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Food for thought SU alumna to discuss
Vocab lesson Five Letters to the Editor
Survival of the fittest The anticipated opening of
Fox on the run SU track and field head coach Chris Fox
change in career path with students. Page 3
explain the damaging misuse of terminology in Monday’s drag show review. Page 4
Chipotle on Marshall Street reflects the evolution of the block. Page 13
has been to many places in his career, and he has found a way to win at each one. Page 24
Countries experiencing regime-toppling or potentially regime-toppling upheaval Countries experiencing less-severe political upheaval As of March 29, 2010
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Tehran
SYRIA TUNISIA
Damascus
Tripoli
IRAN
Amman JOR DA N Cairo LIBYA
EGYPT
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single life
Renovations to enhance privacy, change student makeup of SkyHall dorms
BAHR AIN Manama Riyadh
By Michael Boren
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YEMEN Sanaa
graphic illustration by rebecca mcgovern and beckie strum | the daily orange
Implications of protests in Middle East draw attention worldwide, at SU By Debbie Truong
D
STAFF WRITER
espite her fears, Salma El Daly was prepared to join forces alongside revolutionaries when an uprising erupted in her native Egypt in late January. El Daly, a graduate student studying television, radio and fi lm at Syracuse University, understood the human consequences of a revolution. Still, she, like many of her family and friends, was prepared to join the revolution in the name of democratic freedom for future generations. But when news of antirevolutionary forces capturing activists from Egyptian airports spread, El Daly said her father forbade her departure to Egypt. She has since turned her attention to informing the international community of Egypt’s struggle through the use of social media. The Egyptian public abroad has given voice to protestors, especially while President Hosni Mubarak imposed a nationwide Internet blackout, El Daly said. “You should never call for freedom and (not) support it with
action,” she said. Egypt is not the only Middle Eastern country to see unrest within the past few months — waves of protest began sweeping the region after a Tunisian fruit vendor committed suicide by self-immolation in December. Most recently, joint international forces have intervened to stem human rights violations in Libya. The spread of violence and political action has continued to affect those outside of the region, including students and staff at SU, just like El Daly. Dylan Sodaro, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, was studying abroad in Egypt when the Egyptian public took to the streets in protest, following the lead of protestors in Tunisia. That’s when he said he knew the Egyptian public had finally been pushed too far. Before being relocated to Beirut, Lebanon, by SU for safety reasons, Sodaro said he was among the masses in Tahrir Square — where the major demonstrations were held — during the first week of protests. He said he SEE MIDDLE EAST PAGE 6
HEADS OF STATE Bahrain
King Hamad bin Isa alKhalifa
Egypt
President Hosni Mubarak (overthrown)
ASST. NEWS EDITOR
he SkyHall buildings on South Campus will undergo a makeover this summer, once again changing which students are designated to live in the three buildings. The double rooms in SkyHall III will be converted into large single rooms with a full-size bed and will only be available to currently enrolled students, said Sara Miller, associate director of Syracuse University News Services, in an email. The conversion will shrink the number of students living in SkyHall III from 117 to 63. SkyHalls I and II will only house transfer students this fall. SkyHalls I, II and III currently house transfer students and students from the
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Housing projections led to the decision that SkyHalls I and II could hold transfer students this fall, Miller said.
CHANGING SPACES PART 2 OF 3
The renovations planned for this summer also include changing the bathrooms in the SkyHalls into eight private, gender-neutral bathrooms on each floor, Miller said. Crews will complete construction
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Iran
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Jordan
King Abdullah II
Libya
Col. Moammar al Gadhafi
Saudi Arabia
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz
Syria
President Bashar al-Assad
Tunisia
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (overthrown)
Yemen
President Ali Abdullah Saleh Source: The New York Times
SU chemists create system to improve cancer-treatment drugs By Victoria Napoli STAFF WRITER
Researchers in Syracuse University’s chemistry department have engineered a new drug-delivery system expected to enhance the effectiveness of cancer-killing drugs. The system utilizes gold nanoparticles, or engineered particles in the nanometer size-range, with attached DNA segments designed to strongly latch on to doxorubicin, or DOX, a leading anticancer drug, said James Dabrowiak, lead author of the research and professor of chemistry at SU. Dabrowiak and his team have been studying this phenomenon for about a year and a half, he said.
The first publication of the research appeared in the February issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Chemical Communications. The team’s research is ongoing. “While nothing quite like our system is being investigated, the potential of nanoparticles is being widely explored for new applications in medicine,” Dabrowiak said. Dabrowiak — along with the help of Mathew Maye, an assistant chemistry professor at SU, and Colleen Alexander, a graduate student at SU — discovered a single nanoparticle has the power to bind to more than 100 DOX molecules without permanently
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