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N • Money talks
O • Internship Season
Candidates for Congress in New York state’s 24th Congressional District have released fundraising results for the third quarter, which is from July 1 to Sept. 30. Page 4
Business columnist Matthew Gutierrez argues that companies and the U.S. government must work to create more internship protections for students. Page 5
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P • Filter this
Design and marketing organizations #44Social and Spiders work to create the Snapchat geofilters available on and around Syracuse University. Page 9
S • Not so fast
Syracuse’s late defensive letdown against Virginia put the Orange’s once-promising season into murky waters after an impressive fourgame start. Page 16
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SYRACUSE 38, VIRGINIA 44
Council votes down ordinance Council rejects proposal about underage drinking By Michael Burke staff writer
Call in the Cavalry VIRGINIA RECEIVER CANAAN SEVERIN (9) falls into the end zone for a 36-yard receiving touchdown that tied up the first overtime between Syracuse and UVA at 31. The Orange blew a late lead in the game and eventually lost in triple-overtime to fall to 3-3 on the season, and 1-1 in Atlantic Coast Conference play. Syracuse plays Pittsburgh on Saturday in the Carrier Dome. See page 16 jessica sheldon staff photographer
Officials talk training for possible shooter By Alexa Torrens asst. news editor
In the event that there is an active shooter on campus, the Department of Public Safety’s estimated response time is 60 seconds, which leaves students 60 seconds to protect themselves. In light of recent college shootings around the country, including those at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College and at Northern Arizona University, Student Association President Aysha Seedat said Syracuse University students were approaching her in classes and asking a heavy question: “Do you think the university’s prepared?” It was a question Seedat had asked Chief Law Enforcement Officer Tony Callisto, and his answer included
DPS’s minute-long response time. Seedat said her biggest concern before meeting with Callisto was spreading a message of calm to students since a lot of them might have been freaking out. “So kind of just calm the people saying, ‘we’re prepared,’ but in that first minute what you do is absolutely crucial,” Seedat said. DPS sent out an Orange Alert last Wednesday evening after suspects in a murder that took place on Hope Avenue that night fled through Oakwood Cemetery near campus. Though there has never been a shooting on the SU campus, DPS conducts training with its officers using their guns, and holds training every other year for dealing with a campus shooter. DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado
said in an email the department’s protocol in the event of an active shooter is to generally dispatch officers directly to the threat and attempt to terminate the threat as soon as possible. If the whereabouts of the threat is unknown, DPS would dispatch officers to areas where it believes the threat exists. Maldonado added that every situation is different and presents unique challenges, and that the ability of DPS to dispatch armed officers toward an active shooter is significant. Out of DPS’s 42 total public safety officers, 36 are armed, as of August. Seedat and other SU leaders sent an email to the entirety of SU’s student body on Oct. 12 detailing what students should do in the event they are in a building where a shooting is occurring
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what to do
Here’s what Syracuse University leaders advise students to do in the event of an active shooter on campus: 1. Get out If you are in a building where a shooting is occurring, evacuate, let others know to leave as you are leaving and call DPS at 315443-2224 or #78 from a cellphone once away from danger. 2. Hide out If you are unable to get out, hide out in a room away from windows, and lock or block the door. Then call DPS for help. 3. Strike out If you can’t get out or hide out and you encounter a shooter, throw items or even tackle the shooter, if possible, in an attempt to disarm.
An ordinance that would have made off-campus underage drinking a prisonable offence did not pass during the Syracuse Common Council’s Tuesday session. “The Social Host Ordinance” was rejected by a 5-4 vote, but Eric Persons, Syracuse University’s associate vice president of government and community relations, expects the council to revisit the ordinance sometime after elections in January. Student Association President Aysha Seedat hopes to have a student assist in the revisions, if they happen. Had it passed, the ordinance would have attempted to crack down on “open house parties,” defined as social gatherings of two or more people on private property. If Syracuse police were to have discovered underage drinking or illegal drug consumption at an open house party, they would have given the party’s host a court summons. A judge would then determine if the offender would either go to jail for up to 15 days or receive a fine between $100 and $500. At a Student Affairs Advisory Board meeting on Oct. 9, Councilor-at-Large Pamela Hunter told Seedat that the ordinance would likely pass. But four days later, it didn’t. “I was really surprised,” Seedat said. “... (Hunter was) giving us the impression that it was a unanimous vote.” About 30 minutes before the official vote, Hunter told Persons that the ordinance was set to pass. Since it didn’t, Persons said in an email that he believes there were at least two council members who changed their vote at the last minute. Persons said some members of the council were worried about how the ordinance would be enforced. Namely, they were worried that see ordinance page 8