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THURSDAY
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N • Happy and healthy
Several students in the Falk College will be partnering with two Syracuse schools in a UNICEFsponsored program to reduce childhood obesity. Page 3
O • Vicious cycle
Gender and sexuality columnist Brontë Schmit explains why the resurfacing of period tracker apps for men perpetuates misogyny and cisnormativity. Page 5
SAFETY FIRST
P • In transit
dailyorange.com
This year, the Connective Corridor has been revamped with new destinations. The objective of this is to show students the different things in the city of Syracuse. Page 9
S • Sister, sister
Malone sisters Margo, Mary and Shannon will be reunited on Syracuse’s track and field team this upcoming season. The trio last ran together in high school. Page 16
As E. coli affects customers, Chipotle will temporarily close locations Feb. 8
Event to unify attendees MLK Celebration will encourage further community interaction By Stacy Fernandez staff writer
When Syracuse University holds its 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in the Carrier Dome on Sunday, it will include more student involvement and integration between faculty, staff, students and community members than in past years.
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MLK Celebration Where: Carrier Dome When: Sunday at 4:30 p.m. How much: $15 for students, $30 for employees, staff and the public
Chipotle Mexican Grill’s struggle with the E. coli virus started in October 2015 when health officials notified the chain of 27 cases of E. coli in Washington and 13 cases in Oregon, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. allen chiu staff photographer By Brigid Kennedy asst. copy editor
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t’s noon on Jan. 25 and, as usual for this time, the line for the Chipotle Mexican Grill on Marshall Street is to the door. The line is persistent, even though the restaurant chain has been the center of an E. coli outbreak that began in October 2015 and has since infected 53 people in nine states, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Marshall Street location, which was not permitted to comment for this story, is not one of the Chipotles that has suffered directly from the outbreak. But the restaurant, along with Chipotle’s other locations — which exceeds 1,900 — will close for a few hours the morning of Feb. 8 for an all-staff meeting on food safety through a live satellite feed, according to USA TODAY. Despite the outbreak, members of the Syracuse University community remain — for the most part — unperturbed. “I’ve been relatively unaffected,” Tim Davey, a junior marketing management major in
the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, said of his desire to eat at Chipotle after the outbreak. “It’s something that I think about, but it’s something that doesn’t really deter me that much.” Stephen Milewski, a junior broadcast and digital journalism major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, echoed these sentiments, saying that while the potential to contract E. coli does raise some red flags, he doesn’t see students caring all that much. “I think (the outbreak) does give students a concern of some sort, but at the same time, I feel like if it’s a place that people enjoy, they’re going to go anyway until they are the ones who get sick,” Milewski said. Chipotle’s struggle with E. coli began in October 2015 when health officials notified the chain of 27 cases of E. coli in Washington and 13 cases in Oregon, according to the CDC. A number of these cases involved people who had eaten at 11 of the Chipotle restaurants in those areas. In response, Chipotle immediately closed 43 restau-
rants in the vicinity, according to a statement from the company. At SU’s peer institution, Boston College, more than 120 students contracted a norovirus after eating at a Boston-area Chipotle. A norovirus is a highly contagious virus that causes inflammation of the stomach or intestines, resulting in stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting, according to the CDC. “Obviously something’s wrong because it’s happening in two separate restaurants in two different parts of the country,” said Rick Welsh, chair of SU’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition. “Something is going wrong with their procedures and they’ve got to figure out what it is.” As time went on, the issue only grew. Seven other states, including California, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, began to see outbreaks as well, according to the CDC. In these instances, Welsh said, it’s difficult to isolate where on a company’s supply chain things went wrong. But he added that Chipotle will take every measure in making sure history does not repeat itself. see chipotle page 6
CRUNCH TIME Here is a timeline of various disease outbreaks and reported customer and employee sicknesses linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill.
JULY 2015 Five people in Seattle fall sick with E. coli due to an unknown source.
AUG. 18, 2015 - AUG. 19, 2015 Ninety-eight Chipotle customers and 17 employees are sickened with a norovirus.
AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2015 Chipotle is the origin of a salmonella outbreak in Minnesota that sickened about 64 people.
OCTOBER 2015 Fifty-three people in nine states are affected by an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle locations.
DECEMBER 2015 At least 153 Chipotle customers fall ill from an unrelated norovirus after eating at a Chipotle in Boston.
FEB. 8, 2016 All Chipotle locations will close for a few hours for an all-staff meeting on food safety. source: international business times
Unlike in the past, all tickets for a dinner preceding the evening program will be for general seating — rather than separating seating between faculty, staff, students and community members. Additionally, the evening program will include a student speaker for the first time ever. The evening program, which is the largest university-sponsored event in celebration of King’s legacy in the United States, will begin Sunday at 5:30 p.m. The evening program will include an address by Marc Lamont Hill, an award-winning journalist, host of HuffPost Live and a BET News and CNN political contributor. During the program there will also be a presentation of the 2016 Unsung Hero Awards, music by a community choir and entertainment by student performers. A dinner will be hosted at 4:30 p.m. preceding the program. Catherine Kellman, the chairwoman for the 2016 MLK Celebration committee, said the reason for switching to general seating was so people who may have normally never had the chance to interact could talk to one another about why King is important to them, what brought them to the event and how they define their own activism. “This year we wanted the subtext of the dinner and the celebration itself
see celebration page 6