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The best is yet to come The Daily Orange sports staff previews this weekend’s slate of games as the East Regional returns to the Carrier Dome for the first time since 2005. Inside we have everything you need to know, including breakdowns of both games, information on where to dine this weekend and features on the last time each pair of teams played each other. See insert

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SU copes with high number of deaths By Rebecca Kheel

in any large community like SU. But 14 deaths is still an unusually high amount, Tomi Jacobs noticed a distraught they said. The Counseling Center, as well ?PVT " female student in a Hen- as some chaplains at Hendricks, have 0 aTRP_ ?PVTwaiting W^f b # $ cWT cTP\^U b \PST Xc Chapel FTb hallway ?Pwith c EXaVX]XP to speak c^ BhaPRdricks VTb 'a ( seen an increased number of students dbT FPbWX]V ] _aTVP\T ?PVgrief ]cdRZh 2^a VaP_WXRb c^the Tb !counseling chaplain. Though student_a:Twas relating to stu]T[[ seeking " TVP\T Vnot aP_WXRb 0 VdXS ^ cWT d]XeTabT c waiting for her, Jacobs, the Protestant dent deaths Xch Pand aTP have been adapting their chaplain, approached her anyway to counseling strategies to more proactively help calm her. prevent suicide. The student, a freshman, had The Counseling Center has seen an heard there was a suicide committed increase in usage during the past two in her residence hall the year before years, said Cory Wallack, director of and was unable to sleep because she the Counseling Center. In 2008, 4,871 worried the building was haunted. students used Counseling Center ser“It was the rumor mill creating vices, as opposed to 4,546 students in anxiety,� Jacobs said. The student 2007. The number increased again in had heard about the suicide of Jordan 2009, but Wallack could not recall the will halsey | asst. photo editor Schaffer, a freshman who lived in statistics. Wallack also could not idenDellPlain Hall in September 2008. tify specifically if the increase was a Schaffer’s suicide was the second result of students seeking counseling of 14 student deaths since July 2008, after a death, but he said there is an mark coury of Cornell is bombarded by members of the media in a Carrier Dome locker room the start of an unusually high death immediate influx of students coming Wednesday. Coury began his collegiate basketball career at Kentucky and transferred after his sophotoll Syracuse University has experi- to the Counseling Center each time more season. Coury will face his former team for the first time Thursday night (9:57 p.m., CBS), as the enced in the past year and a half. there is a student death. Big Red will be looking to defeat the favored Wildcats and make it to the Elite Eight. See page 12 University officials said death occurs see coping page 4 Asst. News Editor

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Administration clarifies confusion over finances

Faculty question senate’s influence, activism By Beckie Strum Asst. News Editor

Faculty members in University Senate question the senate’s ability to act as an influential adviser to Syracuse University’s administration on important decisions in light of its role in shaping the employee benefits proposal and the 2011 budget. “There has been a general drift of a less activist senate,� said Robert Van Gulick, a faculty member on the Budget Committee. “The process is less structured. Matters that the senate could address, they don’t or aren’t allowed to have a say in. They have less vigorous debate.� While USen has the power to finalize decisions regarding curriculum, its role in all other decisions, such as the administration’s changes to

employee benefits, is only advisory, according to its bylaws. But faculty is concerned that the structure of the monthly meetings and declining faculty activism hinder USen’s influence on important decisions at SU. Eric Spina, vice chancellor and provost, disagrees and said he and other administrators continue to view USen meetings as constructive discussions that have a direct influence on decision-making. Van Gulick pointed to the March 4 USen meeting as an example of inefficiency. The meeting was meant to discuss the budget for fiscal year 2011 and changes to the benefits proposal, but had to be cut short, resulting in little debate. “In the past, you’d have it presented, see faculty page 6

By Laurence Leveille Staff Writer

jenna ketchmark | asst. photo editor lou marcoccia, SU’s chief financial officer, clarifies financial information at Wednesday’s meeting.

Confusion about the definitions of terms used to describe the university’s endowment was cleared up by Lou Marcoccia, Syracuse University’s executive vice president and chief financial aid officer, at Wednesday’s University Senate meeting. Members of USen expressed concern with the decline in the university’s endowment and the cause of two distributions in one fiscal year. They also were uncertain about what exactly a distribution is. A given fiscal year ends June 30 and distribution is given in August. But in fiscal year 2009, a second distribution was made prior to the usual June 30 due to the market crash in fall 2008. Among other concerns at the meeting was the university’s ability to maintain a high enrollment. “I’m trying to understand a couple of things that still seem to me not transparent,� said Samuel Gorovitz, a professor of philosophy, at the meeting. A distribution is a share — called a unit— bought when a donor gives a gift to the university, Marcoccia said. “If (there’s) a unit value of $500 and someone gives us a

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