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Two Syracuse-based lawyers are challenging 28-year incumbent Bill Fitzpatrick for Onondaga County’s district attorney seat. The election will be Nov. 5. Page 3
Syracuse Vegfest featured vegan-friendly vendors, social activist groups and cooking demonstrations at the New York State Fairgrounds on Saturday. Page 7
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Syracuse football lost its third conference game on Friday to Pittsburgh, falling to 3-4. Two beat writers debate whether the Orange will make a bowl game. Page 12
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Remembrance Week 2019
Finding their way
Students share housing concerns By Emma Folts
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Scholar Brodi Chambers’ attitude helps transition from Lockerbie to SU
Rowan Chisholm aims to represent Scotland homeland as scholar
By Maggie Hicks
By Chris Hippensteel
rodi Chambers boarded a plane to the United States for the first time with two goals: selfdevelopment and gaining new experiences. Some of these new experiences include trying a cheesesteak, learning American slang, driving a car on the right side of the road and learning as much as he can during his time here. Chambers, watching cars travel down University Avenue, said he likes to learn the differences between places he’s seen. “Like that,” he said, pointing out the window of Café Kubal. “Driving on the right side of the road just freaks me out. But I have to try it.” Chambers will attend SU for the 2019-20 academic year as a Lockerbie Scholar, one of two students from Lockerbie, Scotland, who attend SU tuition-free as part of a scholarship honoring the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in a terrorist attack. The crash killed 270 people, including 35 students who were enrolled in SU’s study abroad program. Now, two students from Lockerbie apply and are selected for the Lockerbie Scholarship every year.
owan Chisholm left for his first Syracuse University football game dressed in his best studentsection attire. His outfit wasn’t complete without the orange and blue kilt that represents his home country of Scotland. “It’s a bit of national pride,” Chisholm said, grinning. “The one country that’s more nationally aware of itself than America is the Scots. We’re loud about it.” The connection between SU, where Chisholm is studying engineering, and Chisholm’s hometown of Lockerbie, Scotland, runs deeper than the colorful kilt. It was above Lockerbie a bomb detonated on Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988. The attack killed 270 people, including 35 SU students returning from a semester abroad. Thirty-one years later, Chisholm is one of two recipients of the 2019 Lockerbie Scholars program, which was established to recognize the victims of Pan Am Flight 103. Chisholm and Lockerbie Scholar Brodi Chambers represent the 11 people killed on the ground in the Scottish town and former Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who
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Kevin Treadway, a Syracuse University junior, has lived in three offcampus apartments during his two years in college. All of them have been inaccessible for people with disabilities, he said. Many apartments in the University Neighborhood lack ramps, retrofitted doors and wide hallways. These modifications make it easier for people with disabilities, especially those using wheelchairs, to access housing. Treadway, president of SU’s Disability Student Union, and other students with disabilities told The Daily Orange that off-campus properties can lack disability accommodations and housing options on SU’s campus can be non-inclusive. SU currently requires students to live on campus for two years, whether in dorms or apartmentstyle housing on South Campus. After that, students can live in apartment complexes, off-campus houses turned into apartments and luxury student housing. Treadway, who lives on Trinity Place, said the single-family homes that renovated into apartments are inaccessible to enter and exit. He has intermittent-to-recurring bilateral sciatica — which creates a feeling of immense pressure and knife-like pain for Treadway, usually around his hips — as well as anxiety, Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The railings of exterior steps are often rickety, including one outside his property, which he said moves with very little effort. Depending on the railing for support could pose problems for some people, he said. “This has been true of actually all three apartments I’ve lived in,” he said. “The stairs are usually not up to par. They’re not sturdy. They give me anxiety to walk on,” Treadway said. Bowing floorboards, while more of an anxiety concern for Treadway than an accessibility issue, affect how he navigates his apartment, he said. Treadway said accessibility problems exist in off-campus housing, in part, because some landlords don’t care about their tenants, and a lot of them are interested only in money. Ben Tupper, owner of Rent from Ben, said his homes are like all other homes in the neighborhood. None of his properties have wheelchair ramps, he said, but he would invest in disability accommodations if he had a customer base that asked for it. The Fair Housing Act prohibits landlords from refusing to make see housing page 4