Syracuse University

Syracuse University

Motto	Suos Cultores Scientia Coronat (Latin: "Knowledge crowns those who seek her.")
Type	Private
Established	1870
Endowment	$1.1 billion
Chancellor	Nancy Cantor
Academic staff	1,353
Students	19,082
Location	Syracuse , NY , U.S.
Campus	Urban and Suburban
Colors	Orange
Nickname	The Orange File:SyracuseOrange.png
Affiliations	Association of American Universities, Big East, College Hockey America, historic ties to United Methodist Church, but independent in governance
Mascot	Otto the Orange File:Otto.gif
Website	www.syr.edu

Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. It was founded as a seminary by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, and became a college in 1850 and a university in 1870. Since 1920, the university has identified itself as nonsectarian. The campus features an eclectic mix of buildings, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque structures to state-of-the-art contemporary buildings. SU is a member of the Big East Conference for all NCAA Division I athletics except for women's ice hockey, which participates in College Hockey America, and men's lacrosse which is currently independent.

Profile

Admission to Syracuse is competitive. For the Class of 2012, there were 22,000 applicants for 3,000 seats in the Freshman class. The university has 897 full-time instructional faculty and 107 part-time faculty, and its libraries have over 3.16 million volumes. In fall 2006, the university had over 12,000 full-time undergraduate students and over 1,000 part-time undergraduate students, as well as almost 4,000 full-time graduate and law students and 2,000 part-time graduate and law students. In 2005/2006, the university granted over 2,600 Bachelors degrees; almost 2,000 Masters degrees; over 300 Juris Doctors degrees; and over 160 Doctoral degrees. U.S. News & World Report ranks Syracuse University 53rd among national universities in the United States for 2009. In 2008, it ranked 50th. Syracuse University participates in the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and University and College Accountability Network (U-CAN).

History

Genessee Wesleyan Seminary

In 1832, the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary was founded by the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York, south of Rochester. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Luckey was elected the first Principal of the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He remained in that position until 1836, when he became editor of The Christian Advocate and Journal, a denominational periodical.

The institution is said to have "opened most favorably," with a total enrollment the first year (1831-32) of 341, with 170-180 students attending at any one time. The Agents of the seminary solicited funds for the construction of buildings. In 1880, Bishop Matthew Simpson of the M.E. Church described the seminary's early years thus "no other institution in the church accomplishing apparently more in the education of active and useful young men and young women." The early years of the institution were said to be ones of "great prosperity." This was especially true under the administrations of the Rev. Schuyler Seager. In 1836, he was appointed Teacher of Moral Science and Belles-Lettres in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and in 1837 became Principal of the seminary. After entering pastoral ministry in 1844, he returned to the seminary as Principal again in 1854, leaving in 1856 for another position.

Genessee College

In 1850 it was resolved to enlarge the institution from a seminary into a college, or to connect a college with the seminary. The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Tefft was elected President of this endeavor. The name was chosen as Genesee College. However, the location was thought by many not to be sufficiently central. Its difficulties were compounded by the next set of technological changes: the railroad that displaced the Erie Canal as the region's economic engine bypassed Lima completely. In 1866, after several hard years, the trustees of the struggling college decided to seek a locale whose economic and transportation advantages could provide a better base of support. As Genesee College began looking for a new home, the bustling community of Syracuse, ninety miles to the east, was engaged in a search of its own. The rail age had expanded the prosperity brought by the Erie Canal, and the city was booming, but its citizens yearned for something more:

"What gives to Oxford and Cambridge, England, to Edinburgh, Scotland, to New Haven, Connecticut, their most illustrious names abroad?" asked one local writer. "Their Universities," he answered. "Syracuse has all the advantages: business, social, and religious – let her add the educational and she adds to her reputation, her desirability."

After a year of dispute between the Methodist ministers, Lima and contending cities across the state, it was resolved to remove the college to Syracuse, New York to become the nucleus of Syracuse University. The college, its libraries, the students and faculty, and the college's two secret societies all relocated to Syracuse.

Founding of Syracuse University

”Had it been up to Andrew Dickson White, things might have taken a different turn. White was a prominent citizen of…Syracuse who happened also to be the president of Cornell. He wanted his university to reside on the Hill and took the matter to founder Ezra Cornell. But Ezra, who had other ideas, built Cornell on his own farmland…and Syracuse University came to make its home on the Hill.”

On March 24, 1870, the state of New York granted Syracuse University its charter and Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck was elected the first president of the Board of Trustees. George F. Comstock, a member of the new University's Board of Trustees, had offered the school fifty acres of farmland on a hillside to the southeast of the city center. Comstock intended Syracuse University and the hill to develop as an integrated whole; a contemporary account described the latter as "a beautiful town...springing up on the hillside and a community of refined and cultivated membership...established near the spot which will soon be the center of a great and beneficent educational institution."

By the end of the 1880s, the University had resumed construction on the south side of University Place. Holden Observatory (1887) was followed by two Romanesque Revival buildings – von Ranke Library (1889), now Tolley Administration Building, and Crouse College (1889). Together with the Hall of Languages, these first buildings formed the basis for the "Old Row," a grouping which, along with its companion Lawn, established one of Syracuse's most enduring images. The emphatically linear organization of these buildings along the brow of the hill follows a tradition of American campus planning which dates to the construction of the "Yale Row" in the 1790s. At Syracuse, the Old Row continued to provide the framework for growth well into the twentieth century.

Stephen Crane, author of "The Red Badge of Courage," served as Captain of the University's baseball team before dropping out after a semester of study.

The University grew rapidly. It offered programs in the physical sciences and modern languages, and in 1873, Syracuse added an architecture program, one of the first in the U.S. and the first program in architecture to be associated with a school of fine arts. In 1874, Syracuse created the nation's first bachelor of fine arts degree and in 1876, the school offered its first post-graduate courses in the College of Arts and Sciences; its first doctoral program was added in 1909. One of the nation's first university schools of journalism (now the Newhouse School of Public Communications) was established at Syracuse in 1934.

Coeducation

Coeducation at Syracuse traced its roots to the early days of the Genessee Seminary and College where suffragists like Frances Willard and Belva Lockwood distinguished themselves nationally. However, the progressive "co-ed" policies initiated at Genessee would soon find controversy at the new university in Syracuse. Colleges and universities admitted few women students in the 1870’s. In fact, administrators and faculty members gave women a rather reluctant welcome. They argued women had inferior minds and could not master mathematics and the classics. In this controversy, Dr. Erastus O. Haven, Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, maintained that women should receive the advantages of higher education. He enrolled his daughter, Frances, at Syracuse, where she was initiated in the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Incidentally, Dr. Frank Smalley, a professor at the University, first coined the word sorority with respect to Gamma Phi Beta.

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  Belva Lockwood - A graduate of Genessee College, she was the first woman to receive her party’s nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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  Frances Willard - A professor at Genessee, Willard was the first woman represented in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.

Chancellor Day, John Archbold and the transformation of Syracuse University

The transformation of Syracuse University from a small liberal arts college into a university was due to the efforts of two iconic men, Chancellor James Day and John Archbold. James Roscoe Day was serving the Calvary Church in New York City where he befriended Archbold. Together, the two dynamic figures would oversee the first of two great periods of campus renewal in Syracuse's history.

John Dustin Archbold was a capitalist, philanthropist, and President of the Board of Trustees at Syracuse University. He was known as John D. Rockefeller’s right hand man and successor at the Standard Oil Company. He was a close friend of Syracuse University Chancellor James R. Day, and gave almost $6,000,000 to the University over his lifetime.

"Mr. Archbold’s … is the president of the board of trustees of Syracuse University, an institution which has prospered so remarkably since his connection with it that its student roll has increased from hundreds to over 4,000, including 1,500 young women, placing it in the ranks of the foremost institutions of learning in the United States." -Men Who Are Making America (1917)

Post-war growth and the genesis of a research university

After World War II, Syracuse University experienced major growth. Enrollment quintupled in the four years after the war and branch campuses were established in Endicott, NY and Utica, NY.

"The velocity with which the university sped through its change into a major research institution was astounding. By the end of the 1950s, Syracuse ranked twelfth nationally in terms of the amount of its sponsored research, and it had over four hundred professors and graduate students engaging in that investigation."

In 1966, Syracuse was admitted to the Association of American Universities (AAU)- an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of research and education.

Bombing of Pan Am flight 103

SU's Flight 103 Memorial

On December 21, 1988, 35 Syracuse University students were among the 270 fatalities and among 189 American fatalities in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students were returning from a study-abroad program in Europe. That evening, Syracuse University went on with a basketball game just hours after the attack, for which it was severely criticized. The conduct of university officials in making the decision was also brought to the attention of the NCAA. The day after the bombing, the university's chancellor, Dr. Melvin Eggers, said on nationwide television that he should have canceled the event.

The school later dedicated a memorial to the students killed on Flight 103. Every year, during the fall semester, the university holds an event known as "Remembrance Week" to commemorate the students. Every December 21, a service is held in the university's chapel by the university chaplains at 2:03 p.m. (19:03 UTC), marking the exact moment in 1988 the plane was bombed. The University also maintains a link to this tragedy with the "Remembrance Scholars" program, when 35 senior students receive scholarships during their final year at the University. With the "Lockerbie Scholars" program, two graduating students from Lockerbie Academy study at Syracuse for one year.

Campus

Crouse College, a 19th-century Romanesque building which houses the university's visual arts and music programs

The university is set on a campus that features an eclectic mix of buildings, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque structures to contemporary buildings designed by renowned architects such as I.M. Pei. The center of campus, with its grass quadrangle, landscaped walkways, and outdoor sculptures, offers students the amenities of a traditional college experience. The university overlooks Downtown Syracuse, a medium-sized city. The school also owns a Sheraton Hotel and a golf course on campus, as well as properties in New York City, Washington, D.C. and a 30 acre (121,000 m²) conference center in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York.

Main campus

Also called "North Campus," the Main Campus contains nearly all academic buildings and residence halls. Its centerpiece is "The Quad", which is surrounded by academic buildings, especially those of the College of Arts and Sciences. The North Campus represents a large portion of the University Hill neighborhood. Buses run to South Campus, as well as Downtown Syracuse and other locations in the city. Approximately 5,000 students live in the sixteen residence halls on the Main Campus. Most residence halls are co-ed.

A few blocks walk from Main Campus on East Genessee St, the Syracuse Stage building includes two proscenium theatres. The Storch is used primarily by the Drama Department and the Archbold is used primarily by Syracuse Stage, a professional regional theatre.

South campus

After World War II, a large undeveloped hill owned by the university was used to house returning veterans in military-style campus housing. During the 1970s, this housing was replaced by permanent two-level townhouses for two or three students each, or for graduate family housing. There are also three small freshman-only residence halls which feature open doubles and a kitchen on every floor. South Campus is also home to the Institute for Sensory Research, Tennity Ice Pavilion, Goldstein Student Center, Skytop Office Building and 621 Skytop Road (for administration) and the InnComplete Pub, a graduate student bar. Just north are the headquarters of SU Athletics located in the Manley Athletics Complex. Approximately 2,500 students live on the South Campus, which is connected to the main campus by frequent bus service.

Downtown

In December, 2004 the university announced that it had purchased or leased twelve buildings in Downtown Syracuse. Two programs, Communications Design and Advertising Design from the College of Visual and Performing Arts reside permanently in the newly renovated facilities, fittingly called The Warehouse, which was renovated by Gluckman Mayner Architects. Both programs were chosen to be located in the downtown area because of their history of working on projects directly with the community. The Warehouse also houses a contemporary art space that commissions, exhibits and promotes the work of local and international artists in a variety of media. Hundreds of students and faculty have also been affected by the temporary move of the School of Architecture downtown for the $12 million renovation of its campus facility, Slocum Hall.

The Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems is scheduled for completion in 2006. The Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company and the Community Folk Art Center will also be located downtown. On March 31, 2006, the university and the city announced an initiative to connect the main campus of the university with the arts and culture areas of downtown Syracuse and The Warehouse . The Connective Corridor project, supported by of public and private funds, had an international design competition.

Rome, New York

Since 2005, the university has offered classes for a Masters of Science in Computer Engineering in Rome, New York.

Libraries

The Carnegie Library

Syracuse University's main library is the Ernest S. Bird Library, which opened in 1971. Its seven levels contain 2.3 million books, 11,500 periodicals, 45,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 3.6 million microforms, and a café. There are also several departmental libraries on campus.

Special collections

Many of the landmarks in the history of recorded communication between people are in the university's collection, from cuneiform tablets and papyri to several codices dating from the 11th century, to the invention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Ben Jonson, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Malthus, Jeremy Bentham and Goethe, among others. In addition, the collection includes the personal library of Leopold Von Ranke. Making sensational headlines at the time, the university had outbid the Prussian government for all 19 tons of Von Ranke's prized personal library which put Syracuse on the bibliothecal map. Other collections of note include Rudyard Kipling first editions and an original second leaf of the Gutenberg Bible.

The university also has a large audio archive. Holdings total approximately 540,000 recordings in all formats, primarily cylinders, discs and magnetic tapes. Some of the voices to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and Oscar Wilde.

In July, 2008, Syracuse University became the owner of the second largest collection of 78 rpm records in the United States after the Library of Congress after a donation of more than 200,000 records to SU Library's Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. The donation is valued at $1 million and more than doubles the University's collection of 78 rpm records to about 400,000.

Art collection

SU has a permanent art collection of over 45,000 objects from artists such as Picasso, Rembrandt, Hopper, Tiffany and Wyeth. More than 100 important paintings, sculptures and murals are displayed in public places around campus. Notable sculptures on campus include Anna Hyatt Huntington's Diana, Jean-Antoine Houdon's George Washington, Antoine Bourdelle's Herakles, James Earle Fraser's Lincoln, Malvina Hoffman's The Struggle of Elemental Man and Ivan Mestrovic's Moses, Job and Supplicant Persephone.

Historic buildings

Four sets of buildings on the campus have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. These are: the Comstock Tract Buildings, Crouse Memorial College, the Hall of Languages, and the Pi Chapter House of Psi Upsilon Fraternity.

Organization

Supplicant Persephone

School of Architecture

The Syracuse University School of Architecture, founded in 1873, is the fourth oldest program of its type in the United States and is traditionally located in Slocum Hall- a building completed in 1918 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Bachelor of Architecture program is ranked third nationally and number one on the East Coast , according to the 2007 survey of the Design Futures Council.

College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences, was established in 1870 as Syracuse University's founding college. Today, The College remains at the center of undergraduate learning at Syracuse, where all University students take classes. It includes 3,400 students and 530 faculty in a university of 12,500 total undergraduate students and 1,360 total faculty.

School of Education

Syracuse University's School of Education was founded in 1906. In addition to its undergraduate program, the School has several graduate programs, including programs in Higher Education, Cultural Foundations of Education, and Instructional Design and Development.

L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science

The L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, founded in 1901, offers 35 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs. U.S. News & World Report ranks the overall graduate program in ECS in the top third of doctoral degree-granting schools of engineering.

In 1958, the Institute for Sensory Research was established to further multidisciplinary studies of the structure and function of sensory systems. From this community, the undergraduate program in bioengineering was established in 1971. ECS's computer engineering and bioengineering programs, both established in 1971, are the second-oldest programs of their kind in the nation.

The Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering was created in 1984. The Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, an interdisciplinary center for high performance computing followed in 1987, and the Center for Hypersonics, supported by NASA to focus on studies in air and space travel, was created in 1993. The College unveiled a $4.5 million environmental systems complex in Fall, 2001. This facility provides research and teaching facilities for programs in environmental, chemical, civil, and mechanical engineering programs.

In May 2001, a consortium of colleges and universities, led by the College, was awarded $15.9 million by the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Research to fund the establishment of the New York Environmental Quality Systems Center at Syracuse University. Also in 2001, the College received a $3 million grant from NASA and the State of New York to establish the Advanced Interactive Discovery Environment for Engineering Education, a virtual learning environment.

School of Information Studies

The Syracuse School of Information Studies offers professional degree programs at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral level in information management, information policy, information science, information systems, information technology, and information services.

The School traces its origin to 1896, with the first library science course offerings at Syracuse University. The American Library Association accredited the degree in 1908, prior to the establishment of the School of Library Science in 1915. It was renamed in 1974 to recognize the School's emphasis on the broader information landscape. The School offered the country's first master's degree in information resources management in 1980, and in 1993 began a graduate program in telecommunications and network management.

Today the graduate programs of the School of Information Studies are ranked by U.S. News & World Report as #1 in Information Systems, #2 in Digital Librarianship, #3 in Library and Information Science, and #4 in School Library Media .

Martin J. Whitman School of Management

The College of Business Administration, founded in 1919, was renamed the Martin J. Whitman School of Management in 2003, in honor of SU alumnus and benefactor Martin J. Whitman. The school is home to about 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students. A new building for the School was opened in January, 2005. It contains classrooms, undergraduate graduate breakout rooms, an auditorium, a Grand Hall, an Investment Research Center, and a café.

The undergraduate program was ranked #39 among business schools nationwide by US News & World Report in 2008. The entrepreneurship program was ranked #8 by the US News & World Report in 2008, and #13 by both Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review in 2007. The supply chain management program was ranked #10 in the nation by Supply Chain Management Review. Also, the Joseph I. Lubin School of Accounting was named #10 in the nation by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

College of Law

Joe Biden, United States Senator and Democratic Party candidate for Vice President

Founded in 1895, the College of Law was accredited by the American Bar Association in 1923 and is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools. As of the 2007-2008 academic year, 675 students were enrolled in the College of Law. The law school offers joint degree programs with the I. White and Winifred MacNaughton Halls.

The College of law has been ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News and World Report for its trial and appellate advocacy program and is an emerging leader in the relatively novel field of National Security Law. The law school edits The Labor Lawyer, an official American Bar Association publication. The College of Law is home to the New York State Science & Technology Law Center and the New York Prosecutors Training Institute. It also maintains a chapter of the Order of the Coif.

The H. Douglas Barclay Law Library, houses a collection of former Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson's artifacts and documents.

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

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The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, founded in 1924, was the first school to offer a graduate professional degree in public administration and the first to bring together the social sciences for public administration education. Maxwell is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the nation's top graduate school for public affairs.

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Syracuse University established one of the nation's first schools of journalism, now known as the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, in 1934. Newhouse alumni include Ted Koppel, Steve Kroft, Bob Costas, Fred Silverman, Len Berman, and Mike Tirico.

College of Visual and Performing Arts

Founded in 1873 as the College of Fine Arts, the college was the first degree-conferring institution of its kind in the United States. Its first alumnus graduated in 1875 with a bachelor of painting degree.

Today VPA contains the School of Art and Design, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Department of Drama, Setnor School of Music, and the Department of Transmedia. Together, the offer 36 undergraduate and 26 graduate programs. The college is located in seven buildings on campus and in the University’s downtown Syracuse building, the Warehouse.

Graduate School

Founded in 1912, the Syracuse University Graduate School oversees all academic policy, graduate degree and certificate program modification and development, and the professional development programs for graduate study at Syracuse University.

College of Human Ecology

Founded in 1918, the former College of Human Services and Health Professions offers bachelor's (B.S.), master's (M.A., M.S.W.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Child and Family Studies, Health and Wellness, Hospitality and Food Service Management, Marriage and Family Therapy, Nutrition, Social Work, Sport Management and Selected Studies, as well as a certificate of advanced study in Human Services Management. In 2007, the college changed its name from the College of Human Services and Health Professions to the College of Human Ecology. [3]

University College (Continuing Education)

University College offers a variety of degree programs, certificates, and noncredit courses in formats tailored to the busy schedules of part-time students. Courses are offered in the evenings, on weekends, online, and through short residency programs. In addition to serving the academic needs of students pursuing their degrees part-time, UC also offers award-winning workforce training programs and sponsors community service programs.

State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), founded in 1922, operates its academic campus adjacent to Syracuse University. Although established as the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, ESF has always been an autonomous institution that was not administratively part of SU. The residential-life program for ESF students is operated by SU. ESF students live in SU housing, have full access to SU libraries, and students at both schools have full access courses at both universities. Students take part in joint commencement exercises, and ESF students may participate in all SU student activities except NCAA sports.

SU Abroad

The university has offered multiple study abroad programs since 1911. SU Abroad, formerly known as the Division of International Programs Abroad (DIPA), currently offers programs in Beijing, Florence, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Strasbourg and Santiago . SU Abroad offers a wide range of courses, often integrating coursework and field trips.

Since 1959, SU Florence has been hosted in the Villa Rossa, a building constructed by a noble family, the Gigliucci, in 1892. Established in 1975, SU’s London center is headquartered in Faraday House. Students in the Madrid program choose from three pre-semester seminars ("Mare Nostrum," "Eurovision," and "Azahar"), in which they tour different countries throughout Europe. Following these two-week courses, the students return to Madrid, where they spend the remainder of the semester. Most students live with a Spanish host family.

Student life

Athletics

Main article: Syracuse Orange

Syracuse University's sports teams are officially known as the Orange, although the former (until 2004) names of Orangemen and Orangewomen are still affectionately used. The school's mascot is Otto the Orange. The teams all participate in NCAA Division I in the Big East Conference, except for the women's ice hockey team, at the College Hockey America, and the men's lacrosse team, which currently is independent. The Big East Conference announced in June 2008 that Syracuse University's men's lacrosse team will begin competition in that conference's newly established men's lacrosse league in Spring 2010. The men's and women's basketball teams, the football team, and both the men's and women's lacrosse teams play in the Carrier Dome. Other sports facilities are located at the nearby Manley Field House.

Archbold Stadium and the Carrier Dome

John Archbold and the stadium bearing his name

John Archbold and the stadium bearing his name

Thanks to a $600,000 gift by Syracuse University trustee and Standard Oil President, John D. Archbold, what was publicized as the “Greatest Athletic Arena in America” opened in 1907. Designed to resemble the Roman Coliseum and to never become outdated, Archbold Stadium became a trademark of Syracuse football. The stadium formed a massive oval, 670 feet (204 m) long and 475 feet (145 m) wide. It was 100 feet (30 m) longer and only 22 feet (7 m) thinner than the Carrier Dome and more than 6 million Orange football fans passed through its gates.

From 1907 to 1978, Archbold Stadium was the home of SU football. Archbold opened up with a bang when the Orange defeated Hobart 28-0. It went out in style 71 years later with an improbable victory over second-ranked Navy 20-17. Syracuse posted a record of 265-112-50 at Archbold and it housed many great teams. It was home of the 1913 squad which was invited to play in the prestigious Rose Bowl and outscored its opponents 331 to 16. The 1959 team also called Archbold home en route to SU’s only National Championship. The men's basketball team achieved their only national championship in 2003.

In 1978, SU fans said good-bye forever to the historic stadium. Archbold was demolished to make way for the new on-campus facility, the Carrier Dome, which opened in 1980. It, like Archbold opened with a bang in a 36-24 win over Miami of Ohio. A crowd of 50,564 witnessed the game and that is a Carrier Dome record that still stands today due to reduction in seating. The Carrier Dome is the largest dome college stadium anywhere. The roof of the Dome is inflatable, with several air compressors working round the clock to maintain its structure. It has a seating capacity of 49,262. It is the only domed college stadium in the northeastern U.S..

Colgate Weekend

Football history at Syracuse was drastically altered in 1900, when Cornell University temporarily broke its athletic relationship with the university over concerns of violent behavior. In its stead, the games with Colgate University took on greater importance. Colgate weekend was "celebrated in conjunction with the fall football contest between the Orange and the Red Raiders...[and] featured the more sedate decorating contests and parades- as well as the scalping of captured underclassmen, the dumping of Orange paint into Hamilton's Taylor Lake and the retaliatory dumping of red paint onto cars outside Archbold, the stealing of the ATO cannon, and the decorations of the Saltine Warrior statute." As the rivalry became heated, so did the chaos surrounding the event:

"In 1947, because so much damage was done to buildings, and because several students were hurt, Colgate, Cornell, and Syracuse negotiated the 'Cazenovia Pact' at the Lincklaen Inn in Cazenovia, New York. The administrators of those schools agreed to ban the use of paint, and damage to property and physical violence were outlawed."

Rowing

The Syracuse Navy (Rowing Team)

Founded in 1873, the Men's heavyweight is one of the University's oldest athletics programs. In 1959, Syracuse rowers represented the United States in the Pan American Games, where they beat the Canadian boat to take the world championship. Notable coaches to pass through Syracuse included James Ten Eyck, Ned Ten Eyck and Loren Schoel.

Lacrosse

Syracuse University Men's Lacrosse is one of the world's preeminent collegiate lacrosse programs, having won 10 national championships and participated in 25 Final Fours (semi-finals) of the NCAA tournament.

Media

Daily Orange

The school's independent student newspaper is The Daily Orange, founded in 1903 and independent since 1971. The D.O. Alumni Association recently celebrated the paper's 100th anniversary.

WERW Radio

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WERW is a student-run carrier current radio station broadcasting at 1570 AM. The station's studios are located on the SU campus.

Originally operating at 750AM, WERW was available only in the university's dorms and some other campus buildings. The station's current low power broadcast tower was erected atop an SU dorm in 1995 to allow it to broadcast at 1570AM while simulcasting on 750AM.

With this new tower, WERW can be now heard all across the university campus and in adjacent areas of the city of Syracuse.

WERW History

WJPZ incorporated as an independent entity broadcasting Top 40 music in a simulation of a professional radio station, in order to provide communications students attending the Newhouse School with vocational training. It started as a carrier current AM station, but began broadcasting with 100 watts on 89.1 FM on February 2, 1985.

However, the type of music being provided by WJPZ was not pleasing to its primary audience, the students on the university campus, and there were protests among many university students who wanted the station to reflect more "diverse" programming, including a three-day sit-in at the station's studios by the Student Afro-American Society in the autumn of 1986.

As a result of this controversy, the concept for WERW was conceived in October, 1986 by the University Union and established in January, 1987. University Union is commonly referred to as "U.U." and the station call letters, WERW, were chosen as an acronym for "We Are U.U." For its first year, it was broadcast only on cable television. After that, WERW established its own studio, but was heard only through television monitors until the AM carrier current set-up was established in the 1990s. The station programs an eclectic format similar to many other college radio stations in the U.S., with blocks of programs featuring underground rock music, world music, folk music, occasional news, and some political or public affairs programs.

Student representation

Founded in 1957, the Syracuse University & SUNY-ESF Student Association [4], represents the undergraduate students of both SU & SUNY-ESF as a student labor union (not a student government). The SA, through the Student Assembly, oversees the allocation/designation of the Student Activity Fee (begun 1968/69). The SA-SGA Alumni Organization [5] maintains the history and an organizational timeline on its website. The graduate students at Syracuse University are represented by the Graduate Student Organization (GSO) while the law students at Syracuse University are represented by the Law Student Senate. Each of the three organizations elects students to serve in the Syracuse University Senate, which also includes faculty and staff and is chaired by the SU Chancellor.

Religious organizations

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Hendricks Chapel- although Methodist in origin, the university is now considered nonsectarian

• Alibrandi Catholic Community
• Baptist Campus Ministry
• Campus Bible Fellowship
• Campus Crusade for Christ[6]
• Hillel Jewish Student Union
• Hindu Students Council
• Intervarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship
• Student Buddhist Association
• Syracuse Christian Fellowship-An Intervarsity Chapter
• Syracuse University Lutheran Student Association
• Unitarian Universalist Students

Fraternities and sororities

The Syracuse University fraternity and sorority system offers organizations under the Panhellenic Council, the Interfraternity Council, the Latino Greek Council, the National Multicultural Greek Council, and the National Pan-Hellenic Council. SU currently recognizes the following active IFC social fraternities on campus:

• ACACIA(1911) (rechartered 2006)
• Alpha Chi Rho (1905)
• Alpha Epsilon Pi (1947) (rechartered 2002)
• Alpha Tau Omega (1950)
• Delta Chi (1967)
• Delta Kappa Epsilon (1871)
• Delta Tau Delta (1910)
• Phi Gamma Delta(1901)
• Phi Kappa Psi (1884)

Psi Upsilon House

• Phi Kappa Theta
• Pi Kappa Alpha (1913)
• Psi Upsilon (1875)
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon (1907)
• Sigma Alpha Mu (1913)
• Sigma Phi Epsilon (1905)
• Tau Kappa Epsilon (1962)
• Theta Chi(1928)
• Zeta Beta Tau (1911)

SU currently recognizes the following active Panhellenic social sororities on campus:

• Alpha Chi Omega
• Alpha Epsilon Phi
• Alpha Phi
• Alpha Xi Delta
• Delta Delta Delta
• Delta Gamma

• Gamma Phi Beta
• Kappa Alpha Theta
• Kappa Kappa Gamma
• Phi Sigma Sigma
• Pi Beta Phi
• Sigma Delta Tau

The National Pan-Hellenic Council includes the following fraternities and sororities:

• Alpha Kappa Alpha
• Sigma Gamma Rho
• Delta Sigma Theta
• Alpha Phi Alpha
• Omega Psi Phi
• Phi Beta Sigma

The Latino Greek Council includes the following fraternities and sororities:

• Omega Phi Beta
• Sigma Lambda Upsilon
• Lambda Pi Chi
• Phi Iota Alpha

The Multicultural Greek Council includes the following fraternities and sororities:

• Kappa Phi Lambda (1997)
• Delta Lambda Phi (1999)
• Nu Alpha Phi (2007)
• Mu Sigma Upsilon(2007)

See also

• List of Chancellors of Syracuse University
• Burton Blatt Institute
• List of Syracuse University People
• Syracuse University Alma Mater

Photo gallery

• The Brothers of Delta Kappa Epsilon
  The Brothers of Delta Kappa Epsilon
• The "Old Row"
  The "Old Row"
• 
  The Quad, the center of the Main Campus. On the west end is Hendricks Chapel, with the Carrier Dome to its left.
• Shaw Hall, typical older modern dorm at SU.
  Shaw Hall, typical older modern dorm at SU.
• 
  The The Warehouse houses the Communications Design and Advertising Design programs and temporarily house the School of Architecture.
• 
  Stairs to the Hall of Languages, main building of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the oldest building on campus. The monument to the faculty and students lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 is located in the foreground.
• Yates Castle, the former home of the Schools of Education and Journalism (demolished)
  Yates Castle, the former home of the Schools of Education and Journalism (demolished)
• 
  Bridge to Yates Castle
• Crouse College of Visual and Performing Arts
  Crouse College of Visual and Performing Arts
• 
  Crouse Staircase
• Setnor Auditorium
  Setnor Auditorium
• Carnegie Reading Room
  Carnegie Reading Room
• 
  Statue of Job

External links

• Official Website of Syracuse University
• Official Website of WERW Radio