thursday, january 15, 2026
celebrating 122 years
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O • Outdated literary panic
C • Nostalgic closure
N • Funding struggles
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While alarmist headlines insist young people aren’t reading, BookTok and crowded bookstores tell a different story.
After a 36-year tenure, Spaghetti Warehouse’s Syracuse location closed its doors on Dec. 31.
Registered Student Organization leaders are adjusting to new budget constraints in response to SGA’s funding overallocations.
2-sport star
calvin russell iii joined Syracuse men’s basketball team Sunday, pairing with his five-star football recruitment status. He appeared on the bench in its 94-86 win versus Florida State Tuesday night at the JMA Wireless Dome. courtesy of network | zoe xixis asst. photo editor
By Aiden Stepansky
Calvin Russell III is hen Fran Brown first saw Calvin Russell III Syracuse’s best football play basketball, the Syracuse football head coach knew Russell needed to explore the sport at the next level. As Chanivia Brousrecruit in years. His sard, Russell’s mother, remembers it, Russell just dropped 39 points and 12 rebounds for Miami college career begins Northwestern (Florida) in his junior campaign. spoke with the family postgame and passionately with SU men’s basketball. toldBrown Russell to pursue basketball and football in college. senior staff writer
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Russell was already planning on it. Brown then told him he could participate in both with the Orange, adding he’d call men’s basketball head coach Adrian Autry to set things up. Autry had already traveled to Florida and watched Russell the year prior. The wheels were then in motion for Russell to become a two-sport athlete at Syracuse. “Everything aligned perfectly for us,” Broussard said. As a five-star and the No. 2 wide receiver in the country, Russell is Syracuse’s best football recruit in the modern era. He’s primed to be a key contributor out of the gate on see russell page 12
on campus
Kent Syverud named next University of Michigan President By Owen Smith and Brenne Sheehan the daily orange
Chancellor Kent Syverud confirmed Monday he will become the next president of the University of Michigan. In Aug ust 2025, Sy ver ud announced he’d be stepping down from Syracuse University at the end of the school year. The move marks a return to Ann Arbor for Sy verud, who earned his master’s
and law degrees from UMich and was previously on the faculty of its law school. “For someone who has spent their life in service to higher education, this call to return to the university that first inspired my path is profoundly meaningful,” Syverud said in a Monday email to the SU community. The UMich Board of Regents selected Syverud in a unanimous vote Monday.
Syverud will replace interim President Domenico Grasso, a former UMich-Dearborn chancellor who has led the university since May after former UMich President Santo Ono’s resignation. Syverud will be the third president of UMich in five years and its first alum to hold the role in nearly a century, the Associated Press reported. UMich awarded Syverud a first-year compensation package of nearly $3 million, including his total salary and indi-
rect benefits, Bridge Michigan reported Wednesday. The package is a $1 million raise from his 2024 compensation at SU, which totaled around $1.76 million, according to a tax report by ProPublica. As part of the package, UMich offered Syverud a $2 million base salary to serve as its next president, positioning him among the highest-paid leaders of a public university in the nation. The package could set a record for public university presidents, James Fin-
kelstein, a university contract expert, told Bridge. In a statement to Bridge, UMich Director of Public Affairs Kay Jarvis said presidential compensation packages reflect the “vast scale” of the university’s federal research portfolio and healthcare enterprise, designed to support “strong governance” and “effective institutional management.” “Kent Syverud’s total compensation aligns with the market for similar highly see syverud page 6