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High alert John Sumpter
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SU alumnus, wife build scholarship fund for middle-class students By Laurence Leveille and Dara McBride
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yracuse University announced its secondlargest donation in university history Friday — $20 million, which will go toward a new scholarship program focused on incoming middleclass students. The Louise and Howard Phanstiel Scholar Program will be administered fall 2011 to middle-class students with a U.S. citizenship who have demonstrated potential for academic success and community leadership. “It’s almost like you have to pinch yourself sometimes and say, ‘Wow, God gave us this money for a reason, and boy, our job is to make sure we find good things to do with it,’” Louise Phanstiel said. The donation was announced on the Quad during an event titled “Project P.” A drumroll by the SU marching band built up to the announcement of the specific dollar amount, with nine University 100 members, each standing up with cardboard squares that together read “$20,000,000.”
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top: danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor; bottom: robert storm | contributing photographer Top: Howie (right) and Louise Phanstiel listen to a speaker during the celebration of their donation Friday. bottom: Members of University 100 display the amount of the Phanstiel’s donation.
Ten students form group aimed at encouraging student philanthropy, attracting alumni gifts By Kathleen Ronayne Managing Editor
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Come together Without Sarah
Morton, the 2010 Syracuse volleyball team is different. But it may just be better. Page 24
When Jessica Cunnington transferred to Syracuse University her sophomore year, she found exactly what she felt had been lacking at her former school — students who were as involved and ambitious as she. “I went to a school where I thought kids weren’t driven. It didn’t have the feel that this campus does. Here, everyone has goals,” she said. Cunnington, a junior broadcast journalism
major, transferred to SU after one year at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After more than a year at SU, that energy on campus has fueled Cunnington’s desire to give back to the university for what it has given her. Cunnington, along with nine other students, is part of a new group that will promote philanthropy in the SU community. Helene Kahn, a 2010 graduate of SU and development associate in SU’s Office of Development, handpicked the group
of ten students. The group, which does not yet have an official name, will be the face of SU to alumni and potential donors and the face of philanthropy to the student body. But the group’s task is more daunting than simply promoting philanthropy — it’s trying to change the entire culture of SU. Philanthropy has a broad definition, but the group will focus specifically on securing donations for the university and convincing students that giving back starts when they step on campus,
not 20 years down the road when they’ve become successful, Kahn said. The group has met once, and some of its members were in attendance for Friday’s announcement of Howie and Louise Phanstiel’s $20 million donation to the university. Aside from Cunnington, the students in the group are Chelsea Damberg, Erik Bortz, Mollie Beach, Melissa Vargas, Matt Cohn, Zach Fisher, Luis Romo, Jonathan Leon and Merin Pasternak. see philanthropy page 7
Carter pleads guilty to harrassment violation, receives one-year probation By Andrew L. John and Brett LoGiurato The Daily Orange
Syracuse running back Delone Carter received a one-year conditional discharge for harassment in City Court on Thursday for punching a fellow Syracuse University student in a Feb. 27
snowball-throwing incident, said his attorney, Kimberly Zimmer. Carter pleaded guilty to the charges, Zimmer said, which were reduced from a misdemeanor third-degree assault charge by Judge Langston McKinney on Thursday. The charges are
contingent upon Carter avoiding any additional legal trouble. The case will remain open for the next year on a probationary status and close if the year’s conditions are met, Zimmer said. “He pled guilty to harassment,” Zimmer said. “The conditional discharge was basi-
cally his sentence. So the case remains open, if you will, until that year’s up. If there are no further problems with the law, then the case is closed, and that’s it.” Through Zimmer, Carter offered a statement expressing relief that the process was over and gratitude to everyone who
had helped him through the process. “He said he’s very thankful to those who have helped him through this process, including his family and the Syracuse University football program,” Zimmer said. see carter page 4