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N • Popping up
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P • Culture shock
Remembrance Scholars used the promenade pop-up museum to share the history of Pan Am Flight 103 with Syracuse University faculty and students. Page 3
Amy Quichiz came to Syracuse hoping to get away from her Latina culture, but found herself longing for a sense of community, and eventually found it at SU. Page 9
Remembrance Week 2016 PART 2 OF 4
S • The surge
Sergio Camargo has emerged this season for Syracuse men's soccer. After transferring from Coastal Carolina, his career has turned around. Page 16
HIDDEN LINKS
CLAYTON BAKER, a Remembrance Scholar, stands by the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., where he is studying this semester. The Syracuse University senior is representing Cindy Smith, who is from his hometown. courtesy of hannah wagner
Remembrance Scholar shares similar background to victim he represents By Rachel Gilbert feature editor
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layton Baker was sitting at home last fall in a small suburb outside of Boston, on medical leave from Syracuse University, when he applied to be a Remembrance Scholar. He was battling a parasitic infection picked up in South America, causing symptoms that forced him to return to Milton, Massachusetts, the town where he grew up playing in the streets and where he attended Milton High School. But as he filled out his application, Clay-
ton was unaware of the connection he had to one of the 35 SU students who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. Cynthia “Cindy” Smith also grew up playing in the streets of Milton, and she too attended Milton High School. About three weeks ago, each scholar was assigned to one of the 35 students who died, leading Clayton to realize he had more in common with Cindy than he initially realized. Now he is representing Cindy as a see remembrance page 4
university politics
SU releases initial results of campus climate survey By Taylor Watson asst. copy editor
A summary of the results from Syracuse University’s first campus climate survey shows the majority
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of the SU community feels comfortable on campus, but minority groups face hostile environments and some employees seriously considered leaving SU in the past year. The survey featured questions about SU’s climate with a focus on distribution of power and privilege among social groups, according to the survey's executive summary. Developed by a committee of 14 administrators, the survey was a response to suggestions from Chan-
cellor Kent Syverud’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence. The survey was available to students, faculty and staff early February through late March 2016, including a 17-day deadline extension due to a lack of response. The response rate for the survey was 21.5 percent or 5,617 surveys, per the summary. The 30 to 45 minutes it took to complete the survey is a factor that may have deterred potential
respondents, said Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, senior vice president and dean of student affairs and co-chair of the survey committee. Some students may not have realized they could take the survey, she said. “Some people still, at the end, were thinking that this was climate as in the climate, temperature climate, which was kind of disappointing,” she said. Kantrowitz said it would have
been great to hear from more people, but she thinks they have a rich data set. Overall, 3,840 of the respondents — or 67 percent — were “comfortable” or “very comfortable” with the climate at SU. According to the summary, in similar reports from campuses across the U.S., 70 to 80 percent of respondents felt comfortable — slightly above the SU average. see survey page 8