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Fueled up SU alumnus, professors
Power up Luke Lanciano talks about
On pins and needles With the New York City fashion show in
The recruits DaJuan Coleman and Breanna Stewart
and students collaborate on biodiesel research. Page 3
nuclear energy as a logical electricity replacement. Page 5
sight, senior fashion design majors ramp up work on their final projects. Page 11
are both top-five recruits in next year’s class. And they’re both right here in the Syracuse area. Page 20
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Sixth dean installed in ceremony By Colleen Bidwill ASST. COPY EDITOR
robert storm | staff photographer TIFFANY STEINWERT (LEFT) accepts her charge as the sixth dean of Hendricks Chapel from Chancellor Nancy Cantor during the official installation ceremony Monday afternoon. Steinwert officially began her job in March and is the first female dean in Hendricks’ 80-year history.
The Rev. Tiffany Steinwert asked the audience to examine the inside of the chapel during her speech officially accepting her role as the sixth dean of Hendricks Chapel. “Look around,” she said. “Go ahead. I really mean it. Drink in the space and the time-worn pews. Imagine for a moment the thousands upon thousands, generation after generation that have come here, each seeking peace.” After beginning her tenure in March, Steinwert was officially installed as the sixth and first female dean of Hendricks in a ceremony Monday afternoon. Through prayers, songs and speeches, members of the Syracuse University community gave their support to the new dean of the 80-year-old chapel. Steinwert was drawn to Hendricks
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Inn Complete brings back focus on grads Panel to examine environmental, By Heather Wentz STAFF WRITER
Talking and laughing above the chorus of “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen, Gokhan Savas, a Syracuse University graduate student, and his two friends were upstairs having a beer and playing pingpong during a recent Monday night, waiting for dinner at their favorite place on campus, The Inn Complete. Downstairs, there was a chatty group of girls eating. At the table next to them was a family of three fi nishing up their meal. The clientele at The Inn Complete has expanded in recent years to include undergraduate students. But the management at the bar and restaurant has been brainstorm-
ing ways to bring the focus back to graduate students with events like speed dating in November, aimed only at graduate students. The Inn Complete was fi rst conceived as a graduate student hangout, said Monica King, the manager. It opened in 1987 in the basement of the South Campus Sky Barn in response to years of graduate student complaints about the lack of a place to hang out, King said. “After some planning, there was a huge pull from the (Graduate Student Organization), who decided they wanted to put some of their student fees to use,” King said. When The Inn Complete fi rst opened, it was open only to graduate students, and an ID was required for
entry. In addition, if people brought guests, they had to pay a fee. In 2002, SU Food Services combined with GSO to co-run The Inn Complete, and it gradually became open to all students, King said. “Before then, even grad students didn’t know about the place,” King said. “It was almost like a club for the cool crowd.” The Inn Complete does not advertise, so knowledge of it is spread completely by word of mouth, and many students who live on South Campus do not even know it exists, King said. She said that makes The Inn Complete special for those who do know about it, especially those who come for Trivia Night every SEE INN COMPLETE PAGE 6
political effects of Gulf oil spill By Audrie Tan
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Despite the oil well being officially declared dead more than a month and a half ago, the effects of the British Petroleum oil spill will be addressed during a panel discussion Tuesday. The panel discussion, “Blowout: What: What the Gulf of Mexico Oil What the Gulf Spill Means for You of Mexico Oil and the Future of Spill Means American Energy for You and Where: Hendricks the Future Chapel When: Today, 7:30 of American Energy,” is p.m. How much: Free organized by
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University Lectures and will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. It is free and open to the public. The panel will explain how the environmental, political and social impacts of the spill are far from over. BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded April 20, leading to the largest oil spill in history. The spill officially ended 152 days later after nearly five million barrels of oil had gushed in the Gulf of Mexico when the federal government declared the oil well dead. The presentation will take the form of a conversation, with much of the dialogue driven by questions from
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