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Entertainment The changing face of entertainment on Features 4 Where are they now? the SU campus 10

Entertainment Opinions The changing face of entertainment An assortment of opinions columns from the 5 off-campus 12 past decade

Q&A Sports 6 Interviews with Dean Rubin and Pro- Men’s basketball retrospective fessor “Buzz” Shaw 14

Features Editor’s Voice 8 History of The Student Voice 16 From the original Editor-in-chief

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Nathan Mattise MANAGING EDITOR Maggie Gordon ART DIRECTOR Melissa Manikowski

PR DIRECTOR FEATURES EDITOR ASST. ASST. HEAD Kelly Huth Elana Zak ENTERTAINMENT SPECIAL SECTIONS COPY EDITOR EDITOR EDITOR Kristen J. Putch EXECUTIVE EDITORS OPINIONS EDITOR Heather McFall Lindsay Kenton Sarah Christensen Anna Brand COPY EDITORS Lindsey Gil ASST. SPORTS ASST. OPINIONS Laura Almozara Rachel Lear SPORTS EDITOR EDITOR EDITOR Whitney Lee Justin Betti Matt Levin Kyle Adams Truc Van-Phung PHOTO EDITOR Catherine Basham Maren Guse SPECIAL ASST. FEATURES AD DIRECTOR Tracy Twombly SECTIONS EDITOR EDITOR Maggie Gordon ILLUSTRATIONS Kara Wisenburn Shavon Greene DESIGN EDITORS EDITOR ACCOUNT EXECS Elaine Feinstein Tom Kovach “TIDBITS” EDITOR ASST. TIDBITS Kendra Brogden Allison Chod Carrie Schmelkin EDITOR Kelly Huth Lauren Knisely ENTERTAINMENT Mary Gallagher Nicole King EDITOR Darryl Patteson tidbits 3 Syracuse University Timeline by Carrie Schmelkin / Tidbits Editor

Head SU wrestling coach Ed Mills is forced to tell his men’s wrestling team that Syracuse is cutting the team.

1997 Six Asian and Asian-American students are discriminated against at a local Denny’s restaurant, sparking campus-wide dialogue about the implications of such an incident.

1998 13 students are suspended from Syracuse after the Livingstock Riots in May. Nine are charged This year marks the tenth anniversary 1999 with misdemeanors, and four with felony counts of the Pan Am 103 tragedy, in which of rioting. 35 SU students were killed in a plane explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland.

SU tuition costs top $20,000. SU’s men lacrosse team is a part of the Tuition for the 2006-2007 2000 2001 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship weekend academic year is $28,820 for the 19th consecutive season.

2002 The basketball court in the Carrier Dome is officially named after Jim Boeheim. At that point, the coach had 620 wins to his name. Three years later, in 2005, he reached the 700-win benchmark. After 13 years as SU chancellor and 27 years as a SU campus CEO, Chancellor 2003 Shaw announces his plans for retirement.

The university’s 11th chancellor, 2004 Nancy Cantor, is inaugurated. SU officially changes its nickname Cantor disbands the student-run HillTV network over racial from the Orangemen to the Orange. 2005 and controversial content in the program “Over the Hill.” Th station is later re-instituted as Citrus TV

Brian T. Shaw, an SU senior, is accused of murdering the mother of his child. He was convicted of manslaughter in 2006, and sentenced to 21 years in prison.

The SU men’s basketball team wins the Big East conference for the second year in a row. 2006 Billy Joel performs at the Carrier Dome’s twenty-fifth 2007 anniversary celebration Richard Rubin announces he will step down from his position as dean of Newhouse 4 Entertainment By Darryl Patteson/ Entertainment Editor Photo by Brian Bodansky/ Staff Photographer evolution

The allure of taking the spotlight on any stage at Syracuse University has brought countless numbers of big ticket acts to Syracuse. In the lifespan of The Student Voice, SU has seen acts ranging from Sugar Ray to Kanye West to Dane Cook’s Tourgasm and pretty much everything in between. In the same time period, we’ve seen great changes to the way student media is handled in the wake of the HillTV incident.

First and Foremost and documentary making to the Carrier Dome. The Ugly This fall, several student organizations collab- In the past decade, several big name orated to bring Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” First Amendment flare-ups are never performers have taken the stage. One of the lecture to the Landmark Theatre. pretty, but student media at Syracuse changed first bands to play in theThe Student Voice era forever in late 2005, when HillTV was disband- was the Goo Goo Dolls in March 1999. Sugar Before You Really Knew About Them ed after racist, sexist and all kinds of other in- Ray, just wanting to fly, stopped by to play flammatory material showed up on “The Daily Block Party that same year. Block Party has Way back Show” knock-off, “Over the Hill.” continued, bringing Snoop Dogg among oth- in Septem- ers, ber 1998, With more than 40 years of student- the new- run television at SU, most of which came un- From there, several new traditions have born Stu- der the name “UUTV” the station did not stay started. In October 2004, the first Juice Jam dent Voice down long, reinventing itself as CitrusTV in Festival rocked the Standart Lot, with a show was around 2006. The network broadcasts primarily on from Method Man, De La Soul and Phantom for an ap- an emerging television market – The Internet Planet. This past fall, Motion City Soundtrack, p e a r a n c e – and may prove to be way ahead of its time, Blackalicious and The Starting Line continued by a Cali- all while being the primary television outlet for the tradition, opening the semester and giving fornia pop- your SU news and student entertainment. students a chance to try out some new stu- punk trio by dent organizations. the name of On a lighter note, anyone picking up B l i n k- 1 8 2 . a Daily Orange after the Student Association A month after Juice Jam’s premiere, F o l l o w i n g budget meeting was bound to find entertain- the first Homecoming Concert was played to a the success ment. The noted SA/UU battles over funding relatively small crowd by the Bouncing Souls of their al- were a source of tension between the groups and Midtown. Two years later, the Homecoming bum “Dude for some time. After a successful collaboration Concert was the sold out Verizon Wireless Tour, R a n c h , ” for the Al Gore speech, once source of enter- featuring the All-American Rejects. These two the band tainment may be gone, but the rest of our en- traditions continue, with UU planning events brought Unwritten Law (2002’s “Seein’ Red”) tertainment should get better. during Homecoming and Juice Jam being the with them and, as it would turn out, would ex- unofficial beginning of the SU entertainment plode onto the pop scene with “Enema of the schedule. State” two years later. Some show that must The Future have been. Last year, Billy Joel not only played the With Block Party right around the cor- role of Commencement speaker, he played a Before they had you bumping your head ner, two acts roll into Syracuse with a ton of sold-out show at the Carrier Dome. In April of to “Cupid’s Chokehold,” Geneva, NY product national buzz looking to bust into the limelight. 2005, The Roots and Common brought their Gym Class Heroes played SU twice. In 2002, Everyone has heard “Kick, Push” by Lupe Fi- musical acts on their “Beats for Peace” tour. GCH played a show with Blackalicious and fol- asco, and the lyricist only looks to be gaining Both The Roots and Common were making lowed it up by playing Juice Jam in 2003, the steam. New York City based TV on the Radio their second appearances at SU, year before it became the festival it is now. had a hit this summer with “Wolf Like Me,” and hope to follow Bloc Party and The Strokes to In 2003, the Jabberwocky Music Se- success. These two artists will open for Ciara, The Spoken Word ries made its first splash on campus, bringing before you really knew about them. underground or emerging artists to SU. Now While music acts tend to dominate the called the Bandersnatch Music Series, bands Juice Jam, the Homecoming Concert, scene, the past three years have seen some on the cusp of making it big and local bands and a big speaker are almost expected now. characters with name clout roll into the Salt have an outlet on campus. Student band The Jerk Magazine, Verbal Seduction and 20 Watts City. In 2004, Darth Vader himself, James Earl February rocked out before Straylight Run and are all student publications with their finger on Jones, made an appearance at Syracuse. He Head Automatica, People Under the Stairs, the the pulse of art, culture, and entertainment. was followed in by a pair of political speakers. matt pond pa, and The Format have all rocked As long as there are students and a micro- the Underground this year. The intimate ven- phone here, the talent will find SU and The Michael Moore, fresh off “Fahrenheit ue and low cost make Bandersnatch shows a Student Voice will be around to cover 9/11,” brought his brand of political humor great choice for the college crowd. 5

MTV to YouTube

entertainment changed off-campus, too By Carrie Schmelkin/ Tidbits Editor

en years ago teenagers attended hanging in a girl’s bedroom, and parents were enjoying the sitcom period; a time class with ripped jeans, off-the- treated their 13-year-old to a 98 Degrees where family-centered shows and morals Tshoulder sweat shirts, and crimped concert for her birthday. Heartthrobs took a were pervasive. 1997 marked the time of hair. Ten years later, teenagers attend class new form in a lead singer of such bands. “Boy Meets World,” “Oz,” and “Friends.” Nick in Spandex, oversized white Hanes T-shirts, In addition to the boy band craze, girl at Night was as popular as ever with shows and UGG boots. In 10 years, our country has bands got hot, too. Groups like Destiny’s such as “Kenan and Kel” and “All That” successfully entered the new millennium, Child, Spice Girls, and TLC were gaining raking in high ratings. Prototype shows a world dominated by the Internet, and acclaim, soon becoming role models for such as “Melrose Place” and “Beverly Hills, a lifestyle in which an obsession with young girls. The Spice Girls, in particular, 90210,” although just canceled, were paving revolutionized the lives of young girls. After the way for new teenage soaps such as “The releasing their debut album Spice in 1996, OC” and “One Tree Hill.” the Spice Girls put out their second album By 2007, morals in television are not Spice World just a year after. By then, teen nearly as important as action and conflict. girls began to mimc the clothing styles and Viewers now tune in to “24” every Monday attitudes of the five very distinct members night to watch Jack Bauer torture terrorists of the Spice Girls. Knowing every word to in order to find nuclear explosives. Shows “Wannabee,” which Spice Girl was “Baby like “Lost” and “House” draw the same type Spice,” and what made each Spice Girl of audience. different from the next was key. Reality television has created its own Ten years later, boy and girl bands marketplace in America, enticing thousands have dissolved. Music has taken a turn from upon thousands of people to sell their souls hokey, lovey, and cheery to crude, vulgar, to television for public amusement. Every and abrasive. Rap and R&B have replaced night you can flip through television to pop music. Artists such as Kanye West, watch people get drunk, find love become a Akon, Snoop Dog, and Jay Z have taken famous singer or dancer, or just to get their over. Music is no longer about a group of 15 seconds of fame. singers all taking turns with the lead mike, Ten years later, new cultures of music but about a whole culture that evolves and television have emerged, a tell-tale around the single artist. Lyrics have changed sign of the media’s lack of continuity. Will to such a degree that most music stations the next 10 be the same? We’ll see. have to alter the words so it can be played. More than ever labels are being placed on CDs with parental advisory warnings. Yet, 10 years later, CDs have also become obsolete. People spend most of Image courtesy of Google their time purchasing songs through iTunes, celebrity’s lives has ensued. And, in 10 burning CDs, or illegally downloading years, the entertainment world has seen through LimeWire. No one turns to MTV to perhaps more change than anyone would watch a music video; they can watch it on have assumed. YouTube. From 1997 to 2007, music trends have Ten years later, pop icons have taken on evolved. Replacing the boy band and girl different images. Britney Spears, who was band era is a new period in which a solo artist once singing in a Catholic school-girl outfit gains more recognition than ever before. singing “Hit Me Baby One More Time,” is now The year 1997 marked the beginning of the hairless, in rehab, with two children, and no boy band fascination. Young pre-teen girls’ husband. Justin Timberlake went from boy- hearts ran wild as Justin Timberlake of ‘NSync next-door to dating an A-lister like Cameron took the stage to sing “Tearin’ Up My Heart.” Diaz, and a solo artist who is bringing “Sexy Girls blushed and swooned as Nick Carter of Back.” Lance Bass, once a love interest of the Backstreet Boys serenaded his fans with females, is now a love interest of males. “I’ll Never Break Your Heart.” By 1997, it In addition to music, television has was common to have posters of boy bands significantly changed. In 1997, viewers Image courtesy of Google 6 The Faculty Voice It’s tough for any of the current Student Voice staffers to really put the last 10 years into perspective. Luckily for us, some of the movers and shakers from that time still have active roles on campus and they were more than happy to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of the past decade.

Interviews by Shavon Greene / Asst. Features Editor

I understand your nickname is “Buzz”. Can size of our student body. We reduced the size Where do you see Syracuse University in you give me the story behind it? of our student body and reduced the size of the next 10 years? There’s lots of stories probably none of them our faculty and staff. That was a very difficult I think it will continue to get better. Of course, are true. It’s just something my dad put on me time. That was probably the major thing, and it it has new leadership, and Dr. Cantor has her when I was a kid. The dog name was “spike;” was successful. Secondly, the student centered agenda which is “Scholarship In Action.” I think he could have easily called me spike and the research university concept was born during she has put in her time and effort into that dog “buzz.” I’d rather be “buzz” than “spike.” that time as we developed a host of initiatives particular vision, and I think you will see that to improve the campus as we cut budgets. So, vision carried out. You will see the institution I understand you were the former chancel- that stuck for a long time, and kind of brought get far stronger, money will be raised, and it will lor. Can you describe to me the most re- people together to make this a better place. have a closer relationship with the community warding moments you had in that position? That is probably the thing I’m happiest about. than it has now. Well, actually it is kind of hard to describe one. There are a lot of other events that occurred There were so many rewarding times. I think over the years but that kind of describes what Are there any other experiences you will the thing that’s most gratifying is to see stu- had to be done and the changes we made. We like to speak about? dents grow from their freshman to senior year. became a smaller and better place by design The day-to-day things are the ones that weigh That’s very rewarding but it’s not an individual and we went through very difficult times reduc- you down. We have had deaths that were all time. It occurs every year – a new set of people ing our faculty and staff. very difficult, whether it’s a suicide or acciden- that have kind of matured. We (the administra- tal. Those are always very difficult but that’s tion) are partly responsible for that, so I would So, what has happened financially has got- part of being a big place with 12,000 people 18 probably say that’s why you get into this busi- ten better. What are any other things that to 25; you’re going to have some of that. It’s ness and that is the most gratifying part. have possibly gotten worse? not fun. It’s gotten better. It’s gotten a lot better. We So what are some of the major changes have had a lot of interesting things happen. Is there anything you looked forward to you have seen on campus? 9/11 occurred, of course. It was a very difficult every year? First of all, we had major financial restructur- time. We think we lost about 35 alums dur- Well, when you get to my age looking forward ing in 1991 and ’92. We were forced to cut our ing 9/11. We know there were students who to the next day is always good. But I looked budget appreciably by over 60 million dollars. had people that they knew and lost. So, it was forward to everyday, which was interesting. It was just a result of demographic downturn. a very difficult time. We tried to convert it to That was the beauty of that position. There was Fewer 18 to 22 years olds were going to be go- helping students better understand the inter- never any two days alike. And what ever you ing through each year: graduates of high school national issues and helping them deal with the thought you were going to be doing on Monday, each year for a time period. Our choice was to grief that we all felt, also, doing something con- you might not be doing. I looked forward to the either more heavily recruit and possibly dilute structive, which we did. Students did all kinds times we traveled to raise money, and to the the quality of our student body or reduce the constructive things. We filled trucks and sent student events we had at the chancellor’s resi- them to New York (City) with all kinds of clothes dence. It’s just kind of the whole package that and all kinds of things. We had a tornado one either you commit to or you don’t. If you com- fall that caused quite a bit of damage and peo- mit, you have to tell yourself it’s worth while ple dealt with. We went to the Final Four twice and you enjoy it even when it’s difficult. So, I in basketball. I think we won three lacrosse looked forward to everyday and still do. National Championships. So, those were some of the highlights. Former Chancellor Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw On campus since 1991 when he became the tenth Chancellor of SU. He stepped down after the ‘03 / ‘04 academic year and was replaced by current Chancellor Nancy Cantor. Shaw still teaches graduate classes in the Whitman School of Management. 7 Newhouse Dean Images courtesy of Syracuse University Official Web sites. Richard Rubin On campus since July of 1990 after leaving his faculty position at NYU to accept his current position (After this interview was conducted, the D.O. re- ported that Rubin would step down as Dean in July ‘08).

As the Dean, what are some of the most in football) both changed in rewarding moments you have had over the actually the last three years. past ten years or your years as the Dean? Also, the addition of many I would say probably the most rewarding new facilities for athletics: moment was breaking ground on Newhouse they have a lot more playing III and realizing the building would become a fields, practice fields, a reality. Once that building’s open that will be a brand new football wing, and huge change over the last ten years. training rooms. We have five better facilities now than we I understand the First Amendment is going had ten years ago. When you put all the athletic Are you retiring? to be wrapped around the building. Was facilities together with all the academic building Where did you hear that? Nothing official there. that your idea? changes, the campus is in much better physical Well, sort of not quite. The words of the shape than it was ten years ago. Where do you see SU in the next ten amendment are enacted in the building on six- years? foot-high glass starting at the front door on Then we have a new chancellor; we have a First of all, there are going to be some new Waverly going all the way around the building new vice chancellor, so the two top officials of dormitories, and therefore I think there is a to University Place. I had said to the architect the university are new. As far as the chancellor possibility that there would be a somewhat partners that I wanted the First Amendment in goes, I think one very big change from Buzz larger undergraduate class because now there the building because it is so important to what the Shaw is the degree to which she wants to and is will be a place to put the freshman. The second Newhouse students do, and I thought they would engaging the city of Syracuse, the community, change is I think more students will go abroad come up with some wall design or something. encouraging students to get involved and as juniors and would have more places to go to But they thought big, and they came back with faculty to get involved. There’s a whole outreach than they have now, so SU will strike deals with actually putting it on the building itself. So, it was method to involve university people and trying many more local universities around the world their idea to be so dramatic. We then showed to make Syracuse a better place, a better city and have exchange programs. We won’t have our that to Donald Newhouse, to the Chancellor and to live in. This is a much harder university for own campuses like we do in London or Madrid or to others to see what they thought about it since students to get into now than it was ten years Florence and so on, but we will have relationships it’s such a different thing. Everybody thought it ago. The overall SAT scores on average are up; so if you wanted to go to a university in Turkey was a good thing so we did it. high school G.P.A.’s are up; the admittance rate there would already be a system in place for you is down: fewer students who apply get in. The to do that. I think there would be more cross- Besides Newhouse, what do you think are yield is up: more students who get in agree disciplinary academic programs where students some major changes regarding sports and to come. Syracuse University is a much more will be taking coursework in two or more colleges other things that you’ve seen during the competitive place than it was; it has better high that contribute to a single degree, so we will get past ten years? school students on campus than it had ten years out of our individual silos. There will be a lot There have been huge changes in the last ten ago. That’s a very important change. more cross campus academic collaboration. years. If you start with just the buildings, besides Newhouse III, you got the Life Science building Finally, I think the university is raising more money What do you hope to see for Newhouse? going up; you have the complete renovation of than it did ten years ago. The trustees are giving I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a branch of the Tolley, an administration building; we’re turning more money. The alumni are giving more money. Newhouse School somewhere else in the world, that into a humanities center. You have a big Schools and colleges are more actively involved well, more than one place, so the students don’t project going on in the school of architecture in fundraising. The university has a better central have to come to Syracuse to get a Newhouse to renovate it and in the meantime, all of the fundraising operation. That’s an improvement. I degree. They can go to some other location closer architecture students are downtown at the would say with the sole exception of the fact that to where they live. This would be a chance for us warehouse, so all of that has changed within the the football team and the lacrosse team are no to be a more global institution. I think that’s a last ten years. good, which are worse than ten years ago, pretty possibility. much everything is much better. With athletics, I think probably the biggest I think within ten years, you will probably see change has been two big changes. One a change What is something you look forward to most of the distinction amongst the departments in the athletic director Jake Crouthamel who every year, like a big event? go away; I don’t think we will have separate has been here for more than 20 years and was I always look forward to the two groups that I departments in Newhouse anymore. We will the founder of the Big East isn’t here anymore, teach personally. I teach freshman every fall probably end up with one, what we might call and we have Daryl Gross now. Paul Pasqualoni, in COM 107, and I teach seniors every spring journalism department, one persuasive or the long-time football coach, is gone, and we in COM 505. For me, the most exciting thing is marketing department, and one film department- now have Greg Robinson. Arguably, the two meeting the new students each year.—seeing -- going from 8 to 3. This would mirror the most important athletic positions, other than how they progress and generally working with basketball, (which would be the athletic director the students is the best part of the job. INTERVIEW jumps to 15

Photographed by Rachel Fus/Contributing Photographer 8 features The Student Voice

Written by Nathan Mattise / Editor-In-Chief HISTORYHistory courtesy of Brian Totin / Founding Managing Editor

en years ago I was 11-years old and the former DO editor and read that to mean “make wasn’t. Mark literally ran into him during the only student voice I was aware of was my another newspaper.” summer of 1997 while walking his dog and that’s own. I was a pre-pubescent male-soprano how he came onboard. Tdominating the middle school choir scene. I e-mailed Ben, offered my help and we created While I was breaking glass with some high C’s, a a test version for the SGA twenty-fifth or thirtieth After we put out the first paper, or the second hipper and less embarrassing Student Voice was anniversary banquet. That was the first Volume Volume I, Issue 1, Keith O’Brien, Amy Kozy, Bret also making noise in ‘97. That spring, a group of I, Issue 1. We did it primarily to prove it could be Africk and Chu Lee joined the staff. Chu was a students came together to start the very publi- done so that SGA would give us funds. former SGA member that became our opinions cation you’re devouring at the moment, and the editor. Amy was a graduate student who had run rest is history. I’d share it all with you myself, but I asked Mark Turney to run the paper once we the student paper at the University of Chicago, back then my choir dreams really prevented me really started going in the Fall of 1997 and he Bret was a photojournalism major who wanted from following infant stage college magazines. agreed and became the second Editor-In-Chief. to be a designer and Keith was a freshman who Luckily for all, I was able to get a hold of Brian Mark was also a former DO editor, and the two didn’t know any better and spent the next four Totin, the original managing editor, when piec- primary reasons I wanted him there was that years regretting it. ing together information for this anniversary is- he was older then everyone else (he was in the sue. Totin was kind enough to take some time Army special forces for 12 years before going to We put out a total of six issues in the fall of 1997, out from the real world to write up the “short college) and from an administrative standpoint, until we ran out of money. We were still under version” of The Student Voice’s history. Let’s get he was really connected within SU and knew ev- the auspices of SGA. We actually had an office right to it before I use another lame choral refer- eryone that was anyone on campus. I wanted inside their office, and at the same time we ran ence: someone with that sort of background to helm out of money we decided to break away from the paper. them. Because of an SGA funding scandal that Ben Wightman, who was the Public Relations Di- we helped uncover (pretty ironic), new funds rector for SGA (now SA I believe) proposed SGA Sean Bowley came on board as our sports edi- to us and other student organizations were not funding to create something called “Organiza- tor next. Sean was a sports reporter for the DO available until the spring of 1998. tional Position Educational Documents.” I was a who should have been given an editing job, but features 9

We started publishing again in February, 1998 tion. Sports started as just that, then became using the office of Orange Source, which was an Sports News, then Sports Features, I think. online magazine that is now defunct. That first year was also a test so see if we could actually We added a crossword and a horoscope in Au- pull this off, and SGA gave us a lot of money for gust, 1998 (the DO had a crossword already, the second year (I think we got about $35K to- but they added their horoscope after we did), tal) to put out the paper in 1998-1999. and there was an occasional section called Here, There and Everywhere which was a campus briefs I became EIC in the fall of 1998 and we moved page, and Around the World, a wire service wrap into our brand new office. That would be the little up. The front section looked sort of like the DO cubicle between the door to University Union (I looked; a newspaper format. The Student Voice The Student Voice hope they are still called that) and the emergen- was a 17-inch tabloid for the first two years then cy exit in Schine, the one with the wraparound went to the current 14-inch tab. countertop. At some point 31 staff members were working out of that little hovel. Hopefully it’s still Orange Juice, the features section, was added there - it was there in October 2004. Anyway, in January, 1999. There were a couple of occa- we crammed ourselves, our printer and our com- sional sections: Images, which was a multi-page puter, a brand spanking new G3 with a 266mHz photo story, and the occasional Basketball Extra processor and an unheard-of-on-the-SU-campus or Football Extra (yes, we covered SU football 64MB of ram, in that little space. –this was the Donavan McNabb era, don’t forget – and Men’s basketball. Sean and I actually went We continued putting out a newspaper with to about 5 away football games, and we went to magazine tendencies, and started putting out the Big East tournament and to the NCAA tour- multiple special sections. I think our best was nament.). the “Tenth Anniversary of Pan Am 103” edition we put out in December, 1998. The special edi- At some point, the newspaper work fell out of the tions were the foundation for what The Student Sean was a great sports writer/editor; Mark and mix and the paper became more magazine. The Voice is today. We started picking up editors left I were both passionate photojournalists. Then photography students at SU lost interest in doing and right, and most of those people were coming people that came on board, like Keith and Kim, publication work so that went by the wayside to out of the magazine side of Newhouse. were learning what to do, and by the time they an extent. But besides all that, almost ten years took over and then got to Volume III, they kicked later, The Student Voice is still doing what it was We transitioned in February, 1999 and Keith took ass in the news/features side of things. We also supposed to do; provide the SU campus with the over. The intent of the editors at the time was had the intent of being a source of information information it needs and to give SU students the to bring it to become more of a magazine with that wasn’t out there. We had the best calen- ability to learn, by doing, how to put out a weekly newspaper tendencies and that’s what it transi- dar on campus (what in the world happened to publication. (Why do I see this paragraph being tioned into in the fall of 1999. I graduated and that???) and a great opinions section. published in the near future?) left at the end of the spring of 1999. The regular Student Voice sections went some- That’s the short version. Imagine what the long The intent of the publication was originally to be thing like this: we started with Working Portraits, version looks like, maybe that can run for the a mix of newspaper work and magazine length a photo spread using the center double truck, twentieth anniversary. and quality work. While I was there, we accom- which was sometimes jettisoned for news cover- plished that in sports and in photography, and age or sports coverage, the lamely titled What’s started doing it in features. That had to do with Happening, a calendar (before the DO added the strengths of who was there when it started. one), and Thoughts and Ideas, the editorial sec-

Above: A look at some of The Student Voice staples: Top Tens, Photo Stories and the infamous “Don’t Be That Guy/Girl” column. 10 features

In the past 10 years, hundreds of staff members have added their special touch to Student Voice. Many alumni have even done some remarkable things since then. The question we’re all asking is:

by MaggieWhere Gordon / Managing Editor are they now? n 10 years time, The Student off. But, along with that, it was dis- going to stay up all night and write the case there.” Voice has produced hundreds organized at times. a feature piece on Michael Moore,” While these women each gathered of alumni, scattered around “It was a lot of fun putting it togeth- Werthman says. “It was very ambi- clips from their writing experiences Ithe country. Some are editors, er though, and I remember many a tious and challenging. We only had at SV, they say internships are also some are advertising specialists, night, working throughout the night a couple hours to pull it all togeth- key. some are reporters, some are news and driving to the printers’ as the er… it was really exciting to see your “Internships are invaluable,” Ovaska producers, and others have abso- sun rose,” she says. “The Student stuff published and to have a chance says. “I would say it’s essential. Lots lutely no connection to the field of Voice was a great chance to be cre- mass communications. ative and kind of experiment with While their lives have taken them your voice or photography. We were down separate paths, and Student putting it out on our own, and that Voice survivors from one year may was really exciting.” “The Student Voice was a not know the names of veterans from Christine Werthman, a former en- two years before, they have some- tertainment editor, and current thing in common. They crammed research editor at ParentGuide, great chance to be into a tiny cubicle, copyediting, agrees. “The Student Voice never writing, or laying out the pages of took itself too seriously, which I ap- creative and kind of Syracuse University’s only weekly, preciated,” she says. “It was fun, student-run magazine, praying their and you could be sarcastic and articles, columns, or pictures would funny, and it really gave you room experiment with your voice make it onto their respective pages to breathe, which I thought really without any flaws. helped develop people as writers.” It doesn’t always work that well, and While some editors called The Stu- or photography. We were mistakes have gotten by the eyes of dent Voice’s humble cubicle home Student Voice editors on more than one night a week, writers were al- one occasion, but as alums have ways encouraged to get as involved putting it out on our own, pointed out, student publications as they chose, writing as little or as are a learning experience. The Stu- much as they wanted. dent Voice has been a place for fu- Melissa Goolnick, a magazine major and that was really ture journalists, used-car salesmen, who graduated last May and cur- and award-winning authors alike to rently works as a sales assistant at hone their skills and spring into the Conde Nast, chose to contribute her exciting.” wonderful world of media. work to the magazine when she had “It was an opportunity to experi- time available to do so. - Sarah Ovaska, reporter ment and to fool around with your “A bunch of my friends were mem- voice,” says Sarah Ovaska, a former bers,” Goolnick says. “And in my The News & Observer news editor and a current reporter news classes, there would be Stu- at The News & Observer in Raleigh, dent Voice staff members, and when N.C. “It was nice and fun, a nice I talked about an article, they would Raleigh, N.C . break for senior year before I hit the be like, ‘Oh, wow. That sounds re- real world.” ally great. Do you mind if we use it to cover whatever you want.” of places won’t interview people un- Ovaska says The Student Voice had when you’re done?’” Goolnick acknowledges that she will less they’ve had significant intern- a bit more relaxed atmosphere than While Student Voice writers are “do anything for a byline.” So she ship experience, because employers some of the other campus publica- sometimes able to “double-dip” and offered up her stories to the maga- are kind of worried about taking a tions during her tenure at the mag- use class pieces in the magazine, a zine. chance on someone who hasn’t had azine. lot of the time writers have to “break “The more clips you have the bet- a chance to work through their mis- “We didn’t take ourselves quite as their necks” for pieces, according to ter off you are,” she says. “I mean, takes, which is what internships are seriously… we tried to have a bit Werthman. I would only write for a publication really about. They’re about learning more fun,” she says. “I think it was In the fall of 2004, Michael Moore that I believed in — that was credi- how publications work, and learning a place where there was a lot of spoke at SU on a Wednesday night ble. A lot of times you turn in an ar- creativity. We really strived to be — the night The Student Voice was ticle and it comes out and you can’t different, and I think we pulled that being laid out. “We decided we were even recognize it, but that wasn’t ALUMS jumps to 15 Flattering portrait photos taken by features Mahala Gaylord and Rachefl Fus / Staff Photographers 11 WHO ARE THEY? WHO ARE WE?

Sean Patrick Bowley: The following conversation actually occurred over Former Sports Editor; now Sports Writer at Connecticut AIM during the layout of this issue. The screen Post names have been changed to protect the guilty. Nate: So, ten years eh? Meredith Marash: Maggie: Almost half our lives. Former Managing Editor; now Graphic Designer and Il- Nate: I know I changed in this last half of my lustrator at Ernst & Young life, grew my hair out, lost my braces, graduated high school - I think it’s safe to say The Student Keith O’Brien: Voice had some similar, less tragic growing pains? Former Features Editor and Editor in chief; now Author, Maggie: Oh Nate, I think we all know there’s Ubiquitous Marketing Blog nothing tragic about your hair. As far as SV goes though, just looking through all the back issues I can tell it’s changed just about every year. Kimberlea Klein: Nate: Maybe you have a point, it started out a lot like me - newspaper-esque and Former Managing Editor and Senior Editor; now News Producer at Fox 25 Boston photogenic, and now it’s become a little more Maggie - flashy, snarky yet still poi- gnant and informed. (two minutes of silence) Sara Lieberman: I wonder if the editors 10 years from now we’ll be so stuck when writing the anniver- Former Features Editor; now Associate Editor at Alloy Inc. sary column, that they’ll be reflecting on the magazine through themselves too Maggie: There’s nothing quite like publishing a magazine that reflects who you are, though. I really do feel like this magazine has a piece of each of us in it every week. Rebeca Schnall: Former Assistant Features Editor; now Senior Coordina- Just like I’m sure the previous editors did. That’s what we’re all about, isn’t it? Voic- tor of Communications at Sirius Satellite Radio ing our opinions. Nate: And giving voice to those who don’t get any through traditional campus media. Everyone writes about SU Basketball (and yea, we do too), but not everyone will Sarah Rainone: Former Editor in chief; now Editor at Doubleday Press take a look at our community members from the Sudan or how our favorite professors fell in love. Andrea Lavinthal: Maggie: Right you are, Mr. Mattise. It’s funny, because while I was interviewing Former Features Editor; now Associate Beauty Editor past staff members this week, it seemed like they all remembered the same thing at Cosmopolitan, Co-author The Hookup Handbook: A about The Student Voice: we don’t play by the rules. We like to let people explore Single Girl’s Guide to Living it Up what they’re interested, go their own route, and have fun while they’re doing it. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and I like that about us. Jessica Rozler: Nate: I suppose it is an adorable character trait, especially on a college campus these Former Features Editor; now Associate Editor at Allworth days. So many pressures on our demographic, so many life-altering occurrences, Press, Co-author The Hookup Handbook: A Single Girl’s sometimes you need to just reflect. I like to think we help that process. Guide to Living it Up Maggie: Well, a lot has happened in the last 10 years. The Student Voice lived through September 11. We owed it to our readers to reflect on that tragedy, espe- Dave Scordato: cially since so many of our classmates are from the New York City and D.C. areas. Former Photography Editor; now Freelance Video Editor And there was the special edition we found in the filing cabinets commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster. Having a place to talk about Sarah Ovaska: these kinds of tragedies is really important. Former News Editor; now Courts Reporter at The News & Observer Nate: Within the next 10 years I’m sure we’ll see reflections on the Hill TV scandal, the Brian Shaw case, even the Virginia Tech tragedy from this week… Never a dull issue of The Student Voice. Ariana Phillips: Former Features Editor and Editor in chief; now Associ- Maggie: I just hope the next 10 years includes an ever-evolving Student Voice. I ARE YOU IN A BAND? ate Research Editor at Martha Stewart Living think it would be interesting if 10 years from now — when we’re each bigwigs in the journalism indus- KNOW SOMEONE IN A BAND? Pamela Bobowicz: try — I saw a copy of our pretty little magazine and Former Editorial Director; now Editorial Assistant at Ran- couldn’t even recognize it. I hope that editors continue Want free marketing, promotional, and dom House Children’s Publishing to make it their own like we have been able to. management advice? Want help booking Nate: Well, your four years (give or take) at SU are all shows or starting a street team? Christine Werthman: about finding yourself. Same goes for anyone’s time at Let the Music and Entertainment Industry Former Entertainment Editor; now Assistant Editor at SV Student Association help you out. ParentGuide Maggie: And what a great time it’s been. Nate: In true Student Voice fashion, that’s one hell of Get started by e-mailing [email protected] Melissa Goolnick: a cliché to end on Ms. Journalist Former writer; now Sales Assistant at Conde Nast M E I S A As you can see, Nate’s got great hair. And Maggie’s pretty feisty. 12 opinions

...so do columnists at The Student Voice. Here’s a look at some of the most memorable editorial work in SV history. Compiled by Anna Brand/ Opinions Editor

Volume I Issue 3 September 11, 1997 November 2, 2000 By Mark Turney Election Issue By Dara Pettinelli A common thread ran through three lives …Student Voice columnists share their thoughts on the state of On September 5th of this year the world suffered an incredible politics in the election year. loss with the death of Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. Unfortunately, her death was overshadowed in large part by several other tragedies. Many adults think that our generation is apathetic; we don’t Close to home, the death of Bishop O’Keefe left many Syracuse care about politics and we don’t have a cause. Young women are residents saddened at the loss of a man who knew each person within not burning their bras, young men are not rebelling a draft, and his Diocese. A man who shared freely of his time, his love and of himself students are not picketing outside the White House. with those within his adopted community of Syracuse. He treated each America pledges itself to the flag, which represents the person with dignity and respect whether you were Catholic or not. promises of diversity, democracy, and freedom for all. Yet, the Overseas, we had the untimely death of a popular Princess who reality is that America’s presidency follows a tradition of white, had captured the hearts of millions. She was the first “Royal” to go patriarchal, and wealthy leaders. Is there a presidential job among the people regardless of their class, sexual orientation, race, description that says: “Sorry, only white wealthy men need health, or social standing. Something the Windsor’s hasn’t figured out apply”? If America is truly a democracy, then why are our leaders yet how to do. not diverse? Mother Teresa dealt with “human detritus, garbage,” as an erst- I don’t think that our generation needs to protest America’s while reporter once pointed out. She dealt with people dying of starvation history; we need to change the future. My hope for the future is and disease and allowed them a place of sanctuary in which to die in that someone from my generation goes against the grain and wins peace, dignity and respect. Several people have commented on the the presidency. This would be one of our greatest contributions- fact that she did nothing to alleviate their maladies. These people have not at all apathetic. sadly missed the point of her life’s work. Relieving their miseries was not feasible. The government of India had forsaken these people as had most of the populace of the world. Providing for them as ‘mother,’ as she was known throughout India, had allowed them a place of refuge, a place of peace. The one common thread that runs throughout each of these people’s lives is that of love and acceptance for those around them, Volume VI Issue 1 In recent days we have witnessed the (mis)handling of the Sept. 26-Oct. 1 Denny’s incident by the Syracuse District Attorney’s office, the uproar 9/11 Issue over the Student African American Society’s choice of speakers for their Anonymous Convocation, suicide bombers, murders, war, secular hatred, etc. Where have we lost the basic premise of most major religions? I believe that every American lost something yesterday. That being treating others as you would want to be treated. Could Whether it was the memory of a beloved skyline that always it possible be true that as Nietzsche was so fond of saying, “Gott ist welcomed you home when you were away, an unbreakable sense tot.” God is dead? I sincerely hope not as I am a believer in a higher of security that my generation has been blessed with having up being. Be that higher names God, Jehovah, Allah, or Buddha is for me to this point in our lives, or most unfortunately, a loved one. I inconsequential. Living as they preached is. Living by showing respect, was blessed that my family members were not in those buildings love and honor to those around you in the message that somehow we yesterday, but my heart bleeds for those who were. I believe now have seemed to forgot. is the time for the people of America to say “no” — to join together Think of the number of deaths wrought over the name of a god. in a way we never have needed before and say “You may be able Think of the hatred preached by supposed men god. Think of the pain to change our skyline and you may be able to rob me of my loved and anguish brought about in the name of the gods of history. ones but you can never take away the spirit that makes me an After we think about the teachings of separatism, secularism and American, and I’m willing to fight for that, whatever it takes. racism, take a moment and ask yourself if that’s what your god expects from you. I hope that mine doesn’t expect such deplorable behavior and I hope that I can live as such. opinions 13

Volume VII Issue 20 Our Original April 10-16, 2003 By Justin Aucoin

Year of the Orange Mission Statement:

Has it sunk in yet? Has it really? Has it sunk in yet that, Syracuse University is college Student Voice sets goals basketball’s NATIONAL CHAMPIONS? I’ll repeat it just in case you didn’t me the first time… WE ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!! for new publication I have to say that Monday night was the highlight of my By Mark Turney college career, so far. I wish I had it all on camera so I could Founding Editor in chief pop the video in the VCR and relive the excitement, joy, and August 29, 1997 every moment over and over again. Who wouldn’t? But all I have are pictures and this column to help spark memories of the night we became National Champions. I This campus has seemed to long for action all summer. Hopefully the doubt it’ll do the same for you years later. nearly 3,000 new faces and all our returning friends will help provide Who would have thought that I’d actually have trouble that much needed excitement and energy. writing this column? Who has trouble writing about their To those 3,000 incoming students I would like to wish you all a fond school’s team that just won the NCAA Finals after not making hello. I hope that you will find the experience of Syracuse University to the March Madness tournament last year? Who has trouble be all that you hoped it would be. writing about the series of firsts that came with the national In a sense we are all new to this campus. We have all been given a title win Monday night? unique opportunity to learn and grow in this community. Yourselves as This guy… students toiling away on your studies (that’s what we all tell our par- It’s not that I don’t know what to write, it’s that there’s ents anyhow) and we as student journalists on a fledgling newspaper so much to write about. There’s no way one can capture dedicated to our fellow students and community. Let’s all make a go at the true aura and excitement that came with Monday night’s this and excel in the coming year as we grow and learn together. unbelievable victory. It’s something you can only feel, and Let me take a minute of your time and talk about three issues that con- when you try to express exactly how stoked you were that cern this publication. night, the words used don’t even come close to comparing the rush you felt when the buzzer went off and you knew Our Paper that your school had become a national champion. Foremost it must be understood that we are NOT competing against the The only way to write this column is to just state different Daily Orange. Our goal in fact is to build and maintain a professional things that happened, so when you read this and look back and friendly working environment with the present and future staffs of on this past weekend years from now, memories of where the D.O. you were, what you did and how you felt will come flooding We are not spokesmen for the Student Government Association, it is back to you. they that we report on. We will report on where our student fee is used …The first half was owned by the Orangemen, especially and on what. Gerry McNamara who absolutely lit up the Kansas defense from “3-point-land.” In the first half, GMac sank six three- Our Commitment point-shots to bring him within one three-pointer shy of a Our commitment is to the student body as a whole. We will provide NCAA Finals record. The “Mayor of Scranton” ended with 18 an outlet of useful, student oriented information on a weekly basis. points as he shot 6-13 with one assist. Our commitment is to represent those groups and students which are …The second half swayed more to Kansas as they would funded by our student fee and to report on the same. We don’t want to ultimately outscore the Orangemen 36-28. However, the 2-3 bore you, so we will strive to present our information in a clean, precise Zone Defense was strong enough to fend off the late jayhawk and interesting way. surge. …It doesn’t matter if you’re a player, coach or fan, but Our Mission when your team has a chance to win it all, you do whatever Our foremost mission is to continually work to achieve a high standard you can to make sure everything is in its place and goes your of excellence in community based (photo) journalism. We hope to way. For fans, this means looking for stats that prove that SU provide an environment of learning for students interested in the art of will win and then, of course, there are the superstitions. publication production and journalism through faculty/student interac- …Students not only drank on M-Street, but they also tion. We will provide a written and graphic essay on our student fee drank on the Quad. It was complete madness, but also and how it is used while presenting up to date information on the work- complete bliss. You couldn’t help but feel proud to be an ings of SGA. We will provide a public forum for discussions between Orangeman. students and their duly elected representatives.

I hope that over the next year that we all will grow together and pros- per in this, our community. Welcome and good luck to us all. 14 sports Coleman to Carmelo: A Trip Down

Memory Lane With Men’s BBall By Justin Betti / Sports Editor

Sports affects the way we look at Syra- the Orange turned to a lanky kid from Philadel- but no one knew if they’d be any different from by Nathan Mattise / Editor-In-Chief cuse University. Without sports, we’re a little phia named Hakim Warrick. all the other Syracuse teams that came up just 12,000 student private school, lost in snowy The 2002 recruiting class added two short. Central New York, overlooking the polluted more major pieces to the puzzle. The season took the Orange to the 2003 shores of Lake Onondaga. Luckily, we’ve been In May 2001, an up-and-coming kid from Oak National Championship Game. The game was blessed with a proud sports history. Despite Hill Academy in Virginia committed to play bas- eerily similar the 1987 game many Orange fans the men’s basketball team being left out of the ketball at Syracuse University. That August he were trying to forget. If the Orange were to NCAA Tournament this year and the football became the number one ranked high school lose in the finals again, they may never escape team finishing below .500 the title of the school that for the second straight year, always came up just short. students can look at the The 2003 Final Four was 2003 National Championship held in New Orleans, just and see a beacon of light. It like 1987. proves that real champions The Orange built a 12- do wear orange. point-lead with five minutes It could have been a left, but as the game ran lot different. down, the team tired. The Syracuse basketball lead dwindled. Even so, the had a history of coming up Orange led by three with a just short. In 1987 a dorky player at the line trying to young coach named Jim ice the game. As Hakim Boeheim took his Syracuse Warrick missed both free squad to the NCAA Champi- throws, many Orange fans onship Game in New Orleans couldn’t help but remember against Bobby Knight’s Indi- Derrick Coleman in 1987. ana Hoosiers. As Kansas guard Kirk Hin- Nursing a one-point- rich pushed the ball up the lead in the game’s final min- floor and found Michael Lee ute, one of team’s best play- open in the corner, it was as ers, Derrick Coleman went to if their bodies had been pos- the free throw line to shoot sessed by Steve Alford and two free throws. Keith Smart. He missed them “We must’ve seen the both. highlights of Smart hitting As everyone in Cen- that jumper 1,000 times tral New York watched with this week,” said assistant their hearts in their throats, coach Mike Hopkins. Indiana’s Steve Alford at- Michael Lee never had tracted the defense then Photo courtesy of Google Images the chance to become Keith passed to Keith Smart. That Smart. Hakim Warrick got name still haunts Orange fans in the way. today. basketball player in the country by Rivals.com. “I was like, ‘Oh man,’” Warrick said. With the last seconds ticking off the Despite offers from numerous other high profile “This can’t happen again.” clock, Smart drilled a 16-foot jumper to give schools as well as the option of going straight The kid who was too skinny to be re- Indiana the championship. It was the story- to the NBA, Carmelo Anthony stuck with his cruited by most other college basketball pro- book ending every kid imagines while shoot- commitment to the Orangemen. grams darted out from the middle and leaped ing on the hoop in his or her driveway, except Along with Anthony came a short but towards Lee’s jump shot. Lee couldn’t believe Syracuse was on the wrong end of the story gritty Irish kid with a sweet three-point-shot Warrick reached it. tale. named Gerry McNamara. “Honestly, I didn’t even know he blocked Syracuse spent the next 16 years try- Billy Edelin was set to start, but accu- it,” Lee said. “I thought it was still going to- ing to make up for the one that got away. The sations of sexual harassment kept him from wards the rim.” closest they got was a nine point loss in the blossoming at SU the way many fans hoped, The block was the most memorable play 1996 Championship Game. That was the clos- but he did have a major impact on the starting of Syracuse’s 81-78 National Championship est the came, until 2003. lineup. Mark Konecny would have been a start- win. It’s what most current students think of Then all the stars aligned. er on the 2003 team, but Konecny’s girlfriend when they think of SU basketball. They used The 2001 recruiting class was supposed was friends with the girl who accused Edelin, to think of Keith Smart and Derrick Coleman. to take the team to the promised land. It fea- and Konecny left school just two games into Coach Jim Boeheim realized how close we came tured Craig Forth, Josh Pace, Mark Konecny, the 2001-2002 season. The move made room to having two nightmares etched in our memo- and McDonald’s All-American Billy Edelin. for Hakim Warrick in the starting lineup. ries instead of one realized dream. It was also supposed to include another Mc- The same five players: Anthony, - War As Boeheim celebrated after beating Donald’s All-American, Julius Hodge. At the rick, McNamara, Forth, and senior glue-man Kansas, his cell phone rang. It was Derrick last second, Hodge committed to North Caro- Kueth Duany, started every game in 2002- Coleman. “There was static,” Boeheim said, “I lina State instead. Eager to fill out their roster, 2003. They were good. They were very good, said, ‘You’re off the hook, finally.’” 15 INTERVIEW Continued 15

conversions in the media where people are forced to do a lot of things years from now it is going to be hard for all the good things I mentioned for across platforms where you are no longer just a print journalist. You’re Syracuse University to happen. We have to hope that the political, economic expected to get audio, get video, write to the web. You’re no longer leadership of the city gets it act together, and that Syracuse becomes a expected to just do advertising but marketing, public relations—all more vibrant place not losing population, attracting jobs, more cultural kinds of things. So with that, I think ten years from now will be a very activities, so on and so forth. I have to tell you that I am more optimistic different department structure. that Syracuse University will figure out all this and will be stronger ten I think will be doing moreWANT executive education at theTO Newhouse DESIGN?years from now than I am confident the city and county will figure this out. School in ten years. We would have professionals want to come back I am not at all confident that they will figure it out, but we have to hope. regularly for refresher courses, particularly on technology. I think there would be even more collaboration between students and faculty ALUMS Continued producing media content because it’s going to be a lot easier to do it, how to cope in the real world, and in the professional world.” and to have outlets for it, so I can imagine students teaming up with Not only can internships be beneficial in landing your dream job, or even the professors to make more film, documentaries—those kinds of things. job that leads to your dream job, they can also help you figure out if you’re WRITE? I think the school will become increasingly diverse. We have on the completely wrong track, Ovaska says. gone over the last about five or six years, I think, from about 10 “I remember I did one at a TV station,” she says. “I decided right then and percent of the freshman class coming in being minority to it looks like there that I wanted nothing to do with network news. You learn what it is this year it would be the second year in the row where there would be that you want.” more than 20 percent. I suspect that is going to go up because the According to Goolnick, internships are also a great way to build a network. population of the country is becoming more and more diverse or less “Contacts are key,” she says. “It’s unfortunate, but it really is who you and less dominant white. It wouldn’t surprise that ten years from now know.” 35 to 40 percent of the incoming students, or maybe much as half While finding internships, and working on creating contacts can seem over- would be African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native. whelming to students, Ovaska and Goolnick warn SU students and future journalists to enjoy their time in college while they can. Are there additional comments you have about Newhouse or “Sometimes being a grown up sucks,” Goolnick says. SU as a whole? While growing up can seem like a downer for SU and SV alumni alike, The Well, I would say one last thing and that is that to some extent the Student Voice’s tenth birthday is something to celebrate. future health of Syracuse University is tied to the economic health “There were some publications that were here and there, and they would of central New York, so the future of the city of Syracuse is not fade in and out,” Ovaska says. “They would stay for about a year... I think unimportant either. Unless the city of Syracuse is also thriving ten it’s great that The Student Voice has been around for 10 years.”

OPEN UNTIL 3 A.M. EDITOR’S Ben wightman VOICE founding editor in chief Funnily enough, my first article as editor-in-chief in the just need to listen to the voices of those we represent and inaugural issue of The Student Voice was titled “Reflec- lead them to make the changes THEY want to occur.” tions.” Now, 10 years later, I’m being asked to reflect on That is why I’ve been so impressed with the course The Student Voice’s beginnings and accomplishments over of The Student Voice over the past 10 years. Circulation, the years. frequency and editorial staff have all increased as The Stu- While it may sound like just an overused cliché, it dent Voice has evolved from a newspaper at its inception really is hard to believe it has been 10-years since I found- to a magazine today. However, one thing seems to have ed The Student Voice along with Managing Editor Brian remained a constant: a commitment to providing SU stu- Totin. It was back in my idealistic SU college days, while dents of all races, creeds, and sexualities with a voice on vice president of public relations for the Student Govern- campus. In fact, the student stories being told in The Stu- ment Association (now the Student Association), that the dent Voice have been so compelling that they’ve been na- idea for The Student Voice first came to me. tionally recognized by The Society of Professional Journal- The “Bob Woodward” wannabe investigative jour- ists. I couldn’t be more proud of my legacy. nalists at the Daily Orange had become almost obsessed So, as in my first article, I’d like to pose an anni- with scandal stories about SGA, to the detriment of news versary challenge. I think the words I offered the SGA still on other (arguably more important) campus issues. I felt apply today to the editorial staff of The Student Voice: “I SU deserved a new and better voice ... The Student Voice. wish for advocacy and true representation.” While each of So Brian and I founded the publication, in conjunction with you may only be with the publication for a year or two, you SGA’s 30th anniversary, as a student-focused alternative have the opportunity in that short time to focus The Stu- to the news monopoly that was the Daily Orange. dent Voice on truly representing the concerns of students In that first newspaper, my “Reflections” article -be on campus and advocating for positive change at SU moaned how SGA had forgotten its roots in student advo- I wish you and your successors all the best as you cacy for issues that really mattered to the student popula- look to meet that challenge in what I hope will be yet an- tion. The “students are apathetic” excuse just showed a other successful 10 years of award-winning university jour- disconnect between what SGA and the student body each nalism. felt was truly important. Quoting from that original “Thoughts & Ideas” piece, “students can come together to make a difference … we