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N • Talking drones
Vijay Kumar, a roboticist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed the emerging drone industry on Tuesday in Hendricks Chapel. Page 3
O • Heading home
Student Life columnist Rashika Jaipuriar dismisses the stigma against recent college graduates who move in with their parents instead of finding their own space. Page 5
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P • New horizons
IN THE PAINT
Discovery Program students spent the first semester of their freshman year halfway across the world from University Hill. Now, they’re getting settled on Main Campus. Page 7
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SUNY-ESF faculty demand clarity on policies
on campus
Director named for LGBT hub By Sam Ogozalek news editor
Academic Governance, SUNY-ESF’s faculty governing body, passed multiple resolutions Tuesday in response to the college’s controversial decision to remove three department chairs before the semester started. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer
Faculty governing body votes for campus visitation amid rising tensions By Haley Kim
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SUNY-ESF’s Academic Governance body on Tuesday passed two resolutions in response to the university administration’s controversial decision to remove three department chairs just before the start of the semester. The governance body also announced that they passed a vote for a campus visitation from the SUNY University Faculty Senate. According to the University Faculty Senate governance handbook, visitation committees are created by the SUNY system’s governing body in the event of a “serious, prolonged conflict about faculty governance.”
The committee would visit the campus and write a report that may include recommendations to deal with on-campus conflicts. The meeting raised numerous points of contention against the SUNY-ESF administration, and the Academic Governance body passed three resolutions Tuesday: a request for clarification on the Pursuit of Excellence, a major academic plan; a request for the procedures for selecting new department chairs be followed; and a request for a reception to thank the three removed department chairs for their work. The wording for the title of the resolution about department chair procedures was changed slightly to reflect
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on campus
Advisory board works to expand academic space By Sam Ogozalek news editor
Syracuse University is starting to move administrative units, including the division of marketing and communications, to off-campus sites to free up more space for academic programs on Main Campus. About a year after its first meeting, the Campus Facilities Advisory Board has focused on making sure about thousands of square feet of the Women’s Building is available for schools and colleges to use as possible academic space, among other things, said Cathryn Newton,
a member of the board. The Campus Facilities Advisory Board is tasked with evaluating the Campus Framework, a major 20-year infrastructure plan that will fundamentally change the layout of some areas of SU. “It’s up to colleges to identify the space in which they might be most interested in putting a proposal together,” said Newton, special adviser to Chancellor Kent Syverud and Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly on faculty engagement. As part of the Campus Framework’s second draft, released in
May 2017, the university aims to transition administrative and other service functions “that do not directly support students” to other areas of the university, “to make room for academic programs and units.” Pete Sala, the university’s vice president and chief facilities officer, said SU is just starting to move the department of marketing and communications out of the Women’s Building to the second floor of the Warehouse, in downtown Syracuse. SU’s Advancement and External Affairs is also in the process of being moved out of the Women’s Building
to the Skytop Office Building, a section of South Campus, Sala said. Moving forward, Sala said the advisory board will consider proposals from deans of schools and colleges for using the new space being opened up at the Women’s Building. As of Monday, Sala said only one proposal has been received by the advisory board. That proposal was for the health and exercise science program, Sala said, which is housed in the School of Education. The chief facilities officer added see board page 6
Syracuse University announced on Tuesday evening that khristian kemp-delisser has been appointed as the LGBT Resource Center’s permanent director. kemp-delisser, who’s currently Colgate University’s assistant dean and director of LGBTQ initiatives, will start KEMP-DELISSER their appointment at SU on April 2. The LGBT Resource Center has been without a permanent director since early November, when then-director Tiffany Gray left her position at SU for a new job with West Chester University’s LGBTQA Services. Rob Pusch, a former member of the University Senate’s Committee on LGBT Concerns, was appointed as the center’s interim director in the fall. “It is all coming full circle as this was the community that launched me, and now, is welcoming me back to lead the LGBT Resource Center,” said kemp-delisser, in a press release Tuesday evening. kemp-delisser graduated from SU in 2001 and was on campus when the LGBT center was established. kemp-delisser earned a doctorate in educational leadership and policy studies and a master’s in higher education and student affairs administration from the University of Vermont, Burlington. Two open forums were held by SU earlier this semester for both kemp-delisser and Samuel Neil Bryd, another candidate for the permanent LGBT Resource Center director position. kemp-delisser, during their forum in Crouse-Hinds Hall, presented strategies they used at Colgate, including a “leave-themalone” technique they described as allowing LGBTQ people of color to create their own spaces. “I’ve been in a dual-multiplicity space,” kemp-delisser said at the time. “It comes out linking my salient identities as a gay man. I came out when I came to college … jumped into pride union. And I had a lot to learn about my racial and ethnic identity.” During their time at Colgate, kemp-delisser helped develop the Gender Pronoun Service. They also helped increase gender-inclusive restrooms, supported peer-to-peer sexual assault prevention education initiatives and strengthened programs for the LGBTQ and ally communities at Colgate, according to an SU press release. sfogozal@syr.edu | @Sam13783