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Republican Ann Buerkle takes the 25th congressional seat. Page 3
Buerkle’s environmental opinions. Page 5
in a traditional Thanksgiving menu. Page 13
String of burglaries hits South Campus
South Koreans at SU unshaken by latest attack By Andrew Swab
By Michael Boren
Staff Writer
Joseph Juhn’s parents remained calm when North Korea bombed an island 60 miles off the coast of South Korea, even though they live in South Korea’s capital, Seoul. When Juhn called them, they said they felt safe. “I consider North Korea as a troubled kid, a next-door neighbor,” said Juhn, a second-year law student who was raised in South Korea. “Typically when these things happen, people outside of Korea tend to freak out more.” After the Nov. 23 attacks on Yeonpyeong Island, which killed two South Korean soldiers and wounded 15 soldiers and three civilians, U.S. media depicted a tense East Asia. But Syracuse University students who hail from South Korea said they are not worried about the escalating situation overseas and think the media overreacted. SU has 334 international students from South Korea, according to the November census update from the Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center for International Services. This places South Korea as the third largest home country for international students at SU after China and India. To Jay Lee, the faculty adviser for Korean Students in America at SU, the news of the attack was concerning but not too worrisome, he said. “North Korea has behaved like this many times in the past,” he said in an e-mail.
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The same individuals may be responsible for four burglaries to South Campus apartments during Thanksgiving break when students were not at home, said Department of Public Safety Asst. Chief Mike Rathbun. Apartments on 151 Winding Ridge Road, 121 Small Road and 520 Slocum Drive were burglarized between Nov. 23 and Sunday, as well as 220 Winding Ridge Road between Nov. 21 and Sunday, according to DPS crime records. The burglars forcibly opened one of the apartment’s front doors, but the other three apartments were not forcibly entered, Rathbun said. The residents of the apartments said they secured their
andrew renneisen | staff photographer Stefan Hutzfeld from Liberty in North Korea, a group advocating for North Korean dissidents, scans material at a film event Monday. This is not the first time the North Korean military has struck the South. In March, 42 South Korean sailors
were killed by a torpedo striking and then sinking their vessel, the Cheosee south korea page 8
Students mourn tragic death of Liverpool woman By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor
Back in high school, Jenni-Lyn Watson was known as a genuine person who was easy to talk to. “She had a warming personality to be around,” said Ian Smith, who graduated with Watson from Liverpool High School in 2008 and is now a senior television, radio and film and political science major at Syracuse University.
performance helps Boston College defeat Syracuse in SU’s regular-season finale. Page 24
Smith would see Watson in the hallways and say hello. He also knew Steven Pieper, who was in their graduating class and started dating Watson post-graduation. Pieper had a friendly personality, and the two would talk about sports sometimes, watson Smith said.
“He was a guy’s guy,” Smith said. So it was a shock for Smith and others in the Liverpool area to hear over Thanksgiving break that Watson, 20, had gone missing Nov. 19. Watson’s body was discovered Saturday in Clay Central Park. Police arrested Watson’s ex-boyfriend Pieper, 21, Saturday afternoon on a charge of second-degree murder. Law enforcement officials and
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apartments, he said. The suspects mostly stole electronic items, such as televisions and game boxes, Rathbun said. He did not provide the total cost of the stolen items. “It was a significant loss if you look at the total,” he said. Police patrolling South Campus discovered 151 Winding Ridge Road Apartment 6 with its door forcibly opened, according to the Syracuse police report. Police entered the apartment and saw mud tracks on the floor and the apartment in “disarray,” according to report. The two Syracuse University men who lived in the apartment confirmed to police that three TVs were taken from the apartment with a combined value of $1,400, accordsee burglaries page 11
TCU joins Big East; Gross, SU coaches praise addition By Brett LoGiurato Asst. Sports Editor
Texas Christian accepted an offer Monday to become an all-sport member of the Big East conference. The school is the 17th member of the conference and will be its ninth school participating in football. The membership will become official on July 1, 2012, and TCU will begin play in the Big East in the 2012-13 academic year. “It is a great scenario for us,” TCU football head coach Gary Patterson said in a press conference Monday. The move is one that will greatly benefit the conference’s slumping state as a football conference. The Horned Frogs are 12-0 and currently ranked No. 3 in the Associated Press poll and BCS standings. A loss by either Auburn or Oregon this weekend could vault them to the BCS title game. Overall, TCU has won 25 con-
secutive regular-season contests. For the Big East, TCU adds a budding powerhouse in football and increases the conference’s exposure to a large market in Texas. TCU also brings the fifth-largest national
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Leap frog The Big East conference added its ninth football member and 17th overall member Monday in Texas Christian. What TCU brings to a struggling football conference: • The current No. 3 ranking in the latest Associated Press poll • 25 consecutive regular-season victories • 1 BCS bowl game appearance, likely 2 with this season • The nation’s fifth-largest media market in Dallas/Fort Worth