A fire started on the front porch of the second floor of 742 Euclid Ave. at approximately 3 a.m. Wednesday, as seven students slept in the house. Four people on the first floor and three people on the second floor had been sleeping when the fire started and spread through the second floor and attic.
For the first time in more than 100 years, an external candidate was given the position of dean of Syracuse University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. Laura Steinberg will start in the position Aug. 1, after a 10-month dean search, said Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina.
Chris Ventura swings underneath the big, blue Texas sky, in the middle of a playground. He pushes his feet against the woodchips, looking down and tightly grasping the chains of the swing. In a turquoise polo shirt, the 21-year-old Ventura looks like a child again, amongst the monkey bars and jungle gym.
So seniors: we're graduating. This is it, the day, the weekend, the week we've all been waiting for. Family flies and drives in, you start talking to "friends" you've curiously found a way to avoid for three and a half years. It's a grand time. To be honest, I'm not that sentimental about graduating.
May 11, 11:49 p.m. -- As far as messages go, it was a blunt one. But the Syracuse men's lacrosse team needed to make something clear from the get-go against Canisius Sunday in the first round of the NCAA tournament, a 20-3 win for the Orange. "We just wanted to let them know, right from the start, that they weren't really going to be in the game for real long," said junior attack Kenny Nims, responsible for two goals and three assists in the win.
May 11, 8 p.m. -- All season, Gary Gait has implored his potent Syracuse offense to take high-percentage shots. On Sunday, the Syracuse head coach watched as his team put together one of its most efficient performances in the biggest game of the season thus far. The No. 5 Orange defeated Towson, 21-9, Sunday afternoon in the Carrier Dome in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
I was talking to a friend jokingly that architect Ieoh Ming Pei, more commonly know as I.M. Pei, was "the man" because he designs sweet buildings like the Washington Memorial, Mount Vesuvius and the Statue of Liberty. Just kidding. Architect majors, chill.
