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N • Hurricane relief
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P • Bottles for research
Syracuse University’s Student Association plans to send 20 volunteers to Puerto Rico over Winter Break to help with Hurricane Maria relief efforts. Page 3
Laurence Segal digs through garbage bins to collect bottles to fight breast cancer. He has donated more than $50,000 to breast cancer research and awareness. Page 9
S • Bowled over
After years of hosting tournaments in Las Vegas, the Professional Bowling Association hosted the biggest tournament of the season at a bowling alley in Liverpool. Page 16
crime
City police investigate stabbing By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor
Responsible party Story by Mary Catalfamo asst. copy editor Illustration by Kateri Gemperlein-Schirm design editor
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embers of the Student Association are concerned the Syracuse University Department of Public Safety’s jurisdiction and criteria for shutting down parties is racially biased. Tensions rose at an SA meeting last Monday when DPS Associate Chief John Sardino and Crime Prevention Coordinator C.J. McCurty gave a presentation and Q&A about DPS’ role on campus. Members of the SA cabinet and assembly voiced confusion about DPS
Student Association members question how DPS decides to shut down parties jurisdiction and the department’s criteria for shutting down parties, as well a liability issue preventing the use of the Safety Escort Program to transport highly intoxicated students home. At the meeting, Sardino said DPS will not pick up any intoxicated student. “We will get that person help, we will help them walk home, but we’re not going to put them in a vehicle and transport
them,” he said. It is standard, however, for the responding officer to transport the student for medical treatment or call Health Services, he said. Sardino added he did not consider a student who has had “one or two drinks” to be intoxicated. Though an officer should respond to any call requesting the escort program, McCurty said the program is for safety, “not necessarily for a (sic) convenient transportation.” The escort service is intended to be a secondary mode of transportation, according to the DPS website. The department “reserve(s) the right to redirect callers to other transportation services” such as Centro buses. Obi Afriyie, SA parliamentarian, said in an interview that SU needs a stronger see dps page 6
Syracuse police are investigating a stabbing that left a 21-year-old man injured at a party in the University Hill neighborhood early Sunday morning. At about 3:30 a.m., city police officers responded to 831 Sumner Ave. after a large fight reportedly broke out at a party, said George Hack, a Syracuse Police Department detective, in a press release. After arriving at the house, SPD officers learned a man had been stabbed in the neck and taken to Crouse Hospital in a private vehicle, Hack said.
3:38 a.m. Time the stabbing on Sumner Avenue was reported to police officers Sunday source: syracuse police department
The man was subsequently transported by ambulance to the State University of New York Upstate Medical University for surgery and is expected to survive, Hack said. Police had no suspect information as of about 5 p.m. Sunday. Sgt. Richard Helterline, an SPD spokesman, in an email, said police would not release the victim’s name. Joseph Tupper, an area landlord, owns 831 Sumner Ave., Onondaga County property records show. See dailyorange.com for updates. sfogozal@syr.edu@Sam13783
national
Fundraising campaign raises $50,000 for alum in coma By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor
Colton “C.J.” Jones, a Syracuse University alumnus and former member of THE General Body activist group, was hospitalized this month after inhaling smoke from California’s wildfires. More than 1,000 people have donated more than $50,000 to a fundraising campaign that aims to help get Jones back to his family in Philadelphia. “I think (the fundraiser) is nothing but a blessing and a testament to who he is as a person,” said Stefany Jones, his mother. Jones lives in California and works alongside his girlfriend, Shira Barlas, as an activist at Nation of Vibration, a col-
lective of healers who hope to promote social justice through spirituality. On Oct. 12, Jones was working outdoors, and smoke from the wildfires surrounded him, triggering an asthma attack. He’d dealt with asthma attacks in the past but didn’t realize how bad they could be, Barlas said. Jones managed to make his way to a friend’s house so they could drive him to the hospital, but the situation escalated in the car. On the way to the hospital, Jones stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest. He was dead for about 10 minutes, with no oxygen moving to his brain, Barlas said. His mother received a call in the middle of the night, waking her up.
She was confused. Barlas said the doctors were asking to speak to Jones’ “next of kin.” “I think I just detached from reality, and I didn’t really understand what they were saying,” Stefany said. She was asked how aggressively she wanted doctors to try to save Jones’ life. She demanded they save him at any cost. After she hung up with the phone, she sat on her bed stunned, unsure of who to call, she said. After being resuscitated, Jones was left with brain damage and was in a coma at a hospital in Carmichael, California. He has opened his eyes and made subtle movements in the last few weeks. On Sunday, he was
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COLTON “C.J.” JONES, a Syracuse University alumnus, went into cardiac arrest earlier this month. courtesy of shira barlas