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Welcome to National Crohn's and Colitis Day!
The first annual World Crohn's and Colitis Day (WCCD) was celebrated on May 23, 2007.[1] The event was created by Josh Golder and recognized by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, as well as by people from around the world. Josh is a prominent figure and activist in the Crohn's and Colitis community (who himself has Crohn's disease), who directed and produced the internationally known, community-wide movie, "True Guts: Struggle and Triumph over Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis" (which is more commonly known as "True Guts"). Josh created WCCD as a way to bring people affected by either disease together, as well as friends and family members of those individuals, and even those who knew nothing about either disease in order to increase awareness of them.
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The Malachi Richardson Impostor Story (DO; Schneidman)
In every way it was Malachi Richardson, except it wasn’t. The two pierced ears. A somewhat scraggly high-top fade haircut. The “Always Reppin’” shirt with the orange block “S” that Syracuse wore during warmups in the NCAA Tournament. And a face that, for someone not entirely familiar with the looks of the former Syracuse standout, could easily be mistaken for Richardson’s.
For all intents and purposes, he’ll be referred to as the impostor. He rode a commercial flight early Saturday morning from Syracuse’s Hancock International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport, where he stopped for pictures, videos and autographs before hopping on a plane to Florida. Two 20-year-olds from central New York, Dustin DuBrule and Sean Loveless, rode both flights with the impostor and fell victim to his charade.
Malachi Richardson was on my plane tho pic.twitter.com/uqdGSCgotK
— Dustin DuBrule (@DustinDuBrule) May 21, 2016
The impostor signed DuBrule’s basketball and told him that he didn’t care which NBA team selected him in the upcoming draft, just that he wanted to be taken. He posed for a picture with Loveless, who waited to approach the impostor until the crowd of around 10 people surrounding him in the tunnel leading from the plane to the gate dissipated. He even obliged to the request of a stewardess on the first flight, who asked that the impostor send a message to her son in a video.
“He really woke up in the morning like, ‘I’m trying to be Malachi Richardson today,’” DuBrule said in a phone interview Sunday night.
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The impostor still remains nameless as of late Sunday night to the two 20-year-olds, most likely along with everyone else duped throughout the day on Saturday.
And while the real Malachi Richardson could see his name grow in popularity over the next month, another Malachi Richardson could be reveling in the humor of his stunt somewhere in Florida’s warm summer while remaining a mystery.
“I got catfished in person,” Loveless said. “Like who gets catfished in person? And then I did.”
Will Old Promises Hold True with Next Syracuse AD? (TNIAAM; Weinheimer)
There were a lot of pieces in motion in the short-lived Mark Coyle era. How will the mold of Syracuse Athletics shape when yet another new face in charge steps foot on the hill?
Mark Coyle has come and gone from Syracuse Athletics. As we flip the page to the search for a new AD, one has to wonder if the next person will move parts and pieces around to make the department his/her own, rather than leaving in place ideas that were set before them.
When Mark Coyle was hired, the two biggest speculations surrounded then-head coach Scott Shafer and basketball coach-in-waiting Mike Hopkins. One situation played out the way it was set before Coyle (Hopkins), and one was changed dramatically to something new (Shafer).
But with yet another new face coming in, who's to say that these promises and deals will hold to come true? If history is to be believed, a new AD will want to make his or her stamp on the program upon their arrival. With a head coach-in-waiting that has held that title for over 10 years and a football coach who was hired and will see two different athletic directors before even coaching a game, it's safe to say there could still be rocky waters ahead at Syracuse.
The future will determine if Dino Babers was a successful hiring or not, but it's safe to say it was a good hire by Coyle. He checks off all of the boxes that Syracuse Football needs and will hopefully bring success. That being said, a new relationship with an athletic director could shift things on both sides. If Babers doesn't find immediate success, how long will the new person put up with him? They may want their own hire for the program, which could lead to a shorter leash on Babers.
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Whitman Jumps 32 Spots in Bloomberg's Businessweek List of the US's Best Undergraduate Business Schools (DO; Gozinsky)
Otto the Orange jogged around, high-fiving students and administrators as champagne bottles were popped and laughter echoed throughout the atrium and hallways. The Martin J. Whitman School of Management had cause for celebration on the morning of April 21: The school had jumped 32 spots in Bloomberg Businessweek’s list of the U.S.’s best undergraduate business schools.
Whitman saw the jump from No. 55 in 2014, the last time Bloomberg released undergraduate rankings. This news is certainly worthy of some champagne bottle popping and Otto dancing. But it is important to note that while Whitman has found success in introducing new curriculums and programs to develop students academically and professionally, the school can do even better by improving its student experience for future classes.
Of the 114 schools ranked, Whitman came in at No. 11 in employer survey, No. 56 in student survey, No. 52 in starting salary rank and No. 20 in internship rank. The favorable results of the employer survey and the internship ranking show how Whitman prepared its graduates well for the real world. And when it comes to enhancing its student life, the school can model solutions after programs that have already been successful.
For example, one aspect of the Whitman experience that potentially dampen the student satisfaction ranking could have been complaints about the school’s “core scheduling.” The latest core curriculum requires students to take predetermined blocks of three classes together in a semester and they are not able to make their own schedule because of it.
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