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P • Doing justice
SU students will now have to pay more for ID cards because the cards have been updated to include Radio-Frequency Identification chips. Page 10
An SU professor and co-founder of Human Rights Film Festival uses her passion for social justice as inspiration for activism involvement. Page 11
S • Failure to convert
Syracuse didn’t maximize its scoring opportunities during its game against Maryland, which led to a 34-20 Terrapins win. Page 20
Faculty remember professor By Anna Merod asst. news editor
Sari Biklen was never content to just watch a movie. Whenever Biklen, the former director of the Institute on Popular Culture at Syracuse University, watched a movie with someone, she would always conduct an informal sociology seminar with the person afterwards, said Marjorie DeVault, a sociology professor who worked with Biklen. Biklen would often talk about the race and gender relations represented in the movies she watched and what the film challenged the audience to think about, DeVault added.
Sari challenged us and was not afraid to be an instigator in the name of justice.
Marching on More than 100 Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF students traveled to New York City on Sunday to participate in the People’s Climate March, which organizers say was the largest climate march in history. See Tuesday’s paper for more coverage. luke rafferty staff photographer
Barbara Applebaum cultural foundations of education department chair
This attitude extended to all parts of Biklen’s life as she always encouraged her students and fellow professors to think about new ideas relating to education, gender and pop culture, DeVault said. Biklen, 68, died on Tuesday. Biklen retired from the School of Education in May of 2014 after working at Syracuse University for 38 years. During her tenure, Biklen served as the chair of the cultural foundations of education department and the director of the Institute on Popular Culture. In addition, Biklen held a courtesy appointment in the sociology department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She was also the wife of former School of Education Dean
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Students rally against Syverud discusses end of Advocacy Center SU scholarship cuts By Brett Samuels asst. news editor
Almost 100 Syracuse University community members gathered in front of the Life Sciences Complex on Friday afternoon to protest scholarship cuts to minority student programs. What started with a few people standing across the street from the College Place bus stop shortly before 4 p.m. swelled to a crowd of nearly 100 people within 20 minutes. The Rally for a Difference was planned in response to the university’s decision to reduce involvement with the Posse program,
which provides full scholarships to students at four-year universities around the country. Scholars in the program are recruited from certain cities across the country including Miami, Atlanta and Los Angeles. SU will now no longer recruit in Atlanta or Los Angeles. Rally for a Difference was the second protest held at SU this week. On Wednesday, about 70 people gathered on the steps of Hendricks Chapel before marching up to Chancellor Kent Syverud’s office to protest changes to sexual assault services at SU. Many people who attended the Rally for Consent were
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By Jessica Iannetta news editor
Chancellor Kent Syverud didn’t fully understand the importance of the Advocacy Center’s role in the Syracuse University community prior to the decision to close the center, he told The Daily Orange in an interview on Thursday. “In retrospect, what I’d like to do is know every student and every student issue much better before I make a decision,” he said. “Do I have regrets? I guess I’d say if you don’t make any decisions in this job, disaster follows.” The reorganization of sexual assault resources has been a con-
tentious issue at SU since May when Syverud announced the Advocacy Center would close and its services would be moved to the Counseling Center and other campus offices. Since the announcement, the administration has been criticized for the way it made the decision and how it communicated that decision to the campus community. On Wednesday, those criticisms were made again when a group of about 40 SU community members marched up to Syverud’s office as part of the “Rally for Consent.” After a few tense moments between the protesters and administrators, see syverud page 8