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INSIDENEWS

INSIDEOPINION

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Speak out Spoken word poet Omékongo

Art of politics Scott Collison argues for keeping

Walk in his shoes Two filmmakers track the well-worn

Dibinga spoke Tuesday as a prelude to Take Back the Night. Page 3

arts funding in the federal budget. Page 5

path of a Civil Rights-era hero. Page 9

INSIDESPORTS

The underdog Tombe Kose escaped a life of war-torn Sudan to become a fallback on the Syracuse football team. Page 24

ischool

Accelerator renamed for former dean By Jon Harris ASST. NEWS EDITOR

nate shron | staff photographer

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JOEL WHITE (11) is hit in midair by a Cornell defender in No. 1 Syracuse’s 11-6 loss to the Big Red on Tuesday inside the Carrier Dome. After an unblemished 9-0 start to the season, the Orange suffered its first loss of 2011 at the hands of upstate New York rival and No. 5 Cornell, a team it had beaten on last-second shots in the teams’ previous two matchups. The senior long-stick midfielder White and the Syracuse defense had trouble with Cornell attack Rob Pannell, who finished the game with three goals and three assists. SEE PAGE 24

South Side Innovation Center gains national recognition for reviving community, growing local businesses By Susan Kim

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ope faded. Depression increased. Instability continued. But in April 2006, promises of the South Side’s rebirth developed a physical presence when the South Side Innovation Center opened as part of Syracuse University’s South Side Entrepreneurial Connect Project. “We brought a new focus to the South Side that hadn’t been there before,” said Craig Wat-

ters, who helped establish the center in its current location at 2610 S. Salina St. Approaching its fifth year there, the SSIC strives to transform the South Side into a hub for small-business opportunities and to encourage economic development. The center’s dedication to the desolate community — and to its promising entrepreneurs and their business ventures — was recognized this year, when it was nomi-

nated for an Incubator of the Year award. After working with the SSIC, clients will likely bring returns back to the community, whether by creating more businesses or supporting old ones, said Watters, also an assistant professor of entrepreneurial practice at SU. Until that happens, the SSIC will accommodate the needs of the entrepreneurs capable of initiating change. SEE SSIC PAGE 4

The Student Start-up Accelerator has been renamed the Raymond von Dran Innovative and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator, or IDEA, university officials announced Monday. The Student Start-up Accelerator, a partnership between Syracuse University and the Syracuse Technology Garden, helps Central New York college and university students start nonprofit and for-profit businesses. Gisela von Dran, Raymond’s widow and a School of Information Studies Board of Advisers member, announced the new name at the annual student-run conference, Emerging Talk, held on March 31 and April 1 at the Syracuse Technology Garden, said Bruce Kingma, associate provost for entrepreneurship and innovation at SU. The conference, in its second year, is held to bring together organizations, entrepreneurs, investors and students. Raymond von Dran, dean of the iSchool from 1995 to 2007, died suddenly on July 23, 2007, before his 61st birthday. During his time at the iSchool, the number of faculty and students nearly tripled, and the school’s master’s degree program in information management and the Ph.D. program in information science and technology were ranked second in the country by U.S. News & World Report, according to an iSchool website created in his memory. Raymond also helped bring the iSchool to the Quad in Hinds Hall. “Ray von Dran was a real academic entrepreneur,” Kingma said. “I served as his associate dean for seven years, and it’s hard to overdescribe his impact in higher education because he really created the idea of an iSchool.” Faculty, staff, students and SU alumni were able to submit suggestions to rename the Student Start-up Accelerator until March 20. Kingma

SEE IDEA PAGE 6


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