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N • New York, New York
dailyorange.com
P • Big picture
New York Magazine’s director of photography and senior editor, who published the well-known “Cosby Cover,” spoke Tuesday at SU. Page 3
Thilde Jensen discusses her current Light Works photography exhibit and talks about her battle with environmental illness. Page 9
S • Polk-ing ahead
Syracuse inched ahead of Albany late as the Great Danes allowed a Ben Polk goal to lose to SU, 2-1, for the second straight year. Page 16
Former student sues SU Claims he suffered head injury at Boxing Club By Chris Libonati asst. copy editor
A former Syracuse University student is suing the university because of a head injury suffered last fall, according to a lawsuit filed in the Kings County (New York) Supreme Court. Gabriel Sansone is suing SU, along with defendants Tony Chao, a boxing instructor and former Daily Orange art director, and Thomas Smith, who the lawsuit identifies as the Syracuse Boxing Club’s coach. The lawsuit says Chao repeatedly hit Sansone, who was not given headgear, in the head. The incident occurred in a training room in the lower level of the Archbold-Flanagan Gymnasium on Oct. 13, 2014, per the lawsuit. “In the previous exercise classes/practices that Sansone attended, there was never any intentional contact between any of the members of the club,” Marc Held, Sansone’s attorney, said in an email. “As such, any contact was unexpected and impermissible on campus. Mr. Sansone also never signed any waivers with the school or the club.” Chao declined to comment. Held is also representing several other clients in civil suits against the university. Sansone can no longer read, write or watch television, according to the New York Daily News. The lawsuit states that SU “represented to prospective members who joined the Boxing Sports Club that they would not be subject to any physical contact including any striking or punching to their head during any boxing practice or activity that took place on campus.” A flier posted on the SU Boxing Club’s Facebook page from see boxing page 6
In remembrance JESSE NICHOLS, a senior public relations, international relations and citizenship and civic engagement major, attends a candlelight vigil outside Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday night to honor the victims of the Umpqua Community College shooting and their families. About 40 members of the SU community attended the vigil. For full coverage of the vigil, see dailyorange.com. moriah ratner asst. photo editor
Old SU affiliate reduces tuition by 42 percent By Alexa Torrens asst. news editor
When Syracuse University cofounded Utica College in 1946 to further address the needs of returning World War II veterans, there was an expectation the institution would eventually be independent. Now, in 2015, 69 years after its creation and 20 years after its legal separation from SU, Utica College has cut tuition by 42 percent. It’s an unprecedented step in combatting the price tag of college tuition — a step that is reflective of UC’s motto to “never stand still.” “Every school in America is grappling with the whole idea of how do you remain affordable, and every school has to find their own solution to that,
you know, pathway to affordability,” said UC President Todd Hutton.
1946 The year Utica College was established as a two-year institution by SU and Utica community mayors
The tuition reset will affect fulltime students in UC’s on-campus undergraduate program, and will go into effect at the start of the 2016-17 academic year, according to a UC release. Tuition will drop to $19,996, and the total cost — which includes the fee for room and board — will be reduced to $30,430, according to the release. The authority to make such a
big decision on tuition is vested in UC’s Board of Trustees, which was established after the school legally separated from SU in 1995. UC’s newfound independence required the creation of the board, which would select a president of UC. Previously, when UC was what Hutton calls a “branch campus” of SU, the president of the college had to be appointed by the chancellor of SU. When UC and SU were legally intertwined, Hutton said the lack of a Board of Trustees meant a lack of a group of community supporters and alumni supporters to help guide the institution into the future. He said that input is one of the biggest benefits of being an independent institution. Hutton said there are other luxuries
UC was not afforded while it was tied to SU, such as the ability to launch major comprehensive campaigns on several fronts that are worth millions of dollars. UC did not have the ability to develop resources for those campaigns to reinvest in the college when it was a branch campus of SU, Hutton said. Since its legal separation from SU, UC has also branded itself academically and athletically, Hutton said, with the addition of 23 graduate programs and Division II sports to its repertoire. “There was always an intention from the very, very beginning for Syracuse to support the creation of a new four-year institution, and then to allow that institution to become independent,” Hutton said. “I think it may have taken longer than they envisioned back see utica page 6