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No. 9 Syracuse beats Fordham 89-74SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Two games

into the season, Syracuse coach JimBoeheim knows one thing: his Orangeare a real work in progress.

C.J. Fair scored a career-high 26 points,Jerami Grant added 16 points and 10rebounds, and No. 9 Syracuse beatFordham 89-74 on Tuesday night aeragain playing two enrely dierenthalves.

Syracuse, which started the seasonwith a so-so 82-60 win over Cornellon Friday night aer trailing by 14points late in the rst half, had a strongrst period against the Rams to takecontrol, then faltered in the second ina game plagued by 55 fouls and 72 free

throws under the new NCAA rules.

First half we were prey good. Wedid a prey good job defensively,Boeheim said. But in the second half,I think we felt we had control of thegame. We lost our defensive edge andthey took advantage of it - and thatssomething that we obviously have towork on.

Our guards are inexperienced interms of playing out there and knowinghow to play the front of the zone andkeeping guys in front of it, and thatsthe lesson learned.

Grant, who missed Syracuses season

opener due to a violaon of NCAArules regarding summer-league play,was sharp, hing 6 of 12 shots andnabbing three steals. Freshman point

guard Tyler Ennis had a solid game

aer scoring his rst collegiate basketon a driving layup on the games rstpossession. He nished with 16 points,ve assists, no turnovers and four ofthe Oranges 15 steals.

Dajuan Coleman had 10 points and 10rebounds for Syracuse, while TrevorCooney, named ACC player of the weekaer scoring a career-high 27 pointsagainst Cornell including 7 of 8 fromlong range, had two points on 1-of-6shoong and missed all four aemptshe took from beyond the arc.

Branden Frazier had a career-high 33points for Fordham and freshman JonSevere added 19, hing 4 of 10 from

long range.

The Orange defense clamped downat the opening p, liming the Ramsto 2-of-12 shoong from beyond thearc as Severe struggled aer a sizzlingopening night on Friday, missing three3-pointers against Syracuses 2-3 zoneand scoring just two points the rsthalf on free throws.

We went over it (the zone) a lot ofmes (in pracce), but hadnt actuallyseen it, said Severe, who hit 7 of 10from long range and scored 28 pointsin an 87-67 victory over St. Francis, Pa.to open the season. It was big. I wastrying to make passes and kept turning

the ball over.

Syracuse outrebounded Fordham 23-10 in the opening half and took a 46-

21 halime lead. In the second half

as the teams connued to struggle tond any sort of rhythm amid 32 foulscalled, Fordham rallied, outscoringSyracuse 53-43. The Orange werecalled for 25 fouls, 15 in the secondhalf, while Fordham had 30 fouls in thegame.

We tried to slow them down, but itwas hard, Fair said. We just have tohave the mindset to play the wholegame and adjust to the referees. Ittakes a lile me. It was tough.

The guard-oriented Rams shot 55.6percent in the second half and 43.8percent for the game and nished 11of 27 from beyond the arc aer making

just 2 of 12 in the rst half.

I think well be able to adjust aera couple of pracces, Ennis said.Coach is poinng out that those (handchecks) are fouls now. Aer playing afew games, I think everybody will beable to adjust.

Consecuve 3-pointers by MandellThomas and Severe and two freethrows by Thomas narrowed theOrange lead to 76-60 with 5:44 le,the closest the Rams had been sinceGrant hit a jumper from the top of thekey to give Syracuse a 25-8 lead.

And Fordham wasnt quite through.

Frazier hit a jumper in the lane andRyan Roomes added another and twofree throws to cut the lead to 78-66with 3:33 le, but that was it.

Obviously, we got a lile morecomfortable aacking the zone,Fordham coach Tom Pecora said. Buton the same note, teams dont playquite as hard when theyre up 25points all the me. You take that witha grain of salt.

Syracuses C. J. Fair shoots against Fordhamduring the rst half of an NCAA college

basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y., Tuesday,Nov. 12, 2013. Photo: Kevin Rivoli, AP


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NY jail guard charged with raping runaway teenager

MANLIUS, N.Y. (AP) - Authories saya central New York jail guard whomoonlighted as a school bus driver hasbeen charged with raping a 17-year-old runaway at his Syracuse-areaapartment.

The Onondaga County Sheris Oce

says police in the town of Manlius wentto an apartment complex Mondayevening in search of a Steuben (stoo-BEHN) County girl who had run awayfrom home.

Police say 48-year-old Frank Taylordenied the teen was in his apartment,

but ocers spoed her inside. Aerinvesgang, detecves chargedTaylor with raping the teen in hisapartment on Sunday.

Hes being held at the Jusce Centerin Syracuse on $15,000 bail. Taylorworks as a correcons ocer at the

county jail in Jamesville. It couldnt bedetermined if he had a lawyer.

Taylor also worked as a substute busdriver for the Fayeeville-ManliusSchool District.

Teens death leads to heroin charges for NY couple

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Authoriessay two people have been arrested inconnecon with the recent death ofa central New York woman from an

apparent heroin overdose.

The Onondaga County Sheris Ocesays invesgators found more than 200

packets of heroin when they arrested21-year-old Alexis Carrasquillo and20-year-old Sara Ausn at the couplesSyracuse home Tuesday night.

The invesgaon started aer a19-year-old Syracuse woman wasfound dead of an apparent heroin

overdose. Police say empty heroinpackages with the same name stampsas the ones uncovered in the coupleshome were found near the womans

body.

Authories say Carrasquillo issuspected of being the womans drug

supplier.

He and Ausn are jailed on chargesthat drug possession and endangering

the welfare of a child. It couldntimmediately be determined if theyhad lawyers.

Upstate NY mother charged in death of her infant

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A 19-year-oldSyracuse woman faces assault andchild endangerment charges in thedeath of her 5-month-old daughter,who died of head trauma.

Police say Wanda Trumble appeared inCity Criminal Court Sunday morning.

No bail has been set. Police didntknow if she has a lawyer yet.

Syracuse police say Nataliah Trumblewas brought to Upstate UniversityHospital by her father Friday evening.The baby died Saturday.

NY grants $4 millionto 68 local governments

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New YorksDepartment of State is giving $4 millionin grants to 68 local governmentsto study and implement projectsto streamline operaons and savetaxpayer dollars.

The Local Government Eciency grantswill be distributed across 18 projectsthat localies are collaborang on.

This round of grants will fund sevenwater projects, including the transferof management services to county

systems in Erie, Orange and Columbiacounes.

Also, four schools will be assessingreorganizaon, including Elmira andHorseheads, and Seneca Falls andWaterloo.

Other projects involve fuelfacilies, wastewater treatment,communicaons, re services andredevelopment.


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Bread for the World, a non-parsan,Chrisan cizens movement inthe United States to end hunger,determined the number of Blackhouseholds that would aected bycuts in food stamps with United StatesDepartment of Agriculture data.

In 2010, Congress voted to cut $11billion from Supplemental NutrionAssistance Programs or SNAP, and therst of three scal years of cuts beginthis week.

During the rst scal year of the cut,which ends Sept. 30, 2014, $5 billionwill be sliced from the program. It isnot known how much money will becut in each of the following two years.

Overall 47.6 million families will beaected by the cuts to food stamps,

reports Washington, D.C.-based Breadfor the World.

A family of four would lose $36 permonth in food stamps, reports Breadfor the World.This means families will have lessmoney to spend to buy food, EricMitchell, Bread for the Worldsdirector of Government Relaons, tellsThe NorthStar News & Analysis.

Bread for the World is now urgingAmericans to call their congressmanand their senators to vote againstaddional deep cuts to SNAP via theFarm Bill.

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The senate bill would cut SNAP another$4 billion. The two bills are now in aHouse-Senate Conference Commiee.

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By Delani Weaver

According to results of a surveyconducted by the U.S. Department ofEducaon, an average school day is 6.7hours. Syracuse City School District isone of 11 school districts in the countrythat have begun implemenng theextended school day program as partof the Time for Innovaon Maers inEducaon or the TIME Collaborave.

There are currently six schools inthe Syracuse City School Districtparcipang in the extended schoolday including Bellevue ElementarySchool, Danforth Middle School, PorterElementary School, Frazer K-9 Schools,Seymour Dual Language Academy andWestside Academy at Blodge. All of

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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Every

parent wantstheir child toachieve, thriveand succeed.Too oenthough, negavepercepons ofchildren of colorand their parentscan inuence theability of parentsand children to

get the supports they need. - ChanelleP. Hardy, Execuve Director, NaonalUrban League Washington Bureau

In recent years, the debate aboutways to close the achievement gap

and adequately prepare primary andsecondary African American studentsfor success has focused on suchremedies as ensuring resource equity,expanding pre-school opportunies,and raising teacher quality. While allof these are necessary, one area that isoen overlooked is the importance ofparental involvement. No one disputesthe fact that children are more likelyto perform beer, graduate from highschool and be beer prepared forcollege and the world of work whentheir parents are acvely involved,

both at home and at school, in theireducaon.

But for many low-income AfricanAmerican parents who may besingle and struggling to make endsmeet, nding the me and energyto help with homework, volunteer atschool and communicate regularlywith teachers, can be especiallychallenging. They need help. Andschools and districts that serve low-income students and students ofcolor must do more to overcomegreater barriers to eecvely engagingparents. These and other ndingsare revealed in a new Naonal UrbanLeague survey, Engaged to Achieve:A Community Perspecve on HowParents are Engaged in Their Childrens

Educaon.The survey solicited the views andopinions of K-12 teachers, schooladministrators and volunteers incommunies across the country abouttheir perceived dierences in parentalawareness, parental involvementand opportunies for studentachievement and success based onrace and economic background. Ajoint eort of the Naonal UrbanLeague Washington Bureau and theNaonal Voices Project with support

from the W.K. Kellogg Foundaon,the study shows that when there

was a dierence in how parents wereperceived, African-American parentswere more commonly perceived asbeing less aware and less involved intheir childrens educaon than whiteparents. Report authors suggest thatwhen these perceived disparies arenot addressed construcvely, theymay aect the type and depth ofparent engagement eorts directedto low-income parents and parents ofcolor. Other key ndings include:

African American parents engagementin their childrens educaon was felt tobe more reacve than proacve, i.e.confronng perceived racial bias oraddressing discipline issues.

Parents who resided in communieswhere eorts were made to addressracial disparies were nearly twice aslikely (45 percent vs. 82 percent) toreport they felt more aware of theirchilds academic progress than parentsin communies where no such eortswere made.

Though most respondents feltthat students and parents typicallyunderstand the connecon betweeneducaon and economic opportunity,they felt that race and income played

a signicant role in students access tothe experiences that help to promote

success. The survey suggests waysto bridge some of the gaps in parentengagement, including:

Educaonal requirements should beclear and easy to understand for allparents, regardless of their educaonalbackground.

Parents must be regularly updatedabout their childrens academicperformance in a manner thatprovides clarity about how studentsare meeng, or not meeng, specicrequirements.

Eorts to engage parents must takeinto account praccal barriers to entry

that parents may face and tailor sucheorts accordingly.

In communies where racial andethnic disparies are pervasive, theremust be targeted investments andcustomized approaches to improvingparent engagement.

------------------------------Marc Morial is President/CEO of theNaonal Urban League.

Race and Income Affect Parent Engagement and Student Achievement

MARC MORIAL

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - TheNAACP needs awoman Leader.Im not theOne. I love theNAACP. Ive beena member sinceI was ten yearsold. I sizzle at thehistory and at thehistoric leaders

(WEB DuBois,Walter White,

James Weldon Johnson, Medgar Evers,Ida B. Wells, and so many others). Withits 30 year campaign to stop lynchingto its more contemporary work invong registraon, the NAACP hasalways been involved in the strugglefor jusce and equality. Once upon ame the NAACP was considered sosubversive that southern teacherswho belonged to the organizaonwere red. Today, many consider theNAACP is considered respectable,forgeng that dierent mes call fordierent taccs..

Thus, when I rst heard that thePresidency of the NAACP was availableI was excited. Aer all, which civilrights leader, policy acvist, speakerand writer would not want to lead ournaons oldest and premier civil rightsorganizaon. As if I was playing with aRubiks cube, I was twisng the squares

to make them t. They dont. TheNAACP leadership would have beena perfect job for me ten years ago, oreven ve. Right now, I am playing tomy sweet spot, lecturing, wringand empowering young people.

People I dont even know have askedme if Ill be the next President ofthe NAACP. They dont understandprocess. Theres a search rm,hundreds of applicaons on le,criteria that have not been shared.Could I compete? Absolutely. Do Iwant to compete? No. Why wouldI not consider taking the helm of abeloved and historic organizaon? Inaddion to talking and wring, NAACPleadership includes fundraising. BenJealous set a high bar by raising tensof millions of dollars to move theorganizaon forward. Thats a recordit will be dicult to top. The personto improve on the Jealous recordwill be a sister with indefagableenergy, fundraising acumen, boardmanagement skills and more.

Daily, I ask my higher power that mysteps are ordered in ways that servethe least and the le out and thatnourish me. I will write unl I cannothold a pen, talk unl I cannot embracea microphone. And, as I have beengiven the gi of mentorship, I willalways do whatever I can do to helpyoung people, and especially young

women reach and exceed their goals. Ifit is meant for me to nd other ways toserve, I will embrace that opportunity.

My wish for the NAACP is that theywill nd a mature, well-prepared andsolidly grounded woman who is a greatfundraiser, an eloquent speaker, andan ecient manager. She should bewilling and able to commit at least 10years to the organizaon. She shouldbe a sister with a steep learning curve.And she must love people and abhorinjusce with a passion.

Economic jusce is sll a subversiveconcept. While the economy isthe doldrums and unemploymentrates stuck above seven percent,our Congress prefers to subsidizeagriculture and cut food stamps,not examing the injusce that willaect between three and four millionpeople. While banks are bailed outthose they cheated with subprimelending have lost their homes with nobailout. While the blue-chip status ofUS bonds faced a downgrade thanks tothe government shutdown, those withlow credit scores face employmentdiscriminaon because of those lowscores. There are administraveassistants who pay a higher rate oftaxes than their bosses because oftax loopholes. Economic jusce? Notwith these rules.

Poverty ses economic growth.Forty-ve years aer Dr. MarnLuther Kings Poor Peoples Campaign,some of the same challenges facethe contemporary poor. One in eightAmericans, and more than one in fourAfrican Americans and Lanos livein poverty. Lyndon Johnsons Waron Poverty of the sixes has becomea war on poor people in the 21stcentury. Elected ocials regularlyexcoriate poor people as being lazy,and eorts to raise the minimumwage are oen dismissed. From myperspecve, however, the poor aresome of the hardest working people Iknow.

Most inequity issues, ranging frominequality in educaon, to inequalityin incarceraon, are economic issues.These are the issues the contemporarycivil rights movement must tackle.One of those leaders will be thewoman who will lead the NAACP. Shedeserves our enthusiasc support!

_____________

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a DC basedeconomist and writer, and PresidentEmerita of Benne College for Women.

JULIANNE MALVEAUX

The NAACP Needs a Woman Leader


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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - JohnLegend is nostranger topolics oracvism. He wasan unabashedsupporter ofBarack Obamaduring his 2008c a m p a i g n ,c o n t r i b u t i n g

to will.i.amscampaign video

Yes We Can, performing at benetconcerts and appearing front andcenter at the Democrac NaonalConvenon, where he performedhis song If Youre Out There, acall for voter parcipaon and civicengagement.

Now, the Grammy Award-winningarst is turning his eye toward vongrights, which has been bombardedfrom many sides in the past few years.

This month, Legend formed a

partnership with the NAACP to launcha naonwide campaign to promotevong rights and register eligibleAmericans to vote. The campaignwas launched at his recent concertin Durham, N.C., where he asked hisfans to join him in taking a stand forvong rights by texng LEGEND to62227 and helped eligible concert-goers register to vote. North Carolinais infamous for having one of the mostrestricve voter ID laws in the country.

Launching in North Carolina, a statefeeling the brunt of new restricve anddiscriminatory elecon laws, will setthe tone for concert goers across thecountry in states where some of themost egregious law changes have beenintroduced or implemented, said theRev. William Barber, president, NAACPNorth Carolina State Conference. Asin the past once again we need themelodies of freedom and jusce toinspire movement.

Legend said he will connue thisadvocacy throughout his Made to

Love tour.

It is maddening to know that there aresome who would enact legislaon thatlimits the ability of some Americansto exercise their right to vote, saidLegend in a statement. Generaonshave fought hard and even died for thisright, and now is not the me for ourcountry to move backwards. All of ourleaders should seek to have inclusiveelecons that reect the true will of

the people, no maer who they intendto vote for. The polics of exclusionare unacceptable. Its me for all of uswho believe in democracy and equalrights to take a stand.

Since President Obama waselected the rst African-Americancommander-in-chief in 2008, GOP-led state legislatures have unleasheda wave of laws with the sum impactof suppressing minority votes. Thosechanges included fewer early vongdays, restricve voter ID laws, purgingof voter rolls and more.

And, a July 2013 Supreme Court rulingthat invalidated Secon 4 of the VongRights Actessenally cripplingSecon 5 of the same statute, whichhas long served to protect minorityvoters against discriminaonhasfurther emboldened those an-vongrights eorts.

NAACP interim President LorraineC. Miller said Legends involvementwill boost their eorts to combat

such measures. In 2012, the NAACPmobilized 1.2 million people to thepolls on or before Elecon Day andworked with other civil rights groupsto legally challengeand defeatsome of the proposed laws.

We are excited that John Legend hasjoined with the NAACP in the ght todefend the right to vote, Miller said ina statement. His inuence as a world-renowned arst and acvist will be acatalyst to spread the word that it isnot enough just to exercise your rightto vote. We must also protect our rightto vote for future generaons.

John Legend Partners with NAACP to Promote Voting Rights

ZENITHA PRINCE

I have beenvery excitedand extremelyo v e r w h e l m e d

this week by themany peopleIve met whiledealing withthe death of a16-year-old inour community.

S y r a c u s ehas many

community members who areserious about outreach to our youth.Everyone seems to genuinely be redof senseless deaths.

We watched family members receivehearelt wishes from the youngpeople who showed up to support the

family, and remember their friend andclassmate. Teachers, clergy members,Syracuse City Chief of Police FrankFowler, parents and neighbors alsoshowed up to mourn, and remembera slain youths life.

Through grief, pain and confusion,the adults who were there showedremarkable strength in their eortto reach out to the remainder of theyouth who were present. We consoledeach of them, and we cried togetherwith the young ladies and men whowere torn and red, but sll there tocomfort the vicms mother.

Many young folks made it their duty

to let the mother and siblings of thevicm know they were going to bethere for them. They were determinedto get into a very crowded church and

make sure the mother and family leknowing they loved them, as well asher son who was no longer with them.

Some of the children were angryand sad, but sll determined to bantogether in solidarity like many youngpeople do at funerals. The teenagerscomforted each other and toldstories about their friendthe friendwhose life had been taken away fromeveryone.

They spoke well of him, but their griefwas beyond their ability to manage.For many of us who tried desperatelyto console them, we had no clue whatto do.

So, we winged it. We winged it byhugging, and handing out ssues andleng them vent and think. We didntspeak much, because we knew we hadnothing to say that would make anysense.

The murder made no sense to any ofus, how would we begin to tell themwhy this happened?The night prior, we sat with one ofthe vicms aunts who was grieving,our long-me friend and sister. Wecried and sat in silence, wonderingwhat would happen tomorrow at thefuneral service for this child. We also

discussed all the other children whosefunerals wed aended.

We were angry and hurng, and we

were worried about the grandmothersand the mother, with the same degreeof fear for all of them. We are talented,educated Chrisans, as well as lovingmothers; but we had nothing tosoothe anyones pain for what was tocome the next day.

So, we decided we were not going letour anger show, and that we wouldshow strength instead of fear. Insome way, we hoped this would helpproduce a more posive fate for therest of the vulnerable children whowere there.

In the end, we planned to beginreaching out like the old days and help

other mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles,and grandparents because we knowthat this senseless violence happensall the me.

The aunt had been grieving, but wassll worried about the aect of theyoung man who killed her nephew,and all the other children who havemurdered other children.

We know the mother, to date, haspoured her heart out in the media,while sll connuing to showphenomenal strength. She has askedthe youth in our community not toretaliate, as her heart has alreadybeen broken by the loss of her son.

We are amazed and proud of her forhaving such an amazing amount ofstrength in spite of her unbearable

pain.

She made sure to send an immediateand caring message out to thesechildren; comforng her sons friendsin order to preserve their well-being.

We, too, have been in need of advice,because we have been trying to keepour emoons in check. I guess wedont know at the moment, what wewant for the children killing children.

We know they are children, and weknow we want consequences to beimposed immediately. But we wantthe families of the oenders to becomforted if they do not support the

killing and violence.

The one thing we dont want is morebloodshed. We want the siblings andcousins of this vicm to be safe.

We want this for this mother, andevery mother and family, who havelost their child to senseless violence inthis community.

----------------------Daphne Ramsey has been a Syracuseresident for 42 years. She has worked withunderserved communies championinghuman and civil rights issues. She is agraduate of Syracuse University and themother of two children.

The Senseless Murders are Taking a Toll on Community Members

DAPHNE RAMSEY


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