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N • A new vision
dailyorange.com
P • Family first
SUNY-ESF will unveil a “Visioning Wall” where community members can offer their thoughts on drafts of the school’s new mission and vision statements. Page 3
Students participated in Newhouse’s first-ever design workshop this weekend, “Pixels vs Print,” to capture the theme of family. Page 11
S • Clamping down
Syracuse men’s basketball let Hampton stay in the game on Sunday, but a strong defensive effort in the second half kept the Pirates permanently behind. Page 20
construction zones
Despite renovation efforts, areas of Syracuse University still in need of repairs
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dat rally
SU denies sit-in entry to lawyer Protesters not allowed in-person legal advice after receiving code of conduct
schine student center
By Brett Samuels asst. news editor
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2 ernie davis hall
4 carnegie library 5 life sciences complex
breakdown Here is the original construction cost and the year constructed for five buildings on campus.
the university series By Annie Palmer staff writer
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schine student center Built in 1985 Cost $15 million
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ernie davis hall Built in 2009 Cost $50 million
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s.i. newhouse school of public communications Built in 1964 Cost $43 million
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carnegie library Built in 1907 Cost $150,000
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life sciences complex Built in 2008 Cost $113,640,000
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tudents who spend a lot of time in Newhouse III may have a very different experience from those who take most of their classes in Huntington Hall. Huntington Hall had “single pane windows that rattled in the wind and lost a lot of heat,” said Bruce Carter, associate professor of psychology and child and family studies, who taught in one of the classrooms. The condition of the windows made Carter worry about pigeons flying into the room when it was warmer outside, since there were no screens. He eventually bought and installed screens himself. “As buildings are renovated,
these are costs that really should be undertaken as the renovation happens,” Carter said. “They’re really university-wide costs, kind of catching everybody up to the same level.” The condition of buildings across campus varies widely. Syracuse University has increased the amount of money it spends on buildings in recent years but is still largely reliant on private donations to fund construction. Going forward, the Campus Master Plan, which is currently being developed, will play a major role in determining what SU will look like in the years ahead.
A campus in need of repair
When Deborah Pellow, a professor of anthropology, ran into Chancellor Kent Syverud last August, she said they spoke about all of the renovations being made on campus. “There was not an alleyway that
was not being worked on,” Pellow said. But the renovations had to be done, Syverud told her, because they were all repairs that had been neglected on campus for the last nine or 10 years. “For example, there’s a stairway behind the engineering building that was completely broken up and was no good for two years,” Pellow said. “Within two weeks of him (Syverud) coming here, that was fixed.” Many needed repairs, such as the stairway, fall under the category of deferred maintenance, said Sam Leitermann, vice president for internal affairs of the Graduate Student Organization. There are vast differences in classroom quality across campus as a result of deferred maintenance, Leitermann said. “It leads to a very different experience depending on where you live or spend your time,” Leitermann said. “But it’s also very easy to classify a
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Syracuse University students spending the weekend in Crouse-Hinds Hall as part of the ongoing sit-in were denied a meeting with legal counsel after copies of the student code of conduct were delivered to them on Friday evening. Members of THE General Body, a coalition of student groups, have remained in the lobby of CrouseHinds since Nov. 3 following the Diversity and Transparency Rally.
It’s a right given to prisoners to seek legal counsel and unfortunately it’s not one given to student leaders trying to change the university. Ben Kuebrich sit-in organizer
On Friday, after students were handed copies of the code of conduct, Janis McDonald, a tenured professor in the SU College of Law, said students asked her if she could stop by CrouseHinds to explain the policy and the university’s judicial process. McDonald arrived at the building Saturday morning, but was not allowed inside. McDonald said when she first got to Crouse-Hinds on Saturday, she was asked to wait outside. Students would be allowed to come outside to ask her questions, and then would be allowed back in the building. However a short time later, she said she received a phone call from Department of Public Safety see sit-in page 8