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stacie fanelli | contributing photographer Students walking by the bus stop at College Place are met with a snowy surprise Monday as a snowblower clears the roadway. Monday marked only the second time Syracuse University canceled an entire day of classes because of snow, with 13.4 inches of snow accumulating on campus. The last cancellation was in March 1993.

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or the second time in school history, Syracuse University canceled all classes due to snow on Monday.

Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina said he and Lou Marcoccia, executive vice president and chief financial officer, conferred last night and early Monday morning on whether or not to cancel classes.

“When we were making the call, there was snow,” Spina said. “We knew the snow was going to end sometime this morning. At 6:30, it still looked like another hour and a half to two hours of snow.”

The storm dropped a total of 13.4 inches of snow, said Dave Nicosia, representative for the Bing-

hamton, N.Y., National Weather Service station and the Syracuse area. The last time classes were canceled at SU was in March 1993, when 42 inches of snow fell. So far, it has been the fourth snowiest season for Syracuse, with a total of 173.5 inches falling since the snow season began July 1, Nicosia said.

Although the snowfall wasn’t substantial, Spina said the university didn’t feel comfortable putting its 3,000 or 4,000 employees on the road in the morning to come to campus.

“We weren’t confident that they could get there safely, and we weren’t confident that we wouldn’t be disrupting the road-clearing operations that were under way,” he said.

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Alumni, faculty recall March 1993 cancellation

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Brad Williams drove back to campus early at the end of his Spring Break in March 1993, right before a storm dumped more than three feet of snow on the area and Syracuse University canceled classes.

“I drove back on Friday because I knew the roads would be bad,” he said. “I stopped at Wegmans to get beer and Blockbuster on Erie Boulevard. I prepared myself to get snowed in.”

And snowed in he was. A total of 42 inches fell between March 14 and 15, said Dave Nicosia, representative for the Binghamton, N.Y., National Weather Service station and the Syracuse area.

Monday’s cancellation of classes marks the first time since March 15, 1993, that SU canceled an entire day of school because of

a snowstorm. Since 1993, the university has canceled classes after a certain time but never for a full day. On Feb. 14, 2007, SU canceled classes after 12:45 p.m., according to a Daily Orange article published that day. Last year on Feb. 25, all classes after 2 p.m. were canceled.

Williams, a junior broadcast journalism major during the 1993 storm, knew there was supposed to be a bad snowstorm that weekend, so he ended his Spring Break early to drive back to Syracuse on Friday from Pennsylvania, he said. When he awoke Saturday morning, Williams said he could only see the antenna of his car.

“I think I walked around outside a bit that weekend, just to get out of the house,” Williams said. “The snow drifts were up to my chest.”

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MARCH 8, 1946 Munn Hails New Era of Athletics “It is my plan to make Syracuse the fightingest team in the United States!” Clarence “Biggie” Munn, new head coach of the Syracuse football team stated last night at the Varsity Club’s “Welcome Munn Dinner” in Hotel Syracuse.

Lew Andreas brushed the cobwebs aside when he stated flatly that “the one thing that Syracuse needs in a material way to make us click is a field house.” Andreas revealed that Chancellor William Tolley had cleared the way for the construction of the all important field house when he told Varsity Club members that they could “earmark” their alumni contributions toward that end.

In perhaps the most successful affair of its sort ever held in Syracuse, a galaxy of speakers paraded to the platform and alternately convulsed the audience of 800 with the best brand of after-dinner stories they have ever had the fortune to hear and at the same time, let it be known that Syracuse University has embarked on the greatest era of sports in its history. ... Mayor Frank Castello welcomed “Biggie” officially on behalf of the city and then Athletic Director Lew Andreas took over the platform. Andreas said that no high school teams would use the stadium next year as they have done in the past. He discussed the difficulties of the athletic department during the war years and then spoke on the need for and the merits of a field house.

He announced that in his official report to the chancellor, he has recommended that Syracuse go back to the full intercollegiate athletic schedule that they maintained before

the war. He has asked that all 18 varsity sports be returned.

“I think the fellow have now, Biggie Munn, is the fellow that can do things. I elected him, and I’m tickled to death to have him here.

From now on we are going to see some real good football and hard fighting on that field,” Andreas concluded.

Doc Accocella, 1945 football captain, made a brief speech followed by Ribs Baysinger; Tom Keane, retired track coach, who cracked “my stories are all clean;” Hugh “Stubby” Dougherty, Kip Taylor and Forest Evashevski, new assistant football coaches. The talented three made the big hits and Evashevski announced that baseball this spring would be informal.

Evashevski was followed by Finla G. Crawford, vice chancellor, who likened the new football staff to the 1,000,000-volt X-ray machine the university is to get. They’re charged!

Calling his staff “the greatest in America,” Munn went on to pay tribute to Lew Andreas and his victorious basketball club.

“They have started the Orange ball rolling,” he said.

He also paid tribute to the Orange athletes who sacrificed their lives in the war, promising to dedicate a winning game to “the boys who gave their lives so that we may be free.”

— Compiled by Laurence Leveille, asst. copy editor, lgleveil@syr.edu This excerpt was taken from the full version of this article published March 8, 1946.

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Author to talk about WikiLeaks

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Environmental photographer to discuss glaciers

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After using 39 Nikon cameras to take photos throughout the day at 22 different glaciers around the world, James Balog made breakthroughs in understanding climate change through the

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Daniel Ellsberg instigated a national political controversy in 1971 by releasing the Pentagon Papers, a topsecret study of government tactics and decisions regarding the Vietnam

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From the Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks

Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers, will speak at SU. Where: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium When: 7:30 p.m.

How much: Free War that was leaked to newspapers across the country.

Ellsberg, an author and active member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, will speak Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. His lecture, “From the Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks: A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg,” will recognize Ellsberg’s lifelong work in extending the boundaries of free speech, according to a news release on Newhouse’s website.

Ellsberg will also discuss how those boundaries have been affected by the Pentagon Papers and, in recent months, by the website WikiLeaks, according to the news release. Julian Assange has released government secrets through WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006. Though the two controversial leaks were decades apart from each other, Ellsberg sees clear crossovers between WikiLeaks and his own Pentagon Papers, according to the news release.

Ellsberg’s work led to the first-ever federal government lawsuit against the press in an effort to preserve national security by preventing the release of classified information, according to the release. The government tried to prevent the publication of the content in The New York Times and the Washington Post, but it failed because the Supreme Court decision stated it was perfectly legal for newspapers to publish such detailed information, according to the release.

Roy Gutterman, an associate professor of communications law and journalism and the director of the Tully Center for Free Speech, is responsible for arranging Ellsberg’s appearance.

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James Balog, an environmentalist and photographer, will present his findings on glaciers.

Where: Hendricks Chapel When: 7:30 p.m.

How much: Free

brandon weight | photo editor ANDREW BANK , a senior television, radio and film major and one of the creators of VouchBoard, sits in his apartment on Comstock Avenue where he does most of his work for the website.

Alumnus, student create networking site

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Andrew Bank and Michael Gursha were fed up with how sites like Facebook and LinkedIn divided the Web into strictly professional or social spaces. Now the two are trying to bridge the gap between the sites.

“Facebook is overly social, and LinkedIn is overly professional,” said Bank, a senior television, radio and film major. “We wanted to combine the two and get others to think differently about what others have to say about you.”

Bank and Gursha created VouchBoard, an online site where users can make free accounts and use their “boards,” similar to Facebook walls, to send and receive

“vouches.” Vouches are testimonies written by anyone from friends and family to professors and employers about a person’s creativity, work ethic, personality and more. Users can create categories on their boards and organize vouches in any way they choose, Bank said.

VouchBoard will launch Monday, though people can already make accounts on the website.

There are currently more than 500 users testing the site and providing the team with feedback, Bank said.

VouchBoard was created in four months with help from developers hired to design the website. Bank and Gursha said they wanted students and instructors to sign up for VouchBoard to get a wide range of

voices speaking for one another’s talents and skills.

The two hope VouchBoard can grow and be used in the professional world for employers to get a better idea of potential employees’ personalities, Gursha said.

VouchBoard provides an alternative to LinkedIn recommendations, which can be frustrating because of their formal nature, said Gursha, a 2010 alumnus of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The team took that aspect of LinkedIn and expanded it with VouchBoard to fit the need for more personal, informal recommendations, he said.

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Planned Parenthood may face federal budget cuts

By Christina Levin CONTRIBUTING WRITER

An amendment before the U.S. Senate could cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood, which may affect some students at Syracuse University.

All federal funding of Planned Parenthood and the Title X program could be eliminated until the next fiscal year if the amendment passes in the Senate, according to a Feb. 18 CBS News article. The U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the proposal to eliminate Title X, a program that provides aid for family planning and reproductive health across the country, according to the article.

If the amendment is enacted, females will be affected most out of the SU population, said Stephanie Blanco, a senior women’s and gender studies major and a member of Students Advocating Sexual Safety and Empowerment. But this is not just a woman’s issue because men can also get sexually transmitted diseases and have to deal with the effects of unsafe sex, she said.

Planned Parenthood offers birth control options, STD and HIV/AIDS testing, cervical and breast cancer screenings, pelvic exams and pap smears, and counseling services, according to its website. More than 90 percent of its services are geared toward preventative and primary

care, according to the website.

Only 7 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services account for abortions, said Betty DeFazio, director of community affairs and public policy at Planned Parenthood of the Rochester/Syracuse Region.

“We are very hopeful that the Senate will use common sense and restore a program that’s very economically smart,” DeFazio said.

“To prevent abortion, you have to prevent unintended pregnancy. The best way to do that is by making birth control widely available and affordable.”

On Feb. 28, a national antiabortion group called the Susan B. SEE FUNDING PAGE 4

study of glacial melting.

Balog, an environmentalist and photographer, will speak Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel as part of the Syracuse University Lectures Series.

During Balog’s lecture, “Earth in Sight: Ideas and Images to Inspire Individual and Social Action,” the photographer will use a highdefinition projector to give the audience the best possible viewing of the photographs of glacial melting, said Esther Gray, senior administrator for academic affairs.

Balog’s presentation must not only be heard but also seen to understand the full effect of climate change on the world’s rapidly shifting landscape, Gray said. Balog’s photographs are featured in more than 100 museums and galleries globally, as well as in publications such as Sierra, Audubon magazine, National Geographic magazine and The New Yorker, Gray said.

Gray said she believes Balog is the perfect person for SU students to learn from because he has broken new ground in the art of photographing nature. Balog, a current Colorado resident, graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in geomorphology, Gray said.

In 2010, Balog won the Heinz Award for his environmental work, Gray said. The award recognizes individuals for contributions in various areas, including arts and humanities, the economy and employment, according to the Heinz website.

The Heinz Award staff called Balog “one of the world’s elite nature photographers,” according to its website.

Balog did not fully believe climate change was real until he began using time-lapse photography to test the theory, according to the website.

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that classes before 12:30 p.m. would be canceled and administrative staff wouldn’t have to report until 10 a.m. in an e-mail sent out to students just before 7 a.m. Monday.

But in an e-mail sent out to students just after 9 a.m., the university announced the cancellation of all Monday classes, including those at University College. Administrative staff members were not required to come in, although essential personnel were to report as normal if able to do so in a safe manner, according to the e-mail.

By late Monday morning, the snow had stopped and the sun was shining. Temperatures reached the low 30s during the day.

SU has a staff that receives input from those responsible for plowing roads and those who are in charge of other emergency services. The staff then reports to Spina and Marcoccia so they can make the final decision, Spina said.

The Syracuse Department of Public Works, which plows the city’s streets, could not be reached for comment.

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cellor at the time, said there were many bad storms that winter, including one that left a rip in the Carrier Dome. When the snow piles up too high on the Dome, the internal heat is not enough to melt it, Shaw said. Workers had to get onto the roof to try to clear the snow, but that did not work, he said.

“The Dome had a huge rip in it and snow came in, and it had to be patched up in three days for a basketball game,” he said. “We had to work about 72 hours running to get it ready in time for the basketball game.”

During the March ’93 storm, Shaw said he remembers driving home at noon after making the decision that morning to close SU. When he left the university, the roads were in OK condition, but when Shaw arrived at his house, the snow was so high that he could not drive the car

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a visual arts and design award at the Aspen Environment Forum in 2009, according to his website.

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Spina said. The university rarely closes because a majority of students live on campus or within walking distance, Spina said.

Students are also paying a lot of money for their education, so the university wants to avoid canceling unless it’s absolutely necessary, Spina said.

“Certainly, it’s not the biggest storm that we’ve had. But the timing made it very complex, recognizing that we have employees all over the county and even in other counties,” Spina said.

“It’s just sort of the right set of circumstances to make it a complex day.”

University policy states that 12 inches of snow accumulation with heavy snow falling continuously from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. and a forecast accumulation of more than 18 inches may cause a delayed opening or cancellation of classes.

Thirty-six or more inches of snow accumulating within a 24-hour period may also lead to canceled classes, according to the policy.

Campus life remained somewhat normal on Monday, with many services operating on limited schedules.

Campus Centro buses were operating as usual, but students were instructed to expect delays. The first floor desks at E.S. Bird Library were open in the Learning Commons, Reference, Laptop Loan and Access Service areas until 3 p.m., at which time the library closed.

All six dining halls, including the Goldstein

Student Center, remained open.

A visit from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was scheduled to speak in the Schine Student Center at 10:30 a.m. Monday, was canceled.

Student Association canceled its weekly Monday meeting and has yet to reschedule it.

The storm caused the Department of Public Safety to see an increase in activity Monday, said Jenn Horvath, DPS public information officer. Officers providing student shuttle services reported being busier than usual early this morning when buses were running on a delayed schedule, Horvath said.

Four vehicle accidents occurred on campus Monday, Horvath said. DPS responded to accidents in the Stadium Lot, on South Campus at Small Road and by University Village Apartments, Horvath said. Another occurred at the corner of Comstock and Euclid avenues that the Syracuse Police Department responded to, Horvath said.

Two DPS cruisers and one SPD cruiser blocked off the 300 block of Comstock Avenue from Harrison Street to East Adams Street from 11:30 p.m. Monday into early Tuesday morning.

Several cars were parked illegally on the wrong side of the street and were going to be ticketed and towed, said a SPD officer on the scene.

Many of the cars parked illegally were covered in snow, and snow had piled up to their

windows. The SPD officer said the Syracuse Fire Department couldn’t travel down the portion of Comstock with the illegally parked cars and would tow cars to resolve the problem.

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, which shares a campus with SU, did not cancel classes Monday, said Claire Dunn, communications director at ESF. Dunn said she was sure the administration considered canceling classes, but because road conditions appeared safe for students to travel on and forecasts indicated the weather would be fine during the day, it chose not to. Being a state institution, ESF is more reluctant than SU to close school, Dunn said.

Dunn said she did not hear of any problems due to the weather concerning ESF on Monday.

The weather did affect other area institutions. In Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University closed at 4:30 a.m. and reopened at 11:45 a.m. Monday, with classes resuming at 12:20 p.m., according to an e-mail sent to students. Ithaca College also chose to delay classes because of the weather conditions, opening at 11:30 a.m., according to a notice on its website.

into his own driveway, he said.

“The call to cancel school had a lot to do with whether or not the parking lots can be cleaned up,” Shaw said. “If you can’t get the lots cleared, you know it’s really bad.”

The interesting aspect about the 1993 cancelation was the timing of the storm, said David Pennock, a freshman speech communications major in 1993.

“One of the reasons they canceled classes was because everybody was gone. The roads and the airports weren’t open,” he said. “Even if they had classes, they wouldn’t be able to get to campus.”

Pennock stayed in his hometown near Albany until Monday, March 15, waiting for the New York State Thruway to open. Pennock remembers taking a bus from Albany to the Regional Transportation Center in Syracuse that afternoon. His journey back to campus did not end there, though.

“Three or four of us all heading back to cam-

pus piled into a cab,” he said. “I remember the cab just barely being able to make it.”

When the cab dropped Pennock off in the driveway in front of Sadler Hall, Pennock had to walk around Sadler to get to Lawrinson Hall.

Pennock remembers the pathway between the two buildings had not been shoveled at the time, but a few people before him had forged a path with their footsteps.

“The path was as wide as one foot. I was literally stepping through people’s footsteps,” said the 1996 graduate who now works as the assistant director of facilities and operations in the student centers and programming services at SU. Rosanna Grassi, associate dean for student affairs in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, remembers the snow day as well. Grassi said people were called by the main university line or listened to WAER to receive news of the cancellation.

Grassi called faculty members to confirm the university was indeed closed because it was

such a rare occurrence. Grassi, who has been at SU since the early 1970s, said she could not remember a single snow day before 1993.

Grassi had planned to catch a bus at Manley Field House or walk to campus that Monday because the roads outside her house on Comstock Avenue had been plowed. Her plans, however, quickly altered.

“I changed my mind rather quickly after I opened my garage door,” Grassi said. “I couldn’t open my front door since there was too much snow against it.”

Since the storm in 1993, Grassi has come to expect snowstorms in March, she said. The most recent storm, however, arrived a little earlier than she expected, she said.

“But perhaps that means spring will arrive a little earlier than usual,” she said.

“I am hopeful.”

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or who have insurance that does not cover certain services in Syracuse, Blanco said.

It’s hard to answer how much any service offered at Planned Parenthood costs because its work frame is a “sliding-fee scale,” said DeFazio, the director of community affairs and public policy at the Rochester/Syracuse region of Planned Parenthood. Clients with low incomes pay less than those with higher incomes, DeFazio said.

DeFazio said the bill to defund Planned Parenthood is a “direct attack” on those who need this health care the most and rely on it for primary and preventative care.

“What we’re really talking about is the elimination, nationwide, of access to affordable birth control for women in our country who need it the most,” DeFazio said.

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) called the passage of the amendment by the House of Representatives “a victory for taxpayers and a victory for life,” according to Talking Points Memo on Feb. 18.

“By banning federal funding to Planned Parenthood, Congress has taken a stand for millions of Americans who believe their tax dollars should not be used to subsidize the largest abortion provider in America,” he said in a statement.

day morning, which will also take place in Hendricks, Gray said.

Carol Borg, a sixth grade teacher at Eagle Hill Middle School in the FayettevilleManlius School District, said she is very fortunate to bring her students to the lecture. Borg said the middle school students are excited about the opportunity and ask wonderful questions. rebarill@syr.edu

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Anthony List announced advertisements would air on television that thanked Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle for her support of a bill aimed to defund Planned Parenthood, according to an article published in The Post-Standard the same day.

The Syracuse-focused ads, costing $75,000, were the organization’s single-largest expenditure of the $200,000 campaign formed to reach House of Representative members who voted for and against the amendment, according to the article.

Kerry Brown, spokeswoman for the antiabortion group, said the group decided to kick off the campaign in Syracuse because of her support for the movement, according to the article.

Blanco, the senior women’s and gender studies major, said she and about eight of her friends go to Planned Parenthood because it is less expensive than SU Health Services.

“Getting an annual pap is more expensive at Health Services,” Blanco said. “Planned Parenthood definitely provides cheaper services.”

Planned Parenthood is also a viable option for students who do not have health insurance

jdharr04@syr.edu dkmcbrid@syr.edu A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on March 7.

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SU unnecessarily cancels afternoon classes, but gives students more time to study for midterms Monday’s snow day provided students in the thick of midterm season with a chance to study a little more and, in some cases, step into midterms week a little more rested.

But Monday undoubtedly gave many other students one more day to procrastinate, go sledding or drink.

Coming out of two weeks of relatively mild weather and with most of the season’s snow gone from the sidewalks and lawns, the heavy snowfall surprised many Syracuse University students optimistic about the recent inklings of spring. With that and terrible road conditions Monday morning, SU made the right decision by canceling Monday morning

editorial by the daily orange editorial board classes; however, SU unnecessarily cut afternoon classes.

Poor cleanup of the city streets put buses behind schedule. Even by 10 a.m., city and side roads sat buried under a messy coating of snow.

Though students can trudge through the knee-high snow to campus, SU rightly canceled morning classes for the hundreds of professors who would have otherwise had a hazardous and slow commute to work — better to cancel Monday morning midterms entirely than risk cutting them short

or have them partially attended.

But SU prematurely canceled afternoon classes, with less than 14 inches of snow recorded for the day and sunny, above-freezing temperatures expected for the afternoon. The snow day also seems oddly placed, given classes continued amid massive snowfall before finals week in December.

Some of us, including most students who were freed from trekking to campus, found few complaints in the unexpected day off. But for many others, the full snow day put them further behind, complicated exam schedules and confused essay due dates.

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Obama guilty of playing race card in response to political criticism

2004 newsflash from Sen. Barack Obama: “There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.” Fair enough.

Sounds pretty good, actually.

Something changed, however, between then and now — as evidenced by a new book from reporter Kenneth Walsh. In “Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House,” Walsh tells the story of Obama at a private White House dinner, during which the president points to race as “a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives.”

Were this a rare instance of race baiting from Obama, it would not be so troubling. Far from an isolated event, however, racial politics have become the norm for the administration.

Although Obama presents himself

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as a post-racial president, expecting him to completely transcend the issue of race would be unrealistic — a monumental task indeed. But Obama and his supporters tread dangerously close to exploiting the issue.

Sometimes it seems as though Americans are helpless to oppose Obama’s policies without being labeled racist. There are certainly legitimate reasons to oppose socialized medicine, an explosion in the reach of government, trillion-dollar deficits and the entire laundry list of left-wing, domestic initiatives championed by the Obama administration.

Democracy is severely hampered if citizens must combat charges of racism when they offer reasonable grievances about the direction of the country. Americans should not have their motives questioned when they speak out on behalf of free enterprise and personal responsibility.

Of course I acknowledge there are racists in America who are none

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voted for reagan too pleased with a black man in the White House. But I wholeheartedly reject that race is at the root of the backlash against the Obama agenda.

Although it may be hard to believe up on the lofty, insulated hill at Syracuse University, America is a center-right country — one uneasy about the sharp left turn over the past two years. Why is this so hard to accept?

If the president were truly interested in unifying the country and living up to his lofty rhetoric, he would refrain from fueling the racial fire.

Instead, Obama is content to play the race card for political gain.

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Look no further than the demonization of the Tea Party. When the president tells Rolling Stone magazine, “There are probably some aspects of the Tea Party that are a little darker, that have to do with antiimmigrant sentiment or are troubled by what I represent as president,” he completely undermines any hope for a reasonable policy discussion.

Both the president and his supporters should come to terms with the fact that such a radical agenda is going to create political opponents.

If the end goal is to transform the United States into a European-style social democracy, then so be it.

Surely there will be some Americans who prefer a more traditional, limited government with an economy grounded in capitalism. These voices will be heard. Both sides should be free to argue the issues on merit without having the discourse dragged down into the mud.

Instead of throwing out unfounded

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accusations of racism, how about addressing Republican and Tea Party complaints head on? Let’s have a real discussion about spending, taxation, jobs and the role of the government without mindlessly denigrating other Americans who you have never met and may know nothing about.

Just as the “birthers” (who question Obama’s citizenship) bring down the quality of debate, the president is equally guilty when he fingers racism as the trigger for an energized conservative movement.

Perhaps the president is not intentionally capitalizing on the issue of race. Obama may be so genuinely pleased with his own narrative that he honestly cannot comprehend how anyone could harbor substantive disagreement with his policies. I’m not sure that’s much better.

Jimmy Paul is a senior political science major. His column appears every Tuesday, and he can be reached at jdpaul01@syr.edu.

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n infant’s response to separation is an early indicator of his or her ability to handle conflict in romantic relationships later on, according to a study from the University of Minnesota.

The study, “Recovering from Conflict in Romantic Relationships: A Developmental Perspective,” was done by the UMN’s College of Education and Human Development’s Institute of Child Development. The study will appear in the Psychological Science journal, and it was released online on Jan. 18. Minnesota didn’t announce the study’s findings until Feb. 11.

Jessica Salvatore, a graduate student at UMN and the study’s lead author, said she designed the experiment to better understand couples after a fallout. Many studies have been conducted to gain a better grasp of couples in conflict, but little has been said of the post-conflict aftermath, Salvatore said.

Seventy-three individuals, originally

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mates,” people they may want to vouch for or who want to vouch for them. A receiver of a vouch must accept it before it can appear on his or her board, which ensures positive and accurate testimonies, Bank said. Users can send out vouches they receive to Facebook and LinkedIn accounts as well.

“VouchBoard builds up a person’s good reputation through the eyes of those who know them best,” Gursha said.

Bank and Gursha want to turn VouchBoard into a needed service connecting the social and the professional aspects of Web communication, Bank said.

During Spring Break, the team will travel to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest, the annual music, film and interactive festival that showcases the newest and most creative media and technologies. They will join a Newhouse group and Sean Branagan, director of Newhouse’s Center for Digi-

recruited as part of a poverty sample during the third trimester of pregnancy, were assessed at 12 to 18 months old for reactions to separation, Salvatore said. The infants were temporarily separated from their mothers and placed with toys, Salvatore said.

The subjects and their significant others were invited at age 20 or 21 to complete a “romantic relationship assessment,” she said.

Couples discussed how they felt toward each other, among other topics that incited disagreement, Salvatore said.

The study found infants who coped best with the stress of separation and engaged with the toys interactively recovered better from conflicts with their romantic partners in their early 20s, she said.

A five-point scale was used to assess the ability to recover from conflict after a cooldown period, Salvatore said. Scores on the high end of the scale indicated “substantial contributions to the cool-down,” and scores on the lower end indicated efforts to sabotage conflict recovery, she said. High scorers spoke

tal Media Entrepreneurship, to spread the word about VouchBoard, Branagan said.

“The future of digital media is played out at South by Southwest,” Branagan said. “It’s the perfect place for natural collisions between creative entrepreneurs and professionals.”

Branagan helped with the development of VouchBoard and said he believes South by Southwest is a prime opportunity for the website to gain more exposure and for the creators to connect with professionals and possible investors.

Branagan said he thinks an “A-team” like Bank and Gursha can propel an idea like VouchBoard to success.

Tyler Gildin, a senior television, radio and film major, said he enjoys the freshness of VouchBoard’s positivity.

“In a world where people are constantly being bashed online, VouchBoard differentiates itself because it’s one site where only positive things are displayed,” Gildin said. vlpallad@syr.edu

Infants who deal well with stress recover better from conflicts with partners

positively of their significant others, while low scorers mentioned the previous conflict, Salvatore said.

Trained observers made the ratings, which were based on a statistical measure that assured observers rated similarly under comparable circumstances, Salvatore said.

Salvatore said she recommends individuals confront their partner with problematic issues. It is best to identify conflict and actively seek resolutions to arguments than to suppress disagreements until they “boil and explode,” Salvatore said.

Dyane Watson, a marriage and family therapy instructor at Syracuse University, said she agreed with the study’s findings. In addition to heredity and other biological influences, an individual’s reaction to situations in his or her adult life is determined by childhood interactions, she said.

Based on her observations of couples, Watson said the study accurately portrayed the role of conflict recovery in relationships. Successful conflict recoveries are especially important

when parenting children, Watson said.

“A couple that is able to disagree about finances but then parent effectively together are better off than a couple that let’s those disagreements interfere or influence how they parent together,” she said.

Watson said the findings are important to the study of healthy relationships as a whole.

“As we learn more on how couples can successfully disagree and still protect their relationship, we encourage more positive settings and stability for couples and children,” she said.

Silas Wallerstein, a sophomore industrial design major, said he could apply the study’s results to his own experience.

“As an independent child, I feel like I could cope with things easier,” he said. “I don’t remember being in any serious fights with anyone I’ve had a relationship with.”

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York Times and the Washington Post as the “Pentagon Papers,” which sparked the lawsuit, according to the website.

Ellsberg graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1952 and went on to study at King’s College at Cambridge University before serving in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years, according to Ellsberg’s website. There he served as an operations officer, rifle platoon leader and rifle company commander. He then went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1962.

Gutterman, the SU professor, said he is curious to hear what Ellsberg has to say because he also sees the parallel between WikiLeaks and the Pentagon Papers.

“When you first look at it, they seem pretty similar,” Gutterman said. “You have the government trying to figure out how to deal with it, like they had with the Pentagon Papers.”

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was because Ellsberg was at the center of a trial after releasing the Pentagon Papers, Gutterman said.

“We get to hear from someone who was front and center in the Supreme Court case,” he said. “They often get buried in doctrine and rhetoric, but here’s the real live person.

He’s a pretty big name in free speech circles and whistleblower circles.”

At RAND Corporation, a nonprofit that helps improve decision-making through research, Ellsberg worked as a consultant to the White House and to the Defense Department. In 1967, he was assigned to work on the highly classified McNamara Study, which looked at specific United States decisions made in the Vietnam War, according to his website.

He made copies of the studies two years later — which consisted of 7,000 pages of information — and handed them over to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, The New

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Syracuse needs to do to win the Big East tournament

jackson needs to keep up season of dominance

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su needs to use ‘home’ of msg to its advantage

By Tony Olivero Development Editor

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f there is one combined reason why hopes are high for this Syracuse team heading into the Big East tournament, it is because of these two things. One: The double-bye is SU’s. Two: As always, the tournament will take place in Madison Square Garden.

Both points are obvious. But the dynamics of each aspect of the coming week lie a little deeper for this year’s crop of SU players and their tribulations from the past four months.

SU needs to focus on squeezing every last drop out of its comfort with the Garden. And it needs to focus on working and playing smart with this extra day off to heal injuries and prep for not only its first opponent but also a possible semifinal date with Pittsburgh and the championship on Saturday.

And there is reason for SU fans and the team to have confidence in these two areas.

With a slew of extra practice sessions the past two weeks, SU romped to the greatest margin of victory in the Big East’s history.

That’s no coincidence. The kinks were ironed out to the point where the Blue Demons were simply forced to give up. The Orange knew and had a counter for every little thing DePaul did. Other Big East teams didn’t fare as well, as DePaul gave Georgetown, Louisville and Villanova fits.

With the double-bye, the extra day to rest up and scour tape of three possible rounds of opponents could prove to be everything. This is a hobbled team, and one less day in a grind could mean the difference between a C.J. Fair with a sore ankle and a healthy C.J. Fair who knows the exact tendencies of, say, St. John’s scorer Dwight Hardy.

And as for basking in the lights of MSG,

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danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor twice this year everyone from Brandon Triche to Scoop Jardine to Rick Jackson exceeded expectations on the Garden court, see GARDEN page 9

ne year ago, after Syracuse’s quarterfinal Big East tournament loss to Georgetown, Jim Boeheim summarized the difference.

“Well, he’s a key part of our team,” Boeheim said after that game. “I mean, he’s had a great year. And he’s a tremendous player.”

Boeheim, of course, was talking about former SU center Arinze Onuaku. Onuaku was the key missing piece in a game that quickly moved from a Syracuse lead to a disappointing exit in the Orange’s first Big East tournament game. After he went down with an injured quadriceps, it all slipped away from Syracuse.

And in that game, Onuaku’s absence was made all the more noticeable by the play of the big man who took his spot — Rick Jackson.

In 32 minutes, Jackson amplified the Orange’s problems down low. He scored just four points and grabbed four rebounds, all the while picking up four fouls. And he added five turnovers to add to SU’s offensive frustration.

“Post people did not have good games,” Boeheim said. “We had 10 turnovers in the post. We haven’t done that really all year.”

A new year brought a new Jackson. This

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nate shron | staff photographer year, he needs to continue the dominance that symbolizes his season as a whole. Recently, Jackson said he’s more motivated by what happened last season, when he proved — at least for one game — incapable of picking up the slack left by Onuaku’s absence.

This year, Jackson stands as the most dominant big man in the Big East. His own coach, Boeheim, professes that. And the other Big East coaches professed it Sunday when they voted him to the All-Big East second team as the only true big man on any of the first, second or third teams. He was also named the conference’s Defensive Player of see jackson page 9

defense that fueled recent winning streak needs to continue

By Andrew L. John

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nprompted by a particular question, Brandon Triche made a point of singling out Syracuse’s defense in what was the biggest difference for the Orange during its recent winning streak.

Following SU’s win over Georgetown on Feb. 26, Triche and a few of his teammates said a collective improvement on the defensive end is what will push the team further in postseason play.

“Our defense has been getting better and better throughout the season,” Triche said. “We’re still not exactly where we want it to be, but we’re getting there. We’re really seeing the progress.”

Syracuse enters the Big East tournament with the third-best scoring defense in the league, allowing only 62.6 points per game. It also has the best field-goal percentage defense in the Big East at just more than 39.1 percent and is first in blocked shots per game (6.7)

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Shall we

DANCE? 1 PITTSBURGH 27-4 (15-3 BIG EAST)

The Panthers are projected as a No. 1 seed by almost every bracket prognosticator. But in their past nine games, the Panthers haven’t been the same dominant team. On the road against a Syracuse team at Madison Square Garden, expect the Orange to get revenge for its earlier loss.

PROJECTED FINISH: SEMIFINALS 3 LOUISVILLE 23-8 (12-6)

Louisville is fighting for an opportunity to move up from a No. 4 seed, where they are slated now by ESPN.com. In a semifinal rematch with Notre Dame, Kyle Kuric won’t find the Garden rims nearly as friendly in the clutch.

PROJECTED FINISH: SEMIFINALS

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The Daily Orange breaks down a loaded tournament with many capable champions —Compiled by The Daily Orange Sports staff

FIRST ROUND

Tuesday, March 8

SECOND ROUND

Wednesday, March 9

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QUARTERFINALS Thursday, March 10

SEMIFINALS

Friday, March 11

CHAMPIONSHIP

Saturday, March 12

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2 NOTRE DAME 25-5 (14-4)

Notre Dame is playing for a No. 1 seed. And a Big East championship is what we are predicting from a scrappy but mature Fighting Irish squad. Notre Dame defeats SU in the finals thanks to 3s they failed to make the first time around (33 percent).

PROJECTED FINISH: CHAMPIONS 4 SYRACUSE 25-6 (12-6)

SU is probably playing for a No. 2 seed in the East Region, with stops in Orange-friendly Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J. A trip to the fi nals would secure that. But fi rst SU must get by — most likely — St. John’s and Pitt. We think they will before losing in the championship.

16 DEPAUL 8 GEORGETOWN 12 SETON HALL

13 RUTGERS 5 ST. JOHN’S 4 SYRACUSE

PROJECTED FINISH: FINALISTS 5 ST. JOHN’S 20-10 (12-6)

Here’s the home team, and for the first time since the days of Marcus Hatten, SJU has a shot at the title. A reason to believe: SJU knocked off four Top 10 teams on this court.

But a Top 10 team it didn’t knock off — Syracuse — lurks in the quarterfinals.

PROJECTED FINISH: QUARTERFINALS 7 CINCINNATI 24-7 (11-7)

Cincy has proven it can play with just about anybody in the league, surprising those who predicted the Bearcats to finish in the bottom half of the league in the preseason. UC has the inside-outside scoring combination to do some damage in New York City.

PROJECTED FINISH: SECOND ROUND 9 CONNECTICUT 21-9 (9-9)

The Huskies have lost four of five entering postseason play. But with arguably the league’s best player, Kemba Walker, anything is possible. With two wins, UConn could move into a top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament.

PROJECTED FINISH: QUARTERFINALS 11 MARQUETTE 18-13 (9-9)

The Golden Eagles are the 11th and final Big East team currently projected to make the field of 68, according to ESPN.com’s bracketology.

They’re currently sitting pretty as a No. 10 seed in the projection, but they could use at least one win to assure themselves of a bid.

6 WEST VIRGINIA 20-10 (11-7)

West Virginia’s miracle finish against Louisville on Saturday gives the Mountaineers a lot of momentum. WVU has a lot of veteran leadership and solid rotation, which usually combine for postseason success in the Big East.

PROJECTED FINISH: QUARTERFINALS

The Scarlet Knights have won two of their last 11 contests. Don’t expect that to pick up in postseason play. Rutgers will be one and done in the Big East tournament.

PROJECTED FINISH: FIRST ROUND

Senior point guard Chris Wright remains day to day and might not be available for the Hoyas until the NCAA Tournament. Without him, guards Jason Clark and Austin Freeman will need to step up their games to an even higher level.

PROJECTED FINISH: SECOND ROUND 10 VILLANOVA 21-10 (9-9)

The Wildcats are reeling after their fourth loss in a row and sixth of eight overall. Still, as proven earlier this season, Nova has the ability to play with and even beat some of the Big East’s top teams.

PROJECTED FINISH: QUARTERFINALS 12 SETON HALL 13-17 (7-11)

The Pirates could make some noise, as they have played good teams well since the return of Jeremy Hazell. He’s looking for a big sendoff in his senior swan song.

PROJECTED FINISH: SECOND ROUND 14 PROVIDENCE 15-16 (4-14)

Providence lost only two games out of the Big East before the incredible weakness of the nonconference schedule hit the Friars. Their only win in their last eight games came in a onepoint triumph over Rutgers. Their only hope is for Marshon Brooks to win a game singlehandedly, which he could.

PROJECTED FINISH: FIRST ROUND 15 SOUTH FLORIDA 9-22 (3-15)

The Bulls are an abysmal 304th in the nation in points scored. They have scored more than 60 points only once in their last eight games.

Though Villanova is struggling, no contest there.

PROJECTED FINISH: FIRST ROUND

7 CINCINNATI 10 VILLANOVA

8 GEORGETOWN 21-9 (10-8)

PROJECTED FINISH: SECOND ROUND 13 RUTGERS 14-16 (5-13)

2 NOTRE DAME

16 DEPAUL 7-23 (1-17)

Jerry Wainwright’s best accomplishment as the head coach of the Blue Demons was a shocking first-round Big East win. Something Oliver Purnell likely does not have a chance to do this year against Connecticut.

PROJECTED FINISH: FIRST ROUND

15 SOUTH FLORIDA 6 WEST VIRGINIA 11 MARQUETTE

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DEFENSE FROM PAGE 7

and second in steals per game (8.7).

Those numbers are due in large part to that improvement Triche spoke of. The strides were made, and during Syracuse’s current five-game winning streak, the Orange has cranked up the defense.

In four of the five wins, it held its opponents to 65 points or less. Overall, SU limited opponents to just 61.2 points per game on 38 percent shooting. The Orange also forced 8.6 steals and blocked 7.4 shots per game during that span.

In turn, the players haven’t shied away from talking about the defense after nearly every win. Some say the intensity has picked up. Others see their teammates making stops and know they have to do the same to fi nd playing time.

“Everything we do starts with our defense,” junior forward Kris Joseph said.

“We can make runs when we’re communicating and making stops with our defense. That

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has been the key for us.”

Players see the difference good defense makes and apply maximum effort on that end of the floor. During Saturday’s win over DePaul, senior forward Rick Jackson streaked across the lane and blocked a shot roughly 10 feet away from where he was originally standing. That’s the difference between the Orange’s slump and its current winning streak.

With efforts like Jackson’s, SU enters postseason play as arguably the hottest team in the Big East thanks to its defense. No team in the league enters the tournament on a longer winning streak.

And at the most critical stage of the season — postseason play — it’s imperative Syracuse continues wreaking havoc on its opponents defensively if it wants to make a deep run. As Joseph said, that’s where it all starts.

“When we play defense like we know we can, we’re a tough team to beat,” Joseph said after Syracuse defeated Villanova on Feb. 21.

“We just have to be consistent with it, and we know we’ll be fi ne.” aljohn@ syr.edu

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the Year on Monday.

The Orange’s most likely quarterfinal matchup is St. John’s, which would mark a rematch from the teams’ game on Jan. 12, which SU won 76-59. Jackson was part of a group of SU’s four veterans — along with Kris Joseph, Scoop Jardine and Brandon Triche — that all scored in double

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only to speak of their ultimate comfort with the venue after the game.

Against Michigan State, SU dominated in the midst of its shaky nonconference play. And SU blitzed a St. John’s team that has since pillaged the Big East’s best at MSG. It was such a perfect situation for SU that Triche referred to MSG as a “stage” on which he and his teammates love to play. SU ran away with a 17-point win against a

figures.

That Jackson is the only big on three AllBig East teams says everything. He provides the Orange something that no other team in the conference can keep up with when he’s on.

“We’re trying to go all the way,” Jackson said Saturday. “Whenever you play, you want to go all the way.”

For that to happen, it starts and ends with Jackson. bplogiur@syr.edu

team in a venue that has become college basketball’s crematory for Top 10 teams (Pittsburgh, Duke, Notre Dame and Connecticut).

The roots of comfort are entrenched in these veteran players. And if the Orange does get by SJU, then the Garden will once again become Carrier Dome South in the subsequent rounds.

It’s a Carrier Dome South where SU has won eight of its past 10 games, which includes a loss last year that may not have slipped away if not for the quadriceps of Arinze Onuaku.

Now it is all about capitalizing on the comfort. aolivero@syr.edu

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By Zach Brown and Chris Iseman The Daily Orange

Syracuse had the perfect chance to build its lead Friday against Virginia. Early in the third quarter, a 6-on-4 opportunity following two Cavalier penalties was the ideal time to increase its one-goal lead.

All the Orange could muster, though, were two off-target shots that bounced toward the goal.

Still, the Orange had another 30 seconds of 6-on-5 play. But junior Tim Desko’s shot flew right into the stick of UVa goalie Adam Ghitelman, and his team held the ball until the penalty released.

Those represented two of the Orange’s eight failed man-up opportunities in its 12-10 win over Virginia on Friday. The 0-for-8 tally put SU at 2-for-16 in extra-man chances through three games this year. Head coach John Desko pointed to poor shot selection, a couple of good saves by Ghitelman and Syracuse’s late lead as reasons for the lack of success against the Cavaliers.

“I thought our first couple of man-ups, we took some shots,” Desko said. “And I think a couple times, we just got robbed.”

Two of Syracuse’s first three man-up possessions ended with the senior midfielder Josh Amidon trying shots from long-range. Ghitelman made an easy stick save on the first, and Virginia held possession until the penalty released.

On the Orange’s third chance, Amidon again ripped a shot from 15 yards out, but it was blocked by a Cavalier defender. UVa eventually scooped up the loose ball and ran clock until the penalty expired.

“I thought, defensively, our man-down, we

really got after them and didn’t let them settle in,” Ghitelman said.

SU did manage to get better looks in extra-man opportunities as the game went on, but Ghitelman stuffed any shots on target.

On Syracuse’s final chance of the night, the Orange chose to hold the ball and let the clock run out rather than attack a Cavalier side with four players off for penalties.

“We were more concerned about taking time off the clock and finishing the game,” John Desko said. “You can hit the pipe or the goalie can make a save, and they can go down and score. We were playing the percentages.”

cuse shots. In all, he made 15 saves in the losing effort compared to just nine by his counterpart John Galloway.

But there was never a time when the Orange could feel completely comfortable with its lead.

The Cavaliers were always right behind SU with Ghitelman keeping his team in a position to climb back into the game.

“I thought we battled,” Virginia head coach Dom Starsia said. “I thought Adam kept us in the game in the second half. I thought we had a chance to win, right down to the end. I think we felt like we were going to come back and do something with it.”

Ghitelman keeps Cavaliers alive

‘No place like the Carrier Dome’

In the second half, Syracuse took shot after shot trying to get a lead and hopefully pull away from Virginia.

Down 8-7 coming out of halftime, the Orange took 13 shots in the third quarter but only managed to get the ball by Cavalier goaltender Adam Ghitelman three times. Ghitelman’s performance kept his team in the game, with Virginia always in position to tie the score or take the lead.

“We came down the field, the defensemen had some high-percentage shots on the goaltender,” Syracuse head coach John Desko said. “We threw it in his stick a few times, and he made some very good saves, too, especially in the second half.”

The Cavaliers had the opportunity to take control of the game, but the Orange defense as a whole did its job of forcing Virginia to take rushed shots.

This was the opposite of what Ghitelman faced.

He had to make multiple saves on accurate Syra-

Virginia head coach Dom Starsia was somewhat helpless from the sidelines. As the largest crowd for a lacrosse game this season chanted and roared throughout the action, it was nearly impossible to talk to his players.

“You can’t get any communication from the sideline out onto the field in this atmosphere,” Starsia said. “(Coaches) are really not as much help as you’d like to be.”

That atmosphere was created by the 14,340 fans in the Carrier Dome on Friday. It marked the fourth-largest crowd for a regular season lacrosse game in Carrier Dome history. And John Desko said it helped Syracuse pull out the win.

“It was great,” he said. “I think our guys just fed off of it.”

Throughout the game, Orange players egged on the blue- and orange-clad crowd, flapping their arms up and down to raise the noise level after

scores or defensive stops.

And the SU head coach added nothing compares to the Dome with a crowd like the one Friday.

“This is better than playing in the Meadowlands,” he said. “This is better than playing in Ravens Stadium when you have these kinds of people in here. It’s louder. … There’s no place like the Carrier Dome.” zjbrown@syr.edu cjiseman@syr.edu

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Feb. 20 Denver Feb. 27 Army March 4 Virginia

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March 12 vs. Georgetown* 11 a.m.

March 15 Albany 7 p.m.

March 19 John Hopkins 6 p.m. *Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic in Baltimore

Outlook

The Syracuse men’s lacrosse team started off its season 3-0, including a win over Virginia that propelled to a unanimous No. 1 selection in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Poll. Against the Cavaliers, attack Tim Desko had a breakout game with five goals, bringing his total to a team-leading 10 on the season. JoJo Marasco leads the Orange in points with 11.

Syracuse opens up its Big East schedule Saturday against Georgetown in Baltimore in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic.

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Caltech snaps 26-year conference losing skid in final game

By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor

Ryan Elmquist tried not to think about the 26 years of inferiority riding on what was the final free throw of his career. He fought off those thoughts creeping into his mind and zoned in on the basket. Nothing else.

“I tried not to think about anything, but it was kind of hard,” Elmquist FOR THE said. “I was focusing more on just making the basket and tried not to think about what’s on the line.”

What was on the line was Caltech’s 26-year Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference losing streak. There have been 310 conference games for Caltech since Jan. 3, 1985, and each ended with a loss.

So as Elmquist, a forward for Caltech (5-20), stepped to the line at the Braun Athletic Center in Pasadena, Calif., on Feb. 22, he had a chance to end the most dreadful of streaks. With his Beavers tied with Occidental at 45 with three seconds left, one free throw would end an unfathomable part of basketball history.

Elmquist drained the free throw, and Occidental missed its half-court heave at the buzzer. The 26 years of losing finally came to an end.

Fans stormed the court in a euphoric scene rarely captured inside the gym at Caltech. For them, the significance of what happened took effect immediately. For Elmquist, it didn’t sink in as quickly.

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“It took a second to set in,” Elmquist said.

“And then all of our fans rushed to center court, so then it started setting in. That’s when everyone was kind of jumping around and celebrating, because we finally did it.”

Caltech isn’t exactly known for its athletic prowess but for its reputation of producing engineers and scientists. Thirty-one members of its alumni and faculty have graduated and gone on to win Nobel Prizes. Still, 26 straight years of losing every conference game is a span that seems almost too difficult to accomplish. Even for a team of players that typically places greater emphasis on academics than basketball.

The Beavers couldn’t even stumble into a win over the past two-plus decades.

Elmquist, who ended that game with 23 points, said 99 percent of the reason he went to Caltech was because of the academics. He saw basketball as a nice distraction from the rigors of homework and stress that comes from studying at Caltech.

He never could have imagined what he would eventually help do. If that win was ever going to happen for the Beavers, it was going to be this year. Last season, they didn’t win a single game, let alone a single SCIAC game.

This year, though, the conference losses came by slimmer margins.

“I felt pretty good in most of the conference games we played this year,” Caltech head coach Oliver Eslinger said. “A lot of them were really close. … I knew we were close, and our guys knew it, too.”

Caltech suffered a 71-67 overtime loss to

Redlands on Jan. 12. That was followed by a 76-70 loss at La Verne. The Beavers were getting closer and closer to the win that eluded the program for so long. When it beat Occidental on Senior Night, not only did it end the conference losing streak, it also marked Caltech’s fifth win of the season.

At 5-20, the Beavers finished with their best record in 15 years. Last season, they went 0-25. And in the previous eight years, Caltech didn’t win more than one game.

To win five games in one season was doing the improbable.

“This year, we had a lot of really close games,” sophomore forward Mike Edwards said. “Finally getting that win in terms of this team, not even with the streak, was just awesome.”

When it was over, Edwards said he sat in his locker not saying much while his teammates shouted and celebrated the win. He couldn’t help but think about how good it felt to get a victory. With five wins in two seasons on the team, the sophomore doesn’t get that feeling very often.

In the week following the game, Edwards said he started to receive e-mails from alumni telling him how proud they were of the team.

Random people around the Caltech campus stopped him to say congratulations. That’s when he started realizing the win meant more to the school than it did to him.

“It more sunk in afterward when people were talking to me and e-mailing me,” Edwards said. “I was like, ‘This is a bigger deal than I was expecting.’”

For Elmquist, though, the win sealed his career. The final free throw he’d ever shoot rescued a program from the doldrums of disparity. Elmquist ended his career in a way no Caltech player has in 26 years.

He walked off the court as a member of a Caltech team that won a conference game.

“It sounds like a storybook ending to a career,” Elmquist said. “It was pretty awesome that we could finally get it to happen.”

From the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks: A Conversation with

Daniel Ellsberg March 8, 2011 7:30 p.m.

Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium Newhouse 3, First Floor

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Final Battle standings In honor of Charlie Sheen joining the Twitter community, we name our battlers after their favorite sports tweeters.

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Fiasco After years of turmoil with record label, Lupe Fiasco releases conflicted third album

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upe Fiasco told Complex magazine he both loves and hates his new album, “Lasers.” The hip-hop artist’s third album stems from controversy and conflict between him and his record label, Atlantic Records. The achievement of getting it released — which at one point looked doubtful, considering its numerous delays — is something to behold in itself.

Fiasco told the magazine, “I love and hate this album … when I think about what it took to actually get the record together and everything that I went through — which is something I can’t separate — I hate this album.”

Fiasco’s internal conflict about his album resonates in the music. At times — in “Words I Never Said” and “Beautiful Lasers” — his genius shines with creative and politically sound verses, followed by clever and catchy beats. But with the dance club beat “I Don’t Wanna Care Right Now” and the inclusion of Trey Songz in “Out Of My Head,” the collision of his words with hooks from supporting acts fails to sound like vintage Lupe.

The album begins with “Letting Go,” a song featuring a hook from Sarah Green. Green, a regular on his albums, has been featured in “Real” and “Intruder Alert,” and she does good work. The song itself is a declaration of Fiasco

releasing himself from the record industry. He raps, “Burden on my shoulders now, burning all my motors down, inspiration drying up, motivation slowing down.”

“Words I Never Said” is classic Fiasco, as far as his lyrics taking a critical grip on current events is concerned. Skylar Grey, from Dr. Dre’s “I Need A Doctor,” provides a catchy hook that will make the song an instant hit.

His third verse is one of the most powerful on the album. “I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, fear is such a weak emotion, that’s why I despise it,” he raps.

In “Till I Get There,” Fiasco continues the album’s underlying theme of the struggle to get his album out. But “I Don’t Wanna Care Right Now” is a dance club song with an autotuned hook about being at a party all night.

Quite frankly, it isn’t a Lupe song, and the beat and hook sound better suited for N.E.R.D. Same goes for “Out Of My Head,” where he sounds like the guest act on a Trey Songz track. For the first time in Fiasco’s career, he’s overpowered on his own tracks.

Fiasco said “The Show Goes On,” the first single on the album, was the Atlantic Records chip he had to take to put his album out. The beat and hook descend from Modest Mouse’s “Float On,” providing the poppy hit the record company demanded out of Fiasco. His verses are an anthem for those in the ghetto to stick to

their dreams. He tells listeners, “Yeah, yeah, the world is yours, I was once that little boy.

Terrified of the world, now I’m on a world tour.”

Fiasco told the Chicago Tribune that “Beautiful Lasers” is about him coming to grips with his depression and suicidal thoughts. The strife with Atlantic Records drove him to the edge but led to this track, perhaps one that will please listeners the most. “If you feel you don’t wanna be alive, you feel just how I am,” Fiasco says. He thanks his fans for motivation, saying, “My heart been broke for a while, your’s been the one keeping me alive.”

But the power of “Beautiful Lasers” isn’t consistent throughout the album. The hook on “Coming Up” sounds poppy, cheap and irritable. The hook for “State Run Radio,” sung by Matt Mahaffey, sounds like a pop-punk band’s chorus, which is a shame because it overshadows some of Fiasco’s strongest verses.

The best beat comes from “All Black Everything.” Fiasco raps about an alternate world in which African-Americans were never brought to America, and slaves and racism never existed. The beat really brings Fiasco back to the level of his first two albums, in the echelon of some of the best beats he’s rapped on, such as “Hip-Hop Saved My Life.”

The album’s conclusion, “Never Forget You,” featuring John Legend, is certainly a closing song. But Legend overpowers Fiasco

because he’s the bigger voice and maybe the bigger star.

Fiasco wasn’t overpowered by any acts, even ones bigger than him, on previous albums. On “Pressure,” off his first album, Fiasco didn’t let Jay-Z overshadow his verses. On “Fighters,” Maroon 5’s Adam Levine sang the hook but complemented Fiasco’s lyrics perfectly.

“Lasers” is a conflicted album. A broken album from a broken rapper. Fiasco disperses inspirational words throughout, but his words fail to come together with guest artists and beats, creating an album that had potential but failed to reach it.

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“I climbed a mountain of snow outside of Graham Dining Hall and rolled down it like a four year old tumbling down a hill of grass. I felt pretty accomplished afterward.”

Christina Fieni

freshman graphic design major

“I built an igloo and snowmen for pledging.”

Brian Bascom

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“I’m just planning on doing some homework, sleeping in and possibly sledding.”

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shay frey | contributing photographer Anthony Wright and Sydnee Corriders, a freshman television, radio and film major and freshman psychology major, respectively, sled down Clarendon Street Monday.

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Power to the people After 40 years on campus, People’s Place continues to brew meaningful, personalized relationships

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By Flash Steinbeiser STAFF WRITER

egions of bleary-eyed students swarm the basement of Hendricks Chapel, looking for a quick cup of coffee.

Pandemonium has arrived at People’s Place, with 15 minutes before the next round of classes start. Some will make it on time, others won’t, knowing their mocha java is worth the unexcused tardy. The line extends far beyond the counter, reaching into the stairwell several yards back.

It’s just another day of work at People’s Place, the nonprofit student-run coffee shop, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Though the coffee is free trade and organic, the defining aspect that has allowed People’s Place to survive four decades is, well, the people.

“People who come in regularly — we know their order. We say, ‘Hi,’” said Alex Amadeo, a People’s Place employee. “So you could just go somewhere else, and you would just get a cup of coffee. But here it’s cheaper, you might know the person a little bit better, they might talk to you, catch up with you.”

At 9:45 a.m., the only noise left is the music pumping from Amadeo’s laptop. With hardly a customer in sight, he and his co-workers prepare more coffee for the next rush. Amadeo, a junior music composition major, hands over a cup of coffee to Hendricks Dean Tiffany Steinwart.

Chuckling, Steinwart thanks Amadeo for letting her son join his Skype conversation with a friend abroad the day before. It’s these small interactions and relationships that have defined People’s Place for 40 years, filling the role of the casual student hub People’s Place founder Ted Finlayson-Schueler had always envisioned.

When Finlayson-Schueler created People’s Place, it was just him and his mother, some coffee and a lot of cookies. The university had not yet built the Schine Student Center, leaving students without a place to meet and relax on campus.

Since the space wasn’t there, FinlaysonSchueler decided he was just going to make it.

Though the University Religious Council already gave out free coffee and doughnuts, FinlaysonSchueler tweaked the system and began selling his own baked goods, using the same space in the basement of Hendricks. He and his mother would bake hundreds of cookies at their house every weekend, which always sold out.

“That’s what’s amazing, it’s just been like that the whole time, considering other changes on campus,” Finlayson-Schueler said.

There have been a few changes. The walls are now covered in memorabilia of past workers.

From aging Polaroid pictures of previous employees to a magazine cut-out of George Clooney, each People’s Place member has left his or her mark in making this coffee shop a unique spot on campus.

“If you’re having fun and people can tell, it’s a contagious feeling,” said Charlotte Stone, a manager at People’s Place. “And people want to be a part of that.”

Tom Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, said the atmosphere always reflects the students currently there. As the Protestant chaplain and previous dean of Hendricks for 19 years, Wolfe has seen the atmosphere of the shop fluctuate, yet still retain its core value as the “living room” on campus.

“I can’t imagine the chapel without People’s Place,” he said.

“Just can’t imagine it.”

Wolfe quickly dispels any rumors that Syracuse University wants to put People’s Place under its watch. Though it has been mentioned, he said People’s Place is far too rooted in tradition to be stripped of independence.

“There’s so much legacy at People’s Place, so

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no,” he said, “It’s not going to happen.”

Creating an atmosphere all employees and customers can enjoy is a crucial aspect to People’s Place, said Stone, a senior anthropology and political science major. By blaring music and taping humorous notes on the wall, the coffee shop tries to make all employees feel at home. Stone acknowledges these aesthetics earn it the title of a hipster hangout, but she quickly points out that a patron doesn’t have to wear flannel and skinny jeans to fit in.

Around noon, Physical Plant workers in hardhats order sandwiches and coffee, contrasting with everyone else in the basement. People’s Place brings together more than just students — numerous faculty and staff members are regulars as well, Amadeo said. People’s Place now takes Finlayson-Schueler’s student integration model and expands it to include faculty and staff.

Wolfe recounts numerous conversations with students and faculty he otherwise would have never met. He’s befriended many of the student managers there, forging relationships with each visit. In his honor, there is even a yellowing piece of notebook paper taped above the counter, with “Dean Wolfe — free coffee for life,” written in purple crayon.

“For me it was part of my social circle every day,” he said.

Then there’s the line that, no matter the time, has recently become a staple of People’s Place.

Occasionally sprouting out the door and beyond, the massive line has forced students to strategically find the right time to visit.

Wolfe said the coffee shop was much quieter several years ago. With its growing popularity, students can be impatient and frustrated in the lines, Stone said, but the pressure never gets to the workers. She said People’s Place can occasionally run out of coffee or lids in the middle of a line, but these shortcomings don’t add to the stress or make her job any less enjoyable.

“You can go down to Starbucks, and the line is just as long,” she said.

As the shop closes down, there’s hardly a soul in sight. Stone cleans up the shop, wiping the counters and sweeping the floors. She’s exhausted. But she’s not alone, either. With her co-workers, she said it doesn’t matter how tough the job feels — the people around her create the feeling she knows the coffee shop will always provide.

“It’s the thing that got me through college,” she said. “You just relax.” ansteinb@syr.edu