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N • Looking back
To start Remembrance Week, SU community members gathered at the Wall of Remembrance to honor those who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Page 3
O • Never fear
Gender and Sexuality columnist Kelsey Thompson explains why the “Fearless Girl”continues to have an empowering message despite being a fake feminist. Page 5
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P • New beginnings
S • Staying power
The owners of Armory Square restaurant Lemon Grass will open a new restaurant featuring a fusion of international cuisines in the spring of 2018. Page 11
Syracuse football hasn’t made a bowl game in more than three years. Football beat writer Matthew Gutierrez says that’s about to change. Page 16
Remembrance Week 2017
The whole picture How a cheerleader became the face of SU on a day of tragedy By Satoshi Sugiyama copy chief
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THENS, OHIO — Catherine Hauschild leafed through the white booklet as she sat at the edge of a russet leather sofa late one Saturday morning. She flipped through pages of black-ink portraits of 35 college students. A few of their names stood out. Steven Berrell. Stephen Boland. Theodora Cohen. The booklet commemorated the 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University who were killed on Dec. 21, 1988 when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in a terrorist attack over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students were heading home after completing their study programs in Europe. Hauschild received the booklet during a ceremony at Hendricks Chapel in December 1990 for the first Remembrance Scholars, a program established that year to look back and act forward in students’ memory that continues at SU to this day. Then she stopped reading. Reliving that day, the one that made even the cheerleader cry, reminded her of the parts of life she had experienced that those who died never got to. It reminded her of the impact it’s had on her life. On the page she paused on, there was an illustration of Eric Coker on the left side and a portrait of Hauschild herself in the upper right hand corner. On the same page, there is an excerpt of her essay from 1990, when she applied
(ABOVE) CATHERINE HAUSCHILD, then Crossland, a sophomore cheerleader, embraces Amy Jo Eveleigh after a moment of silence at the Carrier Dome on Dec. 21, 1988, Hauschild didn’t know whether her fellow cheerleaders and friends studying in Europe were safe. courtesy of lawrence mason (BELOW) After the photo appeared in the media the following day, strangers from different cities and countries wrote letters of condolence to her. jacob gedetsis senior staff writer | remembrance scholar
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remembrance week 2017
Events to include pop-up museum display on promenade By Sara Swann news editor
As a Remembrance Scholar, Joshua McMaster said he wanted to make
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Media and Terrorism Panel Where: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3 When: Monday, 7-8:30 p.m. How much: Free
storytelling an instrumental part of Remembrance Week. Remembrance Week is held each year to honor the victims of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 passengers and crew aboard the plane — including 35 students who were traveling home after studying abroad through Syracuse University — and 11 people on the ground were killed in the
terrorist attack. Each year 35 SU seniors represent the students who died and organize a week of events to share their stories and educate the campus on the tragedy. Many Remembrance Scholars, including McMaster, have found a lack of understanding among SU students about what Remembrance Week is. As a result, McMaster said he saw the potential to emphasize storytelling as a
way to help the SU campus learn more about the bombing and who the victims were. One way the Remembrance Scholars are doing this is through a pop-up museum display on the promenade, said McMaster, who is a senior computer art and animation major. The display, which is a new addition to the usual list of Remembrance events, will include four different panels. The first panel is about the students’
time abroad and will feature postcards and photographs from almost every student. “It’s very powerful,” McMaster said. “That one started to get me after a bit.” The second panel includes a timeline of events directly preceding and following the terrorist attack. The third panel is dedicated to legislation and memorials that were made in honor of the see events page 6