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Presenting her visionA student’s passion for theater leads to a one-woman show. Page 11

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Probing the defenseRhode Island quarterback Steve Probst is a dual threat who has overcome more than his fair share of adversity. Page 24

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Losing faithHarmen Rockler criticizes two GOP candidates for their reliance on religion rather than rational policy. Page 4

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The bus stops hereSouth Campus bus routes along Winding Ridge and Slocum Heights combine after 10 a.m. Page 3

By Stephanie BouviaASST. COPY EDITOR

Syracuse University alumni Robert and Carol Tannenhauser will be donating $100,000 to the Burton Blatt Institute, the couple announced Tues-day. The donation is one of the largest private donations given to BBI to date.

Anthony Adornato, director of com-munications at BBI, said the institute works to advance the civic, economic and social participation of people with disabilities. This includes research

that enables people with disabilities to be involved with activities such as employment and arts programs for students, Adornato said. He said BBI also works to ensure buildings are accessible to people with disabilities.

Use of the donation money was left to BBI’s discretion, Adornato said. He said the money will be used to advance BBI’s programs in outreach and entrepreneurship.

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SU amends integrity policy

By Liz SawyerASST. NEWS EDITOR

Changes to the Academic Integrity Policy at Syracuse University will dif-ferentiate academic dishonesty from academic negligence, place tighter sanctions on dishonesty and revise appeal procedures.

Following several months of discussion, the University Senate Committee on Instruction decided to update the policy in an effort to increase clarity and fairness, said Gary Pavela, director of the Academic Integrity Offi ce. Changes became effective May 31, he said.

One major alteration to the policy is that academic dishonesty is now distinguished from academic neg-ligence, which tends to be uninten-tional.

“The university is making a dis-tinction between an intent to deceive, like going on the Internet and taking some material and putting your name on it, and someone who made an effort to properly cite the material but left out a date or something,” Pavela said.

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Drawn to paint, create, inspireJEROME WITKIN, one of America’s leading figurative painters and longtime professor of painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, addresses students Tuesday in Shemin Auditorium. Witkin’s upcoming exhibition “Drawn to Paint” will be on view starting Sept. 8 at SUArt Galleries. The exhibition will display 70 of Witkin’s drawings, paintings and sketchbooks. The exhibition marks the first time he has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. FOR MORE ABOUT WITKIN’S EXHIBIT, SEE PAGE 15.

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Fraternities offer recruitment fee waiverBy Debbie Truong

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Fall recruitment for Syracuse Uni-versity’s Interfraternity Council will feature changes intended to expose more men to a greater number of fraternities.

The recruitment process, which begins two weeks earlier than in years past, will kick off with an expo in Schine Student Center on Wednes-day, said Darren Cole, IFC’s vice president of recruitment and senior political science and psychology major. Potential fraternity members

will have an opportunity to survey all the fraternities’ tables and have conversations with members from each chapter.

The changes to fall recruitment are “representations of what the presidents and council wanted,” as chapter presidents and IFC worked together to make the decision, Cole said.

Among the changes, men with a 3.7 GPA or higher who choose to partici-pate in recruitment festivities will have their $35 recruitment registration fee

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“The recruitment process we have now is just a more tailored version of what we had in the past.”

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By Stephanie BouviaAsst. Copy Editor

A Syracuse University professor and his students spent the summer try-ing to protect fire alarm boxes in New York City.

Michael Schwartz, a law professor and director of the Disability Rights Clinic, along with 10 SU law stu-dents who were in Schwartz’s clinic, fought legislation that would have allowed the city to remove 15,000 fire alarm boxes from its streets.

Schwartz said an oral argument between his team and lawyers repre-senting the city happened June 3. By Aug. 15, the court had ruled against the city, denying its motion to throw out the injunction.

The red emergency boxes are placed all over New York City. Each box has one blue button, which can be pressed to alert the police, and one red button, which can be pressed to alert a local fire department, Schwartz said. The alert goes to a

central location, where authorities can immediately identify the loca-tion of where the alarm was trig-gered, Schwartz said.

The boxes, he said, largely affect the deaf community. Schwartz, who is deaf himself, said it is an easy, convenient way for those who are deaf or hearing impaired to report an emergency.

“They allow people to report emergencies from the street without

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shira stoll | contributing photographer eugene law speaks during the student Association meeting tuesday in Maxwell Auditorium. Law was elected as parlementarian during the meeting. Law is also the sA representative for state University of New york College of Environmental science and Forestry.

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Academic integrity bill passes

By Rachael BarillaristAFF WritEr

A bill supporting the creation of an Academic Integrity Council at Syra-cuse University was unanimously passed Tuesday night at Student Association’s second meeting of the semester.

Bonnie Kong, chair of the Aca-demic Affairs Committee, presented the bill entitled “Recommendation for the Creation of a Student Academic Integrity Council” to SA at Tuesday’s meeting held at 7:30 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.

The bill, passed 17-0 by the SA representatives, states that SA recom-mends the creation of an Academic Integrity Council at the university. This council would be made of stu-dent representatives from the nine undergraduate schools.

Now that the motion has passed the SA vote, the next step is to get it approved by the University Senate,

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By Liz SawyerAsst. NEWs Editor

Bus routes servicing South Campus have changed, leading to overcrowd-ing and a general frustration among students who live there.

Instead of running a Winding Ridge and Slocum Heights route separately like in previous years, the routes are now combined after 10 a.m., allowing Syracuse University to reduce the number of buses running each day, said Scot Vanderpool, man-ager of parking and transit services at SU in an email.

Vanderpool said the decision to combine the routes was budget related. Vanderpool also said that with one route instead of two, officials have increased the frequency of ser-vice to campus so that a bus arrives at stops every seven minutes instead of every 12.

“We’re doing more with less,” he said.

Students living on South Campus, especially those near stops close to the end of the route, said it has been

exceptionally difficult getting to class on time because the buses are so full that they skip the last few stops and head straight back to Main Campus.

Vanderpool said the university has received few complaints about the change and, if there are any problems, they will make corrections. South Campus buses are being monitored this week, he said.

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Merged South Campus bus route frustrates students

Students seek alternatives to buying textbooks By Breanne Van Nostrand

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As textbook prices continue to rise, students at Syracuse University are saving money and turning to online retailers and used books despite the availability of on-campus rentals.

Kyle McQuay, a sophomore inter-national relations and anthropol-ogy major, saved about $400 after purchasing his textbooks from Half.com, an eBay company that allows users to buy and sell books. Most

of his books were previously used, and he can sell them back once the semester is over, he said.

Though McQuay got most of his books from the website, there were a few he had to purchase from the University Bookstore because they were custom texts.

McQuay said he didn’t utilize the bookstore for the majority of his text-books because it is too expensive.

The average student will spend about $1,000 per year on textbooks,

according to an Aug. 12 Huffington Post article posted online.

Students can save money upfront with rented textbooks, said Kathleen Bradley, textbook and general divi-sion manager at SUB. But the major-ity of textbooks at the bookstore are not available for rent because they are special packages, she said.

There are always students look-ing to rent their textbooks from the bookstore, Bradley said. The num-

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I n the race for the Republican presidential nomination, religion is playing a role in how candidates define themselves. Religion

has arguably affected presidential races in some form throughout American history. Yet some candidates for the GOP nomination seem to be letting religion have a fair deal of influ-ence over views on policy.

Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry stand out as examples of candidates who let religion influence policy formation. No other major candidates are nearly as overt in their perspec-tives.

In the case of Bachmann, Liberal political analysts quickly scolded her recent comments regarding Hurricane Irene and the overhyped east coast earthquake: “I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politi-cians,” she said. “We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?'” Analysts ignored how lightly the lines were delivered as well as the laughing audience in the background.

But Bachmann’s real religiously inspired politics are far more unsettling. In 2007, as a member of the House of Representatives, Bachmann co-sponsored H.R. 847, titled “Rec-ognizing the Importance of Christmas and the Christian Faith.” The bill states that America is composed mainly of Christians. Because of this, the bill directs that the House “recognizes the Christian faith as one of the great religions

of the world” and “acknowledges and supports the role played by Christians and Christianity in the founding of the United States and in the formation of the Western civilization.”

This egregious legislation asks the federal government to declare one religion to be par-ticularly superior. Using the U.S. government to promote a particular religion, even for purely inconsequential purposes, demonstrates Bach-mann’s ignorance about the proper relationship between religion and government.

Rick Perry, considered the GOP nominee frontrunner, also has dabbled in mixing reli-gion with policy. In a video inviting Americans to a prayer rally he recently hosted, he said, "With the economy in trouble, communities in crisis and people adrift in a sea of moral relativ-ism, we need God's help. That's why I'm calling on Americans to pray and fast, like Jesus did and as God called the Israelites to do in the book of Joel."

Perry shows that he believes the problems facing his state and his country are somehow

out of his control. Individuals who point to Perry as a job creator fail to note that Texas’ debt continues to rise at a rate faster than the United States’ debt. Perry’s default to religion reveals a leader who won’t accept blame for his own actions. Rather than taking measures to fix his state’s poor education system, economy and health care, he looks to God for assistance.

Adding to Rick Perry’s religious and political background is his stance on allowing intelligent design, or creationism, to be taught in schools: “I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools along-side the theories of evolution.”

Regardless of personal feelings on creation-ism, the topic is not scientific. It is an exclu-sively religious concept and lacks any logic or academic merit. Although the Supreme Court ruled requiring that schools teach creationism is unconstitutional, Perry found it acceptable, even exemplary, that schools in Texas volun-tarily teach the subject.

If Americans value a government based on intellectual, rational thought, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann are not viable candidates. Some may argue that America was partly founded on Christian principles, but this is not expressed directly in the United States’ found-ing documents.

Some voters may agree with Perry and Bach-mann’s religious beliefs. But if voters compare

the two candidates’ views to the fundamental principles that define America, they will find Perry and Bachmann’s views unacceptable. The president and the country do not need to endorse a particular faith to make wise, calcu-lated decisions.

Harmen Rockler is a junior politi-cal science and newspaper journalism

major and his column appears weekly. He can be reached at horockle@syr.edu.

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boardT he Academic Integrity Office revamped its policies to dis-tinguish between conscious

dishonesty and negligence. As a result, first-time offenders who have overlooked proper citation or the like will answer exclusively to their pro-fessors to decide the punishment.

Students whose work reveals bla-tant dishonesty, such as plagiarism, will follow a similar course as in the past: appear before a college-specific review panel, receive a note of the infraction on their permanent record and attend an educational seminar. Depending on the severity of the offense, dishonesty can also result in suspension or explosion, particularly for graduate students.

The distinction between dishon-esty and negligence allows younger students, whose high schools may not have enforced proper attribution, a chance to learn from their mistakes. Removing the possibility that a student’s infraction arose out of ignorance or by mistake should allow the judicial review boards to deal more severely with cases of conscious dishonesty.

As was discussed last spring semester, Syracuse University’s aca-demic integrity policy is relatively

lax compared to its peer universities. To continue raising SU’s academic standards, the office’s next step should evaluate the varying degrees of punishment from college to college within SU.

Each school organizes its own judicial review panels. A judicial review panel made of faculty, admin-istrators and students exclusively from one school can appropriately assess the infraction in the context of their field. However, differences in professional demands should not result in one college dealing more leniently with dishonesty than another.

A third distinction, between ignorance and negligence, may also aid in assessing the proper punish-ment for a student; ignorance must be corrected with a lesson, whereas negligence results from avoidable laziness or sloppiness. However SU’s policies change, punishment for conscious infractions must be more severe. Raising students to higher standards directly raises the quality of their work and an SU education.

University must continue to reform integrity policy

T en years ago members of al-Qaeda used four pas-senger aircrafts as weapons

to kill nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001. The United States government’s response was to answer violence with violence. In the ensuing wars, hundreds of thousands more people have been killed. New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

(Quakers) urges everyone to recognize this anniversary as an occasion to remember that there are always alternatives to violence and that there is a spirit in every human being which responds with gratitude to these alternatives.

The Religious Society of Friends has always upheld the way exempli-fied by Jesus, who taught us never to return evil for evil, but to love our

enemies and pray for them, forgiv-ing them every offense. We confess that we, being human, do not always fulfill this high standard. Neverthe-less, we continually strive to discern the guidance of the living God who loves unconditionally and extends unlimited compassion, comfort,

mercy, guidance, grace and revela-tion to all who ask.

We testify to the world that we disown all wars and fighting with outward weapons for any cause whatsoever. These are never neces-sary. There are no “just wars.” Among the weapons we renounce are the tongue and the pen when they are used to provoke prejudice and hatred. Neither will we be

silenced by fear when we are called to witness against evil masquerad-ing as good. We seek to build a world in which a just peace is possible. We seek the strength to support and keep faith with those who suffer for nonviolent acts of conscience. We live by the gospel of God’s love for all. Join us.The Syracuse Friends Meeting

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waived, Cole said. As of Tuesday afternoon, 11 of the 50 men registered for recruitment qualify for the waiver, Cole said. Men who would like to register for the expo may do so at the event, he said.

The decision to implement the waiver was

put in place to attract men who might not oth-erwise participate in the recruitment process, said David Lurie, president of IFC and senior public relations major.

“We, in the community, want to make sure we’re getting the best and brightest men on campus,” Lurie said

Matthew Wolfe, a senior accounting major and member of Sigma Alpha Mu, said the decision to

waive the recruitment fee for those with 3.7 GPAs or above “elevates the standard for rush.”

He also said recruits that are strong academi-cally might be able to cope with the stress of rush and school more effectively.

“If you’re at that high level, it’s not that much of a hit if you have a bad semester,” he said.

IFC’s $35 recruitment fee is up from last year’s $15. Because the waiver is being offered, more capital is needed, Cole said. Money from the fees will also go toward projects such as establishing a scholarship for freshmen.

In addition to offering the waivers, IFC has tweaked the recruitment system to host rota-tions on a single day, meaning recruits will visit every chapter in one day. Rotations, which were implemented last semester, require all recruits to rotate from chapter to chapter in 20-minute intervals, Cole said.

“The recruitment process we have now is just a more tailored version of what we had in the past,” he said.

Cole also said the rotations give smaller chapters more visibility while allowing recruits to learn about each fraternity firsthand.

“With anything, new members come in with preconceived notions and stereotypes of houses,” he said. “So we have the rotations so all potential new members can go to each house and see for themselves.”

Formal recruitment is scheduled to begin

Sept. 18. The men will spend the day visiting each chapter. On Tuesday and Wednesday of that week, the recruits will be allowed to mingle with brothers from any house between 6-10 p.m. Invites will be issued online Thursday and bid

night will follow Friday, Cole said. Despite hosting recruitment earlier in the

academic year, Cole said publicizing the process hasn’t been an issue.

“One guy will talk to his friend and so on and so on. It hasn’t really affected the registration numbers,” he said. “The numbers are right on line with how they usually are.”

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are subject to disciplinary sanctions by the university, so while academic negligence may still result in a course failure, it cannot go on a student’s record, Pavela said. It is up to the individual professor to decide what the student deserves for the quality of his or her work, he said.

Until recently, the policy was ambiguous; it referred to the punishment of a dishonest act and didn’t define what a dishonest act was, Pavela said. Hearing panels eventually began making that distinction. Oftentimes, if they thought the student was trying to be honest they would throw the case out, he said.

“In reality, we’re simply writing down in the policy what the hearing panels were already doing,” Pavela said.

Pavela said he thinks the new policy may encourage faculty to report more cases of negli-gence to the Academic Integrity Office because no disciplinary action will be taken. In the past, a percentage of faculty members failed to report a number of incidents because they felt their students were borderline and worried what the repercussions might be, Pavela said.

If negligence is reported, a record will be

made so the office can keep tabs on the student’s progress, Pavela said. If the same student keeps getting reported for negligence, it will begin to look like it is intentional, and the student could be accused of academic dishonesty, he said.

Eric Montgomery, an information manage-ment graduate student and the first student in SU history to chair a hearing panel on academic integrity during his senior year, said the deci-sion to distinguish academic dishonesty from academic negligence will not only save the hear-ing panels time, but it will also provide students with a more justified sanction.

“There were a couple cases where it was very clearly negligence, but by the letter of the policy, we almost had to look at it as academic dishonesty,” Montgomery said.

In previous years, the assumed punishment for any act of academic dishonesty was the XF grade penalty, accompanied by the transcript notation: “Violation of the Academic Integrity Policy,” Pavela said. But now the punishment of the XF grade is designed to be the standard.

Like before, this notation may be removed for a first offense if the student successfully completes the academic integrity seminar. The instructor may also impose a lesser sanction if he or she chooses to, Pavela said.

Similarly, the old policy states that the

presumptive penalty for an act of academic dishonesty by a graduate student is suspen-sion or expulsion from the university. This was laid out in practice before, but now it is explicit, Pavela said. Graduate students are

held to higher standards because they are presumed to know more and are regarded as role models, he said.

“These are people who are going to have advanced degrees from Syracuse University, they are people who we expect to be the best of the best, so they have to be held to a higher standard,” he said.

Another change to the policy is the revi-sion of academic dishonesty appeal procedures. Instead of having a committee review an appeal, the associate provost for academic programs will automatically review any recommended suspension or expulsion cases, Pavela said.

While these changes are a step in the right direction, the big goal is to work on getting an entirely student-run board to hear academic integrity cases, he said.

In terms of the policy change, Pavela said stu-dents provided considerable verbal input, but weren’t involved in drafting the actual changes. Several committee members even made spe-cific language changes after listening to people speak at the open forum.

“I can definitely see some of the students’ perspectives and input reflected in the policy,” said Montgomery, the first SU student to chair a hearing panel on academic integrity.

Now Pavela is working with student govern-ment leaders on expanding upon these changes to adopt more components of an honor code model, he said.

Pavela said he hopes the policy will make clear to students just how important academic integrity is because they will be imposing pen-alties for dishonesty.

“Students are aware that they’re in an increasingly competitive economy. It’s hard to get a job, and the last thing you want is a nota-tion on your transcript that you’ve been found responsible of cheating,” Pavela said. “I think the word will get out — don’t do it, it’s just not worth it.”

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the use of a phone,” Schwartz said through an American Sign Language interpreter.

The case, which Schwartz said originated in 1995, arose when the city attempted to get rid of the boxes. Schwartz was on the legal team that fought against the city. Schwartz said the case had come to an end in 2000, when the city agreed to keep the boxes. Last year, Schwartz said, the city moved to remove the injunction that prevented them from getting rid of the boxes.

“Last year, I got a phone call from the same team saying that the city wanted to ask the court to throw out the injunction that prevented them from removing 15,000 fire alarm boxes,” Schwartz said. “So the lawyers called me to let me know that the case was coming back to life. They asked me to join them, and I did.”

The city wanted to remove the boxes because they are expensive to repair, Schwartz said. Authorities also get a lot of false alarms report-ed through the use of the boxes, he said.

Renee Yaworsky, a third-year law student at SU, was one of the students in Schwartz’s clinic who helped work on the case.

Yaworsky said she was honored to be a part of such a high-profile case. She said she was able to learn and take a lot out of the experience.

“After I learned the facts and details of the case, I was happy to be involved in any capacity because it was a cause I believed was important and could really affect numerous people living in New York City,” Yaworsky said.

Schwartz said he is very happy with the verdict.

“This provides the deaf and hard of hearing the opportunity to report emergencies from the street,” he said.

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“In reality, we’re simply writing down in the policy what the hearing panels were already doing.”

Gary Paveladirector of the AcAdemic integrity office

Early starthere are some changes in this year’s recruitment process:men with a 3.7 gPA or higher who choose to participate in recruitment festivities will have their $35 recruitment registration fee waived. interfraternity council $35 recruitment fee is up from $15 last year.ifc has tweaked the recruitment system to host rotations on a single day, mean-ing recruits will visit every chapter in one day. rotations, which were implemented last semester, require all recruits to rotate from chapter to chapter in 20-minute intervals.

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have classes that didn’t start so early in the morning. But Carter said she has to get up just as early as last year because multiple buses pass her stop every morning and leave her stranded

for at least 30 minutes at a time.“I have to wake up wicked early to get to

classes on time, or when I’m at class I’m an hour early because of the bus route,” Carter said. “It’s kind of annoying.”

Other South Campus residents share Cart-er’s displeasure. Natalie Mulford, an unde-cided sophomore in the College of Arts and

Sciences, compared the South Campus and College Place bus stops to a mob scene. She said that people were pushing their way onto the buses because they were sick of being passed.

“It’s not horrible, but it’s definitely an incon-venience,” Mulford said.

Beverly Ibeh, a junior psychology major,

walks to Manley Field House every morning from her apartment on Lambreth Lane to try and get on a bus, she said.

Ibeh said: “Even if you come a little earlier to the bus, if it’s full and then they pass you twice, you’re already late.”

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Kong said. She has been working with Gary Pavela, the director of the Academic Integrity Office, to decide a structure for the council.

Kong said she believes student input in aca-demic integrity is important because “students can relate to other students, their peers, better than to faculty members.”

At SU, there is not a direct way for students to protect or promote academic integrity, the bill stated. The Academic Integrity Office is run by a few administrators and there is virtually no student representation, Kong said.

In the 2009-10 academic year, three-quarters of students that made academic offenses received a passing grade in the course where the offense occurred, according to the bill. The motion also stated that Princeton University, Vanderbilt Uni-versity and the University of Maryland have influ-ential student honor councils already in place.

Later in the meeting, SA Assemblymember Eugene Law, who represents the State Uni-versity of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, was elected to the office of parliamentarian. Of the 17 representatives present at the meeting, 12 voted in favor of Law

and five were opposed. Law said he wanted the position of parlia-

mentarian because he had experience with the SA constitution and its codes, as he held the position for one semester last fall and has been an ESF representative in SA for two and a half years. Before being elected, Law said he did not want to change any codes because he does not believe there is anything wrong with them and also said SA already runs well. Law said he would also update the codes online so everyone would have access to the most recent updates.

Other business discussed• On Sept. 2, the Finance Board was intro-

duced to nine bills for the special programming designations. It was the responsibility of the board to decide whether or not to fund the proposed activities with the leftover budget allowances. Jeff Rickert, SA comptroller, said the designations are decided on by the Finance Board by consulting the SA constitutional codes and several other factors. Of the nine applica-tions for special programming, only two were granted funds.

• The Lambda Pi Chi Yo Soy Latina program was granted $195 toward its program and the Water Polo club team’s request of $1,848 was fully funded.

• SA approved the Finance Board’s recom-

mendations to not grant funds to the last seven applications on the grounds that the board does not believe the programs comply with finance codes. Kappa Alpha Psi was denied $600 for its leadership conference, $600 for undergraduate dues, and $1,200 for a Centennial Celebration National Dance party. Alpha Kappa Alpha was denied a request of $1,150 for a Skee Week outing. The National Pan-Hellenic Council was denied two requests, each for more than $2,000. Latino Undergraduates Creating History in America was denied $1,167.25 for an event called Platanos y Collard Greens.

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Mehrzad Boroujerdi political science professor in the Maxwell school of citizenship and public affairs

By Marwa Eltagouri staff writer

Later this month, Palestinians plan to present the United Nations with a bid for statehood, which would cancel out current peace negotiations with Israel, cause a new outbreak of violence and bloodshed, and potentially divide the U.S government.

The Obama administration has been attempt-ing to renew peace talks with Israel this week in hopes of persuading Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas against appealing for the bid at the U.N. Gen-eral Assembly, which will open Sept. 20. The United States, believing that Palestine should wait until further peace negotiations are made, plans to veto the bid in the U.N. Security Council.

The United States, however, is an outlier in the situation and will likely be outnumbered by the rest of the U.N., who aren’t as opposed to Palestine’s state-hood. In the event that Palestine does receive state-hood, Palestinians will be able to join several U.N. groups and organizations, and possibly take Israel to the International Criminal Court.

The Daily Orange asked the experts: How would a U.S. veto against Palestinian statehood affect Ameri-ca’s relations with the Middle East?

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How would a US veto against Palestinian statehood affect America’s relations with the Middle East?

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I think now the U.S. is between a rock and hard place. If the Obama administration decides to veto, Obama jeopardizes all his good relations with the Middle East and the Muslim world since they’re all adamant about Palestinian rights. It’ll just make the U.S. look like not an honest broker. Now, if the U.S. agrees to the bid, it’s a risk because Obama told Congress that he would reject it, which further alienates Obama from Congress at a time when he needs them in order to resolve economic issues. There’s no good choice.

It would be important for the U.S. to use this as an opportunity for a positive outcome rather than veto the statehood. We’ve lost a lot of credibility among Palestinians, and we could gain some of it back by negotiating and trying to move forward. The U.S. should work with Palestine to develop a better negotiated settlement, which would work out better than Palestine actually declaring statehood.

If a majority of the countries vote for statehood and the U.S. doesn’t, it will speak volumes. U.S. will want to veto, which will be embarrassing, and negate the good will of Obama’s speech in Cairo in 2009. The veto will also send a signal to people in the region that we can no longer be regarded as an honest broker.

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ber of textbooks rented so far this semester is not available yet.

“It’s interesting because books that we thought we’d never rent, students want to rent,” she said, “and books that we have available for rent, students want to buy.”

Bradley said faculty members are still plac-ing textbook orders to be filled even though classes began Aug. 29. Instructors are sup-posed to tell the bookstore what books they need early on so students are able to go online and see what the ballpark cost will be to take a certain class, she said.

But that is not happening all the time, Bradley said. Though sometimes faculty members are new or need time to figure out what books they need, they often just don’t get their textbook orders to the bookstore on time, she said.

“It’s not fair to students,” Bradley said. “Stu-dents pay a lot of money to come to Syracuse University, and we want them to have the tools

they need.”Bradley said the advantage of buying text-

books from the SUB is the knowledge that students are getting what faculty members ordered for a specific course.

Tablet and e-reader users can access text-books from their devices, often at discounted prices. Students can save up to 80 percent off textbooks through Amazon’s Kindle Text-book Rental, according to an online July 21 Time magazine article. The textbooks can be rented for a minimum of 30 days and, once rented, are available for use on tablets and smartphones that run on some versions of Apple, Windows and Android operating systems.

McQuay said he would use a Kindle or iPad for textbooks. Though he does not own either device, he said he would purchase one if he could get all of his textbooks on it.

Chelsea Wagner, a junior public relations major, ordered all but one of her textbooks from Amazon.com. She purchased one book from Follett’s Orange Bookstore in Marshall Square Mall because she enrolled in a course on Thursday and needed a book for Tuesday.

Wagner, who is taking two business classes, a public relations class, a history class and an advertising class, said she preferred Amazon over SUB because the books were cheaper and easier to sell back. She has never rented textbooks before and said she doesn’t plan to.

Wagner said: “I’m bad enough as it is at sell-ing them back, so I feel like I would rent them and just end up forgetting to return them.”

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Ruxton Capital Group LLC, graduated from SU in 1966. Carol Tannenhauser, an author and journalist, graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1970.

“BBI is a premier organization dedicated to making life better for people with disabilities, not just in the U.S., but around the world,” said Robert Tannenhauser in an email. “As SU alums, we were looking for a way to support excellence at SU and we found it at BBI.”

“Simply put, we want the money to have impact and to help people with disabilities,” he said. “BBI’s track record in New York and beyond in helping people with disabilities get jobs and be entrepreneurs is exactly the kind of impact we want to support at SU.”

BBI was launched at SU in 2005. The institute is named in honor of Burton Blatt, a former dean of the School of Education, Adornato said. He said Blatt was a “pioneer in disability rights in this area.”

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“It’s interesting because books that we thought we’d never rent, students want to rent, and books that we have available for rent, students want to buy.”

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By Heather Wentzstaff Writer

A rematch for the 25th Congressional District seat has been set after former U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei filed the paper-

work Aug. 24 to run against current U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle in 2012.

Buerkle (R-Onondaga Hill) defeated the incumbent Maffei in last year’s election in a very close Congressional District race — she edged Maffei by less than three-tenths of a percent.

Maffei is currently a visiting instructor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and was given $325 in donations from ESF President Cornelius Murphy for his campaign in 2010. However, Murphy said he did not know if he would contribute to Maffei’s campaign again in 2012.

During last year’s election, Murphy had voiced his concern over Buerkle’s lack of sup-port for environmental issues, but he is now on her environmental advisory committee and there are several issues that she cares for and has concerns about.

“It’s not quite that black and white,” Mur-phy said. “In her campaign there were some issues as it related to climate change, and I have spent time with her and brought her up to speed.”

He said they have met and he has educated her on some of the issues that need to be exam-ined, both local and environmental. One issue that Buerkle explicitly addresses on her website is energy consumption and allocation.

“Reversing this energy freeze is critical to putting Americans back to work,” Buerkle said in a May 12 statement. “We must expand American energy production and stop cur-rent government policies that are driving up gasoline prices. It is clear how much of a strain paying more at the pump is placing on already stretched budgets.”

Both Buerkle and Maffei have developed good relationships with Syracuse University during their respective terms in office, said Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs.

“We have a very good relationship with Con-gresswoman Buerkle, and we had a very good relationship with Congressman Maffei,” Quinn

said. “The university doesn’t really get involved in campaigns. We work with our elected offi-cials, and we’re very proud that we’ve developed strong working relationships with all of our elected officials across party lines.”

But SU faculty and staff contributed any-where from $25 to $4,800 each to Maffei’s cam-paign for re-election in 2010. Twenty-four SU employees gave a total of 47 contributions to Maffei’s campaign, adding up to $21,275. Buerk-le received one contribution of $50 from an SU employee.

Of the 18 members of the cabinet Chancellor Nancy Cantor chairs, five contributed to Maf-fei, totaling $3,550, or 17 percent, of university employees’ total donations. The contributing members were: Quinn; Eric Spina, vice chancel-lor and provost; Thomas Walsh, executive vice president for advancement and external affairs; Douglas Biklen, dean of the School of Educa-tion; and Gina Lee-Glauser, vice president for research.

Cantor gave Maffei’s campaign a total of $1,000 over two separate contributions.

Jeffrey Stonecash, an SU political science professor, said he thinks Maffei has a good

chance of beating the incumbent in 2012 because the district is becoming more democratic.

“The electorate will be very different,” Ston-ecash said. “There was a tremendous drop-off in 2010 with the most declines among democrats, young people and independents. They tend to disappear in an off-year election.”

Stonecash also said he doesn’t think Buerkle has done a good job raising money, so she will really have to make the case that she has made the right moves for the district in the past two years.

As far as other candidates in the running for the 25th Congressional District seat, he doesn’t know of any so far.

“There will be a third party down the road,” Stonecash said. “I’m sure it’ll come from the conservative side, and it will be that party tak-ing votes from her (Buerkle).”

According to an article published in The Post-Standard on Aug. 24, however, Syracuse lawyer Brianne Murphy might be a possible candidate for the democratic side.

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By Sara TraceySTAFF WRITER

I n the sparse light surrounding the stage, Tai Brown personifi ed an older Southern woman, recalling a forbidden love. She was

a 17-year-old girl writing to a mother that would never respond. She was a mentally challenged child realizing it’s OK to be different.

Offstage, Brown is a junior acting major at Syracuse University, born and raised in New York City. She is a sister of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority with a passion for the arts. But for one day, her self-produced, one-woman play allowed her to be characters she didn’t have the opportu-nity to play at school.

“Borderline Bitter,” a project that stemmed

from a collection of poems and monologues Brown wrote, premiered this summer at the off-Broadway theater Engelman Recital Hall. Though the show started as a one-woman endeavor, the overall production was full of collaboration.

The end of Brown’s “Borderline Bitter” is actually how the show started — a poem she wrote after breaking up with her ex-boyfriend.

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Feel like sharing a few short snappy words with your millions of follow-ers? Head to Twitter. Did you just take a spectacular photo and need to show it to all your friends? Post it on Facebook. But what if you get the urge to share your artistic abilities with the online world? Where should you go?

An online social sketchpad, Doo-dle.ly caters to all types of artists, beginner through expert, and lets anyone publish their artwork.

Three Syracuse University alumni created the site to fi ll a void in the social media marketplace, said found-er Evan Vogel. It launched in July and recently hit 10,000 doodles.

Vogel is not an artist, but he still calls himself creative. He is also a supporter of the growing online world and wanted Doodle.ly to link these two ideas.

“We have a passion for the inter-section of technology, social media and creative expression. This is where Doodle.ly stems from,” Vogel said.

When self-proclaimed artists fi rst sign up with Doodle.ly, a few colors and brush strokes are available for their artistic needs. After each mile-stone the company reaches, Vogel and his fellow founders will release something new. When the site hit 10,000 doodles, Vogel added purple to the color palette.

“As the site evolves, we will keep adding new features, and it will never stop,” Vogel said. “We’re trying to listen to the community members and understand what they want.”

When the founders received requests from doodlers to connect Doodle.ly to other social media sites,

they added a unique feature that enables doodlers to better share their work. Once a doodle is published, it is immediately posted to the doodler’s Facebook and Twitter pages. This way, more people see the designs and more people hear about Doodle.ly, Vogel said.

As an extension of Doodle.ly’s recent launch, the founders also released a mobile app fi t for all types of smartphones. Vogel said he hopes Doodle.ly will attract college students who, he believes, could help it become the next form of artistic communica-tion and expression.

The next step for Vogel is recruit-ing campus representatives. He wants to reach 100 campuses by the end of the school year.

“This is an opportunity for kids to get a really interesting learning experience,” Vogel said. “Once they learn the site and its platform, they can fi gure out how to use it on their campus, whether that be inside or outside the classroom.”

Robert Dacey, an illustration pro-fessor at SU, thinks that Doodle.ly has promise, but he isn’t sure how it will fi t in the classroom.

“I don’t think I will be able to use Doodle.ly as part of my teaching strategy, but there is a possibility to use it as a common site to post ideas in progress,” Dacey said. “I can see it as a tool that can help build awareness of the strength of visualization and a place to share sketches.”

Dacey said he thinks Doodle.ly is expanding the use of visual language.

“This site addresses an aspect of ourselves most of us have forgotten we have,” Dacey said. “I’m interested to see how this expands as a form of social media.”

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Jerome Witkin did not come from a lot of money. Once, when he was 7 years old, he and his mother ventured to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Witkin ran upstairs to view the gallery. Suddenly, a man with a cane approached him while he was exploring. The man pointed his cane to Witkin’s chest and declared, “Dirty little boys like you should not be in museums like this.”

Decades later, Witkin has been featured in more than a dozen of his own solo exhibitions all across the country.

On Sept. 8, Witkin’s most recent solo exhibi-tion, “Drawn to Paint,” will feature his sketches alongside their final paintings. The exhibition, which will show 70 pieces, will open at SUArt Galleries and at XL Projects in downtown Syra-cuse. Witkin is a professor of painting at the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition will celebrate Witkin’s life as an artist and 40th anniversary as a professor at Syracuse University.

Witkin was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. During his teenage years, he attended The High School of Music and Art in New York. Afterward, he attended The Cooper Union for the Advance-ment of Science and Art, where he studied under modernist painter Victor Candell.

Witkin said Candell opened up his eyes to the purpose of art: to go into something that no one

would dare explore. “There is a surety to the marks he makes on

the paper,” said Francis Sills, a painting major who graduated from SU in 1996. “He has such a keen eye and confident hand, something an artist just doesn’t have when they are still in school.”

With one glance, Witkin can accurately paint the position of objects in space or the subtle contours of an edge, Sills said. There is a very thoughtful confidence in his artistry.

His work over this 40-year span is extraor-dinarily astonishing in the daring nature of his depictions of the human body, said Edward Aiken, associate professor and program coor-dinator of VPA’s graduate program in museum studies in the Department of Design. Full of ambition, Witkin is constantly pushing the edge in his subject matter.

“He dares himself to be better and better and better,” Aiken said.

In the classroom, Witkin always encourages his students to investigate the world through their eyes and hands, Sills said. Witkin places a strong emphasis on not only seeing things, but also studying and recording them.

“He showed me that it is possible to figure yourself out, and the world, through art,” Sills said.

Witkin’s goal for his students is for them to create work for themselves and who they are, said illustration major David Kassan, a 1999

SU graduate. Witkin did not want his students to let their art be compromised by others; for instance, becoming an artist who just paints for money.

“He once told me to die with my hands clean,” Kassan said.

Witkin’s teaching method is based upon problem solving and pushing his students to think through a painting, said Kassan. He teaches his students to identify with their art and that this will keep them honest and pure to

themselves. “Art is shock and sensation. My work is the

moral imagination — people with imagina-tions have feeling for others. I cannot erase what there is and what we’ve all experienced,” Witkin said. “Human action is who you become. We are put here not just to look at one another, but to raise each other — and the moral reason is how you improve the lives of others.”

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JEROME WITKIN’S artwork hangs in SUart Galleries. these paintings are part of the 71 piece collection designed to show Witkin’s work and celebrate his 40 years at SU.

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All of the pieces in the play were written over the past summer, starting in the beginning of May. The pieces were gathering in her com-puter’s hard drive and a red leather book, worn and cracked from years of use.

The monologues and short stories found a common thread — a woman’s resilience, she said.

“It’s different stuff revolving around women and love and how they can go really far emotion-ally, and they can go bitter, which is something people associate with women,” Brown said.

Most of Brown’s inspirations came from

everyday things: a train ride, a comment from a friend, her mom, who she said is the stron-gest person she’s known. Her mother was an inspiration for her poem “Hercules,” which speaks about a hardworking woman wanting to provide for her family.

Brown’s mom, who came to the U.S. from Jamaica with nothing, now owns her own busi-ness and her own home.

“(She) has instilled values in me to always take control of my own life, to be poised and to have beauty and brains,” she said.

Brown has taken her mother’s ideology to heart. Starting her theater career at age 10, she went to a performing arts high school, where she pursued acting. She’s working on her

second book — her fi rst one was a collaboration with her peers when she was in high school on a collection called “Confessions of a Teenager.” She was a fl ash dancer in “Friends with Ben-efi ts” and wants to travel the world to perform in small villages, but not before she lives in Los Angeles next summer to help further her movie career.

“I want to heal people with my work,” she said. “Even if it’s only one person.”

With the written pieces complete, Brown started imagining how her play would work onstage. She researched different venues and found a home for “Borderline Bitter” in the Engelman Recital Hall of Baruch College. She set a date and started recruiting other talents to help her tell the story.

Brown found Matt Bent when she was run-ning late to work. The 15-year-old drummer played on upside-down paint cans in a subway when she approached him to perform in her show. She said it was a last-minute addition to the show, but had dreamed about putting drums in and made it happen.

Incorporating different people into the per-formance makes the show more multifaceted, Brown said. She said she wants the audience to relate to her show, but it helps when other people onstage understand the concept as well.

She acknowledges the play is still a work in

progress. Brown hosted a Q&A session with audience members, asking for feedback after the premiere. She plans on using some of that feedback later in the semester, as she wants to bring her show to campus.

Brown and Ana Thorton, a fellow SU student who sang in “Borderline Bitter,” are partnering up again to fi nd the best local home for the per-formance. Brown said the Underground in the Schine Student Center would be an ideal setting because of its small, intimate environment, but she thinks there wouldn’t be enough room. In some ways, Brown thinks bringing her play to a college setting is perfect.

“We’re not teenagers, but we’re not complete adults because we still have meal plans,” she said. “I know that this is something that every-one kind of needs to hear.”

Brown said she wants to incorporate more students in the actual show, not only as audi-ence members. She said she wants to make it bigger, even if it means her play can no longer be a one-woman venture.

“I don’t want it to lose the fact that it’s the journey of women and the love a woman can feel,” she said. “I wouldn’t want to lose that. But I want it to be as big of a story as possible so that many people can listen and say, ‘Yeah, that’s my story on stage.’”

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I blame women for this. You and your so-called “standards.”

You’re so demanding. Every girl wants a guy who’s nice, smart and funny. Fine. But where do you get off making physical demands as well?

Sure, guys objectify women all the time. But we’re pigs. You’re better than that.

Unfortunately, it’s easier to meet women’s expectations than to change them. With that in mind, I went to the Ernie Davis Hall Fitness Center last week to sculpt my fl uffy body into the mean, lean, loving machine I know it can be. Or, at the very least, I hoped to get people to stop confusing me with a pear.

Instead, I almost left in a stretcher. The workout started like any other — I lifted

some weights, ran on the treadmill for a little bit and then pretended to be injured for half an hour while I caught my breath.

Of course, any workout is all for naught if you’re still squishy around the middle, so to end my gym session, I hopped on the inverted sit-ups bench for a few quick reps. As I diligently worked my keg of a gut into the six-pack I’ve always dreamed of, my abs seized up and sent a sharp pain through my entire midsection. I was cramping up.

This had happened to me before, so I knew what to do. I lay down on the bench, waited until

the pain subsided and then tried to stand back up. The cramps came back, even worse than before. I doubled over in pain and laid myself against the machine, sprawled out in the middle of the weight room fl oor.

While I became progressively dizzier, light-headed, and nauseous, my fellow fi tness center patrons continued their workouts, stepping over my lifeless body on their way to the bench press, rowing machine or other equipment. They, unlike me, were in good enough shape and had drunk enough water to continue exer-cising their way into the hearts and minds of young females everywhere.

Eventually, I tapped a nearby weight lifter on the ankle and had him fetch a facility employee, who brought me a Gatorade that I’m almost cer-tain saved my life. Soon I was on my way home, ready for a night of rest and recovery from one

of the most traumatic experiences of my life. As I rested in a bathtub fi lled with sweat, ice

packs and my own humiliation, I couldn’t help but wonder what drove me to work my body to the brink of passing out.

Sure, I could kid myself and pretend general health is important to me — you know, because I eat wings four times a week for the high pro-tein content. It’s not like my pick-up basketball career requires much physical training either.

The fact is I work out so that women will fi nd me attractive. And that’s why I nearly slept at Ernie Davis last Wednesday night.

Like I said, I blame women for this. Danny Fersh is a senior broadcast journalism

major and his column appears every Wednesday. If you happen to see him sprawled out on the ground

in front of you, please hand him a Gatorade, for God’s sake. Email him at dafersh@syr.edu

and follow him on Twitter at @fershprince.

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S ubtlety takes talent, especially in a thriller. In his espionage drama “The Debt,” John Madden succeeds. The fi lm, similar to

Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” with the depiction of Mossad agents, is a different breed of suspense, the kind that chills to the bone without hemor-rhaging blood.

Melding Madden’s somewhat high-brow sensi-bility with Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman’s razor sharp screenplay form one of the most solid thrillers of 2011: the riveting, vintage espionage drama that our parents grew up with and one that’s almost foreign to this generation.

Retired Mossad agents Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren), Stephan Gold (Tom Wilkinson) and David Peretz (Ciaran Hinds) failed their country 30 years ago when, as ripe talents, the three failed to capture one of the most notorious Nazis, Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen), known as the Surgeon of Birkenau. But their country isn’t aware of their failure and, as a result of misinformation supplied by the trio, they are regarded as heroes.

To apprehend Vogel, the younger versions of Rachel (Jessica Chastain), Stephan (Sam Worthington) and David (Marton Csokas) immerse themselves in forged lifestyles to capture the fugitive, accountable for thousands of murders. Perhaps they were not prepared for the pressure of the assignment. They become far too vulnerable as the urgency of the mission threatens to ruin their careers and their lives.

When Rachel learns 30 years after the mission that she has an opportunity to redeem the group, she will stop at nothing to correct the mistake that has haunted her for most of her life.

Armed with a phenomenal cast headlined by

Academy Award winner Mirren and this year’s fi nest talent discovery, Jessica Chastain, Madden turns in his best work since “Shakespeare in Love.” With a taut script by Vaughn and Goldman, the partnership from which “Kick-Ass” and “X-Men: First Class” were born, the thriller boasts a level of maturity that one does not necessarily expect from the enormously talented pair. Under Madden’s guidance, the unexpectedly smart script translates seamlessly from page to picture.

The best thrillers — fi lm noirs and spy dramas especially — generally thrive on moral ambiguity, and “The Debt” is an unnerving morality play. The younger Rachel, Stephan and David struggle with their throughout the unbearably suspenseful fi nal act. The moral uncertainty loses none of its weight when the drama reverts back to Mirren, whose journey to right her most devastating wrong poses an ethical question with the potential to haunt viewers for days.

Chastain, Worthington and Csokas steal the show from veteran actors Mirren and Wilkinson. Mirren perfectly embodies Rachel’s sensitivity and poise, but Chastain, a dynamite talent, makes the character mesmerizing. Worthington, the young action star of shallow blockbusters “Ava-tar” and “Clash of the Titans,” turns in his best work yet as Rachel’s shy but passionate comrade and lover.

The plot is rather convoluted and at times uneven, awkwardly straddling different time peri-ods and poorly handling the characters’ transition over 30 years. But the story is so tightly wound and the acting so sharp that the plot hardly handicaps the effect of the drama. Considering the revelatory power that resonates long after the fi lm concludes, it hardly even matters.

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By Chris IsemanStaff Writer

Sitting on the bench near the end of last season, Phil Boerger started to put together his exit plan from Evansville. His dissatisfaction with the losing program had become insurmountable, and after being the starting goalkeeper for half the season, the benching only made it worse. Boerger had to get out.

In the last game he started for Evansville, Boerger gave up two goals in a 2-1 loss to Drake. They were the final two goals he’d ever give up for the Purple Aces. He sat on the bench for the remainder of the season.

“We definitely weren’t playing to our poten-tial at all,” Boerger said. “A lot of guys ended up leaving. I was the first guy to leave in the spring semester. I started — I think it was — 10 games. And then one thing kind of led to another, and I knew I was going to leave there at the end of the

season.”As he watched from the bench, Boerger made

up his mind to leave the program and play out his final year of eligibility elsewhere. Given his release from Evansville, Boerger was presented with some options, but none seemed better than the one Syracuse (1-2-0, 0-0 Big East) offered. It was the chance to reunite with SU assistant coach Mike Miller, who was an assistant coach at Evansville for Boerger’s first two years there, as well as an opportunity to play in the higher profile Big East conference.

Now the Orange’s starting goalkeeper, Boerger, who is in his senior season, has been given the opportunity to help build the program back up to a respectable level. He has started all three of Syracuse’s games so far in 2011 and has made 10 saves, including a six-save performance in the team’s season-opening 1-0 loss to Colgate. All told, the decision to leave Evansville turned out to be a good one so far — for both him and SU.

“He’s made a couple of really good saves, important saves for us,” head coach Ian McIntyre said. “I think he’s been very solid. If he continues to keep moving forward and growing, I think he can have a really important season for us.”

McIntyre never guaranteed Boerger the starting spot, sparking a preseason competition mainly between the transfer and junior Ryan Jones. Also in the mix were three freshmen, but they were certainly considered the underdogs in the competition that involved two veterans.

With the departure of Jeremy Vuolo, the Orange was looking for someone to step into that spot and make a seamless transition in goal.

Boerger became that new face, bringing along a semblance of stability having already gone through the collegiate learning curve.

Still, the Orange’s 2-10-5 record last season could have been a cause for concern to someone looking to finish out his career on a high note. SU hasn’t shown it can win consistently under McIntyre.

But that wasn’t enough to dissuade Boerger from transferring.

“It was tough, obviously,” Borger said. “With a record like that, it’s not appealing at first. But looking into it, it was a great thing to be a part of to help build up. This is my last season, and hopefully I can help build onto that and maybe bring some prowess to the program.”

With Boerger being named the starter, a spot McIntyre said isn’t necessarily solidified, Jones

was relegated to a reserve position for yet anoth-er season after sitting behind Vuolo in 2010. But Jones said he didn’t get caught up in Boerger transferring to SU and the ramifications that it would have on his own spot on the team.

Instead, he took it as a reason to work harder. Improve every day in practice. And when given playing time in a game, capitalize on the oppor-tunity.

“It’s disappointing that I’m not the one start-ing,” Jones said. “But it’s definitely great to have him here just for both of us to get better. … It’s been great so far that we’ve been working together and trying to get better as a team. “

That’s Boerger’s goal exactly. He didn’t leave a floundering program at Evansville to join another in Syracuse. He left to resurrect a team that had fallen to the bottom of what he consid-ers one of the best conferences in the country.

With his struggles in Evansville behind him and the starting spot in Syracuse secured for now, Boerger is focusing on how far this team can go. Along with his personal rejuvenation has come a lofty vision for the future of the program.

“I know that this team can be one of the top programs in the Big East and in the country in the future,” Boerger said. “I want to be part of that.”

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Quick HitsLast 3aug. 27 @ Colgate L, 1-0Sept. 1 Canisius W, 2-1Sept. 4 @ Siena L, 2-1 (Ot)

Next 3thursday adelphi 7 p.m.Sunday american 2 p.m.Sept. 16 vs. Cal Poly* 5 p.m.*University of akron tournament in akron, Ohio

the Syracuse men’s soccer team has started off its season 1-2, losing its sea-son opener to Colgate before winning its home opener against Canisius. the Orange then suffered an overtime loss to Siena despite doubling the Saints’ shot total. the Orange’s leading scorer is freshman defender Skylar thomas, who has notched two of Syracuse’s three goals so far. SU is still looking for other scoring threats for a developing offense. the Orange returns to action thursday at home against adelphi, before facing american at home on Sunday.

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South Florida win highlights undefeated start for Big EastBy Ryne GeryAsst. sports Editor

Skip Holtz couldn’t have written a better start to the season. Not even two weather delays could spoil the South Florida head coach’s return to his alma mater, Notre Dame.

Despite his defense allowing 508 total yards to the Irish and the offense scoring just one touchdown, the Bulls came away with a win behind five forced turnovers.

“I said we couldn’t have written a better script,” Holtz said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference Monday. “I don’t think we played very well in a lot of respects, and there were other things I thought we did a great job of.”

South Florida was far from perfect, but none-theless impressive in its 23-20 win at Notre Dame on Saturday. The Bulls overcame two weather delays totaling two hours and 53 min-utes to secure the most notable win by a Big East team to open the season. USF is now ranked No. 22 in the Associated Press Top 25.

The win also caught the attention of many around the conference as the marquee victory on a weekend when Big East teams went 8-0.

Holtz is hoping the win will serve as a launch-ing pad for this team to do something past USF teams couldn’t do. The head coach wants to see the Bulls become competitive in the Big East, as USF has finished each of the last three seasons with a losing conference record.

And though many head coaches are cautious about reading too much into the first week, winning games in the Big East will be no easy task for the Bulls or any other team. The confer-ence’s undefeated start serves as a sign of parity in the conference.

“You better be disciplined about what you’re doing because you’re playing a bunch of close football games,” Pittsburgh head coach Todd Graham said in the teleconference. “And this is no doubt a competitive league.”

No team made a stronger first impression than USF.

The Bulls scored early on a fumble recovery

for a touchdown to take a 7-0 lead. USF then tacked on three field goals, and Notre Dame missed multiple opportunities to score due to penalties and turnovers.

USF’s controlled play coupled with Notre Dame’s mistakes gave the Bulls a 16-0 lead at the half.

Then lightning struck, Notre Dame Stadium was evacuated and the game was delayed for two hours and 10 minutes.

It was the first weather delay in Notre Dame’s 123-year history. And Holtz said it’s something a team can’t prepare for. But his team did have some practice during training camp in Vero Beach, Fla., when its first scrimmage was delayed 90 minutes by lightning.

Saturday, Holtz and his players repeated exactly what they did Aug. 13 to stay loose during the delay at Vero Beach Sports Village. The players took their shoulder pads and shoes off and lay down in the locker room, staying relatively quiet and focused on the game.

“I didn’t want it to be a locker room where everybody took a naptime,” Holtz said. “But at the same time I didn’t want it to be Comedy Cen-tral where everybody was just joking around. So I thought they were very mature about it.”

Expecting a 10-minute warning, the team’s focus was jolted when the Bulls were suddenly told Notre Dame was out on the field ready to resume action. Five minutes of chaos ensued as the players put their pads and shoes back on and returned to the field.

Holtz felt the team was affected by the abrupt return from the first delay. Notre Dame cut the lead to 16-7 with the only score in the third quarter. USF pushed the lead back to 16 early in the fourth quarter and led by 10 when the second delay was called with 4:21 to play.

Holtz said he was proud of how his team handled the adversity. Throughout the day, the head coach reminded his players how long they had prepared for this game.

“We kept talking about how we train one month a year for a game,” Holtz said. “And so

with it being, whether this is a three-hour focus, a five-hour focus, an eight-hour focus, let’s stay focused on it because of the preparation and the work we’ve put into this game.”

USF did stay focused enough and held off Notre Dame after the 43-minute delay for the three-point win.

Connecticut head coach Paul Pasqualoni was impressed with the Bulls after catching a glimpse of the game Saturday night.

“They looked fast and they looked very, very well-coached and very well prepared,” Pasqua-loni said.

But after watching the film of the game on Sunday, Holtz and his players saw they have a lot to work on fundamentally. Though the script couldn’t have been written any better, USF’s execution could have been. And Holtz knows his team must improve that if it wants to compete in the Big East.

“They realized how much better that we can get as a program and how much more we need to improve as we go forward if we want to compete at that level week in and week out,” Holtz said.

West Virginia’s opener cut shortNo. 19 West Virginia defeated Marshall 34-13 on Sunday to finish the Big East’s undefeated weekend. The Mountaineers and Thundering

Herd played just over three quarters before the game was called due to lightning and heavy rain with 14:36 remaining in the game. Quarterback Geno Smith played well in the win, completing 26 of 35 passes for 249 yards and two touchdowns.

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Pittsburgh head coach Todd Graham’s self-described “high-octane” offense hardly lived up to the moniker by halftime against Buffalo on Saturday. The Panthers scored just one touch-down and led 7-3. Though the Pitt offense ran at Graham’s trademark breakneck pace, it wasn’t always effective or smooth.

Luckily for Pitt, running back Ray Graham was effective and smooth running the ball for the Panthers. The junior punished the Bulls for 201 yards rushing and three second-half touchdowns to lead his team to a 35-16 victory. His 201 yards ranked second among Football Bowl Subdivision rushers to Malcolm Agnew of Oregon State. It was Graham’s second 200-yard game of his career.

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coverage too badly.“We did a good job in camp rotating a lot of

guys,” Scott said. “We became used to playing with Jeremi Wilkes at safety or Phillip Thomas or Olando Fisher. We had a lot of rotation going on through camp.”

Where credit is dueA football team’s strength and conditioning

coaches don’t typically get much praise after a win whether it’s warranted or not.

But after Thursday’s win over Wake Forest, in which the defense was on the field for more than 11 minutes in the first quarter and two-thirds of the first half, that’s exactly who SU players credited for keeping them in the game.

“I feel like it was nothing that we couldn’t handle,” Jones said after the game. “I feel like

our strength and conditioning coaches, (Hal) Luther and (William) Hicks, did a good job pre-paring us for a situation like this. And we came out with the win.”

The Demon Deacons controlled the first half, running 45 plays in the first 30 minutes and 84 total. SU, on the other hand, ran a total of 58 plays the whole game.

Defensive end Mikhail Marinovich said he threw up twice on the field. Scott had to leave the game in the third quarter when his legs

cramped up.But still, the defense was able to recover and

shut down Wake Forest in the decisive fourth quarter and overtime. And Marrone, too, gave credit to the Luther and Hicks.

“I think from a standpoint of conditioning with the overtime and the amount of snaps,” Marrone said, “give credit to the weight coaches and give credit to the players with all they’ve done over the summer.”

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Perfect startthe Big East opened the season with a perfect record, going 8-0. it was one of two leagues to go undefeated along with the Big 12. Here’s a look at the results from Big East action in week one:

Team OppOnenT ResulTCincinnati Austin peay W, 72-10Connecticut Fordham W, 35-3Louisville Murray st. W, 21-9pittsburgh Buffalo W, 35-16rutgers North Carolina Central W, 48-0south Florida then-No. 16 Notre dame W, 23-20Syracuse Wake Forest W, 36-29 (OT)then-No. 24 West Virginia Marshall W, 34-13

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opponent Syracuse (1-0, 0-0 Big East) in the Car-rier Dome.

Compared to what he’s been through, facing a stronger, faster Big East opponent isn’t as daunting as it seems. The Farmingdale product was looked at by FBS schools but didn’t receive any offers.

He took his only offer at Hofstra and remained on Long Island to begin his collegiate career.

“Teams that looked at me heavily, I got looked at by Villanova a little bit,” Probst said. “But Hofstra was my only offer coming out of high school.”

Even as a true freshman, Probst’s combina-tion of size and athleticism set him apart from other players. Probst had a knack for escaping seemingly hopeless situations, former Hofstra linebacker Basim Hudeen said.

So much so, his teammates dubbed him “Slip-pery Steve.” In his first career action against Maine, he lived up to the nickname.

Probst remembers countless reminders from coaches in the practices leading up to that game. With starting quarterback Bryan Savage already on the shelf, he was only “one play away” from getting in the game. And when Cory Christopher broke his hip after a lengthy run in the second quarter, Probst was ready.

But as he entered the huddle for his first col-legiate snap, his teammates weren’t ready. The poised Probst provided some assurance.

“I was just trying to tell those guys to give me a chance,” he said. “Let’s see how it goes. Let’s just ride.”

With Probst holding the reigns, Hofstra came

back to force double overtime. He racked up 135 yards and three touchdowns through the air, often using his mobility to extend plays. He rushed for another 63 yards.

But unfortunately, the ride was short-lived.Probst all but benched himself for the Pride

against New Hampshire in 2008.With Hofstra’s top two quarterbacks side-

lined by injuries, Probst was thrown into the fire for most of his freshman season. In his third start, everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong.

Probst threw five interceptions, two of which were returned for touchdowns. He didn’t com-plete a pass longer than 21 yards.

As he jogged off the field after one inter-ception, Probst’s teammate, linebacker Luke Bonus, jogged on with the defense and gave the then-18-year-old Probst a piece of advice.

“I couldn’t help but laugh as he came off the field after one of the interceptions.” Bonus said. “I just said, ‘Hey man, just keep throwing. Just keep slinging ‘em,’”

And he did, as the problem wasn’t confidence for Probst. Nor was it the will to win. He was just unprepared after taking third-string reps in practice for the early part of the season.

After that five-interception debacle, Probst became more meticulous in studying opposing defenses. He spent extra hours in the film room. He overcame his early-season jitters and grew more comfortable on the field. He proved again he could also be an elusive ball carrier despite his 6-foot-4-inch, 230-pound frame.

Probst was better in his three games after New Hampshire, throwing three touchdowns and rushing for another, while throwing three interceptions total.

But in the offseason following his sophomore season, Probst was thrown another curveball.

Probst and his teammates were pulled out of

class by head coach Dave Cohen for an emergen-cy meeting Dec. 3, 2009. When Cohen introduced Athletic Director Jack Hayes to speak, Probst and many of his teammates thought Cohen had been fired.

Cohen was in fact leaving Hofstra, but he would not be alone. Hayes announced that fund-ing had been pulled for the football program.

“There were hard feelings all around: sad-ness, anger, confusion,” Bonus said. “I think speaking from my standpoint, I am very angry still. I want nothing to do with Hofstra. As long as they don’t have a football team there, I will never support that school.”

Representatives from other universities came the next day to recruit the Hofstra players, some already prepared to offer scholarships. The players would not be forced to sit out the next season because of the unusual circum-stances.

Among the coaches was a trio from Rhode Island that was interested in adding Probst. Head coach Joe Trainer and assistants Roy Istvan and Eddie Allen made their pitch.

“They kind of came in and they offered me a scholarship and said, ‘Look, you can play here. We’re in a similar offense, and we’d love to have you,’” Probst said.

Just like that, he was a Ram.Though he did not have to sit out, Trainer

said Probst came to Rhode Island with every intention of redshirting.

But when starter Chris Paul-Etienne went down before the season opener against Buffalo, Probst was once again forced into action.

Fortunately, he was used to an accelerated learning curve after his time at Hofstra. As a junior, Probst led the Rams with 1,876 passing yards and nine touchdowns through the air. He tacked on 600 rushing yards and seven touch-downs on the ground.

Many of those 16 scores were a product of Probst’s split-second decision-making, includ-ing one of the biggest: the first play of overtime against Brown.

Probst stood in the shotgun formation, inspecting the Bears’ defense. He was watching one of the defensive ends in particular.

If the end hung back, he would hand the ball off to the running back that stood next to him. But if the end rushed, Probst would take it himself.

Calling for the snap, Probst saw the end sprint forward. He followed the running back up the middle.

Twenty-five yards later, he gave Rhode Island the go-ahead score.

“We ran the zone-read play where I just kept the ball, and the offensive line did a great job of blocking it,” Probst said. “I kind of wasn’t think-ing, I was just running.”

Now a senior, Probst enters the season as the starter for the first time in his college career. Rhode Island quarterbacks coach Liam Coen said Probst spent the offseason cleaning up his footwork by emphasizing a “good feet, good head, good throw” mentality.

Against Syracuse, Probst will have his first chance to show that improvement. Prepared, comfortable and locked in, Probst appears in the right mindset to once again try to beat the odds by beating SU.

Compared to the adversities of playing through broken bones and the folding of a foot-ball program, Probst said defeating Syracuse could be a plausible task.

“Everything that’s happened in the past doesn’t matter,” Probst said. “Right now, the score against Syracuse is 0-0, so if we all come out and do our jobs, it’ll be a fun day, and we’ll see what happens when the clock hits zero.”

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By David PropperStaff Writer

It was a tale of two matches this weekend for Syracuse.

In Thursday’s game, all it took was a hard slide tackle from Syracuse defender Skylar Sabbag to send then-No. 12 Boston College a message: Take SU women’s soccer seriously.

Fast forward three days: Syracuse faced Rhode Island, a team that managed only three wins in its previous season. But instead of rid-ing the wave of momentum after a stellar effort against BC, Syracuse came out flat and fell to a lesser opponent 2-1.

“Every player was up for (the BC game), and then we became Rhode Island’s ‘BC,’” said SU head coach Phil Wheddon.

SU’s uneven performance is one the Orange (1-2-1, 0-0 Big East) hopes to avoid the rest of the season, as it searches for consis-tency in conference play. Syracuse proved it could stick with one of the premier programs in the country in Boston College, but couldn’t muster up that same fighting mentality against a beatable Rhode Island team. And with Big East opponents coming up in a little more than a week, Syracuse realizes now it has to have the same intense approach night in and night out.

Before Thursday’s contest, the Eagles were snapping off pictures of themselves rather than warming up. Wheddon made sure to point out that disrespect right away, and it

worked like a charm. To the Orange that was a slap in the face, adding even more motivation to bring it against a ranked opponent.

The result was Syracuse playing to a 0-0 tie on the road against a top-10 team. It was the best Wheddon has ever seen his team play.

“It obviously got us all fired up and ready to go, so we definitely proved them wrong,” senior defender Casey Ramirez said. “They felt a little stupid afterward I’m sure.”

And with that gutty performance, Whed-don’s team went from underdog to favorite in the course of a single weekend.

Underestimating the Rams on Sunday was something that Wheddon worried about going into the game and for good reason. Rather than sticking to the game plan that earned a well-fought tie against the Eagles, Wheddon felt the Orange veered away from that.

“There was a little bit of a letdown, not an awful lot, but I think we just expected to win,” he said.

He said his team tried to pull off some things against Rhode Island that it didn’t against BC, with some fancier play rather than keeping things simple like passing from point A to point B.

Jenna Rickan said that finding a way to rep-licate that effort against Boston College was on the team’s mind for the Rhode Island game, but it just didn’t happen.

Sophomore defender Cecilia Borgstrom, the only Orange player to net a goal on the week-

end, said the message Wheddon voiced after that loss to Rhode Island was to treat every team the same way. No more or less.

“Don’t think of what they’re called,” Borg-strom said Wheddon told the team. “Just play the game.”

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. While Syracuse was on its toes against BC, a couple of defensive lapses cost the Orange two goals against the Rams. Rhode Island also put all six of its shots on net. Against BC, Syracuse forced the Eagles to take multiple shots from 30 yards out.

“That’s a problem. We have to be consistent, and we’re working on it,” Borgstrom said.

One positive SU can pull from this weekend, though, is how much and how quickly the tides can turn.

“I definitely think it was a wake-up call for all of us,” said Ramirez.

So for Syracuse, the goal the rest of the season is to bring the same hungry attitude into every game. Unless, that is, the opposing team provokes them by taking pictures before a match.

“I think just coming back and seeing that not to take any game for granted really taught us a good, hard, but good lesson,” Rickan said. “Obviously, you want to do well every weekend, but at least it’s now, in the beginning, so we can learn from it.”

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OutlookSyracuse played its best game in Phil Wheddon’s tenure thursday as it tied then-No. 12 Boston College on the road. But the inconsistency of this young team shone through as it lost a disappointing game at rhode island three days later. Now, SU must rebound quickly with just two games remaining before its conference opener against UConn on Sept. 15. the Orange needs to learn how to play at a high level night in and night out, not just once in a while.

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2 Bedroom Apartments

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5 Bedroom Housesand Apartments

604 Walnut Ave1202 Harrison St

117 Redfield Place415 euclid Ave

716 sumner Ave726 Livingston Ave707 Livingston Ave203 Comstock Ave215 Comstock Ave814 Lancaster Ave

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parking, full-timemaintenance and management

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remodeled Kitchens and Baths

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SP ORT S PA G E 2 4the daily orange

Throughit all

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BUMPS IN THE ROAD

Steve Probst has bat-tled adversity through-out his football career. From Farmingdale High School to Hofs-tra to Rhode Island, the quarterback has been through many highs and lows. Here’s a look at some major events that have shaped his career going into his senior year:

Oct. 19, 2007Probst broke two bones in his heel against Baldwin High School. He opted to pass on surgery and returned to play in the Long Island champion-ship game.

Oct. 18, 2008Probst made his col-legiate debut against Maine, relieving the injured Cory Chris-topher late in the second quarter. He threw for 135 yards, three touchdowns and picked up another 63 yards on the ground, but Hofstra fell in double overtime.

Nov. 1, 2008Probst threw fi ve interceptions as a true freshman against New Hampshire. Two interceptions were returned for touch-downs.

Dec. 3, 2009The Hofstra program folded, and Probst needed to fi nd a new school. He soon transferred to Rhode Island, where he was forced into action due to an injury to the starter.

Oct. 2, 2010Probst scored a touch-down on the fi rst play of overtime in a victory over Brown. He scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 25-yard run on a zone-read play to lead the Rams to a 27-24 overtime victory.

W E D N E S D AYseptember 7, 2011

f o o t b a l l

Jones among 3 Orange defenders with injuries

bobby yarbrought | staff photographerCHANDLER JONES (99) is out indefinitely after suffering a lower body injury against Wake Forest Thursday. He had five tackles for SU.

By Zach BrownSTAFF WRITER

Chandler Jones was listed among three players out indefi nitely after sustaining injuries in Syracuse’s season-opening 36-29 win over Wake Forest Thursday, according to an SU Athletics release on Tuesday. Olando Fisher and Ri’Shard Anderson are the other two players out.

On Monday, SU head coach Doug Marrone said the players would be fully evaluated later to determine their status for practices and games. All three are out indefi nitely.

Jones and Fisher suffered lower body injuries, and Anderson sus-tained an upper body injury in the game, according to the release.

Sophomore linebacker Marquis Spruill said the team will feel Jones’ absence from the defensive line.

“I’m not going to say that we’re going to be lost without (Jones),” Spruill said Tuesday. “But it’s just not going to be that same presence as Chandler Jones out there.”

Jones recorded fi ve tackles and 0.5 sacks against the Demon Deacons in the win Thursday. Jones spoke to the media after the game, but Marrone said Monday he was being evaluated for an injury. Jones also did not attend his scheduled media session Tuesday.

The senior was a starter for the Orange the past two seasons. He racked up 109 tackles, 5.5 sacks and three forced fumbles in that span. He was also named to the Lombardi Award watch list this preseason, an award given to the nation’s best line-man.

After Syracuse lost six starters

from its defense last year, Jones’ teammates said he was stepping into more of a leadership role on and off the fi eld this offseason. He commu-nicated more on the fi eld and worked with the entire defense to make sure everyone understood the schemes.

“If things were going tough, he’d tell everybody to keep their head up, stay in the game, stay focused,” Spruill said. “He was always vocal on the sidelines to everybody.”

Now, it seems that the sidelines may be the only spot Jones can be vocal from in the near future. Senior Torrey Ball and junior Brandon Sharpe appear to be next in line to replace Jones on the Orange defensive line.

Against Wake Forest on Thursday, Ball made four tackles and recorded 0.5 sacks, his fi rst at SU. Sharpe also saw some action against the Demon Deacons and made one tackle in the game.

Secondary concernsThe other injuries reported Tuesday by SU Athletics added to the ever-growing list of health issues in the Syracuse secondary.

Anderson started at corner against Wake Forest but left the game in the fi rst quarter and did not return. Fish-er is listed as the backup strong safety on SU’s depth chart but still made three tackles in the game.

Six of the top eight players in Syra-cuse’s secondary have dealt with inju-ries in the fi rst month of the season. But in the mind of senior cornerback Kevyn Scott, it shouldn’t hurt the pass

SEE INJURIES PAGE 19

By Stephen BaileyASST. COPY EDITOR

Steve Probst has only known the spread offense. For the last seven seasons — his entire high school

and collegiate football career — Probst has quarterbacked an offense running a variation of that system.

He learned and mastered the spread in four years under the tutelage of head coach Buddy Krumenacker at Farming-

dale (N.Y.) High School. Krumenacker said Probst demonstrated a clear com-mand of the offense and the ability to make reads at game speed throughout his career.

“He’d make a read on the defensive end and pull the ball, and usually, then the

edge is covered by the outside linebacker,” Krumenacker said. “He’d beat the outside linebacker and take it up the fi eld.”

Rutgers, Syracuse and Temple were all interested. Instead, Probst landed at Hofstra, a Football Championship Subdi-vision team.

Since then, he has transferred to Rhode Island, where he’s about to begin his senior year. In a career riddled with hardships, Probst has emerged as a leader of the Rams. And 2011 is his last chance for a big season after overcoming a slew of diffi cult situations.

After picking apart defenses for the fi rst half of his senior year at Farming-dale, injury struck Probst. Two broken bones in his foot right in the middle of the season.

Farmingdale persevered with Probst on the sidelines, reaching the Long Island championship game and giving him a chance to return for the fi nal game. He displayed rare toughness, playing through pain in what turned out to be a Farmingdale loss.

The bones in Probst’s heel have long since healed, but that competitive fl ame is still burning. It has allowed him to win tougher battles than a couple of broken bones. Probst and Rhode Island (0-0, 0-0 Colonial Athletic Association) face anoth-er tough challenge this weekend when they take on Football Bowl Subdivision

SEE PROBST PAGE 20

“Teams that looked at me heavily, I got looked at by Villanova a little bit. But Hofstra was my only offer coming out of high school.”

Steve ProbstRHODE ISLAND QUARTERBACK

SP ORT S

Throughit all

Throughit all

ThroughBUMPS IN

THE ROADSteve Probst has bat-tled adversity through-out his football career. From Farmingdale High School to Hofs-tra to Rhode Island, the quarterback has been through many highs and lows. Here’s a look at some major events that have shaped his career going into his senior year:

Oct. 19, 2007Probst broke two bones in his heel against Baldwin High School. He opted to pass on surgery and returned to play in the Long Island champion-ship game.

Oct. 18, 2008Probst made his col-legiate debut against Maine, relieving the injured Cory Chris-

september 7, 2011

Rhode Island quarterback Probst

navigates rocky road to fi nd consistency with Rams

courtesy of rhode island ahletics

STEVE PROBST is a dual-threat quarterback for Rhode Island. After over-coming numerous obstacles, he has high hopes for his senior season at URI.