By Alfred Ng ASST. NEWS EDITOR The Falk school has proposed two programs to keep up with emerging career fields. The University Senate Committee on Curricula has submitted a report reviewing the academics of the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. It listed eight new courses for the proposed bachelor’s of science and minor in food studies. The other proposed program is a certificate of advanced study in trauma-informed practice, which is for people like graduate students and practicing mental health professionals, accord- ing to the report. The committee proposed the food studies major and minor because of the field’s increasing popularity, according to the report. It will focus on the political economy of food, along with agroecology, gastronomy and nutrition. If the new major is imple- mented, parts of Syracuse Univer- sity’s nutrition science and dietetics program will be integrated into this program, according to the report. The proposed major is undergo- ing necessary state approval before it becomes available to students, said Michele Barrett, director of commu- nications for Falk, in an email. Barrett said the proposed food studies program follows a trend in academia toward understanding the socioeconomic bases of food produc- tion, manufacturing, distribution and consumption. “The Falk College proposes a Food Studies Bachelor of Science program to take advantage of growing interest in food systems and how this academ- ic training can translate into career opportunities for students,” she said. Barrett said the major would ben- efit students interested in the social science and legal policy aspects of food while preparing them for careers in food sustainability and agricul- tural issues. The other program proposed, a cer- tificate of advanced study in trauma- informed practice program, is “struc- tured for clinicians, mental health Text and photos by Chase Gaewski PHOTO EDITOR M ore than a year ago, Liz Garcia felt like she was living in solitary confine- ment. Residing in the Bronx at the time, she struggled through the psy- chological and emotional pain of an abusive relationship. There were days when Garcia wouldn’t speak. There were days falk Committee updates class curriculum SEE GARCIA PAGE 8 SEE FALK PAGE 6 First member graduates from city women’s empowerment program now’ freedom ‘Living in when she would question her sanity. There were nights when “evil enti- ties” chased her in her nightmares. Garcia said her boyfriend never physically abused her. The pain inflicted, she said, was mental. One day, Garcia was at home when her boyfriend came out of the kitchen with a knife and started walking toward her. “He came with the knife, and at the last minute — I thought he was going to stab me,” Garcia said. “He turned the knife around on himself and he said, ‘Here, stab me in my heart. It’s like you’re ripping my heart out. Here. Just stab me.’” After that moment, Garcia left her boyfriend in search of a shelter. A couple weeks later, she found her way to Exodus 3 Minis- tries in Syracuse. Exodus 3 Ministries is an all- encompassing, solution-focused nonprofit organization for women in dangerous situations. The women live in The Exodus House while they go through a program that teaches a variety of life skills and provides them with a safe envi- ronment to recover from personal struggles. Exodus 3 refers to a chapter in the Old Testament of the Bible in which God calls on Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. On Saturday, Garcia became the first woman to graduate from LIZ GARCIA sits in a pew, waiting to give her graduation speech inside St. John’s Church on Saturday. Garcia graduated from the Exodus 3 Ministries program after a year of recovering from an abusive relationship she escaped from when she lived in the Bronx, N.Y. “I met her where she was at and started walking with her. Walking her journey of darkness with her.” Debra Person EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EXODUS 3 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SYRACUSE , NEW YORK , MONDAY , OCTOBER 21, 2013 | FREE
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By Alfred NgASST. NEWS EDITOR
The Falk school has proposed two programs to keep up with emerging career fields.
The University Senate Committee on Curricula has submitted a report reviewing the academics of the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. It listed eight new courses for the proposed bachelor’s of science and minor in food studies. The other proposed program is a certificate of advanced study in trauma-informed practice, which is for people like graduate students and practicing mental health professionals, accord-ing to the report.
The committee proposed the food studies major and minor because of the field’s increasing popularity, according to the report. It will focus on the political economy of food, along with agroecology, gastronomy and nutrition. If the new major is imple-mented, parts of Syracuse Univer-sity’s nutrition science and dietetics program will be integrated into this program, according to the report.
The proposed major is undergo-ing necessary state approval before it becomes available to students, said Michele Barrett, director of commu-nications for Falk, in an email.
Barrett said the proposed food studies program follows a trend in academia toward understanding the socioeconomic bases of food produc-tion, manufacturing, distribution and consumption.
“The Falk College proposes a Food Studies Bachelor of Science program to take advantage of growing interest in food systems and how this academ-ic training can translate into career opportunities for students,” she said.
Barrett said the major would ben-efit students interested in the social science and legal policy aspects of food while preparing them for careers in food sustainability and agricul-tural issues.
The other program proposed, a cer-tificate of advanced study in trauma-informed practice program, is “struc-tured for clinicians, mental health
Text and photos by Chase Gaewski
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M ore than a year ago, Liz Garcia felt like she was living in solitary confine-
ment. Residing in the Bronx at the time, she struggled through the psy-chological and emotional pain of an abusive relationship.
There were days when Garcia wouldn’t speak. There were days
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when she would question her sanity. There were nights when “evil enti-ties” chased her in her nightmares.
Garcia said her boyfriend never physically abused her. The pain inflicted, she said, was mental.
One day, Garcia was at home when her boyfriend came out of the kitchen with a knife and started walking toward her.
“He came with the knife, and at the last minute — I thought he was going to stab me,” Garcia said. “He turned the knife around on himself and he said, ‘Here, stab me in my heart. It’s like you’re ripping my heart out. Here. Just stab me.’”
After that moment, Garcia left her boyfriend in search of a shelter. A couple weeks later, she found her way to Exodus 3 Minis-tries in Syracuse.
Exodus 3 Ministries is an all-encompassing, solution-focused nonprofit organization for women in dangerous situations. The women live in The Exodus House
while they go through a program that teaches a variety of life skills and provides them with a safe envi-ronment to recover from personal struggles. Exodus 3 refers to a chapter in the Old Testament of the Bible in which God calls on Moses
to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
On Saturday, Garcia became the first woman to graduate from
LIZ GARCIA sits in a pew, waiting to give her graduation speech inside St. John’s Church on Saturday. Garcia graduated from the Exodus 3 Ministries program after a year of recovering from an abusive relationship she escaped from when she lived in the Bronx, N.Y.
“I met her where she was at and started walking with her. Walking her journey of darkness with her.”
Debra Person EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EXODUS 3
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Lawrence Mason thought he had seen all of Lockerbie, Scotland. But after col-laborating with a Lockerbie Scholar, he learned there’s more to the town than just the disaster it endured.
To commemorate the 25th anniversa-ry of the Pan Am Flight 103 air disaster, Mason, a professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is showcasing three Lockerbie photogra-phy exhibits in the lobby of Newhouse I.
On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 went down over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. The terrorist attack killed 270 people — 35 of them Syracuse University students.
The three exhibits, “Lockerbie and Disasters,” “The Healing of Lockerbie” and “Lockerbie Forward” all show the evolution Mason said he has witnessed in Lockerbie in the past 17 years.
“Lockerbie and Disasters” will be displayed in Newhouse I through Thurs-day, when the second exhibit, “The Heal-ing of Lockerbie,” will be presented.
Mason said he taught eight of the students who died in the disaster over Lockerbie and “felt a strong pull to go there to find a sense of peace or closure
out of the disaster.” In the fall of 1996, when he was teach-
ing in London, Mason and 15 of his students piled onto a bus to take a tour of Lockerbie. After visiting the disaster site, Mason said everyone — even those who had no contact with the victims — were crying by the end of the afternoon.
“We all thought we had seen Locker-bie,” Mason said. But after collaborating with Alison Younger, a Lockerbie resi-dent who received a scholarship to attend SU for one year, he changed his mind.
For the 10th anniversary of the trage-dy, the university asked him to showcase his photos from his first visit to Locker-bie, he said. Mason said he then invited Younger to write the introduction to his photography show.
When Mason read what Younger wrote, Mason said he realized there was much more to Lockerbie than just the Pan Am Flight 103 tragedy.
“Alison wrote about a town I had not seen. She didn’t talk about the disas-ter sites at all, she talked about family, school, friendship and smiles,” Mason said. “I realized that I was really foolish to think that seeing the disaster sites meant that I saw Lockerbie.”
By Brett SamuelsSTAFF WRITER
This year’s Impact Week will feature new events and initiatives, and is something its creators hope will leave an even longer lasting effect on stu-dents and beyond.
Nia Boles, the Student Associa-tion’s chair of the Student Engage-ment Committee, is head of the project this year. She created a new event including greek organiza-tions, in addition to a competition among participating organizations to gather the most canned goods. The ultimate goal of these events, Boles said in an email, is to expand the reach of Impact Week to the Syracuse community.
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• A 26-year-old male was issued a ticket for unlawful possession of marijuana on the 100 block of Mar-shall Street on Wednesday at 2:48 p.m. The officer arrested him after an unidentified man had approached the officer and informed the officer there were illicit drugs inside of the 26-year-old’s vehicle. • Two males were issued tickets for violating park curfew on Wednes-day near Thornden Park at 2:13 a.m. A 19-year-old male and an 18-year-old male were arrested on the 200 block of Ostrom Avenue. The 18-year-old male is a freshman in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.• A 40-year-old male was arrested and charged on two counts of petty larceny and two counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument on the 100 block of Marshall Street on Saturday at 9:30 a.m.• An 18-year-old male was issued an appearance ticket for an open con-tainer and unlawful possession of an alcoholic beverage with the intent to consume by a person under 21 years old on the 600 block of Euclid Avenue on Saturday at 12:20 a.m. The man was holding a can of Bud Light when he was ticketed.• A 21-year-old male was issued a ticket for violating a nuisance party ordinance on the 700 block of Ostrom Avenue. The male is a junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.
photos courtesy of lawrence mason RITCHIE STRAWHORN, owner of a farm in Scotland, directs the move-ment of his sheep by giving verbal commands to his Border Collie dogs.TIM LIDDON carries the town’s flag as he leads the Riding of the Marches on Gala Day. He is the father of two former Lockerbie Scholars.
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W hat is it about spending less and limiting government influence that has so many politicians scared?
For those in power, it’s the only thing they have to fear.
The established order by which we are ruled fears anyone who seeks to limit its control. The control of this political and cor-porate elite is consolidated with every dollar the government spends, every institution it creates and every war it wages.
The concept that we are ruled by a repre-sentative government that acts on our behalf is little more than a façade to legitimize the decisions made by our ruling elite – deci-sions that almost always benefit themselves.
No matter who is in charge – Democrat or Republican – spending increases, gov-ernment influence grows and policies are implemented to aid big businesses.
You can see it in the tax code, which so unbelievably favors the super wealthy and, despite constant lip service by politicians, never gets fixed. The richest pay the least.
You can see it with all of the major banks and corporations sustained by public sub-sidies that are immediately bailed out in a
time of crisis while average Americans and their small businesses are left to suffer.
If you look hard enough, you will find plenty more examples that show the simple truth: We are ruled by a government of the rich and for the rich.
Many Americans realize this fact. Some accept it as the way things are. Some say it’s good because this concentration of wealth will somehow trickle down. Some say it’s an injustice brought on by the evils of capitalism.
The fact of the matter is, American capitalism today can barely be considered capitalism at all.
In a true capitalist society, there is fair competition among businesses, which suc-ceed based on the quality of their product or
service. If they fail, a better business comes along and takes its place.
Through modern “capitalism,” fair competition is scarce. The businesses that succeed are those that government policies favor. If they fail, the government lends them a hand.
Government also harms the economy and distorts capitalism by expanding into roles bet-ter left to charities, businesses and individuals.
This expansion “is sucking the life out of the private economy and creating a top-down bureaucratic society that is alien to American traditions,” according to a July report by the Cato Institute.
Americans are constantly coerced into believing that every function their govern-ment provides is one they cannot live without.
The fact is, there are few things the gov-ernment does that cannot be done better by the private sector.
It’s no secret that any government proj-ect results in tons of wasted and misman-aged resources.
More jobs and a more efficient use of resources aren’t the only benefits of trans-ferring wealth out of the government sector
and into the private sector.Without unnecessary federal programs
and the rules and regulations they usually bring, people could maintain more control in their lives and enjoy more civil liberties.
Economic freedom, which has a positive correlation with civil liberties, longer life spans and lower poverty, has been steeply declining in the United States for more than a decade, according to “Economic Freedom of the World: 2013 Annual Report.”
The biggest factors for this weakening in economic freedom are more regulation and increased spending.
Still, the government feverishly contin-ues its rampant spending, despite the fact that such spending limits both economic and personal freedoms, harms the economy, spurs unemployment and increases poverty.
Are we really supposed to believe this is all for our own good?
At some point, we have to realize that gov-ernment is the problem, and not the answer.
Nick Smith is a senior broadcast and digital journalism major. His column appears weekly.
He can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter at @Nick_X_Smith.
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PA G E 5the daily orange
I am interested in responding to your Oct. 15 article “Survey Says...” in which you published some of the results of an Undergraduates for Better Education survey about the satisfaction levels of the Syracuse University undergraduate student body. I have some concerns about the methodology used in the survey in question.
The survey made use of a vol-untary sample, which introduces voluntary response bias. In this case, it is likely to manifest itself as an unrepresentative high proportion of extreme respondents.
Consider the following: Upon receipt of the UBE survey, those with strong opinions on the matter were far more likely to make the
investment of time and effort to respond than those who could not have cared less. Given that of the 13,943 students surveyed, only 778 – around 6 percent – responded, and it is likely that this 6 percent holds more extreme viewpoints than the general student body, it’s hard to justify implying that the results are representative of all students.
Further, it is hard to say what the response of the missing 94 percent of the student body would have been. We assume that it would have been weighted more toward the middle of the spectrum than the survey results,
but where is that point? An argument could be made that
these uncaptured students would mostly respond neutrally, but I think it’s more likely that they would respond as “satisfied.” Why? Because as a student, you are exchanging your money for your education. Were the average student not at least satisfied with this exchange, they would not choose to participate and would instead seek education elsewhere. In fact, one must question how dis-satisfied the survey respondents that chose “very dissatisfied” can really be if they are still students and willingly exchanging their money for Syracuse’s education.
Finally, we must question why the survey results were interpreted
as they were. Almost universally in every response category, the “satis-fied” and “very satisfied” results outweighed the “dissatisfied” and “very dissatisfied” results. By choos-ing to group the neutral results in with the two dissatisfied options, the study presents a picture of a highly dissatisfied student body, where another potential, and perhaps more accurate presentation, is a highly satisfied one.
I have posed these questions to the UBE Facebook page, as well, and I suspect they will respond in due time. I would like to hear their decision-making process behind their choice to present their study as they did and if any steps were taken to mitigate the methodological con-
cerns above.I will also go on the record as
saying that my experience at SU has been a very satisfying one, but of course that evidence is merely anecdotal, so please do not use it to make judgments. I could be an outlier. Besides, as a former grad student, I’m not in the study’s target population anyway.
In closing, I would like to say that I applaud the UBE for their student advocacy and I hope they continue their mission. Regardless of questioning this study, I feel there is great value in what they are attempting to do and admire their ambition and attitude.
Matthew NeagleyMASTER’S STUDENT IN STATISTICS
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As the Student Association presidential candidates prepare for their next debate, they should better hone their ideas to be more relevant and feasible.
The presidential and vice presidential candidates par-ticipated in the first debate of election season on Friday. The candidates discussed on-campus issues such as self-segregation, student hunger on campus, advising and tuition.
The three candidates, Duane Ford, Ivan Rosales and Boris Gresely, have identified issues that students face. However, they should refine their platforms to include more measurable goals.
Self-segregation was one of the most discussed topics at the debate. Each candidate said they wanted to diminish self-segregation at Syracuse Univer-sity through a method unique to each presidential hopeful. It is important to note that this is not a surface-level issue.
It is one that has faced the university for decades.
This topic is fairly ambi-tious because it will take more
than one presidential term to complete. Therefore, it should not be the primary focus of the candidates’ campaigns. They should target specific aspects of university life on which they can have a significant effect, such as orientation, campus safety and SA’s own student outreach.
Candidates should work to revamp Orientation Week. Uni-versity officials should care more about this event, as it familiar-izes students with SU.
The first week at college is crucial for students. Improving the program could also benefit the retention rates of first-year students.
The candidates should also consider how SA can better serve its purpose as a student voice and resource, specifically on student safety.
Although the university has recently experienced a decrease in off-campus crime, secu-rity should always remain an important topic in presidential
campaigns. SA has already established a relationship with the Department of Public Safety, but presidential candidates should ask themselves how they can further this relationship and make students feel more secure on and around campus.
Finally, candidates should focus on better promoting SA and its relevance to students. Currently, students do not know what the organization can do for them, as evidenced by the poor attendance toward the end of Friday’s debate.
Candidates have recognized the need to refine SA’s image, but should now focus on how to con-nect the organization with the university and its constituents.
The presidential and vice presidential candidates should consider these platforms and ask themselves about the practicality of their goals.
By refining their ideas, they can better differentiate them-selves from one another.
Only then will a more com-petitive race ensue.
SA presidential candidates should better hone platforms with feasible goals
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By Zach SchweikertSTAFF WRITER
A fundraiser in Syracuse hosted its most attend-ed walking event in three years on Sunday.
Students gathered at Hendricks Chapel for the CROP Hunger Walk, a fundraising event that spreads awareness about world hun-ger, at 12:30 p.m. The Office of Engagement Programs helped bring together numerous university organization.
Participants walked from Hendricks into Syracuse, where the main event was held, said Al Forbes, a graduate assistant in the Office of Engagement Programs. Participants were asked to carry signs with slogans such as “End-ing hunger one step at a time.”
The number of attendees has doubled com-pared to two years ago, Forbes said. This year,
73 students participated in the walk. The event has raised almost $100 so far, he said.
“I can say that this has been the biggest group in the last three years,” said Syeisha Byrd, director of the Office of Engagement Programs.
The university has been participating in the walk for more than 20 years, Byrd said. For a couple of years, student participation was dwin-dling and organizers considered trying another fundraiser, she added.
More than 1,600 walks take place each year nationwide, according to the website for The Church World Service. The Church World Ser-vice sponsors the CROP Hunger Walks, which have been taking place since 1969.
Although students are encouraged to make monetary donations, contributions
are not required to participate, said Forbes, the graduate assistant.
“It’s really to bring more awareness. We know that students aren’t rich, so we’re not going to raise $10,000,” Byrd said.
The goal of the walk is to “educate the stu-dents on how hunger affects us here locally,” she said.
Byrd said the walk benefits the community. When people see the participants, she said, they will become aware of the hunger in the commu-nity. This generates more volunteers and makes people more willing to donate.
Theresa Bodnar, a graduate student in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management who volunteered at the event, said she thought the event was a great way to help the homeless and hungry residents in Syracuse.
Byrd added that 25 percent of the money raised will help that community. Forbes said it will go to the Interreligious Food Consortium of Syracuse. Another objective of the walk is to bring together university organizations.
Aysha Seedat, the community relations chair of OrangeSeeds and sophomore policy studies major, said the group does the walk as a yearly community service project. It can some-times be difficult for OrangeSeeds to involve all freshman members, she said, but the event is a good way to bring everyone together.
Said Seedat: “I thought this was a nice way to bring awareness to worldwide hunger and for everyone to bond together and meet other people in other organizations.”
Hunger awareness walk sees highest participation in 3 years
and continues through Nov. 2. The theme this year is “Service is the New Black,” Boles said.
“Last year’s Impact Week was very success-ful and I knew I wanted this year to be even big-ger and better,” Boles said. “The point of Impact Week is for students to really go off into the community and a make a real impact, so I knew I wanted many students and student organiza-tions to be involved.”
Boles said she contacted places where stu-dents volunteered during last year’s Impact Week, organizations that were eager to have SA return for another year. Some of the organiza-tions Boles said she’s reached out to include the Samaritan Center, the Rescue Mission and the Ronald McDonald House. In addition, she said, other committee members and the rest of SA have been supportive of the project by volun-teering for Impact Week and promoting it to the rest of the school.
Boles said she and the committee came up with two new initiatives to add to Impact Week. The first is called Impact Greek, which Boles said is a competition among greek organiza-tions to see which ones can complete the most service hours during the week.
The second initiative is called Impact Drive, a competition among registered student orga-nizations to see which one can donate the most canned food.
“I love the way Nia created Impact Greek to get the greek community more involved with Impact Week,” said SA Vice President Duane Ford.
The week closes with an Impact Week Gala on Nov. 2, an event that honors participating students and organizations.
Boles said a challenge she faced was making sure she didn’t try to do too much for the project.
“There are so many ways to give back to the community and lend a helping hand,” Boles said. “I genuinely love helping people and giving back, so I think the hardest part about planning Impact Week was making sure I didn’t overex-tend myself and my committee.”
While she’s hoping to involve a lot of students and benefit as many people as possible, Boles said she would consider the event a success if just one person is affected in a positive way.
“The point of Impact Week is to raise aware-ness about the Syracuse community, to encour-age students to leave the Hill, leave their com-fort zone and really make a change and an impact on someone’s life,” Boles said. “If it is just one person, I’ll be happy.”
The next time Mason taught for a semester in London, he decided he was going to see the “real Lockerbie,” he said.
“What I’ve seen over 17 years is an evolu-tion in Lockerbie, first as a disaster site, then I have seen healing happen, and after all those years I have thoughts of where Lockerbie goes from here,” Mason said. “So rather than pres-ent a conventional photo show, which would have been, ‘Here is what I’ve seen,’ I thought, ‘Let’s do the show in three phases.’”
Emily Pompelia, a Remembrance Scholar
who visited Lockerbie in the past, said in an email that she has seen the photos and described them as “surreal” and “humbling.” She said the trip was very emotional, but a reminder of the positive relationship Syra-cuse has built with Lockerbie.
The exhibits are almost exclusively Mason’s photography. For each of his photos, he provides extensive captions for viewers that “show them what I have seen and tell them what it meant to me.”
Mason said he hopes that after the exhibits are showcased at the university and then at an SU school that is yet to be chosen, his work will be donated to somewhere in Scotland.
professionals and practitioners,” according to the report. The courses will address the foundational theories of trauma, along with approaches and techniques to trauma theories.
The curricula committee used research from the National Center for Trauma-informed Care, and discovered an increased interest in the field, but too few trained mental health professionals to meet the demand. The senate committee expects up to 20 students a year to enroll in the program, according to the report.
Falk has added two new programs in the
past several years, such as a master’s of science program in sport venue and event management.
Barrett, Falk’s director of communica-tions, said the programs this year were added for the same reasons past programs were added.
Like other colleges, Falk officials are evaluating the school’s academic programs while watching future trends in growing fields and related opportunities, she said. Barrett added that this is done to “ensure its offerings meet student demand, and at the same time, the needs of the market and prospective employers.”
THIS YEAR’S EVENTS FOR IMPACT WEEKMonday Oct. 28• Serving dinner at the Samaritan Center, 3-5 p.m.: The Samaritan Center is an interfaith center that aims to feed the homeless and needy men, women and children of Syracuse. Center officials believe good nutrition is the first step to helping people get back on their feet.
Tuesday Oct. 29• Painting rooms at the ASPCA Center, 4:30 p.m.: The ASPCA is a national organization that works to rescue animals from abuse, pass humane laws and share resources with shelters across the country.• Perceptions of Perfections Forum, 7 p.m., Watson Theater.
Wednesday Oct. 30• Painting rooms at the ASPCA Center, 4:30 p.m.:• Serving dinner at the Ronald McDonald House: The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central New York is to create, identify and support programs that aid children and families in Central New York and Northern Pennsylvania.
Thursday Oct. 31• Volunteering at the Rescue Mission, 4 p.m.: The Rescue Mission, located in the Mission District of Syracuse, is just outside of the downtown area. The campus has an emergency shelter, day center and serves three meals a day at food services centers. On average, more than 250 men stay at the center, with more than 725 meals served to men, women and children daily.
Friday Nov. 1• Donations will continue to be collected in 126B Schine.
Saturday Nov. 2• Cleaning up Thornden Park, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.• Impact Week Gala: A dinner and award show honoring the students and organizations who participated in Impact Week.
photo courtesy of lawrence mason Town members of Lockerbie, Scotland, celebrate Gala Day, which is held every June. This is one of several photos that is featured in Lawrence Mason’s photo exhibit.
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Tree-Scientists attempt to re-establish previously extinct tree after 25 years of research
vivalBy Leanna Kirschen
STAFF WRITER
A fter about 25 years of research, SUNY-ESF scientists will attempt to re-estab-lish the American chestnut tree, which
was previously functionally extinct. “Twenty-five years, $5 million and two full
careers later, we’re still working on it,” said Chuck Maynard, the tissue culture special-ist on the project. He became involved in the mid-1980s, when the president of the American Chestnut Foundation, Phil Rutter, came to Syra-cuse to spread the word about the destruction of the American chestnut tree.
Collin Bartholomew, research analyst at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, said the project has taken a lot of time because of all the careful research involved. “We need to look at all of the ecological impacts between the chestnut trees and the surrounding veg-etation. Any mistake could devastate the entire forest.”
In the past 30 years, the Cryphonectria para-sitica fungus has killed American chestnut trees, especially on the East Coast, said Linda McGuigan, the lab manager on the project. McGuigan said the Appalachian Mountains were approximately 25 percent American chestnut before the fungus was introduced to the ecosystem.
Scientists at ESF have collaborated to form a blight-resistant American chestnut tree by breeding it with a Chinese chestnut tree, McGuigan said. The offspring of the two trees have been bred with other American chestnuts to create an offspring that is 15 of 16 American chestnut, she said.
“We’re trying to re-establish a dominant tree species back into the forest,” Bartholomew said, referencing the fact that American chestnuts used to dominate East Coast forests. He said American chestnuts taste better than Chinese chestnuts and are of higher quality.
ESF has provided continuous support to these scientists, funding the lab and even matching the money the team spends on growth chambers and microscopes, said Maynard, the tissue culture specialist. The team also uses ESF’s Lafayette Road Experiment Station for tests on the trees in the field, he said.
The team is not able to distribute the chest-nut trees yet because of a Food and Drug Admin-istration regulation, Bartholomew said. They are currently keeping the trees in a fenced-in area so that deer can’t get in and move the genes around by carrying chestnuts to other areas of the forest, he said.
The scientists are currently narrowing it down to two or three species that will be re-introduced into the Lafayette Road Experiment Station next summer.
ESF professors, such as Donald Leopold of the environmental and forest biology depart-ment, also support the team’s work.
Said Leopold in an email: “I think the research being done by Drs. Bill Powell and Chuck Maynard, including their team, on American chestnut, is the single most impor-tant research project done in the 100-plus-year history of ESF.”
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(ABOVE) St. Stephen’s Church, where Garcia’s graduation cer-emony was held, is next door to the Exodus House in Syracuse.(BELOW) LIZ GARCIA worships in the basement of the Exodus House before the start of her graduation ceremony on Saturday.
(TOP) Garcia prepares for the day with a cup of coffee inside the Exodus House.(MIDDLE) A calendar hangs inside the kitchen of the Exodus House, marking the date of Garcia’s graduation celebration.(BOTTOM) Garcia waits on a balcony before her graduation ceremony Saturday.
Garcia laughs and celebrates after receiving her diploma during her graduation ceremony inside St. Stephen’s Church. She is the first to graduate from Exodus 3 Ministries, a solution-focused nonprofit organization for women who live in dangerous situations. Garcia is also the program’s first participant. She joined three days before it opened in October 2012.
“I’m speaking from experience. Not from a book, not from an associate’s degree, not from a bachelor’s degree, not from a master’s degree. I’m speaking from hard knocks. Real life. That’s mine. That’s first and most important.”
Cathy Peterson VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR AT EXODUS 3
the program. Four other women with stories like Garcia’s remain at the home.
The shelter relies completely on donations and volunteers, said Cathy Peterson, the volunteer coor-dinator at Exodus 3. Volunteers are responsible for different tasks ranging from answering phones to teaching life skills like sewing, cooking and crafts.
Still, the organization often struggles to collect adequate donations, said Debra Person, the executive director of Exodus 3.
Person opened The Exodus House last October after going through rehabilitation herself and receiving her master’s degree in social work, specializing in com-munity organization, policy, plan-ning and administration, from Syracuse University in 2008. Per-son admitted Garcia into the home three days before the program offi-cially opened on Oct. 1, 2012, due to Garcia’s circumstances.
When Person first met Gar-cia, she said, Garcia appeared to be closed off. Person said Garcia would sit in the dining room in the dark or read in a dark corner wearing dark glasses and a hood.
Since then, Person has wit-nessed Garcia’s transformation.
“I met her where she was at and started walking with her. Walking her journey of darkness with her,” Person said.
Person said she’s able to rec-ognize and understand all of her residents because she’s been in their shoes. She’s been to rehab, she’s been incarcerated. She’s
also a survivor of molestation and rape. Because of her experiences, she is able to understand from where her residents are coming, she said.
“I’m speaking from experience. Not from a book, not from an asso-ciate’s degree, not from a bachelor’s degree, not from a master’s degree. I’m speaking from hard knocks. Real life. That’s mine. That’s first and most important,” Person said.
Garcia has now set a precedent for other residents in the program, Person said.
Samantha Volles, current resi-dent of The Exodus House and a former drug addict, said that so far, the program has drastically changed her life.
“I was in a drug addiction that was so hard to break, I couldn’t go two weeks without relapsing,” she said. “And now, I’ve been living six months clean. Not even having a thought or a memory since I came here in May.”
Volles enrolled in the program last May and said she intends to follow in Garcia’s shoes by graduat-ing in May 2014.
Garcia’s mother, Maria Fernan-dez, surprised her daughter on Sat-urday by attending the graduation. Although she had communicated with Garcia by phone during her time at the shelter, Fernandez had not seen her daughter in person for a full year.
Fernandez said that in the last year, she has seen a transformation in her daughter. Garcia, she said, has become a new person.
Said Garcia: “That imprison-ment of fear has been lifted, and now I’m just like, in freedom. You know? I’m living in freedom now. In one year.”
joshua chang | staff photographerKAILEY SMITH leads Main Squeeze as the lead vocalist in the all-female a cappella group’s version of “The Luckiest” by Ben Folds, which then became a mashup with Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory.” They, along with The Mandarins, held a breast cancer awareness benefit concert.
By Joe InfantinoASST. FEATURE EDITOR
Thanks to the advice of one of Broadway’s most humble charac-ters, Michaela Peterson is now a leaper, not a thinker.
“Instead of thinking about this challenging future of what might come ahead, I can just leap right into it because that’s what I love to do,” she said. “I can take the leap and not weigh all the outcomes.”
Sutton Foster, a Tony Award-winning actress best known for her roles in “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “Anything Goes” and “The Drowsy Chaperone,” performed Saturday as a part of the Pulse Per-forming Arts Series. That morn-ing, before she sang renditions of various Broadway numbers and some original songs off her upcom-ing solo album, Foster held a closed master class for 25 students. The workshop consisted of a Q-and-A session, after which two students sang a song of their choice and were critiqued by Foster herself.
Peterson, a sophomore music industry major, and Alex Alpert, a sophomore vocal performance major, were the two students ran-domly selected to sing. Both said as they interacted with Foster, they were able to relax.
“We were all surprised by how modest and down to earth she was, and how possible it is to achieve normalcy at her level,” Alpert said.
It was this familiarity that helped them shake off any nerves.
Alpert sang “The Impossible Dream” from the musical “Man of La Mancha,” while Peterson sang “Right In Front Of Your Eyes,” a loud, in-your-face number from “The Wedding Singer.” They sang through their songs several times. After each rendition, Foster offered advice and critiqued their styles.
“It’s a song I sing a lot, and it’s one I personally connect with and that is part of my life,” Alpert said. “I thought that would be a good idea to bring to Sutton, something I was familiar with. But she was still able to encourage me to try new things.”
Foster’s main advice for both performers was to “do less.” Her goal was to have them focus more on what they were saying to the audi-ence, rather than distracting them with big theatrics, Alpert said.
To get the two singers to think about their performances in new ways, Peterson said Foster asked questions to the point where they were critiquing themselves.
By Kristin RossFEATURE EDITOR
T he broad, open worship space of Hendricks Chapel was filled with heartfelt performances
on Saturday evening in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Main Squeeze and The Mandarins, two all-female a cappella groups on campus, hosted “Pink is the New Orange: A Breast Cancer Awareness Revue.” Auditions for the event were held a month in advance, with the only criteria that the performances had to have an uplifting message, said Main Squeeze senior and coordinator of the event, Sydnee Corriders.
“There were some rough sleepless nights, but it came together so I’m really happy. And we raised a lot of money, and that’s what it’s all about,” said Corriders, a psychology and child and family studies major.
One-hundred percent of the pro-ceeds went to support Laurie’s Hope, a breast cancer support program at the YMCA of Greater Syracuse. The program helps women who are bat-tling the disease get through it — physically and emotionally.
Corriders said the two a cappella groups agreed the money raised should go to a local group, rather than one on the national scale. They also decided to reach out to the entire Syracuse community, rather than just students on campus.
“Breast cancer affects everyone, so we really wanted to have a large scope for the performers,” Corriders said.
Three singers from the commu-nity performed. One — the youngest in the performance — was 13-year-old Mariah Adigun, who closed out the event by singing a rendition of Mariah Carey’s “Hero.” She received
the only standing ovation of the night.But the majority of the evening was
not about showing off one’s talents. It was about portraying the loaded meaning behind the artwork. The rest of the night was filled with duets, a
monologue from “My Sister’s Keep-er,” a performance by Juiced Dance Troupe and one student who per-formed original spoken word poetry.
Standing alone on stage behind a mic while wearing a pink tie in support of breast cancer awareness, Hernz Laguerre Jr. delivered one of the standout moments of the night with his poetry. He said he has a per-sonal tie to breast cancer: His grand-mother died from it when he was only 5 years old.
“I’ve been in support of it for a long time, and I just wanted to share my art with other people,” said Laguerre, a sophomore broadcast and digital journalism major and member of the Syracuse football team. “I always appreciate it when people appreciate my thinking, because that’s what my poem is, it’s what I think and just me saying it out loud.”
Originally, he said he intended to perform the piece with which he audi-tioned, “Beauty in Every Crevice.”
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“Breast cancer affects everyone, so we really wanted to have a large scope for the performers.”
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By Linda GormanSTAFF WRITER
It’s not particularly glamorous and it’s not even that much fun, but coupon clipping can be an effective way for cost-conscious college students to cut down on their grocery bills. Last week, Savings.com released Favado, an application designed to simplify the time-consuming pro-cess of finding sales and coupons at local stores.
Favado’s creators claim the app can save shoppers as much as 70 percent on grocery and drug store items.
Available for free for both iPhone and Android phones, Favado allows users to enter their zip code and select from a list of stores closest to them. The app displays all of the items currently on sale at each of the stores selected, and marks where coupons are available with a paper clip symbol. Users can make shopping lists directly within the app by entering items manually or pulling from the sale listings.
Favado also draws data from a network of money-saving bloggers who provide regional data on the week’s top deals.
The “Top Deals” section is one of the app’s most useful features. For example, after enter-ing three stores and my location, Favado pre-sented me with more than 700 deals — a great
selection, but, admittedly, a lot of information to process. The “Best” section listed all of the top deals and honed in on 29 that were actually worth checking out. In case you were wonder-ing, Tops Friendly Markets has some serious deals on candy this week.
In general, the app is well-designed and easy to navigate. A handy search feature makes it easy to compare sale prices of any particular item.
Unfortunately, at this point, it is not pos-sible to show the cashier any coupons directly on your phone. Users have to send their lists via email and either print the coupons from their home computers or clip them out of the paper, adding an inconvenient extra step to the process. Hopefully, this will eventually change. Digital coupons are a work in progress that may become a feature of the app in the future, according to the app’s official website.
Downloading this app might not put you on the same level as the fanatics featured on TLC’s “Extreme Couponing,” but it could save you enough cash for next semester’s textbooks or a Spring Break trip to Florida. Or an extra six pack.
But, he said, it “wasn’t done cooking yet” and decided to perform one of his tried-and-true pieces, “Eyes on the Judged.”
“It’s just about newness, about a new season in life,” he said. “It’s getting rid of the old and coming in with the new.”
Throughout the concert, members of both Main Squeeze and The Mandarins read breast cancer statistics, such as the number of women currently affected by it, before introducing each act. At intermission, the groups announced a raffle for baskets filled with items from busi-nesses on Marshall Street, including gift cards to Bleu Monkey Café and coupons for Chipotle Mexican Grill.
As the concert came to a close, Corriders came onstage to announce that, with $1 raffle
ticket sales alone, they raised $214. Then, mem-bers of both a cappella groups came on stage to perform a mashup of Katy Perry’s “Roar” and Sara Bareilles’ “Brave.”
Corriders said she hopes the concert becomes an annual event, but, as a graduating senior, she won’t be around to watch it happen. Still, she was pleased with the turnout and the amount of support the concert had from the Syracuse community.
After the concert ended, Tessie Battista-Kenney, the breast cancer coordinator and fam-ily and teen director at the North Area Family YMCA, posted in the Pink is the New Orange Facebook page, thanking all of the performers for such a special night.
She wrote: “We attended last night and were blown away by the voices, dancers, readings and the outpour of support you generated. Thank you again for thinking of us.”
joshua chang | staff photographerBAILEY MARKS soars on Anthony Wright’s shoulder as they present a heartfelt dance to “Who You Are” by Jessie J. The two performed the act with JUICED Dance Troupe.
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1. CAFÉ KUBALAs the newest coffee shop near Marshall Street, Kubal’s best part is its short lines. But its coffee is a close second. It had a very natural flavor, most likely because the baristas used a honey sugar syrup to sweeten the coffee. The pumpkin spice and syrup mixed together into a nearly perfect flavor. The drink was served in a large, porcelain white coffee mug, which added to the cozy atmosphere of the cafe.
Kubal also boasts great customer service. If you have any special requests, the baristas are more than willing to help. I suggest asking for minimal foam because I had a stylish foam mustache by the time I finished my drink.
Snack on a pastry while doing some home-work between classes or take your drink to go and shop around in the thrift shop next door. If you tweet or post to Facebook about your expe-rience at Kubal with the hashtag #FallforKubal, you will receive 20 percent off special fall items.
2. STARBUCKSI have to admit my bias: Starbucks is my go-to coffee shop and I am a proud Gold Card member. My favorite drink is a skinny vanilla latte, so naturally, I thought I would enjoy the pumpkin spice latte. Boy, was I wrong.
I love the taste of coffee, but this drink had a strong and strange aftertaste. It was hard to drink the entire latte because of its bitter flavor. It is possible that the latte needed some
sweetener, but it was definitely not my favorite.Everyone knows the wait at Starbucks
depends on the time of day, so getting coffee there can be a gamble — I stopped in before class and ended up being late. As for the ser-vice, the baristas were smiley, but did not make my experience any better or worse.
I am probably in the minority with this opin-ion, but I would not suggest going to Starbucks to get your pumpkin fix.
3. DUNKIN’ DONUTSMy least favorite pumpkin-flavored coffee drink was from Dunkin’. Usually, I enjoy cold coffee drinks more than hot ones, but the Coolatta was not enjoyable.
The pumpkin flavor was not distinguishable. The flavoring was too sugary and masked the coffee taste. Overall, the drink was noticeably artificial. When I tried it again as a hot bever-
age, the experience was very similar. The bever-age tasted stale.
One thing worth noting was that I was able to get the drinks with my SUpercard money because it was in the Schine Student Center. The Dunkin’ ladies in Schine are sometimes a little cold, but if you approach them with a smile, your experience can be a little better. Similar to Starbucks, it depends on when you hit the Dunkin’ stand to avoid long waits.
By Nicole FisherSTAFF WRITER
W ith the leaves changing, boots becoming a staple to many students’ outfits and the brisk
Syracuse wind picking up, it can only mean one thing: It is pumpkin spice latte season.
I recently became a coffee drinker because of my summer internship, so I
was thrilled to find the best fall drink this campus has to offer. I went to the three best — or at least the most-talked-about — cam-pus spots and compared their caffeinated autumn specials. I discovered that pumpkin spice lattes might not be for me, but for those of you looking to find your favorite one, read below to see which one won me over.
Spice up your lifeCafé Kubal’s seasonal latte ranks No. 1 above Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts
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W hen you wander into a clothing store and find yourself con-fronted with racks upon racks of
garments of every size, color and cut, it’s too easy to forget that each piece of clothing did not simply materialize, but had to be made. Each garment had to be stitched and sewn piece by piece, either by hand or, more com-monly, by machine.
Decades of technological advances in production, manufacturing and shipping have allowed the fashion industry to become the massive, efficient and well-oiled machine it is today. But aside from the sheer marvels of production technology, “wearable technology” is the phrase that is being used to describe the latest wave of innovation in the fashion world.
When I first heard the expression “wear-able technology,” I admittedly assumed that athletic wear companies like Under Armour and Nike had stumbled upon a new way to market their high-performance, wicking technology fabrics to entice consumers into buying new workout gear just in time for the holiday season. I assumed wrong.
In actuality, “wearable technology” is the term that has been coined to describe the recent marriage of technology and fashion. Examples of wearable technology include the soon-to-be public release of Google Glass and the Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch.
Further, last Sunday, Apple confirmed the hiring of Angela Ahrendts, the former CEO of Burberry — the English fashion house that makes those delicious scarves and irresist-ible trench coats — to become the head of its retail department. Prior to the emergence of wearable technology, Ahrendts and those of her fashion-minded ilk would never have been chosen to fill such a position.
Apple, like Google and Samsung, is rumored to be developing its own wearable technology: the iWatch. Not only will it be interesting to see whether the iWatch ever comes to fruition, but also if Ahrendts will be able to make the watch fashionable and functional — a combination of qualities
that Google and Samsung have thus far failed to achieve.
The worlds of fashion and technology are colliding, and the result is nothing short of fodder for a science fiction novel. Glasses you use to communicate with somewhere. A watch that is also a smartphone. What’s next? Wi-Fi-enabling earrings? Belt buckles that have Bluetooth?
While I am all for technology – and I am truly mystified by the break-neck speed at which the world we live in is evolving – I do not want to feel like Inspector Gadget when I accessorize. But perhaps that’s just me.
If the “wearable technology” trend really takes off, we might one day wake up feeling like cyborgs, fully equipped with the latest, cutting-edge technology. We’ll be able to know virtually anything because Internet access will no longer be just at our fingertips. It will be a part of our ensemble.
Of course, the duality of such a vision is that technology will become so ubiquitous that we will become akin to robots and live in a world similar to the one Philip K. Dick imagined in his novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” Odds are, this trend will not spin that far out of control, but at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, there is always a possibility.
Either way, I won’t be rushing out any time soon to buy Google Glass, the Samsung Gal-axy Gear Smartwatch or even an iWatch if and when it comes into being. I like my watches – and my clothes – classic and low-tech.
Jenna Belmonte is a magazine, newspaper and online journalism graduate student. Her
fashion column appears every Monday in Pulp. She can be reached at [email protected].
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just sit on the edge of the stage,” Peterson said. “I was singing right to them and it became a much more intimate song.”
Sitting in the small focus group’s audi-ence while Peterson and Alpert sang their songs was Janine McElhone, who said that between performances, Foster really tried to emphasize her accessibility. McElhone, a senior information management and technol-ogy major, was able to interact with her before
the class — Foster was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt and fit right in with students — and said she was friendly and personable.
McElhone said Foster mentioned that she didn’t think of herself as a famous star. Foster put herself on the same level as the students while she helped the two performers improve.
“They’d sing it back the second time through and it would be 10 times better,” said McElhone, a member of the Pulse Performing Arts student board that helped bring Foster to campus. “Then she would give them even more tips and it would be like a completely different performance.”
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Fifty-six. F. That’s what happened to Syracuse on
Saturday.. The Orange got, as head coach Scott Shafer put it, its rumps kicked. Georgia Tech (4-3, 3-2 Atlantic Coast) dropped a 56-spot on Syracuse (3-4, 1-2), and the Orange came away with nothing at all.
“I think they just outplayed us top to bot-tom, first quarter to fourth quarter,” Syracuse center Macky MacPherson said.
Yes, Macky. Yes they did. The Orange wasn’t even close to prepared for the Yellow Jackets.
Though it was a catastrophic game for Syracuse that resulted in the eighth largest margin of victory in ACC history, it’s not the end of the world. There’s still time for the Orange to salvage the season and put that nightmarish test behind it.
SU will never see anything quite like GT’s offensive scheme again.
Syracuse prepared for Georgia Tech’s vaunted triple option since August, but all it had to show for it was a humiliating 56-0 loss.
Shafer tried to switch the defense from a 4-3 to a 3-4. The purpose of doing so, he said after the game, was to change “who the read and the speed the read would be.”
Needless to say, the tactical adjustment
backfired. Georgia Tech’s triple option looked like a septuple option. It was just a matter of what Vad Lee would do.
Honestly, it didn’t really matter what Syracuse did. The Orange simply wasn’t ready for Georgia Tech’s style of play. The egregious mistakes were more mental than they were physical. It was a lack of preparation on behalf of the coaching staff.
Shafer is the first to admit that. He said he was out-coached by Paul Johnson.
“I’m disappointed in myself,” the first-year head coach said. “Really am.”
The Orange didn’t study hard enough. The test questions all turned to gibberish and the answers were nonexistent.
One of the most fascinating things about Georgia Tech’s thumping was that it came at a very consistent, methodical pace.
It was a simple 7 yards here, 10 yards there, back to 8. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Touchdown, touchdown, touchdown.
GT only had two running plays of more than 20 yards, yet racked up 394 on the ground.
The most amazing thing wasn’t that Syra-cuse was dumbfounded by the triple option at first. Naturally, it’s going to be difficult to master at first glance.
No. The most incredible part was that the scoring barrage just never ceased.
I kept wondering when it would stop. When would Georgia Tech’s run game finally be nul-
lified? When would Syracuse score? But none of those things ever happened.The wrecking ball that is the Georgia Tech
triple option smashed Syracuse all afternoon. But it was just one game. Syracuse hosts
Wake Forest after a bye . It still has time to turn things around. Plus, SU doesn’t need to worry about facing Georgia Tech again anytime soon. The teams play in different divisions, so the Orange has until 2020 to study for that test.
Trevor Hass is an asst. sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears
occasionally. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter @TrevorHass.
By Josh HyberSTAFF WRITER
A single Syracuse mistake was all No. 21 North Carolina needed.
On Friday night at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill, N.C., North Carolina (5-2-5, 2-1-5 Atlantic Coast) capitalized on an Alex Bono turnover late in the first half, turning the gaffe into a goal. The turnover proved costly for the Orange as the Tar Heels escaped with a 1-0 victory over the Orange (8-5-1, 2-5-1).
“There’s such a fine line between winning and losing these games,” said SU head coach Ian McIntyre. “We had some chances on the other end. If we capitalize and execute on those, we win the game. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be on this occasion.”
Syracuse had its best scoring chance of the night just three minutes into the match. Midfielder Alex Halis put on a nifty dribbling display in the middle of the field just above the box, and slid a ball through three defenders to forward Emil Ekblom. Ekblom was alone with keeper Brendan Moore, but sent a shot right into his awaiting arms.
“It was a good move,” McIntyre said. “He created some space and the goalie made a good save. I think Emil would be the first to say he didn’t catch it as sweetly as he would have liked. And most times he sticks that one away.
“There’s a thin line between scoring goals and conceding goals.”
The Orange controlled play early on and recorded three shots in the opening five minutes.
In the 29th minute, SU seemed to take the lead when a Jordan Murrell corner kick appeared to cross the goal line. Ekblom put his arms up to celebrate, but no goal was awarded.
With eight minutes left in the first half, SU defender Chris Makowski sent a routine return pass back to Bono. The normally sure-handed keeper whiffed on a clearing attempt, though, and North Carolina forward Tyler Engel picked up the ball near the end line. Engel found Ver-neri Valimaa, who dribbled in a few steps and slid a pass to Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler, who placed the ball in the bottom right of the net.
“If that’s your center forward or your center midfield that makes that mistake, there are other guys around him to make up for that,” McIntyre said. “Unfortunately, the goalkeeper position is one of those where a mistake like that can lead to a goal scoring opportunity.”
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Raymon. He had a tough injury.”With less than a minute left in the second
quarter, Georgia Tech left guard Will Jackson dove onto Raymon’s right leg, which was fully flexed as Raymon tried to push through center Jay Finch. He collapsed as players from both sides of the ball fell onto him. He remained lying on his back for about four minutes.
Medical trainers looked at his knee before applying an air cast. Raymon was then carted off the field in a stretcher.
In six-plus games this season, Raymon logged seven total tackles, 1.5 sacks and a blocked kick.
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By Trevor HassASST. SPORTS EDITOR
ATLANTA — Earlier this week, Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer said Brisly Estime “can’t have too many pots on the stove.”
But Saturday afternoon, Shafer decided to add another pot to the stove that is Estime’s arsenal of weapons. Estime returned two punts and one kickoff for Syracuse (3-4, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) in the Orange’s 56-0 monstros-ity of a loss to Georgia Tech (4-3, 3-2) at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
“That was exciting for me to see him get out there and make some plays with the return game,” Shafer said.
On Thursday, Shafer said he and the rest of the coaching staff opted to use Estime exclu-sively as an H-back. Yet Saturday, he was back for Syracuse returning kicks.
In the fourth quarter, Estime returned a kickoff 15 yards to the SU 24. Later in the quar-ter, he burst along the far sideline for a 43-yard punt return. It looked like there was a chance he’d take it to the house, but punter Sean Poole forced him out of bounds at midfield.
Prince-Tyson Gulley also had a strong game returning kicks for the Orange. He finished with five returns for a total of 128 yards.
Gulley unleashed a 49-yard return in the first quarter, putting SU in strong field posi-tion. But as was the case all game, Syracuse failed to capitalize.
Hodge makes 1st career start with Syracuse implementing 3-4 defense
Marqez Hodge made the most of his first career start on Saturday. Syracuse (3-4, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) started in a 3-4 defense against Georgia Tech (4-3, 3-2) instead of its usual 4-3, which paved the way for Hodge to see more snaps.
Hodge, a linebacker, replaced defensive end Robert Welsh as a starter and finished with a career-best 12 tackles in SU’s 56-0 loss to the Yellow Jackets at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
“He did good,” starting linebacker Marquis Spruill said. “He was where he was supposed to be most of the time.”
Hodge’s first tackle came on the Orange’s second defensive play of the game, when he wrapped up David Sims after a 10-yard gain.
He added three more tackles in the first quarter, two of them on Sims, who torched Syracuse in the first half. On the Yellow Jack-ets’ first drive of the second quarter, Hodge recorded five tackles alone.
By halftime, he upped his total to 10, which was the top on either team.
The Yellow Jackets’ option befuddled Syra-cuse immensely, which led to frequent sizable gains. But Hodge was often there to prevent big gains from turning into touchdowns.
“(He) made some nice plays out there,” Spruill said. “He’s going to be getting better.”
luke rafferty | video editorMARQEZ HODGE takes down Georgia Tech quarterback Vad Lee in SU’s 56-0 loss on Saturday. Though the Orange was torched, Hodge’s play was a bright spot.
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By Stephen Bailey ASST. SPORTS EDITOR
One year ago, Tyler Ennis came to the Car-rier Dome for Midnight Madness as a recruit. He watched point guard Michael Carter-Wil-liams throw alley-oops as a packed student section exploded for the return of the biggest thing on campus.
On Friday, Ennis returned. This time, it was his turn to dish the dimes. A cross-court scoop pass in transition for Trevor Cooney. A knee-high bouncer through two defenders to Tyler Roberson. Even a three-quarter court chest pass, zipped over the retreating defense into the waiting hands of Roberson.
“It was good to get out in the Dome and get some experience playing out here,” Ennis said to the crowd after the game.
The freshman point guard, who Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said will play 38 min-utes per game this year, made his Dome debut at Orange Madness on Friday. He finished — unofficially — with 10 points and six assists in the 18-minute scrimmage, helping to open up Cooney for his scrimmage-best 23-point shoot-ing display.
Cooney hit from all around the arc, drain-ing five 3-pointers for the Orange squad, which won 55-46. C.J. Fair led the White team with 16 points.
Overall, the Orange looked sharp, some-thing Boeheim said he expected given the two extra weeks the NCAA allotted teams to practice this season.
“We’re way ahead of where we would be,” Boeheim said at the team’s media day earlier in
the day Friday. “That doesn’t necessarily mean we are going to get further than we would want to get.
“I think the key is to use what we’ve done and what we’ve been able to do with these early practices and to keep building on those as we go forward so we don’t plateau and we don’t stay here.”
At the event, Ennis was the first SU player introduced at 9 p.m. While others twisted and twirled out of the blow-up tunnel and through the artificial fog, Ennis walked forthrightly, both fists held high.
Fellow freshman B.J. Johnson followed before the rest of the players and assistant coaches walked out. Then Boeheim made a classy debut.
He rolled into the Dome in an oversized yellow taxi. Stepping out of the right rear door, Boeheim waved to the crowd and strode onto the court as the student section erupted.
The team watched a highlight video from last season before returning members were given their Final Four rings. Then the action started.\
After Cooney found DaJuan Coleman for an early dunk, Cooney sparked a 3-point barrage. Michael Gbinije, Johnson and Ron Patterson all followed as the Orange team raced out to a 14-8 lead.
Fair, whose shot looked sharp from the paint to the perimeter, canned a 3 to pull White ahead 17-16, but after an Ennis tip-in, Orange ran away.
With 1:45 left in the first half, Ennis grabbed a defensive rebound and raced up the court in transition. At the free-throw line, he swung a waist-high, underhand pass from his left hand into Cooney’s waiting palms on the right wing. Swish.
That helped Orange take a 29-22 lead into the break.
Cooney stayed red hot in the second half, hit-
ting a pair of 3s in the early minutes.Then when Ennis sucked in the defense on a
drive with 4:45 left in the second half, he found Cooney on the left wing for a long 2-pointer.
With less than a minute left, the clock bumped up to add an additional two minutes of play as the crowd cheered all the way through the final buzzer.
Gbinije wins dunk contest over late-entry Christmas
Originally, Johnson, Patterson and Gbinije were the only entries into Syracuse’s annual dunk contest. But after Johnson and Patterson struggled to throw down successful dunks in the preliminary round, junior Rakeem Christ-mas stepped off the sideline and asked for a ball.
Jogging in from the right side, he leapt with the ball in his right hand, swung it around in the air and crammed it in with his left.
But Gbinije – who took a Nolan Hart pass off the side of the backboard for a baseline slam in his first dunk – hammered home a ferocious windmill in the finals. And Christmas, after setting up two young fans underneath the bas-ket, bricked his dunk after clearing them.
Sykes, Peterson lead women’s White team to scrimmage win
Brittney Sykes and freshman Alexis Peter-son scored four points each as the White team edged the Blue team 10-7 in the women’s scrimmage.
After a rough first 1:45 filled with missed layups and turnovers, both teams found their rhythm in the eight-minute scrimmage. Rachel Coffey led the Blue squad with five points.
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MICHAEL GBINIJE throws down a dunk with some help from DaJuan Coleman at Orange Madness on Friday night. Gbinije won the event’s dunk contest against three others.
"We're way ahead of where we would be. That doesn't necessarily mean we are going to get further than we would want to get."
White• C.J. Fair• Michael Gbinije• Jerami Grant• Nolan Hart• Baye Moussa Keita• Albert Nassar• Chinonso Obokoh• Ron Patterson
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but finished with an incredible 394.“We went into it, thought we had a good
plan,” Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer said, “but really we got our butts kicked today.”
The butt-kicking started in the first quarter.Georgia Tech scored its first touchdown
on a 4-yard pitch from quarterback Vad Lee to running back Synjyn Days, who made his first career start. Lee was inches away from getting tackled, but he pump-faked and then lateraled the ball to Days, who waltzed his way into the end zone.
The touchdown capped a four-play drive that started at the Syracuse 24 after a blocked punt.
That was just the beginning, as a seemingly even matchup quickly transformed into the Yellow Jackets’ largest margin of victory ever in ACC play: 17 points.
Jay Bromley said the Syracuse defense wasn’t confused by the triple option. He felt prepared. But as Georgia Tech kept running the ball, Bromley was unable to get to the quar-terback, as he’s done so masterfully this season.
Practicing against the triple option helped, but the ball swirling around the SU defense at full speed was a whole different monster.
“It’s just one of those hard, physical games you’ve got to nut up and just continue to fight,” Bromley said.
But no matter what Syracuse did, it wasn’t enough. Not even close.
Shafer said earlier this week that the team started preparing for Georgia Tech’s option in August. On Saturday, though, Shafer said GT’s run-first mentality lulled the Orange to sleep.
“That’s part of their philosophy,” Shafer said. “To test your discipline. And their discipline
was better than our discipline today.”Lee became the puppeteer, the Syracuse
defense his obedient puppet.When Lee scurried one direction, so did the
Syracuse defense. Then Lee would lateral. If the defense didn’t bite, Lee would keep going and juke his way forward. He finished with 72 yards rushing and two touchdowns.
It was a simple formula for GT, one it has crafted through the years and was at its abso-lute finest on Saturday.
When asked why he called plays to throw the ball so infrequently, Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson responded truthfully.
“The way they were playing, there was really no use,” Johnson said.
The Yellow Jackets threw the ball only five times compared to 29 for Syracuse. They also threw for 45 fewer yards than the Orange.
But when they finally did throw, it was as though the offense called a Backyard Foot-ball trick play that sent the Syracuse defense into a stupor. The Orange was so caught off guard that the completion led to an effortless touchdown.
Lee lofted a pass to Darren Waller, who brushed off a helpless Brandon Reddish and glided into the end zone for a 46-yard score. That made the score 35-0 nearly two minutes into the third quarter.
The Yellow Jackets scored three more times in the half. Zach Laskey finished with three touchdowns on his own.
Back-up quarterback Justin Thomas even weaved his way through the Syracuse defense for a 50-yard touchdown late in the third quarter.
The last time Syracuse lost by such a lopsided margin was in 1999, when it lost 62-0 to Virginia Tech, led by a freshman Michael Vick. This year, the SU defense was manhandled more
UP Brisly EstimeThe H-back returned three kicks for Syracuse, including a 43-yard punt return.
DOWNSyracuse defenseThe Orange totaled only 75 yards on the ground after rushing for 362 the week before.
DRILL
ZEROSyracuseThe Orange allowed its most points since 1998. It was shut out for the first time since 2007. Despite about three months of preparation, Syracuse was throttled by the Yellow Jackets’ triple option. And to complete the monstros-ity of the afternoon, defensive tackle John Raymon was lost for the season due to a right knee injury.
HERO Vad LeeLee ran for two touchdowns and threw for another, orchestrating the Georgia Tech offense that abused Syracuse for four quarters. Individually, Lee rushed for 72 yards and completed all three of his passes for 88 yards, but his deci-sion-making led to a 482-208 disparity in total yards of offense.
BREAKING POINT6:35, second quarterGeorgia Tech quarterback Vad Lee scampered into the end zone for a 3-yard touchdown and a 21-0 lead. By this point, it was clear that Syracuse wasn’t going to be able to solve the Yel-low Jackets’ triple option.
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than it was against Penn State and Northwest-ern on Saturday, and even more than it was against Clemson.
Shafer attributed much of the Yellow Jackets’ success to blocking. The GT offense forced Syra-cuse to make one-on-one tackles. That’s what an
VISOR INDEX
SITTING TIGHT TO INFINITY...
When it became clear SU couldn’t even outscore either team in the ALCS, Shafer grabbed his visor and launched it in the air. Unfortunately, Georgia Tech grabbed it in mid-air and took it to the house to put the excla-mation point on GT’s win.
effective option team does, Shafer said, and SU failed to complete those tackles all game.
“Sometimes you get your rumps kicked,” Shafer said. “We got our rumps kicked today.”
THEY SAID IT“I was like, ‘You know what? It’s about time we got a break.’ That’s really what I was thinking. It just worked out.”
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luke rafferty | video editorDARREN WALLER (RIGHT) burns Brandon Reddish for a 46-yard touchdown on Georgia Tech’s first completion on Saturday afternoon. That pass came in the third quarter as the Yellow Jackets rode their potent triple option to a 56-0 win. GT c=ollected 394 rushing yards.
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A TLANTA — So it’s mid-terms week. You have a mas-sive (insert major here) test
that will factor heavily into your final grade.
You’ve been studying here and there for 5-10 minutes a day since school started in August. Now that the test is finally around the corner, you’re spending a few hours a day preparing yourself for what you know will be a doozy of an exam. Despite the difficulty and importance of the test, you genuinely feel prepared.
Once you get there, though, every-thing you thought you knew goes out the window. The test absolutely sh*ts on you.
Orange fails midterm exam with embarrassing loss to Yellow Jackets Georgia Tech flattens
Syracuse in shutoutT R E V O R H A S S
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By Stephen BaileyASST. SPORTS EDITOR
Syracuse defensive tackle John Ray-mon will undergo season-ending sur-gery for a right knee injury, accord-ing to SU Athletics.
Raymon flew back with the team after Syracuse’s 56-0 loss to Geor-gia Tech on Satur-day and spent the night in Crouse Hospital for obser-vation. Drs. Brad Raphael and. Irving Raphael
will perform the surgery “in the com-ing weeks.”
“First off, let’s start off the right way here,” SU head coach Scott Sha-fer said, opening his postgame press conference. “Thinking about John
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Raymon to have surgery, miss season
By Trevor HassASST. SPORTS EDITOR
A TLANTA — Zero. That’s the number of passing yards Georgia Tech had in the
first half.Still, the Yellow Jackets led
by 28.Georgia Tech’s run game —
fueled by its mind-bogglingly effec-tive triple option — made Syracuse
(3-4, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) look silly on Saturday in a 56-0 shellacking at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta in front of 45,704. The Yellow Jack-ets (4-3, 3-2) held a 28-0 advantage at halftime and never looked back.
The only suspense in the fourth quarter was whether Georgia Tech’s run game would crack the 400-yard plateau. It failed to do so,
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“Sometimes you get your rumps kicked. We got our rumps kicked today.”Scott Shafer, SU head coach
By Jesse DoughertyASST. COPY EDITOR
Alin Edouard has verbally commit-ted to Syracuse, according to a tweet from Hialeah (Fla.) High School team-mate A’lique Terry on Sunday night.
A three-star quarterback, Edouard initially committed to Miami (Fla.), but pulled his verbal on Sept. 1. The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Edouard ultimate-ly chose SU instead of offers from Penn State, Arizona, Tennessee and Nebraska, among other schools.
Edouard’s verbal commitment further establishes Syracuse offen-sive coordinator George McDonald’s recruiting prowess in the area. Edouard is the fourth Florida native to commit to the Orange since McDon-ald joined the staff last January.
