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N • Enrollment decline
P • Going green
A recent study found that international undergraduate student enrollment in the United States dropped about 2 percent between fall 2016 and fall 2017. Page 3
city
Bike-share possible by 2019 By Bianca Moorman staff writer
A new bike-sharing program could be operating in Syracuse by the end of the year. The program would allow residents to rent a bike in one location and drop it off in another. While there’s currently no citywide bikesharing in Syracuse, officials said a privately-funded initiative could be functioning by the end of 2018. Mayor Ben Walsh proposed the bike-sharing program during his “state of the city” speech late last month. Walsh initially said it could start this summer. New York City famously launched a similar program called “Citi Bike.” That program is primarily sponsored by Citigroup. “This is something that we have been looking at for a long time and the new administration definitely had put an emphasis on bringing this ... this idea of a bike-share to Syracuse,” said Neil Burke, the city’s transportation planner. Currently, there is no exact timeline for the initiative, said Eric Ennis, economic development project manager with Syracuse’s department of neighborhood and business development. The selection of a bike-share vendor will be made by this summer and if “everything goes as planned,” the program should be operational by the end of 2018, Ennis said. The city will not be funding or operating the bikes, nor will it receive any money for the program’s rentals, Burke said. The private vendor that’s chosen as the primary bike-sharing operator will be responsible for maintenance of the bikes and will collect the program’s revenue, Ennis said. Burke said in the past, bike-sharing programs in other cities have been funded by municipalities. But recently, more programs have been privately-funded, he said. The bike-sharing program will have an economic impact by giving people better access to retail business and restaurants, Ennis said. Bike-share vendors can submit proposals to the Syracuse Bikeshare Commission, a volunteer group that meets monthly to work with the city, in a bid to operate the program. The commission will choose what vendor might best support a bike-sharing program in Syracuse, Ennis said. “We will have all the companies submit a request basically to operate a bike-share in Syracuse and we would go through the companies that are interested,” Ennis said. “We would pick the company ideally that would be see bike-share page 9
dailyorange.com
Elementary students in the Syracuse City School District are learning about nature handson, thanks to a partnership with Baltimore Woods Nature Center. Page 7
S • That’s swell
Matthew Moyer seemed to have made his way back from a sprained ankle. But he missed SU’s game against Wake Forest because of that injury. Page 12
MAJOR PRESSURE
Following national trend, SU athletes said they were forced into academic majors ‘they did not want’ College athletes are frequently “clustered” together in certain academic majors, experts say. Here’s an explanation of what “clustering” is and a breakdown of SU men’s lacrosse players’ home colleges. Of the 56 student-athletes on the Syracuse men’s lacrosse team, the distribution of home colleges is relatively even across four main schools. Of the 56 rostered players, though, 29 do not have majors listed on Cuse.com.
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1: S.I. NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS 4: SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES 2: COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE MARTIN J. WHITMAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
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COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
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The required percentage of athletes on a team, in a specific academic major, for a “cluster” to occur source: amanda paule-kobe
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Percent of faculty athletic representatives from Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision schools who said they thought athletes “cluster” in some majors
DAVID B. FALK COLLEGE OF SPORT AND HUMAN DYNAMICS
source: ncaa
graphics by ali harford presentation director
By Andrew Graham and Sam Ogozalek the daily orange
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t’s a concern raised by college athletes across the country. Students, particularly members of major revenue-generating sports, feel they are steered into certain majors by coaches, experts say. “I think it’s been pretty prevalent,” said Billy Hawkins, a professor at the University of Houston who researches cultural issues surrounding college athletics. “Athletes … haven’t been able to major in areas of interest.” Syracuse University is no different, some athletes have said. The university’s Faculty Oversight Committee, a group that briefs Chancellor Kent Syverud on athletic policy each year, published a report last semester containing anonymous, NCAA-mandated exit interviews in which an unknown number of athletes said they were forced into majors “they did not want.” Rick Burton, chair of the FOC, and Tommy Powell, an FOC member and assistant provost for student-athlete academic development, were not made available see majors page 4
student association
Assembly members elected By Sarah Slavin staff writer
Syracuse University’s Student Association on Monday elected six new assembly members, including two from SUNY-ESF. The organization elected one representative from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, one from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, two from the College of Arts and Sciences and two from SUNY-ESF.
what is sa? The Student Association is the student government body of the university. SA is currently in its 61st session, and James Franco is president. Outside the cabinet, there are five committees and four boards, which report to the association.
Bernie Kellman, a sophomore broadcast and digital journalism and information management and technology dual major, will represent Newhouse. He said one of his interests is working with SU’s Department of Public Safety on their drug and alcohol policies. Eduardo Gomez, a sophomore economics major, and Alexander Keegan, a freshman political science and economics double major, were elected as representatives from the College of Arts and Sciences. Gomez said he wants to focus on diversity, adding that he hoped to be a voice for minorities on campus. He said he wanted to work with diversity affairs, and hopes to participate in more community engagement in Syracuse. Keegan said he hopes to be part of the student life committee and is interested in serving the community. Specifically, Keegan said he wanted to create more genderneutral and family bathrooms on campus to accommodate the transgender community because he has a family member that is a part of the LGBTQ community. The two SUNY-ESF positions are being filled: one by fourthyear Megan Gorss, a natural resources management major, and the other by sophomore James Quinn. Gorss said she hopes to focus on sex positivity and wants to make sure SUNY-ESF students are more aware of SU initiatives. “I’m most excited about being involved in a committee, specifically being involved in the health and wellness subcommittee
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