snow globe tuesday HI 35° | LO 26° december 2, 2008 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SYRACUSE , NEW YORK INSIDENEWS INSIDEOPiniON INSIDEPULP INSIDEsPORTS AIDS awareness The fire guy What lies beneath No sweat Quilts in memory of HIV/AIDS Read Kevin Eggleston’s Muslim students debate Syracuse remained undefeated victims displayed downtown. farewell column, a summary of whether wearing by cruising past Colgate at home Page 3 this year in news. Page 5 headscarves brings females Monday. Page 17 closer to religion. Page 11 Orange Alert fails to reach all students By Bethany Bump STaff WriTer Khrista Trani was in class when cell phones began buzzing and mur- murs interrupted her professor. But her cell phone remained silent. No text message. No phone call. When Trani’s cell phone did buzz, it was a friend of hers who attends college in Florida, calling to ask if she was OK. “They told me there was a gun shooting around one of the streets here,” said Trani, a freshman inter- national relations and women’s studies major. “They heard about it before I did. If I weren’t in class, I would have been walking around not knowing what was happening.” The students in Trani’s class were receiving the first real activa- tion of the Orange Alert emergency notification system, issued at 11:39 SEE orange alert PAGE 6 max nepstad | asst. photo editor OWNER JOHN MICHAEL (RIGHT) AND ERIK HICKS, an employee of J Michael’s on Marshall Street, have seen higher sales this season than House mom of the same time last year, despite the country’s economic troubles. Other businesses in the area, such as Funk ‘n Waffles, have suffered more. sorority killed Marshall Street suffers effects of economic recession in car crash By Tom Auchterlonie months. Estimates for October indi- Murphy said while the same num- downturn if they have a compelling STaff WriTer cate that retail and food spending ber of student customers are stop- niche to fill. He also said businesses By Megan Saucke For Funk ‘n Waffles, it was already dropped by 2.8 percent from the ping by, they’re cutting back on the that choose to set up in the Marshall and Ben Tepfer a challenge to lure foot traffic to its previous month, and by 4.1 percent amount of money they spend. He Street area should expect people who The DaiLY OraNGE basement-level location on Marshall from a year ago, according to the said his business has been hurt by live or work nearby, such as students, Sisters of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Street. Adam Gold, co-founder of Department of Commerce. This other costs, including rising usage professors and hospital employees, sorority said Susan Higginbotham, Funk ‘n’ Waffles and a Syracuse Uni- fall coincides with a 0.3 percent fees for credit card machines. For to serve as their primary customer known as “Susie,” felt like family dur- versity alumnus, said the state of the decrease in the real gross domes- every $1.00 slice of pizza, 35 percent base, rather than people from outside ing her semester as house director of economy and the rising cost of goods tic product for the third quarter of the revenue goes to credit card the area. the Syracuse University chapter. have made doing business even more of 2008, a sign that the broader companies. At the same time, Mur- But while some businesses are Higginbotham, 58, died Saturday difficult. economy is contracting. phy said, ingredients like flour have seeing a notable drop in revenue, after her pickup truck collided with “It’s definitely had an impact The Marshall Street area, a popu- become more costly, with the price of others have managed to hold up. Nev- a dump truck at the intersection of on business, I think particularly lar location for retail merchants and flour rising as high as $88 for 100 lbs. ertheless, they are feeling the pinch, county routes 100 and 191 in Orleans, the people who come in who aren’t restaurants near campus, has felt the He also said the costs of state work- either through lower profit margins N.Y. She served as a teacher in Bald- students,” Gold said. “I hope we can burden of a dwindling economy as ers’ compensation and deep fryer oil or projected drops in business over winsville for a number of years before turn it around. If it takes too much businesses have reported loss of rev- have increased. the coming months. becoming house director of the Kappa of a hit, I don’t know how long we enue, either by drops in customers or Despite economic difficulty, Jerry Dellas is also a co-owner of Fea- sorority in August. can last.” due to escalating costs. Dellas, president of the Crouse- gan’s Café & Pub, and his cousin, Higginbotham was a caretaker and Gold’s loss of customers is part “Sales have been down,” said Dan Marshall Business Association — an John Dellas, runs Varsity Pizza. a friend, said Naomi Ratner, president of a national downward spiral as Murphy, co-owner of Augie’s Pizza. organization that represents local Jerry Dellas said he’s seen the of SU’s Kappa chapter. consumer spending has decreased “Our volume is considerably down merchants — said businesses can downturn leave its mark through “You want somebody who’s going significantly over the last several from last summer right through now.” increase their odds of surviving the SEE marshall street PAGE 4 SEE higginbotham PAGE 4 2 december 2, 2008 START TUESDAY NEWS @ DAILYORANGE . COM Weather today tomorrow thursday STUDENt oF THE wEEK H37| L28 H44| L34 H38| L25 Stevie Jasuta Today’s EVENTs u.s. & world news compiled by ryan balton What: Bare Necessities of Starting By Samantha Hayden a Business ContRibuting WRiteR When: 8:30 a.m. Bus driver stabbed in wo weeks ago, Stevie Jasuta Where: South Side Innovation saw snow for the first time. Brooklyn Jasuta left her wet suit and Center, 2610 S. Salina St. A bus passenger fatally stabbed his sunscreen behind in Man- How much: Free driver in Brooklyn after the driver Thattan Beach, Calif., to come to Syra- denied the man a free transfer because he had not paid his initial cuse and study communications and What: Maxwell Faculty fare. The killer fled the scene imme- art history. She decided not to attend Challenge to benefit Samaritan diately, in the first slaying of a New college on the West Coast, and her Center: Professor Bill Coplin York City bus driver in more than 27 parents supported her decision. When: 11:30 a.m. years. The victim, Edwin Thomas, In fact, they refused to pay for her Where: Eggers Cafe did not ask the assailant for his fare tuition for an in-state school. How much: Anything on the menu after he refused to pay, per NYC “You only get four years of college, Transit protocol. When the man and I wanted to see the world outside What: Orange Orators Toastmas- asked for the free transfer, Thomas of Manhattan Beach. California is so ters Meeting refused and was subsequently significantly different from the rest stabbed to death. When: noon of the country, and I wanted to expe- Where: Peter Graham rience a different way of life,” said Scholarly Commons, 1st floor, FBI arrests alabama Jasuta, a freshman in the College of Bird Library Arts and Sciences. How much: Free mayor Coming to college, however, was The FBI arrested the mayor of Bir- not the only option for Jasuta. She mingham, Ala., Monday on federal is a sponsored surfer, and she was What: Bookstore’s Annual Faculty charges including bribery, conspir- and Staff Gala offered a contract to surf profession- acy, filing false income tax returns, ally for Body Glove. Although she When: 5 p.m. fraud and money laundering. Larry seriously considered the option, she Where: University Bookstore, Langford, 62, is named in an indict- ultimately decided that she needed to Schine Student Center ment alleging criminal activity get the education. How much: Free while he was a county commis- sioner. According to the indictment, “Initally, I was going to take the Langford sold his public office to offer because I figured that if I want- ToMORROW his friends and political supports. ed to be an artist, I wouldn’t need col- A lobbyist, William Blount, is also lege,” she said. “But then I realized named in the indictment for helping it would be best for me if I kept my Good eats? Langford crush personal debts he options for the future open.” The D.O. takes a look at meal accumulated through loans, pur- And that’s exactly what she is plan costs at SU, and chases of clothing and jewelry, and doing on campus. Since she no lon- compares them to those store charge accounts. ger has a studio to work in, Jasuta is at other universities. taking full advantage of the painting sen. Kennedy awarded and drawing classes offered at SU mackenzie reiss | photo editor TalK To us in hopes of becoming a curator. She Stevie Jasuta is a freshman from Manhattan Beach, Calif. After honorary Harvard degree would like to have her own gallery in growing up on the beach as a sponsored surfer and passionate If you have a story idea or news tip, Sen. Edward Kennedy accepted New York City or Los Angeles by age artist, Jasuta came to SU to study communications and art history. e-mail [email protected] an honorary degree from Har- 35 and be showing her own work by If you find errors in a story, e-mail vard University on Monday.