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TSTUDENT H Issue 18, Volume XII April 19 - April 25, 2007 EVOICE The Tenth Anniversary Issue COVER PHOTO provided by INSIDE The Student Voice Archives 2 Issue 18 paid for by your student fee. INSIDE 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.