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N • Last time
At its last meeting of the 201516 academic year, the Student Association assembly was briefed on various SA initiatives, including the bike share program. Page 3
P • Building blocks
It may seem like there’s a lot of time between Juice Jam and Block Party, but University Union spends a lot of time preparing for the big event. Page 9
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S • Dodging south
Who is Syracuse?
Syracuse men’s lacrosse will play in Georgia in the ACC tournament on Friday. The sport is growing rapidly in the Peach State and one SU alumnus is a big reason why. Page 16
Day two of Pulp’s series spotlights Wade Whitton and Nicole Howell. These two SU students dedicate their time to SU sports in different ways. Page 6
TWO YEARS OF SYVERUD PART 3 OF 4
‘Network of support’ Officials explore progress of Syverud’s goal for veteran inclusion Editor’s Note: In Chancellor Kent Syverud’s inauguration address in April 2014, he listed four goals to improve Syracuse University. This series looks at the status of those four goals, two years after the speech. Text by Alexa Torrens news editor
Illustration by Son Tuyen Huynh contributing illustrator
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hen Mike Haynie thinks about how improving the student veteran experience at Syracuse University could benefit the student body as a whole, he remembers one encounter with a 26-year-old student veteran. Three weeks before he came to SU as an academic freshman, the veteran had been a sergeant and a squad leader in the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum. In the weeks before the semester began, he was informed by SU Housing that he had been mistakenly placed in a
freshman dorm with an 18-year-old roommate. Housing told him he could live in graduate student housing instead, but the veteran declined, to Haynie’s surprise. “And he said, ‘You know, the Army taught me how to lead 18-year-olds, I figured I could lead 18-year-olds at Syracuse University, too,’” said Haynie, SU’s vice chancellor for veterans and military affairs. It’s the kind of thing that gives you goose bumps when you hear it, Haynie said, but that story is a good example of what Haynie and other SU administrators view as essentially the ripple effect of having student veterans on campus — veterans who can be leaders, present teachable moments and be positive influences on other SU students. It’s one of the reasons why when he delivered his inaugural address as the new head of SU in 2014, Chancellor Kent Syverud made advancing veterans affairs at SU one of his four top goals for the university moving forward into the next decade. He said then that SU “must once again
become the best place for veterans.” And now, in 2016, Syverud said he would argue that the university is there. Maybe not in every niche, he said, and maybe not in every ranking, but perhaps in research funding, enrollment, student quality and student diversity and inclusiveness. “I think if we’re known for this — as I think we should be — I think the goodwill toward people who are associated with Syracuse will be extraordinary, could be a network of support across a lifetime that would be very meaningful,” Syverud said. Syverud’s focus on building veterans programs at SU is something Haynie said creates opportunity for the whole of SU, not just for veterans or military-connected students, but for the university’s research programs, academic programs and non-veteran students in the classroom. Veterans don’t go to college or get an education the same way that traditional students do, Syverud said, so serving a diverse veterans see veterans page 4
college of law
Newly appointed dean looks to innovate SU’s law school By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor
In a nutshell, Craig Boise’s plan for the College of Law at Syracuse University is innovation. He’s all too aware of how the world — and the field of law — is changing with new technologies and, as the newly appointed dean of the law school, he does not want SU to be left behind.
“I wa nt Syracuse law to be known for expanding legal education into new areas as a laboratory for BOISE new teaching methods, as an incubator for new legal education programs,” he said. Boise addressed about 200 people Monday morning in Dineen Hall
about his goals for SU’s law school. His speech broadly focused on evolving and adjusting to new technologies and techniques used in the legal field, a relevant topic given SU’s recent announcement that the College of Law will pioneer an online hybrid juris doctor program in partnership with 2U, a company that pairs with colleges and universities to create online degree programs. SU named Boise the new dean
of the College of Law earlier this month, marking the second highprofile appointment made by the university in the last two months. The first was Michele Wheatly, who was named the vice chancellor and provost at the beginning of March. More appointments are on the horizon. Search committees are also in the process of finding deans for the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and
the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Boise will replace College of Law Interim Dean William Banks, director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, on July 1. When introducing Boise at the ceremony, Chancellor Kent Sy verud applauded Boise’s achievements at Cleveland State see boise page 4