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TUESDAYseptember 6, 2011
FINALLY COOLIN’ DOWN? hi 67° | lo 58°
By Jon HarrisASST. NEWS EDITOR
Head football coach Doug Marrone’s salary is disclosed. Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s salary and compensation is revealed a year after she ranked among the most highly compensated college presidents in the country. All Syracuse University employees received a 3 percent pay increase dur-ing the recession, which is the same time when the university’s expenses outweighed its revenues.
All are highlights in SU’s most recent Internal Revenue Service Form 990 report. In terms of SU offi-cials’ salaries, the most recent 990 covers calendar year 2009, from Jan. 1, 2009, to Dec. 31, 2009. But the uni-versity’s revenues and expenses cover the 2009-10 fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010.
The football coachIn 2009, his first year as head coach of the SU football team, Marrone made a base salary of $1,017,646 en route to leading the Orange to a 4-8 record.
Though Marrone led the team to a better record than the 3-9 record his predecessor Greg Robinson put up in 2008, Marrone made about $78,000 less than Robinson in base compen-sation. Robinson — who coached the Orange from 2005 to 2008 and compiled a 10-37 record — was paid $2,214,505 in 2008, which included a $1,083,309 buyout for not coaching the final season of his five-year con-tract and $1,095,987 in base salary for coaching his fourth season.
“Each coach has a contract they negotiate with the athletics direc-tor and the university, and there’s a whole bunch of variables in every contract that can affect salary, incen-tives, timing and so forth,” said Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs.
Quinn declined to disclose the terms of Marrone’s contract or whether the head coach received a raise or bonus following the team’s 8-5 record and New Era Pinstripe Bowl victory last season.
At SU, all athletic department sala-ries, including coaches and officials, such as the athletic director, are paid
for out of athletics revenues. Income from athletics includes ticket sales, gifts and sponsorships, among others.
But a portion of athletic officials’ salaries are paid through Interna-tional Sports Properties Inc., a mar-keting and multimedia company that holds the rights to radio and TV for SU sports, Quinn said.
For example, Marrone’s base sala-ry of $1,017,646 includes $305,672 paid by SU, $700,000 from International Sports Properties and a net income of $11,974 realized from conducting a summer football camp.
The chancellorIn 2008, SU Chancellor Cantor was among the 30 private college presi-dents who earned more than $1 mil-lion in total compensation. Cantor was listed as the 14th-highest paid president with a total compensation of $1,386,464, which included a one-time bonus of $500,000.
But Cantor gave the bonus back to the university as part of a $1 million donation with her husband, Steven Brechin, an SU sociology professor. The gift was announced Oct. 31, 2007, as a donation to SU’s capital campaign, The Campaign for Syracuse Universi-ty, which has a goal of raising $1 billion.
The $500,000 bonus was given to Cantor for the completion of her first contract, which ran from 2004 to June 2008. SU’s Board of Trustees award-ed Cantor a new six-year contract through 2014 in June 2008.
In 2009, Cantor’s total compensa-tion was down to $895,025, but her base salary was more than $17,000 higher than her base compensation of $598,758 in 2008.
In March 2009, Cantor announced she was taking a 10 percent pay cut for the 2009-10 fiscal year in light of the recession and its effect on the univer-sity. Cantor’s base salary in 2009 was $615,882, according to the 990 report.
“That’s her base salary for the year and that does reflect half the year’s 10 percent voluntary pay reduc-tion,” Quinn said.
Only half of the 10 percent pay cut is reflected in the most recent 990 because the report is based on the
By Meghin Delaney and Dara McBride
THE DAILY ORANGE
Fifteen hospitalizations and one arrest occurred Friday night at the Dayglow paint party at the Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center in down-town Syracuse.
Attendees were hospitalized for overdosing on alcohol or drugs, said Capt. Shannon Trice of the Syracuse Police Department. It is unknown whether they were Syracuse Uni-versity students, but the majority of those hospitalized were underage, Trice said. The arrest was for harass-ment and resisting arrest.
Five thousand people attended the sold-out event, a dance party where attendees are splattered with paint. The event was part of the Dayglow BLU (Beats, Love, Unity) tour, which features electronic artists including Steve Aoki, DJ Diplo and Chuckie. Steve Aoki and DJ Diplo have both played concerts at SU events in the past.
The event, targeted at young people in their teens and twenties, attracted a number of SU students. Trice said SPD received warning that there would likely be drinking and drug use, such as Ecstasy and PCP (Phencyclidine) at the event, Trice said.
A representative from the Oncen-ter declined to comment.
A Rural/Metro ambulance took
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Fun at the fairDiverse attractions and good times keep the fairgrounds packed with people. Check out The Daily Orange photo gallery from the fair online. Page 9
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Forest rangersSyracuse rallies from a 15-point, 4th-quarter deficit to upend Wake Forest in overtime. Page 20
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The next chapterIn light of the new facility, The Daily Orange Editorial Board looks forward to more library improvements. Page 5
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Science of loveWomen studying math and science fields struggle to balance romance. Page 7
1 arrest, 15 hospitalized at Dayglow
Form reveals officials’ salaries, pay increases
WHAT IS DAYGLOW?Dayglow began on college campuses in 2006 in Florida. The events infuse high-energy music, art, dance and paint. Attendees are entertained by aerial acts, stilt walkers, contor-tion acts and fire shows, along with blasts of paint from can-nons. Dayglow will travel to many cities this year, including: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Melbourne.
Source: dayglowtour.com
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SEE SALARIES PAGE 6
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR CAN MAKEIn the 2008-09 fiscal year, which is from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, there was a 3 percent pay increase for SU employees. The most recent 990 is based on the 2009 calendar year. Only half of the increase is included, meaning half of the 2008-09 fiscal year is included in the report. Here are the highest paid employees and salaries for the 2008 and 2009 calendar years:
1. Jim BoeheimHEAD MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH
2009 salary: $1,186,2252008 salary: $1,133,428
2. Doug MarroneHEAD FOOTBALL COACH
2009 salary: $1,017,6462008 salary: N/A
3. Nancy CantorCHANCELLOR
2009 salary: $615,8822008 salary: $598,758
4. Daryl GrossATHLETIC DIRECTOR
2009 salary: $510,6442008 salary: $490,155
5. Louis MarcocciaCHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
2009 salary: $478,8942008 salary: $447,281
6. Eric SpinaVICE CHANCELLOR AND PROVOST
2009 salary: $440,6442008 salary: $414,946
7. Melvin StithDEAN OF THE MARTIN J. WHITMAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
2009 salary: $436,9992008 salary: $410,293
8. George LangfordDEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
2009 salary: $358,7732008 salary: $179,400*
9. Peter BlanckUNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND BURTON BLATT INSTITUTE CHAIRMAN
2009 salary: $356,6082008 salary: $330,689
10. Kenneth ShawCHANCELLOR EMERITUS AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
2009 salary: $351,2052008 salary: $331,250
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Source: Syracuse University’s Internal Revenue Service Form 990 reports
*Langford began midyear at SU in 2008, only half of his salary was reported on the 990 that covered the 2008 calendar year. The most recent 990 reflects Langford’s full compensation.
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FROM THE MORGUE >>A BIT OF HISTORY FROM THE DAILY ORANGE ARCHIVES
Even the hamburger stand outside the men’s gym had a long line in front of it Wednesday afternoon as limp students dragged them-
selves in and out of Archbold Gymnasium on the fi rst day of post war registration.
It was just like the wartime registrations. The only thing missing was the excuse “Well, there’s a war on.”
Unprecedented were the devices used by eager students to be the fi rst to enter the gym. “I was here at 7:15”... “I’m in fi ne arts”... “This is my seventh year and I’m entitled to something”... “I have to see Dean Faigle; I’ve been waiting four days to see that man.”
Clare Coe, D.O. business manager, who found herself going through the personnel line before 10 in the morning, was so excited by her good fortune that she went down the whole row backwards dropping geo-graphical index cards fi rst and meeting the rest of the line just starting up by the dean of women’s offi ce.
Veterans “abounded,” as one freshman gleefully remarked, and some of the returned servicemen didn’t bother to change to civilian clothes before registering. After these years of “army post” campus life, it was something of a shock to hear two impressive air corps lieutenants, with overseas ribbons, saying uncertainly, “Well, we haven’t even taken the entrance exams yet.”
But the most pathetic case was that of one unnamed young man who was heard saying softly as he came out of the gym, “We waited two and a half hours in the wrong line.”
Al Zak, veteran of the gym, kept a careful eye out for imposters and was heard to observe that at least 50 persons from the On and 60 from the D.O. used the excuse of offi cial business to gain entrance to the sacred portals of the gym, but to no avail.
—Compiled by Breanne Van Nostrand, asst.copy editor, [email protected]
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Clearing things upThe Academic Integrity Policy has changed to distinguish the difference between aca-demic negligence and dishonesty.
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Road to Rhode IslandA foot injury and the ending of Hofstra’s football program are two obstacles Rhode Island quarterback Steve Probst has overcome.
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In a Sept. 1 article titled “Without match: Maxwell’s new dean bridges theoretical, practical sides in public policy,” the number of months since James Steinberg left his job was misstated. Steinberg left his post as deputy secretary of state June 24. The Daily Orange regrets this error.
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• A number of general ordinance appearance tickets were issued this weekend. Two of them came from houses on the 700 block of Euclid Avenue for unlawful use of an air gun within city limits, according to a police report.
• Tyler Toporowski, a junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, was issued a ticket at 9:08 p.m. Saturday for shooting BB gun pellets off the roof of his house toward a street sign, which was in a high traffic area. Toporowski received a sound reproduction vio-lation the next day for blaring the radio.
• Matthew Cosman, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, was issued a ticket at 9:10 p.m. Saturday for shooting his air gun out of the house and onto the street.
• Criminal mischief involving a student took place on the 200 block of Ostrom Avenue, according to a police report.
• Rebecca Horton, a junior in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, had her 2010 Acura keyed from front to back by an unknown suspect. The hood was also damaged on the driver’s side. The incident is believed to have occurred between 5 p.m. Thursday and 3 a.m. Friday. Damage to the car is esti-mated at $1,000.
• Syracuse police issued more than 10 open container violations as well as a handful of sound reproduc-tion violations and unlawful drug possession charges over the week-end, according to Syracuse police reports. Many of the violations occurred on Euclid and Ostrom avenues.
• Ramon Morris was issued both a sound reproduction violation and a violation for unlawful possession of marijuana at 10:30 p.m. Satur-day, according to a police report. Police stopped Morris on the 700 block of South Crouse Avenue because his stereo could be heard more than 50 feet away. They found a blunt cigar in the driver’s side door after inspecting his 1996 Mit-subishi.
• Dean Chauncey was issued an open container violation at 12:29 a.m. Sunday, according to a police report. Chauncey was walking down the 900 block of Walnut Place with a one-liter bottle of Southern Comfort in his hand.
• Sean Zoccolillo was issued a violation for littering and dumping at 12:58 p.m. Sunday, according to a police report. The 20-year-old Zoccolillo was walking down the 500 block of Euclid Avenue when he threw a bottle of Budweiser on the ground between the sidewalk and the street, which is public property.
— Compiled by Liz Sawyer, asst. news editor, [email protected]
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Program to broaden strategy
sterling boin | staff photographer
Perfect pitchOrange Appeal performs at the A Cappella Meet ‘n’ Greet in Hendricks Chapel. The all-male ensem-ble, who sang “Forget You” and “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing,” was one of six to perform. The event, which is in its first year, was designed to expose students to all the groups. SEE PAGE 14
By Meghin DelaneyNEWS EDITOR
A project by a department chair and students in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering may change the way solar energy is harvested.
Radhkrishna Sureshkumar, professor and chair of biomedical and chemical engineering depart-ment, has been working since last spring on developing nano-particle technology that would improve the efficiency of collecting solar energy. Working alongside Sureshkumar were graduate students Tao Cong, Satvik Wani and Peter Paytner and
undergraduate students Elia Baszc-zuk and Georo Zhou.
The teams’ work was published in July and presented at a confer-ence in August. The team created a stable solution of nano-particles that can be applied to solar cells and glass windows, like a paint, to increase the efficiency of the mate-rials, Sureshkumar said.
“It’s an enabling platform that would hopefully in the immediate to near future will make devices that capture energy from the sun better,” Sureshkumar said.
The team has now filed a provi-
sional patent through SU which gives them a year to build the technology to its fullest potential before filing for a full patent, Sureshkumar said. The team is also working on using the solution for glass windows to be used in buildings, he said. The project is being funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
The main challenge of working with nano-particles, Sureshkumar said, is trying to suspend them in a way that allows them to remain stable and consistent throughout a mixture. Most of the time, nano-
Department chair works on solar energy
SEE NANOPARTICLES PAGE 7
By Debbie TruongASST. NEWS EDITOR
A black Ford SUV overturned on Comstock Avenue between Mar-shall Street and Waverly Avenue around 7:50 p.m. Monday. Bystand-ers rushed to the scene and helped aid the driver and passenger. The driver sustained minor injuries.
Garison Clark, a freshman aerospace engineering major at Syracuse University, was walking up a hill on the Marshall Street side of Haven Hall with two friends when he saw the accident. Clark
described the sound as a cross between a “bomb and thunder.”
Clark and his friends, Ross Her-man and Chris Connolly, saw the vehicle drift three feet to the right as it was driving down Comstock Avenue. The vehicle hit a short, hip-length pole, which acted as a ramp and propelled the vehicle further up. The SUV then brushed against the side of a lamppost located behind a smaller pole, did a 180-degree spin and fell straight back down on its roof, Clark said.
SUV flips on Comstock Avenue, minimal injuries to occupants
SEE ACCIDENT PAGE 6
By Stephanie BouviaASST. COPY EDITOR
The city of Syracuse’s Say Yes to Edu-cation program is planning to work on a more integrated communication strategy, one that will better explain to the community why the program is beneficial to the Syracuse City School District.
Pat Driscoll, director of operations for Syracuse Say Yes, said the biggest change so far in the Say Yes program has been the hiring of Sharon Con-treras, the new superintendent for Syracuse city schools. Contreras was hired by the Syracuse school board in March.
“It’s been very beneficial to have Superintendent Contreras on board to emphasize the framework that Say Yes is all about,” Driscoll said.
Say Yes to Education Inc. is a national nonprofit organization that focuses on improving the academic performance of students in urban areas. Syracuse adopted the program and reached out to all public schools in the city, providing programs and services to families and children in the area.
Say Yes offers programs and sup-port to the Corcoran, Fowler and Hen-ninger quadrants. Driscoll said Say Yes is getting ready to offer the same support for the Nottingham quadrant.
The Nottingham district would be the fourth and final quadrant in the Say Yes program, Driscoll said.
Say Yes offers programs and sup-port to 22,000 students, and that num-
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andrew renneisen | asst. photo editorOnlookers watch as the Syracuse Fire Department assesses the dam-age done to an overturned SUV on Comstock Avenue on Monday night. The vehicle flipped after coming in contact with a lamppost.
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A fter a summer victory for gay mar-riage — here’s lookin’ at you, New York — same-sex marriage is about to
approach a much greater hurdle when Proposi-tion 8 makes its way to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The hearing will decide whether Prop 8 supporters have a legal standing to appeal the decision to overturn Prop 8 and once again legalize same-sex marriage. This means look- ing at gay marriage from a national perspective
and could change the political discourse for gay and lesbian rights.
New York is the most populated state to legal-ize gay marriage so far. But there are still 44 states where same-sex couples are denied this basic human right, and the Supreme Court will decide California’s future. Instead of linger-ing on New York’s success, it’s time to focus on these remaining 44 states, in which young people can play a major role.
The Gallup Poll reported in May 2011 that for the fi rst time a majority of Americans — 53 percent — believe the law should recognize same-sex marriage. The same report implies that the future of legal gay marriage rests with America’s youth: 70 percent among those aged 18 to 34 support gay marriage in comparison to 39 percent among those 55 and older.
Americans aged 18 to 34 have inherited a hefty load of issues, from dealing with the repercussions of a spiraling economy to an overwhelming debt crisis. The pressure to take on old issues and address new problems is overwhelming, as pundits label us generation “Q” for quiet.
But making strides in the fi ght for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is feasible. Gay marriage must be the defi ning social move-ment of Generation Y. We have strength in num-bers — 70 percent of people in favor of one belief is astronomical, and it’s time to take advantage of it. Research proves we have the power to shift the political discourse on this matter.
There are a number of ways in which America’s youth can rally together and urge the passing of gay marriage in the remaining states.
Young people must put pressure on President Barack Obama to offi cially support gay mar-riage. On many occasions, the president has defended his support for gay rights and has even passed positive, game-changing legisla-tion, namely repealing the Defense of Marriage
Act, which bans same-sex married couples from receiving the same federal benefi ts available to opposite-sex married couples, and “don’t ask don’t tell”.
This doesn’t mean anything, however, until Obama can verbalize his commitment toward gay marriage. He still hasn’t endorsed gay marriage specifi cally without alluding to LGBT rights in general. Encourage the president by writing him letters, creating online petitions at Change.org and publicizing activism around gay marriage so that the world knows our stance.
When he sees this issue being prioritized by our generation in big numbers, Obama will realize the seriousness of our commitment toward achieving this basic human right for all Americans.
America’s youth can continue the momen-tum around LGBT rights in other ways, as well. We have the luxury of being one of the most cre-ative and technologically advanced generations in history, and it would be prudent to use these skills productively. Social networking is one of our most powerful tools.
Young people can coordinate a massive Twit-ter campaign targeted for @RickSantorum, @MicheleBachmann and other politicians who signed the anti-gay marriage pledge titled the “Marriage Vow.”
Most importantly, don’t underestimate the power of one vote. A constitutional amendment barring gays from marrying will be on the Min-nesota ballot in 2012. This will be a common tactic used by the conservative, anti-gay move-ment because it has been effective in banning gay marriage in other states, like Proposition 8 in California. As election season approaches, make sure to pay attention to the candidates in the 2012 elections as well as the amendments regarding gay rights.
Krystie Yandoli is a senior women and gen-der studies major. Her column appears weekly.
She can be reached at [email protected].
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not a barbie girl
H auling your butt to campus for Friday morning classes is a chore, but mak-ing environmentally friendly choices
doesn’t have to be. For those of you living off campus, here are some simple ways to be more energy effi cient.
Walk. Most places in Syracuse are not far enough away to require a car, and it is fairly pleasant now while temperatures are still consistently above freezing. Fall is almost upon us in Upstate New York; you are supposed to be excited about the foliage. Or ride your bike, which has the added bonus of slightly irritating everyone driving down Euclid Avenue as they slow down to pass you.
When winter inevitably sets in, keep your thermostat down in the sixties and invest in some ugly wool sweaters. Extra points if you wear them without irony and relish in the
frumpiness. Your National Grid bills will be lower, and you’ll burn fewer fossil fuels.
Be strategic with laundry. If you wear something twice before washing it, that is half as much laundry to do. Hanging up clothes to dry instead of putting them in the dryer saves energy like nobody’s business.
Make sure to hit up the local farmers’ mar-kets. The food will have traveled fewer miles
and required less fuel than most commercial food, plus you’re putting money back into the local economy. The gigantic Central New York Regional Market happens year round on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. near the Regional Transportation Center; the Eastside Neighborhood Farmers’ Market is on the corner of Westcott Street and Euclid Avenue on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.; and the Downtown Farmers’ Market is from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays in Clinton Square. The latter two markets wind down after Halloween. There are people in Syracuse not connected to the university, who knew.
Cooking for yourself — it is not as hard as you think, especially if you keep it simple. It will save money in addition to resources, plus you get leftovers. Hint: Use what you bought at the farmers’ market. Sautee veggies and make
pasta, done. Meal plans are expensive, and there is no reason to support Sysco’s grip on institutional food. Get some friends together and improvise with what you have in the fridge for family-style meals. You can pretend you are having a sophisticated dinner party.
With all of the excellent food you will undoubtedly be making, compost the scraps. There are green bins all over the State Univer-sity of New York Environmental Science and Forestry campus for compost, and there is no good reason to put all that glorious nitrogen in a landfi ll.
Last but not least, recycle. All the cool kids are doing it.
Leanna Mulvihill is a senior forest engineer-ing major with a minor in environmental writing
and rhetoric. Her column appears biweekly. She can be reached at [email protected].
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News Editor Meghin DelaneyEditorial Editor Beckie Strum Feature Editor Kathleen KimSports Editor Michael CohenPresentation Director Becca McGovernPhoto Editor Brandon WeightCopy Chief Laurence LeveilleArt Director Emmett BaggettDevelopment Editor Kathleen RonayneSpecial Projects Editor Katie McInerneyAsst. Presentation Director Ankur PatankarAsst. News Editor Jon HarrisAsst. News Editor Liz SawyerAsst. News Editor Debbie Truong
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S yracuse University will break ground for a facility to house 1.2 million volumes
from its libraries in mid-October. The $5 million construction project solves one of the primary issues facing E.S. Bird Library — overca-pacity.
The proposition of off-campus storage elicited protests from some professors and graduate students who felt moving volumes violated
the core mission of a research uni-versity’s library — to house research resources. Protestors criticized the initial suggestion for a site in Patter-son, N.Y., a location four hours away from campus.
Building a storage facility on Jamesville Road offers a compro-mise between the pressing need to move books and calls from com-munity members to keep resources nearby. The project shows the influ-
ence students and professors can have on university issues when they are vocal.
Undoubtedly, a thriving library system sits at the core of a research university. The problems facing SU’s system — tight space, Bird’s
flawed design, chemicals holding up basement renovations, under-funding — have seen slow but continuous improvement over the last several years, and the facility marks the most promising step yet taken.
But the new facility offers a short-term solution. Although it will bring shelving use down to the optimal 75 percent, Bird will inevitably continue increasing its collection
until it hits overcapacity once again. The administration must see the new facility as only one part of the long-term project to revitalize the SU library system.
Fundraising efforts and aware-ness of the issues facing the libraries must remain at the forefront of the administration’s priorities, as the breadth, availability and use of research materials will always be a measure of SU’s academic vigor.
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ber will rise to about 26,000 with the addition of the Nottingham quadrant, he said.
This summer, Say Yes saw an increase of 700 students who enrolled in their summer program. Although the organization fell short of its goal to get 3,600 students to sign up, the increase in numbers is still positive, Driscoll said.
Driscoll said roughly 1,800 students par-ticipated in the summer program in 2010. This summer, 2,500 students enrolled, he said. Although this is short of the program’s goal, Driscoll said a number of things could have affected enrollment, including family plans for the summer.
Driscoll said students may have also been enrolled in other summer programs in the area.
Driscoll said 305 staff members and 25 volunteers worked at the Say Yes summer program this year, which ran from July 7-28.
Derek Kirch, a junior music industry and classical guitar performance major, worked as one of two music instructors at Porter Elemen-tary School for the Say Yes summer program.
Kirch said a lack of understanding about the summer program in the community could have also played a part in the Say Yes program not reaching its goal of enrolling 3,600 students.
“I don’t know if people really have great expectations of the program. I’m not sure what people in the community are saying about it,” he said.
Kirch said in addition to being one of the music instructors, he also taught math and English to the students. He said working at the Say Yes summer program allowed him to gain experience in education, a field he would like to pursue in the future.
“I took away a lot of education experience,” Kirch said. “I learned how to work with kids, and I learned a lot about working with admin-istration.”
Kirch said he would work at the Say Yes summer program again if he is given the opportunity.
Said Kirch: “They really care about the kids, and the kids themselves are fantastic.”
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2009 calendar year, while the pay reduction is based on the 2009-10 fiscal year, Quinn said. Cantor’s pay cut started July 1, 2009, and ended June 30, 2010, meaning half of the reduction will be included in next year’s report, he said.
In deferred compensation, Cantor had $151,336, which is “money that she hasn’t received and hasn’t been paid to her, but it’s pur-suant to provisions of her contract,” Quinn said. Cantor will receive the deferred funds when she completes her contract in 2014.
Cantor also had $123,897 in nontaxable ben-efits in 2009. The benefits primarily include university contributions to a retirement plan and university housing that the chancellor is required to live in, the report’s footnotes stated.
It includes the annual value of her living in the chancellor’s residence and the value of her having the use of the chancellor’s apartment at the Joseph I. Lubin House in New York City. The Lubin House is where SU holds meetings, classes and interviews, among other events. Cantor uses Lubin House for business pur-poses.
The chancellor also had $3,910 in other com-pensation, which is considered a catch-all cat-egory. Quinn said it includes miscellaneous mem-berships, such as belonging to a business club.
The employeesAlthough the most recent 990 reflects the effects
of the recession, it also shows that all university employees received a pay increase.
In the 2008-09 fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, there was a uni-versity-wide 3 percent pay increase, Quinn said. Because the most recent 990 is based on the 2009 calendar year in terms of university officials’ salaries, only half of the pay increase is included in this report, he said. This means half of the 2008-09 fiscal year — from Jan. 1, 2009, to June 30, 2009 — is included in the most recent 990 report.
“Half of this calendar year of 2009 had a raise in it, so this is half of a 3 percent raise because for the second part of calendar year 2009 there was no raise,” Quinn said.
But the other half of the most recent 990 includes half of the 2009-10 fiscal year, when uni-versity employees who made $50,000 and under were given a 2 percent raise. SU officials who earned $50,000 or more had their salaries frozen for the 2009-10 fiscal year, the same time period when Cantor took the voluntary 10 percent pay cut, Quinn said.
Increases in base salaries among SU officials on the report can be explained by the 3 percent pay increase, Quinn said. But three top SU offi-cials had significant differences in pay from the amounts in the previous 990 report that covered the 2008 calendar year.
In 2008, Christopher Sedore earned $126,465, but his salary went up to $180,134 in 2009 as a result of a promotion to vice president for infor-mation technology and chief information officer.
Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice
president for enrollment management and director of scholarships and student aid, earned $112,997 in 2008 compared to $178,334 in 2009. George Langford, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, made $179,400 in 2008 compared to $358,773 in 2009.
After being hired, deans and other top officials typically begin at the university July 1 or Aug. 1 of a given year, Quinn said. Both Langford and Copeland-Morgan began midyear at SU in 2008, meaning only half of their salary was reported on the 990 that covered the 2008 calendar year, he said. The most recent 990 that covers 2009 reflects both Langford’s and Copeland-Morgan’s full com-pensation, Quinn said.
“What was reported on last year’s 990 for peo-ple like George and Youlonda was basically half a year’s salary or less,” he said. “That’s not a raise.”
The universityUnlike SU officials’ salaries, the university’s revenues and expenses on the most recent 990 cover the 2009-10 fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010.
During the 2009-10 fiscal year, SU had $978,979,966 in total revenue, which included more than $63 million in contributions and grants; nearly $875 million in program ser-vice revenue; about $33.5 million in investment income; and about $7.5 million in other revenue.
SU also had $979,923,676 in total expenses, which included about $236 million in grants and similar amounts paid; more than $456 million in salaries, other compensation and employee ben-efits; and about $287 million in other expenses.
In the 2008-09 fiscal year — a year along with the 2009-10 fiscal year when the university felt the effects of the Recession — SU had a total revenue of $828,608,567 compared to about $934 million in total expenses. In 2008-09, SU had an unrealized loss of nearly $98 million in investment income compared to $33.5 million to the good in 2009-10. The $98 million is unrealized because the university didn’t make a transaction to generate a gain or a loss, but rather held on to it and saw a change based on the changes within the market, said Lou Marcoccia, SU’s chief finan-cial officer and executive vice president.
“You can see what happened with the invest-ment income, in one year it’s negative and in the next year it’s positive,” Marcoccia said. “That all has to do with what’s happening in the mar-ket, so that has a real big impact on the change in the total revenues here, that’s a change that’s worth about $130 million.”
The university’s net assets, after taking into account total liabilities, were nearly $1.46 bil-lion in 2009-10 while net assets totaled about $1.38 billion in 2008-09.
Marcoccia said the university’s assets increased substantially — in large part because of the market — for the 2010-11 fiscal year, which ended June 30.
“The net assets are really going to change primarily based on what’s going to happen to the market value and its investments,” Marcoccia said. “That’s really going to be the key change because you’re assuming that your revenues and your expenses are just going to balance.”
three people to the hospital at about 10:30 p.m., one of whom was found passed out in a pool of his own vomit, Trice said. There was a no re-entry policy and attendees lingered outside. Many concertgoers were visibly disoriented and appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Twenty-five officers from SPD were on patrol at the event. The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department was also in the area for regular patrols and helped block South State Street off between East Adams and Harrison streets.
Many attendees reported the inside of the concert was crowded and chaotic, and some students left the event early because of the crowds. Theresa LaPuma, a sophomore psychol-ogy major, left with her friends at about 10:30 p.m. LaPuma and her friends were up front but kept getting knocked around, she said.
“It was really fun,” she said. “It was just like once things started building up, I feel like people got out of control, and it was overwhelm-ing.”
Ahmed Khan, a senior entrepreneurship and information studies and technology major, said despite crowds, the concert was unbelievable.
“I’m a senior and this was definitely the best concert I’ve ever been to in the last four years, and honestly, Avicii’s coming up and I’m not
even looking forward to it now,” he said, refer-ring to next weekend’s University Union Juice Jam concert.
Courtney Rutledge, a sophomore English and textual studies major, said she had been to a Dayglow concert before, but this one wasn’t as good as the last.
“I’ve been to Dayglow before and the time I went before — I went about two years ago in Tampa, in Florida. The security wasn’t as intense, it didn’t take as long to get in. And no one literally got half as sick as they got here,” she said.
The event began at 7:30 p.m. and ended at 12:30 a.m. Patrol cars with SPD and the Sheriff’s department left the area just after 1:00 a.m.
— A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on Sept. 3.
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Connolly, a freshman nutrition science major, said he saw the top of the lamppost vibrate. A chain linking the smaller pole to another pole snapped and landed approximately 10 feet away.
Clark, Herman and Connolly rushed to the scene of the accident between Kimmel Food Court and Booth parking garage. Clark said two other bystanders arrived at the scene around the same time the three friends arrived. Clark said he dialed 711, the number designated for
emergency response at SU. The male bystander helped the female
driver exit the vehicle, Clark said. The driver, who had begun to crawl out of the vehicle on her own, was visibly shaken and incoherent. Clark said the driver reached for her phone.
The occupants of the car declined to com-ment or identify themselves. Neither occupant was taken to the hospital.
Herman, an undecided freshman in the Mar-tin J. Whitman School of Management, said he and his friends began checking the driver for injuries. She had a gash across the crease of her palm and was bleeding from the gum of her
mouth, Herman said. Herman grabbed a water bottle from the vehicle and helped wash out the driver’s cuts, he said. The passenger appeared to be in better condition and was able to describe what happened, he said.
The friends waited with the driver and pas-senger until responders from the Syracuse Police Department, Rural/Metro and the Department of Public Safety, among others, arrived on the scene. As of 1:20 a.m. Tuesday, DPS had no further information about the accident.
The SUV’s sunroof smashed against the street, leaving glass shards in the road. The passenger side of the vehicle was heav-
ily scraped, and the hood was also dented and scraped. Two DPS vehicles blocked off Comstock between Marshall and Waverly dur-ing the clean up while dozens of passers-by snapped photos.
Towers from John’s Auto Body arrived at 8:26 p.m. and began removing the vehicle and clearing the site. After being turned right-side up, the rim of the passenger side tire jutted out and scraped against the road as the vehicle was being dragged onto the flatbed. The acci-dent site was cleared by approximately 9:07 p.m.
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“It was really fun. It was just like once things started building up, I feel like people got out of control, and it was overwhelming.”
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particles will clump together at the bottom, he said. To stop this from happening, the team used “soapy molecules” to create a net to hold the nano-particles in place.
“It works for any kind of nano-particle we have tried yet,” he said. “We make the correct surfactant combination, shake them together
and allow it to settle.” Using this method keeps the nano-particle
shelf life much longer than previous versions, the mixture can last up to a few weeks, instead of a few minutes.
Sureshkumar said focusing on making homes more energy efficient is important. So the team is working on applying the solution to smart glass, to try to increase the efficiency of windows.
“We talk about automobiles all the time, in
terms of cost of fuel and emissions but buildings are one of the major sources of consumption of energy, so if we can make them more efficient, through this kind of mechanism, there is going to be a direct impact,” he said.
Sureshkumar said he believes that the world is in a state of crisis right now and what is done in the next 20 to 30 years will shape the future. Sureshkumar said in the past 10 years, energy has become a big ticket item and scientists have been focusing on how to improve energy
efficiency within its limits. “If you could capture all the energy in the
atmosphere, it could power the planet for a very long time. Whichever way you look at the world, the energy is there, but how do you harness it?”
Sureshkumar said even if he personally doesn’t develop a better solar cell in the future, he has faith that someone else will and that his research will be helpful.
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Women studying in the science, technology, engineering and math fields have more difficulty balancing romance and school-
work, according to a study done by researchers at the University at Buffalo.
Lora Park, the researcher who led the study, found that women who are concerned about find-ing romance should think twice about studying in the STEM fields. The study was published on the Inside Higher Education website on Aug. 16.
Women have grown tremendously in both the education and communications workforce but not the STEM fields, which prompted Park to look into the situation further, according to a news release from UB.
According to the Inside Higher Education article, Park explained that women’s romantic interests overpower their desire to succeed in the STEM fields. Also, when confronted by a romantic interest, women are less open about their field of study.
“Pursuing intelligence goals in masculine fields, such as STEM, conflicts with pursuing romantic goals associated with traditional romantic scripts and gender norms,” Park said in the study.
Since the number of women is generally lower at STEM institutions, women feel their desired profession automatically makes them less desir-able because of gender roles.
This theory does not seem surprising to stu-dents at Syracuse University.
Fall 2010 enrollment in the L.C. Smith Col-lege of Engineering and Computer Science was 1,635 males versus 534 females, according to SU’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment website. Fall 2011 enrollment is not yet available.
Ashley Cruz, a senior aerospace engineer turned philosophy major, said she felt the pres-sure of sticking to gender roles.
“It was always competition with the boys, like I had to prove myself to them. When I eventually switched to philosophy, it was almost (as if) the men were like ‘told you so’ about it,” Cruz said. “The professors try to keep everything equal, but there is a divide.”
When it comes to potential romances around
campus, Cruz also said she felt she had to play down her major to become more desirable.
“I would tell guys my major, and they would be kind of intimidated, I guess, by it because it is so hard and not many women are in it,” she said.
Cruz agrees that it is harder to be a female in a notoriously male-dominated field of study.
Park, author of the study, said women are socialized, since youth, to be romantically desirable, which includes keeping in line with typical gender roles, according to the UB news release.
Typically, these gender roles do not include professions in math or science, but more in teaching or jobs in the com-munication fields.
For senior Arielle Faden, this rings true. “I half-dread when I tell people about my
major — biology focused on pre-dental track — because they are usually half-weirded out because they never heard that coming from a girl’s mouth,” said Faden. “Especially in the greek community, it’s not a popular major.”
The fact that Faden is a one of a small percent-age of women in her field can make for semi-awkward conversations, she said.
“They respond with a, ‘That’s so weird, that’s such a man’s job,’ and the conversation moves on,” Faden said. “But there are aspects of den-tistry that are completely male dominated, such as oral surgery. I’ve basically crossed that off my list of potential specialties because of that reason.”
But not all men think this is necessarily true. “Some of my best friends are girls in engineer-
ing, and each one of them is proud to talk about it,” said Karl Goettsche, a senior engineering major.
This idea goes back to the opinion that smart is sexy.
Goettsche said: “These girls don’t care if the guy is judging them because they are proud of what they are accomplishing, and sometimes it makes them more appealing because of the intel-ligent conversations you can have with them.”
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A s a loyal AT&T customer dat-ing back to the AT&T and Cin-gular merger circa 2006, I was
initially elated about the proposal for my mobile service provider to merge yet again, this time with T-Mobile.
The partnership would mean more resources and more resources means less dead zones. This translates to virtually uninterrupted access to Twitter, Facebook, email, Words with Friends and the other 100-something apps on my phone. But at what cost?
Eager to learn exactly what kind of perks the marriage of AT&T and T-Mobile would offer me, I sifted through the particulars of the pro-
posal. My elation rapidly defl ated: The dirty details diminished the seemingly fl awless façade of the fan-tasy of a supreme mobile network.
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice issued a lawsuit to prevent the merger after concerns were raised about its effect on Ameri-can consumers.
The merger has been called un-American. It’s been denounced by Minnesota senator Al Franken as “an unreasonable risk to the economy.”
The text of the DOJ’s lawsuit warns that it would “substantially lessen competition.”
Yankee Group, an independent company that conducts research and provides analysis of technology companies, provided a summary of the bottom-line of the merger.
“From a spectrum perspective, the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile appears to expand network cover-age and improve performance for AT&T customers. From a market
perspective, Yankee Group believes the merger will increase market con-centration, reduce consumer choice and open the door for price increases in the most heavily populated U.S. wireless markets.”
In the game of mobile service providers with nationwide networks, there are four big time players: AT&T has 31.9 percent of the market share, 31.1 percent goes to Verizon, Sprint accounts for 16.7 percent and T-Mobile
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T U E S D AYSEPTEMBER 6, 2011
PA G E 9the daily orange
By Colleen Bidwill and Kathleen KimTHE DAILY ORANGE
T he sound of screams from ride goers accom-
panied by the loud chimes of carnival
games. The smell of fried foods wafting in
the air. The fair must be in town.
Monday marked the last day of The Great New
York State Fair and this year marks its 170th
anniversary. The fair at the Empire Expo Cen-
ter, which was originally located on Salina and
Ash streets in 1841, attracts hoards of Syracuse
University students. Scott Vanderpool, manager
at parking and transit services, said for 10 years
SU has provided free buses to the fair for students
eager to take part in this timeless tradition.
Here are six highlights of the fair’s many
offerings.
Cultural fl airSome of the fair’s attractions offered an inside look at
Native American culture. At the far end of the fair, the Iro-quois Indian Village showcases tradtional music, dance, customs and heritage of the Six Nations of the Haudeno-
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THE GREAT NEW YORK STATE FAIR lasted 12 days, from Aug. 25 to Sept. 5. The annual event showcased extensive attractions, including livestock shows and rides.
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PA G E 9the daily orange
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By Darren BlecknerStaff Writer
B rian Sella has a knack for creating songs that get stuck in your head. Not only that, but he sings about things we have all been through and thought about but may
not have the courage to say ourselves. As one half of indie pop duo The Front Bottoms, Sella sings
about postgraduate problems with cleverness and wit, his voice shining through in his quirky and relatable lyrics. Along with drummer and horn player Matt Uychich, they channel the lyrical humor and charm of Say Anything with the acoustic strumming and horn section of Neutral Milk Hotel, creating an impressive 12-song album that is worthy of multiple listens.
While it may not break any new musical ground, the album does not have any particularly weak tracks. The various mul-tilayered instruments — whether it be piano, synthesizer or horns — keep every song fresh. The Front Bottoms’ lo-fi indie sound is poised and polished, rare for a debut album, especially from two band members in their early twenties.
The album opener, “Flashlight,” begins with an acoustic guitar riff similar to Death Cab for Cutie’s “Title and Registra-tion” before exploding with Uychich’s furious pounding and a multilayered distorted guitar riff. Sella, who is only a few years removed from college, crafts tales of heartbreak, love and loss with self-depreciating humor. The entire second verse of “Flashlight” deals with being unemployed after college,
with the only prospect of hope coming in the form of drinking and hanging out with friends.
Despite the seriousness and somewhat dark undertones of the lyrics, Sella’s guitar work and unique voice coupled with Uychich’s well-timed drumming make it sound like everything is going to be okay for not only them, but also for the thousands of college graduates in the same situation.
The first single, “Maps,” features acoustic power chords backed by a string section as Sella sings about the trials and tribulations of being a musician in today’s age: “One day you’ll be washing yourself with hand soap in a public bathroom / Thinking how did I get here / Where the hell am I?”
On “The Beers” and “Swimming Pool,” Sella exposes his heart to pain as he does all he can to impress the girl he likes: “I will remember that summer as the summer I was taking ste-roids / Because you like a man with muscle / And I like you.” But he also sings about what happens when you don’t have the same feelings for someone: “How low is your self-esteem / I know you’re in love with me / And I’ve been ignoring you.”
“Legit Tattoo Gun” features a loud distorted guitar as well as great backing vocals by Uychich as they sing about possibly finding “the one” at a party.
Despite the more serious topics found in the lyrics, each song becomes a sing-along. Stella paints a picture of suburban post-graduate life through the trials and tribulations of love, work and partying. In “Looking Like You Just Woke Up” Sella says he “likes the idea of places I’ll never go,” but after this release, he
and The Front Bottoms just may be on their way to the places he’s always dreamed about.
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Wearing all black, the all-female a cappella group The Mandarins stepped onstage bounding with energy, ready to start the show with their soulful version of Taylor Swift’s “White Horse.”
The Mandarins is one of the six groups that performed in the A Cappella Meet ‘n’ Greet hosted by the Syracuse University A Cappella Council inside Hendricks Chapel. The other five groups were Orange Appeal, Main Squeeze, Grooves-tand, Oy Cappella and Redemption.
A Cappella Council President and Mandarins member Deanna Payson said the purpose of the event was to expose interested students to the a cappella community on campus.
“The event enables freshmen and transfer stu-dents to see the unique styles and talents of each group, plus an opportunity to find out what it’s like to be a member of these groups,” said Payson, a senior political science major. “This will help them make an educated choice of which a cappella
group is right for them.”Payson said because this was the first time the
A Cappella Council sponsored a Meet ’n’ Greet, no one knew how many people would attend the event. Once the event ended, however, performers were pleased with the number of people in atten-dance, said Carly Blane, a Groovestand member and sophomore musical theater major.
Students from every grade were present, but the event attracted the highest number of fresh-men. One of those freshmen was Duane Ford, a earth science education major.
“I am very interested in joining Orange Appeal,” he said. “I love the sound of all male a cappella groups. If I wasn’t an education major, I’d be a music performance major.”
Not all audience members were a cappella hopefuls.
“I have a terrible voice, but I just think a cap-pella singing is awesome,” said Michelle DiLella, a freshman biology major. “I enjoyed the show and am absolutely going to support the a cappella
groups in their future performances.” Many of the groups performed with smaller
numbers than usual because many members from last year graduated or are abroad this semes-ter. All of the groups emphasized that they are looking for new members and encouraged inter-ested singers or beat boxers to audition.
Wearing all blue, Oy Cappella enthusiastically performed “Cecilia” by Simon and Garfunkel and the Hebrew song “Nachamu.”
“Oy Cappella is just a lot of fun. We’re a group of people who don’t take ourselves too seriously but love to sing,” said Milly Millhauser, a senior acting major. “When we perform we are just there for the fun of Oy Cappella and not about a competi-tion. We are here to sing and not to be judged.”
Even though Oy Cappella is known as the Jew-ish a cappella group, only half of Oy Cappella is of Jewish descent, so auditions are open to anybody, Millhauser said.
One highlight of the show was when the ladies of the all-female group Main Squeeze invited past mem-
bers of their group on stage to perform Dave Mat-thew’s “Baby,” a staple in Main Squeeze’s repertoire.
“It’s a song that connects us to our alumni members and welcomes the newcomers,” said Main Squeeze member Jesstina Allinger, a sopho-more music education major.
The audience reacted well to Orange Appeal’s performance of Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You,” Groovestand’s rendition of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” and Redemption’s version of Kanye West’s “All of the Lights.”
After the show, the groups held informal ses-sions around the stage to give students informa-tion on audition times and pointers. Members of the a cappella groups and interested students both found the information sessions informative and enjoyable.
“As a member of Groovestand, the information session was extremely beneficial,” Blane said. “It was great being able to interact with interested students after the show.”
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saunee (or Iroquois): Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora and Mohawk. At the grassy site, around since 1928, visitors weave in and out of a 17th-century bark longhouse and stop by huts with jewelry, woodwork and other crafts for sale.
Sit on wooden benches surrounding the Turtle Mound stage to watch traditional dances, includ-ing the old-style war dance called Smoke Dancing. Dancers stamp and twirl around the stage, accom-panied by the piercing chants of three performers and the steady beat of a booming drum,
Farm freshEvery year, local farmers who raise goats, rab-bits, cattle, pigs, sheep and llama, register at the
fair to show off their animals in the expansive barns and tents. Visitors get the chance to inter-act with the animals and taste ice cream, fudge and cheese in the Dairy Products Building. Passers-by pause and gaze at a sculpture made from 800 pounds of butter.
For Christel Axtell, daughter of Cortland farmer Rowland Ripley, annual trips to the fair are routine. This year, 44 Ripley family members gathered in the Dairy Cattle Barn with 18 cows. The family cleans the cows and trims their hair prior to stepping into the ring to walk them in front of the judges, often staying overnight in the barn to take care of the cows.
Axtell said the fair gives them a chance to show the audience, particularly SU students with minimal knowledge of local farms, what farmers do every day.
“We encourage university students to come
and see how much pride we take in our work and our animals, and how much we make sure we give the best products to the consumers,” Axtell said.
Wild childFor many fairgoers, the fair’s rides and games let them channel their inner child.
“The rides and the games take you right back into your childhood,” said Sierra Spechler, a sophomore anthropology major. “Going to the fair is America’s pastime.”
Many of the rides, like the giant ferris wheel, are standard fair staples, and Spechler said she especially liked The Sky Flyer, a 98-foot tall tower swing that whirls riders around at 30 mph.
While she enjoyed the rides, sophomore broadcast journalism major Kathryn Banzer, who went to the fair for the first time this year, said she preferred soaking in the atmosphere and playing some of the games. One of her friends won a giant rubber hammer.
“It was an outrageous, unbelievable and humongous event, nothing like I’ve ever seen before,” Banzer said. “You could probably spend 24 hours there and not get bored.”
Weird and wacky Amongst all the typical food stands and fair attractions, some hidden gems added unique alternatives to the mainstream fair. One event was “Wild about Monkeys,” a comedic routine featuring animals such as a bird and two vari-eties of monkeys. The monkeys were animal celebrities, having starred in commercials such as a Super Bowl ad.
Away from the carnival games, students stood with a large, black, four-by-five film cam-era taking portraits of fairgoers who passed by for a class assignment.
“We’ve been practicing, and it’s been a lot of fun,” said Keith Tripler, a junior art photogra-phy and television, radio and film dual major.
Near the Pan Cultural area of the Art and Home Center, a family built a roller coaster out of pretzels, using a glue gun to hold it together.
Many gathered around to watch their progress throughout the day.
In tuneTunes of various bands and individuals were heard throughout the fair. However, toward the evening were bigger names in the music indus-try such as Lady Antebellum, The Script and Maroon 5 that attracted individuals to the fair.
Nadine Della Pelle, a sophomore broadcast and digital journalism major, was eager to see Lady Antebellum later that evening.
Growing up in Syracuse, the state fair was always a must for Della Pelle, but the music has changed throughout the years.
“It’s exactly the same. The only difference is the people, but (the fair has the) exact same feel, but that’s the great part of it,” she said.
Food frenzyIt isn’t a fair without booths of fattening, deep-fried foods.
For her first time at the fair, Rosa Perez, a junior social work major, had gotten a corn dog and, by the end of the day, she was ready to consume the customary fair food: funnel cake.
One stand, Fried Specialties, goes beyond the typical fair food and offers items such as bacon wrapped Snickers, a new item on the menu, said vendor Artie Richardson.
Although the staff had no strange requests for things to deep-fry, with the exception of fudge, Richardson said every year before the fair they experiment and see what fries well. Then, that item is added to the menu that already consists of deep-fried favorites like pizza and peanut butter and jelly.
Alternatives to fried food include taffy. Nor-man’s Old-Fashioned Taffy, a mainstay at the fair since the mid-1920s, has sustained itself due to its classic nature, said Penny Nearhoof, a worker of 11 years. The homemade taffy has 11 different flavors, like vanilla and banana.
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boasts the smallest piece of the pie at 11 percent. For those of you who are mathematically chal-lenged, the merger would allow AT&T to sit comfy with approximately 42 percent of the market, out-running its closest competitor by about 10 percent.
While AT&T is offering upwards of $39 billion for the merger ($6 billion of which is required to be paid to T-Mobile’s parent company, regardless
of whether or not the merger goes through) and promises to move 5,000 overseas call center jobs back to the United States, figures indicate that the jobs lost in the intermingling of the companies would outweigh those gained. That market domi-nance would only benefit AT&T in the long run.
With all this in mind, it is no surprise that the proposal is drawing critique from all corners of the room. All corners except for one.
Verizon, the other massive player in the mobile service provider roster, has been noticeably absent from this debacle. A report from Reuters
indicates that Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, said the merger “makes sense” and speculates that it will indeed succeed.
Should the merger succeed, the new market-share structure would leave the weakest of the trifecta, Sprint, in a very distant third place.
Analysis indicates that, should AT&T and T-Mobile merge, Sprint would account for so little of the market that it would only be a matter of time before it would be bought by Verizon, resulting in two giant service providers and the complete absence of pressures for competitive pricing.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse stated in a panel last Tuesday that the merger “would stifle innovation and that too much power would be in the hands of two [companies].”
In this hypothetical world of mobile service dominated by two faceless and uncaring giants, that Words with Friends game could come at a much higher cost and with much spottier service.
Jessica Smith is a senior information man-agement and technology and television, radio
and film dual major. Her column appears every Tuesday. She can be reached at [email protected].
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chris griffin | staff photograherKeith hale, a vendor from Kentucky beckons passers-by to come play the game at his booth at the great new York state Fair, which offers multiple games for all audiences.
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Tom Howe didn’t think much of this particular tornado warning. After all, he grew up in Iowa where such warnings are common, and he’d never experienced one before.
So on May 22 — only two weeks after Howe had moved to Joplin, Mo., to become the defen-
sive line coach for Division II Mis-souri Southern State — the first-year coach paid little attention
when a warning was issued. But within a few minutes, he and defensive
backs coach Kevin Almlie saw a funnel cloud outside Almlie’s apartment, about four miles in the distance. They took shelter. Howe, Alm-lie and Almlie’s girlfriend all huddled in the master bathroom of the apartment. They heard glass breaking and debris striking the house. The trio held onto the door to keep it from blow-ing off its hinges.
It was the first time Howe had ever been in a tornado. And the tornado he lived through turned out to be the seventh deadliest in United States’ history.
“Any time you’re in a situation like that, you’re afraid,” Howe said. “But you know it’s out of your hands at that point, and you just have to hope the worst didn’t happen to you.”
The worst didn’t happen to them. After what felt like a minute, the tornado was
gone, and they were alive. One-hundred-fifty-seven others in Joplin weren’t so lucky, losing their lives in the EF5 tornado.
• • •Minutes after, the trio emerged from the
bathroom and ventured outside.“There were people screaming because they
were trapped in debris,” Howe said. “We could see the hospital from where we were — before, you could never see it because of all the build-ings that were once in the way. There were fires, the air smelled like gasoline and ammonia all night.”
Howe called defensive coordinator Mike Mutz immediately and told him they needed some help. Mutz had been in the north of town, where his home was hit with strong winds and hail but not affected by the tornado. He hopped in his car and drove to get them.
“It was beyond anything I had ever seen,” Mutz said.
And for three weeks after the tornado, foot-ball wasn’t on anyone’s mind. Instead, each day, the football staff would gather at 8 a.m. in the office and then get dropped off in the middle of wreckage to “try to start to help people,” Howe said.
“We lost a month of work. We did what we were supposed to do,” Mutz said.
As the summer moved along, the coaches knew they had to prepare for the season. Mis-souri Southern has a program of community service for its football players — normally, Howe said, they might complete their com-munity service just to get it done. But this year, players approached the coaches and asked how they could do more to help the community.
Once players reported for practice in August,
they began the habit of sticking around after daylong workouts to go to whichever church or center needed their help, Mutz said.
Players would spend all day handing out food and water and helping with day-to-day operations at disbursement centers to help those affected by the tornado.
“There was so much work to be done, games to get ready for. But you do what you have to do to help the community,” Mutz said. “When you have 100 strong, young people wanting to help, you just wish you had more than 24 hours in a day to get more accomplished.”
• • •Before the tornado, Howe wasn’t concen-
trated on the risks associated with living in the Midwest. Instead, he was concentrating on his new position at Missouri Southern.
He said he was enjoying life in Joplin, a “top Midwestern town” with plenty to do and nice people. He was learning what to study, develop-ing game plans and working on football recruit-ing — the activities of “any normal football team in the country.”
The tornado eliminated normal, and to this day Joplin is still trying to bring itself back.
The trees that lay in the three-quarter-mile swath of damaged land don’t have branches on them. Instead, leaves grow out of the trunks. The Walgreens in town is rebuilt and some buildings have seen minor repairs.
But 105 days after the tornado touched down, only the foundations of buildings remain.
So does the foundation of the football team. The Lions took the field this past Thursday at No. 15 Central Missouri, a team that made it to
the quarterfinals of the Division II tournament last year. They lost 42-24, but Mutz said there were plenty of positive things he saw on the field.
“We knew it would be a challenge going up to those folks, but football certainly helps you to get
back to as normal as life can be,” he said. “But still, it’s kind of selfish to talk about normalcy when two blocks away, life’s still not normal.”
The Lions’ home opener is Sept. 17. This year, that night game will be a little different than before.
“There’s a feeling around the team that this seems a little bit more important,” Howe said. “They’re looking to come back for a sense of nor-malcy. They look at it as an opportunity to do something exciting and special for the community.
“I have the belief we could do some really, really special things this year. I can’t wait to watch them play, I’m excited for us. I’m excited for the city of Joplin.”
Games to watchRhode Island at syRacuseprediction: SyracuSe 28, rhode iSland 14
Syracuse opens the season 2-0, and people assume they will make it to a Bowl Champion-ship Series. But they probably won’t. Remem-ber, it’s Rhode Island.mIssIssIppI state at aubuRnprediction: auburn 21, MiSSiSSippi State 17
After last week, the defending national champions won’t let themselves wait until the very end to light up.south caRolIna at geoRgIaprediction: GeorGia 24, South carolina 21
Georgia lost a key defensive player — and a game against Boise State — last week. But the Gamecocks had to make a comeback against East Carolina last week to win. Georgia takes this one.utah at southeRn calIfoRnIaprediction: Southern california 36, utah 30
In the first game of the Pac-12 Conference, both teams will be looking to do better offen-sively than they did last week — hence the high score.Iowa at Iowa stateprediction: iowa 17, iowa State 7
Iowa takes four in a row from the Cyclones; Iowa State just can’t muster the offense the Hawkeyes can.
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meet the racersJ. Calhoun (Cohen)Straight outta Burlington, conn., this sports editor credits “the chronic 2001” for where he is today. He spends his time editing, ball-ing and following SU softball. So for him, picking games should be “nuthin’ but a ‘G’ thang.” M. Sanchise (Cooper)this asst. sports editor splits his time between tossing touchdown passes, cover-ing SU football and M. delaney. He moon-lights as tracy McGrady, but that’s only at parties.C. Gery (Gery)Make no mistake about it: You can’t miss this new asst. sports editor, or his picks. that is, unless you mistake him for his twin. Whichever Gery you see or choose, be kind and say hello.I. Blog (Bailey)Beantown Banter looks to take over race in 2011. He spends too much time daydream-ing about Kevin Garnett and Big papi, but he might be in the running for the crown. that is, of course, if he can get over the with-drawal of not working with a. tredinnick.S. Kim (Tredinnick)this new asst. copy editor is a seasoned vet after he was one of the winners of Battle last year. let’s just hope he doesn’t make many copy errors, or he risks disgracing the smiling spirit of Susan Kim that always floats around 744 ostrom.T. Pryor (Brown)this former asst. copy editor is a proud Buckeye fan and jim tressel supporter. He plans on bringing his sweater vest to
chuck’s Monday to Friday. on weekends he doesn’t make it that far.M. Franz (Marcus)this racer thinks she kills it on the court, her personal blog and on dates at panera Bread. But her balancing act of those responsibilities, along with picking games, could equal some risky business.B. Strum (Iseman)this racer certainly brings orange with him wherever he goes. His hair resembles that of his mentor, who happens to be the d.o.’s editorial editor. together they burn.B. LoGiurato (McBride)this racer had a keen eye for M. cohen’s predecessor. With him gone, McBride got it together and became editor in chief. She just did her own thing, now she runs the game. #BrizzyK. Ronayne (Mainthia)this racer has an affinity for University Union and has season tickets to SU basket-ball. too bad her managing editor duties will prevent her from leaving 744 ostrom. Forever.J. John’s (Olivero)this racer is most famous for his applica-tion of Newton’s third law. Now he applies that physics knowledge to each and every sandwich at jimmy john’s. He turns turkey toms into italian isaacs.S. Gitner (McInerney)this racer is a former editor in chief turned special projects editor. She’s fancy, huh? So fancy that a regular beer bong isn’t good enough for Ms. Mcinerney. Hers is two sto-ries tall. GoHl.R. Boner (Ronayne)this racer built a city. it’s called pishart-
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“There were people screaming because they were trapped in debris.We could see the hospital from where we were — before, you could never see it because of all the buildings that were once in the way. ”
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were treated to a classic. “That’s one of the best wins since I’ve been in
Syracuse,” Bailey said. “To do it in the fashion we did it, to come from so many points down and then to do it in the Dome. It doesn’t get any better than that.”
Jimmy Newman’s 40-yard field goal with 11:02 remaining in the fourth quarter marked the beginning of the game’s second act. Those three points gave Wake Forest a 29-14 lead, which appeared insurmountable given the inconsis-tent performance of the SU offense to that point.
On the sidelines, though, the Syracuse offense gathered together and agreed that it was now or never if the team wanted to enjoy its season opener.
Nassib, who started the game 1-for-5, couldn’t miss. Twenty-one yards to Alec Lemon, nine more to Lemon on the next play, 24 yards to
Chew five plays later. He completed all five passes on the drive for 59 yards, capping it off with a two-yard touchdown pass to fullback Adam Harris to make the score 29-21.
“We got it within eight, and I felt like that was a big turning point for the team,” Harris said. “Everybody started getting a little excitement. The stadium felt alive again.”
Then it was Bailey’s turn. The SU senior running back couldn’t find a single crease in the first half. Outside of one 10-yard gain, he had just 11 yards on seven carries.
But with one 53-yard burst, he put to bed all of the criticism and hype surrounding his 5-foot-7-inch, 201-pound frame. He broke a run outside, down the left sideline and outran the Wake For-est defense to bring Syracuse within two at 29-27.
He finished the game with 114 rushing yards and two touchdowns.
Chew made a diving catch falling out of the back right corner of the end zone, dragging his left hip along the Carrier Dome turf to convert the two-point conversion.
SU emerged from the murky depths to stun Wake Forest with 15 points in a span of 3:55.
“We like teams that pressure us because now you can get the big play,” SU head coach Doug Mar-rone said. “We were able to make some big plays. I’m disappointed we couldn’t make them earlier.”
With the score deadlocked 29-29, Nassib and Marinovich flashed back to the season opener in 2008. Greg Paulus guided the Orange into over-time against Minnesota, but an interception in the back of the end zone cost Syracuse the game.
But Nassib said this team is tougher. The bond is stronger. So as SU began overtime with the ball, the white-hot offense composed of a “brotherhood” forged onward.
Nassib went back to Chew. The receiver absorbed a shot from Wake Forest strong safety Cyhl Quarles on first down and hauled in a 16-yard deep comeback, setting up the Orange with a first-and-goal.
Two plays later, Nassib faced a strong rush off a play-action fake and backpedaled away from danger. He floated a pass to Chew in the
front left corner of the end zone.Chew slid forward, caught the ball and rolled
onto his side to protect the ball. Touchdown. “I saw the ball in the air, and I was like, ‘I
have to get it. We have to score,’” Chew said. “So I just went after it.”
Syracuse took the lead 36-29, and four plays later the team stormed the field. The defense forced a turnover on downs to cap the most dra-matic comeback since the Paul Pasqualoni era.
Fortunate, yes. But impressive as well. The 22 unanswered points shocked the Demon Deacons, whose players stood motionless on the field as their fourth-down pass toward wide receiver Chris Givens was batted down by SU’s Kevyn Scott.
Syracuse stole the game away with an unthinkable turnaround.
“It was probably the best game I ever played in my life and been in,” Chew said. “And how we just came back from everything, from adversity and stuff and just to get that win in overtime is amazing.”
know is there was a lot of ‘ifs,’ ‘ands,’ and ‘buts,’ and ‘shouldas,’ ‘couldas,’ ‘wouldas’ that were not to our advantage late in the game.”
In Whitlock’s list, the “ifs” and the “woul-das” are the most relevant. If starting quarter-back Tanner Price hadn’t gotten hurt, Wake Forest woulda won.
Plain and simple. Price crumpled to the Carrier Dome turf
after Orange defensive end Chandler Jones rolled up onto his knees, forcing redshirt junior Ted Stachitas into duty.
The fact that Stachitas is most famous for being the quarterback to succeed Tim Tebow at Nease High School in Florida puts the magni-tude of the change into context.
When Price left the game on his team’s opening drive of the fourth quarter, everything changed.
The previously unstoppable Wake Forest offense sputtered with Stachitas under center. His four possessions at quarterback resulted in a punt, an interception, the end of regulation and a turnover on downs to end the game in overtime. Sixteen total plays with 29 net yards and zero points on the scoreboard.
“I think it was a big momentum shift, it was hard to get the momentum to slow down at all,” Whitlock said of the injury to Price. “I think it was a big part of the game.”
Prior to the injury, Price abused the Syra-cuse defense to the tune of 289 yards and three touchdowns through three quarters and three minutes. He and wide receiver Chris Givens toyed with the Orange secondary, hooking up six times for 162 yards and two scores.
The shortest reception was 13 yards, and every single one resulted in a first down or touchdown for the Demon Deacons. Givens finished the game with 170 receiving yards — he later caught an eight-yard pass from Stachitas — good enough for fifth-highest total in the
country among wide receivers for Week One.Both of his touchdowns exposed flaws in the
Orange defense. The first — a 60-yard bomb in which he beat the double coverage of Phillip Thomas and Keon Lyn. The second — a quick pass out to the left sideline that he took 22 yards to the end zone after running right by SU cor-nerback Kevyn Scott.
“I think the coaches did a great job prepar-ing me for this game with film study, and I was really comfortable with what we were doing offensively,” Price said.
It showed as he picked apart a defense that ranked No. 7 in the country a season ago.
But Stachitas was visibly uncomfortable. As the momentum began to swing in SU’s favor, he looked rushed in the pocket. He forced his second pass to Givens, and it was picked off.
On the final play of the game, he flung a des-peration heave toward Givens in the back right corner of the end zone, but Scott’s provided good coverage and Givens couldn’t haul it in, giving Syracuse the win.
SU head coach Doug Marrone will tell you the team “accomplished a lot in this game.” He said as much in his postgame press conference.
It was the first time the Orange won back-to-back season openers since the 1999 and 2000 seasons. And the first win over an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent since 2003.
Yet Marrone also points out how easily the game could have gone the other way.
“We didn’t make plays early in the game, and we were very fortunate to win that game,” he said.
If Price stays in, the Demon Deacons prob-ably keep rolling, and the SU head coach is sud-denly forced to explain why his team can’t win at home for a second consecutive year.
But it didn’t happen like that. Somehow, Syracuse won when it shouldn’t have.
I’m left wondering just how much a team can accomplish in a game it was lucky to win.
Michael Cohen is the sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occa-
sionally. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Michael_Cohen13.
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but the fourth quarter belonged to the Orange.After the Syracuse “D” showed no resem-
blance to the unit that ranked No. 7 in the country from a year ago for 45 minutes, the unit overcame exhaustion and injuries to make key stops in the fourth quarter.
Scott in particular came up huge twice for the Orange.
He cut in front of Givens to pick off a pass from quarterback Ted Stachitas with less than five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Minutes later, on the last play of overtime, his blanket coverage sealed Syracuse’s come-from-behind win as he had perfect coverage to prevent a catch by Givens in the end zone.
“Usually, in the past, we get down and we give up,” Scott said. “But those guys never gave up. I went down, (safety) Phillip Thomas went down, but we never gave up. We kept fighting.”
Early on, some broken coverage led to big plays for Wake Forest that could have demoralized the SU secondary. It was Givens in particular that frustrated the Orange’s cornerbacks.
He was left uncovered down the sideline on the Demon Deacons’ second possession for a 37-yard catch. Givens would have likely scored on the play had he not fallen down making the grab.
In the second quarter, the junior receiver
blew past Thomas for a 60-yard touchdown to put Wake Forest up 13-7. By halftime, he had already piled up 124 yards on just four catches.
“Givens, all respect goes to him,” Scott said. “He’s a good receiver. He runs some solid pat-terns, and he got himself open.”
The Demon Deacons held possession for over 20 minutes in the first half, whereas SU strug-gled offensively and repeatedly went three-and-out.
That left an already weakened defense exhausted. Defensive end Mikhail Marinovich threw up twice on the field. Three of the four starters in the secondary needed medical atten-tion at some point during the game.
“It was really tough,” linebacker Marquis Spruill said. “Everybody was cramping. Then they had to throw (freshman cornerback Bran-don Reddish) in for a little bit and everybody was like, ‘Oh, man.’ But everybody got back on track.”
They didn’t get back on track, though, until the fourth quarter, when SU caught a break just before a Wake Forest field goal. SU defensive end Chandler Jones fell into the legs of Demon Deacons quarterback Tanner Price, knocking him out of the game.
“When the quarterback went down,” Jones said. “I felt like that was our time to kick it up a notch and start to get this ball moving.”
The Orange offense ignited itself and came back to tie the game, and the defense responded to suffocate the Demon Deacons and backup Ted Stachitas.
SU held Wake Forest to just 37 yards of
offense after Price left the game.Scott’s interception helped send the game to
overtime, where SU got the ball first and scored. Wake Forest stalled at the 19-yard line and
faced a fourth-and-four. And with Scott in one-on-one coverage with Givens on the outside, the Orange corner knew where the ball was going.
Stachitas tried to squeeze a fade pass into
Givens in the end zone, but Scott was in perfect position as the pass bounced away to seal the win.
“(Givens) was their guy,” Scott said. “We were in man-to-man coverage. Last play of the game. And I seized the moment. I said, ‘Bring it on.’ And we prevailed.”
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bobby yarbrough | contributing photographerkevyn scott (26) prepares to tackle Wake Forest running back Josh Harris (25) Thursday. Scott had a key interception to help force overtime and lead SU to victory.
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Van Chew’s numbers against Wake Forest didn’t threaten any of his career highs. He didn’t catch a pass in the fi rst half. His numbers weren’t even the best performance by a wide receiver in Thursday’s game.
But those four catches for 60 yards and a touchdown — plus a crucial two-point conver-sion were invaluable to Syracuse’s comeback.
“Van made some great catches,” SU head coach Doug Marrone said. “He really did. He made some great catches, and it comes down to the same thing. It’s not rocket science. You go out there and someone has to make plays.”
Chew was the hero of Syracuse’s 36-29 over-time win over the Demon Deacons Thursday in the Carrier Dome. After being held without a catch in the fi rst half, the wideout came up with some key catches late to help SU forge the dramatic comeback. His two diving catches on opposite sides of the end zone provided the game-tying and game-winning points, respec-tively, for the Orange.
Chew and quarterback Ryan Nassib strug-gled to connect in the fi rst half. Their fi rst con-nection didn’t happen until the opening drive of the second half.
A feeble passing game contributed to the poor offensive performance of the fi rst two quarters, prompting the leaders of the team to vocalize new goals for the second half.
“Basically, all the leaders were just talking, saying we need to pick it up because the defense was carrying us the whole fi rst half,” Chew said. “So we just had to look at the adjustments and just do them.”
And Chew’s biggest contributions came when the Orange needed them most in the second half.
After Wake Forest went up 29-14 with 11 minutes left, he had a key 24-yard pickup on the Orange’s next drive that eventually resulted in a touchdown. Antwon Bailey scored on a 52-yard touchdown run just more than a minute later to put the score at 29-27.
That set the stage for Chew’s fi rst diving grab. The original play on the two-point con-version broke down when Nassib was fl ushed from the pocket. Chew broke his pattern off early, and Nassib tossed him the ball in the back corner of the end zone. Chew launched himself toward the sideline, pulled in the pass and managed to drag his leg in bounds to tie the game at 29-29.
“The play was designed to get it out quick, and it went into scramble mode,” Nassib said. “Chew created separation and made a great catch.”
But that diving catch was just a precursor to the senior’s heroics in overtime.
On SU’s fi rst play of the extra session, he picked up 16 yards on a deep comeback to move the Orange inside the 10. Two snaps later, Nas-sib rolled left and got some pressure quickly. He said he just tried to throw the ball away to a spot where only Chew had a shot at it.
The receiver laid out with full extension and snared the ball just before it hit the turf in the front corner of the end zone for the eventual game-winning score.
“I was just trying not to get a pick,” Nassib
said. “So I just threw it where only Van could get it. I’ve been with him for quite some time, and he makes those plays look easy, doesn’t he?”
Adjustments spark comebackWake Forest caught Syracuse off guard with its game plan.
“First games are tough,” Marrone said. “… They were the opposite of what they showed last year on fi lm.”
That led to a fi rst half dominated by the Demon Deacons. But with some halftime adjust-ments, SU managed to storm back.
Defensively, Syracuse switched from a heavy dose of zone coverage to mostly man-to-man in the second half. Wake Forest receiver Chris Givens fi nished the fi rst half with 124 yards receiving but went for only 46 more after halftime.
SU cornerback Kevyn Scott came up with an interception in the fourth quarter trailing Givens over the middle, something he likely wouldn’t do in a zone defense. And on the last two plays of the game, Scott and SU’s other corner Keon Lyn provided lockdown coverage
on their receivers to force incompletions in the end zone.
“I got more physical and aggressive with (Givens) so he wouldn’t hit those underneath routes,” Scott said. “We were giving him too much cushion in the beginning.”
Offensively, the Orange’s biggest pickup of the day came on a play that wasn’t even in the original game plan. The offense strug-gled to hold off the Demon Deacons heavy rush throughout much of the first three quarters.
But with all the pressure Wake Forest was bringing, SU tried a play to run around the pressure rather than straight through it. What resulted was running back Antwon Bailey’s 53-yard touchdown burst on a sweep down the left sideline that pulled the Orange within two in the fourth quarter.
“It was just a good way to attack pressure,” Nassib said of the play call. “We didn’t run that all game, and it wasn’t in our game plan. It was an adjustment we made at halftime, and the rest is history.”
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ZERO Ted StachitasAll Stachitas had to do was preserve a double-digit lead. When Wake Forest starting quarterback Tanner Price exit-ed the game with an injury Thursday, the Demon Deacons held a 26-14 lead. That lead rose to 29-14 two plays later. But Wake Forest never scored again, and Stachitas struggled, completing just six of 10 passes for 37 yards and an interception.
DOWNSyracuse secondaryFor three-plus quarters, the Syracuse defense that ranked No. 7 in the nation last season looked like a shell of its former self. Wake Forest quarterback Tanner Price picked apart the Orange secondary, throwing for 289 yards and three touchdowns before leaving with an injury.
Big plays in the passing gameQuarterback Ryan Nassib made enough plays to pull out the win for Syracuse, but nowhere to be found was the big passing attack he and the Orange featured in the Pinstripe Bowl last December. Syracuse’s longest completed pass went for 24 yards. And defensively, the Orange was burned by a 60-yard touchdown pass from Tanner Price to Chris Givens.
HEROVan ChewChew isn’t the hero for a complete per-formance — he didn’t make a reception until the third quarter. But Chew’s late receptions were the difference between a win and a loss for Syracuse. After Bailey’s 53-yard touchdown run cut the defi cit to 29-27, Chew hauled in the two-point conversion to tie the game. He then made a diving catch in the front left corner of the end zone in overtime to put Syracuse ahead for good.
UPAntwon BaileyIn his fi rst game as Syracuse’s primary running back, Bailey eventually delivered. He struggled in the fi rst half like the rest of the Orange offense, rushing for just 21 yards on eight carries. But he was an inte-gral part of the SU comeback. His 53-yard touchdown run led to the game-tying, two-point conversion, and he fi nished with 114 yards and two scores on the ground.
Ryan NassibThe biggest issue for Nassib last season was accuracy. His 56.4 percent comple-tion rate from a season ago needed to improve if SU wanted to compete for a Big East title. So far, so good. Nassib completed 20-of-28 (71.4 percent) for 178 yards and three touchdowns — including the game-winning pass to Van Chew.
Dyshawn DavisIn Davis’ fi rst collegiate game, he played a veteran’s workload and produced excep-tional numbers. The freshman linebacker fi nished second on SU with eight tackles and also recorded his fi rst career sack. Head coach Doug Marrone said Davis was on the fi eld for 89 plays Thursday.
Fourth quarter
Quarterback Ryan Nassib fi nds fullback Adam Harris in the end zone for a two-yard touchdown, bringing Syracuse within eight points of Wake Forest at 29-21. The score was the start of a 22-0 run for SU to end the game. Harris called the play “a big turn-ing point” for Syracuse, as it brought the Orange within one score.
TURNING POINT BCS CONTENDER OR BIG EAST BOTTOM FEEDER?
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Chew steps up in SU’s comeback win
bobby yarbrough | contributing photographer
ANTWON BAILEY rushes in the open field during Syracuse’s 36-29 win over Wake Forest Thursday. Bailey tallied 114 yards and two touchdowns in SU’s season opener.
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Losses like Sunday’s are the worst kind for Ian McIntyre. After keeping pace with Siena all game, the SU head coach dealt with
the disappointment of seeing his team fall in overtime.
“I thought the second half and overtime we were on top of our game for long periods,” McIntyre said. “I thought there was gonna be a goal scored in overtime. We were the team that had chances.”
Unfortunately for Syracuse, Siena was the team that capitalized on its chances. Less than five minutes into overtime, Siena (2-2-0) scored the game-winner to send SU (1-2-0) home with a 2-1 loss.
Last season, Syracuse fell to Siena 5-1 in its season opener, the Orange’s first-ever game under McIntyre. SU played better this time around. The squad got plenty of con-tributions from its starting defenders and an infusion of energy from its young bench players, McIntyre said.
McIntyre still thought his team played well despite the disappointing result. Fresh-man Skylar Thomas, a defender, scored a goal for the second straight match.
“I thought we were very good today,” McIntyre said. “Unfortunately, the final score probably doesn’t reflect the overall game. From the start to the final goal, I
thought we were excellent.”After playing to a 1-1 stalemate in regula-
tion, SU had multiple chances to win the game in overtime before Siena could even get a shot off in the extra period.
Ted Cribley’s shot went high over the crossbar, and Louis Clark’s potential game-winner was saved by Siena goalkeeper Jack Binks.
Two minutes after SU’s best attempts, Siena had two of its own and capitalized on its second one for the win. Sindre Ek netted the game-winner after following up on a shot by Mike Matera that ricocheted off the goal post.
McIntyre said his team is young and still growing. Games like these show signs of improvement that can be used to build off of for the future, he said.
“We’re still a young team that’s learning and will continue to learn,” McIntyre said. “This time last year Siena really embar-rassed us at home. Today, I think we really could have gone on and won by a couple. For long periods we were really dominant.”
His hope is for that dominance to con-tinue in the future for entire games. Even though the loss to Siena is tough to swallow, it’s just part of the development for a team still meshing so many new players together.
In SU’s first three games, the defense has been solid. Sunday was the first game in which the Orange gave up multiple goals.
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Rebound goal pushes Siena past Syracuse in overtime
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It has been the offense that has struggled to convert those opportunities into goals.
But the offense showed flashes of potential in its two-goal outburst against Canisius Thursday and once again in the loss to Siena. Last year, it took Syracuse five games to score three goals. This time, SU did it in three.
“If we continue to play with that quality use of the soccer ball and that intensity and tempo,” McIntyre said, “we’ll continue to develop as a team.”
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SP ORT S PA G E 2 0the daily orange
T U E S D AYseptember 6, 2011
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GRAND OPENING
bobby yarbrough | contributing photographerANTWON BAILEY (29) celebrates with teammates after a 53-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter of Syracuse’s 36-29 overtime win over Wake Forest Thursday. The Orange came from behind, scoring the last 22 points of the game to win its second-consecutive home opener.
SU rallies late to beat Wake Forest in OT season opener
By Michael CohenSPORTS EDITOR
F rom dilapidated to well-oiled, nonexistent to lethal — the Syra-cuse offense was a roller coaster
on Thursday against Wake Forest. At its lowest, the unit amassed
minus 5 total yards in the fi rst quar-ter and more penalty yards (56) than total offense (52) by halftime. The result was a 20-7 Wake Forest lead.
But at its peak, Ryan Nassib com-pleted 13-of-15 passes after halftime, Antwon Bailey exploded and Van Chew made the two biggest recep-tions of his life.
“We were looking for that explo-siveness from them right off the get-go, but hey, better late than never,” Syracuse defensive end Mikhail Marinovich said.
An inept SU (1-0, 0-0 Big East) offense rebooted itself in the second half and lit up the same Wake For-est defense that stymied the Orange through 30 minutes of play. Syracuse erased a 15-point, fourth-quarter defi -cit courtesy of its sudden high-octane attack and pulled off the program’s largest comeback since 2003, stun-ning the Demon Deacons 36-29 in overtime.
Though more than half of the 40,833 in attendance had already exited with the game seemingly out of reach for SU, those who stuck it out
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By Zach BrownSTAFF WRITER
Kevyn Scott’s performance was a microcosm of the Syracuse defense.
The senior got beat on a couple pass plays through the fi rst three quarters. He had to leave the game in the third quarter with a leg injury. And later in that period, he took a bad angle on a quick hitch that allowed Wake Forest wide receiver Chris Giv-ens to scamper down the sideline for a score.
But, like the rest of his Orange teammates, he turned it around in the fourth quarter and overtime.
“I think Kevyn Scott, he showed
resiliency,” head coach Doug Mar-rone said. “He’s out there working, working. They win (some plays). Their receiver had a heck of a game in Givens. All of a sudden Kevyn Scott comes back with a great pick. That’s a fi fth-year senior that never gives up.”
Scott picked off a pass late in the fourth quarter to deny the Demon Deacons a chance to win the game in regulation, as he and the rest of the SU defense pulled themselves togeth-er and defeated Wake Forest 36-29. The Demon Deacons torched Scott and the rest of the SU defense for 326 yards in the air and 406 yards total,
Defense shaky through 3 quarters, comes alive late
SU’s comeback win product of luck more than performance
I won’t let Syracuse get away with this one. It wouldn’t be fair. It wouldn’t be right.
To sit here and say the Orange deserved that season-opening win Thursday night against Wake For-est simply isn’t true.
Would you disagree?Well, consider this: The team
that racked up 406 yards of offense (or 107 more than its opponent), ran 26 more offensive plays and forced six three-and-outs in the fi rst half alone left the Carrier Dome 0-1.
That team which was forced to fi nish the game without its start-ing quarterback looked up at the scoreboard in disbelief as it read
Syracuse 36, Wake Forest 29. SU was nothing but lucky to steal that win away from the Demon Deacons on a night when the visitors were far and away the better side.
“Honestly, I do not know,” Wake Forest nose guard Nikita Whitlock said of the fourth quarter. “All I
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BIG NUMBER
22THEY SAID IT“We were looking for that explosiveness from them right off the get-go, but hey, better late than never.”
Mikhail MarinovichSU DEFENSIVE END
The number of unanswered points scored by Syracuse to close out the game after a Wake Forest
fi eld goal put the Demon Dea-cons up 29-14 in the fourth quarter.
