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For hire A campus initiative hosts an
Old dogs, new tricks Vicki Ho claims the newest
Finally famous Big Sean hypes up the crowd
Bash brother Rick Jackson’s re-established
event about job opportunities in Asia. Page 3
styles at New York Fashion Week come from the industry’s oldest designers. Page 4
at Schine Underground on Wednesday night. Page 11
dominance inside has fueled Syracuse’s three-game winning streak. Page 24
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Gadhafi implicated in bombing
Opening acts announced for DJ Diplo
By Jon Harris
Baltimore native rapper Rye Rye and indie rock band The Postelles will open for DJ Diplo of Major Lazer on March 26 as part of Hillel at Syracuse University’s 60th anniversary celebration. The trio will perform at 8 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium in front of more than 1,000 students, said Michael Weiss, president of Hillel. First-level tickets for the show sold out Tuesday afternoon, but due to overwhelming student responses, 400 additional balcony tickets will go on sale Thursday, Weiss said. Tickets are
By Amrita Mainthia Asst. Feature Editor
Asst. News Editor
Libya’s former justice minister told a Swedish newspaper Wednesday that longtime Libyan leader Moammar al Gadhafi personally ordered the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, according to an Associated Press article published Wednesday. All 259 passengers on board the plane died in the bombing, as well as 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland. Thirty-five of the victims were Syracuse University students traveling home from studying abroad in London and Florence. One Libyan man, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was convicted for the bombing. “I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order about Lockerbie,” said former justice minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil in an interview with Stockholmbased tabloid Expressen, according to the AP article. Gadhafi, the 68-year-old who has controlled Libya since a 1969 military coup, never admitted to ordering the bombing, although he accepted Libya’s responsibility of it, according to the article. In 2008, Libya finished paying $1.5 billion to the relatives of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103, according to an article published in The New York Times on June 10, 2009. Abdel-Jalil, who stepped down as the justice minister of Libya because of the country’s crackdown on antigovernment demonstrations, failed to describe the proof, according to the AP article. Ed Galvin, director of SU’s archives and records management who manages the Pan Am Flight 103 archives, said there is currently no substantial proof to back up AbdelJalil’s claim. “It’s an opinion right now,” he said. Expressen’s online edition stated see pan am page 7
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Budget cuts may rescind Say Yes grant By Stephanie Bouvia Staff Writer
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill Saturday to cut $61 billion from the federal government’s budget, which could affect the relationship between Syracuse University and Say Yes to Education.
see say yes page 8
What is Say Yes? sarah kinslow | contributing photographer
Big time Big Sean, a rapper from Detroit, performs in Schine Underground Wednesday night to a sold-out crowd. The concert, put on by the Winter Carnival Committee and the Bandersnatch Music Series, also featured performances by student group The Fly and rapper Donnis. The concert kicked off a week of events for the annual Winter Carnival. See page 11
Say Yes to Education, Inc. is a national, nonprofit foundation committed to increasing high school and college graduation rates for the nation’s urban youth. Say Yes promises free college tuition to nearly 100 universities for those who meet the residency, graduation and admission requirements. Source: sayyessyracuse.org