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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
student association
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
on campus
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