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C • Pond hockey

N • Autism research

S • Changing direction

Over a dozen teams participated in the Syracuse Pond Hockey Classic at Hiawatha Lake located within Onondaga Park on Saturday, Jan 29. Page 6

SU’s CARE Lab offers free evaluations and diagnoses for the local community. The lab allows undergraduate and graduate students to help with research. Page 3

Jamie Boeheim was supposed to be another Boeheim who played basketball. But after playing for one year at Rochester, Jamie fell out of love with the sport. Page 12

Requested refund

Story by Richard Perrins news editor

Photo Illustration by Meghan Hendricks photo editor

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yracuse University is defendant to a class action lawsuit on behalf of all those who paid tuition and fees for the spring 2020 semester. The class action complaint, which was filed on Dec. 9, 2021, claims students lost the benefit of the on-campus education they paid for as a result of the university’s response to the pandemic. The lawsuit names Shelby Poston, a student at SU during the spring 2020 semester, as the lead plaintiff, but was filed on behalf of all students who have not been refunded for the interrupted semester.

Syracuse University is the defendant in a class action lawsuit that seeks refunds for tuition paid for the spring 2020 semester

If Poston’s class action is certified, the complaint estimated tens of thousands of those who paid tuition for the semester could join as plaintiffs. The complaint argued the plaintiffs entered into a contract with SU that was breached when the university moved classes online in response to the pandemic, and said the university should return a “pro-rated portion” of any tuition paid toward the semester. On March 10, 2020, SU announced all academic programs would be moved online until at least March 30. SU then suspended all on-campus classes for the rest of the semester on March 16, 2020, hours after Onondaga County confirmed its first COVID-19 cases. On March 23, SU announced that students who had to move out of university housing because of see lawsuit page 4

on campus

MLK III highlights family legacy of activism in speech to SU By Kyle Chouinard asst. news editor

While not officially ordained by a church like his father Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King III considers ministry to be a missiondriven project. “My ministry is in engaging in human rights,” King III said. “King III spoke at Syracuse University’s 37th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday night. The event featured a collection of performances from the Community Choir and Black Celes-

tial Choral Ensemble and speakers that included Chancellor Kent Syverud and the Rev. Brian Konkol, the dean of Hendricks Chapel.” “(Martin Luther King Jr.) advocated for love in the face of hate.” Syverud said. “He pressed for freedom in the face of oppression. He continues to inspire generations with his dream of equality.” King III said during his talk with event co-chair and SU junior David Barbier Jr. that humanity must learn non-violence. King III said that his father told him that humanity’s choice is between nonviolence and

non-existence. “Today, unfortunately, we’re at a very critical place where our nation is volatile enough that it could engage in explosion,” King III said. “The hope and the work that we must do is to keep that from happening.” While speaking, King III connected his father’s words and work to a modern context. He specifically cited social movements of today such as Black Lives Matter, the women’s movement and March For Our Lives. King III also spoke on the role of colleges and universities as agents of change. An education gives

only part of what it takes to make change, he said. “Education gives you the theory, but you sometimes have to engage in pragmatic, practical experiences,” King III said. King III also spoke about his mother, Coretta Scott King, who was an activist and civil rights leader like her husband. Coretta Scott King was a coalition builder, King III said, helping organize the creation and implementation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. King III said his mother

understood the importance of preserving documents. “If it were not for mother, I don’t know how far dad’s legacy would have gone.” King III ended his discussion by asking listeners to let their conscience drive their decision-making. “I hope that (SU students) would look to Martin Luther King Jr. for a philosophy that helped to transform our nation and the world,” King III said, “so that our nation and world becomes better.”

kschouin@syr.edu @Kyle_Chouinard


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