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T H E I N DE PE N DE N T S T U DE N T N E W SPA PE R OF S Y R ACUSE , N E W YOR K

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Home sweet home Syracuse ranks in the top

Alert me The Daily Orange Editorial

Making Christmas Syracuse Stage’s ‘A

Looking back Brett LoGiurato and Tony Olivero argue

places to start a career. Page 3

Board voices concerns about the lack of a DPS e-mail. Page 5

Christmas Story’ delights with initial performances. Page 9

whether the 2010 regular season for SU football was a success. Page 24

30 percent more apply to SU early By Alex Ptachick CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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andrew renneisen | staff photographer

ANGELA WILLIAMS, a Syracuse University librarian, is leading the preservation of and research on the traditionally black People’s AME Zion Church in Syracuse. Two former slaves who escaped through the Underground Railroad founded the church in 1842.

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As one Syracuse church is forced to close its doors, history grants another new life By Laurence Leveille and Luis Rendon THE DAILY ORANGE

indows are boarded, bricks are falling off the walls, and blue tarp covers the roof of the oldest AfricanAmerican church in Syracuse. The church has been vacated since the People’s African Method-

ist Episcopal Zion congregation left it in 1975. As landmarks surrounding the church disappeared, community members expressed concern the church would follow the same fate. Across town, at Howlett Hill Presbyterian Church in Onondaga, the 189-year-old church has closed

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Chancellor Nancy Cantor will provide an undisclosed amount of funding for Hillel at Syracuse University to hold a concert celebrating its 60th anniversary. Hillel has struggled for the past year to acquire funding through Student Association. “She really felt that this is some-

thing that should happen,” said Michael Weiss, Hillel president. The concert will be held March 26 in Goldstein Auditorium at a time to be announced, Weiss said. The event is open to 1,500 students, and the three acts that will be featured have not yet been chosen, Weiss said. Hillel originally submitted an expected cost of $77,370 in the

spring to SA, which denied funding for the concert three times. Official details will be announced at the start of next semester. But Weiss said the acts would be “people with wide appeal” and “current pop artists,” and they would be comparable to acts at Juice Jam or Block Party. Cantor decided to help Hillel fund

SEE EARLY DECISION PAGE 8

Students raise questions on lack of DPS alert By Michael Boren ASST. NEWS EDITOR

the concert after Weiss attended a roundtable discussion with Cantor, Thomas Wolfe, the dean of student affairs, and several other student leaders on campus, including those from SA, Weiss said. Discussion turned to SA and the budget for student organizations, during which Cantor said she wanted to help see

Some students were surprised to log into their e-mail accounts this week and find no alert from the Department of Public Safety about four burglaries that struck South Campus during Thanksgiving break. Under the Clery Act, DPS must issue timely warnings to students about a reported crime if it remains an ongoing threat. All four burglaries, during which students were off campus for Thanksgiving break, were reported to police on Sunday after students returned. Three burglaries occurred at 151 Winding Ridge Road, 121 Small Road and 520 Slocum Drive between Nov. 23 and Sunday, and a fourth burglary occurred at 220 Winding Ridge Road

SEE HILLEL PAGE 6

SEE DPS PAGE 8

SEE CHURCH PAGE 6

Cantor gives Hillel funds for 60th anniversary concert By Dara McBride

Rachel Pretory fi lled out an earlydecision application to Syracuse University this semester in hopes of increasing her chances of acceptance. “I think that applying early shows the admissions office both a student’s sense of responsibility and drive to attain their goals,” said Pretory, a senior at Sandy Creek Central High School. “It also shows that the student is truly set on the university as their No. 1 choice, hopefully making them value their education there even more than normal applicants.” But the application process normally seen as less competitive may be more difficult this year, as early-


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