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By Annie PalmerASST. NEWS EDITOR
I nterstate 81 can be seen as a pseudo Berlin Wall — a physi-cal barrier between the Hill
and downtown. It’s had a controversial presence
in the city for the past 10 years. Some want the city to maintain the high-way, others want to see it torn it down
to build a citywide boulevard with hopes of beautifying the city.
During the last four years, federal officials, local business owners and city legislators have come up with their own version of the most cost-effective, efficient and neighborhood-friendly solution.
But the highway will reach the end of its useful life in 2017 and a
plan has yet to be decided upon. To many in the community, the conversation is still missing an important voice — residents of the city of Syracuse.
On Wednesday, a community forum will be held in the city to better inform individuals and further spark discussion among residents.
A city divided
By Jesse DoughertyASST. COPY EDITOR
Fans will get a look inside the Syra-cuse football program this week when the Orange appears on the ESPNU program, “All-Access.”
The 30-minute Syracuse episode of “All-Access” will air Wednesday at 5 p.m. and again at 6:30 p.m.
Each week, the program takes viewers to major college football schools and gives an all-inclusive look
at practices, player-coach meetings and campuses. The goal is to give a look into a typical day for coaches and players, according to SU Athletics.
A camera crew from ESPNU arrived on campus Sept. 17 to
record footage, according to an article published by The Post-Stan-dard on Tuesday.
The last time “All-Access” vis-ited Syracuse University was for a dispute concerning Syracuse’s over-
time win against Toledo, when con-troversy arose over an extra point. In the show, which aired Oct. 5, 2011, defensive end Chandler Jones — now with the New England Patriots —
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I N S I D E P U L P
ThunderstruckStudent-run ThunderCakes bakery serves up sweets to SU students. Page 9
I N S I D E S P O R T S
Double threatFootball recruit Jamal Custis could have a future as a basketball walk-on. Page 16
I N S I D E N E W S
Neighborhood watch Local residents speak out about a recent birdhouse theft. Page 3
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Road blockLocal and student perspectives are necessary when deciding the fate of Interstate 81. Page 5
Syracuse residents debate future of Interstate 81
luke rafferty | video editorInterstate 81, which runs through the city of Syracuse between the Hill and downtown, will reach the end of its useful life in 2017. Possible options for what to do with the inter-state include maintenance or tearing down the highway. Solutions such as replacing the interstate with a tunnel, bridge or citywide boulevard have also been suggested.
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By Lydia WilsonCONTRIBUTING WRITER
In just a few years, the food pantry at Hendricks Chapel has become a hub for the hungry. Now, the chapel is leading a semester-long initiative to raise hunger awareness on campus.
“We always think of SU as a rich school, but even within our univer-sity there are people who don’t have enough to eat,” said Buddhist Chap-lain Jikyo Bonnie Shoultz.
To address global and local hun-ger, Hendricks officials launched One Hunger, an interfaith hunger aware-ness and action campaign for the fall semester, she said. One Hunger consists of three interfaith events, with all of the Hendricks student groups working together. Through these events, Hendricks officials hope to inform the community that world hunger is a problem that should not only be addressed charitably, but politically, Shoultz said.
Shoultz said she believes this change needs to start with classify-ing food as a basic human right. Current political issues regarding food stamp programs, she said, are in regression in the fight against world hunger.
“What advocates for these cuts don’t admit is that a lot of people on food stamps are disabled, elderly or working minimum-wage jobs without enough money to feed their families and pay rent,” she said. “Denial of these realistic problems is used as excuses to support the idea that gov-ernment is wasting money.”
The first event, a lecture by Bud-dhist monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, took place last week. He spoke about world hunger and food productivity.
The second event is Oct. 24 – National Food Day – and will focus on food access and nutrition, Shoultz said. The third will be a 24-hour fast starting Nov. 9, she said.
The fast will include packing 20,000 meals in two hours for local food pantries, she added.
“The fast is meant to strip some of the extra stuff away in order to have an inward denial of self that will create new awareness of the greater good, inwardly and outwardly,” said Colleen Preuninger, chaplain for the United Methodist Ecumenical Cam-pus Ministry.
One Hunger organizers encour-age students who want to get involved to contact the Office of Engagement Programs.
SU begins hunger initiative
By Zane WarmanCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Diane Ackerman wants those around her to “listen for the heart-beat beneath the words” they hear.
“Listening in this way is the soul of empathy, and is one of the most powerful gifts that humans can give each other,” said Ack-erman, a New York Times best-selling author.
Also an essayist and poet, Ackerman spoke at the Syracuse Symposium series Tuesday. She discussed her nonfiction book “The Zookeeper’s Wife. The book fol-lowed Antonina and Jan Zabinski in Warsaw, Poland, during the fall of 1939, when a Nazi bomb deci-mated the city zoo. In the book, the zookeepers begin smuggling Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto and hid-ing them inside the zoo.
In the lecture’s opening remarks, George Langford, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said Acker-man’s writing style “focuses on the complexities of human interactions and our miraculous connections to the natural world.”
For inspiration, Ackerman said she read Antonina Zabinski’s unpub-lished diaries.
After the bombings, the Zabins-kis rebuilt and refortified their zoo, resolving to stand against the Nazi regime, Ackerman said. They hid Jews in the back rooms and enclo-sures of the zoo’s empty cages.
For secrecy, the Zabinskis used zoo exhibits as code words.
For her novel, Ackerman said she focused on the emotional angle of Antonina Zabinski’s actions, instead of the “Rambo-esque” heroism typi-cal of wartime stories.
“I feel that, as a writer, my job is to celebrate her great generosity of spirit, her character,” Ackerman said.
Ackerman said that despite hav-ing written the book more than seven years ago, she still feels its influence in her life. She continues to research many aspects of Nazi dogma and its extent.
She said she often “falls in love” with the subjects she writes about, usually immersing herself in her research. The process, she said, is “atmospheric.”
“It’s a sort of romance, and it has my full attention when I’m thinking about it,” Ackerman said. “This is a story that stays with me. It still gives me chills. I don’t think it will ever stop moving me.”
The lecture drew an older crowd, many of whom were current and
retired college professors and Syra-cuse residents.
William Stewart, an 80-year-old retired resident of Syracuse who lived through World War II, com-mended Ackerman on her knowledge in the book.
“She knew her subject extraor-dinarily well. She was more engrossed and more emotionally involved than the run-of-the-mill author,” he said.
Tadeusz Iwaniec, a mathemat-ics professor in Arts and Sciences, said the lecture made him “incred-ibly emotional.” As a native of Poland, Iwaniec said he has a strong connection to the story through his parents, who experi-enced the war firsthand.
“These days, young people don’t listen. In Poland, for example, many
Writer discusses Holocaust book, importance of listening
By Andrew MartiniCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Upset Syracuse residents are call-ing for a beloved birdhouse near campus to be returned after it was recently stolen.
The birdhouse on Meadowbrook Drive, a road two miles away from campus, was added as a part of the Meadowbrook Neighborhood Asso-ciation’s beautification process, which started five years ago. The
project was created after there were several incidents of vandalism in the area, at which point volunteers began planting and tending to gar-dens along the road.
Tim Robinson, a resident of the
neighborhood, made several differ-ent birdhouse designs for the gar-dens, including a church, basketball and airplane, the last of which was stolen two weeks ago.
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luke rafferty | video editorResidents of the Meadowbrook Neighborhood Association, which started a beautification project five years ago, are calling for one of the area’s stolen birdhouses to be returned. The birdhouse designs, made by resident Tim Robinson, include a church, airplane and basketball.
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O ur childhood is perhaps the most formative period of our lives. We learn through our early experi-
ences, such as playing with toys. Too often, however, the choice of playing
with either a doll or model car is not left up to children, but is dictated by whether that child is a boy or a girl.
Children should be able to pick and choose what they like on their own, without any questions asked or assumptions made.
In toy stores, the “boy toys” aisles focus on science, building and adventure. The “girl toys” aisles include dolls, toy kitchens and arts-and-crafts kits. This reinforces gender stereotypes and strict divisions based on one’s sex, rather than what a child is genuinely interested in.
Fortunately, there is some movement being made on this issue.
Members of Let Toys Be Toys, a U.K.-based nonprofit, asked retailers to stop limiting children’s interests by promoting some toys as only suitable for girls, and oth-ers only for boys.
The U.K. branch of Toys R Us recently
pledged to stop organizing its merchandise by gender and designate new standards for in-store signage.
A Change.org petition further calls for the Toys R Us branch in the United States to join its overseas counterparts and end the gender stereotyping in its marketing of toys to children.
Some stores are already making progress. Target, Walmart and Kmart have begun organizing their toys by gender-neutral categories such as “Learning Toys,” “Dress Up & Pretend Play,” “Action Figures” and “Dolls & Dollhouses.”
While neutralizing the gender-divided aisles of toy stores is important, the actual toys must be inclusive, as well.
The characters of toys send a message about what boys and girls are able to do. Lego, for example, has mainly produced male figu-rines, especially in its sets about science.
The company, however, just released its first female scientist figurine named Profes-sor C. Bodin.
We should celebrate this toy as a step in the right direction for a company that has mainly marketed its merchandise to boys.
This is also a nice change from Lego’s tradi-tional female figures, which don’t have much more to them than pastel colors and cleavage.
Certain colors further demonstrate gen-dered toys. Pink is still the dominant color for girls. For boys, it’s blue or black.
Even the targeted audience is seeing a problem with this.
Last year, 13-year-old McKenna Pope from Garfield, N.J., wrote a letter asking Hasbro to offer its Easy-Bake Oven in gender-neutral packaging, since she could find them only in pink and purple. She felt this would discourage boys from using them, like her 4-year-old brother.
The toy is now available in black and silver.
The advertising of toys must be re-evalu-ated, too. Images of boys playing with “boy toys” and girls with “girl toys” fill catalogs, making it appear unwelcoming for the oppo-site sex to play with them.
Last Christmas, the Swedish branch of Toys R Us made headlines for its gender-neu-tral advertising campaign, which showed girls shooting a toy gun and boys and girls playing together in a kitchen.
This is certainly positive, because it shows that girls and boys can fully enjoy the same toys. Still, it’s sad that this is seen as radical enough to make national news.
After all, toys are meant to be fun and entertaining.
All toy companies and stores should adopt a gender-neutral approach. These brands have a powerful opportunity to send the important message that our interests should not be limited by our anatomy.
Laura Cohen is a junior magazine journalism and women’s and gender stud-
ies major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at [email protected].
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W E D N E S D AYseptember 25, 2013
PA G E 5the daily orange
Local and university input is crucial in the ongoing debate about the presence and future of Interstate 81.
The debate of whether to keep the structure or tear it down has been an ongoing issue among city officials for four years. Many experts speculate the con-versation will last into 2017. Lack of participation further hinders officials’ ability to make a deci-sion about the interstate.
There is not enough partici-pation on the topic by university officials and locals. It is critical that Syracuse residents attend the public forum that will be held Wednesday.
Their input will push the topic along, as these residents are most affected by the pres-ence of the interstate.
If the conversation lasts another four years, there is no
certainty about what the state of the highway system could look like. It has already begun to deteriorate.
University input on behalf of students is also important when considering the Inter-state’s future.
Students are often less inclined to get involved in this discussion because the ongoing conversation outlives their SU careers. But their perspective could push the city toward a decision on the matter.
After all, the interstate plays a role in how students view the city.
Experts consider Interstate 81 a wall that divides the Hill from the rest of the city. Because
of this, many students feel like they live in a bubble on campus and rarely venture downtown.
Students are often attracted to a college’s surrounding city. If the interstate were torn down, beautification projects would make Syracuse a more inviting place for prospective students.
The elimination of Interstate 81 and the redevelopment of the area would promote a positive image of the city in the eyes of college applicants.
This is a perspective that locals might not be able to pro-vide, but students can offer.
Interstate 81 divides the city and plays a role in the lives of locals and students. This is a pertinent issue.
Therefore, people need to share their views if they want to see action.
University, local input could provide perspective to reach decision on I-81
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L ast week, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representa-tives narrowly pushed
through a bill that would slash billions of dollars from the federal food stamp program.
And so continues the Republican war against those at the fringes of society, all done for the sake of greater fiscal responsibility.
It’s unlikely that this House bill will go anywhere — it would first have to pass through the Democratic Senate and be signed by President Barack Obama, who has already threatened to veto the proposal.
The pressure for the proposed cuts comes mainly from Tea Party-backed conservatives who say the current cost of the food stamp program — about $80 billion per year — is too high.
But according to The New York Times, the total cost of the food stamp program will exceed
$700 billion throughout the next decade, even if the proposed cuts go into effect.
If Republicans want to get seri-ous about solving our nation’s debt problem, they should look to sources other than programs that benefit the poor and elderly.
There are other areas of the fed-eral budget that could easily be cut and would actually make more sense to scale back.
How about the defense budget?The United States spends an
obscenely high amount on defense, despite the fact that we remain a world superpower and have many more allies than enemies.
The United States spent $718 bil-lion on defense in 2011, according to The Washington Post. That’s more than what was spent on Medicare — or any other federal program, for that matter.
Surely we can find some things
to cut from this part of the budget. The only problem is that it’s politi-cally taboo to even suggest doing so. Detractors will say it’s “un-American” and call anyone who tries to make such cuts “soft” on defense.
But if Republicans are serious about solving the debt dilemma, they must not only look for more responsi-ble spending cuts, but also be willing to implement a fairer tax code.
The Bush-era tax cuts of the early 2000s were detrimental, and have been significant contributors to our national debt and major cause of the federal budget deficit.
Part of the underlying problem behind the nation’s enormous debt is not just a spending problem as the right wing suggests. We’re also not bringing in enough revenue.
When a family falls on hard times, members not only look for ways to cut expenses — they seek out additional sources of income.
It should be no different with the United States.
But Republican ideology during the past few years has developed into one that calls for a machete to the fed-eral budget. Republicans have shown no interest in compromise when it comes to raising taxes on the wealthy by even a dime.
Does the right wing really believe that gutting spending and asking the ultra-rich to pay a lower tax rate than its secretaries (as billionaire Warren Buffet does) is good for the country?
Or is it that they detest the down-trodden and want to restructure the
government so it serves only those with more money than they know what to do with?
It might be a little of both. But the idea of a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich shakes me to my very core.
Conservative extremists appear hell-bent on creating such a regime. Their desire to slash federal food stamp aid is but the latest in a long line of symptoms of their obsession with weakening government.
The ideal conservative America isn’t the America for which we should strive.
Our government should work for everyone, regardless of their means. Keeping the food stamp program well funded is a necessary step in preserving that ideal.
David Swenton is a senior political science and writing and rhetoric major.
His column appears weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or fol-
lowed on Twitter at @DavidSwenton.
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By Nicki GornySTAFF WRITER
A ttention will again be focused on the Syracuse City School District’s disci-pline practices this month.
Civil rights expert Dan Losen will present his findings on district suspension rates at a board of education special work session on Sept. 30.
Losen said he has been analyzing the dis-trict’s suspension rates since the spring, which is when the district hired him for an amount that would not exceed $30,000, The Post-Stan-dard reported in July.
“I’ve been looking at more recent data and basically will be trying to help them with what their understanding of the issues is and what the next steps are,” said Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Univer-sity of California, Los Angeles.
The decision to hire Losen as a consultant came after he co-published a report on suspen-sion rates in U.S. school districts in April. The
report, titled “Out of School and Off Track: The Overuse of Suspensions in American Middle and High Schools,” additionally identified racial disparities in districts’ suspension rates.
Syracuse was one of 20 cities featured in the report.
Losen said Syracuse’s inclusion in the report is not a reflection of any particularly offensive practices. Rather, the district was chosen in an effort to feature a geographic variety of large districts with high rates of suspension, he said.
In analyzing suspension rate data from 26,000 U.S. middle and high schools, Losen said he found some “shocking” numbers.
For example, in the 2009-10 school year — the year analyzed in the report — one out of nine secondary school students was suspended at least once, according to the report.
Syracuse school districts had a 30.8 percent suspension rate for all secondary school stu-dents in year 2009-10, according to the report. This breaks down to a 26 percent rate for
African-American students, an 18 percent rate for Latino students and a 12 percent rate for white students.
High rates are especially alarming because a student’s likelihood of dropping out of school doubles after being suspended just once in ninth grade, Losen said, emphasizing the correla-tional relationship.
“Excessive school suspension is harmful to all kids,” Losen said. “If it’s not an educationally sound practice, we shouldn’t be doing it with this frequency.”
When suspensions further create racial divi-sions and therefore affect minority students more harshly, he continued, the issue becomes a civil rights concern.
Addressing the district’s high suspension rates is an ongoing process, said Patricia Body, Syracuse’s school board president. The issue first came into discussion before the 2012-13 school year, she said. This year, the district is placing social service workers in school build-
ings and training teachers to better deal with disruptive students, she added.
“A teacher is taught how to identify the signs that a child is stressed or upset about something,” Body said, explaining the premise. “They can identify that and have that child go to a social worker.”
The district also plans to create a group with community representation to revise its code of conduct based on Losen’s findings, she said.
“To their credit, Syracuse seems to be cer-tainly moving in the right direction,“ said Losen. “I think they’ve been taking a pretty strong position publically that they want to address this issue.”
Losen’s presentation at the special work ses-sion on Sept. 30 will take place at the school district headquarters, 725 Harrison St., between 4:30-6:30 p.m. It is open to the public.
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“It’s sort of a kick in the teeth,” Robinson said. He added that he paid $500 out of pocket to build the airplane birdhouse, which he said he wants returned as soon as possible.
Dave Kirby, chairman of the neighborhood group, said the airplane birdhouse was a par-ticularly cherished item, and stressed how important the birdhouses were to residents on Meadowbrook Drive.
“The volunteers give so much, and it’s a shame someone could take it away in just one night,” he said.
No other acts of vandalism on the road have occurred since the birdhouse was sto-len, he said.
The gardens and birdhouses were an attrac-tion for people passing by the area, said Dan Stricker, a resident near the drive and a volun-teer in the beautification project.
Stricker said he remembered when Meadow-brook Drive was just a road to get to Syracuse University, but after its revitalization, people
have stopped to take photos and admire the gar-dens. He said the missing airplane birdhouse has struck a chord with many of the residents on the street.
“People are upset,” Stricker said. “The question I keep getting is, ‘Why would some-one do that?’”
Stricker estimated there are now about 17 birdhouses along the road.
While Kirby said the Meadowbrook Neighborhood Association is in no way implying SU students had a hand in the stole birdhouses, he said he did notice the incident
of vandalism occurred shortly after the new semester began.
“It’s not fair,” Kirby said. “There are people in there 70s and 80s working on this beautification project. It upsets them to see it ruined like this.”
Currently, the association does not have any leads on who could have stolen the birdhouse, but members are hoping to see the airplane perched on Meadowbrook Drive again soon.
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The past four years should have created extensive public discussion on major issues affecting the city of Syracuse, giving federal officials the information they need to finish the project in the next three to four years, said David Rubin, professor and dean emeri-tus at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
But because the process is expected to last at least four more years, it can be difficult to sustain public interest and maintain clear priorities, said Rubin, who lives in the area and has had an active voice in the I-81 debate.
Eventually, Rubin said, residents might doubt that federal officials have their interests in mind, and will ultimately make the decision on their own and without public input.
“I think that people who live in the city are suspicious of this whole process,” Rubin said. “Their thoughts weren’t considered when it was built, so they feel the same will happen and don’t want to commit to the discussion.”
Besides being divided by I-81, the area around it exists in a “shadow” that limits any possibility for economic development, he said. If the area had a landscaped boulevard with upscale apartments, restaurants and, above all, slow-moving traffic, people would be more likely to move into the area.
“I think gentrification is inevitable, because if people invest in apartment build-ings and retail, those pioneer projects are going to come down,” Rubin said. “People will need to be relocated and where they will go is an issue.”
Though a boulevard might spur economic development, it risks appearing similar to Erie Boulevard, said County Legislator Kathleen Rapp (R-5th District). Merely tak-ing it down, she said, doesn’t solve all of the city’s issues.
Rapp said she feels that officials have become shortsighted by narrowing options to either keeping the highway or creating a boulevard.
“I think it’s become pretty clear that neither of those views really represent the community,” Rapp said. “We need to challenge ourselves to become more creative and inclusive. We need look past just A or B.”
Rapp has proposed building an iconic bridge to replace the highway leading into the city, add-ing that a bridge would give a “sense of place” to Syracuse, keep traffic flowing and not divide the city.
Leaving the New York State Department of Transportation to handle the discussion, she said, has led the project in the wrong direction. Rather than create an “us-versus-them” mental-ity, Rapp said, the community needs to decide what is most important. Then function will follow these priorities.
She said she hopes the community meet-
ings will help to identify residents’ “pulse,” but their success depends on the tone that officials establish.
“Democracy is always messy, but I think if those that are at the front keep the tone where it needs to be, it’ll work itself out,” Rapp said.
Whether by public assertion or federal direc-tion, the conversation is starting to shift to a more local scale, said Salina Town Supervisor Mark Nicotra.
Community forums, such as the “meeting of the interstate’s neighbors” held downtown on Wednesday, are being scheduled in areas across the county to inform individuals and spur dis-cussion, he said.
“Discussion is the only way to produce an amicable decision on all sides,” he said. “The Department of Transportation should listen to people and have that shape their decision.”
Nicotra is also a member of Save81, a coali-tion of citizens, elected officials, employers, unions and community groups who believe some form of interstate is necessary for the city. Save81 has received more than 2,500 signatures on their petition to keep I-81 — 40 percent of which were from Syracuse resi-dents, he said.
He added that the coalition has seen a lot of concern from residents who don’t necessarily think the boulevard is the best option, thinking it might increase traffic and hinder the develop-ment of business in the area.
If the highway were to be demolished, he said, the idea of Syracuse as a “20-minute city” — one that is easily accessible from any direc-tion — would be heavily affected.
County Legislator Bob Andrews (R-9th Dis-trict) said the two issues of traffic flow and revamping the city doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive. Andrews said he believes both can be achieved through a tunnel — a solution not brought up by anyone else. Building a tunnel would allow the city to divert traffic flow any way it needed and remove the highway for bet-ter road access.
Taking down I-81 would also remove what many see as the “barrier” between the Hill and downtown, which Andrews said would rede-velop and “unite” the city.
The only drawback of constructing a tunnel, he said, is that it would likely be the most expen-sive option. But Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has reassured Andrews and other legislators, asking them to not worry about the cost, but rather what’s best for the community, Andrews said, a sentiment he agrees with.
He said he’ll continue to push officials to think about other pertinent issues the city needs to address.
“We can’t just solve one issue. This is a major project and we need to be thinking larger and more expansively,” Andrews said. “This is a 100-year project, not just repaving a street in one day.”
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In addition to these three events, 10 campus ministries, student-run religious groups and the Office of Student Engagement will address the
issue of hunger, Preuninger added.Said Preuninger: “There is place for every-
one to give back to their local community and connect with service organizations that pro-vides sustainable personal growth that allows us to become global citizens.”
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interviewed students and teammates on cam-pus about the game.
This time, part of the program will focus on SU’s use of GoPro helmet cameras during prac-
tice, according to The Post-Standard. Using the in-helmet cameras allows coaches to see exactly what quarterbacks see during practice.
The show will also feature interviews with head coach Scott Shafer and captains Jerome Smith and Jay Bromley, according to SU Athletics.
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young people have no clue what has hap-
pened,” Iwaniec said. “History is a lesson that we have to learn, for it is a lesson that will help us learn for the future.”
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W E D N E S D AYseptember 25, 2013
PA G E 9the daily orange
the sweet stuff in the middle
By Ian Simon-CurrySTAFF WRITER
O ne night during her fresh-man year, Courtnee Futch checked her bank account to
find she had only $6. Panicked, she whipped together a
batch of bacon-cheesecake brownies in a makeshift oven, advertised the treats on Facebook and promptly sold
them all in less than an hour.Now, Futch is the 19-year-old CEO
of her own business, ThunderCakes By Courtnee, LLC.
Futch, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, began taking orders and selling cookies through a Facebook group. Business began to grow, and she decided to make it a full-
fledged venture.The name ThunderCakes, Futch
explained, comes from her freshman residence hall, where it all started. Her floor mates nicknamed her “The Chocolate Thunder,“ and it gave rise to the only name Futch ever considered for the company.
The “thunder” moniker has become integral to Futch’s personality and business. She added “thunder” to a number of terms, calling her employ-ees the ThunderTeam and describing what she does as “thundering.”
The ThunderCakes menu is wildly creative and features everything from peaches n’ creme caramel cake to bacon-cheesecake brownies. Futch’s baking repertoire also includes cook-ies, breads, sweet rolls and cupcakes.
Futch said she follows her own crav-ings when coming up with recipes.
“I see how far I can go before going too far,” she said, explaining that she comes up with outrageous ideas, then edits out certain components to achieve a perfect balance.
Futch credits the Syracuse Uni-
versity community with helping her company succeed. Classes within her information technology, design and startups minor helped hone her busi-ness sense and pitching skills.
When the time came to learn the legal aspects of starting a business, Futch enlisted the help of Doug Gor-man in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and Couri Hatchery, a student-focused small-business incu-bator. She also got help from Martin Butts of Small Potatoes, a Syracuse-based consulting firm that helps local food-related businesses.
An especially significant bit of help from the SU community came to ThunderCakes in April 2013. Futch pitched her company to the Raymond von Dran Innovative and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator — part of an initiative by the School of Infor-mation studies to support student entrepreneurs — and won $5,000 to invest in her business. That money allowed her to expand the company.
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4. “THOR: GOD OF THUNDER” (MARVEL WORLDWIDE) BY JASON AARON, ESAD RIBIC, & VARIOUSIt was a surprise to see Jim Aaron tackle “Thor” last year. But 13 issues later, this has easily become one of my favorite books. From Aaron’s humanization of the thunder god to Esad Ribic’s stunning artwork, each chapter of this story is well worth the money. The only thing keep-ing this book from being No. 1 is Ribic’s departure after issue 11. Regardless, with Aaron’s strong storytelling, it will defi-nitely be on the top of my pull list. Fans of “Thor,” time travel and free-flowing mead should check out issues No. 1-11 for one of the most amazing mysteries and epic crusades the nine realms have ever encountered.
Most men and women agree that confidence is an attractive trait. But many also admit to bouts of self-doubt and uncertainty.
This disconnect speaks volumes about our fear of rejection and how difficult it is to tame it. I’ve been rejected tons of times and still cannot pinpoint when it will breeze past me or brutally tear me down.
But I remind myself of my greatest quali-ties, work through my weaker ones and do my best to live simply and selflessly in the pres-ent. It’s not always easy. Every day presents a challenge in taming my fear of rejection.
Confidence is simply faith and happi-ness in the present moment. It is not, to quote Dharmesh Shah, founder of HubSpot, “bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others. Confidence is quiet. It’s a natural expression of ability, expertise and self-regard.”
Take the bedroom. What makes someone confident in bed? It’s not the acrobatics, knowledge or braggadocio. It’s when your partner listens to you and talks to you. He or she isn’t afraid to ask, isn’t afraid to take direction or give it, and doesn’t apologize.
More than anything, even when it’s awkward, even when we make a mistake or try something new or are still learning about each other, a confident partner is comfortable. And when your partner is
comfortable, you will be, too.We all have those thoughts from time to
time: We aren’t attractive enough, smart enough, experienced enough — but give your hang-ups a goodnight kiss and move on. Fake it with your killer smile until you make it. Do it for you. When you are building confidence, you will exude it.
One of the biggest detriments to confidence in the bedroom is concern about our appear-ances. The best way to be better at sex is to have it, of course, but not everyone wants to follow such a regimen, and that’s OK.
It’s natural to get nervous about how you look during the act. Snap out of it. Your partner is not thinking about what you’re thinking about. There’s someone who wants to be with you right now. Tell yourself that. Create a relaxing ambiance that makes you feel good, or wear something that makes you feel great.
Don’t miss out on an amazing moment with someone by thinking about what your partner is likely not thinking about.
That same thought process applies to so many situations we encounter daily. If you are comfortable, everyone else around you will be, too. Don’t be nervous and don’t overthink things. Remember, it’s all about the present moment.
Take baby steps. Don’t be afraid to talk. Give direction.
In the meantime, smile as you go and tame your fear of rejection. We won’t always win. Confidence is learning from the loss and succeeding from it. Confidence is embracing humility.
Jillian Thaw is a magazine, newspaper and online journalism graduate student. Her column appears every Wednesday in Pulp. You can email her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @jathaw.
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shipping orders, paid legal fees and hired interns. ThunderCakes now has a staff of 35, most of whom are students. The team includes interns, sales representatives and a marketing team.
Malcolm Whitfield, a junior photography major, has been a team member since the very beginning. The two met during their freshman year and instantly became friends. Whitfield gave Futch encouragement when Thunder-Cakes was in its infancy and helped spread the word about his friend’s products.
“I’m the No. 1 fan of ThunderCakes,” he said.At first, Futch paid Whitfield and other help-
ers with her baked goods. Even though Futch
now has money to pay her employees, Whitfield said he sometimes chooses treats instead of monetary compensation. Currently, he favors Futch’s peach cobbler cupcakes.
As the company has expanded, Whitfield and Futch have maintained a close friendship. Their mutual involvement in the company has given them both a sense of direction and drive.
“I had no idea what I wanted to do with photography before I met Courtnee,” Whitfield said. Now, he sees a potential future for himself in food photography.
Though she helped Whitfield find direction and certainly has an established path of her own, Futch is still trying to figure out what to study at school. She said she tries her best to attend all her classes, but it can be difficult to run ThunderCakes while also being a student.
“I know what I want to do when I graduate,
but that doesn’t match up with what I want to do academically,” she said.
Because she spends so much time on Thun-derCakes, Futch has started describing the business and her employees as family.
“There is a community around Thunder-Cakes, and I think a lot of that comes from the fact that when I started the business, people already knew me for what I was doing,” Futch said.
Even before creating the company, Futch used her baking as a way to bring people togeth-er. She remembers hanging out with friends during freshman year and baking treats for them in her room.
Moments like that, where food and happiness come together, are what Futch said she wants to give to her customers. After launching Thun-derCakes, she realized that people associate
memories with certain foods.Teresa Allen-Futch, Courtnee’s mother, said
her daughter’s happy spirit has flourished since creating the business.
“She always had positive energy, but she took it to another level [with the company]. Her eyes light up when she talks about ThunderCakes,” she said.
Futch is focusing on increasing her weekly order count and shipping orders throughout the northeast. And she has even bigger plans for the next two years. During that time, she hopes to establish a commercial kitchen and a Thunder-Cakes storefront on Marshall Street.
Said Futch: “I can’t say that I would have done this had I gone anywhere else, so I really want to contribute back to Syracuse. I want to give the people what they want.”
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3. “BATMAN” (DC) BY SCOTT SNYDER AND GREG CAPULLOThough Snyder has been working on a Batman title since 2011, his work this past year has been explosive. Snyder’s eerily maniacal and homicidal Joker story pro-vides chills and thrills as the Joker makes a grand stand against Batman. If that’s not enough, the realistic and trippy art by Greg Capullo completes it. Now is the perfect time to jump into the series and become a part of the grim and gritty fun that embodies the Dark Knight Detective.
2. “ALL NEW X-MEN” (MARVEL) BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS AND STUART IMMONENHot off his nearly decadelong “Avengers” run, Bendis brings the original five X-Men into the modern-day Marvel universe. By having the characters time travel to meet their modern counterparts, Bendis brings a compelling tale. Full of Bendis’ trade-mark quips — and most importantly, a fresh take on the mutants — this book is a lot of fun. Start this series with an open mind and it’ll have you running through the streets yelling “Mutant and proud!” in no time at all.
1. “SAGA” (IMAGE COMICS) BY BRIAN K. VAUGHAN AND FIONA STAPLESAfter leaving comics to work in televi-sion, Vaughan returned with a bang in March 2012 with his epic sci-fi adventure book, “Saga.” Chock full of intergalactic civil wars, robot aliens with televisions for heads and soul-torn bounty hunters, “Saga” brings tons of screwed up fun to the comic book genre. Plus, it is beautiful-ly illustrated by Fiona Staples — arguably the best new artist in comics. Although the book has had some trouble making a monthly deadline, the strong story and art make it worth the wait. This also makes it easy for new readers catch up.
By Michael Rogers CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Wednesday is National Comic Book Day. What better way to celebrate than by brushing up on some of today’s best? As a comics instructor, I’ve read and researched tons of titles. Check out my top four.
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“PRISONERS”Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello
Release date: Sept. 20
Rating: 5/5
Standout performances in ‘Prisoners’ create intense, believable thriller experience
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By Brittany RussellSTAFF WRITER
B y the end of “Prisoners,” you will be drained, emotionally spent and in need of a moment to process this white-
knuckle masterpiece of a thriller.Filled with many unexpected twists and
turns — which keep you guessing the entire time — this movie is scarier than any horror film. It makes the audience experience any par-ent’s worst nightmare: an Amber alert.
The film starts out innocently: Two families, the Dovers and the Birches, are celebrating Thanksgiving. But the scene turns ominous, and the danger is present as soon as the girls go play outside — alone — and discover a shady old RV parked on the street. Then they’re abducted.
Hugh Jackman plays Keller Dover, a devoted father and family man who will do anything to have his daughter, Anna, back safely. He is ruthless and determined. But his anger gets the best of him when he faces Alex (Paul Dano), the man believed to have abducted his little girl. Dover’s best friend, Franklin Birch (Terrence Howard), is equally concerned with the disap-pearance of his own daughter, Joy, but uses less violent tactics when searching for her.
Even with his intense portrayal, Jackman has such an exceptionally graceful presence onscreen that it nearly outshines his Oscar-winning performance in “Les Misérables.”
“Prisoners” demonstrates the strong bond that forms between a father and daughter by showing each father as the much more active character in the search for their missing chil-dren. The mothers, meanwhile, act as the more emotional counterparts — and understandably so. Grace Dover (Maria Bello) was found lying in the fetal position next to prescription pills on multiple occasions, while Nancy Birch (Viola Davis) sat nearly paralyzed in a kitchen full of dirty dishes.
The film also toys with themes of religion and revenge, as there is a strong sense of good versus evil throughout. Crucifixes are often seen dangling from review mirrors, and characters tend to pray before acts of violence and in times of utter despair. Plus, two inno-cent characters are named Joy and Grace.
Aaron Guzikowski did an excellent job writing “Prisoners.” The script takes the audience through a maze of different suspects and plot twists, so you never know what you are going to see until the very end. Those twists are intensified by the intentional misdi-
rection by leading people to believe certain places are filled with warmth and delight. But there is darkness and danger instead.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays Detective Loki, a determined advocate searching for the two girls. Being a detective who has solved every case he has been given, Loki finds himself overly stressed and disappointed when he has difficulty solving this one. Gyllenhaal also gives an outstanding performance in every scene he’s in.
The cinematography also makes the film stronger. The lighting and filters used to create the dark browns, blues and blacks — mixed with rainstorms and overcast skies — help the
audience share the same desperation the actors are experiencing.
While it has mainly drawn a middle-aged audience, “Prisoners” is a great, suspenseful film for young adults and anyone else who enjoy films that bring them to the edge of their seats. The acting is superb, the script is captivating and you’re always wondering what crazy thing will happen next.
Even at 153 minutes, “Prisoners” is one of the most intense movie-going experiences of the year.
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By Connor GrossmanCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The leading scorer for the Syracuse women’s soccer team almost didn’t have a chance to play collegiate soccer at all.
After her junior year at Red Bank Regional High School in Little Silver, N.J., Erin Simon tore her left ACL playing in a college showcase tournament for club team FC Copa.
“I didn’t know what I was going to do, I was heartbroken,” Simon said. “It was my senior year.”
Simon had just set Red Bank’s record for most goals in a season with 21, and was on the precipice of becoming team captain in her final high school season. But when she collided with a player and fell awkwardly, her senior year became a forgone conclusion. It would be spent standing on the sideline watch-ing the team finish 2-11-2 and her Division-I aspirations diminish.
But she recovered in only five months, well ahead of schedule, to return back to the soccer field.
“The people who helped me through physi-cal therapy helped me become a faster, stron-ger and better player than I was before my injury,” Simon said.
Aguas had seen Simon play soccer since she was 10 years old, and was her head coach when she tore her ACL. He dealt directly with Simon through the majority of her rehabilitation, and had words of encouragement to offer her as she hastily made inroads into her rehab.
Two years ago, a phone call from FC Copa coach Roberto Aguas to SU head coach Phil Wheddon brought Simon to Syr-acuse. Now she’s pacing the Orange with four goals this season.
“I told [Wheddon], ‘You have to take a look at Erin,’” Aguas said. “If [Wheddon] was going to take her, he’d have to trust me and take my word about Erin and I knew he wouldn’t be disappointed.”
FC Copa teammate Alex Sangiuliano, who was already fully committed to play soccer at Syracuse, helped introduce Simon to Whed-don on a recruiting visit. When Wheddon asked Aguas if there were any other players his staff should look at, he immediately brought up Simon.
“Erin was someone we saw who had just a natural gift of speed,” Wheddon said.
Simon said Syracuse didn’t contact her until she was going through rehab, but the interest was mutual. Simon’s earliest interactions with Wheddon and the team were promising.
“Once I first spoke to [Wheddon], we had an instant connection and ultimately, he stuck through with me,” Simon said. “I really loved the school, the coaching staff and all the girls I met on the team.”
Wheddon and his staff agreed. “When a player comes back from an injury
of that type, you expect them to be tentative or a step slower,” Wheddon said. “[Simon] was neither tentative nor a step slower. She contin-ues to exceed expectations.”
Undoubtedly, the entire journey Simon has endured has changed her outlook on the game she is now greatly succeeding at.
Said Simon: “I consider myself a better player now then I was when I got injured because I look at the game differently now. I’m more appreciative of the time I get to spend on the field.”
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from Southern Methodist in both football and basketball in addition to his football offers from Pittsburgh, Virginia, Connecticut, Massachu-setts, Rutgers and Central Florida.
“He’s got size, he’s got some natural strength to him,” said Carl Arrigale, head basketball coach at Neumann-Goretti. “The most impor-tant thing is he’s a terrific kid. That would be a good addition to the (basketball) team, I’m sure.
“But I don’t think he’s going to win them an ACC championship. He’s got a better shot of doing that on the football field than the basket-ball court. He could be a scholarship basketball player, just not at that level.”
Two-sport athletes are a rarity in college sports today. But Syracuse has had its fair share of multi-sport athletes, from football and lacrosse Hall of Famer Jim Brown’s dabbling in basketball and track and field, to quarterback Donovan McNabb’s two years as a walk-on for
the Orangemen basketball squad in the late 1990s.
Neumann-Goretti junior var-sity basketball coach Mike Casey said he’s “99 per-cent” sure Custis will start for the Saints’ varsity basketball team this upcom-ing season after coming off the bench a year ago.
“He is your typical, run-the-floor big guy,” Casey said. “He’s not too much of a post-up big guy, but what he does well is run the floor. He gives us a physical presence.”
But like Arrigale, Casey believes Custis has more potential in football than in basketball.
In a football recruiting video on YouTube, Custis’ highlights show off his knack
for breaking tackles in the open field and using his break-
away speed to coast into the end zone. It also
features his ability to elevate and make
difficult catches despite tough coverage by the defensive backs he towers above.
“He’s a match-up nightmare, for
sure,” said Szydlik, the Neumann-Gore-
tti football coach. That nightmare
became a reality for Chester (Pa.) High School
on Friday. Custis, who faced constant double teams, racked up
three touchdowns — two of them on plays
50 yards or longer — and broke his own Neumann-Goretti record with 185 receiving yards in the Saints’ 35-6 blowout win over the Clippers.
Standing taller than each of the Orange’s current and incoming wide receivers, the 225-pound Custis also lines up at free safety for Neumann-Goretti. But Szydlik said the receiver could beef up an additional 40 pounds once he arrives at Syracuse and begins the Orange’s workout regimen.
Whether Custis pursues a career on the basketball court, Szydlik is certain Syracuse will not be disappointed with him.
“He’s just a great kid. He’s such a leader and leads by example with his work ethic,” Szydlik said. “He’ll be truly missed, I can tell you that.
“He’s one of the most personable people you’re going to meet. He’s a humble kid and I’m looking forward to it, too. It should be a fun couple of years.”
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“He’s got size, he’s
got some natural strength to him. The
most important thing is he’s a terrific kid. That would be a good addition to the
(basketball) team.”Carl Arrigale
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By Melissa Bronson-TramelSTAFF WRITER
Tim Lester adopted a blue-collar mentality from San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh dur-ing Lester’s last season as Elmhurst College’s head football coach.
That mentality was created to inspire players to work harder every day in workouts to have an edge over their opponents. Seeing it succeed for the 49ers when
Harbaugh took over in 2011, Lester kicked the mentality into full drive at the start of Elmhurst’s 2012 season.
“We got blue-collar dog tags that said ‘BCM,’” senior wide receiver Chase Hamby said. “And we have shirts we wear before games and they say ‘BCM,’ too.”
Sticking with the blue-collar philosophy, Les-ter produced one of the most successful seasons in program history. Division-III Elmhurst went 10-2 in 2012 and snagged its first College Confer-ence of Illinois and Wisconsin championship title since 1980.
While the Bluejays hoped to produce another winning season, they got off to a rocky start after Lester departed for Syra-cuse in January. Starting quarterback Joe Camiliere was shocked when Lester left the program after the relationships he had made at Elmhurst.
Camiliere said the seniors took Lester’s departure even harder because he was the one that recruited them and helped them grow.
“At first I was disappointed because I had so much respect for him,” Hamby said, “but then I understood his opportunity and became concerned with what would happen to us.”
Off the football field, Camiliere described Lester as being more than just a coach to many of the players. In the two years Camiliere knew Lester and worked with him on offense, he became more than a coach to many.
“Coach Lester was almost like a father figure to us,” Hamby said. “He was a down-to-earth guy and he really took care of his players.”
Lester was mostly leaving for his young family, said Joe Adam, current Elmhurst head coach. The seven-day-a-week job as head coach didn’t give him a lot of time with his wife, Dawn, and four sons. The opportunity for a Division-III coach to go Division I, Adam added, was also a perk.
After Lester left for Syracuse, Elmhurst players didn’t know who their coach would be. But the team’s anxiety eased a little more than a week later when Adam — formerly Elm-hurst’s defensive coordinator — was named head coach.
“When he was announced as the coach, everyone was back on board,” Camiliere said. “He’s been a part of the coaching staff for the last few years.”
Adam joined the Bluejays in 2007, a year before Lester. After spending five seasons as the defensive coordinator, Adam finally found himself in a position to lead the offense, as well.
One of his goals is to get back to the success the team had last year. When Lester and Adam implemented the blue-collar mentality, they achieved their long-term goal of winning the CCIW. It was a good place for Adam to begin with the 2013 team.
Adam kicked the blue-collar mentality into overdrive at the start of the season, putting more seniors in positions of leadership and introducing an NFL-style conditioning pro-gram to the Bluejays.
But after losing 19 seniors and having a new starting quarterback, three offensive linemen and a tight end, the offensive players are still acclimating to one another.
“This team is still trying to find its identity and who is going to drive the engine for us the rest of the season,” Adam said.
Now finding himself in a position of leader-ship for the offense, senior wide receiver Hamby hopes to get the team out of its 1-2 slump.
Though Elmhurst just suffered back-to-back road losses, Adam still feels the blue-collar mentality will work and help the school continue its legacy.
“What we are going through is not unlike coach Lester’s situation up there at Syracuse, ” Adam said. “It just takes a little time offensively to deal with communication and understand where routes are being run. ”
Some of the offensive struggles are no differ-ent than what Lester experienced in his second and third years at Elmhurst. Knowing that Lester has that experience, Adam reaches out to him when he can.
Adam said he is aware that an offense changes each season and accepts the chal-lenges as the head coach that will lead the team in the right direction.
“With coach Lester’s help we put ourselves on the map,” Adam said. “Now it’s time to think big and dream big.”
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for them to establish chemistry with the starters. “It’s definitely important that we both play
very well during practice so that we can prove to the (starters), give them confidence when they’re playing us the ball during the game,” Rhynhart said.
Sophomore Rhynhart came off the bench in the season opener against Colgate and played just 32 minutes. But on his only shot on net he gave the Orange a 2-0 lead. Not only did he score, but he also started a streak of three SU goals in eight minutes.
“That goal was big for me,” Rhynhart said. “I played some last season, but wasn’t able to get that breakthrough goal.”
On Sept. 2 against Hartwick, both Chong and Rhynhart shined. In the 27th minute, Chong entered the match and almost immediately set
up Juuso Pasanen for a goal. Rhynhart replaced Alex Halis in the 33rd minute. In the 48th min-ute, he had a shot of his own blocked.
In the second half, Chong kept at it, and in the 50th minute, he scored to give SU a 1-0 lead. He appeared to have scored again two minutes later, but it was called back after an offsides call.
Against Manhattan, Chong was awarded the start while Rhynhart continued to do his thing off the bench. In the 37th minute, Rhynhart assisted on the Halis’ goal that gave the Orange a 3-0 lead. Three minutes later, he almost scored himself, slipping a shot just past the post.
Although he missed that opportunity, Rhynhart, as well as Chong, has capitalized on others throughout the season.
“It’s a long, hard season and you’re going to need players,” McIntyre said. “ … I think it’s important that you have some depth and competition for places and we’re starting to get that.”
sterling boin | staff photographerNOAH RHYNHART (RIGHT) has been valuable for the Orange this season. He, along with fellow forward Grant Chong, has provided timely boosts off the bench this year.
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SU reserves offer spark on offense
amal Custis stands 6 feet 6 inches tall, but his size might not be his biggest weapon.
Custis’ Scout.com profile says the wide receiver runs a 4.37-second 40-yard dash.
“What’s deceiving is how fast he actu-ally is,” said C.J. Szydlik, the head football coach at Ss Neumann-Goretti High School in Philadelphia. “We have some kids who can run, and he’s the fastest kid we have. He gets in stride, you can’t catch him.”
A three-star recruit, according to Scout.com, Custis made a verbal commitment to Syracuse’s football pro-gram on his Twitter account on Sept. 8. But his quickness
is not solely for the football field. His rare combination of size and speed has allowed him to excel on the hardwood, as well. Custis told The Philadelphia Inquirer that pursu-ing a spot on SU’s basketball roster is something he’d “like to do.” Szydlik thinks Custis would give it a shot as a two-sport athlete at SU, if the opportunity were presented to him.
Custis also told the South Philly Review in a story published Thursday that he “has not ruled out” trying to walk on to Jim Boeheim’s program, but he did not return numerous phone calls for this story.
Also a member of Neumann-Goretti’s varsity bas-ketball team, Custis would be the third Saints hoops’ product to play for Syracuse in the last three years, after Scoop Jardine and Rick Jackson. Custis earned offers
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considers walking on to basketball team
By Josh HyberSTAFF WRITER
With the score knotted at 1-1 and 15 minutes remaining in Syracuse’s Sept. 20 match against Duke, SU head coach Ian McIntyre turned to his bench.
Out went Stefanos Stamoulacatos and Emil Ekblom. In went for-wards Grant Chong and Noah Rhyn-hart. That
same minute, Orange forward Chris Nanco scored what turned out to be the game-winning goal in SU’s 2-1 vic-tory off an assist from Chong.
Through seven games this season, Chong and Rhynhart have been key reserves for the Orange, bringing instant energy to the SU lineup. The two will look to continue that trend Wednesday night when Syracuse (5-2, 1-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) hosts Massachusetts (0-7-1) at 7 p.m. at SU Soccer Stadium.
“They’re important parts of our team,” McIntyre said. “ ... You have players who will come on just to kind of provide a rest for some of the start-ers, and then you have players like Noah and Grant who you’re hoping can change the game.”
Entering Wednesday’s match, the two have combined for just one start — Chong started on Sept. 9 against Manhattan. But while Chong and Rhynhart rank 11th and 13th, respec-tively, on the team in minutes, they’re each tied for fifth in points.
Both Chong and Rhynhart said the mindset of a reserve is different than that of a starter, but they both lool to make the most of their oppor-tunities. As Chong put it, “Not only just to give Stef, Nanco, (Alex) Halis and Emil a breather, but to go in and have an impact.”
Knowing the defenders they’re fac-ing have probably been on the field for a while, Chong and Rhynhart take advantage with their own legs, play-ing balls behind the defenders and forcing them to move.
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EXTRA POINTSTwo years after ACL injury, Erin Simon is Syracuse women’s soccer’s leading scorer. page 12