnatch in an April 2, 2009, article published in The Daily Orange.
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Washington, D.C.-based rapper Wale has been heard on Syracuse University’s campus in places other than students’ earbuds. In spring 2011, he per-formed at Fashion’s Conscience’s eighth annual fash-ion show, “90210: Classic Hollywood.” He closed the show with a short 40-minute concert. He was the only hip-hop artist to perform that semester. Wale also per-formed in front of a crowd in Schine Underground for the only Bandersnatch series show that spring 2009.
“I just think he’s one of the best rappers out there,” said Andrew Friedman, then-co-president of Band-ersnatch in an April 2, 2009, article published in The
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first-ever game Nov. 4 after they were officially unveiled July 14. The team is owned by a collec-tion of local investors, including team president and head coach Tommy Tanner, who is a former professional indoor player and Syracuse native.
Whether the Silver Knights can stay in business depends on how much interest can be drummed up within the Greater Syracuse area, but Tanner said he believes the area can provide a sustainable environment for his team to thrive.
Tanner’s foray into indoor pro soccer has sparked skepticism, especially because the city already had a failed pro outdoor soccer franchise with the Syracuse Salty Dogs, which lasted from 2003 to 2004. But Tanner said the number of kids playing soccer in Central New York lends the evi-dence needed to show that an indoor soccer team can be successful regardless of any past failures.
“I just thought with the Salty Dogs leaving, and the fan base we had from that, I thought it was a great opportunity,” Tanner said. “This is a great arena. I watched some Crunch games in here and it’s fantastic. And I knew this atmo-sphere would be perfect for indoor soccer.”
Tanner couldn’t have asked for a better first game to help defend his case.
Silver Knights defender Jeff Hughes scored with 39.6 seconds remaining in the franchise’s first game to give his team a 16-15 come-from-behind victory over the Rochester Lancers on Nov. 4 at the War Memorial. As soon as the ball entered the goal, the crowd erupted in cheers that lasted until the final seconds ticked off the clock.
The fans were lively even before the game started, beginning with the Silver Knights’ dramatic entrance onto the turf. The lights in the arena darkened and a spotlight followed each player as he emerged from the tunnel and ran through two lines of about 40 youth soccer players welcoming them to the field.
The team lined up at midfield in their black long-sleeve uniform tops, black shorts and Orange knee socks. Shortly after, a new style of soccer that’s still trying to find its niche took over the bright green turf.
The fast-paced world of indoor soccer within the tight confines of the field is a far cry from the wide-open atmosphere of the outdoor game. At times, it can spark reminders of ice hockey or even basketball.
Fans pound on the Plexiglass that surrounds the field for much of the game, and players are often shoved into the wall. Goals are worth two points, except those scored on shots taken from outside a 45-foot arc that extends out from the wall along the net, which are worth three.
Throughout the game, the public address announcer provides a play-by-play and con-stantly implores the fans to cheer while repeat-edly reminding them to pick up their Silver Knights merchandise at stands inside the are-na’s concourses.
For a team relying on fans’ support, every dollar raised helps. Tanner said he believes the support is there and will continue to increase as word of the team spreads.
“My vision is soccer will do very, very well in this community,” Tanner said. “The reason I brought it back was because I think there’s a huge soccer community in Syracuse. I’m just really excited.”
The team’s operating budget is $600,000 with a player payroll of $200,000, according to an Oct. 27 article in The Post-Standard. Tanner also has 15-20 major business partners, with more possible, according to the article.
The Silver Knights are a collection of players from various backgrounds. Some have very little experience while others have played pro-fessionally.
Diego Serna, who played Major League Soc-
cer for the New England Revolution and Los Angeles Galaxy, is arguably the team’s most prominent player. He finished his time in the MLS with 57 goals in 124 games, placing him in the top 25 on the league’s all-time scorers’ list.
The Silver Knights are providing Serna with a comeback of sorts. Sitting on the bench in the cramped locker room after the game, he was a long way from the MLS. But Serna said he has aspirations to return to the league to finish out his career as a player before becoming a coach.
Serna said his agent is friends with some people connected to the Silver Knights, and he saw it as a good place to play during the winter to keep his skills sharp until the summer. His MLS experience provides the Silver Knights with a big-name player to attract die-hard soccer fans.
“The organization and the players are mak-ing all the efforts to keep this team alive and to win,” Serna said. “And to score a lot of goals to make people come and watch the games.”
Like Serna, Andriy Budnyy is also giving indoor soccer a try for the first time. The native of Ukraine has spent his career in the United Soccer League, most recently playing for the Wilmington Hammerheads.
Budnyy scored the Silver Knights’ first goal 16 seconds into the game on Friday, then climbed halfway up the Plexiglass wall to rile up the fans. Budnyy said he’s still learning indoor soccer, having only been introduced to it about two weeks ago.
“It’s something new to try. A new option,” Budnyy said. “I discussed it with my friends who played indoor, and they said it would be a good fit for me. I decided to give it a try, so we’ll see how it turns out.”
That’s the big question. How will it turn out?Not just for Budnyy, but for the team as a
whole. The Silver Knights could find a strong, supportive fan base in Syracuse, or they could meet the fate of their local pro soccer predeces-sors, the currently nonexistent Salty Dogs.
Trying to find that support and financial stability will be what ultimately determines the Silver Knights’ future. For now, though, Hall said there’s no sense in considering any possible failures.
Only time will tell whether the Silver Knights have a long-term place in Syracuse’s sports fabric.
“We’re not thinking any negatives. We’re hop-ing to be a huge success,” Hall said. “That’s why we came here. That’s why players flew in from all over the world. That’s what we’re going to go with.”
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THE NEW GUYS IN TOWNThe Syracuse Silver Knights are the new-est professional team to begin play in the city of Syracuse. The indoor soccer team plays in the Major Indoor Soccer League, a seven-team league that contains four teams in the East and three in the Mid-west. Here’s some information about the Silver Knights schedule and the MISL:• Syracuse plays a 24-game schedule with 12 games at the War Memorial Arena and 12 on the road. The Silver Knights travel to Rochester, Baltimore, Norfolk, Va., Wichita, Kan., Milwaukee, Wis. and Kansas City, Mo. for games.• The Silver Knights’ first game was Nov. 4, and the regular season concludes March 4. Playoffs begin March 9.• Major Indoor Soccer League games are played on hockey-rink-sized indoor fields surrounded by dasher boards and Plexiglass. The goals are 14 feet wide and 8 feet high and are built into the end boards. Each goal is worth two points, except goals scored on shot attempts from beyond the 45-foot arc, which are worth three.• Standard tickets are presold for $15 and can be purchased on game day for $16. • Visit syracusesilverknights.com for more information.
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from the field in the first half and 25 percent from long range, Triche was pleased with the looks Syracuse got offensively.
A 15-foot jumper from the free-throw line by center Fab Melo rimmed out. Shooting guard Dion Waiters had a floater waived off two possessions later after he was fouled before the shot by CSULA’s Jibreel Nasir. And C.J. Fair missed a short jumper from the left baseline.
“Just to make three or four more shots, we’re up by 17 or 19 going into the half,” Triche said. “And I think that easily could be done.”
The dunk by Waiters on a fast break, with 55 seconds remaining in the half, seemed to wake up the offense and led to a strong start in the second half. SU came out of halftime with a 22-11 run to turn its seven-point lead into an 18-point advantage in less than six minutes.
Two of those 18 points came from Waiters, as he again energized the Orange by converting a layup after being fouled.
Though he will likely continue coming off the bench this season, Waiters understands he must bring energy to the court and play like a starter. He looked aggressive and assertive offensively against the Golden Eagles, contrib-uting 10 points in 23 minutes while shooting 50 percent from the field.
“Coach (Boeheim) wanted us to attack more tonight — take it to the basket and dish it, or if
it wasn’t there, bring it back out,” Waiters said after the game. “But he wanted us to attack, so that’s what I came to do.”
Boeheim said he feels Waiters and Fair can both play like starters when inserted into the Syracuse lineup — a reflection of the depth of this year’s team. It also means Boeheim has the luxury of instant offense if he feels his team needs a boost.
Waiters was effective against the Golden
Eagles and even saw some time at the point guard position. Fair knocked down a 3-pointer from the left corner against CSULA, something he worked on diligently in the summer.
Together they combined for 17 points, eight rebounds and three assists.
“I just have to be ready to come off the bench and give the team a spark right away because I’m an offensive threat,” Waiters said.
The uncharacteristic first half was erased by a torrid shooting effort in the second half.
SU converted 51.3 percent of its field goal attempts after halftime en route to 50 of its 79 total points. That level of play is what Triche said he expects against St. Rose on Tuesday. With each successive game, the SU rotation — which now includes roughly a dozen play-ers — can become more fluid and continue to mesh.
One area Syracuse will look to improve on against St. Rose is 3-point shooting. The Orange converted a paltry 3-of-16 from long range against Cal State-LA. Triche, Waiters and freshman Michael Carter-Williams, all players who figure to be part of Boeheim’s backcourt rotation once the regular season gets going, missed all eight 3s they attempted.
But, as Boeheim said, the slow start was to be expected.
“I think offensively — well, it takes a little while to get going offensively,” he said. “We didn’t shoot it very well in the first half. We did a little bit better in the second half.”
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SYRACUSE 96, ST. ROSE 53One of my local teams comes to the Carrier Dome. It will probably wish it didn’t.
5SYRACUSE VS. ST. ROSE
Syracuse and St. Rose last met in 2007, when the Golden Knights gave the Orange all it could handle in an 80-71 SU victory. St. Rose plays in the same conference (Northeast-10) as another SU exhibi-tion nemesis, Le Moyne, and beat the Dolphins by double digits twice last year.
Last season, St. Rose started three guards who measured 5 feet 10 inches, 6 feet and 6 feet 1 inch. The Golden Knights bring back four of five starters, including two of those guards.
Two coaches who have been at their schools forever. St. Rose has reached the Division II NCAA Tournament in 12 of the last 20 seasons.
Melo was the star for Syracuse last week, scor-ing more points in a game than he’s ever scored in an Orange uniform. He went up against a 277-pound center on Cal State-Los Angeles and matches up with another heavier player in the 260-pound sophomore Milka.
Christmas played pretty well in 19 minutes of action against Cal State-Los Angeles, scoring five points and grabbing six rebounds. A strong per-formance here may help him cement a starting role for the season opener on Saturday.
RAKEEM CHRISTMAS 6-9, 222, FR
BRIAN HANUSCHAK 6-7, 225, SR
FAB MELO 7-0, 244, SO
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JIM BOEHEIM 856-301
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Jardine had a solid start to the season last Tues-day against Cal State-Los Angeles, dishing out seven assists and scor-ing all nine points in a short span in the second half. Pope averaged 12.9 points per game last sea-son and shot 45 percent from 3-point range.
Triche didn’t shoot well in Syracuse’s first exhibition game, just 2-for-11 from the field, but head coach Jim Boeheim liked his aggression. Gutierrez is the Golden Knights’ star, a preseason All-American who scored 17.9 points per game and reached double figures 28 times last season.
One has to wonder how much Joseph plays in this game as he tries to get his knee healthy before SU’s season opener. Griffin played power forward for St. Rose last year, but if the Golden Knights go that small, there will be size mismatches everywhere.
KRIS JOSEPH 6-7, 210, SR
SHELDON GRIFFIN
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BRANDON TRICHE
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POINT GUARD SHOOTING GUARD SMALL FORWARD
POWER FORWARD CENTER COACHESEleven players scored for Syracuse in its first exhibition game, a 79-49 win over Cal State-Los Angeles. Three players scored in double digits, and 11 of the 12 players who were on the floor for more than one minute made a field goal.
1,395The number of combined wins by Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim and St. Rose head coach Brian Beaury. The two have a .725 win-ning percentage in their 1,924 total games as head coaches.
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MICHAEL COHENSYRACUSE 87, ST. ROSE 63Roses are red, vio-lets are blue, this team cannot com-pete with SU.
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“Just to make three or four more shots, we’re up by 17 or 19 going into the half (against Cal State-LA). And I think that easily could be done.”
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Quentin Hillsman stepped back and took a hard look at his Syracuse program over the last few seasons. The head coach saw the Orange finish three straight seasons in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament and fall short of its ultimate goal of the NCAA tournament.
Hillsman felt the program needed a change, and he decided to completely overhaul his defen-sive system. After primarily employing a 2-3 zone during Hillsman’s tenure, SU will switch to a variety of pressure defenses this season.
“One thing that you guys are going to see more is us playing a lot further up the floor on defense,” Hillsman said during Syracuse’s annual media day Oct. 14. “We have already installed two or three pressure defenses. We really want to get out and extend the floor, play faster and use our athletes.”
Entering his sixth season at the helm, Hill-sman has an experienced and athletic group ready to build on back-to-back 25-win seasons and return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2008. The head coach believes the change was needed for the program to take the next step. It could be the difference in SU’s key games in the Big East and against tougher nonconference competition that will decide its postseason fate.
The 2-3 zone was effective last season. The Orange held opponents to 35.3 percent shooting last season — good for 17th in the nation — and led the nation in rebounding margin.
But it also slowed down the game, and Hills-man said it was tough for SU to score 70 points
in games. In all 10 losses last season, the Orange failed to eclipse that mark.
Hillsman hopes the newly installed pressure system, which includes matchup presses and a variety of zone schemes, will lead to easy baskets in the open floor. Though the team is still learning, the same length and athleticism that made the zone tough on opponents should translate to the different presses.
La’Shay Taft said the preseason training regimen is different from last season in prepa-ration for the change. The sophomore guard said the team is running more — from mile runs to sprints — and practices have been more up-tempo to mirror the pace the Orange wants to play at.
Thus far, Taft is confident the team will be ready to run the new system effectively.
“Everybody has been adjusting to it,” Taft said. “I mean it takes time for certain people, but everybody’s getting there. Everybody’s been working hard, so we’re getting there.”
Though Hillsman knows breakdowns will lead to easy layups for opponents as his team learns the presses, the head coach feels it will also create scoring opportunities for the Orange.
With an inexperienced backcourt, Hillsman knows the team will struggle at times in its half-court offense. And to win enough games to get back to the NCAA tournament, Syracuse has to find a way to consistently score 70 or more points.
He expects the press to offset some concerns on offense by increasing the tempo and leading to easy baskets for his team in transition.
“I think that now we need to push it up, and the less possessions we have to get in the half court and play half-court basketball, the better that we’re gonna be,” Hillsman said.
With SU’s athletic ability and veteran pres-ence, this year is the perfect time for Hills-man to add the press, said Debbie Antonelli, a national women’s college basketball analyst for ESPN, CBS and Fox Sports Net.
“If he’s gonna start pressing and trapping and taking more of what I call high-risk, high-reward approach to his defense,” Antonelli said, “then I think he’s gonna build a lot of confidence with that, and he’s gonna make his team even tougher to defeat.”
For Antonelli, the ability to give teams mul-tiple looks is crucial if SU wants to return to the NCAA tournament. Against the 2-3 zone, Antonelli said teams could dictate the pace
and walk the ball up the court, which forced Syracuse to have a good night on offense if it wanted to win.
Now, the Orange can adapt its game plan to its opponent, and Antonelli believes it will show by the end of the season.
“He’s really going to enjoy coaching this team and this particular group of kids in that style because they will produce results,” Antonelli said. “They’re that talented and that athletic and long, and if they commit to that, that would get me excited about seeing Syracuse basketball.”
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“I think that now we need to push it up, and the less possessions we have to get in the half court and play half-court basketball, the better that we’re gonna be.”
Quentin HillsmanSU HEAD COACH
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OutlookSyracuse is coming off its second con-secutive 25-win season and third straight Women’s National Invitation Tournament appearance. The Orange enters the 2011-12 season looking to get back to the NCAA tournament. SU lost four-year start-ers Erica Morrow and Tasha Harris, but returns five of its top six scorers from last year. Syracuse opens it season against Long Beach State on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.
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By David WilsonSTAFF WRITER
When Syracuse knocked off Sacred Heart in the opening weekend of the season, it gave the Orange an early marquee victory over a peren-nial NCAA tournament team.
But SU turned right around and needed a three-set comeback against Youngstown State in its next game to escape with a win. A Youngstown State team that currently has a 4-23 record.
“I was more surprised that we were down 0-2,” SU interim head coach Kelly Morrisroe said. “ … That will be a game that will be refer-enced for the rest of the season for us.”
Such has been the story of Syracuse’s season. Inconsistency has mired the Orange’s year from the start. Though SU (17-11, 6-6 Big East) is still in position to qualify for the Big East tour-nament, it lacks many of the quality wins it was searching for when it put together its rigorous schedule. It was the case this past weekend as Syracuse suffered a pair of blowout losses to Big East powerhouses Louisville and Cincinnati.
A split last weekend would have all but guaranteed the Orange a spot in the Big East tournament, but SU’s struggles against elite teams persisted. Syracuse won the weekend’s opening set against Louisville, but it lost six straight after that and scored more than 18 points just once.
“They are both well-rounded,” Morrisroe said. “They both have deep rosters. One player
won’t beat you, but they all have the chance to.”The struggles against the country’s better
teams are nothing new for the Orange this year. Former head coach Jing Pu scheduled a much more rigorous nonconference schedule than in the past to test the team more. For the most part, SU did not pass the toughest portions of that test.
Syracuse fell to Utah State at the Utah State Tournament and blew a two-set lead to Utah Valley later that same week. The Orange’s last chance at a marquee nonconference win came at the Buffalo Tournament against Dayton, but SU was swept and didn’t reach 20 points in any of the three sets.
The rigorous early season schedule was sup-posed to prepare Syracuse for the challenge that the depth of the Big East would present. The Orange, for the most part, has held its own in games against teams it was expected to beat, but it has also lost to teams in the bottom half of the conference, such as West Virginia, the 11th-best team in the conference.
“Any team can beat you in the Big East,” SU middle blocker Sam Hinz said.
The most consistent issue for Syracuse, though, has been struggles against the confer-ence’s elite. This past weekend’s two losses against the Cardinals and Bearcats are a prime example of the team’s inconsistency.
“We’ve had too many ups and downs,” Hinz said. “We need to play our game.”
For the Orange to finally find success against elite teams, SU outside hitter Erin Little believes the team must eliminate its mistakes.
Going into the weekend’s two losses to Lou-isville and Cincinnati, Little was concerned with some of the careless play that has led to her team’s up-and-down play. Her concerns were validated as a fast start to the weekend gave way to a pair of blowouts.
The Orange has one last chance for a mar-quee victory this weekend when it closes out its season against Notre Dame on Sunday at the Women’s Building. The Fighting Irish are 8-4 in conference and in a tie with Villanova for fourth in the Big East.
But most importantly, Syracuse may need to beat Notre Dame to qualify for the conference tournament. For a team that has yet to pick up a key victory since the season’s opening weekend, it could come down to stepping up in the final game of the year to extend its season.
“We have to focus on ourselves,” Morrisroe said. “ … We need to focus on our game and make sure we’re winning the games we need to win in order to solidify our spot in the tourna-ment.”
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By Stephen BaileyASST. COPY EDITOR
Julia Hussey remembers watching her granddaughter, Stephanie, carry her field hockey stick around as a small child. When Stephanie got older, Julia attended many of her elementary school games at St. John’s School in Pilar, a province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
But when her son, Eduardo Hussey, left Argentina for Miami after his company trans-ferred him in 2004, that all changed. Stephanie, her mother and her brother followed Eduardo a year later.
After being so close for many years, there was suddenly a 4,300-mile gap between Julia and her closest family members.
“When they lived in Argentina, I used to see them every weekend,” Julia said. “So when they left the country to come to the United States, it was very hard for me to even think that I would maybe not see them very often because I’m old and I can’t travel.”
For Stephanie Hussey, a freshman on the Syracuse field hockey team, it has been equally as difficult to deal with being away from her grandmother. Until earlier this year, Stephanie hadn’t seen her grandmother in person since leaving Argentina six years ago. But the two have stayed close through phone calls, emails and field hockey.
On Friday, the two reunited again, as Julia traveled all the way from Buenos Aires to watch Stephanie and the Orange win its second con-secutive Big East tournament title. It was a highly emotional reunion both had looked for-ward to.
“Just the fact that I can show her all this,” Stephanie said. “Show her my team and show her my coaches, the university itself, for her to understand, and whenever she goes back home and I tell her, ‘I’m walking around here, I’m walking around there,’ she can actually visual-ize it.”
These are images she can take back with her to Argentina and hold onto for the rest of her life.
Julia said not seeing her granddaughter was one of the most torturous aspects of being separated from her family. She had been used to
seeing her regularly since she was born, and it was tough to lose that close bond.
Stephanie knew it would be a harsh transi-tion for the family, but it was also what was best for everyone. In the last six years, they’ve done everything in their power to remain close with Julia.
“We’ve been always there for her to help
her out, and at the same time, she’s been look-ing after my hockey and my brother’s rugby,” Stephanie said.
Though Stephanie refused to lose the con-nection with her grandmother, she had to over-come other challenges to continue playing field hockey.
Stephanie’s high school in Miami didn’t offer field hockey, so she often had to travel 40 min-utes just to play. The Husseys regularly drove 12 hours for her to participate in the Futures Elite program in North Carolina.
For the majority of the last six years, Stepha-nie and her grandmother have been forced to communicate solely through phone calls and online messages. At first it was very difficult, but over time her grandmother has transformed into a “cyber friend,” even making Facebook and Hotmail accounts.
“It was hard at the beginning not to see them, not to be able to kiss them or touch them or share some of the everyday life, but I got used to that way of connecting,” Julia said.
And just as it was in Stephanie’s youth, field hockey has been a strong part of maintaining that bond.
When Stephanie provides pictures and regular updates of how she’s playing, her grandmother reciprocates by filling her in on the Argentine national team after each of its games.
Last weekend, Julia got to watch Stepha-nie in her biggest games as a collegiate athlete. Coming off her second-career goal against Bucknell on Oct. 30, head coach Ange Bradley said she’s adapting to the college game well.
“It takes freshmen time to adjust,” Bradley said. “The speed of play, everything is just happening so much faster. You’re playing more
structured. So Stephanie, through time, has really adjusted and started to understand the concepts of team hockey.”
But that on-field adjustment is nothing com-pared to the changes she’s had to make since coming over from Argentina. Her grandmoth-er’s presence in the stands last weekend served as a reminder of her journey and relationship with her.
“To keep in touch and everything, she’ll look at pictures, she’ll look at whatever’s possible for her to be informed and be here with us,” Stephanie said.
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Argentine Hussey maintains deep bond with grandmother
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STEPHANIE HUSSEY (RIGHT) came to the United States at age 13, leaving her grand-mother behind in Argentina. They have stayed connected through field hockey.
QUICK HITSLast 3Oct. 30 Bucknell W, 3-1Nov. 4 Villanova W, 3-0* Nov. 6 No. 4 Connecticut W, 3-2**Big East tournament
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OutlookNo. 5 Syracuse avenged a regular-season, double-overtime loss to Connecticut on Sun-day, earning a 3-2 victory in the Big East tournament championship game. The Orange handily defeated Villanova 3-0 in the semifinal round Friday before holding off the Huskies late to earn its third conference tournament crown in four years. Each of those victories has come against UConn, and this win gave SU an automatic berth in the NCAA tourna-ment. The details of Syracuse’s first-round game will be announced on Tuesday night’s NCAA selection show.
“Just the fact that I can show her all this. Show her my team and show her my coaches, the university itself, for her to understand.”
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SP ORT S PA G E 2 0the daily orange
T U E S D AYnovember 8, 2011
By Chris IsemanSTAFF WRITER
S tanding in the trainer’s room of the War Memorial Arena, Ryan Hall sported the symbol of the
intensity he’s going to be involved in for at least the next five months. His right eye was red and swollen shut, and with a duffle bag hanging over his left shoulder, Hall was headed to the Upstate Medical University Hos-pital emergency room.
Hall is a member of the upstart Syracuse Silver Knights, a profes-sional indoor soccer team that’s a part of the Major Indoor Soccer
League. Just minutes earlier, the ball hit the former Syracuse soccer stand-out in the face off a kick from about five feet away. Hall spent a couple of minutes on the turf, but then got up and began jawing back and forth with an opponent.
In indoor soccer, everything’s a bit more amped up.
“I think the sport and the atmo-sphere speaks for itself,” Hall said. “… It’s a hard sell to sell soccer, but once they get in the doors, it’ll be successful.”
The Silver Knights played their
By Michael CohenSPORTS EDITOR
W ith each missed shot, the grumbling from the Car-rier Dome crowd swelled.
Sure, it was only the first exhibition game of the season, but the Syracuse
fans expected better from the No. 5 team in the country. A field goal drought of 5:49 wouldn’t cut it.
“Shooting 10-for-30, we don’t do that in a half,” SU shooting guard Brandon Triche said following the game against Cal State-Los Ange-
les. “I think it was a little bit of nerves. We had a lot of open shots that we missed.”
The SU cold stretch allowed the Golden Eagles to creep back into the game behind a 14-6 run, but an emphatic dunk by Dion Waiters
with 55 seconds left in the first half reclaimed momentum for the Orange.
Syracuse plays its second and final exhibition game Tuesday against St. Rose in the Carrier Dome at 7 p.m. And after a less-than-desirable start against Cal State-LA last week, get-
ting out of the gates quickly will be a focus for the Orange offensively. Tuesday represents the final chance for SU to iron out any kinks before the regular season begins Saturday.
Despite shooting just 33.3 percent
SEE SILVER KNIGHTS PAGE 14
SEE ST. ROSE PAGE 15
Out and running
Opening kickIndoor soccer franchise begins inaugural season in Syracuse
After struggling early against Cal State-LA, Syracuse hopes for fast start in final exhibition game
“I just thought with the Salty Dogs leaving, and the fan base we had from that, I thought it was a great opportunity.”
Tommy TannerSILVER KNIGHTS HEAD COACH
AND TEAM PRESIDENT
TODAY, 7 P.M., TIME WARNER CABLE SPORTS5SYRACUSE VS. ST. ROSE
brandon weight | staff photographer
THE SYRACUSE SILVER KNIGHTS played their first game in program history Friday. The Silver Knights are one of seven teams in the growing Major Indoor Soccer League.