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Gearing Up
Two SU students will spend their summer biking, building homes.
By Shayna Meliker
Sonya Hirsch recalled the first time her father let go of the bike as she rode without training wheels at a high school track near her house. "I was probably about 5 or 6 years old, and I was all decked out in elbow and knee pads and safety gear because my dad's an emergency room doctor," she said.
Grogg drops out from dean search
Branham not yet offered position
By Heather Mayer
Samuel L. Grogg withdrew his candidacy for the deanship of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Feb. 8, said David Smith, chair of the Newhouse dean search committee. The only other finalist, Lorraine Branham, the director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, has not yet been offered the position.
Shooter opens fire at Northern Illinois U.
By Stephanie Musat
Jamie Shepard has a science class in Cole Hall on Wednesdays and Fridays at 3 p.m. at Northern Illinois University. But if her class met on Thursdays, she would have shared the lecture hall with a gunman. Six people were killed, and 16 others were injured when a former NIU student opened fire Thursday afternoon, multiple news sources reported late Thursday.
Suspects hearing to be held today
By Kyle Austin
The four students accused of robbing a South Campus apartment Saturday night are scheduled to be in court today at 10 a.m. for a preliminary hearing. Syracuse University students Akhere Akhuemokhan, Odion Akhuemokhan, Michael Uko and former SU student Brian Reyes will appear before Judge Jeffrey Merrill at the County of Onondaga/City of Syracuse Criminal Courthouse for the second time this week, after an arraignment on Monday.
Collection at library honors black artists, poets
By Dan Scorpio
Voices from the past will be heard again at Syracuse University this semester. Tucked away on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library, the SU Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presents "The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement," an exhibition featuring prominent black writers and artists of the Black Arts Movement during the 1960s and 1970s.
Muslim reform activist to speak about new democratic perspectives
Journalist and filmmaker known as "Bin Laden's worst nightmare"
By Aleksey Shats
"Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare" is coming to speak at Syracuse University. Irshad Manji received the title from The New York Times after receiving death threats for advocating her democratic views and activism for Muslim reform. Manji will lead a discussion titled "Islam and Democracy: Do They Have a Prayer?" John Palmer, former dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and an economics professor, said Manji challenges traditional Muslim views and practices.
Heart attack
SU grad, renowned researcher causes controversy over cholesterol drug commercial endorsements.
By Madison Schmakel
The manufacturer of the drug Lipitor could end up answering to a congressional committee regarding controversial ads featuring Syracuse University graduate Dr. Robert Jarvik. Jarvik is the creator of the first successful permanent artificial heart. He endorsed the cholesterol drug in ads, which featured the doctor running and rowing canoes.
