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FactsSlang
- Campus D - Campus Delivery, the University-run delivery service. They charge your meal to your Supercard and deliver to dorms.
- Frat Row - This is the name for the portion of Comstock Avenue between Euclid Avenue and Dellplain Hall. Many parties, especially ones attended by freshmen, are in this area.
- K-Rads - This is the nickname for Konrad’s, one of the better-known bars near the SU campus. Before it closed, it was a favorite hang out for many SU students.
- M-Street - M-Street is a shortened term coined for Marshall Street. M-Street is the place where many bars and restaurants that are directly next to campus can be found.
- OCC - These are the initials of Onondaga Community College, which is the community college located in Syracuse.
- Red Shirts - This is a friendly nickname for people who work for Residential Security (RSAs). These individuals sit at the entrance to all dorms on campus checking ID cards from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. every day. They can be identified by their red shirts, hence the name.
- South - A shortened term for South Campus, this is the area of Syracuse that is south of the main campus, and it houses many students in apartment-like dorms.
- The DO - The Daily Orange is the student-run campus newspaper. It is the most widely read college newspaper in the country.
- The Dome - The Dome is what SU students call the Carrier Dome, the place where SU’s men’s basketball, men’s lacrosse, and football teams play home games.
- The Dot - This is the nickname for food.com, the dining area located in the Newhouse School.
- The Ghetto - This generally refers to the communities directly surrounding the SU campus. More specifically, the area around the Brewster/Boland dorms and beyond Comstock Avenue.
- The Mount - This term is a shortened version of Mount Olympus Drive. The Mount is the street where two dorms, Day and Flint Halls, are located. It is situated on the top of a big hill, and it is generally known for housing some of SU’s richer freshmen.
- The Quad - This is the area in the middle of the SU campus. It is a grassy, park-like place (when it isn’t covered with snow) where students go to relax, play Frisbee, and hang out.
- The Toilet Bowl - This is a nickname for Haven Hall. It acquired this name because of its striking resemblance to the bathroom fixture.
- Townie - This term refers to a local resident of Syracuse. It can often be seen and used as a negative term.
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
- Exactly just how cold it can get here.
- Homework, although not often a lengthy process, is important to your final grade in many courses.
- How to manage time better.
- The fact that bars are frequently being raided, making it unsafe to go there underage or with a fake ID.
Tips to Succeed
- Go to class. Go to all of your classes as much as you can. It’s okay to miss some days, but once you make a habit out of it, it’s hard to break.
- If you don’t like your roommate, don’t hang out with him or her. It won’t affect your life too much if you don’t let it.
- Join a few clubs and organizations that interest you, but not every club and organization that interests you. If you find something that you enjoy, and there truly is something for everyone here, you should most certainly pursue it.
- Meet as many people as you can the first month. No one knows anyone in the beginning of the year. It can be the most important time to gain the friends you will have for your freshman year, and maybe even the friends you will have for your entire college career.
- Spend time in between classes to get work done so you have less to do at night or over the weekend. If you’re a morning person, you might want to get some work done in the mornings before class starts.
- Visit your professors during the semester. Make sure they know you. It will help. They make themselves available to you, and you have to take advantage of that.
- Watch out for getting a cold in December when the real cold weather starts. Take Vitamin C supplements.
- You should really take a few hours of each day to study. It won’t affect your free time in the least bit, especially if you get the bulk of the studying done before 9 or 10 p.m.
Urban Legends
- In 1931, the Orange Peel, the SU newspaper at the time, published a story about the unearthing of the skeleton of a famous Indian Chief and his valuable artifacts on the SU campus. The story was later deemed a hoax, but the Saltine Warrior, as he was known, remained the Syracuse University mascot until 1978. Now there is a statue of the Saltine Warrior in front of Carnegie Library.
- Students, since freshman year, have mused over the fact that there may be underground tunnels connecting many buildings on the SU campus. This would be great, not to mention extremely convenient, considering the weather in Syracuse. However, the only confirmed connecting tunnels are between Day and Flint Halls, Lawrinson and Sadler Halls, and Brewster and Boland Halls. No tunnels have been found to interconnect between all of the halls.
- There is an old stone bench next to the Hall of Languages built in 1912. Legend has it that if a couple kisses on the bench, they will eventually marry.
Traditions
- 44 - The number 44 has been worn by nine football players, three of which have earned All-American honors (Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, and Floyd Little). The number was also worn by both Derrick Coleman and John Wallace, two of the greatest basketball stars in SU history. For this reason, the number 44 has come to encompass all that is successful with both SU sports and Syracuse University in general. As you might have noticed, all numbers having to do with SU were changed to begin with 44, and the zip code was changed to 13244. It is somewhat of a lucky, if not legendary, number for students and faculty alike at SU.
- Block Party - This is a weekend event in April that brings a top musical talent to SU, as well as sometimes having carnival-type rides. The Block Party has been diminishing in recent years.
- Crouse Chimes - The chimes on top of Crouse College building were installed in 1889 and renovated in 1981. Now, the chimes can be heard twice a day, and sometimes more on special occasions.
- Otto the Orange - The issue of this school mascot is one deeply-rooted in history. The first mascot of SU was the Saltine Warrior, which remained as such until 1978 when Native Americans complained it was disrespectful to their culture. After the Saltine Warrior was abandoned, SU began a lengthy search for a new mascot. Their first selection was a Roman warrior-type character that year who was dismissed after the first football game that SU lost. After that, SU proposed ideas ranging from a troll to a “Beast from the East” monster and even an abominable snowman. Eventually, they decided on the Orangemen, but in 1995 the administration proposed changing it to a wolf. This decision was met with disdain from the student body, so in 1997 it was made official that the team was the Orange, and Otto the Orange would remain the University’s mascot.
- The Color Orange - The color orange was adopted by Syracuse University in 1890, making it the only college in the country at the time with one official color. Although orange might not be the color of choice for some of the SU students today, it certainly beats the color scheme it replaced: pea green and rose pink.
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