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N • Primary season
P • The vinyl frontier
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will campaign in and near Syracuse on Saturday and Friday, respectively. Page 3
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Record Store Day is Thursday. See how local labels and stores are celebrating the re-emergence of the old school sound with live performances and events. Page 11
S • The answer?
Junior Syracuse goalie Evan Molloy has started SU’s last two games, the first two starts of his college career. He’s saved nearly half the shots he’s faced in those games. Page 20
student association
Board to decide on Mastoloni’s campaign By Sam Fortier asst. copy editor
The Student Association Judicial Review Board is currently conducting an investigation into parties around the Charlie Mastoloni SA presidential campaign. If the JRB disqualifies Mastoloni’s campaign, the campaign of Eric Evangelista and Joyce LaLonde will be the only remaining SA presidential option on the ballot. The JRB opened an investigation into persons related to Mastoloni’s campaign Wednesday morning after comments from then-Mastoloni campaign manager, Austin Galovski, surfaced late Tuesday night. In the comments, Galovski seemed to say that Mastoloni had traded a spot in his administration in exchange for another presidential candidate, Andrew Brendel, dropping out and endors-
ing Mastoloni. Galovski resigned shortly after. Evangelista’s campaign recommended to the JRB early Tuesday morning that it launch an investigation into Mastoloni’s campaign for the possible violation of SA bylaws, Evangelista said.
What is SA? The Student Association is the student government body of the university. SA is currently in its 59th session and Aysha Seedat is president. Outside of the cabinet, there are four committees and four boards, which report to the association.
“All we are looking for is a fair campaign,” Evangelista said. The JRB took recommendations from no one, chairman Abdulaziz Al-Sulaiti said, adding that the board was investigating the parties involved with the cam-
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illustration by sarah collins contributing illustrator student association
Elections 2016
ON THE BALLOT
Differences in 2015, 2016 elections explained
Seedat, who both had previous experience as members of the student organization. But along with Seedat and Hong were three other efore Tuesday, there were three candidates teams of presidential and vice presidential candion the ballot for president of Syracuse Uni- dates who had not put their names on the ballot. versity’s Student AssociaInstead, they were write-in cantion. In other words, it’s a normal didates, who Hong said may have election year, said Jane Hong, decided to run for student governcurrent vice president of SA. There are so many things ment due to the fall 2014 sit-in This “normal” elecby THE General Body, a group of that motivate people tion — which took a turn on students that aimed grievances at that I’m not entirely sure the SU administration. Tuesday when presidential candidate Andrew Brendel But while last year’s election why it was so different. suddenly dropped out of the season was unprecedented in Tracey Ford race — comes one year after a its number of write-in cansa board of elections & whirlwind cycle that shook up didates, this year’s election membership chair the dynamics of SA. Last year, — which features no write-in there was only one ticket on the ballot, and candidates — was also an outlier. Before Tuesit belonged to Hong and SA President Aysha see elections page 9 By Alexa Torrens news editor
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Senators express frustration at meeting By Annie Palmer development editor
Wednesday’s University Senate meeting ended how it had begun three months earlier. This was supposed to be the last meeting of the semester — one during which senate committees usually tie up loose ends on resolutions in preparation for eventually rolling them out the following academic year. Until, at the last minute, it wasn’t. The meeting was supposed to let out at 5:30 p.m. With just minutes left, there was a sense of urgency and confusion as senators stared up at presentation slides showing huge numbers and, they argued, huge gaps in explanation. This was similar to a meeting three months ago, when listening to another budget committee presentation, senators complained of having no time or guidance when viewing the budget reports. At this meeting, they were promised a second chance to look at them at an additional meeting scheduled for next week.
Senate Budget Committee Chair Dawit Negussey spoke about how Syracuse University might be able to pay for the Academic Strategic Plan, which was completed last July. The plan is a part of the Fast Forward initiative and largely serves as a guide for the university’s priorities and decision-making in the future. It’s almost in the implementation phase, which brings questions about how it will be done and how much it will cost. Negussey said it could cost the university anywhere between $6 million to $15 million to implement. In conversations with Director of Budget and Planning Gwenn Judge, he said the funding could be drawn from schools and colleges’ subvention funds. Subvention money is what is left over from a “responsibility center’s” participation tax — a fee collected from each center’s revenue. Responsibility centers include schools, colleges, the athletics department, the Carrier Dome and see budget page 9