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N • Presidential affair
Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) visited Syracuse and Cicero, respectively, over the weekend ahead of New York’s primary on Tuesday. Page 3
P • Change of pace
SU alumnus Moises DeLeon is striving to change stereotypical perceptions of black youths with his company, The Young Black Successful, LLC. Page 9
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S • More than a number
Syracuse midfielder Nick Mariano wears No. 23 to honor his late friend, and he unexpectedly got the number after transferring from UMass. Page 16
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Student stabs 2 athletes
Elections 2016
Former football player has been suspended By Chris Libonati and Paul Schwedelson the daily orange
(FROM LEFT) PHIL PORTER, ERIC EVANGELISTA AND JOYCE LALONDE celebrate Evangelista and LaLonde’s election victory on Friday. Porter managed the campaign of Evangelista and LaLonde. riley bunch photo editor
Evangelista and LaLonde win Candidates win SA elections with 46.9 percent of vote By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. copy editor
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ric Evangelista was holding an iPhone on speaker mode. The room in the Euclid Avenue house fell silent. His running mate was sitting next to him with an arm wrapped around Evangelista’s shoulder. The person on the other end of the line was Tracey Ford, chair of the Student Association’s Board of Elections and Membership. She was notifying Evangelista, one of two candidates for SA president, the result of the election. Ford thanked Evangelista and his running mate, Joyce LaLonde, for running a smooth campaign and trailed off with a “but,” followed by silence. Evangelista started to get worried. “He whispered to me and he’s like, ‘I don’t think we’ve got it, I don’t think we’ve got it,’” LaLonde recalled. Ford kept Evangelista and LaLonde on the edge of their seats for a few seconds with the notion that they did not win, before declaring they were elected president and vice president, respectively, of SA’s 60th Session.
“At that moment, I was like, ‘Oh God, I feel my heart about to jump out my chest,’” Evangelista said in an interview with The Daily Orange. “And she’s saying ‘congratulations’ and then I couldn’t hear anything.”
He whispered to me and he’s like, ‘I don’t think we’ve got it, I don’t think we’ve got it.’ Joyce LaLonde sa vice president-elect
About 20 of Evangelista’s campaign supporters screamed in joy that reverberated outside the house. Relief and celebration showed on their faces as Katy Perry’s “Roar” blasted. “We’re thrilled, we’re so happy and so excited,” Evangelista said. “And we feel ready,” LaLonde added. “We are ready to get into it.” The pair garnered 1,934 votes — equiv-
alent to 46.9 percent of the vote — defeating their opponents, Charlie Mastoloni and Jessica Brosofsky. In total, 4,122 students — or 29 percent of the student body — cast votes in the election. The voter turnout for this election was up about 5 percent from last year’s election. Evangelista, the SA recorder who is currently the longest-serving member of the organization, said his campaign was a “culmination” of his years in SA. He and LaLonde ran their campaign with a platform titled “CARE,” which stands for “Committed to collaboration, Anti-discriminatory, Ready for reform and Excited for excellence.” “I’ve worked with a lot of people, as has Joyce. We’ve already have those contacts firmly established,” he said. “We are going to be able to work with them. They are going to be able to get in touch with the people they need to get our initiatives done.” LaLonde, who has never been involved in SA, described the campaign process as rigorous and tiring, but said it was “worth it” since she could talk to students whom she wanted to listen to and advocate for. see elections page 6
Former Syracuse University football player and current sophomore Naesean Howard has been arrested for stabbing two 21-year-old men, police said. The victims were Syracuse safety Chauncey Scissum and corHOWARD nerback Corey Winfield, per Syracuse.com. Howard was charged with two counts of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. It is unknown what led to the stabbing, the Syracuse Police Department said. The stabbing occurred Saturday at about 6:03 p.m. at 321 Slocum Heights on South Campus. Howard has been indefinitely suspended from the university, said Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, in a statement to The Daily Orange. Howard lives at 450 Slocum Heights and was arrested on the 1000 block of Ackerman Avenue, according to a police bulletin. “We are aware of this incident and our focus right now is on supporting our two students as they recover,” Quinn said in the statement. “The accused individual, who knew the victims, has been suspended from the University indefinitely. We do not tolerate any act of violence and the safety of our campus and community is a top priority.” At the beginning of his freshman year in 2014, Howard was suspended at fall camp for missing curfew. He missed the team’s annual trip to Fort Drum but was reinstated. Howard never played for Syracuse before parting ways and transferring to Wagner College, where he also never played. Howard re-enrolled at SU this semester after he left the football team and the university in 2014. He reached out to the Orange’s new coaching staff to return to the team but was told by Director of Operations Brad Wittke that he’d have to wait until summer to try out. cjlibona@syr.edu pmschwed@syr.edu