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In the media frenzy surrounding the passage of the health care reform bill, students are left wondering ...

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Fitness focus Students discuss how to accommodate more free weights in the South Campus gym.

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A transparent issue Harmen Rockler argues for privacy after installation of full-body scanners in airports.

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WHAT IT WAS

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States decided when children were removed from their parents’ health plan, usually at 23 or upon graduation.

The federal government has capped the age to 26 in all states.

Students can’t be

The government did not require people to buy health insurance.

The government requires everyone to have health care.

Insurance companies could turn people with pre-existing medical conditions away.

Insurance companies can’t turn anyone away for conditions beginning in 2014.

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kicked off their parents’ insurance until they are 26.

Those without health insurance by 2014 will face a penalty of $95 or 1 percent of their income, whichever is more, increasing each year.

People with pre-existing conditions can still get health care.

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oung adults will have the option to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan until they are 26, among other changes that will affect students, after President Barack Obama signed into law the Health Care Reform bill on March 23.

By 2014, no one will be turned away from insurance plans for pre-existing medical conditions or for becoming sick or disabled, according to a New York Times article.

This includes students as well.

In addition to the additional time children can remain under their parents’ health insurance plan, colleges and

universities can continue to use their current health insurance plans for students, regardless of whether the plan fits the requirements of the new bill. Also under the bill, people who do not have health insurance by 2014 will face a penalty.

All dependents can now remain under their parents’ health care plan until age 26. Before the bill, states decided when children were removed from their parents’ insurance, usually at age 23 or upon college graduation.

Under the new legislation, adult children who receive insurance from their employers cannot remain on their parents insurance, regardless of their age.

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No tickets issued in fatal Nov. car accident

By Beckie Strum ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Police determined no tickets will be issued to anyone involved in a car accident that resulted in the death of two Syracuse University students Nov. 24.

The Oneida County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating the car accident in the Town of Paris, just south of Utica, in which two SU students were killed and another two were injured. No tickets were issued because the students did not break any laws resulting in the accident.

The investigation concluded the car’s global positioning system was set to avoid tolls and the students were unfamiliar with the winding road on which they were traveling, Lt. Brian

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SU buildings burglarized in past five days

By Rebecca Kheel ASST. NEWS EDITOR

A small number of burglaries and larcenies in university office buildings occurred during the past four or five days, said Department of Public Safety Chief Tony Callisto.

DPS alerted the campus community to the burglaries and larcenies in an e-mail Monday evening.

Buildings along the 800 block of Comstock Avenue, the 800 block of University Avenue and the 100 block of Waverly Avenue have been broken into, according to the e-mail.

The burglaries were very similar in nature, Callisto said, with the entry gained through breaking the glass office windows in most instances. A door was left unlocked in one burglary, and another resulted in damage to the door, according to the e-mail. In all instances items were stolen, Callisto said.

The burglaries were reported to the Syracuse Police Department, and SPD and DPS are working together to

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Goldstein gym to add free weights

Journalist addresses new media, race

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Accommodations for new free weights that will be added to the gym in Goldstein Student Center next semester was the main topic of a focus group of South Campus residents Sunday.

South Campus residents met with Student Association, Student Centers and Programming Services, and Recreation Services on Sunday and will meet again Wednesday to discuss what they think is the best way to make space for the new weights and relocate cardio machines outside the gym without eliminating student privacy.

The treadmills, ellipticals and bikes will be placed in the area behind the stairwell where pool tables are currently located. Sunday’s meeting discussed whether to face them with users’ backs or faces to the windows. Most attendees at the focus group agreed the equipment should be placed with users’ backs to the windows.

Bridget Yule, director of Student Centers and Programming Services, said free weights can only be added to the current gym space if cardio machines are moved outside of the gym and into the space the pool tables currently occupy. Results from a February survey of 328 South Campus residents showed the majority of people do not use the pool tables, which would be relocated to another area in Goldstein Student Center.

The main challenge of making room for the free weights by reorganizing the gym is to keep students happy without alienating another group of students, Yule said.

“We are trying to understand how students feel,” Yule said. “We want to know what it would take for students to feel more comfortable so that they don’t feel like they are being stared at.”

The initial design for Goldstein included a third phase in design that included an indoor track and pool in addition to the gym. But Goldstein has not seen any remodeling since it opened in 1990 because there wasn’t any funding for the expansion, Yule said.

The cost of adding the free weights next semester will be $4,000 to $7,000, said Joseph Lore, director of Recreation Services.

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isabel alcantara | contributing photographer cynthia tucker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, lectures an audience in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium Monday night about the ways new media has made it more difficult to find hard facts.

New media often fails to provide consistent or reliable facts and hinders people’s ability to learn, said Cynthia Tucker, a Pulitzer Prize winner, during her speech Monday night in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium.

Tucker lectured and answered questions from Lorraine Branham, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and the audience about her experience at a major national newspaper as a political columnist and how race affects reporting.

Tucker was the first black woman to serve as editorial page editor for a major American daily newspaper in 1992 at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her column in 2007. Before graduating from Auburn University and attending Harvard University as a Neiman Fellow, Tucker grew up in Monroeville, Ala., during the age of segregation.

“I am not interested in covering politics as a horse race. I am one of those really boring, geekish public policy wonks who will actually read boring treatises on health care, Afghanistan, and cap and trade,” Tucker said.

She spoke about how the proliferation of media outlets has made it hard for Americans to agree on facts, let alone opinions. In the “Golden Age” of news, most Americans watched one of the three big networks and read one or two newspapers, she said.

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Members discuss revising smoking policy

By Laurence Leveille Staff Writer

The possibility of a new smoking policy will be investigated by Student Association, the assembly announced at Monday’s meeting.

Neal Casey, the Student Life Committee chair, said SA is working with the Onondaga County Health Department in order to see how a revised smoking policy could benefit the campus. The change would look to make SU a smoke-free campus or designate smoking areas. The assembly also voted on three special-programming bills at the meeting.

The pressing question about changes to the campus smoking policy is whether students want a change in the policy. If they do, the next step is to decide whether it should be an entirely smoke-free campus or a campus with designated smoking areas.

“I think the big thing that’s going to come out of this is that we’re going to look at the feasibility of whether this can fit on campus,” Casey said.

The current smoking policy prevents individuals from smoking indoors and prevents tobacco companies from advertising on campus grounds, Casey said.

The possibility of revising the smoking policy is a subject that comes up every year, Casey said. The goal right now is to see whether changes should be made to the policy.

SA will continue to address the issue in the upcoming weeks, he said.

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Students independent of their parents’ health care plan before age 26 or uninsured have multiple options ahead of them.

According to the bill, Section 1560(c) states, “Nothing in this title (or an amendment made by this title) shall be construed to prohibit an institution of higher education from offering a student health insurance plan.”

Syracuse University’s College Democrats and College Republicans have differing opinions on the change to the age at which adult children are allowed to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans.

“Students that do have health care are going to be covered until they’re 26, which is great for insurance companies (but) terrible for parents because they’ll be paying so much more,” said Dan Fitzpatrick, president of SU’s College Republicans.

Keeping dependent students on their parents’ health care plan for a longer period of time will give parents less income to help their kids financially, he said.

Fitzpatrick also said he thought requiring students to get health care by law is against the 10th Amendment, which says anything not in the Constitution is the right of the states to decide, and he does not see any good coming from it.

Kyle Rapone, the president of the College Democrats, said even though parents would have to pay more, hopefully students will help their parents pay for health care once they have a decent-paying job. But if their employer does offer health insurance, students will no longer remain on their parent’s insurance.

“To be honest, when a child is under their

parents’ health care plan, typically it’s a lot less expensive than if a child is on their own,” he said.

Students will also have the option of using the health insurance plan offered by SU Health Services, which was offered prior to the health insurance bill. Health Services provides the option for students through Aetna Life Insurance Company. SU offered this because prior to the Health Care Reform bill, many health care plans did not provide health insurance once a dependent is a certain age, married, financially independent or living away from home, according to Health Services’ Web site.

As stated by the bill, universities, including SU, will be able to continue providing students with insurance plans even though they are not individual plans or employee-based group plans, as the bill requires. Health Services could not be reached for comment regarding any changes to SU’s insurance plan.

If an employer does not provide health care coverage, a student independent of his or her parents’ health care with an income of less than $14,000 qualifies for Medicaid health care coverage, according to an article from the New York Times. If a student’s employer offers health insurance but cannot afford to buy the plan, he or she can file for exemption in order to avoid penalties for not having health care.

If independent students choose not to buy coverage by 2014, either through the school or through employer-sponsored coverage, there will be a penalty of $95 or 1 percent of their income, whichever is more, as stated in Sec. 5000A(3)(c). The penalty will continue to increase each year. lgleveil@syr.edu

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ull-body scanners have the capability to view hidden explosives, guns and other objects that could be concealed under clothing and used for a terrorist attack. These scanners also have the capability to virtually strip down a person. The individual operating the machine, looking at the monitor, is able to see the passenger’s naked body.

During the past few months, across the United States and across the world, airports have installed full-body scanners. The installations are mainly due to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempted plane bombing on Christmas Day. The explosives were hidden in his underwear — undetectable to the typical X-ray screening. The incident led the Transportation Security Administration and other countries’ security agencies to seek a better method of

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finding hidden explosives. Their conclusion was to implement full-body scanners.

Those in favor of body scanners believe that security is worth more than privacy. Whatever the TSA recommends, these individuals will comply in the hope of increased safety. First, we had to take our laptops out of our bags. Then, we had to take off our shoes and belts. Then, we had to limit ourselves to an arbitrary 3 ounces of liquids or gels. Now, certain individuals will have to subject themselves to a virtual strip search (Congress has outlawed the use of body scanners as a primary screening device). It seems to be an unending list of inconveniences. While we give up a fair amount of privacy, it is unclear how much actual security we get back in return.

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to the left, to the left comments to a female coworker after seeing her body-scan images. She had “strayed” into the machine, according to Reuters News Service. The specific comments that were made are not available. The female employee claims that she was traumatized by the incident. This is the first reported incident where full-body scanners have been abused. The female employee’s privacy violation and the inappropriate comments from the male employee highlight the inherent problems with these devices.

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To provide greater security, some want to resort to Israeli-style security procedures, whereby passengers are asked questions by interrogators about the purpose of their travel.

Still, more want to racially screen Middle Eastern individuals. This is incorrectly based on the idea that all terrorists are Middle Eastern.

Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols (the Oklahoma City bombers,), the Weathermen and Ku Klux Klan do not factor into this “rule.” Racial screening and interrogation are not only misguided, but they go against U.S. values of freedom and privacy.

Racial screening can easily lead to segregation and racism.

Full-body scanners have some other downsides to be considered.

While the machines can see the nude body, they can fail to detect some items hidden in folds of skin and within body cavities. Terrorists can

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easily adapt to the new restrictions.

There are less invasive procedures that exist. One alternative to detect explosives is a noninvasive “puffer” machine, which requires that the passenger walk into a box-like machine.

The machine then shoots jets of air at the passenger. The air is then sucked back into the machine for analysis to find explosive particles.

It is surprising how much privacy people are willing to give up. It’s uncertain where the limit is to how much we value our privacy and how much we value our security. The fact that, more than ever, Americans are willing to give up their privacy shows that the terrorists’ goals to change our values might just be working.

Harmen Rockler is an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. His column appears bi-weekly, and he can be reached at horockle@syr.edu.

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sity of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry representative for SA, contacted the SU administration after the ESF students he mentors complained to him about the gym. All first-year ESF students are required to live in SkyHalls on South Campus.

“We really want to make it a useable facility and give people that option,” Law said.

Despite having a gym close to his residence, Michael Martin, a freshman at ESF, said the

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inadequate facilities have caused him to workout less than he otherwise would have. During Sunday’s focus group, Martin said he chooses not to work out because there is not a suitable facility close to his SkyHall residence.

“I am not going to go all the way back to Main Campus to work out,” Martin said. “It is a pain.”

The staff at Student Centers and Programming Services and Recreation Services met with Law to discuss how they would evaluate and address the comments and complaints made

by South Campus residents.

Survey results showed 82 percent of respondents said they would use the free weights, and

the majority said they would use the gym more often if free weights were available.

Despite the complaints about the South Campus gym, SU is ahead of the curve in availability of gym facilities, said Lore, director of Recreation Services. Based on Recreation Services’ research, no other university in the nation has more than four fitness centers, and SU has six, Lore said.

“When I first came here 25 years ago there was no fitness center for non-student-athletes,” Lore said. “This generation is a lot more healthconscious, and students are saying part of the college experience is to live a healthy lifestyle.”

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further investigate them.

None of the burglaries were witnessed, and they were all discovered when someone came to the office the next morning, Callisto said.

There are currently no suspects, Callisto said. Police are still unsure if the break-ins were committed by members of the university community or members of the outside community, he said.

In the e-mail, DPS alerted the university community of ways to avoid being victimized.

Callisto said DPS wanted to tell people to lock their doors and lock up their valuables overnight to minimize burglaries.

Callisto said he could not provide any more information about the burglaries.

Phendler said.

The students left Syracuse and were headed toward New York City for Thanksgiving weekend, Phendler said.

“We didn’t understand why they didn’t take the thruway,” he said. But the investigation determined that the GPS system was set to avoid toll roads.

The students were traveling in the dark and Route 12 is a curvy road. Based on the investigation, the students lost control of the car because they were unfamiliar with the road, Phendler said.

Police from the sheriff’s office believe no drugs or alcohol were involved, he said.

The students were traveling northbound on Route 12 in a 2009 Hyundai Elantra when the car went off the road while rounding a sharp curve, hit an embankment and several trees, and came to stop in an open field, The Daily Orange reported in a Nov. 30 article.

The sheriff’s office arrived on the scene at 9:20 p.m. and pronounced Wang Young and Oh Saem dead. Both students were 19 years old. Chang Hyunsung, the driver of the vehicle, and Shin Chaewan, a passenger, were taken to St. Elisabeth Hospital in Utica with nonfatal injuries, The Daily Orange reported. Hyunsung and Chaewan are firstyear students in the School of Architecture.

Oh and Wang were also first-year students in the School of Architecture.

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general conclusions.

“Some news organizations are misrepresenting the facts, and that’s a big problem because it’s one thing to have different opinions about a situation, but it’s another if what you’re actually doing is disseminating false information,” said Makana Chock, associate professor of communications at Newhouse.

This lack of information is causing America to become less informed, Tucker said.

“Twenty four-hour news cycles have merged reporting and opinion and news and entertainment,” Tucker said. “I don’t watch morning news anymore because you get five minutes of news and then the circus comes on.”

Tucker said journalists are partly to blame for this lack of accurate information.

She said she has an obligation to say no when asked to talk about a subject that she doesn’t know a lot about. As a journalist, there is an obligation to learn about a subject before reporting on it, she said.

Some advice Tucker gave to students in the audience was to pick up a newspaper and “read one every now and then.”

“You need to read in the long form, not just the short form of blogs. Read a 30-inch article in a newspaper or a 15-inch article in a magazine,” she said. “You’d make my job a little easier, so we can all agree on what the facts are.”

When Branham asked what Tucker’s opinion on racism today was, Tucker answered by saying there are many signs of racial progress.

“The great philosopher Charles Barkley said it well when he said, ‘Well, I tell ya. The best golfer is a black guy and the best rapper is a white guy. What’s up with that?’ That tells me

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“I am not interested in covering politics as a horse race. I am one of those really boring, geekish public policy wonks who will actually read boring treatises on health care, Afghanistan, and cap and trade.”

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there is an incredible amount of racial simulation,” Tucker said.

Tucker and Branham both said that while there is advancement in racial issue, racism is not dead. Tucker called the term “post-racial America” nonsense.

“We still have a ways to go, but I’m a lot more optimistic about the ability to make that journey than I used to be,” Tucker said.

When a student asked about how race relates to a journalist’s stories, Tucker said reporters’ interest in stories come out of their own experiences.

She said it’s important to have diverse newsrooms.

Past and present students who attended the event said Tucker’s message and opinions on journalism restored their faith in the field.

“I thought that was really great, so I think she brought a lot of concrete examples that are happening today,” said Liz Ferree, a recent Newhouse graduate. “She reflected on where we’ve been and where we hope to go.” pvohra@syr.edu

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Partners is good for their language and general culture content.”

Tiffany Ferris, a freshman elementary education major, has experienced a math class with a TA from Kenya who had a thick accent, she said.

She said she has not had to interact with the TA very much and hasn’t had any issues with his speech since she rarely has to communicate with him. Ferris’ roommate had a different experience with an international TA. She cannot understand the TA, yet this TA is the only source to go to for help in a class, Ferris said.

“She comes back to the room and says she has a rough time understanding her TA,” Ferris

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in order to help students now,” said fashion design professor Karen Bakke.

The lecture series is a collaboration between the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

It is unique in that is focuses on the business aspect of fashion, which draws both fashion design students as well as those majoring in retail management.

Jeffrey Mayer, who heads the fashion design department, will informally interview Sariano.

She will give an overview of her experience and the process she went through to become a business owner.

Sariano said she praises Mayer for taking the program to new levels. She also said she looked

said. “She doesn’t feel comfortable asking for help because she doesn’t understand her accent.

Sometimes it’s just difficult to understand different accents, but she said it is affecting her grade.”

Conversation Partners hopes to address issues like the one Ferris’ roommate is currently experiencing and solve them as much as possible.

“I think it’s really great for the TAs who might not have a lot of contact with native English speakers,” Brimmer said. “If they have questions or want to go to Starbucks and aren’t entirely sure what to say, it makes it a lot easier, and I think it helps them improve their English skills tremendously.” rltoback@syr.edu

forward to the questions in the interview.

“I think Professor Mayer is going to ask a lot of poignant questions because he obviously knows the students so well and what they might be interested in knowing,” Sariano said.

Looking back on her time at Syracuse, Sariano said she remembers certain guest speakers vividly. “We had Tommy Hilfiger and Mary McFadden come in and speak to us,” she said.

“And I just wanted to soak in everything. Hilfiger walked around, came down to our studio and saw what we were doing and answered questions.”

Sariano said she hopes that her lecture will benefit those who attend Wednesday. “I think what’s going to be really great for students is that I’m young enough that I think people can identify with me,” she said. aeorjel@syr.edu

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SU alumna to speak about fashion design

By Amy Orgel

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Melding the left and right sides of the brain together, the Shemin Family Lecture Series will host Bostonbased fashion designer and Syracuse University fashion design alumna Cibeline Sariano on Wednesday.

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Sariano, an SU graduate from the Class of 1996 and a sister of Delta Delta Delta, owns her own namesake boutique and custom studio in the upscale shopping district of Beacon Hill in Boston. The 35-year-old started her own business in 2002.

Sariano has experience in both the design and merchandising aspects of fashion, she said.

She plans to talk about the internships she had while at SU and the effect they had on her career goals.

“It was just a moment of clarity for me, at 19 years old, to have that experience interning, and to be able to turn around and go back to college and implement that into my senior collection was truly immeasurable,” she said.

Laura Vientos, a senior fashion design major, said she is curious to hear about those internships and the advice she has to offer.

“I’m interested in what kind of internship experience she had and what her design interests were right out of college,” she said.

Vientos has attended the past three Shemin lectures and found them all to be valuable in different ways. “Thai Nguyen was especially helpful. He had the best advice because it was coming from a younger designer who I can relate to,” she said.

After her lecture, Sariano will return to campus on Thursday to privately view and critique several senior collections, which is a tradition of the Shemin series.

“I’ll be working with each designer and giving my feedback,” she said.

The lecture series, now in its third year, was established to host two SU alumni per semester who have achieved success in both business and fashion design.

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maria salatino | staff photographer Megan Brimmer (left) and lian qiao, a senior international relations major and a music performance teaching assistant, respectively, practice conventional English skills as part of the Conversation Partner program, which helps international TAs establish their English vocabulary.

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egan Brimmer never knew what Children’s Day was in Japan. The premise was completely foreign to her until she met her conversation partner from Japan, who taught her about this holiday celebrating the happiness of children.

More than 30 international teaching assistants take part in a program, Conversation Partners, designed to help TAs improve their fluency in the English language. The TAs who take part in this program are placed to teach in Syracuse University courses. The program’s goal is to improve their language skills so that they will be good enough to successfully teach at the university and improve over time.

Undergraduate students like Brimmer, a senior international relations major, meet with the international TAs once a week to discuss whatever comes to mind. The point is simply to improve the TAs’ conversational English in a relaxed environment.

Glen Wright, assistant director for graduate school programs

International graduate students work with undergraduates to improve their language skills through Conversation Partner program

and language proficiency services coordinator for the Conversation Partners program, said he thinks international graduate student TAs bring a different perspective into the classroom than that of TAs from the U.S. Wright’s job is to make sure a TA’s conversational English won’t be a hindrance to their performance in the classroom.

“The idea for Conversation Partners is (international TAs) essentially converse for an hour once a week and practice specific English skills,” Wright said. “There are TAs from all departments across campus in the program. A number of them are from engineering, physics, math and economics, but they can be from anywhere.”

Michelle Gallo, a senior history and political science major, said she has experienced at least one class in her time at SU that had an international TA. Currently, she is in a class with a TA from China. Understanding her TA, she said, is just a matter of getting used to the TAs’ English.

“It’s hard to understand them sometimes when they get really into

something,” Gallo said. “I’ve found that the first couple of weeks it’s difficult, but when you get into it, it’s not that bad. Right now, it’s better to have my TA’s perspective as opposed to an American perspective on what we’re learning.”

Wright said the reason the Conversation Partner program needs to exist is because of the possibility of a language barrier between TAs and students in the classroom.

Brimmer said she and her TAs have discussed their family history, vacations and other things you would discuss with a friend. After a while, Brimmer said, she forms friendships with the TAs she is assigned to. She currently meets with three international graduate students a week.

“We discuss everything and anything,” Brimmer said. “It’s a lot of basic ‘getting to know each other’ questions — ‘What would you do with $1 million?’ sort of thing, hypothetical questions.”

Brimmer said the program provides her with the opportunity to learn about new things, such as Children’s Day. “It was incredible for me to learn firsthand about something

so basic in their culture,” she said.

Brimmer said she learns things from her conversation partners — things she had never studied in the classroom — that have really sparked her interest.

One of the issues that the program hopes to address, Wright said, is hearing from students who complain to the department that they can’t fully understand their international TAs. Because of this, Chancellor Nancy Cantor mandated the program, Wright said.

Wright said the Conversation Partner program is the most wellreceived initiative for international TAs. He said the TAs have expressed a liking and appreciation for the chance to communicate with undergraduates in a relaxed and informal setting.

“There’s no threat of evaluation or homework attached to it,” he said. “It’s a chance to practice their English for the purpose to facilitate their learning and address their own particular issues. They have a lot of questions about things that work differently here, and Conversation see international page 8

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sher’s latest album, “Raymond v. Raymond”, is an enjoyable album that should be a hit, but it feels like the same formula from his past. This effort has the R&B artist going confessional again, offering up another large batch of hit singles and hot beats. “Raymond v.

Raymond” attempts to pit Usher’s two selves — the club-hopping playboy and the remorseful lover — against one another. It’s a little too ambitious and the concept is never fully realized. While he reflects on women and divorce, he ultimately proves that the club remains his first love.

Opening track “Monstar” sets up Usher’s drama. As he explains in his lyrics, “There’s three sides to every story … there’s one side, there’s the other and then there’s the truth.” The song takes time to get going, but when it does, it fascinates.

Part classical, part club and completely foreign, “Monstar” does well to portray Usher’s conflicting egos. Then the familiar hit that dropped last December, “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home),” kicks in. Three solid remixes have come out in past months, so the original version seems tacked on just for good measure.

New Usher album, ‘Raymond v.

Raymond,’ keeps pumping out the singer’s trademark club beats

The third track, “There Goes My Baby,” is when Usher really hits his stride, balancing the bedroom with the dance floor. It is slower and smoother than the preceding songs, yet it maintains a popping club beat. Usher injects us with his sweet voice again and creates one of his best songs in years. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the second single, “Lil’ Freak.” Raymond reverts back to his inner playboy here, singing about an impending ménage a trios, while Nicki Minaj raps nonsensically about the same. Isn’t Usher too old for this?

“She Don’t Know” achieves the same effect.

It’s catchy and subwoofer-friendly, but ultimately plays like a B-side to “Yeah,” Usher’s 2004 smash hit. Easy hook, simple beat and a generic Ludacris verse thrown into the mix — it’s decent, but formulaic. Third single “OMG” is another one for the clubs, featuring some pointless Auto-Tune and annoying chants over a Will.I.Am beat. This is nothing new. “Mars Vs. Venus” is a good bounceback, though. Usher gets tender with it, setting a nice mood for the first real lovemaking song on the album.

The artist does well to embrace that side for a bit, giving us the head-nodding “Pro Lover.”

A confident hip-hop beat complements Usher, who reinterprets professionalism by singing about adding women to his Hall of Fame. “Foolin Around” is an honest look at his infidelity and relationship insecurities. Here, Usher gives us an emotional, confessional ballad contemplating his lost love, and it sounds heartfelt. Then comes the equally emotional hit single “Papers,” in which Usher finally accepts the failures of his marriage and gets ready to sign the divorce forms.

This would have been a nice place to end the album — on a mature note, giving some closure to the story. But, appropriately so, Usher can’t resist the temptation to flirt with the clubs for a few more songs. “So Many Girls” is a waste of time, featuring redundant, champagne-popping lyrics and Diddy talking all over the track. “Guilty” features T.I. and sounds awkward: Usher never sounds comfortable and the egotistical theme of the song doesn’t help to show a new side of the artist.

“Okay” is a cool and easy song that has Usher flexing his vocals again, lyrically smooth-talking a girl he just picked up in the club. Same old routine, Raymond.

“Making Love (Into the Night)” ends the drama properly. Usher has brought his newest lady home

and he’s about to do his thing. This song may not be confessional, but at any rate, it’s smooth and sexy — descriptions that fit the album as a whole.

“Raymond v. Raymond” provides club hits and soft ballads, per usual, and it should be huge, but it’s nothing new. Usher conveys his conflicted emotions and sounds great in doing so. Just don’t mistake this for a huge creative step forward. ajhaeder@syr.edu

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arrowly clinging to a one-goal lead with about five and a half minutes left in the first quarter, Syracuse coughed up the ball — Villanova was ready to make its move.

But instead of the Wildcats getting the ball upfield and potentially swinging momentum in their favor, freshman JoJo Marasco turned things right back around for SU. As Villanova tried to clear on the right side, Marasco and Stephen Keogh hounded the Wildcat defenders. Marasco finally knocked the ball free, and Keogh picked up the ground ball. He took a few steps toward the cage before finding an open Cody Jamieson just to the right of the crease.

Jamieson caught the pass and ripped the shot past Wildcat goalie Billy Hurley to give SU a two-goal lead.

From then on, No. 3 Syracuse never looked back. The Orange (6-1, 2-0 Big East) blasted the young Wildcats 20-6 in front of 2,341 people in the Carrier Dome Monday afternoon. It was the most goals SU has scored in a game this season and the fewest it has allowed. Syracuse controlled the ball most of the day, and its high-pressure play frustrated No. 15 Villanova (5-3, 0-1) as the Orange dominated all facets of the game.

For Wildcats junior longstick midfielder Brian Karalunas, though, there was one aspect that really keyed Syracuse to the blowout win.

The SU riding — when the offense works to force turnovers as the defense attempts to clear its zone — was too much for Villanova to handle.

“Speaking from a defensive standpoint, trying to clear the ball, I honestly think that Syracuse’s best asset of the game today was their ride,” he said.

“More than their 6-on-6 sets. They really outplayed us in the riding and clearing game, and I think that’s what led to the wide margin of victory.”

Other than the first five minutes of the game, in which Villanova scored the game’s first goal, the outcome was never really in question. Syracuse outscored (5-2), outshot (14-5) and outhustled (13 groundballs to four) the Wildcats in the first quarter. Junior Jeremy Thompson and Keogh led the Orange with three goals apiece, and Marasco

dished out a career-high four assists.

SU would gain possession and keep it for chunks at a time while Villanova struggled to just get the ball into its offensive side of the field.

And the lack of possession and lack of success got to the Wildcats, who started six underclassmen.

“As the hole got deeper for them, you could see the frustrations coming out a little,” junior defenseman John Lade said. “They were trying to force the ball a little more and, yeah, you just saw a little frustration when they couldn’t get the ball that much.”

Some of the Villanova players could not hold in their emotions, even early on in the game. After a holding call on midfielder Nolan Vihlen following a faceoff at the end of the first quarter, the sophomore jogged over to the sideline and spiked his stick on the ground. He then paced back and forth along the sideline behind his teammates as SU’s Jovan Miller scored on the ensuing possession.

Syracuse continued its domination throughout the rest of the game. Villanova struggled to find its offense, mostly due to Syracuse’s ball control and ball-hawking rides.

The Wildcat defensive unit accounted for 10 of the team’s 21 turnovers. It could not solve the Orange’s pressure for any stretch of time as SU switched up its tactics throughout the game.

“I thought we rode pretty well,” SU head coach John Desko said. “(Assistant coach Kevin Donahue) had a pretty good game plan coming in and mixed it up. We used probably three different rides today, and I think just the changing of the rides did a very good job.”

By the fourth quarter, Syracuse held a 15-5 lead and rotated in some of its bench. But that didn’t even help Villanova slow down the Orange attack. Redshirt freshman Ryan Barber and junior Alex Giocondi tallied their first scores of the season in the final period to cap off the day.

“I thought that maybe a little bit of the Dome bug might have got to (Villanova) a little bit,” Desko said. “But I think a lot of it had to do with our possessions and how these guys played today. … Just playing pretty good offense and the defense being stingy.” zjbrown@syr.edu

matthew ziegler | staff photographer jovan miller celebrates during Syracuse’s 20-6 victory over Villanova Monday afternoon. Miller scored two goals as part of the high-powered Orange offensive attack.

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The number of shots taken by Syracuse, a 26-shot advantage over Villanova that led to its 20-6 win Monday.

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The junior led the way for the Orange’s prolific offensive attack Monday, registering his first career hat trick and adding two assists in SU’s 20-6 win.

the bad Kevin Cunningham

Villanova’s leading scorer was shut down

by SU junior defenseman John Lade in the first time all year Cunningham has failed to record a single point in a game.

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matthew ziegler | staff photographer jojo marasco (1) winds up to shoot in SU’s win Monday over Villanova. The freshman scored a goal and added a career-high four assists in the Orange’s victory.

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“I thought that maybe a little bit of the Dome bug might have got to (Villanova) a little bit. But I think a lot of it had to do with our possessions and how these guys played today…

Just playing pretty good offense and the defense being stingy.”

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Villanova turnovers

Villanova gave away the ball an eyepopping 21 times in the game, giving the Orange even more chances to expand upon its lead throughout the game.

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Jeremy Thompson records one of his five goals on the day to give Syracuse a 10-4 halftime lead, assisted by freshman JoJo Marasco on one of his four assists. The Orange went into the locker room with momentum and never looked back, scoring the first three goals of the third quarter.

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Thompson scores 5 points, reinforces Tewaaraton hype

By Rachel Stern Staff Writer

Before the Syracuse lacrosse team’s win against Hobart last Tuesday night, head coach John Desko felt midfielder Jeremy Thompson’s game was on the upswing.

Then came a cold, rainy night against the Statesmen.

The junior midfielder struggled. Shots sailed left and right, high and low. He rif led off six shots but never connected. Thompson tied for a team-high three turnovers.

Earlier that day, Thompson was named to the Tewaaraton Trophy watch list, college lacrosse’s equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.

During a midweek press conference, Desko was asked about Thompson’s name being added to the list. “Well, I don’t know about him elevating his game in this last

“I would say it feels better.

Coming off the Hobart game it was a tough game.

But today we came out and we did what we had to do and did a pretty good job out there.”

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game,” he joked.

What a difference a week can make.

On Monday afternoon at the Carrier Dome, Thompson proved he is every bit worthy of the latest honor. The junior midfielder did a little bit of everything in a 20-6 Syracuse win over Big East counterpart Villanova. Thompson filled up the stat sheet, netting three goals and two assists while winning 7-of-9 faceoff attempts.

Thompson couldn’t help but smile when he was asked if today’s game felt a bit better than last game.

“I would say it feels better,” Thompson said. “Coming off the Hobart game, it was a tough game. But today we came out and we did what we had to do and did a pretty good job out there.”

But “doing what we had to do” is a bit different for Thompson. He has to do everything. While Thompson is listed as a junior, this is his first year with the Orange. And in just his first season, Thompson is responsible for taking faceoffs, defending and, as of late, playing an integral role in the Orange’s set offense.

“Jeremy Thompson is a great player,” Villanova longstick midfielder Brian Karalunas said. “It is not often you see a throwback middie who takes faceoffs, plays defense and plays offense. That is invaluable for any team in the country.”

And against Villanova, Thompson’s allaround game was on full display.

Thompson still had success in the faceoff X but showed that his game consists of much more. On Thompson’s first two goals, he was on the receiving end of perfect passes. All he had to do was catch and shoot right on the doorstep.

But with 8:17 remaining in the third quarter, Thompson showed that he can create for himself. And not just from the faceoff X. Thompson sized up Wildcat defender T.J. O’Donnell on the right side of the field. He stutter-stepped to his left and unloaded from 25 yards out. Goal.

Right after his score, Thompson trotted to the faceoff X, won the faceoff and 29 seconds later snuck a pass right by Villanova goalie Billy Hurley. SU midfielder Joel White caught the pass and scored to push the Orange’s lead to 13-4.

This is a role that Thompson has grown into as the season has progressed.

In the beginning of the year, Thompson created much of his offense off faceoffs. Four times this season, Thompson has scored in six seconds or less. In each instance, he won the faceoff and found the cage himself.

“Starting up at the draws, I did a pretty good job there and created a little bit of offense off the draw,” Thompson said. “I just try to create some, and I have been successful lately.”

Though Desko joked following the Hobart game, he noticed Thompson’s steady improvement and felt a bigger role was something the Nedrow, N.Y., native could handle.

“A couple games ago he really started get-

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matthew ziegler | staff photographer jeremy thompson (4) controls the ball in SU’s 20-6 win over Villanova Monday. The junior recorded his first career hat trick in the game, giving him 10 goals on the season. ting better and better,” Desko said. “I think it is just him getting comfortable with the program and with the offense. He is a junior, but he is a freshman to our system here.”

Even on the sideline, the do-it-all midfielder did not stop moving. Restricted to the bench for the fourth quarter because of the big Syracuse lead, Thompson paced back and forth. He sat down for a minute, then

popped right back up and started walking around again.

After Monday afternoon’s performance, the Hobart game was nothing but a distant memory. Even for Desko.

“Jeremy is just getting better every game,” Desko said. “He is getting better with everything.” restern@ syr.edu

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Van Chew steps on the scale every time he enters the weight room. He has to.

It’s apparent to teammate Antwon Bailey.

To the Syracuse running back, it seems as if Chew’s pipe-cleaner calves are on the scale every time the two work out together.

That is only because Chew knows if he is to play next year, he must work the scale every day. With the departure of the wouldbe starter Mike Jones at the Z wide receiver position before spring practice started, Chew was promoted. And thus far, he hasn’t disappointed. The rising junior wide receiver has provided more highlight-reel plays than any other member of the Syracuse roster through the first five practices.

“I’ll tell you what, he did a great job this offseason,” SU head coach Doug Marrone said after practice last Wednesday. “I don’t know the exact number, but he put on 12 pounds, 15 pounds and that was one of the things that happened last year, he wasn’t physical enough to get off the line of scrimmage.”

In the fall, the times Chew graced that scale in the football weight room, it would read somewhere around 161 pounds. Now, it teeters and changes much more frequently.

Heading into spring practice, Chew claims to weigh 15 pounds more than his playing weight last year.

He’s hoping those extra pounds of muscle will enable him to improve upon his measly six receptions in 2009 — good enough for 11th on the team. It put Chew well behind Bailey and fellow running backs Delone Carter and Chew’s former roommate, Averin Collier.

The added weight is in large part because of his extra homework assignment for Winter Break. His coaches told him to do one thing to complement his workout routine: eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. A lot of them.

After reeling in at least three catches of 25 yards or more in 11-on-11 play each day through the first week of practice, it appears as if Chew met that Skippy and Welch’s quota his coaches set out for him. He has not only been able to get off the line, but he has also become the team’s primary deep threat.

“I knew I had to gain about 10 to 15 pounds,” Chew said. “So all I did was stick in the weight room and lifted and ran and tried to eat as much as I could.

“Anything that was in front of me.”

Over the break, Chew downed at least three sandwiches a day. And with that, he claims to have lived in the weight room, perfecting his already above-average technique. His former roommate, Collier, claims that despite his rail-thin figure, Chew is pound-for-pound one of the strongest players on the team.

Most especially, Chew took more and more to the “Clean” –– a lift where players lift a barbell vertically from the ground up to the shoulders and catch it at shoulder height.

With each session in the weight room and each sandwich consumed, Chew put on the mass he and others envisioned. Two, then 5, then 7 and finally 15 pounds were added to his frame. And Chew likes to think some

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“In the weight room, he shocked me when he came back from (Winter) Break,” sssaid wide receiver Alec Lemon, the No. 1 receiver on the depth chart. “He shocked me with all of the weight he put up. Bench, cleans, squats.

“I told him when he came back, he put something extra in that peanut butter and jelly. I don’t know what it was.”

Several weeks later, it’s a similar formula.

Yet now it pertains to catches. Months ago, he would disappear in fall practices thanks to cornerbacks like Da’Mon Merkerson and Phillip Thomas easily shedding him. They would shadow him toward the sidelines, completely aloof of his routes. Chew now is able to hit back.

With the added weight, he claims he can pick up speed enough to get by his teammates.

Enough momentum thus far to gain two, then five, then seven and, by the end of Monday’s practice, more than a dozen deep hauls thus far in spring ball.

It was highlighted by a touchdown grab Monday where Chew caught the ball over two defenders. Despite bobbling the ball as he was hit, he secured the ball as he met the ground. Later in practice, he found a seam past Merkerson and corralled another Ryan Nassib bullet in a tight window by the goal line. Those are just two of many this spring, as Chew is entering the discussion as a formidable option downfield.

“I think with the weight that I gained, it also gave momentum when I get off the ball,” Chew said. “So I have better acceleration and won’t get bumped off my route.”

Monday night fights Doug Marrone knew Monday’s practice session was a successful one when he realized he left the field with a bloody pinky.

“They were a little spirited,” Marrone said following practice. “When the head coach comes back and he is bleeding, his fingers bleeding, that is a pretty spirited practice.

But again, we want to be competitive, not combative.”

Monday’s practice session was highlighted by three scuffles involving players that Marrone attributed to heightened competition.

After the first one, Marrone paused practice to get a message across to his players about the consequences of such actions in a game.

“There is a fine line between being com-

petitive and combative,” Marrone said. “And there were a couple of times today where we crossed that line.”

The second incident was a fight between tight end Nick Provo and cornerback Phillip Thomas, in which the two threw punches at each other for roughly a minute. Then, defensive coordinator Scott Shafer stepped in as he attempted to pin the two down on the ground.

A play later, everything seemed back to normal as Provo and Thomas matched up to the outside, yet again.

And for senior linebacker Derrell Smith, the incident was not a big deal. He just relishes in the fact that his coaches aren’t afraid to get into the middle of things as well.

Said Smith: “I loved it. Everybody loved it.

That shows our competitive nature.”

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15

Tuesday

march 30, 2010

SPORTS

Hang time

The Daily Orange basketball beat writers look back at the best and worst from the 2009-10 season

Best Moment

Best Play

“Best” is a hard word to define, so we’ll break our best moment into two different categories. Best, as in our favorite, would have to be when Mike Allison, a forward from Maine, completely missed the backboard on a baseline jumper against the Orange. The shot, about 10 feet in front of the Syracuse bench, missed the hoop and the side of the backboard, eventually striking the middle of the horizontal beam that holds the hoop up. The look on his face was impossible to forget. Best, as in most impressive, would be DaShonte Riley’s behind-the-back dish to Brandon Triche in Syracuse’s first-round victory over Vermont. It was great because nobody saw it coming — the freshman center was lampooned all week and definitely turned heads with that one.

With an old AAU coach he played against playfully jawing at him nearby, Joseph closed out Syracuse’s win against the Hoyas on Feb. 18.

The Orange led by 23 points with 12:37 left but found itself only up by one point late. Joseph drew Greg Monroe one on one, drove, made his layup and secured the SU win with eight seconds left. Syracuse nearly blew this one.

With its frontcourt in foul trouble, the Orange was blasted underneath by Monroe. The Hoyas furiously clawed their way back into a game that was 60-37 at one point. And with one drive, Joseph assured Syracuse would win.

Dec. 5 against Maine

Best Freshman Brandon Triche

Within games, it became the forgotten concern. Jonny Flynn’s early departure to the NBA figured to leave a huge gash in Syracuse’s backcourt. An instant supply of offense, Flynn was the team’s heart and soul. But almost immediately, Brandon Triche assured that all was well. Though he did hit the rookie wall midway through conference play, Triche remained a rock at point guard through most of the season. He was the antithesis of careless, calmly making the right decisions on offense and playing a big role in the 2-3 zone on defense. Next year, look for Triche to be counted on as more of a scorer.

Kris Joseph’s layup in Georgetown

Scoop Jardine

Lighter and more agile, Scoop Jardine adopted his role perfectly heading into the 2009-10 season. Syracuse fans witnessed a player with enough maturity to supplement Brandon Triche’s raw talent and handle a daunting Big East full of talented backcourts. Down the stretch, Jardine had the courage to come out shooting when some of his other teammates did not.

Best Game

Nov. 20, 87-71 win over No. 6 North Carolina

Magical things happen at the world’s most famous arena, and this year’s victory against North Carolina counts as one of them. After starting the year unranked, Syracuse clubbed then-No. 13 California in the semifinals of the 2K Sports Classic to set up the showdown with the defending national champions. In perhaps the most exciting half of basketball on the season, SU trailed the Tar Heels but used a 22-1 run to send the Garden crowd into a frenzy. The world found out just how good Wes Johnson was and saw glimpses of Kris Joseph’s potential. Syracuse entered the Top 10 after this win and never left for the rest of the season.

Worst Moment

March 11 against Georgetown

With a little more than five minutes to play against Georgetown in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament, Arinze Onuaku came tumbling to the court at Madison Square Garden.

At first, it looked like any other time the big man has tripped over his own feet this season, but after the five minutes he spent writhing in pain on the floor, there was no question — this was serious. For Onuaku, it unearthed some old demons that lie in his battered knees. The center had to take a redshirt season in 2007 for a similar injury and took the offseason heading into this year rehabbing from tendonitis surgery in both knees.

Team MVP

Andy Rautins

Wes Johnson may have been the best player on the team, but when it comes down to most valuable, it has to go to the fifth-year senior. Rautins finished second on the team in scoring with 12.1 points per game but could be counted on for a big basket seemingly in every big game. His passing was excellent all season, and he came just three assists short of averaging five a game. When Rautins wasn’t in on defense, the team usually suffered. Other teams would find weaknesses at the top of the zone and capitalize. Without his high level of play, Syracuse does not return to the Sweet 16, or win the Big East regularseason championship.

Worst Game

March 25, 63-59 loss to No. 5 seed Butler

Most Improved

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After trailing for almost the entire game, Syracuse led 54-50 with 3:54 remaining in the Sweet 16. Just a simple 234 seconds stood between the top-seeded Syracuse and a date in the Elite Eight. Instead, those final seconds turned out to be the worst of the season and ended SU’s run toward a title. Willie Veasley nailed a 3-point shot that seemed destined to land over the top of the backboard, but it instead bounced high and through the net. The Bulldogs went on a late 11-0 run that ultimately ended the season in Salt Lake City. After being 28-2 and No. 1 in the country, Syracuse ended the season 2-3. Butler is now in the Final Four.

Worst Play

Willie Veasley’s 3

The ball stayed in orbit for an eternity. In the West Regional semifinals, Butler’s Veasley launched a 3-pointer that clanked around the rim, off the backboard and ricocheted straight up into the sky. The ball whipped through the nylon and Butler’s rally continued. The shot may forever represent the 11-0 run that dashed Syracuse’s dreams this season. Leading 54-50 with just over five minutes left, SU allowed the Bulldogs to go on a tear. Afterward, Veasley admitted that he thought his shot was going to bounce over the backboard. It didn’t. It ripped through, Butler went ahead 58-54 and the Orange’s title hopes eventually went up in flames.