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Hair salons in Syracuse are working to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and create a safe environment for customers through protocols such as air filtration systems. Page 6

Remembrance Scholars are working to organize virtual and socially distanced events to honor the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Page 3

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Five years after Ange Bradley led Syracuse field hockey to a national championship, her former players look back on how she transformed a once-struggling program. Page 12

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Rising cases pose risks for SU’s spring semester A new wave of cases in Onondaga County could force SU to reconsider in-person spring classes

By Francis Tang staff writer

By Chris Hippensteel news editor

ncreasing coronavirus case numbers in New York state and Onondaga County may undermine the university’s ability to reopen safely in January, university and county officials told The Daily Orange. University officials, including Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie, the head of SU’s COVID-19 response, have said the low infection rate in Onondaga County at the start of the fall semester was a key factor in bringing students back to campus safely. But that infection rate has crept up in recent weeks as both the state and the country brace for another peak of infections. “We have to look at the facts on the ground,” said Indu Gupta, commissioner of the Onondaga County Health Department, in an interview with The D.O. “The school will make that decision, with our consultation at that point, if we have suddenly a very high number of cases.” If infections in New York state continue to rise into January, SU may need to reconsider its plans to continue in-person instruction, Gupta said. The department will communicate this to university officials should the need arise. With SU’s spring semester set to begin Jan. 25, Gupta stressed that it’s far too early to speculate on the university’s ability to reopen. Coronavirus cases have increased across the United States in October, particularly in the South and Midwest. While New York state currently has the second-lowest positivity rate in the country, it has recently seen an uptick in cases. “We are seeing the second wave, or surges, throughout the country, including in New York state, which we started to see in our county also,” Gupta said. “Our numbers keep on going up, which is a big concern.” Onondaga County reported a record-setting 70 new

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Time zones hinder learning

Onondaga County has seen another increase of active coronavirus cases as the U.S. experiences a second wave

Syracuse University international students have faced difficulties while taking classes remotely. When SU first transitioned to online classes due to the coronavirus pandemic in March, many international students chose to return to their home countries. Because of travel restrictions and other complications related to the pandemic, several have not returned to campus this fall. Multiple international students told The Daily Orange that being away from campus, plus the virtual nature of their courses, has posed both academic and social challenges, leaving them feeling neglected. The time difference between Syracuse and some international students’ home countries continues to present challenges for many students, even as SU has expanded asynchronous course material since the spring. Jessica Tran, a sophomore international student from Vietnam studying film and journalism, said she began the semester having to take classes as early as 4 a.m. When she asked two professors if she could choose to take their classes asynchronously, one refused, saying it was unfair to students who were taking classes in person, she said. While the professor did let her switch to another section of the class at a different time, the new section overlaps with a class she was already taking, Tran said. But because international students have to register a minimum of 12 credits every semester to maintain their F-1 visa status, she said can’t withdraw from either class. “It’ll affect my GPA so much but there’s nothing else I can do,” Tran said. Eileen Chen, an SU junior from China who is studying international relations, said she was anxious about how she would perform in online classes at the beginning of the fall semester. Some of her classes take place in real time, which for her means attending late at night or early in the morning. “Taking classes all online just isn’t seeming real for me, and my efficiency in learning also dropped down,” said Ainley

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Remembrance Scholars adapt to constraints Former SU athletes meet with DPS chief By Katie Scoville, Sarah Alessandrini the daily orange

ANNELISE HACKETT sits in a chair as part of the Remembrance program's annual chair display. The display recreates the seating position of the 35 SU students who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. corey henry senior staff photographer By Sarah Alessandrini asst. news editor

Miranda Nemeth came to Syracuse University to be a Remembrance Scholar. She first learned about the program in her senior year of high school, when a campus tour guide showed her the Remembrance Wall. “That’s actually one of the reasons I chose to come to Syracuse,” Nemeth said. “I liked the program a lot and wanted to learn more about it and be a part of it.” The Remembrance Program commemorates the 35 SU students who were killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Every year, a selection committee chooses 35 seniors to represent the 35 SU students who died in the bombing. The Remembrance program typically hosts an annual Remembrance Week filled with

events reflecting on the tragedy and honoring the victims. Like Nemeth, many of this year’s scholars have participated in Remembrance Week events throughout their time at SU and were looking forward to the time they could finally become Remembrance Scholars themselves. This year’s changes, though, have posed challenges to the scholars as they strive to create events that convey the week’s gravity while adhering to coronavirus guidelines. Nemeth, who is an international relations and citizenship and civic engagement major, said she knew how Remembrance events looked each year and went into the program with that tradition in mind. But the pandemic forced her and other scholars to shift their expectations. “This year, with everything switched, you don’t have that precedent anymore,” Nemeth said. “You kind of have to recreate certain

things that in the past were set up the same way.” Linzy Dineen, a Remembrance Scholar and forensic science, biology and psychology major, said the scholars had difficulties forging relationships with one another because their meetings have been held over Zoom. She also said it’s been difficult to connect with her assigned student through SU’s archives. While it is a traditional responsibility for each scholar to learn about the student they represent through letters and other artifacts, COVID-19 has restricted scholars’ access to those records, she said. AJ Seymour, a scholar studying public relations and sociology, said participating in Remembrance Week during his time as an underclassman helped him grieve the loss of a family member during his sophomore year. By going to Remembrance events, Seymour connected

his own loss to the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing and learned to grieve through storytelling. This year, he wants to offer that same experience to other SU students, even if it’s in a different format. “Whenever a community faces a loss, it is the responsibility of the community to carry on the legacy and never let those people be forgotten,” Seymour said. “There are little moments of connection you can find in the stories of these students, and I think that is something incredibly important to keep alive.” Scholars said it has been difficult to create virtual formats for events usually held in person. Dineen knew she wanted to be a Remembrance Scholar freshman year when she attended the candlelight vigil, a fixture of Remembrance Week. There, she realized how important the tradition of Remembrance Week is to both the SU and see remembrance page 4

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SU developing lab to analyze COVID-19 tests By Michael Sessa asst. news editor

Syracuse University is developing plans to create its own COVID-19 saliva testing laboratory to supplement its existing testing partnerships, an SU official said during Wednesday’s Graduate Student Organization Senate meeting. Ramesh Raina, interim vice president for research, will lead the creation of a saliva testing lab at SU, said Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie, who has led SU’s coronavirus response. Under the plan, the university would continue to partner with Upstate Medical University for testing while also maintaining its own saliva testing facilities, he said. The lab will afford SU greater flexibility in its testing procedures, he said. “We’re going to be in this for a while,” Haynie said. “It does con-

cern me, even though Upstate is a wonderful partner, that our fate on such an important issue is dependent upon an entity that we don’t necessarily control.” More details about plans for the lab will be released in the coming weeks, Haynie said. Haynie fielded questions from graduate students and GSO senators about a variety of COVID-19-related topics including testing, vaccination and the politicization of the pandemic. Some senators expressed concerns about the setup of the university’s testing center in the Carrier Dome, which has at times been crowded and not allowed for proper social distancing. The university is currently carrying out its third round of mandatory campus-wide coronavirus testing. “It got uncomfortably crowded,” Haynie said. “We’re trying to address that.”

The university switched its main testing site to the Dome after conducting testing on the Quad for the first several weeks of the semester. SU has already increased the size of the staging area in the Dome where students and staff wait for their tests and has added new floor signage to promote social distancing, Haynie said. Haynie also reaffirmed university officials are working to repurpose the Dome in the spring semester to host classes and other student activities. “The winter is going to get tougher,” Haynie said. “We’re going to have to be creative about how we replicate those outdoor spaces that people love so much.” Opening up the Dome for routine student use, teaching and office hours with professors will allow students and staff to socialize once the weather turns cold and snowy,

he said. The recently renovated Dome features the highest quality air filtration system on campus and can replace the stadium’s entire air volume nearly 10 times an hour, Haynie said. Haynie also confirmed that students who are unable to return home during the winter break can stay on campus. Graduate research facilities and libraries, among other buildings, will remain open with swipe card access, he said. Some senators also questioned the effectiveness of a two-week tally of positive test results that appears on SU’s COVID-19 dashboard. The two-week reporting protocols were developed by the state, and SU can’t change them, Haynie said. The university will explore reporting a rolling count of positive test results, he said. msessa@syr.edu @MichaelSessa3

Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado discussed the role of campus police at Syracuse University during a conversation with Black former SU athletes on Wednesday night. The collective of former athletes, called Black Oranges, hosted the hour-and-a-half long conversation over Zoom. Etan Thomas, a former SU basketball player who is a member of the group, led the conversation. The group discussed ways to increase transparency within the department and improve the relationship between DPS and students of color. After a series of racist, antiSemitic and homophobic incidents occurred at and near SU last year, #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, held an eight-day sit-in at the Barnes Center at The Arch in the fall and a 31-day sit-in at CrouseHinds Hall in the spring. DPS faced criticism regarding officers’ interactions with students during the protests. DPS sealed off CrouseHinds for two days at the start of the occupation, preventing food or supplies from entering the building. Protesters who gathered outside the building also physically struggled with DPS officers multiple times during the occupation. One video, which was posted to social media, shows DPS Deputy Chief John Sardino reaching for his holster during a struggle with protesters. “There should be an awful lot of communication before we get to a point where things have escalated to a protest or contentious behavior,” Maldonado said. “I want to partner with our students to communicate more frequently. We have to find a way to build trust.” When asked if officers were wearing body cameras at the Crouse-Hinds protest, Maldonado said that every officer is equipped with one body camera, but that the footage usually isn’t released. The DPS union sent a letter within the first few days of the Crouse-Hinds occupation defending the officers’ actions and claiming that the students were being aggressive. Thomas told Maldonado that he wouldn’t feel comfortable sending his son to SU after reading the letter. Maldonado said he understands, as a person of color, what it’s like to be discriminated against and racially profiled. DPS officers undergo a rigorous hiring process, which includes an extensive interview and background review, Maldonado said. Recruits also undergo psychiatric evaluations, he said. see dps page 4

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coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the largest single-day jump since reporting began. It was also monitoring 379 active cases — a drastic decrease from the county’s highest, 941, which it reached in June, but about double the number the county was monitoring on Aug. 25, the day after SU resumed in-person classes. “You just don’t turn this around in a couple of days,” County Executive Ryan McMahon said during a press conference Monday. “It takes weeks for us to see the modifications in people’s behavior, essentially to see the whole trajectory change.” The county’s positivity rate had also risen to 1.6% as of Tuesday after spending nearly all of August and September at or below 1%, according to state data. The county has identified 5,201 cases since the pandemic began, and 212 people in the county have died from the virus. Coronavirus hotspots have also appeared around the state, including in New York City and some of its suburbs. One such hotspot, contributed to SU’s largest spike in cases since in-person classes resumed. SU officials have said a student who traveled to Binghamton spread COVID-19 at a party on Walnut Avenue. This triggered a cluster of infections among SU students that led the university to temporarily suspend in-person student activities. It also brought the university closer than ever to transitioning classes online since the start of the fall semester. Despite the events that led to the cluster, the majority of SU students have followed public health guidelines, Gupta said. SU’s surveillance measures, including student testing and wastewater testing, have been largely effective, she said. The health department has worked handin-hand with the university in tracing and containing cases of the virus, Gupta said. “We have a regular conversation with SU leadership,” she said. “They are very dedicated to protect the health of their students, their faculty, and also make sure they are protecting the health of the community.” Onondaga County will strictly follow guidelines from the New York State Department of Health in deciding to impose shutdown measures, Gupta said. The county may begin advising SU to reconsider its spring plans if the county becomes a state-designated red zone. Onondaga County would become a red zone if it surpassed a positivity rate of 5% based on a 7-day rolling average. For the city of Syracuse to qualify as a red zone, however, it would only have to exceed a 4% positivity rate. The goal of both the state’s and the county’s public health guidelines is to avoid such a shut down, Gupta said. from page 1

international Xiao, a sophomore who is from China and planning to declare a biology major this year. Poor internet connections have also caused difficulties for students taking remote classes. One of Xiao’s classes requires students to check in through a mobile application, which she said typically takes her several minutes due to her slow internet speed. Xiao said the time window sometimes automatically closes before she is able to log in and she can’t access the class, which results in an absence. “My GPA is all depending on luck now,” Xiao said. Many of Tran’s film classes also require her to access a lot of software and equipment to complete assignments. While SU typically provides software for free to students, Tran said it’s expensive to access it in Vietnam. Beyond technical issues, international students have also felt increasingly isolated and disconnected from their peers and professors this semester. Several said their messages in Zoom chat boxes often go unanswered, and it’s difficult to get timely responses from their professors over email. “When I was in Syracuse, I went to my professors’ office hours every time when a paper was assigned,” Chen said. “But now, there’s no other way to reach them other than emails, since the office hours listed on the syllabus aren’t available to my time zone. And a lot of them won’t reply at all unless you email-shoot

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“We are working hard to make sure our infection rate continues to go down so students can continue to come back," Gupta said. Brooks Gump, a public health professor at SU, agreed with Gupta that it’s too early to predict whether SU will be able to bring students back to campus safely in January. But action by government leaders to mitigate the virus’s spread could have a substantial impact on the positivity rate and will be a key factor in SU’s decisionmaking process, he said. “If we really adopted the ‘herd immunity’ –– which is ludicrous –– but if we really adopted that approach, we’d have a really, really long spike and a really, really gradual decline into next spring and summer,” Gump said. If SU does succeed in bringing students back to campus in the spring, it will face challenges similar to those it encountered in the fall semester: administering testing and providing quarantine and isolation procedures to the entire student body. The expansion of New York state’s travel advisory in the wake of the nationwide increase in cases may also pose complications for students, said David Larsen, an associate professor of public health at Falk College. The advisory, which impacted over 3,000 SU students at the beginning of the fall semester, requires individuals traveling to New York state from coronavirus hotspots to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival. SU students had to complete this quarantine at their own expense, with freshmen allowed to quarantine on campus but upperclassmen required to secure their own accommodations. If the positivity rate stays high nationwide, a greater number of students may find themselves subject to the costly quarantine requirement, Larsen said. Larsen has also noted that colder weather may trigger a second wave of coronavirus cases in the United States. But Gupta believes there’s another factor at play: complacency. As people get tired of social distancing and other coronavirus-related health guidelines, they’ve let their guards down, she said. “It’s still a part of our community, like it or not,” Gupta said. “The only way we can get rid of this unwanted guest is to do what is in our hands.” Students shouldn’t expect a vaccine to arrive over winter break, either, Gupta said. Even if scientists develop a vaccine by the end of year, it won’t reach the general public until spring or summer 2021. Until then, students and county residents alike need to strengthen their commitment to following public health guidelines, Gupta said. “There is always a morning after the night,” Gupta said. “So I don’t think it’s going to last forever, it is going to end. But right now the end is not in sight.”

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remembrance Lockerbie communities. “It’s a weird thing to experience just feeling so immensely sad about the deaths of students you never even knew, but it’s also something really beautiful,” Dineen said. “I remember just feeling honored to be there.” This year’s candlelight vigil, like most Remembrance events, will take place virtually. But Nemeth said the scholars are hoping restrictions on in-person gatherings will lessen in the spring so they can hold some traditional events, such as the rose-laying ceremony at the Remembrance Wall. Despite the pandemic, Remembrance scholars said they’ve found a silver lining in some of the changes. Kelly Rodoski, a communications manager at SU and adviser in the Remembrance program, was a freshman when the bombing occurred. As someone who witnessed firsthand the impact the tragedy had on the community, Rodoski said that the Remembrance program is something very personal to her. The changes to this year’s programming will in no way lessen its significance, she said. “We’re living in a world where we have to take each day as it comes, and we have to find the best way of dealing with our circumstances and still continuing our traditions, which is our challenge this year,” Rodoski said. Scholars said that holding events virtually has allowed them to better involve from page 3

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DPS also tries to recruit as many officers of color and female officers as possible, Maldonado said. Former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch is currently conducting an independent review of DPS in response to the Crouse-Hinds protests. Lynch has already proposed a framework for a com-

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munity review board to oversee complaints against DPS and is expected to complete her full review by the end of the semester. Black Oranges will continue to host similar discussions with DPS in the future, Thomas said. “I do think this was a good first step,” Thomas said. “We want to keep pushing for things to be better. We’re going to continue from here.”

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them several times a week.” Attending classes remotely has made it difficult for international students to maintain their social lives, too. Chen said she’s had to stay up all night to attend her synchronous courses, and her social life has suffered. “It had put me in a great amount of pressure as I can’t enjoy my social life as a normal college student could do. I can’t even see my parents living under the same roof,” Chen said. “For friends at Syracuse, I can only text them on the phone, and most of my childhood friends are away from our hometown for other colleges.” Tran recently found a daytime job in her home city of Saigon. After finishing her work during the day and classes at night, she was only able to sleep for four to five hours on average. SU has proposed means for international students in China to continue their studies away from the United States in the spring semester, including the option to take part time in-person classes at Southwest University in Chongqing and Eastern China Normal University in Shanghai. Despite the university’s efforts, though, the students said it would still be difficult for them to take classes away from SU for another semester. “I really wish this pandemic would get over soon,” Xiao said. “If it’s still online classes next semester, I don’t really know how I’m gonna do.”

residents of Lockerbie. The chair display — a yearly exhibition that recreates where each SU student sat on Pan Am Flight 103 –– is typically held only on SU’s campus. The university livestreamed the event this year, allowing people in Lockerbie to watch. The scholars planned to take turns sitting at the display in the spots of their assigned student but switched plans when the university experienced a rise in COVID-19 cases. Annelise Hackett, another Remembrance Scholar studying public relations, said she’s proud of how this year’s group of scholars have adapted to the new circumstances. There has been a lot of engagement on the Remembrance Program’s social media, which shows that the campus is still paying attention, she said. “It was definitely disheartening at first. We had a vision in mind of what the experience was going to look like,” Hackett said. “We’re still trying to do everything we can to give our all to the program and still make it as successful as possible even though it does look so different this year.” Hackett said she hopes that staggering events throughout the year and holding some virtually will provide more opportunities for the wider SU community to be involved in the Remembrance Program. “(Remembrance) is something that’s part of the fabric of our institution,” Rodoski said. “It’s something we promised we’d never forget and we never will. It’s important we always keep this at the forefront of who we are.”

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Mail-in ballots present too many barriers for students, other voters By Sydney Gold columnist

he 2020 presidential election is roughly a week away, and Americans are making plans to cast their ballots. So far, over 45 million absentee ballots have been cast, with most states already receiving more mail-in ballots than in 2016. The coronavirus pandemic has prompted more Americans to file for more mail-in ballots than in any election in history, but the process has been far from easy. Unnecessary barriers only serve to limit voting rights. Each state has its own requirements for how mail-in ballots need to be filled out: using the right pen color, matching your signature to the one your state has on file and even obtaining the signatures of witnesses or notaries. Sealing the ballot properly within multiple envelopes and either dropping it off at an acceptable ballot box or mailing it in time pose additional barriers for some voters. These requirements have made mail-in voting a difficult task for Americans across the nation, including many Syracuse University students living hours away from their home district. So why do these requirements exist? Many politicians cite voter fraud as the reasoning behind keeping these rules in place, but the risk of voter fraud in the United States is effectively non-existent when it comes to voting by mail. “As far as I understand, there is no real risk to voter fraud in this country. Voting by mail is safe, it makes voting easier. Making voting easier is a good thing. It’s the democratic thing to do,” said Maraam

Dwidar, an assistant professor of political science at SU. The U.S. asserts that democracy is its foremost virtue and that voting is our most important right and duty as Americans. But in reality, voting is hard, and it is often hard because of deliberate, calculated voter suppression. Mail-in-ballots are a substantial piece in that suppression in 2020. “These increasingly complicated fields on absentee ballots, on vote-by-mail ballots, are arguably tantamount to a literacy test,” Dwidar said. The country’s history of voter suppression begins with its founding, when only white, propertyowning men could vote. American democracy has, at different points in its existence, explicitly excluded women, people of color, immigrants and low-income residents from its electorate. People who are incarcerated, as well as many who were formerly incarcerated, still don’t have access to this right. Individuals who can’t afford to take a Tuesday off of work, parents who can’t afford to find childcare on Election Day, students who can’t get excused from class: all of these Americans technically have the right to vote, but they often lack the ability to. Unclear phrasing on mail in ballots can be particularly intimidating to Americans without a solid education and first-time voters, which includes many students. So, who’s left? With more Americans than ever voting by mail, the restrictions on mail-in-ballots have been brought to the forefront of this election. As residents struggle to fill out their ballots, it becomes ever clearer that these restrictions and rules are

Complex language, pen color requirements, signature after signature: it isn’t easy to vote by mail. States should remove these unnecessary burdens. wendy wang contributing photographer

meant to keep specific groups of people from voting. “For the most part, the people that are affected by what we can call these literacy tests — these really complicated vote-by-mail ballots — are young voters, firsttime voters... Black and Hispanic voters and poor voters,” Dwidar said. “Typically the voters that are disenfranchised by complicated voting-by-mail procedures are left-leaning voters. So they’re (often) democratic voters who are disenfranchised.” The 2020 presidential election

has been positioned to be a referendum on American democracy, but the inaccessibility of mailin-ballots will undeniably impact races up and down the ballot. They’ll be impacted by multihour wait times, the fact that Election Day still isn’t a national holiday and, on top of it all, the coronavirus pandemic. Americans will risk their health and forfeit their time to commit to making this election as democratic as possible, and it will still fall short of being completely fair. This shortfall

will not be the fault of the American people, but of the politicians who, at worst, constructed these barriers and, at best, failed to dismantle them. The sacrifices Americans make to cast their ballots every year, especially this year, are admirable. But they should be unnecessary. Sydney Gold is a sophomore political science and magazine journalism major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at segold@syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter at @Sydney_Eden

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Republican Party silences majority with voter suppression By Patrick McCarthy columnist

oting is more than a right in the United States: it is a solemn duty and a proud honor. If voting is the country’s greatest tradition, voter suppression is its ugliest. Now, the majority needs saving from the opulent minority. For as long as Americans have used our electoral process to make their voices heard, elected officials and our system of government has worked to silence and erase these voices. People of color, women and even white men who didn’t own land were barred from participating in the process at its conception, and the fight for suffrage has been a long, painful struggle. Our nation’s founders designed the Electoral College to effectively reduce the significance of the popular vote in presidential elections and the U.S. Senate to protect the interests of the wealthy few. Little has changed since. Now, the Republican Party is returning to tactics of voter suppression to keep its chances of controlling the country afloat. A representative democracy could effectively save the people from themselves, James Madison said in Federalist Papers No. 10, but he followed that suggestion with an admission that partisan and corrupt politicians could use the system to earn the votes of and subsequently betray the interests of the people. In 2020, Madison’s hypothetical scenario has been actualized. A Republican Senate majority — one which represents 15 million

fewer Americans than their Democratic colleagues — shoved Amy Coney Barrett into the Supreme Court on Monday. The court’s newest associate justice is an ultra-conservative litigator whose controversial, overtly partisan opinions got her the nomination in the first place. Barrett joins a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. She should be familiar with at least two of her colleagues — she worked for the Republicans alongside justices Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts in the infamous Bush v. Gore debacle, the most recent example of a faction stealing an election by suppressing and invalidating the votes of American residents. Even as COVID-19 makes it more difficult to participate in the election, conservative officials are not to be outdone. Kavanaugh even cited Bush v. Gore in his defense of voter suppression in Wisconsin, rejecting a request to extend the deadline to vote mail-in ballots. Washington, D.C.’s non-voting senator, Paul Strauss, said in an interview that the Supreme Court is willfully engaging and enabling voter suppression. “Any time there are votes that were cast by voters, and they’re not counted, they are suppressed,” he said. In a time of unprecedented calamity, the party that controls virtually every lever of the federal government is coordinating its powers to subvert the will of the people. When the GOP doesn’t have the votes, they get rid of the ones they don’t like. The reduction of polling stations

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has resulted in voters waiting for hours to cast their votes, as well as voter registration purges. Polling stations are in the sharpest decline in states in the deep south, which have a large population of Black residents and tend to vote Republican. Between 2012 and 2018, thenGeorgia Secretary of the State Brian Kemp purged 1.4 million voters from the state’s registry and disenfranchised 560,000 voters in a single day. In 2018, he won the governorship of Georgia, beating Stacey Abrams by just 60,000 votes. The GOP seems to have taken its cues in 2020 from Kemp’s cor-

ruption. A judge has ruled that the California GOP’s statewide distribution of fake ballot dropoff boxes is illegal. The GOP response was, “So what?” The Supreme Court ruled that curbside voting in Alabama was illegal as well. In Texas, though, the GOP’s best efforts to suppress the vote are coming up short. Texas leads the nation in early voter turnout. Beyond that, it appears the GOP’s attack on mail-in balloting may have actually energized Democratic voters to participate like never before. “We shouldn’t be making voting harder,” Strauss said. “American

democracy works best when all Americans have a role to play.” The only solution to this problem is to break down the barriers that keep Americans from the ballot box and to dismantle the systems that keep our voices out of decisions. That means the antiquated Electoral College should stay in the past, and the right to vote should really be a right. Patrick McCarthy is a graduate student in the magazine, online and digital journalism program. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at pmcca100@syr.edu. He can be followed on Twitter at @pmcopinion

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MICHAEL DESALVO, the owner of Hairanoia salon in Syracuse’s Northside, has implemented safety protocols and required coronavirus testing for employees to prevent the spread of the virus. emily steinberger photo editor

Hair salon owners work to create safe and welcoming environments for customers despite pandemic

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airanoia owner Michael DeSalvo wants his clients to feel normal in his hair salon. Although magazine issues and Nino’s Italian Bakery pastries had to be removed from his salon’s waiting area, there was one thing he could keep: his salon’s fall display. “‘People want to see something normal,” DeSalvo recalled Stefanie Smith, one of his hairdressers, saying. “If they came into Hairanoia and it wasn’t decorated, it would probably really make them sad.” Halloween knickknacks clutter the salon and fake fall leaves hang from the ceiling. In one of the chairs, a customer had their hair colored while bantering with Miguel Ruiz, one of Hairanoia’s hairdressers. It’s a sense of normalcy, DeSalvo said. Hairanoia, located in Syracuse’s Northside neighborhood, was one of the many central New York hair salons that closed in March. During the shutdown, DeSalvo upgraded his salon’s air filtration system to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The salon also added ultraviolet lights into its heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. “We’re very serious about (safety protocols),” DeSalvo said. “If something does happen for God’s sakes, at least we are doing our best.” DeSalvo gets tested for COVID-19 once a week, and his staff is also tested every two weeks and has to bring in paperwork. He has a health record folder and contact tracing sheets for both his bathroom and common area, and has been following public health guidelines. He also encourages customers to leave the salon without blowdrying their hair — if they’re willing — and constantly cleans his salon’s door handles and furniture. “My poor furniture,” DeSalvo said. “It’s exhausting.” When DeSalvo closed his salon in March, he spent time on the phone with Smith every day, collaborating with her on how the salon could follow COVID-19 guidelines. Once the salon opened back up in May, DeSalvo saw a spike in client appointments, but then it got progressively slower. He feels that when people heard about Hairanoia’s carefulness with the pandemic, see salons page 8

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Art installations challenge norms about identity, race By Gavi Azoff

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Hooded figures dressed in all black moved back and forth on the University Place promenade. One passerby stopped and threw his hands up in frustration. The figures kept moving, and he decided to walk past the bodies. The figures are a part of the “Body and Space” project, a series of installations that recognize the relationship between the bodies people are in and the spaces they occupy. Five Syracuse University architecture students

curated the project, which incorporates staged interventions, or artistic interactions with a space or audience. The series of installations have taken place at locations such as the Life Sciences building, the promenade and Columbus Circle. The project is also hosting a fashion show on Nov. 13 in collaboration with SU’s Fashion and Design Society. Sandrine Bamba, one of the curators, called the project a “power statement” because it makes people more aware of how they interact with the spacies they take up. The intention is to bring that relation-

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ship into conversations and discuss how it has existed in history, especially in regards to race, she said. “In terms of race relations of how you see the Black body within a specific space and how it’s perceived as maybe a threat or as other,” Bamba said. “And then pushing past that once we understand the parameters of how it’s been understood before, starting to introduce a new relationship between body and space.” Benson Joseph, another project curator, explained that the basic idea behind the “Body and Space” project is how the notion of “othering” can be

harmful when you go into the process of creating an identity. “When you go into the process of creating a sense of self and identity, you indirectly are saying what you are not, and that’s how you create the notion of this person’s not like me,” Joseph said. “And then it creates the ‘us versus them,’ so that’s what we’re talking about, simply how those kinds of things are kind of crafted and created.” The project first came to life when the SU architecture students came together this past January. see interventions page 8

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Safe scares The CMC Haunted House has implemented social distancing procedures, COVID-19 health forms and temperature checks prior to entry. It offers two trails this year: “Demons and Death” and “Stage and Scream.” sarah lee asst. photo editor

Haunted houses and other Halloween celebrations continue with social distancing measures

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anitizing stations and socially distanced waiting rooms are just a few of this year’s additions to the usual ghosts and monsters that scatter the CMC Haunted House in Cicero. Although the pandemic has halted multiple Syracuse Halloween traditions, events such as the CMC Haunted House are continuing celebrations in a COVID-19 safe environment. These events are open to Syracuse locals and Syracuse University students, whose normal Halloween plans have been thrown off by the pandemic. SU sophomore Keegan Hemlock sympathizes with the children who are missing out on trick-or-treating and being out with friends. “It limits everything for Halloween. I haven’t even shopped or done anything for candy or decoration,” he said. “COVID-19 has restricted a lot of fun events that I would go to with my family. I’m happy that some of the events are functional, but we lose that feeling of Halloween magic.” Michael Folsom, the spokesperson for CMC Haunted House, said that the organization has introduced a hybrid event, where they allow a “haunted experience” while following social distancing guidelines. The CMC Haunted House now requires patrons to sign a COVID-19 health form and takes their temperatures prior to entry. The venue also has socially distanced waiting areas where CMC staff members call guests’ numbers to enter. “COVID-19 has changed the mindset of the entire world, and being in New York, there are so many tight restrictions,” Folsom said. “We want to ensure

that our guests know we are following any guidelines and the local guidelines that are set by the government and CDC.” Folsom has worked with the CMC Haunted House, which is an annual fundraiser for the CMC Dance Company, since 2002. Each year, the haunted house receives praise for their props, costumes and overall scares, he said. The haunted house always features a theme, such as classic horror or Disney horror. This year the haunted house has two trails for visitors, “Demons and Death” and “Stage and Scream.” SU sophomore Angelina Shenandoah goes to the CMC Haunted House, Fright Nights and other Halloween events every year. “I get sad because my family isn’t sure if my younger siblings are going out,” she said. “We are happy that there are events so we can have that feeling of normalcy.” Other people have plans to celebrate Halloween with drive-thru events. Onondaga Community College and the Southwest YMCA are holding a drivethru trick-or-treat activity for families on Halloween from 10 a.m. until noon. People can also view Halloween at the Park, a Halloween-themed light display from the safety of their car while driving through Jamesville Beach Park. Hemlock doesn’t think that COVID-19 will change Halloween forever. He understands why certain places have strict restrictions and hopes life will be normal for Halloween 2021. “For my little sister, my parents aren’t sure if they’re letting her go out but if they do, they’ll keep an eye out for her,” Hemlock said. “I think the one thing we can do is stay strong. We’re all in this together and hopefully next year everything will be back to normal.” twdeer@syr.edu

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Home-based bakers launch businesses during pandemic By Abby Presson

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Some Syracuse residents are running homebased bakeries during the coronavirus pandemic, selling their products on websites and social media. Bakeries such as Fatcat Baking, Big Al’s Vegan Bakery and NICE Biscuit operate largely or entirely out of bakers’ homes and provide baked goods to customers through contactfree delivery or pickup. Alexis Barney wanted to own a bakery for much of her life. With her newfound free time due to the pandemic, she started Big Al’s Vegan Bakery, a vegan and tree nut-free bakery that offers sweets such as cakes and big cookies. The process of getting started was fairly easy, Barney said. She registered her company name and applied for a New York Home Processing Registration, which allowed her to run Big Al’s out of her home. She then began taking orders and putting polls on her Instagram to see which kinds of baked goods her customers would prefer. “I also like to make it a priority to make things that I like (and) the things that I enjoy making,” Barney said. “If there’s no joy while you’re making something, it’s not going to be as good of quality.” Many of these home-based bakeries, including Barney’s, sell their goods entirely online, and customers place orders through websites or social media pages. Syracuse residents have been receptive to these contact-free ordering options, and they enjoy being able to open their door and see baked goods that are ready for them, Barney said. Free time from COVID-19 stay-at-home orders offered a chance for bakery owners to test and develop new recipes. Megan Mills, owner of Fatcat Baking, spent months perfecting the recipe and texture for her popular

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lemon basil scones. Evan Furey, co-owner of NICE Biscuit, did the same thing. Before opening the bakery, Furey and co-owner Cristen Crew, his girlfriend, brainstormed and tested different biscuit and sandwich recipes. “It’s like we imagine all of (the recipes) together and we think of these ideas, and then we just get in the kitchen, and we try them out,” Furey said. “There’s a lot of tweaking and a lot of changing that goes

into each process.” One of the benefits of running a homebased bakery instead of a bakery with a storefront is that there aren’t any overhead costs or rent for operating out of your own home, though that brings its own complications, Barney said. One of the biggest difficulties with baking at home is the lack of extra space, Mills said. When preparing a particularly large order, she from page 6

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business picked up again. “We have to prepare ahead,” DeSalvo said. “Today’s good, but we hope tomorrow is too. There’s no guarantees.” Suzanne Myers, another hairdresser and owner of Hair4U By Suzanne, feels fortunate. The pandemic has allowed her to start her own business instead of sticking at a chain salon in Destiny USA that closed down in March.. Hair4U runs a suite in Shear Perfection Salon & Spa and has an air filtration system. Clients feel safer, with Myers normally opening up the doors for her client and having limited contact, she said. She is also regularly taking extra time to sanitize her workspace and equipment. “We were all pretty well trained for that,” Myers said. “(But) I can’t say I’ve ever sanitized my hairspray bottles before … stuff I never thought of.” Going back to work at Destiny USA provided concerns of social distancing issues for Myers, but with Hair4U, she is able to take one customer at a time. Opening up her suite has also allowed her to get off unemployment a month and a half earlier. For Myers, doing hair is more of a hobby than a job, so not having it for three months felt like “withdrawals,” she said. On her first day of opening, Myers said she worked for 12 hours and was from page 6

interventions Joseph sought out fellow architecture students to collaborate on the projects, and he values each individual’s skill set. Pin Sangkaeo and Ashley Nowicki are the two other architecture students who curated the project. In the interventions, people dressed in black clothing and hoodies personified this concept. “The team of curators chose to use the hood “as a sort of anti-power garment,” curator and SU senior Kyle Neumann said. The hood has historical connotations with hateful movements and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, but the curators are more interested in how the hood and its connotations have changed throughout history.

brings out a foldable table to get the space she needs to prep and package all the baked goods. When confronted with the challenge of having too little space, Furey and his co-owners began reaching out to local bakeries that were closed during the pandemic. They ended up renting additional space to use after doing as much of their baking and cooking as they can at home. While business owners enjoy the qualities of being home-based, they are also looking to expand their businesses. Mills hopes to have a physical bakery and has already started selling wholesale baked goods to a few cafes, including People’s Place in Hendricks Chapel. Furey and his co-owners hope to expand NICE Biscuit to a food truck or storefront, and Barney is looking to move Big Al’s to a physical location as soon as possible. Home-based companies have worked fairly well during the pandemic because people were engaged with ordering food and baked goods online, the business owners said. One of the biggest benefits that homebased bakeries have is the support of people wanting to buy local. “Syracuse, thank goodness, has always been like a very great buy-local community,” Mills said. The support of the community seemed to stem from a realization that businesses might not otherwise make it through the pandemic, Mills said. She felt there was an emphasis on purchasing food and other goods, such as gift cards, to help ensure the survival of small, local businesses. The bakeries offer owners a way to fill their free time and provide local-made baked goods to community members at home. “In the middle of the pandemic, actually, I decided to start doing deliveries to people’s houses,” Barney said. “I figured people needed some sunshine in their lives.” avpresso@syr.edu

excited to see clients again. Now, she said she can breathe a little easier and spread out people more in her schedule. She knows her job can add some normalcy back into clients lives. “When talking to people to other people is your life and taken away … it’s really sad,” Myers said. “I hope it doesn’t happen again.” On the day that Evan Michaels Salon closed, Kasey Castetter felt she lost her livelihood. It was a nightmare, she said. During the time Evan Michaels was shut down, Castetter remodeled her salon because she was going “stir crazy,” she said. But the pandemic allowed her to take a step back and look at what could be done differently. The owner put in hardwood floors and also added locally handmade dividers into her salon to make her customers feel more protected. When her business opened up in June, Castetter worked seven days a week and believes she has caught up, despite the economic lapse in the pandemic. She believes that her salon is doing well, even doing better than before the pandemic. “We’re in a time where everyone’s feeling a crunch. We offer a gift to people that feels good, like when your hair looks good you feel good,” Castetter said. “A lot of people were having a hard time, and that’s the one thing we can offer to help people feel better.” cscargla@syr.edu

Neumann said that now there’s the idea that when someone puts on their hood their identity has been revoked. The idea is that viewers of the installations might start to question their own biases and how the hood makes them feel. The “Body and Space” project aims to create a new way to have conversations about race. These interventions show how design is at the center of necessary conversations, especially since people of color are underrepresented in design fields, she said. “The experiment itself is trying to find a different way to engage in conversation that doesn’t resolve into some extensive violence,” Joseph said. “It’s trying to find positive ways to talk about these things that we know are contested, that we know are charged, but allowing the space to be not a very conflict sort of environment.” gfazoff@syr.edu

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national title to put in their meal plan, said Regan Spencer, a player from 2013-16. If Syracuse tried on new sweatshirts, Bradley made sure her players folded the clothes before the equipment team picked them up. And Bradley always made sure the locker room was clean, because that contributed to a “championship mentality,” Spencer said. “I remember her saying that, you know, if we didn’t have the skill to beat somebody, we were certainly going to outrun them,” Doran said. “And we did.” After Bradley arrived, the field hockey team began running more than the track team, track athletes told Nantulya. Bradley gave each player personal times to meet, rather than giving the team a collective time, like Parker did. But during one 2008 spring practice, Bradley assigned players a running time that was slower than usual. A lot slower. Doran remembered teammates looking at each other, confused. Once they finished the run, Bradley told them those times were the first ones they ran that season. Mondays were off-days, and players ran the most on “terrible Tuesdays,” Nantuyla said. And at least once a week, Syracuse had a “mental toughness day,” Spencer said. The number of mental toughness days varied per week, depending on the team’s schedule. When practice ended and players had already run 10, 100-meter sprints, Bradley told them that the “game” had gone to overtime. Then, everyone ran three more 100-meter sprints, meeting an individual time. Years later, Nantulya asked a teammate how those practices compared to giving birth. “I don’t know, they’re about the same,” Nantulya remembered her former teammate saying. In Bradley’s inaugural season, Syracuse started 5-0 for the first time in a decade and was nationally ranked. Media members wanted to interview players about the remarkable turnaround of the program, but Bradley wouldn’t allow any interviews. “We have to stay focused,” Bradley said.

Bradley set objectives for each game, depending on the opponent. In 2007, Syracuse hadn’t beat Connecticut in six years. Bradley set a team goal to limit the Huskies to five penalty corners, where they had previously generated plenty of chances. “Whenever we played UConn, it almost became like the game that you walk into and you expect to lose,” Nantulya said. The game began at 1 p.m., and by 1:25, forward Lauren Aird had scored twice for the Huskies. Eventually, UConn won 5-2 in the most competitive match Nantulya had ever played against the Huskies. After the game, Nantulya glanced at the scoreboard. UConn had one penalty corner. ••• Jordan Page didn’t step foot on Syracuse’s campus as a student until 2011, despite being committed to SU for two years. After a visit to another school, she called Bradley and told the head coach she wanted to help her win the program’s first national championship. In 2012, Page’s sophomore season, Syracuse made it back to the final four for the second time under Bradley. The first had come one year after the 2007 regular-season loss to the Huskies. SU faced the Huskies again that year, in the Big East semifinals. The team stayed competitive but ultimately lost again on their home field, this time to end its season. Bradley gathered her team and said they’d watch the championship game between Princeton and UConn the next day. There, she told the Orange that they’d defeat UConn in Storrs next season for the Big East title. “That was very tough, to go out there and watch that game,” Doran said. “But I remember her saying that, and I remember thinking she was right. And had that not been Ange saying those words, I probably wouldn’t have thought that that would have been achievable.” Bradley and Syracuse inched toward that point with 14-straight wins to open the 2008 season. In the 15th game, they lost to No. 9 UConn 1-0 at J.S. Coyne Stadium, Syracuse’s ninth consecutive defeat to UConn. But the teams met again in the Big East championship. After 70 scoreless minutes, with UConn

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tripling SU’s shots, Syracuse had a penalty corner. Lindsey Conrad passed the ball to back Maggie Befort, and the sophomore tipped the ball in, clinching the Big East Championship for SU. “I sprinted down to the other end of the field,” Hess, the goalkeeper, said. “(Conrad) had made the comment to me. She was like, ‘Yeah I was going to come meet you. And I looked down and you were gone. And all of a sudden, you’re up here. That’s the fastest you’ve ever ran.’” Syracuse ultimately fell to Wake Forest in the final four, but two years later, the team made the championship game. By 2012, Syracuse had defeated the Huskies at least once for the last four consecutive years, and Bradley was no longer playing with athletes recruited by Parker. “She really recruits athletes,” said Jamie Martin, who played from 2015-18. “She looks for people who maybe don’t necessarily have the accolades in high school, but they have the will to win, and they have that aggressive athletic build.” Syracuse switched over to the ACC after Page’s first two seasons, and the Orange played top 10 teams every week, Page said. After defeating No. 1 UNC in the 2014 national semifinals, Syracuse faced UConn, once again, in the program’s first NCAA Championship game. As Syracuse walked off the bus in College Park, Maryland for the championship game, Bradley stopped Page. “Do you remember what you told me when you committed to come here?” Bradley asked. Page did. But the Huskies scored first once the game began. That first half goal turned into the only score of the game, and Syracuse was again eliminated by UConn. After losing in 2014, the team was “laser focus,” Martin said. Over offseason pactices, players held each other to high standards, which had become the norm. “You’re playing Maryland right now,” Bradley would commonly yell in practice over the years, Doran said. “You’re playing UConn!” “It was never an option, like we were going to make it back there,” said Caroline Cady,

a player from 2014-18. “We are going to get back there, and that was our mindset from the beginning, when we lost that game.” The 2015 squad was also one of the most talented in program history, Page said. Goalkeeper Jess Jecko was selected to the U.S. National Team after graduating. Midfielder Alyssa Manley was selected to the U.S. Olympic roster, and midfielder Alma Fenne earned First Team All-American with 47 points, the sixth most in one season in program history. Forward Emma Russell finished her career as Syracuse’s all-time leader in points (140) and goals (57). All four were seniors. “I remember coming in preseason in 2015 and helping out a bit and I said to Ange like, ‘I think you’re gonna do it,’” said Page, who graduated in 2014. Syracuse went undefeated in the regular season and won its first three NCAA tournament games by a score of 12-3, reaching the title game against the Tar Heels. Russell scored first in the ninth minute before Fenne extended the lead nine minutes later. But after the early lead, the Tar Heels scored twice to tie the game in the 59th minute. One of Bradley’s objectives in every game is to enter the opponents’ inner circle within two minutes after a player has scored on. Less than three minutes later, SU’s Zoe Wilson scored the first goal of her career. Then, Emma Lamison tacked on the fourth SU goal, and the Orange won 4-2. “I’ve been chasing this dream for 25 years,” Bradley said postgame. Almost a decade after taking over the Syracuse program, after years of sprints, spreadsheets and mediocre scoring numbers on the backs of jerseys, Bradley and SU field hockey had won SU’s first women’s national championship. “When they won it in 2015, it was just like all of us were celebrating,” Nantulya said. “We had seen the journey from where it was when she had first come in to where it is now.” Sports editor Andrew Crane contributed reporting to this story. tgshults@syr.edu | @ThomasShults5

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SU-Pitt game on Nov. 6 canceled By Andrew Crane SPORTS EDITOR

Syracuse’s game against No. 1 Pittsburgh on Nov. 6 has been canceled after the Panthers paused all men’s soccer activities Wednesday afternoon “due to COVID-19 protocols,” the teams announced. Both Pitt’s and SU Athletics’ releases did not specify whether there was a positive case within the Panthers’ program.

Number of Syracuse men’s soccer games canceled due to COVID-19

ALYSSA MANLEY (5) helped Ange Bradley and Syracuse win their first NCAA title in 2015. They were also the first SU women’s team to win a national championship. daily orange file photo

By Thomas Shults ASST. COPY EDITOR

eather Hess still remembers Syracuse’s 2008 warm-up jerseys. The number 59 flashing on the backs of her teammates during practice served as a constant, vivid reminder of how few goals they’d scored the season before. It was an idea Ange Bradley implemented after her first season as the Orange’s head coach. She’d arrived in December 2006 after six years at Richmond, inheriting a 10-9 Syracuse team. Rather than calling out players, Bradley created an atmosphere where teammates held each other accountable, Hess said. Those warmups motivated them to work harder, as SU more than doubled its offensive output that season. Nine years after Bradley took over and five years ago this year, Syracuse field hockey became the first women’s program to win a national title. Bradley

A long rebuild under Bradley culminated in a national title 5 years ago changed the program from a three-time NCAA Tournament attendee since 1982 to a yearly contender and ranked Atlantic Coast Conference member. After having only a couple of games over .500 since 2001, Syracuse went 12-7 in Bradley’s first year and has missed the NCAA tournament just once since 2008. “From the moment I met Ange, I knew I was going to be uncomfortable,” said Heather Doran, a player from 2005-8.

“And I remember thinking that I’ve never seen a more driven person in my life.” ••• Gloria Nantulya, who played from 2004-7, was surprised at Bradley’s expectations for Syracuse. When the new head coach arrived, Bradley called Syracuse a “sleeping giant.” Under Kathleen Parker, the Orange’s previous head coach, the goal was to win the Big East. Players knew who was going to fill starting roles the next season as early as spring practices, and fitness workouts consisted of a few sprints or a couple of laps. But under Bradley, playing time based on seniority vanished. She regularly ran players around a Manley Field House indoor track and started handing out spreadsheets detailing when players would get on the bus, stop for lunch and arrive at the locker room during road trips. Those spreadsheets even told players what see national

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The SU-Pitt game is the fourth Orange contest canceled or altered by COVID-19 this season. After an SU player tested positive on Sept. 13, an exhibition against Virginia and an official game against Navy were canceled. The Orange’s rescheduled seasonopener, an Oct. 3 home match against then-No. 2 Pitt, was pushed back three days to give SU a week of team training following its return to practice. Syracuse fell in that opener 3-2 in double-overtime, and the team has yet to win a game this season. Two ties against Louisville and Virginia Tech followed a loss to Notre Dame, and the Orange play at Virginia next on Friday. “(Virginia) will be another cracking soccer match,” Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre told reporters Wednesday morning. “We’ll find out a lot about ourselves, measuring ourselves against one of the gold-star programs.” At the time of McIntyre’s 11 a.m. press conference, though, the Orange had another game after the Cavaliers matchup. Now, Friday’s game will be the Orange’s last before the ACC tournament. arcrane@syr.edu

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Opponent preview: What to know about the Demon Deacons By Danny Emerman senior staff writer

Syracuse (1-5, 1-4 Atlantic Coast) hasn’t won a game in over a month. Coming off three straight defeats, the Orange are set to begin a twogame homestand on Saturday against Wake Forest (3-2, 2-2), but the Orange showed signs of progress in last week’s 41-27 loss to No. 1 Clemson. Here’s everything you need to know about Syracuse’s matchup with Wake Forest: All-time series: Syracuse leads, 6-3 Last time they played: Syracuse 39, Wake Forest 30 Defensive back Trill Williams iced the final football game in the Carrier Dome with a 94-yard strip-six

when Syracuse played Wake Forest for the 2019 regular season finale. There were 33,719 fans in attendance to watch the Orange beat the Demon Deacons in overtime. It was a bittersweet cap to a disappointing 5-7 year. Clayton Welch started and passed for 234 yards and two scores. Moe Neal led SU in rushing with 98 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown to give Syracuse a 4th quarter lead.

The Wake Forest report:

On advanced metrics, Wake Forest appears to be a balanced team, in the middle of the pack in both defensive and offensive predicted points added. The Demon Deacons offense averages 36.8 points per game, tied for

third in the ACC, though that number was inflated by a 66-point explosion against Campbell. The defense is allowing 27 points per game (ninth). Defensively, Wake allows 27 points per game, the seventh-best in the conference. As heralded as Syracuse’s ball-hawking secondary is, Wake Forest’s defensive backs are just as opportunistic. The Demon Deacons took advantage of three interceptions from VT quarterback Hendon Hooker in WF’s biggest win of the season, last week’s game against No. 19 Virginia Tech. They also forced three fumbles but didn’t recover any. On the year, Wake has picked off opposing passers nine times, same as the Orange.

Stat to know: 200.6

WF allows over 200 yards rushing per game, nearly as bad as the Orange’s run defense (235 yards per game). If Sean Tucker is healthy — he injured his ankle against Clemson, and head coach Dino Babers said Monday that he didn’t know the extent of his injury — Syracuse should be able to run the ball. If not, Markenzy Pierre and Cooper Lutz are inexperienced options. Syracuse will want to establish the run, but it might have to do so with unproven legs. Betting odds: Wake Forest -11 (Draftkings Sportsbook) Player to watch: Carlos Basham Jr., No. 9

In his weekly press conference, Babers called Basham the best defensive player the Orange will face all year, noting that he was including a Clemson D that sends several players to the NFL annually. In classic Babers fashion, he compared the edge rusher to Godzilla. Basham, projected as a late-first round draft pick, opted to return to Wake Forest for his redshirt senior season instead of leaving early to go pro. He recorded 11 sacks in 13 games last year and already has five sacks in as many contests in 2020. If Syracuse’s offensive line can’t prevent him from getting to Culpepper, it’ll be a long day for the Orange. dremerma@syr.edu @DannyEmerman