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Dog days Check inside for a full breakdown of Syracuse’s contest with
Day to day The Dean of Student
Georgetown on Wednesday, complete with position-by-position matchups, stats to know and beat writer predictions. Page 10
Affairs offers a glimpse into his daily routine. Page 24
University funds rise for 2010 By Susan Kim Copy Chief
After global economic troubles for more than a year, the endowment for Syracuse University bounced back for the 2010 fiscal year and was ranked higher in comparison to those of many other institutions. SU’s endowment increased by 29 percent from $658 million to $849 million, according to the NACUBOCommonfund Study of Endowments. Among 865 U.S. and Canadian institutions that were ranked by their endowment market value for the 2010 fiscal year, SU came in at 76th, according to the NCSE.
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andrew renneisen | staff photographer ben aghajanian, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, studies in the Safire Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library. The Safire Room is already home to a collection of approximately 1,700 books donated in the 1990s by William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Students fly Bird receives grant to archive honored columnist’s personal papers out of Cairo to safety By Haley Behre Staff Writer
An $86,000 grant will help archivists at E.S. Bird Library organize the personal papers of the late William Safire — a collection that includes scrapbooks and correspondence with politicians. The grant from the Dana Foundation will allow Bird officials to pay an archivist to process the personal papers of Safire, who attended Syracuse University. He was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and senior speechwriter for former President Richard Nixon. Bird recently acquired Safire’s personal papers, which range from materials connected to Safire’s “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine to correspondence with politicians, such as former President Bill Clinton, as well as lecture videos and scrap-
books, according to a Feb. 2 SU News release. “The archivists’ job is to create order from chaos, though Safire’s collection was well organized from the beginning,” said Sean Quimby, director of the special collections research center at SU. The Safire Room, located on the sixth floor of Bird, is already home to a collection of roughly 1,700 books, which Safire donated to SU from 1994-98, Quimby said. Books in the collection cannot be taken out of the library, but students will be able to use them as reference. “Getting this recent collection completes the picture in terms of papers that document his career,” Quimby said. Bird has most of Safire’s collection, but the Library of Congress is home to other Safire papers. Safire’s family still owns the
papers, but they have entrusted Bird with preserving and keeping the collection in good condition for five years, Quimby said. At the end
of the five years, Bird is hoping the family will give the papers to the library as a gift, Quimby said. see safire page 6
By Laurence Leveille Asst. Copy Editor
andrew renneisen | staff photographer An $86,000 grant was given to the library by the Dana Foundation to archive William Safire’s papers, scrapbooks, and lecture videos.
The four students who were studying abroad at the American University in Cairo in Egypt were all safely evacuated from the country by Feb. 2. The students were told to evacuate from Egypt on Jan. 30 by officials from the Syracuse University Abroad program and began leaving Jan. 31. The AUC transported students from Cairo to the airport using its bus system, and the U.S. Embassy organized flights to one of four safe havens: Athens, Frankfurt, Istanbul or Nicosia in Cyprus. Jon Booth, executive director of SU Abroad, said he encouraged the
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