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N • Iron chef

The Falk College has announced a new Master of Science (MS) in food studies. The school already has a bachelor’s degree and minor in food studies.

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O • Baring it all

Gender and Sexuality columnist Caroline Colvin explains why Playboy magazine’s move to ban nudes should not be considered a feminist achievement.

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P • Bring it home

Homecoming Court members discuss their interests and Orange Spirit as they continue to compete for votes to be this year’s king and queen.

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S • On the rise

Roos Weers has emerged as a top option in No. 1 Syracuse’s offense in her first season. She’s overcome a rough adjustment to the American style of field hockey.

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Panel to address injustice Organizers talk event, experiences with racism

By Anna Merod staff writer

After students held protests and an 18-day sit-in at Syracuse University last year, Nina Rodgers thought SU could if you go use an What: “(In)Justice o p p o r for All” panel tunity to Where: Goldstein Auditorum expand When: Oct. 28 at 7 c a m p u s p.m. activism How much: Free by holding a panel with the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown.

Martin and Brown, two unarmed black teenagers who were killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator and police officer, respectively, have become the faces of the Black Lives Matter movement. Lesley McSpadden, Brown’s mother, and Sybrina Fulton, Martin’s mother, will come together for the first time in a panel discussion entitled “(In)Justice For All” on Oct. 28 in Goldstein Auditorium.

Rodgers, a senior broadcast and digital journalism major and one of the organizers of the panel, said she especially wants to use the event as a reminder to the campus that violence toward people of color, such as Brown and Martin, does not occur in a vacuum, and these experiences need to be shared with people across communities.

“We can’t sit in isolation thinking that one thing that happens in one community is not relevant to us, no matter the walk of life we come from,” Rodgers said.

The name of the panel “(In) Justice For All” was inspired by a popular quote by Martin Luther King Jr. from his essay “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” Rodgers said.

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Three School of Architecture students use glow sticks to build an installation to bring awareness to crime and safety on the Syracuse University campus. The installation took place on Comstock and Euclid avenues on Tuesday and Wednesday. chase guttman asst. photo editor

Glow stick installation promotes safety at SU

By Haley Kim contributing writer

A group of Syracuse University architecture students used 4,000 glow sticks to light up the campus and raise awareness about crime and safety this week; and they plan to continue the project in the future.

The project, titled “Cuse Stay Safe,” began Tuesday on Comstock Avenue and ended Wednesday eve-

ning on Euclid Avenue. The goal of the project was to raise awareness about crime on SU’s campus, especially in underlit areas such as Euclid and Comstock — the two streets with the highest amount of reported crimes, said Estefania Maldonado, a fifth-year School of Architecture student who worked on the project alongside her classmates Brooke Shea and Taylor Johnson.

The glow sticks, which could also

be worn as bracelets, came with a

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The number of glow sticks used in an installation to raise awareness about safety on SU’s campus

tag printed with DPS’s phone number and other safety resources. The

bracelets help shed light — both literally and figuratively — on how the Department of Public Safety helps students to be safer on campus, Shea said.

“They can actually take the glow sticks, wear them and really just have the campus light up with all these bracelets,” Shea said.

Shea and Maldonado said they didn’t necessarily want students to seek out see installation page 9

Student claims permanent disability after lawsuit

By Annie Palmer development editor

A senior architecture major who sued Syracuse University after a 50-pound, 6-by-3-foot window pane fell on her head in Lyman Hall claims she is now permanently disabled due to the incident.

Meishi Zhang, a New Jersey resident, filed a lawsuit against SU, Upstate Insulated Glass Inc. and the Hayner Hoyt Corporation in April.

Both central New York-based companies were hired to replace windows in Lyman, according to the lawsuit.

The companies requested medi-

cal bills owed from the incident, as well as further information about how the window fell onto Zhang.

The lawsuit is still in the discovery phase, wherein both parties can request documents or conduct depositions to be used as testimony.

According to documents filed last week in Onondaga County Supreme

Court, Zhang visited more than a dozen doctors to seek medical treatment — including Upstate University and Crouse hospitals.

Zhang now suffers from post-concussion syndrome, short-term memory loss and vision impairment, among other injuries, the lawsuit

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THIRSTY thursday | founders breakfast stout

Stout’s rich, strong flavor warms cold days

By Clayton Dyer contributing writer

I had one goal in mind while searching the stacks of beer at Tops this week: I was looking for a stout.

With the temperature dropping lower and lower with every passing day, the time for stouts is growing closer and closer. Rich, thick and smooth, stouts warm the soul on cold snowy days. Although we are hopefully still several weeks away from seeing the full-blown snow fall on Syracuse, I was craving a sweet stout, and fortunately stumbled upon the Founders Breakfast Stout.

I have come to refer to breakfast stouts as “dessert beers” — they are generally sweet, rich and filling.

Before even taking a sip of the Founders Breakfast Stout, I knew it was going to fall into this category. The beer smelled chocolaty and sweet, with strong hints of coffee and for good reason. Founders brews their Breakfast Stouts with two types of coffee.

Poured in a glass, the beer was practically opaque and had a caramel

colored head. Just as I anticipated the Founders Breakfast Stout was the consummate dessert beer, boy does it warm the soul. However, although the beer was sweet right off the bat, a pleasant bitterness lingered in my mouth, evidence of the bitter chocolates used to brew it. In my opinion this helps give the beer a fuller flavor – too sweet and the stout would practically be a chocolate soup, but with the proper level of bitterness, the Founders Breakfast Stout balances the two distinct flavors beautifully.

I think the Founders Breakfast Stout would pair perfectly with a hamburger, pulled pork and bleu cheese. With a robust ABV of 8.3%, this beer is no pushover, and combined with its rich chocolaty flavor, it would be difficult to down more than one in a sitting. However, once the winds of winter start whipping across the hill, you should look no farther than the Founders Breakfast Stout to hunker down with for the cold days ahead. ckdyer@syr.edu

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INSIDE N • Band of brothers

About 60 members of a fraternity at Bucknell University completed a run that raised about $60,000 to help bring awareness to Alzheimer’s.

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S • Lining up

Qaadir Sheppard has distinguished himself from the other freshmen on the D-line this season.

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NEWS

Combatting violence SU and other members of the community, including the Vera House, are taking steps to combat domestic violence.

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Is it worth it?

According to a recent survey, about half of U.S. college graduates say that their education wasn’t worth the cost.

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College to offer food MS degree

By Alexi McCammond contributing writer

Light up Syracuse University shines purple lights on the front of the Hall of Languages in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The statewide campaign of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which takes place every October, is being led by the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. For the full story, See page 9. sabrina koenig contributing photographer

SU officials discuss rise in online classes

By Ali Linan asst. copy editor

With an increase in the demand for online classes, Syracuse University is working to place more undergraduate courses and graduate programs online.

SU will hold a panel on the current status of the university’s online education on Friday. The panel will include directors, instructional designers and staff from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the School of Information Studies, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and University College. The panel members will discuss how their individual schools and colleges are dealing with the national trend of online classes through the courses and programs they offer.

Full online degrees can only be obtained at the graduate level of programs within various schools at

SU, with the exception of University College’s Bachelor of Professional Studies. This is due to the university’s desire to have undergraduates receive an on-campus experience, said Karen Bull, manager of online programs at University College.

Private nonprofit universities — like SU — are not increasing the criticalness of online education when it comes to the long-term goals of the institution, according to the National Center for Education Statistics’ Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

SU is not new to offering online classes — the iSchool has had online classes for more than 20 years — but the university is working to improve and increase the number of programs it offers at the graduate level, said Vicky Williams, director of online education at the iSchool.

The iSchool in particular is not see online

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City to install about 25 surveillance cameras

By Hanna Horvath staff writer

Syracuse city police are planning to install up to 25 new surveillance cameras in certain crime-prone locations throughout the city.

The new cameras are being funded by a $400,000 technology grant from the state Dormitory Authority, which is the finance and construction jurisdiction of New York state facilities, according to a Syracuse.com article.

The decision to use this grant money for the cameras was approved by Syracuse’s Common Council last week in an 8-1 vote.

Neighborhoods receiving the new cameras include Washington Square Park on the North Side, the Richmond/Wall Street area on the West Side and the Upper Onondaga Park area on the South Side, according to the ordinance written

by the Common Council.

Last winter, the city of Syracuse used another state grant of $224,500 to install 16 police cameras in two areas on the North Side,

They act as a crime deterrent. These cameras make it less likely for criminals to commit a crime, because they know they are under surveillance.

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according to the Syracuse Police Department’s weekly memo. This see cameras page 9

The David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics has announced a new Master of Science degree in food studies.

The two-year program will welcome its first full cohort of students in fall 2016. The college currently offers a bachelor’s degree and a minor in food studies, but it wants to complement these programs with a separate graduate degree.

“Food studies is a growing discipline nationally,” said Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, an assistant professor of food studies. “We see our program standing out in that we have a really strong focus on politics and political economy.”

The Falk College program will provide students with a 36-credit hour experience that explores food from the agricultural level to the food distribution level. There are five see food

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national news JOE BIDEN Syracuse University alumnus and Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not be running for president.

The announcement, which took place in the Rose Garden of the White House, ends a three-month exploration period for Biden that began after the death of his son, Beau Biden, who was also an SU alumnus.

“Unfortunately, I believe we’re out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination,” Biden said. “But while I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent.”

Biden had said on numerous occasions that he would not run if he were not emotionally ready, given the fact that Beau Biden died of brain cancer in May. With Biden not entering the race, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are the frontrunners for the Democratic nomination.

— Compiled by Justin Mattingly, news editor, jmatting@ syr.edu, @jmattingly306

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Month aims to ‘shine the light’ on domestic violence

By Rachel Green contributing writer

Students walking around Syracuse University at night might notice that the Hall of Languages isn’t lit up by its usual white spotlight, but rather a bold shade of purple.

The purpose of the purple light is to promote that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Lighting up the building is part of a statewide campaign, led by the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, to “shine the light” on domestic violence. Supporters are encouraged to wear purple clothing, while police cars and other vehicles display purple ribbons, according to the office’s website.

OPDV has partnered up with Vera House, a Syracuse-based organization that provides support to victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Domestic violence is a widespread epidemic, affecting one in four women and one in seven men over 18, said Chris Benton, Vera House’s director of communications and special events.

He added that domestic violence “doesn’t discriminate” in that it affects people of all races, economic statuses and sexual orientations.

“It is important to raise awareness about domestic violence because it is an issue many people are touched by,” Benton said.

Randi Bregman, executive director of Vera House, said domestic violence is a leading cause of injury to men and women. This remains true for Syracuse, where 5,000 out of

10,000 police calls might be directed to Vera House’s support line.

“This issue has tremendous impact,” Bregman said. “Increasing awareness and engaging people in advocacy work is an important part of what we do.”

the color purple People are encouraged to wear purple in support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

To raise awareness of the issue of domestic violence, Vera House is engaging the Syracuse community in a variety of events, including a benefit concert and a drag show to honor men who lose their lives to domestic violence and other events. Vera House also took part in the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s #TakeAStand campaign, which included a moment of silence for those who lost their lives to domestic violence. On Wednesday, the office held a “NYS Wear Purple Day.” “During that minute, we asked them to take a stand with us for those that have lost their lives to domestic violence and those that are experiencing abuse every day,” Benton said.

Vera House will hold its 26th Annual Report to the Community on Domestic and Sexual Violence on Oct. 26 at the SKY Armory in downtown Syracuse.

The organization is also announcing three Silent Witness panels, honoring those who have lost their lives to domestic violence. rgreen@syr.edu

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About 60 members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Bucknell University raised about $60,000 in a relay to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. The brothers started the run in Pennsylvania, where Bucknell is located, and ended it at the White House.

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RUN FOR THE HILL Fraternity runs relay to Capitol Hill to bring Alzheimer’s awareness

By Brigid Kennedy staff writer

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group of Bucknell University students have completed a 116-mile run for a cause.

On Oct. 11, about 60 members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Bucknell completed a the relay run from the university’s Lewisburg, Pennsylvania campus to the lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. The relay raised $60,080 to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.

The eleventh annual “Reagan Run,” which kicked off Oct. 8, is a huge philanthropic event for TKE every year, said Matthew Koenigsberg, co-chairman of the relay and member of the fraternity. TKE brothers have been campaigning since August to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association, a nonprofit chosen to honor President Ronald Reagan, a TKE brother and Bucknell alumnus, who died from Alzheimer’s in 2004.

“This is a special event for us and we really enjoy it,” Koenigsberg said. “We raise a lot of money doing it.”

In order to make the 116-mile journey, the more than 60 participating brothers were split up into about

18 teams of four. Team members were then placed in cars and assigned a specific 10-mile route, where they were to drive and wait until a runner from the team before them arrived to pass off the relay baton, which in this case was a purple horseshoe.

Koenigsberg said the unconventional choice was a way to both inspire good luck and further honor their cause, since purple is the representative color of Alzheimer’s.

In order to successfully execute a relay of this magnitude, Koenigsberg said he spent lots of time calculating the course of each leg and then meticulously splitting the participating TKE brothers up into cars of four so there would be some variety among the runners. This way, the brothers get to spend time with other members of the fraternity they don’t know as well, he added.

The relay in its entirety took four days to complete due to safety restrictions that prohibited the brothers from running after 6 p.m. So when Koenigsberg and his co-chair finally made it to the White House and greeted the members of their fraternity that had already finished, he said the euphoria was electric.

“It was awesome,” Koenigsberg said. “It’s a really nice feeling to have closure to the event. We start and

we have zero dollars raised in August, and then September and October come in and we have $50-60,000.

It’s incredible to bring it all together.”

Two representatives from the Alzheimer’s Association met the fraternity at the White House upon the relay’s completion. Both were incredibly grateful, Koenigsberg said.

“The only way we’re going to get closer to a cure is through research. And activities like what TKE at Bucknell did, raising money and awareness, help to fuel that research,” said Jared Paventi, chief communications officer for the Alzheimer’s Association.

Koenigsberg said the representatives went around to every single guy that ran and thanked him afterwards.

For the members of the TKE brotherhood, that appreciation was worth giving up their fall break to participate in the relay and fight some of the negative stereotypes surrounding Greek life.

Said Koenigsberg: “I think fraternities get a lot of bad press; A lot of people say it’s just a drinking club.

But this one event shows this is not a drinking club; this is something we care about.” brkenned@syr.edu

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SU should consider implications of expanding online programs An excessive amount of online courses and degree programs would water down the value of an education from Syracuse University.

SU will be hosting a panel on Friday to discuss how various schools and colleges on campus are responding to the national trend of online classes. Panelists will include directors, instructional designers and staff from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the School of Information Studies, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and University College.

The assessment of SU’s online educational offerings comes as the university moves to provide more online undergraduate courses and graduate programs. This demand is reflected by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, which found a 12.6 percent increase in the number of students enrolled in a distance education course from 2012 to 2013 for nonprofit private institutions.

But just because increased enrollment in online programs is gaining traction on a national basis this does not mean SU has to take part.

The expansion of undergraduate online courses and graduate programs will only decrease the worth of a degree a student spends their college years earning on campus.

It is for this reason that the university should not consider offering full, online undergraduate degrees, as these are only offered for graduate level of programs at this time, with

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the exception of University College’s Bachelor of Professional Studies.

Online courses deprive students of an immersive undergraduate experience. The skills and opportunities offered in a classroom setting are often lost online, including in-depth discussion, working in groups, and practicing public speaking. Web-based courses also limit student access to direct contact with professors with the absence of office hours.

Rather than increase the number of degree programs, the university and its individual schools and colleges should look to increase opportunities for specialized online certification programs.

However, if the university moves forward with expanding degree programs online, it should only provide opportunities that are not equivalent to degrees offered to students studying on campus.

These programs should be modeled after the iSchool’s Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) and Communications@Syracuse, an online Masters degree program in the Newhouse School that offers course concentrations not available to on-campus students.

While the university is also looking to increase the amount of undergraduate courses offered online, it must do so cautiously and consider the weak points of online instruction.

Syracuse University isn’t a school where what students learn on campus is something that can be fully replicated online, and it shouldn’t attempt to become one.

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Green Party must distinguish itself to local voters

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here’s an election coming up sooner than you think.

Nov. 3 will mark the 2015 Onondaga County general election, where local politicians, including County Executive Joanie Mahoney and various Syracuse Common Councilors, will be on the ballot.

This election is not only big for the county and Syracuse city government, but it could be a turning point for another political party.

Here’s a hint: it’s not the Republicans. The city of Syracuse is primarily Democratic, and its liberal affiliation is not bound to change anytime soon.

In the near absence of the Republican Party, the Green Party could be a viable challenger to the Democrats.

Earlier this week, city auditor candidate and Green Party member Howie Hawkins was officially endorsed by three former Democratic city officials, including a former deputy city auditor.

Hawkins is one of five Green Party candidates running in the November election, according to the Onondaga County Board of Elections candidates list, which was posted on October 16.

But despite the Green Party’s stronger presence in Syracuse politics than on a national scale, it still has one major hurdle to climb: why should voters trust the party, anyway? Its largest challenge will be convincing the people of Syracuse to change their party loyalty.

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That reason to vote Green is on paper, officially. In regard to the city auditor race, Hawkins believes that Democratic incumbent Marty Masterpole is doing less than the bare minimum of annual audits required in office.

Hawkins’ platform states that he plans to focus on the school districts and explains why the Syracuse community would benefit from his fiscal supervision.

Hawkins sounds like a typical candidate: he points out flaws in how his competition does the job, tells voters how he’d do it instead and lets them decide if that’s what they want.

But beyond the issues, voters need to take the active effort to switch their ballot from a Democratic vote to a Green one.

Howie Hawkins is also a particular case of its own. He has been a Green Party candidate in over 20 New York local and statewide elections. Last year, Hawkins appeared on the Green ticket across New York state in the gubernatorial race, winning almost 5 percent of the vote.

And despite the benefit of a reasonably popular candidate, the Green Party has enough fodder to challenge the Democratic incumbents. A report issued in early September cited

Syracuse as the city with the highest rate of extreme poverty among blacks and Hispanics in the nation.

Meanwhile, the Syracuse City School District is attempting to find a solution to some of its worst performing schools while Superintendent Sharon Contreras is under fire and waiting to have her contract renewed at the end of the school year.

These issues can be used to remind voters that there are more options other than Democrats, though that won’t change much unless the Green Party works to distinguish itself.

The Democratic Party’s experience in city government can give a reliable estimate of what it will do in power, while a Green vote comes off as an uncertain wild card.

In addition to selling the candidate, the Green Party hopeful must focus on selling the party in context of the issues in the upcoming election.

Refusing to address why the Green Party is still unpopular will maintain an obscure and detached reputation in relation to city government for the politcal group.

For this reason, Green Party candidates must answer “why” before they can begin to answer “how.”

Keely Sullivan is a senior broadcast and digital journalism and French dual major.

Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at kasull02@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @specialksully.

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Volkswagen scandal to be immortalized

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ast month’s Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal did a few things: it added the phrase “dieselgate” to the public sphere and incinerated a respected company’s brand perception overnight. But the carnage didn’t stop there.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Paramount Studios announced last week that they will be producing a feature-length film about the scandal.

This move can be seen through two different lenses. The cynic may be quick to bemoan big industry profiting off of another environmental catastrophe. However, as the Generation Y columnist astutely points out, cynicism is a disempowering narrative, and is one to shy away from.

Instead, Hollywood’s involvement has the potential to tap into the increasing public concern of corporate irresponsibility and environmental degradation. Simultaneously, it sets immense precedent for the enormous repercussions companies can expect to face it they are caught knowingly polluting.

On Oct. 7, Volkswagen’s incoming chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch proclaimed that the scandal could pose an “existence-threatening crisis for the company.” Now, it looks unlikely that this dissolution will manifest itself entirely, but speaks to the annihilation of public trust for the company, and how serious that can be.

Normally, a team of crisis communicators would apologize and try to steer the narrative

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elsewhere. However, with DiCaprio spearheading this upcoming movie, Volkswagen’s negative coverage will be continuous and, once released, forever immortalized.

The film will be based on the book written by New York Times journalist Jack Ewing. The book is expected to be finished sometime in 2016, according to Ewing’s agent.

Environmental issues are often highly politicized. In this example, however, there appears to be unanimous vilification of Volkswagen. This presents an interesting opportunity. A movie of this nature, one professionally produced with a celebrity at its helm, may appeal to both sides of the political spectrum.

It humanizes the oftentimes diffuse, existential threat of increased atmospheric pollution in a way that both grungy hippies and corporate CEOs can relate to, ruminate on and, ideally, act upon.

When environmental issues are divorced from the political sphere they become easier to understand.

On the Hill, elected global warming skeptics and deniers commonly discredit the science behind our human-exacerbated climate, but so far those same voices have been unusually silent.

Perhaps fossil fuel energy lobbyists understand that defending Volkswagen is a lost cause, but is

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what Volkswagen did so different than what the fossil fuel industry does on mass scale every day? In both cases, the environment has suffered under the false pretense that the existing procedures are safe and trustworthy.

This exact trend has recently come to light with ExxonMobil.

Reporters from InsideClimate News, the Los Angeles Times and researchers from Columbia University have unearthed information detailing how in the 1970s Exxon’s chief scientists warned the company of the environmental dangers of fossil fuel extraction.

Privy to this information, ExxonMobil, along with the industry, spent massive sums of money working to obscure the truth from public discourse.

Corporations’ relationships with the environment are gaining visibility, most recently on the grandest stage imaginable: Hollywood. This emerging genre has immense potential, and should be taken advantage of by filmmakers.

Yes, they are profiting off of environmental scandals, but in the process these issues are becoming humanized, breaking down partisan political barriers and, most importantly, furthering a discourse that desperately needs rebranding.

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or the people who claim they just read Playboy for the articles, they can now expect a magazine with even more journalism.

The New York Times reported last week that Playboy would no longer be publishing images of nude women.

Due to the fact that Internet pornography has made sexualized nudity passé, the only way a magazine built on centerfolds could evolve is in a more tasteful, intimate direction.

Still, this shift by the company should not be misconstrued as a feminist achievement.

The hitch lies in Playboy’s objectives: at its core, the brand’s primary focus is still the objectification of women.

Since its inception, the publication has mainly catered to men and reinforced the male gaze.

The most visible example of Playboy’s sexism is in the way it treats men’s and women’s bodies differently.

Since its founding in 1953, only 10 men have been featured on the magazine’s cover.

Of these male covers stars — among them Jerry Seinfeld, Donald Trump, Bruno Mars, Gene Simmons and Seth Rogen — all appeared fully clothed against scantily clad women.

Like the magazine’s models, referred to as “Playmates,” the female celebrities featured in Playboy appear in lingerie, swimsuits or nothing at all.

This difference in representation in presentation puts an unfair emphasis on the bodies of the women and the cultural significance of the men.

If the company wanted to make meaningful, feminist change, it would strive to showcase both men and women sexually in its photoshoots.

The move to ban nudes is ultimately a marketing ploy in efforts to combat declining readership.

According to the Alliance for Audited Media, Playboy’s 5.6 million print subscriptions have fallen to 800,000 in 40 years.

By trading explicit images for just-short-of-X-rated ones, Playboy becomes more accessible to younger audiences, erotica connoisseurs and risk-averse business investors.

Last year, Playboy removed

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public access to its racy web content — pornography became solely available to paying members.

In its quest to be more “safefor-work,” Playboy’s magazine is taking the next step in rebranding.

In this new era, Playboy 2.0 will be provocative and sensual without being too coarse.

Now, Playboy’s nudity has the potential to be more artistic, but the problem is that its nudity has never been about art.

Chief Executive Scott Flanders said that Hugh Hefner, Playboy’s founder and reigning editor in chief of 62 years, always strived to celebrate the female figure.

However, if Playboy magazine has ever celebrated female sexuality, it has done so in an underhanded manner through the objectification of women.

A way that Playboy can solve this problem is by employing more women in the magazine’s creative and administrative fields. Currently, Playboy’s executive staff is comprised mostly of men, according to its website. The only women on the board are Rachel Sagan, the executive vice president of business affairs and general counsel, and Kendice Briggs, the senior vice president of human resources.

Not only should women be involved with the company’s finances and employees, but they should also be a part of the brand’s creative process as well. In Playboy’s case, maintaining gender diversity at the executive level is important for a company that’s entire revenue is based on the existence of women.

There are many perspectives on whether or not porn and sexualized nudity empowers or harms women. But everyone can agree that Playboy can balance genuine appreciation for women and the magazine’s sexual allure if it makes a stronger effort to get more women behind the scenes.

Caroline Colvin is a sophomore magazine journalism major.

Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at ccolvin@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @fkacaro.

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(in)justice The overall focus going into organizing this semester’s speaker was to have someone that was still buzzworthy, but could bring an impactful message to the campus community, said Travis Davis, a senior public health major and another organizer of the panel.

Davis and Rodgers have been working with the National Pan-Hellenic Council, which is comprised of nine historically black Greek organizations, since early August to organize the panel, he added.

The panel will also include National Bar Association President Benjamin Crump, CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin, CNN news anchor Fredricka Whitfield and SU’s Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado.

McSpadden and Fulton’s voices can help provide insight into racial tensions in the U.S., Rodgers said, because they can show that the cause of their sons’ deaths was bigger than problems with law enforcement and police brutality — it’s about community policing as a whole.

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Maldonado has previously emphasized the need for community policing at SU. Davis added that Maldonado’s presence on the panel will help tie the conversation back to campus.

Though there have been recent efforts to hold DPS further accountable for officers’ interactions with students — such as the implementation of body cameras — some students of color say they still don’t feel safe on SU’s campus because of their race.

When students of color constantly see headlines about other people of color getting killed, it’s hard to trust any campus or police officer anywhere, Davis said. As a student of color, Davis said he and other black students he knows gauge their interactions with DPS by their previous personal experiences of racial discrimination off campus.

“Me, being a man of color from New York City from the Bronx, New York, I’m used to seeing my friends get racially profiled non-stop,” Davis said. “It’s happened to me multiple times.”

Rodgers said she grew up being told to comply with police officers’ orders and to not do anything sudden.

Davis agreed and added that he was raised with the same cautionary advice forewarning him to “fear the police, but don’t fear the police,” at the same time.

Issues of race on SU’s campus are not just related to DPS. Davis said he has been called a gorilla by others on campus and most recently, he said someone drove past him wishing him a good night while also calling him a monkey.

Matthew Fraser, a senior finance major, said he personally feels safe as a student of color on campus, but also said he doesn’t want to speak on behalf of all students of

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Fraser, who plans to attend the panel, said he would like to see more protests and conversation about race again on campus.

Fraser was one of several students that organized the “March for Justice” in December, in which students marched from Hendricks Chapel, staged a “die-in” in Bird Library and then marched downtown to protest the lack of indictments against officers that kill unarmed men, like Brown and Eric Garner.

He added that it’s important for McSpadden and Fulton to repeat their stories firsthand since the issue of racial violence is ongoing, and there will always be someone who needs to be more educated about the issue.

“At the end of the day, you can become stagnant and lose track of what you were originally fighting for when the dust settles,” Fraser said.

“Education never stops, and the more that you can do that the better we are.”

Davis, one of the panel’s organizers, added that the point of the panel is not to be a call to action but to help people understand the multiple factors that led to riots in Ferguson and Baltimore this past year, and that one person’s death was not the only reason the riots began.

Rodgers said providing McSpadden and Fulton the opportunity to continue to speak about their sons’ deaths is important, because it brings humanity and awareness to an ongoing issue, even though Martin passed away in 2012 and Brown passed away last year.

“Their moms never asked to be thrown into the spotlight — especially not at the expense of losing their children,” Rodgers said. “But thankfully they’re willing to share their story with people.” almerod@syr.edu | @annamerod

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food studies core courses required of graduate food studies students, including a research methods course.

“We’re looking for students who have a very socially engaged approach to what they do,” said Anne Bellows, the graduate program director in the food studies department.

It’ll be a combination of understanding the development of food studies as an academic discipline, and how food is understood in current pop culture and politics.

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern assistant professor of food studies

The four faculty members involved in this emerging program themselves have a variety of backgrounds in fields outside food studies — Minkoff-Zern has an undergraduate degree in sustainable agriculture and development, as well as a PhD in geography.

Moreover, Bellows said the program will be highly integrated with sociology, urban and regional planning and economics.

Minkoff-Zern will teach an introductory

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online classes looking to increase the number of graduate programs offered, but it is looking into increasing the number of Certificates in Advanced Studies (CAS) it offers, as the certificates are ways for students to specialize, Williams said.

Michael Frasciello, director of online for the College of Engineering and Computer Science, said the school’s programs that involve data have seen an increase in demand.

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How much: Free The College of Engineering and Computer Science currently offers three degrees — a Master of Science in Computer Engineering, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Science — but there are plans to expand, Frasciello said.

“SU is aggressively looking to expand at the graduate level,” he added.

IPEDS found that there was a 12.6 percent increase in the total number of students enrolled in a distance education course from 2012 to 2013 for nonprofit private institutions, and that percentage continues to increase.

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lawsuit is currently on medical leave from SU. Clifford Zelen, her attorney, was unable to comment on the lawsuit.

On Jan. 13, 2014, at about 1 p.m., Zhang was

class for graduate students to learn about the field of food studies.

“It’ll be a combination of understanding the development of food studies as an academic discipline and how food is understood in current pop culture and politics,” Minkoff-Zern said.

The MS in food studies students will also learn from three chefs.

This interdisciplinary approach will help prepare students for either working toward a PhD in food studies, or for various employment opportunities in government, food-related trade or NGO work, among other areas, Bellows said.

At the undergraduate level, there’s an intensive level of studying, but Bellows said that begins to shift for students once they enter the graduate program.

There are currently two graduate students taking courses in food studies, but Bellows said she hopes next year’s cohort will include 15 to 20 students. Prospective fall 2016 graduate students are in the recruiting process now, which is why the department made its announcement this month.

Minkoff-Zern added that she thinks having a graduate program in food studies will help reinforce the strengths of the departments overall.

For now, the undergraduate and graduate programs in food studies will remain separate.

However, Minkoff-Zern said the department has discussed the possibility of offering a fiveyear hybrid program for undergraduates to receive their MS in food studies after their four years in the college. ajmccamm@syr.edu

Bull, the manager of online programs at UC, contributes the increase in the national trend to the flexibility and convenience of taking online classes. “(Students) are able to move through at your own pace at the parameters of the instructor but also not be bound to a physical place or time,” she said.

The number of students enrolled in graduate online programs at SU varies by the capacity of each school and college and the programs they offer, Bull said.

In addition to summer, fall and spring classes, this will be the third year SU offers the Winterlude program, which consists of fourweek long courses that can be taken online over winter break.

“It allows for the students to go home and be with their families and yet still take classes and move forward with their degrees without hindering them,” Bull said.

The number of courses offered and the number of students enrolled in Winterlude tripled from last year, she added.

Williams, the director of online education at the iSchool, said online courses allow students to access SU’s specialized faculty even if they are in a different country or on the West Coast.

“You have access to a network that can be career-changing and life-changing, and having the ability to access that in an online format is important,” she said. avlinan@syr.edu

in Lyman talking to her FST 203: “Fine Pastries and Desserts” professor, when a window pane fell on her head. According to the lawsuit, the window was being cleaned before it fell.

The lawsuit accuses Hayner Hoyt and Upstate Glass of failing to properly install, secure, inspect and create a barrier around the

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cameras is the first time the Common Council is using funding from Dormitory Authority to install these cameras.

The Dormitory Authority’s goal is “(to) provide financing and construction services to build facilities for higher education, health care, and other not-for-profit institutions that serve the public,” according to its website. The authority provides a number of grants to a variety of state agencies, including the New York State Technology and Development Program.

“The funding was obtained through the grant that the Syracuse Common Council received and is being given to the neighborhoods that requested cameras,” said SPD spokesman Lt. Eric Carr.

In other words, a community has to have wanted a camera and requested one from the Common Council in order to receive funding.

Though crime rates, especially in the categories of violent and property crimes, are falling, according to the annual FBI crime report, there is still a push in the Syracuse law enforcement office to crack down on gang violence.

“They act as a crime deterrent,” Carr said.

“These cameras make it less likely for criminals to commit a crime, because they know they are under surveillance.”

These cameras are not covert, Carr said; they comprise of a large box on a pole with a camera inside. There is an SPD logo on the

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installation the installation, but rather bump into it during their daily routines. The goal of the installation, they said, was to show students that the streets they often walk aren’t as safe as they think.

We think that being under lit is one of the main causes (of crime), and people not being aware of their surroundings.

Estefania Maldonado fifth-year architecture student

Cuse Stay Safe initially began as a project for ARC 552: “Politics of Public Space,” an architecture class in which students analyze how public space is used to spread a message through an installation. One common interest among the three students was student safety against crime because architecture students often walk home late at night, Maldonado said.

“We think that being underlit is one of the main causes (of crime), and people not being aware of their surroundings,” Maldonado said.

Many students walk alone or look at their devices, which can make them vulnerable to being attacked. The three students hope that

area of the glass panel to keep Zhang “out of the zone of danger.” Both companies have denied wrongdoing.

Michelle Davoli, Hayner Hoyt’s attorney, was unable to comment. Nicole Holland, the attorney for Upstate Glass, was also unable to comment.

side of the box, and there is a blue light on the top that flashes throughout the night.

If a crime does occur in the vicinity of a camera, Carr said detectives or officers assigned to the case can fill out a request form to view camera footage during a certain time frame. Eventually the form goes up to the police chief, and if he believes the request is warranted, the technology processes the tape and gives it to an officer or detective, Carr said.

“These cameras will be placed in different areas around the city,” Carr said. “The exact placement will be determined later.”

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The value of a technology grant that will allow the city of Syracuse to install up to 25 new surveillance cameras

Cameras have not been around Syracuse for very long. The first nine cameras were installed only five years ago on the North and West sides, according to a 2010 Common Council press release. These cameras were funded with $125,000 of federal stimulus money, according to the release.

Carr said he hopes installation will begin soon. He added that the work is extremely weather-dependent, and each neighborhood will have its own start and finish date. hrhorvat@syr.edu

with the DPS information cards attached to the glow sticks, students will realize the precautions they should be taking, Shea said.

“It’s crazy, because you would think the opposite, but it just keeps you distracted, and apparently when people see you on the phone, you’re a bigger target,” she said.

The project was funded by DPS and Ben Tupper, a local landlord, but the project’s development was up to the students, said Tupper, an SU alumnus.

“It was 100 percent their idea,” Tupper said. “They came to me with an idea already in the incubator. All I’ve done is offer suggestions or tweaks.”

Tupper added that awareness is one of the key deterrents to crime.

DPS Detective CJ McCurty said he thinks Cuse Stay Safe will be effective in reaching students. He added that some students may not want to follow DPS’s safety precautions, so if students spread the information to their peers, they may be more likely to follow it. But above all, McCurty said, he just wants students to be safe.

Two ways for students to stay safe and prevent crime are by keeping their doors locked and traveling in groups, according to DPS’s website.

Johnson, Maldonado and Shea said they are planning on expanding Cuse Stay Safe to downtown later this year. The installation most likely won’t involve glow sticks, but will still address the same issue of lack of lighting. hykim100@syr.edu

Zhang spent $10,000 on medical treatment for her injuries and continues to incur charges, according to the lawsuit. She also claims to have paid $8,000 in out-of-pocket expenses.

Zhang is seeking $5 million in damages from SU, Hayner Hoyt and Upstate Glass. apalme05@syr.edu | @annierpalmer

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Homecoming Court candidates discuss Orange pride, SU experience

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This week is Orange Central, Syracuse University’s annual homecoming celebration. The king and queen will be crowned during the football game in the Dome on Saturday. Meet the ten students who are competing to become SU royalty.

NICK ALIQUO

KAVELL BROWN

LAUREN GREEN

PAUL HARAMIS

JANE HONG

Majors: Senior political science and Spanish

Major: Senior system information science

Major: Senior public relations

Major: Senior broadcast and digital journalism

Aliquo said he represents the school in a diverse way. He has spent his four years at SU immersing himself into the community through his academics, fraternity and study abroad program. Aliquo said that being on the court is cementing Syracuse as his home.

Brown said he embodies what he thinks SU is. He said SU gives the opportunity to turn your life around for the better and give you an “orange spin and flavor” when you leave.

Majors: Senior television, radio and film and information management and technology

The traditions. Even though we all come from so many different backgrounds and majors and different areas of Greek life and professional, with the traditions, it all brings us together as one.

When I think of Syracuse, I think of the college experience. Everything you’ve seen on TV, everything you’ve heard about college, it’s here, like big sports, clubs, great academics, school spirit.

When you come here, even the buildings look a little orange.

Green said she has wanted to be on homecoming court since freshman year. She said she came to Syracuse on a whim and has had the best experience of her life so she wants to take the chance to give back to the community.

No matter what happens, everyone is still proud to bleed orange and I think that’s just such a fun atmosphere to be proud of.

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Forever”

Haramis said he always wanted to come to Syracuse and has spent his time at SU doing everything he can to give back to the community. He was inspired to run for court by his best friend and last year’s homecoming king, Kevin Claffey.

We’re everywhere. No matter where I go. Every single place I go, there’s always somebody wearing orange or some random connection to it.

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Passionate”

Aysha Seedat, president of Student Association, nominated her vice president, Hong, who decided to take advantage of the opportunity thinking she might regret it if she didn’t.

She said the interview for court was a reflective process.

We are constantly reminded that we have so much power and privilege as students to really make a difference and I think orange spirit is really embodying that knowledge that you can always be doing more for others.

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Ridiculous”

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Family”

EMILY MALINA

SPEEDY MORMAN

NINA RODGERS

KARA SHEPLOCK

KANIQUE SWINSON

Majors: Senior international relations and public relations

Major: Senior broadcast and digital journalism

Majors: Senior broadcast and digital journalism and sociology

Major: Senior food studies

Majors: Senior marketing management and emerging enterprises

Malina said it would be an honor to represent the school that has given her so many opportunities. Malina, a huge “Star Trek” fan, thinks the diverse members of SU working for the common good is similar teamwork shown by the crew of the Starship Enterprise.

Morman was flattered to be nominated, but the non-traditional route to the court means he may not want the position of King as much as some of the other candidates.

Rodgers said she was always a leader in high school but was always too scared to do things like homecoming court. She said Syracuse has helped her come out of her shell.

The very special thing about SU is that there is no essence, there’s so much diversity, there’s no single essence, there’s lots of special things about SU. One word to describe Orange spirit: “Star Trek”

It’s evident that students here have this crazy sense of pride because while we’re here, we have so much fun and we get a great education and we get to make great friends...we get to have class with people that mean a lot to us.

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Lit”

One thing that I have come to know about Syracuse is that there is no one specific or right way to “do Syracuse. One thing that I love about this school is that you can find your place and your happiness anywhere.

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Sensational”

Although Sheplock hails from Indiana, she is a born and bred as a Syracuse fan. She said she applied for the court as an act of rebellion against the concept of homecoming being a popularity contest.

There’s something about this school. I don’t know what its is, it’s that orange pride, it’s the camaraderie, it’s everything around it. I don’t know but it’s good.

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Home”

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Bada-beep-bop”

One of Swinson’s mentors who is also black ran for homecoming court during Swinson’s freshman year and inspired her to run. She said her mentor taught her that SU “is what you make it.”

When I see someone...who also loves Syracuse somewhere where I wouldn’t expect them to be. It’s like, immediately you see them and you know that they love Syracuse as much as you do.

One word to describe Orange spirit: “Tradition”

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Department of Anthropology Speaker Series: Anita Fábos Thursday, October 22, 4 p.m.

220 Eggers Hall In “New ‘Bad Girls’ of Sudan,” professor discusses a new breed of women whose “girls’ songs” are defying national boundaries to bring women’s perspectives and critiques to a global audience.

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y introduction to Raury came when I watched the Sept. 22 episode of “The Late Show.” He came out with an impassioned performance of the single “Devil’s Whisper” off his debut LP “All We Need” released this past Friday. This was his first (and what will be far from his last) trip on the music headline. He followed a Colbert interview with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with a Mexican soccer jersey with Trump’s name crossed out on the back.

The 19-year-old Atlantan is hard to place under any one genre. When you think he’s hiphop, he throws in some soul. When you think he’s soul, he throws in some folk.

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His music is less a chaotic mix-match of a bunch of unrelated genres and more of a groundbreaking force for creating a new sound altogether.

Just a quick glance at his collaborators shows how diverse his influences and background are — in his short career he’s already collaborated with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, indie-electronic artist SBTRKT, southern hip hop icon Big K.R.I.T. and Wu-Tang driving force RZA. One of my favorite songs from Raury’s debut album is “Forbidden Knowledge,” his collaboration with Big K.R.I.T. This is the best example of his spin on modern hip-hop. The production and flow

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scream Outkast, while the social consciousness screams Kendrick, but everything else feels his.

“Friends,” another track off the same album, is almost comedically different from the tone of songs like “Forbidden Knowledge.”

An upbeat, pop-rocky beat and guitar instrumentation by Tom Morello accompanies Raury’s lyrics about how much his friends mean to him.

Raury’s multi-talentedness is evident here; a happy-go-lucky pseudo-indie-pop song by the same artist as “Forbidden Knowledge” and “Devil’s Whisper” that actually works is amazing in its own right.

Don’t write off Raury after he leaves Syracuse, Raury is as up-and-coming of an artist as Syracuse gets with his refreshing take on modern American music as we know it.

I’d put my money on him sticking around for a long while.

If you have any interest in getting in on a new artist before the rest of the world’s caught on to them, you’d be making a mistake by missing out on this show.

When his name’s on the top of the festival lineups and charts soon enough, you can reminisce about how Syracuse found him (and you saw him) before he got big.

Brett Weiser-Schlesinger is a sophomore newspaper and online journalism major. He can be reached by email at bweisers@syr.edu or by Twitter at @brettws.

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Hip-hop folk artist Raury to headline Bandersnatch concert

By Alex Erdekian asst. feature editor

Hip-hop folk artist Raury will headline the second Bandersnatch Concert of the fall semester on Nov. 4, University Union announced Wednesday night on Twitter.

Hip-hop artist Demo Taped will open for the 19-year-old performer.

Raury will perform at Schine Underground, with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. and music starting at 8 p.m. Tickets will be available for $5 with a valid SU/ESF ID at the Schine Box Office starting Thursday at 11 a.m.

One of Raury’s most popular songs is “God’s Whisperer,” which has 3,366,094 listens on Spotify.

Hailing from Stone Mountain, Georgia,

Raury is a singer, rapper, guitarist, songwriter and producer whose sound fuses alternative folk, rap and electronic music. He released his awaited album, “All We Need,” last week. In 2014 — the same year he graduated high school — Raury contributed to SBTRKT’s “Wonder Where We Land,” released a free digital-download mixtape called “Indigo Child” and signed with the record label Columbia.

Demo Taped, the artist name for fellow Georgia-native Adam Alexander, has an electronic R&B sound.

The first Bandersnatch Concert performers this year were alt-rock artists X Ambassadors and Tribe Society. Other past Bandersnatch performers include Magic Man, Isaiah Rashad and Chance the Rapper. aerdekia@syr.edu

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FREAKS & BEATS Rock and Roll Freak Show to combine music, ghost tours

By Sam Gozinsky staff writer

While working at the Landmark Theater in 1930, a stagehand named Oscar accidentally electrocuted himself, and died. His significant other, a young actress named Clarissa, rushed to help him from the balcony. She accidentally tripped and fell off the balcony, leaving both members of the young couple dead.

Since then, the Landmark Theater has undergone multiple renovations and has seen the evolution of music and theater play out on its stages. However, one thing remains constant: The theater’s reputation of being “haunted.”

This cryptic mystique makes the Landmark Theatre a fitting location for Halloween-themed events such as the Rock and Roll Freak Show, which is happening Oct. 23.

The show, which draws its influence from popular television show “American Horror Story,” is being produced as a collaboration between local bands such as Pale Green Stars and Hobo Graffiti and the Landmark Theater’s events manager, Danielle Bianco.

This year’s show will be the first, although the same show was scheduled to take place last year but was canceled due to a licensing issue.

The show will start with costume-wearing musicians serenading the audience with headbanging rock and rock-blues fusion at 8 p.m. The doors for the theater will open at 7 p.m. for holders of a separate admission ticket to participate in a “ghost hunt.” There will also be other themed attractions for attendees to take advantage of throughout the night.

Pale Green Stars — a local rock band — will be hosting the show. They are responsible for putting together the lineup of bands.

Bands that will perform Friday include Hobo Graffiti, Amerikan Primitive, Spring Street Family Band and The Stacy White Suite.

“This is primarily based upon local, original rock bands that are from Syracuse, and

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these are some friends of ours and also some new bands that we want to see a little bit more of and sort of raise them up a little bit and help them out,” said Pale Green Stars drummer and booking/promotions manager Jeff Tripoli.

In selecting bands to perform with them, Pale Green Stars decided to expose the audience to local acts that they wouldn’t normally get a chance to see.

“Syracuse right now is coming up really well. There’s a lot of new venues and a lot of great bands and they’re all getting a chance to be themselves and that’s what I want to

showcase, the great people that play music and that offer their talents, keeping the music alive,” Tripoli said.

Bianco said there will be a costume contest with prizes for winners. Audience members who don’t wear costumes will still have the opportunity to compete after getting made up by one of the show’s makeup artists.

There will also be themed vendors, psychics and palm readers.

Tripoli believes that the room that the show is being held in will also enhance the experience for the audience.

“It won’t be on the main stage, but it will

be upstairs. It’s a really, really nice room and it’s got really interesting, elaborate architecture and the building is really old.

We get to play in the large hall upstairs, which is going to be an awesome setting,” Tripoli said.

Jeff Moleski, the drummer for Amerikan Primitave and the owner of Syracuse’s MoleTrax recording studio, spoke about what kind of impression he hopes to make.

“I want the crowd to walk away saying ‘Oh my god, we just saw a great f*cking band,’” Moleski said. slgozins@syr.edu

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No. 1 Syracuse is trying to accomplish what only six teams have ever done — go undefeated in both the regular season and the postseason.

The Orange is 15-0 and one win away from finishing its regular season schedule clean.

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By Liam Sullivan staff writer

Ange Bradley hasn’t thought about being undefeated.

With all the goals, shutouts and wins over ranked opponents, the goal has remained the same for Syracuse’s head coach — win the National Championship.

“The wins are great, but it doesn’t matter until tournament time,” Bradley said. “It’s just beginning.”

Though Bradley isn’t concerned with the regular season, No. 1 Syracuse (15-0, 5-0 Atlantic Coast) looks to improve its best start in program history and go undefeated over the entirety of the regular season this weekend. All it needs is a win over No. 4 Duke (11-4, 2-3 ACC) Saturday at Williams Field at Jack Katz Stadium.

Everybody wants to be a spoiler and it’s easy to be an underdog. It’s hard what this team is doing right now.

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“It’s definitely going to be a big game,” said Alma Fenne. “… We really want to end it on a good note with all 16 (wins) and I want to win everything in the regular season. I think all the girls want that.”

SU will be tested by a stingy and aggressive

Blue Devil defense Saturday, but the team has grown used to competing with the nation’s best throughout the regular season. Ranked first in RPI, a strength of schedule and winloss metric, Bradley’s squad will face its 10th ranked opponent of the season Saturday.

In those games against top-20 teams, Syracuse has tripled the score of its opponents, 33-10. After being ranked No. 4 in the NFHCA poll to start the season and elevated to No. 1 by the season’s fifth week, SU feels it’s found itself with a target on its back.

“Everybody wants to be a spoiler and it’s easy to be an underdog,” Bradley said. “It’s hard what this team is doing right now.”

ACC play in particular has been challenging, with all seven teams ranked within the top 14 and six within the top eight. Duke is the only conference opponent Syracuse has yet to play, but the Orange has outscored the rest of the ACC, 18-6.

Despite some of the stiffest competition in the country, senior forward Emma Russell wouldn’t rather her team play in any other conference. Games against top-ranked teams in the country such as a 4-2 win against ACC rival No. 3 North Carolina have been the toughest tests.

After falling behind with two first-half Tar Heel goals, Syracuse stormed back with four goals in the second half. The game stands as a microcosm of Syracuse’s season — even when outplayed for the majority of the game, SU found a way to win.

“In my opinion, and in many other people’s opinions, it’s the best league in the country,” Russell said. “To be able to play in the ACC and then the ACC tournament prepares you so much for the NCAA because it’s constantly

really hard competition.”

The team may not be focused on its regular season success, but the wins have helped the Orange achieve a massive step to reaching its postseason goals. After beating Wake Forest 6-0 on Sunday, Syracuse clinched a share of first place in the ACC and a first-round bye in the conference tournament.

6 Teams that have won the national championship after an undefeated season

Russell said playing two games instead of three in the ACC tournament will help Syracuse be well rested and play to its potential.

While the matchup Saturday against Duke isn’t crucial in terms of seeding for the conference tournament, it will be considered when NCAA seeding is announced. Bradley said that the last six or seven games are the most important ones of the season relative to tournament seeding.

Only six teams have ever done what Syracuse hopes to do — scratch its entire regular and postseason schedule clean. UNC did it both in 2007 and 1995, and Old Dominion four times from 1983-92.

Syracuse wastes no time moving forward to its goals, even after beating Princeton in its final home game of the season Sunday to clinch the best start in program history.

“We didn’t celebrate yet,” Weers said. “We are going to celebrate the 22nd of November.

“That’s when we will be National Champions.”

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Firenze heals injured right knee to start for Syracuse

By Michael Burke staff writer

Emma Firenze knew something wasn’t right last season. More than a year removed from surgery, her right knee hadn’t healed properly.

“I just wasn’t feeling comfortable,” she said.

“So I decided I had to do something else.”

When the season ended, she opted to have a second surgery.

Ten months later, she’s back playing with Syracuse and, by her account, fully recovered.

She started her first game on Sunday against North Carolina State and is using a unique approach on the field to succeed. She could start her second game Thursday night, when the Orange (5-10-1, 1-6 Atlantic Coast) hosts Miami (5-9, 2-5) at SU Soccer Stadium.

During a game with her club team before coming to SU in 2013, Firenze made a “wrong step” and her knee buckled.

“It was just kind of a freak thing,” she said.

Surgery required her to sit out her entire freshman season. She played as a sophomore in 2014 but never felt fully healthy. In 15 games, she recorded only four shots on goal and didn’t have a single point.

Getting a second surgery was a joint decision made by Firenze, her family and SU’s coaches, including head coach Phil Wheddon.

“I don’t want a player to be hurt and uncomfortable if they can avoid it,” Wheddon said. “It

was disappointing for everyone that her first surgery didn’t work the way that she wanted to. It was a decision that was in the best interest of Emma.”

The journey back to the field was a grueling one. Firenze rehabbed every day for several months. She had days where she questioned whether she would ever play soccer again.

But in September, Syracuse’s assistant athletic trainer Kathleen Chaney cleared Emma to play. She practiced for a couple weeks before actually playing in a game.

After the injury to her right knee, though, Firenze fell into a habit of using predominantly her left foot. She’s been using her right foot more and says she’s as capable with it now as she’s ever been.

As Firenze showed that type of progress in practice, Wheddon gave her a chance to play in games. She came off the bench in each of the first six games of ACC play. She then, she started for the first time in 2015 against the Wolfpack on Sunday, when she scored her first career goal 50 seconds into the game.

With three games left, Firenze said her goal is to score another goal before season’s end. Wheddon wants to see her continue to improve her fitness so she can play for longer stretches of time.

But Firenze simply being on the field is something she and Wheddon don’t take for granted.

“She had a long road and she’s fought really, really hard to get where she is,” Wheddon said.

“I’m really happy for her.” mdburk01@syr.edu

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weers instead of “right” and “backhand” instead of “left” on the pitch about 500 meters from the family’s house. Holding the stick helped her visualize the directions and made dealing with dyslexia easier.

Her mother, Janneke Rutten, a schoolteacher who also has dyslexia, recognized the signs around when Weers was five years old.

Weers struggled to read and write words and repeated her mistakes, sometimes 10 times consecutively. It took her twice or three times as long as others to learn the same material and she never read in groups.

“It’s difficult because sometimes it’s really annoying and embarrassing,” Weers said. “…

You have to accept it. You can’t do anything about it. The only thing you can do is work harder. That’s what I’ve done all my life.”

When Rob, a field hockey coach, and her brother, Bram Weers, a star player who’d eventually play on one of the world’s top clubs, went to the pitch, Roos went too.

Rob describes Bram as a natural talent who didn’t need much instruction and could do anything with the ball.

“Then Roos started. Complete different story,” he said, laughing. “I explained things to her and she’d always do the opposite … I said to her mother, ‘I think she’s never going to learn it.’”

Weers joined a team and trained four times per week. In her free time, Weers copied Bram and they played games. They practiced one of field hockey’s most difficult skills, the drag flick. It requires wrist action which many American girls aren’t strong enough for, Rob said. Roos stood at the 25-yard line and Bram stood about 20 yards behind her. They practiced flicking, competing to see who could most consistently reach the baseline.

At 14, Roos joined Bram’s club, Kampong, and played there for five years. By the time she reached juniors at 17, the club asked Roos to play Saturdays in the younger tournaments and Sundays for the seniors.

“She puts a lot of effort in … People with a lot of talent have it easier,” Rob said. “(Bram) doesn’t get all out of his skills, and Roos does.”

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sheppard figuring out more and more.”

As a senior at Iona (New York) Prep, Sheppard recorded eight sacks and recovered five fumbles. On the other side of the ball, he caught 58 passes for 842 yards and 13 touchdowns as a tight end. Now lining up opposite the position he excelled at, Sheppard said he knows what kinds of moves tight ends make so he can accordingly counter with ones of his own.

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Before the season, Qaadir Sheppard was listed at 222 pounds.

Now he’s up 25 pounds to 247.

Before the season, he was listed at 6-foot-3 and 222 pounds. Now, Cuse.com has him at 247. What puts Sheppard above Pickard for instance, Samuels said, is a physical stature to go along with his acquired learning curve.

“If Jake was physically there, he’d be play-

Weers wanted to travel and learn foreign languages, but she had a difficult time learning Dutch itself. She decided she needed immersion, playing for clubs in Barcelona and Manchester. After her year abroad, Weers returned to Amsterdam, where she met Fenne.

Before Fenne and Weers moved to Syracuse, became South Campus roommates and the top two scorers for the Orange, they ran into one another at a friend’s birthday party in the Netherlands and started talking about America.

Fenne thought she was going to Boston College, but “they blew me off,” she said. Weers mentioned she’d been talking to Albany for three months because her friend, Fiori Van Rijswijk, went there.

“Well, I’m not sure if they’re good enough, like if I would learn a lot,” Weers said.

“Oh my God, dude. You have to come to Syracuse,” Fenne said.

As soon as Weers arrived, she struggled. Not just with the lefts and rights; she also hadn’t finished her paperwork, couldn’t travel to away scrimmages and failed her first 2,000-meter run test.

English presented a challenge, but a welcome one. She’s learning tenses. Sometimes she says, “I did saw,” instead of “I saw,” but she’s practicing. She also finds comfort in her South Campus apartment, where she cooks Dutch pancakes and speaks Dutch with Fenne, friends over FaceTime and her parents.

But which language Weers is speaking doesn’t matter; she’s usually talking about one thing.

“She debates in field hockey over everything,” Fenne said. “Sometimes it’s really fun debating in Dutch … Sometimes it’s like, ‘OK, Roos. No field hockey today. We practice for four hours.’”

When Rob came to Syracuse and the three went to Chili’s, Fenne saw it was a family attribute. Rob peppered dinner conversation with questions about the team’s press defense.

Earlier that day, Rob had watched practice.

There he saw his daughter, the one who left him exasperated many years ago on the pitch near home, as one of the best players on America’s No. 1 field hockey team.

“Every time, I’m surprised,” Rob said. “…

When she was eight, I thought, ‘Ohhhh. We’re never going to make it.’

“But we did.” sjfortie@syr.edu

ing just like Q,” Samuels said. “Q is physical and he learned.”

The biggest learning curve Sheppard had to adapt to was the playbook. He spent hours every day studying blitzes that he could apply in practice.

As a result, his level of understanding with the schemes is high enough to be thrust into defending the likes of LSU running back Leonard Fournette and South Florida tailback Marlon Mack.

When Sheppard intercepted Virginia quarterback Matt Johns, he was greeted on the sideline by defensive end Donnie Simmons.

The senior is the other D-end to pick off a pass this year, but his was returned for a touchdown against Rhode Island on Sept. 4.

“I just jumped up and grabbed the ball and I just tried to score with it,” Sheppard said of his interception. “I told (Simmons) if I get another one, I’m going to take it to the house.”

As Daoust put it, Sheppard’s preparation met an opportunity against the Cavaliers. And in a group of defensive ends frontloaded with experience, the freshman is beginning to crack through the floor.

Said Daoust: “He’s getting himself out there more and more in critical situations.” mcschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman

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Syracuse limps into penultimate ACC matchup vs. NC State

By Chris Libonati asst. copy editor

Juuso Pasanen lay on the wet grass at SU Soccer Stadium, staring at the blackened sky and into the falling rain. When he limped off the field Tuesday against Hartford, he pulled his jersey over his head. Earlier, he leapt for a header but came down on his side and let out a scream.

Late in the game, Ben Polk hobbled around the field after having his feet slide out from under him yet again.

where they stand

Here are the standings for the ACC Atlantic Division:

Wake Forest - 4-0-2 Clemson - 4-1-1 Boston College - 3-3-0 Syracuse - 2-3-1 N.C. State - 1-2-3 Louisville - 1-2-3

“We’re going to have some pretty sore bodies tomorrow,” McIntyre said after a 2-2 tie to Hartford Tuesday.

No. 15 Syracuse will limp into its game against North Carolina State (8-3-3, 1-2-3 Atlantic Coast) on Friday, perhaps the most important game it has played this season. Squandering two games against No. 2 North Carolina and No. 4 Clemson has shoved the Orange into an Atlantic Coast Conference matchup that could either vault or plunge SU’s (9-4-2, 2-3-1) seeding for the conference tournament.

The Wolfpack trails the Orange in the ACC

by just one point with all teams having two conference games left in the regular season. In addition to N.C. State, Louisville and Duke are within one and two points of SU, respectively.

“Both teams will be looking to win this game to rubberstamp,” McIntyre said of SU’s game against N.C. State as he trailed off, “We need another three points to make the ACC playoffs.”

Against UNC, SU allowed two goals in the final 17 minutes after holding a 1-0 lead for over 50 minutes of the game. Despite not getting a goal from midfielder Julian Buescher, McIntrye called Buescher’s performance one of his best this season.

Once Tar Heel midfielder Alex Olofson had ripped his shirt off and ran around the field, McIntyre pulled his team together in the postgame huddle, something the team always does.

He told his players that they played well, but that it isn’t enough to lose to top teams.

“I think we were a little bit unfortunate to come away with nothing tonight,” McIntyre said after SU’s game against UNC. With the ball on Alseth’s foot and 50 seconds on the clock, SU held a tie against Clemson.

Tigers forward Kyle Murphy stole the ball from Alseth at midfield, forcing Orange goalie Hendrik Hilpert to run back to the net and get in position.

Murphy buried the one-on-one chance.

Once the final whistle blew, Alseth peeled the bottom of his jersey and covered his face for a little bit, bending over. The midfielder said he’s made the play many times before.

Alseth went to sleep after the game and none of his teammates pointed fingers to blame him for the loss or mentioned the play the next day.

No. 15 Syracuse needs a win in its final home game of the season against N.C. State to improve its ACC tournament seeding this postseason. sam maller staff photographer

The reality is that by blowing both games against North Carolina and Clemson in the last two weeks, SU cost itself at least a win and a tie, a total of four points in the standings. Those four points would tie SU with Notre Dame for fourth in the ACC and a potential shot at a home game in its first ACC tournament matchup this season.

SU blew two, one-goal leads against Hartford, injuries piled up — Pasanen and Korab

Syla both left the game — and the Orange couldn’t finish it’s chances.

“They’ve been wonderful,” McIntyre said of SU, putting the 2-2 tie against Hartford in perspective. “A 7-1-1 nonconference record is a really terrific nonconference.”

As good as SU’s nonconference play has been, the Orange will need a bit more to boost itself into postseason play. cjlibona@syr.edu | @ChrisLibonati

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Big stretch With the ACC tournament on the horizon, SU men’s soccer hasn’t won its last three games and is battling injuries to key players.

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SPORTS

Seeking perfection Syracuse field hockey is one win away from finishing an undefeated regular season ahead of the start of tournament play.

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Sheppard stands out at DE Syracuse freshman corralled his 1st career interception on Saturday

By Matt Schneidman asst. sports editor

It was always Qaadir Sheppard, Jake Pickard and Amir Ealey.

Coaches often grouped the three freshman defensive ends when asked in preseason which defensive rookies stood out.

Seven weeks into the schedule, though, it’s the Bronx, New York native coming off his first career interception — another indication of the separation he’s created from the group.

ROOS WEERS leads Syracuse in goals, game-winning goals and is tied for first in assists in her first season with the Orange. She has overcome early struggles with the sport and dyslexia to guide the No. 1 Orange to a 15-0 record overall and a 5-0 conference record. logan reidsma photo editor

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Roos Weers deals with dyslexia, transition to US game to star for Orange

By Sam Fortier asst. web editor

A

s Rob Weers drove his rental Kia Sorento through Syracuse, he turned to the passenger seat and asked his daughter which direction to turn for J.S. Coyne Stadium.

It had become a familiar conversation through the years, first

while biking to primary school in the Netherlands.

“She said to go to the left and she meant the right,” Rob said. “She is dyslexic … so it’s difficult to distinguish for her. Left and right are abstract; (they) don’t say anything.”

Eventually the Weers’ arrived and Roos had two goals and two assists in a 9-1 win later that day.

It’s been a season of successes

for Weers — who leads No. 1, undefeated Syracuse in goals, game-winning goals and is tied for most assists — especially considering she was going to attend Albany until a chance encounter with SU midfielder Alma Fenne at a friend’s birthday party in the Netherlands.

The transition to American field hockey has been a challenge, but it’s one Weers wanted. She expected to

learn English, but didn’t know the jargon of the sport she’d played all her life – the one her father thought she’d never learn – would change.

“It was pretty embarrassing in the beginning,” Weers said. “(At practice, my teammates) said, ‘Right, Roos,’ and I’d say, ‘I’m on my way,’ but be going the wrong way.”

Weers grew up hearing “forehand” see weers page 18

women’s basketball

SU ranks as 5th-best ACC team in preseason poll

By Paul Schwedelson asst. copy editor

Syracuse was selected as the fifthbest team in the Atlantic Coast Conference on Wednesday in both the preseason coaches’ poll and Blue Ribbon Panel poll. Junior point guard Alexis Peterson was

also selected to the all-conference team by both groups.

Last season, the Orange finished fifth with an 11-5 ACC record and lost to No. 13 seed Wake Forest in its first conference tournament game in March. Syracuse advanced to the Round of 32 in the NCAA tournament where it lost to South Carolina and

finished with a 22-10 overall record.

As a sophomore, Peterson was named to the All-ACC second team and the All-ACC defensive team. She led the Orange with 16.2 points per game.

Peterson’s 4.12 assists per game were third in the conference and her 2.38 steals per game were best in the ACC. Syracuse begins its season on

Nov. 13 at Rhode Island. pschwed@syr.edu | @pschweds

63.1

Points per game Syracuse is returning from last season.

He’s shown to get better every week and that’s very encouraging. A true freshman is figuring out more and more.

Tim Daoust su defensive line coach

“Q’s very talented,” nose tackle Kayton Samuels said of Sheppard.

“I don’t want to put anyone out, but probably the most talented out of the three.”

Against Virginia on Saturday, Sheppard corralled a Chris Slayton-tipped pass with 32 seconds left in the first half and returned it 3 yards to UVA’s 26-yard line. The very next play, Eric Dungey hurdled safety Quin Blanding before spinning in for a touchdown to give the Orange a 21-14 halftime lead.

As SU (3-3, 1-1 Atlantic Coast) prepares for a Saturday date with No. 25 Pittsburgh (5-1, 3-0), a downhill running team, Sheppard may be called on more to stop freshman running back Qadree Ollison and help Syracuse snap a three-game losing streak.

“He’s shown to get better every week and that’s very encouraging,” defensive line coach Tim Daoust said. “A true freshman is see sheppard page 18