Earlier today media pioneer Oprah Winfrey (center) leads a ribbon-cutting at the Newhouse School of Public Communications with (from left) Dean Lorraine Branham, Kari Clark (widow of Dick Clark), Alan Gerry and Chancellor Kent Syverud.
The O Effect: A visit to Syracuse University by Oprah Winfrey stopped traffic along Waverly Avenue and had people trying to get a better view by going atop an adjacent parking garage. Some folk took a longer than usual lunch break to hear Winfrey's remarks about the opening of The Dick Clark Studio wing of Newhouse.