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Welcome to National Night Out!
National Night Out is a community-police awareness-raising event in the United States, held the first Tuesday of August.[1] Texas and Florida have the option to use the alternate date of the first Tuesday in October to avoid hot weather.
History
The event has been held annually since 1984 and is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch in the United States and Canada.
The event is meant to increase awareness about police programs in communities, such as drug prevention, town watch, neighborhood watch, and other anti-crime efforts.
The events are typically organized by block watches, non-for-profit organizations, companies, and police departments. These events can be as simple as backyard cookouts to full-blown festivals like the one on the west side of Columbus, Ohio. The Ogden Block Watch in Columbus organizes one of the largest of this type of National Night Out festival which includes live music, food, and entertainment.
SU News
Syracuse football recruiting: Curtis Harper becomes 1st defensive tackle in 2017 class (DO; Schwedelson)
Class of 2017 defensive tackle Curtis Harper has verbally committed to Syracuse, he announced in a tweet Monday afternoon. He is the 17th commit in the class.
Harper is ranked with two stars by At their request, this network is being blocked from this site. and 247Sports.com’s composite rankings. He is listed as the 117th best defensive tackle in the 2017 class by 247Sports’ composite rankings.
I'm blessed pic.twitter.com/SSkOHL6cYH
— Curtis Harper (@Neverdone_52) August 1, 2016
Harper attends McKeesport (Pennsylvania) High School and is listed at 6 feet 2 inches and 302 pounds. He is the Orange’s first defensive tackle commit in the class and first from Pennsylvania. Harper also had offers from Wake Forest, Boston College and Bowling Green, in addition to 14 others, per Scout.
The announcement of Harper’s commitment is the second in a three-day span for SU. Tight end Aaron Hackett announced his pledge to Syracuse on Saturday.
Track Syracuse’s entire 2017 recruiting class, here.
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Syracuse Football Recruiting: 2017 DT Curtis Harper Commits to Orange (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
SU's recruiting momentum continues...
The Syracuse Orange football program has been very busy on the recruiting trail, as you're aware. Today, yet another 2017 player pledged to SU:
I'm blessed pic.twitter.com/SSkOHL6cYH
— Curtis Harper (@Neverdone_52) August 1, 2016
"Curse you, U of S!" (/shakes fist)
Curtis Harper, a two-star defensive tackle from McKeesport, Penn., comes in at 6-foot-2 and 302 pounds according to Scout. Harper chose Syracuse over offers from Boston College, Wake Forest, Iowa State and Toledo (who were also in his top five announced last month). He's the first defensive tackle to commit for 2017, and the second defensive lineman, along with defensive end Zach Morton.
That makes 17 commitments for Syracuse now in the 2017 cycle. SU has been at a pretty steady pace for months now, and along with Harper, also added tight end Aaron Hackett over the weekend. While there's technically just one scholarship left for this class, plenty of roster changes can happen, and it would seem the staff is operating under the assumption of a full class.
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Syracuse Football: It's Time for Dino Babers to Stop Talking About Baylor (TNIAAM; Keeley)
New Syracuse head coach talks a lot about Art Briles and Baylor. That's not a topic Syracuse needs to be comparing itself to anymore.
Before this weekend, what we knew transpired at Baylor University regarding Art Briles' football program and a multitude of covered-up rape and sexual assaults was a shitshow that encapsulated everything wrong with our priorities when it comes to bigtime college athletics and entitlement.
Then this weekend, the depraved story, somehow, got even shittier.
The sexual assault scandal that took down Baylor University's president and revered football coach also found a problem with a bedrock of the school's faith-based education: a student conduct code banning alcohol, drugs and premarital sex that may have driven some victims into silence.
Investigators with the Pepper Hamilton law firm who dug into Baylor's response to sexual assault claims determined the school's rigid approach to drugs, alcohol and sex and "perceived judgmental responses" to victims who reported being raped "created barriers" to reporting assaults. Some women faced the prospect of their family being notified.
"A number of victims were told that if they made a report of rape, their parents would be informed of the details of where they were and what they were doing," said Chad Dunn, a Houston attorney who represents six women who have sued Baylor under the anonymous identification of Jane Doe.
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What Syracuse Football Game You Missed Do You Wish You'd Have Attended? (TNIAAM; Keeley)
What Syracuse football game that you could have or almost went to, but didn't, do you wish you had attended?
In the first game of the 1998 Syracuse Orange football season, the No. 17 Orangemen lost a thriller to the No. 10 Tennessee Volunteers, the same Volunteers squad who went on to win the National Title later that season. We can sit here all day talking about what could have been and that god damn pass interference call but I want to talk about what happened next.
The following weekend, Syracuse traveled to The Big House and soundly defeated the No. 13 Michigan Wolverines, 38-28. My friends and I watched the game from Darwin's (R.I.P. Darwin's) and lamented the fact that we had missed our chance to see it in person.
We should have gone. We had talked about possibly loading up into a car and making the seven-hour drive through Canada to Ann Arbor. We knew some other people who had done it and had an amazing experience. We just figured, after losing to Tennessee, and knowing Coach P's affinity for losing early-season games when expectations were high, it wasn't going to be worth our time.
Damn.
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Barber shop opens on up-and-coming downtown Syracuse street (PS; Moriarty)
Downtown Syracuse's newest barber shop opened Monday on South Warren Street, which is undergoing a revival along with much of the rest of downtown.
Cifra Barber and Beauty Shop opened at 441 S. Warren St., a block up from the soon-to-reopen Hotel Syracuse.
Cifra Barber and Beauty Shop opened in the former WFBL building on South Warren Street in downtown Syracuse on Monday.Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com
The owner and operator is Anthony Cifra, 27, of Liverpool. Cifra said he has been cutting hair at the Shoppingtown Barber Shop at ShoppingTown Mall in DeWitt for the past two years and decided to break out on his own.
"I picked downtown because it's right in the middle of everything," he said. "It's coming back."
His shop has six barber chairs. Cifra said he has hired one barber and is looking to hire more. The shop only cuts men's hair for now, but he said he is looking to expand to include hair cuts and styling services for women.
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