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Professor remembered for devotion
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A new course SU creates three new interdisciplinary majors. Page 3
By Rebecca Kheel ASST. NEWS EDITOR
INSIDE OPINION
Get over it Lauren Tousignant discusses the need to beat nostalgia and live in the moment. Page 5
INSIDE PULP
Hollywood invasions SU professor’s screenplay brings John Malkovich’s production company to town for film “Hotel Syracuse.” Page 13
INSIDE SPORTS
Back on his feet Mike Williams quit the football team mid-season. Now, he will play in the NFL. Page 32
court hathaway | staff photographer WES JOHNSON is expected to be a lottery pick in the 2010 NBA Draft in June. Johnson guided Syracuse to an outright Big East regular-season title and earned Big East Player of the Year honors in his lone season at SU.
Unforgettable By Matt Ehalt
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STAFF WRITER
hen Wesley Johnson needed to talk about the tough decision ahead, assistant coach
In just 1 season, Johnson captivates an entire city
Rob Murphy was there for his player. They would discuss the prospect of winning a national title next year, or possibly improving his stock for the draft. The usual things that would make a 22-yearold with the prospect of life in the NBA think about sticking around. But there was something else that really stuck out to Johnson as well. Something that would deck itself in orange for every game and chant his name in unison. Or hold
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up a blown-up photo of his head. Or wear shirts that said “Wes We Can.” “He really felt he didn’t want to leave the fans,” Murphy said in a telephone interview. “He said, ‘These fans are great and when I go to the mall or to the movies and when I go out to eat, everybody embraces me when I walk in places and people clap for me.’ He said, ‘I’ve never seen anything like that, and they love me this much that I want to come back and try and win a national championship.” Then again, when you’re shown the love Johnson received in his two years,
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VIETNAM WAR PROTESTS 40 YEARS LATER part 3 of 3
Permanent I record Protests leave lasting change in relationship between SU, students
By Erinn Connor STAFF WRITER
n the bottom left drawer of Ralph Ketcham’s desk is his stack of grade books from his years as a history professor. They’re old and worn; they were carried everywhere, opened and flipped through often, full of pen marks and red pencil. One book amid the pile holds the names of students from Ketcham’s two classes from the spring semester of 1970. He had an undergraduate
class of about 20 students and a graduate class with roughly a dozen students, both relatively small. Scanning down the list of names, Ketcham knows what a lot of his students went on to accomplish in their lives: “Director of development at Columbia University Medical Center. He was a preacher. Teaches college in California. He worked in the State Department for a long time. She was a journalist in South
SEE VIETNAM PAGE 7
Gerlinde Sanford loved loons. She even perfected her loon call. Sanford and Karina Von Tippelskirch, a colleague and friend, often discussed going to the Adirondacks to hike, camp and search for loons. But the two never got a chance to go together. “She fell when she was swimming in one of the Adirondack lakes and she had pain in her thigh, so she couldn’t hike anymore,” Tippelskirch said of a trip Sanford took before the two met. Sanford, the chair of the language, linguistics and literature department, died Wednesday of an undisclosed illness. Friends, colleagues and students said she was a witty person and a devoted professor who kept much of her personal life private. Though Sanford never fulfilled her dream of hiking in the Adirondacks with Tippelskirch, she did get to travel there for a faculty retreat, where
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Class of 2014 to have record 3,300 students By Katrina Koerting STAFF WRITER
Incoming freshmen set a Syracuse University record high with a class size of 3,300 to 3,500 students, after SU received slightly fewer than 23,000 applicants. “It’s important for us to continue to grow,” said Donald Saleh, vice president for enrollment management at SU. As of May 1 — the deadline for accepted students to say they will come — the class was about 3,500 people. Along with the higher number of students enrolled, geographical demographics have also shifted west. SU officials expect the incoming class size to drop to 3,300 by the time the fall semester starts, which would still be more than last year’s incoming class, Saleh said. Last year about 3,250 students were
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