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february 23, 2012
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the daily orange
Panel to talk on coverage of scandals By Jen Bundy STAFF WRITER
The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host a symposium titled “When Games Turn Grim: Can Media Cover Sports Scandals Responsibly?” on Thursday to examine the media’s coverage of notorious sports scandals. The symposium will take place in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is A daylong sympo- free and open to sium featuring four the public. panels covering The daylong topics related to symposium will recent national sex include four scandals. panel sessions Where: Joyce A. Hergenhan Audito- on the specific topics of jourrium nalism, public When: Today How much: Free relations, ethics and overall coverage of the recent sport scandals that occurred at Syracuse University and Pennsylvania State University, according to a Feb. 14 SU News release. “As a top journalism school, we felt it was our obligation to look at what was going on in terms of sports scandals,” said Joel Kaplan, a communications law professor at Newhouse. Steve Davis, chair of the newspaper and online journalism department at Newhouse, said in the release the symposium will reflect on the media’s response to these events, both the negative and the positive. The first portion of the symposium will include a variety of journalists from different backgrounds who have experience in similar sports scandalrelated stories. This panel, titled “The Journalists,” will be moderated by Kaplan. Kaplan said the symposium was also a useful tool in attracting alumni such as Pete Thamel, a 1999 SU alumnus and college sports reporter with The New York Times. Other panelists include Michael J. Connor, executive editor at The Post-Standard; Jeff D’Alessio, assistant to the CEO of Sporting News; and Vince Doria, senior vice president and director of news at ESPN. David Saunders, a freshman aerospace engineering major, said he believes the symposium is definitely an interesting topic of conversation, especially with the trials concerning
“When Games Turn Grim: Can Media Cover Sports Scandals Responsibly?”
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andrew renneisen | staff photographer KRIS JOSEPH AND SCOOP JARDINE, members of the SU basketball team, don gray Nike Hyper Elite uniforms during the game Wednesday night. The uniforms are part of a line of jerseys specifically designed for teams who have won national championships.
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Students react to Nike Hyper Elite uniforms By Dylan Segelbaum STAFF WRITER
In their 56-48 victory against South Florida on Monday night in the Carrier Dome, the Orange donned a color unrelated to their name: gray. The uniforms were a part of the Nike Hyper Elite Platinum series, a line of jerseys specifically designed for college basketball teams who have won a national championship in Nike gear. This
was the only time this season they will be worn. SU’s version of the jersey is primarily gray with orange sides. The uniforms read “Cuse” on the front, instead of the usual “Orange.” The specialty jerseys were unveiled last month, and schools such as Duke, Kentucky and North Carolina wore them earlier this year as well. At the game, orange Nike T-shirts with gray “Cuse” text on the front
were distributed to students for free. SU students who attended the game appeared to have varied reactions to the uniforms. Matt Scott, a senior computer engineering major, was among individuals vehemently opposed to the gray uniforms. He theorized the jerseys were worn as a result of sponsorship pressure from Nike. “We’re orange, and seeing us in gray takes me back a little bit to
GREEN EFFECT Not only is the color different, but the Orange’s Nike Hyper Elite uniforms were also designed for increased performance and a lower environmental effect. The shorts are made from 100 percent recycled polyester, and the jerseys are made from at least 96 percent recycled polyester.
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Rise in college student hospitalizations due to underage drinking By Joshua B. Dermer CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The number of emergency transports due to alcohol-related incidences has significantly risen at Syracuse University in the past year. Benjamin Domingo, director of Health Services at SU, said the department received more than 70 calls by October, which was close to the total number of calls placed last year. “Statistics that we’ve run show that a lot of these were, quite frankly, in freshmen,” Domingo said. “We’ve
noticed that the majority of our calls are really 18- and 19-year-olds. Once you get above that there really aren’t that many.” Domingo said that so far this year, they have received 93 calls, 82 of which were handled by the SU Ambulance service and 58 of which were on campus. Of the calls responded to, 48 percent came from males and 50 percent came from females, Domingo said. Meredith Doty, a sophomore illustration major, said she thinks freshmen overdrink because they don’t
know their own limits yet. “They don’t have much experience with drinking in such a large party scene so they go a little crazy and think they can handle more than they actually can,” she said. SU’s numbers support the most recent Mayo Clinic study, published Feb. 15. The study found that the average age of alcohol-related hospitalizations is 18 years old, 61 percent of them male. The highest frequency of incidences was found in the Northeast and Midwest. The lowest number of incidences was found in the
South. Natalie Garland, a freshman anthropology major, said she was made aware of two incidences involving alcohol-related hospitalizations in the past month. “A guy I know was hazed this past weekend, and a girl just got really drunk, I think in her dorm because there weren’t any good parties and she was bored,” she said. “I was really shocked and worried initially, then more thankful they were OK and made it to the hospital.”
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