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SU students witnessed a meeting of North Korean and South Korean diplomats at the 2019 Global Peace Forum on Korea at Columbia University. Page 3

Moderate columnist Kailey Norusis argues that a professor’s essay supporting student-faculty relationships “mansplains feminism to feminists.” Page 5

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After almost a year since its inception, Syracuse’s I Support the Girls chapter has donated $500 worth of menstrual hygiene products for people in need. Page 7

Eric Coley first doubted himself after committing to Syracuse football. But now in his third year, he’s emerged as a key defensive back in the Orange’s secondary. Page 12

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Students say SU’s counseling services don’t meet their needs By Gillian Follett asst. copy editor

ia Matthews began using Syracuse University’s counseling services in April to see a therapist weekly. Therapy helped her find a balance between her mental health and academic responsibilities. But her therapist recently told her that she was leaving SU. Matthews isn’t sure if she’ll be able to see a new therapist on a regular basis for future appointments. “For someone like me, who personally deals with childhood trauma and depression, I don’t feel like explaining my situation to a new person every time I go (to therapy),” said Matthews, a sophomore studying citizenship and civic engagement and writing and rhetoric. Matthews and other SU students said in interviews with The Daily Orange that the university’s counseling services aren’t adequately meeting their mental health needs. During the summer, SU relocated its counseling services from Walnut Place to the Barnes Center at The Arch. The move was intended see counseling page 4

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SU developing online programs following national trend By India Miraglia and Richard J Chang the daily orange

Syracuse University continues to develop its own online programming, following a national trend in which online education is on the rise in secondary education. Nationwide, overall enrollment in college has decreased, while online enrollment has increased. Colleges in the United States saw a 4.2% increase in students enrolled exclusively online and a 6.4% increase in those enrolled in some online courses between 2016 and

2017, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Universities need to incorporate online education programs into their curriculum to stay relevant and sustainable beyond the next decade, said Michael Frasciello, dean of SU’s University College. Students are requesting flexibility in courses as they become involved in other time-consuming, extracurricular activities, such as community service. Online classes provide that flexibility, he said. “The future of higher education is a blended experience of residential, in-class instruction and online

or virtual instruction,” Frasciello said. “Twenty-five years from now, full-time students living in Haven Hall will be attending Syracuse University and receiving education in both face-to-face physical and online as full-time students.” Total enrollment across the country decreased by 0.4%, and the number of students enrolled in college without any online courses decreased by 3%. At SU, students have the opportunity to earn a degree in 19 online master’s programs, six online undergraduate programs and five online certificates of advanced study.

The university has been careful about creating the online courses and degrees it offers graduate and undergraduate students in order to ensure they equal the quality of on-campus classes, Frasciello said. Because of that, the university is only recently implementing many of its online classes. “We could move real quickly and put a whole bunch of stuff online. But that’s not what Syracuse University is about,” Frasciello said. “While it may appear we’re moving rapidly relative to the rest of higher education and specifically to our peer set, we’re actually not. We’re

moving much more deliberately.” SU’s peer institutions vary on the number of online programs offered. Pennsylvania State University’s World Campus, for example, offers 55 online master’s programs. Boston University offers 18 online graduate programs, and the University of Connecticut eCampus offers eight. The value of an online course compared to one in a classroom depends on the design of the course, said Alyssa Wise, an associate professor of learning sciences and educational technology at New York University. Well-executed online courses see online page 4

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Heritage celebration SU students will participate in the Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration in downtown Syracuse. See Monday’s paper

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Civil liberties A chapter of ACLU is coming to campus this semester as a registered student organization. See Monday’s paper

Diverse policing Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner details his plans to diversify the city’s police force. See Monday’s paper

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regional news Here is a roundup of the biggest news happening around New York state. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS A recent study by Blue Cross Blue Shield found that the multiple sclerosis diagnosis rate in Syracuse is higher than both the national and state averages. In 2017, the diagnosis rate was 45 per 10,000 commercially insured people. The national rate was 24 per 10,000 people, and the rate in New York state was 31 per 10,000. source: localsyr

BUSINESS EXPANSION Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that two companies in central New York will relocate to Syracuse, bringing more than 400 new jobs to the area. Bankers Healthcare Group, LLC will consolidate several of their offices in central New York to a newlyconstructed facility on Spencer Street, and JMA Wireless will move their manufacturing facility for 5G equipment from Texas to Syracuse’s Coyne Building. source: localsyr

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KENNETH LANGONE, a United States billionaire businessman, investor and philanthropist, spoke with professor Sue Smith at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management on Wednesday. Langone organized financing for the founders of The Home Depot. He also pledged $100 million in funding to make the New York University School of Medicine tuition free. corey henry photo editor

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Veteran student enrollment breaks record By Louis Smith

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Syracuse University saw a record high in veteran and military-connected student enrollment this fall. The university’s total veteran and military-connected student enrollment rose 14% this fall, bringing the total enrollment to its highest point in five years, according to an SU News release. The Class of 2023 also features the largest amount of student veterans enrolled at SU in the post-9/11 era. Student veterans said SU’s demonstrated commitment to military-connected students and the programs offered to support them were a large factor in their decision to attend the university.

“From your first days at the university to going out and getting a job after graduation, there is a program or person to help you with anything you might need,” said Katherine Quartaro, a veteran and SU graduate student, in an email. Most colleges and universities accept the GI Bill, a piece of legislation designed to aid veterans in their life after service. For eligible initiatives, SU’s Yellow Ribbon Program can also cover tuition costs the GI Bill doesn’t. The Yellow Ribbon Program was a large draw in her decision to attend SU, Quartaro said. While other schools had limitations in their coverage, SU would cover the difference between tuition funding from the Department of Veterans

Affairs and student veteran tuition, she said. Construction is ongoing on the National Veterans Resource Center, a $62.5 million center that will consolidate the university’s veteran services into one 115,000 square foot facility. The center will house the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, the university’s ROTC programs and the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs. The NVRC is expected to open to the public in early spring 2020. Its construction shows a commitment to not only veteran and military-connected students but also to the military and all veterans, Quartaro said. “People notice things like that,” she said.

SU, unlike other universities, also has a separate webpage for interested veterans, Quartaro said. The website shows the emphasis SU places on veterans, she said. Service to School, a nonprofit that helps veterans with their applications to colleges and universities, recommended SU to veteran Mindy Barhaug, she said in an email. Barhaug, now a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she was looking for a school with a veteran community and veteran support, as well as people she could relate to. “There literally are so many programs for veterans that I’m sure there are plenty more I don’t know about,” Barhaug said. lsmith35@syr.edu

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Students attend summit on Korean conflict By Amy Nakamura co-digital editor

Decades of war and division have plagued the Korean peninsula over much of the past century. Syracuse University students were given the opportunity to witness a part of the conflict’s diplomatic process. Nine students attended the 2019 Global Peace Forum on Korea at Columbia University in September. The second annual conference was meant to foster discussions of peace between high level diplomats to North Korea and South Korea and academics from around the world. The students who attended the forum are currently enrolled in the

class “Politics of North and South Korea,” taught by political science professor Frederick Carriere. Carriere’s students were the only delegation of students represented at this conference. Many diplomats were already in New York City for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit. Jiayu Qiu, a senior studying international relations and accounting, is concentrating her studies on North Korea. However, it wasn’t just the presence of North Korean diplomats that convinced her to attend the forum. “There were people from North Korea there that drove me a lot,” Qiu said. “Then, there are also

people from the National Assembly of South Korea. You also have speakers from Russia and China. So, that’s going to be a very diversified conversation.” Some students were able to meet with Kim Song, North Korean ambassador to the United Nations. Hong Ihk-pyo, leader of the Democratic Party in South Korea, was also in attendance and spoke during the forum. For Jiaming Huang, a senior majoring in international relations, the party leader’s attendance was necessary to progress any conversation about peace on the peninsula. “It’s definitely an achievement

to bring the chief spokesperson of the ruling party,” said Huang. “This spokesperson was within the same party as President Moon Jae-in and so perhaps could give more forthcoming representation.” The Korean peninsula was divided on the 38th parallel in 1945, creating the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea. Since the end of the Korean War, the United States has become a liaison between the North and South. While talks of peace and denuclearization continue, progress seems to fluctuate. Officials at the September conference discussed see forum page 4

New York state is preparing to file a lawsuit against the International Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canadian border commission tasked with regulating the water levels of Lake Ontario. The state claims flooding and damage along Lake Ontario was caused by the commission’s negligence. source: syracuse.com

WEGMANS SUED Two people are suing Wegmans for food fraud, claiming the grocery store’s vanilla ice cream doesn’t contain vanilla or vanilla extract. The lawsuit asserts that it’s misleading to charge a “premium” price for ice cream that isn’t properly labeled. source: syracuse.com

FREE MAMMOGRAMS The Onondaga County Cancer Services Program is offering free mammograms for people without insurance as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Cervical screenings and cancer screenings for men will also be provided. source: cny central

DISCOLORED WATER The Onondaga County Water Authority said a project to fill and flush water mains in North Syracuse is the cause of some area residents’ discolored water. The authority will work to address the issue throughout this week. source: cny central

FLAG BURNING The May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society is calling on the individual who burned the LGBT pride flag that was hung outside the church Sunday to attend a class on the LGBT community. The church, which doesn’t want to press charges, said on Facebook that they think the flag was burned in an act of hate. source: cny central

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counseling to better connect different aspects of students’ mental and physical health. The focus of the university’s counseling services remains the same. The Counseling Center implemented a drop-in model last semester allowing students in need of short-term care to meet with a therapist without an appointment. Students told The D.O. that this system, still in place at The Arch, can make it difficult for students interested in long-term individual counseling to schedule regular appointments. Matthews is searching for a therapist in Syracuse she can see regularly, but she would have to pay for these off-campus appointments herself. SU’s counseling services are covered by a $375 health and wellness fee that full-time students are required to pay each semester. Between 2,500 and 3,500 SU students seek counseling during each academic year, said Cory Wallack, SU’s interim executive director of health and wellness and the former director of the Counseling Center. The drop-in system and counseling services’ extended hours of operation were implemented to improve access to services. Wallack said SU has never truly offered “long-term” counseling services to students. The university’s counseling services are meant to provide temporary care, though the length of care can be somewhat extended if the student demonstrates a need for additional counseling. This structure of care aims to make counseling available to a greater variety of students, he said. “We’ve never marketed ourselves or really provided long-term therapy in the sense of we’re going to meet with you weekly for the next two or three years, in part, because doing so really limits the opportunity for other students to have access to that service,” Wallack said. Over the past two years, SU has expanded its number of full-time counseling staff and added a training program where graduate students seeking degrees in counseling can work with students, he said. “In terms of a staff-to-student ratio, we’re super competitive with any of our peer schools,” Wallack said. “We’re well above the national average of how many staff we have per student on campus.” Colleges across the country are struggling to meet the growing demand for student counseling services, said Nance Roy, who is the chief clinical officer at The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that partners with educational institutions to strengthen the mental health resources available to students. For the past several years, more incoming college students have arrived on campus with diagnosed mental illnesses, Roy said. Anxiety and depression are the two most prominent mental illnesses among these students. A 2018 report of collegiate mental health from the Pennsylvania State University found that over 60% of students who visited their campus counseling centers said they were experiencing anxiety. Almost 50% said they were depressed. Roy said the stigma surrounding mental health issues has weakened, which has encouraged more students to seek help for their mental health. Students’ growing desire to turn to professional help has led counseling centers across the country to from page 3

forum the lack of progress made during the Hanoi meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in February 2019. In June of this year, Trump was the first president to cross the Demilitarized Zone in Panmunjeom, North Korea. Carriere said that for him, this year marked his 50th anniversary of landing on the Korean peninsula as a GI with the U.S. military. Since that moment, Korea and studies revolving around the area have become a large part of his life, he said. At the conference, Carriere heard something from a South Korean representative that he had never heard through all of his years of Korean studies. “He said that we South Koreans need to realize that we have to have more empathy

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become swamped with students seeking appointments, she said. “It’s good that students feel comfortable accessing care,” Roy said. “But for most schools, they’re not able to offer long-term psychotherapy.” Lydia Engel, a sophomore music major, utilized the drop-in counseling system a few weeks ago to help her work through her grief after the death of someone close to her. She found it was helpful to get some of her emotions off her chest but was left feeling lost about what steps she could take next to continue to receive counseling services. “I felt like I was in and out,” she said. “I was like ‘Okay, what now?’ The thing with the walk-in is that you can go whenever you want, but you can’t always get the same person. I didn’t necessarily feel like all of it was personal enough.” When Leondra Tyler went to the Counseling Center’s previous location last semester to set up an appointment, she was told she could only use the center for crisis or emergency mental health care. But Tyler, a second-year freshman psychology major, doesn’t understand why she should pay to see a therapist in the city when she’s a student at SU. Part-time students, like Tyler, are excluded from receiving long-term individual counseling because they don’t pay the university’s health and wellness fee each semester. “At the time, I wasn’t really doing too well, so counseling for me was important,” she said. “And the most debilitating thing was to get shut down, like ‘we can’t help you because you don’t have what we require to pay for this.’” Part-time students are still able to participate in group therapy at The Arch and utilize the center’s drop-in counseling services, Wallack said. Colleges need to take a multidisciplinary approach to more effectively address students’ counseling needs, incorporating other aspects of students’ overall health outside of direct clinical services, Roy said. Not every student needs long-term counseling, and some may benefit equally from having someone they trust to turn to when they’re struggling, she said. Students’ mental health needs can also be partially managed by living a healthy lifestyle, Roy said. Students can take steps to improve their overall well-being by exercising, eating a balanced diet and getting enough sleep, which will contribute to a healthier state of mind. With SU’s health and counseling services now under one roof, Wallack aims to promote a model of whole-body health that looks at students’ overall health when determining their mental health needs, he said. He encourages students seeking regular counseling sessions to consider group therapy, which allows students to build a support network with other students struggling with similar mental health issues. SU’s solution to the national increase in student mental health needs remains frustrating to students seeking regular, free counseling services. “It’s really important to give every student the opportunity to see counseling services and not have to put a price on that,” Tyler said. “With all the money we put into tuition, we should have access to counseling. No matter what type of student you are, the access should just be there.”

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online allow a student to have more face-to-face interaction with instructors than they would in a lecture hall, she said. A poorly designed course hands the student information to view and study on their own. “A lot of the reasons that schools are moving towards online programs have to do with making education programs accessible to people who might not be able to come to campus,” Wise said. “With online master’s, they’re often designed for working professionals who can’t quit their job and move to someplace like Syracuse to study.” When online learning started becoming more prevalent in higher education, many people thought it would be more cost effective for both the university and the student, Wise said. The cost of experts who design the courses and of faculty who instruct them actually make the price of online education close to that of a face-to-face class, she said. The cost of tuition for online graduate programs at SU is $9,720 for six credit hours in one 12-week quarter. In certain programs, including an Executive Master of Public Administration and Master of Science in Communications, the cost of the six credit hours

increases. Most online graduate degrees at SU are between 30 and 36 credits. The estimated price for on-campus graduate program tuition is $29,160, based on 18 credit hours per year. SU has collaborated with online program management companies to build its online degrees and may continue to work with companies in the future, Frasciello said. Such companies specialize in programs in specific fields, making partnerships valuable for effective courses, he said. 2U Inc., one of these companies, has partnered with SU since 2014. The company supports 15 online graduate degrees at SU, Andrew Hermalyn, president of global partnerships at 2U, said in an email. SU recently announced it would provide an online master’s degree in social work with David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, which is set to launch in fall 2021. The university and 2U are also partnering to provide online short courses in collaboration with GetSmarter, a 2U brand, Hermalyn said. “The nature of higher education is changing dramatically, year over year, as the demographic of the traditional student changes,” Frasciello said.

While overall enrollment in colleges has decreased nationwide, U.S. colleges saw a 4.2% increase in students exclusively enrolled online. corey henry photo editor

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for the position of North Korea,” Carriere said. “We need to understand what the world looks like from their eyes. It sounds so soft and inappropriate but it’s actually very powerful.” Students such as Ziguang Lu, an international relations junior, said that just witnessing discussions at the forum was a valuable experience. He recounted speeches by academics and diplomats on topics including food security on the peninsula and denuclearization policy. Overall, Lu felt that it was important to experience diplomacy outside of the classroom. “A lot of the political theories that we learned in school, as an international relations major, we can never truly understand because we’ve never had that first-hand experience,” said Lu. “If we only hear from scholars and professors, that’s not enough. We need to hear from practitioners in the field.”

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Professor’s essay distorts feminism

yracuse University professor Amardo Rodriguez published an essay titled “Feminists Betraying Feminism to Restrict Faculty-Student Romances” in August. This essay is a harsh misinterpretation of what it means to be feminist. In his essay, Rodriguez uses the guise of liberalism to argue that university policies prohibiting romantic and sexual relationships between faculty and students restrict the freedom of women. Rodriguez invokes discussions about restrictions placed on abortion and homosexual relationships as a comparison to the bans on these relationships. The failure to make comprehensible connections between the topics makes the paper appear inadequately researched — grasping at any straw that might momentarily make his argument seem reasonable. This is just one of the many logical fallacies that clutter the essay. The essay makes a clear assumption that the only student-faculty romances that take place are between female subordinates and male superiors. The threads of this misogynism weave the entirety of the author’s biased opinion. While the Women’s Concerns Committee worked with the Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics Committee to discuss prohibiting romantic relationships between undergraduate students and faculty at SU, that prohibition does not exist merely

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MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE for the sake of women students. Rodriguez claims that these bans “infantilize and patronize women” at the hands of other women who think they know better. But in reality, the purpose of these bans is not to suppress, but instead to prevent the suppression that exists in coercive relationships. Elsewhere in his essay, Rodriguez writes that “there is no research that speaks to the challenges of these relationships being any different to other kinds of consensual relationships between adults.” There is extensive research that proves this is false. An essay titled “Faculty-Student Relationships: The dual role of controversy” written by professors at Northwestern State University and McLennan Community College, ran a student survey that showed that many students had been harassed by professors and negatively impacted by the experience. Rodrigeuz claims that if the power dynamic between students and faculty is problematic, then so is the power dynamic between faculty and other professionals of different standings. That comparison isn’t fair. Students are paying to attend classes and professors are being paid to provide them with an education. The power imbalance is dramatic. “Power is the foundation of all

politics,” said Margaret Thompson, an associate professor of history and political science at SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. When an unequal distribution of power exists, coercive relationships are likely to develop. Creating safe and comfortable learning environments relies on our ability to place a certain level of trust in professors. It’s easy for that trust to be violated when these boundaries are crossed. “If freedom should mean anything, and this is supposedly what the struggle for gay marriage was all about, it should mean every adult has the right to love who they choose to love,” Rodriguez wrote in his essay. The ban on student faculty relationships is not restricting an adult’s right to love who they choose — it is restricting a person in power from acting on desire in inappropriate ways. Rodriguez leaves the reader confused and in doubt, not in the way that Rodriguez likely intended. His misreading of feminism, which is crudely disguised behind liberal principles, serves as a way for Rodriguez to mansplain feminism to feminists. The reader is left to ponder why he is so angered by the bans.

Kailey Norusis is a freshman English literature and history major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at kmnorusi@syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter @Knorusis.

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SA committee idea would boost access to resources

he Diversity Affairs Committee of Syracuse University’s Student Association and other on-campus offices are now working to revamp college application questions LAUREN related to ethSPIEZIA nicity and race. N EITHER BLUE Their eventual NOR R ED hope is to alter the Common Application, which currently only gives applicants five choices to describe their race, with no option to opt out or choose another. Due to the fact that there are currently limited options for applicants and admitted students to express their race, an entire population of bi- and multi-racial students are not fully represented, thus skewing survey findings. In order to achieve this goal, the Diversity Affairs Committee has started to push for more thorough post-application survey questions for the next round of admitted students because as of right now, only questions about religion are included, not race nor ethnicity. These changes would allow the university to obtain more accurate and detailed information about the racial and ethnic breakdown of the applicant and student bodies and further help the school understand the resources needed by prominent minority groups on campus. With surveys in mind, there is still an expressed crucial need for

support and advocacy networks on campus, as about 30% of SU undergraduates are students of color and 21% of first-year students are firstgeneration Americans. The needs of this substantial population can be better met as SU receives more accurate and precise data about the students it admits. They can know which resources to prioritize for certain students and offer more aid based on those findings. Also, individuals of lesser known minority groups may feel better represented if SU makes these changes, as they would be named in reports about diversity and ethnic breakdown. This presents the opportunity for even more engagement between minority populations through resources such as the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which offer tools such as mentoring, workshops and other programs aimed towards uplifting minorities. If more groups are given visibility through updated surveys, the university can strive to better comprehend the types of support that students of color need to succeed at SU.

Lauren Spiezia is a sophomore journalism and political science major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at lespiezi@syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter @lauren_spiezia.

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‘Other’ survey category problematic

or many bi-racial and multicultural students applying to universities, filling out surveys, or even just being asked the question “What are you?” can be quite difficult. Many of these forms asking about race or ethnicity have extremely limited options. Syracuse University needs to provide more race and ethnicity options on its surveys and applications — options that allow prospective students to embrace their heritage and background on their own terms. SU’s Common Application lists five options to describe a person’s race: American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Pacific Islander and White. This admissions survey doesn’t even offer an option to not respond or choose “other.” The Diversity Committee for News Editor Editorial Editor Feature Editor Sports Editor Presentation Director Photo Editor Illustration Editor Copy Chief Digital Copy Chief Co-Digital Editor Co-Digital Editor Video Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. Editorial Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Sports Editor

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NEWS WITH AN EDGE the SU Student Association are now taking the much-needed initiative to expand these options, starting with the post-application survey for admitted students in fall 2020. This initiative will be extremely beneficial in enabling university officials to see and recognize that there are a broad range of demographics and identities on this campus. That awareness allows for SU to better structure support systems and resources for these demographics. The university should also be careful when considering an “other” category for students to choose on future surveys. Many biracial and multicultural students already feel the burden of feeling like they must Asst. Sports Editor Danny Emerman Asst. Photo Editor Elizabeth Billman Asst. Illustration Editor Cassianne Cavallaro Design Editor Nabeeha Anwar Design Editor Katie Getman Design Editor Shannon Kirkpatrick Design Editor Katelyn Marcy Design Editor Emily Steinberger Asst. Copy Editor Richard J Chang Asst. Copy Editor Christopher Cicchiello Asst. Copy Editor Andrew Crane Asst. Copy Editor Gillian Follett Asst. Copy Editor Adam Hillman Asst. Copy Editor Mandy Kraynak Asst. Video Editor Casey Tissue Asst. Video Editor Camryn Werbinski Asst. Digital Editor Izzy Bartling Asst. Digital Editor Arabdho Majumder Asst. Digital Editor Natalie Rubio-Licht

identify more with one part of their racial background than another, and filling out these surveys which are not accommodating only adds to this burden. That sort of option can become degrading and dehumanizing when feasible alternatives are not available. It sends the message that the university is unwilling to acknowledge identities that are not seen as mainstream. If efforts from the Diversity Committee are successful, students will have a better chance to be seen and will also be provided with more resources that align with their specific identities.

Feryal Nawaz is a junior political science major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at fnawaz@ syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter @feryal_nawaz.

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Conversation starter Actors will perform an ancient Greek play in Maxwell Auditorium to try and provoke conversation.

Making magic Julie’s Cauldron, in Kirkville, is hosting a witches workshop in time for Halloween.

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Charity concert The Music Teachers National Association at SU will host a fundraising concert.

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African Student Union to host show By Diana Riojas feature editor

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Helping health I Support the Girls has donated $500 to stock City Hall with menstrual products By Molly Gibbs

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eri Lawless loves underwear. She said if you feel good underneath, you’re more confident and secure. Lawless was listening to a National Public Radio story one day about a woman who collected 3,500 bras for her 35th birthday. The woman was a part of an organization called I Support the As an Girls. Lawless finished listening to the found the woman on social media organization, story, and called her about starting a chapter we want them in central New York. The collaboration came to fruition, all to feel and Lawless now runs a local chapter. empowered and Almost a year later, the organization has feel like they collected thousands of hygiene products for women. Along with the colleccan take care of tion, Syracuse’s ISTG chapter recently themselves. donated $500 worth of menstrual hygiene products to City Hall and City Hall Commons as part of a pilot prosyracuse gram for the duration of one year. chapter leader Lawless said this idea was first for i support the girls brought to her in the summer by Elizabeth Hradil, a City Hall intern who was concerned about the lack of menstrual hygiene products in the bathrooms. Hradil said she noticed that the menstrual hygiene product machines in the bathrooms at City Hall required dimes, instead of the usual quarter.

“A dime is such an obscure amount of money to have,” Hradil said. It took Hradil and two other women to find a dime to test out the machines. She said one machine was out of pads, and the other had dusty, old tampons. Hradil reached out to Lawless about collaborating on the project because she had seen the work ISTG had previously done in the community. The program began after the two met with Mayor Ben Walsh. “A lot of it was not to just get out of paying ten cents for a tampon,” Hradil said. “A lot of it was to set the precedent that this is a resource that half of our population needs.” ISTG is an international organization that collects and distributes bras, underwear, menstrual hygiene products and other products and services to women, who may not be able to access them due to poverty, homelessness or distress. Under the City Hall program, there will be small baskets in each of the 11 bathrooms, containing a few pads, tampons, panty-liners and information on where to collect more supplies if needed. Lawless said while some people may receive employee benefits from their jobs, hygiene products may not be something people can receive. According to the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides benefits to low-income individuals and households that are used to purchase food. Hygiene items are not included under the SNAP benefits. “So you might be able to get a package of hotdogs with no nutritional value, but you can’t get the tampons that you really need,” Lawless said.

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Before deciding which model will wear her clothing, designer Queen Enidiok makes sure of one thing: They have the personality to pull off the outfit. “My brand is based on royalty, so when I pick a model, I’m looking for a character that cannot just look it but depict that when they put on those clothes,” Enidiok said. This is mirrored in how the annual Rip the Runway fashion show will be presented this year. For the first time, Syracuse University’s African Student Union will be the lone host for the night. Since 2013, the event was cohosted with the Haitian American Student Association at SU. The show is at Goldstein Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 12 with a theme centered in African folktale and village community. Senior and program chair for ASU Aminata Sanogo said that models in fashion shows can seem distant and closed off. She’s encouraging the models to express their personalities during their walks. The featured collections at the show will be have designs from ASU’s own collection, from see fashion

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Syracuse professors produce folk album By Christopher Scarglato contributing writer

As the first strum begins, chords on the guitar ring out and fill the Bowne Hall classroom while Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers taps his foot, keeping the beat. He scratches his fingertips across one of the strings to signal he is finished. Rodgers teaches at Syracuse University and has played guitar since he was 12 years old. Now, Rodgers leads a folk band, The Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Band, whose latest album, “Live & Listening,” will drop on Oct 16. The band also features two other SU professors, Jason Fridley, a biology professor who plays bass and alto saxophone, and Josh Dekaney, a music professor and a percussionist. Fridley and Rodgers first met when Rodgers moved in a house next door to him in 2009. Rodgers, after seeing Fridley’s musical talent, invited him to play with his band. Dekaney met Rodgers at a see folk

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folk album Dinosaur Bar-B-Que music event on a Monday night about 10 years ago. At these nowdefunct events, people would come on stage and jam out. Rodgers also saw Dekaney at a music night, soon after he invited him to gigs, Fridley said. Eventually the two would become a duo. Dekaney is also planning to release a percussion-led album called “All the Americas.” He added his music is rooted deeply his percussions in Brazilian and jazz within. The sound of the album was originally set at a live show at the 443 Social Club & Lounge in Syracuse, Rodgers said. While in previous studio recordings, he worried about small aspects of the music like dubbing. He said producing this album was “magical” in how it came to be. The album was inspired when he was performing at a show and realized the room among other aspects could lend themselves to good audio. from page 7

donation Many states classify menstrual products and undergarments like tampons, pads and bras as luxury, taxable items, also known as the “pink tax.” CNN reported that 70% of American women use tampons, and on average a woman will use between 11,000 and 16,000 tampons in her lifetime. In June, the New York State Assembly passed legislation that would prohibit companies from charging different prices for similar products based on gender according to CBSN. The bill moved to the state senate for consideration. Ten states including Nevada, Florida, New York and Illinois have already eliminated the tax according to The New York Times. Syracuse Common Councilor At-Large Michael Greene said he supports eliminating the tax on menstrual hygiene products. “Given Syracuse’s high rate of poverty, many

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“When I got home and heard what we had gotten that I realized, like, wow, this is a lot more than just maybe some live tracks I can put out like it really is an album,” Rodgers said. He added that the entire band is connected to SU in some way. He met band member, Wendy Ramsay, at jam sessions led by SU professors. Soon after, the two would play music for a few hours in someone’s living room every month and would switch off who would lead each song. Rodgers and Ramsay currently travel around playing gigs as a duo called Pepper and Sassafras. While Pepper is Rodgers’ real middle name, Ramsay made up Sassafras as a pseudonym. All three mentioned that it was by sheer coincidence that the live album happened. It occurred after what Dekaney called “an excellent sound engineer being there that night and recording us.” Because the album was based off of a live performance, Rodgers said listeners will be able to hear the excitement and energy. “I love being able to kind of capture that and put it out there,” Rodgers said. cscargla@syr.edu

women may not have the resources to buy feminine hygiene products,” Greene said. “Making them available to all is essential for ensuring health and dignity for all of our residents.” Lawless’ goal for the program at City Hall is to expand into other municipal buildings in the city and make the city see the value in investing money into providing menstrual hygiene products. Greene said if the program is successful, it will continue beyond the one-year pilot program and possibly expand to the city’s parks and youth programming facilities. Lawless hopes to expand the ISTG Syracuse chapter into Cayuga and Oswego counties, where she said the need for access to feminine products is great. She plans to continue to expand the chapter’s programs within the city and help as many women as she can. “As an organization, we want them all to feel empowered and feel like they can take care of themselves,” Lawless said. “They can go out, and they can rule the stinking world.” mogibbs@syr.edu

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fashion show students and from professionals like Enidiok, she said. The collections will have a mix of streetwear but will also showcase wedding and formal attire, said Sanogo. Complementing the theme, the show will also have a professional storyteller retelling childhood stories often told in countries like Ghana and Nigeria, said Nneka Akukwe, the president of ASU. She added that some of the stories that will be told at the show are ones she heard as a child. Akukwe, who grew up in both Ghana and Nigeria, said a lot of the featured clothing will be based off of Ankara. This is a method in textile-making in which bright colored threads are fabricated into intricate patterns. The patterns are typically created by placing hot wax on top of the clothing which creates a barrier to stop the dye from penetrating through. Akukwe said the show pays homage to

the many cultures found in a variety of African countries. “In countries in Africa, the village is typically seen as a communal space. We want all those attending to feel as though they are either ‘back home’ or a part of one community,” Akukwe said in an email. Sanogo said one of the main purposes for the show is to share the beauty that is found in their own traditions. She said a good amount of students at SU are international or first generation, and the only time they are able to wear this kind of clothing is during weddings or formal family functions. “We want the opportunity to share this beauty with others.” said Sanogo. This show will be Enidiok’s third time being featured by ASU. What drives young people to her clothing is that it elevates people to feel like royalty, she said. “The whole point is not just to look like that for that moment, it’s to aspire to be that for the rest of your life,” Enidiok said. @TheDianaRiojas | ddriojas@syr.edu

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Game tactics evolve as Orange’s injuries begin to pile up By Eric Storms staff writer

When Nicky Adams showed up for Tuesday morning’s practice, Syracuse had just 13 available players. That number dropped one more when junior Georgia Allen had to be helped off the field to end practice. A lack of healthy players has been an issue all year for the Orange. Notre Dame, who faced SU on Friday night, had 26 healthy players on its roster and utilized 12 substitutes alone. It’s put Syracuse in a hole and the Orange have only scored one goal since August. With six games left in the season, Adams is getting even more creative with tactics to squeeze any offense possible out her short bench for the Orange (2-72, 0-3-1 Atlantic Coast) to compete. The Orange face Wake Forest on Thursday and Miami on Sunday, and Adams said that it will “probably not” have Allen available for either game. from page 12

coley on the team with 22 tackles, third in pass breakups and is one of five Syracuse (3-2, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) players to record an interception. His path to production wasn’t linear, but in his third year at SU, Coley is finally making an impact. “You look at his development, it’s one of the things that you get a lot of pleasure (out of) as a coach,” Syracuse head coach Dino Babers said. “Not only his on-field development but his physical development.” Coley estimates he’s gained about 15 pounds since his freshman year, when he was more of a “chicken with their head cut off” than a football player, he said. During SU’s summer training camp prior to his freshman season, Coley and his fellow third-stringers were clueless when they were called onto the field, behind on reads from page 12

cornell of the first four games, including three to Vermont in the season opener and two firsthalf goals to Lafayette. The backline at that point was mostly freshmen. Graham has started every game, and she was often flanked by Marie Sommer, Hailey Bitters and other less experienced backs. Passes from the back were often disconnected, missing the sticks of midfielders or rolling out of bounds. Opposing attackers found creases past the backs and toward the cage. “Before, we kind of rotated between some underclassmen in the back,” Webb said of the games before her return, “I think experience is something that you can’t really teach, even just knowing how to play together.” Webb, who had appeared in every game of her SU career before the hand injury, returned to practice the week after the Cornell game. When backs and midfielders felt tense, mis-trapped balls, fired errant passes, or were caught out of position, Webb relaxed her teammates. Whether it was a light pat on the back, a “you got this,” or just simply making eye contact, she became the leader that the Orange lacked. To Cooke, it’s not the words Webb says,

“We don’t have the personnel to,” Adams said about finishing in the final third. “You got (Kate) Hostage out, you got (Sydney) Brackett out, these are natural goal scoring forwards … (Alexandra) Panaggio is a freshman that’s hurt. (Gianna) Villoresi’s out. We don’t have true goal scorers right now in our program.” Adams has forced herself to “chop the season up” and look at little improvements the Orange is making. Every tactic she implements has to be done bit-by-bit, since she hasn’t had enough healthy players for an 11-on-11 practice at any point this season. SU’s first-year head coach has started five in the back in the past two games. Despite allowing 23 shots against No. 6 Florida State, the backline held together and only gave up one goal. In a 3-0 loss to Notre Dame, Adams believed they only gave up “one really good goal” with the other two a result of simple mistakes, such as not front-

ing a defender on a throw in and dribbling out of the back with no help. Against Florida State, Syracuse would almost always clear rather than start an attack. But against the Fighting Irish, they connected on more passes to push the ball up despite no shots officially being recorded in 90 minutes of play. But an effective counter often requires fresher legs, something that’s hard for the Orange to find. SU has faced an average of over six substitutions per game, while it averages three. Freshman forward Teri Jackson has appeared off the bench in each ACC game to provide speed. Midfielder Stephanie deLaforcade said coaches have told her to focus on bringing energy, not only with her play, but with her voice when she sets foot on the field. Defender Clarke Brown has attempted to play forward in transition, but when she was open several times against Notre Dame, Adams said the Orange dribbled back into

pressure instead of passing out. “Even though we have only a few subs, we really make ourselves seem bigger than we are,” deLaforcade said. “We’re mentally checked in because we know when it’s time for us to go in, we need to be strong.” Adams suggested the Orange would go back to its traditional back four this weekend and Shannon Aviza would take Allen’s place at midfield, her natural position. According to Adams, goals will likely come in one of three ways — taking more aggressive shots at the top of the box, off set pieces or on the counter attack. Syracuse hasn’t been able to sustain possession in the opposition half since conference play started. “I don’t care if we lose the rest of the season but we’re not going to drop off, give up and throw the towel in,” Adams said. “I don’t care if we have to play nine players, we’re gonna still do it, it’s just a part of who we are right now.”

and the speed of practice. He’s also been forced to play different positions throughout his three years at Syracuse, first starting at free safety before playing strong safety last season. What was at first a difficult transition has become second nature for Coley, who’s been vital as a versatile defensive back for the Orange. “There are some times when I could be lined up on the field and I’m sitting there like, ‘wait a second, I gotta be lined up over here,’” Coley said. “I’ll forget that I’m playing one of the positions.” Coley didn’t start playing defense until his final year of high school, when he began playing rover in addition to running back at Fayetteville-Manlius High School. He had moved to New York during the middle of his junior year, when Reynolds was hired as SU’s defensive line coach. “What I need to get better on, (most people)

probably wouldn’t tell me to my face,” Coley said. “He’s not afraid to tell me and be real. You want that, at the end of the day, you don’t want anybody to steer you wrong.” The first game of Coley’s senior season was in the Carrier Dome for the Express Mart Kick-Off Classic, in which he ran for 218 yards and recorded three touchdowns. He’d have to wait a few years to play a meaningful role in another game at the Carrier Dome. The best game of Coley’s Syracuse career came a few weeks ago against Western Michigan, at the peak of SU’s rash of defensive back injuries. The redshirt sophomore finished the game with four tackles in the fourth quarter alone, capping off his performance with an interception on WMU’s final drive, the first of his career. The pick was “surreal” for Coley, who received a number of congratulatory texts from former high school coaches after the game. He fell down untouched after

seven yards, earning himself some jabs from Babers and his teammates. “I think he would’ve had a touchdown if he’d have went to the left, but oh well,” Babers said after the game. “He’s gonna have to live with that. I’ve got to get a replay for that one so I can keep it on my phone, if he gets out of line.” Coley earned the most playing time he’d ever received last week against Holy Cross and finished third on the team with a career-high six tackles. To stay engaged on the sideline during games he wasn’t expected to play in, Coley used to keep his helmet strapped and paid attention to defensive play calls. Now, he’s playing in those games. “You make the right decisions, you do everything right off the field, then things will go right on the field,” Coley said. “You just have a peace that everything’s gonna be okay.”

but “the tone of her voice.” Webb’s composure instills confidence in Cooke that she’ll make the right decision next time around. “We got Claire Webb back and that’s a big help, solidifying a lot of calm and composure in the backfield and maturity,” head coach Ange Bradley said of the Orange’s improvement. Against Duke, the Orange were outshot by 12 in the first half and were on the brink of being blown out. But Webb ensured that Syracuse stuck to Bradley’s words. She reminded them of the game plan: A tough and in-their-face defense against the Blue Devils that would put the opposing backs under pressure. That press, in the second overtime, forced a Blue Devil pass onto the stick of de Vries near the shooting circle. The freshman routinely slotted the ball into the cage, giving SU a 2-1, signature win over the then-No. 2 team in the nation. A few days after beating Duke, Webb stood with her back to J.S. Coyne Stadium. Her hair pinned back on a cloudy day, she remembered back to sitting on the sideline during the Cornell game – coaching, fetching balls when they went out of bounds and encouraging teammates. Webb paused as she looked down at the rocks on the road. “We’ve come a long way since then,” Webb continued, “But we still have more to go.” adhillma@syr.edu | @_adamhillman

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