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By Mark CooperEDITOR IN CHIEF

W hen Kevin McQuain returned from Oakwood Cemetery that night, he didn’t come back empty-handed.

McQuain’s roommate, Nate Andresani, was preparing for an intramural football game in their Flint Hall room on Oct. 18, 1988 when McQuain came in holding a paper bag. Andresani was taken aback by McQuain’s new possession.

The bag contained a human skull. “I was like, ‘You got to be sh*tting me,’” Andresani said. “I didn’t

have time to think much about it other than ‘What the hell are you going to do with that?’”

It’s a story occasionally unearthed around Halloween, said Edward Menkin, McQuain’s attorney following the arrest. Menkin still hears from

McQuain every once in a while, usually around this time of year. And though McQuain’s intentions were not to create a Halloween prank, the spooky

nature of the story and proximity of the event to Halloween made it to stick in Syracuse University lore.

McQuain, a freshman art major at the time described as a “gifted artist,” planned on using the skull as a guide for his sculpture class. He

even received an art scholarship from SU. But getting caught with the skull, which he robbed from a mausoleum, would change his entire

SU career.McQuain propped a garbage can on top of Flint 3C’s common

room stove and began boiling it, using Clorox to clean off the dirt. The skull’s noxious stench flowed down the hall,

alarming everyone.Soon after, he was arrested. And after investigators

looked into it, they discovered whom the skull belonged to: John J. Crouse Jr., former mayor of Syracuse. Crouse Jr. happened to also be the son of John Crouse, which Crouse College is named after.

“It turned out to be a skull of the ex-mayor of Syracuse and it was Halloween, and suddenly it was DEFCON 1 and the community was up in arms,” Menkin said.

Investigators found smashed and splintered caskets, bones and decomposed parts strewn across the mauso-leum floor — though McQuain and others said the mau-

soleum was broken into and destroyed before McQuain discovered a skull out

By Levi SteinSTAFF WRITER

While the Syracuse area avoided the worst of Superstorm Sandy, many stu-dents from the tri-state area spent the day watching the news and checking in with family and friends in affected areas.

First thing Tuesday morning, Joseph Miranda called his parents in Nassau County, N.Y. While his parents’ house was left relatively untouched, his

uncle’s house in Garden City, N.Y., did not fare as well.

“My uncle was staying with my parents because his neighbor’s gas line exploded, causing massive damage to sur-rounding houses,” said Miranda, a sopho-more computer art major. “Fortunately, no one was inside the house, but one of my uncle’s other neighbors is currently in critical condition at the hospital.”

Many students were worried about

their friends and family in New York City, where reports of widespread damage throughout the five boroughs circulated on the news. The city shut down its public subway system, railroad and bus services on Sunday at 7 p.m., and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a press conference on Monday night that city residents should not call 911 unless it was a life-threatening emergency.

New York City was receiving 10,000

calls per half hour, Bloomberg said in the press conference. About 375,000 people were ordered to evacuate lower Manhattan.

Jess Tuck, a senior communications design major, said that her sister who lives in Brooklyn said her area saw “severe weather.” Tuck said her sister anticipated being stuck for a while until bridges and tunnels were ready for use.

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By Meredith NewmanASST. NEWS EDITOR

Superstorm Sandy minimally affected the Syracuse area. No injuries or flooded houses were reported, said a Syracuse Police Department official.

Given that Syracuse University offi-cials canceled a day and a half of classes, some students were surprised to see that Superstorm Sandy had such little effect on the community.

“When I woke up this morning and looked outside, it just looked like a nor-mal Syracuse day, not a hurricane,” said senior psychology major Ashley Lawton.

Syracuse University officials can-celed classes for part of Monday and all of Tuesday to protect students from strong winds and heavy rain associated with Superstorm Sandy.

Lawton said she thought classes might be canceled because of reports about the intense winds near Syracuse. Despite the lack of extreme weather, she said she thinks it was the right decision

Effects of storm not felt at SU

By Annie PalmerSTAFF WRITER

Adam Chen can no longer study at E.S. Bird Library with peace of mind. On Sept. 16, Chen’s backpack, containing his MacBook Pro, iPhone and class materials, was stolen.

After the incident, the senior psy-chology major immediately went to the Department of Public Safety to report the case, Chen said in an email. Sur-veillance camera images from the first floor exit captured the suspect leaving Bird Library with Chen’s items in tow,

but the suspect has yet to be identified. There are at least 1 or 2 thefts at

Bird Library a week, according to DPS crime logs.

“Just last week, I was present dur-ing a crime that took place at the Waverly entrance of Bird,” Chen said. “Bird Library definitely needs better security because of how prevalent the larceny has been.”

Bird Library security has been working in cooperation with DPS to increase security coverage to prevent

Officials look into string of recent thefts in Bird Library By Shannon Hazlitt

STAFF WRITER

Syracuse University alumnus Ter-rance Smith will spend the next nine months traveling around the country to spread awareness about genocide in a creative way.

The project, One Million Bones, is an initiative that raises aware-ness about humanitarian crises in Somalia and the Democratic Repub-lic of the Congo by encouraging people of all ages and nationalities to create handmade bones, accord-ing to its website.

The bones will be put on display at the National Mall in Washington,

D.C., on June 8, 2013, according to its website.

For every bone donated to the One Million Bones initiative, the Bezos Family Foundation will donate $1 to CARE, a leading humanitarian organization that assists countries affected by geno-cides, Smith said.

Smith, a program fellow for Stu-dents Rebuild, which is a nonprofit supporting the project, said he thinks the symbolism of the bones is effective in uniting people taking on this challenge.

“Bones symbolize our common humanity,” he said.

Members of STAND: A Stu-dent Anti-Genocide Coalition, have found ways to contribute to the campaign.

Emily Ballard, a member of STAND and a sophomore policy studies major, said the group will make bones at its weekly meetings for the next month.

“I think this program is great because so many other awareness programs are not tangible,” Ballard said. “But this is something that you can actually do, see and use to measure results.”

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By Shelby NetschkeCONTRIBUTING WRITER

With Halloween falling on a Wednes-day this year, the Department of Pub-lic Safety has increased patrols to prevent any crime that might occur due to midweek partying.

DPS Chief Tony Callisto said officers are aware that the Wednes-day holiday will result in more

weekday activity, and officers will be out patrolling until late Wednes-day night.

“We’re actually going to provide our typical weekend coverage Hal-loween night,” he said.

Callisto said due to warm weather and students celebrating the holiday, all local authorities took extra pre-cautions last weekend.

He said DPS had more patrols out Saturday night than at any other time in the semester.

The past weekend was comparable to any other for Amy Cross, a junior elementary education major. She said she didn’t feel threatened by an unusual amount of crime.

“I actually felt really safe,” Cross said. “I saw Syracuse Police and DPS

everywhere. They had cars all over the place.”

Callisto said there were marked police cars on nearly every corner last weekend.

This weekend will have compara-ble coverage by DPS and the Syracuse Police Department, but Callisto said the rainy weather is going to make a difference in the amount of crime.

“Weather tends to slow things down for us a little bit,” he said. “This next weekend’s forecast is rainy so that will certainly slow things down.”

In response to the bad weather from Hurricane-turned Superstorm Sandy, the university canceled classes for part of Monday and all of Tuesday, which has students wondering

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A stop sign blows over in front of the stairs to Flint and Day halls in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy on Tuesday night. Syracuse University officials canceled classes part of Monday and all of Tuesday, but the storm did little damage to the Syracuse area.

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in the open.Many contested the Crouse mausoleum was

already busted and decimated before entered.

Andresani said McQuain told police the crypts were open and he did not actually break into the mausoleum.

Jim Ridlon, a professor of sculpture at the time, went to court with McQuain. While Ridlon said McQuain was “stupid,” he said people had started using the mausoleum for shelter. Copies of newspapers dating back several years were stacked in the mausoleum, Ridlon said, indicat-ing that McQuain did not open the mausoleum.

No matter who did it, Dan Glavin, director of Oakwood Cemetery since 1982, remembers the scene of a completely broken mausoleum.

“It was a mess,” he said.Andresani and other floormates received

plenty of unwanted attention after McQuain and Andresani’s room number was published.

Andresani recalls one night, a couple days after McQuain’s arrest, when two large, intoxi-

cated men showed up at his door looking for a fight. McQuain clearly was not there, and Andresani said the two men, one of whom was dressed in a kilt, turned out to be descendents of the Crouse family, angered by the news that Crouse Jr.’s skull was taken.

“The frustrating part was that being your freshman year of college, I didn’t need people showing up at the room when I had done noth-ing to contribute to it,” he said.

McQuain was sentenced to 200 hours of com-munity service, but also had his scholarship taken away. After completing his second year at SU, he left school because he could no longer afford it, The Post-Standard reported in 2002.

McQuain and Andresani had different back-grounds, and that was clear when they first met, but Andresani said they got along well in their confined space.

“I’m showing up with Phillies stuff and sea-son tickets for all the sporting events, and Kevin’s showing up in a leather jacket and goth-like,” Andresani said.

Multiple attempts to reach McQuain, who went on to start an independent record compa-ny named Skully Records, were unsuccessful.

The story reached national headlines, with versions published by The New York Times and United Press International. Andresani, who was from the Philadelphia area, worried about his parents finding out.

Andresani ran into McQuain once during McQuain’s second year on campus, but lost touch after, as each was on a different path from the start of freshman year.

“I told the story many times,” Andresani said. “In the sense of my friends’ kids go off to college or when other people go off to college, I am sure I have the best, strangest freshman roommate story ever.”

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Focusing on health care, social issues and foreign policy plans, The Daily Orange Editorial Board endorses President Barack Obama in the upcoming election.

One tenant of Obama’s Affordable Care Act — nicknamed Obamacare — includes coverage for young adults. Young adults can stay on their par-ents’ health care up until age 26. This directly affects and benefits college students. Having universal health care will also increase the quality of life and well-being for Americans across the country.

After graduation, students may not be employed immediately. Students may choose to continue their educa-tion further instead of seeking full-time employment until later. During these time periods, students still need health care, and the Affordable Care Act makes this more feasible.

Obama is more progressive with his views on social issues. Gener-ally, college students are in line with these ideas as well. Obama is the first president to openly support gay marriage. His views on abortion,

women’s rights and contracep-tives also make him an appealing president to the typical college demographic and The Daily Orange Editorial Board.

In the realm of foreign policy, which was hotly contested in the third and final presidential debate, the editorial board again sides with Obama. Generally, Obama is a well-respected figure abroad, whereas Republican candidate Mitt Romney has made a handful of political gaffes during his campaign. If Romney is elected, any progress made in the past four years will be erased.

Obama has faced criticism and challenges in his first four years in office. He will continue to face them — maybe even more so — if he wins the election. But for the progress he has made and the stands he has taken on issues, The Daily Orange Editorial Board thinks a second term of Obama in office is the best choice.

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A s college students, our future success depends, in part, on what our elected officials do

in Washington today. For this reason, everyone should vote in the upcom-ing presidential election.

At this point, both President Barack Obama and Republican can-didate Mitt Romney have outlined their strategies for the next four years, and the choice is ours to make.

Our post-graduation world depends primarily on job availability, student loan debt and the fiscal posi-tion of the United States. Just over half of bachelor’s degree holders under the age of 25 were unemployed or underemployed last year, accord-ing to an Associated Press report.

But this makes no sense. From day one we were told that a college degree

is the best investment one can make. But this is not automatically the case. Job outlook matters.

The poor fortunes of half of us are, in part, caused by the clamoring of most of us for increasingly lower student loan rates and government student loan for-giveness. This clamoring means votes for elected officials who comply.

Free money sure sounds nice, but this is a problem. The lower the rates go and more the government forgives, the less we need to think about paying off our loans and hence, the less we concern ourselves with which majors translate into job opportunities.

In other words, the government assumes an increasing amount of student lending risk so we can ignore it. This is exactly why half of us will likely be jobless or without the job we

expected, and Obama wants to keep playing this game.

Obama wants us to vote for him because he will have the government keep handing us cheap money. It’s pandering, and we must reject it.

Romney understands “a flood of federal dollars is driving up tuition and burdening too many young Americans with substantial debt and too few opportunities” — a good summation of the situation.

And Romney is in good company. “There is increasing concern that many students may be getting their loans for the wrong reasons, or that borrowers — and lenders — have unrealistic expectations of borrow-ers’ future earnings,” according to Moody’s Analytics.

Moody’s also reports “the long-run outlook for student lending and borrowers remains worrisome,” and “unlike other segments of the consum-er credit economy, student loans have not demonstrated much improvement in performance despite some improve-ment in the broader economy.”

In other words, the myth has been busted that pouring ever-increasing amounts of government money into higher education is an investment in our future. Doing so causes tuition

price inflation, more debt and post-graduation lower employment.

Despite this, Obama and the left continue urging us to clamor for more, even as we dig further into debt.

A few sentences buried in Obama’s 2013 Analytical Perspectives budget document say it all. “Beyond 2022 … the fiscal position (of the United States) gradually deteriorates mainly because of the aging of the population and the high continuing cost of the Govern-ment’s health programs ... the deficit continues to rise for the next 75 years.”

We are the next 75 years, and this is proof positive that we should all vote for Romney.

Michael Stikkel is a junior computer engineering major. His

column appears weekly. He can be reached at mcstikke@syr.edu.

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further occurrences of theft, said Vernon Thompson, investigations and crime preven-tion commander for DPS.

Bird Library has cameras installed at the

first floor exits and entrances to ensure optimal safety, said Thomas House, facilities and secu-rity coordinator at Bird Library. Bird Library is planning to install more cameras across all floors in the near future.

Anisha Chandran, a freshman in the Mar-tin J. Whitman School of Management, said she feels larceny has become such a problem

because of the lack of cameras. Possible solu-tions could be signs advertising the use of cameras, or lockers for students to use when

studying, Chandran said. “We have 24-hour surveillance around and

inside Bird Library, and have put in place crime prevention notices to educate individuals to watch belongings more securely,” Thompson said. “We have also been working with area law enforcement to track suspected perpetrators.”

Placing cameras in and around Bird Library doesn’t actually stop the theft from occurring, but it will document the criminal acts, Thomp-son said.

Despite the large signs warning students not to leave their items unattended near the entranc-

es and exits of Bird Library, Jennifer Lundeen, a senior social work major, said she did not believe the library had an unsafe environment.

“When I’m studying at Bird, I often leave my stuff unattended for brief moments of time,” Lundeen said. “In the back of my mind, I know it’s probably a bad idea, but I figure that since I’ll be back shortly, nothing will happen.”

Bird Library is open to the public, making it difficult to keep an eye on every individual entering and exiting the building. Since these incidents happen so quickly, many of the librar-ians have been acting as extra supervisors for suspicious activity, House said.

“If you are stepping out for a moment, bring your items with you, or have a trusted friend watch them for you,” Thompson said.

Criminals are becoming more and more aware of where cameras are located and are exploiting this fact, Chen said. He has faith that DPS will recover his valuables, but now trusts no one at Bird Library.

“Installing more cameras seems to be the answer because it would prevent theft by alert-ing criminals they’re being watched, and it also helps provide footage for DPS in case a theft occurs,” he said. “Above all, use good sense and make sure your valuables are protected.”

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Chelsea Memet, a junior information tech-nology and management major from Queens, was able to contact her family even though many were without cell service. She said Sun-nyside, her neighborhood, did not end up with extensive damage, but some nearby areas had it much worse.

“However, on the Rockaway Peninsula by the beach, there was major flooding, and some towns were destroyed by the rains and fire,” Memet said.

While heavy rains pounded New England and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, blizzard-like conditions affected the Appala-chian region of the United States.

Sophie Greenberg, a junior public relations major from Princeton, W.Va., said her home-town got nearly a foot of snow and may get a

couple more feet. “All colleges and schools are closed for the

entire week and my dad has had to shut down his doctor’s office because he can’t get out of the house,” she said. “We still have power, but other

parts of the region don’t.”Several New Jersey residents spoke with

their parents after hearing reports of the dam-age and widespread power outages.

“My parents in Bergen County are sup-posed to be without power for 10 days,” said Tatiana Stephanis, a junior communications design major. “Trees are littering the roads and the damage is immense.”

Carling Mott, a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major, was able to speak with both her parents several times during the last few days. Her hometown of Ocean City, N.J., was directly in the path of Superstorm Sandy’s landfall.

“Downtown Ocean City has at least three feet of flood water,” Mott said. “My father stayed on the island while my mother evacuated to my grandmother’s house.”

Although the mayor of Ocean City said no deaths or serious injuries were reported, there is currently no access to the island, she said.

Leigh Ortman, a senior advertising major, reported similar destruction in her town of Point Pleasant, N.J., located just an hour north of Ocean City.

She said there was significantly less damage on the West side of Point Pleasant, where her family lives, than on the East side.

“Rumor has it that power won’t be back in Point Pleasant for up to three weeks,” Ortman said. “The Seaside Heights pier was destroyed and the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk and many boats in the marina have washed throughout town.”

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“If you are stepping out for a moment, bring your items with you, or have a trusted friend watch them for you.”

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“Rumor has it that power won’t be back in Point Pleasant for up to three weeks.”

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BY THE NUMBERSSay Yes to Education has been in Syracuse since 2008 with the goal of increasing high school and college graduation rates for urban students. The organization has achieved several objectives in the last few years. Here are some statistics from its spring 2012 report card:

• More than $2.5 million scholarships awarded

• Almost 2,000 students enrolled in 2-year and 4-year colleges since fall 2009

• More than 200 high school students enrolled in free tutoring and SAT prep services every week

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P arent University is sending Syracuse parents back to school with the goal of informing, involving and empower-

ing families of students in the community.“The ultimate goal is to get children

through high school and across the stage,” Monique Wright-Williams, executive direc-tor of parent and family engagement for Say Yes to Education, which sponsors the initiative, said in an email. “The Parent University will provide families with infor-mation and resources that will enable them to be in the best position to help their children through that process.”

Say Yes is a national nonprofit organiza-tion that enhances academic resources for school districts through grants. The orga-nization supports students from elemen-tary school through the college searching process. It offers everything from extended academic support to health insurance enrollment, and SAT preparation pro-grams to scholarship opportunities.

Sharon Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School District, intro-duced the idea of Parent University to Say Yes, The Post-Standard reported on Oct. 20. The program provides classes and workshops to inform parents on ways to motivate their children and stay positively involved in their education, The Post-Stan-dard reported.

Major goals of the program include bettering communication within fami-lies, setting high standards for students and holding parents accountable for their students’ performances, The Post-

Standard reported. The Parent University website also out-

lines a plan for parents to support their children with personal academic and non-academic goals and issues. The initiative also hopes to establish a better sense of community throughout the district.

Onondaga Community College hosted the Parent University Kickoff Summit on Oct. 20. At the event, which 182 parents and family members attended, 22 work-shops were held and 18 agencies worked to provide outreach support and materials to those at the event, Wright-Williams said.

Workshops focused on dealing with the new curriculum, bullying, commu-nication and how to increase literacy skills among students, The Post-Stan-dard reported.

Author and motivational speaker Baruti Kafele, who until recently was a principal in New Jersey, spoke at the summit, The Post-Standard reported. He believes that students can achieve their goals if they have the proper support system, The Post-Standard reported.

Because the summit was such a success, Parent University will continue to plan events, including another summit.

“Future summits will operate very similarly to the one recently held,” Wright-Williams said. “A volunteer committee of parents and community members are currently working on the next summit for the spring semester. Those details will be available at the conclusion of this current semester.”

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a large role in making bones, said One Million Bones national liaison Kathleen McEuen.

“College students are responding very deeply to this project,” she said. “They want to take action and often extend the project into com-munities.”

Some colleges, such as Columbia College Chicago, have even designed classes around the One Million Bones initiative, McEuen said.

Activist Naomi Natale launched One Million Bones in March 2010 in New Mexico, where its headquarters are currently located.

Since it began, One Million Bones has inspired participation from 500 schools across the nation, Natale said. She also said it has given the anti-genocide movement valuable press through events such as a day of mini bone displays in state capitals last April.

“I’m interested in the intersection of art and

activism,” Natale said. “Especially how we can use art as a tool to bring issues that may seem far away from us closer to home.”

Smith, the SU alumnus, reached out to the Community Folk Art Center to help with creating the bones for the One Million Bones initiative.

Helina Kebede, a marketing specialist for the Community Folk Art Center, said the project is

a good fit for the center because the Syracuse community has a large population of people from the Congo and other areas in Africa that were directly affected by genocide.

The Community Folk Art Center holds workshops open to individuals and groups of all ages interested in making bones from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays, Kebede said. People can also make appoint-ments to come in anytime during the center’s normal business hours.

The workshop usually lasts about an hour and is the same for both individuals and groups, Kebede said. It begins with a short video and oral presentation about the humanitarian crisis and then participants are shown how to make the bones.

The bones are usually made out of donated newspaper, masking tape and plaster gauze, she said.

The workshops began Oct. 17, when the cen-ter announced its challenge for the Syracuse community to create at least 1,000 bones in 30

days, she said.If the Syracuse community reaches this goal,

Kebede said, Students Rebuild will pay the airfare for a Community Folk Art Center rep-resentative to participate in the laying of the handmade bones.

“So far it has been going well,” Kebede said of the center’s challenge. “We’ve been seeing more large groups make appointments to come in and create bones.”

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for the university to cancel classes. “It’s better to be safe than sorry,” she said. Andrew Folts, a junior advertising major,

said the decision was “pretty ridiculous, now seeing the weather.”

“I think the cancellation of classes boosted

campus morale though,” he said. “No one is angry that they had the two days off.”

Ryan Fitzgerald, a freshman physics major, said even though nothing happened regarding the storm, it was good class was canceled in order to avoid someone getting “in harm’s way.”

Saket Karajagi, second-year information management graduate student, said he pre-dicted that Syracuse wouldn’t be hit by the

superstorm.Karajagi said he was happy school was can-

celed and was sure most SU students enjoyed the time off as well.

“I’m glad they did this as a precaution,” Karajagi said. “It could have been a lot worse than people thought.”

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“College students are responding very deeply to this project. They want to take action and often extend the project into communities.”

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whether Halloween will be celebrated on Wednesday.

Alex Schenk, a first-year graduate student, said she thinks Thursday morning classes will keep the student population from partying on the actual night of Halloween.

“I have a feeling Wednesday is going to be uneventful,” Schenk said. “Teachers are prob-ably sneaky and will throw in a test.”

Because it’s a holiday, Jeremy Sharot, a

junior finance major, said he thinks having

more students out and about than usual will

present problems. “Obviously the more people going out, the

higher the crime rate,” he said. Callisto stressed that amid the holiday fes-

tivities, it is important that students consider their own safety.

He reminded students to walk around in groups of three or more, never walk alone at night and report any suspicious activities.

Said Callisto: “If there is a problem, we want to be able to be proactive and respond as soon as possible, and the way we are able to do that is through our students reporting it to us.”

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hen Dougherty’s Mas-querade first opened to the public in 1985 on Erie Boulevard, it was among

the local shops that pioneered the business of Halloween.

Fast-forward to 2012. The store has experienced a decline in sales, due in part to the store’s move to Shopping-Town Mall in DeWitt, N.Y., last Novem-ber. But Denise Dougherty Vinal, the store’s owner, said the biggest factor is the oversaturation of stores in Syra-cuse profiting from Halloween.

“We’re still here, and we’re here for the other 10 months of the year,” she said. “We expect people to support us during those two months. We like

to keep the business local.”Local businesses have been using

Halloween as a way to increase revenue this year. A total of 170 million people will celebrate Halloween this year, according to the National Retail Fed-eration. The average person will spend $79.82 on costumes, candy and decora-tions, compared to $72.31 last year. The total amount of spending for Halloween, the survey said, is expected hit $8 billion.

Roughly 35.7 percent of Americans will turn to a retail store for costume ideas compared with 27.1 percent on social media sites. The average person will spend $28.65 buying or making cos-tumes this year, compared to $26.52 in 2011.

Julia Darrenkamp, spokeswoman for Party City, said the store noticed Hal-

Local businesses take advantage of spooky Halloween season

zixi wu | staff photographer(FROM TOP) An employee at Fright Nights at the Fair dons a Jason Voorhees mask as part of the haunted house. (RIGHT) The CarnEVIL at Alliance Bank Stadium had plenty of eerie props in store for attendees. This haunted house was put on by the Syracuse Chiefs.

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Emergency eatsBy Danielle Odiamar

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As we all know from the miraculous cancella-tion of classes, Frankenstorm made its way up to Syracuse. Luckily, we didn’t get the worst of it, but to err on the side of caution, I did not adventure to a new restaurant this week.

Instead, I stocked up on what was left at Tops, combined it with what I have in my pan-try and made a superstorm menu to help brave the weather. Sandy or no Sandy, these easy recipes are good for whenever you’re hungry.

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TUNA TORTILLA BITESWhen I walked into Tops on Monday and saw the mayhem, I automatically thought of the worst-case scenario — no fridge, no stove, no oven or microwave. I immediately gravitated to the only things I remembered on the list of recommended foods to stock up on during a hurricane: canned tuna and tortilla chips, two items that happen to go very well together.

Ingredients:Tortilla chips, preferably the scoop-chip variety 1 can (6.5 ounces) tuna, drained well 3/4 cup chopped red onion1 large tomato, chopped1 jalapeno pepper, seeded, chopped1 tablespoon lemon juiceA few springs of fresh cilantro, fine choppedOR 1 jar of premade salsa if you’re feeling lazy

Once the tuna’s drained, break it up with a fork. Mix in onion, tomato, jalapeno and lemon juice. Place mixture into tortilla scoops with teaspoon so that they’re full and then garnish with cilantro and extra lemon juice if desired. If you’re using premade salsa, use your discretion in deciding how much to use so that tuna doesn’t get soggy.

DINO NUGGS AND COUSCOUSDinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets are something that every college student should have on hand, disaster storm or not. With those in mind, I thought of an easy, delicious side dish. Couscous won because it cooks remarkably fast and yields double what you think you’re getting once it has absorbed all the water.

Ingredients: 1 box couscous 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter 1/2 tablespoon garlic Pinch of saltFor every cup of couscous you’ll need two cups of water Use a microwave or stove heat the water with salt to a boil, add cous-cous, olive oil or butter and garlic. Mix well, cover and wait until water has been completely absorbed. Cook the dino nuggs in the micro-wave, pan or toaster, according to directions. I recommend using the pan or toaster if you have one, because they get nice and crisp.

Frozen desserts may not be your top priority if the power goes out, but FEMA suggests you fill your freezer up because a full freezer melts slower than an empty one if the power goes out. So why not fill it up with dessert?

Ingredients: 1 package of Oreos 2 small tubs of Cool Whip 9 ice cream sandwich barsCrush up Oreos and add to one of the containers of thawed Cool Whip. On a piece of foil, place three ice cream sandwiches down next to each other. Spread a layer of the Oreo, Cool Whip mixture on top. Add another layer of ice cream sandwiches and then repeat. Cover the stack with the unopened Cool Whip and garnish with crushed Oreos. Let harden in freezer for 2-4 hours.

ICE CREAM CAKEMAC AND CHEESE AND BAKED BEANS Canned baked beans are always on the list of emergency

food items, but I genuinely enjoy their sweet, tangy taste. So when I grabbed a can, I immediately thought of the Sponge-Bob SquarePants mac and cheese I had at home.

Follow the normal instructions on your instant mac and cheese. (Boil water, add pasta, drain or, in the case of Easy Mac, fill water to line and hit start.) Instead of adding milk and/or butter in with the cheese powder, add an undrained can of baked beans.

The sauce from the beans mixed with the cheese powder creates a delicious sauce.

If you have butter, breadcrumbs and an oven, you can mix two tablespoons of butter with a half cup of breadcrumbs and sprinkle on top of the pasta in a baking pan. Bake for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees, or until crumbs are browned.

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Four recipes to bunker down with during lousy weather

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It’s the end of the month and that can only mean one thing: I’m broke. That said, I still managed to do my fair share of drinking. This week

the spotlight is on two cheap beer deals that don’t involve the words Ice, Keystone, Natural or Lite (never trust a brewer who doesn’t know how to spell “light”). Don’t worry about how these beers taste, they’ll get you drunk. Please binge responsibly.

Miller High Life is advertised as the champagne of beers. This brew hit the market in 1903 and is a quality beer at a quality price, according to its website. High Life is a beer for the everyman after he comes home from a long day at the steel mill. More realistically, this is a bargain basement brew for casual day drinking and preparation for burping contests. They aren’t kidding when they call it the champagne of beers: It is extra carbonated. While this element of the High Life experience may not seem particularly useful, remember in certain parts of the world the ability to control one’s gastronomical releases is the ultimate aphrodisiac. If that isn’t enough to convince you, you can pick up an 18 of pounders, equivalent to 24 12-ounce cans, at Tops for only $11.99-plus tax and deposit.

Sometimes I like to throw on a wool hat and type random letters into Pandora to listen to some indie group that only plays instruments they made themselves. When I do this, I accompany it with multiple Pabst Blue Ribbons. My mom makes fun of me when she catches me doing my hipster impression, but I don’t care, I love PBR. I especially love PBR tall boys. You get to pick exactly how many beers you want, provided you want a multiple of 24-ounces. These bad boys can be picked up probably everywhere you can buy beer, but I would recommend Graby’s, where they are avail-able for $1.25 each.

–Compiled by Dylan Sorensen, staff writer, djsorens@syr.edu

zixi wu | staff photographerAn employee at Fright Nights at the Fair prepares to scare passers-by. This year, Syracuse University worked with the fair for the second time to provide transportation.

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loween has become “a much bigger deal this year.”“I think it’s traditionally been seen as a

holiday for kids, but it’s also becoming popular with adults as well,” Darrenkamp said.

Other businesses also thrived this year. Fright Nights at the Fair experienced an increase in sales of 2 to 3 percent, compared to an industry-wide decrease of 10 to 15 percent, said Grazi Zavvara, the fair’s owner.

“We do a lot of extras that people do,” Zav-vara said. “You can come here and not even go in the haunted house and still have fun.”

The increase in sales can also be attributed to SU’s Office of Student Activities, which, for the second time, participated by providing trans-portation and goodie bags to students who went.

Zavvara said the fairgrounds have a glass-enclosed truck with a mobile billboard that was brought to the university to advertise the fair.

“They asked us to bring it to the Schine Center and a couple other places,” he said. “They adver-tised for their discounts. Just things like that help.”

This year, 550 students participated, com-pared to 330 last year. Standard ticket prices were $20, but only $5 for students.

Indeed, there are other businesses that are looking at Halloween as an opportunity. The Syracuse Chiefs minor league baseball team is now hosting an annual CarnEVIL of Chiefsville Haunted House at the Alliance Bank Stadium. The team also hopes to partner with SU, like Fright Nights at the Fair, in the future.

“In the offseason, normally we’d turn off the heat, lock the doors and get ready for next season. But the stadium is 138,000 square feet,” said John Simone, the stadium’s general manager. “It’d be kind of foolish not to use the stadium when we could get revenue, no matter what time of the year it is.”

The walk-through haunted house lasted from Oct. 11 to Oct. 27 and operated Thursdays through Saturdays from 6 to 11 p.m. Individuals entered parts of the stadium typically closed off to the public and encountered zombies, clowns, men with chainsaws, dead mannequins and more. “We think it’s some-thing that can generate significant revenue down the road,” Simone said. “Haunted man-sions are profitable. Halloween is more and more popular, I think, as far as from the com-mercial end of it.”

Staff members were able to put together the event in a span of six weeks, with help from Simplified Entertainment, an event-booking agency.

Vinal said Dougherty’s moved to Shopping-Town because its lease at the Erie Boulevard location was up. But they had to pay a price: The growth in the Halloween market, she said, led to a decline in the quality of the experience.

Said Vinal: “We’ve had so many people, our customers, come in and say, ‘It was like K-Mart Halloween in there. We left.’”

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Twenty-four seconds to shoot. It’s a number ingrained in basketball lexicon. It originated in Syracuse, by way of former Nationals’ owner Danny Biasone.

The game was in trouble during the early 1950s. It was boring and slow-paced, because when teams got ahead they held the ball and it became a foul-shooting contest.

So in 1954, Biasone looked at records from the 1953-54 season. In games that he enjoyed watching, the teams averaged about 60 shots a game, which meant 120 shots per game with two teams. And 48 minutes translates to 2,880 seconds. Divide 120 into 2,880, and you get 24. That was it.

“When you think about innovation that was to save a sport, I don’t know for basketball what else there would be,” said Basketball Hall of Fame curator and historian Matt Zeysing. “As far as the game not really existing, or not stay-ing one of the big four probably wouldn’t be the case without the 24-second clock.

“And while seemingly simple and such an intrinsic part of the game at this point, it really saved basketball.”

Dolph Schayes reaches toward his wrist and rolls off a gold-banded watch. On the front is a light blue face with red numbers on it, a replica of the 24-second shot clock. On

the back of the face reads “Dan Biasone, Hall of Fame, 2000.”

Schayes had the watches created in Biasone’s honor. They cost maybe $35 apiece and are run by a little battery on the inside. Twelve years, and Schayes has changed the battery twice.

It’s a metaphor to the duration of the shot clock. More than 50 years later, those 24 sec-onds remain.

“It’s still 24 seconds,” laments Schayes. “It never changed. That’s amazing. Everything has changed. The whole world has changed. But the 24-second clock is sacred.”

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sam maller | asst. photo editorFormer Syracuse Nationals owner Danny Biasone created the 24-second shot clock in the NBA. A replica of the original unit sits in the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame.

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Eastern Division and beat the Celtics and Pistons on its way to the title.

The championship series between the Nats and Pistons featured places that were essential-ly towns — one in the center of New York state, and one in the Northeast corner of Indiana.

“Of course the publicity was nothing,” Schayes said. “Syracuse and Fort Wayne were the two smallest markets in the league. So if you went to The New York Times or The Philadelphia Inquirer or Chicago, you might get a paragraph on the sports page. And there was no television.

“Today they make hundreds of thousands (of dollars), plus they make bling and get rings; they go to Disney World.”

But Schayes has his ring, even though the tradition of rings being awarded to NBA cham-pions began after the Nats won their title.

Schayes visited Kerr, the Nationals’ center on that team, out in Chicago one time and noticed a ring he was wearing. It was an NBA Championship ring of 1955.

Schayes asked Kerr how he got the ring. Kerr said he went through the NBA and had it made by a company in Connecticut. So Schayes went out and bought himself one through the same place for around $8,000.

• • •Schayes is the glue that held Syracuse together. He was the star of the show. And he has the memories to share.

“He has stories I haven’t heard yet,” his son, David Schayes, said. “He’s got the best stories.”

There’s one specific one Dolph remembers, though.

And even though he says he is forgetful, it’s hard to believe him since the stories he tells about that very forgetfulness are from 50 years ago.

On the court, Schayes had an intense focus and on game day, he was locked in.

“So I went to the game one night in Syra-

cuse,” Schayes said. “And just before the game was ready, we were going out to the court, there was a knock on the door — it was a policeman.”

Schayes was so focused on the game he forgot to take his wife with him. But that inten-sity was a driving factor in his Hall of Fame career and the Nats’ success.

• • •Eventually, Syracuse couldn’t keep up. Teams were moving west. Salaries were increasing. A small-market city like Syracuse didn’t have the power or money of a major market.

The team played in the Onondaga War Memo-rial, which only held about 6,000 people.

In the early 1960s, the NBA wanted to move two teams to the West Coast — to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Bob Short, the owner of the then-Minneapolis Lakers, wanted to go to the West and went to Danny Biasone, the owner of the Nats, asking him to move his franchise, too.

He told Biasone he’d give him the pick of San Francisco or LA, but Biasone was loyal to the fans and turned it down. Short ended up moving the Lakers to LA and sold them for $5 million one year later.

The Nationals’ last season in Syracuse ended in the first round of the playoffs. Interest seemed to be waning.

The combination of fewer fans, increases in salaries and the NBA’s shift toward bigger cities contributed to the Nationals’ sale to Irv Kosloff for $500,000.

The team moved to Philadelphia and became the 76ers. And the Syracuse Nationals became a distant memory.

“It faded away, the element of Syracuse,” said Harvey Pollack, director of statistical informa-tion for the 76ers.

Pollack would know. He is the only person still working for the NBA since its inception in 1946.

“Fans of the Sixers today, some don’t even remember, aren’t old enough to know that there was a Syracuse franchise,” he said. “Because we’re talking about 50 years ago.”

• • •Back to that ring. The one that didn’t exist at the time, the one Schayes had to seek out on his own.

“Wherever I go, whenever I wear it, I go on trips,” Schayes said. “People are astounded — ‘You played in the NBA? You won a champion-ship?’ — it’s like your entrance to heaven. And people see that and they’re really impressed.”

It’s a tangible memory of the good times in Syracuse. It seems so far away now, but the city

of Syracuse and the Nationals had quite the pulse back in the day.

And Schayes embodied it.“Dolph Schayes, we always say that if he

played today, with the three-point field goal, he would lead the league in scoring,” Pollack said. “I remember he was hurt one year. He had a fractured arm. And he played. He was what you call a dedicated player. He’s the most dominant player in Syracuse history.”

Multiple generations have grown since the Nationals’ final season. The NBA has expanded into a giant in the sports world. A team like Syracuse would never exist today.

But that, to Schayes, was what makes Syra-cuse and the Nationals stand out from other franchises in basketball history.

“The fans that we had were very loyal,” Schayes said. “And they really loved the team because it made them feel big-league. We were David versus Goliath.”

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By Ryan RaigrodskiSTAFF WRITER

Most freshmen don’t get the chance to start in their first season, but defender Nicole Renault stood out to Syracuse head coach Paul Flanagan enough that she earned a spot on the first line.

“It was really exciting,” Renault said. “I really enjoy it. I love the opportunity he has given me.”

Renault played last year for the Little Caesars Under-19 girls’ hockey team. By playing with the team, she earned valuable experience as to what playing at a collegiate level would be like, as sev-eral of her teammates now play for Division-I schools. She was able to tally 12 goals and 28 assists for the team last season, making herself a highly regarded recruit like many of her teammates.

Her coach on the Little Caesars team last season, Matthew Berger, said he believes her ability to create opportunities offensively is what makes her stand out as a defender.

“She is more of an offensive defenseman,” Berger said. “With her vision on the ice, she had the ability to see past the first layer of forecheckers. She was able to set up two-on-ones with this ability.”

Part of the reason Renault has been given a starting opportunity is her ability to work on the ice with fellow defender Caitlin Roach. Their chemistry was a major part of Flanagan’s decision to put Renault into the starting lineup.

Roach said Renault has been a very supportive and helpful defensive partner so far this season.

“As a D partner, she’s really good to play with and she’s always supporting me, so I know she’s always going to be there,” Roach said. “She sees the ice really well and knows where to move the puck and knows what to do with it.”

Renault’s father is a hockey coach, and taught her the game at an early age. He coached both her and her brother when they were younger, and Renault said he was her biggest influence during her time playing ice hockey.

“He’s always positive with me,” Renault said. “He’s a hockey coach. He was my coach for a little bit. He’s always being positive with me. He’s never putting me down, always telling me the good things I do.”

Flanagan knew of Renault’s potential when he recruited her to Syracuse. He knew of the work she had done and the level she was able to play at since she played for the Little Caesars U-19 team.

While Flanagan is pleased with her potential, he said there are several aspects of her game that she needs to refine.

“Coming out of U-19, where she was a very elite player, I think the big thing for her now is that she reads situations very well,” Flanagan said. “Knowing when to jump into the play, when it’s appropriate, when maybe it’s not such

a good idea. But I like her offensive instincts and think she has very good skills.”

While Flanagan said Renault has several parts of her game she needs to work on, she still is only a freshman, so she will have several

years to improve her play.Jacquie Greco, who plays the same

position as Renault, notices the offensive instincts Renault has for a defender and believes that, with time, she will be able to improve upon some of the flaws Flanagan has noticed in her game.

“She sees the ice really well,” Greco said. “She always kind of knows where the puck needs to go before she even picks up the puck. She has a very good awareness of what’s going on out on the ice.”

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“Coming out of U-19, where she was a very elite player, I think the big thing for her now is that she reads situations very well.”

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FRESH LEGSNicole Renault has stepped into a start-ing spot on the Syracuse defense this year. Renault arrived at SU after a standout season on the Little Caesar’s U-19 team, scoring 12 goals and tallying 28 assists. Here’s a look at her production through eight games for the Orange:

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SU hits new peak after strong year

L ife is timing.Those are the wise words of

Dolph Schayes.Make one decision, and it could

lead down one path. Make another, and the course of history changes.

Schayes almost joined the New York Knicks in 1948. Had he taken that path, who knows what would have become of the Syracuse Nationals. But he chose to play for Syracuse, where he would become a future Hall of Famer and the face of the upstart Nats.

“The people would come out,” Schayes said, “and the fact that ‘Little Syracuse is playing Boston, Syracuse is playing New York?’ The fans would go nuts when we beat them. And we won most of the time.”

The 2012-13 National Basketball Association season, which started this week, marks the 50th anniver-

sary of the Nationals’ final season in Syracuse. The Nats held court in Syracuse from 1946 through the 1962-63 season before moving to Philadelphia.

The Nats had quite the run in Syracuse. But times were different then, on the court and in the city.

If a member of the Nationals walked down that street, every-body knew him.

“You were like a rock star,” Schayes said. “So you were a big shot.”

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H is name was “the stran-gler.” Who was he? One fan, maybe two?

He would go to Nationals games and attack opposing players. He attacked a referee one time. And

t hen there was

the time the ref-eree Sid Borgia attacked a fan who was mouthing off, punching them courtside at the War Memorial.

“Syracuse was a rough, rough spot for opposing players and coaches,” said David Ramsey, who authored the book “Nats,” a history of basketball in Syracuse.

It was a tough team, period. In a 1954 playoff game against the

Boston Celtics in the Boston Garden, there was a full-fledged riot on the court. Paul Seymour, the Nats cap-tain at the time, became involved, and a Boston police officer grabbed him out of the pile by the nose. His nose was never fully straight again.

Part of that scrappy mentality came from longtime coach Al Cervi.

Cervi was called “the digger,”

because his teams were built on hustle and drive.

“Of course that’s very trite, that’s strictly a sports term,” Schayes said. “But it was true. If we came into the third, fourth quarter behind 10, we knew we could win the game by just digging, outhus-tling the other team.

“In a way we caught the feeling of Syracuse. At that time it was a blue-collar town. And we were like the brand of Syracuse.”

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S yracuse developed into a perennial power and won its lone NBA Championship in

1954-55.It was also the first year of the

shot clock. The Nationals boasted the likes of Schayes, Seymour, Earl Lloyd and Johnny Kerr. The team won the

A bygoneera Half a century later, Nationals remembered as tough, elite team that provided Syracuse with a pulseBy Rachel Marcus

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SP ORT S PA G E 2 0the daily orange

W E D N E S D AYoctober 31, 2012

By Josh HyberSTAFF WRITER

Jackie Firenze’s miskicked shot dribbled its way across the goal line, through the goalkeeper’s legs and into the Syracuse his-tory books. Firenze’s goal with 30 seconds remaining in regulation sealed a 3-2 victory over Connecti-cut on Sept. 13.

It was SU’s first win against its Big East rival in 18 tries.

The shot’s path into the net par-allels the journey SU has taken since head coach Phil Wheddon arrived five seasons ago. The Orange has slowly become a for-midable team after seasons of mediocrity. With a roster complete with players Wheddon recruited, the team completely turned over a new leaf this year. Because of this season, Syracuse’s future looks greener than ever.

“The team has made significant strides,” Wheddon said. “And a lot of that comes down to the players that have continued to come into the program and also the attitude and willingness to compete.”

The Orange (9-7-2, 6-3-1 Big East) had its season end Sunday with a 1-0 loss to then-No. 24 Notre Dame in the Big East tournament quarterfinals. This year marked the first time since 1999 and 2000 that the team reached the Big East tournament in consecutive years.

Senior Jenna Rickan has seen the program at its highest and low-est points. She was a freshman in 2009 when the team went 5-11-3 and, at one point, lost nine of 11 games. Rickan called the team’s turnaround “a complete 180,” espe-cially recently.

“Our team has come a long way over the last two years, and on top of that I think we’ve progressed even further this year,” Rickan

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ON THE RISEThe Syracuse women’s soc-cer team went 9-7-2 in 2012, taking a major step as a program in its final season in the Big East. Here’s a look at some of the Orange’s statis-tics from this year:

Goals: 24Goals per game: 1.33Shot percentage: 0.90Shots per game: 14.9Saves: 70SEE NATIONALS PAGE18