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N • Red Solo cup

The Red Cup Project, a campus organization, is launching a design competition for students to turn waste into art installations.

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O • Flat notes

Pop culture columnist Eric King exposes this year’s Grammy mishaps and urges the award show to lighten up.

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P • Writing influences

Author Stephen Crane was inspired by his time spent as an SU student while writing “The Red Badge of Courage.”

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S • Getting snappy

One year after being approved by the NCAA, Snapchat is gaining traction as a recruiting tool with college basketball coaching staffs.

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Leading Lady

Divest SU holds kick off event Divestment Week begins with panel event

By Alexis Rinck contributing writer

To kick off Divestment Week at Syracuse University, Divest SU and SUNY-ESF teamed up to host the first Divest Fest on Monday night, which focused on discussion and enlightenment about environmental issues.

Nearly 60 students attended the event in the Nifkin Lounge at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The night began with a panel of three stu-

karin ruhlandt will serve as the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Ruhlandt had been interim dean since July 2014. She said she has a five-part strategy to accomplish the chancellor’s vision of building an unrivaled College of Arts and Sciences. frankie prijatel photo editor

Ruhlandt’s background, leadership style prepare her for role as Arts and Sciences dean

GAME PLAN Ruhlandt’s five-part strategy for improving the College of Arts and Sciences:

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arin Ruhlandt’s ability to juggle problems on a day-today basis reminds some of a sports car.

“She has a remarkable ability to change focus,” said James Kallmerten, the interim chair of the chemistry department. “She really is a sports car in that she can turn really quickly.

And that always impressed me.”

Now, Ruhlandt will have to turn

and face new problems and new challenges as she takes over as permanent dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Her appointment as dean was announced to the Syracuse University community on Jan. 30. She previously served as interim dean since July 2014. Before that, Ruhlandt served as chair of the chemistry department, a job she started in 2009. She joined the SU faculty in 1993 as an assistant professor.

Ruhlandt, who was born in Ger-

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opportunities to faculty and students Providing highest quality advising Engaging alumni of the college Building a sense of camaraderie among faculty, staff, students and alumni

many, is a scientist. It’s who she is and how she built her career, she said. But, she added, she understands that being dean of the Col-

lege of Arts and Sciences, SU’s largest and first college, will require her to bridge the gap between the sciences, the humanities and the social sciences.

It’s a task Ruhlandt said she’s up for and has a plan for, and many of her colleagues said Ruhlandt has the experience and leadership qualities necessary to succeed.

Robert Van Gulick, a philosophy professor and member of the dean search committee, said Ruhlandt’s credentials matched up with what the dean of the college needs to be able to do. She was a good department chair, she is accomplished at her own research and she knows how to run successful research programs, he said. see ruhlandt page 6

If there’s a company that uses slave labor, you might not want to buy clothes from them.

It’s the same idea with universities and fossil fuel investment.

Emma Edwards senior geography and policy studies major

dent activists: senior Chloe Maxmin of Harvard, freshman Jonathan Schmidt of SU and freshman Katie Oran of SUNY-ESF, who is a contributing writer for The Daily Orange. They were joined

by Matt Huber, an SU professor of geography.

The panel discussed a range of topics including what initially got the students interested in divestment and the relevance of climate justice to other social movements.

In connecting the movements, Maxmin said the climate justice see divest

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TATTOO tuesday | alexa abdalla

Junior shows passion for Egypt with tattoo

By Gigi Antonelle staff writer

Alexa Abdalla’s fascination with Egypt is depicted by her tattoo of the Eye of Horus, an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection.

Even though Abdalla, a junior English and textual studies major, got the tattoo this past summer, her love for Egypt began at a young age after her father took her to see “The Mummy Returns.” “The Mummy” and “The Mummy Returns” are still two of her favorite movies.

“I love thinking about the world in that time,” Abdalla said.

Located on the back of her left shoulder, the Eye of Horus is intended to ward off evil according to ancient Egyptian mythology. Horus was a sky god, and his right eye, known as the Eye of Ra, is associated with the sun god while his left eye often represents the moon. Sailors would often paint the symbol on their boat to ensure safe sea travel.

Abdalla said she loves the idea that the Ancient Egyptians lived so long ago, but still created such an

advanced society, and that visiting Egypt is on the top of her bucket list.

“The fact that they had no technology and had to come up with stories to tell for the way the world works — I just think that’s really cool,” Abdalla said. “We have our textbooks and science and everything, but they had absolutely no inkling.”

She came to college as an archaeology major, but decided to switch to English and textual studies due to her love for stories. In addition to ancient Egyptian culture, Abdalla also loves Greek mythology.

“I’m more interested in the stories that people have to tell rather than the evolutionary structure of our bodies,” Abdalla said.

She also has the Native American symbol for protection against evil spirits tattooed on her wrist — it was her first tattoo, which she got shortly after turning 18.

“I’m a superstitious person, I guess,” Abdalla said. “Tattoos obviously can’t actually protect you from anything, but I still like having it on me.” gantonel@syr.edu

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INSIDE P • Rockin’ out

Smash Mouth drummer Jason Sutter will speak at Syracuse University about his touring experience and the music industry.

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S • Zoning in

Pittsburgh’s zone defense on Saturday gave SU another chance to adjust to playing against its own trademark defense.

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West side story The Lerner Center at SU recently received a grant meant to help improve community health on the Near West Side.

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@MEDIVIDUAL The video was well needed. #NotAskingForIt Bringing awareness to sexual violence on college campuses.

Extra credit The Department of Public Safety was successfully granted accreditation after undergoing a review process in January.

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Art to promote awareness Students to make sculptures from cups for competition

By Hanna Horvath staff writer

(from left) Amie Gonzalez, emily lobraico and nyasia stephens, members of Sex Esteem, a peer sexuality program, attend Monday’s video launch in support of healthy relationships and the Got Consent? Be SU.R.E. campaign. logan reidsma asst. photo editor

Campaign premieres video, promotes consent

By Lydia Wilson asst. news editor

Jill Sneider wants Syracuse University to be a community that doesn’t tolerate sexual assault.

Sneider, SU’s sexual and relationship violence prevention coordinator, hosted the #NotAskingForIt video launch Monday in the Schine Student Center as a part of the Got Consent? Be SU.R.E. campaign.

The video was inspired by a Not Asking For It video that was created by students at Wesleyan University, Sneider said. At the end of last semester, Randi Lemons, a graduate student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, began work on the project with student volunteers.

In the video, SU students are seen dancing and interacting with each other in various outfits and locations while “Not Asking For It” is displayed across the screen.

Sneider said that the video is meant to show that no matter what you wear, how you act or where you are, no one is asking for sexual assault.

“Sexual assault happens on this campus. This video is a way of promoting prevention,” Sneider said.

“We want to open a conversation about consent and sexual assault and hold people responsible for their behavior.”

The event was a collaboration of the groups behind the Got Consent? Be SU.R.E. campaign, which includes the Office of Health Promotion, Sex Esteem, Students Advocating Sexual Safety and Empowerment, the Girl Code Movement and A Men’s Issue.

Claire Keeney, a member of SASSE, said she was pleased to see the university take initiative in addressing issues of sexual assault.

“We were happy to see that this video was created by an office within the university and it really gives a clear definition for consent, which is important for students to see,” Keeney said.

Several events will be held on campus as part of the campaign throughout the semester, including the annual Take Back the Night march on March 31 and SU Rising, a vigil and rally that will be held by SASSE on Friday.

“As students advocating for sexual empowerment, we believe that the topics of consent and sexual assault prevention are not things

that should be veiled or oppressed as they often have been,” Keeney said.

Brittany Beyer, a member of Sex Esteem and a senior history and international relations dual major, said it was important for organizations to be present at the event not only to support the campaign, but also to bring awareness to the work of the Office of Health Promotion regarding sexual assault. Beyer said it’s important for students to remember that consent is a cornerstone of healthy relationships, par-

ticularly while being surrounded by hookup culture.

Miriam Rossi, a senior child and family studies major, said she was impressed by the video and saw the campaign as an asset to the university.

“It was good to see people collaborating on these serious issues — issues that I’ve seen first-hand here for three years,” Rossi said.

“I’m excited that, as a campus, we’re taking it upon ourselves to be a part of this movement.” lawilson@syr.edu

The Red Cup Project is holding a design competition starting this week to promote its mission and draw awareness to the environmental effects of littering.

The upcoming competition calls for design entries for the group’s latest art installation, submitted either individually or in teams. After the winning design has been chosen, project members will go out and collect red cups around the campus, cleaning them and transforming them into art.

“We feel these issues need to be talked about,” said co-founder Kate Chesebrough. “There is a lot to say locally, regionally and nationally what is waste and what can be done about it.” see project page 6

student association Here’s a look at what the Student Association accomplished at its meeting on Monday night. See dailyorange.com for more coverage. bills SA passed two separate bills during its meeting Monday night: medical amnesty bill This bill calls for SU to make a formal policy that students calling for a medical emergency of a friend shouldn’t face consequences for being under the influence. The students would have to complete a drug and alcohol program, which wouldn’t show up on their record.

They could still face consequences for repeat offenses and other actions. the transfer student integration act of 2015 This bill calls for the university to allow transfer students to rush Greek life in their first year, with the requirements that they have a cumulative 3.2 GPA from their previous school and are full-time students on campus.

The #NotAskingForIt video is a part of SU’s Got Consent? Be SU.R.E campaign to educate students on consent. The campaign will hold several events this semster. logan reidsma asst. photo editor

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Sequels keep old stories current

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ifty-five years after the publication of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee has announced that she will be releasing a sequel to her Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Nostalgic millennials and non-millennials rejoiced. Lee, however, is not the first to spark the sequel suspense that has dominated modern culture. With reboots like “Maleficent,” the “Veronica Mars” film and post-“Deathly Hallows” publications, our generation has proven that if we ask for more, we shall receive.

Despite what some assume about the reasoning for these sequels and continued story-lines, sequels today are more about keeping these stories relevant than reliving nostalgic fantasies.

For millennials, sequels represent our love for classic stories retold through modern interests.

While everyone probably loved to watch the animated “Beauty and the Beast” as children, Disney’s live-action with Emma Watson appeals to a different generation. Live-action movies target millennial audiences through the re-animation of stories we grew up with while maintaining cultural relevance through notable cast members like Watson.

Despite some people’s belief that the original is always better than the sequel, it is important to recognize that sequels do not exist for lack of originality but rather to keep stories fresh through time.

More than anything, millennials should realize there is an art in asking, and we are changing the way sequels are produced.

Devoted fans have allowed for shows to run

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longer than their usual course, like “My Mad Fat Diary” a drama on the British channel E4, is based off a memoir “My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary.” The show was originally meant to last two seasons. Due to the eagerness of fans, MMFD execs announced: “My Mad Fat Diary has touched the hearts of the E4 audience and it is with both sadness and pride that we announce filming on the third and final series.”

The audiences who eagerly await sequels should recognize that a sequel’s job is not to mirror the original. Millennials should recognize that although sequels keep these stories alive, they will never be the original. But these same adaptations make for more interesting stories.

The sequel of “To Kill a Mockingbird” should not be held to the same standard as the first because they should be recognized as two separate works. Even though this story was written before the original, there is no saying how different these books will be.

This is not to say that we should not demand quality publications and productions — because we should — but rather we should acknowledge that we cannot re-create what has been written, only retell it.

Laritza Salazar is a sophomore newspaper and online journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at lcsalaza@syr.edu.

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Too good to be true Technology columnist Aarick Knighton explains that while net neutrality should be introduced, open Internet comes with a price.

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Shut it down Liberal columnist Eric Dunay pushes the U.S. to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

The sooner, the better.

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Recruiters should use Snapchat cautiously Last February, the National Collegiate Athletic Association passed a resolution that allowed Snapchat communication between coaches and recruits in a multitude of sports. Using Snapchat is a useful tool that can build relationships between potential players and coaching staffs, but should be used with caution.

While the NCAA made this ruling nearly a year ago, colleges could only start using Snapchat on Aug. 1, 2014. Since then some programs have taken to using this social media app.

Snapchat allows users to share photos and videos up to ten seconds in length with their friends. Users can also publish a series of their photos and videos as a part of “My

Story.” This allows all their friends on Snapchat to view the content an unlimited number of times with in a 24-hour window. In addtion Snapchat has a new feature that allows users to message one another, and as soon as both parties have viewed the message or leave the chat the messages disappear.

Snapchat’s impermanence, as well as its informality, could lead to potential problems and concerns.

While there is a potential to screenshot the images sent via Snapchat, the majority of the content shared disappears without any record.

Because of this, users are apt to share more casual interactions. It’s important that coaches and recruits who choose to use Snapchat partake in appropriate conversations.

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Athletic programs that decide to use Snapchat should view the app as a supplemental form of communication. The app can serve to make the recruiting process friendlier and more personal for all parties involved. It should not, however, trump personal letters, phone calls and in-person contact.

The NCAA recognizing Snapchat as a permissible form of communication is not a surprise and falls in line with its past rulings that allow messages via Facebook, Twitter and text. Coaches and recruits should use these platforms to build relationships and learn more about each other. As long as Snapchat communication remains professional, it can be a useful tool in the recruitment process.

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Grammys have lost meaning, legitimacy, fail to entertain audiences

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illions tuned in to watch “Undercover Boss” on Sunday only to be disappointed when the Grammys came on.

They were subsequently subjected to watching a blond man-child Beck win best album over Beyoncé.

Beck’s album, which could be easily mistaken for the sound of toilets flushing slowed down, won over one of the most influential, innovative albums ever in the history of music.

Kanye West attempted to re-create his blooper from the 2009 VMAs and mount the stage in protest, and for once in my life, I supported him.

This would be really devastating if it weren’t for one crucial truth: the Grammys mean nothing. Anymore, that is.

That’s why Dave Groll, Foo Fighters frontman and the music industry’s unofficial nonsense detector, wore a jean jacket on the red carpet.

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EATING CULTURE VULTURES FOR BREAKFAST Everyone, present company included, gets caught up in the spectacle of the event: the dresses, the celebs, the competition, the dresses. But the show has lost its entertainment value, and the awards have lost their legitimacy, as voiced by Kanye to E!.

“I just know that, the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us,” he said. “We aren’t going to play with them no more.”

Doesn’t it just sound silly? Squabbling over recognition from faceless, out of touch voters. These Recording Academy members can be anyone, and I mean anyone, from superstar vocalists to the writers of album notes. As long as they have conAsst. News Editor Justin Mattingly Asst. News Editor Sara Swann Asst. News Editor Lydia Wilson Asst. Feature Editor Jacob Gedetsis Asst. Feature Editor Kait Hobson Asst. Sports Editor Sam Blum Asst. Sports Editor Matt Schneidman Asst. Photo Editor Isabella Barrionuevo Asst. Photo Editor Logan Reidsma Design Editor Sydney Golden Design Editor Matthew Hankin Design Editor Chloe Meister Design Editor Momin Rafi Design Editor Max Redinger Design Editor Katherine Sotelo Asst. Copy Editor Jake Cappuccino Asst. Copy Editor Alex Erdekian Asst. Copy Editor Connor Grossman Asst. Copy Editor Danny Mantooth Asst. Copy Editor Paul Schwedelson Asst. Copy Editor Georgie Silvarole

tributed to at least six commercial tracks, they qualify.

“And Beck needs to respect artistry, he should have given his award to Beyoncé,” West said. What? To quote the woman from that e-surance commercial, “That’s not how it works.

That’s not how any of this works.”

The Grammys don’t define success, they don’t even reflect it. This is just another example in a long history of the committee screwing up. Bob Marley never won a Grammy, just to mention one of the most egregious examples. The Grammys are supposed to award “artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position.”

While music shouldn’t be a popularity contest, awarding a so-so album from an artist who, unless you follow alternative music, not many

have heard of (and who, honestly, has produced better work in the past) seriously lowers the Academy’s credibility.

Beyoncé’s album completely inverted the music industry. It made us re-evaluate ideologies on how albums are advertised and what drives album sales. It was truly the bombshell of the year, a multimedia experience unlike any before it.

One or two flukes like this are expected every year with the Academy as volatile as ever. And I wish I could say that the show made up for it. But unfortunately this year, “music’s biggest night” failed at even its most basic deliverable: entertainment. The professionals who put on this event, and the musicians who participate, take these awards — and themselves — too seriously.

The Grammys complete inability to make fun of itself is a major symp-

tom of this. Awards shows like the Tonys, the Oscars and the Golden Globes are the first to point out the flaws in themselves and their guests.

Prince preached about black lives, the songs were all too slow, marred by some misplaced sense of solemnity. And perhaps most head scratching, the show had “NCIS: LA” star LL Cool J, once a rapper, host — again.

Even if the Grammys was able reclaim its authority, the producers are giving people fewer and fewer reasons to watch. Hopefully next year, they’ll take the hint. Or else there won’t be anything stopping people from finishing off their Moscato, flicking the TV off and heading to bed early.

Eric King is a sophomore magazine journalism major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at edking@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @erickingdavid.

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ruhlandt “That’s what we do, teaching and research, and we hope the new dean will be somebody to help strengthen both those things,” Van Gulick said.

Kallmerten worked at SU when Ruhlandt was hired as an assistant professor more than 20 years ago. He said Ruhlandt’s background as a scientist will help her both in her decisionmaking and in applying for large, institutional grants for the college. But, he added, Ruhlandt also has an appreciation for the humanities and social sciences, which will be a key aspect of her role as dean.

Kallmerten also said Ruhlandt has a specific leadership style, saying she is a straight shooter and very direct. But, he said, Ruhlandt isn’t locked into one way of thinking. She’s willing to listen to arguments and opinions and change her view based on what she sees and hears.

That quality in particular appealed to Mary Lovely, a professor of economics and chair of the search committee. She said Ruhlandt has

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divest fest movement “is creating spaces for voices that previously haven’t been heard,” such as women and minority voices.

Huber gave a statement that shined a different light on the struggle for climate justice.

He compared the abolition of slavery to the movement to divest from fossil fuels.

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“managerial courage.”

“She’s willing to listen to everybody and then make a hard decision,” Lovely said.

In addition, Ruhlandt was an appealing candidate due to her experience in both undergraduate and graduate education, Lovely said, adding that Ruhlandt also has a passion for the college.

That passion is mirrored by Chancellor Kent Syverud, who has frequently stated his desire to build an unrivaled College of Arts and Sciences. Kallmerten said he believes the pair’s similar mindset will benefit Ruhlandt in the dean’s job.

“It seems to me like they’re on the same page in terms of where they want to see the college go,” he said. “She embraces that goal and would like to see the college be one of the central jewels or the crown of our college system.”

Ruhlandt said she has a five-part strategy to make that happen.

Much of that strategy begins with attracting, recruiting and retaining the best quality students, and then supporting those students with the best possible instruction. Once those students are on campus, Ruhlandt said she

hopes to support research for both students and faculty.

In order to ensure student success during and after their time in the college, Ruhlandt said the school is working on improving advising.

“There are so many options available to students, I believe it’s necessary for students to have guidance to maneuver those options,” she said.

terms of moralities, slavery was an energy system just as fossil fuel is,” Huber said.

In his statement, Huber also challenged the audience to think about climate justice in a different light other than solely focusing on those who suffer the impact of environment destruction caused by “developed” countries.

Weston Stroud, a sophomore environmental studies major at SUNY-ESF, said he enjoyed the panel and thought Huber’s comparison between the abolition of slavery and the divest

movement was interesting.

Several of the panelists spoke about the current situation with universities invested in fossil fuels and why they believe in divestment.

“We have a meeting with (SU’s) CFO coming up so that is really encouraging,” Schmidt said.

“It’s going to be a long process, but we are going to have to start with the small things.”

Both members of Divest SU and those not involved with the organization attended the event and expressed enthusiasm and interest for not only the event, but also the cause.

“It’s a great cause to support. I go to two to three divest events each year,” said Frieda Projansky, a junior public relations and infor-

mation management consulting dual major.

Divest SU was created after Bill McKibben, a famous environmental author, gave a lecture in Hendricks at SU in 2012. In his speech, he talked about climate change and how the best way for students to be active is to encourage their universities to divest from fossil fuel.

“If there’s a company that uses slave labor, you might not want to buy clothes from them.

It’s the same idea with universities and fossil fuel investment,” said Emma Edwards, a senior geography and policy studies dual major and one of the founders of Divest SU.

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tions around campus, including at Earthfest, an event hosted by Students of Sustainability.

Grown out of a class assignment given by professor Lori Brown at the SU School of Architecture, the project grew into a way to promote awareness about wastefulness, dangerous drinking and more.

“It grew much more past being just a class assignment,” Baz said. “It was at the time when we received the No. 1 party school ranking, and it was a hard topic at the time for the administration to deal with.”

The students took the concept of partying and applied it to art, building installations from the mass quantities of plastic cups found strewn around the campus on the weekends.

“It’s significant in a lot of ways to different people: we are actually picking up disposed cups and re-using them and cleaning the street,” said Baz, “but the other side to it is calling awareness to binge drinking and alcohol awareness.”

The sheer number of cups collected, and the importance of the work in the community have impressed participants of the Red Cup Project’s recent cleanups. Julia Jesse, a member of Students of Sustainability and a freshman in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, said the group’s events have helped raise awareness about environmental issues.

“It helps keep the community cleaner, but it also makes the community aware of how much they litter and that they should be recycling,” Jesse said.

What I would like to do is to really create a sense of belonging and camaraderie in the college so that students are proud to be a part of the college.

Karin Ruhlandt dean of the college of arts and sciences

Ruhlandt also wants to engage and maintain relationships with alumni in the college, which she said would be a resource for current students.

project Founded in 2014 by Leslie Baz, a fifth year architecture major at Syracuse University, and Chesebrough, a senior landscape architecture major at SUNY-ESF , alongside two other students, the Red Cup Project creates art projects out of red cups they find around the campus. The group’s installations have been seen around campus and along Euclid Avenue.

Submissions for the competition will be

We are actually picking up disposed cups and re-using them and cleaning the street, but the other side to it is calling awareness to binge drinking and alcohol awareness.

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accepted until March 6, and the winner will be announced on March 20, according to the group’s Twitter page. The winning design will receive a cash reward. Members of the Red Cup Project will build the winning installation, and it will later be unveiled in several loca-

The final aspect of her five-part strategy is to bring together the first four pieces by building a feeling of community amongst faculty, students and alumni.

“What I would like to do is to really create a sense of belonging and camaraderie in the college so that students are proud to be a part of the college,” she said. “It’s probably one of the hardest ones to do since the three areas appear to be so different, but in reality I don’t think they are.”

She’s a strong supporter of providing students with a liberal arts background that will serve as a foundation for their education.

She sees the three areas of the college — the humanities, the sciences and the social sciences — as a way to create a complete student and a complete person, she said. Ruhlandt herself is an example of how the three areas can come together.

“I know for me, I love literature and I love poetry and I love to travel and this is a very large part of who I am,” Ruhlandt said. “I love different cultures and people. And all of that is making it enjoyable to be a dean.” blsamuel@syr.edu | @Brett_Samuels27

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THE NEXT CHAPTER Professors discuss planned release of Harper Lee’s 2nd novel

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ome professors are unsure of the timing of the announcement that a lost manuscript found after 55 years is to be published by the 88-year-old Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

It was announced last Tuesday that “Go Set a Watchman,” Lee’s sequel of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” would be available to the public on July 14, according to a Feb. 3 Washington Post article. “Go Set a Watchman” is the sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but Lee wrote it prior to the famous novel.

Harvey Teres, an English and textual studies professor at Syracuse University, said the decision to publish “Go Set a Watchman” is puzzling. Like many others, he said many literary experts and fans alike are asking the question, “Why now?”

“We’ll have to see how good (‘Go Set a Watchman’) is and if it stands up to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’” Teres said. “But for now it’s nice to see that so many people are talking about a novel. This doesn’t happen very often in the United States. It would be even nicer, though, if people were all talking about a novel they’ve read.”

Teres said he thinks that the publishing of a sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird” will only add to the original’s popularity and luster. He found that in a quick poll of his students, all of them read the novel in middle school or high school. Teres said he thinks that while “To Kill a Mockingbird” is an “essential American novel,” it is more popular amongst ordinary readers than critics.

Silvio Torres-Saillant, an English and textual studies professor, said an author who has a great work and publishes another work after a long period of inactivity is very rare.

“Saying this book will be an ‘instant classic’ is fraudulent.

That can only be tested by time,” Torres-Saillant said. “I hope it will survive past the curiosity stage.”

Torres-Saillant said “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a very serious book that was released in a time of racial tension and prejudice in the law.

“It is a very delicate and dangerous topic. (Lee) did it at the time when it was most needed,” he said.

Torres-Saillant said he sees the large gap between Lee’s novels as a suggestion about literary careers. He said that art requires time and attention and should not be published when the public says the next work is due. He said, “it’s important to move away from the industrial view of releasing books.”

Dana Spiotta, an English and textual studies professor, said she

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thinks it will be fascinating to see the origins of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird” as both a reader and an author. Although readers may be disappointed to have waited 55 years for “Go Set a Watchman,” she said she thinks that there will be great points in the book.

“I am optimistic. It can only be a good thing for literature,” Spiotta said. “This is definitely unprecedented. The expectations may be so high that the reader may be let down. But, there will be a lot of interest in it for sure.”

The conversation that the finding of “Go Set a Watchman”

has sparked is encouraging to Teres, who said he thinks the discussion will make people consider why they like or dislike “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

“It tells us what social media and popular culture are capable of,” Teres said. “For all the gossip and chit-chat, I imagine hundreds of thousands will want to read ‘Go Set a Watchman’ and maybe re-read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ That’s not a bad thing, unless of course ‘Go Set a Watchman’ turns out to be a clunker.” kmfaubel@syr.edu

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Drummer to discuss industry Jason Sutter of Smash Mouth to visit SU as part of lecture series

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Having grown up in Potsdam, New York, a town just two hours north of Syracuse, drummer Jason Sutter considers Syracuse University a “hometown university.”

Now based in Los Angeif you go les, Sutter will “The Business of revisit SU as Rock” Where: Whitman a speaker for Room 007 the Soyars When: Tuesday, Leadership 6:30 p.m.

Lecture Series, How much: Free sponsored by the Setnor School of Music, the Bandier program and the department of art and music histories. He will speak Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

Before speaking at SU, Sutter will also present a drum workshop at the Guitar Center located on 3150 Erie Blvd. Tuesday at 4 p.m.

STEPHEN CRANE (CENTER, FRONT ROW) was a member of the SU varsity baseball team in 1891. There is evidence to suggest that his time on the team influenced themes in “The Red Badge of Courage.” courtesy of su special collections research center

Baseball, experiences at SU influence author Stephen Crane

It’s an entirely different world, and very rarely you get the insight from the streets, so to speak.

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uthor Stephen Crane was more interested in baseball, women and fraternity life at Syracuse University than he was in his studies.

But the sights, smells and experiences he had on the Hill inf luenced the realism in his writing.

After 120 years in print, “The Red Badge of Courage” is still recognized by scholars as one of the finest pieces of American literature. Rick Burton, a sport management CRANE professor at the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, said there is evidence to suggest that Crane was heavily influenced by the semester he spent on campus in 1891, four years before the book’s publication. This year marks the 120th anniversary

of the publishing of “The Red Badge of Courage.”

“If you read the first two or three paragraphs of ‘The Red Badge of Courage,’ it is very possible that he got that concept of looking down on the village and the bells ringing —which would be the bells of Crouse — from being up in (Delta Upsilon) at the top of Marshall Street,” Burton said.

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Burton became interested in studying Crane as part of an academic presentation for the National Baseball Hall of Fame a few years ago. His findings were published in The New York Times, Nine and the Syracuse

University Magazine.

On the SU baseball diamond, Crane stood 5-foot-6 and weighed 125 pounds. Originally a catcher, he used to boast that no one could pitch a ball that he could not catch barehanded. At the beginning of season, he was moved from catcher to shortstop because he struggled making the throw from home plate to second base.

Burton described Crane as fiercely competitive, full of life and a passionate baseball player.

Burton’s research contains proof that Crane’s baseball career at SU may have been closely linked to the plot of “The Red Badge of Courage.”

In the novel, the protagonist runs from battle, deserting his unit in the face of a Confederate attack. This theme of desertion is critical to “The Red Badge of Courage” and may have come from Crane’s baseball career at Syracuse.

On June 6, 1891, the team traveled to play at Colgate University for the Upstate New York Pennant. By this point in the season, see crane page 10

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“It’s an entirely different world, and very rarely you get the insight from the streets, so to speak,” Sutter said. “So it’s real fun to be able to address that and relate it to the nuts and bolts of the music business and what I live and breathe every day in my profession, and be able to bring it back and discuss it to a larger student body.”

Sutter has played with acts such as Marilyn Manson, Foreigner, Chris Cornell, American Hi-Fi and the New York Dolls. Most recently, Sutter returned to Smash Mouth to kick off the band’s 20th anniversary tour “Under the Sun” eight years after he first played with them.

Throughout his career, Sutter had been hosting drum clinics which combines drum instruction and technique

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crane Crane was moved to play shortstop. On that particular day, however, he was forced to play first base when two teammates did not show up for the game. The team lost 13-0.

“He goes to play for this upstate New York championship game, and a guy doesn’t show up and they have to play shorthanded,” Burton said.

“And instead of Crane being the coward, which is the perspective you see in ‘The Red Badge of Courage,’ Crane is one of the guys left behind and is forced to play a position he normally didn’t play.”

Crane did not fight in the Civil War and had never seen the battlefield when he wrote “The Red Badge of Courage.” Despite this disconnection, he is renowned for the novel’s realism.

Jan Finkel, who co-wrote with Burton a piece about Crane’s time at SU for the literary magazine, Nine, said Crane’s background in sports allowed him to get into the war state of mind.

“It is kind of ironic while his mother and father would not have approved his interest in

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sutter with lectures at music stores all over the nation.

“But last year I did one clinic at my graduate school alma mater, University of Miami, and realized there’s so much more I can cover than just drums,” Sutter said. “I wanted to do it on an academic level, doing a bigger scope.”

Theo Cateforis, chair of the department of art and music histories, is one of Sutter’s childhood friends. The two of them have known each other since they were in junior high and have

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sports, they contained most of the Christian values that they were espousing — charity, fraternity, sacrifice, rescue, that sort of thing,” said Finkel, a retired English professor at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky. “If you think about it some more, that is exactly what war involves.

“War brings out the best and worst from people, so do sports for that matter.”

Outside of baseball, Crane was heavily involved in other extracurricular activities. The 1891 Onondagan noted that he served as alumni association secretary and treasurer of Claverack College, a military boarding school he attended from 1888–1990. He was also captain of the Delta Upsilon cricket club, a member of an eating group called the Toothpick Club and a

member of the DU winter coasting club.

In a letter to a friend dated Jan. 9, 1891, Crane wrote, “The DU chapter here has got a dandy house valued at $20,000.00, situated high on a hill. I hope you may all come here sometime, although the fellows are somewhat slow … There are certainly some damn pretty girls here, praise be to God.” Crane did not enjoy academic studies and enrolled in only three classes: Latin, history and English. At the end of the semester, he had only completed his coursework in English and received an A. He spent a lot of his time downtown at the police and train stations, talking to the bums, drunks and prostitutes that hung out there, Burton said. Crane believed that “humanity was a much more interesting study. When I ought to have been at recitations, I was studying faces on the streets.”

“He would go to downtown Syracuse to check out the scene there, and that’s where he wrote most of his first novel, ‘Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,’ which he was working on here, and in Asbury Park as well,” said Frank D’Ales-

sandro, owner of the Stephen Crane House in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Crane’s fraternity brothers claimed after his death that an early draft of the novel was crammed in DU’s attic, but the pages have never been found.

Over 100 years later, SU still has ties to the author. The Special Collections Research Center boasts the largest collection of original Stephen Crane materials in the world. The collection includes correspondence, writings and memorabilia from the author and his wife.

The Delta Upsilon house still stands at the top of Marshall Street and Ostrom Avenue.

Now an academic building for Falk College, the large white house features a bronze plaque highlighting the author’s residency.

Said Burton: “I think Crane was competitive. He was full of life. He was kind of on fire and ‘fuego,’ to steal a term from ESPN. He was anxious to get after it. As a professor, I see students now, and I wonder if they are as enthusiastic about anything.”

kept in touch over the years.

“I saw him enough times that I realized, ‘Yeah I should bring him in to talk to the class,’” said Cateforis, who has been working at SU for 10 years.

“It was difficult with his touring but we finally reached the point where he had a clear schedule.”

Sutter thinks the best clinics he experienced came through his music school when he was a child. Those clinics addressed “the big picture” of the music industry, Sutter said, and as a result, he’s always wanted to be able to bring those ideas to students.

“I’ve always gravitated toward that infor-

mation and always learned the most from that,” Sutter said. “I always wanted to be able to bring that stuff to the students. That’s something that’s always been very important to me.”

Christopher Allis, a friend of Sutter and also an SU alumnus, met Sutter through mutual friends and from their involvement in the musical community.

Allis, who is from Syracuse, said he and Sutter were able to connect upon learning they were both from the central New York area. “…anyone who wants to be a professional musician is really going to learn a lot,” Allis said.

Sutter also said he’s looking to do more drum clinics at multiple colleges throughout the country and is already talking to some schools. He’s looking to focus on teaching two main mantras — getting students out of their comfort zone and forcing them to establish their own goals.

“I don’t just talk about drums when I do my drum clinics,” Sutter said. “Most of it is just a life lesson or a focus on your path or being professional and making a goal, and I thought it would be cool to bring this to college students because I went though years of academia.”

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Stephen Crane’s batting average in 22 recorded at-bats during the 1891 Syracuse University varsity baseball season

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SOUND BITES Friends form rock band Pizza Party in student apartment

By Isha Damle staff writer

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t all started with a T-shirt and a pizza box.

Jesse Katzenstein, a sophomore in the Bandier Program, was looking for inspiration to name the band he and his roommates hoped to form when he saw a T-shirt that said “Pizza Party” and an empty Domino’s pizza box sitting in his South Campus apartment.

Accordingly, the band was deemed Pizza Party. Its members include Katzenstein and three other sophomores in the Bandier Program: Will Taggart, Will Skalmoski and Eric Zidar.

The band formed at the beginning of this school year after Katzenstein, Skalmoski and Taggart decided to live together and start a band in their apartment. Zidar joined the group soon after.

The best thing is we can literally walk outside of our rooms when we wake up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and just jam, and it’s the best feeling in the world.

Jesse Katzenstein sophomore in the bandier program

“We have all of our instruments and everything, our amps and gear set up in the living room,” Katzenstein said. “The best thing is we can literally walk outside of our rooms when we wake up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and just jam, and it’s the best feeling in the world.”

The band has performed in front of an audience only once prior to this spring, but will be performing at the Westcott Theater on Friday, and at Funk ’n Waffles on Feb. 26. Skalmoski said the band’s shows this month will be important for its progress.

Members of the band Pizza Party practice in a South Campus apartment for their upcoming shows. The band will headline at the Westcott Theater on Friday for its first public performance and will also perform at Funk n’ Waffles on Feb. 26. josh chang staff photographer

“We’re most excited to see where we stand at the end of the month because this all came together really quickly,” Skalmoski said. “We’re really excited for our potential and hope we can get a group of people that like seeing us play.”

The band’s sound, self-described as “party rock,” stems from the group’s rock influences.

Zidar is the only member of the band with the sole responsibility of drumming. The other members switch off between singing and playing the guitar and bass, though Katzenstein occasionally plays the saxophone as well.

Taggart, who plays guitar, described the band as very collaborative, particularly in its songwriting, and said the group also performs cover songs like “Roxanne” by The Police, “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand and “Last Night” by The Strokes.

“We’re fusing (the covers) with a little bit of our own Pizza Party magic and making them a lot of fun for our audience to jump around to,” Taggart said. “We just try to have a lot of fun onstage so that the audience can feed off of that.”

Although Pizza Party currently has not released music, Taggart said the group hopes to record in the studio located in the Belfer Audio Archives and is currently writing original music.

Taggart, who has been performing regularly since middle school, also said performing with Pizza Party is a way to relax.

“It’s almost like a complete release from the stresses of everything else in life,” Taggart said. “By having this musical outlet where we can just make music, performing is like continuous ecstasy when you’re on stage.”

Zidar, who plays drums, said he encourages people to watch Pizza Party perform because of the connection the band makes with its audience.

“The best part of performing is connecting with the crowd,” Zidar said. “We jam really hard.”

Since Pizza Party started through friendship, the group spends a lot of time together on and off stage. Skalmoski, who sings and plays bass, said the band members have grown to understand one another quite well musically.

“It’s euphoric because I’m with some of my best friends in the world, and when we play together, it’s cosmic,” Skalmoski said. “It’s like (we’re in) this other universe playing together. We all know each other so well that we can anticipate what each other’s going to play before we even play it.” idamle@syr.edu

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snapchat to recruits, and Snapchat can be an effective way of doing so.

Some Atlantic Coast Conference coaches enlist their assistant coaches to tackle Snapchat recruiting. Notre Dame’s Mike Brey, for instance, said his assistants are active on the app.

“Thankfully I have a staff that helps me with my technological shortcomings,” Brey said with a chuckle. “They coach me up when I need to be better at stuff.”

Though Brey considers himself inept, he said his daughter is active on Snapchat.

Because she’s on Snapchat all the time, he knows other kids are going to be on it too.

Nearly everyone he’s recruiting uses the app, so he believes it’s imperative for his staff to do so as well.

Miami’s Jim Larranaga has never come across a recruit who has specifically wanted to Snapchat him. He communicates via phone and text, but many of his assistants use it as a tool.

“High school kids are very tech-savvy, “ Larranaga said, “so we try to do as much as we can with technology.”

Tyler Lydon, a power forward from New Hampshire who is committed to Syracuse, hasn’t connected with coaches on Snapchat personally. He said it would be “kind of weird” to communicate with coaches that way. Snapchat’s more for interacting with friends, he said.

He is intrigued by the idea of a general account with team updates, but he isn’t a proponent of one-on-one Snapchat interaction with coaches.

“If I were uncommitted and a coach were to Snapchat me and say what’s up, I’d probably be cool in the moment,” Lydon said. “But then you think about it and it’s kind of strange.”

Lydon says he doesn’t post anything inappropriate on his Snapchat. He calls himself a laid-back kid and said that’s not his style.

Though Lydon tries to stay away from posting questionable stories on the app, Alex Kline, the owner of The Recruit Scoop, sees a trend emerging where others in Lydon’s position aren’t as wise about what they post on Snapchat.

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Kline, who is a junior at Syracuse, said the first thing he thinks of when he hears the word Snapchat is making inappropriate posts without getting in trouble. Recruits can be smart on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Kline says, but they may act in negligent ways on Snapchat. Though Snapchat has perks in recruiting, Kline sees the trend in a more negative light.

He considers Snapchat a background check to spy on people. Though kids don’t have to accept coaches’ requests, they often do. Snapchat is considered private, but it’s really public, Kline says. He believes many people create a brand on other social media but show their true selves on Snapchat.

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Kline hasn’t seen any specific examples, though he sees the trend continuing in the coming years.

“People are trendsetters and people are followers, especially in basketball,” Kline said. “Once you’re wearing these Kobes and these Jordans, the next person’s going to do it.

I think the same goes for social media.”

Although Snapchat has yet to dominate college basketball recruiting, it appears to be gaining traction around the country. Coaches can interact with recruits, and vice versa, and both parties get a chance to learn about the other.

But that might not always be a good thing.

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SU’s Leslie transitions back to defense after Derrer’s injury

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When freshman defender Dakota Derrer went down with an injury in the first period against Penn State on Jan. 31, Syracuse was left with only five defenders.

Head coach Paul Flanagan and assistant coach Brendon Knight discussed moving a forward back to defense, but decided to stick with the five.

Three days later, when Flanagan told newly converted forward Danielle Leslie that she was moving back to her life-long position of defense, she knew it was coming.

“She said, ‘I figured as much,’” Flanagan said.

“It wasn’t really a conversation.”

At the beginning of January, Leslie began her transition from a defender to a forward.

Flanagan wanted her speed to be a catalyst for his ailing offense. But just eight games later, she had to move back to defense because of Derrer’s injury. During the offensive stint she recorded two assists, but now she’s back to doing what she does best as SU heads into its last four games of the regular season.

“I guess in baseball you have your utility player that can catch one day, play third base and maybe play outfield the next day,” Flanagan said. “It’s good because you never know. What’s difficult in our sport is when you have injuries or you’re just trying to fill a niche on your team.”

Ever since she started playing hockey, Leslie was always a defender. That never changed, except for the occasional odd shift.

At times this season, Syracuse elected to go with 11 forwards and seven defenders. But after a month-long break in December, the team was looking to jumpstart its offense that peaked at two goals in its last four games before the break.

Flanagan saw Leslie, a junior, as a speedster who could get to loose pucks, force defenses to play back because of her quickness and play in front of the net. He also recognized that Derrer and freshman Megan Quinn had come in and done a “good enough job” on defense.

At first, playing forward was nerve-wracking for Leslie. Occasionally, she would suffer from what she called “brain cramps” where she would revert back to her defensive instincts. Sometimes she would find herself skating backward on the forecheck, instead of providing the pressure that a forward should.

“You have two people to work with instead of just a partner and you want to create as many chances as you can, as well as getting back and playing defense,” Leslie said. “So I just think that there’s just a lot more to think about as a forward.”

Despite the challenges, Leslie was eager to get on the score sheet and utilize the freedom that a forward has on the ice. She got to take eight shots during the eight games, four more than the 16 games prior.

But with Derrer’s injury that Flanagan said will keep her out for a while, Flanagan needed Leslie to move back.

“You can’t just grab any forward and say, ‘Well you played hockey all your life — get back

DANIELLE LESLIE is now back as a defender for SU after Dakota Derrer was injured. Leslie had played the last eight games at forward. hannah wagner staff photographer

there,’ so it’s pretty specific,” Flanagan said.

“Next to the goaltender, it’s the next most specific spot on the lineup.”

If not for her flexibility, the Orange would have been left with only two complete defensive rotations. SU could have also moved a forward to defense, but many can’t even skate backward.

Though she is back on defense, Leslie wants to carry her expanded offensive role through the rest of the season.

Against Robert Morris on Friday, she skated into the offensive zone with the puck and put SU’s first shot on goal. Occasionally,

she moved down low to grab pucks by the boards or battle for rebounds.

If and when Derrer is able to come back, or if SU finds a need for another forward, Leslie will be ready to make the switch back. But if she were to go down, the Orange would lose a role that can’t be filled.

“It’s really important for the team that she’s got that athletic capability and hockey sense to play both defense and forward,” forward Melissa Piacentini said, “because it helps us out on both ends.”

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coach at a single school with his 880th win when the then-No. 2 Orange beat then-No. 12 Georgetown in overtime on Feb. 8, 2012.

At the time, Boeheim said he was upset about the game — SU was outrebounded by 18 — and not concerned with the milestone. On Monday, though, he reflected on Smith’s legacy.

“I think he’s one of the great, great coaches of all time, and he really established one of the best college basketball programs in the country,” Boeheim said. “Very innovative coach and way ahead of everybody else really in terms of his approach to basketball and the game, really.

A giant in the game of college basketball.”

smith world he would ever do. But he just stuck out.”

Boeheim, who went 1-3 in his career against Smith, got his first Final Four berth in his first win against the UNC great. In the 1987 Eastern Regional final, his second-seeded Orangemen beat Smith’s top-seeded Tar Heels, 79-75.

“They were a great team and we played a great game,” Boeheim said later on the teleconference. “We played one of the best games that we have ever played, really, in the final of the Eastern Regional.”

Boeheim passed Smith as the winningest

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If a 2-3 zone is working, Joseph said, teams can’t pass directly into the high post. Even if the top of the zone opens up, the ball has to go to the wings before it can get down to Christmas.

The direct high-low plays between Tyler Roberson and Christmas weren’t an option when Pitt went to the zone.

“It limits getting it from the middle so the two wings are your only option,” Joseph said.

Jim Boeheim sent Cooney back into the game with 11:02 remaining — at the first whistle after the Panthers switched out of a man-to-man defense.

The head coach said Pitt had played zone

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earlier in the year and that he wasn’t surprised when the Panthers went to it.

Christmas said he tried to keep defenders behind him, as he normally would to post up, but also continued looking for the lob. He also ducked into the middle more when his teammates drove, he said.

With 9:04 left in the game, he was whistled for an offensive foul with about five seconds left on the shot clock. But Gbinije hit a right-corner 3 on SU’s next possession to tie the game at 61, and Pitt came out of the zone soon afterward.

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Speedy Poplawski adjusts to switch from attack to midfield

By Jon Mettus staff writer

Taylor Poplawski wasn’t always able to use her biggest strength.

As a freshman last season, her quickness and agility helped her weave through defenders. She scored eight goals in her first three games and finished the year with the fourthmost goals on the team.

But playing attack was limiting the space in which she could use her speed. Syracuse head coach Gary Gait saw her talents being underutilized and moved her to midfield for this year.

After coming off the bench as an attack, Poplawski has transitioned back to the position

she played in high school to join No. 3 Syracuse’s (2-0) second-line midfield. Although she’s able to use her speed in transition, she still has improvements to make on the defensive end. “(She) creates some more depth at the midfield for us,” Gait said. “I think she’s embraced the move, the positional change, and I think it’s really going to help our team be effective in all areas of the offense.

“I think we can use her speed and athleticism in the midfield in riding, clearing. I think she’ll be looking at some north-south dodging in the midfield area.”

At just 5 feet 2 inches, Poplawski is the smallest midfielder on the team, but the biggest challenge has been learning the defensive

TAYLOR POPLAWSKI (19) has been tested in her transition from attack to midfield. She stands as the shortest midfielder in the unit at 5 feet 2 inches. margaret lin web developer

plays, she said. While learning what to do has been difficult, she said, the seniors on the team have been helping her out.

Her first test this season came when Syracuse traveled to Florida to scrimmage Team USA in mid-January. The speed and intensity of the game were an adjustment from her high school days, Poplawski said. Gait said she played well, though, and didn’t make many mistakes.

“The biggest challenge was keeping the intensity throughout the entire game,” Poplawski said. “Team USA, they’re so talented so it was really hard to keep up the energy, especially playing two back-to-back games against them.”

In Syracuse’s game against Canisius on Saturday, Poplawski was able to show flashes of potential at midfield.

On one play, she used her speed in open space to run past a defender and score. On the defensive end, she was able to recover from getting beat by stick-checking a Canisius attack from behind and knocking the ball loose.

Though she had two points in the game, Poplawski held back the attacking instincts she developed last year and let newcomers Riley Donahue and Halle Majorana take over the scoring roles.

“It’s a different team and a different offense and I think it’s just taking it one game at a time with this new team,” SU attack Kayla Treanor said.

But at times, Poplawski’s growing pains as an adjusting midfielder at the collegiate level

were evident.

She stood flat-footed about 15 yards away from her own cage as Canisius midfielder Erica Evans ran past her toward the middle of the field. Poplawski struggled to catch up and Evans netted Canisius’ first goal of the game.

A few minutes later, Canisius attack Lauren Smolensky cut past Poplawski toward the net and Poplawski had to illegally check her from behind as she tried to receive a pass.

During some of SU’s rides, opponents were able to take Poplawski, who was guarding them, across the field and beat her down the sideline.

After the game, she said her struggles could have been a result of fatigue.

Still, Gait and Poplawski were happy with her performance and as the season progresses, Gait is looking for Poplawski to settle into the change.

Said Poplawski: “More and more it feels more natural for me.”

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Coaches remember late Smith

By Jacob Klinger development editor

After longtime North Carolina head coach Dean Smith died at 83 on Sunday, fellow Hall of Famers Jim Boeheim and his former assistant Rick Pitino joined in paying tribute to Smith.

Both reflected on his innovation and Boeheim, when prompted, looked back on his first and only win against Smith.

Pitino, who was Boeheim’s assistant at Syracuse from 1976-78, credited Smith for his humility and the advent of the “four corners” offense.

On their own Often, Syracuse Crunch players are not only adjusting to life in Syracuse, but life in a brandnew country.

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Shifting gears

Santa Clara senior Andrew Papenfus had a brain tumor removed in October and recently returned to the court.

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icture Jim Boeheim taking a selfie.

Though it sounds ridiculous, it’s not farfetched. Boeheim himself doesn’t have a Snapchat, but many college coaches around the country do. Social media has become an integral part of recruiting in college basketball, and Snapchat is the latest fad.

One year ago Wednesday, the NCAA officially recognized Snapchat as a form of electronic communication to reach out to recruits. The rule went into effect Aug. 1, 2014 and has become widespread in college basketball. Though it has not reached all programs, Snapchat is a means of recruiting that presents both pros and cons according to those who have

tracked its emergence.

“At the end of the day, I don’t think kids are making decisions based off who they Snapchat with,” said Evan Daniels, the director of basketball recruiting at Scout.com, “but I think it’s certainly something that can help them get to know the coaches.”

Daniels said Snapchat can be a resource for coaches to show off their program and individual players to recruits. Maybe it’s a postgame celebration or a shot of practice — whatever gets kids excited about playing for a certain school. Recruiting is all about building relationships, Daniels said, and Snapchat has become a way to cultivate those bonds.

Memphis head coach Josh Pastner, for example, uses Snapchat as a recruiting tool, Daniels said. He said Pastner is known for relating

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I think he’s one of the great, great coaches of all time, and he really established one of the best college basketball programs in the country.

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“He was the best in our game, but you would never have known it in the way he carried himself,” Pitino said on Monday’s Atlantic Coast Conference coaches’ teleconference. “What always impressed me about him was the way he carried himself.

“There was no Internet, there was no Twitter, there was none of that — not that Coach Smith would ever have been tweeting.

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men’s basketball

Orange offense gains experience facing zone defense at Pittsburgh

By Jacob Klinger development editor

Pittsburgh went into the 2-3 zone, and on some level, Syracuse shot its hosts out of it.

The Orange also passed and dribbled its way around and through the

zone in the middle of the second half on Saturday. And while SU ultimately fell to Pitt, 83-77, albeit with mixed results, Syracuse showed an ability to adapt and score in a variety of ways against the defense it always plays, even with just one of its guards providing a consistent

scoring threat.

Trevor Cooney was in the middle of a 25 percent shooting night from the field but the Orange managed to survive the stretch despite having just one in-form shooter, Michael Gbinije on the floor. It’s a problem that Syracuse will likely have to solve again in

the stretch run of its season.

Pitt dropped into the zone with about 11:15 left in the game. SU led 57-53, Cooney had been on the bench for the last two-plus minutes with four fouls and the Panthers needed to deny Rakeem Christmas the ball, lighten its own foul trouble and disrupt the

pick-and-roll offense that had helped the big man score 16 points.

“You just can’t dribble the ball down and feed it to him,” freshman point guard Kaleb Joseph said. “You have to work the ball around before it initially goes in.”

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