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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 36728, member: 716"]
It's not a bad piece, but this bugged me: "(This fall the university has helped rip up a one-way street toward the university and made it two-way, as a symbol of connection between the campus and the town.)"

Terribly misleading; SU is funding the street improvements (20% of the street improvements, actually, since the federal DOT pays 80% of these projects) because a.) it owed New York State millions of dollars loaned for the SciTech Center's construction in the late '80s and the state encouraged SU to upgrade surrounding infrastructure in exchange for loan foregiveness and b.) SU has some good urban policy people who recognize that one-way streets are obsolete. SU saw an easy way to upgrade an ugly part of the campus neighborhood. Nothing to do with charity or symbolic town-gown connections.

The AAU thing is ludicrous, too. Syracuse hasn't got a medical university. That spelled the end of our AAU affiliation and it had nothing to do with Chancy Nancy.

The numbers are bad; they need to improve. Fact is, SU's been admitting a large number of academic low-achievers  - from ALL races - for more than 20 years. Hopefully they've hit a low point and will start to improve the numbers. The brand appeal should help. The work to revitalize the city should help, too. The administration knows that no one wants to pay private school tuition to live in a dying Rust Belt town and attend the #62 university in the nation. They want to make this a George Washington-lite, and they're banking on the fact that a culturally reinvigorated city will attract better applicants. It's a good experiment.
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