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N • At the podium
The lineup for this year’s University Lectures Series has been announced and features a total of seven lectures, four in the fall semester and three in the spring. Page 3
P • Road to recovery
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Local resident George Lonergan reflects on losing both of his legs in a snowmobiling accident. Lonergan will speak about his recovery at the Syracuse Sport Summit. Page 16
S • Picture by picture
Relive the Syracuse sports year through pictures, from Hayes McGinley’s arrest to a men’s lacrosse ACC championship, and everything in between. See sports insert
Hear and now
Syverud listens to, collaborates with community to make decisions By Meredith Newman
PIKE suspended from social events, brother faces possible charges
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he chancellor of Syracuse University is looking for a massage. Kent Syverud just entered a health expo at Flanagan Gymnasium and the first thing he wants to find is a massage chair. He makes his way around the gym, pointing out the condom booth, saying hello to a student in a cigarette costume and touting an environmentally friendly Tops bag. He finally spots the chair. And as he makes his way toward it, he’s pulled aside by one of the participants at the fair. The two have a firm handshake and chat. Syverud poses for a photo for the man to tweet out. Then, the conversation ends, and it’s time for Syverud to go. Being chancellor doesn’t leave much time for massages. This year’s been one in which the chancellor doesn’t think he could have slept any less. A year in which the honeymoon period was swept from under his feet, and left him with 18 days of students sitting in Crouse-Hinds Hall, a 94-page report exposing SU Athletics’ closet of skeletons and 11 workgroups and steering committees strategizing the university’s future. Many are supportive of the chancellor saying his first full academic year at SU was an impossible one, consumed with serious challenges and hard decisions. But despite the ups and downs of the turbulent year, there’s a formula behind almost every decision the chancellor has made. Get the facts. Listen. Collaborate. ••• Syverud’s mindset is almost always the same when handling conflict: he reads all the documents, talks to everybody and never has people summarize. He used this strategy of immersing himself in the facts when he negotiated the $20 billion Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust fund, founded by BP after the oil spill, and he’s tried to bring this same mentality to decisions he’s making at SU, with see syverud page 6
University suspends fraternity By Sara Swann asst. news editor
Syracuse University’s chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha has been suspended from holding social events and an assault charge
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THE DATE THE POTENTIAL HAZING CASE INVOLVING TWO PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY MEMBERS WAS FILED
has been filed against a member of the fraternity following an investigation into an alleged hazing incident.
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Syverud creates task force Permanent task force to assess SU’s sexual assault resources By Lydia Wilson asst. news editor
KENT SYVERUD has used his listening ability and collaborated with the SU community to make key decisions in his first full academic year as chancellor. sam maller staff photographer
The new permanent task force on sexual assault and relationship violence will meet for the first time Friday, about a week after its formation. Chancellor Kent Syverud has announced the members of a permanent task force on sexual assault and relationship violence last Thursday, more than 125 days after a report was submitted by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Sexual Violence Prevention, see task
force page 9