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Fresh off its first bowl victory since 2001, the Syracuse football team opens the 2011 season with a buzz not seen since Greg Paulus made his debut. SU head coach Doug Marrone has talked about competing for the Big East title and defending home field in the Carrier Dome as two of the team’s main goals. This season is a proving ground for the Orange as it looks to assert itself in the upper half of the conference. Inserted in today’s paper is The Daily Orange’s annual football guide, which provides a complete preview of the upcoming season. SU kicks off the 2011 season Thursday in the Carrier Dome against Wake Forest.
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Space issues alleviated by storage site By Meghin Delaney NEWS EDITOR
When E.S. Bird Library first opened, the top and bottom shelves were vacant of books. Only the middle shelves had books on them, and even those shelves were not completely full. Walking into Bird now, the shelves are overflowing trying to accommodate all the books. But library officials seem to have found a solution: a compact high-density library annex to house 1.2 million volumes. The facility will be constructed on Jamesville Avenue next to the Hawkins Building, where the library already stores some of its materials. For the past decade, space has been an issue in the library. As a research library, having a constantly growing collection is essential, said Pamela McLaughlin, director of communication and external relations at Syracuse University Library. And now, having a storage facility has become essential to help solve the space problem. “It’s been growing and now we are going to start resolving it,” she said. The library has grown to 3.1 million volumes, McLaughlin said. The library had been using storage areas in a few different places around campus to help manage the space issue before plans for the South Campus annex were approved. But even with storage in The Warehouse, the Hawkins Building and Carnegie Library, it has not helped the library’s problem, said TC Carrier, director of program management at SU Library. “A lot of things here are over capacity actually,” she said. “We’re actually over 100 percent. There are some things that are not even on the shelving anymore; they’re in back places because they just don’t fit.” The SU Board of Trustees approved $5 million to go toward the construction of the South Campus annex at its meeting in May. The university is backing the annex with $4 SEE LIBRARY PAGE 6
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From shaping U.S. foreign policy to promoting forward thinking, when it comes to bridging theoretical and practical sides of public policy, Maxwell’s new dean is By Kathleen Ronayne
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wo months ago, James Steinberg started his typical workday at 8:45 a.m., in a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and fellow State Department secretaries. Later, he’d head to the White House, where he’d meet directly with President Barack Obama or other cabinet members. He’d speak with the press secretary and spend a few hours with reporters. Sometimes, he’d travel — for about one week every month. He took seven trips to the Balkans and the same to East Asia all in less than two years, plus one extensive trip to Africa and several other countries. He’d meet with world leaders, public policy activists and citizens — “reaching out, touching and engaging with people in the countries I visited.”
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But now, you might see him or his two daughters Emma, 7, and Jenna, 9, in Eggers Hall on your way to class. In the spring semester, he might be your professor. You might see him because Steinberg — the same man who was President Bill Clinton’s principal negotiator in the G-8 summits of the 1990s, the same man who transformed the public policy school at the University of Texas-Austin in three short years, and the same man who some in Washington have called “the leading foreign policy player of his generation” — now comes to work on your campus every day as the dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. A brief look at Steinberg’s resume backs up the characterization of his colleagues. Some highlights include serving as the director of policy planning in the State Department from
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