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SU students Nikita Chatterjee and Brianna Howard recreated a water filtration system using a traditional sari for people living in developing countries. Page 7

A study by the Maxwell School will examine issues facing Syracuse’s refugee and immigrant communities, including housing, health and education. Page 3

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Syracuse’s offense struggled against No. 1 Clemson Saturday night. If SU wants to succeed, our beat writer believes its offensive line needs to improve. Page 12

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Landlords to lobby against state law

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illustration by sarah allam illustration editor

SU joins program to help diversify the intelligence field By Natalie Rubio-Licht asst. digital editor

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brar Mohammad, a recent Syracuse University graduate, wants to work for the FBI. The FBI places employees based on need, but Mohammed hopes to stay in Syracuse. She wants to pursue an additional degree through a new SU program that promotes diversity in the intelligence field. “If I eventually get an interview with the FBI, I plan to ask if it’s some-

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thing they’d be willing to support,” she said. “Getting an advanced degree from a program like this would be an amazing opportunity.” In June, SU was named an Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence. This designation includes a $1.5 million grant to increase diversity through intelligence field education initiatives and recruitment. SU’s program is called the Partnership for Educational Results/Syracuse University Adaptive, Diverse and see intelligence page 4

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SA to vote on funding free STI testing for students By Chris Hippensteel staff writer

Student Association will vote Monday on renewing its partnership with Syracuse University’s Health Services to provide students with free testing for sexually transmitted infections. Michelle Goode, a health promotion specialist at SU, and Tara Kielty, peer educator, spoke about the Get Yourself Tested program

in a presentation at SA’s Sept. 9 meeting. Shortly after, SA President Mackenzie Mertikas and Vice President Sameeha Saied formally proposed a measure that would fund the initiative with $5,000 for the fall semester. “We want students to be able to get tested without being concerned about who’s going to see it on their insurance, or who’s going to know about it,” said Mertikas. “That is why we have continued to fund

(this program).” Get Yourself Tested would provide free STI screenings to SU students on four occasions throughout the year, splitting evenly between the fall and spring semesters. Each testing window will include sessions from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, with 75 tests available each day. Students usually take advantage of all 150 available testing spots, Mertikas said.

If approved, the partnership would be renewed for its third consecutive year. SA began funding the program two years ago after another organization dropped out. Last year, SA contributed $5,000 to Get Yourself Tested between the fall and spring semesters, with the university matching with an additional $15,000. Mertikas said last Monday that she

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Nearly 400 New York landlords met Tuesday to discuss lobbying in Albany to add amendments to a recently passed state housing law. The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 passed through the New York State Legislature on June 14, providing tenants with protections from evictions and landlord mistreatment. For activist groups, the law was considered a monumental effort to further tenants’ rights. Both unlawful evictions and tenant blacklists were made illegal under the law. Though activists saw the legislation as a step forward, the New York Capital Region Apartment Association knew prior to the law’s passage that it would alter how the real estate industry functioned, said Jaime Cain, an attorney for the Rochester law firm Boylan Code and a board member of the association. “It was evident in April when we heard the rumblings of this that from a legal standpoint, there would need to be clear changes to leases, to the operational process of eviction, to the application process,” Cain said. The meeting took place at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona. Cain, who was a keynote speaker at the event, believed the final head count of attendees totaled 390. The group plans to lay out four to five action items to propose to legislators, Cain said. The items would be proposed from the protective stances of both landlords and tenants, she said. “We don’t want to go into Albany making demands, we want to go into Albany making change,” Cain said. Cain said the gathering’s message was that the group needs to hold “unscrupulous” landlords accountable, work with tenant associations and recognize that some landlords are unaware of the law’s passage. “Our goal is to affect change on behalf of both tenants and landlords, recognizing that landlords need to be able to run their businesses a certain way, and tenants need to be able to gain housing,” she said. Under the law, tenants facing eviction now have two weeks before they can be forced to vacate the property and can request a twoweek adjournment at eviction court. If a tenant is evicted for breaking the terms of their lease, the court must also delay the eviction by 30 days to allow the tenant the opportunity to resolve the problems. Prior to the law’s passage, a landlord could begin an eviction see landlords page 4


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