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Message: [QUOTE="bevosu, post: 1751923, member: 46"] a mistake.. [I]The deal was announced in [B]1979[/B] with a news conference attended by former Syracuse Chancellor Melvin Eggers and former Carrier CEO Mel Holm, then a member of the Syracuse Board of Trustees.[/I] [I] At the time, the deal was met with dismay from a number of Syracuse students, who wanted the dome to be named after[B] Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis, who died six years earlier [/B]from leukemia. The students criticized the university for selling out to corporate interests. [URL]http://www.syracuse.com/orangesports/index.ssf/2016/05/carrier_dome_renovation_syracuse_university_may_be_able_to_correct_1_million_mis.html#incart_river_home[/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]