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Two companies are expanding to Syracuse. The move will create more than 400 jobs and support Syracuse Surge, the city’s economic development plan.

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Liberal columnist Sam Bova says a recent decision by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the right move, and people should make laws thinking about morality.

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Las Naranjas, a Spanish language and culture club at SU, is hosting a Dia de los Muertos event on Thursday. The event will feature decorations, food and dancing.

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Syracuse field hockey defeated Cornell, 3-1. after losing to the Big Red earlier this season. The Orange are now 11-5 this year, with two ACC wins.

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FAMILY VALUES

MISLEADING PART 1 OF 3

Crisis pregnancy centers provide misinformation to clients Story by Emma Folts asst. news editor

Photos by Lauren Miller

senior staff photographer

Editor’s note: This story is part of Family Values, a series investigating crisis pregnancy centers in Onondaga County.

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IVERPOOL — Evening traffic passes Care Net Pregnancy Center of Central New York, located less than a mile from Liverpool High School.

A photo depicts a woman staring seriously alongside messages offering free pregnancy tests and ultrasound confirmation on a large yellow sign facing oncoming traffic.

The center is one of three crisis pregnancy centers in Onondaga County. Care Net of CNY does not perform or refer for abortions, and contraception is not offered. “Options counseling” and “community referrals” are listed as services on the organization’s website. At the bottom of the website is a disclaimer stating the organization doesn’t provide or refer for abortions.

“Our approach is like this: We don’t judge people for what they do, but we do believe that women have a right to be fully informed,” said Paul Marshall, president and executive director of Care Net of CNY. Crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, aim to “intercept women with unintended or ‘crisis’ pregnancies who might be considering abortion,” according to an article published in the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. Some are religiously affiliated, and most are not licensed medical facilities.

Marshall said people may be right that

(TOP) PAUL MARSHALL walks into the church next to the Liverpool branch of Care Net of CNY. Baby goods are stored in the church’s basement.

(BOTTOM) Pamphlets offered Care Net of CNY in Liverpool.

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some CPCs deceive or coerce women out of seeking an abortion, but Care Net of CNY does not.

The organization provides free pregnancy tests, parenting classes and postabortion support, among other services.

The center sees about 1,500 new clients per year, with about 800 seeking pregnancy tests, Marshall said.

Care Net of CNY, founded in 1989, is a nonprofit organization with seven locations across the region, including in Rome, Utica and Oneida. The organization is affiliated with the Heartbeat International and evangelical Care Net CPC networks, which have 1,100 and 1,800 affiliates, respectively.

Inside the center, in a room off to the right, sits an exam table and ultrasound equipment.

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Background checks concern faculty SA struggles with recruiting members

By Gillian Follett asst. copy editor

Last semester, Syracuse University administrators tasked professor Thomas Perreault with presenting a faculty background check policy to Senate members for discussion and feedback.

But Perreault, then chair of the University Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics, was concerned by the limited information the administra-

tion provided to him about the policy, beyond its goal of requiring new faculty hires to undergo a criminal background check before they are able to begin their position.

“I made it pretty clear in my comments to the Senate that (the committee) was not endorsing the policy, and we have a number of concerns about the policy,” said Perreault, who is no longer on the committee. “The administration hadn’t provided enough information for us to actually make much of a judge-

ment one way or the other.”

Provost Michele Wheatly officially announced at last month’s University Senate meeting that new faculty members will be required to undergo criminal background checks starting Jan. 1, 2020. Her remarks revealed few details about what the background check process will involve, which has become a cause for concern among several faculty members, including Perreault.

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By Chris Hippensteel staff writer

Three months into the academic year, Student Association has yet to overcome one of its biggest obstacles: finding enough representatives to fill its Assembly.

President Mackenzie Mertikas and Vice President Sameeha

Saied opened member applications for the second time in the fall semester at last Monday’s meeting. SA typically accepts applications for new representatives at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters. The Assembly votes to confirm or deny the applicants.

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In the classroom Crisis pregnancy centers in the county provide misleading sexual education to students.

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Tuition plan The chair of the House education committee will detail Democrats’ plans to bring down college costs.

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Choosing parents A Syracuse pregnancy center lost its adoption license after refusing to adopt to same-sex couples.

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crime briefs Here is a roundup of the latest crime throughout the city.

HARASSMENT A Syracuse man, 30, was arrested on the charges of second-degree harassment and trespassing. when: Sunday at 6:09 a.m. where: 1800 block of East Fayette Street HARASSMENT A Syracuse man, 23, was arrested on two charges of harassment in the second degree. when: Saturday at 9:00 p.m. where: 500 block of South State Street PETTY LARCENY A Jamesville woman, 44, was arrested on the charge of petty larceny. when: Saturday at 6:20 p.m. where: Destiny USA ENDANGERING A CHILD

Message through music The Verona string quartet performed at Hendricks Chapel on Sunday, playing songs from Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann and Maurice Ravel. The Verona string quartet features violinists and cellists performing music from the 18th to early 20th century. Milton Laufer, a pianist and the new director of the Setnor School of Music, joined the quartet on stage.

A Syracuse woman, 42, was arrested on the charge of endangering the welfare of a child. when: Saturday at 11:53 a.m. where: 400 block of Wilkinson Street LITTERING AND DUMPING

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Company expansions to add over 400 jobs

By Sarah Alessandrini staff writer

Two companies are expanding in Syracuse, creating more 400 jobs and adding to the city’s economic development plan. One company is focused on health care and the other on technology.

Bankers Healthcare Group, a medical financing and loan company based in Syracuse, is constructing an office facility on Spencer Street, located in Franklin Square. JMA Wireless, a mobile-wireless system company, will move its 5G manufacturing company from Texas to Cortland Avenue.

Both expansions are part of a larger story of revitalization in Syracuse and central New York, Mayor Ben Walsh told The Daily

Orange. The JMA Wireless expansion aligns particularly well with the Syracuse Surge initiative, he said. The Syracuse Surge launched January with the purpose of revitalizing the city through technology.

“To have a company like JMA invest in a facility on the Southside of Syracuse, where our strategy is focused, we couldn’t have written a better script,” Walsh said.

The Syracuse Surge has intentionally focused efforts on the Southside since the neighborhood previously lacked significant economic development. While economic growth is important, it is especially crucial that the city’s economic success benefits everyone, Walsh said. see jobs page 6

CRIMINAL MISCHIEF A Liverpool woman, 35, was arrested on the charges of fourth-degree criminal mischief and second-degree harassment. when: Friday at 11:50 p.m. where: 500 block of South State Street POSSESSION OF SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS A Syracuse man, 52, was arrested on the charge of possession of synthetic cannabinoids. when: Friday at 4:00 p.m. where: 500 block of South Clinton Street

Bankers Healthcare Group and JMA Wireless expansions support the mayor’s Syracuse Surge plan. corey henry photo editor

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Lake not clean enough for beach, activists say

By Abby Weiss staff writer

After more than two decades of cleanup at Onondaga Lake, the county is looking to install a beach.

Some environmentalists say the water is still not clean enough for the public to swim in.

The Onondaga County Legislature has yet to decide if the plan for the beach will be carried out, said Casey Jordan, chairman of the county’s Environmental Protection Committee.

Onondaga County is conducting a $330,000 beach feasibility

study, Syracuse.com reported.

Local environmentalists told The Daily Orange that they want the New York State Department of Health to test sediments at the bottom of the lake in the potential beach area before considering the beach plan. Allied Chemical Corp. contaminated the lake’s water and sediment from 1920 to 1985 when toxic chemicals and raw sewage with little to no treatment were dumped into the lake.

The north end of the lake meets standards for safe bacteria amounts, Syracuse.com reported. Lindsay Speer, a mem-

A Syracuse woman, 39, was arrested on the charges of littering and dumping and possession of an open container. when: Saturday at 1:04 a.m. where: 400 block of Erie Boulevard

ber of Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, said the idea of the beach is an “illusion of safety.”

The public will forget about the rest of the lake’s pollutants if the beach is created, Speer said.

Samples taken from the south end of the lake show there are still toxic sediments at the bottom, she said.

The public may think that, because the north end of the lake is qualified for a beach, the south end must be just as clean as well, Speer said.

“My personal concern is that we are setting ourselves up to expose people to those contaminants that

are buried underneath,” she said.

The lake does meet water quality standards, said Alma Lowry, counsel to the General Counsel for the Onondaga Nation. The standards only test the water’s surface and consider toxins that cause immediate harm, such as E. coli and phosphorus, she said.

They ignore the contaminants at the bottom of the lake that could lead to long-term health risks, such as cancer or long-term respiratory diseases.

“The concern with these longterm problems is that they are

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POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA A Syracuse man, 20, was arrested on the charge of possession of marijuana. when: Friday at 12:23 p.m. where: 600 block of Tallman Street CRIMINAL CONTEMPT A Syracuse man, 30, was arrested on the charge of criminal contempt in the second degree. when: Friday at 9:00 a.m. where: 500 block of South State Street OUT-OF-STATE ARREST WARRANT A Syracuse man, 31, was arrested on the charge of having an out-of-state arrest warrant. when: Thursday at 4:00 p.m. where: 500 block of South Salina Street

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center The organization also provides free screening and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and first trimester ultrasounds with a local physician. About 400 ultrasounds are performed yearly, Marshall said.

The ultrasounds serve an additional purpose aside from affirming or revealing a pregnancy, according to Care Net of CNY’s page on the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability website.

“In addition to confirming pregnancy, the ultrasound scan is an opportunity for mothers of unplanned pregnancies to bond with their preborn child. During this bonding period, many mothers who are on the fence choose life,” the webpage states.

Women who visit Care Net of CNY are offered a pamphlet titled “Before You Decide.”

Though the pamphlet acknowledges that serious medical complications in early abortions happen infrequently, some of the information it provides is misleading.

The pamphlet depicts women staring pensively into the distance, seeming to mull over their options. On pages six and seven are photos of developing fetuses, coupled with captions detailing the hiccups and unique fingerprints that occur between nine and 12 weeks. The following pages detail the physical, emotional and spiritual risks of abortion.

Abortion may cause hemorrhaging, infection and death, the pamphlet states. Medical experts debate the link between abortion and breast cancer. The procedure “significantly increases” the risk of symptoms like those of post-traumatic stress disorder. A spiritual component of abortion “deserves” consideration.

“What might God think about your situation?” the pamphlet reads.

Legal induced abortion is 14 times safer than childbirth — a fact not explicitly included in the pamphlet. Hemorrhaging occurs in less than 1% of abortions, and the American Psychological Association found no increased risk of adverse mental health outcomes for women who had one legal, first-trimester abortion of an unplanned pregnancy. The National Cancer Institute concluded that abortion doesn’t increase one’s risk of breast cancer.

CPCs often target low-income women and women of color and can endanger women by providing false medical information, said Syracuse Common Councilor Bryn LovejoyGrinnell in an email to The Daily Orange.

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checks Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics declined to comment on what the policy will include. Perreault said logistical information about the process, such as the cost and timeframe of each background check, wasn’t revealed to him by the administration.

SU administrators, however, did reveal to him that the background checks would look back seven years into an individual’s criminal record, he said. As far as he is aware, the background checks will only be searching for felonies and not misdemeanors.

In an email to SU faculty, Wheatly said the background checks will include a verification of the individual’s education and credentials and a check of their criminal record, as well as from page 3

beach things that no one’s ever going to point to and say, ‘I got that from the Onondaga Lake beach,’” she said.

The bottom of the lake contains 26 harmful sediments, including mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl or PCB, said Marianna Kaufman, a physician in Syracuse.

The beach will show the public that the county has cleaned up the sewage, she said.

It will not, however, show there are still contaminants at the bottom of the lake, Kaufman said. This could cause a lot of confusion about whether the lake is safe to swim in, she said.

The lake’s contaminants are covered by a cap or a layer of material that acts as a chemical barrier, Speer said. It is uncertain how dependable the cap will be in retain-

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suade women not to pursue their legal right to an abortion,” said Caitlin Coulombe, associate director of Stop the Shaming, a sexual education advocacy group.

Two other CPCs operate in Onondaga County: Birthright Syracuse on Midler Avenue and New Hope Family Services, which has a main office on James Street and an outreach center on Salina Street. The county’s two abortion clinics, Planned Parenthood of Syracuse and Women’s Health Horizons, are both located in the city.

If a person comes to Care Net seeking an abortion, they are told up-front that service isn’t provided, Marshall said. Clients are required to sign a limitation of services form that states the center doesn’t provide abortion services or referrals. The form also states Care Net’s staff and volunteer peer counselors receive training in crisis counseling, but do not necessarily have licenses or degrees.

The information the center offers is twofold, Marshall said. One pamphlet provides information on pregnancy, and the “Before You Decide” pamphlet also warns of the psychological and emotional effects of abortion.

“If you talk to the hundreds and thousands of women, and some men, that have come forward years later, they talk about depression, sometimes so deep that it leads to suicidal thoughts,” Marshall said. Some turn to alcohol and drugs, anorexia, cutting, and usually you’ll find that these people never had a chance to grieve.”

Marshall confirmed he was talking about post-abortion syndrome when discussing the mental health effects of abortion.

Ramah International, a nonprofit ministry that aims to help those experiencing PAS, defines the syndrome on their website as “a form of post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Symptoms include guilt, anxiety, depression, abortion flashbacks, substance abuse and thoughts of suicide.

These claims go against several studies conducted over the past 11 years.

The American Psychological Association found in a 2008 study that women who legally had one first-trimester abortion of an unplanned pregnancy face no greater relative risk of mental health problems than women who carry an unplanned pregnancy to term.

Additionally, a study conducted in 2009 by the American Psychiatric Association found that “studies concluding that abortion causes psychiatric illness have numerous methodological problems and should not be used as a basis for public policy.”

Marshall said he’s lost two children to abortion. He went to Planned Parenthood in

the 1970s with a woman he was with, thinking they’d be able to learn how to plan for their roles as parents.

All a nurse talked about was abortion, he said.

When the couple asked about parenting classes, the nurse repeatedly told them they were too young to be parents. The woman ended up having an abortion. When Marshall spoke with her a few years ago, she described what she’s been through as “hell on earth,” he said.

“I don’t care what medical association says that there are no side effects, emotional or otherwise,” Marshall said. “There’s no question that there are people it doesn’t bother. I get that, but we’ve had hundreds that have come through our program that would tell you otherwise.”

an unspecified “other misconduct check.”

Perreault said hiring a new faculty member is a lengthy and expensive undertaking.

Perreault said He is worried about the level of participation from existing faculty in the background check process and feels it’s important to ensure that an otherwise qualified candidate with a flaw on their record isn’t completely rejected by the university without faculty input.

“There are good reasons to keep things confidential when you’re talking about criminal records,” Perreault said. “At the same time, there (are) also really important reasons to have these kinds of processes be transparent.”

Jodi Upton, professor of magazine, news and digital journalism and a University Senate member, said she and other faculty members are concerned about what types of crimes are being searched for in the background check

process. University administration has not defined what type of crimes they are looking for nor what level of severity will take a candidate out of the running, she said.

Upton said she is particularly apprehensive about the policy’s potential impact on individuals who were arrested for civil disobedience or activism in the past.

“Obviously, you want to be very careful that we’re not exposing anyone to potential harm, but at the same time we’re maintaining the privacy of anyone who actually applies for a position,” she said.

New staff hires at SU have been required to undergo background checks since 2016. Starting last summer, the university began to conduct background checks of staff members hired before 2016.

Susan Nash is director of administration Perreault said it’s not clear why it took SU so long to

ing these toxins and it must be checked every five years. The rate of human exposure depends on how well the county can cover the pollutants, she said.

Fish can also contain a lot of mercury from the bottom of the lake which can lead to coordination, behavioral and mental health issues, Lowry said. Sediments in the beach area should be tested in case they contain similar toxins, she said.

The public needs to be more informed about the possible sediment contaminants, she said. The country has done a highly impressive job with cleaning the lake, but the cleanup is not done, Lowry said.

“Continuing to talk about the lake as clean without the context is only going to make it more difficult to get out the message about advisories, precautions about fish and other activities,” she said. akweiss@syr.edu

Typically the goal of New Hope ... is to get them to stay there until they’ve committed not to have an abortion Caitlin Coulombe sexual education activist

Kathy Jerman, the executive director of New Hope Family Services, told The D.O. that the medical risks associated with abortion include bleeding and hemorrhaging, as well as possible struggles to conceive in the future.

“There’s a possibility that she would never be able to have children again after that,” she said.

A 1990 review of existing literature about abortion-infertility connections reaffirmed that “except in the case where an infection complicates induced abortion, there is no evidence of an association between induced abortion and secondary infertility or ectopic pregnancy.”

Jerman said New Hope is a Christian, pro-life agency. New Hope operates as both an adoption agency and a pregnancy resource center. The adoption agency and pregnancy center began in 1965 and 1986, respectively, with the two organizations merging in 1992, Jerman said.

The center offers pregnancy and parenting education, as well as pregnancy tests, all free of charge. They also have a “care corner” of baby goods, clothing and toys stocked through community donations, she said.

While New Hope is a licensed adoption agency, it is not a licensed health clinic. The center does not offer any medical services except firsttrimester ultrasounds, which are given under the direction of a doctor, Jerman said.

New Hope also doesn’t provide or refer for abortion. Contraception isn’t offered, and the center would refer clients to their doctor, she said.

“Typically the goal of New Hope, once someone is in their office, is to get them to stay there until they’ve committed not to have an abortion,” Coulombe said.

New Hope will give women cherry-picked facts and will talk about the dangers of abortion, some being accurate and some deeply inaccurate, such as the supposed correlation between abortion and breast cancer, she said.

The goal is to do everything possible to get someone into their office and commit to not having an abortion, either through parenting or adoption, she said.

If someone went to New Hope looking to have an abortion, the client would be told the center is not a medical facility and therefore does not perform the procedure, Jerman said.

The client would not be referred for one because the center is a pro-life agency, she said.

Jerman said New Hope would speak with the client and figure out what in their life is causing them to want an abortion. The center would also explain that they’re an adoption agency, though Jerman said that option is never pushed on the client. If they do show an interest in adoption, the client can talk with the center’s birth parent caseworker.

“We really just want to talk to her and show her that we care about her,” Jerman said, adding, “We really try to defuse the crisis.”

New Hope previously operated a location on East Genesee Street, near Planned Parenthood of Syracuse. CPCs disguise themselves as women’s health centers in order to dissuade women from pursuing an abortion, often mimicking features of real clinics and situating their centers near legitimate abortion providers, Coulombe said.

Marshall said Care Net of CNY exists to offer information needed to confirm a pregnancy and understands if women chose to have an abortion. The organization wants women to know they can come back to the centers, whether two or 20 years in the future.

Marshall said Onondaga County is underserved by what Care Net of CNY does. There’s a huge need in this area, he said.

“This is the only location that we have today. I guarantee you it won’t be the last,” Marshall said. “We will definitely over the next 10 years have four to five locations.”

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implement a faculty background check policy.

Perreault said he believes the main purpose of the new background check policy will be to search for past sex offenses. Douglas Wonders, a former Newhouse professor, was convicted earlier this year on child sexual abuse charges.

Former Olympic athlete Conrad Mainwaring was also recently accused of sexually assaulting at least seven SU students when he attended the university during the 1980s.

Several faculty members are uneasy about the university’s policy until more information is released about the logistics involved in the university’s faculty background checks.

“We don’t exactly know how it will be implemented. We don’t know what the impact is,” Upton said. “It’s our job as senators to ask a lot of questions and to understand how the policy will work, and we just don’t know yet.” gifollet@syr.edu

The Onondaga County Legislature has yet to decide whether to implement a plan to create a beach along a portion of the lake. corey henry photo editor

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Laws need moral responsibility base

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he intent of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution was, and is, to decree that a just society must refrain from imposing its will and pretending to know what is to come. It seeks to block governing and prosecutorial powers from attempting to claim ownership of truth and abusing it.

Herein lies the double jeopardy loophole, which New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo closed last week with the passage of a bill allowing the state to prosecute those pardoned by the president. The loophole essentially makes it so that separate sovereigns can’t both prosecute the same person for the same offense.

President Donald Trump and some of his top aides have been accused of various high crimes that are continually being investigated: emoluments violations, bribery, witness intimidation, campaign finance violation, extortion and obstruction of justice.

This bill from Cuomo can be seen as a direct shot at the president — that if he ends up in the state of New York attempting to continue his purported existence above the law, the state will not house him, or his henchmen, with grace.

Elie Honig, a CNN legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor, said the notion that nobody is above the law can be complicated.

“There are instances in our Constitution where people can be put beyond the law to an extent,” Honig said. “I mean, you can look at the pardon power and say, well, if you pass it, if somebody is pardoned, they’re being put above the law or you can say, no, the pardon power is part of our system of

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LOOKING FOR ANSWERS laws. It’s built in.”

At the core of human society must be the human being. The president of the United States, just like anyone else, is a human being, and they, just like anyone else, must be held to the same standard of virtue and integrity that we would expect from our educators, our doctors, our lawyers and so on. The President of the United States is not above the law.

But there is a difference between the law as ordained on a societal level and the incorruptible natural laws that undergird society — both of which, however, Trump seems to think he is above.

The president’s character misgivings are unfortunately beyond the reach of criminal condemnation, but America’s system of checks and balances allows for a hand of its own in justice. State governments acting within their own legal systems without regard to the federal government is, contrary to what some have argued, constitutional.

Honig brought up a 2019 Supreme Court opinion, Gamble v.

United States as an example.

“It was within the last six months or so and it held that basically the federal government and the state governments are separate sovereigns, meaning what one does can’t bind or limit what the other does in terms of criminal charges.”

This is how justice must be administered in this country. Government will never have the capacity to equalize everyone’s station in life, but the human spirit’s hand in

justice and in creating equity in the scope of the universe must not be trapped in a box.

Those who act out their unruliness, bitterness and vengefulness in the world will eventually have it returned to them.

Honig delved into the position Trump’s lawyers have taken on the president’s criminal liability.

“They’ve taken it way too far,” Honig said. “They’ve now taken the position that the president could — forget about whether the president can be charged criminally — they’ve taken the position that the president cannot even be investigated by authority.”

The president could, according to his lawyer, literally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and authorities wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

Removing the double jeopardy loophole is key for accountability’s sake. It’s about acting in accordance with democratic principles. It’s about orienting American society around truth.

It’s about moral responsibility and decency.

Again, the human spirit and making ends meet must be the focus of government. Justice finds itself in the orientation of an individual’s soul. We all fall prey to the same threats of tyranny within our separate hearts — we are connected by our struggles. It’s wrong to dismember that reality.

Donald Trump is a product of democracy. But in a democracy, those who have aligned themselves with virtue and truth can push back against the ills caused by those who have not.

Sam Bova is a freshman writing and rhetoric major. sabova@syr.edu | @sam_bova.

letter to the editor

Alumnus expands terrorism definition

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ear Editor: As a Remembrance Week speaker years ago, I read with interest Sydney Bergan’s October 24 article about “terrorism coverage.”

I was pleased it cited local Islamic leader Mohamed Khater’s definition of “terrorism.” That word, so widely and incessantly invoked in United States media since the 1988 Lockerbie attack and 9/11, is seldom defined anywhere.

Here, I’ll not speculate as to why.

But I do want to expand on Khater’s definition: “a person or a group that

causes harm to a civilian population in the hopes of political gain.”

First, often it’s not only political gain — it’s economic gain, when one nation covets another people’s gold or oil or other resource. This raises a second key point: much terrorism is perpetrated, not merely by “persons or groups,” but by the armed forces, mercenaries and proxies of imperial nations.

In fact, most terrorism, contrary to stereotype, is perpetrated by men who often wear uniforms. Think of, in the 19th century, the U.S. cavalry’s decimating the vastly outgunned

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First Nations defending their lands.

Then consider the U.S. military’s invasion of Vietnam and its genocidal bombing of Laos. And in the current century, the Pentagon’s shattering of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other nations of the Islamic oil lands.

Truly understood, most terrorism on this bloody planet is being perpetrated by aircraft — including the weaponized drones piloted from our own Hancock Air Force Base.

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ot so many years ago, the world of gender for many people was black and white.

The general public’s view on gender could be MALLORY summed up by STOKKER the questions FEA R LESS asked on surFEMINISM veys, government forms, social media apps and websites: Are you a man or a woman?

In recent years, however, more attention has been brought to the existence of gender-nonconforming identities, particularly people who use gender neutral pronouns.

In 2014, for example, Facebook added over 50 gender options to give its users a wider array of identities to describe themselves. Dating services like Tinder and OkCupid have allowed for users to identify themselves outside the gender binary.

Singer Sam Smith and Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness have come out as non-binary this year. And just last month, Merriam-Webster announced the addition of “they” as a singular pronoun.

These new developments, though, are not the mark of a trend or fad, but rather the expression of identities that have always existed but until recently have been severely underrepresented.

“I know a lot of dating apps, they ask for pronouns, or they will ask you if you identify as a man, woman, non-binary, genderqueer,” said Jonathan Chau, a junior studying magazine journalism at Syracuse University, who uses they/them pronouns.

In 2016, The Sims introduced a new interface that allows players to change sex and gender-related characteristics of the characters they create, including preferences for masculine and/or feminine clothing, their physical frame and their ability to become or not become pregnant, becoming one of the first games to allow for transgender and nonbinary character expression.

In July of this year, the California city passed legislation replacing all gendered terms in their city code with gender neutral ones, such as “firefighters” in lieu of “firemen” or “firewomen,” or “people” in place of “men and women.”

There is no one term that uniformly applies to all those who identify outside the boundaries of male or female, and not everyone who uses gender neutral pronouns necessarily identifies as non-binary

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or genderqueer.

“Unfortunately, Gallup doesn’t ask about gender non-binary.

When it comes to a true estimate of the country’s non-binary population, data are scarce,” said Rachel Dowd, communications director at the Williams Institute at UCLA, a think tank devoted to research on sexual orientation and gender identity-related public policy.

However, gender non-conforming identities are not simply the result of a new trend. Nontraditional gender expression and identity have always existed, even if not everyone has been aware of their existence or had the words to describe them.

“Is this a trend? The answer is no, it’s not a trend. But it’s gotten to different people at different times,” said Gilles Stromberg, who works as an undergraduate recruitment specialist at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Stromberg led a workshop this past Wednesday, which was International Pronouns Day, to help faculty at the university learn more about the use of gender neutral pronouns, become more comfortable using those pronouns and navigate gender nonconforming identities.

“Gender neutral pronouns are important, as markers of identity, as theoretical points, and as political solidarity,” said Margaret Himley, the director of the LGBT studies program at Syracuse University, in an email.

Gender neutral pronouns can be used to encapsulate a wide range of experiences, and while no one person’s reasoning may be exactly the same, they have personal significance for those that use them.

“Before 2014, I was living as a woman for more than 24 years. So now, I use they/them pronouns to reflect the reality of my lived experiences, but also to know that I’m living a different experience now,” Stromberg said. “I think the significance of it is that for many folks, it reflects the reality of who they are.”

Using the pronouns a person tells you they want you to use should be no different than referring to a person by their name. Respecting someone’s pronouns shows respect for that person’s identity, experiences and humanity.

Mallory Stokker is a junior magazine journalism major. mstokker@syr.edu @_malloryyrose_.

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assembly Assembly as the reason for extending the applications. The number of SA representatives this semester is low compared to the same time last year, she said.

“It was really hard for us to start this year with such a low number of people,” Mertikas said. “We’ve really still been in the recovery stage of a lot of things that happened last year, trying to rebuild the organization from the ground up.”

SA’s current struggles comes after a substantial drop in membership during the spring 2019 semester. Internal tensions within SA last year contributed to the loss in membership, Mertikas said. She was chief of staff at the time.

The organization’s April election ended with some students accusing SA of election rigging and bias.

About 20 minutes before SA election polling closed last semester, comptroller candidate SA’s election board Eduardo Gomez’s campaign was suspended in what SA’s Board from page 3

jobs

Walsh’s vision is for Syracuse to be an inclusive city that creates opportunity for all its residents. The new company expansions are a positive reinforcement that the Syracuse Surge strategy is already working as intended, he said.

Walsh also said that Bankers Healthcare Group’s investment in the Inner Harbor area is significant because the location is a critical part of the city that has also seen recent growth. The Inner Harbor includes Franklin Square, Destiny USA and the Regional Farmers Market.

The group’s expansion to its financial headquarters on Spencer Street will provide the potential to create 300 more jobs for Syracuse residents, said Albert Crawford, founder, chairman and CEO of the group. The company is currently hiring for

of Elections Committee said was a “serious infraction of SA bylaws.”

Torre Payton-Jackson, SA’s Public Relations Chair at the time, posted a video to her personal Instagram story where she cursed out people who accused SA of election rigging.

Multiple campaigns remained under investigation more than one week after polling closed.

“There was a lot of stuff with the election second semester of last year that didn’t help the internal environment of SA,” Mertikas said.

“Walking into that room in the second semester just was not healthy. So it makes sense that students wouldn’t want to be in that environment.”

The SA website currently lists 22 assembly members and 15 cabinet members. Public Relations Chair John Fisher said the organization is still figuring out the exact numbers due to absences and students studying abroad.

Kyle Rosenblum, SA vice president during 2018-19 academic year, said internal tensions could be one of the factors behind the drop in membership.

Conflict is natural in any student organization, but he said the tensions were “probably a source for some people wanting to take

a step back.”

“Retention has historically been a problem for the Student Association,” Rosenblum said. “It’s such a huge organization with so many responsibilities.”

Lack of communication between cabinet members and representatives was also a key cause of the decrease, Mertikas said.

Many representatives joined the organization last year without being properly informed of their responsibilities. Some members missed meetings, took extended leaves of absence or resigned from SA, as they were unprepared for the workload of the organization, she said.

“They weren’t really briefed on what the expectations are, everything that goes into being a part of this organization,” Mertikas said. “That was the biggest problem.”

Mertikas also noted the number of applicants who joined SA during this year’s September elections “was definitely below” the usual amount. The Assembly approved eight new members during the elections.

Beyond the number of Assembly members, Mertikas stressed the importance of recruit-

ing representatives from different schools and colleges within SU. A majority of SA seats are currently filled by students from the College of Arts of Sciences, according to the SA website. The School of Architecture, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics and University College hold no seats. The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Education and School of Information Studies each has one.

“We should really focus on (recruiting) all of the other schools because they have so many things that they can bring to the table,” Mertikas said.

During last Monday’s meeting, Mertikas and Saied outlined several strategies for recruiting members. These include seeking nominations from other student organizations, increasing SA’s visibility on campus and approaching students individually who they believe would make a good fit for SA. “And then to work on, once we get people here, how we keep them here,” she said, “because that’s one of the biggest problems SA faces.”

60 positions, he said.

Bankers Healthcare Group worked with the city in 2013 to build its current headquarters on Solar Street, Crawford said.

The company is now working with Walsh and his staff on the 100,000 square-foot, five-story financial headquarters on Spencer Street. Construction will begin by midJanuary and is expected to be completed by 2021, he said.

The company is hiring in all departments, including sales and marketing, data and analytics, and accounting and financing, Crawford said. Bankers Healthcare Group has been in the city for nearly two decades.

“Investing in the city of Syracuse is not only the right thing for us to do but the ability to work together collaboratively with the city, county and state has only solidified our desire to continue investing in Syracuse,” he said.

The expansion of Bankers Healthcare Group will provide jobs for recent-college graduates or young professionals with a college degree, said Andrew Fish, senior vice president of business development at CenterState CEO. JMA Wireless, he said, will provide more entry-level work.

The JMA expansion will create accessible jobs for individuals in the southern downtown area who traditionally have been disconnected from the economy, Fish said.

Like most Rust Belt cities, Syracuse was previously a largely blue-collar community built around a few key industries, Fish said. With a significant decline in traditional industries, the JMA expansion is a good example of how tech companies are bringing new vibrancy to the downtown area, he said.

The city has seen continued growth in about the last two years of private sector jobs and investments from companies that

are located in Syracuse or have significant divisions there, Fish said. Last year, Syracuse was one of the only cities in New York that increased its population.

These increases in jobs and population are both good examples of positive economic activity, he said.

While the city historically has been perceived to struggle economically, Fish said, Syracuse in the last few years has been searching for more growth opportunities while recognizing the economic disparities in the community.

“It is difficult to have real growth when you don’t have the availability of opportunity for everyone in the region,” he said. “We’re trying to be intentional about that growth and create pathways for people to access new opportunities and the new tech economy that’s starting to grow here.”

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Las Naranjas to celebrate Día de los Muertos

By Mateo Estling staff writer

W

hen Las Naranjas decided to host an event to celebrate Día de los Muertos, club members said that they wanted to include more aspects from Mexican culture, instead of just the holiday, to cater to SU’s student population.

Día de los Muertos is a traditional Mexican holiday celebrated from Oct. 31 through Nov. 2, where families and friends honor their ancestors who have passed and celebrate their life. On Thursday, Las Naran-

jas, a Spanish language and culture club at Syracuse University, will be hosting a Día de los Muertos celebration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Huntington Beard Crouse Hall’s atrium.

Alexandra Ramos, the educational chair of Las Naranjas, said that they’re trying to

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end the misconceptions surrounding the celebration. She said that it’s not “Mexican Halloween.”

“It’s a celebration of the cycle of life,” Donolo said. “It’s not mourning death but rather celebrating it. It’s a very colorful thing with a bunch of music and sharing times with your friends and family and your ancestors who have passed away.”

Ramos said the organization’s celebration isn’t upscaled to the fullest extent, they will try to get as close as see muertos page 8

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Festival to showcase student clubs Sheraton Hotel hosts murder mystery dinner

By Jillian LeVeille

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Nine of Syracuse University’s international student associations are participating in the inaugural International Fest.

On Sunday, each organization will create a booth to share information about their culture, hand out food samples and showcase an artistic performance. The festival will be held at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center at 4 p.m. and is free for all SU students, faculty and staff.

Juan Tavares, the director for the Slutzker Center for Interna-

tional Services and event coordinator for the festival, hopes to bring international students and domestic students together at the festival.

He said he believes an event like this will foster leadership, entrepreneurship and allow students to display pride in their culture.

“It’s going to help them work as a team,” Tavares said. That teamwork will be important for what Tavares called a friendly competition between the associations over which booth is the best.

Each booth will be rated by judges based on informational content and creativity while their performance will be based

on their execution and the audience’s engagement.

Tavares, who joined the SU community in July, was inspired by a similar event at Western Michigan University, where he worked as director of the International Student Activities office for 12 years.

Due to the limited space at the Sheraton, the event is only open to SU students, faculty and staff, which is why Tavares said he has been cautious in the event’s advertising. However, he hopes that in the following years, the festival will be held in Goldstein see festival page 8

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Inside a Sheraton Hotel ballroom, guests ate a three-course meal while actors performed a murder mystery style show to the Syracuse community.

On Sunday, The Mystery Company, an interactive theatrical group based in Rochester, performed a show where audience members were tasked with finding out who stole the British Crown jewels in a classic murder

whodunit style of mystery.

Audience members were assigned to figure out who killed a few characters in the story. Actors were dressed in exuberant garb to match the dinner-show’s 1930s theme.

Dennis Cammillerl, whose daughter was a part of the show, said that he thought the actors were very “comical” and that they did a great job.

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muertos possible in creating an authentic experience.

Sofia Donolo, the vice president of Las Naranjas said they decided to host the event on a weekday to be more accessible to students.

Donolo worked closely with SU’s Spanish department to gather materials for the event.

The club will be having an ofrenda, a collection of objects and mementos that are displayed with a photo of a family member who has passed away. The celebration will also feature face painting, churros and candy.

Donolo said that they’re going to “deck out” the atrium. She said that the atrium will be covered in colors, calaveras and caracas, which are skulls and skeletons. Professors, SU abroad representatives and salsa dancers will also be in attendance, Donolo said. from page 7

festival Auditorium and will be open to the rest of the Syracuse community, like at WMU’s event.

“When my children were little, they loved coming to the International Festival and looked forward to it every year,” Tavares said.

The festival will serve as a fundraiser for the international student associations, Tavares said. Food tickets can be purchased at the door for $1 that attendees can use as payment to sample foods from the booths.

Sue Bracy, director of food services commissary and main offices, said at one of the event’s meetings that every association was assigned to a dining hall where they would teach their recipes to the cooks and together prepare all the food samples needed for the event.

Bracy, who said that the dining centers could potentially convert these recipes into their daily menus for all of SU. She added that all the chefs are excited to work with the students to create dishes like frybread, a flat dough bread fried in oil from the Indigenous Students Association; chaat, an from page 7

mystery acoustics here were a little better, so I could understand the actors a little better.

But I thought the actors were very wonderful, and they did a good job,” Cammillerl said.

Actors learned audience members names and incorporated them into the performance. The actors also called out individual audience members to be part of the intricate crime.

The show broke twice for dinner to be served. Audience members took this as an opportunity to discuss who they thought the culprit was.

The performers created a motley cast that included characters like a quick-talking, yellow-dressed mafia bodyguard named “Ice Man,” and a lofty British detective named Miss Marbles — a sly homage to Agatha

We change up the themes. We’ll do a western theme and we’ll do a Casablanca theme.

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Christie’s character, Miss Marple.

Many of the actors went into the audience trying to persuade them of who the culprit was, all while cracking jokes. The actor playing “Ice Man” would scream “cut them off” to audience members who thought he was the culprit.

The character was played by an actor named Daniel Mittermeyer, who said that he was excited to be in Syracuse after not being in the city since 2006, and that the show was a wonderful welcome back.

He also said that interacting with the audience was his favorite part of performing in the show.

“We change up the themes. We’ll do a

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Las Naranjas worked with the Spanish department to get the Día de los Muertos celebration up and running. With many club members of Las Naranjas taking part in Spanish classes at SU, they felt it was easy to ask their Spanish professors for help with the celebration, said Anna Sebree, the head event coordinator for the organization.

Sebree said that the department was “on board” from the beginning. She said anything that Las Naranjas needed for Dia de los Muertos, the Spanish department helped with.

The Spanish department helps promote Las Naranjas and some professors offer students extra credit if they go to their events, Sebree said. She said that many students get involved in the organization after attending events promoted by the department.

This is the first event Las Naranjas has put together this semester, but they have more planned for the future.

It’s a celebration of the cycle of life.

It’s not mourning death, but rather celebrating it.

Sofia Donolo vice president of las naranjas

Sebree said that the club is hoping to have an event for the Latin Grammys in November and that they have a few other ideas for

later in the semester. But for now, the organization is focused on Día de los Muertos.

The club did not get started on events until after Hispanic Heritage Month so they couldn’t take advantage of any events during that time, Sebree said. But she said that they felt like they were able to find an important date in Hispanic culture to kick off the club’s events at.

Donolo said that Las Naranjas is hoping that students come to see this celebration as it had not been a fixture on campus in prior years.

“What we wanted to do was give students a chance to be able to get a sense of what the holiday is,” said Donolo. “We notice that our school doesn’t really do anything to recognize it or celebrate it, so we wanted to raise awareness.” mtestlin@syr.edu

Indian snack from the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth at Syracuse University; dumplings from Global China Connection and milk tea from the Pakistani Student Association.

Kimmel’s head chef is looking forward to learning how to make pain au chocolat or chocolate croissants with La Société Francophone, Bracy said.

Each association had a budget of about $700 to decorate their booths, said Amanda Paule, the president of La Société Francophone, they bought a tent to cover their table, cinema and literature, easels for displays about French paintings, among other things. Tavares added that other groups’ purchases included backdrops and clothing from their country or region to represent their culture on campus.

Denise Magny, vice president of Haitian American Students Association, said that the Haitian national motto, “strength through unity,” is how they want to model their association, and the International Fest is a great way to achieve that.

“We’re excited to present our culture, to showcase our beautiful culture,” Magny said. jpleveil@syr.edu

western theme and we’ll do a Casablanca theme. We’re doing a mixture of Hitchcock next. So, we vary up our performances,” Mittermeyer said.

Along with the ‘30s themed dinner, the company also offers four more scenarios including a western show set in Casper , Wyoming.

Another show is set in 1946 and is a spoof on the nior film genre. The show centers around dective Mr. Wolf and his assistant Archie as the two try and figure out how a murder occured during a presentation where chefs around the world display their food.

Among the cast of enthusiastic characters was Mr. Bigg’s partner, Tiffany. After he had died, guests speculated if she had done it for her infatuation of money and diamonds. It was only later when some guests were surprised that it was actually the bodyguard who killed the loaded mafia leader.

Following the death of Mr. Bigg, the character named Inspector Closseau, a riff on the detective in “The Pink Panther” asked the audience who they thought committed the crime. Some audience members meticulously went over the details of what happened during the show, all while actors sneaked around from table to table trying to change their minds.

Even when audience members were speculating who the culprit was, actors talked among themselves in character.

Some audience members were dressed in era-set clothing, going as far as wearing tuxedos and dressing as flappers. Gina Pascarella, who is a Syracuse resident, dressed up for the occasion with her friends.

Some wore suits with suspenders while others donned flapper headdresses.

Pascerella said she thought the performance was set in the ‘20s, but she saw that it was set in the ‘30s when she got there. She also said she was a big fan of Mittermeyer’s “Ice Man” character.

At the end, when trying to find out who the true culprit was, each table of audience members wrote poetic, rhyming answers that they spoke aloud.

When the culprit was revealed, Miss Marbles yelled out “case closed,” ending the mystery performance. cscargla@syr.edu

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Syracuse sweeps North Carolina State in straight sets

By Roshan Fernandez staff writer

The Orange successfully swept North Carolina State in their final match of a four-game road trip. Polina Shemanova was vital to the team’s victory, recording 22 kills with only three attacking errors to end the team’s threegame losing streak.

Syracuse (6-11, 3-7 Atlantic Coast) appeared more dynamic than usual on offense — in addition to Shemanova’s typical heroics, Yuliia Yastrub, Ella Saada and Abby Casiano recorded eight, six and four kills, respectively.

Though NC State (8-14, 3-7) led for large portions of the game, the Orange bounced back to win all three sets.

In the first set, Syracuse trailed early on before eventually tying up the set at 16-16.

Attacking and service errors ultimately lost the Wolfpack that set — in the entire match, NC State recorded 18 attacking errors and 10 service errors. Plagued with errors in past games, the Orange were glad to have limited themselves to only seven during Sunday’s victory. Kills from Kendra Lukacs, Shemanova from page 12

cornell hand injury continued to befuddle rushes that entered into the shooting circle.

“It’s a lot of growing,” Webb said. “There were a lot of learning opportunities from that game.”

In a 3-1 win over the Big Red (9-6, 3-2 Ivy), these differences came to fruition for a No. 15 Syracuse (11-5, 2-3 Atlantic Coast) program that entered this season coming off its first missed NCAA tournament berth since 2007. Even when the Orange didn’t play to their highest potential, when all aspects of a complete field hockey game didn’t surface at the same time within the 60 minutes of game play, it was still enough.

“I think the biggest thing is we finished, and that went well,” Bradley said. “I thought our individual defense was sloppy, and we scored goals and we won.”

Early in the season, that wasn’t the case.

Syracuse’s offense relied almost solely on freshman Charlotte de Vries, whose 14 goals are three shy of the all-time record for a freshman at SU. If opponents stuck a shadow defender on de Vries, attacks stalled. from page 12

karakasi ‘I’m a setter, but no one actually cares what I’m doing’ so I don’t get praise for anything,” Karakasi said. “But now that I’m here, playing at a different level, I understand what I’m doing.”

In 2018, Karakasi was a backup to senior Jalissa Trotter, appearing in every set for just three of the Orange’s 28 games. This season, she was forced into the starting role after Trotter’s graduation and Dana Valelly’s departure from the program. Karakasi has since appeared in 61 of 62 sets for the Orange (6-11, 3-7 Atlantic Coast) and averages 8.05 assists per set, eighth-best in the ACC. Last year, head coach Leonid Yelin considered redshirting Karakasi. He ultimately decided not to because the coaching staff determined it would be better for her to have a little bit of time to play. Behind Trotter, Karakasi learned the importance of aggressiveness, something she noticed she was missing.

Yelin said he was confident that if needed, Karakasi could’ve been ready to fill in for Trotter and run the team last year. Karakasi’s offseason growth gave the SU coaching staff confidence in her ability to replace Trotter, who finished her career with the eighth most assists in program history.

Karakasi spent most of her summer in Syracuse, allowing her to work out every day with middle blocker Abby Casiano. Yelin and assistant coach Derryk Williams both cite Karakasi’s offseason work as the reason she improved in hitting, setting and jumping, among other things.

“When we saw her in preseason, it was unbelievable, she was jumping three or four inches higher,” Williams said. “We were just looking around like ‘OK, she worked.’”

Karakasi said that last year was the true

and Yastrub, paired with an NC State service error gifted Syracuse a 25-21 first set victory.

Continuous kills from Shemanova and Yastrub, who recorded a season-high eight kills on Sunday, kept the Orange in the second set.

With the score tied at 12-12, Syracuse took the lead and held onto it for the remainder of the set, though it was close. A service error from setter Elena Karakasi nearly cost the Orange at a critical moment at the end of the set, but Casiano secured the 25-23 win with a kill.

Karakasi, the usual and reliable setter who leads the Orange with 491 assists this season, was forced to share time with freshman setter Lauren Woodford. The two both appeared in all three sets and each recorded 18 assists.

The Wolfpack self-destructed in the final set with seven errors, including two consecutive attacking errors on the final two points of the match. Two kills from Karakasi on her only two attacks of the game helped force a set-point, allowing her team to win the final set 26-24.

Next weekend, the Orange return home and face Notre Dame and No. 23 Louisville on Friday and Sunday, respectively. rferna04@syr.edu

When Carolin Hoffmann opened the scoring off a penalty stroke only three minutes into the first quarter, an SU offense that generated six penalty corners in the opening frame had already begun to click. She took one step forward and lofted the shot toward the right of the cage, rising above Big Red goalie Maddie Henry.

Multiple times, Syracuse and assistant coach Katie Gerzabek utilized fakes to draw fliers off-guard, the origination of SU’s first and second goals. Stopper Tess Queen pushed the insertion pass through a faking Hoffmann and onto the stick of Stephanie Harris further left. As opposed to relying on Roos Weers’ production like last year, or de Vries’ powerful reverse hit like earlier in the season, Harris fired a shot that was redirected in front of the cage and bounced in.

“Steph goes down to the other end and works on that corner, I’m glad you were able to execute that,” Bradley said, turning to face the senior at the postgame press conference.

The Orange continued to press and maintain possession in the Big Red’s end, holding Cornell to four shots the entire game. Even when a penalty corner shot snuck past goalie Sarah challenge for her — the adjustment to American volleyball along with the experience of all the older players was intimidating. After overcoming the pressures that were associated with her freshman year season, this season feels “normal,” she said.

Running the offense this year began with constant repetitions and building chemistry with her outside hitters. Her connection with Shemanova, her roommate, is better than ever, she said. Shemanova likes when there’s a free ball because that means the outside hitter has enough time to exchange a quick look with Karakasi. But Karakasi admits that even without the facial expressions, she’s confident in their relationship.

She’s learned that Shemanova likes her sets with more pace on the ball, too.

Shemanova approaches the ball with more speed because she’s shorter than most who play her position, she said. Little adjustments allow Karakasi to put her hitters into the best possible positions, approaching hittable balls with the fewest number of opposing blockers.

Karakasi’s teammates certainly appreciate her reliability and consistency. On an Instagram post which commended Shemanova as the ACC’s kills per set and points per set leader, Shemanova commented “wouldn’t achieve it without you obviously,” in reference to her setter.

Williams admits that the staff is tough on Karakasi, “challenging her as much, if not more than anybody else on the team to be a really good player.” So, while the offensive spotlight will continue to shine on Shemanova and Saada, Karakasi will continue to do her job, even if the scoreboard doesn’t always show it.

Said Yelin: “She is just the setter who we wanted in the first place.” rferna04@syr.edu

POLINA SHEMANOVA recorded 22 kills with only three attacking errors against North Carolina State on Saturday afternoon. tj shaw staff photographer

Sinck early in the second quarter, the Orange prevented it from sparking a multiple-goal run.

When the rain started pouring down onto the field at the start of the second half, chances decreased at both ends, forcing Syracuse’s midfield to create passing lanes and then immediately close those for the Big Red. “I think has been the biggest improvement with us, is the connection and looking for those keys and queues from each other to be able to open the field up,” Bradley said.

Before the game, with the National Anthem sounding through the speakers at J.S. Coyne Stadium, SU’s coaching staff stood shoulderto-shoulder underneath the bench’s roof. All three crossed their hands behind their backs. As speakers blared out the final two lines, associate head coach Allan Law and Bradley turned their heads slightly toward the 21 Syracuse players with interlocked hands swinging up and down.

Together, this was the Syracuse roster that was tasked with reversing the trend from last season that involved losing to top-tier opponents and suffocating late in the season — when the Orange lost four consecutive games.

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harris playing time is due to “matchups.”

Against Cornell, though, Harris returned to the starting lineup, taking her place alongside Webb and sophomore SJ Quigley in the back. Almost immediately, SU got her involved in the offense.

Three minutes into the match, Syracuse earned a penalty corner chance, and SU ran a play designed to get Harris a shot on net.

Quigley inserted to Tess Queen, who slid a pass horizontally across the edge of the shooting circle.

Midfielder Carolin Hoffmann, typically a main focus of penalty corner plays, faked a shot and let the ball roll to Harris, who blasted a shot on net. Though Harris’s shot was saved on that play, it earned the Orange a penalty stroke, which put SU up 1-0.

Later in the first quarter, Syracuse ran that identical play again on a penalty corner, using Hoffmann as a decoy to create space for Harris. This time, when the ball rolled to Harris, she remembered thinking ‘Just hit it, don’t top it.’ So, she elevated a shot through a crowd and past Cornell’s goalie for her first career goal.

“She’s been practicing that for a long time,” Webb said.

SU installed that fake shot play for Harris on Saturday, one day before the Cornell game, SU head coach Ange Bradley said.

Bradley noted that though Harris doesn’t typically factor in on penalty corners, she and Webb have good chemistry on the plays and Harris often works on her shot on the opposite end of J.S. Coyne during practice sessions.

After the game, Bradley was surprised to learn that Harris had never scored before,

around you — when you play a passing game the way we play, you gotta know how people move, you gotta know how they breathe, you gotta know everything about them,” Bradley said.

Two of the seniors honored before the game had arrived the year after the Syracuse field hockey reached a peak of its 47-year existence: a 2015 NCAA Championship. Their freshman season opened with seven straight wins, but the totals plummeted year-by-year, eventually dropping to last season’s 8-8 record. It was the lowest number of wins for the Orange since 2003 and only their second single-digit win season this century.

The 2019 campaign has contained microcosms of the issues that plagued last year’s roster, but in Sunday’s game, those didn’t resurface. de Vries, once SU’s lone source of goals, only launched one of her six shots against Cornell on goal. Four others tallied shots, three scored goals and two recorded assists. But, heading into the final week of their regular season, the Orange have pieced together a roster poised to play past the ACC tournament.

“You’re playing now and if you win, next game you have one more,” Webb said. and she congratulated her.

Harris’s final statline on Sunday read 19 minutes, three shots — all on target — and one goal. Her defensive instincts and outletting skills helped SU control possession in the midfield and limit Cornell to three first half shot attempts.

“Her impact on the field today was fantastic,” Bradley said.

Led by Harris, SU took a 2-1 lead into halftime. But even with her strong production, Harris sat on the bench for most of the second half.

At one point late in the third quarter, she handed a water bottle to midfielder Laura Graziosi, who had just come off the field with a green card.

Syracuse’s other graduating players, Webb and Luby, also impacted Sunday’s senior day. Luby’s unassisted third quarter goal in which she split two defenders to put SU up 3-1 and Webb’s leadership in the back kept Cornell’s offense at bay.

This group of seniors is the first class to join Syracuse after its national championship win in 2015. They helped Syracuse to the national quarterfinals as freshmen, but missed the national tournament for the first time since 2007 last year.

Throughout their careers, SU’s seniors have made protecting their home field their mantra and a “staple” of the program’s culture, Webb said. Unless the Orange host a postseason game this year, Sunday’s win was the final time Webb, Luby and Harris defended their home pitch.

“Coyne is such a special place to me,” Webb said. “It represents the current team, it represents all the women who’ve come before us and all the women who will come after us.”

“We always work to protect it.” dremerma@syr.edu | @DannyEmerman

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CHARLOTTE DE VRIES didn’t score on Sunday in Syracuse’s 3-1 win against Cornell. But de Vries’ offense has ensured the Orange’s improvement in their conference record this year, positioning them to return to the NCAA tournament after missing it in 2018. corey henry photo editor

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A year after missing the NCAA tournament, Syracuse’s 3-1 win over Cornell ensures it’s back

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laire Webb weaved through the rest of her Syracuse teammates, knocking her equipment bag on shoulders, until she found her mother, Sharon. With senior day winding down, two hours after she strolled between an arc of sticks created by the Orange’s underclassmen, tears fell from Webb’s eyes as she pulled back from a hug with Sharon and cracked a smile.

To her left, SJ Quigley and Tess Queen posed for pictures with the Quigley family. Behind Webb, the remainder of her Syracuse teammates signed posters for fans who lined the pavement for nearly 10 minutes, awaiting the final team huddle and stretching to end.

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Elena Karakasi sets up Syracuse

By Roshan Fernandez staff writer

A glance at the scoreboard in the Women’s Building reveals two ingame stats for every player on the court: kills and service aces. For Polina Shemanova, Ella Saada and Marina Markova, the red digits increase as they drill attack-after-attack. In most games, the scoreboard usually sums up how well they played.

But for setter Elena Karakasi, that scoreboard doesn’t reveal her impact. An integral part of Syracuse, her setting doesn’t directly show on her teammates’ kill totals. Her role as a reliable setter is imperative to the Orange’s success — she’s the glue keeping the offense alive.

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One month ago, Webb’s hand was still wrapped up and the senior couldn’t play. Since then, she’s been the anchor for Syracuse’s backline. Another win — the Orange’s third-straight and sixth in nine games — had already been secured. An NCAA tournament berth had gone from likely to likelier. A youthful team had once again meshed with limited veteran experience over the last 72 hours to manufacture two weekend wins defined by statistical domination.

The distinct changes that began after Syracuse’s loss to Cornell on Sept. 7 once again emerged on Sunday afternoon. Passes continued to stay crisp.

Penalty corner sets continued to produce goals. And a backline that’s benefited with Webb’s return from a

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Stephanie Harris nets 1st-career goal in 3-1 win

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ELENA KARAKASI sat on the bench for most of 2018, but has averaged 8.05 assists per set this year. corey henry photo editor

Right after the final whistle sounded, Stephanie Harris leaked out of her team’s celebratory huddle and jogged to the sideline, sliding on a pair of clunky headphones in front of reporters.

For almost certainly the first time in Harris’s four-year career at SU, she was the unquestioned player of the game.

Harris netted her first collegiate goal and had a hand in a second score. On senior day, in her final regular season game at J.S. Coyne Stadium, Harris not only started, but starred

for Syracuse (11-5, 2-3 Atlantic Coast) in a 3-1 win over Cornell (9-6, 3-2 Ivy).

She’s one of three Syracuse’s graduating players — including Sarah Luby and Claire Webb — who have helped the Orange secure a likely return to the NCAA tournament.

“Best day of my life,” Harris said after the game. “Honestly.”

Throughout this season, Harris has been in and out of SU’s backline rotation. She started two games early in the year when Webb dealt with an injury, but sat the past four games on the bench.

Bradley said her inconsistent

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