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N • Now trading
Community members have another grocery option after Trader Joe’s opened a new location just a short drive from campus this weekend. Page 5
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P • Food for thought
Pulp explores dining options around campus that accept SUperfood payment and highlights each location’s delicious dishes and prices. Page 11
S • Code red
Syracuse’s offensive performance in a loss to Louisville on Friday night spells problems for the Orange as it moves deeper into its conference schedule. Page 24
SU offers grant for child care By Kayli Thompson contributing writer
Syracuse University will offer child care grants to graduate students for the first time starting in the spring semester. The pilot grant program will provide full-time graduate students $375 per eligible child younger than 6-years-old, capped at $750, or two children per household for the spring 2015 semester, according to the application form. The application deadline is Nov. 3.
“Express Yourself: A Syracuse University Community Conversation on Diversity and Inclusion” was held on Thursday afternoon in Hendricks Chapel. During the forum, SU community members discussed their experiences with diversity on campus. luke rafferty staff photographer
Open for discussion SU community hopes to see action following diversity forum By Anna Merod asst. news editor
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Students stage a silent protest on the steps of Hendricks Chapel during a SU-sponsored diversity forum. luke rafferty staff photographer
yracuse University administrators plan to create task forces and seek input from students and faculty to address diversity and inclusion issues following a campus-wide forum held on Thursday. “Express Yourself: A Syracuse University Community Conversation on Diversity and Inclusion” was held in Hendricks Chapel on Thursday afternoon. The forum was initially organized because of derogatory comments made by Hanna Strong, an SU women’s soccer player,
in a video posted online last month. Both student leaders and university administrators organized the event. Dean of Student Affairs Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, said when the forum was organized, student leaders and administrators formatted it to promote more open discussion. “We did not want this to be an administrative forum where we were just talking at students,” she said. In the beginning of the forum, Chancellor Kent Syverud briefly addressed the audience. During the forum, Syverud said the issues being discussed were much larger than the Strong video itself.
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This will relieve a little bit of the pressure, a little bit of the financial pressure on graduate students with children. Patrick Neary gso president
The pilot program comes after the university created a similar program for faculty and staff last fall, said Kal Alston, senior vice president for human capital development, in an email. Because the program was so successful, she said, the Office of Human Capital Development collaborated with the Child Care Advocacy Committee to provide one for graduate students. “The university wanted to extend similar support to graduate students to help underwrite the costs of child care,” she said. So far 19 students have applied with one of the students applying and having all necessary tax information submitted within two hours after the announcement of the program, Alston said. Patrick Neary, president of the Graduate Student Organization, is on the Child Care Advocacy Committee and was part of discussions that centered see child
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