Though its recent success in college basketball might lead one to believe that Syracuse, N.Y. – where I watch the Saint Joseph’s Hawks begin their season with a twenty-point win over Fairleigh Dickinson Monday night – is a nice college town. And while the campus proper there is nice, and the support for the basketball team extends through the community, the town itself leaves a lot to be desired. There seem to be plenty of restaurants to go around (go to Cosmo’s pizza shop for breakfast and get a toasted honey bun), but the architecture outside of campus is bland and the weather, from what I understand, is rarely anything to write home about. Not to mention the fact that the Carrier Dome – for all intents and purposes one of basketball’s new Meccas after the Orangemen won the title – is a bland, aging, basketball-focused version of Veteran’s Stadium. Give me Philadelphia and the Palestra any day.

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