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By Conor Orr SportS Editor
Syracuse University running back Delone Carter was arraigned in Syracuse City Court on Monday on a misdemeanor third-degree assault charge related to an incident that
occurred during the early hours of Feb. 27.
Carter was officially sus-pended from the university and banned from campus, said his lawyer, George
Raus. Syracuse University spokes-man Kevin Morrow said he cannot comment on Carter’s status as a stu-dent. But Carter is still enrolled at SU, Morrow said.
During Monday’s arraignment, Raus entered a “not guilty” plea for Carter, and though the case was adjourned until a June 2 pretrial conference, Raus said he intends on pushing forward sooner and moving the target date up.
Raus said he is not worried about the criminal charges, but said he is concerned about the course of action the university will take. An appeals process to reinstate Carter at SU will begin in the next few days, Raus said.
“They suspended him because of the arrest,” Raus said. “So there’s nothing we can do. The fact that he was charged with a crime means he
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submitted photowilliam hotaling, in a photo he submitted to the daily orange, as he appeared the day after the Feb. 27 incident.
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Meet me halfwayAt the mid-point of their SU careers, three sopho-more cross country run-ners have already left their imprint.Page 16
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The sky is tha limitin her letter to Lil Wayne, Krystie Yandoli dis-cusses the influence of hip-hop and the role feminism can play.Page 5
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Students from SoL 345: “puppetry and Community” and drA 400: “Art in Action” perform on the Quad on Monday as part of SU Showcase. their performance, which attracted 90 people, represented the challenge of sustaining dreams.
By Susan KimStAFF WritEr
Life-size dragon and bird puppets performed in the middle of the Quad on Monday.
The dragon represented the students’ dreams, while the bird represented “the ominous forces of evil” preventing stu-dents from accomplishing their dreams, Geoffrey Navias said.
The performance by students in SOL 345: “Puppets and Community,” which Navias teaches, and DRA 400: “Art in Action” was an interpretation of how stu-dents can sustain their dreams in college and in the real world.
Elizabeth May, a junior acting major who participated in the puppetry perfor-
mance, said the message of the perfor-mance was open for interpretation. It was a chance for students to see how they can alter their dreams to make them sustain-able, she said.
“It’s like a play or piece of music,” Navias said. “People take from it what they want.”
The event was a part of the newly rede-signed SU Showcase. The day’s events attracted a larger audience than the orga-nizers of the event expected, with the pup-petry performance attracting 90 people. There were at least 25 people at every fel-low’s presentation, said Steve Parks, direc-tor of SU Showcase. He expected about 20 to 25 people at each presentation, he said.
The goal of the day was to highlight and recognize student research, and the audience made that possible, Parks said. It also helped organizers recognize how next year’s event can be improved, he said.
Students from SU and the State Univer-sity of New York College of Environmen-tal Science and Forestry presented their works during the daylong event on the Quad, in Hendricks Chapel and in other buildings across campus. The presen-tations included debates, performances and poster displays about the theme of sustainability.
Many of the day’s presentations were projects students completed in
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The Department of Public Safety and Syra-cuse police patrolled Euclid Avenue on Monday, the day of SU Showcase, said DPS Deputy Chief Drew Buske.
No citations were given out by Syracuse police, he said, and no partying activity or violations occurred.
DPS had extra officers on duty Monday because of SU Showcase, when members of the community and local high school students can come to campus to see student
presentations, Buske said.“We had a few extra officers on today
to help with the (SU) Showcase presenta-tions,” he said. The officers would have been available to assist had there been partying or violations of city ordinances on Euclid Avenue, he said.
Police said they will also be patrolling Euclid Avenue on Tuesday, as well.
Last year, before MayFest and SU Showcase were separate days, many students chose to
party along Euclid Avenue instead of partici-pating in the SU Showcase events on the Quad.
This year, MayFest will occur on a separate day, April 30, and is a university-sanctioned event in Walnut Park. Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner sent an e-mail to students reminding them that all city ordinances would be strictly enforced that day on Euclid Avenue and elsewhere.
— Compiled by Kathleen Ronayne, asst. news editor, [email protected]
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The Patriot ActHarmen Rockler discusses President Obama's re-authorization of The Patriot Act.
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multiple personalitiesSU student radio host takes on different perso-nas in WERW radio show.
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The specialistThanks to his expertise with face offs, Kevin Donahue has provided SU with an extra coach.
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Rain on meAlison cArey, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, adds the finishing touches to Syracuse University’s first rain garden, which is located in the Waverly parking lot at the corner of Waverly Avenue and South Crouse Avenue. The rain garden dedication on Monday at 9:30 a.m. was the kick-off event for SU Showcase. Carey initiated the project and recruited volunteers to build the garden.
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Faculty, staff participate in Volunteer Week
By Dara McBrideSTAff WriTer
Staff and faculty at Syracuse University are just some of the volunteers among the 30 Central New York corporations participating in the first Signature Project, a large-scale volunteer event that focuses on assisting Syracuse’s Samaritan Center. The project is part of National Volunteer Week, which began Sunday and ends Saturday.
Volunteers from University Col-lege, SU’s Division of Student Affairs and SU’s Community Service Affin-ity Group have been collecting books, clothing and toiletries for the food pantry as part of a project organized by the Corporate Volunteer Council in partnership with United Way.
Mary Beth Frey, executive director of the Samaritan Center, said the cen-ter has seen more working poor, part-time workers and families in need.
The center typically has about 400 volunteers a month, but Frey said she notices an increase in interest around National Volunteer Week.
“It’s very similar to Thanksgiving see volunteer page 6
SU employee appointed to policy center
A’Keema Austin, a freshman in the College of Human Ecology, reported larceny and damage to her car parked by Thornden Park to Syracuse police Sunday around 11:30 p.m., according to a police report.
Austin, who lives in Ernie Davis Hall, parked her 2004 Buick Century outside 201 Ostrom Ave. on Sunday around 2:15 a.m. Austin told police that when she returned to her car the same day at 12:30 p.m., she found the front and rear windshields broken, according to the report.
Police reported the burglar, still unidentified, probably reached through the broken rear windshield and stole Austin’s iPod from the back-seat, according to the report.
• Syracuse police issued an open-container citation to Spencer Bailey, a senior in the School of Information Studies, on Saturday at 12:41 a.m., according to a police report. Bailey was holding an open can of Natural Ice on the 300 block of Euclid Avenue.
• Syracuse police issued an open-container citation to Paola Benevento, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, on Saturday at 11 p.m., according to a police report. Beneven-to was holding a 22-ounce container of Dragon Juice on the 400 block of Euclid Avenue.
—Compiled by Beckie Strum, asst. news editor, [email protected]
By Katrina KoertingSTAff WriTer
Only 55 percent of students in the United States graduate high school. And only 33 percent of 25- to 32-year-olds complete an associate’s degree or higher.
This is one of the reasons why the College Board created the Advocacy and Policy Center, which officially opened Wednesday, said Christen Pol-lock, executive director of the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center. Youlanda Copeland-Morgan, the asso-ciate vice president for enrollment management and director of scholar-ships and student aid at Syracuse University, was named vice chair of the advisory committee at the center.
“There’s an education crisis in the country,” Pollock said. “The College Board has the ability to remove barriers for students so they can go to college.”
The center, as well as Copeland-Morgan, will aim to create public policy to increase the number of high school graduates, students prepared for college and college-degree earn-ers, Pollock said.
“We are honored to have Ms. Cope-land-Morgan serve as vice chair,” Pol-lock said. “We are fortunate to have someone of her caliber.”
Copeland-Morgan will hold the posi-tion for at least a few years, but she said because the position is new she could not give a specific amount of time. The president, chairs and other people at the College Board appointed her.
Copeland-Morgan worked in finan-cial aid and enrollment for 31 years at various institutions. She received awards on the state, regional and fed-eral levels for her work with policy and helping students attend college. She also served on the College Board’s Board of Trustees for four years and is the current president of the trustees.
As vice chair, Copeland-Morgan, along with her committee, is respon-sible for finding top researchers in the field, experts and data to create policies advocating for education. The center determines the specific issues it wants to approach next month at its first official meeting, but Copeland-Morgan said it deals with improving access to college-readiness resources and completion rates.
The center will focus first on minor-ity students, low-income students and first-generation college students. This is because these students face the most barriers when it comes to getting a college degree, Pollock said.
Copeland-Morgan said she thinks see copeland-morgan page 6
By Laurence Leveille STAff WriTer
Jessica Santana went to the Stu-dent Association meeting Monday night to tell the Assembly she did not understand its decision to deny funding to an event planned by her organization, Los Colores. Because she was upset with the board’s deci-sion, she had to leave the room in the middle of the meeting to keep from crying in front of the Assembly.
“I’m not angry because I do understand that SA has a financial vision that they want all student organizations to abide by,” said Santana, president of Los Colores. “But I am disappointed because this university prides itself on scholar-ship in action.”
The Assembly voted on appeals at Monday night’s meeting. During the appeals process, groups denied funding last week could reapply for a piece of the money that was left. At the meeting, representatives from both Los Colores and Hillel Jewish Student Union expressed their dis-satisfaction regarding the Finance Board’s decision to deny their orga-nizations money for events they had hoped to hold next fall.
Los Colores requested $2,764.49 for its event titled “Palante Mi Gente,” which means “Moving Forward My People.” The event is
meant to serve as a motivational conference for sophomore and junior Latino students at Sowler High School because they have the lowest graduation rate in Syracuse, said Lisa DeLaRosa, university relations chair of Los Colores.
Santana said she felt her event should be funded because similar events held by other organizations had been funded in the past.
The Finance Board did not fund the event because it said that the event would not benefit the whole SU community, according to SA’s budget packet that contained its decisions. But Santana said the Finance Board did not read the budget proposal correctly, and the event was open to any SU student. She also said the event was unique because there is a large Latino com-munity on Syracuse’s West Side, but there aren’t many initiatives to help the students in that area.
Los Colores was not the only organization discontent about the Finance Board’s decisions. Mat-thew Wolfe said he could not believe his organization, Hillel, was denied funding for a 60th anniversary con-cert for the second time.
“I’m just here, upset, because after last Monday’s meeting I walked out of here with the impres-sion that if we were to appeal and that if we were to cut down our
budget, that we would get some kind of money,” he said.
In honor of Hillel’s 60th anni-versary at Syracuse University, the organization originally requested $77,000 to hold a concert in Gold-stein Auditorium in the fall. The Finance Board did not fund the event because it does not provide funding of more than $70,000 for events in Goldstein. Although Hillel appealed with a revised request of $45,000, the Finance Board still did not fund the event.
The Finance Board had $57,450.98 available for appeals and gave out a total of $33,107.37. Although Hillel appealed with a lower cost, its event was not funded through appeals because the amount requested took up 80 percent of the available money, according to SA’s budget packet that contained its decisions.
“It’s just that the Finance Board didn’t really look into what this event was as much as they looked at it as a price tag attached to it,” Wolfe said.
Assembly representatives had conflicting thoughts on Hillel’s situation, with some thinking the Finance Board made the right deci-sions and others thinking Hillel deserved the money.
“While $45,000 is a lot of money, there was almost $25,000 left at the end of the appeal,” said Eugene Law,
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class during the semester. One presentation, titled “Be Classy/Not Trashy: How SU Students Treat Food,” was put together by four class-mates from HPM 214: “Menu Development.” The presentation focused on the results of their survey about student and faculty habits in din-ing facilities and their dissection of trash from Schine Dining Center.
Their survey of 850 people from five different dining centers revealed most people recycle, do not use refillable water bottles and are willing to go tray-less in the dining centers.
They also went through the trash from Schine Dining Center and separated its contents into categories: food waste, paper cups, plastic cutlery, paper plates and napkins. They found food waste made up the biggest portion of the trash at 47 percent.
Colleen Holland, a freshman hospitality management major and one of the presenters, said they have prepared for SU Showcase since the beginning of the semester. During that time, they came up with a focused proposal, conducted research and planned the presenta-
tion, she said.Holland also said she was impressed by the
student and faculty turnout for their presenta-tion, which attracted about 35 people.
“I thought it was really great to see the reac-tions on people’s faces and knowing we’re doing our part in spreading the word,” she said.
Students and faculty also collaborated with four SU service workers to present “Sustaining SU,” a project that recognized and applauded the service workers in the university.
The performance in Hendricks Chapel, which attracted about 70 people, gave the audience a virtual tour of several SU build-ings and events, such as the residence halls and the graduation ceremony. During each stop, the service workers shared stories about their experiences inside and outside of SU, their families, their duties and what they entail, how they interact with students and faculty, and why they are important to the university.
“We are proud of what we do. Without the work of the service workers, none of the others would take place,” said Gert Danzy, a service worker who participated in the performance. “Our work sustains you.”
Chloe Martin, a sophomore in the College of
Arts and Sciences, said she enjoyed the perfor-mance because it was emotional and personal.
“It gave me an appreciation for the people who make living here possible,” she said.
Several presentations lasted throughout the day.
The “Get on Your Sustainability Soapbox!” was presented by four members of the SU Debate Society who stood in front of Hendricks Chapel and gave speeches about the values, politics and purposes of sustainability.
Samantha Costello, a freshman Russian major and one of the debaters, said they had a lot of interaction with the audience, who gave them positive responses. People walking to class and prospective students touring the campus stopped to watch or participate in the debate, Costello said.
The students held short debates on sustain-ability topics that interested them, such as ethanol energy usage, hybrid cars and reducing meat consumption, Costello said.
“It’s about us coming out here and talking about what we’re really passionate about,” Cos-tello said.
Another daylong event was a display of post-ers by students from the course PPA 730/LAW 891/EST 696: “Climate Change: Science, Percep-
tion and Policy” in the Noble Room in Hendricks Chapel. The posters represented a collection of research about the causes and consequences of climate change in different countries, such as the United States, Brazil, South Korea, India and France, among others.
Though SU Showcase exceeded his expec-tations, Parks said he already has several improvements in mind for next year’s event.
The organizers need to do a better job of framing the events at Hendricks Chapel and on the Quad to give SU Showcase a more unified feel, he said. Difficulties also arose with manag-ing the tents on the Quad, especially with the acoustics, he said. Parks also said it would have been nice to have a sign indicating SU Showcase was taking place.
Next year’s theme will also be slightly broad-er because the theme of sustainability did not appeal to every student’s interests, Parks said. He said these improvements would help to cre-ate a larger SU Showcase identity.
But Parks also said he was satisfied with the presentations and the student attendance.
He said, “It was an event that really respected what students can bring to campus.”
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was suspended, so we’re going to have to live with it.
“The charges are very weak. It’s ‘he said, she said.’ I think a third-year law student could beat the case,” he said. “I’m confident with the criminal charges. I’m not confident with the university.”
SU Athletics said it is a university issue and deferred further comment to SU public rela-tions.
Carter, who Raus said is currently staying with friends off campus in Syracuse during the suspension, was charged with assault for punch-ing fellow student William Hotaling, a junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, in the face.
Carter, teammate Ryan Gillum and another unnamed person were driving in a black SUV
when it was struck by a snowball on the 300 block of Waverly Avenue around 1 a.m., accord-ing to police reports
Surveillance cameras show three people exiting the vehicle and confronting Hotaling and his roommate, Alex Fay, near Kimmel Hall. Carter then struck Hotaling once in the face, causing him to fall to the ground while the three returned to the SUV and drove away, according to the report.
Hotaling sustained injuries depicted in a pair of photographs he released to the media. The first, a snapshot of himself in a hospital bed, shows Hotaling in a neck brace with several large red marks on the right side of his face and his right eye swollen shut.
A second photo, which Hotaling said was taken the next day, shows his right eye bright purple and nearly swollen shut.
The arraignment marks the end of a highly speculated week for Carter and Gillum, a line-backer on the football team who was brought
into questioning with Carter before the team’s practice Wednesday.
Raus said the two were deprived of their constitutional rights upon arrest. The two were taken downtown at roughly 2:30 p.m., but Raus said he did not speak to his client until around 10 p.m. Charges were officially levied at 9:30 p.m.
It was during that time Raus said he believes both Carter and Gillum were held handcuffed to the floor at the police department and that Gil-lum, who was not charged, was intimidated into telling police that Carter was guilty.
Syracuse police detective Duane Rood could not be reached for comment Monday night to confirm Raus’ comments.
“They brought them both to headquarters, they weren’t under arrest, and they held them handcuffed to the floor,” Raus said. “And poor Ryan, I think he just felt the weight of the world — they threatened him with everything. They were both handcuffed to the floor like animals.”
Raus said his client, Carter, doesn’t harbor any negative feelings toward Gillum in the incident.
Both Carter and Gillum were slated starters for the Orange heading into the team’s 2010 Spring Game Saturday, but neither played.
— Asst. news editors Rebecca Kheel and Beckie Strum contributed reporting to this article.
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I am shocked and disappointed by Student Association’s decision to stand by the administration’s undem-ocratic and flawed commencement speaker selection process. SA should advocate for student participation in important university decisions to the highest degree possible.
The entire graduating class was not given a voice; the students were not allowed to vote for one of the final 15 possible speakers. The student marshals themselves are undemocratically selected and may not represent the general graduating class. There is no reason that the marshals can’t create a narrowed-down list of 15 speakers, as was done this year, and then open up the vote to the entire graduating class. The administration should then do
everything possible to obtain the top-voted speaker. This would ensure an open-door decision and would prevent the administration from using commencement to solidify monetary relationships with outside corporations.
SA is not advocating for more stu-dent involvement, and instead insists that the current process is “enough” It has abandoned student empower-ment in favor of being on good terms with the administration. On this issue, SA has forgotten it stands for Student Association, not Support the Administration.
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D ear Lil Wayne, I am sorry to hear about
your recent incarceration, but I think that providing your address online and encouraging your fans to write you letters while in prison is a fantastic idea. Not only will it make you feel less alone, but it is also a smart way to gain feedback and use it in a productive manner.
My purpose for writing is to let you know that while I don’t respect some of your words, lyrics and meta-phors, I really do enjoy your music. I can’t remember taking a joyride around my hometown without jam-ming out to “Something You Forgot” or “Go DJ.” And most of your tracks from “Da Drought 3” are among my most frequently played songs on iTunes. Admitting my love for rap music, however, complicates my political and social views regarding feminism.
You have tremendous influence over your fans even though you’re in jail. You have the power to improve
the status of women in your songs and music videos by no longer degrading females. By doing this, you would be inadvertently embracing feminism.
I may not be considered an expert on feminism and hip-hop, but my critique and analysis comes from my accumulated awareness overtime due to my personal experiences with the two movements. I can recognize the comparison of my experiences versus someone more involved in the hip-hop culture, but as an outside spectator and avid listener I am still able to examine the flaws.
I know that I’m judged on my choice of music because of my self-proclamation of feminism. Frankly, sometimes I even judge myself. Like most aspects of modern popular cul-ture viewed through a feminist lens, hip-hop is a complicated subject mat-ter due to its chauvinistic tendencies.
This leads me to inquire if and when double standards are accept-able or considered inappropriate:
What makes my enjoyment of rap music any different from supporting other sexist venues, and should I feel guilty about the special attention I pay to one of the most chauvinistic genres of music?
It’s difficult to separate race and gender into two separate categories because they are so intertwined with each other. It’s impossible to examine women’s issues without disregarding what it means for members of differ-ent races and ethnicities. The beauty of hip-hop is that it encompasses numerous facets within this one musical genre. It can be pure enter-tainment and extremely political at the same time.
Hip-hop is informative. It’s politi-cal. It speaks to people. Your lyrics make a difference in the lives of mil-lions of listeners, and there’s a great opportunity to make a difference with your individual choices within your music. If you lead by example, you’re capable of doing what the pioneers of rap in the 1970s and ‘80s did for racial barriers — use your influence to break down boundaries and create change.
In an ideal world, rap would stop objectifying women in music videos and lyrics; it would start fusing together with feminist ideals to enable a more comfortable medium. We’re not quite there yet, but I don’t see why the most influential rappers in the game, such as yourself, can’t use their power to create a mutual space for feminism and hip-hop to coincide, therefore sparking more innovative ideas and concepts.
Feminism and equal rights don’t have to be a scary concept — it could mean eliminating the possibility of
the objectification of your daughter and even her daughter. The hip-hop movement has made valiant strides in terms of diminishing racism, and there’s no reason why it can’t do the same for issues relating to gender.
Progress and change are relevant in the hip-hop movement and culture as a whole, but maybe it’s time to specify the kinds of issues that still need to be addressed. I’m challeng-ing you to keep an open mind to something new — make your next album less sexist and more “female friendly” (I also wouldn’t be too disappointed if you decided to take a page out of Billy Joel’s book and write a song titled “Krystie Lee”).
Wayne “Lil Wayne” Carter is cur-rently located at the Eric M. Taylor Center in East Elmhurst, N.Y. Check out http://weezythanxyou.com for further details if you want to write him a letter.
Krystie Yandoli is a sophomore women’s studies major. Her column
appears weekly, and she can be reached at [email protected].
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or Christmas,” Frey said about National Volun-teer Week. “I think what’s sometimes difficult for places like the Samaritan Center and other nonprofit organizations is that work takes place all year, so it’s nice to have that awareness piece to get people involved and thinking about what happens every single day of the year and how they can get involved and give back.”
Local contributions from churches, individu-als and corporations make up about 90 percent of the $460,000 budget, Frey said. Food donations
come from local catered events, farmers and restaurants such as Pastablities, which donates leftover bread daily, and Starbucks and Panera Bread, which give leftover breakfast sweets.
The Samaritan Center was chosen by the Corporate Volunteer Council because of the need to help the local community, said Eileen Jevis, manager of public relations at University College and chair of the logistics committee for the Signature Project.
“There is so much need in the community due to the downturn in economics. They are feeding more people than ever,” Jevis said.
Event planning began in January. Jevis has been rallying coworkers to participate through
donations of time or baked goods, she said. She and her co-workers deliver desserts to the center daily. Jevis has collected about 150 new and used books from co-workers that will be left for children to read during their visits.
The Corporate Volunteer Council predicted 10 to 15 people would volunteer, Jevis said, but community involvement has exceeded expecta-tions. A typical meal requires 15 to 20 volun-teers to serve. With the increase in volunteers, Jevis said she hopes participation will extend throughout the month and possibly into May.
Jevis has not recruited students to partici-pate yet, but she has communicated with the Office of Student Life and expects students to
help serving meals, she said.Cora Thomas, facilitator for SU’s Commu-
nity Service Affinity Group, has participated by collecting donations like soap, deodorant and tissues from co-workers.
The involvement inspired Thomas to look into serving a meal at the center outside of her participation with the Signature Project.
“We are committed to making a difference to our community, and we do that through our service,” Thomas said. “And we are always look-ing — always looking — for projects that we can work on as a group, and we’re also looking for volunteers to help us with those projects.”
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a representative of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and For-estry. “I feel they should have gotten something.
I feel they shouldn’t be just turned down again.” David Woody, chair of SA’s Student Engage-
ment committee, said the Finance Board cannot be expected to provide a portion of money for an event with hopes that the organization will get the rest.
There is not enough money in special pro-gramming to provide the organization with
the amount it needs in order to make this event happen the way it is envisioned, Wolfe said.
“Hillel doesn’t want to compromise an event of this capacity to just have an event,” he said. “We want this event to be big. We don’t want it to be some run-of-the-mill concert. “
Hillel was considering talents such as The Roots
and Passion Pit for the event that would have been held in the fall, he said. Hillel will apply for funding in the fall in order to hold the event in spring 2011.
“I absolutely — 100 percent — I will make sure that this thing goes into the next budget cycle,” Wolfe said. “I will make it a personal goal to do so.”
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it was fitting for her to be appointed to the national position while working at SU because of the programs SU has that promote access to college resources, including the Say Yes to Education program.
“We are able to say, ‘These are our suc-cesses, these are our failures, this is what we’ve learned,’” she said. “At Syracuse University, we have always been a place that provided opportu-nities and access to students. So I think I bring a rich perspective to the center, simply from
drawing on my experience at the university.”The center is based in New York City and
Washington, D.C., but it will work with schools across the country. The center wants to partner with the Obama administration, Congress and the College Board’s 5,700 members, including high schools, school districts and higher institu-tions of learning, to help create effective educa-tion policies and improve graduation rates, Copeland-Morgan said.
“Education is a problem that has to be solved at the local level, the state level and the federal level,” Copeland-Morgan said.
The idea for the center first came about four years ago when the College Board’s Board of
Trustees decided the College Board needed to do more with advocacy and policymaking so more students could attend college. Last year, the College Board received a $6,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which let it create the Advocacy and Policy Center, Copeland-Morgan said.
The committee met last month in Wash-ington, D.C., to discuss the student aid with policymakers in the Obama administration, researchers across the country, people in pri-mary, secondary and higher education, and the secretary of education, Copeland-Morgan said.
“We talked about how do we reform our fed-eral financial aid system so that we’re getting
our financial aid money to the right students and using the most effective way to provide access and resources,” she said.
Copeland-Morgan said she is excited to begin her post as vice chair, but she does expect some challenges. One challenge will be to focus on a few specific issues at a time, rather than trying to fix everything at once, she said.
Copeland-Morgan said she continues to strive for education policies because youth are the future, and she doesn’t think a single mind should be wasted. She said, “I can’t think of any investment that would pay better dividends than investing in the education of our youth.”
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By Katie McInerneyPresentation Director
A lani Kravitz has never seen her name on the callback list.
“It’s hard not to get callbacks, I agree with that,” said Kravitz, a sophomore musical theater major. “My experience has been rather frus-trating because I haven’t been called back. I just went to the instructor to ask what I have to do to get noticed here in the department and get callbacks.”
Callbacks in the drama depart-ment are the next step after audition-
ing in a process for theater majors to earn a role in a show. Although a callback does not necessarily mean a student will be cast in the show, it means he or she demonstrated signs of being right for the role. Some drama students, like Kravitz, have never gotten a callback for a Syracuse University performance.
But not getting a callback does not necessarily put Kravitz at a disad-vantage — or equate to failure by any means.
“It sucks when you don’t see your
name on the list, but it’s not saying you’re not good,” she said.
Students’ failure to get called back may not be due to their ability, but is caused by the roles not fitting their strengths as actors, students said.
“It’s not that people are better than you, it’s not that you’re worse than anyone. They went through all the shows and I wasn’t right for any of them,” Kravitz said. “Even if I was right for the role, the people who ulti-mately got it were more right than me,
R elationships are about lines — drawing lines, crossing lines and stepping outside
of lines. Some lines are invisible, such as the line that forbids you from hitting on your professor. Others are visible, such as the line on a basketball court that you have to keep your feet behind for a free throw to count. But when it comes to playing sports with our significant others, we must avoid
crossing all sorts of lines, visible and invisible, to maintain a happy relationship.
When drawing lines, there is the issue of clothing. When we’re working out alone, throwing on shirts from high school with pit stains and a pair of unflattering shorts is acceptable. Such attire is not acceptable when we’re working out to impress our significant other, let alone that cute personal trainer. Obviously, us girls would love to run around in only a sports bra like all hot girls do in the movies, but the
problem is that the reason we’re at the gym in the first place is to get our bellies into sports bra-running shape. The gym is where guys have it easy with fashion because their clothes and shoes for class, the bars and bed so often double as proper gym attire.
Then there is the issue of competi-tion. Sure, we’re all used to coed competition (playing pong on the weekends can get incredibly intense),
but playing a sport like tennis against your boy toy is quite different. The inclusion of alcohol means that, technically, everyone wins. They might not even remember the victor in the morning, anyway. In tennis, and in most other sober sports, there is a clear-cut winner.
So what do we do? Do we let our opponent (and lover) win the match? We’ll both look pathetic if the other
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Closingtime
Catholic college in Georgia ends semester a month early due to budget shortfall
By Andrew SwabAsst. FeAture editor
Campus community mem-bers at Southern Catholic College in Georgia gath-
ered for an announcement April 12, from which they learned they would be starting summer a full month early due to budget issues. Final exams and papers would be cut, but the students were told they would still receive credit.
“There were a lot of emotional ups and downs during the week,” said Denise Walters, the director of annual funds at the college.
The college of about 200 students, located in Dawsonville, Ga., outside of Atlanta, was closed Thursday because of budgeting problems. The college has traditionally received funds through corporate gifting and matching gifts, both of which have been lower than normal in the past year, Walters said.
Father Shawn Aaron, the president of Southern Catholic College, sent out an e-mail to students, faculty and personnel April 7 that announced the closing of the college for the semes-
ter. The decision to tell students was decided in March, but it was put off until after students returned from Spring Break. The college stood to save $1.5 million by closing early, Walters said.
“We went long enough so that they have enough credit hours,” she said Thursday of the decision to end classes.
Aaron’s announcement by e-mail did not say whether the college would be closed temporarily or permanently.
“Words cannot express how profoundly sorrowful I am at this situation,” Aaron said in the e-mail. “Yet I also know that Our Lord has proven himself stronger than death and therefore stronger than our pain, weaknesses and circumstances. We must continually turn to him for strength.”
To remain open, the college needs a foundational gift, Walters said. Most of the current funding for the college comes from small donors. One of the funding problems is there is not a large, well-established base of alumni to donate to the college, Walters said.
The college’s Board of Trustees,
some of whom founded the college in 2000, made the decision to cut the semester short. The college first opened to students in 2005, and the first class, made up of 42 students, graduated in 2009.
Students were not involved in the decision. Most heard of the early semester leave from Aaron’s e-mail, Walters said.
“They didn’t get an input because they don’t have the money to fund us,” Walters said.
At the April 12 meeting to address concerns, some students might have felt relief for not having to take a final exam, but the general mood was somber, Walters said. There was “not an outburst of anger,” she said.
To deal with the uncertainties of whether Southern Catholic College will open in the fall, a college fair that represented 10 colleges was held. Students would be allowed to transfer their credit to any of these 10 colleges to avoid having their degree inter-rupted if Southern Catholic College closed permanently. The college offers majors in history, English, business,
integrated sciences, philosophy, psy-chology and theology.
Walters called the college fair “Plan B” for students who were uncer-tain if they would return in the fall.
Faculty and personnel also met with the other colleges in the hopes
of getting a job at one of those schools if Southern Catholic College didn’t reopen in the fall.
“It was a very sad day,” Walters said, “a very sad week.”
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decided to let us win, too. Should we just play with the skills we acquired at the yacht club and let them win in the shower later instead? There is just no right answer, but ladies, if you want to let your man keep his dignity, maybe it’s best to just bow out gracefully, even if you’re prepared to beat him.
Running with a buddy has been proven to do a handful of good things for a runner, such as provide motivation to run more frequently and much faster. But if your running friend is your girlfriend or boyfriend, a handful of not-so-good things might arise. Like the issue of whether to chat and run, listen to music and run, or just run, run, run. And then there’s the issue of pace. The chances of you sharing the same pace with your buddy are slim.
With such a wide array of sports out there, it
is possible to choose a good couple-appropriate activity. Golf is a decent choice because one of you can just sit in the cart and tan the whole time. Beach volleyball is another idea, if you have the bikini body of an Olympic gold medal-ist and your man is Tom Cruise’s character Maverick from “Top Gun.”
But bowling is the bomb. No sports bras, fi tness, endurance or even intelligence are required. And there’s booze, low lighting and disco music. Beats Frisbee.
Physicality is a main component in creating and maintaining a relationship. So exercising is a great way to keep things hot and interest-ing. Whether you’re into bowling, tennis or run-ning, getting out and staying active is good. But staying in bed sometimes burns more calories than any sport could.
Talia Pollock is a junior television, radio and fi lm major and the relationship colum-
nist. Her column appears every Tuesday, and she can be reached at [email protected].
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if that makes sense.”Geri Clark, an acting and drama professor in
the College of Visual and Performing Arts, cited an example of a former student, Amelia Campbell, who was never cast in an SU Drama Department production during her time in the program.
“Within six months of leaving, she was play-ing the lead on Broadway in ‘The Member of the Wedding,’” Clark said. “And I doubt that we had graduated another student in fi ve years that was right for that role.”
Clark agreed callbacks are not based neces-sarily on talent, but how actors’ strengths fall in line with the season of shows. Campbell was later nominated in 1991 for a Tony Award for Best Actress (Featured Role - Play).
“Sometimes, very good students are shut out because there isn’t really a role for them in that season,” Clark said.
An audition for a show at SU usually lasts around four minutes and consists of mono-logues and songs. Kravitz described it as a “cattle call, in and out,” but said professors
hold the auditions, so they are familiar with the student’s work because they see it in class each day. Auditions are held for the Syracuse Stage shows once a semester. Although students are not required to audition for shows, they are strongly encouraged to.
And Kravitz continually keeps trying.“I know I’ll have a shot at some point. I don’t
think that it’s never going to happen,” she said. “You have your doubts, but you can never really assume that you’re at the bottom of the food chain because when you do, you really are at the bottom.”
The drama department in VPA is competi-tive, but this competition has proved to produce many successful alumni. Actors Frank Lan-gella, Vanessa Williams and Taye Diggs did
their time at SU before making it big onstage and in movies.
“It’s like any other drama department — there is a level of competitiveness because we are com-peting against each other,” Kravitz said. “It’s not to compromise the fact that we’re so incredibly supportive of each other. … Although we do com-pete for the roles, we are all the same people and
want the same thing, so why fi ght over it?”However, Kravitz does not deny the cutthroat
nature of the industry that she and her peers are entering.
“There are people who don’t get chances. It’s never because they’re not good enough,” she said. “It’s a feeling that we feel a lot — feeling inadequate. It’s just (that) the nature of our work is questioning our talent and drive every day.”
Jordan Rosin, a junior directing major, is a student director for the Black Box Players, a student-run, nonprofi t company that produces shows throughout the semester. Rosin is one of the people with the fi nal say in deciding who performs in a show and said students who are driven enough fi nd ways to work around not getting called back.
“A proactive student will create his or her own opportunities,” Rosin said.
Clark said professors also help to fi nd other options that allow students to participate in shows. She said that professors are able to cast about 50 students in one-act plays at the culmi-nation of the fall semester.
“This covers most eligible people, so in our new system, everyone should have a role early in their career with us,” Clark said. “Professors actively look for strategies that make it possible for students to work with a faculty member in a show.”
Clark said if a student is talented, trained and truly wants to be an actor, then not getting a callback won’t stop them.
“Experience will not determine who becomes an actor,” she said. “That depends on their own desire.”
“You have your doubts, but you can never really assume that you’re at the bottom of the food chain because when you do, you really are at the bottom.”
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WIZ KHALIFA‘Kush & Orange Juice’
Release date: 4/15/10
Sounds like: Early Outkast meets Wale
Genre: Hip-hop/Rap
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Wiz Khalifa releases mixtape, ‘Kush & Orange Juice,’ via Twitter with a consistent stoner vibe
By Alex HaederleSTAFF WRITER
Create the product, sell the product. With “Kush & Orange Juice,” the versatile Wiz Khalifa gives listeners a focused musical
product just in time for 4/20. Throughout the album, the Pittsburgh rapper toasts to marijuana, women and a carefree lifestyle. Yet musically, it’s refresh-ing. Wiz Khalifa chooses sprawling, multi-layered funk beats that revive old-school and rock subwoof-ers everywhere. His end product is a high-quality, 80-minute hip-hop high.
Some words of warning: This is a mixtape, not an album. It is not a major-label release, so it won’t show up on iTunes. However, that does not stop Wiz Khalifa from treating this mixtape as a serious artis-tic experiment.
“Kush & Orange Juice” is a loosely focused docu-mentary of Wiz Khalifa’s “high” lifestyle, and listen-ers should view it as such. Wiz Khalifa may not have created the defi nitive stoner rap album, but what he does have is some potent stuff. This mixtape has blown up on Twitter and Google during the past few weeks and with its release, Wiz Khalifa should fi nd himself on the mainstream map by the end 2010.
Something called “Kush & Orange Juice” should be about getting high. Wiz Khalifa stays true to this, beginning his personal routine with “Waken Baken,” a sonic introduction to the hazy, funky vibe of this mixtape. This atmosphere drifts into “Mez-morized,” a smooth and alluring track that sounds like classic Outkast. It’s about pimping, smoking and living the life — conventional subject matter — but establishing a high is what matters most to Wiz Khalifa here. He does well, but upbeat crossover attempt “We’re Done” interrupts the mood when laid-back funk is what we need.
“The Statement” slows back into a hip-hop beat, and Khalifa returns to his rhymes, showing off a
voice that resembles rap compatriot Wale in tone and accent. Yet Wiz Khalifa is funkier, and his command of rhythm stands out most in “Spotlight.”
We are taken back to the ‘80s in “The Kid Frankie,” a dance-beat groove in which Wiz Khalifa alternates rapping and singing. He is skillful and his singing truly impresses on the spacey and ethereal “Up.” The relaxing mood carries through to “Visions,” a self-aware and modest offering. Wiz Khalifa contemplates making it big while remaining true to his musical vision, and the Kanye West-infl uenced beat reinforces the sober mood.
“Still Blazin” reminds listeners not to get it twisted, though: The reggae-funk jam reminds of dreadlocks and joint papers. “Good Dank” is experi-mental and cool, building a rhythmic bed out of bass guitar and jazzy blues licks as Wiz Khalifa speaks over it. “Glass House” is a weak collaboration track that lacks energy and sounds a little too thugged-out compared with the spirit of the previous tracks.
“Outro” seems to bookend the journey by recall-ing the beat of opener “Waken Baken,” bringing the voyage to a sonic conclusion. The mixtape should end there, but “Supply” drags the experience out. It’s not a bad track, it’s just misplaced, canceling out the high that Wiz Khalifa left us with in “Outro.”
In the world of hip-hop nowadays, it’s all about selling a product well. For Wiz Khalifa, the product is music, and he delivers consistent quality. “Kush & Orange Juice” is sweet, sticky music to please both stoners and OJ lovers alike. It is the result of a smart artist on the brink of hitting his prime. Wiz Khalifa fi gured out that his voice, combined with the proper beats, can be used to establish mood and stir emotions. As he continues to grow as an artist, he should use that tool to create major-release albums as consistent in quality as “Kush & Orange Juice.”
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By Rachel SternStaff Writer
When Tim Desko sat out four games after being injured in an assault in Armory Square on March 18, it was freshman JoJo Marasco who stepped up. So when Marasco was restricted to the sidelines with an injury of his own, it was only fitting that Desko answer the call.
Something he took care of Sunday night at Rutgers.
“I feel great and I will just take whatever I can get out there,” Desko said. “I just try to play as best as I can and get better every game.”
Desko scored two goals and had one assist against the Scarlet Knights. All of his points
came during a decisive, game-clinching 6-3 run by the Orange that spanned parts of the third and fourth quarters.
Through the season’s first four games, Desko tallied four goals and two assists. He was making the most of the time he saw on the field. After he suffered the injury off the field, Desko’s progress was put on hold.
He missed four games, the first coming against rival Johns Hopkins. But he came back on a big stage against Princeton on April 10 at the New Meadowlands Stadium and made his presence felt.
With his team on top of the Tigers 6-2, Desko showed the record crowd something to get excited about. He caught a pass on top of the crease with his back to the goal. Desko bent over and converted an underhand shot between his legs.
And on Sunday, he showed remnants of that flare. He caught a pass from Joe Coulter with his back to the cage. As Rutgers defend-ers converged on him, Desko fired a no-look shot as he was falling down. It appeared he did not even see the net.
And this time, he was just happy it found the back of the cage.
“It just happens and every time that happens I don’t plan it,” Desko said. “I am lucky that one went in, or else I would have been on the bench.”
The Orange is lucky Desko is back, as well.Since his return, the sophomore has five
goals and two assists in just three games. Against Rutgers, with the SU offense missing Marasco, Desko saw increased time at attack. Chris Daniello had success working from the top, so Desko played from behind the net.
His first goal of the game came when he scooted in from behind the net and spun in front of the goal to put the Orange up 4-0. He then set up Max Bartig seven minutes later.
Not only was Syracuse in need of someone to play behind the goal, but it was also in need of offense after scoring just two goals through the game’s first 30 minutes. Daniello was the only Orange player to score. So after the half, Desko looked to capitalize on his increased minutes.
In addition to the absence of Marasco, SU’s leading goal-scorer Keogh has struggled over the last three games. Keogh has just one goal and two assists over the last three games. Desko has seen even more time at attack.
But amid those question marks, it is Desko who has emerged. With Marasco’s timetable to return uncertain, Daniello and the rest of the Orange know they have someone who can get them going.
“Tim (Desko) came in and did a great job,” Daniello said. “He had a couple goals and assists, and if he goes in I can go up top. We have tons of talent and different people can play.”
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will halsey | asst. photo editortim desko ignited the SU attack since returning to the field after a four-game absence. in three games back, Desko has five goals and two assists, all in SU victories.
Desko continues on offensive tear following return to field
by the numbersafter missing four games as the result of sustained injuries in an assault on March 18 outside of a bar in armory Square, Syracuse sophomore attack tim Desko has returned to the Orange lineup without missing a beat. Desko has tallied five goals and two assists in just three games back.
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“I feel great, and I will just take whatever I can get out there. I just try to play as best as I can and get better every game.”
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incidents, he should be given an opportunity to return at some point in 2010.
But that is a privilege Carter will have to prove to Marrone and the university he deserves. Defense attorney George Raus said that Syracuse University has officially sus-pended Carter from school, barring him from campus. He is now subject to the SU Judicial Review Board, which often acts independently of the legal system.
Case in point: Men’s basketball player Eric Devendorf was accused of hitting a female student during an on-campus altercation in November 2008. In December, the judicial board issued Devendorf an indefinite suspension from school, lasting at least until the end of the academic year.
This ruling came after Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick decided not to press criminal charges, citing a lack of evidence. Devendorf’s suspension was reduced on appeal, and he returned to the court after missing just two games.
The judicial board also suspended men’s bas-ketball player Billy Edelin during the 2001-02 aca-demic year after he was accused of sexual assault. He missed what was supposed to be his freshman season. As in Devendorf’s case, the district attor-ney’s office did not file criminal charges.
Even if the judicial board reinstates Carter in time for the 2010 football season, Marrone still withholds the right to levee any additional punishment to his standout tailback. Consider-ing his track record, it is reasonable to expect Marrone will do just that.
The severity of Carter’s penalty depends largely on the outcome of the upcoming crimi-nal proceedings. It is crucial to recognize that
despite the charges against him, Carter has not been found guilty of a crime. Marrone should wait until the case is resolved before making a final decision about Carter’s future.
But even if Carter is exonerated, he may still be on the hook. It would still be understandable for Marrone to punish him to a lesser extent. Marrone has stressed the importance of image and reputation throughout his time as coach. This incident has already damaged those things, no matter what happens next.
Another case in point: Marrone suspended Torrey Ball, Andrew Tiller and Antwon Bailey for a game in November after they were in a car accident at 5:30 a.m. on their way home from Turning Stone Resort. Star wide receiver Mike Williams was also in the car, and he left the team soon after the incident. Williams had been suspended for one game for an undisclosed reason earlier in the year.
Police said the players were not at fault in
the accident, and no alcohol was involved. If that warrants a game, an assault charge should garner more than that.
Losing Carter for a significant chunk of the season will be a serious blow to the Orange’s chances of reaching a bowl game for the first time since 2004. Carter rushed for a team-high 1,021 yards and 11 touchdowns last season and was expected to lead an offensive unit that features a new quarterback and a group of inex-perienced wide receivers.
Marrone has already shown in his brief tenure that he will suspend any player, regard-less of his talent. That is the right approach. No player has been exempt from Marrone’s author-ity. Carter should be no exception.
Jared Diamond is the sports columnist for The Daily Orange, where his column appears
weekly. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Two years later, the teammates own the first Big East title and NCAA Northeast Regional title in Syracuse men’s cross country history.
“We recruited those guys with the thought that maybe by the time they were juniors we could win the Big East,” Fox said. “We just hap-pened to win it when they were sophomores.”
When the teammates entered their freshman year in 2008, Syracuse ranked third among Northeast teams in the preseason polls released by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Even with solid senior leadership that season, Medrano, Graves and Dupont were still adjusting to Syracuse and building endurance for collegiate competition.
Rivers only raced once that season, while the trio of Medrano, Dupont and Graves combined to race in 12 meets. The men finished in fifth place at both the Big East championship and NCAA Northeast Regional, while the women’s team advanced to the NCAA Championship, giving the men extra motivation for the 2009 season.
“We thought we could do that the year before, but things just didn’t happen, so we came in hungry and a little bit angry about that,” Medrano said.
Following their freshman seasons, Dupont and Medrano qualified for the 37th annual IAAF World Cross Country Championships during the summer in Amman, Jordan, where they rep-resented the United States among other junior runners. Dupont and Medrano finished 48th and 62nd, respectively, out of 117 runners. That experience, coupled with the disappointment from the previous fall, sparked their determina-
tion for a championship-caliber season.Prior to the 2009 season, Fox set a goal for his
team: to finish among the top three in the Big East. Yet, as the season progressed, it became apparent he underestimated its ability.
“We went into this season hoping to be top three in the Big East, and about halfway through the season we figured out we should win this thing,” Fox said.
The realization came in the form of that win
in Wisconsin. It was a win that catapulted the Orange to the No. 11 spot in the USTFCCCA national polls. SU dominated at the Big East championship and NCAA Northeast Regional before competing in the first NCAA Champion-ship in 35 years.
Medrano earned All-American status after finishing 39th out of 250 runners, while the team finished 14th out of 31 teams and Fox was named Northeast Region Coach of the Year. With the honor, Medrano became SU’s first cross country All-American in 27 years.
Dupont, Graves and Medrano each contrib-
uted to the record-setting season with top per-formances in five of the team’s eight meets, creating the dominant trio Fox had envisioned.
Now that the sophomore trio has helped the Orange achieve something it has never done, the challenge is even greater.
“We’re really building a great base, and since we’re only sophomores we’ll be leaders next year as juniors, and that’s what Coach is expecting from us,” Graves said. “We’ve done a lot and we’re not young anymore. We’ve got to compete with the best out there. It’s no more, ‘You’re a freshman.’ We’ve got to get out there and compete with the best.”
This offseason, the sophomores have been working on strength and developing an aerobic metabolism to stay free of injuries in order to build on their successes from last fall. Dupont credits Fox with allowing the team to develop
and mature at its own pace and providing indi-vidual guidance for training and conditioning.
For example, Medrano runs at a snail’s pace on his “slow days,” while Graves likes to always run high mileages. And Dupont likes to keep his mileage low.
They are specific plans made by specific run-ners. But come fall 2010, the four rising juniors are hoping for a reoccurrence of fall 2009. A fall where four sophomores led SU to its greatest season ever. As a team.
“(Coach Fox) knows not every runner is the same and he’s willing to let us do our own thing and make sure we all know where we need to be,” Dupont said. “… The fact that we’ve all been able to do our own thing but still come together and make this happen is pretty exciting.”
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“We recruited those guys with the thought that maybe by the time they were juniors we could win the Big East. We just happened to win it when they were sophomores.”
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By Allison Guggenheimer and Jason Krakower
The Daily Orange
Chelsea Jones is the blueprint.For the Syracuse tennis team, Jones has
embodied the Orange’s growth during coach Luke Jensen’s first four years. And as Jensen likes to think of it, Jones has been his metaphor for where this team has gone in his tenure as head coach.
“She is just a massive overachiever,” he said, “a girl that just wanted to be a walk-on and ended up earning four years of varsity letters and earned a scholarship.”
Four years ago, Syracuse tennis was a blip on the Big East tennis map. In Jensen’s first year, the team went 11-9. Jones — who hadn’t played tennis since her junior year in high school — was a freshman walk-on floundering against top-level competition. She finished that first year with a 2-18 overall record.
One entire college career later, Jones has matured like any other college senior. But she has matured with Jensen. She has matured at the pace of the program. And now, in her senior year, Jones has become a formidable doubles option for Jensen in a year in which the Orange compiled its best record in school history (18-3).
Despite the arrival of first-year stars CC Sardinha and Eleanor Peters, Jensen still con-siders Jones the most important player to this team. And this year, she has done more than enough to back up her coach’s claims with a 20-5 overall record (17-4 doubles).
“For every personal coach, everyone who’s trying to change a culture and get a program off the ground, there’s going to be that No. 1,” Jensen said. “The No. 1 establishes the ball and everyone else follows.”
In 2007, both Jensen and Jones were essen-tially “freshmen” in a new and unfamiliar situ-ation. There was no way to predict how much they would affect the revival of the program together. Now with that 18-3 record, the answer is clear. But it hasn’t been easy.
Her improvements have mirrored the progres-sion of the program from mediocre and stagnant to competitive and hungry, and she serves as an example to every player that Jensen coaches.
“There will never be another Chelsea Jones
because she went so far in such a short period of time that she will always be the No. 1 on this team,” Jensen said.
Jones’ success is a direct result of the chang-es Jensen has made, as his focus has been to maintain a positive attitude. Players know that if they throw their rackets or yell, they will get pulled off the court and be forced to forfeit.
Jones displays that attitude every time she steps on the court, and that translated into her game. She increased her winning percentage every year, finishing the 2010 regular season with that 20-5 record. Her composure and will-ingness to improve are big reasons why Jensen sees her as his go-to player.
The turnaround in her play on the court coin-cided with a significant attitude transformation on the SU squad, Jensen said. Mary Jones, Chelsea’s mother, noticed it early in her daughter’s career.
Though Jones’ contributions are noticeable
in that aspect, her mother acknowledges that Jensen’s presence did nothing but help the dis-position of the Orange.
“It has changed 100 percent,” Mary Jones said. “Before, it seemed like everybody had their scholarships and had a free ride. It didn’t matter if they won or lost. And now the momentum and the energy and the positive atmosphere with the team with Luke and (SU assistant coach Shelley George) have changed it so much.
“It just makes it alive.” Jones is the only member of the team to play
with Jensen for four years. And she also gives all the credit of the program’s resurgence to the coaches.
“(Jensen has) done so much work with this team and it shows,” Jones said. “Each year we get better and better, and it just shows how much this coaching staff has worked, how much they’ve contributed to this team and this program.”
To Jensen, the coach-to-player relationship is a two-way road. And with just the Big East tournament looming before the end of Jones’ career, Jones and Jensen continue to embody that metaphor of the two-way road.
But the road is almost over. And as the end nears, Jensen has had a chance to look back on that shared experience.
“I came in with her, I was a rookie,” Jensen said. “I was a freshman in coaching, and I learned a ton from Chelsea Jones. She has made me the coach that I am right now.”
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griff graves, tito medrano and pat dupont guided the Syracuse cross country team to new heights in just their second season. The trio came in as part of a highly touted recruiting class a year ago and have already begun to carve their niche in the program.
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I n the 16 months since becom-ing Syracuse’s head football coach, Doug Marrone has
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There have been numerous infractions thus far. Marrone sus-pended five regulars at some point last season for various unspecified reasons. In doing so, Marrone demonstrated he would show little patience or tolerance for any off-field distractions.
The official line for every punishment has been classified under a sweeping and mysterious umbrella known as “violation of team rules.” Marrone has remained committed to keeping discipline an in-house matter, but he has made it clear that he will act harshly and decisively for even minor transgressions.
Marrone’s hard-lined stance should determine how he handles the ongoing Delone Carter situa-tion. Carter, arguably the team’s best player, was charged with misdemeanor assault last week for allegedly punching another SU student during an on-campus incident in February and was sus-pended from Saturday’s annual Spring Game. In store next is a public legal proceeding, which will bring the program more embarrassment and scrutiny.
Marrone said this weekend that Carter — along with two other players — were, “as of right now,” suspended only for the rest of the spring. But if these allega-tions are true, Marrone’s history suggests Carter’s trouble may be just beginning. Marrone has sus-pended players for much less.
If convicted, Carter’s actions warrant a suspension of at least three to four games next season. This penalty would be in line with both Marrone’s precedent and the precedent set by other recent legal issues regarding SU athletes. Because Carter has no prior
By Jen McCaffreySTaff WriTer
A s Tito Medrano hit the halfway mark of the 8-kilometer Wiscon-sin Adidas Invitational on Oct.
3, he caught a glimpse of his coach, Chris Fox. For Fox, Syracuse’s cross country and track and field head coach, reality began to seep in.
His unranked team — led by the sophomore Medrano and three other second-year standouts in Griff Graves, Pat Dupont and Zach Rivers — was coasting to an easy win over No. 4 Wisconsin and No. 10 George-town. With the win in hand, Fox couldn’t hold back celebration.
“He’s just jumping around scream-ing, ‘We’re going to win, we’re going to win!’” Medrano said. “At that point I just had a really great feeling we were going to do great that year.”
At the head of the Orange pack was
Medrano. The team victory was in tow. And a crowning accomplishment for a loaded sophomore class was achieved. After second- and first-place finishes in SU’s first two meets to start the season, the quartet led the Orange to a victory in its biggest race of the year.
And collegiate cross country was forced to take notice. Syracuse’s sec-ond-year runners were as good as any group of sophomores in the country. Propelled by Medrano, Graves, Dupont and Rivers, the Orange’s stacked class brought a team poised for a break-through into the national spotlight.
“We came into that meet at Wis-consin, who’s a traditional power in our sport, and dominated,” Fox said. “We didn’t just win, we won easy, and the guys just kind of crushed and that set the tone for the rest of the year.”
But the showing in Wisconsin wasn’t unexpected. After Fox
secured the commitments of Medrano, Graves, Dupont and Riv-ers for his 2008 recruiting class, hints at the possi-bilities surfaced.
M e d r a n o noticed them even before he came to Syracuse. Before he ever spoke to Fox on an official visit. Medrano had an inkling that this could be a special group.
“I went to visit about six schools total,” Medrano said. “At every single one of those schools when they asked me what other schools I was looking at and I said, ‘Syracuse,’ they said, ‘Oh, the coach there is really good. Coach Fox is a really good coach. If you’re not going to come here, go there.’”
After hearing that Medrano’s fel-
low national high school standout in Graves had committed to Syracuse, Medrano signed with the team, fol-lowed by Dupont and Rivers. All four high school runners finished within the top 33 at the 2007 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships — arguably the most prestigious high school cross country meet in the nation.
The four knew Syracuse cross country was not one of the strongest programs, but their goal was to make it one.
