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thursday
april 29, 2010
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the daily orange
Leibovitz to showcase portfolio By Rebecca Kheel Asst. News Editor
Since Annie Leibovitz’s Thursday lecture was announced a month ago, Esther Gray has received calls from across the country about the event. “I’ve even been contacted by somebody — I don’t even know What: “An Evening where she is with Annie Leibovitz — flying into here to see it,” Where: Hendricks Chapel said Gray, speWhen:Today, 7:30 cial assistant p.m. of academic How much: Free affairs at Syracuse University. “I’ve had people from Buffalo and Albany and places far away contact me and say, ‘I’ve heard. I’ve had someone call me this morning.’ That kind of publicity you can’t buy.” Leibovitz, a renowned photographer known for her work in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, will be presenting and talking about her work during this year’s end of the Univer-
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Data center named in top 15 energy initiatives By Priyanka Vohra Staff Writer
InfoWorld recently recognized Syracuse University as one of the winners of its 2010 Green 15 awards for the school’s recently finished Green Data Center. InfoWorld, an information technology online publication, honors 15 green technology initiatives with the Green 15 awards every year. This year’s awards were announced Thursday, on Earth Day. The awards’ purpose is to recognize organizations that use green technology to encourage trimming waste, saving energy and reducing the production of harmful chemicals. The data center is the university’s main computing facility that stores student records and faculty information, among other items. The university teamed up with IBM and received funding from the state to create a data center that is designed to produce 50 percent less energy than a typical
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danielle parhizkaran | staff photographer
Una noche
eric valentin (center) , a 2005 alumnus of the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, instructs a Latin dance session during “Noche Latina” at Skybarn on South Campus on Wednesday evening. The evening included Latin dance, music and food and was attended by students and Syracuse community members. The music for the dancing was by Isaias Banegas. Banegas is a director at Dance Lovers of Central New York, an all-volunteer, nonprofit dance organization aimed at building the Syracuse dance community.
First Senior Weekend offers campus discounts, brunch By Dara McBride Staff Writer
The first “Senior Weekend” is being held Wednesday through Sunday and includes discounts at local stores and a senior brunch. The Traditions Commission, which created the weekend, wanted to What: Senior Brunch plan events Where: Schine to create a Student Center memorable When: Sunday, experience 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 for Syracuse p.m. University How much: Free; open only to seniors seniors, pulling ideas from senior week festivities at other universities, said Beth Anne Kieft, Traditions Commission co-president and a junior public relations and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major. The weekend also coincides with Friday’s MayFest and Block Party. Funk ‘n Waffles will offer free cover to seniors Wednesday and
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Thursday. A Marshall Street farewell tour is planned for Saturday, when students who have purchased a special $10 shirt can receive discounts at participating shops. Thirty-five of the 50 shirts ordered have been purchased, Kieft said. Six vendors on Marshall Street will be participating in the event. Chuck’s Café and Faegan’s Café and Pub will offer free cover, and restaurants like Subway and Acropolis will offer special deals. Both Adam Gold, co-owner of Funk ‘n Waffles, and his business partner were students at SU, so he said he knows how important the traditions and end-of-the-year activities are. Gold said he remembers attending MayFest and Block Party during his senior year in 2006. “We know how exciting it is to be a senior, about to graduate about to move on,” Gold said. “So it’s our pleasure to give them a place to party during this weekend of theirs.” Sable Nerette will perform spoken-word poetry at Funk ‘n Waffles
Thursday night, but she said she was looking forward to events throughout the weekend. “I’m obviously excited for Drake,” said Nerette, a senior communication and rhetorical studies and writ-
Senior Weekend. A senior brunch in Schine Student Center will be held Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The Office of Alumni Relations, along with yearbook and senior class gift groups, will attend.
“Any new tradition is not going to be extremely popular from the get-go. We just wanted to get it out this year, so next year we can start promoting it early and have it become an SU tradition just like Homecoming or Winter Carnival.” Danielle Matfess
Traditions Commission member
ing and rhetoric major. In addition to her show, Nerette said she will be going to MayFest and Block Party. As a senior, she said she regretted waiting so long to perform in front of her peers but was excited it would finally happen during her
Kieft said she has been getting mostly positive responses but has done limited promotion after hearing back late from vendors. The event was decided on in February, but planning did not fully begin until the last see seniors page 6