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october 7, 2010
T H E I N DE PE N DE N T S T U DE N T N E W SPA PE R OF S Y R ACUSE , N E W YOR K
INSIDENEWS
The bike list DPS visits dining halls to register students’ bikes. Page 3
INSIDEOPINION
Walkin’ solo Marina Charny gives
reasons why it’s not so bad not having a car at school. Page 5
INSIDEPULP
INSIDESPORTS
Street fighter Take Pulp’s quiz to
Get in line The Syracuse offensive line faces
see if you belong on Marshall or Westcott Street. Page 15
a tall task in Tampa. South Florida’s defense had a program-record seven sacks last weekend. Page 36
SU brings in advocate for Park51 By Hilary Levin CONTRIBUTING WRITER
maria salatino | staff photographer DAISY KHAN , one of the leading advocates for the Cordoba House at Park51 in Manhattan, explains the importance of building the multicultural center and her battle with sensational journalism that created the national controversy Wednesday to a packed Hergenhan Auditorium.
It was the media, Daisy Khan said, that turned the construction of a multicultural center in downtown Manhattan into the national controversy and political tool Park51 has become. And it was to a room of many aspiring journalists at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Wednesday that Khan discussed the controversy surrounding her and her husband’s project. “When the media reports this as a project to be feared and people spearheading this project have links to extremists, that’s how public opinion gets shaped,” she said. Khan and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, are the drivers behind the Muslim cultural center, dubbed Park51 because of its address on Park Place in New York City. The project was originally called the Cor-
SEE KHAN PAGE 9
US, Army flags burned off ROTC students’ front porch Students more By Michael Boren ASST. NEWS EDITOR
Tom Feane had just returned from physical military training when he discovered his house’s American flag in a pile of ashes. Folded pieces of charred, black nylon on a small patch of discolored grass were the only remnants of the
flag’s red and white stripes that once hung from Feane’s front porch. “It was just a bunch of black ash,” said Feane, a junior political science major and member of Syracuse University’s ROTC. “I was kind of taken ‘back by it, didn’t really know what to do,” he said. Feane’s U.S. Army flag, still hang-
ing, was charred across the bottom. He and his housemates, all ROTC members living on the 900 block of Ackerman Avenue, placed the American flag ashes into a bag. Syracuse police, Feane and his housemates suspect someone ignited their American and U.S. Army flags between 2 and 6 a.m. on Sept. 29. No suspects
were found, police said. But the blaze has ignited frustration and disappointment in some student veterans and ROTC members around campus. The flag burning was an isolated incident, and there’s no indication of any patterns, said Department of Public Safety Chief Tony Callisto. It
ASST. NEWS EDITOR
When the Syracuse chapter of Say Yes to Education told David Minney he would have the chance to go to Syracuse University or a number of other public and private institutions
for free, he thought the organization couldn’t be serious. “They just said, ‘Yeah, you can go to these schools for free,’” he said. “And I was just like, ‘This is a joke, right?’” Minney, a Syracuse native and
sophomore social work and psychology major, is part of the Class of 2013 and a member of the first group of Syracuse’s Say Yes high school graduates who is attending SU. Say Yes, the national nonprofit program that helps guide students
By Katie McInerney EDITOR IN CHIEF
through high school and pay for college, is expanding its student base at SU. Last year, the university had 39 students enroll from the first Say Yes high school graduating class, according to Syracuse’s Say Yes. This year,
Ali Phalen’s parents did not take kindly to the news of possible terrorist attacks in European cities. “I come from a very small town and my parents have never been abroad, so when they fi rst heard of the threats it was pretty bad,” said Phalen, a junior studying in London, in an e-mail. “I had to fight with my parents to allow me to stay. I now am not allowed to take public transport, so I have to take taxis everywhere. It is a very expensive pain in my butt.”
SEE SAY YES PAGE 11
SEE LONDON PAGE 8
SEE FLAGS PAGE 7
Say Yes students at SU increase, expected to grow in future years By Dara McBride
cautious after US travel alert