THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SYRACUSE , NEW YORK THURSDAY october 24, 2013 FREE HI 49° | LO 36° By Jesse Dougherty ASST. COPY EDITOR I n student-athlete mental health issues such as concussion preven- tion, Syracuse University’s Tim Neal has been ahead of the curve. The assistant athletic director of sports medicine was selected to attend the NCAA Concussion in Sport Medi- cal Management Summit as an expert in 2010. Many of the issues raised at the summit — educating student-athletes about concussions, building a strong rapport between players and trainers, monitoring the physicality of practices in contact sports — had been part of Syracuse’s concussion-prevention pro- gram for decades, he said. Now, Neal is again at the fore- front of a major issue in college athletics: tackling the growing prevalence of mental health issues among student-athletes. “The more we’re learning about mental health issues in college-age adults, along with some reports of student-athletes having issues,” Neal said. Nearly two years ago, Neal brought these issues to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s (NATA) atten- tion when he approached Jim Thorn- ton, the organization’s president, at a sports medicine meeting. Thornton was convinced of the need to address student-athlete mental health issues. Thornton compiled a team of 11 writers headed by Neal to draft a NY comptroller speaks on SU tax exemptions, donations INSIDEPULP Ice, ice baby Syracuse University has its own official ice cream flavor, Otto’s Cupcake. Page 13 INSIDESPORTS Sidekicks Student coaches Mark Brode and Louis Clark provide Ian McIntyre assistance on — but mostly off — the field. Page 24 INSIDENEWS Born and raised SU dining halls featured local cuisine as part of Campus Sustainability Day. Page 3 INSIDEOPINION Head strong SU is proactive in leading a change in NCAA for mental health awareness. Page 5 By Alfred Ng ASST. NEWS EDITOR Without its tax-exempt status as a non- profit, Syracuse University would pay the city $24 million in taxes every year. This was discovered by Thomas DiNapoli, New York State comp- troller, who spoke at city hall on Wednesday morning alongside the city’s mayor, Stephanie Miner. DiNapoli came to Syracuse to speak on the issue of tax-exempt properties burdening the state. He chose to come to Syracuse spe- cifically because Miner had raised this issue with him shortly after she became mayor. SU makes up a part of the 51 percent of tax-exempt properties in LEADER SU to help lead campaign for NCAA student-athlete mental health awareness OF THE PACK SEE NCAA PAGE 8 SEE TAXES PAGE 11 illustration by andy casadonte | art director ONLINE Final tune-up Syracuse cross country heads to Ithaca, N.Y., for one last meet before the ACC Championships. See dailyorange.com
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FREE hi 49° | lo 36°
By Jesse Dougherty ASST. COPY EDITOR
I n student-athlete mental health issues such as concussion preven-tion, Syracuse University’s Tim
Neal has been ahead of the curve. The assistant athletic director of
sports medicine was selected to attend the NCAA Concussion in Sport Medi-cal Management Summit as an expert in 2010. Many of the issues raised at the summit — educating student-athletes about concussions, building a strong
rapport between players and trainers, monitoring the physicality of practices in contact sports — had been part of Syracuse’s concussion-prevention pro-gram for decades, he said.
Now, Neal is again at the fore-front of a major issue in college athletics: tackling the growing prevalence of mental health issues among student-athletes.
“The more we’re learning about mental health issues in college-age adults, along with some reports
of student-athletes having issues,” Neal said.
Nearly two years ago, Neal brought these issues to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s (NATA) atten-tion when he approached Jim Thorn-ton, the organization’s president, at a sports medicine meeting. Thornton was convinced of the need to address student-athlete mental health issues.
Thornton compiled a team of 11 writers headed by Neal to draft a
NY comptroller speaks on SU tax exemptions, donations
I N S I D E P U L P
Ice, ice babySyracuse University has its own official ice cream flavor, Otto’s Cupcake.Page 13
I N S I D E S P O R T S
SidekicksStudent coaches Mark Brode and Louis Clark provide Ian McIntyre assistance on — but mostly off — the field. Page 24
I N S I D E N E W S
Born and raisedSU dining halls featured local cuisine as part of Campus Sustainability Day. Page 3
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Head strongSU is proactive in leading a change in NCAA for mental health awareness. Page 5
By Alfred NgASST. NEWS EDITOR
Without its tax-exempt status as a non-profit, Syracuse University would pay
the city $24 million in taxes every year.This was discovered by Thomas
DiNapoli, New York State comp-troller, who spoke at city hall on
Wednesday morning alongside the city’s mayor, Stephanie Miner. DiNapoli came to Syracuse to speak on the issue of tax-exempt
properties burdening the state. He chose to come to Syracuse spe-cifically because Miner had raised this issue with him shortly after
she became mayor.SU makes up a part of the 51
percent of tax-exempt properties in
LEADERSU to help lead campaign for NCAA student-athlete mental health awareness
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SEE TAXES PAGE 11
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Final tune-upSyracuse cross country heads to Ithaca, N.Y., for one last meet before the ACC Championships. See dailyorange.com
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Landlords see homes leased early
By Caroline StrangeSTAFF WRITER
Off-campus housing in the Syra-cuse University area has been leas-ing at a rapid pace, leading to the joy of many landlords and dismay of some students.
This semester has been the fastest selling year for Ben Tupper, the man-ager of Tupper Property Management, he said. The company has leased to more than 5,000 Syracuse University and State University of New York Col-lege of Environmental Science and Forestry students during the last 15 years, according to his website.
“I just bought out another landlord who had seven houses, which had about 12 apartments and he had only sold one,” Tupper said. “In a week and a half, they were sold out.”
Tupper said this was the fastest year ever for him, by “leaps and bounds.” This may be due to a SU Parents Facebook page where he received many positive reviews prais-ing him as a landlord, he said.
For students like Jay Alter, a sophomore broadcast digital journal-ism major, he said he’s disappointed that he did not start searching for housing earlier, because of how fast they’ve been selling.
“I started looking for housing in mid-September because a bunch of my friends were telling me, ‘Oh, I’m living here,’” Alter said. “I was plan-ning on just doing it in the spring, that’s what made sense to me.”
But some housing could still be available in the spring, said Elin Riggs, director of SU’s Off-campus and Commuter Services program — it just might not be what or where students want.
It’s typical for students to begin looking in the first few months of school, Riggs said.
“It’s the nature of housing. When students know they want to be some-where, they look a year ahead of time,” said Riggs. “Your friends are looking and saying ‘if you don’t look now, you won’t get a place’. So students think ‘if I don’t find something now, I’m never going to get something for the fall.”
But Riggs said it hasn’t always been this way. Students used to start looking for housing in the early spring semester, but it was pushed up to accommodate the rising num-ber of students who wanted to live off-campus.
Throughout the years, students have started looking for housing
SU dining halls feature local food for sustainability dayBy Zane Warman
STAFF WRITER
Instead of the usual dining hall food on Wednesday, students were able to enjoy Chobani Greek Yogurt and Dinosaur Bar-B-Que as part of the university’s inaugural Campus Sus-tainability Day.
Syracuse University hosted the Taste of Central New York din-ner, which featured food produced in New York State. The choices included New York apple cheddar pizza, cider-braised brisket, roasted squash and cheesecake. Vendors
such as Beak and Skiff, Chobani Greek Yogurt, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and Sal’s Birdland provided the food, said Melissa Cadwell, marketing manager of SU’s Sustainability Divi-sion of Energy Systems and Sustain-ability Management.
Though Syracuse University Food Services purchases local foods when possible, the diner showcased some of the items at their Taste of CNY event, Cadwell said. The event makes SU the 863rd university to join the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
(AASHE), Cadwell said. The event, which falls on the fourth Wednesday of every October, celebrates sustain-ability in higher education.
The Taste of CNY dinner was the second of three events on campus. Wednesday afternoon, in an event titled “Get Caught Green Handed,” members of AASHE handed out cus-tom Mr. Goodbars to those caught being environmentally aware on campus. In addition, the event included a free screening of the documentary “Your Environmen-tal Road Trip” in Watson Theater
on Wednesday night. All three of these activities were special to SU, Cadwell said.
“This is the perfect opportunity for Syracuse University Food Ser-vices to showcase their commitment to purchasing food items locally and sustainably,” she said.
Cadwell said sustainability goes beyond recycling because it also entails supporting the local economy and its farmers. The event not only promotes that idea but also shows stu-dents all the “great food items” that
Journalist to receive award for facing adversityBy Zane Warman
STAFF WRITER
Idrak Abbasov knows all too well about the risks of investigative journalism.
Abbasov, an independent news-paper reporter from Azerbaijan, has been named recipient of the Tully Award for Free Speech following his trials exposing corruption surround-ing a Azerbaijan federal oil company. Abbasov will be honored Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III, where
he will also give a speech.The award, created at the request
of the center’s benefactor Joan Tully, has been presented each year since 2008 to a foreign journalist who has faced adverse conditions and/or physical harm to provide his or her country with an honest, unfiltered voice in journalism, said Roy Gutter-man, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech.
“We’ll learn what it’s like to receive these daily threats,” Gutter-man said. “It’s hard for us to imagine
because we have legal protections and we live in a civil society, so when we bring these journalists in (to tell their story), it’s pretty scary.”
In 2012, Abbasov was beaten by security personnel for videotap-ing their treatment of protesters of the national oil company SOCAR. During the assault, police officers stood by and watched him fall to the ground as security beat him uncon-scious. Abbasov was hospitalized with severe injuries, including sev-eral broken ribs and head trauma,
Gutterman said. Even after witnessing attacks
and threats against his family and children and a home invasion by government forces, Abbasov did the only thing he could do: continued to cover the corruption around him, Gutterman said.
“You have two choices in those situations,” Gutterman said. “You can cower and capitulate or you can keep doing your journalism and keep informing the public.”
joshua chang | staff photographerFor the Taste of Central New York dinner, all campus dining halls featured local foods from businesses such as Beak and Skiff, Chobani Greek Yogurt, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and Sal’s Birdland. The event was a part of SU Food Services’ Campus Sustainability Day on Wednesday.
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I am on a quest to be brilliant. A daunting task? Possibly. An idealist’s
dream? Absolutely. But in today’s world of gridlocked partisan politics and an evident lack of problem solving skills in Washington, maybe what American civilization needs is a little more everyday brilliance.
CNN/Operational Research Consultants released a poll this past week exposing citizens’ post- shutdown government approval ratings. The majority of Americans polled disapprove of both executive and congressional job per-formance by 52 and 86 percent, respectively. A majority also believe Republican control of the House of Representatives is bad for the country.
The 16-day government shutdown, and American discontent following it, is proof of increasingly frequent and severe partisan inefficiency. Fierce allegiance to the two major political parties by both government officials and citizens is leading the nation toward gov-ernment ineptitude and the loss of independent critical thinking on political issues.
The result? National progress is being swallowed whole as governing brilliance fades before us.
Dependent thinkers uncritically accept
information without questioning its validity, according to the Nondestructive Testing Resource Center. In contrast, independent thinkers strive to make sense of the world through personal observation and experience rather than “just going along with the thoughts of others.”
Groups like political parties help individuals to identify with a general belief system and fellow citizens who share it. Yet simultaneously, this social organization also allows individual reliance on group thinking and a lack of person-ally understanding the issues at the forefront of today’s political arena.
For example, a self-identified Democrat may “support” the Affordable Care Act because he or she has aligned with some of President Barack Obama and fellow Demo-
crats’ past ideas. But, has this person taken the time to actually investigate the legisla-tion? Often not. Rather his or her support lies on the basis of a party, and not on his or her own critical analysis.
This mindless support without understand-ing is the pitfall of the American partisan sys-tem. It creates a shortage of problem-solvers and a surplus of apathetic citizens. Though many, including students at Syracuse University, align with parties on the basis of consistent issue-comprehension, the majority arguably do not.
How do we change this trend? By challeng-ing ourselves to be brilliant.
The word “brilliance” is often associated with a handful of figures throughout history. Aristotle, Albert Einstein and Franklin D. Roo-sevelt are names that may come to mind.
But what about the brilliance everyday man is capable of? What about you?
As students, we are presented with the daily challenge of comprehending the brilliance of scholars who came before us. We must interpret the ideas of great thinkers in class, apply their findings to projects and their recall concepts on exams.
Yet being brilliant ourselves does not
mean creating the concept of governance or scientific formulas. It means developing independent thinking right now, here at SU, to possibly change the tide of America’s plunging rewind of progress.
The charge to produce brilliance is not presented frequently enough in the college classroom. It is therefore the responsibility of each student to seek the self-discovery of genuine intellect. It is the responsibility of each of us to become citizens who act beyond merely observing the plights of American society.
Critical thinking and independent thought are not only necessary for overall societal improvement, but for individual betterment as well. These skills are identified as top qualities needed for employment success according to a wealth of scholastic research.
The citizenry has spoken and discontent is widespread due to the unfortunate result of partisan reliance. Society is begging for more to think, and more to care.
Today, I challenge you to be brilliant. Rachael Barillari is a senior political science
and Middle Eastern studies major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at rebarill@
syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @R_Barillari.
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We Americans are in a bad mood about our nation and our public life.
Three quarters say the country is on the wrong track. Some of us may be especially angry with the current Congress, at President Obama — or both — but the roots of our discon-tent go deeper than that.
Maybe we are angry because we face profound problems that the government isn’t addressing — persistent unemployment, cli-mate change, violence and mass incarceration, and the slow desertion of our great industrial cities, to name just a few.
Although we should expect more from gov-ernment and our political leaders, they cannot solve these problems on their own. People can solve even the most difficult problems if we are organized and active. That is not a wish — it is a finding of extensive research. But where are we going to get more active and responsible citizens?
That’s where you come in; you can be a more effective citizen. Civic engagement that improves the world almost always has three characteristics. It is deliberative: citizens talk and listen to fellow citizens who may disagree with them. It is collaborative: Citizens actu-ally roll up their sleeves and work together, building or saving or producing goods. And it creates civic relationships, partnerships among people who want to improve the world together.
Many thousands of college students are already active in these ways through service programs, environmental groups, faith com-munities and online communities.
If you are not yet involved, you should join. If you are involved, it is time to take your engagement to the next level.
You should ask why so many obstacles stand in the way of active citizens.
For instance, why does our political system cater to professionally led, well-funded interests instead of citizens who deliberate and col-laborate? Why do schools and colleges offer so little civic education? Why is so little funding available for citizens’ groups? Why do the news and entertainment media rarely depict citizens working together to address problems?
The only people who can overcome these obstacles are the citizens who are already active at the grassroots level, because they know what citizenship looks like and why we need more of it. A movement of active citizens is the only thing that can address our most serious national challenges.
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T he creation of Aereo, the cloud television service, certainly stirred things up
by creating a new way for people to watch and record live TV through the Internet.
Even more amazing is that this little start up company appears to have created a legitimate fear within the big broadcast networks.
After failing to get an injunc-tion against Aereo in the district and appellate courts, the big broad-casting networks, including NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox have petitioned to the Supreme Court to try and stop Aereo.
The innovative company uses a variety of antennas in each city it functions in to pick up the signals of local television stations. Then it streams the signals to people who pay $8 a month, essentially making it possible for people to use their smartphones and tablets as televi-sion sets.
Up until now, I have never had
an issue watching any form of television on my computer, or seen a need for a service like Aereo.
While major networks agree the product is pointless and are putting in a strong effort to get rid of it, Aereo has used its antenna argument to dodge their attempts.
Aereo has argued that because they are merely providing the antennas to each viewer, they are not stealing content, but solely providing the device that has the capability to stream live TV from the big networks.
Furthermore, because every person who uses Aereo gets their own individual antenna, the courts have ruled that the Inter-net streams are not considered public performances.
Ultimately, Aereo is claiming it is acting similarly to a Blockbuster movie store, just in a more innova-tive manner.
The district and appellate court rulings in the past year allow
Aereo to avoid paying retransmis-sion consent fees to local stations. Unfortunately for these local stations and their parent networks like ABC and NBC, these retrans-mission fees are significant add-ons to advertising revenue.
The loss of these fees is damag-ing, but even more damaging could be failing in the Supreme Court, as only 1 percent of petitions filed in the Supreme Court actually pass.
This then presents the idea of a world where Aereo remains indefi-nitely legal.
The unleashing of this cloud TV service could potentially empower the cable companies to conduct
the same type of practices and set up their own individual antennas; this would allow the cable compa-nies to avoid retransmission fees as well.
The loss of these profits has broadcast companies so nervous that some are even considering becoming a cable provider instead of a broadcaster.
However, maybe instead of panicking, the broadcasting companies simply need to let go of their pride.
As Farhad Manjoo’s article in pandodaily.com puts it, Aereo is “the world’s most ridiculous start-up.” And the more I thought about the actual problem Aereo is attempt-ing to solve, the more I agree.
Aereo lets us watch live TV legally from our computers. But don’t we do that already?
You can watch brand new epi-sodes of any show just a few hours after it premieres on Project Free TV, or live sporting events through
services like P2P file sharing.Aereo itself poses no real compe-
tition to broadcasting companies. In his article, Manjoo goes on to point out that the big networks could offer the same service as Aereo for less money, which could possibly price Aereo out of the market.
The real impact of Aereo is that it alters the landscape of the televi-sion industry potentially taking away huge profits via retransmis-sion fees from broadcast networks.
These networks, such as CBS and NBC, should not panic though. They need to accept the shift in the industry that technology has cre-ated and move on.
If they can manage this, then like every other big monopoly, they will find other ways to make large sums of money.
Bram Berkowitz is a senior advertising and entrepreneurship
and emerging enterprises major. His column appears weekly. He can
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Progressive reform is happening for mental health issues among college athletes, and Syracuse University is leading the way.
After nearly 18 months, a consensus statement led by Tim Neal, assistant athletic director of sports medicine at SU, was published. This debriefing of mental health issues in collegiate ath-letics is based off of an SU model. This idea recognizes student athletes with mental health issues and refers them to seek medical assistance.
The NCAA is considering using this model to make nationwide rec-ommendations for changes regard-ing the handling of mental illness among college athletes.
This change is necessary, as the number of athletes aff licted with psychological issues is staggering.
Nearly 1 in 5 youths meet the criteria for a mental health disorder. By these numbers, 92,600-115,750 of the 463,000 student athletes currently in the NCAA would be afflicted by a mental ailment,
according to Joshua Geruso, assistant director of sports medicine at North Carolina State University.
It is crucial that the NCAA imple-ment change within college athletic programs across the country. These programs, particularly at Division I schools, are their own entities and sometimes, their athletes are viewed as professionals more than students. This makes performance a high priority.
The NCAA reform could signifi-cantly alter the perception surrounding mental illness in athletics. Oftentimes, college athletes are not secure about confronting their psychological issues.
There is a stigma surrounding athletes. Fans often view them as untouchable and place them on a pedes-tal. This attention could make athletes feel uncomfortable seeking treatment for mental health issues, as they might
view these issues as a weakness.However, they, too, can suffer
from psychological disorders that lead to depression, violence and thoughts of suicide.
If athletic programs brought attention to this issue, it would pro-vide a more inclusive environment for athletes. Because of this, they would be more open to reporting any signs of mental health issues they might be experiencing.
As seen with SU, universities can and should place greater significance on the health of athletes. Many of these individuals will not continue to play their chosen sport past the col-legiate level.
A concussion now could damage their lives forever.
Reform — something started by SU’s own athletic officials — could affect many futures. Games won now are not as important as the mental stability of athletes playing in them.
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Idea factoryLehigh University receives $20
million grant to turn former steel factory into satellite campus
By Tamara RasamnySTAFF WRITER
S tudents at Lehigh University will soon be able to make their ideas a reality — in two 120,000 square
foot steel facilities overlooking the Lehigh valley.
After receiving a $20 million donation from Lehigh alumnus and co-founder of Urban Outfitters, Scott Belair, Lehigh University is in the pro-cess of renovating its two former steel research facilities into a new concept called the Mountaintop Experience, according to an Oct. 17 article on the university’s website.
The Mountaintop Experience pro-gram encourages students to step out of the classroom and pursue their own intellectual aspirations by providing them with an open space to work with, said Alice Gast, president of Lehigh.
Although the program is still in the process of being developed, students have already started their own proj-ects, she added.
“It is really an opportunity to start exploring what would happen when you let students do something totally under their own direction with just guidance from faculty,” she said.
For example, a group of students cre-ated a documentary on the first four women in the English department to attend the university, whereas other stu-dents created a design for sustainable refugee housing, she said.
Jordan Reese, director of media rela-tions, said despite his past experiences at other universities, this project is the biggest he has seen. He described the student’s projects as “long-term, imagi-native, and interdisciplinary.”
“You’ll have the resources you need to tackle a problem — not a math or exam
problem — but to make a difference, to help,” he added.
Katie Zabronsky, a junior journal-ism major at Lehigh, said she thinks the Mountaintop Experience could be great, depending on each student’s project.
“I like the idea of letting students run free with their creativity and ideas,” she said in an email. “What could be bad about providing students the resources to explore their own con-cepts for innovation?”
Zabronsky also said the concept of the Mountaintop Experience complements a traditional education because it makes for a well-rounded experience.
Students need to take more “intel-lectual risks,” since the project that they have in mind may not always turn out how it is expected to, Gast, the Lehigh president, said.
But the program is still being devel-oped and is expected to finish by 2015. In addition to the $20 million donation, Gast predicts the university will need another $100 to $200 million to cover costs ranging from faculty to improve-ments in the facility.
Similar concepts to Lehigh’s Moun-taintop Experience are found at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy and New York University, Reese said in an email.
Reese said the Mountaintop Experi-ence is not the same as a business incuba-tor, although he has received feedback thinking otherwise.
“A business incubator is where I take my brand new twist on the old fashioned light bulb and try to get it to market,” he said. “This place is when you say, ‘light bulbs burn too quickly, and they give off too much heat, so let’s start from scratch and try again.’”
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consensus statement on the issue. The writers came from schools such as Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona and Princeton University.
The task force worked for 18 months and the 85-page statement, called “Recommendations for Developing a Plan to Recognize and Refer Student Athletes with Psychological Concerns at the Col-legiate Level,” was published on Sept. 25.
In November, the statement — which is based on SU’s precedent in recognizing and referring student-athletes with mental health issues — will be the centerpiece of an NCAA meeting regarding topics in mental health.
“My hope is that there is an official statement in the NCAA in the sports medicine handbook,” Thornton said. “And that the NCAA works with the NATA to find out what kinds of problems exist, and do everything we can to help athletes through difficult times.”
Joshua Geruso, the assistant director of sports medicine at North Carolina State Uni-versity, used a series of statistics to illustrate the problem.
Geruso said “one of every four or five youths meet the criteria for a mental health disorder.” He then connected that ratio to college athletics, stat-ing that would mean 130-160 student-athletes in an athletic program with 650. On an even larger scale, 92,600-115,750 of the 463,000 student-athletes registered by the NCAA would meet the criteria for a mental health disorder by that estimate.
It is for these reasons that Neal and the other 10 writers of the consensus statement centered their work around recognizing the symptoms of mental illness and setting up a referral system when those symptoms surface.
But addressing an issue that transcends statistics and science was not something that the task force could do alone. The work of the
NATA, SU’s guidance and the humility and courage of former student-athletes all contrib-uted to the NCAA recognizing the task force’s research on mental health.
“This is the kind of thing that can happen to anyone, just a matter of recognizing it and getting them help,” Thornton said. “Everyone involved has done great so far.”
•••The night before Syracuse football was set to
play Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., in 2008, Jonathan Meldrum couldn’t handle it anymore.
His depression, which started in high school, followed him to Syracuse and on this night in his sophomore season to the team hotel. His noticeable uneasiness prompted one of his coaches to ask if he was OK.
He wasn’t. And broke down into tears moments later.
“I broke,” Meldrum said. “It became, ‘I’m not doing well and I’m looking to stop that.’”
Meldrum, who was an offensive tackle at Syracuse from 2007-09, was consumed by depres-sion throughout his collegiate career. Most days, he couldn’t get out of bed and the magnitude of his disorder caused him physical pain. And above all, he often dreaded playing football.
But the day after his meltdown, Neal approached Meldrum and said they were going to meet. What came next was a support system that Meldrum could rely on.
“He referred me to a counselor and set me up with the right people that could help me day to day,” Meldrum said. “Every day he checked on me and made sure I was OK. I didn’t feel like just an athlete or just some piece of meat, but an actual person.”
It wasn’t an instant cure, but Neal’s program — which included seeing a counselor — helped remedy the difficulties that Meldrum faced as a student-athlete suffering from depression. He still deals with his depression day to day, but has used the treatment he received at SU as the
foundation for a stable lifestyle.After a knee injury ended his collegiate
career, Meldrum returned to his hometown of Boise, Idaho, where he is now married with three kids and works as a caseworker at a prison.
“It was a great thing that Syracuse did,” Meldrum said. “To help me with my depression, that, that was just amazing.”
•••Growing up in Ann Arbor, Mich., Will
Heininger didn’t understand depression.If he ever heard it mentioned, he remembers
thinking, “Why can’t you be happy?”After an illustrious high school football
career helped him realize his childhood dream of playing at the University of Michigan, his happy-go-lucky outlook lived on. But when his parents divorced during his freshman year, he sunk into depression.
“I just started getting so sad,” Heininger said. “All of a sudden I thought that the future was going to be horrible and that there was nothing to look forward to.”
For four months, “depressing thoughts” swal-lowed Heininger from the time he woke up until he fell asleep — if he slept at all. In the midst of his four-year career as a defensive end for the Wolverines, Heininger was hiding his mental illness from the program.
The first person he told was his mom, and the counselor she brought him to suggested he stop playing football.
“Stop playing football? I told her I couldn’t stop playing football,” Heinginger said. “A huge portion of my life and time and devotion went into football. I still hadn’t told anybody there, I hadn’t even come close. I hid it very well. I just put my head down and toughed it out.”
But Heininger learned after an August prac-tice that he could only “tough it out” for so long.
Heininger was eventually introduced to ath-letic counselor Barb Hansen.
Heininger started to meet with Hansen every
day and she helped him realize that his prob-lem was a common issue that he shouldn’t be ashamed of. He said that Hansen is “one of the best people that has ever come into (his) life.”
“I know how horrible life was, and I know how extraordinary life can be,” Heininger said. “I want everyone to be able to experience that because there are a few degrees of separation that can change it so drastically.”
•••Recognize and refer: these are the focal
points of Neal’s philosophy regarding student-athlete mental health.
The inquiry of one person forced both Mel-drum and Heininger into emotional low points that led to their upward climbs.
That is why Neal encouraged recognizing and referring student-athletes with mental illness as pillars of SU, and is now pushing the program, along with the NATA, onto the NCAA’s agenda.
Meldrum and Heininger are also both inte-gral parts of the campaign. Meldrum has been working with Neal for a year now, to tell his story in a way that can “benefit others.” Neal has also confided in Meldrum as a student case throughout his research for the consensus statement. When the consensus statement was released at the NCAA headquarters in India-napolis, Heininger shared his story onsite.
As the initiative moves forward, Neal wants to develop SU’s — and now the NATA’s — referral system into one that can be utilized nationwide.
Heininger wants the culture surrounding mental illness in college athletics to change so that those affected feel comfortable sharing their disorders. So does Meldrum.
“I hope we’re able to come up with recom-mendations that will start with better aware-ness,” Neal said, “to get all student-athletes evaluation and care.” He wants to ensure that student-athletes struggling with mental health issues aren’t afraid to reach out for help.
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SU student group to host vigil for victims of factory collapseBy Lydia Wilson
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Six months after a factory collapsed in Bangla-desh, a Syracuse University student group will host a vigil to honor the lives lost.
The SU chapter of the United Students Against Sweatshops will hold a vigil Thursday at 8 p.m. on the steps of Hendricks Chapel to commemorate the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh.
The vigil on SU’s campus is a part of a weeklong effort by USAS across college campuses nationally to protest unsafe working conditions, said Jose Godinez, the president of USAS’s SU chapter.
Godinez said that for him, the disaster has taken on a personal meaning. Godinez visited the ruins of Rana Plaza this summer with the national chapter of USAS, where he met the faces behind the issue.
At the disaster sites, his group was approached by people carrying photos that served as make-shift missing person fliers of their loved ones.
“They weren’t speaking English so we didn’t know what they were saying, but we understood what they were asking,” said Godi-nez, who is an undeclared sophomore in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. “The trip made this campaign personal to me. The people I met and the stories I heard made this more than a good cause.”
Godinez said his group also spent time with factory workers in their homes, and he was able
to interview people that had lost loved ones in the factory collapse.
His trip to Bangladesh helped inspire him to plan the vigil, Godinez said. At the vigil, Godi-nez will speak on the issue, followed by a candle lighting ceremony, reflection and prayer held by a Hendricks chaplain. The vigil will last about 30 minutes, he said.
The Rana Plaza disaster was the largest collapse in the history of the garment industry, said Garrett Strain, international campaigns coordinator for USAS.
“People were crushed to death producing apparel for just $37 a month,” he said.
The collapse claimed the lives of 1,134 Bangla-deshi garment workers, according to the USAS website. Brands such as Wal-Mart, The Children’s Place and Mango were involved with the Rana Plaza factory before the collapse, Strain added.
Gretchen Purser, the faculty sponsor for SU’s chapter, said the national organization has also begun to look at local working conditions.
“USAS doesn’t only engage in solidarity with garment workers across the globe,” Purser said. “More recently, it has focused its attention on the poverty-level wages and ‘sweatshop-like’ working conditions on college and university campuses, whether among custodial and dining workers or adjunct professors.”
Purser said she encourages student involve-ment in the anti-sweatshop campaign due to students’ roles as major consumers of collegiate
and other apparel.In support of Bangladeshi factory workers,
Godinez said he and the SU chapter have official-ly recommended that the administration sign the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety.
According to the USAS website, the accord is a legally binding agreement between unions and brands that improves worker protection and conditions and gives a voice to unions. “Over 100 brands and retailers have signed the
Bangladesh Safety Accord. Not a single brand producing apparel for SU has signed it, and there’s no excuse anymore,” said Strain.
Godinez said he believes that in signing the accord, SU has the chance to demonstrate the meaning of scholarship in action.
Said Godinez: “This is a real opportunity for SU to become a leader in the worldwide issue of labor standards and workers’ rights.”
earlier and landlords started to make their properties available more in advance.
Riggs said another factor is where those prop-erties are located. Properties farther from cam-pus, such as those on Westcott Street and East Genesee Street may still be available, she said.
There are also more housing options avail-able than in the past, Riggs said. Facilities like Campus West apartments and Copper Beach Commons and independently leased apart-ments and houses around the area give students more options for off-campus housing.
Park Point still has apartments available for next year, said Marybeth Gayne, the general manager of Park Point.
Gayne said they are ahead of schedule in
terms of how many apartments are left, but they won’t be leasing to SU students through the lot-tery this year.
University Village apartments don’t typi-cally fill up until the spring, said Rahmin Azria, the community manager at University Village Apartments. He said UV follows the same sched-ule as other off-campus facilities and usually has spaces available into the spring semester.
UV often has issues filling all of their beds, he said. They have 432 beds that they are only allowed to rent out to SU students and they have to verify enrollment with the university before leasing, he said.
Azria said this restriction does not apply to other leasing options, which means they can fill up quicker by renting out to Le Moyne students, those attending other schools or those indepen-dent of a university altogether.
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Fundraiser to support DPS officer struck by lightning
By Jesse NicholsSTAFF WRITER
Department of Public Safety officers are host-ing an event to support an injured officer, who was struck by lightning in September and is unable to return to active duty.
Stanley Prue, who has been a DPS officer for 18 years, was leaving his car on Sept. 1 when he was struck by lightning. The lightning hit the radio clipped to Prue’s left shoulder as he exited his patrol car on South Campus.
He said he suffered a brain injury, severe nerve injuries in both arms and problems with his left eye. Prue was in the hospital for 15 days after he was struck by lightening and had to relearn fundamental basics, including how to walk and use his hands for utensils.
Prue said that, with a long list of injuries, he has a long road ahead of him before returning to active duty with DPS.
“It’s like getting separated from your fam-ily,” he said. “I’m struggling each day to get back in the uniform I’ve worn every day for the last 18 years.”
The event will be held at the Valley American Legion Hall, and the tickets will cost $15. The Central New York barbeque chain Limp Lizard will cater the event, and three live bands includ-ing School of Ants, a band made up of several DPS officers, will also perform.
Tickets can be purchased from DPS’s office at Sims Hall or at the door of the event at the Valley American Legion Hall.
James McLellan, a DPS detective who is responsible for organizing the fundraiser on Saturday, is one of the officers who have sup-ported Prue during his recovery.
McLellan described the fundraiser as a “coming together” of the different public safety agencies in Central New York. He said the event will also provide an opportunity for Prue to be recognized, thank his supporters and receive financial aid to assist his family during his recovery process.
“Any time a member of your family is hit with something like this you want to make sure they’re taken care of,” McLellan said.
McLellan said he hopes that it will put into perspective the realities of working a law enforcement job.
“You never think something like lightning will take you out,” McLellan said.
Ed Weber, the DPS officer who was with Prue when the lightning struck, said DPS offi-cers are more united than ever as a result of the incident, and ready to welcome Prue back with open arms upon his recovery.
“The emotion, department-wise, is all here,” Weber said, who said that it was still difficult to talk about the incident. He added that the university and the SU community have consis-tently reached to support Prue and Weber.
Said Prue: “I always thought in my heart that we could rely on the community, but this supports my thoughts and feelings for all of these years.”
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Syracuse — which have a property value of nearly $5 billion, according to a report on property tax exemptions in New York State by DiNapoli. He added that among cities in New York, Syracuse had the 10th highest percent-age of tax-exempt properties.
He said while SU is not required to pay any amount for property taxes because of its status as a nonprofit institution, the university has taken a strong initiative to help support the city that surrounds the school.
“Here in Syracuse we have a case of a public official taking a very proactive approach to deal with this issue to offset at least some of the impact of the tax exemptions,” he said. “The city has worked closely with Syracuse University to reach new voluntary services agreements. These agreements extend to 2016, and provide the city approximately $1 million per year.”
DiNapoli was referring to the agreement that Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Miner had established in 2012, with SU paying the city $500,000 a year, added onto the $392,000 per year agreement that was also made in 1993. In addition to that amount, SU also provides the city with $100,000 a year for the Carrier Dome.
Miner also commended SU for taking pro-active measures to provide Syracuse with additional revenue, including SU’s initiatives to reinvest into the city, such as Say Yes to Education, The Warehouse downtown and the Near West Side Initiative. She added that SU had been very receptive to the agreement, which they were not required to do.
“Syracuse University took a great step for-ward in agreeing to do this with us,” she said. “Do not underestimate the importance and sacrifice SU took by being first with this. If Syracuse Uni-versity and the chancellor had said to me ‘go pound salt,’ that’s about all I could have done.”
In Ithaca — a city with 62 percent of its
property tax-exempt — Cornell University has a similar arrangement, paying $1.9 million in 2008 and $1.6 million in 2009, according to DiNapoli’s report.
Miner added that Syracuse would not be looking to increase the amount that SU agreed to pay, but rather looking at other nonprofit institutions in the city to follow their lead. She said multiple nonprofit institutions were using public services such as the fire department, the police department, sanitations department and the department of public works, but were not paying the costs, because of their tax-exempt status.
She said the city needs to continue approach-ing nonprofits to negotiate voluntary payment agreements, while continuing to come up with solutions to the issue.
Said Miner: “If you require, need, demand government services like police, fire and public works, it’s only fair you should pay for those services, as well.”
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THOMAS DINAPOLI, New York State comptroller, explains how much the university would pay in property taxes if it were not tax-exempt as a nonprofit institution.
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are available in Syracuse, she said.Several students at the Ernie Davis Dining
Hall said they enjoyed dinner.Melissa Ruh, a sophomore public policy major,
said she liked the fact that the Taste of CNY event exposed her to new local food vendors.
“Local food always tastes better,” she said. “You know it’s fresh so you feel better eating it.”
Mohammed Zahid, an undeclared sopho-more in the School of Information Studies, appreciated the quality of the food more than the fact that it was local.
“As long as it tastes good, I don’t care where it’s from,” he said.
Ellie Forkin, an undeclared freshman in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communica-tions, appreciated both aspects, calling the use of food that was both quality and local “killing two birds with one stone.” She added that she wishes the dining hall would “mix it up” with more events like the Taste of CNY dinner.
“All it takes for anyone to get involved on a daily basis is to consider what they can do on that day to help the planet, our society and our economy,” Caldwell said. “Shop at locally owned business. Consider going meatless one meal a week. These are simple everyday choices we have that are easy to accomplish.”
—Asst. News Editor Maggie Cregan contributed reporting to this story.
Choosing just one single journalist who symbolizes the unjust treatment of free speech is difficult because it is such a common occur-rence, said Barbara Fought, former director of the Tully Center.
Judges must determine the recipient based on relevancy, how recent his or her work is, the state of journalism in the country he or she represents and whether or not the issues he or she faced are pertinent to students and aspiring journalists. The most important component, Fought said, is the journalist’s fight for the right of the free press itself and how the journalist faced these hardships.
“I stand in awe of (Abbasov) and what he’s done. If I had three little kids, I don’t know if I would have done that,” she said.
The judging committee, comprised of outside
nominators from non-governmental organiza-tions and civil rights organizations, compiles a list of 12 nominees from countries across the globe. From there, the center must be careful about approaching the candidates and asking them to apply for the award, Gutterman said.
“In some cases, being nominated or even asso-ciated with an award like this raises questions and puts a target on their chest,” Gutterman said.
A panel of Newhouse professors and students choose a winner, ending months of deliberation.
Fought said that, though dozens of high-quality speakers come to Newhouse every year, she feels the journalists brought in by the Tully Center are especially gripping and moving. Abi-sov is the newest in a series of speakers who epitomize the struggle to preserve the essence of the First Amendment, she said.
Said Fought: “I don’t know of anyone who is higher as heroes and heroines on my journalism list than (Tully) award winners.”
F or Syracuse University sports fans, the icy chill of the upcom-ing winter season just got a
little sweeter.“If you had told me five years ago
that I would be making ice cream, I would have laughed because I didn’t know what I wanted to do,” said Eilish Mitchell, a 2012 SU alumna and cre-ator of the new official ice cream fla-vor of Syracuse University Athletics.
After graduation, Mitchell started working at Perry’s Ice Cream, an ice
cream manufacturer based in Akron, N.Y. That’s where she developed Otto’s Cupcake: a chocolate cupcake-flavored ice cream with orange frost-ing swirls and chocolate cupcake pieces mixed inside. The flavor is cur-rently sold at the Carrier Dome and is expected to reach grocery stores this February. Locations serving Otto’s Cupcake can be found on the Perry’s Ice Cream website through their “fla-vor finder.”
After graduating with a major in chemistry and a minor in nutrition, Mitchell said she wanted to look at
alternative things she could do with her education, aside from working in a lab. That and some friendly competi-tion with her brother, Stephen Mitch-ell, led her to the quality assurance coordinator position at Perry’s.
“My sister and her achievements are the best examples of what this uni-versity can do for us,” said Stephen Mitchell, a senior music education major. “I will definitely be looking at the level of achievement that my sister has had and, as with all sibling rivalries, try to one-up her as much as
By Zach SchweikertSTAFF WRITER
Almost everyone likes the Beatles, and the band continues to be popu-lar more than 40 years after its breakup. Unfortunately for fans,
they won’t have the chance to see the lads from Liverpool perform live again. This Friday, though, Beatles buffs can catch the next best thing at the Palace Theater.
The Fab Four, a Beatles tribute band, bill themselves as “the ulti-
mate tribute.” They give old fans a chance to relive their memories and allow younger fans to experience the music in a live setting. The band is known for its meticulous attention to detail, using the same instruments, sporting similar outfits and even
wearing the same style of shoes as the original group.
The Daily Orange spoke with Ron McNeil, who plays the part of John Lennon, about what it takes to be in a tribute band.
The Daily Orange: How did the band start?R.M.: I saw Ardy (Sarraf, who plays Paul McCartney) at a local Beatles convention in L.A. ... And he was singing a song by Paul McCartney,
Q&A with Ron McNeil: Member of The Fab Four Beatles tribute band
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Alumna creates official SU ice cream, plans to sell Otto the Orange-inspired dessert item nationally
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possible in my field.”Orange pride runs deep into Eilish Mitchell’s
family. In addition to her brother, her mother and grandparents are all alumni. Stephen Mitchell said he thinks professors and faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences will be excited because his sister is an example of how how majors within the college can translate into the real world.
While she was able to use her education to create an ice cream, though, Eilish Mitch-ell’s biggest struggle was incorporating the Orange spirit that her family embodies into a flavor. She faced a number of challenges before landing on the chocolate cupcake-themed dessert.
“How are we going to put together a cool, new ice cream flavor that people would want to try and relate that to Syracuse? That was one of the questions we asked early on,” Eilish Mitchell said. “There really isn’t orange ice cream and Perry’s didn’t want sherbet because either people like it or they don’t — there’s no in-between.”
So she and other developers started looking for a new approach.
Eilish Mitchell officially works in qual-ity assurance, where she is responsible for food safety and quality, but her position also allows her to be involved in new product development. She said that she helps approve flavors and shadows members of the research team. This allows her to experiment with what other devel-opers are producing.
After tasting a coworker’s chocolate cupcake prototype, Eilish Mitchell came up with the idea for an SU chocolate cupcake. The next challenge, she explained, was matching the cup-
cake’s frosting to the official Syracuse Orange color: Pantone 1655. She went through about 10 samples before finding a shade close enough for her creation.
“I had to eat a lot of frosting because we had to develop it with some of our supplies, since no one had it,” Eilish Mitchell said. “You have to take a whole spoonful, and that’s not what you want to start your day off with at 8 a.m.”
Despite the excessive amount of frosting
taste tests, Eilish Mitchell said she enjoys her job at Perry’s. She said that there are far worse things she could be doing other than sampling ice cream, after all.
And when her flavor reached the develop-ment stage, Eilish Mitchell was able to add an extra treat. She noticed that the stock number printed on each container was 1143 — only one away from including one of the most well-known numbers on campus: 44. She was able to convince the production
team to change the number to 1144 after explaining the role that the digits 44 have played in SU’s sports legacy.
“It’s a little hidden Easter egg that I threw in for Syracuse fans,” Eilish Mitchell said. “It’s always cool going to the Dome and being able to eat the official ice cream of SU athletics. Hope-fully it’s something they can relate to — they already know who Otto is, and hopefully anyone who tries it will enjoy it.”
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By Jessica CabeASST. COPY EDITOR
M odels from Syracuse University will strut their stuff down the run-way this weekend to showcase
dresses that any college student could wear.The first Rent the Runway Fashion
Show is free and will take place at 5 p.m. on Oct. 25 in the Physics Building’s Stolkin Auditorium. The event will feature dress-es from Rent the Runway, a business that lends designer dresses to those who would rather not shell out the cash to buy them. Themes include formal, brunch, holiday and little black dresses.
Alexandria Yazwinsky, senior public relations major and public relations intern for SU’s Rent the Runway team, said there are about 400 colleges and universities with a Rent the Runway intern program. SU was one of four schools chosen to host a fashion show sponsored by L’Oréal Paris.
“Not every school does a fashion show; some do trunk shows,” Yazwinsky said. She
said each college or university’s Rent the Runway team decides which they want to do, and that SU’s team chose a fashion show because they thought it would be a much better way to showcase the clothes. She said this was one of the reasons SU was chosen to receive the sponsorship, because L’Oréal was impressed with their initiative.
The models are all SU students cho-sen by representatives from SU’s Rent the Runway team. Yazwinsky said all the rep-resentatives are involved in other groups and organizations on campus, many geared toward fashion, which made finding mod-els pretty easy. She said they chose the models with the goal of making this a truly campus-centric event.
“We wanted to use well-rounded indi-viduals who represent the campus com-munity,” Yazwinsky said, explaining that the featured clothing will fit all shapes and sizes, not just the usual thin, 6-foot-tall model.
But this event is more than just a fashion
show: It’s also an opportunity to get some free stuff. There will be L’Oréal Paris give-aways for attendees, a raffle for five free dress rentals, cookies from Insomnia and a DJ for even more entertainment.
Zipped magazine, an SU publication that focuses on fashion and beauty, will also have representatives at the event handing out past issues. And Erica Bern-stein, senior art photography major, will be showcasing her jewelry line, Jewelrry. The student entrepreneur’s colorful collec-tion features items from brass bangles to floral headbands.
But the main event is, of course, the run-way show. Yazwinsky said she’s incredibly excited to be a part of the first show of its kind at SU, and hopes it’s successful enough to come back next year.
“We’d love to make it an annual thing,” Yazwinsky said. “We’re psyched to see how this year goes, and we’ll take it from there.”
Where: New York State Fair GroundsWhen: Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m.- midnight, and Sundays, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m.How much: $10 for single attraction, $15 for hayride, $20 for all attractions plus hayride
Experience the fair grounds in a new, terrifying way this weekend at the annual Fright Nights at the Fair. This thrill-themed event is packed with scary sights at every turn. Guests can take a trip on the haunted hayride or navigate their way through a series of themed mazes, including a hostel, a clown prison and a dungeon of doom — so get ready to scream.
The “Loud House” is going to a get a little bit louder this weekend as 52 high school marching bands gather at the Dome to compete for the top honors in the state championships. The bands had to get through 30 preliminary competitions to get to this point. And for this final compe-tition, bands will be split into six classifi-cations and allotted 7-10 minutes to wow the judges.
“50 SHADES OF F*CKED UP”
Where: The Red HouseWhen: Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.How much: $30
Get a little crazy this weekend at this two-night-only production. Loosely based on the hit erotic romance novel “Fifty Shades of Grey,” this unauthorized musi-cal parody features our favorite, twisted relationship between Christian and Ana, with the added bonus of 14 original musi-cal numbers. The show is for mature audiences only, so be prepared for some crazy, raunchy scenes filled with song, dance and a little something extra.
Get the look Students hold Rent the Runway Fashion Show
photo courtesy of rent the runwayL’Oréal Paris will sponsor the Rent the Runway Fashion Show on Friday, thanks to student representatives who brought the event to campus. Other students will model the dress styles available to rent, including formal gowns and little black dresses.
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By Avery HartmansSTAFF WRITER
Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you: I always do what I’m told.
So when the directions on the side of my 22-ounce bottle of Southern Tier Imperial Compass commanded me to drink the beer out of a champagne flute, I obeyed. Although this obviously added an unparalleled level of class to my beer consumption, I couldn’t escape the feeling that I was acting like a “Real Housewife.”
But I’ll do just about anything for my love of beer, so I persevered. After performing the beer equivalent of popping bottles, the first thing I noticed was how much yeast was float-ing around in the beer. I expected the Compass, which is a sparkling ale, to be clear and super-light, like champagne or sparkling juice, but to tell the truth it was really rather murky.
This disconcerted my drinking buddy so much that he looked at me uncertainly and said, “Uh, when was the last time you washed this glass?” It turns out the beer just needed to decant like a fine wine, but I sure appreci-ated that knock on my housekeeping skills.
I forgot how disgruntled I was, though, after I began drinking. Yeastiness aside, I didn’t hate it, although it wasn’t quite what I was expect-ing. I had been expecting the beer equivalent of champagne: light, crisp and a surefire way to incapacitate me for nearly 24 hours. To be perfectly honest, I also thought it would be kind of dull and lack flavor or complexity.
Instead, it was far more interesting and far less vapid. Kind of like “The Real Housewives
of Atlanta” instead of “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” Not that I watch either of those shows or anything.
The most surprising — and delicious — aspect of the Compass was how citrusy it was. The flavor is equal parts sweet and sour and almost tastes like a summer ale. In fact, Empire Brewing Company’s Shandy immedi-ately came to mind.
Then you get hit with the full flavor of the rose hips.
Rose hips, it turns out, are not hips at all. They’re actually the fruit that grow on rose plants and they contain high levels of Vitamin C and the antioxidant lycopene. But they’re also very bitter, which becomes more and more apparent with every sip. At first you might mistake the flavor for hops, but rose hips have their own distinct taste and, when combined with the citrus elements of the beer, create an intricate, unparalleled brew.
As if all that isn’t enough to entice you, the Compass has a 9 percent ABV. I’m embarrassed to say that half a glass in, I was already becoming a little warm. It must have been the combination of the bubbles and the booze, because I was definitely feeling some-thing. Or maybe it was just the pretentious rush of drinking from a champagne flute.
I guess I’ll have to have another one, just to be sure.
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I miss you. I miss the hours in the afternoon and the long nights we used to spend together. I miss us.
No, I’m not speaking to some long lost love. I’m pleading with sleep, which I miss profusely. I miss it with the intensity that I assume frat guys will miss wearing those obnoxiously colored shorts once winter arrives — who am I kidding, they’re never going to give up on those shorts.
For some reason I don’t remember mid-terms being like this last year. I’m not sure if I just blocked it out due to the trauma, but this year is way more intense. And the Inter-net validated my darkest fears.
By referencing an article about mental health on howstuffworks.com, I officially diagnosed myself as sleep deprived. And why shouldn’t I believe it? Nothing on the Internet is false, right?
One of the top signs of sleep deprivation, the article stated, is experiencing mood swings. Now, having gone through puberty, I am well aware of what a mood swing is. And while there haven’t been any “Marley & Me” level tears throughout the course of midterms week, I have, on more than one occasion, felt like I needed to lock myself in my room and let the sounds of Green Day take me away.
The article states that another sign of sleep deprivation is irrational behavior: also, check.
I’m usually an irrational man to begin with, but my sleep deprivation has increased this irrationality tenfold. For example, dur-ing this past week I kept finding apple cores in the sink of my dorm. Sleep-deprived me thought it was a completely rational idea to save all of these apple cores with the inten-tion of leaving a revenge bushel of them at the culprit’s door.
The story goes on to say that another sign of sleep deprivation is an increased appetite. Seeing as I have the diet and appetite of a
pregnant woman, I didn’t expect this to apply to me. I mean, how could I eat more than I already do?
Upon reflection, things came into focus, and yeah, I’m sad to report that the diagno-sis is true. Things had worsened. As usual, I was stuffing my face with Burger King.
Upon pulling out my burger from the brown bag, all of the contents slipped out. Usually I would say such is life and move on with the rest of my meal. But I was deter-mined and ravenous.
I wrapped my fries in that wayward slab of meat and went to town.
Now, in case you’ve never done this, let me tell you right now that while all of the ingredients seem enticing apart, they form a hellish sense of sadness when mixed.
As I kept scrolling through the article on sleep deprivation, I came across another sign of the medical condition: “Relationship Trouble.”
That made me laugh. Because honestly, who doesn’t want a relationship with a crazy, moody burger-taco eater, am I right ladies?
Midterms week definitely gives you some perspective. The lack of sleep is staggering and the Internet exclaiming your death can be jarring. But literally everybody is going through the same thing. If one of us can survive, we all can.
Christian Unkenholz is a sophomore public relations and political science major.
He can be found in Bird Library, which may function as his tomb as well. His
column appears every Thursday in Pulp. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Lack of rest causes columnist to reconsider sleep habits during midterms
and I just couldn’t believe it. He sounded exactly like Paul McCartney. I just didn’t know how he did it. It was like some kind of weird trick or something. So I went up to him and asked him if he would like to do it, and a couple of years later we formed a group. The D.O.: When you all started out, how did you choose your roles?R.M.: For me, I think I gravitate a little bit more to John as far as vocally and facially and stuff like that, and Ardy is kind of the same way, but poor Ardy, he had to learn how to play the bass left-handed. That’s something I wasn’t going to do. I said, “Forget it!” The D.O.: What are your favorite songs
to perform, and how does the audience react?R.M.: We do the hits, and sometimes we’ll throw a curveball, but … we cover their whole career. We do some interesting stuff, like “A Day in the Life.” We perform live on stage, “Strawberry Fields,” so there’re a lot of songs (like) that. I think those two are the most challenging of all the songs to pull off live. It’s only four guys. There’re no tapes, there’re no tracks, there’s nothing. Everything is played on live. The D.O.: How do you go about getting an authentic, “Beatles-esque” sound?R.M.: I think a lot of it comes out of the instru-ments. We use all of the original instruments, and then, you know, just years and years of studying and just a love of the music, and trying to imitate the sounds the best we can. It’s a work in progress. I mean, we’re always improving,
always trying to get it better.The D.O.: Why do you think the Beatles’ music still resonates with so many people today?R.M.: I think the themes that they chose, they
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Syracuse looks to finish strong against Wake Forest, Cornell
UP NEX TWho: No. 16 Wake ForestWhere: J.S. Coyne StadiumWhen: Saturday, 1 p.m.
By Tyler PiccottiSTAFF WRITER
As No. 3 Syracuse prepared to face No. 1 Mary-land last Friday, the key word floating through-out practice was “execute.” Through 69 minutes, the Orange did exactly that and held the Terra-
pins score-less while nursing a slim one-goal lead.
But it takes only one minute of sloppy play to derail an otherwise masterful performance, and SU found that out the hard way.
“They pulled out their goalie, and we just needed to focus on that and how to manage the ball,” sophomore midfielder Emma Rus-sell said. “Unfortunately, we lost that in the last 49 seconds.
“At the time, obviously it’s really hard to swallow something like that after controlling the game the whole time.”
This weekend, the Orange (12-2, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) will have two opportunities to erase the sour taste from that 2-1 overtime loss, first against No. 16 Wake Forest (10-6, 0-4) on Satur-day at 1 p.m. and then against Cornell (8-5, 2-2 Ivy) the following day at 2 p.m.
The only way that can happen is if the team follows through on its new one-word mantra.
Finish.“The game is 70 minutes, and we played a
really good game and executed all but the last minute and a half,” head coach Ange Bradley said. “But we’ve learned that all of us, myself
included, could have done different things.”The Orange outplayed the Terrapins
throughout the game and nearly was able to pull off the upset.
For one, it played excellent defense. Mary-land entered the game with 65 goals, including 13 from Jill Witmer. However, Witmer and the other Terrapin skill players failed to find the cage despite generating 16 shots.
Additionally, the counterattack was responsible for setting up Karlee Farr’s second-half goal, one that Bradley used “beautiful” twice to describe.
But Bradley and the rest of the team know that people will only remember the one lapse in concentration that turned the final outcome on its head.
That’s why SU is making sure it doesn’t happen again.
“The next time we see this team, we’ll be more rehearsed and more prepared in critical moments of the game, “Bradley said. “Even though it’s a loss in the column, when you can do that and evaluate, that’s a win.”
Junior back Jordan Page was admittedly frustrated in the locker room after the game, but she too found a silver lining from the final result. In fact, she and some of the upperclass-men immediately assured everyone there’s no need to panic.
“It was a really good learning and growing moment for us, realizing that game manage-ment is very important and being able to stop the ball before it gets close to the circle,” Page said. “But the whole game proves and shows all of us that we can compete with the best teams in
the country, and we are one of the best teams in the country.”
More painful than the loss itself was the hit Syracuse took in the ACC standings. The Orange would have moved into first place with a win, but now sits in third.
That’s why Saturday’s contest with the Demon Deacons has added importance. The only way the Orange will be able to fight for the top spot is with a strong finish to the
regular season.With three games remaining, that means a
full 210 minutes with no mistakes.“It’s something really easily fixed. It’s just
important for us mentally to stay there the whole match,” Russell said. “It just keeps replay-ing in your mind what happened, but all of us just said that it’s better to happen now and we can learn from it for the future.”
jessica sheldon | staff photographerEMMA RUSSELL and Syracuse fell apart in the final minute of regulation in Friday’s showdown with No. 1 Maryland. The Orange failed to execute and lost in overtime 2-1.
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By Stephen BaileyASST. SPORTS EDITOR
Freshman Brisly Estime was the first name out of head coach Scott Shafer’s mouth when asked about the positives he could take away from Syracuse’s 56-0 loss to Geor-gia Tech on Saturday.
“He’s going to be a real good player for us,” Shafer said during the Atlantic Coast Confer-ence coaches’ teleconference Wednesday.
Estime showcased his straightaway speed on a 43-yard punt return late in the blowout loss. He returned two punts and a kickoff in total, making his debut in the return game — a reliable, but unexciting aspect of the Orange’s season through seven games.
So should Syracuse fans expect to see Estime back deep when SU hosts Wake Forest on Nov. 2?
“Maybe,” Shafer said. “I do have confi-dence that Brisly can be a guy, but I think we’ll kind of just see how things go in prac-tice, and see the sway of the game and the game plan as well.”
Shafer said he’s been very pleased with the steady play of punt returner Ritchy Desir this year. He has displayed the ability to make correct fair catch calls, as well as haul in punts on the move. That saved yard-age isn’t lost on Shafer.
But with George Morris II still sidelined with an upper-body injury, it may be more likely that Estime is put in on kickoff returns.
Or, perhaps, an increased role as an H-back in the Orange offense.
“We do have big plans for him from the
offensive point of view as well,” Shafer said. “I think when a young player finds confidence regardless of if it’s on offense, defense, the kicking game, you feel good about his progress because it’s his mental state that’s as impor-tant as anything.
“You can just see that he’s anxious to get back on the field and confident that he can help us make plays, whether it be in the return game or on offense more.”Davis, Morris II rehab during bye
Syracuse is taking it “day by day” with outside linebacker Dyshawn Davis and the running back Morris, Shafer said Wednesday.
“The bye week comes at a good time,” Sha-fer said. “Like everyone around the country, we’re banged up a little bit.”
Davis, who re-aggravated a right ankle sprain late in the first half against North Car-olina State on Oct. 12, missed the Orange’s 56-0 loss to Georgia Tech on Saturday.
“He’s anxious to get back out there,” Sha-fer said. “We’re going to try to slowly take it day by day and make sure all these kids are healthy before we ramp them up in full-speed practice, but he’s shown great promise and we expect to get him back.”
Morris has missed the last two games with an upper-body injury. Prince-Tyson Gulley replaced Morris in each contest.
“I don’t want to throw him to the wolves until he’s completely healed,” Shafer said. “Do right by him as a young player, and not put him in any jeopardy.”
Estime may see expanded role; Shafer calls Davis “day by day”
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andrew renneisen | staff photographerDYSHAWN DAVIS attempts to tackle a Tulane ball carrier. The linebacker has been sidelined with an ankle sprain and the SU staff is being patient with his recovery.
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SU closes out its 2014 nonconference sched-ule against the Fighting Irish at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Syracuse and UND have met before in the New York City area when the Orange topped the Irish at Yankee Stadium in 1963.
Wednesday’s announcement fills out SU’s scheduled opponents. The dates and times for its ACC games haven’t been announced yet, but Syracuse will host Florida State, Lou-isville, North Carolina State and Duke and travel to Clemson, Pittsburgh, Boston College and Wake Forest.
The ball floated over Grant’s hand, but fell a few inches short of the front rim. It didn’t even touch the net.
Assistant coach Mike Hopkins tossed his folded note sheet on the ground in disgust.
Hopkins has helped Coleman and the rest of the Syracuse big men craft their offensive games through the preseason. There were mixed results at practice on Wednesday.
Coleman attempted a number of pump fakes and reverse layups. He finished some —including two short jumpers — but didn’t force any shots. Rakeem Christmas looked sharp cleaning up missed shots while C.J. Fair scored easily on freshman Tyler Rober-son a few times.
Even Fair, though, made a mistake. Dur-ing the five-on-five scrimmage near the end of practice, Fair beat Roberson with a shoul-der shake in the post. He turned back to his right, but instead of shooting the open 8-footer, Fair kicked the ball out to Trevor Cooney.
Hopkins turned away, visibly frustrated.Cooney’s corner 3 highlights practice
Cooney made the hardest play of prac-tice look easy.
Standing in the right corner during the five-on-five scrimmage, Cooney watched as B.J. Johnson’s cross-court pass soared higher than expected.
He leapt, reached up and snared the ball with his right hand before turning to square his body up on the descent. Then he popped right back up and drained the 3-pointer.
Cooney made a slew of other 3-pointers during practice Wednesday and was visibly one of the most aggressive players on the court throughout all the drills. Loose balls
Syracuse closed practice with a four-minute layup drill. Players ran the length of the court, making two passes each before shooting. Each got roughly 20 seconds rest before taking off again back up court. … Baye Moussa Keita fell down after a Grant bump in the paint. As he was getting up, he smiled wryly and said, “ACC man, one bump,” hinting at the expected increase in foul calls. … Gbinije looked sharp on the offensive boards, crashing in for at least four dur-ing Wednesday’s scrimmages.
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Orange tries to reach .500 in conference play this weekend
photo by luke rafferty | video editorGOSIA WLASZCZUK (1) sets a ball for middle blocker Monika Salkute. After losing its first four ACC matches, Syracuse has won three of its last four conference games.
By Eric RiterSTAFF WRITER
On Sunday, Leonid Yelin registered his 500th career win. But when he spoke about the monumental victory Tuesday he remained levelheaded.
“Normal,” the head coach said when a report-er asked how the win felt.
After a 0-4 start to Syra-cuse’s Atlantic Coast Confer-ence tenure, the Orange has start-ed to pick up the
pace. SU has won three of its last four matches, all on the road.
This weekend the Orange (8-12, 3-5 ACC) will try to continue its success as it faces Georgia Tech (7-13, 1-7) on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Carrier Dome and Clemson (10-9, 4-4) on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Women’s Building.
During the first half of the season, the players had a tendency to get down on them-selves. Whether this has to do with the lack of hope or just a physical inferiority to the teams faced early in the season, the team is in better spirits now.
“It feels awesome,” outside hitter Silvi Uattara said. “After we beat Maryland, we got this feeling we can compete with all the teams in ACC.”
Yelin doesn’t feel the team has really done anything different to improve chemistry. Instead, it just happened naturally.
“We didn’t change anything,” Yelin said, “I hope they are learning something. We kept doing what we were doing, it was just a little bit better.”
Setter Erica Handley said keeping a positive attitude could go a long way.
“Yes, I have won in the past,” the fresh-man said, “but I have also lost in the past, too. You can be down about it for a while and be upset because you lost, but you have to build off those mistakes and be positive for the next game.”
But Yelin insists there’s been no change in morale. It’s a natural transformation that comes with success.
“I think people are always happy when they are winning,” Yelin said.
With the team gaining confidence, other teams have begun to notice. Being an underdog has benefited Syracuse.
“No one expected anything from us because we are a small team,” middle blocker Monika Salkute said. “And we did it so powerful. When we started playing our game they were so scared. You could see it in (Pittsburgh’s) eyes.”
Uattara explained that getting into the heads of the other team is key. Syracuse can target one player and attempt to disrupt her, or intimidate the whole team. Uattara and Salkute both said they could see the other team shaking with fear.
A newfound sense of urgency is beginning to take over.
“We have to beat them,” Salkute and Uattara said simultaneously.
UP NEX TWho: Georgia TechWhere: Carrier DomeWhen: Saturday, 7 p.m.
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SU continues offensive focus in preparation for Maryland
(top) luke rafferty | video editor, (bottom) ziniu chen | staff photographer(TOP) ERIN SIMON AND (BOTTOM) JACKIE FIRENZE are part of a Syracuse attack that has totaled nine goals in the Orange’s last five games, three of which were wins.
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game day, it sucks.”When the Orange is shorthanded on the
practice field, Brode and Clark readily step onto the pitch and fill in numbers. And if they score, they’re sure to let the whole field know.
Yet when the team hits the road, the two are left behind to watch online as SU plays its away games, because the team bus doesn’t have enough room.
Brode and Clark list the less-than-glam-orous aspects of running a Division I soccer program as the responsibilities they have undertaken.
They set up the team’s equipment, laying out cones and sticks for the team’s drills. They help out with drills, but not with the authority of leading them, and chase after the balls that sail out of bounds.
“A lot of the stuff that the coaching staff doesn’t really want to do, we gladly do,” Brode said.
“We get the balls as well,” McIntyre responded. “Don’t let Brode convince you. He’s a bit lazy when it comes to that. And Louis never shows up, anyway.”
They try to attend every practice. For Brode, that’s feasible. He’s taking nine cred-its this semester — four on campus, five
online — as he works toward his degree in child and family studies.
But Clark is drowned with a workload of 19 credits this semester to finish his marketing degree from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and appears less frequently for practice — about half as often, Brode estimated.
“I work around my school schedule, really,” Clark said by phone. His heavy schedule pre-vented him from attending Monday’s media availability. “Mac has been great with it. He knows I have to do a lot to graduate, so he’s been really good to me.”
Clark and Brode have been emailing other schools in search of graduate assistant coaching jobs for next fall, Brode said.
But the way McIntyre views the current situation, the assistance that Clark and Brode offer at practice isn’t everything. It’s what the two experienced leaders do for SU’s locker room that really counts.
“For a young squad, they provide us instant maturity — maturity is probably the wrong word to use with Louis Clark,” McIntyre said. “But they’ve got personality.”
The jokes between Clark and Brode go back and forth, and the best friends don’t hold back. They have no fear of offending the other, because that never happens.
When the chiding is appropriate, it often stems from each other’s background — Clark is from England, and Brode was born and raised
in the United States. Inevitably, Revolutionary War references come into play.
“He’ll fight for England until he dies, but I don’t know. I think he’s turning into an Ameri-can,” Brode said.
Clark rips Brode for being “so American, it’s frightening.” Brode responds by badmouthing Clark’s teeth, and adds Clark wears a blue bath-ing suit “everywhere.” Brode said that Clark thinks it’s a regular pair of shorts — and there’s no denying it’s a bathing suit, he said.
But Brode has the “worst” sense of dress at Syracuse University, Clark said.
“His haircut was cool in 1999,” Clark said, referring to Brode’s long locks. “The outfits he wears around campus and in the locker room are absurd. I swear, he looks like he gets dressed every morning in the dark.”
In addition to the entertainment that Clark and Brode offer the program, McIntyre pointed to the fact that undergraduate student assistant coaches can simply relate to the players better than he can.
“I’m getting old,” McIntyre said. “It’s tough sometimes to relate to 18-to-20-year-olds when some of my jokes are no longer funny or relevant. It’s good to have guys that actually own iPhones and things like that as part of the coaching staff.”
In 2011, Clark’s first season at Syracuse, the team won just three games and lost 12. A year later, Clark and Brode enjoyed the
program’s leap to a 14-win season and Sweet 16 appearance.
“There’s no better salesman of a program than someone who’s actually been through it,” McIntyre said. “Both Mark and Louis have enjoyed good times and they’ve experi-enced some of the darker moments. So they’re a good reference for the younger guys.”
Freshman Alex Halis was having a night-mare game against Binghamton on Oct. 1. After a poor first half, McIntyre benched the forward until three minutes remained in regulation — Halis’ 45 minutes of playing time that night is still the least he’s recorded in one match this year.
But before Halis took the field in over-time, Brode pulled him aside.
“You’re going to win this game,” he told him. “You’re going to be the one to win it.”
And in the 105th minute, Brode’s words of advice proved true.
He and Clark don’t address the entire team all at once, and leave the on-field strate-gies to McIntyre. But someone has to handle the little things.
“I think our biggest contributions so far have been just going up to players, and giv-ing them little tips and stuff,” Brode said. “And hopefully they use them and we can win some more games.”
As Syracuse finished practice Wednesday with a miniature inter-squad game to 10, it was clear that improving its offense is a priority in the final stretch for Syracuse.
After going 30 days without a win, the Orange has scored nine goals in its last five
games and five in its last three.
“Now that we know that we can hang with these teams [in the Atlantic Coast
Conference] defensively, our focus now is trying to put up good shots,” forward Erin Simon said. “To help our offense, we’ve been trying to work on pushing our outside backs forward and play-ing into the attack.”
The Orange (7-9-1, 3-7-1 ACC) is currently 12th in the ACC, with only the top eight teams making the tournament. However, Maryland (8-8, 4-6) and Boston College (8-7-1, 4-5-1) are two of the teams Syracuse looks to unseat this week.
SU hosts the Terrapins on Thursday at 7 p.m. and travels to face the Eagles on Sunday at 4 p.m.
“Every win that we’ve had has taken us a step closer to the postseason,” SU head coach Phil Wheddon said. “The only postseason we can hope for relies on the results of other teams, but we’ve got to take care of our business first.”
Much like the Orange, the Terrapins have played a schedule prominently against some of the best competition the country has to offer. While Maryland may have an additional win to its record in comparison to Syracuse, sev-eral similarities can be drawn between the two, starting with offense.
While Syracuse seems to have endured offen-
sive struggles for a majority of the season, both SU and Maryland have averaged exactly one goal per game the entire season. Both squads have played tightly contested matches all year long, with both teams participating in six one-goal games against ACC foes.
Simon has been one of the strong points to SU’s offense that has struggled at times to put up shots. She scored one of the Orange’s three goals in its win over Miami (Fla.) on Oct. 13.
Simon’s teammates echoed the point about a gradual transition in focusing on defense to offense as the season has progressed.
Syracuse has boasted one of the top defenses in the ultra-competitive ACC, holding six of 11 ACC opponents to one goal.
Midfielder Jackie Firenze has been a part of both the offense and defense for the Orange. Firenze said that she has noticed the transition as well, and says there’s more to soccer than the physical aspect.
“The past few weeks we’ve addressed attack-ing more than at the beginning of the season,” said Firenze. “But I also think it’s mentality once we get into the scoring area.
“We just need a little better mentality when it comes to putting the ball in the back of the net.”
Wheddon is sure that his team has done what’s necessary to create scoring chances in games, but the recent success will mean little if the Orange can’t continue to score against Maryland and Boston College.
“It’s composure in front of the goal and being relaxed under pressure,” Wheddon said. “We’ve created a ton of opportunities and we’re just not finishing.
“We’re gonna look back at the season and say, ‘We could’ve won this game’ and ‘Should’ve won that game’ based on the oppor-tunities we’ve created.”
UP NEX TWho: MarylandWhere: SU Soccer StadiumWhen: Today, 7 p.m.
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By Phil D’AbbraccioASST. COPY EDITOR
M ark Brode and Louis Clark are part of the Syracuse coaching staff, but don’t
really coach. They aren’t there to make any
m a n a -g e r i a l d e c i -s i o n s , a n d t h e y a r e n ’ t
there for their tactical insights.Basically, they’re around for
fun.“It’s been a real pain in the back
side,” head coach Ian McIntyre said, before quickly recanting. “No, it’s been great. It’s nice to keep some of the guys involved in the program. The guys relate to them, they fit in great, and they’re part of our soccer family.”
Brode and Clark wrapped up their playing careers with Syracuse after last season — the most success-ful in program history. While nei-ther takes on a decision-making role as SU’s two undergraduate student assistant coaches, they bring char-acter and experience to a relatively young Orange team.
When Syracuse (9-5-1, 2-5-1 Atlantic Coast) hosts No. 12 Mary-land (7-3-5, 4-1-3) at 7 p.m. on Satur-day, Brode and Clark will, as usual, be watching from the sidelines at SU Soccer Stadium.
“It’s weird not playing, but I still get my fix. We still get out there and play a little bit in practice,” Brode said, pointing to his taped-up right ankle. “But not being able to play on
SEE MARYLAND PAGE 23 SEE PRACTICE PAGE 20
SEE SCHEDULE PAGE 20
By Stephen BaileyASST. SPORTS EDITOR
Gerry McNamara stopped play and walked across the floor to Michael Gbinije on the left wing.
Fellow Syracuse assistant coach Adrian Autry had already called out the slow-footed defense earlier in the four-on-four drill at practice Wednesday. Then the defense allowed three consecutive baskets.
McNamara had seen enough.“We’re not working. We’re not
taking away angles. We’re not doing sh*t,” McNamara said.
He took Gbinije’s place and showed him how to play more squarely, to stop trying to take away the middle. By opening a lane into the left block, Gbinije was giving freshman Ron Patterson “ bullsh*t passing angles” into the paint.
McNamara then walked out past the top of the key and scolded the whole defense for its “f*cking awful” effort.
The tone changed immediately. Gbinije closed his stance and
forced Nolan Hart to swing the ball back to the other side. Tyler Ennis slid in front of a crossing McNa-mara. The Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center court echoed with the squeaks of sliding feet and claps of teammates and managers off the floor.
McNamara’s message got through.Hopkins works with bigs
DaJuan Coleman bumped his left shoulder into Jerami Grant on the right block and turned to elevate for a right-handed hook.
WHO WHEN
Villanova Aug. 30
@ Central Michigan Sept. 13
Maryland Sept. 20
Notre Dame* Sept. 27
*at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
SYRACUSE’S 2014 SCHEDULE SO FAR
HANGIN’
(top) ziniu chen | staff photographer, (bottom) daily orange file photo(TOP) LOUIS CLARK AND (BOTTOM) MARK BRODE finished their Syracuse playing careers last year, but are now undergraduate assistant coaches. They bring character and experience to a young Orange team.
By David WilsonSPORTS EDITOR
Meetings with Notre Dame, Mary-land and Villanova highlight Syra-cuse’s nonconference slate for the 2014 season.
SU Athletics announced the Orange’s nonconference schedule
Wednesday, and the 2014 season will open with one of Syracuse’s fiercest basketball rivals. The Orange is 2-1 all-time against the Football Cham-pionship Subdivision Wildcats, who play in the Colonial Athletic Asso-ciation, and will host VU on Aug. 30 in the Carrier Dome.
SU will travel to Mount Pleasant, Mich., two weeks later for a meeting with Central Michigan on Sept. 13. The series with the Chippewas fea-tures two future games to be played in the Dome.
Syracuse will then return to the
AROUND
Former players Brode, Clark lighten mood for Syracuse
