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N • Building blocksConstruction continues on buildings for the College of Law, Newhouse and a new bookstore.Page 3
t h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t u d e n t n e w s p a p e r o f s y r a c u s e , n e w y o r k | dailyorange.com
By Brett Samuelsasst. news editor
After years of construction, Syracuse University stu-dents and faculty were able
to use the newly renovated Carnegie Library Reading Room at the start of the spring semester. The new space featured an architecturally restored room that provided a quiet place to study.
“It’s an exquisite renovation. It’s just a lovely space,” said Deborah Pellow, chair of the University Sen-ate Committee on Libraries.
Just past the Quad sits E.S. Bird Library — which is 50 years younger than Carnegie, but contains some
furniture that’s older than its coun-terpart and thin collections of aca-demic resources such as maps, jour-nals and other research materials.
In a report given at the Jan. 15 University Senate meeting, Chan-cellor Kent Syverud and Vice Chan-cellor Eric Spina were in attendance when Pellow told the audience that university libraries have suffered a long history of neglect. She called the library system “grossly inad-equate for a university with the size and ambition of SU.”
Pellow compared SU’s library funding to 13 other private research universities including Duke Uni-versity, Cornell University, North-western University and Boston
College. Of the 14 schools in the comparison, SU ranked last in library expenditures in 2009-2010 with $18,372,392 versus Cornell, which had the highest expenditures of $44,199,742.
In order to reach the median expense range of peer institutions on that list, Pellow said the univer-sity would have to add almost $9 million in funding.
In the report, Pellow said the lack of funding and neglect for libraries has worsened in the last 10 years.
“I believe that under Cantor’s administration, the focus and the energy, money or not money, was on the community, not the city,”
LONG OVERDUE
By Ellen Meyersasst. news editor
On Tuesday, students braced for word from Syracuse University offi-cials that classes would be canceled the following day. A university-wide email teased to the possibility of can-celing classes, but when Wednesday morning arrived, students were met with no announcement and a surge of disappointment.
But that afternoon, at around 1:40 p.m., students’ calls for a snow day were answered as the university announced it would be canceling all classes scheduled after 2:15 p.m.
“Given the changing weather pat-terns forecasted compared to what was known this morning, it was in the interest of the university to can-cel classes for the remainder of the day,” said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs at SU.
All State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry classes continued as scheduled, said Ragan Squier, SUNY-
SU cancels classes for snowstorm
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Investigation begins into string of campus thefts Lack of funding creates challenges for Bird LibraryBy Brett Samuelsasst. news editor
The Syracuse University Depart-ment of Public Safety, in a joint inves-tigation with the Syracuse Police Department, has identified one or more persons of interest in connec-tion to recent thefts in academic buildings on campus.
Personal and university property was stolen from buildings between the Quad and Waverly Avenue, said Ed Weber, senior detective with DPS. The items taken include laptops, cell phones and change. Weber said who-ever was responsible also rummaged through individuals’ belongings.
The thefts began at the end of
January, with most of them occur-ring after 10 p.m., which is after busi-ness hours for the university, Weber said. He added that DPS believes the thefts are all connected based on the timeframes and type of items that were taken.
Weber said some of the items taken were personal items and oth-ers were SU property. Items were stolen from both staff and students, he added.
Some thefts occurred during weekends and DPS wasn’t notified until Monday, Weber said. Many of the thefts occurred during hours in which academic buildings are locked, and Weber encouraged anyone who
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MENG SHEN, an undecided sophomore in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, enters the Quad on the way to E.S. Bird Library on Wednes-day. Heavy snowfall caused SU to cancel classes after 2:15 p.m. SU has only canceled classes twice before due to snow. sam maller photo editor
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Lager provides natural, nostalgic, hoppy tasteBy Tom Sharkey staff writer
The (relatively) warm weather this past weekend had me feeling adven-turous and reminiscent of the great outdoors. I looked in my fridge and the bottle of Saranac Adirondack Lager from Matt Brewing Company was speaking to my nature nostalgia.
In the past, I’ve relied on Yuengling as my steady lager choice, but I’m always open to expand my repertoire. I’m a fan of lagers in general, so I was eager to see how the Saranac Adirondack Lager lined up against the others I’ve had in the past.
I poured the beer into a pint glass and watched its amber-gold color fill the glass. It produced a creamy, pale head that was about the width of my thumb, and I noticed a woody oak-ish aroma. This was on par with other lagers I have tasted, so there was nothing out of the ordinary yet.
I had ordered a cheeseburger and fries for take-out to bring home and pair with my beer, and the Saranac Adirondack Lager definitely helped wash down the food. There’s some-
thing so American about drinking a craft beer with a burger and fries, and on the eve of the Superbowl, I felt super bro-y.
The beer tasted fine, and had a hint of the same oaky aroma in its flavor. I’m more a fan of hoppier, distinct-tasting beers, so while lagers are perfect for casual drink-ing (read: binge drinking), I think I would prefer an IPA the next time I’m pairing a beer with my dinner.
The Saranac Adirondack Lager succeeded most in its ability to remind me that better days are com-ing, when I can go off on a hike on a whim without worrying about shov-eling three feet of snow off my car or getting frostbite within twenty minutes of being outside.
Maybe it was the clever market-ing and packaging of the beer — or maybe it was the memories I have associated with downing heaps of Yuengling lagers during the sum-mer— but drinking the Saranac Adirondack Lager seemed perfectly fitting for the moment, even if it didn’t stand out amongst its peers.
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cor r ectionIn a Feb. 5 article titled “Bill allows for wage increases” the day the New York state Senate reviewed a bill that would allow localities, or state munic-ipalities, to determine their own mini-mum wage rates was misstated. The bill was reviewed on Tuesday. The Daily Orange regrets this error.
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By Justin Mattinglycontributing writer
Syracuse University’s campus may start to look a little different as sev-eral construction projects progress toward completion.
Dineen Hall, a new bookstore and Dick Clark Studios in Newhouse II are all currently in their construc-tion phases. Officials involved with the projects said the buildings are on schedule for completion and all slated to open in fall 2014.
Dineen Hall will house the SU
College of Law, which is currently split between two buildings — Win-ifred MacNaughton Hall and Ernest I. White Hall — which currently holds classrooms, faculty and staff offices and Grant Auditorium.
Dineen Hall will be a 200,000-square-foot building and is included in SU’s west campus expansion. The new building is named for Robert Dineen, a 1924 alumnus, and Carolyn Dineen, a 1932 alumnus. Their three chil-dren, Carolyn, Kathryn and Robert Jr., pledged a $15 million naming
gift to honor their parents’ legacy. Construction on Dineen Hall is
roughly 75 percent completed, Otey Marshall, vice president of Hueber-Breuer, said in an email. Hueber-Breuer is a Syracuse-based construc-tion company working on Dineen Hall.
Marshall said the project team, including the owner, architects, engi-neers and builders, has successfully overcome each challenge it has faced. Severe weather, soil conditions and tight site conditions have posed chal-lenges in the process, he added.
The original project budget has
been maintained throughout con-struction, Marshall said.
“Working with SU in an ‘open book format’ has allowed budget savings to be re-invested into the building for improvements as cho-sen by SU,” he said.
The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has also made progress with the construc-tion of Dick Clark Studios.
Construction began in April 2013 and the building is expected to open in fall 2014, said Susan Nash, director of
Construction projects move ahead as scheduled
(clockwise from top) Dineen Hall will serve as the new home of Syracuse University’s College of Law. SU’s new bookstore will be located on the corner of University Avenue and Harrison Street. Dick Clark Studios will open in Newhouse II. margaret lin asst. photo editor
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Rapper J. Cole to play Dome showBy Brett Samuels and Jacob Pramuk the daily orange
Rapper J. Cole will perform at the Car-rier Dome on March 21 in a concert presented by the Theta Xi chapter of Phi Beta Sigma at Syracuse University.
Tickets will go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. through ticketmaster.com and at the Carrier Dome Box Office. SU and SUNY-ESF students can purchase tick-ets for $15, and tickets are $30 for the general public, according to a Feb. 5 Post Standard article.
Presale tickets are available from Thursday until Feb. 12 at midnight.
Doors for the show will open at 6:30 p.m. that night, with the concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. R&B singer Elle Varner will open the show, according to the article.
Phi Beta Sigma organizes a concert every spring semester, said Ayinde
1. code of Armor: 7,182 Based on their personal experiences, three SU women formed an organization to raise awareness of sexual assaults on campus.
2. once in a lifetime: 3,557 The SU Marching Band stole the spotlight as the band performed with Rutgers University at the Super Bowl pregame show on Sunday.
3. Gallery: syracuse beats Duke 91-89 in front of largest on-campus crowd in college basketball history: 2,387 SU bested Duke in overtime in the first ACC matchup between the two storied programs.
4. epic: fair scores career-high 28 points as No. 2 syracuse edges No. 17 Duke in instant ot carrier Dome classic: 1,555In arguably one of the most heat-ed and suspenseful games of the season, the Orange defeated the Blue Devils in overtime.
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By Kate Capodannostaff writer
With temperatures dropping below zero this season, Syracuse University buildings are working overtime to keep students comfort-able and facilities functioning.
Throughout campus, an energy manage-ment system acted as a watchdog over many of the university’s buildings, monitoring the tem-peratures and controlling when the heat came on, said Emily Greeno, energy conservation manager for SU’s Climate Operation Center. The center operates within the university’s Energy Systems & Sustainability Manage-ment Department.
Campus buildings’ temperatures usually vary each day, with heat kicking in to maintain an average temperature of 68 degrees during classes and 55 degrees at night when no one is in the building.
However, last week, before the 40 degrees thaw on Saturday, the heat stayed on at full blast, which increased the university’s energy consumption, said Nathan Priors, associate director of energy consumption.
“We were running the buildings 24/7 to avoid freeze-ups and people being uncomfort-able in the facilities,” Priors said. “As much as we want to have energy conservation, at
the same point in time we want people to be productive. So we need to find an appropri-ate balance between occupant comfort and energy conservation.”
SU is primarily powered by steam heat, and the colder weather demands significant-ly higher loads of steam to keep everything functioning, Priors said. He added that this could notably affect SU’s energy bill for the
fiscal year.“Obviously the month of January we used
more steam than last January, but the total dollars we are going to spend for the year is to be seen,” said Priors. “If the rest of the winter proves mild it could average itself out.”
The extreme temperatures stress the equip-ment to their maximum capacity, so the uni-versity has created a preventative maintenance
program that gives the equipment very little opportunity to break down, said Ray Kowalski, facilities maintenance manager.
Kowalski is the manager for the west zone of campus, which includes buildings such as Maxwell, Eggers Hall, Hall of Languages, Hen-dricks Chapel and several others. If students and faculty leave windows open, it can become difficult to regulate heat in each building, Kow-alski said. The drastic difference between the temperatures inside and those outside can cause radiators to freeze up and break.
Just before the holiday vacation, Kowalski said one of the radiators in Maxwell cracked, causing steam and condensation to run over everything.
To avoid problems with the freezing temper-atures, Kowalski said the night maintenance crew walked through the buildings several times when temperatures only reached single digits to ensure that there were no windows left open.
Students across campus may feel that cer-tain buildings are cooler or warmer than oth-ers, Greeno said.
“You can definitely see older systems in the older buildings so they either have to run more or they don’t have as good temperature control on them,” Greeno said. “But then when we install newer buildings, you will see they have
a lot more space temperatures and ability to control temperatures.”
Many of the calls Energy Systems and Sustainability Management receives during the winter are about occupants just feeling chilly. There can be equipment problems, but sometimes people feel that 68 degrees is too cold. Other cases include someone using a space heater near a temperature sensor, which freezes out their neighbor in the other room whose heat is determined based on that sensor, Priors said.
Although it can be difficult, Priors said they are constantly looking at ways to reduce the energy consumption at SU. Certain projects underway are associated with SU’s Climate Action Plan, for which construction will begin post-commencement this year, Priors said.
According to the plan published in 2009, the goal is to get the university’s greenhouse gas emissions down to net zero by 2040.
Priors said the department has done studies on solar power and wind generation on South Campus to see if they’re feasible solutions for the university’s greenhouse emissions.
“If everyone took little steps to reduce their energy consumption it could be very significant,” Priors said. “It is a very inter-esting challenge.”
Emers-George, vice president and public relations chair of Phi Beta Sigma. The 2012
and 2013 performers, Fabolous and Big Sean, respectively, sold out Goldstein Auditorium in Schine Student Center, he said.
The fraternity wanted to book a large show at the Dome this semester to commemorate its 100th anniversary, which was Jan. 9, he said.
“I wanted to try to get something together that was more special and that a greek organization hasn’t done on campus,” Emers-George said.
Cole’s album “Born Sinner” was released in June 2013 and reached No. 1 on the Bill-board 200 chart. His song “Power Trip” was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
Cole previously performed at SU in Decem-ber 2010, Emers-George said.
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If everyone took little steps to reduce their energy consumption it could be very significantNathan Priorsassociate director of energy consumption
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When I look back at my first semester at Syra-cuse University, I don’t
remember the Student Association as a student government. I remem-ber it as a busing organization.
The numerous emails and information that flooded my inbox gave me the idea that SA basically organized student transit.
After doing some research with Student Life Chair Aysha Seedat and Student Life Committee member Phil Porter, I got a bit of an inside look on how buses work.
SA is in charge of promoting two types of busing services: bi-weekly buses to Target and Wegmans and buses around the time of university holidays to the Regional Transport Center. These buses are set up and
paid for by the university, but SA has the sole responsibility of ensuring that students use the service.
It is clear that these buses are not being used properly. This isn’t a matter of how much SA promotes its service; it’s about how they go about targeting the student population.
Seedat was able to provide data from two trips: the Jan. 11 trips to the Regional Transport Center and Han-cock Airport, as well as the number of students that used the Wegmans and Target buses on Sunday.
Thirty-eight students used the buses to get back from the Regional
Transportation Center while 22 used them to get back from Hancock International Airport on Jan. 11. Sixty students total out of 14,000 undergraduates—that’s four hun-dredths of the student body utilizing this free service.
On Sunday, the numbers were even worse. Only 14 undergraduates utilized the service—one hundredth of the student body.
Although it cannot be expected that every student will utilize the transportation provided by SA, a better effort should be put toward promoting busing or advocating for a new form of transportation.
By collecting data and using their results, SA can gauge what will be a better fit for the student body. Right now, with practically no data and a
promotion system run by word of mouth and emails, the busing system is far from a success.
While the Student Life Com-mittee has many other exciting initiatives on its docket, SA needs to fix its original mess before it starts something new.
A lot of money is put into busing and it is simply irresponsible to let the buses run as they currently do.
SA needs to ensure that all functions they sponsor are fiscally reasonable to keep running. After this semester, if SA cannot get more students to use the buses and hits a point where it realizes that busing is not economical then it needs to work with the university to come up with a solution.
SA is similar to the US govern-
ment. Although it does not have a debt, it is in charge of a substantial amount of money that needs to be used responsibly.
In a day and age where SU strug-gles with financial woes, SA cannot become another organization that frivolously spends its money. As a voice of the students, they need to set an example. If busing costs too much money and is not benefiting enough students, then the service needs to be eliminated. SA needs to make this decision before they waste too much time mulling it over. It may be time for SA to turn its attention to other intiatives.
Samantha Netzband is a fresh-man political science major. Her column appears weekly. She can
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Bird should receive support for renovationsThe facilities and equipment in E.S. Bird Library are outdated and insufficient for modern college students. To fix this lingering prob-lem, Syracuse University needs to increase its library funding.
According to the University Sen-ate’s Library Committee, SU falls far behind other private research universities like Cornell, Duke and Northwestern in library funding. While Cornell allocates approxi-mately $44 million to its libraries, SU only allocates about $18 million.
Fortunately for the SU com-munity, Chancellor Kent Syverud understands that Bird should be renovated sooner rather than later. According to Deborah Pellow, the head of the Library Committee, Syverud wants to make improving the libraries a priority and increase their funding.
Increased funding should specifically focus on Bird Library because it is the biggest, most populated library on campus. The
current budget for the library is not sufficient to maintain the library and upgrade its facilities and equipment.
This lack of funding is reflected in two key areas — technology and study space.
Bird’s computers have slow operating systems that lag behind modern standards. The library needs to substitute its slow comput-ers with computers that have faster operating systems. There are also not enough outlets for students to charge their own electronic devices. Bird needs to add more outlets so students do not have to worry about leaving the table or cubicle they’ve set up at to charge their computers or tablets.
The library’s furniture is old and uncomfortable for students that often spend multiple hours doing work. Bird should replace its oldest furniture with new chairs and tables that make it more com-fortable so students can study and
complete assignments more easily. The library’s study rooms are also in need of a technological upgrade. They should be modeled after the up-to-date team rooms in the Martin J. Whitman School of Man-agement, which are very popular among students.
Addressing the needs of Bird Library is crucial on many levels. The biggest, most populated library is a prominent feature on campus. Students need it as a work haven. Professors need it as a resource. Prospective students need to be impressed by it on tours.
Syverud’s awareness of this issue is an important first step toward an increase in funding. He should team with Pellow and the Library Comittee to push for swift action by the University Senate. With improvements to technology and study space, Bird can become a modern academic setting for the modern collegiate student.
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By Claire Moran staff writer
After some serious snowfall on Wednes-day, several colleges were forced to can-cel classes. But University of Illinois
students were not so lucky last Monday. Despite wind chills of minus 27 degrees, the
university’s classes were not canceled, leading students to create the hashtag #f***Phyllis and tweeting several offensive and racist comments about University of Illinois chancellor Phyllis Wise — many aimed at the chancellor’s Asian heritage and gender.
Wise emailed the university community on Jan. 26 and told them that classes would remain in session for the next day. Students started tweeting after that and created a parody Twitter account for the chancellor, as well as creating an online petition to get classes canceled, according to a Jan. 27 Buzzfeed article.
There was also backlash against the hashtag as Twitter users pointed out the inappropriateness of the tweets. Many responders told the original #f ***Phyllis students that if they didn’t like the decision, they could have chosen to skip class instead of taking to social media to target one person, according to the article.
Jeff Lieberson, the vice president of the Association of Public Land Grant Universities, of which University of Illinois is a member, said this event only involved a few students.
“We’re confident that it was a small, nar-row group of people and Chancellor Wise is an extraordinary leader at that University,” Lieberson said.
Some of the tweets against the chancel-lor included: “Communist China no stop by cold,” “Phyllis Wise is the Kim Jong Un of chancellors” and “In a room with Phyllis Wise, Adolf Hitler and a gun with one bullet. Who do I shoot?”
Some of the rebuttal tweets included: “I agree it sucks going to class when it’s freezing. Be an adult. Stay home if it’s safer, but don’t make racial slurs,” and “Hey, if you stay home, UofI students — and that’s okay— maybe edu-cate yourself on this: Ethnic/Racial Slurs Are Never OK.”
Several websites have speculated whether Wise would’ve received the same level of Twitter aggression had she not been female and a minority.
A campus judicial officer ruled the tweets as protected speech so the students will not
be punished. Wise said she was aware of the Twitter commentary and released a statement saying that the tweets “disturbed” her and they weren’t in keeping with the environment that she wanted to foster at the university.
“What was most disturbing was witness-ing social media drive a discussion quickly into the abyss of hateful comments and even threats of violence,” Wise said in her state-ment. “I shudder to think what might hap-pen if that type of vitriol were directed at a vulnerable member of our student body or university community.
“On Monday, Jan. 27, we held classes, as usual, at the University of Illinois. And, I
hope, we all learned something,” she con-cluded.
Student body president Damien R. Bolden issued an apology to Wise on behalf of the stu-dent body. He quoted the university’s Inclusiv-ity Statement and said maintaining an “inclu-sive environment” was an important virtue at the school.
Said Bolden: “We must remember that to ensure a learning and working environment as diverse as our population civility, respect and tolerance must always be shown through our words and actions toward each other and all members of our community.”
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ESF’s president’s secretary.Despite the heavy snowfall and cancellation
of classes, the rest of the university stayed open, and there was no indication that it would affect Thursday classes. An Orange Alert was also sent out at 2 p.m. notifying the campus of the cancellations.
SU students spent the rest of the day off in various ways. Some took a leap of faith and sled
down the Crouse College hill, using dining hall trays, sleds or nothing at all. Others made snow angels and snowmen, adorned with SU apparel.
SU has only canceled classes for snow twice before: March 8, 2011 and March 15, 1993. Both times, there weren’t any classes for the entire day.
The National Weather Service released another alert today, saying that the Winter Storm Warning would remain in effect until 7 p.m. The alert said there would be an addi-tional four to eight inches of snow, and totals would amount to eight to 12 inches.
Even though much of the roads were cov-ered with snow, campus transportation con-tinued to run on schedule.
Scot Vanderpool, the manager of opera-tions at Parking and Transit Services, said the buses for Main Campus, South Campus and to the Warehouse would run regular services, though there would be eight to 10 minute delays, and he advised that people plan ahead and get on early.
According to Parking and Transit Services’s website, The Car Limo Nob Hill shuttle buses were operating on a snow emergency route. Shuttle and
Car Limo shuttles were operating as usual.In December 2013, the Weather Channel
listed Syracuse with the highest yearly snow totals at 115.4 inches. But in 1993, the year that classes were canceled for an entire day for snow, snow totals reached 192.1 inches.
Regardless of the severity of the storm, Syr-acuse still remains one of the nation’s snowiest cities — Accuweather.com ranked SU as the second-snowiest college campus in the U.S., tied with State University of New York-Oswego in January.
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she said. “So I think in that sense we fell even more behind.”
Sam Gorovitz, a philosophy professor, said he believes the outgoing administration priori-tized other expenditures.
“Had there been higher regard for the library system more would have been invested in that versus things with greater PR value but lower academic value,” Gorovitz said.
Pellow said two main aspects of Bird can use improvements: the physical facilities, such as furniture and paint, and the library’s collections.
She said when an outside review committee came to look at Bird’s condition in 2012, they were dismayed by the state of the library.
A year and a half later, Pellow has seen little progress.
“The facility is awful,” she said. “It’s worn and awful. And it has to be dealt with.”
Collections also need to be bolstered, she said, and interim dean of libraries K. Matthew Dames has made this a top priority.
She added that faculty members are also concerned about updating the collections. But she said the libraries need money to improve both the facilities and the collections.
Graduate students are also affected by the lack of academic materials, said Patrick Neary, president of the Graduate Student Organization.
Neary said many graduate students rely on journals and books in the libraries for their research, and when the libraries are under-funded, it affects their ability to do their work.
“If the university physically doesn’t have those (materials) it’s a huge hindrance,” he said.
Neary added that the university needs quiet study spaces, even after the renovations on the Carnegie Reading Room have been completed.
However, libraries appear to be headed in a better direction under SU’s new chancellor, Kent Syverud.
Syverud sees the library as a priority, Pellow said, something that she believes reflects well for everyone at SU.
“I think it’s fabulous we have a chancellor who cares about the library,” she said. “It’s better for (faculty), it’s better for students and it’s better for the university. It will help the university in untold ways.”
Pellow said she thinks Syverud’s attitude regarding the library will help solve the lack of funding.
“When you care about something and it needs money, you find it,” she said, adding that Syverud has made it clear he’ll find money to improve the library.
Pellow said she isn’t sure where the money would come from. She said the library has never been allowed to have a capital fundraising cam-paign, but she believes many people, including herself, would value giving money to the library more than to new construction projects.
Regardless of access to funds, Pellow said it’s tough to make progress on certain aspects of Bird.
She said in some cases moving forward with library projects depends on other projects on campus, such as renovations to the Schine Student Center.
Pellow said if new study spaces are added in Schine, it would affect the work done with study space at Bird. She said work on the library and other campus buildings “have to be done in concert.”
Some aspects of the library are ready to move forward, including handling a chemical contaminant called polychlorinated biphenyls
— or PCBs from Bird’s basement. Once the PCBs are dealt with, renovations to turn the basement into an updated space can continue.
Pellow said the chemicals should be dealt with by July 1.
Once the university moves forward with improving the library and increasing funding, improvements will be made to what Pellow and Gorovitz believe is a critical part of the university.
“It’s not just a building,” Gorovitz said, “A building is just a place. It’s important because of what’s happening in that place.”
Gorovitz said when the library isn’t up to standards, student research suffers, faculty members struggle to get materials and groups can’t find collaborative workspaces.
Pellow said the quality of a school’s library can affect the university’s ranking, research, recruitment and retention of faculty.
She said the library can benefit the whole uni-versity, calling it a “core to academic enterprise.”
“You can have a cup of coffee at Schine or at Maxwell,” Pellow said. “There are all kinds of places you can go for that, but there are certain things you can only do at the library and that needs to be focused on.”
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sees doors left open after hours to report it to DPS.
“We noticed some forcible entries in certain offices in these cases,” he said. “So if you see some-thing on the door that looks unusual, give us a call.”
DPS sent an email on Tuesday offering tips for building security and for avoiding potential theft.
“The reason we put the email out is because we felt the community should know what’s going on,” Weber said. “With this info out, we might get more calls about people seeing some-thing suspicious.”
People may hesitate to provide tips as they fear they might be offering insignificant infor-
mation, Weber said. But sometimes the small-est suspicions can help solve a case.
Said Weber: “They think it’s silly, but we might say it’s just what we needed. The littlest tiny thing they might think is suspicious, they should give us a call.”
administration at Newhouse.The project is estimated to cost roughly $18
million and will feature both news and produc-tion studios, as well as advanced teaching labs. The studios will also provide a bureau and office space for Orange Television Network.
Funding for Dick Clark Studios comes from a variety of sources, including the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Inc., the university and industry partnerships, according to the New-house website. Construction is still meeting its $18 million budget, Nash said.
“We haven’t run into many problems, but one of the biggest challenges we have faced is the noise that generates from the construction,” she said.
To counteract the noise, construction crews are working early in the morning and on week-ends so classes will not be disturbed, Nash said.
The lobby to Dick Clark Studios will be located at the corner of University and Waverly Avenue. The studios are named after Dick Clark, a 1951 alumnus, who was best known for hosting American Bandstand and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.
Gensler, the San Francisco-based architec-ture firm designing the studios, could not be reached for comment.
Cameron Group, a private developer based in East Syracuse, continues construction on a new SU bookstore, which will also contain a fitness center for students and employees. The 85,000-square-foot building will be built at the southeast corner of University Avenue and Harrison Street. Cam-eron Group will own the new bookstore, and SU will lease the property from the company.
Cameron Group did not return a call or email requesting comment.
The current bookstore in Schine Student Center was built in 1985 and will remain open.
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Syracuse unveils nation’s 53rd-best recruiting class
Orange establishes Midwest pipeline, inks 7 from area
part 3 of 3national signing day2014
COLTON MOSKALLBH/W: 6-1, 215 LAKE ZURICH, ILL. LAKE ZURICH
ALIN EDOUARDQB H/W: 6-1, 180 MIAMI, FLA. HIALEAH
K.J. WILLIAMSWRH/W: 6-2, 185 BETHLEHEM, PA. LIBERTY
ZAIRE FRANKLINLB H/W: 6-0, 215 PHILADELPHIA, PA. LA SALLE
DENZEL WARDOT H/W: 6-8, 320 CHICAGO, ILL. NEAL F. SIMEON
CHRIS SLAYTONDL H/W: 6-5, 250UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. CRETE-MONEE
ADLEY ENOICYWR H/W: 6-5, 220 DELRAY BEACH, FLA. ATLANTIC
We all want everyone to see how great it’s going to be at Syracuse. That’s why we’re always talking about it with each other all the time.”
Alin Edouard su commit
= player’s hometown
RODNEY WILLIAMS S CHERRY HILL, N.J.
JALEN HARVEY DT BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
A.J. LONG QB LEBANON, TENN.
ERVIN PHILIPS RB WEST HAVEN, CONN.
KAYTON SAMUELS DT ELLENWOOD, GA.
WAYNE WILLIAMS DT BROOKLYN, N.Y.
K.J. WILLIAMS WR BETHLEHEM, PA.
PARRIS BENNETT OLB DETROIT, MICH.
COREY COOPER WR RALEIGH, N.C.
JAMAL CUSTIS WR PHILADELPHIA, PA.
ZAIRE FRANKLIN OLB PHILADELPHIA, PA.
NAESEAN HOWARD RB SYRACUSE, N.Y.
JONATHAN THOMAS OLB LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
By Phil D’Abbraccioasst. copy editor
It’s come full circle for Scott Shafer.The football clinics he helped
build up during his years at Northern Illinois and Illinois more than 10 years ago pulled him and his staff back to the Chicago area, where they’ve developed a new pipeline that is feeding players to Syracuse.
“I’m indebted to Chicago,” Shafer said at his signing day press conference Wednes-day. “I think we got quality kids from that part of the country and I’m excited to see
them on the field.”While George McDonald was expanding
the Florida-Syracuse pipeline, the Midwest region emerged as a major source of pros-pects for this year’s recruiting class. Shafer and his assistants Tim Lester, Fred Reed and DeAndre Smith are all Midwest natives, and they’ve each dug into the area – particularly Chicago, where three of SU’s seven Midwest signees are from in the Class of 2014.
“Between those four, they know about everybody there,” said Eric White, Syra-cuse’s director of recruiting operations. “Our ties there are so good that I feel like
we can go down there and compete against about anybody.”
Syracuse has hauled in 11 Midwest recruits in the past two recruiting classes. Aside from two players on the current ros-ter, only one Illinois native has played for SU in the last 13 seasons.
“There’s really, really good football played in that state, in that area,” White said. “It’s so populated, so that is somewhere where we’re trying to get in and I think we’ve done a really good job establishing ourselves this year.”
Linebacker signee Colton Moskal, of Lake Zurich, Ill., said the nature of high
school football in the region is comparable to Syracuse’s. It’s the Midwest prospects’ ability to withstand a grind-it-out style of football — as well as cold weather — that Moskal said makes them a good fit at SU.
Moskal has already started to get accli-mated with his future teammates — par-ticularly the players that hail from the same region he does — and the consistent topic of discussion is how much they can’t wait to get to Syracuse and get to work.
Said Moskal: “It’ll be like having family away from home.”
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By Jesse Doughertyasst. sports editor
S ome things have so many expla-nations that they become hard to explain.
The move to the Atlantic Coast Confer-ence. Three bowl wins in four years. The savvy recruiting pair of 24-year-old Direc-tor of Recruiting Operations Eric White and Offensive Coordinator George McDonald. The snowball effect of one verbal commit attracting another, and so on and so forth down the line.
They’re all possibilities. And whatever it was, it happened fast.
Twelve months ago, Scout.com rated Syracuse’s 2013 recruiting class as the 73rd best in the country. On Wednesday — when a list of 25 players was ironed out by pens and hats in every corner of Eastern United States — Syracuse finished national signing day right outside the top 50, at No. 53.
Twenty spots in a calendar year. The kind of leap that pleased Syracuse head coach
Scott Shafer as he discussed the incoming class Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s an exciting time for them,” Shafer said. “They’ve been dreaming since they were little kids to go play football at a pres-tigious university, and for them to sign and look their parents in the eye and say ‘I did it,’ it’s an endpoint and a start point at the same time.”
The only person Shafer didn’t credit for the Orange’s recruiting success was himself, yet he was as entrenched in the process as the rest of the gang.
It was a communal effort that grabbed players from as far south as Miami, and west as Chicago. It trended on Twitter on many occasions and will thrust the Orange into next season with a revamped roster.
“For the most part we like to break it down by where we need positions to fill,” McDonald said, “and then we go to areas of need next, like areas that really need to be addressed.”
But the Orange didn’t just fill needs. It established pipelines and brought in groups of players that will complement each other
in play and personality.There’s the Chicago guys, headlined by
offensive tackle Denzel Ward and rounded out by cornerback Lamar Dawson, linebacker Colton Moskal and another offensive lineman, Aaron Roberts.
There’s the Florida group, strung together by quarterback Alin Edouard and encom-passing wide receiver Steve Ishmael, tight end Adley Enoicy and defensive backs Cordell Hudson, Juwan Dowels and Antwan Cordy.
There’s a talented pair from Philadelphia,
two explosive running backs and a lot of size on the defensive line.
“The class is so balanced and so good,” said Jalen Harvey, a defensive tackle who
signed to SU on Wednesday. “It’s nice know-ing that I’m going to get to go to battle with this group for four years, we’re going to do something big.”
But what maybe makes the members of this class even more special than their rankings and 40-yard dash times is that they have already grown close. They recruit-ed each other on Twitter and through texts, planned their official visits on the same weekends and frequently wrote in a group message with White on Facebook.
They won’t all be together until they all break camp in August, but the chemistry is already palpable.
“We all want everyone to see how great it’s going to be at Syracuse,” Edouard said. “That’s why we’re always talking about it with each other all the time.”
The Orange started to shape the 2014 class a week after signing day last year, when No. 73 just wasn’t good enough.
Now Feb. 5 — the date circled on the Syr-acuse football schedule for months — has come and gone, and what’s left is a group of players whose collective potential yields a brighter future in Central New York.
“That’s what you do it for. You do it for a bunch of 17-, 18-year-old kids saying they want to go to Syracuse and be a part of something special up here,” McDonald said. “It’s very, very relieving and it makes it all worth it.”
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Florida skill players prepare to help Syracuse right away
POSITIVE SIGNSmeet the classHere are some of the most notable names from Syra-cuse’s 2014 class. All of these players signed letters of intent on Wednesday.
NAESEAN HOWARDDB H/W: 5-11, 190 SYRACUSE, N.Y. WEST GENESEE
LAMAR DAWSONCBH/W: 5-11, 175 CHICAGO, ILL. SAINT RITA
STEVE ISHMAEL WRH/W: 6-2, 175 MIAMI, FLA. NORTH MIAMI BEACH
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Speed and skill. If Scott Shafer knows anything
after national signing day, he knows that he’s getting those two things from the state of Florida.
With the help of George McDonald and a rally started by signee Alin Edouard after his commitment in October, Syracuse inked five Sunshine State players to its incoming class. That group includes a dual-threat quarterback in Edouard, two big-play receivers in Steve Ish-mael and Adly Enoicy and two talented corner-
backs in Antwan Cordy and Cordell Hudson. The Florida game is fast and hinges on
big plays, and Shafer is excited to bring five electric players into the program.
“They’re all playmakers on both sides of the ball that we’ve recruited from down there,” Shafer said. “It’s good to have some kids to come in and bolster our speed and skills from way down at the bottom.”
Edouard talked about how McDonald has been following him for a few years now.
The three-star quarterback — who was once committed to play at Miami (Fla.) — said that McDonald was always interested in his academics and general well-being, not
just his prowess on the football field. “A lot of coaches that talk to us down here
are all about football,” Edouard said. “But McDonald was always interested in me as a student and learning about me. All of us down here appreciate that.”
And after Syracuse grabbed Edouard, the flood ensued.
All four of the other Florida commits came, and more importantly chose the Orange over programs with higher pedigrees.
Enoicy opted for Syracuse instead of Auburn, Florida, Florida State and South Carolina, among other top schools, accord-ing to Scout.com. Ishmael had offers from
Oregon and Louisville, among others. Dow-els could have gone to Clemson.
“Florida’s really taking over,” Ishmael said.
Instead they all chose to toss aside the sunshine for the inclement weather of Cen-tral New York.
The turbulent recruiting trail is behind them and the four coldest years of their lives — as well as four years of Florida-brand football — lies ahead.
Said Ishmael: “Coming from Florida, that cold is going to scare all of us. But if I have my jacket, I’ll be all good.”
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snubbedHere are the list of schools that the Orange beat out while crafting its 2014 class. All schools listed are in Scout.com’s top 25 recruiting classes of 2014.
SCHOOL PLAYERAuburn Adly Enoicy
Clemson Jawon Dowels Zaire Franklin
Florida Adley Enoicy
Florida State Adley Enoicy
Miami (Fla.) Alin Edouard Adley Enoicy Steve Ishmael
Michigan Denzel Ward K.J. Williams
Ohio State Denzel Ward
Oklahoma Denzel Ward
UCLA A.J. Long Denzel Ward K.J. Williams
Oregon Steve Ishmael
South Carolina Adley Enoicy Zaire Franklin
Southern California Adley Enoicy
Tennessee Steve Ishmael Alin Edouard
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LAMAR DAWSON (CB)
COLTON MOSKAL (MLB)
CHRIS SLAYTON (DE)
DENZEL WARD (OT)
AARON ROBERTS (OG)
JUWAN DOWELS (CB)
STEVE ISHMAEL (WR)
ANTWAN CORDY (CB)
ALIN EDOUARD (QB)ADLEY ENOICY (WR)
CORDELL HUDSON (CB)
By Matt Schneidmanstaff writer
In 2013, pitching was a glaring weakness for Syracuse.
But that’s no longer the case, as the
Orange’s pitching staff has potential to carry the team this year.
With the return of junior Lindsay Taylor and the addition of freshmen Christina Cler-mont and Jordyn White, head coach Leigh Ross has several arms she can trust.
“We have depth on the mound and coming off last year when we were thin, that’s really nice,” Ross said. “We have three No. 1s and can throw different kids depending on the strengths of the opponent.”
The Orange will need all the help it can get on the mound, as its move to the Atlantic Coast Conference will result in much tougher competition day in and day out.
Syracuse won’t take long to test its pitching against ranked opponents, as Syracuse takes on No. 22 South Alabama twice this weekend, and will also face No. 25 Alabama-Birming-ham. Both games are part of the Mardi Gras Invitational in Mobile, Ala.
“I think it’s really big to prove to everyone that we’re the same as one of those big name teams,” senior first baseman Jasmine Watson said. “In the past, we haven’t made it very far, but it’s really important to prove that we’re coming out and winning.”
The Orange will need pitching to do so.With more flexibility on the hill, Ross isn’t
pressed to force one pitcher to go an entire game if she doesn’t need to.
Having four games in the first two days of the season, the Orange will want to use more than one arm. With that said, there likely won’t be any drop-off in production from starters to relievers.
“We can change things up in the middle of the game and still be strong,” Ross said. “That will keep us in every game.”
It’s a luxury the Orange wasn’t afforded with
last year. Its two primary pitchers, graduated Stacy Kuwik and Taylor, amassed a combined 304 innings compared to the 40.2 innings pitched by the other three pitchers on the roster.
Not only is this year’s staff a deeper unit, but it has also demonstrated great cohesive-ness throughout the preseason.
“We have great chemistry, and we all work really well together,” Clermont said. “If we need a pitcher to open or close, we don’t have a problem, so that’s really important especially as a pitching staff.”
Clermont will be thrust into a significant role as a freshman, and Ross said to expect her to see significant innings as a starter.
Watson mentioned how it will be the responsibility of her and the other upper-classmen to make sure that the freshmen playing big roles are
prepared mentally and emotionally.“Our weakness is that we have a lot of young
girls, so it’s going to be a little tough to keep their mindset focused,” Watson said. “It’s a different environment, but the biggest thing is for the upperclassmen to keep them focused on our end goal.”
The journey to that end goal starts Friday, and the team’s biggest strength is ready to try and be the catalyst of a Syracuse softball success story.
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LINDSAY TAYLOR pitched 104 innings last year and combined with Stacy Kuwik to log 304 innings. SU expects to have more depth at pitcher this year. ziniu chen staff photographer
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SCOTT SHAFER addresses the media Wednesday during his signing day press conference, in which SU introduced one of its best classes in years. shea kastriner staff photographer
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Earlier this week, George McDonald unveiled Syracuse’s new offensive plan of attack next season in an interview with Sports Illustrated.
“We’re going to open it up on offense and go full-bore fast,” McDonald said. “Like an Oregon, Texas A&M style of offense.”
The offensive coordinator referenced an incoming class of playmakers set to bolster a receiving corps that was riddled with injury and ridiculed for performance in 2013.
Syracuse’s Class of 2014 includes a plethora of pass-catchers, the likes of which SU hasn’t seen in recent memory. They’re being touted as big, fast and — as Syracuse’s head coach empha-sized — able to go up in traffic and make plays.
“We weren’t just looking at size,” Scott Sha-fer said. “We were looking at the video tape and seeing who could make plays when people were matched face to face with them.”
Shafer and his staff sought out receiving threats capable of fighting for position and winning jump balls, and they got them. The group plays into the more open, dynamic sys-tem McDonald referenced.
Last season, Syracuse’s passing game ranked third to last in the Atlantic Coast Con-ference in yards per completion. It lacked any semblance of a downfield threat, even in the team’s late-season surge.
“I think part of opening up the offense has to do with guys who have the ability to make plays,” Sha-fer said, “and make plays when they’re covered.”
That attribute holds true for four-star cen-terpiece K.J. Williams, as well as three-star wideouts Steve Ishmael and Corey Cooper and larger targets, Adly Enoicy and Jamal Custis.
All five appear capable of becoming downfield
weapons for incoming three-star quarterback Alin Edouard and two-star quarterback A.J. Long.
“We have a lot of weapons, and we’re going to use them,” Edouard said.
Williams, at 6 feet 2 inches and 185 pounds, is expected to contribute immediately, as the program’s first four-star wideout since Marcus Sales in 2008.
Ishmael is slightly thinner, but brings a similarly dynamic build — and dreadlocks. And Cooper was initially a signee last season, but spent the fall semester at Jireh (Matthews, N.C.) Prep after failing to meet the NCAA’s academic requirements last summer.
Enoicy (6-5, 220 pounds) and Custis (6-6, 215 pounds) are both listed as tight ends by Scout.com.
Enoicy — cousins with Cincinnati Bengals running back Giovani Bernard — chose the Orange over South Carolina, Southern Califor-nia, Auburn, Florida State and Florida, among others. Custis is also a star on the hardcourt and hasn’t ruled out trying to walk on to the SU men’s basketball team.
“I’m excited about the movement forward with the playmakers,” Shafer said.
But when asked about the expectations he holds for the group, Shafer was hesitant to set too high a bar, or praise too heavily.
He said each player deserves a chance to be a freshman and go through the learning curve. He referenced Brisly Estime, who was slow to start his freshman season before spring-boarding the Orange to a Texas Bowl win with his 70-yard punt return in the waning moments against Minnesota.
“I hate to anoint kids until they get here and prove themselves,” Shafer said. “We’ll never know until we get them into camp and throw that ball up to him.”
This year’s group, though, may not need quite as long as Estime did.
The returning group of wide receivers isn’t one
that strikes fear in opposing defenses but with the incoming batch of playmakers, it could be.
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By Phil D’Abbraccioasst. copy editor
Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman loves to apply full-court pressure. When the press is at its best, it feeds perfectly into the fast,
up-tempo style of play Hillsman demands of his team.
The Orange fin-ished 11-2 in noncon-ference play largely because of its press.
Since then, however, Syracuse is just 5-4 against the Atlantic Coast Conference with the same scheme.
“The teams are either scouting well or we’re not playing tough defense,” guard Brittney Sykes said. “Either way, we’re still going to use our press the way we’ve been using it in every game.”
Virginia Tech — which has won just one of its last nine games — has committed 55 turnovers over its last three games, ranks dead last in the ACC in turnover margin and may just be the vul-nerable opponent SU’s full-court press can exploit.
The Hokies (11-10, 1-7 ACC) will visit the Carrier Dome on Thursday at 7 p.m., and the Orange (16-6, 5-4) will stay in attack mode with its full-court pressure.
“We’re going to do what we do,” Hillsman said. “We get out, we pressure and we try to
force turnovers. They have good quick guards that can put the ball on the floor so hopefully we can stay in front of them, and not have them split our press and attack us.”
During its nonconference slate, Syracuse dominated the turnover battle — with an aver-age margin of plus-eight — thanks to its suf-focating full-court press. The turnovers SU forced in the open court led to plenty of transi-tion opportunities and easy points, as well.
Since the beginning of conference play, the numbers don’t differ by much from the Orange’s nonconference stats. SU averages just 1.7 fewer steals per game and its transition game has picked up with 1.2 more fast-break points per game.
But in the turnover department, there is a drop-off. SU induced 22 turnovers a game before league play, and has forced 17.3 per contest since. After averaging 25.5 points off turnovers per contest, that figure has dropped to 18.4 since the start of ACC play.
“I just think how other teams scheme it has to do with it,” point guard Rachel Coffey said. “They’re better teams, so obviously we just got to work with it.”
The opposing guards in the ACC are gener-ally smarter and better ball handlers, Coffey said, and are less prone to commit the blunders that nonconference teams regularly did.
Hillsman said he doesn’t think his full-court press has been any less successful against the
ACC than it was against nonconference teams. Where SU has struggled lately, he said, is with its spacing after forcing a turnover — which leads to giving the ball right back.
But the press has still had its moments against the ACC, he pointed out.
“I think we’re getting what we need,” he said. “We’re turning teams over at critical times of the game. The Clemson game, I mean, our press won the game. Same thing with North Carolina.
“Our press has been very effective and if any-thing else, it’s taken 12, 13 seconds off the shot clock before they even get into their offense.”
Against Clemson on Jan. 23, Syracuse forced 15 second-half turnovers from the Tigers, and the full-court press ignited an 18-0 run that led the Orange to come away
with a comeback victory. One week later, then-No. 6 North Carolina
struggled against the Orange’s half-court traps and turned the ball over 29 times, leading SU to the five-point upset.
Syracuse even forced Maryland, another top-10 team, into turning the ball over 20 times, albeit in a losing effort.
As long as Syracuse commits to trapping the ball and deflecting and intercepting passes, Sykes said, the press will do what it’s supposed to, and the wins will follow.
“When we go on these 18-0 runs or 15-0 runs, we’re up,” Sykes said, “but we go on those runs because we press and we turn the ball over. We get it back, we score and keep scoring.”
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Syracuse attempts to improve mental focus against RMU By Connor Grossmanstaff writer
During the last series when Syracuse played Robert Morris, head coach Paul Flanagan said he didn’t believe his team showed enough energy against what is now the first-place team in College Hockey of America.
The Orange tied the first match 1-1, and lost the second game of the series 2-1. SU was hindered by six penalties in the loss, and was only able to get three shots off in nearly seven and a half minutes on the power play.
But since, Syracuse has gone 9-5 with three losses to Top-10 programs — and it’s coming off a 3-0 win against St. Lawrence on Tuesday.
“In this sport, and all others, momentum is pretty important,” Flanagan said. “We finished the game playing well, and hopefully we can throw that on the bus with us for Friday’s game.”
Flanagan’s team will need to be at its best for all 60 minutes Friday when SU (15-11-2, 6-6-2 CHA) takes to Moon Township, Pa., to play Rob-ert Morris (21-5-2, 10-3-1) at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday.
After the Orange’s win on Tuesday, the head coach emphasized the significance of putting up a strong showing leading up to a showdown with the conference’s best team.
If Syracuse is going to turn the final score in its favor, it will be a matter of making and executing adjustments.
“It’s going to be important to us to be able to win the battles on the boards,” said junior forward Julie Knerr.
The Orange offense will be tasked with trying to get the puck past Jessica Dodds, one of the con-ference’s stingiest goalies. Dodds leads the confer-ence in wins with 18, and her goals-against average of 1.56 is tops by almost half of a goal.
Coupled with an unyielding defense that allows the fewest amount of goals per game in the confer-ence, the Colonials feature a robust offense led by junior forward Rebecca Vint.
Vint leads the conference in goals and has helped her offense average exactly three goals per game in conference, besting Syracuse’s 2.57 goals per game.
The Orange knows it’ll be going up against one of the best teams it will see this season, and it won’t bend on any facet of its game.
“Our main focus has to be to put as much
effort on defense as offense,” junior forward Allie LaCombe said. “Because it’s just as important, if not more important to protect your goalie than always trying to score goals.”
Not to be entirely outdone, Syracuse goalie Jenesica Drinkwater slots behind Dodds for the second best goals-against average per game in the conference, with a mark of 1.93.
Drinkwater also has allowed the second-lowest number of goals, right behind injured SU goalie Kallie Billadeau.
“Our defense has to be able to block shots
before the puck gets to me,” Drinkwater said.And that goes back into the effort Flanagan
said his team lacked in SU’s first two games against Robert Morris.
The Orange will look to continue its improved play — keyed in part by sophomore forward Melissa Piacentini’s program-record nine-game point streak — this weekend.
“We’re in the most important part of the season,” Piacentini said. “All that really mat-ters at this point is winning.”
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From a small town to a well-known city. From a Division II school to the big stage. From run-ning to coaching. In only eight years, Syracuse track and field assistant coach Dave Hegland has quickly become an integral part of a
nationally contend-ing program.
Hegland has helped develop conference champi-ons, All-Americans and even a national champion. How-ever, the young and humble 32-year-old
coach doesn’t want the spotlight.Hegland refuses to take credit for his run-
ners’ success. Rather, he denounces any notion of a major influence on their performances.
“The main thing is to just have great ath-letes,” Hegland said. “I just try to get out of their way and not screw them up.”
Growing up in Jamestown, N.D., Hegland was able to learn the importance of studying and preparing from his mother, who was a teacher, and his father, a teacher and a high school track and field head coach.
“I was surrounded by a lot of good educa-tors when I was young,” Hegland said. “I think that was a pretty lucky thing for me.”
Hegland took his father’s advice and ran track in high school, and eventually in college at South Dakota State University. Hegland earned Division II All-America accolades twice.
Pollitt believes Hegland’s experience as a collegiate hurdler helps the young coach with his development of his runners.
Last year, Pollitt received All-America accolades and was named Male Track & Field Athlete of the Year at the 2013 ‘Cuse Awards.
“He’s not like a lot of coaches just because of what he can bring to the table,” Pollitt said.
Hegland, however, would disagree.“These guys are at a much higher level
than I was ever at,” Hegland said. “After a cer-tain point you’re really learning from them.”
Current SU runners aren’t the only ones praising Hegland. Even those who have left still rave over the job he’s done.
Former SU sprinter and hurdler Jar-ret Eaton was an All-American, broke mul-tiple school records and became Syracuse’s lone track and field national champion under Hegland’s guidance.
a runner and has helped develop me into the hurdler I am today,” Eaton wrote in an email. “The maturity I have, knowledge of the hurdles, knowledge of nutrition and sleep, my technique and patience have all been the result of being under Coach Dave.”
Hegland has mentored a total of 13 student-athletes to individual conference champion-ships, six sprinter-hurdlers to NCAA champi-onshipss and has seen multiple runners break countless school records.
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Fierce. It’s the one word Anthony Wright used to describe his competition for Syracuse Uni-versity’s upcoming drag show.
Wright and four other acts will compete in the 12th Annual Totally Fabulous Drag Show
preliminary round Thursday, which is spon-sored by Pride Union. The show will be held at 7 p.m. in the Schine Underground. Tickets will cost $3 for Syracuse University and State Uni-versity of New York College of Environment Science and Forestry students with a valid ID and $5 for the public.
“Ours is the largest college show in the coun-
try,” said Katie Farr, the director of public rela-tions for Pride Union. “I think that’s because we’re a well-known university, and the fact that we bring in pretty well-known performers.”
Jujubee, who was a contestant on Season 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, will host Thursday’s show. There will also be a performance by Kit-ten N’ Lou, who are a drag king and burlesque
queen couple, Farr said. The preliminary round will consist of the
contestants dressing in full drag, where they lip-sync to the audience, Farr said. Three judges who are familiar with drag culture and are close with the LGBT Resource Center will evaluate the acts, she said.
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SU-Duke game proves more entertaining than Super Bowl XLVIII
Why the Syracuse University-Duke game was better than the Super Bowl in every way
This past weekend was one filled with sports, testosterone and beer. It was filled with triumph and badassery, and it was also filled with boredom and disappointment.
I am referring, respectively, to the Syra-cuse-Duke game and the not-so-Super Bowl.
I suppose it wasn’t a fair fight from the start. For one thing, professional anything is way less interesting than watching it at the college level. You’ve got kids who can’t even legally drink turning up the pressure cooker while they head into overtime, and yet the Denver Broncos came all the way from Colorado to put on that perfor-mance? Lay off the edibles, hippies. Try harder.
The entertainment was also just super unbalanced. The Super Bowl halftime show featured Bruno Mars, the unofficial wet blan-ket of the music industry. His songs bring me to a strange crossroads between boredom and
very real anger at being subjected to his music. And the Syracuse-Duke game had Dick
Vitale. Game, set, match. Oh, Dick Vitale. There’s so much I want to know
— like what the sh*t happened to your voice? And why are you tweeting pictures of yourself with the SU cheerleaders? You know what, don’t tell me. It’s so much more fun to keep it a mystery. Just please stay alive until the next game.
Then there were the Super Bowl commer-cials. The fact that one of these commercials caused viral controversy is incredible to me, due to my disbelief that anyone was able to pay attention to it for that long.
And the one that I do remember, that puppy commercial with the horse, made me so emotion-al I thought I was going to have to call my parents
and apologize to them for not coming home more often. Or maybe call every ex I’ve ever had and ask them where things went wrong.
Budweiser? I’ll take about 20. And since the SU-Duke game aired on ESPN
instead of Time Warner Cable, there was a far smaller threat of terrible local ads. (This doesn’t apply to you, Billy Fuccillo. You’re a marketing genius.)
Then there’s Richard Sherman. What were you — asleep? Your team won the Super Bowl by a ridiculous margin and you couldn’t muster up one outlandish thing to say?
I’m not angry, Richard. I’m just disappointed. Although if I’m being honest with myself,
I could have used a little more heat between Boeheim and Coach K, but perhaps that will have to wait for the rivalry to take shape a little more in the future. Maybe the two winningest coaches in the NCAA are just too classy for that kind of behavior. For now.
But even here there lies some great enter-
tainment, if only in the sheer unpredictability of Boeheim’s facial expressions. Rasheed Sulai-mon just beat the buzzer and the game is tied — why are you smiling Jim? Oh wait, Quinn Cook missed it, Syracuse won! Aw Jim, why don’t you look happy now? You’re just a mystery wrapped up in a riddle, you wonderful man.
To sum up: The Syracuse-Duke game was an incredible feat and a fantastic game to watch, whereas one could have attained more excite-ment from watching the turf in the MetLife Stadium not grow than from watching the Super Bowl.
Chelsea DeBaise is a senior writing major. Chelsea’s disappointment in the Super Bowl
did not extend to the snacks she consumed that evening, which were crazy delicious. Her col-
umn appears every week in Pulp, whose content does to the rest of journalism what Syracuse
did to Duke and Notre Dame this week. She can be reached via email at [email protected], or
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CHELSEA DEBAISELET’S GET WEIRD
By Vanessa Salman staff writer
Local musicians and groups will be pour-ing into the Landmark Theatre for the ultimate Beatles tribute this Saturday.
The following day, Feb. 9, marks the 50th anniversary of the British sensation on the Ed Sullivan Show, one of the band’s most iconic performances in the U.S..
One of the event’s headliners is Joey Mol-land, the last living member of Badfinger, a band signed by the Beatles’ Apple label in the 1970s. Phil Solem from The Rembrandts, the group behind the theme song to the hit sitcom “Friends” will also be headlining. The show starts at 7 p.m. and doors will open at 6 p.m.
Proceeds from the show will be going to the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of Central New York, in honor of Paul McCartney’s late wife Linda McCartney, who battled breast cancer.
The last time The Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, they took the Beatlemaniacs by storm with their hit single “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” The perfor-mance catapulted the Beatles into stardom, with its albums and merchandise sales and popularity escalating to new levels, as the performance catalyzed the dedication of its American fan base.
The Fab 5, a 1960s cover band, will take the stage on Saturday evening. Although the band was inf luenced by the Beatles, they cover songs by other groups and maintain their own image.
“We didn’t wear the suits and we didn’t talk with the funny accents,” said Paul Davie, a member of the Fab 5, promoter and creator of the 50 Years of the Beatles event.
The Fab 5 performed at the 2004 Interna-tional Beatles Week and the Mathew Street Festival in Liverpool, England. It was the first local band to play at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino showroom in Verona, New York.
However, shortly after the performance, the band broke up. Saturday’s concert will be its first in ten years.
Along with the Fab Five, more than 40 local musicians and groups will perform on Satur-day. The musicians put their personal spin on the tracks and songs that were made famous by the Beatles.
Davie said people can expect “three and a half hours of the greatest music from the greatest band of all time” at the concert.
In addition to the variety of artists, there will even be two live string ensembles, one of which will be doing the string portion of the hit “Strawberry Fields Forever,” rather than the modern alternative of a keyboard.
Davie said Syracuse University students should check out the show, regardless of their musical preferences, as it will give them the opportunity to experience what the 1960s music culture was like.
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Where: Palace Theater, 2384 James St.When: Friday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.How much: $30 to $40
Red Hot Chili Peppers with a Scottish twist is coming to Syracuse. The aptly-named “Red Hot Chilli Pipers” will be at the Palace Theater this Friday and they’ll be shaking up the place with rock music that totes itself as putting on “a show so hot it carries its own health warning.” While it mainly covers RHCP, expect some Avicii and other genres.
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Where: Alibrandi Catholic Center, 110 Walnut Pl.When: Saturday, Feb. 8, 7 to 10 p.m.How much: $25
The Syracuse refugee community is expanding and thriving, and kicking things up a notch — this time, in the kitchen. “My Lucky Tummy” gives refugees a chance to show off their cooking skills, all while rais-ing money. Each participant will prepare a native delicacy. All ticket proceeds will go to the immigrant-chefs of the event.
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Venture outside of your snow globe tonight to hang out with your friends. It’s the per-fect way to go back in time to your youth, without actually stepping inside a Chuck E. Cheese. Have fun playing skeeball and arcade games, so you start raking in the tickets for those sweet prizes, accompa-nied by a pretty delicious meal.
JOEY MOLLAND, the last surviving member of Badfinger, performs at a concert in the 1970s. Molland will be performing at the Beatles tribute show this Saturday at the Land-mark Theatre. The event also includes a Fab Five reunion. courtesy of paul davie
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FROSTED TIPSbrisk jockeyCrank up the tunes as you’re wrapped in your five-layer blanket burrito. We’ve com-piled a playlist of the best songs to listen to while you’re in the comfort of your warm room.
1. “Snow” - Red Hot Chili Peppers: Even though this song really isn’t about snow at all, it still offers the perfect blend of upbeat music and introspective lyrics to keep you company during a Syracuse blizzard. Forget the Super Bowl controversy and remember that this band is awesome.
2. “Coldest Winter” - Kanye West: Win-ter is depressing enough without trying to nurse a broken heart alone. This auto-tuned electronic ballad from 808s & Heartbreak is the perfect companion to a lonely snow-in.
3. “Angel in the Snow” - Elliott Smith:Any Elliott Smith song is pretty perfect for winter. Listening to his music is a lot like looking out your window at a foot of fresh snow: You appreciate the beauty, but you
feel melancholy at the same time.
4. “Winter ‘05” - Ra Ra Riot: The Syra-cuse native band is no stranger to snow on the hill. Listen to lyrics like “But instead I sit atop the crest / Looking down on the valley / Where the dead rest,” and wonder if they were talking about Oakwood Cemetery when they wrote this.
— Compiled by Jessica Cabe | Staff Writer
chilling outIf sitting around a campfire telling great stories is a summer tradition, then sitting at your laptop watching great television is the winter tradition. Wait for the winter to pass as you marathon through six seasons and a movie from your own couch. Here are the best shows you can binge watch before the April showers and May flowers return.
1. “Breaking Bad:” Substitute the blue skies outside with the “blue sky” Walter White and Jesse Pinkman are cooking up. The AMC hit follows a man’s decline from a 50-year-old chemistry teacher into a ruthless drug lord. With five and one-half seasons of hour-long episodes available online, you might find this show more addict-ing than crystal meth.
2. “Orange is the New Black:” It is argu-ably impossible to stop watching Netflix’s new original series. The story follows Piper Chap-man, a woman who is torn from her normal life and fiancé after she is arrested for a crime committed ten years earlier. What follows is an intense jail sentence, filled with some crazy encounters.
3. “Game of Thrones:” The HBO hit is a loose adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. It serves up lots of sex and violence to steam up those cold afternoons indoors.
4. “House of Cards:” If you have Netflix, you’ve got access to every episode of this hit political series. With season two premiering next week, take this time to catch up. Sit back and watch sparks fly in Washington D.C.
—Compiled by The Daily Orange feature staff
frost bitesWhen a blizzard turns your three-block walk to Ernie Davis Dining Hall into a frozen obstacle course, you find yourself choosing between a full stomach and your own safety. Instead of trudging through that madness, why not just whip something up in your room? Pulp’s got you covered for more than just popcorn.
Ramen Spaghetti1 cup pasta sauce1 package of ramen (without flavor packet)1/2 cup waterShredded cheesePlace ingredients in microwave safe bowl and stir. Cover with plastic wrap. Micro-wave for five minutes. Remove and stir. Add cheese to taste.
Chocolate Mug Cake2 packets hot chocolate mix3 tablespoons flour1 tablespoon butter/margarine/oil1 eggMelt butter in microwave. Stir in cocoa mix and egg, then add flour. Microwave 60-90 seconds, until top of cake appears firm. Allow to cool and enjoy!
Hot chocolate add-onsIf you’re feeling frisky, spice up your Swiss Miss with these dorm room additions.Hazelnut Heaven: Use half as much hot choc-olate mix and stir in 2 tablespoons of NutellaNutter Butter: After microwaving, add in 1 tablespoon of smooth peanut butterCocoa with a kick: Add 1/2 tablespoon cinna-mon and a sprinkle of cayenne pepper
—Compiled by The Daily Orange feature staff
snow-tography
The only thing worse than seeing a ton of snow outside your window is seeing a really bad photo of a ton of snow outside other people’s windows. Follow this guide for the perfect photo of the crisp snow. (Five likes guaranteed)
1. Choose your subject wisely — whether a frozen window frame or a campus scene, make sure that your pictures are of more than just a pile of snow. Leave the snapshots for Snapchat. For optimal likes: snow covered boots, trees and tasteful selfies are crowd-pleasers.
2. Select the right filter — Kelvin and Toaster should join the Abominable Snow-man in nonexistence. Your filters should make your pictures better, not worse.a. Inkwell – Keep it classy with some black and white. It’ll also make your photos look fit-tingly retro. b. Lo-Fi – Contrast, contrast, contrast. c. Hudson – This filter makes every-thing feel as cold as you are.
3. Captions make the posts — brag if you want, but your caption should let your follow-ers know just how snowy Syracuse is and just how much you love to hate it.
—Compiled by The Daily Orange photo staff
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With a winter storm warning in effect all across Onondaga County, Syra-cuse University students will be sub-
ject to face cold conditions for the next few days. You’ll be freezing in your dorms, you’ll be wondering if it’s even worth it to make the trek to the nearest dining hall and you’ll be
Instagramming the winter wonderland from your window.
But just because you’re stuck inside doesn’t mean you can’t make the most of the day. Here is the Daily Orange feature staff’s essential guide to making sure this surge of polar vorti-ces doesn’t suck.