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Spring cleaning Students perform
The age of irony
Finding another path After a devastating injury,
Too much Despite a poor showing,
community service across West Side on Saturday. Page 3
Angela Hu discusses the awkward, heartbroken A-list men of our generation. Page 5
an SU student channels passion for ballet in the classroom. Pages 10-11
No.1 Syracuse holds off winless Providence 14-5 on Senior Day. Page 20
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Department of Labor imposes stricter guidelines against illegal internships
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SU freshman struggles with sun allergy
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By Dara McBride STAFF WRITER
raig Leppert never went outside for a fire drill in grade school. “I would go as far as I could to the entrance of the building and in the hallway and just look at everybody lined up,” Craig said. “I would just wait there and then they would say, ‘Everybody come back inside,’ and I would be the nice little cute boy who held the door open for everybody as they went in.” Craig, a freshman television, radio and film major, has erythropoietic protoporphyria, a form of a rare genetic condition that makes him sensitive to visible light. Sun exposure results in swelling, burning, itching and redness of the skin — a feeling Craig compares to having hot wax being poured over him. The National Institutes of Health estimates one in 500 people worldwide have a form of
By Susan Kim STAFF WRITER
efore Letecha Dixon accepted an unpaid internship at Giant magazine last summer, she wondered if it would be worth the $3.40 each-way bus tickets from Englewood, N.J., to the city. But after interning for three months and spending $300 on travel expenses alone, she decided it was not. “I ended up paying for the internship,” she said. “But if you don’t have an internship, then people don’t even look at you when you apply for a job.” Dixon, a junior public relations major at Syracuse University, was among an increasing number of students who are participating in unpaid internships at for-profit private sectors. Though there is no official count of the number of unpaid internships, concerns have risen about violations against the minimum wage and overtime laws established in the Fair Labor and Standards Act. The wage and hour division of the United States Department of Labor released “Fact Sheet #71: Internship Programs Under the Fair Labor Standards Act” on Wednesday to redefine the test for unpaid interns. “The key issue is whether or not an internship is true
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andrew burton | special projects editor CRAIG LEPPERT, a freshman television, radio and film major, struggles with a rare SEE LEPPERT PAGE 6 sun allergy, which can result in itching, swelling and extreme burning of his skin.
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univ er sit y union
WERW radio station splits from parent organization, separation to be final in fall 2010 By Julissa Montalvo DESIGN EDITOR
Student radio station WERW officially split from its parent organization, University Union, on April 19 after discussions about its desire to become independent. Even though the split was officially announced, WERW will not be its own organization until next fall. The
two split amicably with the desire for each to be able to grow separately, both WERW and UU officials said. WERW was previously a subdivision of UU and is required to stay under UU until the end of the year. WERW is a free-format radio station that was student-built about 23 years ago. Since then, the station has been run entirely by students. WERW
has approximately 70 disc jockeys and about 15 people on staff. Currently, the station is only available online because its transmitter is broken. Marina Zarya, a junior graphic design major and WERW’s general manager, said it was time the two organizations took separate paths. “We’ve always acted like an independent student organization,” Zarya
said. “We’ve become increasingly independent.” The split was something that was a long time coming for the two organizations, although it was just recently officially talked about, she said. “We need to be independent from UU,” Zarya said. “We want to be more than just a radio station. We want our own brand. We have our own
uniqueness to us.” Funding will go unchanged with the split because the two organizations already receive separate funding. WERW receives a yearly budget separate from the UU budget, said Darren Goldberg, president of UU. The funding for both organizations will remain the same, regardless of SEE WERW PAGE 7