Oct. 15, 2014

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oct. 15, 2014 high 77°, low 64°

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N • Stay healthy

Syracuse University is holding a flu clinic on Wednesday so students, staff and faculty can get vaccinated. About 1,500 people are expected to go. Page 3

P • Good as gold

dailyorange.com

University Union’s Bandersnatch Concert Series kicks off at Schine Underground with co-headliners Trippy Turtle and GoldLink. Page 11

S • Orange eat dog

After surviving a first half in which UConn peppered No. 2 Syracuse with shots and tackles, SU blew out the Huskies 4-0 on the road. Page 20

university lecture

Activist to speak in Hendricks Eve Ensler, creator of “The Vagina Monologues,” to lecture on Wednesday By Ellen Meyers staff writer

carmelo anthony returned to the Dome on Tuesday, along with Michael Carter-Williams and Jerami Grant. Anthony scored 17 points in the Knicks’ win over Philadelphia, while Carter-Williams and Grant were sidelined. michael cole staff photographer

WELCOME BACK Anthony, Carter-Williams, Grant enjoy return to Syracuse, Carrier Dome as Knicks top 76ers 84-77 By Jacob Klinger asst. sports editor

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hile Carmelo Anthony ran the Carrier Dome floor, all Michael Carter-Williams and Jerami Grant could do was watch. Two of Syracuse’s most recent NBA exports — now teammates on the Philadelphia 76ers — ended a day that was mostly about recovering and remembering, as spectators. They wore suit jackets on the same bench where they each mostly sat for one year before starring for another then leaving Syracuse for the NBA. “That year I learned a lot more about basketball than I have in my whole life,” Carter-Williams said, referring to his freshman season, 2011–12. Carter-Williams is out with a right shoulder injury and Grant sat with a high ankle sprain. So they watched with the 11,259 fans in

attendance Tuesday night as Anthony’s New York Knicks beat their Philadelphia 76ers, 84-77, in an NBA preseason game. Anthony led Syracuse to its only national championship in 2003 and every time he touched the ball, gasps and shouts could be heard from the Carrier Dome crowd. After visiting with old friends and coaches earlier Tuesday, the exhibition was mostly about quietly preparing for the upcoming season — just in fondly, familiar confines for the former SU players. “Being on this campus once again — that feeling, it don’t get no better than that,” Anthony said The former Syracuse forward scored 17 points on 5-of-12 shooting, grabbed seven rebounds and dished out two assists in 27 minutes at the same arena where he averaged 22.2 points per game as a freshman. For Carter-Williams, a return to Syracuse meant a return to

see knicks-76ers page 18

College students often hear “The Vagina Monologues” for the first time at a pivotal moment in their lives. When they first experience the play, they’ve just moved away from home and begun to think about who they want to be or about their own sexuality, said Eileen Schell, an associate professor of writing and rhetoric. “The performance itself is a kind of feminist community that happens,” Schell said. “It’s a cast of women that are meeting together and working together. It’s pretty remarkable.”

People don’t talk about having a vagina and what it comes with. Amy Quichiz sophomore women’s and gender studies major

Since its debut in 1996, “The Vagina Monologues” has been performed in more than 140 communities, including Syracuse University. Eve Ensler, who created the monologues, will speak on Wednesday night in Hendricks Chapel as the second speaker of the University Lecture series. Ensler, a playwright and activist, will present her lecture “In the Body of Justice” at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks. In 1996, Ensler first performed “The Vagina Monologues,” a play featuring monologues from multiple perspectives on feminism, love, rape, sexuality,

see monologues page 8


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