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Car strikes student on Comstock
fr at er nit y a nd s o r o r i t y a f fa i r s
Party rules to undergo overhaul In Year Two, Ma with core of new rrone aims for bowl and old faces
By Michael Boren
University proposes rules to limit alcohol, guests
Asst. News Editor
A vehicle hit a student Wednesday afternoon on Comstock Avenue in front of the Theta Chi fraternity house. He sustained non-life threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital, Department of Public Safety Chief Tony Callisto said. “The driver was changing lanes when the person stepped off the curb,� Callisto said. DPS did not issue tickets to the driver or the pedestrian, Callisto said. The driver’s name was not released. But several Theta Chi brothers confirmed the car hit Colin Robinson, a brother in the house. Right after the accident, Mike Smith, one of the brothers in the Theta Chi house, said he went out to Robinson. He declined to comment on the incident further. Jared Lanphere, a senior in the Theta Chi house, said Robinson did not appear to be badly injured immediately following the incident. Lanphere watched as Smith went out to help his friend. “He had him up against a tree,� said Lanphere, an economics and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major. “He was bleeding a little bit.� Lanphere had seen Robinson walk out of the Theta Chi house several minutes before he saw Robinson being hit, he said. Several DPS squad cars and an ambulance lined the street around 12:45 p.m. The windshield of the car that hit the student, a Kia Sorento, was smashed in on the left side. A teary-eyed girl was taking pictures of the windshield and talking on the phone after the incident. She declined to speak for the article. “It’s a very busy pedestrian area,� Callisto said. “And, certainly, we encourage both the drivers and pedestrians to be mindful of each other.� In April, an ambulance side mirsee accident page 4
By Beckie Strum News Editor
daily orange file photo The open parties typical of Greek life at Syracuse University may become a thing of the past as SU works to place stricter rules on alcohol distribution and event size.
Students heading to fraternity parties this semester might have to get their names and ages cleared by Syracuse University staff, according to the administration’s new guidelines for fraternity and sorority events. The guidelines, distributed to fraternity and sorority chapters this week, consisted of a number of major changes to social events. The new rules could control underage drinking, allow SU to monitor who attends parties and make Greek organizations more vulnerable to disciplinary action. The new rules apply to all Greek organizations — Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, National
see policy page 4
Students on active-duty reflect on end of Iraq war By Dara McBride Asst. News Writer
Should Syracuse University student Paul Mancuso be asked about American military presence in Iraq, he and his classmates would be ready for the discussion. “Of course it gets really heated because all of us have been involved in the war one way or another,� said Mancuso, a sergeant in the Marine Corps and a student in this year’s Military Visual Journalism Program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. President Barack Obama announced the end of U.S. military presence in Iraq after seven years and promised to begin the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Afghanistan next summer on Tuesday evening in an address broadcast from the Oval Office. For those at SU associated with the Navy, Marine Corps, Army
or Air Force, the announcement was a conversation topic throughout the next day. Newhouse’s Military Visual Journalism Program, sponsored by the Department of Defense, is a 10-month long course open to 32 active-duty military personnel who learn about photojournalism and broadcast journalism skills. The president’s address was discussed Wednesday morning among students, but there were different ways people were focusing on the topic, Mancuso said. While it reaffirmed one of Obama’s campaign promises, Mancuso said he is still in the mindset that troops will eventually go back. Mancuso served with the 2nd Marine Division for six months in Afghanistan, between November 2003 and May 2004, and for nine months in Iraq, between February
bridget streeter | photo editor robert storm , a student in the Military Visual Journalism Program and a Marine Corps staff sergeant, is skeptical the Iraq war is over. and November 2005. Mancuso was stationed in Al Karmah, Iraq, just east of Fallujah, militarily recognized as the most violence-prone Iraqi area. He said he thought there was still a job to be done. “We were fighting two wars,� Mancuso said, referring to the initial invasion and then the mission to combat terrorism. “The second
war is still going on and people kind of forget that.� Army specialist Alex Torres, a military program student, said he did not think people were surprised by the announcement, but that many were only waiting to learn the specific date. “We’ve been getting out of there see veterans page 8