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Zip it Crowds enjoyed zip
Wake me up inside A disjointed Syracuse offense
series of interactive events highlighting student work. Page 3
Week with a different time and more engaging activities. Page 5
‘I’ll be your
lines and food trucks at the Connective Corridor’s “Zip Fest” street fair. Page 9
mirror’
came together to upend the Demon Deacons in the second half. Page 20
Lou Reed's time at SU shapes career as music legend
a look at lou reed’s career 1964:
Lou Reed lands a job as a staff songwriter for Pickwick Records after graduating from SU. He records a minor hit parody song called “The Ostrich.”
1970: Reed leaves The
Velvet Underground, getting a gig at his father’s tax accounting firm as a typist.
1972: Since signing a contract
with RCA Records and striking out on his solo career, Reed releases an eponymous debut album, reworking thenunreleased Velvet Underground songs under his own name.
1990:
After a 20-year hiatus, The Velvet Underground reunites for a benefit concert in France to support the Fondation Cartier contemporary art museum.
2011:
Reed’s last full-length studio album, a collaboration with hard-rock legends Metallica, called “Lulu,” is released. The record is nearly universally panned by music critics.
‘Excursions on a Wobbly Rail’
Katharine Barr was the head of WAER when a scruffy Lou Reed approached, begged and pleaded her to have his own program on the station Barr, a 1961 SU alumna, said she knew the program was going to have some kind of jazz. At the time, she said, the station played a lot of classical music and some Broadway.
photo courtesy of su archives Lou reed (center) plays in front of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house in the early 1960s. Reed, an influential music legend, developed much of his musical style while a student at Syracuse University.
By Dylan Segelbaum and Erik van Rheenen
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The Daily Orange
efore his anti-authority attitude became a staple of his performances, a young Lou Reed mastered the art of the prima donna rock star at Syracuse University. As a budding frontman for his band, L.A. and the Eldorados, Reed once refused to play a frigid outdoor gig aboard a boat on the St. Lawrence River. He punctuated his disapproval by smashing his guitar-playing hand through a plate-glass door. “He just didn’t want to play,” said Richard Mishkin, a 1965 SU alum-
nus who played bass in the Eldorados. “We had to take him to the ER and I told him, ‘Lou, you play guitar like sh*t anyways.’ And he played the show.” Reed was a massively influential artist who would go on to form the Velvet Underground — a band whose music inspired everyone from David Bowie to Sonic Youth — not long after graduating from SU in 1964. His avantgarde songwriting earned him the nickname “the Godfather of Punk,” a name Reed despised despite his influence on the emergent 1970s genre. He died last week at the age of 71. Reed’s classmates at SU — a
place that would shape the rock legend — remember him for his individual spirit and refusal to fit in with the mainstream. Mishkin met Reed when he still went by Lewis, in October of Reed’s first semester on campus, through a mutual friend, Allan Hyman, who grew up just down the street from the future rock star in Freeport, N.Y. Hyman and Reed, friends since third grade who first visited campus together in the fall of 1958, were looking for a bassist, so Mishkin set aside his impression of Reed’s intentionally off-putting persona and joined L.A.
see reed page 8
“I knew I was in trouble from this part when instead of it being ‘The Lou Reed Show’ or ‘Lou Reed Jazz’ or whatever, he called the program ‘Excursions on a Wobbly Rail,’” Barr said. They were still on the “cusp of the Eisenhower era,” she said. The United States wasn’t in the middle of a war. Girls wore skirts and dresses to class. The guys had clean haircuts and no facial hair. Reed’s hair, she said, was all over the place. He was doing “70s and 80s stuff” in the 1960s. Syracuse “wasn’t ready for him.” “It wasn’t too long until the wrath of the faculty and administration rained down on me,” she said. “And I had no choice but to let him go.”
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Festival of lights Multicultural organizations hosted
a traditional Diwali celebration for students on South Campus. See dailyorange.com
SPD issues 4 tickets on Halloween By Alfred Ng Asst. News Editor
A series of crimes took place during Halloween weekend, with four tickets issued on Halloween night, an assault on Saturday morning and a robbery Sunday morning, among others. “Usually, if Halloween falls on a night that isn’t Friday or Saturday, for us it resembles a Friday or Saturday night,” Sardino said. “We see some increased activity, increased number of people walking around campus and through the East neighborhood.” He added that there are usually more parties during Halloween because of the festive nature of the holiday, but that the crime during Halloween this year was typical compared to other years. He also said that because of the rainy and windy weather on Thursday night, students were likely to spend less time outdoors, reducing the number of criminal incidents. By Thursday night, four tickets were issued for violating city ordinances, said John Sardino, associate chief for Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety. One ticket was issued for littering, another for noise violations and two for violating a city nuisance priority ordinance, he said. On Saturday, an SU student was punched in the face on the 700 block of Euclid Avenue at 1:45 a.m. The student was taken to the hospital and treated for facial injuries, Sardino said. Syracuse police then took over the investigation, he said. An 18-year-old male non-student was arrested for assault charges afterward and arraigned at 9:30 a.m., police said. A junior in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science was issued
see crime page 7