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N • Creating dialogue
SU community members reflected on the Black Lives Matter movement in an interfaith dialogue session on Wednesday night in Hendricks Chapel. Page 3
O • Swimming upstream
Technology columnist Brett Weiser-Schlesinger discusses the faults of streaming events online with our current technology in response to Twitter’s attempts. Page 5
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P • There and back again
Though football may have been the sport that got him to SU, art was the reason Jim Ridlon stayed and would later come back to be a professor in VPA. Page 9
S • Broken record
Former Syracuse wide receiver Scott Schwedes had his singlegame receiving record broken this past weekend. He still follows the Orange regularly. Page 16
‘Unorthodox appointment’
Bagel shop closes near SU By Sara Swann news editor
Why some faculty in Maxwell are upset about dean’s hiring process A Daily Orange reporter was denied access to Friday’s meeting, but according to several people who were in attendance, faculty members voiced numerous concerns Illustration by Delaney Kuric over the way SU appointed Van Slyke. The people who head illustrator were in the meeting spoke on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was meant to be private. t’s been described as bizarre and undemocratic by In her original memorandum to the Maxwell comcritics and as unorthodox even by supporters. munity on June 3, Wheatly said she was suspending David Van Slyke’s appointment as dean of the the search because she didn’t believe the search comMaxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs mittee had found a candidate who could engender has served as a source of frustration for many within support and generate excitement among the school’s the school’s community in recent months. He was community as dean. That conclusion was based on named the Maxwell dean her interactions with the in June after he had previsearch committee and ously served as the chair of members of the school’s the dean search commitcommunity, she wrote. I think it’s fair to say that tee — a committee that was But a number of Maxdisbanded a week before he well community memthe Chairs assumed this was was named dean. bers, speaking on the an interim appointment. Those upset about the condition of anonymity Michael Ebner appointment say it has less due to fear of backlash, chair of the maxwell history department to do with Van Slyke and in recent interviews his credentials, and more called into question the to do with the unusual prodepth and scope of those cess behind his hiring, which they say lacked both interactions. Several high-ranking faculty members the consultation of faculty and clear communication said they were never consulted prior to Van Slyke’s about the terms of his appointment. appointment, something that was brought up at FriThrough a spokeswoman, Van Slyke declined an day’s meeting. interview for this story. Typically, faculty members said, such consultation Faculty members’ frustration came to a culmina- wouldn’t be necessary or standard protocol for a tion Friday in Eggers Hall, where many of them met in dean’s appointment. But given that Van Slyke was an private with SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele internal hire who has worked at Maxwell for 12 years, Wheatly. community members have questioned why their input Wheatly was unavailable for comment on this wouldn’t be sought after. story until mid-October, a spokeswoman said. see maxwell page 6 Text by Michael Burke asst. news editor
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Bruegger’s Bagels located at 731 S. Crouse Ave. near the Syracuse University campus has closed permanently. An employee of Bruegger’s confirmed the closure, but did not give any reasons as to why this location has closed. A representative from the corporate headquarters of Bruegger’s did not immediately return a request for comment. In the past few years, several other restaurants and shops on Marshall Street have closed, including Yogurtland, Sliders and most recently M Street Pizza. Before Bruegger’s Bagels came to South Crouse Avenue, a McDonald’s restaurant was located there. smswann@syr.edu @saramswann
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Kavajecz to appear in court By Michael Burke asst. news editor
Former Whitman dean Kenneth Kavajecz will make a court appearance Thursday relating to his arrest on charges of patronizing a prostitute. Kavajecz was charged earlier this month with a misdemeanor of patronizing a prostitute in the third degree. He was quickly removed from his position as dean of Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management and placed on administrative leave from his faculty position. Kavajecz is said to have committed the misdemeanor in March, when he agreed to pay an undercover police officer $80 at the Candlewood Suites on South Bay Road. His arrest was part of a larger, month-long sting operation carried out by the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office and the Syracuse Police Department. mdburk01@syr.edu @michaelburke47