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Safety first The Carrier Dome’s increased
Combining forces SPD and DPS joining forces to
Drink and debate The Daily Orange provides you with the rules for its
Good call Connecticut head coach Paul Pasqualoni remains
security was put into effect at Friday’s football game. Page 3
increase student safety is better later than never. Page 5
presidential debate drinking game. Page 9
persistent in his old approach, while SU head coach Doug Marrone embraces the new direction of college football. Page 16
ELECTIONS 2012
Students stray from voting, dislike process By Jen Bundy STAFF WRITER
While this presidential election is the first in which many students are finally of voting age, several students are unsure they will cast their ballot. Adam Rubenstein, a sophomore undeclared major in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, said the Electoral College deters him from voting because he feels his vote does not count. “I hate the Electoral College — it eliminates the whole idea of one person, one vote,” he said. The Electoral College is not an ideal system, said Robert McClure, a professor of political science and public affairs. But any change to the voting system would require an amendment to the Constitution and that is “just not going to happen,” he said. The two main contenders for the presidential race are Republican nominee Gov. Mitt Romney and Democratic nominee President Barack Obama. While Rubenstein said he is “politically aware,” he admitted not knowing how to apply for an absentee ballot, or where to vote. Voting through hard-copy mail is one reason voters are discouraged from going through the process of registering, especially for absentee ballots, said Monica Ulloa, a junior policy studies and international relations dual major. “I like the idea of online voting,” she said. “Sometimes people are just too lazy to take that extra step.” But McClure does not view online voting as favorable. No registration gimmicks are going to change the electorate’s attitude toward politics, he said. Online voting would just create more problems. “If you want to participate, it’s
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Clinton in ’Cuse
Former President Bill Clinton and Democratic congressional candidate Dan Maffei were at a rally on Friday at Syracuse Hancock Aviation Hangar. Clinton endorsed Maffei, saying he was an advocate for the middle class and he has “the right idea” when it comes to policy making. Maffei is running against incumbent U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle and Green Party candidate Ursula Rozum.
Lockerbie scholars struggle to extend stay By Sarah Schuster STAFF WRITER
When Stefan Hanley walked through the Quad on his first day at Syracuse University, he knew a year there would not be enough. “I need to stay here,” he said, “I was never more sure of anything.” Then a freshman, he was one of two Lockerbie Scholars chosen to attend SU for the 2009-10 school year. Now, as a senior advertising major, he is the third Lockerbie scholar to either extend the stay or come back to SU. The Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholarship was formed in response to the
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing of 1988, a tragedy that left both the rural town of Lockerbie, Scotland, and the university devastated. SU, in partnership with the Scottish charity Lockerbie Trust, formed the scholarship. Each year, two students from Lockerbie are chosen to spend a fully-funded year at SU in honor of the victims of the bombing. If Lockerbie Scholars want to stay at SU for more than a year, they can, said Judy O’Rourke, director of undergraduate studies. But it isn’t easy. The biggest challenge, she said, is money. If the scholars want to return for
another year, the university will not continue to fund their education. They cannot apply for need-based funding through the government because they are international students. They have to rely on university scholarships and savings, O’Rourke said. When reapplying to SU, O’Rourke said the scholars receive no preferential treatment. Some scholars who have returned resorted to becoming resident advisers, O’Rourke said. That’s what Hanley did. At the end of his second semester, Hanley got an email saying he was accepted to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Com-
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munications and that he would be an RA at Brewster Hall his sophomore year. The first scholar to stay at SU to complete an undergraduate degree was Erin McLaughlin, a scholar from the 2003-04 academic year. David Thomson, a scholar from the 199697 school year, was the first to come back for his master’s at Newhouse, O’Rourke said. Currently, Hanley and Fergus Barrie, last year’s scholars, are both
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