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Price to pay The Syracuse Athletic
Winning streak Quentin Hillsman has built
Department should cover the cost of the Big East exit fee. Page 5
Who is Syracuse? The Daily Orange asked readers to nominate people who represent the Syracuse University community for the “Who is Syracuse?” series, running April 22-25. Student Chantel Morel and alumnus Mark Ryan are featured today. Page 10
Syracuse’s recruiting pipeline into a steady stream of highly touted prospects. Page 24
Return on investment Dean Melvin Stith builds student-centered community during time at Whitman
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By Marwa Eltagouri DESIGN EDITOR
elvin Stith’s wife, Patricia, could not find the photo she was looking for. She clicked feverishly on every photo icon on her desktop computer in her office in Crouse-Hinds Hall. She was sure she had the picture, she just did not remember what she had done with it. Suddenly, a photo popped up that made her chuckle loudly. “Look at him!” she pointed at her screen. A man with a large Afro and mustache stood on a lawn on campus next to an “MBA” sign. “That’s Mel, back in the 70s, if you can believe that!” Though Stith completed his master of business administration, and later his doctorate, at Syracuse University — he wasn’t supposed to come back, let alone become dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management for nine years. That is, until he was accidentally mistaken as the new Whitman dean.
SEE STITH PAGE 7
drew osumi | staff photographer MELVIN STITH , dean of Whitman, will retire at the end of the semester. Stith is credited with supporting student organizations at the school.
YEAR IN SPORTS 2012-13
Disagreement surrounds SU’s payment of Big East conference exit fee By Dylan Segelbaum ASST. COPY EDITOR
When it comes to paying Syracuse University’s Big East conference exit fee, faculty and staff just want the process to be fair. “We’re a rational community,” said Robert Van Gulick, a philosophy professor. “If we disagree, it’s OK to say why, especially if you do it civilly and respectfully.” During last Wednesday’s Uni-
versity Senate meeting, Van Gulick introduced a resolution calling for SU Athletics to pay for the Big East conference exit fee. In January, the Board of Trustees decided the entire university would pay the $7.5 million exit fee during a period of a few years, arguing the entire university will benefit from the move to the Atlantic Coast Conference The resolution, which passed, is an expression of a majority opinion in the
senate, and doesn’t have binding power. The administration and Board of Trustees Chairman Richard Thompson are in the process of reviewing the resolution, and will get back to the senate, said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs. Regardless of whether the administration changes its mind, part of the point of the resolution is to get the administration and Board of Trustees to explain their reasoning for
treating the exit fee as a universitywide expense, even if they still disagree, Van Gulick said. When Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw was chancellor, he said, Shaw didn’t agree with a resolution passed by the senate on athletics, but he issued a public letter explaining his reasoning. Van Gulick described the reasoning for introducing the resolution largely in terms of fairness. When departments at SU look to
generate more revenue by increasing their enrollment, for example, they pay costs related to expanding, such as hiring more faculty members, he said. Areas that generate revenue are “taxed” a little more than 20 percent, Van Gulick said. This money goes toward institutions such as the administration, public safety and the library, which don’t generate revenue, he said.
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