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N • Feeling forgotten
everal SU community members S saygraduate students are shorted when it comes to housing, which forces them into unsafe neighborhoods off campus. Page 3
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P • Left behind
Business columnist Theo Horn suggests an underground tunnel as an effective replacement for the reconstruction of Interstate 81 in Syracuse. Page 5
After students move off campus, their pets may be abandoned. Whether it be convenience or price, furry friends are often left in dorms and off-campus houses. Page 11
S • Flipping it on
Syracuse women’s lacrosse player Nicole Levy keeps a light switch on the sideline during games. When she enters games, she flips it on. The freshman is on a scoring tear. Page 20
MOVING ON SERIES Part 3 of 4
OVER & OUT Aysha Seedat reflects on time as Student Association president By Nina Leeds staff writer
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he job that Student Association President Aysha Seedat will hold after graduation is not the job she wants the most. Seedat, who is graduating on May 15, will soon work in regulatory compliance at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and create policy within the company that will ensure ethical business practices, she said in an email. But her biggest ambition, she added, is to one day become chancellor of Syracuse University, the place she said has been real with her from the start. And a big part of her time at SU has been spent as a member of SA, the university’s student governing body.
I’ve witnessed three different sessions of Student Association — granted, all from different perspectives — but the 59th Session, by far, has made the biggest impact on our university. Jane Hong sa vice president
Seedat took office as president of SA’s 59th Session in the fall 2015 semester after serving as chair of SA’s Student Life Committee for three semesters. As president, Seedat helped to create the position of a student director of diversity affairs, worked with the New York State Senate and Uber in an effort to get the ridehailing service to operate in upstate New York, transported about 200 students to the Final Four basketball games in see seedat page 8
AYSHA SEEDAT, Student Association president, accomplished many initiatives during her tenure as president. jingyu wan staff photographer
MOVING ON SERIES Part 4 of 4
Spina brings optimism, lofty ideals to University of Dayton By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor
Eric Spina had a choice to make. It was the mid-1990s and Spina, then a faculty member in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, had just received a job offer from the University of Texas. If he accepted the job, he
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would be a faculty member there, focusing on teaching and research. But Spina wanted some-
thing more. Once it became clear that he might be able to become an administrator at SU, the choice was
simple. He turned down the offer. “It was really that opportunity to be all parts of who I am: a teacher, a researcher and someone who serves others,” he said. “At the University of Texas, the expectation was that I was going to be in the lab doing research and that’s it.” For the next 20 years Spina would rise within the administra-
tive ranks, eventually becoming the second highest ranking official at SU, where he served for eight years. Now, he’s moving even further. Starting at the beginning of the 2016-17 academic year, he’ll be the president of the University of Dayton in Ohio. With him, Spina will take his self-professed optimism and his lofty ideals, attributes he said made him a good
leader at SU. Spina came to SU in 1988 as a faculty member in the College of Engineering. He became a top SU administrator in 2003 when he was appointed Douglas D. Danforth Dean of the College of Engineering. In 2006, he was appointed vice chancellor and provost — the chief academic officer of SU.
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