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Fueling the fire

Source of inspiration Nicholas Kristof is a wise choice

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All in the family Dylan Donahue is the latest

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to tell us who you think best exemplifies the Syracuse University community.

common council

Housing decision is postponed

By Nicki Gorny ASST. NEWS EDITOR

The resolution to create a “student resident” category in the city zoning code was held at the Syracuse Common Council meeting Monday.

Khalid Bey, 4th district Syracuse common councilor, chose to hold the resolution to continue discussion of the legality of creating student-use zones, he said after the meeting.

The amendment to the city zoning code is part of legislation proposed

by Bey and the Southeast University Neighborhood Association to

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Seniors react to selection of speaker

By Jessica Iannetta ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Sweta Giri had never heard about Nicholas Kristof, but one bit of information from a friend told her all she needed to know.

“He writes about Cambodia,” her friend told her. “You’ll like him.”

That was enough for Giri, a senior sociology major with a minor in Southeast Asian studies, to get excited about Syracuse University’s choice for the 2013 commencement speaker.

Kristof, a New York Times columnist, will give the 2013 commencement address to SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students on May 12 in the Carrier Dome.

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LOST IN TRANSLATION Newhouse’s emphasis on English, group work results in challenges for international students

By Nicki Gorny

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hen Kyungseo Han was asked to delete a photo of a girl wearing a spaghettistrap tank top from her camera because officials at a Model United Nations debate in Singapore deemed it inappropriate, she knew she’d have to go abroad to get a degree in communications.

Han’s desire to study communications under greater press freedom brought her to the S.I. Newhouse

School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she is currently a sophomore television, radio and film major.

“I found that the U.S. is more adaptable to studying communications. They’re more open and there’s more freedom,” said Han, who is originally from South Korea.

Last year, Han and 39 other students were part of the largest number of international undergraduates at Newhouse in recent years, according to enrollment statistics

from the Slutzker Center for International Services. This number is likely to continue to grow as recruiting efforts increase in Asia, Europe and South America, said Rosanna Grassi, associate dean at Newhouse.

But Newhouse, ranked among the top communications schools in the country, poses distinct challenges to international students through particular emphases on language, interactive group work and media awareness.

“If I’m a math major, that’s a uni-

versal language. I can solve problems with people across the world using numbers and symbols that we’ll all understand,” Grassi said.

“But communications is not that way. It’s language-based.”

For this reason, admissions staff members request prospective Newhouse students score a 100 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or a 7.5 on the International English Language Testing System.

These standards are the highest

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March 5, 2003 Painting disappears from Watson Hall

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n unidentified person stole an oil painting of Thomas J. Watson, the namesake of Watson Theatre and Watson Residence Hall, from the dorm sometime between Feb. 20-Feb. 23.

According to the Public Safety report, filed Feb. 23, the painting was discovered missing from a Watson Hall lounge around 1:30 p.m. The Syracuse University Art Collection found out about the theft only within the past few days, and is now working toward its safe return.

“No one really thought to call us,” said Dave Major, preparatory of the Art Collection.

The Art Collection, according to Major, was notified not through Public Safety, but instead by someone in the Office of Residence Life. As a result, he said, they do not really have any record of how the theft was originally discovered.

The portrait of Watson measured 38 by 32 inches in length, a dimension slightly larger when the frame is included. The portrait, by Hilda Grossman Taylor, depicted Watson, an older gentleman in a suit and tie, and was found in 1976 during an annual inspection of the campus inventory. The painting had been displayed in Watson Hall for approximately 20 years, according to David Prince, curator of the Art Collection.

Officials refused to comment on the piece’s monetary value, but cite the theft’s

effect on the university’s art community.

“Any time a work of art is missing from the campus, we are affected,” Prince said.

“We want to be sure everything is as safe as possible.”

Prince noted that the painting had been displayed in a secure, lockable room.

“There have been various pranks,” said Prince, who noted that an incident involving a work of art had not occurred within the past 10 years. “Sometimes it’s a fraternity or sorority thing. They’re told to get a specific work. It’s just one of those things. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen very often.”

In a letter addressed to Watson Hall residents late Tuesday, Office of Residence Life Associate Director William Longcore asked residents for any help in providing a safe return for the painting, citing its historical value to the university community.

“It is likely that the painting was removed by someone familiar with the Watson residential community,” the letter stated. “We are asking for the safe return of the painting, no questions asked, to either the Watson Hall main desk or a member of the Watson Hall main desk or a member of the Watson staff by Friday, March 7. Our only interest is to be able to recover the painting undamaged.”

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Advocate to speak on trafficking

By Caroline Strange CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Conor Grennan will speak about child trafficking in Nepal at the second University Lecture of the semester this Tuesday night.

The event, called “Little Princes: Changing the World through

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luke rafferty | asst. photo editor Students who are a part of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign chant as they march from the steps of Hendricks Chapel to Crouse-Hinds Hall. The group is advocating for the university to stop investing in fossil fuels. Students also discussed the issue with administrators.

Group protests against SU’s use of fossil fuels

By Meredith Newman ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Even howling wind and falling snow didn’t hinder the protesters’ support for divesting in fossil fuels. As 20 students stood together on the steps of Hendricks Chapel, they chanted in unison, “We are unstoppable, another

world is possible.”

Like thousands of others across the country, students from Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry participated in the March Fo[u]rth on Climate campaign Monday morning. The

campaign advocates for climate justice across the country on March 4.

Protestors at Hendricks rallied in an effort to get the two institutions to divest, or cease investing, in fossil fuel companies.

The SU and ESF Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign sponsored the event.

“We’re here on this national day to act in solidarity,” said Stephanie Lee, one of the rally’s organizers and member of the divestment campaign.

“We want sustainability within the Syracuse community. We’re here to show the administration that people

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Whitman representative gives first home college report

By Debbie Truong ENTERPRISE EDITOR

Last semester, student representatives in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management helped integrate Excel into the school’s management curriculum and headed an effort to refurnish the study space in the college’s main lobby.

This information was relayed to assembly representatives in a report

by Jen Bacolores, a junior finance major, who kicked off a series of home college committee reports to be presented at coming Student Association meetings during Monday’s meeting in Maxwell Auditorium.

Incorporating Excel into the management curriculum stemmed from the marketability of the skill, as Excel certification is a sought-after business ability, Bacolores said. Incorporating Excel lessons into the curriculum makes the skill available to students who wouldn’t otherwise consider being certified or educated in Excel.

“There are workshops and there are Excel certification courses that are offered through Whitman, but a lot of students don’t necessarily take the initiative,” said Bacolores, who previously served as SA’s Board of Elections and Membership chair.

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The Martin J. Whitman School of Management Representatives presented the first college committee report.

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The committee’s report lasted two slides and less than five minutes. It did not go in depth in describing specific ITS-related concerns voiced by students.

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Volunteering and Storytelling,” is sponsored by Hendricks Chapel and the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel.

Grennan worked at the EastWest Institute for eight years before departing in 2004 for a trip around the world. During this trip, Grennan volunteered at the Little Princes Children’s Home in the village of Godawari, Nepal, according to the University Lecture website.

Grennan left his lucrative job to volunteer in Nepal and has an amazing story to tell, said Esther Gray, University Lectures coordinator, in an email.

“Conor discovered first-hand exactly how interconnected we are globally and how one person can make a huge difference in the lives of children — and vice versa,” Gray said. “Sitting behind a desk didn’t prepare him for seeing and witnessing first-hand the issue of poverty and child trafficking, as well as the effects of war.”

While volunteering at the Little Princes Children’s Home in Godawari, Grennan learned that most of the children were not orphans as he had previously thought, but victims of trafficking.

After returning to the United States, Grennan learned that child traffickers had taken seven of the children he had befriended in Nepal. Grennan moved to Kathmandu, Nepal, and founded Next Generation Nepal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reuniting trafficked children with their families, according to a University Lectures Series f lier.

Grennan has successfully reconnected more than 350 fami-

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Hagel’s rightful urge for restrained influence abroad frustrates conservatives

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hen Chuck Hagel was sworn in as defense secretary last week, he argued that the United States could not dictate to the world what to do regarding domestic policy. He said the United States has limited resources and must use them wisely.

Hagel is correct, but his views will likely anger conservatives who think he is not preserving America’s tough, commanding image.

Hagel, who spoke to Pentagon staff after being sworn in, said, “I’ve always believed that America’s role in the world is one that — and we’ve had variations of this throughout his-

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to the left, to the left tory — has been one that should engage the world.” For conservatives who like seeing shows of military strength, Hagel’s view of limited American influence is unappealing.

But Hagel’s viewpoints will guide America in the right direction.

Hagel’s comments are only the latest in a series of occurrences that frustrate conservatives with the lack of toughness Obama’s administration has conveyed. Republican presidential candidates repeatedly criticized Obama for bowing to foreign leaders as a sign of respect. They saw it as a sign of submissiveness and Obama’s inability to properly represent America.

Gov. Mitt Romney attacked Obama for going on an “apology tour” to the Middle East, as if the United States had done nothing wrong and made no mistakes. Conservatives need to better understand the history of this country and foreign policy. The United States shares the blame for the current state of the Middle East.

The United States has supported leaders and regimes in the Middle East that have been toppled in the Arab Spring. Past leaders provided financial assistance to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for arms. In the 1950s, the United States supported a military coup in Iran, rather than allow a democratically elected Iranian president to lead. Obama apologized for little of the United States’ long history in the region.

The United States does not need toughness.

We saw the result of this attitude under the George W. Bush administration. The need to vigorously pursue terrorism got us into Iraq.

The United States spent trillions of dollars for no tangible benefit. Invading and occupying Iraq made our intelligence look weak, and showed America as a country overly willing to

engage in conflict.

In 2002, Hagel voted to authorize the war Iraq, possibly signaling he has not always believed the United States shouldn’t dictate what the world should do. He now wants to use military power as a last resort. Hopefully, this emphasis on diplomacy is what becomes reality.

Some in the United States want to further involve the country in conflicts ongoing or emerging in Syria or Iran. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called for U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria this past weekend. He said, “If we stand on the sidelines, others will try to pick winners, and this will not always be to our liking or in our interest.”

McCain’s view is outdated – he believes the United States has limitless power to carry out its foreign policy. Hagel’s view is more realistic. The United States may not always want to use its military to see its interests are followed. McCain and other conservatives need to accept that the United States may not always get its way all the time.

Maintaining an image of militaristic superiority is important to some conservatives, but this is not what the United States should prioritize. We have already suffered the consequences of trying to assert our superiority.

Hagel’s viewpoints appear to guide the country in the right direction. Rather than focus our efforts on influencing other countries, we should focus efforts on improving our own.

Harmen Rockler is a senior newspaper and online journalism and political science major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at horockle@ syr.edu or followed on Twitter at @LeftofBoston.

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Coin-operated washers, dryers lack modern sophistication

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oes anyone carry cash anymore? I hardly ever have a few bills on me, except when I go to Chuck’s Café and have to pay the ridiculous seven-days-a-week cover charge.

Everything nowadays is done via credit card and cash just isn’t as necessary, which makes change virtually useless.

This makes doing laundry a herculean task for me. The laundry machines in my apartment building still only take quarters, and finding enough quarters to do laundry is harder than finding Jimmy Hoffa’s body.

Really though, why are we still dealing with coin-operated washers and dryers? In the blink of an eye, it’s possible to look up pictures on my computer taken by the Hubble Space Telescope a billion miles away, but I can’t use a credit card to run a Maytag?

Beyond that, my landlords charge $1.50 for a wash and 25 cents per 10 minutes in a dryer. So basically, it has gotten to the point where I’m carrying a sack of coins along with my sack of clothes down to the laundry room. It is, quite simply, ridiculous.

Nobody uses coins anymore. Not even parking meters in Syracuse — those also take plastic now. Apparently, I could probably pay for most things using my phone if I wanted to, though I’m technologically impaired and have no idea how I would go about doing that.

I bet teaching myself how to use Google Wallet would be a heck of a lot easier than finding enough quarters to pay for some loads of laundry.

They’re out there, somewhere in the world – between couch cushions, under the fridge and in the cup holder of my car.

But it takes 45 minutes to assemble them all together and then, inevitably, I’m 25 cents short.

Basically, for me, being 21 is mostly an endless quest to find

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world on a string quarters. And it’s a difficult quest: gas stations never want to give you change and give you dirty looks when they relent. Change machines only exist in video game arcades, and since video game arcades don’t exist anymore, that’s out.

I never thought I would find myself longing for the halcyon days of residence hall laundry rooms, but man, that was the one thing you got right, Syracuse. Paying for washing and drying via SUpercard Plus is genius.

You swipe your credit card, punch in the number for your respective machine, and boom – the machine starts. No more quarters jangling around in my pocket, falling out everywhere, getting lost.

Now that I’ve moved off campus, however, I’m trapped in the hellish crusade to gather quarters that seem to scatter like startled sheep, no matter what I do. So please, society, let’s move into the 21st century. Let’s remember that we’re a species that has landed on the Moon, split the atom and apparently curing AIDS. Let’s end the coin-operated laundry thing.

It’s silly.

And who knows? With this technological update, maybe we can take all the change we’re not using and put it toward ending that sequestration thing – and I can stop pretending to know what that word means.

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Kristof’s experiences ensure inspiring speech An individual’s career is not the most important quality to consider when selecting a speaker for the annual commencement ceremony.

Rather, it is the message the individual sends to the graduating class that matters.

Syracuse University’s decision to select New York Times columnist and reporter Nicholas Kristof as the 2013 commencement speaker was a wise choice. His writing abilities and astonishing life experiences will allow him to give an inspiring speech that will resonate with the majority of those graduating.

Kristof has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work covering China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement and his columns on the genocide in Darfur. He has reported on six continents, lived on four and has visited more than 150 countries and all 50 states.

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EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board His background will allow his speech to reach beyond the world of journalism. Through his work, Kristof has become an expert on issues related to foreign cultures as well as our own, and has developed an understanding of a variety of topics, including politics and economics.

Because of this, Kristof will be able to deliver a speech that caters to a vast array of student interests at SU, as well as allow these students to gain invaluable knowledge about the world into which they are about to embark.

For some, choosing Kristof as the commencement speaker does not supply enough diversity between the professions of recent speakers, as Bob Woodruff from ABC News gave the

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speech in 2008.

Though this is a worthy critique, speakers in the past five years have catered to a range of interests and professions. In this time period, SU has welcomed a scientist, screenwriter, business executive and vice president of the United States.

Another shortfall for some in choosing Kristof is that he spoke at SU in November 2010 as a part of the University Lectures Series. This means some students graduating in May have already heard Kristof speak.

However, his lecture in 2010 was specifically about women’s rights.

Each commencement speaker comes with a specific professional background that may appeal to a certain niche of students more than others. Though this is inevitably the case, Kristof is a choice that should garner student-wide appreciation due to his life experiences.

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Hustler Magazine publisher to speak on First Amendment in Tully series

By Sam Blum STAFF WRITER

Larry Flynt, publisher of pornographic publications like Hustler Magazine, will speak on First Amendment issues at 5 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium of the Schine Student Center on Tuesday.

The event, titled “Fighting For The First Amendment,” will be featured as a part of the Tully Center’s 2013 Distinguished Speaker Series. Tully Center Director Roy Gutterman said a large school like Syracuse University is a great place to discuss First Amendment issues.

“A college campus is usually a place where we can have discussions about controversial and edgy issues,” Gutterman said, “and Mr.

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among the colleges within SU. Most other colleges at SU require a score of 80 on the TOEFL and 6.5 on the IELTS, according to SU’s website.

But ways around these standards exist. For internal transfers within colleges, the same rules apply to international students as domestic — a minimum of 30 credits at SU and a GPA acceptable for a particular semester, Grassi said. But few international students enter Newhouse this way, she said, estimating that of the group of students admitted to transfer into Newhouse in any given semester, about 10 percent are international students.

Once at Newhouse, international students are held to the same high standards as domestic students, said Joan Deppa, a Newhouse professor who teaches a required grammar course to freshmen and transfer students.

The rules of standard American English challenge many students, both domestic and international, Deppa said. Although she acknowledged the difficulty of mastering a foreign language, Deppa said English fluency is a valuable skill for students and important to their success.

“I have some sympathy for it, but that does not mean we excuse it or hold them to a lower standard,” she said. “That’s not doing them a favor.”

Spelling and grammar are important because their misuse detracts from a student’s “credibility as a communicator,” said Brad Gorham, chair of the communications department at Newhouse.

Gorham said he grades written assignments in great detail and without regard for a student’s background in English.

Although some grammatical slip-ups – like the misuse of collective nouns – will sometimes identify an international student’s work, Gorham said he doesn’t generally see international students struggle more than domestic students.

“I have had many international students who write beautiful papers and many domestic students who write awful papers,” he said.

Gorham and Deppa said they encourage struggling students, both international and domestic, to take advantage of available resources such as

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lies that were separated by child trafficking, according to the flier.

A graduate of the University of Virginia and New York University Stern School of Business, Grennan is the president of Next Generation Nepal and author of “Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost

Flynt really does push the envelope.”

In 1978, Flynt was shot outside of a courthouse. The shooting left him paralyzed from the waist down. The man arrested for the crime was a white supremacist who confessed he had shot Flynt because of an interracial photo portrayed in Hustler, according to a Feb. 16, 1997, article in The New York Times.

Flynt’s success with Larry Flynt Publications was so highly regarded that a movie was made to showcase the story of his life. Woody Harrelson portrayed Flynt in the 1996 drama titled “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” according to IMDb. Gutterman said the event is more than a year and a half in the making.

“I sent out some feelers toward him and fol-

the Writing Center, peers, and the new grammar and writing coach at Newhouse.

In addition, many international students develop effective compensation strategies to deal with language challenges, such as recording lectures or arranging study groups, said Margo Sampson, language coordinator for SU’s English for Speakers of Other Languages program.

More than language challenges, international students must also overcome cultural differences. One of these, said Grassi, is Newhouse’s focus on interactive learning, a class structure that is different from the lecture-style classes many international students are used to.

This was the case for Han, the television, radio and film major, who said she finds Asian students to be culturally more introverted and inclined toward individual work, making group projects particularly difficult.

For Han, a difficulty in expressing herself in English is even more frustrating in group settings. Consequently, she said she contributed

lowed up. I spent the better part of a year and a half trying to put this together,” he said. “We usually do two or three events a year, and this will be our big one for the spring.”

Flynt has faced a number of legal battles relating to the First Amendment as president of Larry Flynt Publications. In one memorable case, Flynt published an obscene cartoon of the conservative Rev. Jerry Falwell in a 1983 edition of Hustler, Gutterman said.

Fallwell sued Flynt because of the cartoon and lost. The case set a precedent against allowing public figures to sue based on parodies, he said.

Last week was the 25th anniversary of the landmark case, which Gutterman said was the reason the Tully Center invited him to speak.

“Education in a lot of countries is very highly valued. Here in the U.S. – I hate to say this – but it’s not as highly valued.

It’s an expectation that everyone goes to college.”

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very little to a group video project her freshman year. But in the semesters since, she said, teamwork has become easier for her as she’s adapted to this interactive teaching style.

Xiaoyang Liao, a sophomore advertising and economics major from China, said she

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AROUND THE WORLD The number of international students at Syracuse University has been steadily increasing in the past few years. Here are the top 12 countries international students at SU came from in 2012, as well as their official languages:

China - Chinese South Korea – Korean Canada – English

Taiwan – Chinese Hong Kong – Cantonese Japan – Japanese India – Hindi

Saudi Arabia – Arabic United Kingdom – English Brazil – Portuguese Turkey – Turkish

“His adult magazines have really pushed the envelope with obscenity regulators and obscenity regulations,” Gutterman said. “He’s made a lot of steps towards fighting for people’s rights to have the kind of content that they want to have and have the types of opinions that they want to have. He’s really a trailblazer in free speech and free press circles.” sblum@syr.edu

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often wonders and worries her American teammates consider her a detriment to group projects. These situations occur often in Newhouse classes, Liao said. In one advertising class alone, she said, she had two separate team assignments.

In a similar way, a fear of judgment of her background or English ability makes Liao reluctant to speak during class, which she said is not typically an option in her Newhouse classes.

Cultural differences create other challenges as well, Han said. References to American television shows, actors and current events in an introductory communications course last year were often lost on Han, who said she spent a lot of time looking up these examples on Google.

Adding to these academic challenges is the pressure many international students feel to succeed, said Pat Burak, director of the Slutzker Center. This pressure is often rooted in familial responsibility, she said, explaining that students are often conscious of the sacrifices their families make to send them to college in the United States.

In addition, education carries a greater importance in some other cultures, Burak said.

“Education in a lot of countries is very highly valued,” she said. “Here in the U.S. – I hate to say this – but it’s not as highly valued. It’s an expectation that everyone goes to college.”

This value for education led Liao, who is from China, to “pursue a better and higher level of education” in the United States, she said, even though her parents’ first condition in sending her to SU was that she return to China upon graduation.

Pursuing a communications degree at Newhouse as an international student is difficult, Liao said, and her classes become tougher every semester.

She transferred into Newhouse at the end of last year, and has often felt overwhelmed in the eight Newhouse classes she has enrolled in this academic year, especially when she thinks about the amount of work to be done at the start of each semester.

But as long as she works hard, Liao said she is confident in her abilities and continuing improvement.

Said Liao: “I feel like I’m well-prepared for the Newhouse challenge.” nagorny@syr.edu @Nicki_Gorny

Children of Nepal,” according to a March 1 SU News release.

VPA is sponsoring the event because it relates to its communication and rhetorical studies program, and administrators feel Grennan’s storytelling background fits nicely with their academic program, said VPA Project Director Kathleen Foley.

Grennan is also a good example of someone who developed a career from his personal passions, she said.

In preparation for the lecture, Syracuse University Food Services served a Nepal-themed dinner Feb. 28.

The menu on Thursday included carrot ginger soup, Nepali cucumber salad, Tarkari (vegetable curry), Kukhura Ko Masu (chicken Tarkari curry), Daal Bhaat (lentils and rice), Chana Masala (spicy chick peas), Chain Ko Takari (curried mushrooms), Sang (curried spinach), basmati rice, pistachio ice cream and mango Lassi, said Lynne

Mowers, secretary to the director of SU Food Services, in an email.

This is not the first time SU Food Services has done this, Mowers said. Specific meals are planned to coincide with University Lectures.

Mowers said SU Food Services officials attempt to incorporate a themed meal when a University Lectures Series speaker’s topic has the potential to fit with a theme. cstrange@syr.edu

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lasses are no longer just for seeing clearly.

Google Glass is a pair of glasses that weighs about the same as a traditional pair of sunglasses, with a single translucent glass screen in front of the right eye. The glass screen will allow for the projection of travel directions, viewing of pictures and consumption of video, according to a June 29, 2012, article

by Wired magazine.

Even though Google Glass represents a significant leap forward in technology, there is uncertainty as to whether the public will accept it when it is released in 2014.

Google Glass will also have a built-in 720p high-definition camera mounted on the frame, according to a Feb. 26 IGN article. This feature will allow the wearer to snap pictures, record video and stream live video to the Internet, according to Wired.

Google Glass will be navigated by voice commands similar to Apple’s Siri. Since this accessory will be worn in an active setting,

KRISTOF FROM PAGE 1

Kristof has worked for The New York Times since 1984, and has won two Pulitzer Prizes: one in 2006 for his columns on the genocide in Darfur and one in 1990 for his joint coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn.

During his career, Kristof has reported on six continents and lived in four. He has also visited more than 140 countries, all 50 states, every province in China and every main island in Japan.

This international perspective is why Giri

there will not be any keypads or touchscreens, according to Wired.

The “Explorer” edition will allow for the coupling of traditional sunglasses or even prescription glasses, according to a Feb. 24 post on Information Space, the School of Information Studies’ blog.

To distribute the highly anticipated glasses, Google has been collecting tweets with the hashtag #IfIHadGlass. Only 8,000 pairs of Glass priced at $1,500 will be available through the fast-paced social media promotion, according to the blog.

The general public will probably not be able to buy Glass in retail until 2014, according to Wired.

At this point, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS integration will be standard, but later editions may incorporate a cell radio inside for cellphone call transmission, according to IGN. The goal of Glass is to help people stay connected with family and friends seamlessly and without the need for a smartphone. Glass’ ability to record videos from a first-person per-

said she thinks Kristof will make a good speaker.

“If he talks not just about America, but the whole world and highlights different events in other countries, I think it will be good,” she said.

SU has many students from around the world, and if Kristof is able to touch on a variety of different countries in his talk, it will bring the senior class together, she said.

But other SU seniors think Kristof is a good choice for only a small group of students on campus.

“It’s really exciting for Newhouse kids, but if you’re an engineering major, you might not be as happy,” said Jessica Alessandra, a senior advertising major.

spective will also allow rich content-sharing opportunities, according to IGN. Glass, built on Google’s Android operating system, will allow developers to be creative.

Unfortunately, there is no way to predict whether consumers will enjoy having a computer around their eyes, according to Wired.

Google’s demo video, “How it Feels,” features a montage of different applications of Glass. Uses such as recording a rollercoaster ride, snapping pictures of friends or asking for directions while skiing down a slope demonstrate that Glass can be useful as a personal assistant. Even though not all features will be available for the initial launch, they will likely be introduced as developers become familiar with the product.

Kearney Erhard, a junior advertising and marketing major and author of the Information Space blog, said in an email that the public may be slow to accept Google Glass, but that it may grow in popularity, given the support behind it.

“Google Glass has an uphill battle in convincing consumers that they need a screen

“It’s really exciting for Newhouse kids but if you’re an engineering major you might not be as happy.”

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Aaron Sorkin’s commencement speech last year will be hard to top, but Alessandra said Kristof is “still cool.”

Sam Marji, a senior health and exercise

SEEING CLEARLY Google Glass includes several features that can help users when it finally hits the market in 2014. A few of them are:

•Reminders: Google Glass can pop up a reminder on the screen to notify the user of upcoming appointments.

•Dictation: Like Siri on the iPhone, Google Glass lets the users dictate text messages.

•Travel alerts: A message will pop up on the screen if there are transportation delays.

•Directions: Google Glass can give users turn-by-turn directions to their destination.

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constantly appearing in their vision,” he said.

“However, there is little doubt that the product will be a success given the hype and the big money behind the project.” jmrose03@syr.edu

science major agreed, and said she had never heard of Kristof. However, she said she thinks Kristof’s talk can still be successful and reach a lot of students if it’s more general.

“It depends on what he talks about,” she said.

“If he talks about life after college, I can relate to that, but if he talks about journalism, then for my major, it wouldn’t really apply.”

Jen Camasso, a senior health and exercise science major, said she didn’t know who Kristof was and would have preferred Ellen DeGeneres or Jimmy Kimmel as the commencement speaker, though she admits her picks would be hard to arrange.

Said Camasso: “I just hope he’s funny.” jliannet@syr.edu

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support this cause.”

The rally started on the steps of Hendricks at 10:30 a.m. when students gathered holding large, hand-made signs with slogans such as “Divest = Freedom,” “Dive$tment” and “Let’s truly improve our world.”

The students’ chants continued as they marched to Crouse-Hinds Hall, where selected representatives from the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign met with members of SU’s Sustainability Action Council, Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina, Chief Financial Officer Lou Marcoccia and Laura Steinberg, dean of the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.

During the meeting, the group of students outlined the campaign’s goals, specifically that the university stop further fossil fuel investment and eliminate all fossil fuel investments within the next five years, said Ben Keubrich, one of the student representatives.

Keubrich, a doctoral candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the administrators were open to continuing discussion about divestment and finding ways to reduce the amount of investments in fossil fuel companies within the university’s endowment.

The administrators also informed the students of potential challenges in the total elimination of the investments, he said.

The challenges are attributed to the complexity of SU’s endowment, he said. Keubrich added that the energy sector of the endowment makes up 5 percent of the $960 million endowment.

The Board of Trustees will make the executive decision on the degree of fossil fuel investment.

The endowment has many different elements, Spina said in an email. While some components are “locked in” for long periods of time, some ele-

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ments are not easily transparent to the university because they are managed by outside groups.

He added that it is too early in the university’s investigation to see what the effect would be if SU completely divested in fossil fuels.

“We are committed to exploring the facts and making both a socially and financially responsible policy recommendation, understanding that the administration will work with the Board of Trustees on this matter,” Spina said.

The group will continue to correspond with the administration, Keubrich said. A meeting is scheduled for April.

Keubrich added that the group plans to create and pass a Student Association resolution in the coming months, supporting divestment of fossil fuels.

Protestor Yannek Smith said the main goal of the rally was to “bring to light issues that are usually invisible to students.”

The demonstration, Smith said, was an opportunity to bridge the gap between SU and ESF, and unite the student bodies for a pressing cause.

Kevin Watson, who also attended the rally, said SU and ESF student body support is essential in combating fossil fuel divestments.

“If we get enough students aboard, then they (the administration) are going to have to go with it,” said Watson, a sophomore sustainable energy management major. “They wouldn’t go against that many students.”

Nicole Dimond, a sophomore conservation biology major, encouraged students from both ESF and SU to join the campaign because fossil fuel resources will not last forever. She added that Monday’s rally sent an important message to the community.

Said Dimond: “Us being out here shows people that we’re students who care about an issue, but also that we can get a lot done.” mhnewman@syr.edu @MerNewman93

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regulate the spread of student housing in the neighborhood near University Hill.

Under this legislation, a student residence would be defined by any residential dwelling occupied by three to five students. Each residence would then be registered with the city, with landlords applying for an annual license through a registry application that includes the names of student renters and the university each attends, according to the proposed legislation.

Discussions among neighborhood residents, landlords, the corporate council and the common council are ongoing, Bey said.

The primary concern is whether establishing a student resident category is legally possible.

If the new category can be established, he said,

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In addition, the Whitman committee replaced rickety tables in the college’s Flaum Hall, a central study space for students, and approved a policy for the Whitman team rooms that grants priority to students working in multiple-member teams, as opposed to those working individually.

Refurnishing the Flaum space and implementing the team room policy developed in response to student complaints, Bacolores said.

“We definitely think our students deserve a comfortable space to relax, to study or to even work in groups,” she said.

Accessibility and outreach to students will be among the Whitman committee’s focuses as the semester progresses. Advertisements for

then it can be zoned accordingly.

“To me,” Bey said, “that’s really where the argument lies, and legislation is under further scrutiny to determine whether the things suggested can be done legally.”

Because of the continued discussions, the resolution might not appear on the common council agenda again for a few weeks to a month, if at all, he said.

If passed, the ordinance would only apply to the Special Neighborhood District, or the area closest to University Hill, according to the proposed legislation. Any legally operating student rentals in the area would be grandfathered in, losing their status only if a student fails to rent or a landlord fails to apply for a license renewal for 12 months or more.

The ordinance is currently in effect in at least 13 municipalities in four states. In Lower Merion Township, Pa., it was chal-

“It is not a permanent suspension of the opportunity for housing.

It’s only that student housing could be acquired or could be established through a special permit.”

vacant Whitman representative seats in SA will be projected on plasma screens in Whitman and a monthly meet and greet is in the works, Bacolores said.

In continuing a semester-long effort to overhaul SA codes, parliamentarian Ben Jones introduced a lengthy bill that would officially modify the organization’s demerit system. The demerit system reprimands assembly representatives for missed meetings. Representatives that receive 12 demerits are subject to a hearing with SA’s Judicial Review Board.

The bill, titled the Omnibus Demerit Reform Act of 2013, would allow excused absences to go unpunished for up to three weeks in a row.

Currently, SA’s codes are written so that each excused absence is counted as two demerits.

If approved, the bill would also allow assembly members to request a meeting absence be

waived due to extenuating circumstances, such as family emergency or illness. A third provision permits committee heads to assign representatives demerits based on poor performance.

Said Jones: “I went through and found all the problems we have with demerits and this is my attempt to fix them.”

Other business discussed: The assembly approved approximately $9,766 in programming funding for eight separate student organizations. About $135,012 in special programming money remains for spring 2013.

A bill presented by Jones at last Monday’s SA meeting, which makes representative’s attendance mandatory at any secondary board to which they belong, was approved by the general assembly.

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lenged and upheld through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

Bey stressed the proposed legislation is not “anti-student,” but rather intended to sustain the existing quality of life in the Special Neigh-

borhood District.

To achieve this end, it would prevent landlords from converting single-family homes to multi-use student residences, an action that affects the quality of life in the neighborhood, he said.

“It is not a permanent suspension of the opportunity for housing,” he said. “It’s only that student housing could be acquired or could be established through a special permit.”

In addition to determining the legality of the proposed amendment to the zoning code, Bey said the discussions would include possible ways to appease all involved parties.

“My bottom line is to make sure that we are within legal boundaries, but also to see if there’s a possibility for equal satisfaction on the part of landlords and residents,” Bey said.

“Compromise is always the best outcome.” nagorny@syr.edu @Nicki_Gorny

described the functions of ESF’s student governing body to SA. Assembly representatives and some cabinet members, excluding president Allie Curtis and comptroller Stephen DeSalvo, among others, went into an approximately 25 minute-long executive session following the meeting. The executive session was not open to the public.

Daniel Hernandez, a sophomore in the School of Education, was approved to the Board of Administrative Operations.

The Academic Affairs Committee is meeting with ITS to discuss concerns from students.

The committee is also working on coordinating panels for the incoming freshman class on academic integrity.

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CONFESSIONS Anonymously controlled Facebook page sparks controversy on SU campus

By Avery Hartmans

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onfessions of sex in academic buildings.

Stories of roommate drama. Secrets about feeling alone in college. All of this, and more, appear on the Syracuse Confessions Facebook page.

The page, which asks students to send their most “heartfelt, disgusting, hilarious, filthy and embarrassing confessions from Syracuse,” launched Jan. 25, and has quickly become a topic of conversation on campus. To date, the page has nearly 2,000 likes with more than 250 “confessions” posted.

But Syracuse University’s confession page isn’t the only one of its kind. Similar pages have sprung up across the nation at universities such as Harvard, Tufts

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#78: FLASHING SOMEONE IS LIKE BREAKING THE SEAL, ONCE YOU DO IT YOU JUST CAN’T STOP. I MEAN BY THEN ITS LIKE WHY NOT? NEEDLESS TO SAY I’VE GONE ON FLASHING RAMPAGES...

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#37: ME AND MY GIRLFRIEND WERE HIGH AS F*CK AND DECIDED TO HAVE SEX IN HENDRICK’S. WE STUFFED THE USED CONDOM IN ONE OF THE BIBLES WE SAW. I FEEL KIND OF GUILTY, AND UNHOLY. and Clemson, to name a few. These anonymous pages are a part of a national trend that is beginning to concern professors and administrators.

Confessions pages like SU’s can raise concerns regarding anonymity, according to an article on the Inside Higher Ed website. Bill Oglesby, a professor of media ethics and law at Virginia Commonwealth University, said in the article that if an individual mentioned in a confession can be identified, they may be able to take legal action, depending on the seriousness of the secret.

“If someone’s reputation or character is damaged,” Oglesby said in the article, “he or she may have a cause of action for libel, if the person who posted the defamation can be identified.”

This issue of online anonymity is one SU’s Department of Public Safety takes very seriously.

Kathy Pabis, commander of day patrol operations for DPS, said although DPS is not monitoring the Syracuse Confessions page specifically, they are aware of it.

“Because there are so many sites and pages like this one, policing and managing all of them would be difficult,” Pabis said in an email. “We would, however, investigate complaints about this page’s content which are brought to our attention.”

Though the page is becoming popular, SU students don’t always appreciate the stories, particularly those

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Panel discusses gender equality, development in society

By Nicole Harris CONTRIBUTING WRITER

While sitting on a panel discussing women’s rights, anthropology professor Susan Wadley said there is a difference between equality and its outcomes.

“Sometimes, the push for equality actually brings major problems with it,” Wadley said, mentioning the recent shooting of a Pakistani girl and the gang rape in Delhi, India.

A panel discussion, titled “Gender Equality and Development,” took place Monday afternoon to celebrate International Women’s Day, which is held annually on March 8.

The Syracuse University international relations program and Sigma Iota Rho, a national honor society for international relations, hosted the free discussion.

The three panelists leading the discussion were Wadley, Azra Hro-

madzic, an assistant anthropology professor, and Farhana Sultana, an associate professor of geography. The event was facilitated by assistant professor of sociology Yingyi Ma. Gender roles, how far society has come in addressing equality and the challenges women still face were the main focus of the discussion. Common topics included women’s rights, education, discrimination and change.

To kick off the discussion, each professor discussed gender equality and development in the context of her fieldwork.

Sultana said context, histories, class and institutions have major roles in gender equality. She said society has to recognize that gender refers to both men and women. In that regard, she defined feminist scholar development as “highlighting, questioning and understanding” patriar-

chy in society.

Hromadzic, who is originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where women aren’t allowed to work, said she has a different perspective on the issue of gender. She said development projects tend to want to help, but simplify the idea of help.

“What is the way out? Escape the cultural trap, it frees possibilities,” she said. “Focus not so much on

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women or gender, but on issues that matter in people’s lives. To do this, we must understand these issues.”

"Focus not so much on women or gender, but on issues that matter in people’s lives."

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pertaining to illegal acts on campus, said Kyle Fenton, who frequently visits and comments on the page.

“With the illegal activity, hopefully they’re joking. And if they’re not, then they need to get a reality check,” said Fenton, a sophomore in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and School of Information Studies. “If it happened, it happened, but don’t put it up there expecting some type of response that generates traffic just because you’re an idiot.”

Kyle Ishman, a junior political science major, agreed, but said it is the shocking nature of many of the posts that keep people reading the page, regardless of how raunchy or immoral some of the confessions are.

Ishman noted some of his favorite confessions, including one from a student who used

Ma, the facilitator, asked the panelists two questions before the discussion concluded with three questions from the audience. They covered the changing dynamics of world power, the women’s solidarity movement and how women misuse the gender difference.

The international relations program continued the celebration of International Women’s Day on Monday with a screening of the documentary, “The Microlending Film Project,” which is about microloan’s effect on women. Director and producer Rachel Cook answered questions about the film after the screening.

Ma inquired about the importance of women in leadership positions. The panelists agreed it is important to further equality, but it’s not the only solution.

Wadley said South Asia has had seven female prime ministers in the last few years, which is a dramatic and unexpected accomplishment. She tied this to women’s achievements in the United States.

“We need to challenge old myths and think about new ones,” she said.

The next question was about the main force holding back progress toward gender equality. The panelists said capitalist patriarchy, media representation and Western homogeny are to blame.

Sultana, the geography professor, said women are taught to be a certain way, and are therefore objected to certain roles.

Said Sultana: “There is too much brainwashing going on.”

to urinate in his roommate’s lemon lime Gatorade bottles, or another from a male student who would have sex on his roommate’s bed so he didn’t have to wash his own sheets as frequently.

Much of what is posted is of a sexual nature.

One student confessed he and his girlfriend had sex inside Hendricks Chapel, leaving the used condom in a prayer book. Another confession mentions “hooking up” in a practice room in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Yet another describes receiving oral sex in a bathroom in Carnegie Library.

Confessions like that shocked even Ishman.

“There is some stuff on there that I didn’t think people would actually do in life, like at all,” he said.

But the confessions are not the only controversial postings on the page. Debates often break out in the comments section underneath the posts, particularly about confessions regarding sexual promiscuity or

relationships.

Fenton said he often voices his opinion in the comments section, “liking” or commenting on posts he can relate to or simply enjoys.

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#227: "I'M SORRY TO THE CLEANING LADY WHO HAD TO CLEAN UP MY THROW UP IN THE HALLWAY SINK, I REALLY DID TRY TO MAKE IT TO THE BATHROOM....BLAME IT ON THE TEQUILA." He said he has even started to gain attention for his input on the page. Fenton said he first commented on a post from a girl complaining about her boyfriend, which immediately received notice.

“Right now I’m at 125 ‘likes’ for that one comment. It gets a ton of traffic,” he said.

But Ishman said he worries some of what is posted on the page takes it too far, and that people may start getting offended.

Besides debates on sexuality and relationships, some of the posts pertain to SU students’ complaints about students from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry while others are more racially charged. In some cases, the posts border on harassment, which Pabis said is a concern for DPS. “We highly encourage anyone who feels that they are victims of bullying or other forms of harassment to report it to us,” Pabis said, adding that DPS has a link on its website that allows students to anonymously report non-emergency incidents.

With students attacking one another on Facebook and posts describing illegal activities on campus, it begs the question of who is monitoring the page. The administrator of Syracuse Confessions declined to be identified by The Daily Orange, but students have some guesses as to what type of person is behind the page.

Junior biology major Lindsay McCabe said her only guess is that the person behind the page is a female, which Fenton agreed with.

But, Fenton said, he’s not overly concerned with finding out who the founder of the page is.

“When you know the person behind it, it doesn’t really ruin what the page stands for, but it kind of ruins the effect,” he said. “When you know who’s behind it, you might know what they’re doing behind the scenes. I like that there’s the mystery of it. I don’t know and I kind of like it that way.” avhartma@syr.edu @averyhartmans

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r e t l i k Of fConcept album showcases local band's talent through existential sound the daily orange file photo AYA YAMAMOTO AND SAM KROGON, violinist and lead singer of The Vanderbuilts, respectively, perform at The Westcott Theater on Sept. 18. The Vanderbuilts are made up of four SUNY-ESF seniors and one alumnus. They released “What We Forgot” on March 1.

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By Erik van Rheenen STAFF WRITER

ast year, out-of-the-ordinary indierock busted the pop music landscape wide open. Fun. and Mumford & Sons cleaned up at the Grammys, and folksier acts — The Lumineers, Imagine Dragons, Gotye — notched unlikely Top 40 hits.

In short, mainstream music got weird, a trend The Vanderbuilts definitely capitalize on with their sophomore full-length album, “What We Forgot.”

The band penned it as a pseudo-concept album, tracing a journey from the beginning of time.

This is one out-there record.

But between the existential concept and the band’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to indie-rock standards, it works.

“What We Forgot” is The Vanderbuilts’ most mature work yet, and from the first shimmering notes of the instrumental intro “Some Time After 43,” it is also the band’s best-sounding.

Sticking a genre label on the band is tough, but with jangly toe-tappers like “Erasing Time” and “Let Me Know” pacing the album, The Vanderbuilts are like a Vampire WeekendThe Strokes hybrid by way of Talking Heads.

Those roots go hand in hand with The Vander-

builts’ baroque leanings: the string arrangements on the album are lushly composed, but they don’t come across overly folksy.

Lead singer Sam Kogon turns in a chameleonlike vocal performance on “What We Forgot,” and does his best jittery David Byrne impression on “I Wish I Was a Saber Toothed Tiger” before slinking into a frantic Julian Casablancas on “Moscow.” Kogon weaves through the songs with intricate deliveries — weepy ballad “Near and Far” and falsetto-laden “Gypsy” are standouts — even if his lyrics miss the mark once in a while.

It’s easy to give The Vanderbuilts a free pass for “breaking the mold of the typical concept album,” as described on the group’s Bandcamp site. But lyrically, a concept album needs, well, a concept. And when “Erasing Time” starts with a groovy beat and a line like “I have lived for 30,000 years,” while nostalgia-soaked closer “Had a Hat” leads off with “I believe I had a hat,” there’s going to be problems.

“What We Forgot” definitely belongs to the “Talking Heads School of Songs About Simplicity”: bluesy soft-rocker “Elvis” and acoustic number “Gypsy” stand at the awkward crossroad of love song and moody art rock, and The Vanderbuilts never sway one way or the other.

For all its strange idiosyncrasies, “What We Forgot” is a tough album not to get charmed by.

The production is vibrant, Kogon’s vocals are full of life and, minus a few clunkers, the songs are darn catchy. “Spring Awoke” is a roots-rock jam that tips its cap to Americana, and “Lies” sounds like a recording session in a garage on steroids.

“I’m Coming Home” even sounds radioready, boasting some huge harmonies and a quirkily placed string arrangement that sounds right at home on a driving melody that flaunts some sweet guitar-riffing. It has the understated epic indie sound down to a science.

But if “I’m Coming Home” is the album’s choice cut, its lowlight is easily “Had a Hat.” The lyrics are puzzling, the instrumentals are jumbled and Kogon just sounds bored. If The Vanderbuilts flipped the order of the closers, or heck, just trimmed “Had a Hat” off of the album entirely, “What We Forgot” would be a tighter, cleaner affair.

“What We Forgot” isn’t too weird to be hip: it’s not the kind of album that points to its own weirdness because it’s artsy, daring and wants the world to notice. It’s an organic kind of weird, one that stems from some carefully calculated experimenting that moves the Vanderbuilts further and further from any one genre.

Catch them on campus while you can – there’s a lot to remind listeners of another baroque-ish band that played shows in Syracuse before hitting it big. The Vanderbuilts haven’t exploded to Ra Ra Riot’s stature yet, but might find themselves on the brink sooner than they might expect.

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Sounds like: Talking Heads crossed with Vampire Weekend Genre: Undefined Top track: “I’m Coming Home” Rating: THE VANDERBUILTS What We Forget Self-Released Release Date: March 1

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Local Jordanian adolescents display wisdom, maturity due to experiences Editor’s note: The Daily Orange’s previous abroad columnist, Lara Sorokanich, has returned to campus and will no longer be writing a weekly column. Stephen Sydor, a junior international relations major, is studying in Irbid, Jordan, and will be writing the weekly abroad column for the remainder of the spring 2013 semester.

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ew Friends Amid An Ancient Memory Jerash was like something out of a movie.

The Arch of Hadrian instantly let all visitors know they were in a special place.

Walking down the perfectly paved cobblestone roads of the ancient city of Jerash, I was amazed at the early age technological capacity its inhabitants possessed.

Even common areas like the hippodrome or two 1,000-seat amphitheaters were designed using engineering beyond its day. The theaters had large hallways leading to rows and aisles so patrons could easily find their seats. Some lower-deck seats even had armrests.

As I walked through, it became easy to envision the city as a bustling first-century

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greetings from jordan metropolis. The huge open forum surrounded by pillars still seemed to echo the chatter of merchants who once filled the streets. The broken temples and shrines were a testament to life before Christianity or Islam.

I noticed a herd of goats grazing in between some fallen rubble, with two young boys watching the animals. Grazing goats are not foreign sights in the Middle East, but the fact that they were in a historic park and the boys looked 14 years old made it worth checking out.

The boys waved to me and smiled as I approached them. I was surprised at how well one

of them spoke English, considering his age. He said he was from Syria and his friend was from Jordan.

The Syrian boy’s name was Ahmed and he was quite outgoing, given I was a complete stranger and foreigner. He asked me questions about America and was curious about what Americans thought about the Middle East. As I mentioned all of the comforts that make my home so special, his eyes lit up with wonder.

He told me that one day, he would like to come to America, but was well aware of the near impossible hurdles in his path. It is difficult for many Jordanians and Syrians to come to the United States because of visa and security issues. Ahmed said he came from the Syrian city of Dera’a only four months ago because of the Syrian conflict.

Many Syrian refugees come to Jordan from this southern city because of its close proximity to the country. There are close to one million Syrian refugees now living in Jordan.

Ahmed said every day, he brings his three goats to the park because his family lives in

a refugee apartment complex, and there is no place for them to graze around his home.

Ahmed’s maturity exceeded that of many adults.

After he told his story, the boy took a ring off of his hand and presented it to me. I told him I couldn’t take it, but he insisted, saying it wasn’t expensive.

He told me it was made from Syrian iron, and wanted me to keep it so I would always remember him. Even though Ahmed lost almost everything he owned and was forced to leave his house as a refugee, he showed a level of generosity and selflessness I did not think possible for someone in his situation.

As I walked away, the boys smiled and waved, just like when I had first approached them. Their unwarranted kindness toward me will forever be a part of the memory of my trip to Jerash and the Middle East.

Stephen Sydor is a junior international relations major. His column appears every week in Pulp. For more information, he can be reached at srsydor@syr.edu

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Nicole Frey has devoted much of her life to mathematics.

Frey, a first-year graduate student, is studying for her master’s of science in mathematics education, and plans to apply her studies to teaching or actuarial science in the future.

But Frey’s love for math is not limited to her studies and career pursuits. In winter 2010, Frey and a lifelong friend went to get a mathematical creation tattooed on their bodies.

On Frey’s left upper ribs lies a small, halfdollar-sized symbol created by herself and her best friend, Natalie Wheeler. They wanted to seal their friendship in an everlasting fashion, so one evening, they took it upon themselves to

create the symbol that would soon become an icon of their friendship and Frey’s love for math.

“One night, we started drawing random things,” Frey said. “We originally started with the letter ‘N’ because both of our names start there, but after a while, we decided on what you see now.”

The design they decided on is a combination of two mathematical symbols: three dots, standing for ‘therefore’ in mathematical proofs, above an upsidedown ‘U’ shape, known as an intersection sign.

“We wanted the symbol to be less literal and more of our own invention,” Frey said. “The three-dot ‘therefore’ sign is a representation that things are proven and ultimate, while the intersection sign stands for the element that two sets have in common, what we have in common — our friendship and now a two-of-a-kind tattoo.”

During Winter Break of Frey’s freshman year, the two friends went to their local tattoo shop – Body Art in Burlington, Vt. Frey and Wheeler provided the artist with their drawing, which he then proceeded to re-draw on tattoo contact paper.

The re-draw, however, was altered in such a way that the symbolism had changed and was not up to Frey’s standards. After a few more failed attempts at re-draws by the artist, Frey and Wheeler decided to draw their design on the contact paper themselves.

Both tattoos took under half an hour to finish, and Frey and Wheeler now share a lifelong bond in ink.

For Frey, the tattoo is a constant reminder of her love for math, the memories of doing number problems on her mother’s white board at

work and her best friend, who shares the same symbol in the same place.

“Tattoos are such a permanent thing. It should be related to something that is enduring,” Frey said. “Math and friendship have been everlasting in my life. I often feel that my connection to family and friends are very mathematical.” imfeiner@syr.edu

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Olynyk leads Gonzaga’s rapid rise to top spot in AP Top 25

By Phil D’Abbraccio ASST. COPY EDITOR

Mark Few didn’t expect perfection from his Gonzaga team. He was correct, but the Bulldogs weren’t too far off.

“I didn’t think we were going to go undefeated this year, playing the schedule we have,” the head coach said after a win over Kansas State on Dec. 15, Gonzaga’s first game since its loss to Illinois a week earlier. “I’m not going to make any proclamations, but we got back to getting our feet under us (tonight).”

Following the Bulldogs’ win over Portland on Saturday, Gonzaga (29-2, 16-0 West Coast Conference) became the first team in the 61-year history of the conference to finish the regular season undefeated in league play. Led by the stellar performance of forward Kelly Olynyk, the Bulldogs cruised to their 10th outright WCC title, winning their league games by an average of 19.4 points per game.

And with then-No. 1 Indiana’s loss to Minnesota on Tuesday, Gonzaga’s 12-game winning streak has propelled the Bulldogs to the program’s first ever No. 1 ranking in Monday’s Associated Press Top 25 poll.

Prior to dropping the 11-point home decision to Illinois in early December, the Zags started the season 9-0 and elevated to No. 10 in the polls from their preseason No. 21 rank. After the loss, Gonzaga won 20 of 21, dropping only a heartbreaker at the buzzer to then-No. 13 Butler on Jan. 19 in what some consider the best nonconference matchup of the year.

“We played every game with a huge bull’s eye on our chest, and we played pretty darn well in almost all of them,” Few told reporters.

“They’ve been really, really focused. We’ve been so consistent with our effort and preparation.

That’s the most impressive thing about it.”

Outstanding performances from Olynyk throughout the season thrust him into contention for WCC Player of the Year while spearheading the Bulldogs’ surge to the top.

After a year of redshirting to develop, the 7-foot forward ranks best in the WCC and third in the nation with a 66.8 field-goal percentage.

Olynyk’s efficiency has helped the fourth-year junior – who played guard growing up – to an

average of 17.7 points per game, good for fourth in the conference.

“He’s a smart player, one that can hurt you in a lot of different ways – passing, driving and scoring,” Few said after the victory over Kansas State. “I think that’s probably the biggest thing — he went from a guy who loved to just play out there on the perimeter to a guy who is seven feet tall and can use those skills down low.”

In 12 of Gonzaga’s games, the British Columbia native attempted 10 or more field goals. In eight of those 12 contests, Olynyk converted more than 50 percent of his shots while never shooting under 41.7 percent from the field in those games.

On Feb. 16, Olynyk led the Bulldogs to a 10-point win at San Francisco, scoring 26 points on a 13-of-17 shooting performance – an economical 76.5 percent. After facing Gonzaga twice this season, San Francisco head coach Rex Walters told reporters Olynyk is an “absolute pro” and NBA lottery pick – the first time he’s ever said that about a WCC player, he said.

But even a game of that caliber didn’t live up to Olynyk’s showcase more than a month earlier. At Santa Clara on Jan. 5, he dropped a career-high 33 points in Gonzaga’s seven-point victory, converting 12-of-15 shots from the field for a phenomenal 80-percent clip.

“I knew, in this game, especially, that I was feeling good about myself,” Olynyk told reporters after the game. “My confidence was really high and I knew I was going to make plays if my team needed me to.”

After Few acknowledged on Saturday what a No. 1 ranking would mean for Gonzaga’s program, he downplayed its overall significance.

Instead, he pointed to the postseason – starting with the WCC tournament opener on Wednesday in Las Vegas – as the time when his Bulldogs want to be named the top dogs.

“I don’t think we’re too caught up in what number we’re at or what we’re seeded,” Few told reporters Saturday. “We’re just going to go play.

We’re going to go down to Vegas to try to win the thing. We’re going to go into the NCAA Tournament trying to win the thing.”

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When it was all done, Carmen Tyson-Thomas stepped back onto the Carrier Dome floor and looked around. It finally dawned on her: She would never play there again.

“I’m not really an emotional person,” TysonThomas said, “but I was just like, ‘Damn.’”

For the final time, Syracuse’s seniors took the floor in the Dome and came away with the biggest victory in their four years with the Orange. No. 24 SU (23-6, 11-5 Big East) upset No. 13 Louisville (23-7, 11-5) 68-57 on Senior Night to snap a three-game losing streak, lock up the No. 3 seed in the Big East tournament and give Syracuse its first win over a ranked opponent this season. All three seniors in the rotation – Tyson-Thomas, Elashier Hall and Kayla Alexander – scored in double figures Monday with Alexander’s 16 points leading the way.

The Orange’s seniors have knocked off ranked teams during their careers – when they were freshmen, SU upset then-No. 7 West Virginia in the regular-season finale – but with NCAA and Big East tournament positioning on the line, the stakes against a ranked team had never been higher.

“Given the time and the place, this is what we needed. We needed this win,” Tyson-Thomas said, agreeing with Hall’s sentiment that this was the biggest win of their careers. “Because we wanted to finish on a strong note and kind of

SENIOR LEADERS Syracuse’s three rotation seniors all scored in double figures on their Senior Night, helping lead the No. 24 Orange to an upset victory over No. 13 Louisville.

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make a statement.

“We made a statement that we could grind on this kind of level and play with the big dogs.”

Fellow senior Shanee Williams joined Hall, Alexander and Tyson-Thomas on the court 15 minutes before tipoff to be honored during Senior Night. About 20 minutes later, the four took the floor again when Tyson-Thomas and Williams subbed in to join starters Hall and Alexander at the 18:44 mark.

The four seniors stayed on the floor together for three minutes as the Cardinals reeled off an 8-0 run, putting Syracuse in an early 8-3 hole. The Orange eventually headed into halftime trailing 29-27. Alexander played less that than nine minutes due to foul trouble, and Hall and Tyson-Thomas had combined for just two field goals.

In the second half, though, the seniors stabilized SU. Syracuse used a 16-0 run in the second half to take control before Hall, Alexander and Tyson-Thomas closed it out for the Orange.

“Our seniors made some big plays,” Hillsman said. “ … We made a couple huge shots.”

With 1:15 remaining, a 15-point SU lead shrunk to just four. Two 3s by UofL guard Shoni Schimmel put Syracuse’s Senior Night in doubt. Hall got fouled and went to the line. The last two times an SU player went to the line, she missed the front end of a one-and-one. But Hall was cool, knocking down both to stretch the lead to six.

Schimmel missed a 3-pointer on the other end and Hall grabbed the rebound. She passed to Tyson-Thomas, who fired to Alexander for a transition layup, sealing the game with 30 seconds remaining.

“I just wanted us to win,” Alexander said with a laugh. “Just trying to play basketball. It didn’t really hit me.”

The three seniors cracked jokes about each other during the postgame press conference, recalling memories from their freshman years and touching on what makes them all special as players. All three finished their careers with 1,000 points. But what Hillsman said

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swung the ball back to the senior.

Tyson-Thomas didn’t hesitate, knocking down a 3 to give SU what was then its largest lead of the game at 44-38.

“I think when we did start getting those loose-ball rebounds, we did start pushing the ball in transition,” Tyson-Thomas said. “We did start making plays. We didn’t make many shots that we took, but we did get after it when we missed.”

With the crowd rising to its feet in anticipation of the brewing upset, the Orange defense continued to hold the Cardinals scoreless, maintaining the press and boxing out to keep Louisville’s second chances to a minimum.

Rachel Coffey relieved Fondren at the point around the 11-minute mark. On her first possession of the half, Coffey took a feed from TysonThomas and drained a 3 to push the Orange’s lead to nine.

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The Class of 2009 didn’t arrive at Syracuse with lofty expectations. Still, it came together, made sacrifices – Hillsman said Tyson-Thomas’ willingness to come off of the bench was key to the season – and now appears all but certain it will guide the Orange back to the NCAA Tournament.

Alexander said she still doesn’t feel her goal of reaching the tournament has been achieved.

But Monday night, Hillsman, who had been reluctant to say his team would qualify for the NCAA tournament, even after 22 wins, could finally concede it.

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Schimmel air-balled a 3 on the next possession, and it took nearly two more minutes until Bria Smith finally ended Louisville’s drought with a layup at the 6:40 mark.

“I think we got together and stopped them defensively,” Hall said. “There were a lot of times where they were making shot-clock violations, and that really picked up our momentum and really got us going.”

Syracuse needed almost the entire cushion it built during the run, with the Cardinals fighting back and closing the gap to 60-56 on Schimmel’s 3 with 1:15 to play. But the Orange finished the game 6-for-6 from the foul line.

The win meant the difference between the No. 3 and No. 5 seed in the Big East tournament for Syracuse, which earns a double bye and six days of rest before a Big East quarterfinal matchup in Hartford, Conn., on Sunday.

“We started making plays as a team, instead of as individuals,” Tyson-Thomas said. “And I think that was the key instrument for our successful play.” kmprisei@syr.edu

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younger sister Riley (then approximately 14, 10 and 7, respectively) could play lacrosse for as long as they liked, day or night.

“Sometimes for hours, sometimes for minutes,” Kevin recalls.

They continued practicing the family game they began playing at their old home where they rounded up neighborhood kids, some of whom went on to play for Syracuse, including the Donahues. Collin, an attack, graduated Syracuse last season. Dylan, also an attack, is a redshirt freshman tied for the team lead in goals with five in three games this season. Dylan and Collin grew up wearing No. 17 just as their dad did, and they would too for the Orange.

After a childhood of watching his older brother grow into the uniform, his dad coaching by his side, Dylan is the most recent to don the number.

Lacrosse is ingrained in Dylan. So much of the game – his positioning, teammates and zone offenses – is hard for him to talk about.

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Syracuse is also ingrained in Dylan. His father, older brother and three uncles all played for SU. When Kevin would drive Dylan in his pickup truck, usually a Chevy, they fed off of each other’s lacrosse IQ, discussing the finer points of offensive spacing, various drills and core fundamentals.

When family visits came around, whether it was a regular weekend or holiday, in Baldwinsville, N.Y., or Camillus, the Donahue children made sure to bring their sticks. As many as eight cousins, including future Binghamton and Cortland State attack Brian Donahue, would play at once. The former Orangemen, uncles and fathers watched on.

At dinner table conversations, the Donahues talked lacrosse.

“We’re nerds. We’re very nerdy about lacrosse,” Kevin said.

Dylan remembers traveling to tournaments in places like Sackets Harbor, N.Y., and Ithaca, N.Y., watching his older brother play for a team coached by his dad. That team also featured future Orange national champion goaltender John Galloway and attack Ryan Barber.

All Dylan really remembers is that it looked like fun. And as the neighbors he and his sister played lacrosse with eventually gave up the game, Dylan bounced between playing pick-up against his brother’s friends five years older than him, as well as his own peers.

His backyard teammates and opponents included Tim Desko (Syracuse, Rochester Rattlers), Matt Schattner (Cornell), Joe Fletcher (Loyola) and Cody Hoose (Oswego).

Every once in a while, his father would sneak Dylan into an overage game.

Kevin drove the back roads from Camillus to The Ultimate Goal in Marcellus, N.Y., or to

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Jones Road in Baldwinsville for box games with players five years older. He wouldn’t tell Dylan he was too young. Dylan just competed and sharpened his skills.

He’s 5 feet, 9 inches tall now, but Dylan was slow to develop. Kevin wasn’t convinced Dylan had the athletic ability to play Division-I lacrosse until his junior year of high school. But in the winter of 2011, Galloway, a former SU goalie, then a senior, returned to West Genesee High School to play with members of the varsity team.

Galloway won goaltender of the year, firstteam All-American honors and finished the 2011 season with Syracuse’s all-time record in wins, minutes played by a goalie and NCAA Tournament goals against average.

“Dylan was lighting me up, putting balls in the corners,” Galloway said.

In 2009 or 2010, Galloway, Collin and the rest of the Orange sat on the team bus in a hotel parking lot, waiting to head to the field. Kevin and Dylan played catch outside. Kevin asked his youngest son, then in high school, to play left-handed, then right. Every pass went right to Kevin’s stick.

Syracuse won national championships in 2008 and 2009. Galloway said Dylan’s stick skills were better than 90 percent of the players on the team.

Collin graduated from SU last spring when Dylan was redshirting, but growing up, the brothers learned from each other. Off-ball movement came more naturally to Dylan, and even through high school, Collin took note of his

younger brother’s constant movement.

“We learned from each other. Even though he was younger than me, he just had certain abilities that I was able to learn from,” Collin said. “It’s really hard to guard him, just because if you move your head for a second, he’s going to go somewhere else.”

The nuanced understanding of the game Dylan nurtured beneath the backyard net, in family games and more formal box and field outings is now paying off handsomely for Syracuse, where Kevin has been a coach since before any of his children were born.

Dylan is shooting a perfect 5-for-5 this season.

During Friday’s game against Virginia, a crucial upset win for the Orange in overtime, Kevin addressed a loose group composed of Dylan, Kevin Rice, Derek Maltz and Matt Harris.

“The general instructions were based on us controlling the situation offensively and not making a turnover that we don’t need to make,” Kevin said. “Controlling our own destiny so to speak.”

With 1:23 remaining in overtime against the then-No. 6 Cavaliers, Dylan walked the ball inbounds and jogged to his right, behind the Cavaliers goal.

He rounded the right of the goal and found a weak spot in Virginia’s zone – an offensive twoon-one. He pinched off of the back corner of the visitors’ defense and passed to Rice, standing five yards up from the goal line, 10 yards from the cage – Rice’s “sweet spot.” He buried it to win the game.

Now, Dylan has nicer places to play than the backyard practice area constructed nearly a decade ago. He plays on more pristine turf fields like those at Manley Field House and the Carrier Dome. Still, he returns to the backyard.

On the old cage where he learned the placement and movement that helped get him to SU, he shoots.

Sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours. jmklinge@syr.edu @MrJacobK

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Pregame dodgeball sets off intensity, chemistry for Orange

By David Lauterbach STAFF WRITER

Before every home game, Syracuse plays a game of dodgeball in the locker room. The rules are simple: goalies and defense play the forwards.

The tradition started four years ago when senior Holly Carrie-Mattimoe was a freshman.

At the time, nobody knew if the game would last.

“I don’t know how it started, but people probably just started throwing balls at each other,” Carrie-Mattimoe said. “So we said, ‘Why don’t we play dodgeball in the dressing room?’ And it’s stuck ever since.”

Syracuse (19-14-1, 13-6-1 College Hockey America) has set a new program record for conference and overall wins. One reason why is the odd tradition that helps the team bond before every home game. The team’s improved performance might not be directly tied to the dodgeball games, but forward Shiann Darkangelo thinks it helps.

“I think it’s good because it gets everyone rowdy and woken up,” Darkangelo said.

But the dodgeball games don’t just wake up the team.

Head coach Paul Flanagan said the first time

“First night I heard it, God knows what I thought was going on. I really had no idea. A lot of things raced through my mind, and then I asked someone what the heck is going on and then I found out it was dodgeball.”

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he heard the game from his office, he had no idea what was going on.

“First night I heard it, God knows what I thought was going on. I really had no idea,” Flanagan said. “A lot of things raced through my mind, and then I asked someone what the heck is going on and then I found out it was dodgeball.”

Flanagan said even though he has never seen the game in person, he thinks it helps a little bit.

He’s heard cheering and laughter emerge from the locker room, and doesn’t think that could hurt his team on the ice.

On the flip side, players admit it isn’t always a happy and fun game.

Carrie-Mattimoe said even though the game pumps up the players, they do occasionally get angry at each other. But in the end, the most important thing to them is getting ready for the game.

“It gets pretty heated, some shots to the face,” goalie Kallie Billadeau said. “It’s kind of scary how much we get into it.”

But if getting into it is what it takes to win, Billadeau and the rest of the defense are doing something right. At the end of the regular season, the defense and goalies emerged victorious by a slim margin of 8-7.

Two of the team’s best dodgeball players are on defense, according to goalie Jenesica Drinkwater.

“I think for us, (Brittney) Krebs and (Billadeau), they’re two big ones for us, they keep us in,” Drinkwater said.

As for the offense, Emily Auerbacher is probably one of its best players, Drinkwater said.

Though she never specifically said they were the best, Darkangelo mentioned a moment between Auerbacher and Krebs as one of her favorites.

“Last week, it was striker (Auerbacher) and Krebsy versus each other, and it went on for like five minutes, so that was fun,” Darkangelo said.

“It got everyone going.”

While one-on-one matchups are fun to watch, forward Margot Scharfe said the point of the

ziniu chen | staff photographer BRITTNEY KREBS is considered one of Syracuse’s top dodgeball competitors, according to goalie Kallie Billadeau. SU plays dodgeball before games to sharpen its focus. game is to get the whole team ready to go.

“We have a tally on our board. It gets us really pumped, some close calls, some dodgeballs to the face,” Scharfe said. “But it’s a good way to get us pumped for every game.”

Flanagan agreed with Scharfe, and said he doesn’t know how anything that gets them pumped up for the game can be a negative.

At the same time, Flanagan wants to make sure the team isn’t getting rid of all of its energy before it hits the ice.

“I guess the only thing I worry about is there’s a lot of energy in that room, and I know it’s not like ‘Monsters, Inc.,’ with screaming and yelling, generating energy,” Flanagain said, “but I want to make sure that they at least keep some in the reserve to carry on to the ice, because it sounds kind of crazy.”

The games do get crazy, and in the end, Drinkwater said she only has one goal in mind when they play.

Said Drinkwater: “Basically, I just try not to get hit.” dlauterb@syr.edu

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Dylan Donahue’s family is chock-full of collegiate lacrosse players, particularly former Orangemen.

Consequently, his life has been full of lacrosse for as long as he can recall. See how his family tree overlaps with that of SU lacrosse below.

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Pat played on the 1986 SU team that holds the program record for total points in a season with 458.

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Instinctive attack Dylan Donahue follows in footsteps of Orange family

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here was no place to shoot. The Donahue family moved into a new home and onto a larger property in Camillus, N.Y., with amenities like an extended driveway, more privacy and a wooded backyard.

But no place to play lacrosse.

“We had to do something,” said Kevin Donahue, the father and Syracuse assis-

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tant coach.

So, the family who breathes lacrosse built its own way to practice at home.

Kevin dug two holes about 30 yards behind the house, filling them with cement and 15-foot metal poles, then stringing a 20-foot net across them, all in one day. A lacrosse goal sat in front of the net. Above it all, he later installed a spotlight so his sons, Collin and Dylan, and

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SU surges past UofL in 2nd half

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At the five-minute mark of the second half, Carmen Tyson-Thomas passed directly to Louisville’s Jude Schimmel. The guard broke away and laid it in uncontested to give the Cardinals a oneSYRACUSE 68 point advantage.

Fourteen secLOUISVILLE 57 onds later, Syracuse’s Cornelia Fondren dribbled past a slew of Louisville defenders and inside for a routine layup of her own, bringing the lead back to the Orange. Syracuse didn’t trail again.

Fondren’s layup sparked a 16-0 Orange run midway through the second half. SU held No. 13 Louisville scoreless for eight minutes, turning the one-point SU deficit into a 15-point edge that was not relinquished. The burst propelled No. 24 Syracuse (23-6, 11-5 Big East) to a 68-57 win over the Cardinals (23-7, 11-5) in front of 441 in the Carrier Dome on Monday night in both teams’ regular-season finale.

The win snapped a three-game losing streak during which the Orange squandered three consecutive halftime leads, and likely solidified Syracuse’s place in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in five seasons.

“We definitely needed this,” senior center Kayla Alexander said. “ … It wasn’t exactly the prettiest win, but we got it together and we took care of business.”

After Fondren’s bucket gave SU the lead, the Orange maintained momentum through the eight-minute spurt with a nearly flawless combination of aggressive defense and offensive execution. Syracuse started to fluster Louisville by using a fullcourt press and double-teaming the ball handler on most possessions, forcing the Cardinals into poor shot selection and a string of misses.

Tyson-Thomas grabbed a rebound off of an Antonita Slaughter miss and raced down the court. The guard fed the ball to Fondren, who quickly

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STAT OF THE DAY Gonzaga (Preseason AP No. 21) is the

3rd team since 1990-91 to reach No. 1 after being ranked 21st or worse in preseason (‘09-10 ‘Cuse, ‘08-09 Wake) (ESPN Stats & Info)