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N • On the record
The Department of Public Safety plans to start having its officers wear body cameras on a trial basis. Page 3
O • Split decision
The majority of The Daily Orange Editorial Board disagrees with the decision to disinvite photographer Michel du Cille from the Fall Workshop. Page 4
P • Hey brother
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A Baldwinsville filmmaker created a film to remember his brother and raise money for cancer research. Page 11
S • Rolling out of bed
Syracuse football traveled down to Wake Forest and beat the Demon Deacons, 30-7, for its first ACC win of the season on Saturday. Page 20
SHAPING GRIEF Sculptures honor families, victims of Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
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Officials disinvite journalist By Brett Samuels asst. news editor
Dark Elegy consists of 76 sculptures that depict the exact moment these women learned that they had lost a loved one in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Suse Lowenstein, the sculptor, lost her son Alex in the bombing. courtesy of suse lowenstein
Remembrance Week 2014 part 1 of 4
By Jessica Iannetta news editor
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he women scream, grimace and tear at their hair. Some raise their hands to the sky while others bury their heads in their arms. Most have fallen to their knees but some have collapsed completely as if hoping they can disappear into the ground. One moment of unimaginable grief captured forever in steel, wire, mesh and foam. Or rather, 76 moments. Seventy-six lives changed forever on a December day in 1988 when a bomb ripped Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone on board. Together the 76 sculptures create Dark Elegy, a memorial that depicts the exact moment when each of these women learned that their loved one had been killed. Some lost a husband. Others, a brother. Many lost a child, including the parents of 35 Syracuse University see remembrance page 10
The 76 sculptures in Dark Elegy were created out of mesh, steel, wire and foam. courtesy of suse lowenstein
When Syracuse University disinvited photojournalist Michel du Cille and his wife Nikki Kahn from campus on Thursday, the two found themselves in an unusual position. “As a journalist you always try to stay out of the story,” Kahn said. “Becoming the story is uncomfortable for me.” Twenty-one days has been the accepted incubation period to determine that a person exposed to Ebola most likely does not have the virus. Du Cille, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, was scheduled to come to campus for the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications’ Fall Workshop this past weekend. He had been symptom-free for 21 days after covering the Ebola crisis for the Washington Post in Liberia when he was disinvited late Thursday afternoon. Bringing du Cille to campus was not a risk SU administrators were willing to take. “My No. 1 concern is for the safety and security of students,” said Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina. “There might be a 99.9999 percent chance that it’s all clear but there’s always that one in a million chance and that’s a chance I wasn’t willing to take.” Du Cille was scheduled to attend this weekend’s Fall Workshop for students in the multimedia, photography and design program in the Newhouse School. But Spina and Newhouse Dean Lorraine Branham decided it was best to disinvite him from the workshop. Kahn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, was also disinvited. Kahn was a graduate student at Newhouse and got her diploma in 2004. Kahn added that she was disappointed in the decision. As a graduate of Newhouse, she said she had attended the workshop in the past and was looking forward to being there again this see du
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