Police and volunteers near Syracuse spent yesterday searching for a college student missing since returning home for the Thanksgiving.

Authorities said Jenni-Lyn Watson, 20, went missing on Nov. 19, a day after arriving at her family’s home north of Syracuse. Watson, a junior studying dance at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., stands 5-foot-2, weighs 100 pounds and has dark blond hair and brown eyes.