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to provide assistance to Kent Syverud as he makes his transition, provide additional flexibility as I myself transition to RutgersNewark, and enable me to finish several key initiatives and fulfill a number of SU-related
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committee hopes student-athletes will have the tools necessary to meet the academic guidelines provided by the NCAA. Despite the academic success of athletic teams overall, there are two teams that aren’t so academically strong: men’s basketball and men’s soccer, he said. The athletic department’s cumulative GPA is at a 3.09, with 2.90 for men’s teams and 3.21 for women’s teams. The men’s basketball team averages at a 2.65, while the men’s soccer team averages slightly higher at a 2.86. “At least with basketball, those students tend
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to health benefits and payroll taxes are exposed as well, Croad said. ITS also often sees “phishing” attacks, which are emails that dupe recipients into giving away their usernames and passwords, Croad said. The university’s computing system is able to filter out the more obvious ones. The more difficult attacks, which look like
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national speaking obligations during the next few months,” Cantor said in the release. In October 2012, Cantor said she would leave SU when her contract expired in June 2014. It was later announced that Cantor would become chancellor of Rutgers-Newark on Jan. 1. —Asst. News Editor Annie Palmer and Staff Writer Marwa Eltagouri contributed reporting to this article mhnewman@syr.edu
to leave early to become professionals, which pays into the calculation,” Siegel said. The athletic department’s graduation rates are also consistent with other ACC teams, he said. In a comparison of graduation rates from SU and ACC teams from 2002-2005, SU’s graduation rates were equal or higher. The one exception is the men’s basketball team, which the athletes leave to join professional teams prior to graduation. Siegel said he was pleased with the committee’s findings, especially considering the transition to the ACC. “I think from the statistics we’ve gotten so far, it looks like we’ll be able to compete on quite a few levels, certainly intellectually,” he said. meltagou@syr.edu
legitimate emails, are harder to prevent. There have been six phishing incidents targeting students, faculty and SU staff since January, with the most recent one in June, said Christopher Finkle, ITS’ communications manager. ITS’ computing system is usually able to detect these intrusions by looking at the metadata attached to email, he said. Certain sites “renowned” for sending fraudulent emails are also blacklisted, he said. najisaka@syr.edu
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