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By Alfred Ng ASST. NEWS EDITOR T he Department of Public Safety has made extensive changes to improve security and its relationship with students. “Last year was particularly chal- lenging for that first eight weeks, and we had to quickly ramp up patrol activities. This year we came into it planning for all that,” DPS Chief Tony Callisto said. DPS is hoping to improve campus security forces by pushing proactive efforts to reduce crime. These efforts include increasing police presence and building better relationships with the students on campus right when the semester starts. The University Area Crime-Con- trol Team was formed last October after two months of reports of vari- ous crimes: gang activity; a gun shot was heard on Marshall Street; and a stabbing happened during Orange Madness in October. DPS has more than 500 cameras providing almost 800 views, includ- ing the entrances and exits of every residence hall and every entry onto the Quad. Security cameras are perched along Waverly Avenue, the Dome and a bird’s eye view atop Ernie Davis Hall with a long-range zoom, Callisto said. He added that South Campus is also nearly covered in cameras and that DPS is constantly looking for new locations where the surveillance program can be expanded. The videos all feed to the video wall in DPS’ communication center, where at least eight television screens watch over the campus. The footage recorded is all digital and available to DPS for several weeks. “We can go back to any date and time and if you have a camera in that location, we often can produce video evidence from that and use it to follow up as a lead,” Callisto said. DPS Commander Ryan Beauford said the surveillance footage has helped close several investigations already. DPS is only permitted to install them on campus, Callisto said. For crime-ridden regions such as Oak- wood Cemetery and Thornden Park — where the cameras can’t reach — DPS has focused on several patrolling and awareness programs, he said. After seeing UACT’s success during its pilot program in 2012, Callisto said the program is coming back again this year fully-fledged. The team is a joint-effort between DPS officers and Syracuse police. The two police forces work together to prevent crime in surrounding neighborhoods. Sights secured By Alfred Ng ASST. NEWS EDITOR This year’s Juice Jam is now the highest-selling Juice Jam of all time, with more than 8,500 tickets sold as of Wednesday. Changing the format to a day- long and multi-stage festival contributed to this year’s record- setting sale, said University Union Public Relations Director Mitchell Mason. But he said he believes the reason why this year’s sales exceeded previous years is because of the musical acts. The festival will feature platinum-selling rap- per Kendrick Lamar, electronic music producer Nicky Romero and alternative rock band The Neigh- bourhood as separate acts on the main stage. The festival will also include a new indie stage featuring Smallpools, electronic dance music DJ Robert DeLong and hip-hop art- ist Ab-Soul. “The more artists that you have that cater to the students, the more likely they will go to the event,” he said. “There’s such a wide array of genres that it caters to a majority of the student body. It makes it a lot easier for us.” Kendrick Lamar was the second most requested artist during the Juice Jam selection survey, sec- ond only to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, who is performing in Novem- ber, Mason said. UU had been planning for this year’s Juice Jam festival since January, said former UU president Lindsey Colegrove “This has been their goal for a while, so I’m proud of the fact that they were able to expand and sell more tickets than ever before,” she said. Even after selling more than 8,500 tickets, a limited number of tickets are still for sale, which UU’s Mason said he hopes will sell out, reaching the festival’s approximate- ly 10,000-student limit. Mason added that tickets are very close to selling out for this year’s Juice Jam. He said he hopes that this trend will continue for Juice Jam, ensur- ing the new festival format lasts for years to come. Said Mason: “Breaking the record is something that’s really exciting. What we’re looking for- ward to is selling out the show and for this to be a brand new Juice Jam for the students. We’re trying to make things bigger and better.” [email protected] university union Juice Jam 2013 sets record for ticket sales sam maller | asst. photo editor JEFF MERTELL, Department of Public Safety officer, works on an investigation using video footage. Currently, there are more than 500 cameras on campus, which is one of the improvements DPS has made this semester. SEE DPS PAGE 8 DPS works to strengthen safety, relationships with students after challenging 2012 fall semester THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SYRACUSE , NEW YORK THURSDAY , AUGUST 29, 2013 | FREE sam maller | asst. photo editor University Union’s Juice Jam music festival has out-sold every other Juice Jam in history after selling more than 8,500 tickets.
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By Alfred Ng ASST. NEWS EDITOR

T he Department of Public Safety has made extensive changes to improve security

and its relationship with students. “Last year was particularly chal-

lenging for that first eight weeks, and we had to quickly ramp up patrol activities. This year we came into it planning for all that,” DPS Chief Tony Callisto said.

DPS is hoping to improve campus security forces by pushing proactive efforts to reduce crime. These efforts include increasing police presence and building better relationships with the students on campus right when the semester starts.

The University Area Crime-Con-trol Team was formed last October after two months of reports of vari-ous crimes: gang activity; a gun shot was heard on Marshall Street; and

a stabbing happened during Orange Madness in October.

DPS has more than 500 cameras providing almost 800 views, includ-ing the entrances and exits of every residence hall and every entry onto the Quad. Security cameras are perched along Waverly Avenue, the Dome and a bird’s eye view atop Ernie Davis Hall with a long-range zoom, Callisto said.

He added that South Campus is also nearly covered in cameras and that DPS is constantly looking for new locations where the surveillance program can be expanded.

The videos all feed to the video wall in DPS’ communication center, where at least eight television screens watch over the campus. The footage recorded is all digital and available to DPS for several weeks.

“We can go back to any date and time and if you have a camera in that

location, we often can produce video evidence from that and use it to follow up as a lead,” Callisto said.

DPS Commander Ryan Beauford said the surveillance footage has helped close several investigations already.

DPS is only permitted to install them on campus, Callisto said. For crime-ridden regions such as Oak-wood Cemetery and Thornden Park — where the cameras can’t reach — DPS has focused on several patrolling and awareness programs, he said.

After seeing UACT’s success during its pilot program in 2012, Callisto said the program is coming back again this year fully-fledged. The team is a joint-effort between DPS officers and Syracuse police. The two police forces work together to prevent crime in surrounding neighborhoods.

Sights secured

By Alfred Ng ASST. NEWS EDITOR

This year’s Juice Jam is now the highest-selling Juice Jam of all time, with more than 8,500 tickets sold as of Wednesday.

Changing the format to a day-long and multi-stage festival contributed to this year’s record-setting sale, said University Union Public Relations Director Mitchell Mason. But he said he believes the reason why this year’s sales exceeded previous years is because of the musical acts. The festival will feature platinum-selling rap-per Kendrick Lamar, electronic music producer Nicky Romero and alternative rock band The Neigh-bourhood as separate acts on the main stage. The festival will also include a new indie stage featuring Smallpools, electronic dance music DJ Robert DeLong and hip-hop art-ist Ab-Soul.

“The more artists that you have that cater to the students, the more likely they will go to the event,” he said. “There’s such a wide array of genres that it caters to a majority of the student body. It makes it a lot easier for us.”

Kendrick Lamar was the second most requested artist during the

Juice Jam selection survey, sec-ond only to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, who is performing in Novem-ber, Mason said.

UU had been planning for this year’s Juice Jam festival since January, said former UU president Lindsey Colegrove

“This has been their goal for a while, so I’m proud of the fact that they were able to expand and sell more tickets than ever before,” she said.

Even after selling more than 8,500 tickets, a limited number of tickets are still for sale, which UU’s Mason said he hopes will sell out, reaching the festival’s approximate-ly 10,000-student limit.

Mason added that tickets are very close to selling out for this year’s Juice Jam.

He said he hopes that this trend will continue for Juice Jam, ensur-ing the new festival format lasts for years to come.

Said Mason: “Breaking the record is something that’s really exciting. What we’re looking for-ward to is selling out the show and for this to be a brand new Juice Jam for the students. We’re trying to make things bigger and better.”

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sam maller | asst. photo editorJEFF MERTELL, Department of Public Safety officer, works on an investigation using video footage. Currently, there are more than 500 cameras on campus, which is one of the improvements DPS has made this semester.

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By Nicki GornySTAFF WRITER

Three Syracuse mayoral candidates squared off in a televised forum Wednesday, each pitching themselves as the best candidate in the Demo-cratic primary this September.

Incumbent Mayor Stephanie Miner, District Councilor Pat Hogan and community activist Alfonso Davis shared their views on community safety, city finances and neighborhood development, among other topics, during the hour-long Q-and-A forum.

Some of the topics discussed reflected the concerns of Syracuse residents, who were invited to post on Twitter using the hashtag #syrmay-or. Viewers also responded to live polls, voting about which candidate responded best to each question.

WCNY-TV’s Susan Arbetter and the Syracuse Media Group’s Marie Morelli, whose companies presented the forum, hosted the discussion.

Questions about community safety and the role of the Syracuse Police Department kicked off the forum at 8 p.m., with all candidates favoring some form of police pres-ence on city streets.

“Police officers have to know the area,” Hogan said, arguing in favor of a neighborhood policing approach.

Davis, too, said he supported com-munity policing. He continued to suggest that a contentious relation-ship between the police and Syracuse residents exists, and said a visible police presence in the city could help resolve this.

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By Annie PalmerASST. NEWS EDITOR

People’s Place has raised its prices for all food and drink items by 25 cents, citing a loss in revenue as the cause.

The student-run, nonprofit coffee shop located in Hendricks Chapel hasn’t changed its prices in five years, said People’s Place manager Nikkole Mojica. She said the shop made the decision during the sum-mer when it noted that vendors were charging more for items, resulting in the business losing money.

Mojica said despite the increase in prices, there has been more student

traffic than ever before and sales have remained consistent.

Prices have increased on all items except day-old stock, which will remain at 50 cents, said Meredith Sul-livan, an employee at People’s Place.

She said the store has received little pushback from students because cus-tomers still consider the newly adjust-ed prices relatively inexpensive.

“We sometimes get an occasional comment from a student,” said Sul-

livan, a junior in the L.C. Smith Col-lege of Engineering and Computer Science. “But compared to other shops on campus, it’s still cheap.”

Caitlin Quigley, a senior Eng-lish and textual studies major, said since People’s Place is a student-run organization, it motivates her to continue paying for their coffee, no matter the price.

“I’d rather support students than support Food Services,” Quig-ley said. “You can pay $1.80 at another shop, but it’s still cheaper here at $1.25.”

People’s Place raises prices by 25 cents, expands menu

By Meredith NewmanNEWS EDITOR

The renovations to Psi Upsilon’s fraternity house have been success-fully completed, bringing the house back to what chapter alumni call its “glory days.”

Renovations to the house, which is located at 101 College Place, first started in 2009. The project cost about $350,000 overall, said Jim Cornac-

chia, vice president of the Psi Upsilon Trust Association.

The changes to the exterior were needed, Cornacchia said, because the house was very outdated and dealing with moisture problems.

The project consisted of a two-phase plan, and focused on the facade of the house. Improvements were made to the porch, moldings, col-umns and exterior details.

“The plan was to bring the house back to light, and really making it a modern building while still preserv-ing as much of the historic structure as possible,” Cornacchia said.

It was also essential for the Psi Upsilon Trust Association to per-form these renovations since the house is one of the few wood-based structures on campus, he said.

“We needed this house to hold

up during Syracuse winters. We want it to be around for another 100 years,” he said.

One of the highlights of the reno-vations was repainting the house, changing its color from a faded mus-tard to crisp white, said Greg Fortino, the chapter’s president.

The renovations faced temporary complications due to the house being on the National Register of Historic

Places. The house was added to the register in the 1980s, historically significant for its architectural, engineering and social history. The house is classified as a Classical revival, its significance drawing from between 1875-1899.

The city of Syracuse’s historical preservation board was wary of using fiberglass to help restore the house,

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RYAN KENNETT, a senior mechanical engineering major, works at People’s Place, located in Hendricks Chapel. The student-run cafe raised its prices by 25 cents due to a loss in revenue. Despite the increase, the cafe has seen more customers and sales have remained the same.

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“Even though we’ve increased our prices, we are still the cheapest coffee on campus. You still get your lunch for a dollar, you just have to carry around an extra quarter.”

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For the past two years, the United States has been relatively openly seeking to overthrow the sovereign government of Syria. They have done so through arming and funding the rebels, who are primarily composed of al-Qaida affiliates and foreign mercenaries.

In May, after a chemical weapon attack in Syria, the U.S. postured about a “red line” that would be crossed if the Syrian govern-ment used chemical weapons. The United Nations, however, found evidence linking the rebels to the use of chemical weapons. The White House remained silent.

In a sign of their total disregard for the truth, the U.S. government has declared, in

advance of any actual investigation, that the Syrian government is guilty of using chemi-cal weapons. We must remember the Iraq War in 2003, where “overwhelming evidence of weapons of mass destruction” were used as the pretext for a war that killed hundreds of thousands and tore Iraq apart. No such weapons were ever found.

The idea that the Syrian government,

having just allowed U.N. inspectors into the country, and with a clear and almost decisive upper hand in the war would use chemical weapons defies all logic. The government has absolutely nothing to gain from this. The rebels, however, who cannot win without more foreign intervention, have something to gain.

Polls indicate 89-91 percent of Americans oppose foreign intervention. Many of us know that “our” government cares nothing about humanitarianism. It’s concerned with over-throwing another independent nation, just like it did in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Yugoslavia and so many other countries.

Instead of bombing these countries, the U.S. could take a lesson from them. What is of par-ticular note for students is that the countries targeted by the U.S. often have nationalized education systems. Iraq and Libya, for exam-ple, had free and accessible colleges with state of the art facilities. In Syria, college tuition is heavily subsidized and often completely free.

To stand against U.S. intervention in Syria is to stand with the Syrian people and Syrian students.

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NOW TO STOP WAR AND END RACISM)PHD STUDENT, TEACHING ASSISTANT

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Syrian use of chemical warfare ‘defies all logic,’ US should not intervene

W hen the National Security Agency started listening in on the ordinary conversations of American citizens,

they were looking for leads that would uncover potential acts of terrorism. Their actions ulti-mately created a market demand for technology to protect people from the NSA’s intrusiveness.

About a month ago, Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders behind the controversial Swed-ish website Pirate Bay (a website that assists peer-to-peer file sharing through bit-torrent practices), launched a crowd source funding campaign to start an app called Hemlis (which means “secret” in Swedish). This app could provide the privacy that people are looking for.

Because we live in a world where people are constantly communicating through different variations of messaging, people want platforms like Hemlis to provide them safe messaging.

Hemlis will be a new secure mobile mes-saging app. Its release date has yet to be determined. This app would be different from others because it will use end-to-end encryp-tion, which can be defined as data protection. Basically, data is protected because only the person sending the transaction and the person

on the receiving end have the ability to see the plaintext of the data.

The app is incredibly important, especially since wiretapping and forms of human rights violating surveillance have often character-ized the largest and most terrorizing regimes in history.

First, in 1941 there was Joseph Stalin, the fascist ruler of the Soviet Union who used a secret police to crush any rebellions that stood in his way. Then you have the current Commu-nist Regime in China that has been practicing extreme Internet censorship, text message surveillance and phone hacking for more than a decade.

The United States government has constant-ly criticized these leaderships for infringing

on human rights. However, recently, the U.S. government has had a healthy dose of their own words come right back to them. With all of the controversy surrounding the NSA and Gmail’s privacy being questioned, it is hard not to notice similarities between the U.S. government and the Communist China and Stalin regimes.

The main difference is that America’s free market and “equality of opportunity” attitude will turn this infraction of privacy into a big market opportunity.

Hemlis started as a crowd source-funding goal with the mission of raising $100,000.

According to an article on Reddit.com, the team raised about $18,500 on July 9.

However, on the Hemlis website blog, a post on July 11 reveals that Hemlis had been 100 percent funded in 36 hours. This demonstrates the frustration people have after hearing the truths behind the NSA, and furthermore shows the demand people have for privacy. Hemlis has been smart enough to notice this trend in the market. They have positioned and marketed the app with the pure purpose of providing people with privacy by refusing to use advertising or sell user data on the app.

They also plan to make the core of the app free, only charging small fees for special features.

As more leaks about the NSA and their activities arise, there will be more and more opportunity for platforms and programs that can protect the privacy of an individual user.

Already, businesses are considering the newly developed search engines StartPage and Ixquick. These search engines are the first of their kind to enable “Perfect Forward Secrecy” (PFS), which is supposed to disable any search traffic from being intercepted. Still, one can always wonder if any website is ever truly secure, especially when a country’s govern-ment is working with far more resources.

Even the Hemlis website will tell you that you can never be sure if something is actually 100 percent secure. However, Hemlis has given us insight into one definite certainty: Ordinary American citizens are going to fight as they always have when they believe their human rights are being challenged.

Bram Berkowitz is a senior advertising and entrepreneurship major. His column appears

weekly. He can be reached at [email protected].

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The woman sitting across from me at her desk in a fuchsia blazer and lipstick to match, last Sunday night, was not the

same confused leader who confessed her fail-ures at that very desk several months ago.

Allie Curtis was at the “very bottom” of her college career last March, and emotions con-sumed her. The Student Association president felt she failed the very organization she loved from her first day at Syracuse University.

Curtis knew SA was in shambles due to poor leadership and intra-organization turmoil. Impeachment proceedings were called upon Curtis by members of the organization for allowing a non-matriculated student to act in a SA leadership position.

Now, in a state of resilient excitement instead of jaded discontent, Curtis realizes her second chance to prove her ability as a leader – an ideal opportunity she must seize now fol-lowing the summer recess.

Though the number of empty leadership positions due to resignations is alarming, Curtis is correct in assuring it is actually the “release of tensions” SA so desperately needs.

A governing body requires a group of

competent and committed individuals to maintain efficiency. Though the previous chairs reflected these qualities, the inability to successfully communicate discrepancies lead to last semester’s temporary organizational demise and proved problem areas did not lie exclusively in the presidency.

At Monday’s general assembly meeting, Curtis said candidates have already been selected for several committees. These chairs, to be confirmed by the assembly at next week’s meeting, must understand the pitfalls of the session thus far to be able to focus completely on serving the students and keep organiza-tional discontent to a minimum.

Charging directly into concrete initiatives and legislation is extremely important at the start of the fall semester for the student govern-

ment, as the presidential — and this year, for the first time, vice presidential — elections consume much of the latter portion.

Curtis confirms that the resignation of chairs will not hinder the organization’s ability and newfound enthusiasm to start making progress this first week, as all com-mittees are still meeting to begin assigning tasks and projects.

Filling the vacancy of the Judicial Review Board chair must also be a priority for the orga-nization in the coming weeks, as last semester’s near presidential impeachment signifies.

Low overall membership within SA is another opportunity for the organization to refocus. There are 27 open representative seats within the assembly. Recruiting fresh faces with not only their own distinct ideas, but also enthusiasm for working as a team – a trait lack-ing last semester – will only benefit SA. Creat-ing a cohesive body is a task new Chief of Staff Sean Dinan is confident in accomplishing.

Students can count on fiscal effectiveness from SA as Comptroller Stephen DeSalvo enters his fourth semester as the organization’s financial leader. DeSalvo has already written

several bills to be approved by the assembly at the next meeting.

Though confidence can be held yet again in a monetary sense, DeSalvo said outside the Finance Board, all change SA makes is mainly through committees. This reinforces the organization’s need to build leadership and membership in each facet of the organization.

DeSalvo calls the events of the spring semes-ter a wake-up call for the organization and hopes to see the “playing of politics” by many members come to an end. Following Curtis’ incident, DeSalvo said he reemphasized the need for open communication with the mem-bers of the Finance Board.

“We are here to do one job, and that is to help the students,” DeSalvo said. “If anything, that just became more apparent than it already was. And a leader needs to be tapped in to make the right decisions.”

That assessment, DeSalvo, is spot on.Rachael Barillari is a senior political science

and Middle Eastern studies major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at rebarill@

syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @R_Barillari.

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Last week, President Obama spoke at Henninger High School in Syracuse. He out-

lined a new executive initiative to lower the cost of higher education.

His plan is a step in the right direction. But it is too small a step. It is unlikely the initiative will cause any significant change in the prohibi-tively high cost of a college degree.

Obama’s plan may prove a solid stepping-stone to a more comprehen-sive, long-term strategy. But for now, the President should provide a more complete outline of his plan to reduce the cost of a college degree.

The president’s plan is to intro-duce a new rating system for colleges through an administrative order.

The new system gives colleges a rating that takes into account the number of scholarships offered, tuition and related costs, and whether the college admits a significant amount of economically disadvan-taged students.

Obama hopes the rating system

can be a comprehensive guide for high school students applying to college. The plan will also function as a means to increase competition between schools to improve their value propositions. After all, higher education in America is a business. Schools with poor ratings will be forced to change their policies to meet the standards of the rating sys-tem in order to remain competitive in the marketplace.

A possible objection to the proposal is that the rating system requires private colleges to adhere to government-dictated policies, thwarting the public-private divide. Private universities by nature deter-mine and dictate their own goals and ideals. The proposal limits them to government-determined specifics.

But in situations where a business is taking advantage of the consumer, government intervention is neces-sary and warranted. In a time when college degrees are essential for professional success but their cost is

prohibitively high, something has to be done. It is perfectly acceptable for the government to intervene.

The problem, though, is that this “something” is not enough. “US News & World Report” ranks do not force colleges to undergo serious change. Syracuse University is a perfect example.

Our “US News & World Report” rating has been steadily declining in recent years but SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor is dismissive of the rating system, sticking to her original vision for the direction of the university.

Chancellor Cantor said she believes Syracuse would score well on Obama’s rating system. This is hypoc-

risy. If SU did score well, then it would undermine the whole proposal - the cost of tuition at SU has been rising at a rate of more than 3.6 percent each year for the past 46 years.

President Obama’s plan is simply a minor change in the economic land-scape of higher education. The issue of higher education and its related costs are deeper than anything a simple plan like Obama’s could begin to fix.

The issue has to be addressed first and foremost by colleges themselves, not by a minimalistic government program. Colleges must take a hard look at how they allocate resources to programs, salaries for university officials, their role (if any) in improv-ing their local economies and the ratio of merit-based scholarships to athletic scholarships they award incoming students.

If President Obama is serious about intervening in the seller-buyer relationship that is higher education in America, he should

propose a price-cap on tuition. His system rates colleges relative to other colleges. If tuition continues to rise across the board, the rating system will prove useless and inef-fective. A price-cap is obviously a hypothetical that would never pass, but it illustrates the fact that if the government is going to get involved, drastic measures must be taken.

The issue of lowering higher edu-cation costs is one of the few issues that can be solved regardless of par-tisanship. In this sense, there is hope that something of substance will get done. Politicians from both parties agree we need to make college more affordable. But they disagree on the methods to reach their goals.

If anything, Obama’s efforts will prove a catalyst for long-term comprehensive reform and congres-sional action.

Michael Hacker is a senior political science major. His column appears weekly.

He can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter at @MikeinCuse.

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M I C H A E L H A C K E R

a chain reaction

This semester, the Department of Pub-lic Safety has successfully identified problems concerning on-campus safety. However, there is still room to better target students and better advertise the department’s safety information.

DPS has increased surveillance on campus and now has 500 cameras, giving them 800 camera views across the university. DPS officials have also instated an increased amount of offi-cers on patrol during the beginning of the semester, when the campus is most vulnerable to crime, said DPS Chief Tony Callisto.

DPS officials also plan to continue student engagement opportunities this year, similar to their “Warm-Up with DPS” effort last semester, when DPS officers served hot chocolate to students at the College Place bus stop.

It is reassuring that DPS officials are continuing to reach out to students and gauging the safety measures needed to protect the university. However, DPS officials should consider better advertis-ing their safety information, such as

whom to call for an escort and the hours when DPS is available for the service. Because the information provided by DPS is crucial to student safety, it should be more heavily promoted beyond the DPS website.

DPS officials should also improve targeting freshmen at the beginning of the academic school year. For example, a DPS officer could visit residence hall floor meetings and discuss the depart-ment’s purpose on campus. The officer could also discuss the dangers of Thorn-den Park, something Investigations and Crime Prevention Commander Ryan Beauford said the department works to inform students about.

By enhancing how safety informa-tion is relayed and targeting freshmen at the start of their college careers, DPS affords them the knowledge to have a safe experience at SU.

DPS should better promote safety information, target freshmen

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Otto’s Army currently has 30 people on a wait-ing list for bus rides to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this Saturday for the football game between Syracuse and Penn State.

Students started lining up at the Carrier Dome for 200 available bus vouchers at about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, said Ben Glidden, president of Otto’s Army. By 7 a.m., there were more than 200 people waiting, resulting in people going on the waiting list, he said.

Otto’s Army is providing four buses to the season-opening game. People taking the bus will meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Schine Student Center on Saturday, Glidden said.

“It’ll probably tend to be very Penn State heavy at the game. I heard that its student sec-

tion is coming with a contingency of over 1,000 people,” he said. “Even when we’re outnum-bered, we still have a blast.”

Glidden said he saw “high participation” among freshman students, estimating about 70

percent of freshmen buy football tickets. “It’s definitely dominated by freshmen

because it’s their first season and they’re excit-ed,” he said.

Though he arrived at the Dome after people started lining up for tickets, Glidden said he heard that some students had been camping out in line. He said he was unsur-prised, since it’s “the kind of environment we set up here.”

“The student section (Otto’s Army) is a very special component on game day,” said Marc Donabella, associate director of ath-letics and marketing director, in an email. “They lead the cheers, they set the tone and the crowd and even the team feed off of their energy.”

The game against Penn State is the first the SU football team will play as an Atlantic Coast Conference school after leaving the Big East conference. It will also be the 71st time Syracuse and Penn State will face off, according to the Penn State athletics website.

Since SU is playing in the same venue as the New York Giants and New York Jets, it makes the game against Penn State special, Donabella said.

Calling SU “New York’s college team,” he said Syracuse’s presence at MetLife Stadium is very fitting and natural.

“It’s a great opportunity for all of our stu-dents,” he said. “On and off the field.”

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Quigley said the only students that may suffer are those living on South Campus, since many have the ability to make their own coffee at home. She added she doesn’t believe 25 cents makes that much of a difference to most students.

There aren’t many cafe options on the Quad, said Jessica Daniels, a sophomore sport man-agement major. She said since People’s Place is located on the Quad, it makes it so convenient for a lot of students.

“I would probably stop going there if the

prices got higher than Starbucks,” Daniels said. “It’s the quickest for me so I’d even let it go up more if it had to.”

Mojica, People’s Place manager, said the store has added more items to its menu to help increase revenue, such as wraps and fruit salads. Surveys have also been given out to stu-dents with potential items that could be added onto the menu in the future, as well as a section for feedback, she said.

“Even though we’ve increased our prices, we are still the cheapest coffee on campus,” Mojica said. “You still get your lunch for a dollar, you just have to carry around an extra quarter.”

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spencer bodian | asst. photo editorPrices at People’s Cafe increased by 25 cents for all items. This is the first time the student-run cafe, located in Hendricks Chapel, has raised prices in five years.

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Miner said she models her police philosophy after successful models in other cities such as New York City. Police analyze crime data and then respond to areas that need a police pres-ence, she said.

Speaking on city finances, the candidates favored different approaches to balancing Syracuse’s budget while supporting commu-nity programs.

Rather than cutting programs or raising taxes — measures that no candidate said they openly supported — Hogan said he thought the city should try consolidating services or

increasing revenue, both avenues he said the city had never explored.

In particular, Hogan said he favored consolidating services. He referenced his years in the Syracuse City Parks and Rec-reation Department when suggesting that this department consolidate with the related department for the county.

Davis said bringing small businesses to Syracuse could provide needed tax revenue for the city. To do so, he said, a mayor had to act as an ambassador for a city.

“You have to sell your city,” he said. “Syra-cuse is a great place.”

Miner, however, insisted that unlike her fellow candidates, she understood the necessity of making difficult decisions. She said she in

no way supports “handouts” from the state, citing Detroit as a negative example of this, and expressed a desire to work with the state to

change the model of city funding.Further, she protected her high profile

within the state against Hogan’s accusations that she spent too long away from Syracuse and

its residents, arguing her position within the state had aided Syracuse. Specifically, she said, her influence had aided in securing state and federal funding for the new WCNY-TV studio on the Near Westside where the forum took place.

The accusation was just one example of mild barbs among candidates throughout the forum.

The general election, set for Nov. 5, will fea-ture the winner of the Democratic primary on Sept. 10. This candidate, as well as candidates from other parties, will face ever-changing challenges in the city.

Said Miner in her closing remarks: “The challenges in the past pale in comparison to the challenges of the future.”

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“Even when we’re outnumbered, we still have a blast.”

Ben GliddenPRESIDENT OF OTTO’S ARMY

“The challenges in the past pale in comparison to the challenges of the future.”

Stephanie MinerMAYOR OF SYRACUSE

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By Lillian KimCONTRIBUTING WRITER

I t sounds like the story behind “The Social Network”: a group of people launches a site that compares the head-

shots of female sorority sisters, drawing major controversy.

Except it’s not Harvard University, it’s Cornell University, and the creator of the hot-or-not site is an anonymous group claiming the site is an experiment.

CornellFetch.com launched on Aug. 12. It takes photos from the women’s Facebook pages and lists their sororities and names. The website has no instructions. It simply lets users pick between two pictures of sorority sisters, or hit skip. There’s a form on the site that lets people request their

pictures be taken down. The site has gotten more than a million

views and has a list ranking the top 10 women, The Cornell Daily Sun reported Aug. 14. The website drew so much con-troversy that its creators received death threats and spam campaigns, according to Cornell Insider.

In an interview with Cornell Insider, the creators said the site is a potential experi-ment in data analysis, designed with little instruction to allow the site’s creators to observe how Cornell students vote without any influence. The point, the creators said, is to see if students vote for or against spe-cific sororities, and if their voting changes with incentives.

The creators of CornellFetch also said

they planned to release the data from the site, though a date isn’t specified.

John Carberry, director of press rela-tions at Cornell, told The Cornell Daily Sun that the university “would never condone such as site.”

The site remains up more than two weeks after its launch, but the total vote count has not been updated since Aug. 18.

CornellFetch keeps a feed of press reac-tions on the site. Its main page headline is, “Stop trying to make CornellFetch happen! It’s not going to happen!”

Although CornellFetch offers a removal request form, the Facebook profile pic-tures were initially mass posted without any permission.

George McGuire, with the Syracuse

University College of Law, said Facebook’s privacy policies do not mean the photos can be used “for the taking.”

“Something like this could potentially be copyright infringement,” said McGuire, who is also a partner at Bond, Schoeneck & King. “The New York State Civil Rights Act also provides individuals with publicity rights if these images are being used with-out consent for commercial gain.”

The public response has been primar-ily negative. The Cornell Daily Sun quoted a student who saw her own picture and described the website as “childish,” “objec-tifying” and “set(ting) girls up to feel badly about themselves.”

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and wanted to make sure the construction fol-lowed the proper guidelines, Cornacchia said.

This temporarily halted construction last August, before the Psi Upsilon Trust Asso-ciation worked with the board to find a compro-mise on using the materials, he said.

Cornacchia added that the university was supportive of the project, and started plant-ing trees around the house, which improved the landscape.

“Now, we just want to be good neighbors,” he said.

Restoring the house to how it used to look has had a positive effect on the entire chapter, Fortino said.

“The changes really brought us all togeth-er, and tighter than ever before,” said For-tino, a senior economics major. “Having it look this way really psyched all of us up, so we’re going to make sure it stays in the best shape possible”

With the exteriors finished, Cornacchia said he hopes the next step will be the Psi Upsilon Trust Association focusing on the house’s inte-rior. Specifically, he wants to replace the carpet with hardwood floors.

Overall, Fortino said all of the brothers in the fraternity are pleased with the final product, and that the new renovations are reflective of the brothers in the chapter.

“It will be nice for students to walk past our house and see a clean exterior,” Fortino said. “I think it really portrays what kind of brothers we are.”

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“UACT is really looking at the opportunity to deter crime and be a rapid response team, to deal with any situations that might come up and catch criminals in the event,” he said.

Students can expect to see a heavily increased amount of officers on patrol during

the weekends for the first eight weeks of this semester, he said. Callisto added that these first weeks are when the campus is most vulnerable to crime.

UACT is one of three patrol units DPS will be deploying this semester, along with Neighborhood Safety Patrol and Orange Watch, Callisto said.

“All those combined are really the efforts at making sure the off-campus areas where we can’t put cameras are places where there’s a lot of presence,” he said.

The Neighborhood Safety Patrol is the unit that responds to neighborhood complaints, shutting down parties and events that get out of hand for surrounding residents, Callisto said.

He described Orange Watch as a program in which DPS officers drive around the areas surrounding SU, looking for students who are walking alone. They offer them rides to safety if the student feels endangered, which Callisto said is a major part of DPS’ awareness and out-reach program.

For high-crime areas where DPS can’t patrol, such as Thornden Park and Oakwood Cemetery, Beauford, DPS commander, said it is important to make sure students know to avoid them.

“Part of our function is to inform stu-dents, to tell them that’s probably not some-where you want to be,” Beauford said. “The officer’s union members, in conjunction with crime prevention staff members, are always looking for opportunities to get in front of students.”

During the first few weeks of the semes-

ter, DPS is putting together several on-campus events to accomplish this goal, Beauford said. They’ve already planned an ice cream social on Sept. 25 and are offering free bike tune-ups on Sept. 7 for a bicycle safety seminar.

Callisto said an important part of his goals for DPS is to improve the relationship between students and public safety officers. He mentioned that SPD Chief Frank Fowler shared the same goal, and SPD would be working heavily to improve its relationship with the university.

Beauford said it will be difficult, but believes the key is opening up communication with students.

“We’re such a global community here that I don’t think it’s one issue you can identify with. It’s a challenge to always try to find out the issue by listening to what the students need and what

we need to do to do our jobs better,” he said. Last year, the Student Association’s public

safety committee worked closely with DPS, which former committee head Belen Crisp said she believes helped improve conditions.

“I believe it has led to positive changes to make campus life safer because of the com-munication between DPS and students. As long as DPS and students communicate, SU will continue to be made into a safer place,” Crisp said in an email.

Currently, SA does not have a head of the public safety committee.

The former chair of the Student Life Com-mittee, PJ Alampi, said SA helped with DPS’ student outreach, but still feels that more can be done with the current public safety committee.

He said SA’s 56th Session made a lot of

progress in building a link between students and DPS, but sees a lot of space to grow for the 57th Session.

“We wanted to create student feedback for DPS to allow students to interact on a more surface level,” he said. “I believe that in the past, Student Association has been a huge contribu-tion to what it is now, but at this point, it’s not enough to provide great support.”

Callisto said that DPS’ most important goal is to have a working relationship with students and provide opportunities for feedback.

“Getting connected with students, getting our message out, those are the biggest improve-ments that we need to make,” he said. “And hearing from students on what that they think would be helpful, that’s how we’re going to be able to improve.”

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spencer bodian | asst. photo editor Renovations to the Psi Upsilon house began in 2009. One of the major renovations was repainting the exterior to white. The project focused on the facade and cost $350,000.

sam maller | asst. photo editor

TONY CALLISTO, Department of Pubic Safety chief, stands in the department’s communications office, where video surveillance foot-age is analyzed. This year, DPS has made changes on campus to further improve safety by strengthening relationships with students.

“Getting connected with students, getting our message out, those are the biggest improvements that we need to make.”

Tony Callisto DPS CHIEF

PSI U MAKEOVER• Repainting the outside from a faded mustard to crisp white

• Planting trees around the lawn

• Improvements to the porch, mold-ings, columns and exterior details

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Photos by Sam MallerASST. PHOTO EDITOR

R ight inside the main entrance to the Great New York State Fair, parents with kids in tow

crowd around a table, filling out per-sonal contact information on a bright orange tag that reads: “Lost Kid Tag.”

Yes, it’s easy enough to get lost in the fair because it’s just that big.

Welcome to the annual Great New York State Fair, a true staple to the city of Syracuse that began in 1890. It’s where vendors and visitors alike trav-el from across the state and beyond to buy their yearly dose of fried dough, ride the Tilt-A-Whirl and see who will

win the blue ribbon for growing the largest commercial vegetable.

The fair is now open and runs until Monday, Sept. 2. Parking is available for $5 with shuttle buses running regularly to the fairgrounds. Daily admission is $10 for those 13 and older. All children younger than 13 get in for free.

Kathleen Kennedy, born and raised in Syracuse and now a sopho-more acting major at Syracuse Uni-versity, said attending the fair is more than just a two-week long event. It is something she waits for every year.

Although Kennedy attended the fair with her family when she was younger, she has always gone with friends since she became a teenager.

Now, she is encouraging her fellow classmates to go — especially those who have never been before.

“Go to the 25-cent milk bar, because it’s the cheapest thing, and then go to the dollar potato booth, because it’s the other cheapest thing,” Ken-nedy said. “And there’s a stand that will deep fry anything that you bring them, and you have to. You have to.”

She said the main thing she looks forward to is eating fried chocolate chip cookies from a fried-food booth that she visits annually. A sign on the side of the booth reads: “You bring it, we fry it!” And it’s true to its word. Its menu specializes in fried peanut but-ter and jelly sandwiches, Pop Tarts and buffalo chicken dip.

This year, Kennedy said she is looking forward to trying a new dish — although not fried — when she visits the fair: a pulled pork sundae.

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A fairgoer favorite, the Tilt-a-Whirl sends riders screaming as they swing back and forth at fast speeds, all while spinning in a circle.

From the height of this ride, visitors at the Great New York State Fair take in the lay of the land of the fairgrounds. The annual event runs now through Monday, Sept. 2.

The poultry building, which houses all kinds of chickens, ducks and other small animals like bun-nies, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

Vendors sell certain food that can only be found at the fair, like this steak on a stick. Other goodies include fried dough, potatoes, home-made lemonade, farm-fresh ice cream and sangria slushies.

Fair gameNew York State Fair offers rides, treats, entertainment for everyone

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“I’m definitely into that — and all the fried things,” Kennedy said.

Besides a large food area, vendors are spread throughout the fairgrounds selling everything from custom-fitted toe rings to stainless-steel cookware to bed mattresses.

But one of the fair’s main attractions is the poultry section. This year marks 100 years that the fairgrounds has been home to the poultry building, which houses dozens of birds of all kinds, including ducks and chickens. There is even a twice-daily rooster crowing contest at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

In addition to roosters, fair visitors can view another daily animal attraction. Thanks to a partnership with students from Cornell Uni-versity, the fair debuted an area for visitors to watch a cow give birth — live. Housed in a section titled the Dairy Cow Birthing Cen-ter, veterinarians and CU veterinary students

help explain the birthing process to the public through a live, daily demonstration.

If food and animals aren’t enough, the fair has become known for its variety of stage per-formances, from local talents to big names in the music industry.

Nick Godzak, a sophomore music education major, also native to the area, said he began attending the fair at an early age as a member of a Ukrainian dance company. He did so for 10 years, honoring his family’s heritage.

Now, however, he said he attends the fair for two reasons: fried dough and to see concerts on the Grandstand stage.

Although musical acts including Lynyrd Sky-nyrd, Carly Rae Jepsen, Reba McEntire and Toby Keith have already performed, there are still two chances to see big names on the Grandstand stage. Friday, Luke Bryan is performing, and Sat-urday, concertgoers can rock out to Fall Out Boy. Both concerts are at 7:30 p.m. Ticket information can be found on the New York State Fair website.

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sam maller | asst. photo editorA visitor shows off a blooming onion, which is an onion that has been fried to a golden brown. Fried food vendors boast turning anything and everything into a fried delicacy.

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By Avery HartmansSTAFF WRITER

As I stood in the beer aisle at Wegmans the other night, attempting to craft a custom 6-pack, I realized something: Everyone, whether he or she admits it, enjoys at least one fruity beer.

This realization occurred after witnessing three 20-something guys practically squeal in delight over Shock Top Raspberry Wheat.

So in honor of those guys — who I hope thoroughly enjoyed their Raspberry Wheats — and all the other closeted lady-beer drinkers, I sampled six different fruit-infused brews.

The first was Harpoon Brewery’s UFO Raspberry Hefeweizen. My initial thought after taking a sip of it was something along the lines of “Oh, my gosh. Yum!” This beer was so fruity, so deliciously raspberry, I felt like I was drink-ing juice that had a mild beer aftertaste. And at 4.8 percent ABV, it’s the perfect way for new drinkers to ease into the wonders of beer.

Next up was the Magic Hat Elder Betty. As a die-hard Magic Hat #9 fan, I thought I would be equally delighted by this Elderberry Weiss ale, but I finished it feeling unimpressed. Having never tasted an elderberry, I was surprised by the tart aftertaste. But in general, the beer was rather bland. If the only part that excited me was the mild innuendo printed on the underside of the beer cap, I’d consider this beer disappointing.

Since I’ve tried Shock Top Raspberry Wheat before, I opted for the Shock Top Honeycrisp

Apple Wheat. After taking the cap off, I was immediately hit with an aroma reminiscent of a cider mill, so I got excited and took a giant swig. This was a mistake, since this beer tasted like I was actually licking the floor of the cider mill. My drinking mates inexplicably adored it, but I’d rather have real alcoholic cider.

One thing I learned is I clearly don’t know what agave is. I selected the Blue Moon Agave Nectar Ale in hopes of something tropical and citrusy, but it just tasted like regular beer. Still, at 5.6 percent ABV, it’s pretty average in terms of alcohol content, and after I finished drinking it, I thought, “Hey, I could get drunk off these.”

Abita Purple Haze is another favorite beer of mine, so I was intrigued when I found the Abita Strawberry Harvest Lager. Little did I know that Strawberry Shortcake grew up and began brewing hers own beer. Since strawberry juice is added to this beer after the filtration process, the fruity taste is intensely overwhelming, and at only 4.2 percent ABV, it probably wouldn’t even make Ms. Shortcake tipsy.

I had hoped to end on a positive note, but then I tried Peak Organic Brewing Company’s Pomegranate Wheat Ale. It was undrinkable. Its aftertaste was similar to that of chewing on a copper penny, and I definitely did not taste the pomegranate. Want to id your party of unwant-ed guests? Serve this. They’ll leave immediately.

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By Michelle PolizziCONTRIBUTING WRITER

As the Syracuse University campus awakens from its summer slumber and becomes enliv-ened with the ebb and flow of academia, students are starting to track news and events through the university’s social media platforms.

Although these networks have become essen-tial in maintaining the vitality of the SU reputa-tion, not many of @SyracuseU’s 23,000 Twitter followers know much about the students behind the handle.

The composers of the university tweets are part of a group called #44Social.

“We’re here to create an online presence that matches the prestige and history of the off-line campus presence,” said Bob O’Brien, a member of #44Social and a senior information manage-ment and technology major.

#44Social — a student-run group — com-prises 10 students who have worked together for at least two semesters. Although the students come from a variety of academic backgrounds, they never let their differences disrupt their synchronicity. In fact, this allows the small community to reach out to thousands of stu-dents in different social circles across campus.

O’Brien said he believes in the effectiveness of working on a diverse, well-acquainted team.

“We’re on a good level of continuity — we know what to expect from one another and how to communicate the right voice in the best way possible,” O’Brien said.

He said #44Social holds high standards for its members, asking interested students to com-plete a competitive application process. Stu-dents who make it through the interview round must submit writing samples — a preliminary

protocol to ensure error-free posts. O’Brien also said other essential qualities include partici-pating in on-campus activities, possessing an in-depth knowledge of social media and being a well-versed, professional team player.

The team stays connected to previous and subsequent shifts through a social media man-agement platform called HootSuite, which allows #44Social to schedule content in advance and ensures everyone in the group knows about upcoming news blasts and events. The team also has a Facebook group for an additional method to exchange ideas about new and creative content.

Each group member’s time spent on Face-book, Instagram, Foursquare, Pinterest, Tum-blr and Twitter — a three- to four-hour shift — accumulates to 10 hours a week. And with more than 121,000 likes on Facebook — a number that continues to increase daily — the success of #44Social is indisputable.

With so much responsibility, O’Brien said there are sometimes challenges with the job.

“The university puts us in charge of a large public forum, and sometimes that can weigh on you,” O’Brien said.

Despite the difficulties, he believes in using such authority as motivation. Christina Fieni, an advertising major and information manage-ment and technology minor, shares this idea of overcoming challenges when responding to a large number of followers.

“Figuring out how to navigate that land-scape and direct our varied audience to useful resources is one of the greatest challenges and biggest accomplishments as a member of the team,” Fieni said.

As #44Social continues to develop and grow, its members are looking toward the future and

finding new and effective ways to connect with members of the SU community. O’Brien said the team has certain practices in place to incor-porate new types of social media, including the video-sharing app Vine.

Alexis Madison, a senior information man-agement and technology major, said adapting to developing technology is a good idea.

“The one word I think of when talking about the future of the SU digital presence is ‘evolv-ing,’” Madison said. “When we have our team meetings, one of the biggest conversations that we have is how we can tailor our content and pre-

sentation methods to the needs of our audience.”And it is that very audience which keeps the

members of #44Social committed to their social media positions. No matter who is following @SyracuseU at any given moment — future and current students, alumni, faculty, staff or par-ents — there remains an overarching purpose of the organization’s dedicated staff.

“We’re here to serve your needs, entertain, excite and help you navigate undergraduate, graduate and alumni life,” Fieni said. “When you’re happy, so are we.”

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W hat is this strange new feeling? Indigestion? Maybe. I did eat half of a cheeseburger calzone at midnight —

and the colder half at 2 a.m., in bed.But it can’t be that. I’ve experienced indiges-

tion before gallivanting through the monstrosi-ties sold as food at Kimmel. No, this is in fact a feeling that I always dreamed about having but always thought was reserved for guys named Chad who probably own fleets of yachts solely to match their extensive collection of Sperrys.

This is cockiness. More specifically: mis-placed sophomore cockiness.

I always told myself I wouldn’t ever become the type of guy who groans about freshmen. But something about coming back to campus after completing a full year of mishaps and suc-cesses and even more mishaps imbued me with strangely unmatched confidence.

No longer do I get “mooed” at as I walk down the street. Now, as if channeling Walter White, “I am the one who moos!”

This cockiness even extends to how I walk down the street. Imagine my amazement when I noticed a little strut in my step. A strut. I always assumed that strutting was reserved for CEOs or pimps or gangs in musicals, but there I was, strutting like a CEO pimp ready for his big tap dancing solo.

Working Goon Squad only compounded this cockiness. There, my ego got inflated by parents staring in awe of me picking up their freshman’s refrigerator. Clearly, those three times my roommates forced me to go to the gym with them were paying off.

This ego-trip only increased when a mother I was helping stopped to tell me I was handsome. Creepy? Maybe. But I just assumed I looked fetching in orange.

Every interaction I had while helping students move in always ended with me saying, “You’ll figure it out!” Because clearly I had it all figured out — I mean, I had a beard.

It was utter euphoria for those few days. I was a “god” among nervous mortals who were forced to go to an absurd amount of ice cream socials. I embodied that “Girl on Fire” song by

Alicia Keys.But just like a literal girl on fire, my new-

found swagger would be taken down a peg.As I strutted past Watson Hall and waited

to cross the street, a bus passed by. This bus clearly had a mandate from the coalition of CEOs, pimps and musical gangsters to stop my strutting, because as it rounded the bend, I was splashed with the truth.

And by the truth, I mean the murky water left by the rain with possible remnants of Sat-urday night’s poor decisions in it. I didn’t even think that kind of bus-splash happened any-where outside of terrible romantic comedies. But it happened.

As I felt the water, dirt and sadness mixture soaking through my cargo shorts, a group of students walked by. I could tell they were freshmen by their copious amounts of Syracuse apparel and hopeful auras. So many thoughts rushed through my head. Was it too early in the day to moo?

They crossed the road under their umbrellas untouched by the rain while I scowled through my drenched, scraggly beard. I had found the origin of this mysterious cockiness. It’s the con-ceit that I know more than they do — a clearly untrue statement.

Maybe being a Chad isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

As I walked by, they asked me if I was OK. My initial thought was, “Gahh freshmen,” but I stopped myself and replied with a succinct, “Yeah. Thanks.” I’ll count that as progress.

Christian Unkenholz is a sophomore public relations and political science major. His column appears every Thursday in Pulp.

He can be reached at [email protected].

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By Katie RichardsASST. FEATURE EDITOR

T hese blissfully warm summer days are coming to an end, and before you know it, Syracuse University

will be covered with a blanket of fresh snow. Before it’s too late, take advantage of the warmer temperatures and enjoy what nature has to offer at Green Lakes State Park.

Jenny Hale, a senior marketing and supply chain management major, said she has been enjoying the trails and nature at Green Lakes with family and friends for as long as she can remember.

“It’s one of the better state parks, I would say,” Hale said. “And I’ve been to a lot.”

Located just 15-25 minutes from cam-pus in Fayetteville, N.Y., Green Lakes is an expansive 1,744-acre park containing two glacial lakes, called Round and Green lakes. The surrounding area is filled with forests and wildlife.

Park manager Jim Semar said that stu-dents who make the trip should take advan-tage of the numerous recreational activi-ties available within the park. With trails for hiking and biking, lakes for swimming and fishing, and an 18-hole golf course, there are plenty of options to choose.

“We have a disc golf course – like a Fris-bee disc course – that people love to come and play on,” Semar said.

For more adventurous students, the park’s hiking trails offer scenic views and an overall peaceful experience. Green Lakes has approximately 20 miles of hik-

ing trails – which double as cross country skiing trails in the winter months – where visitors can spot different kinds of wildlife and a range of bird species.

Even if you aren’t the hiking type, Green Lakes has a trail that is short, flat and cleared of any overgrown plants or trees, making it easily accessible to any novice hiker.

“It’s not really hiking, it’s more like a path. It’s an easy path anybody can access,” Hale said. “You just walk around and there are canoes and kayaks you can take along the way. It’s really convenient.”

The trails offer many great views of the park’s two lakes, and from some points along the trails, visitors might even be able to spot parts of the SU campus on a clear day.

Due to the depth of the lakes and the way the sun hits them, the bodies of water do not mix during certain times of the year and therefore turn green, Semar said. The green color suggests there might be evidence of ancient plant and animal life somewhere in these lakes, according to New York state’s Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation website.

So, if you need a break from campus and want to soak up some sunshine before it gets so cold that you freeze while walking from one class to the next, take advantage of this local gem.

Said Semar: “You would never know that you were just 15 minutes from the Syracuse campus when you are here.”

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White-water rafting: If you’re feeling a bit adventurous this weekend, sign up for a thrilling white-water rafting trip on the Black River. Run by the Syracuse University Department of Recreation Services, this action-packed day includes transportation to and from the rafting sight, wetsuits and other equipment and safety demonstrations. After navigating your way through some tricky rapids, led by a trained and fearless leader, students are treated to a barbecue dinner. To guarantee a spot for Sunday’s trip, sign up by Friday at 8:00 a.m. It’s $45 for students and $80 for guests. And if you miss out this weekend, opt for another available date online.

“Beasts of the Southern Wild”: Now is your chance to see the Academy Award-nominated film “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” For the second year in a row, the Urban Video Project and Light Work/Community Darkrooms have joined together to organize the Urban Cinematheque — a free event — in an effort to connect the diverse local community with SU students. The screening will be in the plaza on South State Street at 8:15 p.m. Friday, but if it rains, it will be moved into the Everson Museum of Art. In addition to the film, various cultural organizations will have booths set up for students to learn about upcoming events. There is limited seat-ing and popcorn, so show up early.

“Songs for a New World”: Technically, it’s a musical, but “Songs for a New World” is also part-concert. Originally an Off-Broadway production in 1995, Jason Robert Brown’s musical is coming to The Red House Arts Center, 201 S. West St., at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $30, or $20 for members. Like a concept album, the musical is made up of a series of songs that progress through an overarching theme. In this case, the story follows the hollow marriage between a man who uses basketball to get out of the ghetto and a woman who only wants to marry rich.

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Just outside of Syracuse, Green Lakes State Park showcases scenic views. Visitors hike along several its many winding trails among the 1.744-acre park.

Green Lakes State Park provides quiet refuge close to campus

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Q&A with Penn State beat writer Steve Petrella of The Daily CollegianBy David Wilson

SPORTS EDITOR

Syracuse opens its season against Penn State in East Rutherford, N.J., at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. To help break down the MetLife Stadium tilt, Steve Petrella, a beat writer for The Daily Collegian, offered his insight on the Nittany Lions.

The Daily Orange: Who do you expect to start at quarterback for Penn State and what can Syracuse expect out of whoever it is?

Steve Petrella: It’s tough to say. I’m going to guess (Christian) Hackenberg. He’s the guy that—they want him to be the guy. They want him to do well. They want him to succeed.

(Hackenberg and Tyler Ferguson) are pretty similar. (Bill) O’Brien runs a pro-style offense. He has a specific type of quarterback, more traditional, drop-back type of passer that makes quick decisions, careful with the football. I think they’ll make their share

of mistakes this season, but if you see what O’Brien did with Matt McGloin, I think they’re going to be OK.

The D.O.: A lot has been made about the Nittany Lions’ tight ends. Are those guys the biggest playmaking threats on offense?

S.P.: They actually, surprisingly, have a lot of weapons, but tight ends I would say is the biggest because of just the mismatches.

There’s just so many of them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they lined up four tight ends in certain sets this season, maybe on Saturday. They’re all big, they’re all fast, they all create mismatches. It’s fun to watch.

The D.O.: How tough is it for a freshman like Hackenberg to pick up O’Brien’s system?

S.P.: It’s not complicated, but there’s a lot to process. This is a similar offense that Tom Brady was winning and he’s obviously the best and he’s been doing it forever, so for a kid who is 18 years old, had a terrible offensive

line in high school to come in and just in two and a half months pick it up, it’s difficult. I’m sure he’s put in the work — we’re not allowed to talk to freshmen — but I’m sure he’s put in the work and I’m sure he’ll be ready.

The D.O.: With fewer scholarships, how big of an issue is PSU’s depth?

S.P.: That’s a big concern. Penn State had a pretty good season last year, but I think the sanctions are going to take a toll three years down the road when you’re playing with 65 scholarships and everyone else is playing with 85.

They’ve put a really big emphasis on the walk-on program. Their biggest concern for depth is at linebacker, they only have six scholarship linebackers, but they have 19 on the roster. They brought in seven true-freshman walk-ons.

Depth is definitely a big concern. I don’t think so much Saturday, but if they start los-ing some guys this season — and obviously

guys are going to get hurt. It’s football — but I think throughout the season we’re not going to stop talking about it.

The D.O.: The Nittany Lions have a reputa-tion for great linebackers. Is that still the strength of the defense?

S.P.: The starting three is very good. Behind that, we’ll see. Ben Kline, Gary Wooten, those are the two. We just don’t know about them yet. We haven’t seen much.

The strength of the defense actually might be the secondary, which is interest-ing because last year it was like the biggest concern. I think they’re going to play a lot of nickel because of the depth at linebacker and they have two safeties, Adrian Amos and Stephen Obeng-Agyapong, who are bigger safeties that added weight this offseason in order to play that nickel back/linebacker role on some third downs.

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Nittany Lion tight ends at once.“We have to be prepared for that and any-

thing else,” Shafer said. “They do a good job with their empty package, so we have to have good answers and they will try to get some mismatches on us.”

And with an inexperienced quarterback under center, SU linebacker Marquis Spruill expects either Ferguson or Hackenberg will be working with a limited playbook.

Those tight ends will likely be their first or second options on most passing plays.

“Whoever they put in there we’re going to go after,” Spruill said. “We want to make sure he doesn’t have the ball that long to get it there.”

But while the Penn State quarterback selec-tion doesn’t affect the SU defense’s approach, the same can’t be said for Syracuse’s choice.

Allen can throw the ball 70 yards, Shafer said, while Hunt is athletic enough to have played high school basketball for power-house Christ the King Regional High School in New York.

“Whether it’s Hunt or Allen, from what we know they are two different quarterbacks,” O’Brien said. “So you’ve got to be ready for two different styles of quarterbacks. I’m not going to get into how I see the difference in their styles, but we have to do a good job on defense of recog-nizing who’s in the game and making sure that we’re ready for that.”

While Shafer and the rest of the coaching staff have been mum about which one the Orange will start, sophomore H-back Ashton Broyld said Allen is taking most of the first-team reps with him and Shafer said he’s seen Allen’s teammates grow to look at him as a leader.

If that is true, it’s possible SU may be able to stretch out the Penn State secondary enough to keep the running lanes open for Jerome Smith and Prince-Tyson Gulley.

The only thing that is certain is football will be played Saturday afternoon. Two of the four quarterbacks will start, but the two others could finish.

Said Allen: “Whoever coach goes with, or no matter what happens in the game, we’re all going to be ready.”

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and engaging with his peers. He slowly walks through La Salle’s hallways, stopping to give individual attention to any familiar face.

But when a game nears, his transformation begins.

“I don’t think I’ve ever talked to him before a game,” Carlone said. “And that’s crazy, because we’ve played a ton of games together.”

It’s not something Franklin can explain. As competition looms, so does an alter ego that emits toughness and grit. He tucks away his smile, pauses his resounding personality and zones in.

Pregame he sits alone, puts his headphones in and starts to tape up sitting in front of his locker.

Just hours or even minutes ago he was acting like the mayor of a small school community. Teammates, teachers and students were hang-ing on his every word. Now he’s silent, seething and itching to get onto the field.

“I really can’t help what comes over me when I’m going to play football,” Franklin said. “I love people and I love to talk, but it’s just a natural

disposition. When I get on the field, I hate every-one I’m going against.”

After finishing as state semifinalists in 2011, Franklin’s sophomore season, La Salle made it back to the AAAA state semifinals in 2012.

Facing Coatesville, luck wasn’t on La Salle’s side. Three of the team’s most talented players left the game with injuries, and Coatesville took a 21-7 lead toward the end of the first half.

With his team short-handed, Franklin hit another gear.

“He was ‘all over’ the place that game,” said Ryan Coonahan, a current teammate of Frank-

lin’s. “That game was just different, like really, really competitive. And he was right in the mix from start to finish.”

The Explorers fought valiantly, but ulti-mately fell on the wrong-end of a 42-35 final score.

In the locker room after the game, Frank-lin broke his natural vow of silence and addressed the team. To the graduating play-ers who had just played their final game, he apologized. To the returning players, he stimulated the next step, telling them it was time to start training because that couldn’t happen again.

“He’s probably the best leader and hardest worker I’ve ever been around,” Coonahan said.

The days leading up to Franklin’s offseason workouts were normal. He bounced in the hall-

ways, gave out high-fives like takeout menus and was his usual, goofy self. He encouraged his teammates to join him and shook off the heartbreaking loss by stretching a smile across his face.

And then, when the weekend hit, he used that same loss as fuel to get better. He put his headphones in, taped up and practiced, silently, with his next task in mind.

Franklin isn’t blind to the bigger picture. He just prefers to take things, especially on the football field, in chromatic steps.

“With me, Syracuse is getting a really hard worker and I can’t get there soon enough,” he said, “but I still have a high school season to play.”

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Shafer, West excited about potential of unproven receiversBy Trevor HassASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Alec Lemon and Marcus Sales are gone. Jarrod West, Jeremiah Kobena and Adrian Flemming are Syracuse’s new top outside targets.

All three played in 2012, but none filled as significant a role as they will this year.

Despite the unit’s glaring inexperience, Syr-acuse head coach Scott Shafer said on the Atlan-tic Coast Conference teleconference Wednesday morning he’s confident in his wide receivers. He believes they can be deep threats and keep defenses honest.

“I feel good about it,” Shafer said. “I really do.”

He said Flemming and Kobena both made nice plays down the field during practice recent-ly. Christopher Clark is also expected to be an integral part of Syracuse’s passing attack and has looked sharp so far.

But West is the No. 1 option. He snagged 43 passes for 588 yards and two touchdowns a year ago and is expected to catch considerably more passes this season.

Clark, Flemming and Kobena, meanwhile,

caught just 17 passes among them last season. Flemming didn’t reel in any. But Shafer and West both believe the unit is ready and has

improved during the preseason.“It’s fun to play with this group of guys,”

West said Tuesday. “It’s one of the most athletic groups I’ve ever played with.”Tabb to be featured on both sides

Jack Tabb was ESPNU’s No. 11 tight end coming out of high school. The 6-foot-3, 240-pound junior Tabb was a steady presence at tight end during his first two years. He also played a little special teams.

Now he’s expanding his repertoire even

more, North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora said Wednesday. Due to a plethora of nagging injuries to the Tar Heels’ defense, there’s a good chance Tabb will play line-backer as well.

“That’s the plan as of tonight,” Fedora said. “We will see where it goes tomorrow at 6, but right now, he’s prepared to play at both spots, yes.”

North Carolina kicks off the college football season against rival No. 6 South Carolina at 6 p.m. on Thursday.

Fedora has no doubt Tabb can make the jump to playing linebacker in addition to tight end and on special teams. In fact, Fedora said Tabb was recruited to play both sides of the ball and is a generally savvy football player.

He said Tabb doesn’t need many repetitions. He’s a really quick learner and his natural instincts kick in during games.

“We are very fortunate in that aspect,” Fedo-ra said, “because obviously when you’re trying to do both, you’re taking fewer reps on both sides of the ball.”Campanaro back for Wake Forest

When Wake Forest’s star wide receiver Michael Campanaro injured his hand against Duke on Sept. 29 last season, the Demon Dea-cons’ season took a turn for the worse.

After starting out 3-1, Wake Forest lost six of its last eight games and went 1-2 in games Campanaro missed at least part of.

Now Campanaro’s back, and Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe is expecting big things out of the senior.

“He’s the guy that on every snap we wanted to try to find a way to give him the football,” Grobe said.

Campanaro finished last season with 79 catches, which ranked fourth in school his-tory, for 763 yards and six touchdowns. Wake Forest struggled to generate any semblance of a passing game last season, but now that Campanaro’s back its offense figures to be more potent.

“You’ve got a player that’s as good a player as Mike,” Grobe said, “you just can’t find enough ways to get the ball in his hands.”

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“It’s fun to play with this group of guys. It’s one of the most athletic groups I’ve ever played with.”

Jarrod WestSYRACUSE WIDE RECEIVER

By Danny Cuneo STAFF WRITER

Syracuse has been a perennial power. The Orange has been ranked in the Top 10 since Aug.

28, 2008. Yet under Ange Bradley, Syracuse has never

claimed a national title. The 2013 Orange is prepared to take the next step, starting with the

Asics Invitational in Hempstead, N.Y., against Quinnipiac at 2 p.m. on Friday and either Hofstra or La Salle on Sunday.

“We need to grow, we need to get our leader-ship to continue to develop,” Bradley said, “and take ownership and hold accountability to the standards of Syracuse (field) hockey that have been set before them.”

To get leadership to develop, Bradley has organized a “leadership team” within the roster. Back Laura Hahnefeldt and forward Lauren Brooks are the designated gameday captains. Back Anna Crumb and goalie Jess Jecko lead the team off the field, and newly transferred forward Kati Nearhouse is the team’s practice leader.

Taking ownership and holding accountability falls upon the older members of the team. Out of the 21 players, nine are freshmen, making it the job of the rest of the team to help the younger players with the transition to top-level Division I field hockey.

Seniors like Leonie Geyer are trying to light-en the burden on the underclassmen by engaging more with the freshmen in a hands-on approach. Even Geyer, the only unanimous all-Big East

selection last season, has room to improve.“I’m trying to talk much more on the field

now, setting up the forwards because I’m in the midfield and I have to set them in the right lines,” Geyer said.

Geyer said the team is really young but has been making great strides in the preseason.

“They were here all summer, working on their stick skills and their athleticism,” Geyer said, “and I think they’re doing really well.”

Geyer mentioned helping the younger players with their technique, both during and after practices.

Sophomore forward Emma Russell echoes her sentiments.

“It’s challenging for us,” Russell said, “but we need to do it because the younger girls are going to have to do that next year.”

This ownership and accountability car-ries over to the practice field as well. But as Geyer points out, too much pressure may not be a good thing.

“I think in the first two weeks of preseason we put a bit too much pressure on ourselves, on the senior class,” Geyer said, “so we have to step back a little bit.”

Russell, though, sees it a different way from her teammate, and considers the pressure as more of a challenge.

“I wouldn’t necessarily call it pressure, I think we all know where we want to go and

we all know that we want to get back to the final four,” Russell said, “It’s more just training harder and making sure we’re doing the right things to get us back there.”

The Orange will try to heed the words of Bradley as it journeys into unfamiliar territory. Syracuse enters the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013, a conference that includes seven top 20 teams. Bradley looks forward to the benefits of a tough schedule.

Said Bradley: “I think it will help us learn to win the last game of the season.”

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19.1The amount of points per game the PSU defense allowed last year. The Nittany Lions tied for second in scoring defense in the Big Ten. Syracuse relented 24.8 points per game.

70The number of all-time matchups between SU and Penn State prior to Saturday’s season opener. The Nittany Lions hold a 42-23-5 advantage.

369The number of rushing yards Syracuse accu-mulated in its Pinstripe Bowl win over West Vir-ginia to end last season. The Orange’s running game will be a key to its success this year.

1,013The amount of receiving yards PSU returning wide receiver Allen Robinson racked up as a sopho-more a year ago, when he claimed the Big Ten’s Richter-Howard receiver of the year award. None of the Orange’s returning wideouts amassed more than 600 receiving yards last season.

SYRACUSE OFFENSE? QB D. Allen/T. Hunt? RB J. Smith/P. Gulley31 FB Clay Cleveland88 WR Jarrod West22 WR Adrian Flemming85 TE Beckett Wales60 LT Sean Hickey55 LG Rob Trudo59 C Macky MacPherson68 RG Nick Robinson72 RT Ivan Foy

PENN STATE OFFENSE? QB T. Ferg./C. Hack.28 RB Zach Zwinak8 WR Allen Robinson85 WR Brandon Felder18 TE-Y Jesse James87 TE-Y/F Kyle Carter76 LT Donovan Smith65 LG Miles Dieffenbach60 C Ty Howle64 RG John Urschel? RT G. Gilliam/A. Gress

Penn State 20, Syracuse 17With inexperienced quarter-backs on the field, a sloppy game is likely in store. SU will try to pound the rock, but “Line-backer U” will make it tough.

With a first-year quarterback under center, Syracuse is going to pound the ball. No one on either roster does that better than Smith. But Penn State is going to respond with a crowded box and Carson as the anchor.

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Robinson was arguably the most potent wide receiver in the Big Ten last season, racking up a whopping 77 receptions for 1,013 yards and 11 touchdowns. Lyn is athletic and has big-play ability, but Robinson might be a bit too dynamic to handle.

PENN STATE TIGHT ENDS

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Jones is a big body in the middle and could be a load for most interior lines. MacPher-son, though, is a veteran and one of the better centers in the country. He’s the strength of Syracuse’s line and should hold up well against Penn State’s star defensive tackle.

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Penn State will feature two- and three-tight end sets including Kyle Carter and Jesse James. SU linebackers Marquis Spruill, Dyshawn Davis and Cameron Lynch will have to be up to the task in coverage.

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PENN STATE DEFENSE86 DE C.J. Olaniyan91 DT DaQuan Jones84 DT Kyle Baublitz18 DE Deion Barnes43 OLB Mike Hull40 MLB Glenn Carson5 OLB Nyeem Wartman10 CB Trevor Williams? S M. Willis/R. Keiser4 S Adrian Amos9 CB Jordan Lucas

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Penn State 24, Syracuse 13The game will be close for a while, but Penn State will pull away. The Nittany Lions have been game planning how to stop Jerome Smith and Prince-Tyson Gulley all week.

Penn State 21, Syracuse 20The only way Syracuse wins this game is through the air. As the Penn State defense cheats more players forward, Drew Allen or Terrel Hunt will have to step up – and I don’t see that happening.

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Prince-Tyson Gulley 158 830 5.3 9

Ashton Broyld 36 171 4.8 1

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Beckett Wales 35 389 11.1 2

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ACC Schedule

Thursday, Aug. 29

North Carolina at No. 6 South Carolina, 6 p.m.Presbyterian at Wake Forest, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 30

Florida Atlantic at Miami (Fla.), 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 31

Elon at Georgia Tech, 12 p.m.Villanova at Boston College, 12 p.m.Florida International at Maryland, 12:30 p.m.Louisiana Tech at North Carolina State, 12:30 p.m.Brigham Young at Virginia, 3:30 p.m.North Carolina Central at Duke, 4 p.m.No. 1 Alabama vs Virginia Tech (Atlanta), 5:30 p.m.No. 5 Georgia at No. 8 Clemson, 8 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 2

No. 11 Florida State at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.

ACC SCHEDULE

This is the first time Penn State will open its season away from Beaver Stadium since 2000, when the Nittany Lions played Southern Califor-nia in the old Giants Stadium.

The last time Syracuse and Penn State met, former Duke point guard Greg Paulus was the Orange’s starting quarterback.

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SU looks to convert scoring opportunities in home opener

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MAYA PITTS and SU want to capitalize better on scoring opportunities this weekend.

By Austin MirminaSTAFF WRITER

Jackie Firenze lobbed a corner kick in the direction of Syracuse’s tallest threat Blake Johnson, and West Virginia swarmed her

with defenders. The ball f loated innocently over Johnson’s head, toward midfielder Rachel Blum.

Blum trapped the ball with her

thigh and volleyed a sharp shot off the bounce, aiming to score the decisive go-ahead goal.

But she couldn’t convert. It was another missed opportunity for the Orange.

“Unfortunately (the shot) was right at the goalkeeper. Anywhere else and it prob-ably would have gone in,” SU head coach Phil Wheddon said. “It was a quality chance, and I know Rachel would like to have another try at that.”

The Orange created plenty of scoring chances against ninth-ranked WVU. But self-inflicted mistakes plagued the SU scor-ing attack as it suffered a heartbreaking loss in the closing moments. SU (1-1) will rely on stronger play around the net when

it hosts Albany (1-1) on Friday at 7 p.m. and Colgate (2-0) on Sunday at 7 p.m. at the SU Soccer Stadium.

SU graduated two of its top goal scorers from last season, and the lack of scoring identity was exposed against the Mountain-eers. The Orange generated plenty of scoring chances, including the missed corner kick, but the inability to convert resulted in a loss.

Wheddon said he will rely on a multitude of players to fill the void left by former captains Jenna Rickan and Alyscha Mottershead.

In its season opener against Hofstra, SU demonstrated the balanced attack it could have Ñ three different players scored for the Orange. Sophomore Erin Simon also flashed signs of her potential.

“She’s been creating attack,” senior goal-keeper Brittany Anghel said. “She’s so fast, I think she can go up against any of the defend-ers in the country because of her speed.”

Syracuse is known as a stout defensive team. But moving forward, the Orange will look to capitalize on missed opportunities and finish opponents at the end of games.

SU’s practice this week focused on its attack around the net. The players ran com-bination drills, which placed an emphasis on making quality one-touch passes. The drill also stressed maintaining vision of the entire

field to enable finding seams and gaps in the opponents’ defense.

Quality ball possession will also take pres-sure off the SU defense, which is forced to play a majority of close games under duress.

“(Playing from behind) definitely puts some pressure on (the defense),” senior defender Kayla Afonso said. “Against Hofstra, I was very stressed out because we were los-ing 2-1, but when we scored it relieved a lot of stress and helped us get back into the game.”

Anghel also said her confidence is boosted when the Orange plays with a lead.

SU will try to become a cohesive unit on the attack in its home opener. Expect the goal scoring to come from a variety of players. Regardless, Wheddon said he is confident in his team’s ability.

“We created some very good opportunities against a very good team. In all honesty, we should have finished those chances,” Whed-don said. “But we know if we can create those chances against WVU, we can create them against teams in the (Atlantic Coast Confer-ence), and whoever else we play.”

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A year ago, Leonid Yelin arrived at Syracuse hoping to turn the program around. Yelin spent 15 seasons coaching Louisville before

joining the Orange, bringing the Cardi-nals to the NCAA tournament in all but one season.

On Friday, he will open his sec-

ond season at SU with a matchup against his former team at the Penn State Invitational at 4:30 p.m. in University Park, Pa.

The Cardinals, the No. 19 team in the nation, provide the first of two tough tests for SU this weekend. Syracuse will face No. 2 Penn State at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

Yelin realizes this may not be the ideal way to coach the players, but he doesn’t have any other choice due to such a tough schedule.

“I probably wouldn’t do this,” Yelin said. “It’s like teaching (swimming) out on the lake, you’re just sort of throwing them in there.”

And the schedule won’t get any easier. Syra-cuse will play six other teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament last season.

With the start of Yelin’s second season at Syracuse on the horizon, there is plenty of room for improvement after a 12-18 season. One major component is improving on the road, where the Orange went just 3-9.

One issue could be the lack of experience on the team. With such a young team, Yelin said that this season “will have its ups and its downs.”

Another major point of improvement should be conference play. Friday will also mark the beginning of the Orange’s tenure in the Atlantic Coast Conference, but regardless of which con-ference Syracuse is in, the Orange will need to improve its 4-11 conference record.

One key to improvement will be setter Erica Handley. The freshman from Lakeville, Minn., is being asked to be the primary setter for the squad. She graduated high school early so she has been on campus since January this year, giving her plenty of time to practice and bond with the team.

“There are going to be some nerves,” Handley said. “I just know if I go out there and play as hard as I can and just do what I’ve been working on, everything should come together.”

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By Jesse DoughertyASST. COPY EDITOR

On Zaire Franklin’s first day at La Salle College High School training camp, he stood up on the benches in the locker room and announced his arrival.

Franklin had just transferred from Franklin Learning Center, a public school in the heart of North Philadelphia, and had never attended an independent prep

school or spent much time — if any — in the suburbs.

But with his new football teammates all around him, Franklin treated the room full of perplexed players to an off-key rendition of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” with a dance to go along with it.

“Only a few people knew who he was and he just started singing,” said Andrew Carlone, then a junior offensive lineman.

“We all thought he was just really cocky, or extremely social. Little did we know, most of us had just met one of our best friends.”

Nothing stops Franklin from being himself, and that’s just the way everyone around him likes it.

A three-star outside linebacker, accord-ing to Scout.com, Franklin is a member of SU’s 2014 recruiting class. The Philadel-phia native is expected to bring strength,

speed and intensity to a class already featuring two other linebackers in Parris Bennett and Colton Moskal. Though it’s the intangibles Franklin provides that have, and will continue to set him apart.

“I strive to be a complete player on and off the field,” Franklin said. “To me, lead-ing is as important as playing.”

It’s hard to catch Franklin not smiling

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DREW ALLENClass: SeniorHeight: 6-5Weight: 226Scouting report: Strong arm. Great size. Deceptively quick.

CHRISTIAN HACKENBERGClass: Freshman

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Scouting report: Pro-style. Extremely talented. Still raw.

TYLER FERGUSONClass: Sophomore

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Scouting report: Pro-style. Good size. Relatively experienced.

TERREL HUNTClass: SophomoreHeight: 6-3Weight: 219Scouting report: Great speed. Under-rated arm. Good size.

By Stephen BaileyASST. SPORTS EDITOR

F our quarterbacks. Zero starts.In one of the most bizarre, and

perhaps unprecedented, moments in modern college football history two teams head into battle on Saturday without a starting quarterback announced.

Both Syracuse and Penn State are choosing between two unproven quarter-backs. Both are trying to prepare for two signal callers without much film.

But the big difference comes in the quarterbacks’ distinctions.

SU head coach Scott Shafer is preparing his team for a scheme. Empty backfields. Multiple tight end sets. Whether PSU’s quarterback is 19-year-old JUCO transfer

Tyler Ferguson or 18-year-old five-star freshman Christian Hackenberg, they’ll be running the same Bill O’Brien offense.

For O’Brien, though, SU quarterbacks Drew Allen and Terrel Hunt present differ-ent skill sets and different problems. Allen is a senior with a big arm and three years’ worth of Big 12 football knowledge. Hunt is a sophomore dual-threat option who ran the offense in the spring.

“It’s really one of the things that’s a little nerve-wracking, going into the first game,” O’Brien said. “You really don’t know what to expect. You have to make sure you cover all your bases as best you can, but you also can’t stay into the office until 4:30 in the morning trying to block ghosts and things you really can’t be sure exist.”

Shafer said he hasn’t thought much about how his masking of SU’s starter could be more pertinent than O’Brien’s, but admitted the inexperience of all four quarterbacks makes it difficult for both teams to scout. When the Orange opens its season against Penn State on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., it will do so without having seen a ton of film on Ferguson and Hackenberg.

Ferguson starred as a freshman at Col-lege of the Sequoias in Visalia, Calif., last season while Hackenberg spent a year at Fork Union Military Academy, in Virginia. Most of what Shafer has found he said was from YouTube, Scout.com and Rivals.com.

And the tape showed both quarterbacks

are capable of running an offense, and also moving the chains with their feet.

“We won’t be in a situation where we have two drastically different situations on the football field,” Shafer said. “I think they’re similar to one another so I don’t think it poses as big of a concern with regard to those two.”

The biggest concern may be O’Brien’s use of his tight ends. As an assistant coach with the New England Patriots, he took the AFC by storm flaunting his “12 personnel” two-tight end sets with Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez.

Now he’s using Kyle Carter and Jesse James similarly. Shafer said he’s expect-ing to match up with as many as three

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