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N • Chemistry ambassador A Syracuse University professor of chemistry has been selected to serve as an academic ambassador between the United States and Germany. Page 4
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Danielle Delgado started running track’s hardest race to improve her short-distance running. Running both races catapulted Delgado’s career at SU. Page 16
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Staffer launches campaign SU employee promotes progressive Senate bill By Sam Ogozalek news editor
Hundreds of protesters rallied Saturday on Syracuse’s North Side to participate in the second Women’s March since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Similar protests were held around the world. jordan muller asst. news editor
‘Still not shattered’ Students reflect on activism 1 year after Women’s March By Jordan Muller asst. news editor
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ntil a few weeks ago, Marlowe Reardon hadn’t changed her phone’s home screen photo in nearly a year. Each time she used her phone, she’d see a picture she took of two young children, holding a makeshift sign that read “fight like a girl.” Reardon snapped the photo on Jan. 21, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Reardon, the young girls and an estimated 500,000 other people had taken to the streets of the United States’ capital in the first Women’s March. That photo provided a constant reminder of her experience. “It always just brought me back,” said Reardon, a junior television, see women’s
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An estimated 500,000 people attended the Women’s March on Washington in 2017. daily orange file photo
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SU develops aid opportunity for DACA students By Sam Ogozalek news editor
Syracuse University is following a national trend of colleges developing additional financial aid opportunities for undocumented students, amid growing uncertainty surrounding the DACA program. Chancellor Kent Syverud, in a speech last week, said SU remains committed to supporting members of campus affected by changing fed-
eral immigration policy. His remarks came days before the federal government careened toward a shutdown, as lawmakers clashed over immigration policy and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. “I believe it has never been more important that we as a university, and as a community … embrace the ideal that we remain open and welcoming to the whole world,” Syverud said. As part of that commitment, the
university announced last semester that a committee of faculty and administrators would develop a campaign to pay for a new legacy scholarship for DACA/undocumented students, funded by SU’s endowment. Colleges across the United States have helped lead the charge in advocating for the DACA program, experts say. Christian Smith, an organizing associate with the Center for American Progress, a progressive
public policy organization, said there are many private scholarships available for DACA students or students that could qualify for DACA benefits. But a few colleges have also set up scholarships for undocumented students, much like the idea SU has announced. Emory University pulls from existing college funds to “make up for” the aid the state of Georgia does not give undocumented students, see daca page 4
For Syracuse University staffer Rachel May, there’s a key issue that will define her New York State Senate candidacy: her concerns about the Independent Democratic Conference. The IDC includes Syracuse-area Sen. David Valesky (D-Oneida), who May is now challenging in a 53rd Senate District MAY primary. She announced her campaign Thursday, a few blocks from Main Campus. “It’s about what feels like a betrayal of the voters of this district,” May, 60, said on Friday. May, the university’s coordinator of sustainability education, said Valesky and the IDC have successfully blocked passage of bills such as the New York Health Act, which would provide universal, government-run health care in a new single-payer system. That bill has been passed by the New York State Assembly. But the eight-member IDC works with Senate Republicans to stall out progressive legislation, May said. “The IDC gets, in return, pork for their district,” May said. To promote change, May said she formed True Blue NY-53, a local group that opposes Valesky. True Blue NY-53’s website is paid for and authorized by the multicandidate campaign committee, No IDC NY. That committee recently received a few donations from SU campus community members, Board of Elections records show. Thomas Keck, the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, contributed $25 on July 20, 2017, records show. That contribution was recorded by the committee on Jan. 15. Jodi Upton, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication’s Knight Chair in Data and Explanatory Journalism, contributed $50 to the committee on September 5, 2017, records show. That contribution was recorded on Jan. 15. Both May and Upton live on Circle Road in the University Hill neighborhood, records show. Marthe Reed, a humanities faculty fellow in the see campaign page 6