FREE TUESDAY jan. 14, 2014 high 42°, low 32° N • Swearing in At the first SA meeting of the 58th session, new cabinet members were confirmed and assembly positions members were elected. Page 7 P • In transition Challenges, including the isolation of living on South Campus and meeting people, await mid-year transfer students as they prepare for life at a new school. Page 9 S • Close call After trailing in the second half, Syracuse avoids upset and remains unbeaten with a 69-59 win over BC. Page 16 the independent student newspaper of syracuse, new york | dailyorange.com By Jacob Pramuk asst. news editor Former Syracuse football player Markus Pierce-Brewster backed out of a plea bargain Monday morning as he prepared to plead guilty to charges related to a South Campus burglary last winter. After some confusion, acting Onondaga County Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti determined that Pierce-Brewster’s involvement could fit multiple charges, but not necessarily the third-degree bur- glary charges brought against him. He will appear in Onondaga County criminal court again on Friday. Pierce- Brewster and Davon Walls, both ex-SU defen- sive line- men, were arrested and charged with burglary and petit larceny last winter after police accused them of stealing a flat-screen television, an Xbox gaming system, games and two iPods worth $950 in total from an apartment on the 400 block of Winding Ridge Road. SU Department of Public Safety footage of the area showed Pierce-Brewster and Walls in pos- session of the items. Head coach Scott Shafer kicked both players off the football team last spring. Pierce-Brewster stood somber and reserved in a navy blue jacket and striped orange and blue tie Monday as he admitted that he drove Walls to the Winding Ridge apartment. He acknowledged that he stood outside the apartment as Walls entered and took the electronics before driving back to their residence. Ex-football player drops plea By Brett Samuels asst. news editor S tudents passing through the Schine Student Center Monday afternoon might have noticed a swarm of cameras and students gath- ering around a new face on campus. That face belonged to Kent Syver- ud, Syracuse University’s 12th chan- cellor, who spent his first official day on the job meeting students and staff at various locations around campus. Syverud took time to speak with groups at several locations through- out the afternoon, including lunch with orientation leaders in Schine Student Center, a visit with students and staff at the Office of Multicul- tural Affairs, a tour of the Slutzker Center for International Services and a stop at the Syracuse Technol- ogy Garden downtown. Many of those who spoke to Syver- ud personally came away with posi- tive thoughts on the new chancellor. “He seems like a very friendly guy, and he’s really making an effort to meet the student body,” said Tiffany Chu, a junior information manage- ment and technology and psychology major who spoke with Syverud at the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Syverud’s wife, Dr. Ruth Chen, joined him for the afternoon events. Chu, a Texas native, said she discussed Texas with the pair since Chen lived in Houston. Chu added that Syverud was very personable and talking with students so early in his tenure made a good first impression. By Casey Fabris editor in chief O n his first day as chancellor, Kent Syverud made his way to the Schine Student Center to have lunch among the students of Syra- cuse University. He doesn’t want to be a “clueless 57 year old;” he wants to be someone who understands what life is like for an undergraduate student at SU. He talked with students, many of whom were surprised to see their new chancellor at Schine, about what their SU experience is like. It’s important, Syverud said, that he knows what life is like at SU for every student, not just a select few. Though some things, like liv- ing in a dorm, haven’t changed since Syverud was an undergraduate stu- dent, others certainly have. People think that today’s college students have it easy because of technology, he said, but in reality, it makes their life more stressful because they’re unable to disconnect from their vari- ous responsibilities with extracur- ricular activities. Syverud said stu- dents today seem older than he was when he was in college. “It’s been sobering at times because I’d forgotten how many stresses are involved in being simul- taneously a student, a reporter, a president of something, a person trying to figure out your love life, all those things happening at the same MAN ON THE STREET Syverud aims to connect with SU community Syverud meets with students, staff during first day as SU chancellor CHANCELLOR KENT SYVERUD said he hopes to be involved in student life and improve the university as a whole. He also wants to stay connected with the city of Syracuse. chase gaewski managing editor CHANCELLOR KENT SYVERUD AND HIS WIFE RUTH CHEN talk to students inside the Schine Student Center. sam maller photo editor blocked again Pierce- Brewster first appeared in court for the incident last March and Monday marked the latest set- back in the case’s reso- lution. see pierce-brewster page 8 see first day page 8 see syverud page 8
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free tuesdayjan. 14, 2014high 42°, low 32°
N • swearing inAt the first SA meeting of the 58th session, new cabinet members were confirmed and assembly positions members were elected. Page 7
P • In transitionChallenges, including the isolation of living on South Campus and meeting people, await mid-year transfer students as they prepare for life at a new school. Page 9
S • Close call After trailing in the second half, Syracuse avoids upset and remains unbeaten with a 69-59 win over BC. Page 16
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By Jacob Pramukasst. news editor
Former Syracuse football player Markus Pierce-Brewster backed out of a plea bargain Monday morning as he prepared to plead guilty to charges related to a South Campus burglary last winter.
After some confusion, acting Onondaga County Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti determined that Pierce-Brewster’s involvement could fit multiple charges, but not necessarily the third-degree bur-glary charges brought against him. He will appear in Onondaga County criminal court again on Friday.
P i e r c e -B r e w s t e r and Davon Walls, both ex-SU defen-sive line-men, were arrested and charged with burglary and petit larceny last winter after police a c c u s e d them of stealing a f l a t - s c r e e n t e l e v i s i o n , a n X box gaming system, games and two iPods worth $950 in total from an apartment on the 400 block of Winding Ridge Road.
SU Department of Public Safety footage of the area showed Pierce-Brewster and Walls in pos-session of the items. Head coach Scott Shafer kicked both players off the football team last spring.
Pierce-Brewster stood somber and reserved in a navy blue jacket and striped orange and blue tie Monday as he admitted that he drove Walls to the Winding Ridge apartment. He acknowledged that he stood outside the apartment as Walls entered and took the electronics before driving back to their residence.
Ex-football player drops plea
By Brett Samuelsasst. news editor
Students passing through the Schine Student Center Monday afternoon might have noticed a
swarm of cameras and students gath-ering around a new face on campus.
That face belonged to Kent Syver-ud, Syracuse University’s 12th chan-cellor, who spent his first official day on the job meeting students and staff at various locations around campus.
Syverud took time to speak with groups at several locations through-out the afternoon, including lunch with orientation leaders in Schine Student Center, a visit with students and staff at the Office of Multicul-tural Affairs, a tour of the Slutzker Center for International Services
and a stop at the Syracuse Technol-ogy Garden downtown.
Many of those who spoke to Syver-ud personally came away with posi-tive thoughts on the new chancellor.
“He seems like a very friendly guy, and he’s really making an effort to meet the student body,” said Tiffany Chu, a junior information manage-ment and technology and psychology major who spoke with Syverud at the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Syverud’s wife, Dr. Ruth Chen, joined him for the afternoon events. Chu, a Texas native, said she discussed Texas with the pair since Chen lived in Houston. Chu added that Syverud was very personable and talking with students so early in his tenure made a good first impression.
By Casey Fabris editor in chief
On his first day as chancellor, Kent Syverud made his way to the Schine Student Center to
have lunch among the students of Syra-cuse University. He doesn’t want to be a “clueless 57 year old;” he wants to be someone who understands what life is like for an undergraduate student at SU.
He talked with students, many of whom were surprised to see their new chancellor at Schine, about what their SU experience is like. It’s important, Syverud said, that he knows what life is like at SU for every student, not just a select few.
Though some things, like liv-ing in a dorm, haven’t changed since Syverud was an undergraduate stu-dent, others certainly have. People think that today’s college students have it easy because of technology, he said, but in reality, it makes their life more stressful because they’re unable to disconnect from their vari-
ous responsibilities with extracur-ricular activities. Syverud said stu-dents today seem older than he was when he was in college.
“It’s been sobering at times because I’d forgotten how many stresses are involved in being simul-taneously a student, a reporter,
a president of something, a person trying to figure out your love life, all those things happening at the same
MAN ON THE STREETSyverud aims to connect with SU community
Syverud meets with students, staff during first day as SU chancellor
ChanCellOr Kent Syverud said he hopes to be involved in student life and improve the university as a whole. He also wants to stay connected with the city of Syracuse. chase gaewski managing editor
ChanCellOr Kent Syverud and hiS wife ruth Chen talk to students inside the Schine Student Center. sam maller photo editor
blocked againPierce-Brewster first appeared in court for the incident last March and Monday marked the latest set-back in the case’s reso-lution.
see pierce-brewster page 8see first day page 8
see syverud page 8
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tomorrowP • A celebrationFour student performers reflect on experiences and inspirations in light of the 29th Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
S • Mirror imageTrevor Cooney works closely with assistant coach Gerry McNamara to improve shooting and hone his game.
Student honors sister, grandmother with art
tattoo tuesday | chloe quakenbush
By Naomi C. Falk staff writer
When she was a child, Chloe Quak-enbush received a little image of an owl from a temporary tattoo dispen-sary. She had this moment in mind last year while planning her first piece of real ink.
Though Quakenbush, a junior psychology major, had an interest in getting a tattoo since she was 6 years old, she solidified the idea after two of the biggest presences in her life passed away — her sister and her grandmother.
Her 28-year-old sister, who strug-gled with drug addiction, passed away from an accidental overdose.
“At her memorial, everyone brought a balloon to a drum circle. The tallest one was a giant owl. It was kind of the centerpiece,” Quaken-bush said.
Visions of owls continued to grace her life; one soared daringly close over her mother while on a walk. Another appeared to her aunt in broad daylight after a psychic had professed, “Her sister will come to you as an owl.”
In pursuit of carrying her sister with her forever, Quakenbush walked into a Los Angeles parlor called Dark Horse Tattoo about a year ago with an image of the bird. The piece took an hour and a half to create.
At the last moment, Quakenbush decided to add an orchid to specifi-cally honor her grandmother. Her grandmother suffered from pancre-atic cancer, passing six months after her sister.
“My grandma’s favorite flowers were orchids. It’s also the color of pancreatic awareness,” she said.
The piece rests visibly on the inside of her upper arm. It’s colorful and vibrant, just like the two women the tattoo represents. The piercing blue eyes of the owl sit softly amongst the gentle curves of the entire work of art — something to which Quaken-bush paid particular attention.
She rolled up her sleeve and gazed down at the tattoo. Said Quaken-bush: “This is a memory of my sis-ter’s better self and of her ultimate beauty and love for animals and for the world in general.”
CHLOE QUAKENBUSH, a junior psychology major, got a tattoo of an owl and an orchid, to honor the passing of both her sister and her grandmother. shira stoll staff photographer
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of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s first day on campus, includ-ing his visit to the Tech Garden downtown. dailyorange.com
@SUAAPresident“On behalf of the more than
240,000 Syracuse University alumni world-wide, I would like to welcome Chancellor Kent Syver-ud! #SUChancellor
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What’s in storeANDREA LOPEZ, a sophomore television, radio and film major, picks out an architecture textbook in the Syracuse University Bookstore. Tempo-rary employees were hired during the bookstore’s rush hour on Monday to accommodate for the influx of students. Many students use the first week to get their textbooks before their workload builds up. To get extra cash, some students use the bookstore’s buyback program to sell their books. Others also search on Amazon, Chegg or other websites to find better deals. Another popular option for students is to buy and sell old books from and to classmates. Students also take advantage of Facebook groups to find required readings. margaret lin asst. photo editor
By Ellen Meyersasst. news editor
When Andrew Flynn and Mike Nardella were undergraduates at Boston College, they realized that their peers wanted to stay informed about school news but did not have the time to go through all the student publications to do so.
Flynn and Nardella founded BCstreak, a hyper local email service in which people sign up to receive an email containing 20 to 25 links of articles pertaining to what’s happen-ing on campus.
He and Flynn are now in charge of StreakMedia, the parent company, and have expanded the service to several colleges across the country. They are working on creating a chap-ter for Syracuse University called SyracuseStreak. Flynn said they would have a full-blown launch at the end of the month.
“That’s why it’s called a streak,
because it’s like naked news — very concise, just the links,” Nardella said.
Flynn said they do not write the articles they put into the emails. He said they work closely with student publications and use their articles in the emails. Flynn added that their email service dramatically increased readership for the local news outlets.
“Instead of students trying to search for the news, we bring it from
them,” Flynn said.He said they have approximately
8,000 people signed up for the service. Nardella said it took some time
to set up BCstreak and the other
Email service compiles hyperlocal news links
Strong Hearts adds hours, changes menu By Caroline Strange staff writer
Strong Hearts on the Hill debuted a breakfast menu and new hours Monday. Even though it boasts an all vegan menu, Strong Hearts hopes to draw more customers.
The menu will be served from 8-11 a.m. and includes a tofu scramble, which can be made into a burrito, oatmeal with fruit or nuts, yogurt parfaits, French toast and potatoes.
It will complement Strong Hearts’ existing menu, which includes sandwiches, wraps, smoothies and milkshakes.
Since its opening on Dec. 1, owner Nick Ryan said the store has seen not only students, but also workers from local hospitals and offices. Although business was slow over winter break, Ryan said he is confident business will increase now that students have returned.
The cafe waited until Janu-ary to incorporate the breakfast menu to allow for more planning, Ryan said. He added that he is still developing the menu.
“It’s been really good,” Ryan said, “but we’re still learning a little bit.”
Violet Vejins, a senior psychol-ogy and neuroscience major, said she visited the original Strong Hearts and “fell in love.”
Vejins said she was excited to see the new location near campus and added that the cafe can appeal to vegans and non-vegans alike. She said she loves that the cafe is trying to show that a vegan’s diet “doesn’t have to be disgusting.”
Saptarshi Lahiri, a cashier at Strong Hearts on the Hill, said customers have come in and out of the location steadily.
She said Strong Hearts is pro-moting its new location through Facebook and fliers.
1. Women receive womb transplantsSwedish doctors successfully transplanted wombs into a group of women without uteri, hoping they can become pregnant.
2. $330 million saves art collectionCharities across the country agreed to donate $330 million to prevent the Detroit Institute of Arts from selling pieces of its collection.
3. Earthquake shakes Puerto RicoA 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit 35 miles off northern Puerto Rico after midnight on Monday, making it one of the largest earthquakes to hit U.S. territory in recent years.
4. Train spills 400,000 gallons of oil Investigators announced an oil train that crashed outside of Casselton, N.D. Dec. 30 spilled 400,000 gallons of crude oil.
5. Airplane lands at wrong airport A Southwest Airlines jet landed at the incorrect airport seven miles away from its destination in Branson Airport in Missouri.
6. Thai protesters start ‘Bangkok shutdown’ Rebels in Thailand began a month-long protest to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra out of office by laying siege to major intersections in Bangkok.
7. Older patients flock to “Obamacare” Over half of people that signed up for the Affordable Care Act’s market-places are older than 45, which could increase premiums for all patients.
8. Supreme Court rejects abortion dispute The Supreme Court decided not to hear Arizona’s challenge to the Roe v. Wade decision and its protection of a woman’s right to abortion through the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.
9. “Stoned” driving ads surface in Colorado Colorado will use $430,000 in fed-eral funding to discourage driving under the influence of marijuana.
10. Texting man killedA retired police captain shot and killed a texting moviegoer at a Flor-ida theater after the former officer asked the man to put his phone away.
need to knowtake a look at some of this week’s headlines from the u.s. and around the world
one more thingAndrew Flynn and Mike Nardella relied on friends to spread the word about BCstreak when they first started out.
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“I am who I am, but I am not a bully.” Those were some of the 19,000 words New Jersey Governor Chris Christie uttered in his
1 hour and 48 minute press conference last Thursday. Using some variation of “apology” 34 times, Christie did everything in his power to convince us all that he was not to blame for the incident now being called ‘Bridgegate.’
Known for his hard-nosed attitude and unapologetic style, Christie immediately fired the people responsible, but still risks looking like a man who goes out of his way to punish anyone who opposes him. The incident was retaliatory in nature and if he did know about it, Christie undoubtedly is the bully he denies to be.
There are two conclusions to be drawn from Christie’s defense and neither is particularly attractive: 1.) He knew the entire time and is now lying to cover his tracks, or 2.) He didn’t know and three of his own employees acted against his wishes right under his nose.
If the first conclusion is true, Christie is a bully who will make sure you pay if you stand in his way. If it’s the latter, then it seems he had no idea what kind of people he hired. Either way, the incident paints Christie as an inept manager at best or an abuser of power at worst: not exactly presidential qualities. What’s more, those sound an awful lot like things Republicans love to criticize President Barack
Obama for.The incident took place on Sept. 9, 2013.
Two lanes of the George Washington Bridge, which runs from Fort Lee, N.J. to New York City, were closed for what was said to be a traffic study. While this hardly sounds like the makings of a scandal, the effect of the closure had a much greater magnitude than one might expect.
The George Washington Bridge sees more traffic than almost any other bridge in the country and the closure resulted in extraor-dinary gridlock for four straight days. One particularly publicized story details how an elderly woman passed away from cardiac arrest while emergency responders were stuck in traffic.
During Christie’s successful reelection campaign last fall, Fort Lee’s mayor declined to endorse him. It was recently revealed that after the snub, Christie’s deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, sent an email to an official of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (who controls the bridge in question) contain-ing the following message: “Time for some
traffic problems in Fort Lee.” The recipient of this email, David Wildstein, was appointed by Christie himself, who Wildstein has known since high school. He simply replied: “Got it.”
Wildstein then ordered the closure, and the aforementioned gridlock ensued. Further emails between Kelly, Wildstein and Christie’s campaign manager Bill Stepien displayed unabashed joy from the mess they had caused. Eventually, another Port Authority official dis-covered Wildstein’s order and reversed it, but the damage was already done. Christie spent weeks denying any political motivation behind the closure, right up until the email threads were exposed.
So where does this leave Christie, who is regarded as one of the strongest Republicans looking to run for president in 2016? Many people say in deep trouble. Coming off a sterling 2013, Christie was poised to solidify himself as a potential champion of the GOP. Instead, he began 2014 by telling everyone again and again that he had no knowledge of his employees’ ulterior motives.
Either he manages his staff with complete ineptitude and lack of awareness, or he is a blatant liar. Whichever one is true, neither characteristic seems remotely presidential.
Chris Piemonte is a senior political philosophy major. He can be reached at
As a daily bike pedaler on Euclid Avenue, here’s an easy way for safer, two-way bike lanes.
The new two-way bike lane on University Avenue — from Waverly Avenue to Genesee Street — is 8 feet wide. It has a stripe down the middle, for cyclists going both directions.
The existing bike lanes on Euclid Avenue are 7 feet (north side of street) and 7-and-a-half feet (south side).
Widen the Euclid bike lanes to 8 feet each, with a stripe down the middle, like on Univer-
sity Avenue.Thus, with odd and even parking on Euclid
Avenue, we cyclists can use the empty lane, now widened to 8 feet, in both directions.
Two-way bike lanes would be a lot safer than pedaling alongside parked cars half the time.
Austin Ted PaulnackCoordinator, Syracuse MoveOn
Syracuse University ‘63
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
Our mothers, fathers and second-grade teachers have been touting the mantra since our recess days, but the Internet seems to be fostering a new variation of this golden rule — if you don’t have anything nice to say, say it anonymously.
Freelance journalist Amanda Hess drew the troubling situation into the mainstream last week with an article titled “Why Women Aren’t Welcomed on the Internet”, posted to social sci-ence magazine Pacific Standard’s website on Jan. 6. Through statistics, interviews and examples of the offensive commentary and violent threats hurled at female writers who post on the Internet, Hess garnered significant attention and prompted reactionary pieces from major news organizations such as The New York Times, The Atlantic and Mother Jones.
Hess describes her experiences and those of other female writers on the Internet, including attacks on physical appearance, vulgar sexual messages and graphic threats of rape and decapi-tation from anonymous users. These assaults are met with dismissal and disinterest on the part of law enforcement. More attention will need to be paid to the frightening and surprisingly common
reality faced by female writers on the Internet for an effective change to occur.
Hess acknowledges that writing in a public forum naturally invites abuse.
For every person who takes advantage of a comment section pass along an insight that could further a story, there’s likely someone trying to stir up a reaction with an ignorant or offensive comment.
But the problem develops in the gendered nature of these attacks.
More than 70 percent of the Web-users who reported harassment incidents to the organi-zation Working to Halt Online Abuse between 2000 and 2012 were female, Hess cites in her article. Atlantic writer Conor Frieserdorf bolsters this statistic with personal anecdotes in his own reactionary article. Frieserdorf thought he had dealt with insulting, vulgar commentary in his own professional career — until he briefly managed the email accounts of
a female co-worker. “I’d never been exposed to anything like it
before,” he wrote of the vicious personal attacks that flooded his co-worker’s inbox.
In spite of — or perhaps because of — the quan-tity and severity of offensive commentary, law enforcement tends to treat this particular brand of Internet threat lightly, musing that anony-mous, would-be rapists and murderers are likely 50-year-old burnouts in their parents’ basements.
But ignoring a pattern of virtual abuse that can seriously affect women’s mental and emotional well-being, cost them time and money in keeping record of and reporting threats and ultimately dis-suade them from embracing an active voice in the blogging world is not the right answer.
Anonymity cannot be the mask that enables this proliferation of vitriol to continue. It makes threats of sexual violence so common that collec-tive eyebrows aren’t even raised.
It’s time to acknowledge the situation as problematic and demand once again, if you don’t have anything beneficial to say to a woman on the Internet, don’t say anything at all.
Nicki Gorny is a junior magazine journalism and Spanish double major. She can
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Former Interim Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina’s opposition to the American Studies Associa-tion’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions on behalf of Syracuse University was a fitting response for the school.
Spina opposed the ASA’s boycott in a statement released on Jan. 7. The Association for Asian American Studies was the first American academic group to back the boycott
movement, followed by the ASA, according to a Dec. 16 New York Times article.
Although SU is not a member of the American Studies Associa-tion, this recent dispute makes the boycott an important issue for prominent American educational institutions to address. As a campus with an international alumni base and a notable study abroad program, SU has an obligation to provide an
opinion on the strike.In his statement, Spina said
education is the “cornerstone upon which, ultimately, common understanding will be reached and peaceful progress will be made in the Middle East.”
As leader of an institution known for its study abroad opportunities and global reach, Spina was right to oppose the boycotts from an institu-tional level.
We live in an Internet age where diverse ideas are shared around the world in a matter of seconds. Travel is more possible than ever before. Support of the boycott could have set a negative tone for SU’s international reputation and decreased its aca-demic reach to the Middle East — an area of the world former Chancellor Nancy Cantor targeted for recruit-ment and outreach.
The struggle between Palestin-
ians and Israelis is cultural, religious and a point of international conten-tion. However, universities exist to promote education. If SU had supported the boycott, it would have been directly opposing the goal of uncompromised access to education.
Education should be one of the last institutions affected by interna-tional political conflict, not the first to be compromised.
editorial | by the daily orange editorial board
Statement on ASA academic institution boycotts represents university interests
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The ballots were flying at the Student Associa-tion’s first meeting of the year as the assembly elected three members to cabinet positions and voted to confirm five more.
The 58th Session’s first general assembly meeting took place Monday evening in Max-well Auditorium. Elections were held for speaker, recorder and parliamentarian. The assembly also voted to confirm President Boris Gresely’s cabinet nominations.
The first election of the night was for the speaker position. This position was created as part of changes to the SA constitution that were approved last semester. The speaker facili-tates discussion, and they do not vote unless a tie-breaking vote needs to be cast, said Ben Jones, 58th session parliamentarian who pro-posed many of the constitutional changes last semester, including bringing back the position of speaker.
Jones was the only nominee for the position and was confirmed by a unanimous vote. He said he thinks the speaker position can be used to empower the assembly and he hopes to cre-ate more committees within SA to better serve the students’ needs.
In the only contested election of the night, Malik Evans, a freshman Whitman representa-tive, ran against Phil Porter, a freshman Col-lege of Arts and Sciences representative and former Student Life Committee chair, for the position of recorder. Evans beat out Porter on the second round of ballots.
Evans said he’s eager to get more involved in SA and sees the recorder position as a great way to do that. He said he has talked to previ-
ous recorders about the position and also read through past SA meeting minutes to see how he could improve.
“I learned that it’s not only about taking the minutes of the assembly but it’s also about the overall story of SA,” Evans said.
The last election of the night was for the position of parliamentarian. Stephen Thomas, a junior L.C. Smith College of Engineering representative, was the only nominee and was elected by the assembly. He previously worked with Jones on the changes to the SA constitu-tion last semester.
The assembly also voted to confirm all five of the nominations Gresely made for his cabinet.
The confirmed cabinet members are as follows:• Kyle Coleman was confirmed as chief of staff• Anna Giles was confirmed as director of com-munication• Federico Vicente was confirmed as director of academic affairs• Sawyer Cresap was confirmed as director of student engagement• Aysha Seedat was confirmed as director of student life
Of the five members, three have previous experience in SA. Coleman is a former finance board member who also ran for president in 2012. Vicente is a former vice chair of the academic affairs committee and Cresap is a former vice chair of the student engagement committee.
In choosing the cabinet, Gresely said that Vice President Lopez and he assessed potential nominees both on how they would be able to serve on an executive level in the cabinet and on how they would be able to serve the student body as a whole.
“We felt that these individuals had both those traits,” he said. “I really think that this
group of cabinet members really have a great potential to do great things because the haven’t just been focused on what SA does but they’ve also been focused on other organizations and I think they’re really going to try to reconnect [SA] with campus.”
Additionally, Gresely was sworn in as presi-dent and Daniela Lopez was sworn in as vice president. Gresely and Lopez are the first presi-dent and vice president to be elected together. Because of changes to SA codes last fall, Grese-ly and Lopez will hold these positions for three semesters. Comptroller Patrick Douglas and
the assembly representatives also took their oaths of office.Additional business discussed• Brittany Moore, a junior S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications major, was introduced as Gresely’s nominee for director of technology. Her nomination will be voted on at the next cabinet meeting.• Eight representatives were elected to the Board of Administrative Operations. This board approves all the bills that come before the assembly.
Boris Gresely hands out ballots to members of the assembly during the first SA meeting at Maxwell Auditorium Monday. The assembly confirmed cabinet appointees and elected a speaker, parliamentarian and recorder. margaret lin asst. photo editor
Allie Curtis recites an oath as part of Boris Gresely’s swearing into office. Gresley is the first SA president to be elected for three semesters. margaret lin asst. photo editor
Assembly elects three positions, confirms Gresely’s cabinet
LOOKING AHEADHere are some things the Student Association will look to accomplish during the next few weeks.
• There will be no general assembly meeting next Monday because of Martin Luther King Jr. day.• In two weeks, Gresely and Douglas will present their financial vision for SA to the assembly.• Also in two weeks, Douglas said he plans to introduce a bill that would prevent two stu-dent organizations from applying for funding for the same event. • Gresely said there will be a cabinet retreat soon to discuss initiatives for the 58th ses-sion. He also said he hopes to organize an assembly retreat in the near future to encour-age leadership development.
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Ira Huff, a senior English and textual stud-ies major, said he talked to Syverud and said he was pleasant and approachable.
“It shows he supports the student body, and I wanted to be here to show support for him,” Huff said. “I think it says a lot about his character that he’s willing to be a part of the community and jump right in.”
After making two stops in Schine, Syverud made his way to the Slutzker Center. He met with students in an English conversation group, which helps international students practice English, as well as students in the Connections Program, which helps foreign stu-dents adapt to college life.
Pimsiri Aroonsri, a graduate student in the School of Education, said it was a pleasure to meet the chancellor. She noted the importance of his interactions with students from all over the world.
“I think he’ll have a great understanding of international students because of his versatile background, which is great because SU has so many international students,” Aroonsri said.
Jianglin Gui, a senior marketing and finance major, said Syverud was friendly. She was especially impressed that he made time to stop across campus and visit students on his first day.
Jai Yue, a public relations graduate student, said she wants to see the strides Syverud makes with the international student program.
Syverud’s work abroad and his vision of the world impressed Pat Burak, director of the Slutzker Center. Burak said she talked with Syverud’s colleagues at Washington University at St. Louis and she knows both Syverud and his wife are engaged with the world.
Burak added that Syverud’s experience teaching abroad is important because interna-tional student enrollment has increased dra-matically at SU during the last few years.
She went on to say that the Slutzker Center has grown, something she’s proud of, but she hopes it will continue to grow and improve under Syverud.
“I think he’s great,” Burak said. “I went to his speech when he was introduced and he kept saying, ‘I’m in, I’m in.’ With our international work, I think he’s in.”
Senior industrial design major Soo Kim said she appreciated Syverud visiting the Slutzker Center. She added that she had never met for-mer Chancellor Nancy Cantor.
Said Kim: “There’s definitely a connection between us and him now.”
time. I just forgot what the stress was like, plus waiting for a washing machine,” he said.
While his work as dean of the law school at Washington University at St. Louis differs from the work he’ll be doing as chancellor at SU, there are specific skills that he will bring with him to deal with issues SU also faces, like fundraising, admissions, job placement and communication.
But he realizes that the two universities are different. He is not trying to make SU another Washington University.
“Syracuse is Syracuse and Wash U is Wash U,” he said. “I would never want Syracuse to be Wash U.”
His desire to understand the way of stu-dent life at SU led him to live in the Brewster, Boland, Brockway residence complex earlier last month. He wanted to experience the way students live and also have the opportunity to engage with students without a flock of public relations officials around him.
Syverud said he’s still enjoying his rela-tive anonymity, as it gives him the ability to approach students more casually and have a more relaxed conversation with them.
He met students when he did his laundry in the dorms and when he was looking for a late-night snack. He said he heard several laments from students about Taco Bell, which was removed from the Kimmel Dining Center in fall 2012. He learned that “a lot happens after
midnight,” though very little of it happens in the student center.
After completing his first day meeting and greeting students on campus, Syverud said he hopes to spend the rest of his first week thought-fully planning and prepping for upcoming events, like his first board meeting; trying to get the boxes in his new downtown apartment unpacked and getting his dog Lucky, who he adopted from a shelter 14 ½ years ago, acclimated to Syracuse.
He’s been enjoying walking Lucky around his new neighborhood of Armory Square, where she’s eager to make friends.
“She’s a good natured dog, and the greatest danger she poses to anyone is that she’ll lick them to death,” Syverud said. “She likes people, so she’s been walking up to strangers in Armory Square waiting to be petted.”
One of the biggest things he has noticed in his time in Syracuse so far is that the people here are good people. Everyone wants to be helpful and is “unified by caring about this place.”
And Syverud is working to show he cares about this place, too, by striving to learn everything he can about what it’s like to be an SU student and figuring out what the university needs. For now, his overarching goal is to set the right tone and familiarize himself with the SU community.
“I am somebody who tries to be the same person in private as in public, and that means setting the right tone in every interaction and in everything I do. That’s a little hard because I don’t know the place fully yet, but I’m working on it,” he said. “It’s a work in progress.”
chapters, calling it “a very slow, gradual process.” He said it started out as fulfilling a need, but it became more serious when more and more people were signing up.
“I would count every day in the process as starting up, because now we’re starting up, but at much larger scale and not just BC,” Nardella said. “It’s a day by day process.”
Although they have been working on the email service for a while, Nardella said they run into issues every day. At the beginning, he and Flynn had to curate all the content on their own. Now, they have become very efficient at gathering articles for the emails and Nardella added that their followers also send them links to articles they can use.
“From the beginning, it was definitely hard when we were doing everything manu-ally,” he said. “As we grew, we found out that our subscribers were more than willing to help us out with the curating process.”
ChanCellor kent syverud, his wife ruth Chen and james duah-agyeman, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, meet with students. sam maller photo editor
guilty to burglary on Dec. 10, and will be sentenced to a yearlong “interim probation.” Depending on Walls’ behavior during probation, the felony will be reduced to a misdemeanor, followed by sentenc-ing to a one-year conditional discharge.
Had Pierce-Brewster pled guilty to third-degree burglary, he would have received the same sentence. However, he never completed the guilty plea, hesitating after Brunetti asked if he “know-ingly helped” Walls steal the electronics.
Brunetti said if Pierce-Brewster went to the apartment without knowingly aiding the theft, a burglary charge might not apply to his actions. Instead, Pierce-Brewster could poten-tially be charged with hindering prosecution, rendering assistance to someone that commits a felony, Brunetti said.
Hindering prosecution is a misdemeanor charge as opposed to burglary, which is a felony, according to New York State court documents.
There’s definitely a connection between us and him now.”Soo Kimsenior industrial design major
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By Madysan Foltzasst. feature editor
Many challenges arise for students who transfer in the middle of the school
year as they adjust to a new com-munity. While first-year students are settling into their new home for the next four years, the transfers have to repeat the tiring process of meeting new people.
Starting on Jan. 10, more than 200 students arrived on campus for the first time, said Carrie Grogan Abbott, director of the Office of First-Year and Trans-fer Programs. Taking part in the Winter Welcome, an event held to transition new students, were 120 general transfers and 80 fresh-men transfers. Additionally, there were 30 Syracuse freshmen stu-dents who spent their first semes-ter studying abroad through the Discovery Florence and Discovery Strasbourg programs.
Syracuse University has seen an increasing trend of mid-year
transfer students in recent years, but recently numbers have leveled off, Abbott said. During the plateau, those in charge of first-year and transfer programs are finding ways to make transitions run smoothly.
“Whenever a new student starts, transitioning can be difficult,” Abbott said. “We recommend they attend orientation events, go to your school meetings, go to your classes, put effort in connecting with those around you.”
Past and present transfer stu-dents, though, said the challenges of transferring to SU, including social integration and inconvenient locations, seem increasingly appar-ent. One of their biggest concerns is where they live.
While some transfers live on main campus, a large number of them live in SkyHall on South Cam-pus. The 10 to 15 minute bus ride to and from main campus can be a struggle for students trying to navigate the new environment.
“I am worried about having to figure out the bus schedule and not
being on main campus,” said Sebas-tian Kaestner, a sophomore trans-fer from City College of New York. “It will only add to my problems.”
Kaestner, though, said he thinks it ’ll be worth it, as he believes SU is a “better school with better ratings” than CUNY. In fact, he said he had always intended to switch schools.
During move-in weekend, orien-tation leaders went from residence hall to residence hall on main cam-pus to meet the new transfers and get them acquainted to the school and their peers. But several stu-dents and parents moving into Sky-Hall lamented a lack of help they received. There were no luggage carts and no one from the Goon Squad to assist.
Melissa Mark, a freshman trans-fer from the University of Puget Sound, said she did expect an absence of help given the time of year and lower number of move-ins, but said she felt it was “a little disorganized.”
“No one told me what to do when
TRADE SCHOOLERSTransfer students face challenges, transition to different campus
By Alfred Ng asst. feature editor
Going viral isn’t always a good thing. With smartphones in almost every-one’s pockets, malware and viruses are becoming bigger issues to handle.
In December, two of Syracuse Uni-versity’s L.C. Smith College of Engi-neering and Computer Science pro-fessors traveled to the Middle East to discuss cybersecurity, specifically the research they discovered and the vul-nerabilities within a certain system.
An SU alumnus who was passionate about the engineering school having a presence in the Middle East funded the trip, said Ariel Duchene, the school’s assistant dean for external relations.
“It was a great event, and it was all about making connections and making
sure people are aware SU is a prominent player in this area of research,” she said. “Our goals were potentially finding new stu-dents, finding o p p o r t u n i t i e s to work with industry and other academics on research and educational ini-tiatives.”
Stopping in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, Kevin Du,
a computer security professor at SU, gave a lecture titled “Security Considerations for Smartphones,” where he discussed the discoveries his team found regarding cyberattacks on mobile devices.
The issue of a phone’s security is rel-evant to students, as phones can carry a person’s most guarded and personal details, Du said.
“There are some very unique risks that are introduced to this platform,” he said. “From a research perspective, we’re looking at unique things that are introduced by this platform.”
One of the biggest risks his team found, he said, comes with the increas-ing popularity of PhoneGap, a new app development program. Typically, app creators would need to code differ-ent versions for different platforms, if the app was to work for both iOS and Android software. PhoneGap allows developers to write one version and have the app automatically converted,
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Whenever a new student starts, transitioning can be difficult. We recommend they attend orientation events, go to your school meetings, go to your classes, put effort in connecting with those around you.”
Carrie Grogan Abbottdirector of first-year and transfer programs
SECURITY GAPThese are a few apps that are developed by Phone Gap and have security risks: • BBC Olympics • IGN Dominate• Socialite • Official I
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Transfer students mingle with each other at a Syracuse University Winter Welcome program. The event was used by the office of First Years and Transfer Programs as a venue for new students to meet and to break down social barriers in a new environment. luke rafferty video editor
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of snowfall that Syracuse has received to date. This time last season, there had only been 39.3 inches.
I made the first mistake of my semester abroad when I thought the trip would make me feel more adult. Seven hours
later, I made my second big mistake: I got lost in Charles de Gaulle Airport.
At first, as I watched flight attendants negotiate drink carts down the aisles with my passport firmly in my hand, I felt extremely grown-up. My confidence even survived over-hearing a small French boy rattle off sentence after sentence with a fluency of which I could only dream of having.
It’s well known that children learn second languages far more easily than adults do. But I would soon find out that the same logic applies to the larger experience of traveling abroad: We all had to go back to kindergarten.
My reeducation began with a 10-day travel seminar with about 30 other Syracuse University students. Before settling in with our host fami-lies in Strasbourg, France, we were to travel as a group through Paris. We also visited Ypres in Belgium, Amsterdam, and Cologne, Germany.
Although Paris was just as chic as it looks in the movies, it made me feel less like Audrey Hepburn in “Sabrina” and more like a kid on her first day of school. The simplest tasks become infinitely more complicated in new places.
The same went for my time in Amsterdam. Every American preschooler is taught to look both ways before crossing the street, but that method doesn’t work in Amsterdam. In the land of tens of thousands of bikes, Amster-dam’s traffic is a whirlwind of cars, trams, blond children on bicycles, women walking lap dogs and speeding adult cyclists with no inten-tion of slowing down for you.
We quickly had to develop a new method to safely cross the street. My method: I learned to look both ways, sprint to the median, wait for a few Lance Armstrongs and a cable car to pass, say a Hail Mary and dash for the sidewalk.
I also spent a lot of time in another elemen-tary school staple: the bus. Like the cool kids in fifth grade, everyone vied for seats at the back, and, like the less cool kids, we all fell into deep, jet-lagged sleep as soon as the wheels began to turn. Between catching up on the sleep we weren’t getting and catching
up on the assigned reading we weren’t doing, everyone quickly learned to embrace the long hours on the bus.
Many of us also had to relearn how to use our inside voices. Americans, it seems, talk a bit more loudly than Western Europeans. During one group dinner, the thirty of us easily outdid all other patrons on both floors of the restaurant in terms of decibels.
Though stricter scientific testing may be needed to verify this theory, I’m inclined to believe that the Paris metro is far quieter than the fourth floor of E.S. Bird Library.
Luckily, relearning to use your inside voice is simple enough: If you think you’re talking normally, cut the volume by half.
Mastering inside voices is key to one last element of being a kid again: field trips. Visiting new cities in a group of 30 meant doing many guided tours of museums, parks and monuments. I’d forgotten how nice it is to have everything explained to you as you explore anew.
The benefit of reflecting on “the beginning” is being able to take pride in the progress you’ve made. I had a successful conversation in French just a day after accidently buying bouillon cubes instead of cheddar cheese, and on our last day in Amsterdam, I had only one near collision with a Dutch cyclist.
While foreign surroundings may force you to relearn a few basic elements of life, it also allows you to grow as a person and see how far you’ve come. Here’s to hoping that I make it out of kindergarten before I start college classes next week.
Maggie Cregan is a sophomore history and magazine journalism major. From Cleveland to Syracuse to Strasbourg, she enjoys rocking out
and getting hopelessly lost. If you want to talk to her about this column, or are Keith Richards, reach her at [email protected] and follow her
on Twitter at @MaggieCregan_SU.
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Study abroad experience proves comparable to childhood lessons
Du said. By 2016, 50 percent of all apps will be developed based on this kind of software.
While convenient for developers, it creates a major security risk for consumers because everything is running on the same coding now. Du said his team discovered this framework was very insecure, as it could be hacked just from using the same Wi-Fi network as the perpetrator.
“If we started using PhoneGap to develop apps for those purposes, I’m not saying every app will be vulnerable, but a very high percent-age will be,” he said.
In light of recent concerns with computer hacking and phone tapping, phones now have the potential to become just another burden in a person’s life potential. People are finally pay-ing attention to the damage that can be caused.
Du added that if developers could be made aware of the software’s issues early on, there would be little risk in the future.
Along with cybersecurity for mobile devic-es, the lecture also focused on cybersecurity
for system structures. Shiu-Kai Chin, also a professor in the L.C. Smith College of Engi-neering and Computer Science, talked about system assurance.
Chin said in an email that cybersecurity is becoming a larger issue because of the increas-ing use of computers in everyday lives. From cellphones to social media to piloting an air-craft, the technology is becoming more at risk every day.
He added that computer security for many users is very weak, and recommended that stu-dents take higher measures for their devices. Careless use of any technology could lead to a major breach in a student’s personal informa-tion. Because of the inherent risks, apps — and other devices — may cause more harm than good.
“When downloading apps, be mindful that fraudsters will often embed malware,” he said. “Cellphones are computers and their casual use is easily leads to compromise.”
— Contributing writer Bodeline Dautruche contributed reporting to this story
I got here. I didn’t receive that winter packet they said I would receive either,” she said. “There was definitely no one holding my hand.”
Recognizing the problem, Lexi Madison,
a senior orientation leader and information management and technology major, has tried to include transfers in more events. She said
she is confused as to why transfers are seclud-ed on South Campus.
“If it were up to me, I would put [the transfers] all in the center of campus so they can be right in the middle of everything,” Madison said.
She advised that her peers go out of their way to help transfers adjust.
Other luxuries, like rushing a fraternity or sorority, are off limits to transfers as well. Under SU Panhellenic Council rules, all stu-dents must have 12 SU credits to rush. That’s a problem for someone like Mark, who said she transferred because of the small size of her old school and its lack of social activities.
To counteract the isolation that some transfers may face, Abbott said the Office of First-Year and Transfer Programs hosts many social, educational and academic programs. During the Winter Welcome, for example, transfers watched the Syracuse-North Carolina men’s basketball game in the Schine Student Center and ate dinners together, among other events.
Despite the potential challenges, transfer students said they were excited to get started at SU. Chris Sommi, a sophomore transfer from Oyster Bay, N.Y., said he is most looking forward to rising to the new academic chal-lenges.
“I am coming from a community college, so this will be entirely different experience,” Sommi said, smiling broadly. “But I’m not worried, I always find my way.”
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fresh faces A breakdown of the four different types of new winter students
Transfers: 120
Discovery Strasbourg: 10
Discovery Florence: 20
Freshman Transfers: 80
By Jessica Cabestaff writer
Approximately 14 years after announc-ing Pavement’s hiatus, the slacker rock band’s frontman Stephen Malkmus is
still trying to outrun his first band’s shadow.In 2000, he formed Stephen Malkmus and
the Jicks, a band that doesn’t stray too far from the sound that made Pavement famous in the ‘90s. But on the band’s sixth studio album “Wig Out at Jagbags,” there’s a lot more in the mix — too much more, in fact.
The album starts off with “Planetary Motion,” a psychedelic rock track with a com-plicated rhythm by pop rock standards. The band eases in and out of time signatures, play-ing four beats, then three, then four again. It’s jarring, especially for fans of Malkmus’ work with Pavement, a band that would have brushed off a time shift as too complicated.
While Malkmus once doled out simple but catchy melodies song after song, he seems to have opted for experimentation with “Jag-
bags,” a decision that doesn’t quite gel with the rest of the album’s characteristics.
The first good track on the album, “J Smoov,” comes right in the middle. The easy listening, jazzy song features a warm trom-bone solo and near-perfect production. The
music is far-off and reverberant without sacri-ficing clean sound quality, making it seem like the song is being performed live in a jazz club rather than traveling through headphones.
“J Smoov” is followed by the best song on
the album, “Rumble At The Rainbo.” Clock-ing in at less than two minutes, this punk rock declaration is almost a defense against critics. Malkmus sings, “Come join us in this punk rock tomb / Come slam dancing with some ancient dudes/We are returning, returning to our roots / No new material, just cowboy boots.”
Malkmus is acknowledging that he’s aging — he’s 47 — and that he hasn’t been able to outshine his work with Pavement. The cow-boy boots reference acknowledges a country vibe on “Jagbags” that isn’t as prevalent in Malkmus’ earlier work, with either Pavement or the Jicks.
Another standout track, “Independence Street,” draws inspiration from the bluesy gui-tar sound Pearl Jam made famous in the early ’90s. The song is one of the few that has an obvious story or theme, which is what makes it so much more enjoyable than the majority of the album’s tracks.
“Independence Street” is a song about being alone and wanting someone you can’t have, and
it’s also about aging. Malkmus sings, “I don’t have the stomach for your brandy/I can hardly sip your tea/I don’t have no teeth left for your candy/I’m just busy being me.” He admits he is no longer capable of enjoying the sweet things in life by creating a metaphor between a woman and food.
Despite the song’s ability to stand alone, it doesn’t seem to fit in with the rest of “Jag-bags.” Because most of Malkmus’ lyrics are so nonsensical and silly, it’s hard to take him seri-ously when he’s singing about loneliness.
The album ends with “Surreal Teenagers,” a frustratingly random track with a sound that comes completely out of left field.
It is literally discouraging to push through all of “Jagbags,” trying to find reason among the madness, only to be left with a song that simply cannot fit in.
Although it’s to be expected for Malkmus to try to separate himself from Pavement, “Wig Out at Jagbags” shows what happens when a musician tries too hard.
in syncIf you like this album, check out these tracks:
1. “Summer Babe (Winter Version)” by Pavement2. “Say it Ain’t So” by Weezer3. “Yellow Ledbetter” by Pearl Jam4. “Never Said” by Liz Phair5. “Get Back” by Veruca Salt
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Coleman sits out, misses 5th straight game
rakeem christmas was limited to just 14 minutes of playing time due to foul trouble and recorded just one rebound on the night in SU’s victory. yuki mizuma staff photographer
men’s basketball
By Stephen Bailey and Trevor Hassthe daily orange
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – DaJuan Coleman was unable to play in No. 2 Syracuse’s (17-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) 69-59 win against Boston College (5-12, 1-3) on Monday due to swelling in his left knee.
Coleman, who has not started the Orange’s last five games due to a left leg contusion, did not practice Sunday and is continuing daily treatment for the injury he suffered two and a half weeks ago.
“Basically just waiting for the swelling to go down,” Coleman said. “It’s getting a lot stronger, though.”
Coleman has played just three minutes in those five games — garbage time at the end of Syracuse’s win over Virginia Tech last Tuesday — and appears to favor his right leg when warming up with a left knee brace before games. He was averaging nearly 15 minutes per game before the injury limited him to only six minutes against Villanova on Dec. 28.
Coleman’s status is still day-to-day with the Orange’s next game against No. 23 Pitts-burgh on Saturday.
“I’m hoping that he, this week, gets better and that we can use him,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “That’s what I’m hoping for, but we’ll see what happens.”
Coleman said he suffered the injury set-ting a screen in practice when a teammate banged into the side of his left knee. Since beginning treatment shortly thereafter, Coleman said the leg has gotten gradually stronger.
His treatment consists of light weight lift-ing to warm up, then running on a treadmill in an in-ground pool to reduce strain on his leg.
“That’s basically what I’m doing and just resting,” Coleman said.
It’s just a matter of icing the contusion and waiting for the swelling to go down.
“When he’s ready, he’ll play,” Boeheim said. Foul trouble plagues Christmas, KeitaRakeem Christmas glared out from the bench as he watched Syracuse flounder against Boston College’s sharp-shooting Lonnie Jackson and efficient post man Ryan Anderson.
The junior center had just picked up two fouls in a span of 22 seconds early in the sec-ond half — and while he did not know it at the time — he wouldn’t be stepping onto the court again until the final buzzer.
“I think Rak could have had a good game,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said. “He made some really bad fouls and got himself out of the game.”
Christmas and senior center Baye Moussa Keita combined for six points, four rebounds
and eight personal fouls in a combined 41 min-utes of No. 2 Syracuse’s (17-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) 69-59 win over Boston College (5-12, 1-3) on Monday. Part of the foul trouble was due to SU extending its 2-3 zone to stop Jack-
son, but the pair of centers was outplayed by a mediocre Boston College frontcourt.
The Eagles’ forwards are constantly over-shadowed by their backcourt and the team entered Monday as the only ACC program with a negative rebounding margin.
“I don’t think we’ve had a guy in foul trouble like that all year,” Boeheim said of Christmas. “He’s been good. I don’t know.”
The center-based blunders started even before tipoff. An apparent miscommunica-tion between SU and the official scorekeep-ers resulted in Keita making his first start since the 2010-11 season. Sophomore forward Jerami Grant was expected to make his fifth straight start with Coleman still sidelined due to a left leg contusion.
SU Athletics spokesman Pete Moore said it was the first time he’d seen something like that happen in his 31 years working in sports communications.
Keita would only play the first 54 seconds before Grant came in, but following a two-handed flush from Christmas a minute later, the offensive success was minimal for the pair.
Christmas failed to establish position regu-larly on the inside while Keita, who grabbed three offensive boards, failed to go back up strong on two occasions.
Defensively, the pair committed six of their fouls in the second half.
After Christmas pushed through Anderson on a dunk attempt 1:10 into the second half, he hacked him on a shot attempt 22 seconds later.
Then Keita logged all four of his fouls in the final 10:28. While he was, at times, caught out of position, the team’s defensive adjustment put Keita in a strenuous position.
“We tried to cover the shooters and we kind of left under the basket with Baye play-ing two-on-one, basically,” SU forward C.J. Fair said.
Still, without Coleman, the Orange is rely-ing on Christmas and Keita for quality min-utes.
When No. 23 Pittsburgh visits the Carrier Dome on Saturday, the Orange will need an improved effort.Ennis, Cooney frustrate BC atop zoneTyler Ennis and Trevor Cooney are mostly known for their offense.
And for good reason. Both average in dou-ble figures, move well with and without the ball and shoot very well. They also play well
together.But what often gets overlooked is the way
the duo plays defense, creating havoc in pass-ing lanes atop the 2-3 zone. That skill set was on full display Monday night at Conte Forum as No. 2 Syracuse (17-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) avoided an upset in a 69-59 win over Boston College (5-12, 1-3).
Ennis snared a career-high six steals, Cooney added three and the pair held BC guard Olivier Hanlan to a 2-of-7 performance from the field.
“(Tyler) and Trevor are doing a good job being in the passing lane and causing steals,” forward C.J. Fair said. “That’s what we need out of them.”
Hanlan, who came into Monday’s game averaging 19.5 points, was rendered complete-ly ineffective. He was 0-of-5 from downtown, and was relegated to a pass-first point guard.
Whenever he tried to enter the paint on the right side of the zone, Ennis was there. And whenever he tried to squeeze through the left, Cooney blanketed him.
In the first half, Ennis swerved into the passing lane to break up an errant pass. He tossed the ball ahead to Cooney, who slammed it home for two.
It’s what Ennis has done all season, closing gaps on defense and turning defense into offense.
“His defense has been great on top of the 2-3,” Cooney said. “When he’s active he gets deflec-tions, he gets steals and we get on the fast break. We’ve got to do that to be a good team.”
On the next play, Cooney snatched one of his own, intercepting Hanlan’s pass and racing the other way for another flush.
He wasn’t done. Cooney stole yet another pass and converted yet another dunk to bump Syracuse’s lead to 32-23.
“He played a lot of minutes, especially being under the weather,” Ennis said of Cooney. “He’s an underrated defender, and a lot of people don’t know how active he is.”
On a night where SU head coach Jim Boeheim called SU’s offense as bad as it’s been all season, Syracuse scored 19 points in transi-tion and 32 in the paint.
Getting out on the break helped the Orange crank out a lead and pull away in the game’s final minutes.
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Trevor CooneyOn top of Cooney’s game-high 21 points, it seemed that he always found a bucket when SU needed it most. With 6:05 left in the game
and Syracuse leading Boston College 57-51, Cooney nailed a triple to extend the Orange’s lead to nine. From there, Syracuse wouldn’t look back.
Olivier Hanlan Olivier Hanlan was thought to be BC’s toughest perimeter threat heading into Monday night’s game. He shot 9-of-10 from the free-throw line, but
finished with just 13 points. Hanlan shot 0-of-5 from 3 as he dipped nearly seven points below his season average.
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STEPPING UPWith Olivier Hanlan struggling from the field, Lonnie Jackson kept the Eagles around. Jackson shot 6-of-9 from 3-point range finishing with 18 points.
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We don’t like to get in those situations, but we have a little bit of confidence knowing that we’ve been in them.”
Tyler Ennissu guard
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boston college
"We had to buckle down on defense. Being down eight
on the road is tough no matter where you are."
Trevor CooneySU guard
three more in the second frame.Syracuse rotated and closed out relatively
well, but it didn’t matter.“They wasn’t missing,” C.J. Fair said.Whenever Olivier Hanlan or Joe Rahon
attacked the basket, they wouldn’t look to shoot. Instead, they’d find teammates – usu-ally Jackson – drifting into the corner.
SU head coach Jim Boeheim said Syra-cuse’s defense wasn’t the problem. The Orange trapped guards in the corner, as usual, but BC’s playmakers made strong, quick moves with the ball.
He pegged the offense as the issue.“We were completely as bad offensively as
we’ve been all year,” Boeheim said.
Fair was an uncharacteristic 4-of-13. Ennis was just 4-of-11. Grant started the game 2-of-7.
But when Syracuse needed to score, it did. The game was knotted at 51 with 8:11 to go, and SU needed a bucket badly. Grant snagged an offensive rebound and calmly dunked it for two.
Three possessions later, Cooney caught the ball, swerved to the left and canned a 3, extending the Orange’s lead to 60-51. The sharpshooter, who battled a cold Monday night, returned to form at an opportune time.
Now Cooney, not Anderson, was the one screaming “Let’s go!” as he backpedaled down the court. The electric stadium was no more.
Earlier, “Let’s go Orange” and “Let’s go Eagles” chants simultaneously drowned each other out. But now the only noise came from SU fans.
“We don’t like to get in those situations,” Ennis said, “but we have a little bit of confi-dence knowing that we’ve been in them.”
Grant put the finishing touches on the win with an emphatic dunk that earned the No. 2 spot on SportsCenter. The Boston College fans that were dancing earlier slumped into their seats.
Syracuse passed one of its biggest tests against an unlikely opponent. The ACC isn’t nearly as strong as people expected it to be at the start of the year, but every game can provide challenges, as the Orange found out Monday.
“We’ve been tested a lot this year,” Grant said, “and definitely on the road. I feel like we pulled together and rallied, and everybody made big plays.”
Transfers Staats, Iacono officially join Syracuse for 2014 season By Phil D’Abbraccioasst. copy editor
The transfer of attack Randy Staats and mid-fielder Mike Iacono have been processed and the pair have joined No. 2 Syracuse, the team announced Monday. Both players are juniors and have two years of eligibility remaining.
Staats comes to the Orange after a two-year career at Onondaga Community College where he logged a school-record 295 points and
165 assists. Twice the National Junior College Offensive Player of the Year, he led the Lazers to two national championships and a spotless 37-0 record during his two seasons.
“Randy was a prolific player in junior col-lege and we’re hoping that his skills and abili-ties translate to the Division I level,” SU head coach John Desko said in an SU Athletics release. “He’s very talented. He can score. He can feed. He’s got great stick skills and a great sense of the game.”
Staats was not present at Syracuse’s media day last Monday, as he was completing school-work at OCC and could not enroll at SU yet. In accordance with NCAA regulations, Desko did not comment at media day on questions regard-ing Staats’ status.
A product of Nassau Community College on Long Island, Iacono is a face-off specialist. The 6-foot-5, 215-pound midfielder was a two-time All-American at NCC. The statistics are incom-plete, but of all Iacono’s recorded face-offs, he
won an impressive 78 percent.Considering the Orange’s season-long issues
at the X last year, Iacono could earn significant playing time immediately if he fares well enough.
“He’s another one that had great success in junior college,” Desko said in the release. “He’s pretty athletic. He has good physical size. If he can win face-offs for us, I think he’s a guy that can make good decisions with the ball in his stick and be an offensive threat.”
JERAMI GRANT attacks the Boston College defense. The SU forward grabbed a game-high eight rebounds to go with 16 points in the Syracuse win. yuki mizuma staff photographer
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grantskills into points. He was blocked by BC forward Eddie Odio with 11:11 left in the first half, missed another layup two minutes later and bricked two dunks in the final 1:45 of the half.
The second one caromed off the back of the rim and 20 feet into the air, before BC guard Lonnie Jackson went skyward to pull the ball out of orbit.
“He had a bad first half,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said.
Grant entered halftime shooting 2-of-7, but wouldn’t miss again.
After finding Tyler Ennis for an open 3-pointer and knocking down both free throws 1:45 into the frame, Grant picked up three fouls in a span of 6:41 — two on questionable block attempts and one that left Boeheim frozen, palms open and mouth slightly agape.
“Definitely I thought it was a clean block, but at the same time you can’t argue with the refs,”
Grant said. “That’s not going to help anything.”What did help was hitting the offensive glass.With the Orange down 51-46 at the 9:39 mark,
Grant soared for an Ennis misfire and threw down a slam in traffic. And with 8:07 to play, Grant put back another Ennis miss to give the Orange its first lead since the beginning of the half.
And then Grant went up for Fair’s missed jumper with 4:43 to play.
“I don’t know where he came from,” Fair said, “but I saw it.”
Coming in from the middle of the lane, Grant elevated and — in one fluid motion — caught the rebound at its peak and threw it down through the rim, sending landing-pad BC forward Ryan Anderson stumbling off the court.
“That was a ‘Woah — did that just happen?’ — kind of play,” Boeheim said.
It did. It sucked the life out of Conte Forum, which was shaking only minutes ago. It turned the momentum of the game squarely in the Orange’s favor.
Grant said the dunk is one of his two best of all time, rivaling his two-handed tip-slam against
California earlier this season. That one was only a candidate for SportsCenter’s Top 10 list.
But with just less than half a season to go,
there’ll be plenty more chances to rattle rims and catalyze crowds.
Maybe even enough chances to land a No. 1.
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Grant dunk secures comeback win
SOARING BACK
TREVOR COONEY flushes one of his first-half dunks in No. 2 Syracuse’s 69-59 victory at Boston Col-lege on Monday night. The redshirt sophomore poured in a game-high 21 points and the Orange finished the game on a 25-9 run to elude an upset at the hands of the Eagles. yuki mizuma staff photographer
Syracuse uses strong 2nd-half surge to stave off upset at BC
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By Trevor Hassasst. sports editor
CHESTN UT HILL, Mass.—Conte Forum was literally shaking. The cozy arena transformed into a frat house, as “Seven Nation Army” blared from the loudspeakers and the
student section erupted.Boston College forward Ryan Anderson had just converted an
and-one. He hurled his body forward and screamed, “Let’s go!” as he darted toward the line.
The free throw swished. BC’s lead increased to six. The upset became more and more real.
But then it slowly fizzled. No. 2 Syracuse (17-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) survived against the
Eagles (5-12, 1-3) by a score of 69-59 in front of 8,606 on Monday night, avoiding what would have been one of the biggest upsets in col-lege basketball this season.
Trevor Cooney scored a game-high 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting, bouncing back from a mis-erable 4-for-17 showing against North Caro-lina. Tyler Ennis finished with 12 points, five assists and a season-high six steals as SU avoid-ed the unthinkable and remained unblemished on the season.
“We knew we had to come together,” SU for-ward Jerami Grant said. “I feel like our team is a team that can come back from any situation.”
That’s been true so far this season. Syracuse trailed by 18 in the first half against then-No. 8 Villanova and came back and won. Against Miami, the Orange scored fewer than 50 points and still won.
And Monday, when a loss seemed more pos-sible than it has all season, Syracuse prevailed once again.
It was the quintessential trap game: a 9 p.m. road contest against a team that’s underachieved all season, has something to prove and thrives from downtown.
For a while, it seemed as if No. 2 would go down. BC hit 5-of-12 3s in the first half – including three from Lonnie Jackson, who tacked on
By Stephen Baileysports editor
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The same sound that ushers in each episode of SportsCenter echoed out from the middle of the visitor’s locker room at Conte Forum.
Da-da-da. Da-da-da.But there was no television. The
noise came from Jerami Grant and DaJuan Coleman. The Syracuse big men stood laughing, raving and imitating over Grant’s most recent highlight-reel play — an eye-grab-bing putback slam that the sopho-more forward made look routine.
It not only earned the No. 2 spot on SportsCenter’s Top 10 on Monday night, but capped a 16-3
second-half run that brought Syra-cuse back from the brink of its first loss this season.
“It definitely just helped push us over the top,” Grant said. “I feel like after that, we already had the game.”
Grant’s flush was the cherry on top of a brilliant second-half per-formance that helped key the No. 2
Orange’s (17-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) 69-59 win over Boston College (5-12, 1-3). He made all three of his shots from the field, as well as all five of his free throws, grabbed six rebounds and helped quench the Eagles’ red-hot shooters despite playing with four fouls for the last 10:09.
Grant bounced back from a shaky first half with the best performance of any SU frontcourt player.
“Jerami, he’s a special type of tal-ent,” senior forward C.J. Fair said. “He knows how to use his athleti-cism without being out of control. He knows when to pick his spots and he feeds off his rebounds.”
But in the first half, Grant was unable to turn his rarely matched
