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Fight to assemble: David Ifshin's life-long battle for reform started in the Vietnam era at SU. Today, Newhouse honors the late leader of 1970 student protests
By Amanda Allison
They walked in quickly and quietly, before most of the university administration staff had arrived. The small group of students chained the doors to Tolley Hall, and there they sat, waiting. Several hours later, they were told that then-Chancellor John Corbally would see them.
IFC | Sigma Chi will return to campus
By Paul Stanley
The Psi Psi chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity has been reinstated, a decade after being kicked off the Syracuse University campus. And they have a home, too -the house at 737 Comstock Ave., the former residence of Sigma Alpha Mu. At a ceremony on Sunday at the Genesee Grand Hotel, 50 brothers were initiated into the fraternity, and Grand Consul Robert H.
Bill Nye to speak in March
By Shayna Meliker
As if Third Eye Blind, Bill Bellamy and Jack Hanna weren't enough, another nostalgic figure from 90s childhood will speak at Syracuse University. Bill Nye the Science Guy will speak March 19 for a 7 p.m. presentation in Goldstein Auditorium. The Society of Physics Students, a campus science organization with 15 active members, is sponsoring the event.
Student Association | Committees discuss future programs, events
By Heath D. Williams
Student Association committees outlined their progress and hopes for the future in reports to the assembly and President Marlene Goldenberg Monday night. Goldenberg said the reports were opportunities for assembly members to become involved in committees on which they do not serve.
SU launches Web site to address sustainability
By Megan Hess
Syracuse University is continuing to push environmental activism on campus with the release of a new Web site. Monday marked the official launch of SU's Green Universe City Web site, said Rick Martin, a member of the Syracuse University Sustainability Action Coalition.
$1.5 M Grant awarded to physics program
By Alex Kish
The Department of Physics at Syracuse University just received a million dollar boost. A grant of $1.5 million from SU alumni Martin A. Pomerantz and his family will fund research in the department. Part of the grant will support SU professor Peter Saulson as part of the Martin A.
Catching waves: New SU super computer allows for black hole, gravity research
By Kasey Panetta
A new supercomputer being built by professors at Syracuse University's Department of Physics may help researchers detect gravitational waves created by the collision of black holes. The computer, called SUGAR, short for Syracuse University Gravitation and Relativity Cluster, will be used to interpret data sent by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
