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Roberto Perez, a Latin dance teacher in Syracuse, left his home in Cuba to experience life in the U.S. Now, he’s teaching dance and Spanish at SU. Page 7

Central New York is suffering from a shortage of mental health professionals. Some patients have to wait months for appointments or forego medical attention.

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Interstate destiny Store managers at Destiny USA are divided over I-81’s future as its owners lobby for the route to remain

For years, the developers of Destiny USA, Pyramid Management Group, have lobbied for the replacement of the aging Interstate 81 viaduct to maintain its current route through the city of Syracuse. molly gibbs senior staff photographer

By Gabe Stern and Molly Gibbs the daily orange

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iane Salatino uses Interstate 81 every day to get to Destiny USA, where she works as the manager for the clothing store Schiq. She said she also uses I-81 to take her husband to the Syracuse VA Medical Center to receive treatment for stage five kidney failure.

She said she’s worried about the high-

Without having a direct exit off of I-81, the tourists have to come find us Heather Allore assistant store manager at villa

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City climate strikers discuss action

By Abby Weiss staff writer

Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF professors and students who participated in Friday’s 2019 Global Climate Strike said they were pleased with the turnout on Friday.

But they added more can be done to capture the government and public’s attention. Thousands of cities worldwide participated in the 2019 Global Climate Strike. More than 200 people attended Syracuse’s protest, which began on the SU Quad and moved to Forman Park.

Members of the central New York chapter of Sunrise Movement, a national climate activist organization, and the New York Public Interest Research Group organized the Syracuse protest.

Emberlin Leja, a senior sociology major, was one of the Sunrise Movement members who helped to put the protest together.

After the strike, Leja cried in happiness at the number of young people who came to the event. She referenced students from Nottingham High School who attended the event. The school’s principal, Wil

Mecum, was one of the only administrators to excuse students from classes that day.

“It was inspiring to see young people taking action even if people in power weren’t doing that,” Leja said.

Leja organized the Syracuse chapter of Sunrise Movement in 2018 with Liam McMonagle, senior broadcast and digital journalism and political science dual major, and Tamia Parsons, a sophomore in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. Leja is excited see climate page 4

way’s future. The New York State Department of Transportation recommended in April that the aging 1.4-mile I-81 viaduct would be replaced with a community grid.

The viaduct currently passes by Destiny USA, with an exit ramp close to the mall.

The community grid would level the existing viaduct and reroute traffic onto city streets. Along with the grid, a replacement viaduct and a tunnel option were see destiny page 4

on campus

Professor critiques relationship bans

By Emma Folts

asst. news editor

A Syracuse University professor argued in an August essay that university policies prohibiting romantic and sexual relationships between faculty and students restrict the freedom of women.

Amardo Rodriguez, a professor in SU’s communication and rhetorical studies department of College of Visual and Performing Arts,

argues in his essay that the goal of faculty-student relationship bans, like restrictions on abortion, is to impede a woman’s bodily autonomy. Rodriguez also likens opposition to faculty-student relationships to that of same-sex and interracial relationships.

Springer Nature published Rodriguez’s essay, “Feminists Betraying Feminism to Restrict Faculty-Student Romances,” see relationships page 4

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Travel plans Changes to the Commencement 2020 schedule has caused travel issues for some SU families.

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Vaping regulations SU students react to New York’s upcoming age increase for nicotine vaping products.

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School safety The Syracuse City School District has implemented new measures to keep students safe.

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news briefs Here is a roundup of the latest news throughout the region.

MURDER INDICTMENT Jonathan Daniels, 25, was indicted Wednesday for the murder of James Mike. Daniels has been in custody since days after Mike was fatally shot on Furman Street in July of 2018. Syracuse police said interviews, surveillance video, search warrants and neighborhood canvassing led them to arrest Daniels. source: syracuse.com

LOWER TUITION The State University of New York will reduce tuition for the 2019-20 academic year to match the in-state tuition rate for students from the Bahamas who were forced to relocate after Hurricane Dorian. The Office of Governor of New York made the announcement Wednesday.

SUNY’s Board of Trustees has urged the Board of Trustees at its community and statutory colleges to follow suit. source: localsyr

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Brexit discussion SAMUEL MARC LOWE, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform and co-founder of the UK Trade Forum, discussed the unanswered questions surrounding Britain’s possible exit from the European Union during a Wednesday talk at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Britain is slated to leave the EU on Oct. 31. elizabeth billman asst. photo editor

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Region experiences shortage of psychiatrists

By Gillian Follett asst. copy editor

Caitlin Gardiner never planned to pursue a career in psychiatry. But when she began doing rotations in medical school, she instantly felt drawn to the field and to the deeper level of understanding it encouraged her to form with patients.

“Even just doing the rotations, you get more time with your patients,” she said. “Psychiatry is one of those fields that lets you hear a patient’s story and build a relationship with them.”

Gardiner’s decision to study psychiatry is unusual compared to prevailing trends in mental health, in both central New York and the United States as a whole. For years, the

nation has struggled with a growing shortage of mental health professionals, particularly psychiatrists.

Many patients have been forced to wait months for an appointment or admit themselves into emergency or inpatient care for immediate medical attention. Others have no choice but to go without psychiatric treatment.

The national shortage of psychiatrists is a culmination of multiple factors, said Viral Goradia, an assistant psychiatry professor at Upstate Medical University. Many practicing psychiatrists are approaching retirement, with one in four U.S. psychiatrists currently over the age of 65, according to a New American Economy report. Goradia said it is difficult to recruit enough medical students to replace retiring psychia-

trists because other medical fields are more attractive to students.

Psychiatry is considered more emotionally-taxing than other medical fields because of its emphasis on doctor-patient interaction, Goradia said. Mental health issues tend to be more difficult to diagnose than physical health problems, and many students dislike psychiatry’s trialand-error testing style, he said.

Only about 4% of medical residents choose to go into psychiatry, according the New American Economy’s report.

“Psychiatry has always been the ugly stepchild of medicine,” said Marla Byrnes, the president of the Syracuse chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “It’s easier and more financially-rewarding

to go into other fields of medicine.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has introduced legislation in Congress that would create new residency positions for mental health doctors in cities across central New York. Called the “Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act,” this legislation aims to boost the number of students who choose to study psychiatry.

Goradia said the proposed act doesn’t go far enough. To increase the number of psychiatrists across the nation, the U.S. needs to introduce incentives such as loan repayment or higher income to psychiatry students, he said. Improved recruitment strategies will help close the gap between the high number of retiring psychiatrists and the low number of see shortage page 4

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McMahon proposes diversity-focused department

By Mira Berenbaum contributing writer

Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon proposed creating an office focused on diversity as part of his 2020 budget.

The county would combine its Purchasing Division and Commission on Human Rights to form the new Office of Diversity and Inclusion, said Brian May, the county legislature’s majority leader. As part of McMahon’s proposal, the office would also hire additional staff to support its goals, he said.

Working together under one

roof instead of in different departments would increase the accountability of the two offices, making them more effective and successful, May said. All the diversity office employees would report to a chief diversity officer. The officer has not yet been appointed.

“These workers are not volunteers. They are hired by the county to make sure we are doing a proper job representing everyone,” he said.

The office will support the county’s goal of having 22% of its workforce made up of minority workers by 2022, said David Knapp, chairman of the legislature. The

county’s percent of minorities in the workforce is now in the upper teens, Knapp said.

One goal of the diversity office is to make sure the county is encouraging diversity throughout the workforce by evaluating candidates equally, said Miles Bottrill, a county legislator. The Youth Law Enforcement Academy program is helping to achieve the county’s 22% goal, said Julie Abbott-Kenan, a county legislator. Through the program, county representatives visit local high schools with low income populations and run a two-week police boot camp, she said.

The younger generation will make up the workforce in just a few years, so it’s important to support them, Abbott-Kenan said. Not all of the students can afford college, but the county can still give them opportunities for success in the future, she said.

The office will take an all-inclusive approach to ensuring the county is hiring correctly, said Linda Ervin, the legislative minority leader.

“It is well past the point where we should’ve been doing this, but I’m glad we’re doing this now,” Ervin said. mlberenb@syr.edu

Dunkin’ Donuts donated 1,000 pounds of coffee to the Food Bank of Central New York to celebrate National Coffee Day, which is on Sept. 29. The company worked with local sports teams and donated one pound of coffee for every run or goal scored during their seasons. source: localsyr

UNMANNED DRONES Military MQ-9 Reaper attack drones are now able to fly unescorted in and out of Syracuse Hancock International Airport due to a new radar system. Military drones have previously never flown from a commercial U.S. airport without an escort from piloted chase planes. The radar allows the drones to fly training missions from Syracuse safely and more effectively. source: syracuse.com

PAINKILLER THEFT Michelle Pat Scanlan, a registered nurse from Camillus, has been suspended for stealing more than 100 prescription painkillers and other medications from a Syracuse nursing home.

Scanlan admitted to stealing oxycodone tablets, fentanyl patches and other medications while working at Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in 2017. Her license will be suspended for at least 12 months until a doctor or other health provider certifies she is fit to return to practice. source: syracuse.com

MAYORAL HONOR Mayor Ben Walsh announced that Sep. 25 will be “Jim Tucker and the Syracuse Nationals” Day. He proclaimed this while speaking at the downtown Marriott in Syracuse on Wednesday. The Syracuse Nationals were a basketball team that was the subject of a documentary. source: cnycentral

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destiny also debated. Salatino said it could affect her business. She also thinks it could affect people like her, who rely on the highway’s route.

“It’s people trying to get to work, people trying to come into the hospitals for treatment,” Salatino said. “They need to put into consideration not what’s going to make it easier for them, but what’s going to make it easier for a lot of people.”

For years, the developers of Destiny USA, Pyramid Management Group, have lobbied for the viaduct’s replacement to keep its current route through Syracuse. Managers of smaller stores inside the mall, however, vary widely on their knowledge of the decade-long debate and where they stand on the issue.

The Daily Orange asked dozens of store managers about their thoughts on I-81. Of the 40 who were interviewed, 24 managers knew there was a debate about the highway. Only 22 knew of the debate’s basic premise: keep the highway’s current route or knock it down and funnel traffic elsewhere.

Takeaways from store managers include: communicated to them at all about the subject. Most described a lack of communication with Destiny USA owners, with the most communication coming from quarterly meetings with mall management. from page 1

climate to see how the movement has grown from a small group of people picketing outside the state office to marches with hundreds of people, she said.

At Friday’s strike, she spoke about the people who didn’t attend the march, saying they chose to be “climate complacent.” She told The Daily Orange that there are government officials that Sunrise CNY invited who didn’t attend or sign a pledge to deny donations from fossil fuel companies. Politicians, company executives and school administrators could have benefitted from listening to young people from page 1

relationships about a year after the university reformed its policy regarding romantic and sexual relationships between SU employees and students.

The university bans all romantic and sexual relationships between employees and undergraduates, as well as between employees and graduate students with whom the employee has a supervisory, research, departmental program or advisory connection.

Rodriguez said he’d like the university to reverse the policy banning faculty-student relationships, as well as “all others that violate core human rights,” in an email.

In his essay, Rodriguez cites several sources — largely from 1997 to 2003 — to question the effectiveness of these bans and whether higher education institutions can know if prohibiting these relationships benefits women.

“Although these new bans promise to protect women from relationships with power differentials, there is no research that speaks to the challenges of these relationships being any different to other kinds of consensual relationships between adults,” Rodriguez states in his essay, citing a source from 2003.

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shortage incoming psychiatric medical students.

While the legislation goes through Congress, the shortage of psychiatrists has severe consequences, Byrnes said. It often takes several drug trials for patients to find the best-fitting medication — but with fewer psychiatrists available, patients often need to switch to a new psychiatrist after only a few appointments, which can delay effective treatment, she said.

“It’s a very delicate balance of the relationship and the person feeling like they’re being listened to and that their psychiatrist knows them and cares about them,” Byrnes said.

Many individuals have also become reliant on hospital admittance to receive more imme-

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ers were aware of the three major highway options, but opinions varied about which option they preferred. Slightly more preferred keeping the highway’s route than demolishing it and funneling traffic elsewhere. were unable to be reached for comment.

The I-81 debate is more distant to Kyle Fuller, an assistant manager at Vans and lifelong Syracuse resident.

He knows that right outside his Vans shop at Destiny USA, people wonder what to do with the viaduct. He knows it may get knocked down or keep its current route.

“Honestly, I just don’t care,” said Fuller.

“Either way it’s going to screw the city up if you look at it.”

Destiny USA has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying both state and federal players to maintain the viaduct’s current route. After the state recommended the community grid replacement option in its Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Destiny USA hired lobbying firm Whitmer & Worrall to lobby the Federal Highway Administration, Syracuse.com reported.

In an emailed statement to The D.O., a Pyramid Management Group spokesperson said, “We are an advocate for any solution that maintains high-speed Interstate access through the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County.” He

did not elaborate on their communication with individual stores about the mall’s stance.

More recently, Pyramid’s name recently appeared as the owner of the website for Save 81, a community group focused on keeping the highway’s current route, according to Syracuse.com. Pyramid Management Group said in their statement to The D.O. that the website domain name was “news to us,” and that they asked that it be corrected.

“Maintaining the Save 81 website and social media channels is a collaborative effort made possible by the efforts of these many different individuals and organizations,” said the Pyramid Management Group’s spokesperson.

Part of the viaduct runs right by the east end of the mall, with anchor stores like The Cheesecake Factory and Macy’s visible to the thousands of people each day. Exits 23 and 23b, named “Destiny USA Drive,” lead traffic into the mall.

Heather Allore, an assistant store manager for VILLA, isn’t familiar with all three replacement options proposed for I-81. But she’s familiar with the possibility of removing the viaduct that passes Destiny USA and afraid it will affect business at the store.

When Allore first came to Syracuse, she accidentally got off at this exit and ended up at the mall. The highway’s route pulled her into the mall, and she thinks it does for other people, too.

“Without having a direct exit off of I-81, the tourists have to come find us,” Allore said.

“If they have to go searching for it, we’re going

to lose all the passerby business.”

Not everyone agreed. Slightly more managers said the mall’s regional pull attracts customers, not the fact that the route goes right by it.

“If they’re coming to the mall, they’re coming to the mall,” said Daniel Burchill, manager of Texas de Brazil. “They’re not just accidentally showing up here.”

Destiny USA opened to the public in 1990, with Onondaga Lake to its west and I-81 to its east. Minch Lewis, a Save 81 member and adjunct professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said that without the highway, Destiny USA wouldn’t have opened at its location.

Lewis said that Destiny’s owners have held at least one meeting for Save 81, a group he described as “informal” citizens, business owners and public officials meeting to discuss how to push their message to the public.

Lewis offered a reason why some store managers may not take a stance: it could be harmful to their business, causing them to stay quiet. “(If) I operate a little shop along 81, and I’m dependent on that business, I’m not gonna take a public stand,” said Lewis, who was Syracuse’s city auditor from 1995-2003.

“You know why not? Because some of the customers are on one side of this issue, and some are on the other side.”

at the march, she said.

The Global Climate Strike will hold a second day of marches Friday. Leja and other Sunrise CNY members haven’t decided whether to organize a second march in Syracuse, she said.

Matthew Huber, an associate professor in SU’s geography department of Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said strikes, not marches, will accomplish the goals of the climate protests. Strikes have historically shut entire systems down in a way that compels people in power to fulfill demands, he said.

“If you’re able to shut down those institutions, such as profit-making businesses or

public institutions like schools, then you’re really shutting down the very nature of society,” he said. “Once you do that, you demand force and action from the people in power.”

Huber recommends that students coordinate with their teachers to arrange a national teacher strike. As an example, he referenced the Massachusetts Teachers Association, who proposed a national teachers strike for the Green New Deal, he said. He said he believes this type of action will earn the government’s attention.

Samantha LaSalle, a sophomore environmental science major at SUNY-ESF, said disinterest in climate change stems from a lack of education about the topic. Syracuse residents

would care a lot more if they learned about how climate change will impact central New York in the future, she said.

Huber said the main solution is for politicians to inform people about the personal benefits that come with fighting the climate crisis. People will support the Green New Deal not because of environmental benefits, but because it will make housing and electricity more affordable to them, he said.

“If people start to realize that this movement will improve everybody’s lives very directly and will solve planetary crisis of climate change, then they are more willing to support and fight for it,” Huber said.

between undergraduates and faculty.

Rodriguez claims these relationship bans patronize women, obstruct learning, downplay sexual harassment, advance the values of capitalism and further the power of institutions over women’s lives, among other assertions.

“He seemed to think that the only power relationship was between a male professor and a female student,” said Margaret Susan Thompson, an associate professor of history and political science. “(The question) is not the sex of the person exercising power, but the power relationship itself.”

Chancellor Kent Syverud asked the Univeron relationships between faculty and students.

USen voted to ban such relationships in April 2018 after a review conducted by senators on the Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics, and Women’s Concerns committees.

Thomas Keck, a professor of political science, presented the AFTPE and Women’s Concerns committees’ resolution to USen. Thompson said she found Rodriguez’s essay unpersuasive. She didn’t see the connection between faculty-student relationships and abortion and found the use of sources from the 1990s to be problematic. Attitudes surrounding issues of sexual power have changed since then, she said. esfolts@syr.edu | @emmafolts

diate psychiatric treatment. Syracuse offers few non-emergency mental health programs.

The city lacks services such as partial hospitalization or day treatment programs, where patients live at home but spend the majority of their time at a treatment center, Gardiner said.

In other cities, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals reach out to individuals at their homes or homeless shelters through community treatment programs, she said.

The declining number of psychiatrists and other clinicians in the Syracuse area has made these programs impossible to sustain in recent years, she said.

“Syracuse is really in a desperate state in terms of mental health care and psychiatry,” Gardiner said. gifollet@syr.edu | @gillian_follett

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There is more to SU than just its No. 1 party school ranking

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any Syracuse University students are aware that our school knows how to party. In the months leading up to the 2019-20 academic year, The Princeton AMELIA Review released FISCHER its annual series INSIDE THE of national colORANGE lege rankings.

While Syracuse has ranked among the top ten party schools for a number of years, this was the first time since 2014 that SU has claimed the No. 1 spot.

The article headline was reposted and reblogged across social media, often accompanied by a caption from a Syracuse student gloating about the school’s new status. Many students seemed thrilled with their school’s ranking — a bragging-right, a badge of honor.

Yet such a title inevitably leads certain audiences to question if the party culture here at SU interferes with academic engagement. Sure, cases exist where a student allows their grades to slip at the expense of partying, but that’s not the prevailing SU experience. Syracuse offers students a plethora of opportunities and sufficient resources to be successful and most students take advantage of that.

Sophomore Chelsea Debrot said she was excited when she learned about SU’s new title, and she said that the party ranking unites proud students.

“They were all so excited about it, so it just made me even more excited to go to Syracuse,” Debrot said.

This title was likely not praised quite as much by parents and others who might be questioning if all the partying is interfering with the academic work happening at SU. But it’s not fair to make assumptions about scholarship or school culture based on the rankings of a single source.

“I wouldn’t really take it too seriously because it’s only one ranking,” Debrot said. “It changes every year and there’s like five different lists.”

The Princeton Review rankings are anticipated and well-read, but many similar media outlets produce rankings they say rely on similar research tactics. And yet Syracuse University often fails to rank among their top 10, or in some cases, even their top 20. Barstool Sports recently released their “Top Twenty-Five Party Schools” which excluded Syracuse altogether.

It’s also important to consider where these rankings come from.

The Princeton Review states that its rankings are derived from student surveys that ask students about alcohol and drug consumption, the average number of hours they spend studying and the presence of Greek life at their school. Schools where students reported high levels of alcohol and drug consumption and a low number of hours spent studying received the highest positions on

the “Top Party Schools” chart.

While The Princeton Review is transparent in explaining to audiences that their results stem from student surveys, the organization doesn’t reveal details about how students were selected and how many were surveyed. It’s possible that the responses used to generate the ranking doesn’t even reflect the outlook or experience of a majority of the student body.

Even if it is true that a great deal of partying goes on at SU, that isn’t necessarily representative of the school’s overarching culture.

Dolan Evanovich, Senior Vice President of Enrollment and the Student Experience, said the ranking isn’t a fair portrayal of life at SU. “This ranking is not an accurate reflection of today’s student experience at Syracuse University,” Evanovich said in an emailed statement. “Nor is it a reflection of our distinctive approach to education that includes expanded academic and career advising services; hands-on research opportunities; personalized majors; interdisciplinary studies; new recreational, health and wellness resources and facilities; and global experiences for each student.”

To discount those programs would be a mistake. Syracuse should be characterized by its accomplishments and offerings, not by the partying that goes on at virtually every college.

Syracuse was named America’s No. 1 party school in 2019 by the Princeton Review. daily orange file photo

For students at any university, college largely signifies a balance of social interaction and hard work.

Syracuse University is no different.

There are occasionally students that find they put too much emphasis on the social scene and not enough on schoolwork, but this story is not one unique to Syracuse.

“I think any campus that you go to, people are going to be going out and partying,” Debrot said. “I don’t think that really has anything to do with Syracuse.”

Syracuse students like to party.

But they also engage in a rigorous academic program that opens doors of opportunity.

“By all measures, our student experience is rooted in the programs and services available to facilitate both personal and professional success while at Syracuse University and beyond,” Evanovich said.

It’s the school spirit and pride that accompany these programs and services that best represent Syracuse University — not some arbitrary ranking.

Amelia Fischer is a sophomore public relations major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at alfische@syr.edu.

She can be followed on Twitter at @ameliafischer11.

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Students should do more to ensure personal safety using rideshares

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n March 2019, a student at the University of South Carolina got into a car which she thought was her Uber and went missing. She was found dead later that weekend.

Since the incident, cities and universities have created campaigns to educate people on how to safely use these rideshare programs.

Though many students have positive experiences with services like Uber and Lyft, they need to be more aware of the precautions to take before getting into the car with a stranger.

Students rely on Uber and Lyft rides to get around the Syracuse area all year, especially in the winter when walking isn’t always an option. It is important for students to remember the rules of traveling with rideshare programs like Uber and Lyft and make connections with the drivers they know are safe.

Local Uber driver Troy Boyer,

known by many students as “the Candyman,” has become a familiar face.

Boyer said he has completed about 7,500 rides with Uber and Lyft and that about 60 percent of those rides are university students heading to parties, classes or the mall. He keeps candy and bottles of water in his car for students he picks up. Boyer said his goal is to make sure he is a known name around campus, not only so students want to have him as their driver, but also to make sure people know he is safe.

Boyer said investment in the community is important.

“I usually stay in the Syracuse University area because I love the community up there,” Boyer said.

Boyer added, however, that many of the students who get into his car don’t exercise the safety measures put in place to keep riders safe.

“I would say about half know how

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WHAT’S UP SYRACUSE to get into my Uber safely,” Boyer said. “My car is a little bit different because they can recognize it and everyone knows me, but about half know to check my license plate, ask for their name, but not everyone knows to do that.”

Rideshare transportation is becoming increasingly popular, especially on and around college campuses like Syracuse where a lot of students aren’t from the area or don’t have cars.

These programs are great resources for safe transportation, eliminating the need to walk alone or wait for the bus late at night. But they are only safe alternatives if students actually do their part to make sure their ride is legitimate and reliable.

Popular rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft provide a rating

feature that allows riders to anonymously rate their drivers.

Students should stick to drivers with high ratings. And once their ride arrives, Boyer says they should look at the car to make sure it is the one they requested.

“Every Uber driver is supposed to have the official Uber sign in their windshield, not the ones anyone can buy on Amazon,” Boyer said. “Make sure to check before getting in the car, especially if they do not have the official Uber sign.”

Uber has implemented driver screenings before letting new drivers onto the Uber team. All drivers must go through background checks, agree to have ongoing screenings and they all must pass an annual driving check. But it’s possible for people to slip through the cracks.

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Riders should always check the make, model and license plate number of the ride before they get too close to the car. It’s also a good idea to ask the driver who the ride is for before hopping in.

These are small changes students can implement, but they can dramatically increase their safety. While we’d like to trust that rideshare companies are doing their due diligence to screen their employees and control their apps in ways that prevent misconduct or misrepresentation, that isn’t always the case. It’s up to riders to put safety at the forefront, and that’s something students at Syracuse can and should start doing.

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Roberto Perez shares his passion for dance and teaching Spanish at SU

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a Cuban immigrant, started a Latin dance organization in Syracuse and teaches dance classes at SU. As a student in the Languages, Literatures and Linguistics master’s program, Perez teaches 200- and 400level Spanish courses. sarah lee contributing photographer

ore than two decades ago, Roberto Perez left his home in Cuba for the freedom to have more opportunities to travel the world and share his love of meeting and connecting with new people.

Now, he’s teaching Latin-style dance throughout the Syracuse community while also pursuing his master’s degree.

After leaving his home country, Perez went to Colombia for five years and eventually landed in Miami in 2001 before relocating to Syracuse. Perez said being in Miami felt like he was still at home because of the city’s large Cuban population along with so many people already knowing Spanish. He wanted to “really live in the U.S.” and said leaving Miami helped him learn English faster.

Two big reasons why people leave Cuba are for religious and economic freedom, he said. That freedom is something Perez said he cares a lot about, and it has given him the opportunity to live his dream of traveling the world.

Perez has traveled all over Europe, Asia and South America and said traveling was about connecting with people.

“What I like here is the freedom that you get to do anything you want,” Perez said. “One of the main things that I wanted is just to be free, to be able to travel the world, not be stuck in one place.”

For Perez, Latin dance was a way for him to stay connected to Cuban culture.

Perez met Brian Bromka in 2004 dancing salsa at the Syracuse Suds Factory, and the two decided to start their own performance dance ensemble. The group is called “La Familia de la Salsa,” and it started with 26 people that included people from different backgrounds, Bromka said.

After they formed the ensemble, the two decided to start a dance school, which they continue to run.

“He’s fantastic and he brings a lot of authenticity to the community,” Bromka said.

After teaching dance and Spanish in

the Syracuse City School District, he was approached by one of the physical education teachers at SU. With his physical education degree from Cuba, he was asked to teach physical education classes in the I-MOVE program in the School of Education in 2010. He now solely teaches Caribbeanstyle dance classes at SU. Perez is currently pursuing his master’s degree in the languages, literatures and linguistics program in the College of Arts and Sciences. Along with the program he also teaches Spanish.

Through his Spanish and dance classes he’s been able to connect with many different people. Perez said that “La Familia de la Salsa” has brought him a great sense of community and that the people who go to his classes all the time become his friends.

Along with the classes, every Friday night the organization hosts a party at Bally Bay Bar on Richmond Avenue – which is proceeded with an introductory class for beginners. The party is usually DJ’d by Perez and it last til 2 a.m.

Bromka described the event as the United Nations of Syracuse because people from so many different backgrounds come to the event.

Erin Mackie, the chair of the English department at SU, said she has been attending his classes for the past seven years and said that the parties hosted on Friday nights are the “most unique” parties she’s ever been to.

Mackie said Perez is a generous person, not just to his friends or the Cuban community in Syracuse, but also to her.

Last year, Mackie said her deck and patio were “a mess.” and that she didn’t know how to fix it. To help, Perez power washed her house, and also extended the favor by repainting the deck. The good deed paid off, as Mackie was able to sell her house afterward.

“He’s a tremendously generous person, and a resilient person. ” Mackie said, “I imagine that it carries over when he teaches his Spanish language classes as well, because he’s got that charisma.” srslavin@syr.edu

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Funk ‘n Waffles to host retro silent disco party Saturday

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Feet screech against the floor, bright UV lights flash around the room, people dance and jam out — but there is no music to be heard. That’s because this is the scene of a silent disco, where the music plays through headphones and event-goers jam out to their own choice of music.

Charley Orlando, the talent buyer for the Syracuse restaurant, Funk ’n Waffles, said he chose to bring a silent disco to the restaurant because it is a different type of venue for such an event. He said he feels everyone should have the opportunity to experience a silent disco for themselves.

Orlando has been working with SE2 Silent Disco Company of Buffalo over the past few months to bring

its “Silent Disco of the Decades” event to the breakfast joint. The 21 and older disco will take place on Sept. 28 at 9 p.m. and its waffles will be available throughout the event.

Kevin Bell, the owner of SE2 Silent Disco, said he finds silent discos are unlike any other sound event.

Attendees can expect a high energy experience and a night full of the best music from the ’80s, ’90s and ’00s, Bell said. He added that UV lighting decorations designed to fit each decade will light up the restaurant, as well as any clothing that attracts ultraviolet light.

At silent discos, guests pick and choose what they want to listen to, whereas at sound events there’s typically only one type of music.

With such a wide range of music, Bell said silent discos often attract a

wide range of ages.

“I feel like people act differently at a silent disco than they do at a sound event, people dance more, people sing more and people engage more with other people,” Bell said.

This past June, SE2 Silent Disco worked with Photo City Improv: Comedy and Music Venue to bring another “Disco of the Decades” themed silent disco to its Rochester-based bar.

Danny Nielsen, the owner of Photo City Improv, and his “right-hand man,” Bob Canfield, worked with Bell to organize the event. He said the 400-person capacity venue sold out and was “packed to the brim” with guests having a great time.

“The dynamic was great because it’s just so different that it breaks down everybody’s barrier, and it just kind of makes everyone feel super

excited, and everyone’s laughing,” Nielsen said. “You could just see the enjoyment of this show.”

Canfield had the opportunity to spectate and dance at Photo City Improv’s silent disco. The event was Canfield’s first time experiencing a silent disco, and he said he found it entertaining to step back and watch people dance and interact as an outsider.

For Canfield, the best part of the night was getting to be part of the crowd and rock out with the guests, he said.

“I’d say that the coolest part for me was having three DJs and having the headphones themselves be color coded to each DJ,” Canfield said.

“Watching how dancing to the music I’m listening to, and watching what other people are doing to the music. It

was a lot of fun.”

Based on the success rate of SE2’s past silent discos, Bell and Nielsen said that the upcoming silent disco at the restaurant is expected to be a fun experience like no other, and just as successful. Orlando said he encourages everyone to check out a silent disco to experience it for themselves.

Bell also said he encourages anyone interested in the event to purchase tickets before the event sells out, as Funk ’n Waffles is a smaller venue with a capacity of 200 people.

“I just think it’s important for people who have never been to a silent disco to check it out because it’s something that I don’t think anyone really understands what it is until they attend one,”said Orlando. gfazoff@syr.edu

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Paula Saunders narrates novel, ‘The Distance Home’

By Diana Riojas feature editor

Paula Saunders’ voice maintained a steady tone as she read the first two chapters of her debut novel. By the first page, readers found out that in the family the novel follows, three out of the six members have died.

Saunders, a featured writer in the “Raymond Carver Reading Series” at Syracuse University, conducted a Q&A segment followed by a live reading of her debut novel, “The Distance Home” on Wednesday in HBC Gifford Auditorium.

At its simplest denominator, “The Distance Home” is an Americana novel about a Midwestern family set in the ‘50s and ‘60s.

In the novel, siblings Rene and Leon face abuse from their parents. For loving to dance, their father ridicules Leon, sometimes escalating to violence. Their mother works to defend her son, but as she does so, develops an estranged relationship with Rene.

Though Rene is able to overcome the abuse and fights with their parents, her brother develops post-traumatic stress disorder and battles addiction Saunders, who grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota, said the novel has elements based from her own life. Like Rene and Leon, she also studied dance and was the daughter of cattle brokers.

Embedded in her own personal experience, Saunders said she had to work on the voice in the novel, especially to develop the emotion that drives Rene because she felt affinity with the fictional sister. The novel was originally to be written in first person.

“When I changed it to third person and put myself outside of myself and saw her more as a character, then I could do it,”

Saunders said.

It was the intimate scenes between the family members that grabbed the attention of SU psychology sophomore student, Isabella Martinez. She said that while it may have been hard for Saunders to write about these kind of hardships in the novel, it proved to her that despite Rene not having the best upbringing, it is possible to be kind and successful.

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Sophomore Troyesha Parks, who minors in addiction studies, said reading how Saunders humanized Leon resonated with him because she maintained parts of Leon’s character, rather than diminishing him.

“He was still a caring person. Especially in my minor, people think that people with addictions aren’t human. He was still sensitive,” she said.

While the novel brings forth how Leon and Rene ultimately end up in their lives despite their environment, Saunders hopes readers take away the idea that nothing is permanent and there are always choices in life.

“I have a choice in how I act so I don’t have to act in a violent way,” Saunders said. “When it’s simple, it’s not violent.”

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city since 2008. They were introduced to the new stars of the sport, including Titman, who has been riding for 28 years.

Titman, now 31, was born into a lineage of bull riders. So at three years old he hopped on his first sheep, worked his way toward a small bull and became a professional rider in 2011. Titman was compelled in the same way many are: Breaking down how something so chaotic can be so well kept. He had seen his family do it, but he thought he could be better.

“They were nowhere near as good as I am,” Titman joked the day before the event.

In 2006, a woman named Kaitlynn noticed Titman at a club dancing in a different way. He asked her to dance and the two of them exchanged phone numbers. She didn’t want to tell him at the time, but when she was 10, she told her parents she’d marry a bull rider.

They rarely texted in the two years that followed, many of the exchanges developed the same way.

“Who is this?” Kaitlynn would text.

“It’s Bryan, the bull rider,” he responded.

But in 2008, he and his future wife Kaitlynn Titman went on their first date. She was introduced to many of the quirks and superstitions Bryan has. He doesn’t lift weights, keeps his hat on his bed during competition season and washes his clothes based on his performance in training. The night before matches, he sits in front of his TV and remains totally still, making sure to stay clean and neat.

ALEX JENKS slides off a bull’s back as he loses his grip. He wasn’t scored on the ride.

LINDOMAR LINO watches the replay of his ride in anticipation of his score being tallied.

When he’s able, he’ll go get on practice bulls. But that’s really it.

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Those superstitions help him stay invested even as things go awry, he said.

Since Kaitlynn and Titman have been together, Kaitlynn has been at every match when he’s gotten majorly hurt. In 2012, he broke his hip and pelvis. Titman required an airlift to Houston after traveling in an ambulance was deemed too dangerous.

Doctors said he should sit out a year.

But Titman returned in six months. Now, wear and tear of some of his weekends have morphed his training into idle time and Epsom salt baths. He does the occasional cardio, but strength has never been an issue.

“When he’s able, he’ll go get on practice bulls,” Kaitlynn said. “But that’s really it.”

When it comes time for the event, Titman tries to relax. Friday, he waited on the peak of the wall as the bull riders entered the arena.

Titman, along with three others, were featured riders of the night. In a sport littered with inconsistencies and bad showings, he was one of the must-sees.

Titman said when things are going good on the bull, everything feels slow. He can breathe, hear the music, take in the crowd.

But after Titman’s bull let loose Friday, for both he and the crowd, it went fast. He bucked off in 5.17 seconds. As the bull continued to pounce, Titman crawled away from danger. When the scene settled, he placed his hands on his hips.

He peered up toward the video board and watched a replay. Kaitlynn said he does a lot of analysis of bulls and techniques. When the video ended, his head tilted down. Titman has had better days, and every time he fails he knows he’ll have better days in front of him. It’s that assurance that compels him each time to jump on the back of an animal that doesn’t want him there: When it’s time to perform, he just has to do it.

He nodded his head, walked off the concourse and started his preparation to get back up on the back of a bull again. mmcclear@syr.edu @mikejmccleary

OUNCIE MITCHELL was one of the best bull riders on Friday in Syracuse. Mitchell, a Fresno, Texas native, ended up tying with Dustin Ratchford for second place with 174 total points.

DAKOTA LOUIS removes his helmet after his ride gained him the eighth-ranked spot.

TRISHTEN MARSHALL retrieves his bull rope after his ride is scored by officials.

JOE HOSTETLER grips onto his rope as his bull launches out of the bucking chute. Hostetler’s ride was not scored and he did not place in the top-20 of the Professional Bull Riders Velocity Tour in Syracuse.

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Abigail Casiano answering Syracuse’s blocking questions

By Nick Economides staff writer

In its third-straight win over Harvard on Saturday, Syracuse conceded another scoring run in the first set. After keeping pace with the Crimson in the first half of the set, the Orange let up four unanswered points to give Harvard a three-point advantage.

Syracuse needed to find a way to spark a comeback.

Head coach Leonid Yelin made some adjustments, taking one of his regular outside hitters, junior Yuliia Yastrub, to the middle because of her 6-foot-2 frame. The shift worked, as Yastrub recorded a key block to pull Syracuse back into the set, which the Orange won 25-23. from page 12

coonan While Coonan hasn’t registered any goals or assists from her deep-lying midfield position, she’s helped support a defense that has improved its numbers across the board this season, allowing seven goals in eight games.

The West Chester, Pennsylvania native played for the Elite Clubs National League Player Development Program. She committed to SU in 2015 and had started 17 of 18 games as a freshman. Adams didn’t know during the first practice that Coonan was coming back from a major injury. The first-year head coach from page 12

siermachesky her career at Syracuse. Growing up in a family where both her parents played sports at high levels, it was natural for Siermachesky to follow along.

Siermachesky suffered a head and shoulder injury which sidelined her for seven games.

Knee issues also plagued Siermachesky that

Yelin and the rest of his staff are making these shifts to try and replicate the blocking results from the past few seasons.

With Amber Witherspoon graduating and Santita Ebangwese moving on from Syracuse (3-4), the coaching staff has been faced with the challenge of finding new pieces to fit into Yelin’s blocking scheme. Freshman Abigail Casiano, who’s now tied for the team-high in blocks, has proved to be a quick learner.

“We know our assets and know what we have,” said assistant coach Derryk Williams.

So far, the transition has been smooth.

Through their first seven games, the Orange have out-blocked their opponents 48-39. Syracuse was out-blocked only once,

and that was against undefeated Baylor.

Casiano, a freshman, impressed in those first seven games, as her three blocks against both Marquette and Baylor were bright spots in losses. Casiano, who played club volleyball in high school, entered Syracuse as a proven asset whom Yelin expected to start. In 2019, Casiano has blocked 20 kills.

Besides using Casiano as a blocker, another way that the coaching staff has tried to fill some holes up front is by moving some of the outside hitters into the middle. Yastrub, a junior, is one of those players who has sacrificed time at her regular position to help the team in the middle.

“She always puts the team before herself,” said Yelin of Yastrub. “She was willing to move to a position she never played before here, and

we really appreciate that.”

When SU needs Yastrub to rotate into the middle, freshman Marina Markova replaces her on the outside. Setter Elena Karakasi has also contributed in the blocking game, recording four against Harvard.

With conference play starting this Friday against Georgia Tech, how SU’s coaching staff positions their blockers will be even more important.

“It’s all about training the right way. We do hundreds of thousands of reps of doing it the right way.” said Williams. “The way Yelin has developed his blocking scheme is unbelievable. Once we learn it as a staff, the girls pick it up quickly.”

was important in helping her regain her athleticism and get back to the player she was during her freshman season, Coonan said.

Instilling confidence was the first step. To do this, Adams had her play out wide on the wing during spring practices and scrimmages, a position she had never played before. Coonan adjusted, becoming one of the team’s leading scorers in scrimmages during that time.

Instead of being cautious in the center of midfield where she usually plays, she made runs, took on defenders and scored goals. All more explosive plays to push her out of her comfort zone. “[Adams was] encouraging me … to not be

afraid to play a dangerous ball that I might play something safe instead,” Coonan said. “That helped me come back.”

Coonan is always checking in with her teammates, becoming a go-to person on the deal for another dealing with personal struggles. She’s always the first person to ask how everyone is and picks someone up if they’re stressed or feeling down, said midfielder Georgia Allen. Even when Coonan was the one injured, she was the one reaching out.

“She focused on everyone else,” Allen said.

“I don’t think she got swamped in her own head thinking about her own injury and her own woes. She focused on the team and how

she can help the team and that was vital.”

Now that she’s healthy, Coonan knows how to help teammates missing games with injuries like she did. When a player has a medical scan, she is the first to reach out and talk things over. Coonan draws from her recent rehab experience for how to best support them and help keep their spirits high.

“Just taking it day-by-day and celebrating the little things like when you do get to run again, when you first practice,” Coonan said.

“Just being appreciative of every moment that you get because you never know when it can be taken from you.”

season. Her teammates watched as she powered through the pain without complaining, inspiring the rest of the locker room, co-captain Lindsay Eastwood said. Still, Siermachesky needed knee surgery in the offseason.

Over the summer, Siermachesky woke up early before working at her internship to rehabilitate her knee.

“A lot of kids will take a crutch and lean on it, but she’s the kind of kid who says ‘I don’t

want a crutch,’” Flanagan said.

Siermachesky didn’t play in Syracuse’s first exhibition on Sept. 22 against Montreal and her recovery is still ongoing. But her work ethic, which former teammate Allie Munroe calls one of the best on the team, should help her get back to 100% soon.

“Kristen never settles for the weights that are on the bar,” former captain Brooke Avery said of Siermachesky’s work ethic.

When Flanagan asked Siermachesky to move from defense to forward during last year’s CHA playoff run, she didn’t hesitate. Playing out of position and through pain, Siermackesy scored the go-ahead goal in the first period of the championship against Robert Morris.

“I’m so happy with where I am and all the people I’m surrounded by,” she said. “There’s no reason not to be smiling.”

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BRYAN TITMAN was one of 39 bull riders to compete last Friday. The veteran didn’t last the eight-second threshold set for the Professional Bull Riders Velocity Tour. He lasted 5.17 seconds.

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Kailee Coonan starts after 2018 injury Eric Storms staff writer

Nine months removed from a foot injury that cost her an entire season, Kailee Coonan said it was like she forgot how to play soccer.

It wasn’t long before Coonan worked her way back to become an anchor of Syracuse’s (2-4-2, 0-0-1 Atlantic Coast) midfield. Coonan, now a redshirt sophomore after taking a medical year, has become a leader of the Orange off the field, a role that only strengthened with her time out. She’s started all eight games in 2019 and played every minute of SU’s past five contests.

While the Orange deal with numerous injuries throughout the squad, Coonan is one of just seven to have started each game.

During Nicky Adams’ first practice as head coach at SU, Coonan’s skillset jumped out at her.

“I noticed how technical she was on the ball,” Adams said. “Taking the little looks, setting [herself] up where the hips are always facing the proper way to go forward. Playing quick.” see coonan page 10

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ore than half an hour before they let the bulls loose, a few men in different colored 10-gallon hats swarmed the cages that enclosed their enemy and their ally. In The Oncenter Friday, where there usually sits an ice hockey rink, the darkness gave the dirt a reddish tint. Aerial lights cut through the ground.

Amidst the chaos, one of the bull riders at the Professional Bull Riders Velocity Tour: Syracuse Showdown, Bryan Titman, popped five peanut M&M’s into his mouth.

He doesn’t know when his pre-ride snack started, but at some point it parlayed into significant results.

Even as a star in a sport at the pinnacle

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of spectacle, introduced Friday by fire shows, blaring music and moderated by a wise-cracking man in clown makeup, Titman is dedicated to his routine, his training, his preparation. A good day and a bad day both end launched to the dirt by a disturbed animal. But he knows he can’t slow down, so he maintains the same mindset on the ground as on the bull: Those who hang around the longest go the furthest.

“If you can’t push past it,” Titman said, “you better stop.”

On Friday, 39 bull riders hoped to conquer the eight-second threshold set for the night of competition. A lively Syracuse crowd experienced an event that hasn’t graced the

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ice hockey

Defender brings positivity to Orange

By Roshan Fernandez contributing writer

Before games, Kristen Siermachesky dances in the locker room, something to help keep the mood light. For games on the road, she holds dance parties in her hotel room. Her teammates say these dance-offs encapsulate her personality perfectly — always bursting with energy, always positive, and, of course, always smiling.

“It’s super exciting to be in the position that we’re in every day,” Siermachesky said. “There’s no reason not to have a dance party.”

The junior isn’t just comic relief.

Siermachesky played an important role in last season’s success when Syracuse had its best season in program history, winning its first ever College Hockey America title. After undergoing knee surgery this past spring, Siermachesky is ready to build on last season’s triumphs.

“Her persona is all about being positive,” 12th-year head coach Paul Flanagan said.

That positivity has been a constant for Siermachesky throughout

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