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N • EMS week
Starting Monday, Syracuse University Ambulance will hold its Collegiate EMS Week, which includes blood pressure testing and a campus blood drive. Page 3
P • Raising awareness
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Regina Jones is spearheading Syracuse University’s celebration for national Native American Heritage Month as the head of the Native Student Program. Page 9
S • Bull market
Ravian Pierce’s stock is up after a two-touchdown performance against Wake Forest on Saturday, while SU defense’s stock is down after its soft showing. Page 16
on campus
Opportunity cost A $3,300 Invest Syracuse premium combined with annual tuition hikes aggravate international students
Students organize fundraiser About $2,100 collected for disaster relief efforts By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor
Casey Perez’s voice was growing hoarse from yelling in the cold air. With hands shoved in pockets, at times dancing around, Perez kept shouting “Puerto Rico disaster relief” as clusters of Syracuse fans streamed into the Carrier Dome, some quickly finishing off beers before entering security checkpoints and jostling to enter the venue’s pressurized revolving doors. Nikolas Santana, rattling a small orange tambourine, held a bucket with the stenciled outline of Caribbean islands running down its side. It contained a few $1 bills. “I’m very, very, very, very cold,” he said, a few minutes before kickoff in what would become Syracuse football’s 43-64 loss Saturday night to Wake Forest.
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The fact that people take the time, just a minute to pull out their wallet ... I really appreciate it. Gabriella Mendietta
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nes Sayin, a Turkish student at Syracuse University, was admitted to the prestigious Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, which ranks No. 190 in best global universities and No. 1 in best global universities in Turkey by U.S. News and World Report. Sayin instead chose to study abroad in the United States, hoping to receive an education better than the one he’d receive in Turkey, where he’d seen academic persecution. He was accepted to American University, the George Washington University and SU. The sophomore ultimately chose SU to study international relations because he was attracted by its interdisciplinary program. The decision wasn’t easy, Sayin said. Because he is an international student, he didn’t receive any financial aid or scholarship from SU. “I think it’s well known that private universities in the U.S. look at international students as some way of making easy money,” Sayin said. “I’ve heard this a lot, and that’s also the opinion I got.” International students — who don’t have as many financial aid options as domestic students and pay full tuition — will likely shoulder a larger financial burden as SU seeks to implement a $3,300 Invest Syracuse premium on top of an annual 3.9 percent tuition hike.
This academic year’s tuition is $45,150, and total cost of attendance is $67,152, according to the SU website. For incoming Class of 2022 freshmen, though, the tuition is estimated to go up to $50,230, and total cost of attendance is expected to surge to $72,329, including the tuition increase and the premium. The Invest Syracuse premium will be established to help support the initiative’s $100 million academic fundraising plan. Students currently enrolled at the university will not be affected by the premium, but they will see the 3.9 percent tuition increase. The Board of Trustees will approve the final cost, which will be finalized in March. “We’re paying more without getting anything (from the university),” said Mikhail Milchakov, a senior from Russia studying marketing and management at SU. “It’s just that I feel they want to attract international students, and it’s starting to make us feel like a cash cow.” In a joint email statement provided to The Daily Orange, Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly and Dolan Evanovich, senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience, reiterated what they had said at previous Invest Syracuse information sessions: “Approximately 65% of students receive financial support through scholarships and grants. This includes international students who do, and will continue to, receive merit-based scholarships. Recognizing the need to balance tuition and see international page 6
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Perez, along with about 50 other Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, stood outside the Dome in below-freezing weather Saturday to collect donations as part of ongoing campus fundraising efforts to support aid operations in Puerto Rico and countries devastated by massive hurricanes Maria and Irma earlier this year. Funds raised Saturday will also support relief operations in Mexico, after a deadly 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the central portion of the country and killed more than 350 people in September. The group of students, who raised about $2,100 in total, met Saturday at about 1:30 p.m. in a small Physics Building room. Vice President for Community Engagement Bea González and other university employees distributed gray winter hats to volunteers, most of whom have families directly affected by the storms or earthquake, González said. Deborah Orieta, one of the see puerto
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