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Counting down Centro prepares to launch

What’s the rush? The Daily Orange Editorial

Stitching hope SU gives back by selling

Growing pains Iasia Hemingway’s long and tumultuous

a GPS program on the Connective Corridor bus. Page 3

Board questions the quick University Senate meetings. Page 5

clothes to benefit single mothers. Page 9

journey has led to her becoming one of Syracuse’s key players. Page 20

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Members continue at quick pace By Dara McBride News Editor

At less than 20 minutes, the first University Senate meeting for the semester was short, just as presiding officer Jonathan Massey said it would be as he opened the meeting. “We’re going to be lean, mean and quick, judging by the assembly today,” Massey said, as the monthly

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University Senate is an academic governing body with powers such as proposing policy on grading, student life, and athletics, among many others. It also approves new curricula and recommends faculty for promotion.

dave trotman-wilkins | staff photographer jonathan massey, presiding officer of University Senate, speaks to committee members at the first meeting of the semester on Tuesday in Maxwell Auditorium. Members gave committee reports in fewer than 20 minutes at the meeting, which Chancellor Cantor did not attend.

meeting began at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium Wednesday. About 30 people were in the auditorium when Massey started, and senate members trickled in throughout the meeting. With little discussion at

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Mandated deposit on kegs expires in NY SU to honor legacy of MLK inside By Flash Steinbeiser Staff Writer

New York state’s keg registration law expired a few weeks before students left for break, so this will be the first semester since 2002 that students will be able to rent a keg without a mandatory deposit. The registration law, in effect since 2003, expired on Nov. 22 with little warning to those who regularly purchase kegs. Licensed alcohol retailers are also no longer required to report all keg sales to the State Liquor Authority or collect the mandated deposit. When the legislation first went into effect in 2003, all kegs had to be

marked with tags that identified the renter’s name, address and driver’slicense number. If the renter did not return the keg within 30 days, a mandated deposit of $75 dollars would be given to the state, according to the law. In 2008, the deposit was reduced to $50, and the time given to return the keg was extended to 90 days. Three years later, local keg distributors are relieved that the legislation has finally expired. Now that the law has expired, licensees may still have their own deposit requirements to encourage patrons to return empty kegs to the licensee, according to the New York

State Liquor Authority website. April Emmons, a manager at Sabastino’s Pizza on Westcott Street, said she saw keg sales diminish after the registration law was put into effect. She said she has not seen a drastic sales increase because most of Sabastino’s keg customers are Syracuse University students and because most of those students were away for either Thanksgiving or Winter Break. “Students are just now coming back to school,” Emmons said. “So hopefully we’ll see some change here.” Even with the expiration, students may not rush back to kegs as their see kegs page 8

Dome at 26th annual celebration By Anne Krengel Contributing Writer

Forty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Syracuse University will con-

26th annual MLK Jr. Celebration SU’s annual dinner and program

honoring King. Where: Carrier Dome When: Dinner at 5 p.m.; Evening program at 6:30 p.m. How much: Dinner tickets are $25 per person; program is free

tinue to honor King at its 26th annual celebration in the Carrier Dome. “The goal is to keep the memory of Martin Luther King alive,” said Ginny Yerdon, administrative assistant and special events coordinator at Hendricks Chapel. “I think it’s important to remember his accomplishments and be focused on how we can be better people.” SU’s celebration on Sunday at 5 p.m. is one of the largest universitysponsored events in the country. Yerdon said 2,155 of the available 2,180 tickets for the dinner have already

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