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STATE OF SHOCK SU community in disbelief over Donald Trump's presidential election By Michael Burke and Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editors
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n atmosphere mixed with feelings of anger, frustration and sadness filled the space Wednesday night in front of Hendricks Chapel as a few hundred people gathered for a candlelight vigil following the Election Day results. Stretching from the chapel’s steps to the grass on the Quad, tears filled the eyes of some as they joined together in song and listened to a series of speakers. Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected president, the group of mostly Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF students came together for the vigil, officially called “Syracuse University Stands Against Hate.” It was held for members of the Syracuse community to stand united against hatred, sexism, racism, homophobia and more. The speakers — a mix of students from SU and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry — expressed their frustration with the election’s results, with some saying they felt scared and others telling stories of not wanting to leave their homes the day after the election. It reflected a trend on Wednesday of SU community members across campus reacting in awe of the election’s surprising outcome. Emily Vargas, an SU senior studying sport and human dynamics, said during Wednesday evening’s vigil that she woke see reactions page 9
More than 100 members of the SU community attended a candlelight vigil in front of Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday to protest Donald Trump's election as U.S. president. moriah ratner staff photographer
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Syverud comments on election, talks university budget By Alexa Torrens development editor
Chancellor Kent Syverud began his monthly report to the University Senate on Wednesday with the acknowledgment that the world has gotten more complicated with the election of Donald Trump to the United States presidency. “It is important that we at Syracuse University engage and respond in ways that reflect our values and include all in our community,” Syverud said at the Sen-
ate’s November meeting in Maxwell Auditorium. The chancellor added that he will confer with students, faculty and staff and Senate leaders in the coming days to “consider how we should live up to our values in this way.” After addressing the results of the election, Syverud quickly moved into a discussion on the university’s budget. Many senators have voiced concern over the course of the semester about not having enough access to information regarding the budget.
During his presentation, the chancellor addressed the “good
what is usen? The University Senate is the academic governing body of the university and is made up of faculty, students, staff and administration members. The majority of the work is done in 17 standing committees, which report to the full senate at least once a year.
news” — that SU has reached a generally balanced budget and has
dealt with what were identified in spring 2014 as two of its primary financial challenges: the lack of growth in endowment and facilities maintenance issues. Endowment grew 1.6 percent in the fiscal year 2016, according to a slide Syverud presented at the meeting. Syverud also explained the “bad news” — that most of the “good things” have been done at the cost of significant added challenges to faculty and academic units. “So we now need to rectify the budget situation of the academic
units and the faculty, and to fund the strategic plan,” Syverud said, bringing his Fast Forward plan for the university into the budget discussion for the first time. The next step, then, Syverud said, is to address those challenges that have been put upon faculty and academic units. One way of doing that is to increase fundraising, which has risen since the fiscal year 2015 but by Syverud’s standards has not been rising enough. “We need to raise a hell of a lot see usen page 9