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Breaking boundaries Check out Pulpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first off-campus guide, highlighting all the off-campus attractions you never knew existed. For information on where to eat, where to shop and what to do off the Hill, flip through â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breaking boundaries.â&#x20AC;? See insert
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Integration on campus continues to be issue By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor
he has reported in more than 150 countries. Kristof has bought the freedom of sex slaves in Cambodia, ran from warlords trying to slaughter him in the Congo and has spoken with women left to be eaten by hyenas because of a pregnancy gone wrong. He said he realized the power of educating girls after he wrote an article about the brightest 14-year-old girl in a rural school in
When Nicholas Jackson noticed Shelley Wang looking over the bus schedules in E.S. Bird Library, he thought she looked a little confused. Jackson, who spent over a year teaching in China, thought he would help and started speaking to her in Chinese. Wang, an international student from China, was amazed he had reached out. Wang finds it easy to get along with her American peers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But sometimes I feel kind of lonely,â&#x20AC;? she said. Despite the almost 3,000 international students studying at Syracuse University, foreign students and their American peers say there is still a lack of integration. With the university campaigning for more geographic diversity, the number of international students is on the rise. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addition of 299 firstyear and transfer international students â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 130 alone from China â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has caused university programs to try to do more to ease the transition, even as they face a strain in resources. At SUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center for International Services, students are invited to socialize with people from various cultures. For students who do not have a solid grasp of English, they may attend group meetings to go over the language. In the Slutzker Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downstairs lounge Wednesday, an instructor went over American idioms to a group of about 10 foreign students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going Dutch,â&#x20AC;? the leader of the session said, pausing for students to offer a reply. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terribly American,â&#x20AC;?
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andrew renneisen | staff photographer nicholas kristof, a columnist for The New York Times, described his reporting on human rights, poverty and education in more than 150 countries across six different continents in a University Lecture at Hendricks Chapel Wednesday evening.
New York Times columnist advocates education By Annie Knox Staff Writer
Nicholas Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist, told a packed audience in Hendricks Chapel the best way to chip away at poverty, climate change and civil conflict across the world is to send girls to school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This century, the cause of our times is going to be the discrimination of so many
women and girls around the world,â&#x20AC;? he said. Kristof spoke in the chapel Tuesday night about educating women across the globe as part of the University Lecture series. His lecture, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,â&#x20AC;? shared its title with the 2008 book he wrote with his wife, New York Times reporter Sheryl WuDunn. A New York Times columnist since 2001,
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Buerkle pulls ahead in race after Olympic medal winner Ohno to sign books Wayne Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial reports By David Propper Staff Writer
Republican Ann Marie Buerkle pushed ahead of Democratic incumbent Dan Maffei on Wednesday afternoon in the race for the 25th Congressional District, which incorporates Syracuse, after Wayne County reported its unofficial results, according to several local news sources, including The Post-Standard. Maffei seemed poised to retain his
U.S. House of Representatives seat Tuesday night as initial returns showed him leading by 7 percent, according to an article published in The Daily Orange Tuesday. But as of press time, after Wayne Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reports, Buerkle was in the lead by 659 votes, or 0.34 percent, according to an article published on The Post-
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Leah Deynekaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phone has been ringing off the hook all this week. And before she hears the person What: Signing of his on the book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than other end, Yesterdayâ&#x20AC;? she already Where: SU Bookstore k n o w s When: Saturday. 3 p.m. what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s How much: Free going to be
Apolo Ohno
about: Apolo Ohnoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visit to Syracuse University. Ohno, the most successful speed skater in American history, will be at SU Saturday to promote his Oct. 26-released book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday,â&#x20AC;? in the University Bookstore in the Schine ohno Student Center.
The stop is part of 19 different book signings Ohno will do in as many days. He is also stopping at Johns Hopkins University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Deyneka, the academic support coordinator for the bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general book department, said the interest has been overwhelming with students, faculty, off-campus residents and people out of state. The Syracuse Speed Skating Club called to ask her see ohno page 7