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5,000 4,455 Most Expensive Meal Plan (per semester)
Data shows SU’s meal plan options are most expensive among peer institutions
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Malachi Richardson continued emerging on the national stage with 23 points in Syracuse’s Elite Eight win over Virginia in Chicago on Sunday. Page 16
Though MS prevents her from running marathons like she used to, Jill Walsh found a new outlet: paracycling. And now, she’s a world champion. Page 9
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Syracuse University will hold a pep rally for its men’s and women’s basketball teams on Wednesday to celebrate their advancement to the Final Four. Page 3
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The most expensive meal plan provided to students by Syracuse University costs more than all of the most expensive meal plans provided by at least 13 of SU’s 16 peer institutions. Three of SU’s peer institutions — Marquette University, Northwestern University and the University of Notre Dame — did not provide sufficient information on their websites to effectively compare the costs of their meal plans to those at SU. WHO’S EATING?
Meal plan requirements and accessibility differed among SU and its peer institutions. At SU, all students living in residence halls on North and South campuses and those living in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center are required 100 to purchase one of the four meal plans available to them. Some of SU’s peer institutions SCHOOL require only first-year students to purchase a meal plan, while others require first-, Northeastern University of Vanderbilt second- and third-year students to do so. University Dayton University 390
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Officials say assessment of report is needed before action By Brett Samuels senior staff writer
Syracuse University leaders said the community will need to take time to assess the diversity and inclusion report released last week before moving forward with any concrete measures. The Chancellor’s Workgroup on
Diversity and Inclusion released its report on March 21. The document included 33 recommendations, some short-term and some long-term, for SU to improve diversity on campus. At last Wednesday’s University Senate meeting, Chancellor Kent Syverud said he’s looking forward to campus community members reviewing the report and sharing their feedback.
“Once that occurs, specific issues related to timing, resources and implementation will be explored,” said Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, in an email. Where the resources might come from could be particularly important. About one-third of the group’s recommendations come with a direct finan-
cial cost. Those suggestions mainly involve hiring additional faculty or staff, or allocating more funding to specific programs or offices, such as the Slutzker Center for International Services, the LGBT Resource Center and the Office of Campus Planning, Design and Construction. The way SU’s budget works is that it is divided into “responsibility cen-
ters,” said Dawit Negussey, the chair of the senate’s Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs. Each school or college is a center that manages its own budget. It has sources of income, such as tuition or alumni donations, he said. So, in the case of hiring additional faculty, the individual school or college — not the university — would see report page 6