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Syracuse University, commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU, is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College.... Following several years of debate over relocating the college to Syracuse, the university was founded independent of the college in 1870. Since 1920, the university has identified itself as nonsectarian, although it maintains a relationship with The United Methodist Church. Syracuse was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1966 but withdrew its membership in 2011 due to diverging views in evaluating criteria between the University and the AAU. The campus is located in the University Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, east and southeast of downtown, on one of the larger hills. Its large campus features an eclectic mix of buildings, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque structures to contemporary buildings.
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Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 93,810 in the 2010 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County. Brockton is the seventh largest city in Massachusetts and is sometimes referred to the "City of Champions",... mainly due to the success of native boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler, as well as its successful Brockton High School sports programs. It is the windiest city in the United States, with an average wind speed of 14.3 mph In 1649, Ousamequin sold the surrounding land, then known as Saughtucket, to Myles Standish as an addition to Duxbury. Brockton was part of this area, which the English renamed Bridgewater, until 1821, when it became the town of North Bridgewater. Its name changed in 1874, after a contentious process finally decided on naming it after Isaac Brock, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario, on a trip to Niagara Falls. The town of Brockton became a city on April 9, 1881.
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Carol Davis is part-owner of the Oakland Raiders. She is the widow of longtime Raiders' owner Al Davis, and inherited the team upon her husband's death on October 8, 2011. Davis had hinted in 2006 that Carol might succeed him. When asked in 2007 who would succeed him, Al Davis again confirmed his... intention that Carol would take his place, claiming that then general manager Ron Wolf was "very close to Carol." Little is known of Davis' personal life. In late 1979, she suffered a serious heart attack which placed her in the hospital for three weeks, but later recovered completely. Davis has one son, Mark. After her husband's death, Raiders chief executive Amy Trask said that the team "will remain in the Davis family." Carol and Mark hold controlling interest in the Raiders, though Mark took his father's old title of managing general partner and has day-to-day control of the team.
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