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Jail break A former Black Panther explains why the prison system should be abolished. Page 3

Lost in the middle

Euclid sees number of partiers rise By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor

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All hail McQueen Vicki Ho discusses Sarah Burton’s successful debut at Paris Fashion Week. Page 5

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Idol behavior Seven students try their talents in University Union’s fourth annual SU Idol competition. Page 11

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Early Christmas Rakeem

Christmas, a 2011 commit, will bring the advantage of having a year in the 2-3 zone under his belt. Page 24

Donation complicates what defines SU’s middle class

Michael Flusche has never seen the hoards of students this big before. “It’s every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night,” he said. “It’s long and disruptive.” Flusche, 69, has lived in his house on the 700 block of Lancaster Avenue since 1976. The East neighborhood has traditionally been a place for both students and permanent residents, he said. But this fall, he said the late night college party traffic has been “unabating.” “In all the years that we’ve been here, this is the absolute worse,” said

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hen she taught family sociology, Christine Himes asked her students what it meant to be middle class. One student responded by saying a middle-class family would drive a Lexus, but other students were quick to disagree. “Middle class is a very fuzzy concept,” said Himes, a sociology professor. “Almost everyone in the United States considers themselves middle class if you were to ask them.” Questions as to how Syracuse University defines middle class were sparked by the Oct. 1 announcement of the $20 million Louise and Howard Phanstiel Scholar Program, which will be geared toward incoming middle-class students, said Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management. “When you think about the middle class, if you wanted to pick a median income or middle income group in the nation, and then at Syracuse University — totally different numbers,” Saleh said.

“I don’t see that there are more parties. I see that there are more people looking for parties.” Capt. John Sardino

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Flusche, who lives in the house with his wife. Party traffic off campus has spiked, as reported by East neighborhood residents and Syracuse University officials. The new greek life policy that restricts guest lists and drinking at fraternity house parties, an increase in the freshman class size and warm fall weather have all been cited as reasons for the busy weekends. In his 25 years with the Department of Public Safety, Capt. John Sardino said this year has had an abnormal amount of students wandering in search of off-campus parties. “I don’t see that there are more parties,” Sardino said. “I see that there are more people looking for parties.” Syracuse police have seen an increase of more than 50 percent in area college students and high school kids being ticketed for open container violations, noise violations and nuisance parties, Sardino said. But DPS has not made more arrests than usual, he said, because the Syracuse Police Department has jurisdiction in the off-campus neighborhoods. There are currently no plans to increase the number of DPS patrols in the East neighborhood, but officers have started to spend more time dursee off campus page 4

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mary wagner | contributing photographer kathleen jamieson , founder of political watchdog website FactCheck.org, presents Tuesday night at Hendricks Chapel on examples of lies told during presidential campaigns.

Jamieson shows how to uncover lies in presidential campaigning By Kristin Ross Contributing Writer

When Barack Obama was running for president, he promised in a speech to the American public he would not raise taxes on any household that earns less than $250,000 annually. But when he became president, Obama put a tax on cigarettes and indoor tanning, which some members of those households use. “Campaigns attack opponents for things they’d do if elected, but don’t say they’d never, either,” said Kathleen Jamieson, co-founder of FactCheck.org, a website dedicated to examining the truth of political statements. Jamieson, also an author of 15 books, gave the lecture “Finding the Hidden Meanings in Presidential Messages” Tuesday night in Hendricks Chapel as part of the

annual University Lectures series. Jamieson showcased clips from presidential campaigns to address the need to find the hidden meanings in presidential messages. Presidents make promises they can’t keep because that is how they get elected, Jamieson said. Jamieson said no matter how eloquently presidential candidates speak, they cannot always call something as it truly is, such as a new tax law, because it would have a different effect on voters. The word “tax” carries a negative and unwanted connotation to the speech and, therefore, the candidate. Presidential candidates must choose their words carefully, knowing what they say may be used against them. “When they say something that appears to be very, very carefully see jamieson page 7

How to define middle class The $20 million Louise and Howard Phanstiel Scholar Program for middle-class students was announced Oct. 1, but the socioeconomic class has many different definitions depending on who you ask.

I think the idea of middle class has become a broader concept than it used to be. It’s all a part of the American Dream.

Christine Himes

sociology professor

I guess because I’m not upper class, therefore, I’m middle class. I don’t have a car on campus or all the new things.

Brianna Schmidt

junior biochemistry major

I’ve always felt middle class my whole life, and when I got here I felt on the lower side.

Luke Barefoot

senior marketing and finance major


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