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Betsy West, an SU alumna of Newhouse’s master’s program, created the film “RBG,” which won an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Page 7

Remembrance Scholars sat in 35 chairs on the Quad for the time Pan Am Flight 103 was in the air before it exploded. The display was first produced in 2012. Page 3

In the south lot on University Avenue, a love of Syracuse head coach Dino Babers has helped expand one of the top spots for SU football tailgates. Page 12

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Remembrance Week 2019

SA gives updates on past initiatives By Maggie Hicks staff writer

RACHEL LANGE first visited the Remembrance Wall when she was 13 years old. Now, a senior studying biochemistry, Lange represents John Patrick “J.P.” Flynn as a Remembrance Scholar. corey henry photo editor

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Rachel Lange finds deeper meaning to Remembrance Week nearly a decade after visiting memorial By Gabe Stern

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achel Lange has grown used to moving on. Relocating five times between seventh and 12th grade made her familiar with being the new kid: the awkward first days of school, finding her way into social circles and leaving soon after. Living in a military family, her ten homes before college acted as pit stops. Life moved quickly during Lange’s upbringing. She need-

It was definitely a sad thing. But I don’t think I was able to comprehend it. Rachel Lange remembrance scholar

ed to keep up. Frequent trips to Syracuse University and the Remembrance Wall were a constant. The first time she visited at 13, her family went to a basketball game. They walked around campus visited the Carrier Dome, the Hall of Languages and a small memorial right in front of it. Her mother, Ethel Lange, Class of 1989, stopped in her tracks. “Now this you need to look at,” Ethel remembered telling her daughter. see lange page 6

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Broadcast journalist talks future of news industry By Sarah Alessandrini staff writer

Syracuse University alumnus and broadcast reporter Marcus Solis discussed the state of the news industry during a lecture on Tuesday night as part of the University Lectures series. More than 40 people attended the talk, which was held in Hendricks Chapel. Solis discussed his career in

journalism as well as the future of the industry. He graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1991 with a degree in broadcast and digital journalism. The focus of the discussion was the impact of digital disruption on today’s media. With social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, reporters are expected to release information more immediately before relaying the longer form

of their report, he said. “It’s not as simple as moving our product onto a digital platform — you have to adapt,” Solis said. Local news and smaller media platforms have suffered at the hand of digital disruption, as some are unable to make the transition to digital-based content as easily as publications like The New York Times or The Washington Post, Solis said. Monetization is especially diffi-

cult in this age of digital disruption. When WABC-TV — where Solis has worked for more than 20 years — posts a story to Facebook, they don’t get ad revenue, he said. The benefits of the ad revenue go directly to Facebook, he said. People no longer pay attention to their news sources when they see stories on social media, which Solis said is problematic. WABC-TV aims see solis page 4

Student Association’s main initiatives last year focused on improving first-year experience, increasing textbook affordability and establishing American Sign Language as a fulfillment for Syracuse University’s language requirement. A year later, SA is still working to complete them. Former SA Vice President Kyle Rosenblum said the process of pushing initiatives through both SA and the university’s administration can be slow moving. “When we are talking about structural and institutional changes, some projects are so huge and require so much cooperation across the university that the possibility they could get done within a year is really low,” Rosenblum said. The transition from one SA term to the next also affects longterm initiatives, he said. Rosenblum and former SA president Ghufran Salih created new bylaws at the end of their term to address this problem. The change required cabinet members to upload transition documents at the end of every semester that detail the initiatives in progress, what has been done with them and what needs to happen later on. While the changes are meant to create smoother transitions from year to year, SA still faces challenges in continuing the initiatives through the organization, Rosenblum said. “SA is such a big organization that it’s almost impossible to get everything you need to know, and there is so much to transition on that inevitably something will get left out,” Rosenblum said. SA’s current administration, led by President Mackenzie Mertikas and Vice President Sameeha Saied, does not talk often about the three initiatives during its weekly assembly meetings. Textbook affordability and ASL as a possible language requirement, referenced often in last year’s meetings, have rarely been mentioned. Saied has spoken about her involvement in creating changes to SEM 100, a noncredit course that is part of the first-year experience. Mertikas, however, said SA is using the transition documents and groundwork created last year to push them forward. Here is the progress made so far on each initiative. see projects page 4

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Holding on A group of former SU students reflects on their connections to the Pan Am Flight 103 victims. See Thursday’s paper

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Clear sidewalks Euclid and Comstock avenues will be included in the city’s sidewalk plowing program this winter. See Thursday’s paper

Home grown SU is holding a panel on terrorism in the U.S. as part of Remembrance Week 2019. See Thursday’s paper

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Ariel Servadio used to dread her health care provider assuming she could only be involved with men or asking uncomfortable and medically irrelevant questions. Servadio, a Syracuse resident, identifies as a bisexual woman. Doctors never knew what to do once they found out about her sexual orientation, she said. “Well, do you gravitate towards one or the other?” she recalled a past doctor asking. Servadio had her first appointment with a primary care provider at Upstate Medical University’s newly renamed Inclusive Health Services department in July. Her experience at the department was the most comfortable she’s had with a doctor, she said. This May, IHS began providing general health care to any patient who identifies as a member of the LGBTQ community with the help of an annual state grant. The department aims to provide a well-rounded and positive health care experience for LGBTQ patients of any income and age, said Mattie Cerio, a social worker for IHS who co-manages the state grant. IHS was previously named Immune Health Services. The clinic served patients with HIV and people taking pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a preventative drug for people with a high risk for HIV. The renamed department is sharing the $130,000 state grant with two of Upstate’s pediatric clinics. The LGBTQ specialty care program has taken in more than 70 new patients in addition to its about 1,200 existing patients, Cerio said. The program’s patients range from 18 to over 80 years in age, she said. Cerio worked on between 35 and 40 of the new patient intakes last month alone after Facebook posts about the specialty care program received over 300 likes, she said. CNY Pride, Inc., a Syracuse nonprofit, and Wunderbar, a theatre and queer bar, made the posts. Jennifer Schumacher, a physician assistant serving as one of the program’s four primary care providers, has trained over the past few years to specialize in transgender care. Breaking down barriers with transgender patients who have built walls up due to traumatic health care experiences is the biggest challenge, she said. Transgender patients are often misgendered and treated with hostility from either health care providers or clinic staffs. A specialty program is needed to ensure that transgender patients feel comfortable discussing their health care needs with a doctor, Schumacher said. “They get glossed over a lot, not get all of those pieces introduced, or get it done in a way that’s uncomfort see upstate page 6

LAUREN CRIMMINS (LEFT) AND DANIEL PRECIADO, 2019 Remembrance Scholars, embrace on the Quad during the “Sitting in Solidarity” event on Tuesday. corey henry photo editor

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Seating display features scholars By Natalie Rubio-Licht asst. digital editor

The bell atop Crouse College rang 35 times between 1:28 p.m. and 2:03 p.m. Remembrance Scholars sat in chairs on the Quad arranged to represent the seats of the 35 students studying through Syracuse University who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Though the chair display has been a part of SU’s Remembrance Week for years, this is the first time the scholars have sat in them. “Sitting in Solidarity” took place on Tuesday afternoon as

35 Remembrance Scholars sat in silence for 35 minutes, until the exact time that Pan Am Flight 103 crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland. Tyler Youngman, a senior in the School of Information Studies, represents Jason Coker. Youngman, who conceptualized the display, said the goal of it is to humanize the impact Pan Am Flight 103 had on the Syracuse community. “It really puts a face to the name and provides students with an opportunity to visually see who was sitting in those chairs,” Youngman said. “The 35 that

passed could have been any 35.” Erin Gavle, representing Alexia Tsairis, said the display was meant to catch people’s attention. The display took place during a class changeover. She added that having the scholars sitting in the seats was supposed to bring the tragedy to the present and make it seem more personal. Tsairis, who wanted to be a photojournalist, got her first camera as a ninth-grader. She planned to take photos in Nicaragua, which at the time of the bombing

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Rep. John Katko signed a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo encouraging him to reconsider a plan limiting the number of refugees admitted to the United States in 2020. President Donald Trump’s administration decided in late September to cut the number of refugees who may be accepted through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in 2020 to 18,000, the lowest since the refugee program was founded, The Washington Post reported. The reduction represents a 40% drop from the previous refugee cap of 30,000 people. During former President Barack Obama’s last year in office, almost 85,000 refugees were admitted to the country, according to The Post. Sixteen other Republican congress members signed the bill. The letter from Katko and the other representatives states they are open to welcoming people from other countries who are suffering from oppression. “As the world continues to face an overwhelming refugee crisis, we respectfully urge you to uphold our nation’s commitment to assist individuals who have been displaced by violence and strife,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter. “Continued U.S. leadership is critical in addressing ongoing humanitarian crises caused by civil war and persecution and in assisting displaced persons,” the letter states. “In our communities throughout the country, there is a long history of opening doors to assist refugees.” A total of 1,281 refugees and 324 Special Immigrant Visas settled in New York state in the 2018 fiscal year, according to the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance’s Bureau of Refugee Services. Of those refugees, 223 have settled in Onondaga County. Additionally, Katko signed a letter from the Congressional Refugee Caucus in August advising Trump not to lower the cap on refugees next year. “Cutting resettlement numbers would leave thousands of refugees who were deemed eligible to travel to the United States stranded in host countries,” the letter from the caucus states. “By diminishing the U.S. refugee resettlement program, we would be turning our backs on these vulnerable individuals.” The Trump administration’s decision is part of a group of actions representing his pledge of changing legal immigration programs. In September, the administration also announced an executive order granting state and local governments authority to refuse refugees. rjchang@syr.edu @RichardJChang1

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SU’s “Sitting in Solidarity” event took place on Tuesday afternoon as 35 Remembrance Scholars sat in silence for 35 minutes, until the exact time that Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. The chair display is not new, but this is the first year Remembrance Scholars sat for the duration of the flight. corey henry photo editor from page 3

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“Sitting in Solidarity” was created to encourage people walking across the Quad to ask the scholars about Remembrance Week. corey henry photo editor

was going through a civil war. “It’s hard, even for me as a scholar sometimes, to remember that (the victims) were our age, 20-somethings,” Gavle said. Newhouse senior Joann Li represents Gary Colasanti. The Remembrance Scholars tried to do something different with this year’s Remembrance Week to continue to push the week’s narrative forward, Li said. The scholars changed the flags displayed on the grassy knoll between Schine Student Center and Newhouse to read “103” rather than depict a plane. “Something that we really tried to stress with our initiatives and all of our displays this year is that, just because it’s the 31st year doesn’t make it any less important,” Li said. “We felt there was nothing wrong with changing something to make it more intuitive for more people to gain perspective on the tragedy.” Changing the displays was meant to encourage people to ask them about Remembrance Week. Many parents, students and alumni did ask about the displays during Parents’ Weekend. Molly Murphy, a senior in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, represents Stephen Boland. She was both nervous and excited to sit in solidarity and think deeply about the victims of Pan Am Flight 103. The display is a way to ensure the victims of the flight are not forgotten, Murphy said. “They’re not just empty, there’s people there signifying that there was once life in those seats, and they can’t be forgotten,” she said. Allison Westbrook, a senior in the Setnor School of Music, represents Nicholas Vrenios. Seeing the seats on the Quad during her freshman year has stuck with her. She remembers walking by the display and thinking of the

sure these changes get implemented as soon as possible, Mertikas said. “There is a good chance the syllabi will be available to students online before spring registration starts for the large, general education classes,” said Stephanie Hausman, chair of SA’s Academic Affairs Committee.

demic affairs, to make sure the class remains a main priority at the administrative level. Salih previously said she hoped to make ASL classes sufficient to fulfill a language requirement by the start of the 2019-20 academic year but called that timeline “very, very ambitious.”

Remembrance Week honors the 270 victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, which took the lives of 35 SU study abroad students. corey henry photo editor

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projects Salih and Rosenblum said last year that they wanted to increase online copies of textbooks and make older editions more accessible. They called it a “long-term” initiative. Releasing class syllabi online is a way that students could access the textbooks they need before the registration process, Mertikas said. Doing so requires structural changes through Information Technology Services and coordination with professors, she said. SA plans to continue meeting with the Office of Academic Affairs and ITS to make

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SU’s Board of Trustees approved ASL as an option for fulfilling language requirements, Hausman said. The Board is currently trying to find a search committee to create a new curriculum for the class, she said. Hausman is meeting and working closely with Chris Johnson, associate provost for aca-

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Saied attended frequent committee meetings to discuss SEM 100 and updates that are being made to the course. The class is a first-year seminar on diversity and inclusion. The logistics committee for SEM 100 has been meeting regularly to discuss how the class should be updated, but many of the

people represented by the plane seats, she said. “I don’t know how you could ever fill those shoes, especially with Remembrance,” she said. “There are 35 students a year that get chosen, but how do you fill a life that isn’t yours?” Pan Am Flight 103 was flying over Lockerbie, Scotland when it was destroyed mid-flight in a terrorist attack on Dec. 21, 1988. Of the 270 people who died in the tragedy, 35 were students returning from a semester abroad through SU. Each year, 35 SU students are chosen to represent the students who died in the attack. The “Sitting in Solidarity” display was created by the 2012 Remembrance Scholars to contrast a visual representation of the 35 victims with positive messages written on the chairs. The display is one of many events being held throughout Remembrance Week: On Wednesday, a mirror display will be featured on the Quad. The display is meant to show that the students who lost their lives were just like students today. In case of rain, the display will be held in Bird Library. A panel on domestic terrorism is being held in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall on Wednesday. Remembrance Scholar Gabrielle Caracciolo will moderate the panel. In Slocum Auditorium on Thursday, a “Celebration of Life” event with music, poetry, art and dancing. The annual rose-laying ceremony will take place in front of the Hall of Languages on Friday to honor the 270 people killed. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002 while at SU. DISCLAIMER: Tyler Youngman is an archivist for The Daily Orange. He does not work for or interact with the News section, nor does he influence its editorial content as an archivist. nrrubiol@syr.edu | @natalierubio_

changes would not be fully implemented until 2021, Saied said. Major institutional changes could take between one and three years to implement, Hausman said. While the three long-term initiatives are stuck in the administrative process, SA’s main focus is keeping the projects as high priorities and looking for ways to expand each of the initiatives once they are off the ground, she said. “We have the ability to set up meetings with administration and let them hear our voices,” Hausman said. “We plan to push them even harder throughout the year and make sure they are doing their best to put our plans in motion.” mehicks@syr.edu

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City needs infrastructure investments SU must better address sexual, dating violence A ccording to the Onondaga County Health Department, as of 2018, 10.4% of children living in Syracuse had elevated levels of lead in their blood. The city of Syracuse has demonstrated a keen awareness of this issue and successfully reduced that percentage from 17.1% in 2012. The efforts are laudable and necessary, but raise the question of how one of America’s most impoverished cities can be expected to handle this issue alone. Government assistance is imperative. Syracuse and its citizens cannot do this alone. They need help from the state and national government — and with more than just lead. But the quest for government funding is hard fought, especially when it comes to infrastructure. While there is an overwhelming need for blood screenings and funding for repairs and temporary housing, it can be nearly impossible for a city like Syracuse to provide those services without help. “I don’t think the city by itself has the financial basis to do that,” said David Driesen, a professor at SU’s College of Law who specializes in environmental law and economics. Syracuse is one of the nation’s poorest cities, and its poorest neighborhoods are the ones most impacted by lead exposure. Driesen said that the costs of remediating a lead-exposed home and accessing necessary medical resources are “well beyond the means of almost all tenants and many landlords.” The United States has struggled for decades to fund fundamental infrastructural development. This has led to not only stagnating improvements but, in many cities, the precipitous decay of crucial public resources. Newark, New Jersey and Flint, Michigan, have notorious water problems. Across the nation, public transportation is often unreli-

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able, unsafe and inaccessible. These issues end up disproportionately harming the poorest communities in our nation, largely because wealthier Americans are equipped to buy out of these problems. But not every American family can solve the problem of unsafe drinking water by buying clean drinking water, the problem of unreliable transportation by buying their own transportation or the problem of lead exposure by investing in expensive repairs or an expensive new home. Instead, those from poor communities are stuck, beholden to a government that often isn’t able or willing to help them access their most basic needs, a government that explains away this lack of funding with the fact that issues like these aren’t politically sexy, that they bore people who don’t have to care about them and easily frustrate people who will have to pay to solve them. Infrastructure projects — especially those that are long term — often require unpopular tax increases, but that might be necessary to prevent the costs that come down the road when cities ignore failing infrastructure. “Our taxes are the lowest in the developed world. And they need to go up. A lot,” Driesen said. “You just can’t let the bridges crumble and the water systems deteriorate forever. It’s not going to work. It’s not going to produce an economically productive society.” It’s a hard sell in a country where securing funding for public projects is a hard fought and often lost battle. But fixing our national infrastructure problem needs to extend beyond quick fixes and patchwork. “The way we did this under the Clean Water Act is that tax revenues were higher then, and we

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spent a lot of revenue on building waste water treatment,” Driesen said. “What’s happened is all of this infrastructure is aging and dying. There’s a need for another mass investment like this, and it’s a pretty critical need.” A considerable number of Americans support substantial infrastructure spending. Sixtyfour percent of Americans agreed with Trump’s proposal to enact a $1 trillion program to improve U.S. infrastructure in March 2017. A year earlier, 75% said they supported spending more federal money to improve infrastructure. Politicians on the state and local level need to impress upon their constituents the urgency of this spending. Spending money is never popular, but infrastructure is more than an expenditure. It’s an investment in the country. The benefits of strong national infrastructure are myriad. Health care costs go down when citizens aren’t being exposed to toxins in their home and in their drinking water. Access to reliable public transportation ensures low-income Americans can work, decreasing the need for public assistance. Until our larger state and federal government administrations prioritize infrastructure development — because it is important and pressing and the definition of what they are obligated to do — the nation will continue to bear the burden of a population abandoned. Syracuse is like so many impoverished cities across the nation, straddled with fundamental infrastructure issues, but it can’t stand alone in its quest for solutions. It is time for a national reinvestment in our infrastructure because it is a reinvestment in our health, our economy and our future.

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SU’s report says that “effective prevention of sexual and relationship violence, sexual harassment and other types of harassment and discrimination requires the commitment of community members to foster a respectful community.” But not all students are aware of how to develop this type of environment for their classmates. And some clearly don’t take that responsibility seriously. In the past three years alone — 2016 to 2018 — there have been 35 reported rapes on SU’s campus. The university’s spring 2018 Survey on Sexual and Relationship Violence, showed that about 27% of respondents said that they had been affected by dating violence since they became a student at SU. About 93% said they did not file a report with the university. The survey also showed that 23% of respondents said they had experienced sexual contact without their consent since coming to SU. But about 95% of respondents who said they had been sexually assaulted did not file a report with the university, according to the poll. Sexual and domestic violence is clearly still prominent on campus, but more needs to be done to show students how they can help to bring these numbers down. “Students are fairly aware that these issues exist but are less sure how to prevent this from happening,” Brec said. Education offered by colleges must extend beyond strategies that give bystanders or survivors the responsibility of taking action to prevent violence — they must address the underlying attitudes that create violence in the first place. The journey toward creating and promoting awareness is on the right track. However, it is imperative to recognize that more can always be done. In order to turn Syracuse University into a truly welcoming and safe place to go to school, students must feel confident in their abilities to understand and combat domestic violence and sexual assault. Our work is never done, and by knowing how to properly aid those who need help or who do not have the ability to speak up, we can make SU a more inclusive and safe place.

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lange Despite a childhood scattered across the globe, every few years Lange found herself at the Remembrance Wall, a semi-circle with 35 names etched into the concrete. Her mother, Ethel, recognizes some of the names — Tim Cardwell in particular. He was Ethel’s friend from ROTC, who died on Pan Am Flight 103. On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was passing over Lockerbie, Scotland, when a bomb in the cargo hold exploded. The crash killed 259 passengers and 11 people on the ground. Of the victims, 35 were enrolled in SU’s study abroad program. Lange said her mother hadn’t talked about Cardwell or the flight often before she became a Remembrance Scholar — just a few times, some when their family stood at the wall. That day, Ethel told her daughter about Cardwell. How she found out about the crash while in the middle of a knee surgery. How she frantically wondered who was on that flight. Lange, the daughter of a military officer and a military nurse, was familiar with these moments of grief. Several of her father’s colleagues died in battle. The Lange family kept a phone in their home that fielded calls from Afghanistan, calls that were “never a good thing,” Ethel said. Lange knew how to be respectful in solemn times and when to stay silent if needed. Her first visit to the Remembrance Wall was no different. “It was definitely a sad thing,” Lange said, who now represents John Patrick “J.P.” Flynn as a Remembrance Scholar. “But I don’t think I was able to comprehend it.” Struggling to find the right word, Lange hesitates to say that Pan Am Flight 103 is more “personal” now, nearly a decade later. It feels different when she walks to the wall as a Remembrance Scholar, she said. It feels more real. “It’s not just 270,” Lange said, now a senior biochemistry major. “It’s more than that.” “(It’s) John Patrick Flynn. Julianne Kelly. Alexander Lowenstein. Tim Cardwell.” Nearly everywhere she’s gone, Lange has created a bucket list. Winter became her favorite season in Germany because the first snow seemed to fall on from page 1

solis to maintain brand loyalty with their station and hopes people will turn to them for the full story after seeing bits of information spread online, he said. With easy access to cellphones and social media, there’s been an increase in what Solis called citizen journalism. People are now personally documenting and sharing news events online, but not everyone has the same resources as professional journalists, he said. While there are benefits in having anyone be able to capture a story on a cellphone, that content cannot always be trusted, Solis said. “It works both ways. We have more access to information and pictures, but at the same time it can lead to more disinformation,” Solis said. The reason for the media’s perceived bias is the industry’s dedication to challenging authority and reporting on underdogs, which may be perceived as liberal viewpoints, Solis from page 3

upstate able,” Schumacher said. Schumacher also focuses on getting patient feedback on ways to improve the program. The program responds positively to patient feedback, even suggestions as simple as labeling condoms as “internal” and “external” as opposed to “traditional female condoms” and “traditional male condoms,” she said. Her goal is to foster transparency with patients while also making sure they feel comfortable. She has recently encouraged nurses to schedule follow-up appointments while patients are in the examination room, so they don’t have to schedule sensitive sex- and gender-related appointments at the front desk. “(The transgender population) is a population that’s very underserved, and to be able to provide them good quality care, including all of the services they need, and not have to send them elsewhere is really important,” Schum-

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her birthday. She started to love the outdoors in Georgia, where her dad was stationed as an Army Ranger and took the family camping. Lange learned how to paddleboard in Virginia, where she escaped to the beach when she had trouble fitting in at school. “If you like it, do it, because if you don’t you’ll regret it,” her mother told her, so Lange started making bucket lists whenever she moved. Three years into her time at SU, Lange had checked nearly everything off of her Syracuse list. She found her passion for research, working 40 hours per week at SUNY-ESF and leading an independent research project on tick-borne illnesses. She joined the professional chemistry fraternity, in which she claims to have the most littles. She takes monthly road trips, often by herself: to the Adirondacks, Ithaca gorges and the Saratoga Race Track. Places where she can be alone with a clear mind, and she doesn’t have to think about anything. She’s the type who could fit in at SUNY-ESF just as well as SU, said Brian Leydet, who she conducted research for over the summer. The type, her friend Danielle Schaf said, to complete her goal of getting on the campus Snapchat story by bringing her organic chemistry homework to an SU basketball game. “I’ve definitely figured out what I want to do with my life,” Lange said. “And I figured out what’s important to me.” But Lange knew she wanted to be a Remembrance Scholar since she arrived at SU. As junior year approached, Lange had a decision to make: graduate after three years, or apply for the program. She decided to stay, but was skeptical about her chances of being accepted. Lange threw up after her interview for the program and called her mom crying. “I’m sorry,” Lange told her mother, even though she was the one who wanted it so much. Lange felt the pressure more. She spent hours in the archives researching several victims to learn who they were — what they liked to do in their spare time, who their families were. Small things. She first sifted through the archives in 2018. Schaf, who was then a Remembrance Scholar, told her about Alexia Tsairis, who she represented. said. WABC-TV prides itself on remaining objective and going the extra mile to tell both sides of the story, he said. Long before the current age of “fake news,” Solis said, there was always dislike and inherent resistance toward the press. Solis began his career at a radio station in White Plains, New York. He moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia, to work at a local TV station and later spent four years as an anchor reporter for NY1. Then, in 1997, he joined WABC-TV as a general assignment reporter. He also stressed the importance of storytelling in reporting. Captivating audiences, he said, is especially important in the age of digital disruption. While the future of media is uncertain, he said he still believes there will still be models of broadcast journalism, like WABC-TV. “There’s a need for content, a need for providers, a need for people to tell stories. That’s what it comes down to,” Solis said. scalessa@syr.edu

acher said. Instead of calling patients by name, the IHS has also implemented a pager system in its waiting room to avoid issues of misnaming and misgendering patients. The pager system also gives all patients more privacy, regardless of whether they identify as transgender, Cerio said. Upstate’s electronic medical record system now provides spaces for a patient’s gender identity, sexual orientation, pronouns, preferred name and legal name, in addition to the sex assigned to them at birth, Cerio said. The university has also updated its portal software to use a patient’s preferred name even if it has not been legally changed. Cerio said she was told at previous jobs that these changes to electronic systems weren’t an option. A key to IHS’s success will be its ability to not only provide affirming medical care to patients but to also connect them to a comprehensive network of support services, such as mental health care, Cerio said. ampaule@syr.edu

RACHEL LANGE is the type of person who could fit in at SUNY-ESF as well as at SU, said Brian Leydet, a SUNY-ESF professor. corey henry photo editor

Tsairis could show emotion through her photography. She “gave a voice to the voiceless” this way, Schaf said. She had read about her struggles in high school, something Schaf could relate to. They both played volleyball. Schaf felt like she knew her. “I miss her,” Schaf told Lange. The comment stuck with Lange. She remembers it to this day. In a night when they had so much else to do, Lange and Mary Kate Washburn, another Remembrance Scholar, sat in Washburn’s Comstock Avenue home, flipped on the TV and sat there for an hour. They watched the first part of “My Brother’s Bomber,” a film about Pan Am Flight 103 and the terrorists behind it. Filmmaker Ken Dornstein searches for the terrorists involved. Dornstein’s brother died on the flight. Lange and Washburn questioned what they would have done if had it been them: How would it feel, Lange thought, if that was her? What if she had fallen six miles from the plane? How did it feel for the people on the ground who searched for survivors and only found bodies? Lange felt like she knew Flynn by now. He

was a student at Colgate University, so there are only traces of who he was in SU’s archives. He was athletic, played three sports in high school and earned 10 varsity letters. So did Lange. He tried to make the best out of losses, something Lange learned with two parents in the military. A quote from his personal journal stuck with her: “Losses are a part of life. It’s what you do with these losses that counts. One should not get caught up in one’s little defeats.” Lange imagines that she would be friends with J.P. He would be someone she could get coffee with, and he would lift other people up. “Just a super positive, outgoing, versatile person,” she described him as. Before she graduates, there are still things Lange wants to do: she wants Flynn to have his own poster at Colgate and make his life more visible. That night in Washburn’s house, the two wanted to put themselves in someone else’s shoes. The film ended, and they looked at each other from across the couch. For a moment, they didn’t know what to say. gkstern@syr.edu| @gabestern326

SIMON PEREZ (LEFT) AND MARCUS SOLIS discussed the state of the news as part of the 2019 University Lecture Series. sarah lee contributing photographer

MATTIE CERIO (LEFT) AND JENNIFER SCHUMACHER work at Upstate Medical University’s Inclusive Health Services department. amanda paule contributing writer

Walt’s world Syracuse construction memes have taken off. A crane has more than 4,000 Instagram followers.

Food cuts After Trump announced cuts in SNAP, SU tutors reflect on the effects on local students.

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Classical notes Robert Weirich, a renowned pianist, will play a concert after guest teaching SU students.

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Resource Center honors Stonewall By Anya Wijeweera contributing writer

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Justice is filmed SU alumna Betsy West receives Emmy for Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary By Christopher Cicchiello asst. copy editor

o-directors and producers, Betsy West and Julie Cohen, centered their passion project around Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life. There was only one issue: When they requested to interview the then 82-year-old, her response was simply “not yet.” But the two didn’t take this as a sign to pack up production and look elsewhere for inspiration. Since both West and Cohen had interviewed the justice during previous projects, the duo pressed on, interviewing Ginsburg’s friends and family. “It’s a one step forward, two steps back process,” said West, who earned her master’s degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1974. “We barely told people we were making this film for the first two years because we were so nervous that it wasn’t

going to happen.” Almost three years later, West, Cohen and their team sat huddled behind a treadmill in a gym, watching in awe as the small 84-year-old frame of Justice Ginsburg was holding a plank for a count of 30 seconds. They were filming the opening sequences for their critically acclaimed, Emmywinning and Oscar-nominated documentary, “RBG.” While Ginsburg, also known as “The Notorious RBG,” has garnered a mass following in recent years, West set out to document her lesser-known history before she was on the bench and given another nickname: “The Great Dissenter.” The film captures moments like Ginsburg’s Supreme Court nomination hearing in 1993 and her struggle to be taken seriously as an attorney at a time when women weren’t considered by firms. It provides a glimpse into Ginsburg’s women’s rights activism as she focused her efforts on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

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Comedian Maniscalco to perform in Syracuse By Sydney Bergan staff writer

When Sebastian Maniscalco’s second grade teacher went around the classroom asking what students wanted to be when they grew up he answered right away: He wanted to be a stand-up comedian. Now, Maniscalco has made a name for himself as one of the top 10 grossing comedians in 2017, 2018 and 2019 according to Forbes. He was also the winner of the 2018 Billboard inaugural “Comedian of the Year” award and currently has three Netflix

comedy specials, “What’s Wrong With People?,” ‘’Why Would You Do That?” and “Stay Hungry.” Maniscalco will be stopping in Syracuse on Oct. 25 and 26 as a part of his “You Bother Me” fall tour. He will be performing a total of four shows at the Landmark Theatre, with two shows each night at 7 and 9:30 pm. The inspiration behind titling his tour “You Bother Me” comes from his constant frustration for the people he encounters on a dayto-day basis, he said. Maniscalco added that he often came home from school to tell his family what bothered him about his day.

I’m constantly agitated or bothered by human behavior and I had to have a funny spin on it comedian

“It’s kind of my state of mind, I’m constantly agitated or bothered by human behavior and I had to have a funny spin on it,” Maniscalco said.

His comedy is deeply rooted in his experiences growing up as the child of Italian immigrants in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He also looks for the comedy in everyday experiences and often speaks of his interactions with people. “The northeast really gravitates towards my humor,” Maniscalco said. “Whenever I see the northeast on my schedule, I know it’s going to be a really, really great time and a great show because the fans are really passionate out that way so I really enjoy it.” The executive director of the see comedy page 8

To honor LGBT History Month and remember the Stonewall riots, Syracuse University ’s LGBT Resource Center is hosting an exhibition in Bird Library through the end of October. “(The riots) set off a chain reaction of community building and political organizing and sparked a liberation movement,” said Margaret Himley, director of LGBT studies. The Stonewall riots began on June 28, 1969, when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village of Manhattan. This raid started a riot that lead to six days of protests in New York that helped spark the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world. Kimberley McCoy, the community engagement organizer at The Community Outreach and Resources for the Arts Foundation, and her team helped create four panels outlining LGBT history for the Stonewall exhibition. She said organizations during the Gay Rights Movement purposely wanted to be more political and their goals were to change laws and making it illegal to discriminate against LGBT individuals. McCoy said that Stonewall was a turning point for LGBT history, but since then the movement started to grow. “I don’t think we’re at the end point yet but things have drastically changed,” McCoy said. At the time of Stonewall, McCoy said, there was no legal protection — you could get fired from a job for identifying as LGBT. Bea Fry, a senior at SU, helped curate the Bird Library exhibition. Although Stonewall was an important event within LGBT history, it wasn’t the first time that queer people rose up and fought back. They added, queer history goes far back in United States history and they tried to show that in the exhibit. The LGBT community has made immense progress for itself over the years, Fry said. They said that at the time of the riots, the narrative of the movement centered around white cisgender voices even though the people who threw the first bricks were queer and trans people of color. In recent years, voices of people of color and trans experiences are finally beginning to be listened to and understood, said Fry. Although the LGBT Resource Center has unveiled the Stonewall exhibition, Fry said the Syracuse community is not looking at Stonewall as a way to commemorate queer identities, narratives and the violence that queer people experience. Fry said that education on this vast and complex community can be furthered “if we take the time to be able to hear one another and learn.” awijewee@syr.edu

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For West, this story was reminiscent of her own. West was entering the broadcast journalism industry at a time when women were just getting “more of an entree into professional life,” she said. In the wake of the women’s right’s movement, West said that to avoid discrimination lawsuits, there was a collective effort to allow more women into industries such as journalism. The fellowship from SU gave West the financial stability to invest in herself, she said. Whereas Brown University exposed her to a rigorous undergraduate experience, Newhouse was a “turning point” in her academic career by introducing her to the professional journalistic standards. However, West was the only woman at her first internship in WHEN radio newsroom in Syracuse. This was the case for much of her early career in television production companies. As more women were entering the industry, West said that she was so thankful for the jobs that she overlooked the misogyny and harassment that occurred. “Certainly in my case, the comments, the remarks the suggestions, the invitations, the from page 7

comedy theater, Mike Intaglietta, said he is anticipating the show to bring traffic to businesses in downtown Syracuse. He performed “two great shows” at the venue January of 2018, said Intaglietta. “We’re looking forward to four great shows over two nights and are hoping it’s a great thing not just for the people that are here but also for all of downtown,” Intaglietta said. The comedian didn’t have cable growing up, so he would rely on his cousins to record the comedy specials for when his family visited them on Saturday mornings. He loved watching comedians like Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin and Johnny Carson.

offers, the creepiness,” West said, “you know, you just tried to let it roll off your back.” For the women in her generation, the #MeToo movement was a wake-up call that perhaps they did not push back against damaging toxic masculinity in society, West said. Despite these obstacles, West landed the role as an executive producer for numerous years at ABC News. She currently works at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism teaching broadcast and documentary classes. And while West has made previous documentaries, “RBG” presented a new team dynamic. “We made an intentional decision to have women rule the roost for this film. Given our subject matter, it just seemed like the right thing to do,” Cohen wrote in an email. Associate producer Nadine Natour said that the entire core creative team were women. Having not met many women in the industry before, Natour said this showed her “what was possible.” Ultimately, the team’s perseverance and copious amounts of research resulted in an interview with Ginsburg. Slowly, the team was invited into more intimate aspects of her life, including her home and chambers, where she showed her famous collection of collars. The film culminates in the gym sequence and a glimpse into her lifelong pas-

sion of opera, as she debuted in an honorary role in “The Daughter of the Regiment.” Issues like access and locating a financial backer were solved together by the duo of West and Cohen. They had met previously on the 2013 documentary, “Makers: Women Who Make America,” but forged a strong friendship as they worked in tandem on “RBG.” Cohen said that they made all of the creative decisions together. “Betsy is so accomplished, but she never makes you feel like there is any separation between you and her,” Natour said. “You feel like you’re on the same level, she’s always laughing and she’s open to new ideas.” The documentary, which was released in May 2018, brought home awards at the 2019 Primetime Emmys, in the category of “Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.” West was also nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program. Together, West and Cohen made a speech at the Emmys and did a plank on stage in evening dresses, paying homage to Ginsburg. Although the team was excited to receive an Emmy and praise from the Sundance Film Festival, the audience response has been the most meaningful. Not only have millennials and older generations said they were heartened by the film, but it also seemingly struck the children of today.

“What I did not anticipate were the little girls who are inspired by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who would show up at our screenings, like literally eight, nine, 10-year-old girls would be in the justice outfits.” West said the years-long process was both “daunting” and an “extraordinary privilege.” The team set out to equally balance Ginsburg’s rise to an attorney with the more poignant moments, especially her relationship with her late husband, Marty Ginsburg. Following audience screenings, West said that men especially resonated with Marty, who championed his wife’s career choices in an era when this was unseen. With such resounding response from the audience, West, Cohen and most of the team involved in “RBG,” are getting back together to make another documentary about the famed chef Julia Child. The announcement came on Oct. 8. Projects like “Makers” and “RBG” illustrate West’s dedication to telling the stories of trailblazing women. “We wanted to tell people about her history facing tremendous personal challenges,” West said, “and becoming, really, the legal architect of the Women’s Rights Movement, the leading litigator who changed the law and the world for women.”

“I would just marvel at how they would remember everything and how they would make it seem like it was their first time ever telling the story, it was very interesting to me at a young age,” Maniscalco said. Maniscalco moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and worked as a waiter at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. He often encountered celebrities at the hotel including the likes of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, who he is now acting alongside in the new movie “The Irishman.” This is not Maniscalco’s first film role, as he made his acting debut in the “Best Picture” Oscar-winning film “Green Book,” released in 2018. He later started performing at The Comedy Store, a comedy club in West Hollywood and took stand-up classes. He said he remem-

bers taking any opportunity to practice and improve his material. “[It] is kind of surreal for me to come out in 1998 and delivering a drink to De Niro and then actually being in a scene with him,” Maniscalco said. His performance this weekend will likely focus on the birth of his second child this summer and his journey as he navigates fatherhood in today’s day and age, said his manager Judi Marmel from Levity Live. Marmel has been working for Maniscalco for the past decade and has been there during his rise as a comedian. “We enjoy every day of the journey we’re on because it is indeed pretty breathtaking and spectacular,” Marmel said. “He’s an incredibly deserving artist he works incred-

ibly hard and has a really big heart.” But for Maniscalco, this journey is far from being over. He said he refuses that he made it and said that it only becomes harder to maintain your success once you have it. He added that he is looking forward to making an impact on the audience at his Syracuse performances. For him, the best feedback he can have from his audience is that his comedy helped them through a rough time in their lives. “I love when I hear people say that they’re either going through a bad time in their life, and they’ve watched my comedy and I’ve taken them out of that state of mind for a little bit and put a smile on their face,” Maniscalco said.

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