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SU Remembrance Scholars sat on the Shaw Quad in the same configuration as Pan Am Flight 103 on Wednesday morning to commemorate their lives.

After becoming roommates their freshman year, Anjali Engstrom and Grace Ferguson used their shared love of music to form Luna and The Carpets.

Dan Villari couldn’t advance through Michigan’s quarterback depth chart. Now, he’s carved out his own role with Syracuse as its starting tight end.

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MSA holds ‘Prayer for Peace’ vigil at Hendricks

Around 150 students, faculty and staff came together outside Hendrick’s Chapel to give speeches and pray for safety, humanity and peace amidst conflict in the Israel-Hamas war

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The ‘Prayer for Peace’ vigil advocated for humanity following the deaths of civilians from the Israel-Hamas war

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yracuse University’s Muslim Student Association held a “Prayers for Peace” vigil Wednesday night outside Hendricks Chapel to honor the lives lost during the Israel-Hamas war.

Around 150 students, faculty, staff and families gathered to hear the speeches from MSA student representatives, including MSA president Khadija Sharif and Imam Durić, the Muslim chaplain at

SU. Durić and Assistant Muslim Chaplain Imam Egypt, though as of Wednesday it is still unclear Dzemal Crnkić led a prayer for safety and resolution when aid will enter Gaza. On Wednesday, President during the vigil.

Joe Biden announced $100 million in humanitarian “It’s really important to have events like this, to aid to the territory. build bridges rather than burn them and to invite Israel’s bombardment has killed around 3,000 people to come together, support each other, to try to people in Gaza since the initial attacks as of Tuesday, feel for each other, to empathize,” Durić said. “This according to health officials, the BBC wrote. is (a) time when we need to wake Sharif, a part-time junior at up our hearts.”

SU, said that even with constant Attendees at the vigil called for reminders of the war, it is humanity and peace, which Durić We’re just trying to comforting to know that people in said gave him a sense of hope the campus community back her. and empowerment as conflict spread peace and “That’s all I’m seeing. That’s continues in the region. all I’m digesting. That’s all that’s love throughout On Oct. 7, Hamas, a militant on my mind. I’m in class and group, launched an attack on the world. what I’m thinking is that there’s Israel. In response, Israel declared Weli Dahir people dying,” Sharif said. “For war on Hamas. As of Oct. 12, 1,300 co - chair of su's muslim student people to all come in solidarity, people have been killed by Hamas association and for everyone to recognize it’s in Israel, according to the Wall happening, to be in a space where Street Journal. you are seen and other people share that compassion Since then, Israel has bombarded the Gaza Strip and that worry too, just means the most.” and, on Oct. 9, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant Durić said that after witnessing the community ordered a ”complete siege” of Gaza. support during last week’s peace vigil for Israel The United Nations rights chief condemned hosted by Syracuse Hillel and Chabad House the siege, calling it illegal under international law. Jewish Center, he felt hopeful that the university The Israeli government has since announced it will community may lead change for the future. see vigil page 4 “not thwart humanitarian supplies” entering from

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Alison Gilmore connects her disability to role in Remembrance

By Roxanne Boychuk asst. news editor

The slogan of Syracuse University’s Remembrance program, “Look Back, Act Forward,” has a direct connection to senior Remembrance Scholar Alison Gilmore’s identity as a woman diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

“Looking back on my past and what I’ve gone through, and acting

forward to kind of make a difference and enact change, Remembrance was something that really meant a lot to me, just looking introspectively into my identities,” Gilmore said.

Throughout her time at SU, she has become involved in organizations across campus while also pursuing a degree in sport analytics. Gilmore said ever since she was little, she knew what she wanted to do, a perseverance

that has inspired her to lead others.

The bridge between past and future relates to her own experiences with a disability and her advocacy efforts for others, she said.

In addition to being a Remembrance Scholar, she also currently serves as president of the Sport Analytics Women Club, was a member of OrangeSeeds as a freshman and is now on their membership board. She is also

a student assistant and peer mentor for the Disability Cultural Center.

Gilmore said she first realized she wanted to go into the sport analytics field as a young girl. She loved staying active with her siblings and playing sports outside, especially baseball and softball.

At 2 years old, Gilmore was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. She was born prematurely nine weeks

early along with her twin sister, Grace Gilmore. Alison Gilmore said this disability played a large role in her childhood, impacting how she got around and her energy levels.

Right before she started high school, Alison Gilmore said she experienced a turning point in accepting her disabled identity with a surgery that placed her in the hospital for six weeks undergoing see gilmore page 4

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Bouckleys, Pan Am victims, represented in Remembrance

By Kendall Luther asst. copy editor

Thirty-five years after she lost her sister and brother-in-law in the Pan Am 103 bombing, Martha Alderman Boyer still places roses at Syracuse University’s Place of Remembrance​. She’s done it almost every year since the couple died.

“Paula loved roses and Glenn would give her red roses with white baby’s breath, so I always took two up,” Boyer said.

A circular stone bench with an engraving commemorates Paula and Glenn Bouckley, a couple from Clay, New York, who were killed in the bombing on their flight home from a family wedding in England. The engraving faces the Wall of Remembrance with the names of the 35 SU students who were killed in the bombing.

The engraving reads, “Paula AldermanBouckley and Glenn Bouckley, Syracuse Area residents, also died in the air disaster over Lockerbie,” according to an archive from the Syracuse Library Pan Am Flight 103 Archives.

This year’s Remembrance Scholars are the first to represent non-SU students in their activities, following a decision to remove the Coker twins because of antisemitic materials discovered last year in their archives. Lucio Maffei, a senior studying political philosophy and ethics, is representing the 224 other passengers who died.

“I think we have some responsibility to all of those victims and their families to be sure that they know they’re remembered the same way we’re remembering … our students who passed,” Maffei said.

Paula and Glenn were the only victims from the Syracuse area. Paula grew up in New York state, while Glenn was originally from West Yorkshire, England. Paula — the second youngest of the family’s four daughters — was an alumna of Cornell University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies.

Paula met Glenn through a fan club for the band Queen, and they became pen pals. Boyer said Paula met Glenn in person the second time she traveled to England, where they got along “beautifully.” The two were married in October 1986 in England and lived there for just over a year and a half. After the death of the Alderman’s father, they moved back to the Syracuse area, according to the archives.

The couple returned to England in December 1988 for Chris Bouckley, Glenn’s brother’s, wedding. Glenn served as Chris Bouckley’s best man, and he and Paula met up with the newlyweds on their honeymoon trip.

“The wedding went off tremendously well.

We were even more happy that Paula could come along too, there were fears that she may not be able to travel with him. It was perfect,” Chris Bouckley wrote in a letter to Georgia Nucci, the mother of an SU victim, according to the archives.

The plane crashed around 7 p.m. on Dec. 21, 1988. A bomb in the cargo hold exploded, killing all 259 passengers and 11 people on the ground after the crash. Later that week, Boyer’s husband, Bradley, traveled to Lockerbie and identified Paula’s body.

Boyer said it’s still difficult to remember that moment, so she tries not to dwell on it. She said

paula and glenn bouckley, the only Syracuse residents to die in the Pan Am bombing, are commemorated at the Place of Remembrance. lars jendruschewitz asst. photo editor

that the Syracuse and SU communities have been of great support since the bombing.

“I’m very proud of how we continue to remember those that we lost,” said Kelly Rodoski, senior communications manager at SU and Lockerbie-Syracuse Scholars liaison. “Not just our students, but everyone who was lost on the plane.”

When the Alderman family heard about SU’s construction of the memorial, Paula’s mother, Marion Alderman, and her sisters wrote letters to then-Chancellor Melvin Eggers. Boyer remembers her family saying it would be nice for Paula and Glenn to be included because several of her relatives, including her grandfather and cousins, graduated from the university. “​​Paula and Glenn were the only Syracusians to die in the disaster. I think this should be taken into consideration,” Alderman wrote in her letter to Eggers.

The Place of Remembrance was dedicated on April 22, 1990, and underwent renovations in 2012. Every year, SU hosts a candlelight vigil and a rose-laying ceremony at the memorial.

“It was a very tough thing for this community.

Not only for our Syracuse University community, but for the greater community, so it was really wonderful that (Paula and Glenn) were honored in this way,” Rodoski said.

Lucio said that the expansion of Remembrance Week to include more passengers has been a good initiative. He said the university should still remember that the bombing killed more than just the 35 SU students.

“Obviously, 35 lives is such a massive tragedy, but I mean, the event was 270 lives, which is such an enormous, massive loss,” Lucio said.

While Boyer said it’s important for the university to remember the students, her family will never forget Glenn and Paula.

“It’s for us to remember as a family, and, of course, we’ll never forget,” Boyer said.

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Remembrance Scholars reflect during ‘Sitting in Solidarity’

By Samantha Olander asst. digital editor

Silence overtook the typically bustling Shaw Quadrangle on Wednesday morning as Syracuse University Remembrance Scholars sat to honor the people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The annual Sitting in Solidarity event began with the ringing of Crouse College’s bells at 9:15 a.m. and ended exactly 35 minutes later. With the chairs organized to match the setup of the plane, 33 of the scholars sat where the people they now represent did. The remaining two, who both represent groups of people, sat in front.

“This event helped me to set aside that time, that 35 minutes, to really just sit and think about all of the victims who died, including Miriam Luby Wolfe, who I’m representing,” said Jovanni Mosca, a computer science major.

For the first time — on the 35th anniversary of the attack — the Remembrance Program changed its representation selection process to be completely randomized and had two scholars

separately represent the flight crew and passengers not connected to SU. Eric and Jason Coker, two students who died in the attack, are no longer included due to the discovery of a swastika and antisemitic language in their archival material last year.

Emily Weaver, who is representing Christopher Jones, said last year’s Sitting in Solidarity event was the reason that she decided to apply to be a Remembrance Scholar for the 2023-24 cohort.

“This exact demonstration last year was just so moving to me to watch, to see each of the Remembrance Scholars who are there remembering the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 sitting to honor and represent them so that they can live on in the Syracuse community.” said Weaver, who’s studying earth and environmental sciences, forensic science and anthropology.

Ka’ai I, a policy studies and international relations major, believes the collective remembrance of the victims throughout Remembrance Week emphasizes the close-knit nature of the campus community.

Remembrance Scholars sat in the exact spots where the victims sat during the attack as they reflected on and honored their legacy. jack henry contributing photographer

The scholars sat for a total of 35 minutes in silence on the quad Wednesday morning to remember the Pan Am Flight 103 victims. jack henry contributing photographer

“To feel the emotion of all these people coming together in remembering these victims, I think is really indicative of the campus in the sense that SU prides ourselves on being a family and honoring the legacy of the people who come through our campus,” I said.

Judy O’Rourke, who serves as the liaison between SU and the Pan Am victims’ families, said she was reminded about the importance of the week’s events on Tuesday. After giving a presentation about the Remembrance Quilt, two people who had lost family members in the bombing came up to her and said their greatest fear was that their loved ones would be forgotten.

“What the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars do, in addition to remembering, is working together, working separately, to do good and to make the world better,” O’Rourke said.

Tristan Wooley, one of the two 2023-24 Lockerbie Scholars, said it was very impactful for onlookers to not only see 35 students, but to see the students sitting in the exact formation that the victims sat in on the plane.

Mosca expressed a similar sentiment, saying

the event’s visibility helps to create campus awareness of the terrorist attack. He believes that while SU students often hear about Remembrance Week in passing, the Sitting in Solidarity event brings attention to the magnitude of Pan Am Flight 103.

I said being a Remembrance Scholar has helped him connect with Gretchen Dater, the passenger he represents. He said that his connection to her grew out of their shared love of movies, which he reflected on during the 35 minutes of silence.

“I didn’t even realize something as simple as a shared favorite movie could really emphasize how connected some of us can be,” I said.

I emphasized the deep emotional significance of Remembrance Week at SU, highlighting the campus-wide effort to honor the lives and legacy of the victims.

“It’s almost an emotional core for the university,” I said, “It’s this reminder that, as a student, your life is valued and if something like this were to happen, we have an entire campus who is dedicated to honoring this legacy, these lives and their stories.”

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I-81 Community Forum at SU calls for more collaboration

By Dominic Chiappone asst. news editor

Syracuse University’s Democratizing Knowledge Project hosted a community forum Wednesday morning to address the implications for surrounding communities of dismantling portions of Interstate 81.

The discussion, titled “Community Power & Campus Engagement: A Dialogue about I-81,” featured nine panelists including SU administrators, Syracuse community advocates and I-81 project directors.

Approximately 70 attendees joined in person and on Zoom to hear the panelists discuss the long-standing racial inequities and environmental disparities caused by I-81.

The panelists encouraged greater collaboration between SU and the wider Syracuse community to successfully deal with the highway’s legacy.

Panelist Oceanna Fair represented Families for Lead Freedom, a group founded in 2019 that advocates to mitigate the city of Syracuse’s ongoing lead crisis. Decades later, the impacts of the I-81 highway project can still be felt through high poverty rates and lead levels amongst Syracuse’s Black residents, Fair said.

“For many families who have grown up just under this bridge on the South Side in the shadow of the university, this project is going to be a big deal for us,” Fair said. “This highway caused harm for us when it was built. It destroyed a whole community.”

In 2019, the New York State Department of Transportation approved the community grid as part of the I-81 viaduct project, which aims to reverse the harm caused by its creation in the 1960s.

I-81 physically divided the predominantlyBlack community in Syracuse’s South Side neighborhood from the east side of the city. The federal project led to generational economic setbacks for many Black residents.

Both panelists and attendees agreed the community grid’s construction and ramifications should revolve around the future generation of Syracuse residents. Several attendees, such as Undergraduate Coordinator for SU’s College of Arts and Sciences Keely Calf Robe, emphasized the project’s potential long-term benefits.

Constructing the community grid can provide opportunities for the city’s young population to learn alongside professionals working on the project, said Calf Robe, a member of the Onondaga Nation.

“It would be really cool to have these young men or young women go and job shadow or intern on this project so they could learn different aspects of what goes into building a highway… and then say, ‘this is what you can do with that degree if you go get the degree,’” she said.

Mary Grace Almandrez, SU’s vice president for diversity and inclusion, raised a similar point during the panel, emphasizing that access remains a top concern for her given the scale of the community grid project. SU will look to further collaborate with the city community and local advocates as residents previously expressed concern over more efforts to gentrify and displace communities.

“I’m invested in the success of our young people and invested in the success of those who live in the surrounding areas,” Almandrez said.

“This is work we do together to uplift our communities and I don’t see separation between university and the wider community. We have a greater responsibility to blur those lines.”

Environmental concerns were another key element of the discussion. Two residents from the Syracuse South Side neighborhood asked panelists how they would address issues like maintaining air quality in communities near where the community grid will be built.

Betsy Parmley, I-81 viaduct project director for NYSDOT, responded to the concerns and said planned construction methods will aim to

In dismantling the I-81 viaduct, the Syracuse community emphasized including Syracuse residents to create long term benefits. solange jain contributing photographer

minimize dust levels.

“The way we’re going to take down the viaduct is different than you would see it normally out of a very rural area,” Parmley said. “We’ll just cut it and remove it and tuck it away, we’re not going to be jackhammering it, which creates the dust.”

In April 2022, the NYSDOT and the Federal Highway Administration released a final environmental impact statement confirming the community grid option balances consideration of the “need for safe and efficient transportation” and the “social, economic and environmental effects of the Project,” according to the statement.

The I-81 community grid costs a total of $2.25 billion and needs six years to be completed, Par-

mley said. The state won’t start on the community grid until at least 2026, she said.

Fair said outreach to the city of Syracuse’s youth in neighborhoods like South Side has the potential to create a generational impact before construction on the grid starts.

“If we get those interventions early, we can change those children’s trajectory,” Fair said.

“We can get them into these programs, we can get them into these hands-on jobs and change your entire life, but that comes from us getting in early, making those interventions and showing them that we care.”

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director at Human Rights Watch, said the area is an “open-air prison.”

Relief groups are calling for humanitarian aid in Gaza as Palestinians are in need of food, water, fuel and medical supplies as resources dwindle, according to CNN. Sharif said dedicated spaces like Wednesday night’s vigil help people feel recognized on campus. She said MSA has received messages of support from people in the campus community who are not Muslim.

“People are just seeing this humanitarian crisis and are called to just come and to support

in any way that they can, so it’s been definitely a whole collective action,” Sharif said.

Weli Dahir, the co-chair of MSA and a junior studying policy studies, said it was a collective effort by MSA to organize the vigil.

“We’re just trying to spread peace and love throughout the world,” Dahir said. “With all these hard times and difficulties going on, we just want it to be the first step for change for the better and to set an example.”

Dahir also said he was grateful to have been part of planning such an event.

At the end of the vigil, Sharif emphasized

that people can help by donating to Islamic Relief USA, educating themselves and being careful of misinformation. While tension remains and the conf lict continues, she said, it is important to “fill each other’s cups” by building a community people can be proud of.

“You are not alone. We all feel this burden to want to do something, and only with this collective action, putting that energy towards actually moving forward will something happen,” Sharif said.

Remembrance Scholar,” Ryerson wrote in a statement to The Daily Orange. “I have no doubt that Alison will be a true example of the ‘Act Forward’ responsibility of all Remembrance Scholars, and will be a positive force for change in the world to make it a better place.”

Marissa Schneider, a sport analytics and

economics major and vice president of the SAW club, has noticed Alison Gilmore’s helpfulness toward others while the two have worked alongside each other. They met freshman year and are the only two women in their year’s sport analytics program, Schneider said.

Schneider applauded Alison Gilmore’s

communications skills and advocacy for anything disability-related.

“She goes out of her way to make sure people are okay, because, like I said, she cares a lot about everyone around her and everything that she does,” Schneider said.

Alison’s sister Grace Gilmore said she is a “built-in best friend” with an attitude toward life that is “inspirational.” “(She) has a laugh that is so infectious that if you hear it down the hall, you’re gonna start laughing because she is remarkably incredible, like, I can’t praise her enough for her being just amazing,” Grace Gilmore said.

The most important life lesson Grace Gilmore has learned from her sister, she said, was to be strong and not let anybody else’s opinions weigh you down.

“She’s the smartest person I know, and she’s always just so incredibly and authentically herself,” Grace Gilmore said.

“It doesn’t matter what anybody else said because she was so comfortable with who she was, and it just didn’t matter.”

As Alison Gilmore finishes her time at SU, she said she hopes her identity won’t stop her from succeeding in a male-dominated field.

While she is currently doing analytics for the SU softball team, she said her dream is to land a role in the MLB. Alison Gilmore traces her openness about her disability back to an Advanced Placement English assignment in her junior year of high school. She chose to write about her then-recent experience recovering from her surgery in the hospital.

She said she received positive feedback on her paper from her classmates, who told her it gave them the courage to share similar stories about themselves. The experience opened her eyes to the effects of advocacy, she said, which has become a prominent part of the rest of her life.

“I realized that if I can break in and eventually secure that dream job, I realized the figure that I can be for those that come after me,” she said.

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“I know that tonight we have members of (the) Jewish community attending this event, ‘Prayers for Peace,’ which gives hope that we are willing to model and to lead change and to lead that path towards healing and recovery,” he said.

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gilmore inpatient rehabilitation.

“After I (re-learned) how to do everything on my own, (I) kind of learned a lot about myself and grew mentally and physically from that,” Alison Gilmore said.

Despite her disability, Alison Gilmore’s love for sports only grew. When Alison Gilmore was a sophomore in high school, she heard about SU’s sport analytics program and pursued applying.

“I had heard about it from someone that (my dad) was working with, and so he shared it with me, and I remember telling my dad that day … that that was exactly what I wanted to do,” she said.

Now as a senior, Alison Gilmore said her position working in SU’s DCC has given her the opportunity to show others with a disability what is possible. By staying connected with other students in the center, she said she actively works to create a positive environment on campus for current and future students to come.

“Sharing my experiences, whether that’s difficulties with accessibility or just other issues that I’ve dealt with related to my disability, I’ve kind of been very open about in order to hopefully kind of make a difference proactively on campus,” Alison Gilmore said.

In terms of accessibility, Alison Gilmore said the faculty and staff at SU have been very supportive and accommodating toward her and her peers. Although she said there is always room for improvement, she feels SU makes an effort to create an environment of inclusion and belonging.

Part of the reason why she was inspired to become a Remembrance Scholar was from the “incredible support” she felt from previous scholars who acted as mentors for her in OrangeSeeds. Heather Ryerson, Remembrance and Lockerbie administrator and academic operations coordinator, recognized Alison Gilmore as a “warm and caring” scholar who’s put lots of effort into the Remembrance program.

“Her thoughtfulness, intelligence, and kindness are exemplary qualities for any

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As Luna and The Carpets, Anjali Engstrom and Grace Ferguson prioritize friendship over all else on their musical journey

By Kelly Matlock

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tanding on a porch on Euclid Avenue Friday, Anjali Engstrom and Grace Ferguson’s band performed their debut album for the first time at a friend’s house. Returning to their roots, the pair performed on the same thing they started on: a carpet.

“It’s kind of crazy how we do all this together, and yet we don’t really ever get sick of each other,” Engstrom said. “We’ve figured out that perfect balance of working together, living together while also just being genuinely, really good friends.”

We’ve figured out that perfect balance of working together, living together while also just being genuinely, really good friends Anjali Engstrom member of luna and the carpets

Ferguson and Engstrom, now sophomores, met on Facebook the summer before their freshman year and clicked immediately. Around two months into their

Luna and The Carpets met as roommates. The pair released their debut album, “I Wish Venus Had a Moon,” and performed it for the first time last weekend. lars jendruschewitz asst. photo editor

time at Syracuse University, inspired by artists like Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers whose work feels like a peek into their diary, the duo formed “Luna and the Carpets,” a folk-rock band. On Oct. 13, the band released their album, “I Wish Venus Had a Moon.”

Ferguson is a music industry major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts while Engstrom is part

of the Bandier Program at the Newhouse School of Public Communications. With different classes and projects, they often worked on their own individual music in their dorm room but never planned on forming a band. While in their dorm, Engstrom asked for Ferguson’s help with a piece, and they realized how see carpets page 7

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Filipino Student Association gives students a new home

By Olivia Boyer

asst. culture editor

Before Bettina Talento arrived in the United States to begin her freshman year at Syracuse University, she was already part of a subcommunity on campus. After her acceptance to SU, the Filipino Student Association (FSA) reached out and invited her to become a member.

“We got to meet up in New York City, that was the first time I ever stepped foot into America,” Talento said about joining the club. “But since they were showing me around, it felt so much better and it didn’t really feel so much of a foreign place to me anymore.”

Now, three years later, Talento is president of FSA, which is nearing its sixth anniversary as an oncampus Filipino and East Asian organization. The club is open to all students, celebrating the Filipino

culture of hospitality and accommodation. Throughout the month, FSA has been celebrating FilipinoAmerican Heritage Month through a series of events, including a bake sale fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 20.

In October 1587, the first Filipino people arrived in the continental U.S., commemorating October as the Filipino-American Heritage Month.

This tradition began in 1992 when the Filipino American National Historical Society passed a proclamation to establish the month.

FSA is very proactive in outreach to new students. Many of the current executive board members were contacted by previous FSA members.

Both Talento and senior Joane Chavez noted that they had connected with the organization via Instagram DM after being admitted to Syracuse.

“When I came to Syracuse it was fall of 2020, very much a COVID year.” Chavez said, “Finding a Fili-

pino community on campus was really important to me.”

FSA tackles homesickness by reflecting the values of Filipino culture and helping Southeast Asian students feel at home in a new community.

“We are a pretty close knit kind of group of people,” said Rosemary McNulty, secretary of the FSA. “If you’re Filipino, and you meet other Filipinos, like it’s just a very welcoming community, that’s really hard to replicate.”

FSA’s “Ate Kuya” program is one of their most important. Kuya means “older sister” and “older brother” in Filipino, and similar to “bigs” and “littles” in other organizations, this ongoing event is a mentor program for members.

Talento said this event has and will continue to build lifelong friendships and connections between FSA members. see fsa page 7

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Ceramic jellyfish come to life at ‘Trophies’ exhibit

By Varsha Bhargava

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Ceramic, feathers and plexiglass create a sea of f loating jellyfish at the Everson Art Museum. Roberta Griffith’s collection of fishy sculptures, titled “Trophies,” are stark against a wall of orange paint, providing a unique look at beauty under the sea and above the surface.

“I find these very interesting, because they're ‘trophies,’ but I see them as living things,” said Stephanie Adams, an employee at the Everson Art Museum. “If I were to get a trophy, I think I would rather get something like this over your basic gold thing.”

Griffith’s art has been in the Everson Art Museum since 1962, when her work was first displayed in the Ceramic National Exhibition.

Garth Johnson, curator of ceramics at the Everson Art Museum, defines Griffith’s art style as audacious, with each piece carrying a deep message.

Griffith, an American mixed-media artist and Fulbright Grant recipient, works mainly with ceramics. As an award-winning artist since the age of 10, Griffith has produced and been celebrated for her decades of innovative artistic ideas. In Spain, she studied under renowned ceramists like Josep Llorens Artigas and Joan Miró.

“This exhibit is both a celebration of Roberta’s long career and a look at the special conditions of the early 1970s in ceramics,” Johnson said. “I would say that we’re being very true to Roberta’s intentions when she made the work.”

Johnson first became acquainted with Griffith in 2018, when the Everson displayed “Isadora in Black Lace,” a tribute to high-profile dancer Isadora Duncan, who was strangled by her own scarf in 1927 when it was caught in the wheels of her car.

Griffith uses a darkened ceramic plate with a delicate piece of lace draped across it to tell the story of Duncan’s death.

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Local band Trauma Cat will take to the stage at The Song & Dance Thursday night. Self-described as “America’s sorriest power trio,” the group is equal parts music act and absurdist performance art troupe.

Led by guitarist Ralph Kojig and bassist Roman Pando, their music combines art rock and progressive rock, along with pop and punk. Their latest album “The Truth Doesn’t Live Here” was released in October 2022.

Special guests The Dirty Pennies and Monsoon will also perform. Tickets can be purchased online.

WHEN: Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.

PRICE: $20.29

Middle Ages Brewing Company Known as the “unstoppable Funk Hip Hop dance party,” Sophistafunk is headlining a concert at Middle Ages Brewing Company Friday night.

Behind frontman Jack Brown and bassist Adam Gold, the band mixes elements of soul, house and reggae to create their sound. After starting out playing underground festivals, Sophistafunk gained popularity through a friendship with celebrity chef Guy Fieri, according to their website. You can watch them every Wednesday night performing on Food Network’s “Guy’s Ultimate Game Night.” Jessica Brown from Root Shock, Mike Gantzer from Aqueous and Hayley Jane will also perform.

Tickets can be purchased online.

WHEN: Oct. 20 at 8 p.m.

PRICE: $20 with $4.90 fees / $25 (day of)

Fulbright Grant Recipient Roberta Griffith’s relationship with the Everson dates back to the 1960s.

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Hit these 5 walkable spots for a birthday treat

Funk ‘n Waffles Rock band Perpetual Groove will perform at Funk ‘n Waffles on Saturday night. Hailing from Atlanta, Perpetual Groove incorporates a mix of traditional Southern rock, funk, jazzy improvisation, indie rock and synth loops. This past January the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of their breakout album “Sweet Oblivious Antidote” with a remixed and remastered version, which they also released on vinyl for the first time. Since its start in 1997, Perpetual Groove has seen some changes in membership but has been committed to its sound and continued to tour. Tickets for the show can be purchased online.

WHEN: Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7) PRICE: $23.63

The Westcott Theater

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Birthdays on campus can be tricky, especially for college students without access to a car.

However, there are options in walking distance from campus where you can maximize your special day.

Rise N Shine

For your first stop, if you’re willing to go on an adventure, walk 20 minutes off campus to Westcott Street. A neighborhood just east of SU’s campus, Westcott is home to a variety of restaurants and events such as the Westcott Cultural Fair. On your (21st) birthday, you can get a Cuppy Cake Martini at Rise N Shine for seven dollars, half off its original price. The drink is made with vanilla extract liqueur, amaretto, creme de cacao as well as half and half, according to the restaurant’s website.

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With specialty drinks and unique brunch items, Rise N Shine is sure to start your special day off bright.

your meal, but not for the sweet treat. Just download their app and make an account to access the deal.

Hi-Tea

Craving chips and guacamole before dinner?

If you want another snack, keep walking down Marshall street and you’ll get to Chipotle. Pop in on your birthday for a free birthday surprise.

After downloading their app and confirming your birthday, you’ll receive a coupon of their choice for either a free drink, chips or entree.

If you’ve hit that mid-morning slump and need a snack to tide you over to lunch, try out Hi-Tea. Make a turn on the end of Marshall Street and start walking behind the main line of buildings to find a hidden gem for SU students. Hi-Tea offers boba, tea and other customizable treats. On your birthday, come in for a 10% discount on your order.

Their popular items include thai boba milk tea and matcha milk tea.

Subway

In the mood for a lunch staple? Walk over to the Marshall Square Mall right off of Marshall Street.

On the first floor is national sandwich chain Subway, where you can get a sub of your choice along with a free cookie on your birthday. You’ll have to pay for

Chipotle

Bleu Monkey

For your last stop, head on down to Marshall Street on your birthday and stop by Bleu Monkey. One of the first restaurants you’ll see as you turn onto Marshall Street is this local ramen chain. A favorite for SU students, the restaurant is also popular for its sushi options. If you stop by on your birthday, after your dinner, you will be treated to a free cheesecake. kellyamatlock@icloud.com

R&B group The California Honeydrops will perform at The Westcott Theater on Saturday night.

Founded in the subway systems of Oakland, California, the band gained a following through performances at festivals such as Monterey Jazz and Lightning In A Bottle as well as touring with blues icon B.B. King.

The group creates a unique sound through their commitment to the art of improvisation. The California Honeydrops have become so comfortable with improv that they do not have set lists for any of their concerts and no two shows are the same. Their current tour is in support of their new album, “Soft Spot.”

Tickets can be purchased online.

WHEN: Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.)

PRICE: $30

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carpets well they worked together.

Ferguson and Engstrom began to consistently work on music together in October 2022. At the same time, they started releasing videos on Instagram, “The Carpet Series,” which featured the two of them sitting on their titular carpet laughing and making music. Though, at that time they hadn’t yet found their name.

After watching the series, one of their friends suggested they call themselves “The Carpets,” but a band with that name already existed. So, Ferguson and Engstrom decided to incorporate the name Luna, as they had been considering it with other name ideas.

Being best friends, roommates and band partners, Ferguson and Engstrom spend a lot of time together. To make sure their connection stays strong, they compartmentalize the different parts of their relationship and always make their friendship the top priority.

Ferguson said that if their “best friendship” falls apart, the other aspects of their partnership do too. They accommodate each other and keep their friendship stable and fun even through five-hour Sunday night recording sessions.

“It’s just fun doing all these things with (Ferguson),” Engstrom said. “(She’s) the funniest person I know. She always knows how to get a laugh out of me and we always keep it light, keep it friendly while also being professional.”

After a performance they did for a Newhouse film class, Rob Childs, an audio arts graduate student, reached out and offered to produce eight songs for them as part of his capstone project.

They decided to take the opportunity and record their first album.

This weekend, to celebrate the album’s release, Ferguson and Engstrom did a show on their friend Giulianna Palucci’s porch. It was their first time doing a full show of entirely their own music, and their first time playing several of the songs off the album. from page 5

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freshman year,” Chavez said. “Having them made me feel so much less alone.”

These lifelong bonds are reflective of a family forming between the members, Talento from page 6

trophies media in “Isadora in Black Lace,” juxtaposing a hard, hand-thrown ceramic plate with fragile lace. In “Trophies,” she combines solid clay with soft feathers.

“I have known Roberta as a human being for longer than I have known her art,” Johnson said. “(The piece is) also sensual and innovative…

Palucci played drums for the album and described the release party as a special night. They decorated the porch with carpets to pay homage to the band’s name and performed in front of a crowd made up of roughly 100 family and friends.

“The music is very personal. It’s about people that we all know,” Engstrom said. “Our friends play in the band and our friends help us write and produce the music.”

Engstrom said the foundation behind their group is their unwavering support for each other, both personally and creatively. Ferguson writes the melodies and Engstrom writes the lyrics for many of their songs, so they fit like puzzle pieces.

“They just both know what the other one is saying without the other one actually saying it,” Palucci said. “They’re just always locked in with each other. They think the same way about the music and they always make it work.”

Engstrom would sit in the Newhouse studio and play songs acoustically for Palucci, who would then create a drum beat to go with the track. She said it was a really fun recording process and she loved being part of the project.

Ferguson said the experience made freshman year more exciting, but gave them a lot more work. However, with both being so passionate about what they do, Ferguson said it was worth it.

Being an all-girl band, they face catcalls and inappropriate comments during shows, Ferguson said. Once, in the middle of a set, a man tried to shove her off of the keyboard and attempt to start to play himself.

Due to the stigma they face as an all-girl duo, they care about female representation in the local music scene. For local house shows, their drummer, guitarist and entire band are made up of women.

“If we can find female musicians that are just as good if not better than their male counterparts, obviously we’re going to use them,” Ferguson said. “We wanted to just try to create more space for female artists.”

Before Luna and the Carpets became a band, Ferguson and Engstrom performed at Maria Nido and her roommate’s acoustic venue, The

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Recital. Nido, Engstrom’s girlfriend, first worked with them for that performance, and now describes the pair as some of her best friends.

Nido played drums in their album debut concert on Friday. She said it was a cathartic, beautiful experience to play the songs that she watched Ferguson and Engstrom work on all year.

“A good portion of those songs chronicle me and Anjali’s relationship in the beginning,” Nido said.

“It’s cool because it’s a time capsule of everything she was feeling outside of our relationship as well.”

Engstrom came over to Nido’s apartment last year to play the album, and Nido helped add its guitar riffs. She said it was special seeing the songs transform from voice memos on Engstrom’s phone to a full-blown album on Spotify.

“They’re just giggly happy girls that love each other, and they bounce off of each other’s energy very seamlessly,” Nido said. “It’s just two girlies having fun. It’s such a great feminine friendship energy.”

The band is based on friendship. Produced by friends and featuring friends, the album involved Ferguson and Engstrom’s community at Syracuse, and now they are celebrating its success.

“I love them so much,” Palucci said. “They created this very beautiful little world, within their album and within their music. People really love them. Not only as musicians, but as people.”

said. They call these connections “family trees” within the university. Although the club is young on campus, it has high aspirations.

“A lot of our Filipino members bring in guests who aren’t of Filipino heritage… One of the biggest things of Filipino culture is they’re very welcoming, they’re very hospitable. That was

one of the biggest things if you go to the Philippines,” Talento said.

Throughout the rest of October, FSA is hosting multiple events to commemorate the month.

To end the celebrations, FSA is hosting “Halohaloween” on Oct. 27, and having their “Ate Kuya” revealed at the event.

“(FSA) was a way for us to get to know each other. It was a way to interact with new people.”

Chavez said “Some of my favorite memories, someone would pull out a guitar, they just sing, they cook and everything and it was very much just like a home,” Chavez said.

but it masks a horrific story. Roberta definitely knows how to inject a bit of ‘grit’ into beauty.”

Griffith’s design choices mark the evolution of artwork that occurred in the 1970s, when Johnson said ceramists transitioned from “sleek mid-century silhouettes to embrace sensuality.”

From bulbous ceramic heads to little ones, and canary yellow feathers to speckled gray ones, the sea creatures stand out from one another. Cesar Barrera, a freshman in the

College of Arts and Sciences, appreciates this diversity in appearance.

“The design of each trophy is unique in its own way. Each trophy comes with its own design,” Barrera said.

According to the Everson website, “Trophies” is a multifaceted exhibit. It is not only a quirky spin on whimsical underwater creatures but also a feminist stand in a male-dominated field. As a woman producing

artwork in the 1970s, Griffith challenged the status quo. Now, half a century later, her art is celebrated for being a bold shout in a sea of voices aiming to drown her out.

"Roberta is a living legend.” Johnson said.

“These strange and wonderful objects still have the power to delight and surprise... This is a victory lap for an artist with a long history with Everson.”

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When you become a woman, you don’t have to lose your right to being a girl

By Maya Aguirre

M columnist

illennial and Gen-Z women are making a collective ‘return to girlhood’ after growing up in a fourth-wave feminist world.

Younger women have had an undeniably unique experience as feminists, a raw effect of social media’s growth. The National Women’s History Museum attributes much of the uniqueness and efficacy of fourth-wave feminism to social media.

Fourth-wave feminism is rooted in women sharing traumatizing experiences with one another, and uniting to combat dehumanizing norms. The widespread use of #MeToo on various social media platforms in raising awareness about the magnitude of sexual harassment and assault in 2017, or the organization of women’s marches directly following Trump’s inauguration in 2016, became hallmark items of the fourth-wave movement. Social media changed everything.

And just when cases of COVID-19 seemed to be lightening up, the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade, abandoning our Constitutional right to abortion. Trans women were facing (and continue to face) attacks on their right to bodily autonomy through increased restrictions on gender affirming care. The fact that our rights were diminishing before our eyes was unavoidable. Morale among women seemed to be at an all-time low last summer.

When a post-Dobbs world made being a woman exhausting, scary and undesirable, something amazing happened. Women on social media began to reminisce: maybe it was the announcement of Taylor Swift’s or Beyoncé’s tours, or Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, but it happened.

A social media feed filled with fear and debate

about the U.S. government’s attack on women’s rights abruptly switched to a heartwarming place of nostalgia and joy. We were returning to girlhood in a movement I call Slumber Party Feminism.

At its apex, Slumber Party Feminism lessens the pressure in being a “good fourth wave-feminist,” or one who sets an example of strength and empowerment for others, dislikes being diminished by words like “girl” or “lady” and whose camaraderie with other women is based in struggle.

Slumber Party Feminism uses the same mode of communication as fourth-wave feminism — social media — but differs in that it forges a common bond between women that isn’t based in trauma. While fourth-wave feminism tends to focus on the hardships of womanhood and our empowerment in overcoming these hardships, Slumber Party Feminism pushes them aside.

The core of Slumber Party Feminism rejects the idea that “Slumber Party Feminism” is an offensive or demeaning name.

Girl-world is simple: it’s just our lives if we hadn’t found out about the horrors of womanhood.

A world without pressure to grow up quickly for the purpose of proving ourselves as equals to men and fighting for our rights. It’s a world where we only inherited our hair color from our mothers, not their dark circles, or their trauma.

The Slumber Party Feminist girl-world is a place where we didn’t learn what the #MeToo movement was before we knew how to find X in math class. Where we can eat macaroni and cheese and pickles for dinner with no shame.

Slumber Party girl-world means that not passing the Bechdel Test when hanging out with your girls doesn’t make you a bad feminist. It’s a party where you’re accepted, even when you take too many jello shots and get a little sloppy on a Thursday night. A

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place where you can do your best, and that’s enough.

You’re just a girl, right? If you are, then you’re welcome at the Slumber Party.

Slumber Party Feminism, though healing and empowering, isn’t revolutionary. It’s a reclamation of girlhood, and a well-deserved escape. But as women’s rights are continually threatened, we must be careful with our return to girlhood. If we begin to only find joy in Slumber Party girl-world, our generation is sending the message to our daughters that womanhood is something to dread and escape.

Slumber Party Feminism can have the most power to make systemic change in the feminist movement if we bridge the divide between fourth-wave feminist ideals and our girl-worlds.

The friendship bracelet making, fun-loving, silly, vivid qualities we attribute to ‘being a girl’

can stay when we go do the challenging task of fighting for our rights in our womanhood.

With the employment of girlhood camaraderie with one another alongside the powerful qualities we possess as women, we have the ability to channel the strength of all the women we admire.

So wear that pink outfit, talk about your crushes and help your friends out. Make mistakes, embarrass yourself, eat weird combinations of foods and spend money on things you may not need sometimes — I promise, you haven’t lost your right to the title of woman.

Maya Aguirre is a sophomore Magazine, News and Digital Journalism major.

Her column appears biweekly.

She can be reached at msaguirr@syr.edu.

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Creating original stories for people of color advances equity in Hollywood

By Kaitlyn Paige

O columnist

ver the past few years, Hollywood has put out a record number of remakes and sequels of some of their most popular stories. From simple retellings like ABC’s “The Wonder Years” to “Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel 36-years in the making, it seems that Hollywood’s current era is all about recycling.

Hollywood’s lack of new stories is widely debated — some call it a lack of creativity. Regardless of one’s opinion on the idea as a whole, one of the biggest discussions around remakes has been centered around race-swapping, which is the changing of a character’s original race or ethnicity. While this isn’t a new phenomenon, it’s certainly been more prevalent in the media over the past few years.

As a person of color, it was rare to see someone that looked like me on screen growing up. And when I did, they were often tokenized as the funny Black best friend or cast as a criminal, so seeing someone like myself as a Disney princess for the first time in “Princess and the Frog” was exciting.

But as remakes are released, I’ve been thinking about how this representation would feel more sincere with original stories and characters of color.

Earlier this year, the live action remake of “The Little Mermaid” starred Black actress Halle Bailey as the titular character despite the original character being white. The streaming service Max’s “Velma”, a spin off of the original “Scooby Doo” characters, changed the race of several of the characters. Similarly, Disney revealed their plans for a live action film adaptation of the 1937 “Snow White” with Colombian actress Rachel Zegler, which is coming out late next year.

Examples like these have sparked conversation on social media. Some argue changing a character’s original race takes away from the story and

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by Hollywood that comes across as disingenuous.

It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that people of color have been slighted in the media representation for decades. Over 90 percent of people in the entertainment industry are white, resulting in both a lack of representation and misinformation fueled by racist stereotypes. With this, it’s easy to see why many people are open to race swapping famous characters.

Kandice Green, an S.I. Newhouse School of Communications Ph.D candidate, believes that a lack of diversity or lack of new stories with original characters doesn’t always come from a place of malice or an objective to leave out original characters of color.

“I think you can have good intentions mixed with good casting choices or great writing but it can still come as if they’re just trying to meet a diversity quota.” Green said.

But in terms of pushing for more original characters of color, she believes diversity starts at the very beginning, in the executives and writers room. “The writer’s room is the basis. We must get diverse people behind the scenes in order to greenlight these projects and tell the stories with rich, multidimensional characters,” Green said.

Kennedy Smith, a Newhouse television, radio and film junior, plans to go into screenwriting. She hopes that as she starts her own career, she can write positive stories that allow people from all backgrounds to feel represented.

Smith, referencing the casting for the new Percy Jackson series, said, “When you have an original story that is beloved by man but is not really diverse, I can see the incentive to change the race of certain characters. It allows people to feel represented through their favorite characters

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and stories in a way they weren’t able to before.”

The character of Annabeth was white in the previous films and book series, but is now being played by Black actress Leah Jefferries, whose casting has been heavily debated online.

“Many people are upset for the wrong reasons,” Smith said. “We should focus on telling never seen before stories with diverse characters whether it’s race, sexual orientation, or gender, and people should be advocating for that instead.”

While diversity in Hollywood has evolved immensely in recent years, there’s still room for improvement. If we keep pushing out remakes in which the main character’s race has been swapped but everything else stays the same, how can Hollywood evolve and tell stories that actually represent people of color?

At every step of the production process, from the writers room to the actors on the screen, people of color need to be involved. Movie studios must tell authentic stories, rather than pushing stereotypes or filling a diversity quota, which is often what race swapping can seem like.

Students and those looking to go into filmmaking at every step of production should think about how they can create original stories that feel representative of all backgrounds. Those looking to be storytellers should ensure they’re including diverse voices from the other writers and producers they collaborate with to the actors they choose to portray these stories.

Kaitlyn Paige is a junior studying Public Relations. Her column appears bi-weekly, and she can be reached at kipaige@syr.edu.

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villari Villari started acupuncture and saw a chiropractor to loosen his muscles and become more flexible on the field. He tried red light therapy and stayed away from preservatives. “Whatever’s on the Joe Rogan show,” Shaver said Villari tried.

He won the starting job, using his scrambling ability to extend plays. Villari led Plainedge to a 12-0 start and the Long Island Championship.

Plainedge lost 34-6, but Villari exited early after breaking the growth plate in his arm.

Shaver said if Villari got to finish, the Red Devils would have won.

Villari impressed in a camp at Syracuse before his senior season, causing recruiters to flock to him. First came Buffalo, but it offered four other quarterbacks and told Villari he’d need to accept in a matter of days. Fordham was also interested. Shaver from page 11

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Nate Edwards. Picking up possession, Edwards fired a low cross toward Nicholas Kaloukian.

Though Edwards’ delivery was mistimed, D’Agositni lay unmarked at the top of the 6-yard box. He was there to clean up, firing a shot into the roof of the net to give Syracuse a 1-0 lead.

“It was pretty important to get the first goal in the first 20 minutes or 30 minutes and start strong,” D’Agostini said. “The other games we kind of took too long to score and then it complicated the game for ourselves.”

With Boselli out of the lineup, Pablo Pedregosa played left wing back for the first time this season instead of his normal center back role. Mikina stepped into midfield, while Josh Belluz dropped into the defense as a center back. With Mikina as the holding midfielder, Mateo Leveque and Jeorgio Kocevski entered more advanced positions, which helped with Syracuse’s passing in the final third. from page 11

germany special player “all in a few minutes of seeing her (for the first time).”

“She was able to do everything,” Renneberg said. “And with setting skills we could talk for two hours. She was able to serve from difficult angles where I think it’s not normal at that age to perform like that.”

When Ledermueller was selected, Renneberg remembered how happy she was. He said Ledermueller held the feat of representing Germany with high regard.

“Being on the stage when I was selected, going to the tournaments, I just felt so grateful for that experience,” Ledermueller said. “I thought, ‘Wow, there’s so many people playing volleyball who will never have that opportunity.’”

Schlichter’s selection to the squad helped her realize although she was talented, there was still work to be done. So, she decided to say goodbye to friends and family when she was just 16 years old. Schlichter traveled six hours across Germany, from her hometown of Lathen, to attend VCO Berlin, one of the top volleyball programs in the country.

“She’s always trying to take care of everything, trying to do things right,” said VCO Berlin head coach Manuel Hartmann. “She’s always focused, always the first one in the gym, last one to leave.”

After being selected as members of the junior national team, Schlichter and Ledermueller’s first tournament as teammates was the 2019 Girls’ U16 European Volleyball Championship,

advised its staff to get Villari now because “he’s a big time football player.” Then, Massachusetts came down and offered him after watching three warm-up plays.

“If Dan lived down in North Georgia, he would have (had a Power Five offer) right away,” Shaver said.

In 2019, Shaver was accused of running up the score on South Shore, getting suspended for the final regular season game. The story gained national attention, drawing schools like Michigan in. The Wolverines were one of the teams that saw film of the 61-13 win.

They liked what they saw out of Villari.

Within a matter of weeks, Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh was in the Plainedge High School gym watching Villari throw. Harbaugh offered Villari right away, and he accepted a few days later.

Villari was in the Power Five, but it didn’t work out. He redshirted in the COVID-19-

shortened 2020 season, and hardly saw the field in 2021. Still, he continued his workout routines with Bowman. The pair did yoga to stretch out their hips, relaxed their leg muscles with a vibrating pad and frequently used a rumble roll.

Villari and Bowman always roomed together before games. The pair would stay up talking until 2 or 3 a.m. about their futures.

Villari contested he could be the starting quarterback at Michigan. Bowman said Villari was content with the Wolverines, but told him that transfering would allow him to showcase his skills.

“You can’t look like that and not play college football,” Bowman said.

It was hard for Villari, but he finally entered the transfer portal and found the Orange offering him the best chance to play at the Power Five level. But yet again, Villari wasn’t a starter. Garrett Shrader had the

starting job locked up, while Carlos Del Rio-Wilson and Justin Lamson cemented themselves as the backups.

Villari said in October that he wasn’t meshing well with offensive coordinator Jason Beck’s offense. Beck approached Villari a week before the 2022 season and asked if he wanted to move to a wide receiver-tight end role.

They wanted to get Villari on the field, and despite struggling at first on the scout team, he gradually carved out a role for himself.

When Oronde Gadsden II suffered a season-ending injury against Western Michigan, a role opened up — the starting role Villari had been searching for for three years.

“What’s happening right now is what we talked about in those hotel rooms two years ago, him playing, him scoring touchdowns, him playing at a high level,” Bowman said.

As Kocevski pushed higher up the field, he fed Edwards constantly down the right side.

Edwards and Kocevski worked together throughout the first half, combining for Syracuse’s second goal.

Kocevski found Edwards out wide after Wigg recovered the ball for Syracuse at midfield. Edwards fired the ball to Kaloukian, who had a defender on his hip.

Kaloukian flicked the ball around the corner to D’Agostini, who made a run around him.

D’Agostini let the ball run across his body, taking a touch to settle before firing home a left-footed effort to put Syracuse up 2-0.

“He’s got goals in him,” McIntyre said. “For him to provide that quality tonight was very important for us.”

The Orange nearly made it three a few minutes before halftime. Off of a throw-in, Boselli passed to Daniel Diaz-Bonilla on the wing. Diaz-Bonilla lofted a cross aimed at Noah Singelmann in the box. Singelmann poked the

ball with his left foot but his shot was saved by Yale goalkeeper Chris Edwards.

The volume of shots weren’t high for Syracuse, with just three in the first half, but all were on target.

“I’m a stat man myself, but I like our group and we don’t get too caught up in the stats part,” McIntyre said during media availability on Tuesday. “If we keep creating chances, I do think goals will come.”

Syracuse sat on its two-goal cushion for the rest of the game, recording its fifth shutout of the season. McIntyre said he felt his team deserved a third goal and it would’ve provided them with more breathing room. Still, he was pleased with his team’s defensive effort.

Yale never threatened much, registering just three shots. None of them were on target. The Bulldogs’ most dangerous moment came off a Syracuse mistake. Belluz and goalkeeper Jahiem Whickam played a one-two, but Belluz underhit his pass back to Whickham. Yale forward Kai Moos almost intercepted, attempting to knock

the ball around Whickam, but the goalie slid and did just enough to force Moos wide.

Yale’s attack eventually fizzled out as the Orange averted danger. On the sideline, Syracuse assistant coach Juka Massalin screamed at this defense to clear the ball away next time.

Syracuse continued to control the pace of play in the second half. Matters only worsened for Yale in the 78th minute when Jake Shaffer was sent off after pushing Boselli in the back to draw a second yellow card.

In the final minute, Boselli earned a penalty kick after getting clipped from behind in the box.

And though Boselli later missed the opportunity, Syracuse returned to winning ways.

“You win a midweek game in a pretty comfortable manner, we kept a clean sheet,” McIntyre said. “That’s a tough Yale team… we were all concerned coming off the Clemson game short on a short turnaround. This was a big game for us.”

held in Italy and Croatia. When the squad traveled, the two lived together. Schlichter said she and Ledermueller were a “good match.”

“That was the point where we got really close because we spent a lot of time together,” Ledermueller said. “It was a vibe, we were on the same wavelength.”

Schlichter remembered she and Ledermueller were put on a different floor from their teammates. She said they were separated because the coaches knew they were mature and could handle being by themselves.

Although Germany placed seventh in the tournament, Ledermueller and Schlichter became friends. They continued to represent the national team and stayed close despite facing each other in future club competitions.

In 2022, Ledermueller and Schlichter were called up again to play for Germany. But before games began, Ledermueller contracted COVID19 and was forced to miss the tournament.

The opportunity was one of the last chances the two had to play together before finishing high school. Ledermueller remembered thinking the situation “couldn’t get any worse.” Then, the two realized they were both being recruited by Syracuse head coach Bakeer Ganesharatnam.

Once Ledermueller found out, she FaceTimed Schlichter, unable to contain the excitement of attending the same university together.

“At first I didn’t know about it, but then coach Bake told me a few weeks before I committed,” Schlichter said. “I was really excited about it.

I think it can become a big, lifetime friendship being (at Syracuse) together.” dhjoseph@syr.edu

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greta schlichter (right) and mira ledermueller (left) played on the German junior national team before teaming up at SU. joe zhao asst. photo editor

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edwards a defender and worked with Mikina, but they couldn’t find an open man. After a brief change in possession, Wigg found Edwards streaking toward the right corner of the field. All Yale defenders could do was knock the ball out to force a throw-in.

The combination of Belluz and Wigg continued to feed Edwards, who later moved to the left wing-back position with Noah Singelmann on the right. Briefly on defense, Edwards outran a Bulldogs forward approaching SU’s penalty box, stealing possession and starting the break with an accurate pass to Kaloukian.

Minutes later, D’Agostini and Edwards passed back and forth toward a dangerous attack.

Yale’s defense quickly pressed the pair, and the Bulldogs blocked a shot from Edwards that went out of play.

Up 2-0 in the 74th minute, Jackson Glenn entered in relief for Edwards, putting an end to his evening. Edwards had properly responded to D’Agostini’s pregame encouragement.

“I knew that ball was going to go right there and I was lucky enough to be there,” D’Agostini said. max.tomaiuolo@gmail.com

Syracuse wing back Nate Edwards provided assists on both of SU’s goals against Yale while being an outlet on the right side. Since transferring in from Purdue Fort Wayne, Edwards has been a crucial piece for the Orange. jacob halsema staff photographer

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D’Agostini‘s brace helps Syracuse defeat Yale Knoll’s potential was easy to predict

By Zak Wolf

asst. sports editor

Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre benched top goal scorer Lorenzo Boselli Wednesday.

Boselli leads Syracuse with five goals and has started all 13 of the Orange’s games. But, the striker has been in a dry spell the past few weeks.

His last goal came on a penalty kick in a 2-2 draw with Louisville on Sept. 8. His last goal from open play was against Binghamton on Aug. 28.

Syracuse’s offensive struggles still go beyond Boselli as it’s scored just four goals in the past four games. But McIntyre decided to change things up by taking him out of the starting lineup against Yale.

“Lorenzo’s been a huge part of our season, I just had a hunch playing against their 4-4-2, trying something a little bit different tonight,” McIntyre said.

McIntyre’s decision paid off. Felipe D’Agostini scored two goals in two minutes during the first half, giving Syracuse (7-3-4, 2-1-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) a comfortable 2-0 win over Yale (6-5-2, 2-1-3 Ivy League) in its final nonconference game of the season. The Orange scored multiple goals for the first time since a 5-3 loss against Duke on Sept. 29.

“Sometimes as a coach you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong, but Felipe took his chance and he scored some big goals for us tonight,” McIntyre said.

SU’s lack of fire power had been evident, especially in midweek games, culminating in a 2-1 loss to Temple last Tuesday. Against

By Alex Burstein staff writer

Despite SU’s top scorer starting on the bench, Felipe D’Agostini scored two goals in the first half in Syracuse’s 2-0 victory over Yale. jacob halsema staff photographer

Clemson, Syracuse didn’t create much, with center back Buster Sjoberg scoring its only goal off a free kick in the 78th minute.

McIntyre said his team started “really well” and the ball movement was crisp, which had been lacking in recent games. On free kicks, the Orange did well to play short instead of opting for long balls down the field. Through

the opening 15 minutes, SU didn’t create any clear-cut chances but kept Yale on the back foot with its pressure.

In the 16th minute, Syracuse broke the deadlock. Off of a set piece, Gabriel Mikina played a quick one-two with Gavin Wigg around midfield before spreading the ball out wide to see yale page 10

volleyball

Greta Schlichter, Mira Ledermueller reunited at SU

By Dhani Joseph staff writer

Greta Schlichter first met Mira Ledermueller at the U14 German Championships. At the time, Schilchter saw Ledermueller as any other opponent on the opposite side of the court.

Throughout the next few years, Schlichter, a libero, and Ledermueller, a setter, grew into nationally-recognized players. In 2019, Schlichter and Ledermueller’s journeys came full circle when they teamed up in the Girls’ European Volleyball Championship. And now, both freshman at Syracuse, the two have developed an inseparable bond. “(We’ve) become so close, I can’t wish for anything else,” Schlichter said.

Schlichter and Ledermueller trained alongside each other for the first time during selection weekend for Germany’s junior national team.

Both were anxious about making the cut. Ledermueller initially didn’t believe she would get picked.

Andreas Renneberg, the assistant coach for the team, and Ledermueller’s club coach in her native Dresden, thought differently. He knew she was a see germany page 10

There’s only so many players that you would ever put at captain.

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greta schlichter (right) and mira ledermueller (left) trained together in Germany.

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Edwards tallies career-high 2 assists in win over Yale

By Max Tomaiuolo staff writer

Felipe D’Agostini had a simple message for Nate Edwards upon arriving at SU Soccer Stadium Wednesday evening. It was Edwards’ birthday, and D’Agostini predicted a big game for him. “(D’Agostini) said, ‘I know you’re going to shine. You’re going to get an assist today,’” Edwards said.

It only took 19 minutes for Edwards to come through. Gabriel Mikina served a ball to Edwards in stride down the right sideline.

Edwards then found Jeorgio Kocevski, who tapped the ball behind to D’Agostini. A topshelf strike from the Brazilian swished into the back of the net.

(D’Agostini) said, ‘I know you’re going to shine. You’re going to get an assist today.’

Nate Edwards syracuse midfielder

“(Head coach Ian McIntyre) always tells us to get the ball out wide to our fullbacks,” Edwards said. “He wants me to be very

Nepean Junior Wildcats (Ontario, Canada) U22 coach Kevin Mason made Heidi Knoll captain in her second season with the team.

While Mason said that she was among the Wildcats’ top scorers, Knoll’s locker-room presence drove the decision.

Mason said Knoll made herself available for her teammates which led them to look up to her. She communicated well with the coaching staff, allowing for a seamless transition to team captain.

“There’s only so many players that you would ever put at captain,” Mason said.

Now, in her sophomore year at Syracuse, Knoll has displayed abilities that she honed while playing in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). Through seven games in 2023, Knoll leads the Orange with three goals.

But her coaches and trainers in Canada are not surprised by her success. Mason said that Knoll plays hockey at a “different level,” utilizing her quickness and strength to set herself apart.

Mason coached Knoll for just two years, but Alex Vaduva, a performance coach at athletic training facility Fitquest, has seen Knoll’s growth since eighth grade. Vaduva said Knoll spends her summers back home in Ontario where the two work on off-ice training four days a week. Vaduva has worked with Knoll for six years now as her strength and conditioning coach in the offseason.

“I just remember she was eager to train and eager to get better and that was kind of my first recollection (of Knoll),” Vaduva said. “And she’s always learning and kind of champing at the bit to learn and develop herself.”

In his time working with her, Vaduva has seen Knoll jump from minor hockey to the PWHL and then to Syracuse. Through Knoll’s progression, Vaduva said her mental fortitude has pushed her forward. She easily overcomes adversity and can reset herself well to get where she needs to be, Vaduva said.

aggressive and get crosses in. I did today and I’m happy I got at least one assist.”

On his birthday, Edwards tallied a careerhigh two assists in No. 22 Syracuse’s (7-3-4, 2-1-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) 2-0 win over Yale (6-5-2, 1-1-2 Ivy League). Edwards provided countless crosses into the box, resulting in two goals from D’Agostini. The Orange offense funneled through Edwards, and their backline frequently looked to push the ball to him in transition. After the 19th-minute goal, the pair connected again 84 seconds later.

Off a turnover forced by Mikina, defender Gavin Wigg worked the ball to Edwards on the outside. A swift touch pass from Edwards rolled right to Nicholas Kaloukian. One more touch made its way to D’Agostini again, this time finishing with a left-footed roller that dribbled inside the right post.

“We were trying to create some space out wide and have Nate try to get into those areas,” McIntyre said. “I thought Nate did that with some great service.”

Early on, Edwards found himself right in the thick of the action. In the second minute, Kaloukian dished a pass to Edwards, who knocked the ball off a Bulldogs’ defender for SU’s first corner kick in the second minute. After an unsuccessful attempt, Edwards sent a cross in the box to Pablo Pedregosa, whose ensuing header deflected right to Yale goalkeeper Chris Edwards.

In the fifth minute, another pristine pass from Edwards led to a brilliant header by

Kaloukian into the back of the net. But the referee called the Orange offsides, negating the score.

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Since transferring from Purdue Fort Wayne, Nate Edwards has started in all 14 games for Syracuse this season.

While the midfielder had nothing to show for his efforts to that point, Edwards was the primary outlet for any offensive attack. Once Wigg, Mikina or Josh Belluz turned over Yale’s offense, their eyes immediately locked in the right wing-back dashing downfield. A pass to Edwards often followed.

“That’s one of the things that I bring to the team that’s most important. I’m always willing to make the extra run for my teammates,” Edwards said.

McIntyre decided to pull Edwards for Daniel Diaz-Bonilla’s fresh legs in the 37th minute. But, the move only lasted until halftime. SU’s attack continued to flow through Edwards once he got back on the field.

Early in the second half, Belluz found Edwards open on the far sideline. Edwards danced around

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knoll’s club coach

During the summers, Knoll also skates with an NCAA women’s group hosted by Amped Hockey, a local training facility, 2-to-3 days a week. Charlie Armstrong, one of her trainers with Amped Hockey, said that Knoll is itching to get back on the ice as soon as the offseason hits.

“She always shoots one of us a message right away and says, ‘Hey, I’m back. What do you guys have for summer programming? I’m ready to go,’” Armstrong said.

Armstrong said that he noticed Knoll’s raw potential when he started working with her four years ago. Knoll’s powerful release and her high-level skating ability stood out to Armstrong. He said Knoll’s talent made it exciting for him to work with her.

But Knoll’s coachability has been just as apparent to Armstrong. She has constantly looked to improve through Armstrong’s teachings, trying to learn as much as she can. Knoll doesn’t hold back during their conversations, Armstrong said.

“She doesn’t just ask questions,” Armstrong said. “We say she always asks the right questions…You can tell that she wants to achieve even a greater level of success.”

This drive has led Knoll to national team camp selections. She has participated in both Team Canada and Team Ontario camps and was a member of the 2021 Canadian U18 Invitational Camp.

Armstrong said Knoll’s U18 selection helped him realize her potential. He said that being picked for a Team Canada camp puts her among one of the top players in the country at her age level.

“To get invited to not just an Ontario selection, but an actual Canada camp, I should say, is kind of a big deal,” Armstrong said.

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From the depths

dan villari received little playing time during his two years as a Michigan backup quarterback. Once he got to Syracuse, Villari found success in his switch to tight end, registering 65 yards and one touchdown against Clemson.

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“Dan is a football junky,” Bowman said. “Dan was always Dan Villari struggled to running through people’s faces. He was looking for contact.”

Despite being a three-star dual-threat quarterback out Plainedge (N.Y.) High School who won a Class III State break through as a starting ofChampionship in 2019, Villari couldn’t break through the depth chart.

Syracuse provided an opportunity to break quarterback all his career. His through as a starting quarterback and allowed him to move closer to his family just outside of Long Island. But after holistic training approach and another year buried on the depth chart, he switched positions, as a wide receiver and now as a tight end. physicality helped him earn firstPlainedge head coach Robert Shaver knew Villari could be a Power Five-level player when he was in 10th grade. Over last 30 years, Shaver’s told parents that if their child can a starting role at Syracuse. the be picked out among a group of other players, they have the

By Anthony Alandt senior staff writer

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tall man with slicked back black hair and diamond earrings approached Alan Bowman after his first day of practice. It was 2021, and Bowman was preparing for his first season as a quarterback at Michigan after transferring from Texas Tech. All nine rostered quarterbacks were throwing, and it was hard to miss Dan Villari’s “Italianesque physique” and friendly nature.

After redshirting his freshman year, Villari was trying to climb an 11-man quarterback room, helmed by J.J. McCarthy and Cade McNamara.

Villari and Bowman grew close while battling for the third-string job. The two received limited playing time, each appearing in less than five games. Because the room was so deep, Michigan head coach John Harbaugh allowed quarterbacks to be hit, which most programs outlawed during practice.

Later that season during a scrimmage, Villari led his team to the 20-yard line. Offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore called a read option that Villari pulled in, setting up a one-on-one with a safety downfield. Villari hurdled the safety and took off for the end zone. Bowman said the sideline went “nuts.” From then on, Villari was always eligible to be hit.

framework to be a high-level athlete. Villari easily stood out after a growth spurt between ninth and 10th grade that filled out his frame by nearly 50 pounds. He was a three-sport athlete, starting for Plainedge’s lacrosse and basketball teams.

In 10th grade, Villari backed up an All-state quarterback.

There, Villari first found himself buried on a quarterback depth chart. Shaver said Villari came in on short yardage run plays as someone who could power through the line of scrimmage. He didn’t play quarterback until freshman year, switching from running back when quarterback Dion Kuinlan was pulled up to varsity. There was a void, and a chance for Villari to play consistently.

Once opponents saw Villari’s film from the wildcat, Shaver worked in a few passing plays for him. While playing behind a pass-heavy starter his sophomore year, Villari began showcasing his dual-threat ability.

“One of the best things he could do is when we had passing concepts that were vertical and they weren’t open right away, he could take off,” Shaver said. “If he got in the open field it was over.”

But he was still competing with the All-State quarterback and Kuinlan. Villari knew he wanted to play at the Power Five level and began training himself to reach that level. He started taking a “holistic” approach to his health so he could recover faster.

Plainedge had ice baths and a sauna that Villari frequently used. see villari page 10

men’s basketball

Jim Boeheim finalizing deal to join ESPN for 2023-24 season

By Henry O’Brien

senior staff writer

Former Syracuse men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim is finalizing an agreement to join ESPN for the 202324 season and Westwood One as a radio analyst for the 2024 NCAA Tournament according to college basketball insider Jon Rothstein. The insider

noted that there is no timetable for an official announcement.

According to Rothstein, Boeheim’s role with ESPN is expected to include work on both games and studio. With Westwood One, he could do some additional games during Championship Week.

Boeheim confirmed the news to syracuse.com’s Donna Ditota via telephone

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Jim Boeheim coached at Syracuse for 47 years, leading the Orange to their first National Championship in 2003

from Germany, adding that his work as Special Assistant to Syracuse Athletic Director John Wildhack will influence the number of games he covers.

“We’re finishing a deal with ESPN to do a limited number of studio appearances and games,” Boeheim told syracuse.com, “and I’m doing Westwood games at the end of the year, probably in the different tournaments.”

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