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N • On the issues
Read about where the Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2016 presidential and New York elections stand on the issue of LGBT rights. Page 3
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O • Feeling blue
P • Home haunt
Liberal columnist Cole Jermyn puts John Katko’s and Colleen Deacon’s race for the 24th District in context with the race for the White House. Page 5
After an electrical fire burned it down two years ago, the familyowned Raven Haven haunted house in Liverpool is back and offering scares through Halloween. Page 9
S • Long road
Syracuse women's soccer's Opal Curless used to take a five-hour car ride to and from practice in high school. It reflected her dedication to the sport. Page 20
Remembrance Week 2016 PART 4 OF 4
Reaching back Scholars connect to late students with minimal archive collections By Alexa Torrens development editor
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efore she’d even interviewed to be a Remembrance Scholar, Kelly Sheptock went through the Syracuse University archives to learn all she could about the victims of Pan Am Flight 103. She decided then that if she were chosen to represent one of the 35 SU students killed in the December 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, it would be Steve Berrell. “The second I read about how he carried himself and how he had extremely high expectations for himself, I just felt like this could be someone sitting next to me in class who I would immediately connect with," said Sheptock, a senior public relations major. "And that’s how I knew that this was something that would be very near and dear to my heart.” Like Sheptock, most other Remembrance Scholars go to the University Archives in E.S. Bird Library first to read about the 35 students lost and decide which of the late students they’d like to represent during Remembrance Week. When doing their research, many scholars make a connection to a student, whether it be based on a common interest, hometown or major. But for some Remembrance Scholars, representing one of the 35 can be easier said than done because some of the students lost in Pan Am Flight 103 do not have collections in their name in the archives. A collection is made in a student’s name when that student’s loved ones donate personal effects to the archives, whether it illustration by delaney kuric head illustrator
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university senate
Report shows increased alcohol-related trips to hospital By Alexa Torrens development editor
A recent University Senate report revealed that the number of intoxicated students transported to the hospital as of early March in the 2015-16 academic year was almost on par with the number of intoxicated students transported in the full 2014-15 academic year. The report, which was distributed by the Senate Committee on Student Life at the Senate’s Oct. 12
meeting, demonstrated a muchdiscussed issue surrounding college campuses: the rise of alcohol consumption and alcohol intoxications among undergraduate students. As of early March, the number of Syracuse University students transported to the hospital for alcoholrelated reasons neared the high 200s, according to the report, with an average of 10 to 12 transports weekly. With more than two months left in the 2015-16 academic year at that point, that number approached the
total number of transports reported in the entirety of the 2014-15 academic year, according to the report. The report does not provide recommendations to SU on how to create or improve alcohol-related policies. A report with more detailed recommendations will be delivered to the senate next semester, said José Marrero-Rosado, the chair of the Student Life Committee and a senior biochemistry and anthropology double major. The report's purpose was to make
the university community aware of the rise in alcohol intoxication on campus and to put pressure on the university to instill or support stricter rules on drinking both on and off campus, Marrero-Rosado said. “What we just wanted to do with this report is for people to know the numbers and that this is a problem,” he said. “Many students and even professors don’t know that alcohol intoxication is a problem on campus.” Though the report does not detail explicit recommendations, it does
include information about a proposed city of Syracuse ordinance that SU opposed, which is an ordinance that would hold landlords accountable for the behavior of tenants. Under that ordinance, according to the report, landlords would need to prohibit their tenants from hosting parties on the property and would reserve their right to terminate the lease contract if the tenant did not follow that rule. That initiative has been successful
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