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Tyus Battle to Visit Michigan and Then Syracuse (mlive.com; Quinn)
Still stinging from swinging and missing on top 2015 recruit Jaylen Brown, Michigan is now shifting its focus to its top 2016 recruiting target.
Tyus, Battle, a 6-foot-6, five-star combo guard out of Gladstone (N.J.) Gill St. Bernard's, will take his long-awaited visit to Ann Arbor this weekend. His father, Gary Battle, confirmed to SNY.tv this week that the trip to Michigan will occur Thursday through Saturday.
Ranked No. 12 overall in the 247Sports Composite and as the No. 4 shooting guard, Battle is the top 2016 prospect U-M coaches are involved with, rated higher than both Josh Langford and Cassius Winston.
The visit is likely to feature a full-court press by Michigan. Defending national champion Duke is considered the leader for Battle's services, while Louisville, Connecticut, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Ohio State are also in the mix.
Battle took back-to-back visits to Louisville and Duke in mid-April before hosting Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim for an in-home visit. After Michigan, he'll visit Syracuse on May 22-24, according to SNY.tv.
A decision could come soon after that. Two weeks ago, Gary Battle told Syracuse.com, "I'd like to see him get this over with by June. Tyus is undecided on that."
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Construction to Start on Syracuse Inner Harbor Apartments By Fall (PS; Moriarty)
COR Development Co. has made design changes and expects to begin construction on the first apartments at the Syracuse Inner Harbor by early fall.
The Fayetteville-based development company has decided not to build a two-level basement parking garage under the apartment complex and will instead build a parking lot on the west side of Van Rensselaer Street to serve tenants of the apartments.
Maggie Truax, a spokeswoman for COR, said testing showed that subsurface conditions would not support below-grade parking.
COR also has decided to build two 54-unit apartment buildings, connected by fourth-floor pedestrian terraces on the north and south sides, instead of building a single 108-unit building. Truax said the change will allow motor vehicles to enter the courtyard between the buildings for deliveries and trash pickup.
"It's a more effective and practical use of the space," she said.
The buildings will have four stories, with retail space on the first floor and apartments on the upper three floors.
Construction is scheduled to begin at the end of the summer or early in the fall and will take about 18 months to complete, she said.
The Syracuse Planning Commission approved both design changes last week. COR is planning to build an identical, 108-unit apartment building to the north of the first building. The start of construction of the second building will depend on how long it takes to lease up the first one, Truax said.
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Steven Barnes Will Lead SU Trustees (PS; Eisenstadt)
Steven Barnes will take over this year as chairman of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees.
Richard L. Thompson, the current chairman, has come to the end of his term. Barnes' appointment was announced by the university this week. He has been on the Board of Trustees since 2008.
Barnes is a managing director with Bain Capital, a global investment firm with an $80 billion portfolio. He's been with the company since 1988 and leads the firm's North American Private Equity group. Before he joined Bain, Barnes was in senior management at PricewaterhouseCooper.
Barnes graduated from Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management in 1982.
The Syracuse University Board of Trustees has its annual meeting this weekend.
Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud said Barnes is a "strategic and entrepreneurial thinker."
"I know he will be a great leader in his new role," Syverud said in a news release.
Racist Yik Yak Psots Considered 'Hate Speech' By Syracuse Students (usatoday.com; Mistry)
When JaShel Jones graduates from Syracuse University this weekend, she’ll be leaving a campus where she’s witnessed racism.
Last week, someone posted on Yik Yak — an anonymous social media app — complaining about a step show outside of a library on Syracuse University’s quad. The thread of posts continued and referred to the participating students as “monkeys.”
The posts were captured and shared on other digital outlets, prompting responses from both the chancellor of the university and the dean of student affairs.
“There’s a long history of people being dehumanized and being called monkeys and that analogy really stems from the root of racism,” Olivia Johnson, president of SU’s chapter of the NAACP, says. “To think that hundreds of years later people are still being referred to as that really shows that the country hasn’t gone as far as you think.”
RELATED: You might not be on Yik Yak, but your campus police likely are
In an e-mail to the student body, Chancellor Kent Syverud noted the struggles occurring in Baltimore before stating that university has its own work to do.
“Recent events have sparked harmful dialogue on social media channels that does not reflect our core values as an open and inclusive community,” Syverud wrote. “As I have indicated before, it is very important for an academic institution to support free speech. However, Syracuse University does not condone hate speech of any kind, whether in-person or via social media, anonymous or identified.”
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Tyus Battle to Visit Michigan and Then Syracuse (mlive.com; Quinn)
Still stinging from swinging and missing on top 2015 recruit Jaylen Brown, Michigan is now shifting its focus to its top 2016 recruiting target.
Tyus, Battle, a 6-foot-6, five-star combo guard out of Gladstone (N.J.) Gill St. Bernard's, will take his long-awaited visit to Ann Arbor this weekend. His father, Gary Battle, confirmed to SNY.tv this week that the trip to Michigan will occur Thursday through Saturday.
Ranked No. 12 overall in the 247Sports Composite and as the No. 4 shooting guard, Battle is the top 2016 prospect U-M coaches are involved with, rated higher than both Josh Langford and Cassius Winston.
The visit is likely to feature a full-court press by Michigan. Defending national champion Duke is considered the leader for Battle's services, while Louisville, Connecticut, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Ohio State are also in the mix.
Battle took back-to-back visits to Louisville and Duke in mid-April before hosting Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim for an in-home visit. After Michigan, he'll visit Syracuse on May 22-24, according to SNY.tv.
A decision could come soon after that. Two weeks ago, Gary Battle told Syracuse.com, "I'd like to see him get this over with by June. Tyus is undecided on that."
...
Other
Construction to Start on Syracuse Inner Harbor Apartments By Fall (PS; Moriarty)
COR Development Co. has made design changes and expects to begin construction on the first apartments at the Syracuse Inner Harbor by early fall.
The Fayetteville-based development company has decided not to build a two-level basement parking garage under the apartment complex and will instead build a parking lot on the west side of Van Rensselaer Street to serve tenants of the apartments.
Maggie Truax, a spokeswoman for COR, said testing showed that subsurface conditions would not support below-grade parking.
COR also has decided to build two 54-unit apartment buildings, connected by fourth-floor pedestrian terraces on the north and south sides, instead of building a single 108-unit building. Truax said the change will allow motor vehicles to enter the courtyard between the buildings for deliveries and trash pickup.
"It's a more effective and practical use of the space," she said.
The buildings will have four stories, with retail space on the first floor and apartments on the upper three floors.
Construction is scheduled to begin at the end of the summer or early in the fall and will take about 18 months to complete, she said.
The Syracuse Planning Commission approved both design changes last week. COR is planning to build an identical, 108-unit apartment building to the north of the first building. The start of construction of the second building will depend on how long it takes to lease up the first one, Truax said.
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Steven Barnes Will Lead SU Trustees (PS; Eisenstadt)
Steven Barnes will take over this year as chairman of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees.
Richard L. Thompson, the current chairman, has come to the end of his term. Barnes' appointment was announced by the university this week. He has been on the Board of Trustees since 2008.
Barnes is a managing director with Bain Capital, a global investment firm with an $80 billion portfolio. He's been with the company since 1988 and leads the firm's North American Private Equity group. Before he joined Bain, Barnes was in senior management at PricewaterhouseCooper.
Barnes graduated from Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management in 1982.
The Syracuse University Board of Trustees has its annual meeting this weekend.
Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud said Barnes is a "strategic and entrepreneurial thinker."
"I know he will be a great leader in his new role," Syverud said in a news release.
Racist Yik Yak Psots Considered 'Hate Speech' By Syracuse Students (usatoday.com; Mistry)
When JaShel Jones graduates from Syracuse University this weekend, she’ll be leaving a campus where she’s witnessed racism.
Last week, someone posted on Yik Yak — an anonymous social media app — complaining about a step show outside of a library on Syracuse University’s quad. The thread of posts continued and referred to the participating students as “monkeys.”
The posts were captured and shared on other digital outlets, prompting responses from both the chancellor of the university and the dean of student affairs.
“There’s a long history of people being dehumanized and being called monkeys and that analogy really stems from the root of racism,” Olivia Johnson, president of SU’s chapter of the NAACP, says. “To think that hundreds of years later people are still being referred to as that really shows that the country hasn’t gone as far as you think.”
RELATED: You might not be on Yik Yak, but your campus police likely are
In an e-mail to the student body, Chancellor Kent Syverud noted the struggles occurring in Baltimore before stating that university has its own work to do.
“Recent events have sparked harmful dialogue on social media channels that does not reflect our core values as an open and inclusive community,” Syverud wrote. “As I have indicated before, it is very important for an academic institution to support free speech. However, Syracuse University does not condone hate speech of any kind, whether in-person or via social media, anonymous or identified.”
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