March 29, 2011

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T H E I N DE PE N DE N T S T U DE N T N E W SPA PE R OF S Y R ACUSE , N E W YOR K

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Setting the tone Marilyn Serafini delivers the

Resourceful The Daily Orange Editorial Board

Completing the transformation Professor Marion Wilson remodels a local house

Consistent delivery Leigh Ross has the Syracuse

first Toner Lecture on American Politics and Political Journalism Monday. Page 3

applauds SU’s work to fund library improvements. Page 5

into a Westside community center with one of her classes. Page 9

softball program in a position to make a splash on the national landscape. Page 20

Off-campus apartments proposed By Jon Harris ASST. NEWS EDITOR

SECURITY A Department of Public Safety officer will be stationed at the hotel from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m., every day. The hotel has its own card swipe, and students will be issued a card through the Parkview Hotel. There are cameras located throughout the hotel that the DPS officer will monitor.

AMENITIES Students will live in open doubles. The hotel will provide the beds, but the university will provide wardrobes and desks like those in a regular dorm room, said Rob Benetti, general manager of Parkview. The televisions currently in the rooms will also remain, he said. Aside from a microwave in each room, there will be no cooking facilities in the building. There is a fitness center in the basement with two treadmills, ellipticals and bicycles. A meeting room in the basement will be converted into a study lounge with furniture and tables, Benetti said.

SELECTION PROCESS The housing office gave drama and design students first preference on living in Parkview, said Eileen Simmons, director of housing, meal plan and ID card services. Twelve drama students and one design student have signed up. The remaining spaces are now opening to all students during the regular housing process.

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Opening of Parkview Hotel as housing option acknowledges, extends separate drama community By Kathleen Ronayne

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cross East Genesee Street and three blocks from the Regent Theatre Complex, home of Syracuse Stage, lies the Parkview Hotel. It’s a three-minute walk from the Complex, where Syracuse University drama students spend the majority of their time. For the first time next year, SU students will live there. The hotel was targeted at drama and design students, given its proximity to the Complex and The Warehouse. But that also means it’s a 15-minute walk from the Brockway Dining Center, the nearest on-campus dining center. It’s 19 minutes from E.S. Bird Library and a 20-minute walk to the Carrier Dome. Most upperclassman drama students

By summer 2012, Syracuse University students could have another offcampus housing option located about half a mile away. Norm Swanson, owner of the Genesee Grande Hotel and university-area properties, including the Parkview Hotel and Hotel Skyler, has proposed to adapt the former National Guard armory at 1055 E. Genesee St. into an apartment complex for SU students. The armory itself is being converted, and another building is being added to the north side of the four and a half acre lot, Swanson said. The complex, named Copper Beech Commons after the 140-year-old tree in front of the armory, would be

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SU Los Angeles to relocate to permanent site By Dara McBride NEWS EDITOR

some students say there’s even little reason to trek to Marshall Street - Dolce Vita and Phoebe’s Restaurant and Coffee Lounge are right across from the Complex. Like the city’s permanent residents, many drama students refer to

To accommodate growing interest in Syracuse University’s Los Angeles semester, the program is centralizing itself to a satellite campus in Sherman Oaks — about a 15-minute drive north from its current location in West LA. The 7,500-square-foot new facility will have at least six offices for SU staff already in LA, as well as classroom space, said Joan Adler, SU’s senior director of LA programs. The space will also serve as a local recruiting center for SU, which has seen a rise in applicants from the area. The move is expected to be complete by June, Adler said. The move was first discussed about six months ago, Adler said. She did not have information about the cost of the move, but said it would be cost-saving.

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are used to that distance, though - rather than living in the Euclid neighborhood, most live off campus in the area near Marshall Street, Comstock Avenue or East Genesee Street. On the weekends,

CHANGING SPACES

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