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H e was just one face in the panicked crowd. One
among swarms of people piling out of the second-
floor Colorado theater’s exit, frantically making their
way toward the stairs that would carry them through
the main lobby and out its freeing doors.
OUT OF THE DA R K NESSAfter surviving the Aurora shootings, Stephen Barton refocuses on future
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By Casey FabrisASST. NEWS EDITOR
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner walked a one-mile trail through downtown Syracuse starting at City Hall as part of her proclamation that Monday, Sept. 10, be named “Move It Monday.”
The announcement coincides with the opening of a series of mile-long walking loops located around the city of Syracuse, local parks and the State University of New York Upstate Medi-cal University, according to a Sept. 10 press release.
Miner presented the proclama-tion on Monday afternoon in front of a trail beginning at City Hall, and walked the mile-long loop alongside city and county officials, according to the release.
Each loop is marked with a sign reading “The Monday Mile.” The goal of the mile-long trails is to get people in the community active, and the trails are part of the Healthy Monday campaign.
Healthy Monday is a national cam-paign that encourages people to be more active, eat healthier and quit habits that endanger their health, such as smoking. Syracuse Univer-sity alumnus Sid Lerner founded the campaign, according to the Healthy Monday Syracuse website.
SU participates in Healthy Monday through programs such as Meatless Monday and the campus’ version of Move It Monday, which offers free exercise classes to students.
The Lerner Center for Public Health, named for the SU alum-nus that started Healthy Monday, worked with the mayor and county executive’s offices, city and county parks, SUNY Upstate and SU to “sign” 10 1-mile loops, Thomas Den-nison, director of the Lerner Center, said in an email.
“By creating literal stakes in the ground, we are creating an environ-ment that supports movement and being active,” he said.
Bob Dougherty, Syracuse common councilor, said he felt the mile-long loops were a great idea and are impor-tant to the community due to the value of exercise.
“Anything that gets people out doing stuff is a good idea, that’s what I would say,” Dougherty said. “I’m a pretty active person, I ride my bike all over the place.”
Dougherty bikes regularly for
Monday Mile walking trail series opens
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allen chiu | design editorConstruction at Dineen Hall is ongoing and can be tracked live, 24 hours a day on the building’s devel-opment website. Ground was broken on the $90 million College of Law Building on May 10. The build-ing is being constructed atop what was formerly Raynor parking lot behind the Carrier Dome.
By Anna GilesSTAFF WRITER
Members of Syracuse University’s Student Association pushed for strong campus representation at Mon-day night’s meeting, causing a heated discussion regarding competition for positions in the general assembly.
A total of 10 SU students applied to represent their individual colleges as members of the general assembly, but only seven were approved. The new members came from various colleges, as well as the State University of New
York College of Environmental Sci-ence and Forestry.
Candidates were uncontested in all seats except for those in L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. John Huang, a freshman mechanical engineering major, ran against Stephen Thomas, a sophomore aerospace engineering major, for the last representative position in L.C. Smith. Thomas won the election after several SA mem-bers questioned Huang’s qualifica-tions for the position.
Jennifer Bacolores, chair of the Board of Elections and Membership, said she has been able to make the election process more concise and efficient this year by interviewing candidates beforehand to determine if they would be strong assets to SA.
“The important things I took away from their interview was if I thought they were feasible, if I thought they had a lot of success, if they had potential and were very enthusiastic and wanted to channel over their leadership
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Website tracks progress of Dineen HallBy Jen Bundy
STAFF WRITER
Construction at Dineen Hall — Syra-cuse University’s new law building — can be monitored via live video feeds on the Dineen Hall Develop-ment website.
The new facility is expected to open in fall 2014. The website is newly redesigned and features two video feeds operating 24 hours a day, according to the Dineen Hall Devel-opment website.
The SU law school broke ground on a state-of-the-art facility funded by alumni and friend donations, along with a $15-million gift from the Dineen family. The hall will be located on a site behind the Carrier Dome, previously a parking lot.
Dineen Hall will be in the middle
of a new neighborhood of the SU campus, which includes the recently opened Campus West complex.
The new 200,000-square-foot Dineen Hall was designed to include more communal spaces to foster a community environment within the school, according to the website.
A main focal point of the new building will be a grand auditorium
that will also serve as a ceremonial courtroom. Technology will also be a major factor in developing the atmosphere, with videotaping and broadcasting capabilities in every classroom, according to the website.
“I’m hoping it will develop a much stronger sense of the col-laborative and connected nature of legal education,” said Dean of the SU College of Law Hannah Arte-rian in the fall 2011 Syracuse Law magazine. “Dineen Hall will facili-tate more interaction and commu-nity at every level.”
Several new spaces will be avail-able for faculty, alumni and students to meet each other, said Nina Kohn, a professor of law, on the website.
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chase gaewski | asst. photo editorAs part of an election protocol, candidates leave Maxwell Auditorium while their qualifications are discussed.
Artist for One World Concert beaten, robbed
By Jessica IannettaASST. NEWS EDITOR
One World Concert artist Emmanuel Jal was beaten and robbed Saturday in Juba, South Sudan, in an incident of unpro-voked police brutality.
One World Concert produc-ers are aware of the situation but said Jal is planning to perform as scheduled in the Oct. 9 show in the Carrier Dome, Erin Kane, associate vice chancellor of public relations, said in an email.
The South Sudanese rapper and peace activist was promoting International Peace Day in Juba and was scheduled to perform at the “We Want Peace” Business Gala and concert on Sept. 20 and 21, according to a Rolling Stone article published on Monday.
Jal was stopped by police around 9:30 p.m. The five officers took his cellphone and beat him until he lost consciousness, while 15 police and national security offi-cers watched without intervening, according to the article.
Despite the incident, Jal is still promoting peace.
“This is an ironic and sad situa-tion that will not deter my path for freedom, equality and justice,” Jal said in a statement. “I would like to express that abuse of power should not be tolerated on any level. South Sudan must move forward with positivity and equality.”
Jal said he chose to address the incident publicly because speak-ing out against injustice is a route to peace.
Said Jal: “Let us continue to put a spotlight on such dark issues, for it is the best solution in paving a way for our bright future.”
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A male not affiliated with Syracuse University was held at knifepoint at 3:30 p.m. Sunday on Comstock Ave-nue, just north of Manley Field House.
Three males approached the vic-tim, and one of the suspects asked to use his cellphone. The victim refused, prompting one of the suspects to pro-duce his knife. The victim then gave up his cellphone and fled on foot into Oakwood Cemetery.
The SU Department of Public Safety issued a public safety notice on Sunday at 8 p.m. DPS is asking for help in identifying the three suspects, who are described as black, male teenagers with thin builds, according to a police report.
• A 19-year-old male was arrested on charges of harassment, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest on Sun-day. The incident occurred on the 300 block of Waverly Avenue at 11:54 p.m., according to a police report.
• A 20-year-old male SU student was issued an appearance ticket for pos-session of an open container on the 700 block of Lancaster Avenue. The student is set to appear in the Syracuse Com-munity Court on Oct. 11 at 9:30 a.m., according to a police report.
• A MacBook Pro laptop was stolen from a student’s 2006 gray Pontiac G6 on the 900 block of Ack-erman Avenue sometime after 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. The victim had lent the laptop to his room-mate in order to listen to music on their front porch. When finished, the roommate put the laptop in the car and covered it with a book bag so it wasn’t visible. Approximately 11 hours after the incident, the room-mates realized the MacBook had been stolen and reported the bur-glary, according to a police report.
• A 19-year-old male SU student was issued an appearance ticket for underage drinking on the 700 block of Euclid Avenue on Sunday at 12:49 a.m. He is set to appear in the Syracuse Community Court on Oct. 11 at 9:30 a.m., according to a police report.
— Compiled by Alex Ptachick, staff writer, [email protected]
“Dineen Hall will facilitate more interaction and community at every level.”
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Stephen Barton’s face was a jarring one. A torn face, bleeding from the shotgun pellets that, minutes ago, had pierced his neck and face. A face that frightened the people ahead of him who caught sight of it as they looked back, scan-ning the room for the gunman.
Barton didn’t look back once.Moments later, he sat in the back of a police
car on his way to the hospital with another wounded stranger.
“Are you religious?” the man asked Barton.“No, not really,” Barton told him.“I’ll pray for you anyways,” the man said.Barton, a 2012 graduate of Syracuse Univer-
sity, found himself caught in a freak occurrence — the July 20 shooting in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater that resulted in 12 people dead and more than 50 injured.
He traveled to SU this weekend to announce that University Union’s Juice Jam concert this year would benefit the victims of the shooting.
———S T EPH E N BA RTON IS A PL A N N ER .
One of those students who, this time last year, started plotting out each step of his post-gradu-ation life. He was a senior at SU, enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences, with a passion for the Russian language and a flair for success.
Like every other senior, Barton would get excit-ed about Juice Jam, basketball games and May-Fest — and that one, suddenly warm day in spring that broke the laws of frigid Syracuse weather, in which everyone on campus hit the Quad.
Unlike every other senior, Barton was a Cor-onat Scholar, meaning his full tuition was paid for all four years. He was a University Scholar, one of eight to 12 academically outstanding seniors. He was a Remembrance Scholar and the 2012 class marshal, who gave the student commencement speech last May.
Take pictures, he told his classmates, accord-ing to the transcript. Document everything. Cap-ture the most meaningful moments of your life.
Barton was a Fulbright Scholar, too, and one year ago, he applied for the prestigious pro-gram, which accepted him in April and awarded him grant money to spend a year abroad in Rus-sia teaching English.
His plan was grand, exciting and meticu-lously sculpted. He would’ve arrived in Russia next week, on Sept. 21, and then flown from Mos-cow to the town he’d be teaching in, Kazan. He admits he was nervous about flying between the two cities, since Russia holds the world’s worst air safety record. Seven Russian plane crashes killed 121 people this year, according to a Sept. 12, 2011 Voice of America article.
But that’s only 7.5 crashes per 1 million flights.The odds of being the victim of a mass shoot-
ing are just as obscure, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The probability is less than .01 percent.
———S T EPH E N BA RTON IS A N A M ER IC A N.
As an American, he needed to be able to answer questions about America — about the West Coast, the Midwest and the South, and every-thing outside of his home state of Connecticut. While studying abroad in Spain, Barton remem-bers being asked questions about America he couldn’t answer himself, and so he and his best friend since childhood, Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent, set out to discover their country.
By bike.His mother didn’t want him to. Christine
Barton said she would’ve liked Stephen to stay home for the summer, since he was going to Russia for a year.
Barton said they’d estimated the trip would take about 75 days — 1,450 miles. It’d be a
winding road that kicked off in Virginia Beach and branched over to Kentucky, south to Mis-sissippi, west to Louisiana, over to Texas, up to Oklahoma, east into Colorado and, eventually, to their end point: San Francisco.
“We had to see everything,” he said. “Experi-ence everything.”
They started as amateurs at first, not travel-ling anywhere nearly as quickly as they had hoped, and on their first night set up a tent at about 3 a.m. and were stopped by police, who thought they were criminals on the run.
It was rough. Dangerous, even. They lugged
their clothes and supplies on their bikes. Some nights in the tent were humid and sticky, marred by huge mosquitoes. They once spent five hours in a gas station during a storm.
They enjoyed the towns they didn’t plan to stop at the most. Barton kept up with his com-mencement speech’s motto, posting photo after photo on his Instagram account. The memories captured weren’t all majestic photos of Texas prairies and Oklahoma grasslands, though.
They included the graciousness of the Ameri-can people. A man in Virginia offered them warm showers, and a Texas rancher gave Bar-ton and Rodriquez-Torrent $20 each.
The final Instagram of the bike trip would be of his biking glove-clad hand holding a ticket to a 12:05 a.m. showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Christine Barton gradually warmed up to the trip as it went on. She checked Barton’s Twitter for the pictures each morning, and talked to her son each night.
“I was worried about him being hit by a truck on the side of the road or getting mugged,” she said. “But then I realized there
wasn’t anything to worry about.”———
S T EPH E N BA RTON IS A GE N T L E M A N.So when he and Rodriguez –Torrent arrived in Aurora, Colo., for a quick pit-stop before seeing the Rockies, they decided to treat their hostess, Petra Anderson, to a movie.
They arrived in Aurora a few hours earlier than planned. Barton said when he asked her if she wanted to see the movie, she was “all for it.”
Anderson would get three pellets in her arm, one that travelled near her nose, right before the skull channel traveling to her brain.
Barton and Rodriquez-Torrent had talked about the movies they wanted to see during the bike trip for recreation. They talked about “The Dark Knight Rises” the most, though they didn’t necessarily plan for the midnight showing.
They were sort of just presented with the opportunity as it came, Barton said.
“It couldn’t have been more normal,” Barton said. Another movie. Another theater.
At 10 p.m. they left for the theater. They were in their seats by 10:30 p.m. They chatted for a while, as did everyone in the theater who eagerly anticipated the movie’s start.
Previews came around and Barton said people were clapping and yelling, growing more and more excited for the movie.
It happened during the scene just after Bruce Wayne’s mother’s pearl necklace is stolen by Catwoman. The canister flew across the screen. It hissed, leaving a trail of smoke. Barton remained in his seat, thinking it was a firework.
Then the shooting began. He still thought the flashes across the dark theater were fireworks.
Barton was shot right in his seat. He realized a split second beforehand what was happening, lifting his arm to shield himself.
“For all I know, it saved my life,” he said.“I fell to the ground in front of my seat and
watched my arm just hanging there; I was glad it was there, because I couldn’t feel it,” he added.
He remembers lying on the ground of the aisle, watching the thick blood stream heavily from his neck to his chest. He didn’t know what to do, he said. The little he did know was what he had learned from war movies: Put pressure on the wound.
His strongest memory is hoping it was a nightmare. But he also remembers Anderson’s screams and Rodriguez-Torrent calling 911, and everyone rushing toward the exit.
Christine Barton was home alone when she got the 3 a.m. call. It was Rodriguez-Torrent, but he couldn’t talk for long. He had been separated from Barton after Barton was shot too, and couldn’t tell Christine what her son’s condition was. She flew out to Colorado immediately.
“I just wanted to see him,” she said. “To touch him.”
———S T EPH E N BA RTON IS A WA R R IOR .
One month later, he’s recovering. He still has a partly numb hand and a weak shoulder, but physical therapy helps. He’ll forever have some pellets left in his body.
But he’s deferred his trip to Russia and plans to continue on in a year when he’s healthy, and even perhaps more proficient in the language. He’s working on a gun control campaign with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
He announced Sunday that $1 from every ticket sold at this year’s Juice Jam concert will be donated to an organization aiding victims of the shooting, the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance.
Barton still plans. He’ll go to Russia soon. It’s a gradual return to the future. A gradual return to normal.
Said Barton: “I’m doing pretty well.” [email protected]
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“I fell to the ground in front of my seat and watched my arm just hanging there.”
Stephen BartonSHOOTING SURV I VOR
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In response to Wednesday’s column written by Michael Stikkel, women and women’s health are actually not a part of the Republican platform. The truth in this could not be any more obvious.
You don’t have to be a political analyst to realize that just because women spoke at the Republican National Convention doesn’t mean their voices were worth listening to. Just listing off names of women who spoke doesn’t really give merit. Not to mention, the women who spoke at the RNC failed to mention the fact that their party wants to revoke basic women’s health care.
Now, I’m not here to badger the RNC or attack the Republican Party as a whole, because from my experience working in women’s health care, I have had the pleasure of working with some Republicans
who do support women’s rights and access to affordable health care.
Regardless of partisanship, we should not tokenize women as entities of a platform, nor should we spread rumors about women’s health care (birth control isn’t mandated or free). Women’s health care doesn’t mean just birth control or abortions, and it certainly doesn’t give political parties the right to speak on behalf of women.
However, the women’s vote and their access to health care is simple in this election season. Women’s health care equals the opportunity to life, liberty and happiness. Just like their counterparts, women should have equal access to health care, and there should be no ques-
tion when it comes to government programs assisting this, because should gender really be a determin-ing factor in your health care costs? Does that make it fair that women pay more for health care? What the Democratic Party is trying to do is ensure women have these rights and opportunities, not throw them a bone.
Remember that women are watching during this election season, regardless of political affili-ation, and they will vote. So before you go around labeling our health care rights and using us a ploy to get your representative in office, get to know us first and let us speak! That’s what President Barack Obama did anyway.
Erin CarhartCLASS OF 2014
POLICY STUDIES AND WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES DUAL MAJOR
Conservative columnist gets relationship all wrongLET TER TO THE EDITOR
In eight weeks, the country takes to the voting booths and will decide its fate for the next four years. Students must take the time to educate them-selves and to prepare to vote.
Because of age restrictions, this election marks the first time the vast majority of students on campus can vote. Students cannot let this opportunity slip through their fingers; they must take it upon themselves to register to vote and get their absentee ballots set. Take five minutes to call home and get set up.
Both the Democratic and Republi-can national conventions wrapped up last week. The candidates are official, although it’s been known for months the matchup would be between Presi-dent Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
The issues the candidates are spar-ring over — foreign policy, the economy, student loans — all relate to college stu-dents as citizens of the United States. As voters, students must make their voice heard; they cannot expect any change if they do not step up and vote.
As the election gets closer, the debates will begin, the first being held on Oct. 3. This is when the presiden-tial and vice-presidential candidates will clarify their positions on issues and lay out their plans for the future. Students must tune into these debates and become informed voters.
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Students must take 2012 elections seriously
I took interest in the Sept. 4 protest that occurred in the newly opened ROTC student lounges on the Syra-cuse University campus. Students opposed to dedicating space to ROTC cadets occupied the lounges in a form of nonviolent protest.
In my days as an undergraduate stu-dent in the late 1980s, I too participated in protests on campus against question-able wars in Central America, and the military presence on our campus that trained my peers to prosecute them.
Many years have passed, and today I write this letter as an Army combat veteran with 18 years of service and counting. My apprecia-tion of military service has evolved to differentiate between the selfless service of our volunteer force and the blunders of policy makers who pros-ecute unwise and unjust wars.
So when this recent protest occurred in the ROTC lounges, I found myself proud of both the cadets and protesters. I feel strongly that we are all better served when different cultures have an opportunity to be in direct contact. The Sept. 4 protest is a testament to this fact. I would suggest the powers that be at SU consider opening up the ROTC lounge to all students to help build new bridges between the military and civilian cultures that exist on our campus. In the meantime, kudos to those who feel dis-sent is patriotic and those who put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms.
Ben TupperCLASS OF 2014
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Recent ROTC protest brings opportunity for public discourse
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hall, described on the website as “a building of the 21st century,” include spacious open-ings, bright lighting and several new amenities. Dineen Hall will feature a 300-seat auditorium, a 36,000-square-foot library, eight seminar
rooms and two smaller lecture halls, according to the SU Office of Campus Planning, Design, and Construction website.
SU will also be able to add another LEED-certified building to its campus with the comple-tion of Dineen Hall, which features a rooftop garden and a focus on green technology.
The building has deeper ties to SU through the architecture firm working on the project: Gluck-
man Mayner Architects. The lead architect on the project is Richard Gluckman, an SU alumnus.
The traditional brick-and-mortar stereotype of a law building is not to be expected with this hall, said Marc Malfitano, an adjunct professor at the law school, on the website.
Said Malfitano: “What we’ve created in Dineen Hall is so much more than that.”
exercise and is part of Bicycles and Ideas for Kids Empowerment, a cycling program that works with inner-city kids. He said he worked with the Lerner Center for B.I.K.E. Syracuse and spoke with Dennison regard-ing the Move It Monday campaign.
“They explained to me the idea of Move It Monday is if you do something on a Monday, you kind of keep doing it,” he said.
With obesity being such a problem in the United States, Dougherty said he feels campaigns like Move It Monday are valuable to the city.
“I would like to continue us having part-nerships with people who want to help the city and help our population get more fit.”
This portion of the project is just the beginning, said Rebecca Bostwick, program director for the Lerner Center. In spring 2013, the Lerner Center and its partners will sign additional routes.
“This project was a major initiative of ours under the Healthy Monday Syracuse cam-paign. We started brainstorming and work-ing on this back in April,” Bostwick said.
The university’s Healthy Monday website has a new section providing maps and direc-tions for the various Monday Mile routes in addition to other walking trails, including one on South Campus, Bostwick said.
Residents can participate in the Monday Mile at several locations including Thornden Park, Burnet Park, Upper Onondaga, Onon-daga Lake Park, Beaver Lake Nature Center, Highland Forest, Jamesville Beach, SUNY Upstate, SU and Syracuse City Hall, accord-ing to the release.
7HEROSchool of ArchitectureThe School of Architecture has achieved full representation in the general assembly.
ZEROCollege of Visual and Performing ArtsVPA currently has the least representation in the Student Association general assembly with only one of seven available seats filled.
BIG NUMBERThe number of people voted into the general assembly.
HE SAID IT“My goal here is that after (SA members) receive this training (they) will be a little bit better able to assist those come into the SA office.”
Stephen DeSalvoSA COMPTROLLER
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attributes,” Bacolores said. Those denied positions in the general assem-
bly included students from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences.
Later in the meeting, Student Life Committee chair PJ Alampi brought up the possibility of mak-ing campus bus services more useful to students.
“We are dealing with all types of busing issues, and safety is also going to come into play,” Alampi said. “We are looking at combining East and West Campus buses and providing more buses for students as they go further off campus.”
Alampi also said free buses to Wegmans and Target will return this semester, but the com-mittee is still working on the details.
Student transportation remained a key topic at the meeting after President Dylan Lustig discussed plans for a website that would allow students to post travel plans and “hitch” rides from people. Lustig has begun negotiations with a service called Zimride.
“You go online, you find someone who is traveling to a destination that is close to you or along the way to your location. Maybe for Thanksgiving or Christmas break,” Lustig said.
Comptroller Stephen DeSalvo sought to make the process of requesting funding easier for student organizations. He proposed offering the half-hour training session given to SA mem-
bers to student organizations as well.“My goal here is that after [SA members]
receive this training, [they] will be a little bit better able to assist those coming into the SA office,” DeSalvo said.
Student organizations are required to par-ticipate in a budget training session held by SA in order to apply for funding. Many applications from student organizations are denied because of simple errors. Organizations are not allowed to submit a budget that includes student travel and food, among other things, DeSalvo said.
DeSalvo said he hopes to make the budget pro-cess run more smoothly and plans to continue the Tier System, which determines how much fund-ing certain student organizations can apply for.
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By Andrew FeldmanSTAFF WRITER
Tech lovers who eagerly await the newest products on the market may be prepar-ing to line up at the Apple store, as the
company is rumored to announce the release of its next generation iPhone on Wednesday.
Apple sent out invitations for a product-release event that will be held Wednesday and, due to the number five in the background, it is widely assumed that Apple will announce the release of the next generation iPhone.
This release could not have come at a better time for Apple, due to the success of its competi-tion, said David Molta, director of the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.
“For techies who really want high-speed data, Android has been just a much more power-ful platform and Apple hasn’t had a great story to tell,” Molta said.
He said these possible changes will help Apple stand up better against its competition. Two of the most anticipated changes in the iPhone 5, Molta said, are the larger 4-inch screen and a longer-lasting battery.
“By making the iPhone bigger, I think what they are also trying to do is provide more space for the battery, and you add more powerful bat-teries so that they can add reasonable battery life,” Molta said.
Other new functions of the iPhone 5, he said, may include a thinner display, a new charger — similar to that of a MacBook — and a headphone port on the bottom of the phone. One of the changes that Molta said interests him the most is the phone’s wireless aspect.
“I’m anticipating that they will have a 4G radio that supports a standard called LTE. It’s like the latest, greatest cellular data standard,” said Molta.
Molta said he also anticipates changes in the Wi-Fi adapter, bringing the iPhone up to speed with other smartphones on the market.
He said a limitation with the current iPhone is that it operates on the same 2.4-gigahertz frequency band. Newer products, like the iPad and the most recent Android phones, also have the option of utilizing the much more spacious 5-gigahertz frequency band. Overcrowding on a frequency band causes the Wi-Fi to work slower, which Molta said is a problem, especially at SU.
On campus, the current generations of iPhone are very popular, but reactions are mixed on the need for an improved product.
Shamini Rajendran, a freshman aerospace engineering major who has an iPhone 4S, said she is very pleased with the product, but would prefer the newest model. But Rajendran said she will not buy it because her cellphone plan won’t cover the expense.
“I wanted to get the new iPhone just because it’s newer and better,” she said.
Other students on campus, like Fatin Mar-zooq, a junior chemical engineering major, are not as eager for the release of the iPhone 5 because they don’t anticipate any significant changes.
“I feel like it’s just going to be another iPhone,” she said. “They’re all pretty much the same except they’re faster and they look slightly different. They just change minor things.”
But until Apple actually releases the prod-uct, it’s tough to tell whether consumers will upgrade their phones.
The Apple Store in Syracuse, in accor-dance with company policy, declined to com-ment on the release of any products not currently in the store.
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T U E S D AYseptember 11, 2012
Dream weaving Volunteer organization creates idyllic opportunities for children with chronic illnesses
By Madina ToureCONTRIBUTING WRITER
W hen 7-year-old Emma Louise got into her parents’ car Saturday afternoon, she
was expecting to go apple picking with her family.
But when her family pulled up to San-tangelo’s Restaurant in Liverpool, N.Y., at about 2:45 p.m., she became confused. Emma was worried that her father, who works at Santangelo’s, was going to be asked to work a shift yet again.
Little did she know, her family and friends — around 20 in total — were wait-ing to surprise her with the ultimate gift from The Dream Factory of Syracuse, a wish-granting organization for children with terminal and chronic illnesses and disorders: an all-expenses-paid trip to the Walt Disney World Resort.
“I’m going to have dinner with the princesses,” Emma said as she walked into the room, slowly processing the facts.
Her family, which includes her brother Andrew, 4, and her parents,
Kelly Badgley and Allan Louise, will go to Disney World from Sept. 21-28. They will receive $1,400 in spending money for the trip. Emma is the chap-ter’s first Dream Child.
Emma appeared to be shocked, say-ing very little and showing a small smile as Dream Factory board members, her parents, relatives and family friends congratulated her.
Tracy Pierce, area coordinator, picked up on it fairly quickly, asking:
By Jarrad SaffrenSTAFF WRITER
When it comes to public dissent over an American war effort, only the Vietnam War matches the 9/11 era. The multi-trillion-dollar combined cost of the efforts in Iraq and Afghan-istan has thrown a haymaker punch at the economy.
But in focusing on costs alone, it is possible to forget about the impor-tant attempt to bury terrorism and build more constructive societies.
Internal issues may blind citizens at home, but the efforts of U.S. soldiers haven’t gone unappreciated.
Sgt. Steve Holmberg of Syracuse University’s ROTC got firsthand confirmation when he brought in an Afghan professor who works at SU to speak in his culture class last fall. A student asked if the Afghan people appreciated the U.S. military being in their country.
“He said, ‘hands down yes,’ the average person loves that we are
there creating jobs for them, jump-starting their economy and empow-ering the local nationals to take con-trol of their country,” Holmberg said.
Holmberg has been deployed three separate times, once to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan, between 2003 and 2010. After 35 months between the three tours of working upwards of 20 hours a day for seven days a week, the moment provided an intrinsic vindication for Holm-berg because it came from a first-
hand account.“It felt great because I actually got
confirmation from an average per-son. It was from the horse’s mouth himself,” Holmberg said.
The wars in Iraq and Afghani-stan were spurred largely by anti-American motivations of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The first objective in both campaigns was to topple the ideologies of Hus-sein’s dictatorship in Iraq and bin
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kirsten celo | staff photographer(FROM LEFT) KELLY BADGLEY AND EMMA LOUISE cut a cake for a surprise put together by The Dream Factory of Syracuse. Emma asks for a slice from the cen-ter, marked with an E for Emma. Emma and her family were given $1,400 in spending money to go to Walt Disney World, so Minnie Mouse helped deliver the news.
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WHAT IS THE DREAM FACTORY?The Dream Factory started in 1980 in Hopkinsville, Ky. It has become the second-largest wish-granting organization in the United States and has granted more than 25,000 dreams since it started. The organi-zation has 38 local chapters, which raise funds in their own communi-ties to grant wishes.
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“Emma, I’m afraid we put you into shock. You need some insulin? You’re so quiet.”
Emma was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in March 2011 and hypoglycemic unawareness this past February.
“Our life since being diagnosed has been very different, challenging,” Badgley said. “It’s a roller coaster every day. Just, we have roller coasters of blood sugar, countless, sleepless nights, injections.”
Emma cannot tell when her blood sugar level is low or high, so she has to be monitored regularly. Her activities are limited as a result. If her blood sugar level is too low, she may have a seizure, go into a coma or die.
“She was diagnosed a month shy of her sixth birthday,” Badgley said. “To see kids eat, play, whatever they want, is hard for her.”
The Dream Factory of Syracuse — a volun-teer organization — opened about six months ago and serves the Onondaga, Oswego, Madi-son and Cayuga counties. Children must be between the ages of 3 and 18 and meet the medi-cal requirements.
Two board members speak with the child and the parents in person, respectively, to ensure the dream is the child’s request. The child cannot have received a grant from another wish-granting organization.
“We just want to give them a break from the day-to-day struggle they have dealing with their illness,” Erin Wisneski, public relations chair for The Dream Factory of Syracuse, said. “We want to help brighten their lives with something they enjoy.”
Badgley found out about the trip a couple of months ago and told her husband, as well as their family and friends. Emma knew that the trip was going to happen, but she was unaware of the timing.
Emma’s father was at work when his wife called him with the news. He was hesitant to celebrate.
“I said, ‘Let’s just see until it happens,’ because I don’t trust anything until it hap-pens,” he said. “I’m not going to work myself up ahead of time.”
When Pierce asked Emma if she was shy, she nodded her head.
Allan Louise said that Emma had clammed up a little when they initiated the surprise.
“I was surprised,” Louise said. “I thought we were going to get more of a reaction out of her.”
Wisneski also noticed that Emma seemed shocked, although she noted that Minnie Mouse was a hit with the young girl.
Emma was staring at Minnie Mouse while one of the board members was alerting her that the picture was about to be taken. She hugged Minnie Mouse several times when she had to leave the celebration.
But her silence may have been the product of being in the spotlight — her relatives described an entirely different person.
“She’s shy when she meets you,” Sara Yoder, Emma’s aunt, said. “That doesn’t last long.”
Karen Wright, Emma’s grandmother, agreed. “She’s a little girl who loves to talk,” Wright
said. “She’s very personable and friendly. She loves her dolls.”
Her original wish — a diabetic alert dog
— could not be granted because it was beyond the means of The Dream Factory of Syracuse. Emma’s parents currently have $9,000 left to raise for the dog.
The dog, which Emma named Angel — all of her fundraisers were called “A Guardian Angel for Emma” — would alert them 20-40 minutes before she were to crash or have a high-blood-sugar attack.
“I have to raise money for this dog,” Badgley said. She explained that the dog was already in five weeks of obedience and sense training in order to alert people properly of Emma’s blood sugar conditions.
Though she was excited about the trip to Disney World, it was the dog that sparked the real emotion.
“She cried when she heard about the dog,” Allan Louise said. “When she heard about Disney, she was like, ‘OK,’ but when she heard about the dog, she cried.”
Emma was taken aback by the surprise, and stayed closed to her parents throughout the duration of the event.
But John Breene, a commercial producer and family friend, said that it’s only the beginning.
Said Breene: “I think Emma was taken quite aback. I think it’ll all sink in later on. She’ll probably have a lot of trouble going to sleep tonight.”
Laden’s Taliban in Afghanistan. The military succeeded in both cases upon
initial invasion. American forces pushed the Taliban out of the Afghan capital of Kabul in October 2001 and overthrew Hussein in April 2003. Then, the real objective began: repairing these broken, leaderless societies in the democratic image practiced by the world’s leading nations.
Michael Kubala, SU professor of military science and lieutenant colonel, compared the lengthy process of fixing the countries to Russia’s transformation into a capitalist state in the early 1990s. It was a process he saw firsthand while stationed in Moscow, Russia, in the fall of 1992.
“They weren’t really sure how this whole capitalism thing was going to work,” Kubala said. “The stores were still working under some of the old Soviet pricing. I bought a couple books one time and I was equating the dollar with the super devalued Russian ruble, and I realized, ‘these books only cost 4 cents.’ It was before the economics had caught up with the political action.”
Terry Finley, Syracuse ROTC instructor and career Special Forces commander, was one of the tactical leaders in the early stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom back in 2004. Much of his written paperwork even passed through the hands of then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for approval.
Finley said processes like Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
in Afghanistan take years when they begin under such dire straits.
“After Saddam died, their army, air force, security, police and all other systems of order just disbanded,” Finley said. “Just think of New York if there was no police, the firemen took off their uniforms, there was no National Guard and no Army. It would be chaotic. Anyone with a gun could do anything they want. That’s what hap-pened in Iraq.”
Kubala relates the situation to another one of his early military experiences: the Gulf War in the early 1990s as part of Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield. It was when the U.S. evacuated the Persian Gulf immediately after its victory, instead of over-throwing Hussein and starting the rebuilding process a decade earlier.
Holmberg said these discussions are fun-damentally American in the first place and it’s the reason we strive to create similar freedoms in less-fortunate societies.
“Iraq was much more primitive and rudi-mentary back then,” Kubala said. “They hadn’t worked a lot of resourcing in terms of improving the quality of life. Once we pushed them back, we got out and it was over really quickly.”
He explained how most people blame the first Bush administration for not squashing Hussein when they had the opportunity.
Said Kubala: “They have the right to demonstrate. They have the right to pro-test. They have the right to not like the military. But I fight for their right to have all those perspectives.”
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By Ibet InyangSTAFF WRITER
H ipster college kids and indie music lovers alike are notorious for filling the underground music
scene with extremely lackluster garage bands. However, everyone’s perfect fresh-man-year soundtrack and late-night cram mix is now coming from the New York-based band, Dumb Talk.
In its debut self-titled album, the band shows off its offbeat interpretation of pop music while offering plenty of tunes suited for a teenage wasteland.
The band formed in late 2011, with sim-ple intentions of recording quality music in its basement. However, the group caught the eye of Miscreant Records Founder Jeanette Wall, a senior in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries. Months later, the band’s once-failed EP turned into a record deal and full-length vinyl album. Now, with Will Smith and Liam Walsh on guitar, Harry Manning on bass and Ian Dwy on drums, the group is producing what is commonly called “dreamy garage pop”: a distinct genre that the band believes is the only way to describe its sound.
“It basically means (crappy) pop music,” Smith said. “We’re not punk enough to say we’re a punk band, and we’re not cool enough to say we’re a pop band. Garage pop is a pretty broad definition, so I think that’s why [we] like and use it.”
This sound gets properly introduced through many of the band’s compositions. On “Princess,” the track begins with an upbeat riff, soon followed by gritty vocals. The result is fun, courtesy of its catchy beat and signature pop trademark of get-ting listeners to bob their heads, while still mixing in the reckless attitude of punk.
The song talks about young love, and its pop factor is heightened by plenty of back-ground “oohs” with an effect on the vocals that makes them sound like they’re com-ing from a bullhorn. Lyrics claiming that the group doesn’t care about the flower that the song’s girl wears on her head give off “Bad to the Bone” vibes.
Casual lyrics about flowers aren’t the only trick Dumb Talk has up its sleeve. Many of the band’s lyrics are a picturesque approach to describing the thoughts of an aimless teen. The group’s youth appeal is no surprise, considering the fact that its lyrics were based on true events.
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Dumbed down New York-based band incorporates teen attitude in garage-pop music
I’M TOO LAZY TO
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LAZY TO JUST STAY
HOME.—“Nineteen” by Dumb Talk
“Everyday things that inspired the lyr-ics: being a teenager, not having a good time at college, being lazy, having crushes on girls, and (stuff) like that,” Smith said. “We all go to the same school and lead pretty boring lives. Making music and playing shows on the weekend is like, the highlight of my week. It’s a cool thing to get you through the week.”
Nothing’s better to get listeners through the week than relatable songs about people’s humdrum lives. In “Nine-teen,” Dumb Talk paints listeners a pic-ture of days when teens have nothing better to do than waste time. The lazily delivered lyrics, “too lazy to just stay home,” will undoubtedly get stuck in fans’ heads. It’s a beachy, up-tempo track with a summertime vibe.
With Dumb Talk’s fresh sound and youth appeal, the band may just have a col-lege anthem in its future. And possibly in anticipation, the band plans to tour plenty of colleges this fall and throughout the winter promoting “Dumb Talk,” as well as putting out a cassette version of its first EP.
Despite its growing popularity, the band is still giddy when it gains new fans. The group just hopes to make good music, just as it once did in a cramped basement.
Said Smith: “(We) get so excited when someone likes the music we make. (We) still think that’s such a big deal. If people like it, and want to come to shows, that will inspire us to make more music and do better.”
Sounds like: Fun. and Green Day, with a sprin-kle of teen spirit
Genre: Garage-pop
Top track: “Nineteen.”Rating:
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Utica College quarterback Andrew Benkwitt will spend most of Saturday listening to his favorite rap and hip-hop, just as he does before every night game.
Anything to calm his nerves.
“You just got to sit back and relax and wait for the time to come, because once 7
o’clock hits and the lights are on and every-thing, it’s a great atmosphere,” Benkwitt said.
But relaxing could be tougher this week-end. At 7 p.m. at Charles A. Gaetano Stadium, Benkwitt will lead Utica against the No. 14 Hobart. The overflowing crowd of about 4,000 fans will be nothing new, but Hobart headlines a revamped non-conference schedule engineered by head coach Blaise Faggiano to elevate his 10-year-old program to regional and national prominence.
Faggiano said he likes to schedule as many night games against as high of quality oppo-nents as he can. He prefers New York heavy-weights from the competitive Liberty League, like Hobart. The games are an opportunity to fight out recruiting battles on the field and draw big crowds.
Ultimately, Faggiano’s challenging non-conference schedule is meant to prepare Utica for a relentless season in one of the nation’s top D-III conferences, the Empire 8.
It was a tactic Faggiano’s mentor, the late Jim Butterfield, practiced regularly.
The college football hall of famer coached Faggiano and his Ithaca College teammates to a national championship in 1991. Faggiano returned to be an assistant coach under But-terfield in 1995 and stayed for four years.
In that time, Faggiano learned a lesson that he’s adopted as part of his own coaching philoso-phy.
“One of the things that Jim Butterfield would always say is that if you want to be good, you have to play good people,” Faggiano said.
Faggiano’s hiring in the winter of 2007 fol-lowed a 3-7 season in which the Pioneers played weak opponents in their first two non-conference games. Utica went 1-5 in conference play that season.
“We were playing under-par teams,” senior linebacker Genaro Scampone said. “The first three or four games out of confer-ence, we were getting big wins and then we’d get into conference play, and it’d be a whole new ball game.
“Then this past year’s probably our hardest schedule Utica College has ever seen.”
Shortly after taking the job, though, Faggia-no started to work on cornering the talent-rich Central New York region, which he estimated makes up about 40 percent of his roster.
The concentration of recruiting remolds the makeup of his squad, as well as local turnout.
“Utica always felt like home, and that was the icing on the cake, basically,” said Pat Carroll-Marsh, who was a standout at Liverpool High School. “Having people that I know in many local schools coming here and playing local schools, it just felt like the right thing for me.”
Utica is a program on the upswing, post-ing all-time best 5-5 records in consecutive seasons. The increasing attendances and
higher-quality play on the field are byprod-ucts of the changing culture.
The local matchups excite fans and moti-vate the players, too.
“We get the schedule before summer, so everyone takes a look at the schedule and, I mean, training for the summer, you look at how hard the schedule is and everybody just uses it,” Scampone said. “We’re playing this team; we’re playing this team; we need to be strong from the beginning of the season, all the way to the end, so it definitely motivates us in the offseason.”
The tough schedule challenges the players to perform at a high level in every game.
Benkwitt called this year’s team the best he’s been a part of in his career at Utica. The program let opportunities to vault itself into national recognition slip away last season. Against then-No. 25 Salisbury, Utica trailed by four late in the third quar-ter before the Seagulls ran out to a 70-45 final victory.
The Pioneers will remember the lessons they learned from that game in 2011 this week-end against Hobart.
“It’s not the best feeling in the world, but you got to deal with it,” Benkwitt said. “It’s adver-sity. You’re always going to face adversity in life. There’s adversity in every play of a football game. How you deal with it makes your team as good as they are.”
The Pioneers will be tested by another elite opponent on Saturday. But the challenge comes with an opportunity to pull the upset that has eluded the program in recent years.
“I think that everybody’s on the same page with that, you know, ‘Let’s knock the wind out of them. They have everything to lose,’” Benkwitt said.
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Freshman trio contributes to Orange’s best start in 16 yearsBy Trevor Hass
STAFF WRITER
Ian McIntyre was forced to start as many as seven freshmen at times in 2011. Thrust into a pressure situation amid a team-wide struggle, they didn’t thrive collectively.
This year, the Syracuse head coach has the luxury of only starting three freshmen: Alex Bono, Jordan Vale and Stefanos Stamoulacatos. All three players have gotten off to strong starts for the Orange (5-1) and have helped lead the team to its best start since 1996.
“We’ve got a really good group of new guys that have helped develop our culture day in and day out.” McIntyre said. “They’re also a group of guys that improve in practice and every game.”
Bono has only allowed two goals in six games for Syracuse, leading the Big East in goals against average (0.34) and save percentage (.909). He has made 20 saves for the Orange and
was recently named the Big East Goalkeeper of the Week.
The freshman goalie has set the tone for fel-low freshmen starters Vale and Stamoulacatos.
Vale has scored three goals and added an assist, while Stamoulacatos has one goal and three assists. Both players have logged consider-able minutes in all six games.
Ben Ramin also added a goal in Syracuse’s 6-0 win over Colgate.
“We’ve done a good job at spreading goals around,” McIntyre said. “To have Ben, Jordan and Stefanos all chip in with goals, and impor-tant goals, has been exciting. It’s always nice to have that output from new faces.”
This year’s group of freshmen has helped transform the culture of Syracuse soccer, and McIntyre insists the chemistry between the veteran players and the freshmen is what makes this team so potent.
Sophomores Skylar Thomas, Jordan Murrell and Nick Perea have a year of college experience under their belt and have helped the newcomers get acclimated to playing college soccer.
They’ve been through a rough season and now are helping elevate the team to a much higher level.
“Those individuals have really helped our new guys because now they’re a year older, a year more experienced, more mature and more resilient,” McIntyre said. “The returning players have set the tone and led by example, so you blend those two together and it’s been a fun group to work with so far.”
McIntyre said seniors Ted Cribley, Louis Clark and Lars Muller have set the tone for the Orange and served as role models for the fresh-men on and off the field.
“We have a special group of seniors that has really led by example day in, day out in practice,
as well as how they prepare for games,” he said. Other Big East teams that have gotten off to
hot starts, like Notre Dame, have no goals from freshmen. Five of the Orange’s 19 goals this year have come from freshmen, and 10 of its 19 strikes have come from players who are new to the program, including Tony Asante.
Freshmen Noah Rhynhart and Juuso Pas-anen have also played well for Syracuse. Pas-anen recorded his first career point in SU’s 5-0 win over St. Bonaventure on Sunday.
Syracuse’s newcomers have accounted for 25 of the team’s 96 shots, and 13 of those shots have been on goal.
“Within our program, you earn a spot based on how you perform in practice, and then you keep that spot based on how you perform in games,” McIntyre said.
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haven’t done in the past two games.”Those mistakes leave the Orange (0-2) in search
of its first win of the season heading into Satur-day’s matchup with Football Championship Sub-division opponent Stony Brook. The Sea Wolves (2-0) have cruised to two wins, defeating Central Connecticut State 49-17 in the opener and routing Pace 77-7 last week behind a potent rushing attack.
Marrone acknowledged the challenge ahead against Stony Brook, but his team’s progress was his primary concern on Monday
The offense, led by veteran quarterback Ryan Nassib, has been sharp. But slow starts in both games — SU has scored just 16 of its 70 points in the first half — proved costly.
“We have to do a better job offensively early in the game and get ourselves going quicker,” Mar-rone said. “And we haven’t done that in the past two weeks, and that’s some of the things that we have to correct.”
SU searching for consistency from puntersThe punting game has also been a concern for Marrone.
The head coach used both starter Jonathan Fisher and backup Riley Dixon on Saturday.
“We feel that Riley is doing a better job than Jonathan right now in our sky-kicks getting more height on the ball, being able to drop the ball inside the 20,” Marrone said during the tele-conference. “Going into the game, we had a plan, those situations both players knew that going in, we’ve actually had it for the past two weeks.”
Fisher handled four punts, sending them an average of 41.8 yards, while Dixon stepped in for two. After Northwestern returner Venric Mark finished with 134 yards and a touchdown on two punt returns, both SU punters botched kicks against the Trojans.
With a chance to pin USC deep in its own territory, Dixon shanked a punt 12 yards to the Trojans’ 20 yard line. Fisher’s mistake set up the Trojans’ 21-point fourth quarter.
With SU only trailing by five, he sent a 39-yard punt to Robert Woods. The wide receiv-er brought it back 31 yards to set up a 22-yard touchdown pass by Matt Barkley that opened up a comfortable 28-16 lead.
After two subpar games from the punters, Marrone stressed the need for improvement.
“I do have a concern and I addressed with the players about our location with where we’re going with the punts,” Marrone said. “Early on, location and distance have caused a lot of pressure on our coverage unit.”
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tournament runs. Dave Telep, ESPN’s senior college basket-
ball recruiting analyst, had higher praise for Ennis. To Telep, Ennis benefits from playing with Andrew Wiggins, the top-ranked recruit and star of Toronto’s star-studded AAU team, CIA Bounce.
Through that AAU experience, Ennis learned how to get his post players in position for easy baskets near the rim — a recipe for success against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents such as Duke and North Carolina in the future. That experience also pitted Ennis against the top recruits in the nation, which Telep said was a major factor in Ennis’ development.
“He really doesn’t have a weakness heading into this year,” said Telep. “He’s always been a floor general-type player who can dice up a defense with passing. He needs to be a more vocal leader, but that’s really about it.”
From the very start of his prep career at St. Benedict’s in Newark, N.J., Ennis showed he can lead a team on the court.
When St. Benedict’s head coach Mark Tay-lor was hired in April of 2011, nearly the entire basketball team transferred elsewhere.
McIntyre, his father, sent Ennis to school to play on the “big stage” of U.S. prep basketball. Ennis didn’t need much time with Taylor to be convinced to stay.
“I told him to come back and meet with me,
workout and talk basketball,” said Taylor. “We hit it off from there and we agreed that he’d be the centerpiece of the team going forward.”
Building the team around Ennis translated to success for Taylor. In his first game under Taylor, Ennis seized the spotlight right off the bat with a 14-point, seven-assist game against St. Andrew’s (Rhode Island).
From there, Ennis became the go-to player that made him a coveted recruit. Down by double digits in a game against Satellite Academy (New York) last season, an oppos-ing player taunted him, clapping in his face after scoring.
The gesture, intended to deter Ennis, ended up motivating him. He scored 11 straight points in just over a minute to put his team back on top.
“He would sink a shot, then get a steal,” said Taylor. “Shot, steal. Three-pointer, steal. I’m standing there in awe at this kid. It was incred-ible to watch, and if I had to put my hat on one moment that made me think he was ready for the college ranks, it’s that one.”
A similar performance against Patterson Public School sealed Taylor’s opinion. Ennis could play at any school he wanted to.
That school just happened to be the same one Ennis said he’d attend as a fifth-grader.
“When I step out there on the Carrier Dome floor for my first game at SU, it’s going to be one of the greatest moments of my life,” said Ennis. “I grew up wanting to be in this posi-tion, and when I think about it now — and how official it is — I can’t wait.”
“Right now, we’re really concerned on how we’re playing and how we’re getting better.”
Doug Marrone SU HEAD COACH
SP ORT S PA G E 16the daily orange
By Ryne GerySPORTS EDITOR
Former Syracuse star Carmelo Anthony will return to the Carrier Dome when his New York Knicks take on the Philadelphia 76ers in an exhibition game.
The game is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. Sue Edson, assistant director of ath-letics for communications, said in an email that negotiations for
the event are underway, but SU does not have a signed contract at this point.
It will be the second NBA exhibi-tion contest to
be hosted at the Dome in three years. In 2010, the Minnesota
Timberwolves, featuring former SU stars Jonny Flynn and Wes Johnson, defeated the Detroit Pistons 99-88.
The game will also be Anthony’s second NBA homecoming to the Car-rier Dome. In 2008, Anthony and the Denver Nuggets played the Phoenix Suns in Syracuse.
Ticket information for the game has yet to be released.
By Nick ToneyASST. COPY EDITOR
T yler Ennis blurted out his decision on the four-hour car ride home from the Carrier
Dome. His first Amateur Athletic Union tournament was over, but the then-fifth-grader wanted Tony McIntyre, his father and coach, to know he was sold on Syracuse.
“At first I thought he was just star-struck from playing his first tourna-ment there,” McIntyre said. “But when he said ‘I’m going to play for SU’ that day, he really, truly meant it.”
His decision became official seven years later. Ennis, a five-star point guard in the class of 2013, never wavered from his fifth-grade declara-tion and committed to Syracuse on Aug. 16.
With 21 other schools in the mix for Ennis’ services, SU head coach Jim Boeheim and the Orange should be glad the guard stayed true to his dream school after so long. With former guard Dion Waiters in the NBA, Syracuse will feature just three guards on its roster this season.
Brandon Triche, Michael Carter-Williams and Trevor Cooney are the only guards expected to receive sig-
nificant playing time this season. And Syracuse will lose Triche to gradu-ation before Ennis even makes his collegiate debut, leaving an opening for the Canadian to contribute early.
As it turned out, Syracuse’s need in the backcourt made it an even more attractive landing spot for Ennis.
“Not only was it my top choice,” said Ennis, “but it was the right fit. Coach Boeheim said he’s going to need me to
play for him as soon as I get there, and I plan on doing that.”
When he makes that debut, though, Ennis can be much more than an answer to a soft spot on the depth chart, said Evan Daniels, a national recruiting analyst for Scout.com.
Daniels said the 6-foot-2-inch, 180-pound point guard
“brings both size and playmaking ability” that the Orange could lack this season. SU has enough scorers, but following the graduation of Scoop Jardine, it doesn’t have a proven point guard required to make deep NCAA
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Knicks, 76ers to play at Dome in October
courtesy of st. benedict’s prep
TYLER ENNIS is set to join Jim Boeheim’s team in 2013. Ennis
is a five-star recruit who will likely play significant minutes for the Orange as a freshman
point guard.
EarlyTop recruit Ennis fulfills lifelong dream with commitment to SU
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Syracuse looks to avoid slow start; punting situation remains concern
By Ryne GerySPORTS EDITOR
After Syracuse lost its season opener, Doug Marrone focused on the posi-tives his team could build on moving forward. The SU head coach saw more reason for encouragement after the Orange battled No. 2 Southern Cali-fornia last Saturday.
But before he turns his attention to
a dangerous Stony Brook team, Mar-rone is honing in on SU’s mistakes through two games.
“Right now, we’re really concerned on how we’re playing and how we’re getting better,” Marrone said during the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Monday. “And what we need to do to win games — the things that we
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decision
When I step out there on the Carrier Dome floor for my first game at SU, it’s going to be one of the greatest moments of my life.”
Tyler EnnisSYRACUSE COMMIT
ANTHONY