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Alum Leo Wong spoke about diversity in the workplace as part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month during an SU lecture on Tuesday. Page 3
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Syracuse men’s lacrosse dominated Cornell for its secondstraight game. SU’s defense held Cornell to a season-low eight scores in its five-goal win. Page 12
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Khalid to headline Block Party 2019 By Diana Riojas
asst. feature editor
Singer-songwriter Khalid is set to headline Block Party 2019, featuring opening acts Rico Nasty and Kenny Beats, University Union announced Tuesday night.
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Block Party 2019 Where: Carrier Dome When: April 26, 6:30 p.m. How much: Tickets start at $20
LESTER CROWN (LEFT), DOLAN EVANOVICH AND GHUFRAN SALIH attended Syracuse University’s reveal of Schine Student Center renovation plans Tuesday. The ceremony was held in the Schine atrium. aaron kassman staff photographer
SU reveals renovation plans for Schine Student Center project
By India Miraglia asst. news editor
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yracuse University held a ceremony on Tuesday to reveal its latest plans for the upcoming major renovations to Schine Student Center. Renovations are expected to begin in May, shortly after Commencement. Chancellor Kent Syverud said at the ceremony that the renovations will devote an additional 8,600 square feet of Schine to student activities. The new center will also include an event space and an outdoor terrace, he said. Schine first opened in 1985, creating a “living roomâ€? for SU’s campus and students, said Dolan Evanovich, senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience. The Crowns’ advocacy and support back then is what allowed the center to open, he said. Evanovich and RenĂŠe Schine Crown, a member emerita of SU’s Board of Trustees, unveiled
the planned rendering for the atrium at the end of the ceremony. “The Crowns have been such an active part in reimagining the Schine Student Center to serve all our students and all our students’ needs,� Syverud said. Evanovich, after the ceremony, said the renovated building will be a central location for students to come together. Students have said that such a place has been missing from SU, he said. He said that the university met with more than 1,500 students to discuss the renovations. The No. 1 change students asked for was improvements in dining service, and Schine will have more “contemporary� food options after renovations, he added. “This was really a great model of student engagement to really help shape what this place is going to look like in the future,� Evanovich said. The center will have open space for informal meetings and small study groups, as well as see schine page 8
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Friends remember student for empathy, talent By Natalie Rubio-Licht asst. copy editor
Jacob Gedetsis remembered walking through the Detroit Institute of Arts with Will Georges. They stopped at a piece called GEORGES “Be I� by Barnett Newman. Gedetsis described the
piece as a massive deep red canvas with a white line through it. Gedetsis said he hated the painting. Georges said it was his favorite painting in the museum. “I asked why. He said, ‘because it can be so many things to so many different people,’� Gedetsis, a firstyear graduate student, said. “That’s the kind of person that Will was. Will opened my mind and so many other people’s minds to so many possibilities of life and what those
things could offer.� Georges, a second-year in the Master of Fine Arts program for creative writing, died last week at 24. Georges joined Syracuse University’s MFA program in fall 2017 after graduating from Oakland University with a degree in psychology, Gedetsis said. They met while Gedetsis was taking MFA courses as a senior at SU. He said they bonded over having
similar backgrounds, Georges being from Detroit and Gedetsis from Cleveland. Georges loved watching anime and movies. He loved to go out and dance. He was a “voracious reader,� and loved David Berman, Silver Jews and old-school Lil Wayne. “He had a really strong, deep interest in music and the music scene,� said Anthony Veasna So, a see georges page 8
The concert will take place in the Carrier Dome on April 26 with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Pre-sale tickets for full-time Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF students go on sale Wednesday at noon. Pre-sale tickets are $25 for general admission floor access and $20 for first level general admission, second and third level reserved seating on sale through April 14, per UU. A valid student ID is needed for purchase and tickets will be available for purchase online. Public sales will open April 15 at noon for $30 reserved seating. Khalid, a Grammy-nominated artist whose full name is Khalid Donnel Robinson, first gained world prominence after the release of his 2017 single, “Location.� Following the single’s success, Khalid was signed to record label Right Hand Music Group/ RCA Records before the release of his debut album, double-platinum certified, “American Teen.� The debut album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and stayed on it for 51 weeks. Since then, Khalid has collaborated on songs like “Rollin� by Calvin Harris featuring rapper Future, as well as Shawn Mendes’ “Youth,� among others. His latest single, “Talk,� premiered in February in anticipation of his sophomore album, “Free Spirit,� which dropped last Friday. The 21-year-old rapper Rico Nasty first hit the music scene after a string of songs became viral in 2016, including “iCarly� and “Hey Arnold.� In 2017, Rico Nasty gained more mainstream popularity after her song “Poppin� was featured on HBO’s comedy-drama, “Insecure.� That same year, she also collaborated with Lil Yachty on his song, “Mamacita� for the soundtrack of the film “The Fate of the Furious.� Rico Nasty is currently see block
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