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Security report
DPS’s annual campus security report summarized SU’s current policies regarding sexual misconduct and drug and alcohol violations.
Tailgating is more than a pastime in Syracuse — it’s a lifestyle, born out of a love for football and supporting the Orange.
After watching a video of Michael Dickson, Max Von Marburg knew he wanted to punt collegiately in the U.S.
the independent student newspaper of syracuse, new york | dailyorange.com FREE MONDAY OCTOBER 3, 2022 high 60°, low 37° The Orange received 151 more votes this week in the Associated Press’ rankings poll compared to last week
No. 22 Syracuse entered the Associated Press’ top-25 rankings for the fi rst time since Sept. 3, 2019 after moving to 5-0 this weekend. The Orange were ranked No. 25 in the USA Today Coaches Poll last week, picking up 22 AP votes as well. This week, they earned 173 votes and moved up to No. 21 in the Coaches Poll.
SU students in programs like architecture and design spend hundreds of dollars each semester on supplies for their class projects. The costs add up, and some students feel changes need to be made to better
Story by Katie McClellan asst. news editor Illustration by Emma Lee contributing illustratorLast semester, Hannah Heald spent over $300 on printing.
The junior communications design major, like many art students at Syracuse University, grapples with the out-of-pocket supply costs for her design classes.
“It’s really hard for me in particular, because with majors like ours, there isn’t really time for you to necessarily have a job,” Heald said. “So my money that I come with for the semester is for the semester. There’s no choice for me to have more. Having to spend money on outside of class supplies for my projects is taking away things like food.”
accommodate the expenses.
Heald works a summer job in order to pay for supplies during the school year. She spends another $150 per semester to get supplies for the products she creates in class. Her studio classes, such as painting and jewelry making, cost an additional $150 per semester.
Last semester, Heald had a project
that required her to buy supplies in order to create and market her own version of a product. Heald chose to work with essential oils.
“I had to buy di erent bottles and I had to buy di erent packages, so that way I could learn how to build different unique ones for my products,” Heald said. “I know that mine was actually one of the cheaper (projects).”
The School of Art’s non-major specific supply list adds up to just under $250, with SU recommending students buy 30 items.
First-year architecture student Eric Ma said the museum board, a type of paperboard he has to buy for class projects, is much more expensive than he’s used to. In China, Ma only spent $1 on museum board. Now, it costs him $20.
“Because I’m from China, the prices are much lower than here in the United States,” Ma said. “It is a little bit expensive, but I can accept that because I need to.”
Henry Herbert, a first year architecture student, said he hasn’t had to face the full costs of his major yet.
“I’m a first-year so … I haven’t spent a lot of money, but I definitely see it adding
SU is one of 16 remaining undefeated FBS teams, clinching a 5-0 start for the first time since 1987.
The Orange scored 49 points in the first half against Wagner on Saturday, led by Sean Tucker’s 232 rushing yards and Garrett Shrader’s 238 yards and perfect completion percentage. Following a bye week, SU has a tough schedule in its final seven-game stretch with matchups against three teams currently in the top 25.
“It’s a great feeling,” Shrader said after the Wagner win. “I’m just proud of our team, where we’re at, and just can’t get complacent. We got an exciting part of the schedule coming up, so we’re definitely excited about that.”
After the bye week, the Orange will face No. 14 North Carolina State in their fi nal matchup of a four-game home stretch. Then, the Orange head to Death Valley to face No. 5 Clemson, the only other undefeated team in the ACC. The Tigers defeated the Wolfpack 30-20 this weekend and they’re currently 3-0 in conference play.
Syracuse plays its fi nal two home games against Notre Dame on Oct. 29 and Florida State on Nov. 12. The Orange haven’t defeated the Fighting Irish since 2008. SU’s fi nal ranked opponent will most likely be No. 15 Wake Forest, who defeated the Seminoles 31-21 on Saturday.
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“With this major, I can see why somebody would want to transfer out because after a while, all of the funds add up and it gets ridiculous sometimes.”
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“The average household in Syracuse can barely meet the average costs to raise a child in America.” Sarhia Rahim, columnist Page 8
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Noteworthy events this week.
WHAT: LGBTQ+ History Month Kickoff
WHEN: Oct. 3, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Schine Student Center 304
WHAT: Cafe con Leche: Queer and Latinx
WHEN: Oct. 4, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Schine Student Center 132
WHAT: Safe Zone
WHEN: Oct. 5, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Bird Library 608
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By Kyle Chouinard news editorEditors Note: This article contains of mentions of sexual assault.
Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety published its yearly campus security report, DPS Chief Craig Stone announced in a cam pus-wide email on Friday.
“This report is one of the many ways we communicate with our campus community about crime and fire safety data, crime pre vention programs, student safety guidelines, and essential informa tion on campus safety reporting procedures,” Stone wrote.
In 1990, Congress passed the Jeanne Clery Act, which man dates that college and university campuses in the United States report and publish crime data on a yearly basis. This year’s report for SU included policies regard
ing alcohol, illicit drugs, sexual harassment and fire safety on the university’s main campus and abroad campuses in Italy, Eng land, Spain, Chile, France and China as well as others in the United States.
DPS outlined the 10 steps the uni versity, the department and other agencies will take in the event a stu dent reports a nonconsensual sex ual complaint. After a student files, the Title IX coordinator, or another party in extenuating circumstanc es, will decide if it’s appropriate for the school to process the complaint.
If it can be processed by the university, the coordinator will then reach out to the complain ant to discuss possible options and supportive measures. After reaching out, the coordinator will send an official notice to both the
complainant and the person who the complaint is against.
DPS stated in the report that “appropriate officials” will then strive to complete an investigation into the allegations in under 90 days. Both parties will then have the opportunity to respond to all the evidence presented by the officials investigating. If the officials find that any party violated SU policy, the university will hold a hearing. SU will then provide all parties the out come of the hearing simultaneously.
If either party wants to appeal the decision, the university will review changes and then provide a written determination.
DPS also outlined possible sanc tions they can use regarding noncon sensual sexual encounters including social probation and expulsion for students as well as suspension with or without pay and the “reassignment of duties” for faculty and staff at SU.
In the report, DPS included data regarding sexual offenses on campus. From 2019 to 2021, the number of cases of “rape” and “fondling” stayed relatively stagnant, moving from 15 to 14. The number of “Violence Against Women Act” violations jumped over the period, going from 17 total cases of dating violence, domestic violence and stalking in 2019 to 28 in 2021.
According to the university’s 2020 survey on sexual and relation ship violence, 95% of students sexu ally assaulted at SU do not report the assault to the university.
In the report, DPS provided a series of off-campus resources for students such as Vera House, the Syracuse Police Department’s Abused Persons Unit and the New York State Domestic and Sexual Violence Hotline.
The Criminal Defense Clinic, which is run through Syracuse University’s College of Law, helps students gain practical experience in the court room and hone their craft.
The CDC represents low-income individuals pro-bono throughout Onondaga County, working mainly on civil matters such as shoplifting, vandalism and traffic violations. Stu dents involved in the clinic said the experience has made them realize the impact of their work.
After working for a lawyer in her hometown in California, thirdyear law student Gabi Gonzalez was inspired to become a criminal defense lawyer and join the CDC.
Through her work, she has handled cases as a personal injury lawyer, recovering money for clients who were injured in car accidents.
“(The lawyer Gonzalez previously
worked for) primarily provided services to low-income Latinos,” she said. “I was inspired to go to law school so that I could also one day provide quality and affordable legal services to my community.”
Students in the program, who are always under faculty supervi sion, learn how to negotiate plea agreements, conduct legal research and analyze the criminal justice system as a whole, according to the CDC’s website.
Members of the clinic typically discuss their cases with Gary Pie ples, the director of the CDC and a teaching professor at SU. They then travel to one of several courts to meet with their clients prior to appearing before the judge.
“Professor Pieples let us handle 90% of the case and if there’s any thing we missed while speaking to the judge, he makes sure to follow up on those issues,” Gonzalez said.
The CDC helped one client
who had multiple traffic violations, including several misdemeanors, go through much of their driving record and resolve the tickets, Pieples said.
Members of the clinic helped the
client save hundreds of dollars and clean up their driver’s license to be in good standing, he said.
Another client at the clinic was
New York’s move is necessary to reach the state’s environmental goals, said Dr. Jay Golden, a professor in Syr acuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs who specializes in net-zero carbon tran sition. But it will also impact those working in a phased-out industry.
“(The transition) will have a sig nificant impact on reducing green house gas emissions in the United States and helping us towards a net zero economy,” Golden said.
The act will phase out the use of internal combustion engines, which will also benefit air quality and human health, said Golden, who is also the founder and director of the Dynamic Sustainability Lab.
Golden said the new policy has large implications for industries, the workforce and the economy. In historical terms, the transition will be “rapid,” he said.
“You’re gonna have legacy indus tries that are going to be impacted, not overnight, but over the time of this transition,” Golden said. “You’ll have (questions) such as what happens to corner gas stations, what happens to automotive mechanics, what happens to, really, dealerships as well?”
Highway systems and commu nity infrastructures will also need to change as the transition plays out in order to accommodate a new, mostly-electric vehicle population, Golden said. With more electric vehicles, roads and parking lots will require more charging stations.
The energy and transportation workforce will also need training to adjust, he added.
New York and California are serving as “catalysts” for moving the transportation industry to be majority reliant on renewable ener gy sources, Golden said.
California’s new policy will lead to 9.5 million fewer “conventional” vehicles sold by 2035 and reduce 25% of “smog-causing pollution” from light-duty vehicles by 2037 within the state, according to the California Air Resources Board.
“New York is a national climate leader and an economic power house, and we’re using our strength to help spur innovation and imple mentation of zero-emission vehicles on a grand scale,” Hochul said in a
DPS’s yearly campus security report, mandated by the Jeanne Clery Act, outlined protocols and statistics in the areas of sexual misconduct and drug and alcohol violations. wendy wang senior staff photographer Students in the clinic represent clients dealing with charges like traffic violations. dan lyon daily orange file photo securityStudents are raising concerns including transportation, food services, mental health counseling and housing with Syra cuse University’s Student Association, members said.
As SU’s Board of Trustees prepares to meet in November, SA President David Bruen and Finance Board Member Dylan France are hosting events to gather student concerns to present at the meeting.
“Having those dialogues to put into that report that’s gonna go to the Board of Trustees is so important so that we can have these different, important issues discussed from the actual perspective of more and more stu dents,” France said.
SA hosted a town hall meeting for students to raise their concerns on Sept. 20, though Bruen said the crowd was smaller than it had been at similar events in the past. SA first publicized the town hall on its Instagram on Sept. 19, a day before the event.
Using the feedback received from students at the town hall, Bruen and France are com piling a report detailing student concerns to present at the Board of Trustees meeting.
“I don’t want to say (what’s in the plan) for sure, because Dylan and I are still doing work to kind of synthesize the feedback that we’ve gotten,” Bruen said.
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up as semesters and years go on, especially as we get to more complicated, higher quality things and having to use higher quality materials,” Her bert said. “It’s going to be expensive.”
Both Herbert and Ma also purchased firstyear architecture supply kits via the School of Architecture website, which are recom mended but not required, at a “discounted rate” of $399. Ma said the kit has been “pretty useful” to him so far.
“It’s definitely a lot, a cost I wasn’t exactly expecting,” Herbert said. “I try to reframe it in my mind, I’m like ‘alright I’ve only had to buy one textbook, maybe (what) I’m spending on materials would have gone to textbooks.’”
Anastasia Powell, a junior communica tions design major, believes printing should be free for design students at SU. Given the school’s national design acclaim, Powell
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DPS wrote in the report that the university complies and coordinates with “all applicable local, state, federal laws regarding alcohol and other drugs/controlled substances.” The university will suspend students for the pos session of marijuana upon their third viola
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charged with alleged possession of an illegal knife with brass knuckles. On the night of trial, they convinced the court to dismiss the case due to a discovery violation by the police. The case is currently on appeal, Pieples said. “It’s not excit ing work,” Pieples said, “But it’s helpful for the people of central New York.”
Madelyn Cittadino, another member of the
SA released results of the “No Problem Too Small” tabling event, which France and Bruen will use in their report. Half of the students surveyed said a major problem at the univer sity is its food quality, according to a Sunday press release. SA also found that at least 62.5% of respondents said that transportation was a major issue on campus.
Sianna Harvey, an SU junior who attended the town hall, said she attended because a friend of hers is one of SA’s Board of Trust ees representatives. She said transportation, especially to and from South Campus, was a concern discussed by students.
“The buses that go to main campus, especially during class time, run back-toback and by the time they get to your stop, the bus is full and they leave you behind,” she said.
Harvey said students also expressed a desire for better mental health resources at the Barnes Center at the Arch.
“While (walk in appointments are) avail able a lot of the appointments have to be done at like 8 a.m. as soon as they open,” Harvey said. “You’re not going to get an appointment or (it is going to take) three weeks to get scheduled in.”
France said SA will also cover sexual relation ship violence and sustainability in its report and that these topics were still being discussed.
SA will hold a second town hall meet ing this Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
said she expects more resources to be avail able for design students at SU.
Powell said she applied for a Hendricks Chapel relief fund, but that it took months before she received a response. She was denied the $500 she requested to cover supply costs.
“With this major, I can see why somebody would want to transfer out because after a while, all of the funds add up and it gets ridicu lous sometimes,” Powell said.
Powell said her professors have provided her with support and do their best to have an open dialogue with students about the finan cial ramifications of their projects.
“The professors are very caring, they try their best … we can go up to them and then we can figure something out with them in pri vate,” she said. “It shouldn’t be the professor’s job to do it in the first place.”
Powell also said some students like herself have learned to take shortcuts to avoid costs. The quality of her projects doesn’t matter
tion. Selling marijuana can lead to suspen sion on a student’s second offense.
Overall, drug violations have gone down over the last few years. In 2019, DPS referred 71 drug law violations and in 2021, the agency registered 26. Liquor law violations also decreased, falling 11.1% from 2019 to 2021.
Under this report, all violations that spec ify alcohol start off with either a disciplinary warning or disciplinary probation. Both conse
clinic and Gonzalez’s court partner, said the CDC was one of the reasons she applied to Syra cuse for law school.
“I knew going into law school that I wanted to be a criminal defense attorney,” said Citta dino, who is in her second year. “The ability to get hands-on experience while still in law school was very appealing to me.”
Pieples began his career helping less fortunate individuals as a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati.
happening at an appropriate pace, Golden said.
in room 500 of the Hall of Languages, according to an SA Instagram post.
Bruen hopes that students know SA is an intermediary for the student body and SU’s administration.
“I think what really is important is we hear
until the final week, so she often uses cheaper, lower-quality supplies for her prototypes.
Sam Willson, a first-year architecture student, said a pad with 20 sheets of bristol paper, a requirement for one of her assign ments, cost $23.
Having to purchase supplies so frequently is “a pain”, Willson said, especially when the store doesn’t always have what she needs. Willson said she has left class before to purchase mate rials from the Schine Student Center when the store in Slocum Hall does not have them.
A sophomore in the School of Design, who wished to remain anonymous, said she spends roughly $350 per semester on supplies.
“I’m here on scholarship, so it’s a very big problem for me,” she said. “I have three different jobs, but on top of housing costs and everything else it’s been really hard because even if I tried to bargain with the school to try to get grants, it’s entirely unsuccessful and they’re just not willing
quences are accompanied by activities such as community service or “educational project(s).”
Illegal drugs outside of marijuana and the misuse of controlled substances are subject to different consequences. The university will sus pend a student on their second violation for the use of illegal drugs or “extreme drug intoxication or abuse-related behavior,” the report said. The university will only consider expulsion on the third violation of possessing illegal drugs.
He then ran the Securities, Arbitration and Consumer Clinic at the College of Law for more than a dozen years before agree ing to run the CDC when it was in need of a new director.
The clinic aims to provide hands-on experience to future criminal justice lawyers, while simultaneously serving the Syracuse community without the expenses other law offices charge.
“The Criminal Defense Clinic is set
opportunities for manufacturing,” Golden said.
from students, we hear the issues, we take it in, we look at the issue holistically, and then we try and identify what’s the best way that we can try and potentially solve this issue,” Bruen said.
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to help at all.”
She also spends most of her money on printing, but said physical supplies like paper and rulers also add up, especially as a student on scholarship.
The semesterly studio art class she’s required to take makes up a large portion of supply costs because the materials tend to be very specific to that course and often cannot be reused.
In her photography studio class, she was unable to find any of the needed materials at Schine and instead had to order them online. But online prices are higher and sup plies take longer to get, she said.
“The school does not make it easy for stu dents who are here on scholarship to pay for supplies at all,” she said. “It reflects a bigger problem that SU tries to come off as inclusive and accessible, but it’s really not.”
ksmcclel@syr.edu @katie_mcclellanStudents can access counseling regard ing both drug and alcohol abuse through the Barnes Center at the Arch. The center also offers the Options Education Group, “a single session group that focuses on the impact of substance use on physiology, perception and decision-making,” accord ing to the report.
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up in a way where there is a good balance between (member’s) caseload and class work,” Gonzalez said.
Being a student attorney has given Cittadino experience that has helped her be more prepared for her future work. While being cold called in class is hard, she said it helps prepare for being a lawyer in the courtroom.
“When a question is asked (by a judge), you better know the answer,” she said.
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statement released Thursday.
Though the renewable energy industry needs innovation for smart technology to develop fast er, the move to electric vehicles could have signif icant socioeconomic impacts, so the transition is
Outside of changes to existing industries, Golden said factors like the need for lithium ion batteries will create new “generations” of industries in New York.
“There’s great positives, especially for the state of New York, opportunities to develop new generations of lithium ion batteries, new
Industry shifts toward net zero emissions are becoming more widespread and the Secu rities and Exchange Commission recently introduced proposals for increasing climate accountability. Golden said that climate poli cies like these and New York’s may draw par tisan backlash by leaders and individuals who
deny global warming and denounce climate change policy.
“We went from horse and buggy to internal combustion engines,” Golden said. “There was a lot of backlash then, and (there’s) backlash now.”
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4 october 3, 2022 dailyorange.com news@dailyorange.com SA President David Bruen and Finance Board Member Dylan France collected student opinions for November’s Board of Trustees meeting. nina gerzema asst. photo editorStadium Lot.
The Syracuse Orange were preparing to take on Wag ner on homecoming weekend. It may have been several hours before the game, but that didn’t matter to some fans. It’s game day in Syracuse and to them, that means one thing — tailgating.
Filled with sparkly dresses, leath er pants and a lot of scrunchies, the scene at Shaffer Art Building last Friday was a blast from the past.
“We want you to dance,” said Marianne Solivan, an assistant professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, as she threw glow sticks into the audience. “Get in the aisles if you have to, do what you gotta do!”
Presented by the Jazz and Com mercial Music Program at SU, Eighties Night was an informal concert featuring performers of various ages, from freshman to graduate students. The students were grouped into bands and each performed a short set in the Shem in Auditorium.
The program focuses on jazz and more formal events, so this show was a departure from their usual performances, said fresh man vocalist Grace Ferguson. Soli van stated at the beginning of the show that the event was purely for fun and a lighthearted way to start off the semester.
“This show is meant to be a fun way for students coming back to school to get a chance to per form,” vocalist Jason Suris said. “These events are important to keep our little JCM community together.”
By Sophie Szydlik asst. culture editorOn a brisk, fall morning in Syracuse, the gentle hum of an air pump floated through the air as a giant inflatable Otto the Orange began to take shape. Fans unloaded their cornhole, grills, speakers and orange garb from backseats, trunks and truck beds and assumed their usual positions in the
“I’ve been tailgating for over 30 years. I only missed one game since 1981 because I had to go to a wedding. And my wife and I seriously almost got a divorce over it, all because I missed that game,” Ron Benderski said. “She was inside talking to people, and I was in the car listening to the game. What can I say? I’m a diehard Orange fan.”
Benderski is a giant among the Orange tailgate com munity, as everyone knows where to go to say hello and play a round of orange cornhole. His pickup truck is always parked right next to Stadium Place with an inflat able Otto in the truck bed.
Next to the truck sits an orange tent filled with food that Benderski and his wife, Kristin Lovecchio, share with anyone
The show was originally intended to be a small, fifteen per son production. But the students’ passion for that era of music made the JCM 80’s show a vibrant cel ebration, with five bands playing ten songs, said Solivan, who orga nized the event.
Drummer Alex Talarico, a senior in the program, said the eighties show was a breath of fresh air compared to the pro gram’s usual lineup of jazz and funk tunes.
Ferguson sang “Livin’ On a Prayer” and “Head Over Heels” for her band’s set, then provided backing vocals for “Through the Fire” and “In the Air Tonight” for another group. Solivan highlighted Ferguson, along with Kathryn Lee and Nancy Dunkle, to acknowledge that they were freshmen and new to the program.
“I think the arts, and espe cially music, are so important because of their power to bring people together and convey emo tion far beyond what words can illustrate,” Talarico said. “And on a less serious note, sharing and playing music with others is so much fun.”
The audience was just as involved as the performers, clap ping their hands to Kathryn Lee and Nancy Dunkle’s rendition of
from the studio Tailgaters like Ron Benderski come out every weekend to celebrate Syracuse football with food and drink for everyone who stops by. anshul roy staff photographerSyracuse tailgaters reminisce about their love for Orange football, which has been bringing people together for years
I do this for the people, for my friends, for college football… I’d be here if we’re 12-0 or 0-12. It’s about spending time with people I love, and meeting new people I love too.
Ron Benderski dedicated tailgater
October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and Syracuse University will host an array of events to celebrate queer identities, recog nize intersectionality, educate students, faculty and staff and remember the his tory of queer individuals.
Celebrate the start of LGBTQ+ History Month at this special reception. Hosted by the LGBTQ Resource Center, this event will feature special guests and esteemed speakers. The kickoff will be held at Schine Student Center Room 304 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday.
As part of Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month’s Café con Leche series, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the LGBTQ Resource Center partnered to host Queer and Latinx, a discussion of identity and intersectionality. This event will be held at Schine Student Center Room 132 from 4
p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
An event aimed at creating safe spaces for LGBTQ members of the SU community, Safe Zone will connect students, faculty, staff and advocates for the queer commu nity to foster a more welcoming environ ment on campus. This event will be held in Bird Library Room 608 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
Join the LGBTQ Resource Center for an open discussion about being sexually active in a safe way as a queer or transgen der person. Part of the “Queer &” series, this event will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday in Schine Student Center Room 132.
Surround yourself with other queer mem bers of the SU and SUNY ESF community while working on your crocheting, knit ting or sewing projects. Held every Friday, Knit 3 Spill the Tea will be in Schine
Student Center Room 132 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday.
Fill the Shaw quadrangle with color ahead of National Coming Out Day! Chalk the walkways and do some tie-dye on October 10 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Celebrate National Coming Out Day with Jacob Tobia, bestselling author of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. Tobia will speak at Watson Hall Room 036 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on October 11.
Test your queer knowledge, either indi vidually or in teams of up to four people, at Queer Trivia Night. The winner(s) will receive a prize at the end of the night. This event will occur from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.on October 12 at Schine Student Cen ter Room 132.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, The Office of Multicultural Affairs and the LGBTQ Resource Center will host journalist and Latinx advocate Paola Ramos, whose piece “The Latinx Drag Queens Spearheading HIV Activism on the Border” was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. The event will be held in Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on October 13.
Building on topics from Safe Zone and LGBTQ+ 101, Trans 101 will serve as a training concentrated on transgender issues. This event will be held virtually from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on October 13.
Visit the LGBTQ Resource Center’s table at the Intercultural Collective Informa tion Reception to discover resources and culturally sensitive programs available to celebrate intersectionality on SU’s cam pus. The event will be held on October 14
Stacey Mindich, the Tony-award winning producer of “Dear Evan Hansen,” jour nalist and Syracuse alumna, shared her advice on storytelling and the power of human connection Friday at a discussion through Newhouse’s monthly Leaders in Communications Series.
Mindich graduated from the S.I. New house School of Public Communications in 1986 with a degree in Magazine Journal ism. Since then, she has found success in the world of theater, as a Grammy, Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer.
“What you learn [in college] are the skills that you take with you in any creative medium,” Mindich said. “At first, my terms might not have been so correct on Broad way, but the concepts are really the same.”
Prior to her career in theater, Mind ich worked as a journalist and editor for several different magazines and newspa pers, including the New York Times, Savvy Magazine and Town & Country.
To Mindich, producing and writing aren’t all that different. At their core, both are about finding or creating a story that everyone wants to hear, she said
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will speak at Gold stein Auditorium about her career and time as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The event is sponsored by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public affairs and is open to all SU students, staff, faculty and alumni. The talk will take place Monday, October 3 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is hosting Fiesta Latina to celebrate Latinx and Hispanic culture. Head to Schine Underground to enjoy Latinx cuisine, live entertainment and student
performances. Tickets are free for SU and SUNY ESF students, faculty and staff and $5 for the general public. The party will happen Friday, October 7 at 7 p.m.
After nearly a year of construction and development, Pumptrack SYR will have a grand opening on October 9 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m as the first pumptrack in Syracuse. A pumptrack is a circuit of hills and turns that allow bikers or skateboarders the ability to move forward without having to push or pedal. Come with a bike to try out the new pump track or walk through the art and food vendors that will be present.
See Central New York from a new perspective at a guided horseback ride! The Barnes Center
will bring students through Highland Forest to show off the natural beauty of the region. Any student can register for the horseback ride and hike. The excursion will be on October 10 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets start at $10.
Chuck Hefner’s Nursery is hosting its Fall Fest this month, with events happening throughout October. The festival, which is free to all, will have petting zoos, food ven dors and hay rides among many other fall activities. The festival will run every week end until October 23.
Experience the Syracuse Stage’s production of “How to Dance in Ohio,” a musical based on a documentary of the same name. The musi cal follows the lives of seven young autistic
adults who are a part of the same social skills therapy group in Columbus, Ohio. As a part of the casting process, the directors ensured that neurodivergent people would fill the roles in order to redefine representation and reshape the narrative of neurodivergence.
Find tickets at the Syracuse Stage’s website starting at $25. The last performance will be on Sunday, October 9.
If you’re looking for a little fright in your night, take a walk at the Spooktacular Stroll. Long Branch Park will be redeco rated so half a mile of the park is full of fes tive Halloween displays. The Stroll will be up every Thursday to Sunday until the end of October and vehicle passes start at $25.
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who walks by. In 2014, Benderski and Lovec chio cooked an entire pig roast at the tailgate and shared their meal with around 200 people.
“I don’t view a football game as three hours — I view it as a whole day when I can come set up here with my family and friends,” Benderski said. “ (I) see my friends here, drink a beer, eat some good food and cheer on the team that has been a part of my whole life.”
Growing up locally, Benderski came to Syracuse games with his father. He said he cherished that time not only with him but the football family he made being on the hill for game days. He always knew he wanted his own family to experience that and that he wanted to carry on the tradition.
Benderski’s nephew, Mike Benderski, is a staple in the Syracuse tailgate scene now, too. “Big Mike,” as he’s known among fellow tailgaters, fell in love with the com munity atmosphere and family feel his uncle introduced to him when he’d bring him to games. Now, he even travels to away games and sets up there, whether it’s UConn, Clemson or Florida State, and has tailgated when the temperatures were nearly below zero.
“I have been coming here since I was a
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from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Intercul tural Collective Suite on the first floor of Schine Student Center.
Hosted by the LGBTQ Resource center, Queer & First Generation will explore the realities and challenges of being both queer and a first-generation college stu dent. This discussion will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on October 20 in Schine Student Center Room 132.
Now is your chance to learn how to vogue, or walk like a model, at the LGBTQ Resource Center’s Vogue Workshop. Learn classic moves from Syracuse Ballroom
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“As a magazine editor, my job was to find a story that would continue to fulfill the magazine’s mission and keep the reader engaged,” she said. “That story had to be sold in a variety of ways, and in theater, it was the exact same job, only a lot more extensive and dramatic, and there were songs.”
“Dear Evan Hansen,” was a huge hit, win ning six Tony Awards in 2017, the most out of all the other productions of that year. The show follows a misfit, young man named Evan Hansen who longs for a sense of belong
kid, because SU is home. I didn’t go here — I went to St. John Fisher — but there’s just something about being at SU on a game day,” Mike Benderski said. “I see all these people I love united for a common goal, and I just feel like I am home again.”
Despite its loyal fans, the Orange tail gate scene isn’t cliquey or exclusionary. It’s meant to be a big family that is always growing and welcoming, Mike Benderski said. If you’re a football fan, you’re wel comed with open arms and offered a burger and a beer.
Matt Stangle experienced that firsthand this season, his first coming to Syra cuse games and tailgates. Stangle’s son, Ethan, is a freshman long snapper for the Orange, and Matt and his wife have made the drive for every game from their home town in Maryland.
On his first game day, Stangle said he was nervous pulling into the parking lot because he didn’t want to unknowingly take someone’s usual spot — a cardinal sin in the world of tailgating. Instead, Stangle became the newest member of the Syracuse tailgating family and fell in love with the camaraderie and pride of the Orange from day one.
“There’s something about Syracuse, the pride, and the community up here. I love driving up from Maryland and going into
“Love is a Battlefield’’ and singing along to Ferguson and Ania Kapilani’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.”
Angelina Lim and Aaron Cournoyer, two members in the audience, said they love high energy music events because they are a different type of entertainment than most other performances in Syracuse.
They said they’d like to see more of these events on campus and that the university should publicize them to a wider audience.
“I’m only here because (my friend) told me about it,” said Lim. “I wish there was more advertisement for these things.”
After their performance, Solivan said she was impressed with how the groups had meshed together. She said she was proud of the performers for making it hap pen after weeks of rehearsal.
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instructors. This workshop will be held in the Ernie Davis Hall Fitness Center from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on October 21. Regis tration is required to attend and space is limited.
Dance the night away at the HalloQueen Ball. Wear your best costume and mask — the HallowQueen Ball will have competi tions for both. The HalloQueen ball will be held from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. at on October 22 at Schine Student Center Room 304.
This training session aims to familiar ize attendees with general definitions and terminology surrounding LGBTQ identi ties, explain barriers for queer inclusivity, examine privilege and review resources at SU. This event will be held from 10 a.m.
ing and begins his path of self-discovery.
When a fellow student suddenly com mits suicide, a sequents of events leads Evan’s peers to believe that Hansen was the student’s best friend. Though this was untrue, it gave Hansen the sense of belong ing he always wanted.
Throughout the show, Hansen shows signs of mental illness, struggling to make friends and socialize with his peers. But Hansen’s diagnosis was purposely never included in the show.
“Everyone could relate to Evan,” Mindich said. “The beauty of that with the audience is that they can diagnose Evan with what their own kids had, or what they had. If you were
Wegmans on game day and seeing everyone decked out in orange,” Stangle said. “You don’t see that in Maryland — you don’t see University of Maryland everywhere. Yet you see Syracuse University everywhere. I love the connection, I’ve met so many people.”
The family connection is the heartbeat of tailgating for Stangle, not the sport. In a time when the world is in constant motion, Stangle said tailgating offers him the time to slow down and spend uninterrupted time with his family.
To Stangle, tailgating has nothing to do with the school or the number of wins and losses, it’s just the power of cheering on a common goal, he said. Though the energy surrounding the football team’s 5-0 winning streak is palpable, that isn’t what keeps him making the almost 6-hour drive each week.
“Tailgating brings you together. It’s just a special time,” Stangle said. “I could be here tail gating for dodgeball but you’re here with your family and there’s no distractions, and that’s really what it’s about for me.”
Now, Stangle has a whole new group of friends he’s made from tailgating. They’re in Facebook groups together and have exchanged phone numbers. Stangle said he just finished planning his trip to Clemson with Mike Benderski.
Stangle isn’t nervous to wear his Syra cuse Orange best to South Carolina when
the team plays at Clemson. Though he’ll be cheering on the opposing team, Stangle said that family and community are a pillar of college football, which makes it unique from the NFL.
“It’s not mean-spirited. You say ‘oh you’re going to get beat, want a beer? Come in and have something to eat,’” Stangle said.
“You respect the other team. Because we’re all here for football, and football is family.”
Ron Benderski echoed Stangle’s senti ment — in the 30 years he’s spent cheer ing on the Orange, he’s felt a tremendous amount of loyalty to his team, to college sports and to the orange-blooded fan base he calls family, Ron said.
He said he will keep showing up, park along Stadium Place with his Otto in the truck, and share space with his football family as long as he can until he passes the torch to someone he loves.
“I do this for the people, for my friends, for college football… I’d be here if we’re 12-0 or 0-12. It’s about spending time with people I love, and meeting new people I love too,” Ron Benderski said. “I bring my grandkids to this, and I look over at them, and I just think about how they could bring their children here one day. And for me, that’s why I keep showing up. For family.”
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A collaborative event between Hendricks Chapel and the LGBTQ Resource Center, Queer Faith: Intersections of Religious and LGBTQ Identities will be a conversa tional event that aims to provide a space that affirms both queer identities and reli gious beliefs. The event will be held in the Nobel Room in Hendricks Chapel from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on October 25.
Discover your own identity by creating characters in Dungeons and Dragons. A recurring event, IdentitD&D will occur on the last Wednesday of every month, and is open to players of all experience levels.
anxious, you were Evan.”
When choosing a project to produce, Mindich said she looks for something that moves her and that she thinks will move others. Mindich said she believed the show had something for everyone — teenagers, parents, siblings — and that they would feel seen and represented by the story.
The response was overwhelming, with fans writing letters, posting on social media and sharing about how the show resonated with them, and helped them feel like they belonged.
“(The show) struck in popular culture at a moment when people seemed to really need it,” Mindich said.
The first meeting will be at Schine Student Center Room 132 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on October 26.
Join one of the LGBTQ Resource Center’s affinity groups this month. Each group is closed to those who identify within the mentioned communities.
Affinity groups include the New Q’s Affinity Group, Syracuse University/ SUNY-ESF Parents and Families of Queer and Trans Students Affinity Group, Trans Affinity Group, Ace-Spec Affinity Group, LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff Affinity Group and QTPOC Affinity Group: Paola Ramos Keynote.
Visit the LGBTQ+ History Month Events site for meeting times and locations.
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Juliana Rama, an SU freshman, was grateful to hear from a successful figure and hoped to learn from Mindich’s experi ences.
“(I attended) to be a little bit more inspired,” Rama said. The more I hear from people, the more I’ll develop an idea of what I possibly want to do.”
In her closing remarks, Mindich said that at the heart of every article and pro duction is a story, and ultimately she fell in love with capturing each tale.
“I learned to love words, to love telling stories, to love listening to stories, to love helping others tell their stories,” she said.
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Attendees sported leather pants and sparkly dresses at JCM’s Eighties Night, which highlighted 5 bands playing classic 80’s songs. kelly matlock contributing writerEvery Hispanic Heritage Month the same debate resurfaces: to Latinx or not to Latinx. It is a very contentious debate and everyone has their own opinion about it. Over the past few years there have been various opin ion pieces and news stories posted across the internet on whether the term is offensive, whether it’s progressive, and whether it’s gram matically correct. These are all valid questions, but I’m here to say that there is no right answer.
By Sarhia Rahim columnistThere are many components that contribute to the cycle of poverty. Access to affordable childcare in a community is necessary to break that cycle.
Onondaga County is classified as a “childcare desert,” which puts another hurdle in place for those already in poverty. Childcare des erts are defined as an area without sufficient childcare programs. Com munities without enough childcare programs end up continuing the cycle of poverty because parents can lose their jobs as they’re unable to take time off or get paid leave. Not all households can rely on one income or with just one parent present, so childcare is the only option.
The average cost of having and raising a child in America is $18,271 per year. Childcare itself is one of the biggest expenses, whether it be a nanny or daycare. The average house hold in Syracuse can barely meet the average costs to raise a child in Ameri ca when the average income is $38,893 and 30% of people are in poverty.
On July, 25th, New York State Gov ernor Kathy Hochul announced that $70 million dollars will be available to register or permitted childcare pro grams in areas of NYthat classify as childcare deserts. This grant is under an umbrella of $7 billion dollars that will be used towards solving issues like access to affordable childcare, funding established childcare pro grams and exempting tax on diapers.
Overall investment in childcare will be extremely helpful, especial ly as COVID restrictions are rolled back and parents no longer are able to work from home. Both large and small child care programs will ben efit and encourage other businesses or certified childcare employees to fill in a huge need within Syracuse.
The current CEO of Central New York YMCA, Betram Lawson, shines
a light on the other hurdles that this grant money is unable to eliminate. There are multiple steps for a person to take before they can open a small child care facility, Lawson said.
These steps include ensuring buildings are up to code and staff are trained and credentialed. For a small childcare facility, this funding would relieve a lot of their burdens.
Hurdles that may not be consid ered are whether certifications and training are even offered in the areas that need childcare services the most. In Syracuse, Onondaga Com munity College is one of the institu tions for those interested in childcare to receive basic certifications.
OCC’s location is also not acces sible, so public transportation is necessary. A conversation to find long-term solutions for issues like child care deserts needs to understand how the workforce, transportation, universities, and childcare can couple together.
Lawson explained that opening a smaller childcare facility from a business standpoint is not very lucra tive, which makes those interested shy away. Lawson made it clear that this money is a good start but is not the forever solution. With so many hurdles in place for both already established childcare facilities, it is difficult to see Governor Hochul’s grant money as a long-term solution. From finding employees already cer tified or being able to make money that not only covers costs but a pay check is difficult to seem hopeful.
The first major steps after the $7 billion investment are for lead ers within the city to look at how problems interconnect to better solve the root issue. While Law son applauds Governor Hochul for this money being put in place, there is still much more to go.
Sarhia Rahim is a Sophomore Policy Studies Major. Her Column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at slrahim@syr.edu.
The Latinx/Hispanic identity is complicated and is made more com plicated by Latin American history. In order to fully understand this community, and how and why these terms were created, you must know the history and people who make up these communities.
We start this history with the Indigenous people who lived in what is now North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Throughout the Americas, there have been many different Indig enous Civilizations and cultures that existed centuries before the colonizations of the Americas. These include the Chavin, the Wari, the Tiwanaku, and the Inca cultures in the Andes Mountain Range, the Arawak and the Taíno cultures in the Caribbean, and the Olmec, the Mayan, and the Mexica (most commonly known as the Aztec) cultures in Central Amer ica. These various Indigenous cultures evolved, migrated, and existed throughout the Americas from 1000BC up until the coloniza tion of the Americas.
The colonization of the Ameri cas created a clash of cultures and identities that still affect people throughout the Americas to this day. The introduction of Span ish and Portuguese colonists and slaves from Africa to the already existing Indigenous cultures creat ed power struggles, cultural blend ing, and the development of new social hierarchies. With the blend ing of cultures came the develop ment of new racial identities. The Mestizo identity was created as a way to clearly identify those of Spanish and Indigenous descent. Mestizos were not considered to be “Spanish enough” and thus not on the same social status as those of pure Spanish heritage. The mixing of different racial groups, the devel opment of new identities and new cultures continued for centuries after the establishment of colonies
in the Americas.
The Independence of these new colonies caused another major cultural shift for people in the Americas. Throughout the early 1800’s, many of the established colonies fought for their Independence from what was known as “New Spain”.
With this Independence was the need to establish new National Identities for each of the newly established countries. This trend would continue through out the 20th century, with many of these new Latin American countries developing concrete cultural identities that were specific to each nation.
However, the late 20th cen tury also led to development of more nuanced identities throughout Latin America. Sim ilar to the colonial era of Latin America, the mixing of different racial groups and now differ ent national identities, led to the development of new cultural identities. Both World Wars, the Cold War, and globalization led to mass migration throughout the Americas. It was during this time that many individuals from Latin America began to estab lish identities for themselves.
People whose families migrated from Mexican, Puerto Rico, or other Latin American countries, couldn’t consider themselves “Mexican”, but because of xenophobia, these people would often not be considered truly “American”. Additionally, rac ism and segregation continued to complicate identity. People from Latin-America often didn’t fit into the Black-White dichot omy that existed in the United States, so the development of
the Hispanic and Latino identi ties was created as an option for those who were something in the middle.
The Hispanic and Latino identities continued to change and develop as this community began to adopt new terms that better suited its needs. The Chi cano (sometimes Xicanx) identity, was created by Mexican Ameri cans who wanted to reject the Black-White racial dichotomy and colonial identity. The AfroLatino identity refers to Latinos who have more African ancestry and are often perceived as racially Black. The Tejano identity refers to the community of MexicanAmericans living in the state of Texas. The Nuyorican iden tity refers to the community of Puerto Rican-Americans living near New York City. The Latin@, Latine, and Latinx identities were created in LGBTQ spaces to be more inclusive to a full range of gender expressions. And that just scratched the surface of Latino and Hispanic Identities.
At this point, you may feel over whelmed and not sure what to do with all this information, but that is okay. The history of the His panic/Latino community is com plex and over time the terms have evolved and changed. (Even in this article, I have used over a dozen different terms to refer to this same community). The truth is that this community is composed of various different identities and therefore will have many different terms to name those identities. If you’re not sure which term to use, just ask.
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EDITOR Siron Thomas DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR Richard Perrins Maggie Hicks illustration by morgan sample presentation director The term Latinx has Indigenous roots and should be included in the range of Hispanic identities. courtesy of bennie guzmanJoy Harmann rocketed a shot inside the pen alty circle, giving Syracuse the chance to take its first overtime win of the season. James Madison goalkeeper Brandelynn Heinbaugh made an initial save, but the ball bounced out back into the front of the circle. Quirine Comans collected the rebound and put the ball past Heinbaugh, scoring her team-leading tenth goal of the year.
No. 13 Syracuse (9-2, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) came into this road game after defeating No. 16 Boston College 3-0 last Friday. But against James Madison (7-4) both teams got off to a
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he accumulated from former SU All-American punters Sterling Hofrichter and Nolan Cooney to help Von Marburg improve.
The Australian stepped into a somewhat crowded punter room. James Williams and Ian Hawkins both started last season, but the Orange averaged only 37 yards per punt. For a program that had three straight punters reach the NFL (Hofrichter, Cooney and Riley Dixon), it was a step backwards. But Von Marburg’s improvement helped him earn the starting job — one he hasn’t lost after five games.
Von Marburg met Dixon earlier this year when the Los Angeles Rams punter visited SU for training. Dixon preached consistency to Von Marburg, who had known about Syra cuse’s punting tradition while being recruited.
“It was very enticing, seeing that they had a very good history and lineage here of punt ers. So it made it a pretty easy decision,” Von Marburg said.
Bolinsky said Von Marburg was anxious before Syracuse’s first game against Louis
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combine to account for a quarter of Shrader’s targets this season.
Syracuse’s defense has conceded under 100 rushing yards in three games. It held Wagner to 31 this past Saturday, its fewest since Sept. 18 of last year when Albany ran for seven yards. SU tackled Wagner for a cumulative loss of 43 rushing yards, its most since forcing 44 negative yards against UConn.
Syracuse has averaged 95 rushing yards allowed per game through five games, 17thbest nationally. The Orange defense’s power success against the run game — which takes into account the effectiveness of the team’s linemen and backs — has increased by 5%
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Coast Conference and ranked third nationally with a 79.2% completion percentage, but that number slipped after going 13-for-29 (44.8%) against Purdue. He rebounded against Vir ginia, throwing for 277 yards and completing over 60% of his passes, and looked dominant again against the Seahawks.
Game ball: Sean Tucker
Tucker recorded his best collegiate game statistically, averaging over 10 yards per carry and scoring three times. His speed and strength overwhelmed Wagner, and given Syracuse’s huge advantage up front, it was easy for Tucker to find and navigate his way through holes all game. The Orange also used him in the passing game, where he registered two catches for 15 yards.
Tucker’s performance Saturday also moved him into seventh all-time on SU’s rush ing yards list with 2,668.
slow start in this contest, with the best chance of the first period coming off a SU penalty corner. As the game progressed, two teams started getting shots off much more, combin ing for 22 attempts in the second half and overtime, eventually leading to goals. The con sistent pressure from SU finally gave Comans a chance in overtime to defeat the Dukes.
The Orange grabbed successive corners early in the game, but did not get a shot off on the first attempt. The first corner didn’t lead to an attempt, and Laura Graziosi had her shot blocked on the second one.
Unlike Syracuse, James Madison took advantage of a penalty corner 10 minutes into the second quarter. A rebound off of the corner
ville. He told Von Marburg that it was just like he was punting at Ensley Athletic Center or outside on the practice field.
“The work that he has put in has been really paying off and it’s cool to be able to snap to him this season,” Bolinsky said.
The improvement from Von Marburg and Syracuse’s other specialists can be partially attributed to Ligashesky, who coached special teams for 12 years in the NFL and is SU’s first special teams coordinator in two years. Ligashesky brings professionalism, and focus es on fundamentals and techniques every day in practice, Bolinsky said. Von Marburg said the coach has helped him adjust to the speed of college football, and has knowledge of every formation teams throw at Syracuse.
SU’s specialists go onto the practice field about 45 minutes before other players, warm ing up and stretching before the special teams period. After the group finishes, Von Marburg works on hand drills, holding the football and feeling it bounce off his foot. Bolinsky said the Orange have been working on different types of punts, including rollouts, where the punter takes a few steps before punting. The
from last season, to 80%, per College Football Data. Syracuse has one of the most explosive defenses against the run in the country, where it adds .099 points added per play.
gave Diede Remijnse an opportunity to shoot, and the Dukes took a 1-0 lead. Syracuse did not respond and couldn’t generate any offense, making it only the third time this year that the Orange went into the half trailing.
SU came out of halftime having three cor ners in the span of twenty seconds. On the first one, Eefke van den Nieuwenhof got a shot off, but Heinbaugh brushed the ball away. On the next two corners, the Orange couldn’t set up a shot, and then van den Nieuwenhof had her second shot blocked by a JMU defender.
Syracuse kept the offensive pressure going all third quarter, accumulating five total shots. With twelve seconds left in that period, SU finally leveled it. Sabine Eijnden received a
snapper said the way Von Marburg kicks the ball is nothing he’s seen before. Head coach Dino Babers said Von Marburg has a collec tion of “crazy” kicks, ones that, if Ligashesky approves, SU will break out in a game.
“He does things with his foot that other people do with their hands. What a pitcher can do with a baseball with their hand is what he can do with his foot,” Babers said.
Kicker Andre Szmyt said Von Marburg told him he’s been kicking a football-like ball since he was 4 years old. Von Marburg played Australian rules football for years, a sport where players kick the ball while on the run to score, which made him comfortable with rollout punts.
But Australian rules football requires players to keep kicks low, while punters in American football want to get adequate hang time. Gleeson said the adjustment requires players to float the ball out more before kick ing instead of pushing it down to the foot. The ball has to be in a spot where the punter can freely swing their leg in the air.
Gleeson, who punted at Rutgers from 201215 after going through the Prokick program,
rushing yards per game.
Syracuse’s defense has allowed an aver age of 3.39 yards per rushing attempt, rank ing 35th nationally. Of Syracuse’s next seven opponents, only Florida State ranks within the top 50 rushing offenses in the country.
Syracuse is currently 23-for-24 in the redzone this season, only failing to score in its 59-0 win over Wagner because the game clock ran out. Still, Syracuse sits tied for first in the country in red-zone conversion percentage and scored touchdowns on 62.5% of those conversions, settling for field goals on eight redzone drives.
pass off a corner from Eefke van den Nieuwen hof and put it home. It was Eijnden’s third goal of the year and her first in a month.
The two teams remained at one apiece as neither could get a shot past Heinbaugh or SU’s Brooke Borzymowski. With forty seconds left in the game, Syracuse was under heavy offen sive pressure as JMU had two corners. But the Orange stopped both and after the second, the ball continued to bounce around, with SU defenders blocking two shots. With twenty seconds to go, JMU had another penalty cor ner. This time, Borzymowski made the save to send the game into overtime, where Comans’ goal ended it quickly.
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worked with Von Marburg three to four times a week last year. The two met in early 2021 when Gleeson, on a run in his neighborhood, saw Von Marburg kicking with two others at a local field. He said Von Marburg had a natural instinct to find the ball and a lot of hip strength. Players kick more with their ham string in Australian Rules, and Von Marburg was dropping the ball slightly inside and hook ing it at first, Gleeson said.
Von Marburg and Gleeson worked on roll outs, directional punts and being able to land sky punts on a dime. Bolinsky said Von Mar burg can now consistently kick a 45-yard punt and get it to stop and roll backwards.
For Gleeson, Von Marburg’s improve ment and play through September is expect ed. It’s what Prokick prepared him for. After the program viewed Syracuse for years as a “Holy Grail” of punters, Von Marburg has finally brought an Australian boot to SU’s special teams.
“He’s a kid with all the talent in the world,” Gleeson said.
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and Florida State, they missed out on a red zone drive with an interception and a turnover on downs, respectively.
Andre Szmyt is 10-for-11 on field goals this season, missing just a 41-yarder against Purdue, which is an improvement from when he missed two field goals in the redzone last year. He made four redzone field goals against Virginia, holding off the Cavaliers’ secondhalf comeback and capping it off with a gamewinning 31-yard kick.
Conversely, Syracuse conceded a substan tial amount of rushing yards against ACC opponents Louisville and Virginia. The Cardi nals currently rank 22nd nationally with 209
“It means a lot,” Tucker said. “It repre sents the hard work I put in through the off season and during the season. All those guys up front and my receivers outside blocking for me, just being out there, and passing those guys feels great.”
Linton makes an impact. Redshirt sophomore Steve Linton notched two sacks against the Seahawks, the first time he took down the quarterback since SU’s season opener. Linton is arguably the Orange’s most talented defen sive lineman, but was bothered by injuries through the first few games of the year. He said postgame that he’s at full strength now. Linton’s impact is especially significant since Syracuse has been trying to replicate the pres sure linebacker Stefon Thompson provided prior to his season-ending injury.
“We work every day, practicing hard every day,” Linton said of the defensive line. “So it’s showing on the field. We can step it up prob ably a little more, but for the most part I like
Last season, Syracuse’s failures to score inside the 20 cost it two crucial ACC wins that could’ve put the team in a bowl game. In the Orange’s three-point losses to both Clemson
what we’re doing.”
The third and fourth quarters of the game were shortened from the typical 15 minutes to 10. Babers wouldn’t share specifics postgame on how the decision came about, but said it was an automatic “let’s do it” for fear of players getting hurt if the extra 10 minutes were played. Syra cuse has already lost Thompson, Chris Elmore, Isaiah Jones and Terry Lockett to seasonending injuries, and defensive lineman Denis Jaquez Jr. suffered an injury against Wagner.
“There’s no need for me to play an extra 10 minutes and risk more injuries to what we have to do going down the stretch,” Babers said. “Five games, five players hurt. There’s going to come a point where the dam is going to break.”
Other notable stats. Despite Tucker not breaking SU’s single-game rushing record, Saturday’s performance helped SU hit several milestones. The 59-0 win was the Orange’s largest margin of victory since beating Johns
Defensively, Syracuse has been nearly as effective at preventing redzone scores. While opponents have scored 75% of the time in the redzone, the Orange have only surrendered eight drives. Through five games last season, Syracuse allowed its opponents into the redzone 19 times and gave up 15 scores.
cirinoalex19@gmail.comHopkins 85-6 in 1929. The last time SU won a game by at least 50 points was in 2018 when it took down Wagner 62-10, led by Eric Dungey’s five touchdown passes.
SU also didn’t record a single punt for the first in a game since 1998 and registered a shutout for the first time since beating Liberty 24-0 in 2019. The Orange held Wagner to only 50 yards, and Seahawks quarterback Ryan Kraft finished with a stat line of 2-for-6 pass ing for 19 yards.
Syracuse has next weekend off to prepare for its final seven games of the season, which includes three games against top-25 teams as well as Notre Dame, Florida State and Pittsburgh. The Wolfpack fell 30-20 on Saturday night at No. 5 Clemson, slipping to No. 14 in the AP Poll. But their visit to the JMA Wireless Dome on Oct. 15 could be one of the most crucial home games Syracuse has had in recent memory.
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The Orange are 23-of-24 on redzone attempts this season, failing to score once because the game clock ran out
With its worst field position of the game, Syra cuse turned to freshman LeQuint Allen from its own 4-yard line. Allen eluded unblocked linebacker Jordan Francois, made another defender miss and found himself in the open field. Wide receiver CJ Hayes provided anoth er block, and Allen took off down the left side of the field alongside Umari Hatcher.
Allen didn’t have enough to finish the run though, and was taken down at the opposite 6-yard line. Still, it was a 90-yard run that led to three more insurance points for SU. The Orange won 59-0, allowing them to give snaps to younger players like Allen. The running back finished with four carries, 112 yards and a touchdown.
Sean Tucker had gone down with an injury on the previous possession, inserting Allen into the game. It was the third time that’s hap pened this season, following instances against Louisville and Virginia, where Tucker laid on the field for several moments before eventu ally getting up and walking off the field. Tucker said postgame that he feels fine, something head coach Dino Babers also iterated. But the injury gave Allen another opportunity to prove why he was one of SU’s top recruits in this year’s class, and why he earned the No. 2
spot on the depth chart over New Mexico State transfer Juwuan Price.
“It looks like he’s going to be really good, we just have to wait and see,” head coach Dino Babers said of Allen. “He gave you guys a little taste of it today.”
Allen’s touchdown run came after he bulldozed Wagner’s Travis Laster to make it 55-0 SU. In response to questions about the offensive line’s play against Purdue and Virginia, Babers said “everything’s under consideration” on how to fix the struggles. The unit responded by locking down Wagner on Saturday.
“The o-line did a fantastic job today,” Allen said. “They got on their blocks, they knew who to block. So they just played a huge part in my performance.”
Allen enrolled at Syracuse in January, something he said helped him significantly adjust to the college game, particularly play ing in SU’s spring game, which Tucker and others sat out for precautionary reasons. Allen said he’s learned a lot from Tucker, who leads the way in meetings and work on and off the practice field.
The running back earned New Jersey’s Gatorade Player of the Year honor last year, and was SU’s second-highest recruit in the Class of 2022, per 247Sports. Babers and Syracuse recruited Allen out of Millville (New
Jersey) High School in the southern part of the state. Allen said he developed a close relation ship with running backs coach Mike Lynch during the recruiting process, and considers Lynch to be a father figure to him.
SU has hosted several players from Mill ville on recruiting visits this season, including 3-star Class of 2024 receiver Ta’Ron Haile, who has offers from Penn State, Pitt and Maryland. Allen said players from Millville don’t typically get a lot of recognition, but the school has a “lot of dogs.”
“For me to put on for them, help them get to where they need to be in life, it means a lot,” Allen said.
Tucker will likely continue to get 20-30 touches a game for SU, barring a more serious injury that forces him to miss significant time. But having a No. 2 running back who can con tribute will be important for the Orange. And if Tucker chooses to declare for the NFL Draft after this season, Allen will likely be handed the keys in SU’s backfield.
The game was won when… Tucker recorded his career-long 60-yard rush with less than six minutes to go in the first quarter. It put Syracuse up 14-0 after the extra point, and solidified the Orange’s control over Saturday’s game.
Up to that point, Tucker’s longest rush of
the season was only 13 yards against UConn, but when Shrader handed him the ball out of the shotgun, the running back used a cutback and blocks from Dakota Davis and Oronde Gadsden II to burst into the secondary. Tuck er’s top-end speed took care of the rest, and his two touchdowns later in the half helped take SU into halftime up 49-0.
“Not gonna lie, we were trying to go for some records. We weren’t able to get that, though.”
Shrader and Tucker were asked postgame about the decision to stay in the game late in the third quarter, something Babers said he always does in blowouts since he likes to give his starters the chance to adapt to halftime adjustments. Tucker said Babers and Anae approached the offense, wanting them to break some offensive school records, including SU’s single-game rushing yards record of 252 held by Joe Morris in 1979. Tucker finished 20 yards short with a career-high 232.
Shrader’s completion percentage on Saturday was the first time in Syracuse history that a quarterback recorded at least 10 passing attempts without an incompletion. Two weeks into the season, Shrader had led the Atlantic see allen page 9
Wake Forest forward Liv Stowell took a hard shot from just inside the right end of the goal box in the 55th minute. Syracuse goalkeeper Shea Vanderbosch reacted quickly, sliding to the right post and deflecting the ball off of her fists. The ball shot up into the air and landed at the top of the goal box.
After the shot, Vanderbosch got stuck to the right of the goal while the ball stayed with Wake Forest. Demon Deacon Emily Morris fielded the ball and immediately took a shot before Vanderbosch could recover in front of the goal. Several Syracuse defenders tried to get in the way of Morris’ ball, but it trailed in through the middle of the goal and hit the back of the net, making the score 1-0.
Wake Forest (8-2-2, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) added another goal in in the second half to defeat Syracuse (8-4, 1-3 Atlantic Coast) 2-0 in its first conference road loss of the year. The Orange have now been shut out in three of their last four games, with all of those contests coming against ACC opponents. In all of those three losses, opponents have doubled Syra
cuse’s shot total. The Orange were looking to capture their first win in Winston-Salem in program history, but only registered seven shots while the Demon Deacons had 15.
While Syracuse only conceded one shot on goal in the first half, it also had just one shot on net, coming in the fifth minute. SU’s Koby Commandant took control of a pass on the left side of the goal box. Commandant delivered a hard shot that Wake Forest goalkeeper Kait lyn Parks went down to her right to save.
Syracuse had another opportunity in the 23rd minute when freshman forward Maya McDermott attempted a cross just outside the right line of the goal box. The ball got stuffed and bounced out of bounds, forcing a corner on the right side. But Kate Murphy’s set piece was way off line and landed right at the top of the goal box and into Demon Deacons’ possession.
But the Orange continued to frustrate Wake Forest throughout the first half. Demon Deacon Taryn Chance dribbled to her left and into the middle of the Syracuse goal box before taking a powerful shot over 14 minutes after Murphy’s corner. In an instant, Grace Gillard jumped up in the air and the ball deflected off her shoulder for a block.
The first half ended with minimal action on offense. Syracuse and Wake Forest each got a shot on goal and combined for six shots total. The Demon Deacons just barely leading in time of possession at 57%.
But as the second half wore on, Wake Forest started to control much more of the posses sions and shots. Midfielder Giovanna Demarco fielded a pass at the penalty arc with her back to the goal. She quickly turned around and took a shot that was blocked by Syracuse defenders.
Chance found the ball off the deflection and briefly dribbled along the left side of the goal box. She then booted a ball at the goal, but it ricocheted off Orange defenders and went up in the air before trickling out the right sideline.
A few minutes later, Chelsea Domond saw a cross coming from her right and got a head on it at the top of the goal box. But it didn’t connect cleanly and the ball stopped short and trickled into Park’s hands. Shortly after, Blue Ellis took a shot from the left line of the goal box but went right towards Park who kneeled down to save it.
Five minutes after that, Morris scored the first goal of the game to give her team a 1-0 lead. Wake Forest’s Kristin Johnson then sent a lead pass from the middle of the Syracuse
zone in the 64th minute. It landed perfectly in front of Demarco who cut right across the goal box to center. This prompted Vander bosch to come up to challenge the ball, but Demarco snuck the ball to her right. Vander bosch couldn’t react in time and Wake Forest sported a 2-0 lead.
The Orange kept fighting as time wound down in the game. They had an opportunity about halfway through the second half when Erin Fluery drove up the right side of the Demon Deacons zone. She initially had only one defender trailing her but that player quickly caught up and slowed Flurey down.
She passed to Domond at the top of the goal box. Domond made several attempts to juke around Wake Forest defenders, but kept get ting stuffed and passed to Ashley Rauch who was on her left. Rauch had the ball for just a moment before getting stolen from.
Although Syracuse’s defense did eventu ally break, the team had more success on offense in the second half. The Orange had three shots on goal and six shots total in the second half, resulting in them being tied for 10th in the ACC standings.
mahassan@syr.eduHanna Borer looked over to her coach before resuming her pre-serve routine. Syracuse was up two sets to one over Virginia Tech and the scoreboard read 23-22 in favor of the Orange.
Borer served and the ball traveled comfortably toward Alyssa Bert who dug the ball back into the air toward Riley Hoffman.
The sophomore played the ball over to the far left sideline where Polina Shemanova drifted. The outside hitter rose up and sent a blistering shot toward Virginia Tech’s Maddie Slagle. The best the libero could do was get a fist to the ball as it careened under the net for another SU point.
On the ensuing possession, off of a Lauren Woodford serve, Virginia Tech teed up Ava Francis in hopes of drawing within one point
again, but her kill attempt fell out of bounds, giving Syracuse the win, 25-22.
After defeating the Hokies in four sets, the Orange will return home after a perfect weekend of league play to improve to 4-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Just two days ago, Bakeer Ganesharatnam’s squad downed Wake Forest in a five-set, comefrom-behind thriller.
Shemanova led Syracuse by putting yet another offensive clinic on display. The gradu ate student recorded 24 kills to help round off the Orange’s short road trip in winning style — a weekend where she amassed more than 50 kills across just two games. One of the best outside hitters in program history, Shemanova is closing in on becoming first in all-time kills for Syracuse. Her performance against Virginia Tech places her just 25 kills away from tying Diane Fiume (1997-2000) at
the top with 1,698 career kills.
Alongside Shemanova, no other SU player finished with double-digit kill totals. Vikto riia Lokhmanchuk ended with nine kills while Naomi Franco chipped in with six following her personal-best 23 kills against the Demon Deacons this past Friday.
Hoffman and Woodford combined for 39 assists for Syracuse. Hoffman’s individual effort of 23 came just five shy of tying her per sonal best, which she accomplished against Wake Forest. Woodford’s 16 was the secondmost for the Orange while Bert added four.
Defensively, redshirt freshman Raina Hughes continued to show her prowess at the net, totaling four blocks this afternoon. Her play on Sunday now marks three out of four conference games where she’s led the Orange in that category. Bre Walp had three blocks and Lokhmanchuk contributed two
of her own.
Syracuse never seemed threatened by the Hokies throughout the entire match, domi nating despite dropping the second set. Statis tically, the Orange led in almost every major category, recording more points, kills, aces, assists, blocks and digs. Despite the penul timate set ending with a mere three-point differential, the first three sets were lopsided in the winner’s favor with the gap being six points or more.
For VT, most of their production came from middle blocker Cara Lewis who tallied an effi cient 11 kills on just 22 total attempts. Last week’s ACC Freshman of the Week, Borer played a huge role for the Hokies today, leading her team in assists with 21 after recording 52 last weekend.
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tralia in January 2021, the same program that helped Dickson and hundreds of others cross over from Australia to the United States. While he started out as somewhat inconsistent and raw, Von Marburg developed into the program’s best punter by the time Syracuse called after last season.
relationship with Ligasheksy, who was recruit ing Sami Sir to Bowling Green at the time. But Ligasheksy jumped to SU in early December, tell ing Prokick he’d likely need a punter there, too.
By Connor Smith senior staff writerMax Von Marburg’s American football career began by scrolling through YouTube. He stumbled across a video of Michael Dickson, a punter for the Seattle Seahawks who, like Von Marburg, had a strong background in Australian rules football. Something stuck.
From that point, Von Marburg wanted to do everything he could to get into a college program in the U.S., he said. He tried out for Prokick Aus
Von Marburg’s weekly workouts and film ses sions helped him quickly grow at Prokick. Not even two years after first getting into Americanstyle punting, Von Marburg is now SU’s newest starting punter. Through five games this season, he has proved to be a key part of the Orange’s improved special teams play under first-year coordinator Bob Ligashesky, averaging 42.5 yards per punt.
“There’s definitely (been) a lot of improve ment,” Von Marburg said. “As Coach Lig says, there’s always more meat on the bone. So there’s always more growth out there that I can show, and I definitely feel like I’m just starting to show what I can do.”
Prokick’s founder John Smith had a close
Prokick sent film of Von Marburg performing different punts to Syracuse, noting in the video if the kicks were directional and what the distances and hang times were. Prokick coach Tim Gleeson said when schools ask for film, Prokick tries to show the various types of punts a player can do.
When schools are looking to add a Prokick punter, the program looks at how a player fits academically and with the team’s coach. Von Mar burg “fit the bill perfectly” for Syracuse, Gleeson said. He was Prokick’s most developed punter and he also had U.S. citizenship, meaning he could bypass the slow visa system.
Von Marburg didn’t punt as well as he wanted to after arriving at SU, he said. But his extensive time reviewing film with Ligashesky and veteran long snapper Aaron Bolinsky helped him develop, Bolinsky said. The snapper used the knowledge
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Similar to last season, No. 22 Syracuse heads into its bye week one win shy of bowl eligibil ity. But this year, the Orange are undefeated and ranked for the first time since 2019. New systems have been introduced on offense and the team’s youngest players have made their mark.
Just two years after winning just one game in 2020, Syracuse has a perfect record. How ever, the Orange’s biggest tests have yet to
come, as three ranked opponents and Notre Dame await them.
Here are the stats to know about SU’s per fect season so far:
Last season, Garrett Shrader averaged 19.5 passes per game with a 52.6% completion rate.
In 2022, Shrader’s gone just one game under a 65% completion rate, which came against Purdue — the only game where he failed to break 230 passing yards.
Robert Anae’s new offensive system has
improved Shrader’s passing numbers. Syra cuse has used Shrader 13% less in its rushing game than it did in 2021, per College Foot ball Data. With Shrader being the focal point of offense, he has averaged 0.522 Predicted Points Added (PPA) per passing play.
Shrader’s quarterback efficiency ranks eighth nationally at 175.90. With his comple tion percentage of 70.9%, he’s on pace to shat ter last season’s passing numbers.
This has allowed for less dependence on Sean Tucker and opened up more receiving options. Between Syracuse’s top-three receiv
ers last year — Courtney Jackson, Anthony Queely and Damien Alford — only Jackson was involved in over 5% of the team’s offen sive plays. This season, all three of Shrader’s main targets have all-purpose usage rates of 5% or greater.
Oronde Gadsden II leads at 7%, with a 17% mark in the passing game — the same as Sean Tucker and a percentage point higher than Jackson’s passing usage last season. Behind Gadsden, Devaughn Cooper and Jackson sit at six and five percent, respectively, but still
Syracuse’s strong punting tradition helped lure Max Von Marburg to the Orange, and he’s since developed into the program’s best punter at 42.5 yards per punt. MALCOLM TAYLOR CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERMax Von Marburg’s start with Prokick Australia earned him attention from SU