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WEDNESDAYoctober 9, 2013
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All dolled up“Hello, Dolly!” comes to Syracuse’s Mulroy Civic Center Theaters for three nights only. Page 11
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Buccle upBaldwinsville, N.Y., native Jason Grilli has the Pittsburgh Pirates on the verge of the NLCS. Page 16
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More than rivalsStudents are entitled to more details on the Big East exit fee. Page 5
I N S I D E N E W S
Honest AbeThe screenwriter for “Lincoln” discusses the complexity of writing about Abraham Lincoln for the silver screen. Page 3
A ‘REASONABLE’COMPROMISE
Lit cigarette causes fire in HBC ventilatorBy Annie Palmer
ASST. NEWS EDITOR
A brush fire broke out on Tuesday after-noon in a vent outside of Huntington Beard Crouse Hall, forcing students in the building to leave their classes.
The fire started when someone flicked a lit cigarette butt into one of the air ventilators on the ground between HBC and the Hall of Languages, said John Stubbs, Syracuse Fire Depart-ment district chief. The lit cigarette fell into a pile of mulch and leaves, spark-ing a small brush fire, he said.
The fire department received a call about the fire at about 3 p.m., Stubbs said, at which point two fire trucks and one mini-engine arrived at the
scene. All fire department personnel left the scene at 3:30 p.m.
Earlier that day, a fire alarm went off in HBC at 2 p.m., said Ryan Hackett, a sophomore political science and inter-national relations major. When the fire alarm went off again at about 3 p.m. for the actual fire, Hackett said he and other students in HBC left the building slowly, believing it wasn’t serious.
“We turn around and we see a white smoke coming below HBC, and the fire truck shows up, and they started charging the hoses trying to extinguish it,” Hackett said.
He described there being a light amount of smoke, but still noticeable.
Though classes located in the base-
ment floor were told to evacuate, no one was injured and no classes were canceled, Stubbs said. The amount of smoke emitted by the fire was most likely compounded by wind, making the fire appear much worse than it was, Stubbs said.
He advised students to become more careful of where they deposit their cigarettes.
“The fire could have been prevent-ed if students were allowed to smoke in more areas on campus,” said Col-leen Kepler, building coordinator of HBC. “Smoking near the side of the building like that is a fire hazard.”
Kepler said the university used
sam maller | asst. photo editorA Syracuse Fire Department investigator responds to a call about a fire in an air ventilator outside of HBC on Tuesday afternoon. People in the building were evacuated. There were no injuries.
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SU Athletics pays $1.875 million (25 percent) at the very least. The rest of the responsibility centers pay $5.625 million (75 percent) at the most dur-ing a 10-year period.
University senators, administration develop Big East exit fee agreementBy Dylan Segelbaum
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S yracuse University Athletics could pay at least 25 percent of the Big East conference exit
fee: the $7.5 million cost for switching con-ferences that sparked debate in the spring.
“I’m willing to say, given the assump-tion of what the university’s priorities and desires are, this is about as good a deal as we could get,” said Craig Dudczak, chair of the University Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs, which reached
a compromise with the administration about the exit fee. This will be presented during the senate’s Wednesday meeting.
The Board of Trustees initially approved having non-athletic areas pay most of the exit fee, arguing that the move to the Atlantic Coast Conference would benefit the entire university. But in April, the senate passed a resolution calling for SU Athletics to absorb the cost. In May, the board put its plan on hold, and allowed representatives from the administration and senate budget committee to negotiate.
Part of the disagreement seemed to be
about principle: if athletics was to ben-efit from joining the ACC, why should SU’s schools and colleges be charged most of the cost for switching conferences?
After a series of seven meetings during the summer, the committee now accepts the switch to the ACC benefits the entire university financially. And though not everyone is in agreement, members of the administration and senate budget commit-tee who worked out the compromise say the proposal is reasonable.
Dudczak said committee members
SU Athletics pays $375,000 (5 per-cent). Responsibility centers, which are areas of the university that gener-ate revenue, pick up $7.125 million (95 percent) during a 10-year period.
SU Athletics anticipates it will receive $14 million in revenue this fiscal year (Fiscal Year 2014) from its ACC membership. This is about a $6-$7 million increase from the Big East anticipated distribution for the last fiscal year. (Fiscal Year 2013)
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emma fierberg | staff photographerDUANE FORD, current vice president of the Student Association, announces his candidacy for president in a speech in the Schine Atrium on Tuesday. Ford, a junior policy studies major, has served as an assembly representative and as vice chair of the Student Life Committee.
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By Brett SamuelsSTAFF WRITER
It wasn’t just the harmonies of Otto Tunes members that caused a roar of excitement in the Schine Student Center on Tuesday.
It was also the wording on the a capella singers’ shirts: “Vote for Duane. #SpeakUp.”
Duane Ford, a junior policy studies major, announced his candidacy for Student Association president during a speech at the Schine Atrium.
As a freshman, Ford served as an
assembly representative, then vice chair of the Student Life Committee during his sophomore year. For the past two semesters, he has been serv-ing as the vice president.
Now Ford said he’s ready to take the next step and run for SA presi-dent. He’ll be running with Nia Boles, who is the current chair of the student engagement committee. Ford said Boles is extremely pas-sionate and puts in the necessary time and effort. Ford is the third candidate to announce he’s run-
ning for SA president.He believes serving as vice presi-
dent has prepared him for the role of president.
“I know the organization inside and out,” Ford said. When the assembly voted to take away cur-rent president Allie Curtis’ power to preside during SA meetings, Ford stepped in and ran those meet-ings last semester.
The slogan of “Speak Up ” refers to the fact that many students see problems on campus, but say or do
nothing about it, he said.Ford’s campaign platform has
three parts: tuition, academic advising and diversity on campus. Ford said each part of his platform includes objectives he has already working on in SA.
Ford said that tuition has increased 11 percent in the last four years, burdening students finan-cially. He said he wants to work with the Office of Financial Aid on how to make college affordable to students.
By Zane WarmanCONTRIBUTING WRITER
For 60 days, five iSchool programs will be competing head-to-head for dona-tions from the Syracuse community.
The programs will be competing as part of the “iSchool Fuel Chal-lenge,” a crowdfunding initiative that the School of Information Stud-ies launched this month. Donors can contribute through the Fuel website, general gifts to the iSchool’s pro-grams or donations for a specific
program. The initiative has already brought in more than $10,000 in donations — including $5,000 in challenge grants — in the eight days since it began, said Scott Barrett, assistant dean for advancement at the iSchool.
Crowdfunding involves collecting many small donations from a large group of people, typically through the Internet.
The program with the highest number of donations will receive an
additional $3,000 challenge grant, he said, while those that come in second and third will receive a $1,500 and $500 bonus, respectively.
The five competitors, according to the Fuel website, are:
• IT Girls, an organization that brings young women to the iSchool for a weekend to engage with infor-mation technology
• New Librarianship, a program that educates graduate students in library science about the future of
their field• Student Immersion, an organiza-
tion that helps students find financial support for immersion experiences
• Syracuse Student Sandbox, an experiential entrepreneurial pro-gram that connects enterprising students with professional resources
• Students of Promise, an organization which assists students when financial obstacles or unanticipated personal and family
By Nina KapurCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Art, Tony Kushner said, can be quite powerful.
Kushner, the screenwriter of the 2012 film “Lincoln,” spoke on Tuesday night in Hendricks Chapel, kicking off this year’s University Lectures Series. Detailing the process behind developing a depiction of race in “Lin-coln,” he touched on the significance of art, as well as leaving small bits of himself in his work.
“Lincoln” is about the last four months of Abraham Lincoln’s presi-dency, but Kushner said he channeled much of his energy into incorporating race and slavery as major elements of the film’s storyline as well.
The question he struggled with, Kushner said, is whether such nar-ratives about slavery are a way of directly confronting questions, or more about art than reality.
He said he wanted to deal directly with slavery, but struggled with depicting it visually — which pre-sented many more challenges than simply talking about it.
Slavery means physical violence and brutality, as well as “absolutely
horrifying” advertisements of slaves on sale, he said.
These advertisements represented a “small insidious destruction” of a person’s status as a human being, Kushner said. The challenge was making these and other horrors of slavery apparent to modern audi-ences, he said.
Though Kushner discussed his film, he also described his own suc-cess and ability as an artist in under-stated terms.
“I’ve had some kind of success as an artist,” Kushner said, referring to his Academy Award nominations. He laughed when someone in the audi-ence brought up “Kushnerianism” — named after Kushner’s habit of
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“I was impressed that he spoke politically and shared his opinion. As an artist, he should have an opinion to show his side of things.”
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I applaud the president for stating that he’d “think about changing” the Redskins’ name, and only wish he would have been more critical of its existence in the 21st century. Holding on to the blatantly racist tradition of the Washington Redskins name not only tar-nishes Dan Snyder’s legacy, but also continues to paint American culture as being racist and igno-rant. It would be simple to change the Redskins name and mascot, and to hold onto them is stub-born and offensive. There is nothing respectful about the racial slur “redskin,” and there isn’t any justification for its continued usage.
I strongly disagree with Ethan Demers’ argu-ment that the Redskins’ name “was never meant to offend anyone.”
The nickname was coined by original Red-skins owner and known racist George Preston Marshall, who proudly refused to sign a black player to his team until 10 years after every other professional football team had already done so — and only after being forced by the federal government to do so. When he died, Mr. Marshall left $6 million to his charity, the George Preston Marshall foundation. Of this $6 million, Marshall demanded that none of it be used “for any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration.” To
assume that the racial slur that Marshall nick-named his football team was not meant to be offensive ignores everything about the history of the Redskins.
Demers argues in his article that only 19 percent of Native Americans who live outside of reservations, and 47 percent who live inside of them, find the images of the Redskins logo to be offensive. Are the 47 percent of Native Ameri-cans who live in reservations not worthy of even the most reasonable amount of empathy?
The truth is that Native American mascots are caricatures of a people who were brutally massacred and evicted from their homes by white, Christian foreigners. When we hide behind culture as a defense for blatant racism, we blindly give into pressure from the cultural right to ignore years of racism and abuse.
Our culture should not be held back by offensive traditions of the past. Changing the Redskins nickname isn’t just politically cor-rect, it is common human decency at its most basic form.
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Redskins’ name promotes racism, ignorance, should be changed
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O nce again, Congressional Repub-licans are demonstrating how out of touch with reality they really
are, and John Boehner continues to prove himself as one of the worst Speakers of the House in recent memory.
As the federal government shutdown continues into its second week, there has been a lot of mud slinging between both Democrats and Republicans assign-ing blame for the current situation on the opposition.
It’s time to clear things up.The shutdown isn’t a “Democratic
shutdown” or “Harry Reid’s shutdown,” as some Republicans in Congress have dubbed it.
No, this is all a piece of political theater carefully orchestrated by Republicans. They took a beating in the elections last November, and they wouldn’t miss the opportunity to cast President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats in the worst possible light.
What should have been a completely non-controversial affair became exactly that when House Republicans attached a provision that would defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as Obamacare — to the continuing resolution needed to keep the government funded.
We’ve all seen far-right Republicans’ pathological hatred of Obamacare — which is ironically similar to a Republi-can alternative offered in opposition to President Bill Clinton’s health reform plan in the 1990s — with the U.S. House of Representatives’ dozens of meaningless votes to repeal it.
But the law eventually passed in 2010 and was upheld by the Supreme Court this past summer.
In essence, the Tea Party ideologues that have come to control and speak for all House Republicans in the past few years have taken a non-issue and made it a big issue.
They want to repeal a law legitimately passed by both houses of Congress, legiti-mately signed into law by the President of the United States and legitimately deemed constitutional by the nation’s highest court.
Are Republicans in Congress this far disjointed from reality, or is their goal to
make themselves look like children? If the latter is true, they’ve been doing an excel-lent job of it lately.
It’s laughable to suggest that Democrats are being unreasonable by not “compro-mising,” as the radical right has com-plained this past week.
If I were to knock on a stranger’s door and say, “You have two choices: Either I burn your entire house down or I burn only the second floor down,” would I have the right to complain about a lack of compro-mise when the homeowner slams the door in my face?
Of course not. But in this case, the Republican Party is the would-be arsonist and the Democratic Party is the home-owner who laughs and slams the door.
Obamacare represents the biggest legislative victory for the Democrats since the Great Society programs of the Lyndon Johnson era. And Republicans can’t stand to see their opposition win big victories while they continue to have trouble appeal-ing to the majority of Americans and win-ning elections.
Perhaps the worst part of this whole ordeal is that Congress has until Oct. 17 to raise the debt ceiling — which, contrary to popular belief, allows us to spend money we already said we were going to spend. Failure to do so would result in a default that would have disastrous economic effects.
It’s time for Congressional Republi-cans to stop playing politics. The House must pass a clean, continuing resolution that preserves Obamacare and reopens the government.
Bigger issues lie ahead, and ending the distraction of a government shutdown is critical to focusing on the ensuing debt ceiling debate.
David Swenton is a senior political science and writing and rhetoric major.
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Syracuse University Athletics is not being charged its fair share of the exit fee needed to leave the Big East conference, nor is the breakdown of the $7.5 million fee well outlined by university officials.
Administration and mem-bers of the University Senate budget committee have reached a compromise on how much SU Athletics and SU will pay for the exit fee. SU was charged this fee when it left the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference on July 1. Athletics will be charged a minimum of 25 percent of the fee. Meanwhile, the university’s other revenue centers — includ-ing the schools and colleges — will be charged a maximum of 75 percent of the fee throughout a 10-year period.
Officials agree that the entire university will reap the financial benefits of ACC membership. Specifically, schools and colleges will see a benefit of $17 million
during 10 years.The Daily Orange Editorial
Board maintains its position from its April 23 editorial, which stated that SU Athletics should pay for the majority of the exit fee.
While covering 25 percent is an increase from the for-merly proposed 5 percent, it is not enough for the athletics depart-ment to pay a quarter of the fee when the transition is primarily in its benefit. Switching to the ACC advances the department’s recruiting abilities and potential for television contracts.
The ACC will benefit the university academically, but the details of these benefits are not as clear as they should be.
Students are not well informed on the fact that the transition to the ACC is more
than just a change in athletic pairings. It is also a change in academic exposure, as the ACC is a more highly regarded aca-demic conference than the Big East. Because of this, officials should make sure students are more aware of how the transition may affect them.
This can be accomplished by outlining information about what the conference change will mean for non-athletes. This includes how much of the fee each home college will be charged and the academic and research opportunities the uni-versity could foster with other colleges in the ACC.
Though providing students with a breakdown of the fee will be beneficial, providing tangible examples of how the change in conference will affect them directly will better capture their attention.
The switch to the ACC means more than just a new set of rivals.
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By Nicki GornySTAFF WRITER
P lans for the development of the for-merly industrial port area of Syracuse are about to take off with of a new
hotel slated for construction in the city’s Inner Harbor this spring.
Construction of the $18 million, 130-room Aloft Hotel will coincide with other commercial and residential development in the lakefront area along the former Barge Canal, said Ben Walsh, deputy commissioner of the division of business development in Syracuse. This marks a significant step in COR Development Co.’s $350 million plan to develop 28 acres of the Inner Harbor within five to seven years, he said.
Despite the relative lack of development in the area currently, Walsh said the Inner Harbor holds an attractive location within blocks of Destiny USA, the Central New York Regional Market and Franklin Square in downtown Syracuse.
“We really expect the development of the Inner Harbor to start connecting the dots,” he said. And a waterfront location makes the hotel especially attractive, he added. “We expect people are going to make use of it.”
Walsh said the development project stems from when the New York State Canal Corpora-tion transferred 34 acres along the Inner Harbor to the city in 2011. The intention was to develop the area, he said.
The city then selected COR to facilitate a mixed-use development project on 28 of the acres in the beginning of 2012, he said. The remaining six acres were earmarked for public access, he said, and host part of the Onondaga Creekwalk, the Inner Harbor Amphitheater and a parking lot.
Hotel construction is planned to take between 15-18 months, beginning in the spring, Walsh said.
While a representative from Starwood
Hotels and Resorts, the parent company of Aloft Hotels, declined to comment, Aloft’s website describes the chain as “modern, fresh, and fun.”
Though the hotel itself, which was selected by COR and Starwood, may be geared toward a young and trendy group of people, Walsh said, ultimately the development of the Inner Harbor will not be limited to attracting this group.
“When the Inner Harbor is done, it’s going to be attractive to all different demographics,” he said. “We’re going to have professionals, empty nesters and everyone in between interested in living there.”
In an Oct. 3 press release from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, COR Development President
Steven Aiello said, “As a Syracuse based com-pany with a statewide presence, we are proud to be a part of the historic rehabilitation of the Inner Harbor, and recognize that it will stand as a symbol of the success that happens when government and private industry partner for the good of all New Yorkers.”
Since late 2012, COR’s work has been limited to planning and cleaning up eight acres of soil on the west side of the harbor, he said. The hotel is set to be located on the harbor’s south side, Walsh added.
Specific sources of funding for the hotel have not yet been identified. The development project as a whole has benefited from two state grants that have helped to fund soil remediation and
site work, Walsh said. These come through New York’s Regional
Economic Development Council, which takes into account local recommendations when iden-tifying regional development opportunities, Walsh said.
Walsh said that through the funding, Cuomo acknowledged the importance of development for the harbor.
In an Oct. 3 press release, Cuomo said: “The Inner Harbor redevelopment project has the potential to transform Downtown Syracuse and make the City’s waterfront a world-class desti-nation for businesses, residents and visitors.”
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leaving small reflections of his personality in his works.
“There are some jokes in there that I recog-nize as the way I tell jokes,” Kushner said, add-ing he didn’t purposely leave pieces of himself in “Lincoln.”
Authors, he said, naturally leave a piece of themselves in all of their work.
As for his craft and art in general, Kushner said his work is a “direct engagement” as a citizen, wielding its own kind of power.
Kushner also said he believes Lincoln would be supportive of how President Barack Obama has run the country thus far and would say he’s a “superlative president working in unimagin-ably hard times.”
The events taking place today, he said, would never have been imagined in Lincoln’s time, so Kushner believes that Lincoln would have a great deal of respect for Obama.
Kushner himself has a great deal of respect for Obama, who he said “turned out to be a very great president.”
Despite his modesty, Julia Teti, a freshman English and textual studies major, said she was very impressed with both Kushner and “Lincoln.”
“The movie really made you feel like you were in that time period,” Teti said.
Like Teti, Stephen Connors, a sophomore newspaper and online journalism major, said he enjoyed the presentation.
He said he was impressed by how Kush-ner spoke politically and shared his opin-ion. Since Kushner is an artist, Connors said, he should have an opinion to “show his
side of things.”What he also liked, he said, was how
Kushner sought to connect his plays to young people.
Said Connors: “It’s important to shape the way we think.”
to have cigarette butt receptacles located near many building entrances on campus, but due to complaints by non-smoking students, the receptacles were removed.
The university’s Campus Sustainability Committee has created a task force to explore the possibility of making SU a smoke-free cam-pus after a survey showed that many students oppose smoking.
The task force is still determining the cur-rent number of tobacco users on campus.
—Asst. News Editor Alfred Ng con-tributed reporting to this article.
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KUSHNER’S WORKFilms written by Tony Kushner:“Munich” (2005)“Angels in America” (2003)“American Playhouse” (1993)
Plays written by Kushner:“Henry Box Brown” (1998)“Homebody/Kabul” (2001)“Caroline, or Change” (2002)
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Another area he hopes to improve, Ford said, is the academic advising process. One way he wants to do that is by creating a work-study position for juniors and seniors to be academic advisers, he said.
“It would take the burden off the administra-tion because you have professors that teach classes and have to oversee 50 students,” Ford said. “And it gives students a better academic adviser because it would be their job to keep up with students and actually have a relationship with them.”
Ford said he also wants to reformat the way freshmen forum courses work. If those classes were more experience-based instead of being
held in another classroom setting, it would help students bond with each other, he said.
“It’s easy to get into your comfort zone when you get here, and it makes it tougher to branch out later,” Ford said. “It’s important to build those relationships early on so you don’t get stuck in cliques.”
The third aspect of his platform focuses on diversity issues. Ford said he has already started one initiative to combat that problem — the reg-istered student organization leadership summit.
The summit brings leaders from different RSOs together so they connect with SA and each other, he said.
If elected, Ford said he would take the lead on those three issues, but spread out the work among his cabinet.
Ford said he would explicitly outline the
responsibilities of cabinet positions before fill-ing his cabinet, so that cabinet members know what’s expected of them.
Accountability, Ford said, would be impor-tant in SA if he were elected.
“If you’re not doing your job, I know a lot of people who are willing and able to do it,” Ford said. “Part of the role of president is keeping your cabinet accountable.”
He said he would also stress the separation of cabinet members and assembly members. If cabi-net members hold assembly seats, he said, they could affect the organization in different ways.
Ford said he wants cabinet members to focus on interacting with the administration.
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needs jeopardize their college careers, according to the website.
The challenge was strategically planned to run through Orange Central, Family Weekend in November and parts of the holiday season, Barrett said. The reason for this timing was to reach as many potential donors as possible.
“We think crowdfunding provides an opportunity to reach our alumni where they are (online) and tell compelling stories about our highly student-focused programs,” Barrett said. As it becomes increasingly challeng-ing to reach possible donors through direct mail and telefund, the campaign helps provide another way to encourage support, he said.
The project was imagined, developed and managed by iSchool students, Barrett said. This makes the challenge cost-effective for the school, a distinctive resume-builder for the students involved and attractive to donors — especially iSchool alumni, he added.
Elizabeth Liddy, dean of iSchool, said in an email she believes the Fuel initiative demonstrates a entrepreneurial, innovative approach for the iSchool in a “fast-moving” world.
Unlike other crowdfunding sites, all of Fuel’s competitors are nonprofits, he said, and all the donors are participating in Fuel out of philanthropy.
“We always intended to be very different,” Barrett said. “Unlike many of the traditional crowdfunding sites, we are not taking pledg-es that may never be realized if a particular goal is not reached. We wanted our site to cel-ebrate the number of gifts, number of donors as opposed to total dollars raised.”
originally thought the fee would be charged within one year. It was not conveyed to the com-mittee the fee would be charged during 10 years, he said.
He said they also didn’t know the full finan-cial benefits for other parts of the university from ACC membership. It’s estimated that non-athletic areas would benefit $20 million throughout 10 years. About $17 million would benefit the schools and colleges, according to the report.
“We knew there would be a benefit; we didn’t know what the benefit would be,” Dud-czak said. “That became clearer after we entered into this process.”
He and two members of the committee met with representatives from the administration during the summer.
They got additional information during these meetings, according to the report. This information and athletics’ five-year budget pro-jections showed it could not bear the full cost of the fee, according to the committee’s report. Without the move to the ACC, Dudczak said, athletics would’ve likely continued running a deficit for the foreseeable future.
“There’s no question that if the athletic department hadn’t moved to the ACC, they’d really be in bad shape,” he said. “If we would’ve shifted all the cost to them, then that would’ve probably compromised other things that were anticipated for their budget,” he added.
When the full committee voted, support for the compromise was strong, Dudczak said.
The university will pay the exit fee and will charge each “responsibility center” during a 10-year period to allocate the cost, said Lou Marcoccia, SU’s executive vice president and chief financial officer.
In the university’s budgeting model, a responsibility center is an area that generates revenue. That includes the schools and colleges, but also SU Food Services, SU Health Services and the SU Bookstore, to name some examples.
SU has made two exit fee payments so far: an initial $2.5 million and an additional $1 million, Marcoccia said. The university will pay $1 mil-lion in each of the next four years.
With the agreement, SU Athletics’ contribu-tion toward paying the exit fee will increase from $375,000 — or 5 percent — to a minimum of $1.875 million during 10 years.
That’s because the compromise includes an agreement about what to do if there’s “windfall unrestricted revenue” — new, additional money that isn’t predicted in athletics’ budget plan. An example would be a new TV contract.
If there’s a windfall, 15 percent will go toward reducing the remaining balance other centers will be charged for the fee, Marcoccia said.
After 10 years, the centers will not be charged the cost of the exit fee anymore, Marcoccia said. But, he said they will continue getting benefits from increased athletic revenue.
SU Athletics will get about $14 million from ACC membership this fiscal year. This is an increase of about $6-$7 million from the Big East’s estimated payout to SU during the last fiscal year, he said.
Athletics had anticipated that the Big East would get a new TV contract that had a higher distribution, and that the conference would
stay together, he said. This didn’t happen, but athletics had already put a budget into place that anticipated this revenue, he said.
Athletics, in effect, has no reserves, he said. “It wasn’t a budget picture that gave you con-
fidence that, ‘Boy, I could hit them really hard, and still have them have a manageable budget,’” Marcoccia said. “It doesn’t do any good to put (centers) into big negative budgets, because sooner or later you have to correct that.”
Joe Giansante, executive senior associate athletics director, didn’t respond to seven calls and two emails seeking an interview or state-ment from Athletic Director Daryl Gross or Terry Donovan, SU Athletics’ chief financial officer.
Joanne Alper, chair of the Board of Trust-ees Budget Committee, said the agreement is “a good accomplishment for the university going forward.”
“I think that’s really the key takeaway,” Alper said. “When each side — through any kind of an issue — disagrees with the other, if they have enough respect and patience to listen to the other side and to work together, you can reach a resolution.”
She said the Board of Trustees Budget Com-mittee approved the compromise on Sept. 17. Alper said the compromise will probably be presented to the full board. She said she’s not sure whether it will require a full vote.
Because the Board of Trustees Budget Com-mittee has already approved the compromise, there would unlikely “be any problems” as long as the senate approves it, she said.
Robert Van Gulick, the senator who intro-duced the resolution calling for SU Athletics to pay the full cost of the fee, said the compromise is the wrong decision.
Athletics is being given preferential treat-ment, he said.
The College of Arts and Sciences, he said, has increased enrollment during the past few years. This generates more revenue, but Arts and Sci-ences is expected to cover the costs that come with expansion, such as hiring more professors, Van Gulick said.
“In a university, if there’s going to be pref-erential treatment, it should be academics over other things,” Van Gulick said. “Are we an athletic institution that happens to have some schools and colleges on the side? Or are we an academic institution that happens to have some athletic teams?” he added.
While Van Gulick said he’s disappointed, he said he isn’t surprised. He acknowledged $7.5 million isn’t a lot of money — given the univer-sity’s budget is about $1.2 billion — and that the decision likely won’t change.
Van Gulick said it’s good the administration made some concessions and that the senate bud-get committee was able to talk to the trustees.
“Even though I don’t agree with the bottom line outcome,” he said, “I think the fact that those conversations took place is a good thing.”
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“There’s no question that if the athletic department hadn’t moved to the ACC, they’d really be in bad shape.”
Craig DudczakCHAIR OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE COMMITTEE
ON BUDGET AND FISCAL AFFAIRS
W E D N E S D AYoctober 9, 2013
PA G E 9the daily orange
the sweet stuff in the middle
By Cristina ReidCONTRIBUTING WRITER
I t’s the turn of the century in New York City. The economy is booming and scientific dis-
coveries are being made. But most importantly, Dolly Gallagher Levi is in town, doing what she does best: matchmaking for the city’s most notorious elite.
The role of Dolly is played by Sally Struthers, who audi-ences might recognize as Lorelai Gilmore’s neighbor in the TV show, “Gilmore Girls.” She is
sassy, witty and overwhelmingly convincing in the role of Dolly in Jeffrey B. Moss’ production of “Hello, Dolly!” which is playing at the Oncenter on Wednesday and Thursday night.
So what brings Dolly to the big city this time?
As a matchmaker, it is Dolly’s job to make relationships happen. Her skills are put to good use with her most recent client, as she sets off on a mission to find Horace Vandergelder a second wife. Hor-ace, a notoriously grumpy but wealthy businessman, is the owner of a well-known hay and feed store in Yonkers.
John O’Creagh plays the role of Vandergelder and he fits the persona well. The interactions between the bubbly widow and solitary businessman are engag-ing. Acting as an old married
couple from the start, their awk-ward work relationship foreshad-ows their predictable marriage in the end.
Dolly is hired to find Hor-ace two eligible women. She also takes on the responsibility of convincing Horace to let his whiny niece, Ermengarde, marry an artist, whose profession Horace deems “unsuitable” for his darling niece. Dolly quickly becomes involved in every character’s business in some way, leaving the audience trying to keep up with this complicated love triangle.
But it turns out that Dolly clear-ly wants Horace for herself. Wid-owed and struggling to make ends meet, Dolly deems Horace as the perfect second husband to fulfill her financial needs.
Though he may be well suited
Dolly deliversMusical entertains audience with jazzy show tunes, strong casting
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SALLY STRUTHERS stars in the traveling production of “Hello, Dolly!” which is at the Mulroy Civic Center Theaters for two more nights. The musical follows a matchmaker in a turn-of-the-century New York City who falls for the client for whom she is trying to find a match.
Film artist showcases best work
By Araceli GutierrezCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Anyone who is epileptic or suffers from seizures probably shouldn’t watch a Michael Robinson film. Strobe lights, mixed patterns and bright colors are all major parts in his work.
Robinson, a critically acclaimed film, video and collage artist, show-cased four of his works to a packed crowd in Shemin Auditorium in the Shaffer Art Building on Tuesday. He is known for his multimedia work that explores meditated experiences while employing humor and terror.
Susannah Sayler, an assistant professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ department of transmedia, arranged the event for transmedia colloquium, a class that studies the history of media arts. As a part of the course, Sayler brings in a number of visiting artists, includ-ing photographer Vincent Cianni and video artist Gary Kibbins.
“[Robinson] has been the best artist session so far,” said Yinglan Zhang, a freshman in VPA. “He’s really good at creating interesting visual effects and manipulating dif-ferent footage.”
Last year, Sayler saw Robinson’s work at the Everson Museum of Art and said she fell in love with it. She decided he would be a good example of the history of video art, something students in the class are currently working on.
“Michael’s work is really relevant because it draws on pop culture for its source material, and video art comes out of the tradition of television in contrast to cinema,” Sayler said.
In 1999, Robinson studied film at Ithaca College. He then pursued his master’s at the University of Illi-nois at Chicago. Those years in grad school, Robinson said, set him on his current filmography path.
The titles of Robinson’s works are lines from films or songs he features in his videos, or puns on the mes-sages he delivers.
“These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us,” made in 2010, is a 13-minute video inspired by Robinson’s obsession with pop star Michael Jackson, prior to his death. Robinson was influ-enced for this particular project by the close relationship between Jackson and actress Elizabeth Tay-lor, who was featured in Jackson’s 1992 Egyptian-themed music video “Remember the Time.”
The next project Robinson showed SEE FILMMAKER PAGE 10
“Hello, Dolly!”Where: Mulroy Civic Center TheatersWhen: Wednesday and Thurs-day at 7:30 p.m.How much: $30-$60
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WHO’S THAT LADY?In addition to acting onstage, Sally Struthers has appeared in several TV series, feature films and TV movies:
Babette Dell, “Gilmore Girls”
Jennifer Smith, “General Hos-pital”
Aunt Lorraine, “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch”
Penguin/iguanas, “The Wild Thornberys”
Mother Goose, “The New Adventures of Mother Goose”
Charlene Sinclair, “Dinosaurs”
Louise Miller, “Still Standing”
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for Dolly, Horace treats his two employees, Cornelius and Barnaby (played by Matt Wolfe and Garett Hawe, respectively) poorly. As a result, the two decide to close up shop when Horace goes away for the weekend, and enjoy a night out in the city in which they seek adventure, excitement and love.
Wolfe and Hawe did an exceptionally good job in the role of the dynamic duo Cor-nelius and Barnaby, adding humor to the show every time they were on stage. Corne-lius has never had a night out, and Barnaby, his 17-year-old sidekick, goes along with his every move to take on the big city. The two men end up with the two bachelorettes ini-tially selected for Horace, getting into more trouble with their boss. Wolfe and Hawe
are amusing in their relationship with the other characters and add a youthful energy to the story.
As a result of their night of debauchery, each character ends up in one of the city’s fin-est restaurants on the same evening, causing chaos. The pandemonium results in a per-fectly choreographed scene of waiters danc-ing, chefs performing impressive acrobatics and actors scurrying about the stage. The actors perfected this organized madness as the stage exploded with color and movement; the choreography was definitely a highlight of the performance.
Dolly is in the middle of it all this chaos. She is a professional at meddling in other people’s business and never fails to talk her way out of anything, which eventually leads to her winning Horace’s love and attention in the end. Struthers’ performance was spot on, having a love-hate relationship with the audi-ence, never failing to make everyone laugh
while also playing the role of an overbear-ing old lady with no filter.
The audience was transported back to the year 1898 with the elaborate costumes and vintage set design. The music was exactly what one would expect from a musical that takes place in early twentieth century NYC, certain numbers sounding more familiar than others, but all performed excellently by the orchestra.
The music added to the old-time feel of the show, highlighting jazzy big-band show tunes. However, the actors singing and dancing, although very entertaining, did not exem-plify their true talents, because it was often
intended to make the audience laugh, rather than showcase their vocal abilities.
The audience still seemed engaged and entertained throughout the show, keeping up with the clever one-liners and convoluted story line.
Between the vintage costumes, big-band music and clearly dated dialogue, it may seem as though this is exactly the kind of Broadway musical targeted toward a more elderly audience, but the themes and the story itself are timeless. This production of “Hello, Dolly!” can definitely keep an audi-ence entertained.
was “The General Returns From One Place to Another,” a work from 2006. It is an 11-minute video that teeters between romance and ter-ror, with a Frank O’Hara monologue appear-ing on the screen in subtitles. Next followed an eight-minute segment from Robinson’s first narrative film, “Circle In the Sand” (2012), about vagabonds living on a beach overseen by military soldiers.
Robinson’s latest work, “The Dark, Krystle,” was saved for last. This film explores the cli-chés of the protagonist and antagonist of 1980s American prime-time soap opera “Dynasty.” Unlike his other works, “The Dark, Krystle” has footage that wasn’t as manipulated.
Most of Robinson’s films utilize original pop culture material, usually sourced from DVDs, which were either altered or incorporated into his own footage. Another technique incorpo-
rated into all of Robinson’s films, aside from bright colors, is intense flickering.
“The narrative is supposed to feel over-whelmed…[serving as a] melodramatic push,” Robinson said.
Robinson traces his interests of experi-menting with film to cinema and how often he played video games as a kid. The logic he attaches to video games, and the sort of emotional relationship he built with them, is not that different from navigating an abstract work, he said.
His early teen years were when Robinson said he first gravitated toward playing with the abstract. At 11 years old, he watched the TV series “Twin Peaks,” and it stuck with him ever since. Robinson then entered a time period in which he wanted to see the scariest movies pos-sible, not so much for their stories but for their fear and terror based on abstract ideas.
Now, Robinson finds himself inspired by more contemporary cinema. His favorite recent movie, he said, is Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers,” which he refers to as the best movie of the year.
As an artist, abstract is Robinson’s favorite genre. Yet, Robinson’s main goal is to make his work as self-evident as possible and not confuse his audience.
Said Robinson: “I like the challenge as a maker and a viewer of achieving an emo-tional experience out of things that don’t necessarily declare themselves as emotional or sensible.”
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“Michael’s work is really relevant because it draws on pop culture for its source material.”
Susannah SaylerASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND
PERFORMING ARTS’ DEPARTMENT OF TRANSMEDIA
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By Brittany RussellSTAFF WRITER
A nyone from or familiar with the Syra-cuse area and the university will enjoy seeing local places and buildings on
the big screen in “Adult World.”The independent film, starring Emma
Roberts and John Cusack, had its Syracuse
premiere at the Landmark Theatre this week-end after its original premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. It was shot in Syracuse during the 2012 spring semester and was pro-duced by Syracuse native Justin Nappi under his company TreeHouse Pictures.
The film follows Amy (Roberts), a recent college graduate who is knee-deep in debt from student loans and, after being rejected by all the top-tier publishing companies, is struggling to make a name for herself as a poet. When financially cut off from her parents, she is forced to find a paying job. She reluctantly accepts work at an adult book-store, Adult World, owned by an enthusiastic older couple (John Cullum and Cloris Leach-man). This is something that Amy struggles with throughout the film because she thinks she is above the work. This causes her to lose her job at one point, although she is rehired shortly after.
Though she makes friends with the store manager, Alex (Evan Peters) and Rubia (Armando Riesco), a sassy transvestite, Amy spends most of her time trying to figure out how to get the attention of her “favorite living poet,” Rat Billings (Cusack). Rat is a middle-aged dark poet whose success has slowed down from what it once was, but Amy is still determined to become his protégé. Amy stalks Rat until she is able to convince him to let her clean his house during the week — and pos-sibly read her work — but he is not nearly the mentor she wishes him to be.
After Amy’s many failures to get pub-lished, her work gets exposed, thanks to Rat, in a book that ends up being called “Shit Poetry.” This leads to one of the most dramatic scenes in the movie where Amy is screaming and yelling at Rat while violently throwing books and crushing his guitar — just the climax the movie needed.
Amy then finds comfort in Alex, who is
also an aspiring artist. But unlike Amy, he does not rely on the opinions of others to feel confident in his work.
Cusack provides an excellent onscreen performance as Rat, and his character ties the entire film together. His monotonous, self-absorbed and serious personality is quite humorous next to the wide-eyed and enthusiastic Amy. And his subtle wit is what keeps the comedy rolling throughout the film.
Roberts, niece of the Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts, also gives a great performance. She is just quirky enough to pull off the role of Amy and is fun to watch as she can easily capti-vate the audience. She was the perfect counterpart to Cusack.
Since the film was shot in the middle of a Syracuse winter, the dark skies and gloomy weather add extra elements of sadness to Amy’s struggles. The film establishes its momentum early on and has no trouble transitioning from scene to scene.
Although the ending is predictable, writer Andy Cochran created a tremendously well-sculpted script full of wit and humor. With the many unpredictable plot twists, it is easy for the audience to stay engaged and entertained.
Anybody who has the opportunity should go see “Adult World.” It is a fun and charming film that has been well received by many audiences and is great for anyone looking for a good laugh.
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“ADULT WORLD”
Director: Scott Coffey
Cast: Emma Roberts, John Cusack, Armando Riesco, Shannon Woodward
Release date: April 18 at the Tribeca Film Festival
Rating: 4/5
Growing pains
Locally filmed indie movie balances quirky characters with dramatic story
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a spot on TopDrawerSoccer’s National Team of the Week. His effort on Tuesday was strong, but it wasn’t enough for the Orange.
Boston College scored two goals in the opening eight minutes, putting the visitors in an early hole.
“We started poorly, put ourselves in a very big hole,” McIntyre said. “But give credit to us we really worked hard, clawed ourselves back into the game.”
In the 15th minute, the red-hot Ekblom put the Orange on the board with assists credited to Oyvind Alseth and Chris Nanco.
In the 53rd minute, Ekblom sent a ball from Jordan Murrell into the top-right corner of the net to tie the game. McIntyre called the goal a “quality finish.”
“He was very good again tonight, had anoth-er strong performance,” McIntyre said. “He’s been scoring big goals in big games.”
Syracuse’s comeback attempt was quieted in the 58th minute when Boston College’s Nick Butler scored off a corner to put the Eagles back in the lead, 3-2.
SU maintained pressure and had several corner kick opportunities in the game’s lat-ter stages.
However, SU couldn’t find the back of the net. “This is a big week, three ACC games in
seven days,” McIntyre said. “Boston College have traditionally won a lot of these home games against ACC teams. It’s a tough place and they’ve got a strong home record. We’ve got to kind of lick our wounds and come back and build upon the good parts of this game.
“Maybe I’m biased, but baseball is very prominent in New York state.”
Born in Royal Oak, Mich., Grilli moved to Baldwinsville, N.Y. when his father Steve pitched for the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs, then affiliated with the Toronto Blue Jays. The younger Grilli enjoyed growing up in CNY and said baseball will always be popular in the area because of the close proximity of the New York Yankees.
The field at C.W. Baker is enormous — 480 feet down the lines and 600 feet to straight away center. It’s so big that the field hockey team plays its games in the outfield. Nowa-days, a temporary fence is used to shorten the distance to straight away center, but when Grilli pitched, those were the dimensions.
“This was the field,” Baker head coach David Penafeather says, adding that new brick dugouts and a new announcer’s press box have been added since Grilli graduated.
Grilli also played basketball for the Bees and was a model student, Penafeather said. After his senior season at C.W. Baker, Grilli was chosen in the 24th round of the 1994 MLB Draft by the Yankees, but instead he chose to attend Seton Hall. Three years later, he was taken No. 4 overall in the 1997 Draft by the San Francisco Giants.
“I probably would have gone to Syracuse had they had a baseball program,” Grilli said.
Almost 20 years after that now-infamous playoff game, Grilli was one of two CNY natives at the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field in New York. Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher and Cicero-North Syracuse High School alumnus Patrick Corbin finished 2013 with a 3.41 ERA and helped the Diamondbacks to a second-place finish in the NL West.
Like Grilli, Corbin was a high school bas-ketball player during baseball’s offseason.
Because the CNY high school baseball sea-son is reduced to a little more than two months, Penafeather said most of the athletes play other sports. But because players aren’t on the diamond year round, they are able to fine-tune their pitching repertoire, stay healthy and regain strength during the offseason.
“The only disadvantage was the weather,” Grilli said. “But it’s an advantage in a sense that it keeps guys from being overused.”
Now Penafeather is coaching another elite talent. Scott Blewett is the current ace at C.W. Baker and a potential first round pick in the 2014 MLB Draft.
There are nonstop comparisons between himself and Grilli, Blewett said.
“It’s a confidence booster,” Blewett said. “It’s good that they made it there [the All-Star game] because it carves a path for me to show that northern guys can really play baseball.”
Grilli’s father, Steve Grilli, is one of CNY’s other baseball professionals. He now owns Change of Pace sports bar in North Syracuse, where his Chiefs jerseys hang behind the bar.
Jeff Lozoponi, the bar’s weekend manager, speaks highly of the kid he remembers occa-sionally helping out in the kitchen, especially during Syracuse’s NCAA Tournament basket-ball games.
“Now he’s a big baseball star,” Lozoponi said. “It hasn’t gone to his head. He’s still a humble young man.”
CNY isn’t the powerhouse area that South Florida, California or Texas are, and because of the weather it probably never will be. But every once in a while, it produces a gem.
“I’ve given a lot of other kids hope that they can make it out of Baldwinsville, New York, or any other small town in Central New York,” Grilli said. “If you have a dream, you can obvi-ously attain it.
“You just have to be talented, good and work hard. But you’re not so far off the map living in Syracuse, New York.”
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By Eric RiterSTAFF WRITER
Syracuse’s locker room is no bigger than a bedroom, yet 12 girls are expected to share the space.
It looks like a high school locker room, not a locker room fit for Division I volleyball players.
Forty-seven years have passed and not a single change has been made to their locker room, head coach Leonid Yelin said. It looks exactly the same.
“When you’re recruiting a 17-year-old kid, do you think they are going to remember what the coaches said?” Yelin said. “Not usually.”
Yelin believes that to secure top recruits, he needs better facilities. When prospective play-ers come on official and unofficial visits, the one thing that they will take away is what the facilities look like, not what the coaches have to say, Yelin said.
“I think our school needs to give something to the program to attract recruits,” Yelin said.
For Syracuse to get to its locker room, the Orange must first pass through the away team’s. It is behind a small, worn-out door on the side of the away team’s locker room.
“It is kind of awkward because we have to walk through the other team to get to our locker room,” setter Erica Handley said. “It is a little small but everyone wants a nice locker room.”
Outside hitter Nicolette Serratore is less con-cerned about the facilities. She said she came to Syracuse because of the program, but she still feels the effects of SU’s unusual situation.
“It could be uncomfortable,” Serratore said. “But when we walk through we apologize and everyone’s very understanding.”
But there are plans in place to improve this situation, Yelin excitedly explained.
He has met with members of SU Athletics and has seen the plans to renovate the locker rooms and the offices. There is a plan in place to hopefully get about 3,500 seats into the Women’s Building and have central air.
Yelin is hopeful that these changes can cause a “wow factor” for visiting recruits.
“When you bringing them in, and they are not saying wow, basically you know what that means,” Yelin said.
At Louisville, Yelin built one of the most dominant programs in the Big East. Being used to a packed house game in and game out, he is becoming frustrated.
His solution for now is to bring in interna-tional players who don’t care as much about the facilities as Americans.
“They are going to come because of me,” Yelin said. “They aren’t going to look at name (of school).”
Playing in the Carrier Dome, Yelin said, can help, too.
Yelin hopes to see better facilities, attract recruits
joshua chang | contributing photographerThe Women’s Building, where Syracuse plays its home games, does not provide useful facilities for recruiting. Head coach Leonid Yelin is frustrated with them.
Fans are a big part of why kids come to a school, and Yelin believes that having nicer facilities, like the Dome, is a step in the right direction to draw more fans to the games.
“There is no such thing as a universal pill,” Yelin said. “There are a lot of factors. But (are facilities) a big factor? Yes, yes it is a big factor.”
After Sunday’s game, Yelin said that it is a vicious cycle. To win games, he must bring in
top-tier recruits. But to bring in top recruits, he has to win games and have nicer facilities.
Serratore understands that, too. To be afford-ed luxuries, such as a nice locker room, the Orange must prove its worth.
“We need to be winning,” she said. “I am not going to say we deserve what we have right now, but we need to show our school that we are worth the investment first.”
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the Wolfpack. Julian Whigham, who became the first player to intercept Tajh Boyd this season, becomes the third-stringer with Wayne Morgan sliding from safety to play corner full time in Lyn’s absence.
“I think it’ll be a good lesson for Wayne,” Shafer said.
The head coach said that aside from Reddish, there were no other injury updates as of Tuesday and that Kyle Knapp practiced all of last week. The offensive lineman has yet to play this season.
SU’s receivers continue to struggleSyracuse has yet to find a consistent top receiv-ing threat this season. On Saturday, that finally emerged as a horrifying issue.
The Orange’s wide receivers failed to catch a single pass against No. 3 Clemson. It led, in part, to a major regression from quarterback Terrel Hunt and an offense sputtering against the top team in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
“There weren’t a lot of guys getting open,” Shafer said during the teleconference, “and that’s tough for a quarterback.”
Hunt completed just eight passes for 52 yards on Saturday after averaging more than 15 for 223 yards against Wagner and Tulane. The quarterback also threw his first three intercep-tions of the year, including one to each of the Tigers’ starting cornerbacks.
“They did a good job, played a lot of man-free and did an excellent job with their press-cover-age technique,” Shafer said. “Big, strong kids. Some of the best corners I’ve seen in a long time at playing press coverage.”
The one exception among SU pass catchers was Ashton Broyld. Although he’s listed as an H-back on the depth chart and a running back
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ziniu chen | staff photographerJARROD WEST and the rest of the SU receiving corps have become a noticeable weak point for the Orange so far this year.
on the roster, his role is in the slot. His spot on the field made it harder for the Tigers’ corners to play press coverage on him, but so did his rare combination of speed and strength.
Through five games, he’s the closest thing that SU has to a true No. 1 pass-catching weap-
on. He has shifted to an almost exclusively wide receiver role and immediately became a top target for Drew Allen. It took Hunt a bit more time, but against Clemson, Broyld was far and away Syracuse’s most potent receiver.
“He gets better week to week,” Shafer said,
“and I really believe there will be a day where he just breaks out and then all of a sudden it can be one of those situations where we won’t have to talk about who he is.”
By Josh HyberSTAFF WRITER
T he 1994 sectional playoff game between C.W. Baker High School and Liverpool High School is talked about
in Central New York as the greatest high school baseball game in the area’s history.
Not only did the game end in a walk-off suicide squeeze and an ensuing bench-clearing brawl, but it also featured a future Major League Baseball All-Star throwing a complete-game shutout.
Led by senior right-hander Jason Grilli, C.W. Baker defeated Liverpool 1-0 that day at
the now-demolished MacArthur Stadium. Now the closer for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Grilli has proven that Central New York is an underrated area for baseball talent.
While Grilli is near the pinnacle of
the baseball world — the Pirates are cur-rently tied 2-2 with the Reds in the National League Division Series and play Game 5 on Wednesday night in St. Louis — the local product has stayed close to his hometown roots and given hope to the next generation of CNY ballplayers.
“I think Central New York is a great area. A hidden area, so to speak,” Grilli said. “It’s not your powerhouse of course, like Florida and California are, but the Northeast in general, I think is more of a traditionally baseball area.
BY THE NUMBERSWide receiver Julio Jones has been targeted on 29.2 percent of the Atlanta Falcons’ passes this season. Roddy White has been targeted on just 14.5.
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AT A GLANCEMackenzie Moranz is preparing to be SU women’s soccer’s next goalie.See dailyorange.com
THEY SAID IT“Is anybody an absolute must to sign? No. And that’s nothing against Robby (Cano).”
Hal Steinbrenner
NEW YORK YANKEES OWNER
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PA G E 16the daily orange
courtesy of chaz palla | tribune-reviewJASON GRILLI (RIGHT) has been a key component of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ current playoff run. A Baldwinsville, N.Y., native who attended C.W. Baker High School, Grilli was a relief pitcher for the National Leauge All-Star team in July.
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By David Wilson and Stephen Bailey
THE DAILY ORANGE
Syracuse lost cornerback Keon Lyn for the season on Monday. On Tues-day, the Orange got a cornerback back.
Brandon Reddish is healthy and expected to play against North Caro-lina State on Saturday, SU head coach Scott Shafer said during his weekly teleconference on Tuesday. Red-dish missed the second half against Tulane on Sept. 21, and all of the Clemson game this past Saturday with a lower-body injury.
“Brandon Reddish is healthy and ready to go,” Shafer said.
With his return, Reddish will join Ri’Shard Anderson as the Orange’s second starting cornerback against
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SU’s Reddish to play in NC State game
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By Josh HyberSTAFF WRITER
On Tuesday night at Newton Campus Lacrosse and Soccer Field in New-ton, Mass., Boston College (5-3-2, 3-2-1 Atlantic Coast) ended Syracuse’s (8-4-0, 2-4-0) two-game winning streak.
SU freshman for-ward Emil Ekb-lom continued his
midseason dominance with his team-leading seventh and eighth goals, but the Eagles edged the Orange 3-2.
“We were second best to start off with,” head coach Ian McIntyre said. “Boston is a tough place to play. It was a very combative game and I give credit to Boston.
“They came out fast and were imposing themselves, but slowly but surely we got ourselves back in the game and I felt, going into the half, we could win the game. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be tonight.”
Ekblom collected three goals and an assist against North Carolina State on Friday, and on Tuesday was named the Disney Soccer/NSCAA Division I Men’s Player of the Week and earned
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SU falls to Eagles in road tilt
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Baldwinsville native Grilli helps guide Pirates to playoffs, paves way for future Central New York baseball success
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