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Fire breaks out at ZBT fraternity
By Shayna Meliker and Daniel Bortz
A second-floor room in the fraternity house of Zeta Beta Tau caught fire Wednesday afternoon, causing heavy smoke damage to the bedroom and minor smoke damage throughout the floor, fire department officials said. "I believe there was a kid sleeping in there who was woken up by the fire alarm," said B.
Barack the Block concert to foster student voter registration
Planners focus on education for undecided voters
By Michael Boren
Syracuse University's chapter of Students for Barack Obama aims to mobilize young voters with an outdoor concert and voter registration drive Friday. Barack the Block is an event featuring food venues and performances by local music groups in an attempt to get students and community members involved in the upcoming election.
Cantor visits Europe to attend higher education conference
By Abram Brown
higher education in Strasbourg, France, today and Friday. The conference, titled "Converging Competences: Diversity, Higher Education, and Sustainable Democracy," will discuss the role universities all over the world play in local, national and global communities.
Engineering students work to seal leaking pipeline
Deteriorating aqueduct transports majority of New York City's water
By Fred Hintz
Scott Snyder said he spends much of his day thinking about cracks. But the cracks Snyder thinks about are a little more important than cracks in the sidewalk, cracks along dorm room walls or even cracked skin. The cracks Snyder thinks about are in the Delaware Aqueduct, the main supplier of New York City's most important commodity: water.
Uffizi Gallery conservator to share Michelangelo expertise
By Danny Fersh
Five centuries and an ocean separate Michelangelo's Renaissance masterpieces from the Syracuse University student body. Art conservator and SU Abroad adjunct professor Diane Kunzelman will bridge that gap with her guest lecture, "Restoring Michelangelo," today at 4 p.
SU Counseling Center to host free depression screening day
By Rebecca Strum
Approximately one quarter of the 35 students who participated in last year's free depression screening was referred to a counselor, said Tanya Bowen, interim director at the Syracuse University Counseling Center. The counseling center is holding its ninth annual Depression Screening Day in the Schine Student Center today from 10 a.
