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For charity The library’s fine amnesty

Workin’ for the man The Daily Orange Editorial Board

Giving back Three SU juniors receive

Offensive performance Syracuse’s offense struggled all

supports special scholarships for unpaid summer internships. Page 5

program bounces back compared to donations made last semester. Page 3

scholarships funded through a donation made by a late Newhouse professor. Page 11

spring, leaving questions as the team ends its spring season. Page 20

Professor receives criticism Groups say professor unqualified for AsianAmerican studies class By David Propper Staff Writer

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is facing criticism from some campus groups that believe she is not qualified to teach a class for the Asian and Asian American Studies minor. Susan Edmunds, an associate professor in Syracuse University’s English Department, is teaching ETS 315: “Ethnic Literatures and Cultures: Asian American Fiction.” Her class is part of the AAA minor, which is in its first academic year of existence at SU. The campus group Asian Stu-

see aaa page 4

andrew renneisen | asst. photo editor

Crackdown on driving while distracted ends

christopher jennison and jon barnhart shake hands Monday after the Student Association meeting. Jennison will replace Barnhart as a student representative to the Board of Trustees.

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Members elect Board of Trustees representative By Sean Cotter Staff Writer

Student Association members elected Christopher Jennison to the position of student representative to the Syracuse University Board of Trustees on Monday. SA assemblymembers said they hope Jennison, a junior public relations and policy studies major, will bring a different perspective to the table in dealing with the board. Monday’s meeting also served as the appeals meeting for SA, after funds were allocated to student organizations at last week’s meeting. SA voted in favor of all of the Finance

Board’s suggestions on the appeals presented to them. SA voted to allocate $108,881.06 to student organizations for programming that originally had been rejected, according to the SA minutes. Organizations requested $141,889.70, but only about $119,000 was available. Many of the original rejections were either for clerical reasons or because student organizations that requested funding for an event did not have confirmation that artists or speakers had finalized plans to visit campus, said SA Comptroller Jeff Rickert. He said the organizations that fixed these errors and complied

By Maddy Berner Staff Writer

andrew renneisen | asst. photo editor jeff rickert and neal casey, Student Association comptroller and president, respectively, count votes in Maxwell Auditorium. with the financial vision received funding through appeals. CitrusTV’s budget spurred the most debate during the first round of the budget process, but CitrusTV did not appeal for any additional funding. Representatives from the Class of 2014 Class Council, the National Pan-

Hellenic Council and the Mandarins — all of which had programming SA voted to fully fund — thanked SA and the Finance Board after the funds were allocated. There were no complaints or debates by either SA or onlookers. see sa page 6

The fourth and last distracted driving crackdown in Syracuse ended Sunday night after both city police and the Department of Public Safety spent 13 days ticketing drivers who text messaged or called at the wheel. The crackdown was part of four separate waves to decide if texting and driving was a problem in the area, said Sgt. Joel Cordone of the Syracuse Police Department. The last three waves occurred in 2010 during April, July and October. As of Thursday night, Syracuse police ticketed 1,255 people talking on handheld devices and 143 people texting, Cordone said. Final numbers

see driving page 6


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