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For Remembrance Week, Syracuse University will host a variety of events to honor the memories of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103.

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FADS’ fashion show “Biotic Wonders” will focus on climate change and humanity, as designers utilize recycled clothing materials and eco-friendly building methods for the show.

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With five games remaining in the season, The Daily Orange’s football beat writers look into Syracuse football’s season so far and preview what’s next.

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Cadets remember

DeVito to enter transfer portal

By Connor Smith

asst. sports editor

(LEFT TO RIGHT) MADELINE MESSARE, MADELEINE GORDON AND ELIZABETH BILLMAN represent Richard Paul Monetti, Sarah S.B. Philipps and Timothy M. Cardwell respectively. emily steinberger editor-in-chief

For the first time, three ROTC cadets are Remembrance Scholars, honoring the lives of students who died in Pan Am Flight 103 attacks

By Karoline Leonard asst. news editor

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or three Remembrance Scholars, looking back and acting forward plays a special role in their lives as they connect ROTC to Pan Am Flight 103.

Syracuse University’s 32nd Remembrance Week started on Sunday, Oct. 17 and will last until Saturday, Oct, 23. SU chooses 35 seniors each year as Remembrance Scholars to represent the 35 students killed by the attack, an act of terrorism that led to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland.

Three of these scholars are female ROTC cadets at SU. This is the first time in the scholarship’s history that three ROTC cadets have been selected as Remembrance Scholars, and the first time that three female ROTC cadets have been selected for the scholarship program.

“It’s amazing that we’re all going to be female soldiers in the military,” said Madeline Messare, who represents Richard “Rick” Paul Monetti as a Remembrance Scholar. “We’re all trying to give back to the community and make a positive change. The selfless service that’s supposed to encompass being in the military for us doesn’t just start when we commission as officers, it starts now.”

Messare said that representing Monetti has heightened her sense of purpose, pushing her to advocate for mental health in the military and start a petition for SU to grant scholarships to refugees from Afghanistan. “(I learned) from a young age that what you don’t hand back, you pass on, and grieving trauma is not passive but active and necessary for all healing,” Messare said. “(With) ROTC, especially, there’s a lot of trauma and horrific events that you observe within the military that

you are forced to recover from.”

Messare said she believes mental health is highly stigmatized in the military and in law enforcement. She uses the motto for Remembrance Scholars — “Look Back, Act Forward” — as motivation to bring awareness to the topic.

“Looking back on trauma and acting forward by educating and supporting others, coping with their past experiences and helping them refocus their energy towards a promising future, which is what I think this scholarship is all about,” she said.

Messare said she also uses the Remembrance Scholarship and ROTC as motivation for her activism.

“My social psychology professor once said, ‘People are capable of behavior that’s shockingly brutal, they are also capable of behavior that is shockingly selfless and altruistic.’ I think this scholarship represents that,” Messare said. “Hatred is often a by-product of trauma, and we need to reshape that narrative. And that’s what I am trying to do in the military, and that’s what I try to do every day just in my life.”

Madeleine Gordon, a Remembrance Scholar representing Sarah S.B. Philipps, shared a similar motive, saying that the motto of “Look Back, Act Forward” has led her to have a new perspective on grieving terrorist attacks and events. Gordon said that terrorism divides communities and people, but grieving and educating one another can unite people.

“Our military has been defined for the past few decades by the global war on terror. Unfortunately, we can expect that type of violence to continue to occur in our world,” Gordon said. “Acts of terrorism are important to be educated on. It’s important to understand the impact that they have.”

“That’s what’s really special about the Remembrance Scholarship.

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Syracuse quarterback Tommy DeVito announced Sunday night he’s entering the transfer portal, according to a post on his Twitter. The Cedar Grove, New Jersey, native was the Orange’s starting quarterback in 2019, 2020 and for the first three games of this season, but he lost the starting job to Garrett Shrader ahead of SU’s game against Liberty. DeVito has two years of eligibility left.

DeVito arrived at Syracuse as a heralded, 4-star prospect who was ranked one of the top ten pro-style quarterbacks by ESPN and 247 Sports. After redshirting in 2017 he sat behind Eric Dungey in 2018, coming off the bench in eight games as the lead backup. DeVito finished the season with 525 passing yards, and he filled in for Dungey in key wins against Florida State and UNC. After Dungey graduated in 2018, DeVito became the natural successor at quarterback, and SU was ranked in the preseason AP Top 25 poll. But DeVito led the Orange to a disappointing 5-7 record after starting in 11 games.

In his junior season last year, DeVito started the first four games of the season before suffering a seasonending leg injury against Duke. The Orange didn’t win another game the rest of the season after head coach Dino Babers tried to replace DeVito with backups Rex Culpepper and Jacobian Morgan.

DeVito immediately faced competition for the starting job when Shrader announced his decision to transfer to SU last December. The two went through a battle for the job during training camp, but DeVito kept his starting spot due in part to his preexisting knowledge of the offense, Babers said.

After leading the Orange to a 29-9 win over Ohio, DeVito struggled against Rutgers, and Syracuse’s offense recorded just seven points after the quarterback threw for 149 yards on 15-for-26 throwing.

Against UAlbany, DeVito threw only nine passes before being replaced

by Shrader. The following week, SU took on Liberty and Babers made the move to start Shrader instead.

DeVito said on ESPN radio that he was “shocked” about the decision.

DeVito becomes the third notable Syracuse player to enter the transfer portal, following wide receiver Taj Harris and running back Jarveon Howard. @csmith17_ csmith49@syr.edu

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iSchool offers applied data analytics degree Here are ceremonies lined up this week

By Francis Tang asst. copy editor

The School of Information Studies has seen students pursue a new degree in applied data analytics, which is offered as both a major and minor.

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The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University introduced the new applied data analytics program this fall, housing a new field of study in Hinds Hall.

Students who choose applied data analytics as their major have the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Science degree and have the option to pursue a master’s through the iSchool’s accelerated Fast Track format, which allows undergraduate students to complete graduate credits to kick-start their desired master’s program.

The program offers innovative approaches through hands-on learning and familiarization with artificial intelligence tools to develop the skills needed for careers in data science.

It aims to instruct students on how to collect, analyze and present data effectively and efficiently through the use of visual and computational data science methods.

Students can also expect to develop and enhance sought-after

technical skills such as R and Python programming languages.

The program allows students to delve into all aspects of data analytics: big data analytics, data mining, information visualization, data in society and information reporting and presentation.

As the job market continues to advance technologically, students of data science and analytics are becoming more and more in demand, according to the program’s webpage.

“The stars were aligned around the applied data analytics major,” said Bruce Kingma, professor of entrepreneurship and director of undergraduate programs at the iSchool.

Over the next 10 years, according to the webpage, jobs in the field of data science are projected to increase by 31% as data becomes increasingly necessary to power critical decision-making across industries. The applied data analytics program, offered as both a major and minor, aims to equip students with the skills needed to enter the increasingly diverse world of datadriven industry.

“It’s night and day, the tools that are available. But that means you’ve got to learn how to correctly use those tools to make predictions on the data.” Kingma said.

Data is used in numerous fields, such as sports science, healthcare, performing arts and economics, Kingma said. iSchool faculty formulated the structure and contents of the program curriculum from August to October 2020. After the university administration and New York state approved the program, it officially launched for the fall 2021 semester.

“We’re all in on a set of courses and faculty in data analytics,” Kingma said, emphasizing the experience and expertise the iSchool faculty bring to the table, especially surrounding data science. He referred to the team of faculty as a group of people who will lead the program and set students up for success.

When asked about the value of the program for new and current students, Kingma highlighted the growing practicality around data analytics.

“Any employer that has data and

wants to do a better job of decisionmaking on that data would be wise to hire one of these graduates,” Kingma said.

The iSchool has already seen a surge of students interested in the applied data analytics program.

Caleb Welsh, a junior who switched his major from information technology management to applied data analytics this fall, is one of these students.

“Personally I chose to switch because I’m minoring in marketing, and I actually wanted to go more into that field. I think the applied data analytics major complements that well,” Welsh said.

Welsh echoed Kingma’s sentiment of the versatility of pursuing an academic study of data science when going into the career field.

“I think it gives a more diversified range of careers you can acquire than just the ITM (information technology management) major alone, and I’m excited to see where this program leads me,” Welsh said. jjstreck@syr.edu

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SU honors alumnus and veteran James Lyons

By Francis Tang asst. copy editor

Syracuse University held a ceremony on Friday to formally introduce 1st Lt. James Lyons into the Hall of Honor at the university’s National Veterans Resource Center.

The ceremony — held by retired Army Col. Ron Novack, the executive director of SU’s Office of Veteran and Military Affairs — started at 4 p.m. on Friday. Chancellor Kent Syverud and his wife, Ruth Chen, were also present.

Lyons, a Rochester native and an SU alumnus who graduated in 2003, was killed in Baghdad at the age of 28 in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2006.

He was a recipient of the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Meritorious Service Medal, among other honors.

During his years at SU, Lyons was a biochemistry major and an

active member of SU Ambulance and ROTC. He was also a member of SU’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

“I’m grateful for the opportunity ... to know James, because what comes with knowing is a deeper understanding of his service and of a sacrifice and of his citizenship,” said Mike Haynie, the vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation, in his remarks during the ceremony.

“One of the most profound and important ways to honor the service of those fallen dressed in the cloth of our nation is by telling and retelling those stories.”

Lyons’ parents, Robert and Marcia Lyons, and his former fiancee, Hillary Trent, unveiled a new panel in honor of Lyons during the ceremony. The new panel will “permanently memorialize him at Syracuse University,” and “ensure that future Syracuseans will know his story,”

Novack said.

Robert said the support from the SU community in honor of his son is “almost overwhelming.”

“It’s something that I never dreamed would happen,” Robert said during the ceremony. “It’s going to be something that we will remember fondly.”

During an interview with The Daily Orange, Trent recalled when she and Lyons watched the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. It pushed Lyons to choose to serve his country and changed the trajectory of his life, she said.

“What you have to do is — and I hope that you will — to take a small part of his spirit, put it in your heart, and keep it,” said Spencer Kennedy, a family friend of the Lyons’, during the ceremony. “Because that’s what I did from that day that I stood in front of all those folks at that

church. I knew that it would be in there forever.”

After Lyons died, Trent and DKE fraternity member Marc Klein — who both graduated from SU — established the James Lyons ’03 Sons and Daughters Memorial Scholarship Fund at the university.

The scholarship provides help to children of fallen and wounded soldiers, Trent said.

The Lyons family hopes the new panel will serve as a permanent memorial for him.

“This is a way that he will be remembered long after we’re not around anymore,” Robert told The D.O. “I hope that his infectious smile that you see on the picture and his willing(ness) to serve is an inspiration to others to follow in his footsteps.” @francis_towne btang05@syr.edu

Syracuse University will resume the annual obser vance of Remembrance Week this year, commemorating the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist attack, after canceling it last year due to the pandemic.

This year marks the 33rd anniversary of the attack which killed 270 people — including 35 SU students returning from a study abroad program — on December 21, 1988.

Each year, SU chooses 35 seniors as Remembrance Scholars — one of the highest honors for undergraduate students — to represent the 35 SU students who lost their lives in the attack 33 years ago. Their mission is to educate the SU community about terrorism and to honor the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Two Lockerbie Scholars are also selected every year from Lockerbie, Scotland, to study at SU for one year.

Remembrance Week will last from Sunday, Oct. 17 to Saturday, Oct. 23.

Here are the ceremonies that will take place throughout the week.

All week

35 Empty Seats Display - the Quad There will be 35 seats placed on the Quad, which represent the 35 SU students who lost their lives on board Pan Am Flight 103. The seats are arranged in the same way the 35 students on board the flight sat in. The exhibition serves as a reminder to look back and act forward.

Remembering Through Multimedia - Schine Student Center A video display, which includes videos from alumni, statements from current Remembrance Scholars, news coverages from the events and photo slideshows, will be held at Schine, according to SU’s Remembrance Week webpage.

A Drive to Remember - Schine Room 232 The Remembrance Scholars will host a clothing drive in support of the Afghan refugees in the city of Syracuse. Community members can drop off items for the clothing drive now until Oct. 22 at deans’ offices or 232 Schine.

Illumination - Hall of Languages and Hendricks Chapel The two buildings will be lit blue in observance of Remembrance Week.

Sunday, Oct. 17

4 p.m. Music and Message Hendricks Chapel The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars held Sunday’s events in collaboration with Hendricks Chapel. The events addressed hope, resilience and action confronting grief and tragedy, according to the Remembrance Week homepage.

6:15 p.m. Candlelight Vigil Place of Remembrance Attendees each lit a candle in honor of the people who died in the bombing.

The Remembrance Scholars typically share stories of the students they represent and what Remembrance Week see remembrance page 4

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Democrats work to flip Republican county legislature

By Nick Robertson senior staff writer

Common Councilor Joe Driscoll has had enough of Republicans running the Onondaga County Legislature, like they have for over 40 years. The county’s budget is over five times larger than Syracuse’s, and it is responsible for county social services and the health department.

“If we had a Democratic majority, or could at least break the Republican supermajority, so (County Executive) Ryan McMahon would have to negotiate with the Democrats, we can get some more leverage and get some more resources to make the region more equitable,” Driscoll said.

This election cycle, Legislature Minority Leader Linda Ervin asked Driscoll to lead the Democratic Party’s effort to win seats in November. He agreed and decided to take a different approach to previous efforts and create a centralized organization to help candidates. Flip the Leg brings together a board of progressive and moderate Democrats from the city and county to from page 1

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Here we are, decades later, and we’re still honoring the fallen. We are still actively remembering, educating and moving forward.”

Gordon said that remembrance and grief have long impacted her life, as an ROTC cadet and as a Jewish woman. She said she sees the Remembrance Scholars and ROTC as the two biggest service communities on campus.

Gordon said that she has been able to connect her experiences with the Remembrance Scholarship program.

“You live to honor those that you’ve lost.

I’ve had people in my family — I’ve had people in my religious community — who have been incredibly affected by incredibly tragic events, like the Holocaust,” she said. “I have seen how

work together, despite policy differences.

The Flip the Leg board is drawn from Driscoll’s experience organizing for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign where he made inroads in local progressive politics.

Driscoll’s experience as a politician, both in Syracuse Common Council and as a notable member of the Onondaga County Democratic Committee, also gave him connections in establishment circles.

“We’ve never had all the sides that disagree with each other in the same room,” Driscoll said.

“This time, it’s the progressives and the party elders all pulling the rope in the same direction.”

Republicans currently hold 11 of the legislature’s 17 seats, a supermajority. That advantage means that if the 11 Republicans vote together, they can pass legislation without even consulting Democrats. While legislation usually needs to go through a committee where all members could comment on it, members can also introduce legislation during a voting session with a party-line vote. That’s become common practice, said Democratic County Legislator Peggy

Chase of the 9th District, which includes the Syracuse University campus. “(Democrats’) hands are tied with pretty much anything that we want to get through,” Chase said. “Frequently, we do not hear about projects or resolutions that (Republicans are) trying to bring up until practically a minute before we have to deal with them. It’s not how the process is supposed to be.”

“The number of volunteers that the candidates have is, by a long shot, stronger than we’ve ever seen,” he said. “We’re hitting the doors, and people are excited about the message. About more accountability, more transparency, focusing more on services. We’re seeing a lot of excitement, a lot of progress.”

That support is being felt by candidates as well, according to 3rd District candidate Matt Johnson. Johnson, who is 20 years old, is making his first run at elected office after managing Rita Paniagua’s successful Common Council campaign in 2019.

Flip the Leg creates an organizing space for candidates to coordinate campaigns,

Driscoll said, allowing them to better use their resources, gain more volunteers and donations and make their fight for elected office easier.

Now the group’s weekly meetings are about 15 people, with many volunteers coming in and out over time. They help volunteers knock on doors, send out mailers and pass out flyers to support candidates.

“We’ve got the old, traditional wisdom and the new wisdom all conferring together and meeting once a week to talk about ideas,” Driscoll said.

While Chase and Driscoll have doubts about taking back the majority, they said they believe Democrats have a shot at at least ensuring that Republicans no longer have a supermajority in the legislature. Driscoll has his eyes on four seats which could flip this year, he said. Those seats would ensure that Republicans would need to negotiate with Democrats on policy instead of being able to vote on items without Democrats even seeing the legislation, Chase said.

it has brought us closer … You can draw connections to the strength community, and you can make something beautiful from even the darkest moments in life.”

Elizabeth Billman, who represents ROTC cadet Timothy M. Cardwell, said that being a woman in ROTC has had a profound effect on her life and her experience as a Remembrance Scholar.

Billman said she wants to make sure that the ROTC community on campus knows and remembers Cardwell and his legacy in the ROTC program at SU. She also said that being a Remembrance Scholar is all about honoring the people killed in the attack.

“We recognize the amazing things that all of these young people … did in their short time,” she said. “We could have been those people. (We need to continue) looking back at all their accom

plishments and making sure that their names are not forgotten.”

For Gordon, being a Remembrance Scholar is the biggest honor she could have received.

Gordon said that each Remembrance Scholar has its own lifestyle that celebrates each of the 35 students.

“Such a big part of what we do as Remembrance Scholars is just keeping, retaining those memories and using them to propel yourself forward and propel the community forward,” she said. “So many of the scholars are just described as these incredibly vibrant, creative, loving, caring people. And I think that’s what really brings (the victims) to life.”

Gordon said that Philipps was a passionate student with an enthusiastic personality and that everybody described her as “radiating beauty inside and out.” She said that reading about Philipps keeps her memory alive and has allowed her to honor her even more.

Gordon said the Remembrance Scholarship has motivated her to pursue a career in the military and hopes to carry Philipps’ enthusiasm into the rest of her life.

“The biggest thing that I can promote as a leader is empathy. … That’s something

I will carry with me, and of course, that general enthusiasm for life,” she said. “I want to bring as much good into the world as I can.”

Billman, Gordon and Messare each represent three victims who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist attack, but they also demonstrate the strength of the women in ROTC and the military. They each said that it is no coincidence that three female cadets were chosen to represent three victims of the terrorist attack.

“It’s like the message of resilience and trying to push through being female too and trying to make a difference within the community,” Messare said. “It’s hard being in a male-dominated field. But I think all of us are really strong women that have really pushed to be able to make positive change in our surrounding communities.”

DISCLAIMER: Elizabeth Billman is a senior staff photographer for The Daily Orange. She does not influence the editorial content of the News section in her capacity as a senior staff photographer.

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The exhibition will present selections of media coverage of the bombing and disaster, investigative, trial, and victims’ service records, SU memorials materials and personal belongings donated by the victims’ families. The SU libraries have a collection of archives from the attack and the afterward, and this event is open to the public.

2:03 p.m. Rose-Laying Ceremony Place of Remembrance Rose-laying at the Place of Remembrance has been a long tradition in honor of the Pan Am Flight 130 victims on SU campus. The ceremony will be held at 2:03 p.m. — the exact time Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002, in addition to the 270 people who died in the attack. The ceremony will be livestreamed, and registration is required.

3 p.m. Remembrance Scholar Convocation - Hendricks Chapel The annual convocation will honor the 202122 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars. The ceremony will be livestreamed, and registration is required.

remembrance means to them.

Monday, Oct. 18

Noon “Sitting in Solidarity” - the Quad The scholars will sit in the 35 empty seats — arranged by the seats that the 35 students they represent were sitting in on Pan Am Flight 103 — on the Quad for 35 minutes. Though SU has held the seating display for years, the scholars only recently began sitting in the chairs as a way to humanize the students who died in the attack.

7 p.m. “IMPACT” screening - Bird Library Room 114 There will be a screening of the play “IMPACT,” written and acted by SU alumnus Amy Engel hardt. Following the virtual show, there will be an open discussion with Engelhardt and Remembrance Scholar Caleb Sheedy.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

7:30 p.m. “Seat 20D” screening - Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall The documentary presents the story of Suse Lowenstein, mother of SU student and victim Alexander Lowenstein, who studied English at SU, according to On Eagles Wings. Alexander sat in seat 20D on Pan Am 103.

Thursday, Oct. 21

7:30 p.m. — 9 p.m. Celebration of Life Schine Room 304 A, B and C The victims’ families and the current scholars will present music, poetry, art and dancing in honor and celebration of the victims and their lives.

Friday, Oct. 22

10 a.m. — noon, Pan Am Flight 103 / Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives PopUp Exhibition - Bird Library Room 606

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Post-Remembrance Week Events Friday, Oct. 29

4:30 — 6 p.m. Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars Alumni Gathering, Noble Room - Hendricks Chapel Hendricks Chapel will host a gathering for alumni and students. Registration is required.

10 a.m. Race to Remember - Check-in at Schine on the Einhorn Family Walk The final event of Remembrance Week is a 3.5-mile run to remember the lives lost. Proceeds will support the Remembrance Scholarship Fund. Check and registration will begin at 9 a.m., and registration is required. @francis_towne btang05@syr.edu

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Professors must have a say in SU’s COVID-19 restrictions

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ince early August, the Syracuse University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors has heard from members and other faculty about serious concerns regarding COVID-19 safety. We have repeatedly communicated these concerns to the SU Public Health Team and other members of the university administration.

The concerns of faculty have been repeatedly ignored or dismissed, sometimes in flatly disrespectful ways. We find this refusal to answer basic questions from an elected group of faculty representatives a stunning rebuke of basic norms of shared governance (which is one of AAUP’s key principles).

Accordingly, we have decided the best approach is to bring our concerns to a public forum. We have three specific demands that reflect the priorities of our members as well as many other faculty and staff colleagues across campus.

First, the university must do a better job being transparent and clear in its communications and decision-making regarding COVID19 protocols on campus. For example, it is not clear to many faculty or students what procedures are actually being followed when there is a positive case in a classroom.

The university has publicly released protocols, but we know from experi-

ence as faculty teaching in these classrooms that these procedures are not consistently being followed in practice.

Contact tracing in the classroom, while promised, is not always happening.

Members of the Public Health Team should host regular open meetings to listen to concerns and answer questions from faculty, staff and students rather than dismiss them as arising from anxiety and ignorance. Given the complexity of an emergent situation, in which there are still many unknowns, we clearly need better communication, dialogue and mutual respect.

Second, the university must give faculty control over their own classrooms, for both public health and pedagogical reasons. AAUP does not endorse the decisions by some of our faculty colleagues to refuse to wear masks in classrooms at the “RED” COVID level. Indoor masking is a basic precaution that everyone should take in a classroom.

However, it is a core AAUP principle that faculty have “primary responsibility” over issues including “subject matter and methods of instruction.”

Faculty are the ones who best know the conditions of our individual classrooms. We are the ones who stand at the front of either a jam-packed or well-spaced room, who open windows or don’t have any windows open. It is the faculty who know when too many students in our class are absent due to COVID-19

protocols and would be better served by a temporary move to Zoom.

In short, it is faculty who know what classroom rules will best protect us and our students and what rules will create the best learning experience for our students. The administration should encourage faculty to institute and enforce classroom rules that go above the floor of indoor masking — including temporary moves to Zoom and an indoor mask mandate that does not change with the university’s color-coded scheme — to fulfill our responsibilities as educators.

Finally, the university must embrace an ethic of care when it comes to addressing the varied needs of faculty, staff and students during this trying time. Many faculty members, including those with unvaccinated children, elderly parents at home or in the area, or other at-risk family members, have needs that are not addressed by the university’s rigid refusal to permit online teaching during the pandemic for anyone who does not fit the narrow standards set forth by the Americans with Disabilities Act. An accommodation to teach online should be a decision made between faculty and chairs with their specific knowledge of the departmental, classroom and curricular implications. There is no need to require faculty to appeal to the upper echelons of the Provost’s or ADA office in order to receive this basic measure of institutional support.

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Faculty do not all have the same risk factors in their lives and negotiating those risks can take a heavy toll on mental health. The administration must respect the different needs of our different faculty and enact an ethic of care at the university.

Despite the university’s treatment of faculty and dismissal of faculty concerns during this pandemic, we have heard great enthusiasm from faculty who are energized by being back in their classrooms. We are all eager to put the pandemic behind us and engage more fully in the joys of communal activities in the classroom and outside of it. But we must acknowledge both the very real persistence of pandemic dangers for our community

as well as the varied needs and circumstances of our faculty colleagues.

Our concerns are driven by our commitments to provide an education that is lively and relevant, engaged with the world around us, and embedded in a context defined by respect and compassion. Accordingly, we demand a commitment to greater transparency and clearer communications from the administration, embrace of an ethic of care that reflects the varied needs of our community and encouragement of faculty policies that raise the bar on public health, safety and pedagogical practices in our classrooms.

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Attack on Marshall Street, violence should not be tolerated

By Evan Butow columnist

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ecently, a person was assaulted by multiple others near Marshall street. Videos circulating on social media show three people violently drag and kick a person, who witnesses said is a person of color, in front of Huntington Hall right off of Marshall Street.

There is no place for this type of violence in the SU community and there should be a legitimate investigation into this horrific incident. This entire situation is massively disappointing.

There should be no room for hate or violence in this community. To attack a person, especially as violently as this person was attacked, is unacceptable. It should not happen or be tolerated.

Additionally, the actions — or inaction — of those present is disappointing at best. Videos taken after the assault show Syracuse police officers responding to the scene. Brian Cohen, a freshman who witnessed the assault said that the responding officers would not take any statements from witnesses.

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Orange, a spokesperson for the Syracuse Police Department said, “There was a fight call on Friday night, the victim was uncooperative.”

To show up to the scene of an assault and refuse to take statements from witnesses is extremely disheartening.

SPD’s mission statement is “to prevent crime, enforce the laws, and understand the needs of the community, while providing professional service with ethical treatment for everyone.” Their behavior on Friday seems unfitting to their alleged goals.

In an email from SU Sunday evening, Bobby Maldonado, chief of Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety, and Allen Groves, senior vice president for the student experience, said that they have not yet identified the people involved and therefore cannot confirm if they are SU students. If they are, the email said, they could face interim suspension as well as referral to SPD and the Office of Community Standards .

The people shown in the video attacking the man, if they are SU students, should be expelled as quickly as possible. SPD needs to

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Senior hosts concert in Bird

Earthly designs

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The Fashion and Design Society wants to directly address climate change in its show

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ace Williams plans to recycle earth-tone clothes in his designs for the Fashion and Design Society’s upcoming show. He is excited to incorporate his newfound skill of working with textiles into designing pieces for the show.

“Being a fashion design major, I’m just getting into a textiles class where we basically discuss natural fibers and natural things in fashion and resources,” Williams said. “So, basically having this all earthy, organic fashion show really helps me to exhibit what I’ve learned.”

FADS’ first in-person runway show since 2019, “Biotic Wonders,” is about using natural elements and organic patterns in fashion

design. The fashion designers making the clothes are encouraged to use recycled or sustainably sourced materials in their clothing designs.

The theme for the early-December show centers around climate change and humanity. Senior Jessie Zhai, co-president of FADS and creative director for “Biotic Wonders,” said that the committees working on the show came to the decision for the theme unanimously. When the committees presented their ideas, they were all somewhat the same as what Zhai had in mind.

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Documentary frames skateboarding as artwork

By Sydney Pollack asst. culture editor

Cheryl Dunn’s 2002 short “Licking the Bowl,” on view at the Everson Museum of Art, frames skateboarding as something new: not just an artform, but an artwork.

The 15-minute film follows a community of skaters that formed around a skate bowl built into

the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio, where Dunn was completing an art residency.

The bowl was built into the gallery so the underbelly was visible to visitors, who could walk under and around it, hearing the voices and skateboards echo from the disembodied skaters above them.

The film medium bridges multiple senses; it’s both sound and feel, per-

formance and participatory.

Visitors and local skaters were welcomed to the kidney-shaped bowl during gallery hours. In the video, the skaters seem to be putting on a show for each other and for the visitors watching them roll up and down the bowl. But they weren’t just watching — they were listening to it too.

The film starts with Sonic

Youth’s “Edges,” an experimental music collage of clinking metal, droning voice and microphone feedback. The words “positive manifestation of noise within contemporary culture” f lash on the screen, all lowercase.

The music and the words on the screen set a tone: “Licking the Bowl” is about noise. The bowl

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Hosting a concert in a library may seem counterintuitive, but senior Jackson Siporin knows how to pull it off. Siporin’s inaugural Tiny Desk Cuse concert featuring singer-songwriter Erin Manion took place in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor of Bird Library on Thursday evening.

Siporin, a senior known for his work as the saxophonist in NONEWFRIENDS., created the project through the Blackstone LaunchPad. “I’ve been saying since my freshman year, especially as a musician myself, we need more places to play on campus that are cool,” Siporin said.

“That’s what I’m trying to start here.”

Tiny Desk Cuse is a live and virtual experience showcasing student musicians in a stripped-down setting — a small concert venue with minimal audio technology. Siporin took inspiration from NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert” series, which features prominent musicians playing live versions of hit songs in a small space.

Siporin said he wants to host concerts weekly and film the shows to upload online, and he plans to upload the recording for Thursday’s show by Sunday. He hopes to grow an online audience this semester and he’s not as concerned with building an inperson audience, especially given the university’s current COVID19 restrictions.

At Thursday’s concert, the atmosphere was homey but electric. Lit by fairy lights and dimmed studio lighting, the room was a cozy but cool setting for the show, aligning perfectly with Siporin’s vision. The titular tiny desk was outfitted with Stevie Wonder and Donna Summer records as well as a slew of knick knacks, from a plaque proclaiming “I am the boss” to a small and sparkly pumpkin.

Behind the desk, Manion sat in between guitarist Peter Groppe and audio engineer Jack Harrington. Manion and Groppe engaged with the minimal audience as about 10 students filed into the room, cracking jokes and warming up for the show. In the casual environment, the audience and performers were able to chat, adding to the intimacy of the event.

Manion, Groppe and Harrington are all seniors in the Setnor School of Music and friends of Siporin’s. Siporin reached out to Manion as the inaugural Tiny Desk guest with the intention of showcasing Manion’s talent in a new light.

“I know Erin’s shows are usually really crazy,” Siporin said. “This was just a really cool opportunity to see Erin in an acoustic setting.”

Manion and Groppe kicked off the show with a cover of American rock band Pinegrove’s song “Waveform.” Manion cited Pinegrove as one of her musical influences and favorite bands, which is see tiny

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the same way,” Zhai said.

The creative director’s inspiration comes from Neri Oxman, an AmericanIsraeli designer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. Zhai watched Oxman on season two of Netflix’s “Abstract: The Art of Design.”

Her work combines biology, technology and design. The way that Oxman works resonated with Zhai after watching the show.

The specifics and details of “Biotic Wonders” are evolving as all the different teams work to bring all the components together as a cohesive final product. Right now, the set designers are in the process of figuring out how to create a set that works with the theme and complements the clothes without drawing attention away from the designs, fifth-year architecture major Lainey Marra said.

Marra is jumping into her first show with FADS as the director of set design for “Biotic Wonders.” She’s hoping that her team can build a set in the most eco-friendly way possible, using recycled materials or ones that can be returned to whomever they’re borrowed from. Marra said the team’s goal is to create a set without creating waste, as to go along with the show’s theme.

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tiny desk why she chose the track as the first of four in her set.

The other three songs of Manion and Groppe’s set included an acoustic cover of Nirvana’s “All Apologies,” in the style of the band’s MTV “Unplugged” acoustic performance of the song, as well as two of Manion’s original songs, “Feeling Woodstock” and “Movies.”

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“The only thing that’s kind of like a step into the unknown is (that) I’ve designed a set before for a video production, but I’ve never been to a fashion show. So there’s just a lot of learning,” Marra said. “I think in a way that’s maybe the most exciting part because it’s an opportunity to learn about all of that.”

The planning process of the show is still in its early stages. Williams is figuring out which materials he wants to use to make his designs. Last year, it took him about 100 hours to make two pieces. This year, he estimates he’s going to spend 300-400 hours on his four designs.

The location of the fashion show is still to be determined, but fashion designers have sent in their final submissions for decisions to be made. Once the place is chosen, Marra and her set design team can get to work designing and building the set. She and her team are responsible for both large and small aspects of the show, including the sourcing and use of materials, lighting and seating layout, Marra said.

Having an in-person fashion show is a change for Williams, and he finds it both exciting and scary. He’s used to doing shows virtually, because as an SU sophomore, it’s all he’s known.

Last year, FADS had more freedom because everything was recorded, which allowed for the ability to reshoot and edit out slip-ups.

But generally, everyone in FADS is excited to return to in-person shows, Zhai said.

“Biotic Wonders” and the spring show will be Zhai’s last shows with FADS before she

graduates in May. “I wanted to make it good. I wanted to make it memorable, leave some memories for the people who can come afterwards, and they can tell the new members about the show after we graduate,” Zhai said.

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she thought would be popular for the audience and appropriate for the setting.

Despite the acoustic instrumentals, Manion and Groppe managed to pack power in their performance, delivering passionate and emotive renditions of the four tracks. Groppe said that he and Manion only practiced twice in preparation for the show, but he emphasized how naturally he and Manion play together.

The concert ran for just under a half hour, with Manion and Groppe pausing to chat

with the audience briefly in between songs.

At the show’s conclusion, the small crowd erupted in applause. Groppe said the audience is his favorite part of performing live.

“The best part about a thing like this is being able to interact with the crowd a little bit, especially in a smaller setting. It feels more intimate — having people three feet away from you is pretty cool,” Groppe said.

Siporin seemed proud of the event, and he said it was surreal. He has plans to continue the Tiny Desk Cuse series through

the rest of the year, and he hopes to pass it onto another student after he graduates.

For the rest of the year, though, he’s focused on getting more artists to play, with emphasis on artists who don’t usually do acoustic sets. Ultimately, Siporin wants to make a name for Tiny Desk Cuse.

“It would be my dream to fill this whole room,” Siporin said. “It starts with this. It starts with the 10 people that were here. I’m taking it one step at a time.”

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the “high culture” setting of a gallery, were that of giving them the world. So when Dunn shows the skaters using the bowl rather than the city streets, with the same carelessness as if they were in their own backyards, she’s showing the meaning of that free public space to the skaters.

It’s a juxtaposition of class and culture, but it’s also one of aesthetics. Dunn starts with that smooth and beautiful presentation of the skaters against the street backdrop, but then the projection drops. It’s one skater in the bowl with fuchsia, gray-green and dark blue light filters, two bright white spotlights centered on each dip in the bowl that turn the skater into a silhouette.

The roundness of the bowl distorts his shadows, which grow and shrink as he skates gracefully up and down the bowl. Experimental jazz plays — another “high-low” clash — and with the grit of the camera, the bowl seems to swim. Quick cut to the interviews, a skater calling the bowl “groovy,” another ”gnarly.” They laugh sharply, smiling, close-up, missing teeth.

You don’t hear the questions that Dunn poses to the skaters in her interview. But you can guess them when one begins to tell her they have dislocated their shoulder 15 times.

She asks them about their injuries, then what animal they would want to be, what superpower they wish they could have, and then if they consider skateboarding an artform. Their answers — penguin, cheetah, eagle, anteater, flying, yes and no — are funny and honest. They aren’t being made fun of or making fun. It’s real: they answer while standing awkwardly and speaking into an obnoxiously bulky microphone against a black photo backdrop.

They mostly talk about how much they love to skate. The viewer sees that they skateboard the way artists make art — it’s a compulsion. One of them says he skateboards for 12 hours straight sometimes.

A 10-year-old skater agrees. He says if he didn’t have band practice, it’s all he would do. “Licking the Bowl” paints skateboarding as noisy, countercultural and real; it’s undeniably art.

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itself gave the skaters a chance to take up not only space but wavelengths too. Dunn’s video takes a look at the noise they produce through an artistic lens.

First the audience hears Sonic Youth, and then they hear the skateboards. It almost sounds the same. The four rubber wheels on wood, scream-laughs, whoops and cheers, “oohs” when someone falls. Sometimes they yell so loud it hits too high of a frequency, crushing the microphone’s receptors and creating a grating pitch that’s punk and musical in its own right.

The noise seems even more punk when the audience hears it while watching two boys skate at high speeds, vying for the same curved wall, crash into each other and bounce to the ground. It may as well be a mosh pit at a hard-core show.

But, like the Sonic Youth song, it’s not just noise. It’s poetic, too. After flashing 15 black and white pictures of just the empty bowl — some from under, some above, some so close up you don’t know what you’re looking at — the video transitions into footage from windows of cars and planes of a city.

Dunn overlaid people skating through the bowl in a layered video, so it seems like they are skating up buildings, among taxiing airplanes, along land divides visible from a plane.

During the video, Dunn interviews the bowl’s skaters, and they air grievances about society’s perceptions of skateboarders. One skater explained that there is a “perception that what we were doing was vandalism, or that we were just out to make trouble.”

Despite the sport being public by nature, and street skating getting its own category in the 2020 Summer Olympics, Dunn interviewed about a dozen skaters — from 10-year-olds to middle-aged men — who spoke about running from the cops with their skateboards in tow, all for the crime of skateboarding in public.

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Syracuse XC’s base training increases team endurance

By Wyatt Miller staff writer

Syracuse cross country head coach Brien Bell said there’s one word to describe the team’s base training method before championship season starts at the end of October: mileage.

The base training method is a popular long distance program designed to increase endurance and aerobic capacity, train the central nervous system for more efficient communication pathways between the brain and muscles and improve strength to smooth the transition to higher-intensity workouts later in the year, according to Strength Running. The Orange have used the training plan since Bell joined the program in 2005, helping the Orange win the 2015 NCAA Championships.

The program includes sets of multi-mile runs, spanning up to 18 miles and two runs a day with distance and intensity varying from runner to runner. Syracuse’s women runners average around 60 miles per week, and the men average 85 miles per week, Bell said.

About a month into the season, the team runs seven days a week including two highintensity workouts, doubles throughout the week and a long run on Saturdays. In the final last month of the season, the team cuts back on volume, instead using races to improve fitness.

But with the races occurring during the

season, Syracuse uses those races as workouts that are supplemented with a “hard workout” every 10-12 days, Bell said. These workouts include more explosive running exercises like track repetitions, incline work on Sweet Road, core work and other muscle-strengthening exercises, senior Amanda Vestri said.

“We’ve done about 10% more mileage than we probably expected to run at this point in the season.” Bell said Bell will only know if the training paid off in November, when the NCAA Championships occur, he said. This year, the Orange hope to make their 13th straight appearance — tied for the fifth-longest streak in the country — at the championship race, Bell said.

Graduate student Joe Dragon, who is now in his sixth season at SU, is confident that the training will get him into shape for every race.

“At my age, it’s easy to trust and lean into the training because I’m so familiar with it,” Dragon said. “I know exactly what I need to do and how I should feel on Sept. 29 because I’ve done this so many times.”

Dragon’s base was around 100 miles per week throughout the entire summer — one of the heaviest bases on the team. He said that Syracuse expects to be at its fittest later in the season. The base mileage starts with a foundation and if the foundation is strong, the peak will be high, Dragon said.

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Vestri, who has finished in the top-two in both of her races thus far, credits her 70 to 77 mile weekly base to her keeping healthy and fit to begin the season.

“Being consistent and staying injury-free has been really great, so I’m just looking to continue that path forward,” Vestri said. wbmiller@syr.edu

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The Orange drop 4th straight game in loss to North Carolina

By Adam McCaffery asst. digital editor

Leonid Yelin sat at the table postgame with Abby Casiano and Marina Markova after a 3-0 loss to North Carolina, the team’s fourth straight loss. Although the two lead the team statistically in several categories, Yelin made a statement challenging his team: his players needed to step up, as two players were out due to injuries and the Orange struggled because of it.

Syracuse (14-6, 3-5 Atlantic Coast) needed just a little bit more in each of the three set losses to UNC (15-4, 4-4 ACC). SU came within four points in each set but failed to finish strong. In the first and third set, the Orange allowed UNC to come back after leading throughout, and in the second it allowed the Tar Heels to break away in the final rallies.

Early on, all signs pointed to a different game than Friday’s 3-1 loss to North Carolina State. Syracuse won the first point of the day off of a fake set to Casiano that landed at Polina Shemanova’s hands. She calmly spiked the ball which hit the chest of Olivia Diaz, who was unable to control it.

Syracuse jumped out to a 3-0 lead but UNC earned its first point when Casiano shifted to the right and attempted to meet Skyy Howard at the top of the net. Casiano’s hands got in front of the ball, but not on top, so the ball deflected off of her to the right and out of

bounds, giving Howard the kill.

Still, Syracuse kept their distance from UNC and managed to go up by five points. But the Tar Heels cut the lead to three after a failed block attempt by Casiano and Shemanova.

The next play, libero Lauren Hogan dove short of the ball and missed the dig. Yelin, sensing UNC adjusting, called a timeout.

After the timeout, Izzy Plummer and Markova each earned a kill to keep the lead at 15-11. Syracuse quickly gave up three straight points, however. First, Plummer and Naomi Franco were too late to react on a block to give up a spike kill, and then Shemanova was blocked on consecutive plays to pull the Tar Heels within one.

After a UNC service error, Franco and Casiano got their hands on another block attempt on the right side, but again, the Syracuse frontline was strong enough, and the ball fell between the two players and the net and onto the ground for UNC. Despite finishing with 22 blocks, the Orange frontline struggled to follow through on blocks — especially in the first period.

“The block (isn’t) just you put your hands above the net, it has to be over the net,” Yelin said. “(Blocking) is three things and all three things have to be perfect or else it’s not going to work. You have to get the right spot, right time and be right there over the net.”

UNC earned its first lead at 18-17 and then scored four straight points to force a Syra-

cuse timeout. This time, the Orange couldn’t respond and the Tar Heels closed out the set 22-17, gaining the 1-0 set advantage.

In the second set, Syracuse was plagued by a slow start. UNC had multiple kills that went untouched to give it a 10-4 lead, again forcing Yelin to take a timeout so his team could regroup.

UNC wasn’t phased and kept the lead at five all the way up until 19-14 after a spike hit Yuliia Yastrub in the chest and she failed to control it for the dig.

Syracuse was left weakened on defense as Yastrub was forced to step into the role of libero because starting Hogan was dealing with a knee injury, forcing Yelin to play her less. Viktoriia Lokhmanchuk didn’t dress for the second straight game due to “medical reasons.”

But after Yastrub’s missed dig attempt, Syracuse began to close the gap. Shemanova spiked it between two UNC frontline players to earn a point, and then Casiano and Elena Karakasi combined for a block to cut the deficit to two. Karakasi had an all-around day, finishing with four kills, 33 assists and four block assists.

Later in the set, UNC answered with a 4-0 run of its own to close out the set and go up 2-0, again providing a deflating blow to SU at the end of a close set.

Syracuse found themselves down two sets for the fourth time in two weeks, and Yelin didn’t provide an answer for the struggles.

Yelin gave credit to his team for bringing “a lot of energy” to practice every day and having the right attitude but said there hasn’t been a translation to the games.

The third set was no different than the first two, as Syracuse jumped to a lead throughout the first 19 rallies. UNC earned its first lead at 11-10 when a spike split Casiano and Franco.

Syracuse kept it within one until Markova spiked it from the left side just outside the inbounds line. The main judge initially called a point for Syracuse because UNC touched the ball, but the Tar Heels’ players successfully argued to overturn the point, and Syracuse went down 14-16. Yelin argued with the referees, saying UNC needed to challenge the play in order to overturn the call, but the judges didn’t listen.

SU found energy after the call, and Markova earned a spike the next set, propelling the Orange on a 4-0 run and to take an 18-16 lead.

After UNC tied it at 21, Syracuse regained the lead when Emily Zinger failed to get the ball over the net for UNC. Being up by two sets, however, the UNC coaches smiled on the bench and didn’t get upset. Over the next four plays, Syracuse allowed four straight points to UNC to lose the set and the game.

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Marina Markova records 14 kills in 3-0 defeat against UNC

By Cole Bambini staff writer

Outside hitter Marina Markova dug a North Carolina ball toward setter Elena Karakasi, who set up Markova with a kill attempt on the left side. Markova rose up and spiked the ball right in the center of the Tar Heels’ court, where it went untouched. She walked away grinning as she tied the game at 16 in the third set. The point prior, Markova recorded another kill from the left side.

Marina Markova recorded 14 kills in Syracuse’s (14-6, 3-5 Atlantic Coast) threeset defeat to North Carolina (15-4, 4-4 ACC), which marks SU’s fourth straight loss. The Orange have been outscored 12-1 in sets throughout those defeats, falling to the Tar Heels for the third straight year. Markova recorded her kills on 32 total attempts and had

a .281 hitting percentage.

In the first set, Markova had multiple kills including one from distance at the end of a long rally between both sides. She jumped up and launched the kill from behind the attack line, too strong for the Tar Heels. The Orange went up 11-7 in the middle of the first set and two points later, Markova scored another kill from the left side. Then she replicated that again, scoring two points later.

With the set tied at 16-16, Markova strategically tipped the ball just over a North Carolina blocker instead of attempting a powerful strike. The Tar Heels were slow to react as the ball landed just in front of multiple defenders.

Toward the end of the set, North Carolina went on a 3-0 run which created just enough separation on the scoreboard to stop the Orange from coming back in the set.

On the first point of the second set, Markova

recorded another kill. The Tar Heels couldn’t handle the spike as it was dug far and behind to where a diving defensive specialist like Olivia Diaz couldn’t save it. Syracuse jumped out a 2-0 lead, but that would be the largest and only lead the Orange held in the set. North Carolina’s lead grew to as much as seven, although SU tied the game later at 21-21. But Markova and the rest of the team couldn’t stop the Tar Heels from a 4-0 run to end the set.

Defensively, Markova made some strong defensive plays as well. Early in the second set, North Carolina attempted to spike the ball through the block of Abby Casiano and Markova. Instead, the pair blocked the attempt sending the ball directly behind the furthest defender. Markova finished with five blocks.

Occasionally in the second set, Markova’s spikes were too strong for the Tar Heels’ blockers to defend. Some spikes that were blocked

still landed on North Carolina’s side or went out of bounds.

Trailing by two sets, SU and North Carolina went back and forth for most of the third set.

As the Tar Heels led 15-14, Markova recorded another kill as it looked like the Tar Heels’ block deflected the ball going out of bounds.

But the original call was reversed, giving the point to North Carolina. Syracuse head coach Leonid Yelin expressed frustration with the first referee overturning his original call, and he continued to yell at the official during a timeout a few points after the call. But North Carolina ended the match with a 3-0 run, earning its fourth straight win.

“Emotional stability is as important as physical (stability),” Markova said postgame.

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roundtable Dino Babers said that Jones was the “quarterback” of the unit, succeeding at one of the most integral positions of middle linebacker.

He leads the team with 65 tackles, 22 more than the next closest player. On every defensive snap, Jones is somewhere near the ball. But when he’s not playing well, the defense folds as well. Jones plays the vital “QB spy” role against dual-threat quarterbacks, which worked against Liberty’s Malik Willis holding him to just 49 rushing yards. Against Florida State, however, Jordan Travis torched Syracuse’s defense with his legs, confusing Jones on key snaps. SU hasn’t had a lot of highlights this year, but Jones is definitely one of them as the next greatest defensive player from the school.

2. What’s one aspect of the Orange that’s disappointed through seven games?

Fernandez: Syracuse branded itself as Special Teams U, but its worst unit this season has been special teams. A series of miscues against Rutgers early in the year was SU’s low point, but special teams has failed to maintain a standard of consistency. James Williams flashed bright spots with strong punts and shanked others for as few as 10 yards. Andre Szmyt became SU’s all-time leader in field goals made, all-time points leader and nailed his first-ever game-winning kick to lift SU over Liberty, but he is still 7-of-11 on the year with a missed PAT. SU’s consistently flagged for blocks in the back on kickoff and punt returns, and returner Trebor Pena — while speedy and elusive — regularly took big risks by electing not to call for a fair catch with defenders in his face.

Smith: Coaching decisions. You’d think after only leading Syracuse to one win last season Babers would feel more pressure to make decisions that would help SU win games. But instead, the Orange have lost their last three games in large part due to Babers’ inconsistent decision making. Sometimes, Babers takes an aggressive approach (wanting to go for the two-point conversion in the final seconds of the Wake Forest game to take the lead), but sometimes he takes a conservative approach (going for the game-tying field goal against Clemson instead of running the ball on fourth-and-1). Either way, fans are unhappy, and Syracuse is winless in ACC play. A large part of that comes down to Babers making the wrong decisions. Accepting a third-down penalty on Wake Forest ended up costing SU a touchdown in a 40-37 loss. And turning to the inconsistent Szmyt instead of the nation’s top rusher late against Clemson cost Syracuse a chance at a marquee win.

Throughout seven games, Babers’ coaching mistakes have been the one constant that has prevented the Orange from being one of the top teams in the ACC. from page 12

2023

Stevie Finnell, Midfield, 4-star

Finnell was the fourth midfielder to commit to Syracuse from the Class of 2023. The 6-foot1, 190-pound midfielder is a 4-star commit according to Inside Lacrosse. Finnell plays for Garden City (New York) High School and recently joined Igloo Lacrosse’s 2023 Black Diamond roster. He joins a strong lineup of midfield commits, including Tucker Kellogg, Jake Spallina and Tyler McCarthy.

Michael Ippoliti, Goalie, 4-star

Unlike Class of 2022 goalie commit Jimmy McCool, who stands at 6-foot-3, Ippoliti, who is 5-foot-8, will be one of the smallest goalies to play for Syracuse. He’s a vocal leader from the crease, directs traffic, adds explosiveness to the ball and is quick with his outlets, according to his recruiting profile.

Tucker Kellogg, Midfield, 4-star

In 2017, Kellogg’s shot registered at 102 MPH during the World Series of Youth Lacrosse, putting him on Division I coaches’ rader ever since. He can send shots on goal while on the run and with his feet set — making him one of the best shooters in the class.

This summer, Kellogg showcased his speed, getting enough room on a sweep or alley dodger when the defense is set and prepared, scouts said.

Syracuse has dominated defensively this season, despite being unable to finish games late. Defensive lineman Cody Roscoe has recorded 7.5 sacks thus far this year, second-most in the ACC. elizabeth billman senior staff photographer

Vasudevan: Syracuse can’t win close games.

While the Orange dominated some games during the second half, pulling off comebacks against tenets in the conference like Clemson, they still were in the “L” column as the final result. This comes from poor coaching decisions, whether Babers decides to go or not go for it on fourth down. Syracuse has only scored in every quarter twice — in its opening win over Ohio and its overtime loss to Wake Forest. Syracuse’s offensive line choked in the overtime period against the Demon Deacons, after efficiently making up for absent players throughout all of regulation. Then at other times it comes down to poor special teams.

Andre Szmyt — who was hailed as SU’s next star kicker — has struggled the entire year.

He’s missed either a PAT or field goal in Syracuse’s last four games. Syracuse rushed the field after Szmyt hit the last-second field goal to beat Liberty. But if the Orange ever want that feeling again, they need to drive the ball late and not beat themselves in order to finish games.

3. Of the remaining games, which opponent presents the biggest challenges?

Fernandez: NC State will be the Orange’s

hardest game of the season, with Syracuse traveling to Raleigh before Thanksgiving week to face the No. 18 Wolfpack. This game could potentially be crucial if SU’s still in the running to get to six wins and become bowl eligible, and back-to-back contests at NC State and then at home against Pittsburgh won’t make that an easy road. The Wolfpack have the second-best defense in the conference right now, and the best rushing defense that allows just 93 rushing yards per game. SU has struggled when it can’t run the ball, as we saw against Clemson when it resorted to an uneven passing game that’s still establishing its identity. SU will need to sort that out and still find a way to run the ball if it wants to leave Raleigh with a win.

Smith: NC State has stood out as one of the top teams in the league through its first six games. The Wolfpack are 4-0 at home, and Syracuse will be traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina — a place it hasn’t won since 2013 — in November. NC State is also the highestranked ACC team at No. 18, and has looked good against South Florida, Boston College and Clemson. Quarterback Devin Leary has been one of the most consistent passers in the league, throwing for over 1,500 yards and 15 touchdowns with only two interceptions

and a completion percentage over 67%. By the time Syracuse flies down to Research Triangle, it will likely be in another November slump, and facing the top team in the ACC will prevent a big challenge to a team trying to chase bowl eligibility.

Vasudevan: Pitt might pose the hardest challenge for Syracuse as the season enters its back half. The Orange haven’t been good against pass-first defenses the entire season as they struggle with man-to-man looks, and the Panthers have the second-most passing yards in the ACC, recording 358 per game.

SU has stayed in games because of its ability to stop dynamic offenses, but Pitt’s led

by Kenny Pickett might be too much to ask from Jones and the rest of the defense. The Panthers are also solid on the other side of the ball with 21 total sacks this season, tied for second-best in the ACC. If Shrader waits in the pocket too long — which occasionally happens on mandatory passing plays — he might get mauled because of SU’s makeshift offensive line. The Orange will most likely finish the regular season at home with a loss to Pitt. perform. @DOsports sports@dailyorange.com

Quintan Kilrain, Defender, 4-star

The 6-foot-1, 185-pound Kilrain possesses a strong frame for defense. Scouts say he competes hard, excels in communication and is strong off-ball. Kilrain joins Donny Scott as Syracuse’s second Class of 2023 defenseman.

John Mullen, Faceoff specialist, 4-star

Mullen joins Syracuse’s Class of 2023 recruiting class after winning this year’s Faceoff Academy National Showcase. The Norwell High School faceoff specialist’s commitment marks the third prep player on the Orange’s roster. Mullen has dominated at the X and has worked with top-tier specialists to hone his skills, according to scouts.

Jake Spallina, Midfield, 4-star

Spallina became the first player in the Class of 2023, and the second Spallina, to commit to Syracuse. Jake joins his brother, Joey, who committed to Syracuse for the Class of 2022. Inside Lacrosse said Spallina is “one of the most versatile threats in the class,” as he takes faceoffs, stays on offense and returns to play defense. In high school, Jake and Joey shared a win in the Long Island Championship together. At Syracuse, the pair is expected to play together for three seasons.

Tyler McCarthy, Midfield, unranked

McCarthy joins Syracuse as its only unranked commit thus far. McCarthy is a smart mid-

Syracuse added eight midfielders, one faceoff specialist and a goalie in its Class of 2023 commits. will fudge staff photographer

fielder who demonstrates strong awareness and moves the ball quickly to open teammates, according to one scout. In 2018, he was a member of the Youth World Series Lacrosse Championship team and played in several box lacrosse tournaments with Long Island’s 91

Bandits, coached by Joe Spallina, Jake and Joey’s father. As a sophomore, McCarthy notched 39 goals and 28 assists and was an AllCounty pick out of Connetquot High School. @skylerriveraa skylerriveraaa@gmail.com

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Syracuse has now played in four straight games that were decided by three points or less. This is the first time since 1981 that the Orange have played in four games decided by a field goal or less.

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The D.O.’s football beat writers answer three questions surrounding Syracuse’s play this season

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or the first time since 1981, Syracuse has played four games that have been decided by three points or less. The Orange beat Liberty on a field goal as time expired then lost in the same fashion against Florida State the following week. They lost in overtime to Wake Forest and then in regulation after a missed field goal against Clemson.

With five games remaining in SU’s season — all against conference opponents — our beat writers reflected on where the Orange stand.

1. Outside of Sean Tucker, who is Syracuse’s most important player for the rest of the season?

Roshan Fernandez: Quarterback Garrett Shrader has been the most crucial addition between this year and last year’s team. His arm isn’t as talented as Tommy DeVito’s, but Shrader’s legs have created a significant threat for SU’s offense. Either the Orange hand the ball off to Tucker, or they motion Tucker one way, draw defenders and let Shrader scramble in the other direction. Shrader’s working to improve his arm — Clemson was a particularly poor outing for him — but he’s still the clear option for the Orange moving

forward. If he can improve his accuracy and decision-making on short and medium throws — which is most of SU’s throwing game — and hit an occasional deep ball, his legs and Tucker’s will take care of the rest.

Connor Smith: It has to be Shrader. The quarterback became SU’s starter during the Liberty win, and he has held the position ever since. Although Shrader has struggled throwing the ball, he has shown improvement, and his success running the ball helped the Orange put up at least 30 points against both Florida State and Wake Forest. But against Clemson, Syracuse moved away from having Shrader run, and it only scored 14 points in the loss. If Shrader can continue to improve throwing the ball — not missing short completions or overthrowing deep balls that could go for six points — SU has a shot at making a bowl game.

And using the Mississippi State transfer as part of a one-two punch with Tucker in the running game is something the Orange have found a lot of success with.

Shrader is at his best scrambling for first downs and making decisions on option runs. Syracuse needs to continue to run the ball with Shrader and Tucker and find a stronger balance with the passing game throughout the rest of the season.

Anish Vasudevan: Mikel Jones has been the X-factor for the Orange this year, anchoring the 3-3-5 defense in the package’s second year. Syracuse head coach

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Meet Syracuse men’s lacrosse’s Class of 2023 commits

By Skyler Rivera sports editor

At midnight on Sept. 1, a new lacrosse recruiting cycle begins, and as of Sunday, Syracuse has added nine commits to its 2023 recruiting class. But before the cycle commenced, Syracuse underwent a large change.

After a 46-year career with

Syracuse lacrosse, head coach John Desko retired in early June. Former Syracuse lacrosse star and SU women’s lacrosse head coach Gary Gait replaced Desko as head coach.

Gait became the fifth head coach to lead the Orange, a program that hasn’t won an NCAA Tournament game since 2017.

In his opening press conference as head coach, Gait said he

was already recruiting for the Class of 2023.

Meet Sy racuse men’s lacrosse’s nine commits from the Class of 2023:

Donny Scott, Defense, 4-star The 6-foot-1, 180-pound defender ranks No. 21 among Class of 2023 recruits and was ranked 4-stars

by Inside Lacrosse. According to

his recruiting profile, Scott’s plays aggressive and effective one-onone and “with a mean streak.”

He displays proper awareness offball, is a threat in transition and occasionally notches a point or two on the offensive end. Under new defensive coordinator Dave Pietramala, Scott ’s size, skill and IQ could prove beneficial for the Orange.

Trey Deere, Attack, 4-star

Hailing from the Kahnawake Mohawk territory, Deere ranks No. 43 within the Class of 2023. The lefthanded attack is known for his feeding and finishing ability, as well as his off-ball movement. Deere comes from hockey and box lacrosse backgrounds, and both are evident in his ability to catch before finishing. see 2023 page 10