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Breaking in Students living in the Euclid
To pay or not to pay John Sumpter and Lauren
Best in show Pulp weighs in on who won and who should have
Buzz kill? The excitement of Doug Marrone’s first year faded
area see a string of summer robberies, break-ins. Page 3
Tousignant debate the issue of unpaid internships. Page 5
won in the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards. Page 11
with a 4-8 campaign. But as Year Two approaches, SU students have renewed optimism. Page 32
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Juice Jam Festival acts announced Lupe Fiasco to headline show By Flash Steinbeiser Feature Editor
Hip-Hop artist Lupe Fiasco, along with synthetic pop bands Passion Pit and Super Mash Bros., will headline University Union’s seventh annual Juice Jam Festival on Sept. 12. “They are very credWhere: Skytop Field ible artists, When: Sept. 12, Noon and they’re How much: $10 all very p o p u l a r,” said Harry Roberts, director of UU concerts and a junior in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries. “They appeal to a lot of different groups.”
JUICE JAM nate shron | staff photographer
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john pinette performs at the Civic Center in Armory Square at the end of Feel the Pulse of Syracuse, an annual freshmen orientation event. Freshmen had the opportunity to walk around and become acquainted with the shops and eateries in downtown Syracuse and the Connective Corridor during their first weekend living on campus. Puppets from Open Hand Theater led a procession to the two-hour show.
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Good grades Obama calls for reversal Alpha Gamma Delta to could earn SU return to campus this year of Pan Am bomber release students cash By Kathleen Ronayne Managing Editor
The Obama administration has requested the only man convicted in the bombing of flight Pan Am 103 in 1988 be sent back to prison after questions regarding his release surfaced this summer, according to The Associated Press. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds from prison last August after a doctor diagnosed him with prostate cancer and only three months to live. He had served only 8 years of his 27-year sentence in connection with the bombing. More than a year after
By Stephanie Smith
his release, al-Megrahi is still living in Tripoli, Libya. “We’ve expressed our strong conviction that al-Megrahi should serve out the remainder — the entirety — of his sentence in a Scottish prison,” John Brennan, the Obama administrations adviser on counterterrorism, told The Associated Press. Thirty-five Syracuse University students traveling home from semesters abroad in London and Florence, Italy, died in the attack, along with all 224 other people on board. Eleven people on the ground in Lockerbie,
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The dorm building known as Butterfield House, sandwiched in between fraternity houses Phi Kappa Psi and Theta Chi, will resume its original function as a house for the returning women’s fraternity Alpha Gamma Delta. Butterfield will continue to serve as a dorm until summer 2011, when AGD will renovate and take over in the fall. “We are very excited about the return of Alpha Gamma Delta fraternity to our campus,” said Eddie Banks-Crosson, director of Fraterni-
ty and Sorority Affairs at Syracuse University, in an AGD press release. “Syracuse University has long history of tradition within our fraternity and sorority community, and we are pleased that Alpha Gamma Delta will rejoin our outstanding community as a viable partner.” AGD was founded at SU in 1904 and was the third women’s fraternity to be founded on the campus. This makes the organization an Alpha chapter — part of the “Syracuse Triad,” along with Alpha Phi and Gamma Phi Beta. AGD left SU in 2001 due to the low
Steven Wolf and Jeremy Gelbart have literally made education a gamble. The two University of Pennsylvania graduates created the website Ultrinsic.com, which allows students to place bets on what grade they expect to get. The website, which began in fall 2009, is open to Syracuse University students for the first time this semester. The idea for Ultrinsic was sparked three years ago when Gelbart did not
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By Haley Behre Staff Writer