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N • Reproductive rights

C • Workers wanted

S • Big man on the field

Syracuse community members marched from Planned Parenthood to the James M. Hanley Federal Building, hosting a variety of speakers including SU students.

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A la Mode shut its doors in August due to a staff shortage.

This Syracuse University area restaurant hopes to reopen later this month.

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Mikel Jones went through several position changes and high school transfers before arriving in Syracuse. The changes formed him into Syracuse’s tackle leader.

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Power of healing

football

Taj Harris enters transfer portal

By Roshan Fernandez senior staff writer

DIANE SCHENANDOAH started her role on July 15, fulfilling Indigenous students’ requests. Schenandoah’s healing work is based on traditional Haudenosaunee teachings.

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As SU’s first Indigenous healer, Diane Schenandoah looks to empower students and help them recognize their inner strength

By Jordan Greene staff writer

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fter the #NotAgainSU protests in 2019, a group of Indigenous students approached Syracuse University’s administration with several requests, including hiring an Indigenous healer.

Many students saw a lack of support provided to communities with marginalized identities, Ionah Scully, a fourth-year Ph.D.

student, said.

“Having a healer who can hold that space for us is really important,” they said.

On July 15, Diane Schenandoah began her role as SU’s first Indigenous healer. The position is aimed to provide a safe space for Indigenous students to heal from emotional trauma, connect to their spirituality and educate the campus community about Indigenous culture.

Her role is only part time, but students can book one-hour

sessions with Schenandoah on Mondays and Tuesdays through the Barnes Center at The Arch, Schenandoah said.

Mario “Ma’ii” Villa, a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of Information Studies, said he’s glad the resource exists and wants SU to promote it more.

Villa applied to SU due to the school’s proximity to the Onondaga Nation. He grew up in southern New Mexico and is a part of the Chiricahua Apache see healer page 4

on campus

SU to pay about $4 million in court settlement

By Kyle Chouinard asst. news editor

Syracuse University will pay close to $4 million in a settlement rega rding discriminator y payment practices.

Five female faculty members at SU allege that policies relating

to compensation and promotions negatively impacted them and other female colleagues, the law firm Outten & Golden stated in a release on Friday.

The settlement is not an admission of liability on behalf of the university, the release writes. To resolve the claim, SU

will pay $3,713,000. “ We are pleased that Sy racuse (University) has agreed to resolve the claims,” said Deirdre Aaron, a partner at Outten & Golden, in the release.

“The settlement will provide meaningful relief to our clients and other female faculty.”

Documentation from the New York State Unified Court System lists Fiona Chew, Tula Goenka, Barbara Jones, Elisabeth LaschQuinn and Audie Klotz as the five faculty members involved in the lawsuit. Four of the plaintiffs also allege that the university see lawsuit page 4

Syracuse’s No. 1 receiver Taj Harris has entered the transfer portal, he announced via Twitter on Sunday afternoon. Harris did not travel or play during SU’s game in Tallahassee, Florida, on Saturday, a team spokesperson confirmed yesterday.

Harris ranked fifth in the Atlantic Coast Conference in receptions during the 2020 season and earned third-team All-ACC honors. Through 10 games last year, he notched 58 receptions for 733 yards and five touchdowns, the third consecutive season he eclipsed 500 receiving yards.

“Syracuse thank you for all the love and support … @ CoachBabersCuse thank you for being the remodel I needed in my life as well as the coaching staff,” Harris’ tweet read. “With that being said I am entering the transfer portal … love y’all.”

This season, Harris recorded 16 catches for 171 yards through three games, including an eightcatch, 122-yard game against Rutgers. Harris missed time when the Orange played UAlbany in the Carrier Dome due to an apparent left leg injury, but he returned the following week for a quiet, two-catch, 20-yard performance against Liberty.

On Thursday before the Florida State game, Harris tweeted “I know my worth.” Harris is the second Syracuse player to enter the transfer portal in the middle of this season, following running back Jarveon Howard who announced he put his name into the portal on Monday.

Howard was a backup running back, behind Sean Tucker, Cooper Lutz and Abdul Adams.

Harris infamously flipped off a television camera during Syracuse’s loss to Liberty last season and was suspended for SU’s game against Clemson the following week.

Head coach Dino Babers simply said he couldn’t offer any comment in regard to why Harris didn’t travel.

Harris didn’t specify why he wanted to enter the transfer portal five games into SU’s season on Twitter.

The wide receiver has one year of eligibility remaining. He was SU’s third-best receiver during his true freshman season in 2018 and the No. 2 receiver behind Trishton Jackson in 2019. He took over the No. 1 role in 2020 after Jackson

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We all have incredible gifts and minds and are so unaware of how amazingly created we are.” - Diane Schenandoah, SU’s first Indigenous healer Page 3

OPINION “This narrative — this paradox — I am about to reveal to you is presented with that hope of change that someone reading may be moved to enforce that change.” - Cliff Graham, columnist Page 5

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Over 300 gather for reproductive rights march Amaar Asif on Board of Trustees

By Oko Khosbayar

contributing writer

Syracuse University students and a professor were among the speakers at the reproductive rights march hosted by Planned Parenthood and Women’s March Syracuse.

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By Karoline Leonard and Kyle Chouinard the daily orange

A group of six Syracuse University students huddles on the first floor of the Schine Student Center at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, writing phrases such as “STAY THE F*CK AWAY FROM MY UTERUS” and “BANNING ABORTION = BANNING SAFE ABORTION” on posters with markers.

The poster-making session was run by Students Advocating Sexual Safety and Empowerment, an organization that advocates for sexual safety and creating safer spaces at SU. Later that day, they, along with hundreds of other demonstrators, attended a rally for reproductive rights, organized by Syracuse’s local Planned Parenthood and Women’s March Syracuse.

Lucy Stover, a junior at SU studying television, radio and film and a member of SASSE, said that she wants to use her voice and right to protest to bring attention to the issue of reproductive rights.

“Our goal right now is to come

together. I think that the most important part of SASSE is the community,” she said. “We’re activists. Being activists at this age is really difficult. A lot of people don’t take you seriously. They think you’re uneducated.”

The group of students, along with about 300 other demonstrators, met at Planned Parenthood. A group of counterprotesters stood to the side of the gathering with a sign reading “UNBORN LIVES MATTER.” Rosalie Young, 78, stood with the large gathering outside the Planned Parenthood building.

“I’m old enough to remember before Roe v. Wade, and people would go to dirty corner street abortion places, and they would die from infection,” Young said.

Before the group marched from the Planned Parenthood building on East Genesee Street to the James M. Hanley U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building, activists and local politicians spoke to the crowd.

“We don’t want to go back to 2010 or 1980 or 1978 or 1957,” said Pamela Hunter, D-Syracuse, a state assembly member for the 128th

district. “We want reproductive health rights universally now.”

William “Bill” Magnarelli, D-Syracuse, another state assembly member, said that “reproductive rights and women’s rights are under attack as never before in the United States.”

Following the speakers, the group marched toward the courthouse chanting “Not the church, not the state, women must decide their fate” and “Your body, your choice. My body, my choice.”

Speakers at the courthouse included Rev. Jennifer “Jo” VonRue, a minister at May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, and Sarhia Rahim, a freshman at SU. “I am happy enough to have had a high school that brought planned parenthood into our health class,” Rahim said. “We should provide resources to people who don’t.

Educate people who don’t have those resources. And if you have those resources, then take the time to do that research.”

Rahim told the crowd, packed into the grass of the plaza and on benches on the outskirts, that

low-income people are much more likely to get an abortion. Rahim also spoke to the crowd about the Hyde Amendment, which severely limits people insured by Medicaid from receiving abortions, forcing people to pay out of pocket in most cases for an abortion. New York uses their own state funding to cover the cost of abortions, however, a majority of states follow the amendment.

“Imagine the young women my age, 18 or younger, have to go through to pay for a safe abortion,” she said. “If a young woman is too young to have a job or doesn’t have one, now what?”

Other speakers from the community included; SeQuoia Kemp, founder and CEO of Doula 4 A Queen and cofounder of Sankofa Reproductive Health and Healing Center; Rahzie Seals, a non-binary queer- and transrights activist; poet Ruthnie Angrand, a Haitian-American communications professional and trained performer; and Dr. Renee Mestad, a board-certified OB-GYN and Planned Parenthood provider.

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on campus

Program provides chance for SU applicants

By Sarah Marshall

contributing writer

This August, Syracuse University welcomed its first cycle of Pathway Program students after spending their first year at Wells College.

Syracuse’s Pathway Program, in partnership with Wells College about 45 miles away in Aurora, offers students the opportunity to attend Wells for their freshman year before transferring to SU for the remainder of their college education.

Students in the program who plan on transferring to SU must take at least 15 credits per semester at Wells and maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher, according to SU’s website.

Students may only participate in the program by invitation after applying to SU. This year, 30 students

enrolled in the program.

“I think that Syracuse wanted something to offer good students who might just need a little more support before entering some of the more competitive programs that they have,” Melinda Slawson, senior assistant director of admissions at Wells College, said of the program.

The program allows students to start off at a smaller, more intimate college before transferring to SU, Slawson said. Some students currently enrolled in the Pathway Program said they were happy to be able to start college life on a rural campus instead of on a large campus in a city.

“What stuck out to me was that this was a really rural part of New York, and then I spend a year here and go to a big city like Syracuse,”

The program allows Syracuse University applicants to attend Wells College before transferring to SU. sarah marshall contributing writer

said Tom Dunbar, a business major in the program. “It’s like a big change, but also a cool experience.”

Ella Russo, a communication sciences and disorders student,

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David Bruen, president of Syracuse University’s Student Association, approached Amaar Asif in September about a position in the organization: undergraduate student representative in SU’s Board of Trustees. “(Bruen) told me I would be perfect for the position of Board of Trustees to represent all students,” Asif said.

Asif, a senior biology and neuroscience student, said that he realized the potential of the role as the undergraduate representative on the board. “(The) Board of Trustees runs the school,” he said. “Students don’t know a single member of the board besides the chancellor. We are trusting the people we don’t even know. We’re paying lots of money. Those people are making decisions we are not aware of. And that’s not right.”

SU is certainly a good university. But we can work together to make it better for a good academic experience.

Amaar Asif undergraduate student rep.

Asif came to SU initially to work towards attending medical school, and he interned with SUNY Upstate Medical University during his freshman year. He said that he made it his life’s mission to advocate and work in the health sciences.

A f ter joining multiple organizations at SU, friends recommended Asif consider joining SA, and they later encouraged him to apply for a cabinet position.

“I applied to be a chair of academic affairs. That was one positive experience that opened my eyes to how SU functions and dealing with administration decisions that most students don’t know,” Asif said.

Asif said that he hopes to become an active participant on the board and have students’ voices heard by administration.

“There should be different ideas because we all feel different ways on certain things given our program, background, year of class, et cetera,” he said. “I could report those ideas and concerns so they can make better decisions.

Asif said his main goal is to bridge that gap of communication between the board and students.

The board consists of Chancellor Kent Syverud and a variety of alumni and faculty, as well as selective and life trustees. There is also one staff representative and one law school representative on see board page 4

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healer Nation. He’s excited to use Schenandoah’s resources but said the healing practices he grew up with are different from those of the Haudenosaunee culture.

“There are some similarities because of traditions,” he said. “But at the same time, we each have solely different ways of dealing with the universe.”

Schenandoah hopes that she can empower students and help them recognize their inner strength in her new role.

“We believe that everybody comes here with a duty, a purpose and a gift,” Schenandoah said. “A lot of times we are very unsure or insecure and are just trying to discover ourselves. I think to empower students and give them the support and confidence is how we establish peace.”

Schenandoah is a Faithkeeper of Oneida Nation, Wolf Clan. (Oneida Nation is one of the six nations that comprise the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.) She is an alumna of SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, receiving a degree in sculpting in 2011. She’s been a sculptor for 40 years, portraying her culture through her artwork.

Regina Jones, the assistant director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, was on a search committee for the position. She from page 1

harris was selected in the NFL draft, and he has filled that role ever since. from page 1

lawsuit promoted less qualified male faculty members to positions the plaintiffs were qualified to hold. from page 3

march Two members of SASSE also spoke at the event. Marie Isabel Pascual, a senior in SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, is the president of SASSE. She detailed how SASSE goes about discussing reproductive rights.

“We approach these conversations from an intersectional and abolitionist lens, acknowledging the experiences that individuals may face when interacting with systems of oppression,” she said.

Pascual said that the group is dedicated from page 3

program shared the same sentiment, also mentioning the effect virtual classes had on her preparedness.

“Since we’ve had no school for like two years straight, I was honestly terrified to just jump into a huge college,” Russo said.

“So I think it’s kind of cool that it’s a little introduction and a small little community, and then we can work our way there.”

When she first received her invitation to the Pathway Program, Russo said she was confused due to a lack of clarity about her admissions decision.

“I saw the letter, and it said on the top … that from page 3

board the board.

Last year, SA proposed allowing the undergraduate student representative to have a vote on the board. The board quickly shut down their proposal.

Asif explained that he is looking forward to seeing how the board works, and his position is the highest level position he has held so far.

“It is basically a high-level administrative decision at SU,” he said.

“They’re the ones who run your tuition and dictate where it is going. If you want to know where your money is going, it’s better to understand (the) Board of Trustees and how they utilize it.”

The board meets twice a year, and their first

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said that it was a difficult decision but that Schenandoah is a great fit.

Jones envisions Schenandoah’s role to be to support Indigenous students on campus and educate the community about their values.

“We think about community, care, love and helping others — that’s what we’re all about,” Jones said. “I think part of that will also be part of Diane’s hope. I think she has a lot of valuable tools to help not only Indigenous students, but within our community as a whole to help them get grounded, balanced and centered.”

Schenandoah’s healing work is based on traditional Haudenosaunee teachings.

Much of her work deals with energy, she said. She uses hands-on modalities such as tuning forks, art therapy, acupressure and dream interpretations.

“Clap your hands together and run your hands really fast, and then hold them an inch apart,” Schenandoah said. “Can you feel the energy between them? That is our energy.

That’s how I use people’s energy.”

Indigenous healing has always been a part of Schenandoah’s life, and she’s never really looked at it as a practice until she got older, Schenandoah said. After her son developed cancer around 2002, she met a local woman who offered to teach her Reiki, an energy healing technique. Learning the style of healing was an eye-opening experience for

her in working with energy, she said.

“I use my own energy, which I’ve been doing since I was a young child,” Schenandoah said. “My entire family did this. If anyone was in pain or had any aches we’d gather around them, rub our hands together, create energy and put it around them.”

When she found out about SU’s Indigenous healer position, her family encouraged her to apply. She was both honored and surprised when she was offered the job.

“We are all energy. People don’t realize how powerful we are as human beings on this earth. We all have incredible gifts and minds and are so unaware of how amazingly created we are,” Schenandoah said.

On Aug. 29, the Sunday before fall 2021 classes started, Schenandoah held an Edge of the Woods Gathering welcome event for the Syracuse community, an event she said her people would traditionally hold for visitors.

Schenandoah felt it was necessary to bring the tradition to campus and welcome students and faculty from all over the world back into the Haudenosaunee territories.

Around 38 people — including faculty, staff, students and community members — joined, making it small but also meaningful, Schenandoah said. During the event, people performed traditional dances including the stomp dance and round dance.

The Outdoor Education Center within

the Barnes Center also opened the zipline for attendees.

“It turned out beautiful,” she said. “The sun was shining. It was just lovely.”

Kateleen Ellis, a senior at SU, called the Barnes Center last week to make an appointment with Schenandoah. She is interested to see what Schenandoah can offer her when it comes to stress, anxiety, feelings of missing home and other experiences – all of which Ellis said she has never talked to anyone about before.

As an Indigenous woman, Ellis said she felt like she could be comfortable with an Indigenous healer.

Schenandoah believes that almost everybody has trauma somewhere back in their DNA that needs to be healed. To help people heal, she is currently working on planning a number of other events for the SU community focusing on healing, as well as events to educate people on Indigenous history in the United States that isn’t taught in schools. If you don’t know the history it will repeat itself, she said.

But while Schenandoah’s official title at SU is Indigenous healer, she considers herself more of a Faithkeeper.

“The title is an Indigenous healer, but we say the creator is the only healer there is,” Schenandoah said.

Without Harris on Saturday against the Seminoles, Shrader tossed for 150 yards and a touchdown. SU’s receiving core that features Courtney Jackson, Anthony Queeley and Damien Alford, among others,

stepped up despite the loss.

“We had more than enough in that locker room we were in,” Babers said when asked about Harris’ absence. “We were disappointed that we came up three points

short, (but) we had more than enough in that locker room to win this game. More than enough.”

SU’s 2017 Faculty Salary Review Committee’s Final Report found that the average salary for women is lower than men’s at the professor and associate professor ranks.

The report stated that the gap in average salaries between male and female professors

was about $14,200 and the gap in average salaries between male and female associate professors was about $5,700.

“We continue to work closely with academic leadership to ensure salaries are commensurate with every faculty

member’s job responsibilities, efforts and accomplishments, regardless of gender,” said Steve Bennett, senior vice president for academic operations at SU.

to reproductive rights, which is why she and SASSE were at the march to speak on how reproductive rights are currently being threatened in the U.S. Ava Mari Lockwood, the vice president of SASSE and a sophomore in SU’s Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, asked the crowd to stand in solidarity with SASSE and Planned Parenthood. During their time speaking, they discussed the current political climate concerning reproductive rights.

“As discourse surrounding abortion continues and so long as it becomes more

restrictive, it pushes the idea that those with uteruses existences are political,” they said.

“Our reproductive rights are greatly in danger.

Nancy Linehan, a sophomore biochemistry, psychology and neuroscience major, also attended the protest.

“We’ve had a very diverse group of speakers here today, and it has also been beautiful hearing all the different perspectives on this pressing issue,” she said. “That is so important to remember, to just … encompass all the voices, uplift all the voices, bring all of the issues to light.”

Linehan said that people should take it

seriously when somebody comes to them saying they had an abortion. She asked that people not share their views on abortion with them, but instead listen to them.

Finally, Linehan said that one of the most pressing issues with the movement for her is that bans on abortions will not stop abortions.

“One of the big issues that I’ve heard here that I think a lot of pro-lifers don’t understand is that regardless whether or not you put a ban in place, people are still going to have abortions, whether that’s (in) a safe way or an unsafe way,” she said.

you weren’t accepted to Syracuse. And so that’s kind of all I read at first. I told my mom, and I was like, ‘Look, read this. It says I wasn’t accepted.’

And she made me read all of it, and I was like, ‘Wait, I’m actually kind of accepted.’ I thought it was super weird — very confusing.”

Maansi Suri, who will be entering Syracuse University with an undecided major, expressed her disappointment towards the invitation.

“It’s sort of like ‘Yeah, we’re going to reject you. But here, we’re not going to reject you reject you,’” Suri said. “But I get it, because I wasn’t the strongest academic person in high school … I think they wanted to see more of an upward trend.”

Wells College was not Russo’s first choice.

“I like it. I didn’t think I would, honestly,”

Russo said. “The community is really nice, and the activities are really fun.”

Other Pathway students are also enjoying their time at Wells. Suri said the students and teachers at Wells are nice and her classes are challenging enough, but the campus is very small. Dunbar liked that he could make connections with the people that he meets.

“I want to try and be more social,” Dunbar said. “And I get to see a bunch of new places.”

Suri likes having the chance to explore different areas of study, whereas Russo applied for her major specifically.

“Syracuse, for me, has a really good program for what I want to do,” she said. “I want to be a speech therapist. I’m saving a lot of money for my first year, so I think

that’s a really good thing. Ultimately, going to Syracuse I think will just benefit me.”

SU and Wells will also offer a new variant of the Pathway Program still in the works for international students called the Conditional Admission Pathway Program (or CAP Program). It will begin in the next few years through SU’s English Language Institute.

“We wanted to offer a similar program for international students where they get up to speed with their English while at Wells,” Slawson said. “We think that Wells needs more international students, so it’s sort of a way of … getting international students here and getting them, again, ready for SU.”

meeting will take place in November.

Asif said that he is working on a report to file later in October, which will include concerns and voices of undergraduates on issues, initiatives and updates on campus life.

“I would like to address financial accessibility, tuition, response to the pandemic, financial aid-especially for international students … quality of education and more,” Asif said. “There should be more issues coming up after speaking to students.”

Asif also said he encourages students across campus to get involved.

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Understand (the) Board of Trustees. Try to figure out how you can make a difference on campus,” he said. “You never know what the possibilities are.” ikhosbay@syr.edu

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absence of light

People in power are making criminal justice reform unobtainable

By Cliff Graham columnist

Absence of Light is a project created in collaboration with incarcerated people at Auburn Correctional Facility in Auburn, New York. This is an account from Absence of Light Columnist Cliff Graham, who recently transferred to Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, New York. In this miniseries within Absence of Light, Graham describes the paradoxes he sees within the prison system.

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ater shares the good and bad qualities of the strata through which it flows, and man, those are the climate in which he is born. The current climate in today’s society

is moving as fast as light. This message is urgent or else one finds himself trapped in an abyss.

The current climate in today’s prison society is also moving faster than it has in generations, with few bills discussed, a sprinkle of legislation and a lot of disappointments coded with futuristic hope of change. This narrative — this paradox — I am about to reveal to you is presented with that hope of change that someone reading may be moved to enforce that change.

A very wise man said that, short of the multiplication table, there is no truth and no fact which must be proved over again, as if it had never been proved from time to time.

Criminal justice reform has made

surprising advancements in today’s realm, causing those in opposition to desperately find pathways to counter its accomplishments, creating kilometers of mazes.

Many of us who are trapped in these illusionary mazes, looking back, had we been shown other options, we’d stop whatever it was we were engaged in cold turkey to rome those open pathways. Making matters even more trivial, those who oppose reform have taken shelter under the current pandemic, abusing its emergency measures in all walks of life if you take notice.

For the courts, judges — having the power over life and liberty — confronted with statutory and constitutional issues denied defen-

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dants relief that the law affords them. Lawyers, exhausted over pressing to have their clients’ cases heard, collapse from overwhelming dedication. District attorneys, having home field advantage, relish in the delays that the pandemic has created.

For the Department of Corrections, those in charge of running these prisons and institutions will later realize that their negligence could have been sharply avoided.

Those that they have employed to oversee their operations will also later realize that taking advantage of their bosses negligence was a low blow that created one of the most catastrophic conditions inside the prison indus-

trial complex that man has seen in generations.

To the police departments who have shown that the world is against them, only if you knew how far you are from the truth. Your positions have caused your minds to think that you are superior to the ones you are there to guide towards a productive life. A disease that history has shown is so hard to eradicate.

So, this is a call to all those in positions to make a change. Where are you?

Clifford Graham, # 15-B-2973 Syracuse, New York.

Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, New York.

I can be reached at JPay-Inmate Tablet Program via email for any opinions, comments or wise counsel.

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SU, put reproductive health first

By Cara Steves columnist

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exas’ new abortion law made history last month as one of the most restrictive measures taken in the United States to limit access to abortions in decades. The new law makes no exceptions for instances of rape or incest, while also limiting terminations of pregnancies related to health concerns. Many people are left questioning what the ramifications of this enactment will be and what it will mean for people across the U.S., including at Syracuse University.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women in their 20s accounted for 57.7% of abortions in 2018, making safe access to abortion pertinent to college students.

Though Gov. Kathy Hochul has recently announced a plan to protect and affirm reproductive rights within New York state, students on SU’s campus must have access to reproductive health care services — especially in the aftermath of a law that is actively hindering reproductive rights.

SU freshman Natalie Robinson is from Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp, signed a law in 2019 banning abortions after a heartbeat is detected. This regulation sparked fear for Robinson and others.

“One of the reasons that I chose to come to Syracuse was the ongoing regulation of reproductive rights happening in Georgia,” Robinson said. “I thought if something bad were to happen, I wouldn’t have any options. If something tragic were to happen, like rape, I wouldn’t have had anywhere to go. I would have just had to go through it.”

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for transgender and gender nonconforming students, and other additional health services should be more readily available to students at SU and around the country.

The Barnes Center at The Arch is SU’s central health and wellness hub. It is the prime location for SU students to receive health treatment, referrals, prescriptions and mental health resources.

According to its website, the Barnes Center at The Arch offers multiple services geared toward reproductive health care, such as contraceptive management, pregnancy counseling, pregnancy testing, preventative counseling, gender affirming care and sexual and reproductive health exams.

Though these services are helpful, some students question their accessibility and feel that they are not advertised enough. “I have not heard anything about finding OB-GYN or reproductive health services on campus. Let us know it’s available. Let us know where to find them, if they’re even there,” Robinson said.

Alexandra Grypinich, a thirdyear student, also questions the availability of these important resources, “I don’t really know much about women’s health on campus. As a third year, I probably should have heard more by now,” she said.

It’s important that the rhetoric on reproductive health becomes less allusive and more open and positive.

One way to achieve this is through advertising. Grypinich suggested a similar marketing tactic to the sexual health supply ordering system known as the Safer Sex Express initiative provided by the Barnes Center.

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tion testing and treatment, Pap tests, fibroids evaluation, breast exams, colposcopy and routine physicals for those aged 21 years and older.

It is also crucial to cover the full scope of individuals affected by reproductive health issues. Rebecca Lambert, a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at SU, shared the importance of extending a conversation that predominantly stays central to women and their needs.

“A lot of the times in the discussion of what gets included in women’s health care, certain populations get forgotten, like transgender students, gender non-conforming students and nonbinary students.

There are a lot of different needs that have evolved into what gets included under the umbrella of what gets talked about,” Lambert said.

Having full reproductive services available and accessible to every student can make a profound impact on a student’s well-being. It can also positively impact the SU community. “(Accessible reproductive health care) allows them to be able to focus on their education. If they have the services available to help them when needed, it will allow them to continue doing things like going to class and continuing with assignments. It helps keep health care from becoming a barrier,” Lambert said.

If SU extended available reproductive health care services to support each student’s diverse needs will make a remarkable impact. By creating a narrative that focuses on inclusion, empowerment and education, promoting accessible reproductive health care services will allow students to take full advantage of their time on campus, free of worries surrounding access to these services.

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The staff at A La Mode was reduced by more than half last spring as workers steadily quit. The restaurant’s owner said she doesn’t believe increasing pay will attract more workers right now. courtesey of jeanne catalfano

Though A La Mode was a much-loved spot in the university area, it had to close temporarily due to labor shortages

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very Sunday last year, Jared Zippin, Jack Murray and their friends would either pick up or get delivery from A La Mode, their favorite restaurant near Syracuse University.

I got the Albakurkey turkey (sandwich) every time,” Zippin said. “If I went with a group of people, I’d get the Albakurkey turkey and they’d get a buffalo chicken panini, and we’d go halfsies.”

Lunch at A La Mode became tradition for Zippin, but just as the 2021-22 academic year began, his trips to A La Mode suddenly stopped. On Aug. 21, the restaurant suspended operations due to a staff shortage.

Originally opened as a Carvel Ice Cream in 1967, A La Mode has been serving both the local community and students of Syracuse University for over a decade. Owner Jeanne Catalfano bought the business in 2010.

Students and locals alike were concerned Catalfano see a

would change the restaurant when she bought it in 2010, including one of its most beloved offerings — ice cream.

A second grader even sent Catalfano a petition with 100 signatures to try to convince her to keep it. Although Catalfano never considered taking the ice cream away, the petition — which she still has — showed her just how much the restaurant meant to the community, she said.

Catalfano even kept the original tabletops of the restaurant, which were painted by students at the Westcott Community Center, and they are now mounted on the walls as decoration to make room for larger tables. It was important for her to keep the restaurant’s local feel, she said.

“I like preserving that small business feel: familyrun, people-oriented,” Catalfano said. “I like that when people come in they know my manager really well, and she knows them and knows their name and their kids and their husband, their wife.”

Catalfano began working in the restaurant business in 2003 when she and her father opened The Deli Downtown in Cortland. After several successful years in Cortland,

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NONEWFRIENDS. outdoor concert heard around the block

By Katie Hopsicker contributing writer

More than 200 people filled the backyard of a Sumner Avenue house on Saturday night. As the sun set in the sky, Syracuse University students mingled and laughed, enjoying the warm fall night. Then the sound of Jackson Siporin’s saxophone pierced through the crowd, signifying

the start of NONEWFRIENDS.’s set. The band’s energy was infectious, and the audience got louder too, dancing and singing along.

The outdoor house show opened w ith performances by musicians Sedona and a kid named rufus. Once NONEWFRIENDS. took the stage, lead singer Liz Stuart encouraged the crowd to sing along to the band’s hits: “The Hook,” “Already Gone,”

her personal favorite, “Not Your Girl.” The band got the audience dancing to covers of “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry and “Ghost Town” by Kanye West, which Stuart sang with Sedona.

The band played two unreleased songs, during which the lead singer hyped up the crowd, saying, “We hope it makes you jam too.”

After almost ending the show

with their hit “Personal,” the audience shouted for more, and NONEWFRIENDS. delivered an encore of “Best Friend” by Rex Orange County.

Audience members said they loved the music and the ambiance of the setting. The outdoor stage was set at the back wall of the house, and the wall and ground were decorated with string lights and house plants. During a few of

the songs, the crowd held up their f lashlights, making the whole backyard glow. Graduate student Daniel Wilde said he thought having the concert outside was a “genius idea.”

Sophomore Ava Lahijani agreed.

“I felt euphoric, and I felt like I was in the clouds,” she said. “Then I looked around me, and I realized I wasn’t in the clouds because I was see nonewfriends. page 8

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The Schine Underground stage featured colorful light fixtures that shot auroras of color into the room. A large LED sign sat at the back of the stage and displayed animated visuals of sci-fi content.

Only a few feet away stood a swarm of Syracuse University students, shining their phones’ flash lights toward the headliner.

Behind Rebecca Black — donning a red corset top with matching red pants — stood her DJ Cecilia Gomez, who goes by the artist name Ceci G. Early in her set, Black thanked the crowd for attending and announced how great it felt to be back on a stage for the first time in nearly two years.

WERW radio returned to Schine Underground for its 2021 Fall Launch party with performances from SU student band Picture Us Tiny and pop singer Rebecca Black. This is the radio station’s first in-person event since its 2019 launch party that featured performances from Kae Draco and Aidan Ochre.

The radio station would not be the same without its in-person concerts and parties.

After all, radio entertainment centralizes around music, WERW general manager Laurel Matsui said.

“I think it’s a really integral part of our organization since we are all about music and radio that we have this fun celebration,” Matsui said. “We did a virtual launch party in the spring, but obviously it doesn’t have that same energy and vibe that a real in-person one does.

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a la mode Catalfano and her father bought A La Mode in 2010 and gradually merged the previous owners’ menu with The Deli Downtown’s menu.

When the pandemic began in March 2020, A La Mode switched to takeout and curbside pickup, but it was hard for the restaurant to adjust to the loss of connection between the staff and its customers, Catalfano said.

“When we bought (A La Mode), it had a rich history, and people were coming into the store telling us that they were coming in as a kid with their grandparents,” Catalfano said.

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nonewfriends. surrounded by Syracuse students.”

NONEWFRIENDS. features Stuart as lead singer, Peter Groppe on guitar, Siporin on saxophone, Jack Harrington on bass and Scott Greenblatt on piano. The band members are seniors except for Greenblatt, who is a graduate student. They have had multiple drummers through the years, and Chris Cummings — a friend of Greenblatt’s from high school — played percussion at the Saturday night show.

The band formed in fall 2018, in Stuart’s freshman year at SU. She met Groppe, Siporin and Harrington in her first few days of freshman year, and the three guys had met Greenblatt, then a sophomore, through SU’s jazz band. Stuart said the group officially began when Groppe and Siporin asked her to perform with them at a house show.

“We had no expectation of it turning into literally anything more than just a fun night,” she said.

But three years later, the five musicians are still friends and still making music.

Stuart came up with the band’s name in an SU dining hall and laughed when she explained that at the time they were one another’s only friends. She remembered how they announced the name at their first house show, and when the audience chanted NONEWFRIENDS., they knew the name felt right.

“It all snowballed from there,” she said.

Greenblatt said NONEWFRIENDS. was cultivated by the house show scene at SU and

station recognizes the abundance of talent at SU and encourages students to share their talent with the campus, Matsui said.

WERW got Picture Us Tiny, a pop-punk band established in 2020, to open for Black.

The band’s single “Indie Girls 101” has gained over 15,000 streams on Spotify and reflects early 2000s aesthetics.

“My sound is definitely drawn from early 2000s pop-punk,” said Jackson Velli, Picture Us Tiny’s guitarist and lead vocalist.

“I think another one of my influences is writers like Elliott Smith, almost trying to create this expression of early 2000s music with some mature writing on top of it,” he said.

Picture Us Tiny is known for applying unconventional elements to their performances. The band’s last performance took place on a balcony on Ackerman Avenue, leaving attendees to crowd the lawn. However, lead guitarist Vir Batra said he enjoyed the traditional stage setup at Schine Underground.

“This one was a real stage with ventilation and people were kept away. It was much better organized than our last performance,” Batra said.

The instantaneous crowd matched its energy with the pace of the band’s setlist. One song brought out the raging energy of mosh pits, while another prompted the crowd to sway in unison.

Black took the stage second at the launch party. Her hit single “Friday” went viral in 2011 and led the way for her second hit “Saturday” in 2013.

After each song, Black joined the front line of the crowd in a singing duo. One sign in the crowd stood as a tribute to Black’s queer pride.

The “I’m Gay 4 You Mommy,” sign was held

high during her performance.

When Black came back on stage for an encore to perform a remix of “Friday,” the crowd erupted with cheers, and crew members dispersed colorful balloons amongst the crowd. Before the beat dropped in the electric-remix of “Friday,” Black called for the audience to open up for one more mosh pit.

They followed her wish, and the crowd quickly turned into a center for rowdy dance pits and crowd-surfer galore.

One student said they were surprised that Black’s style of music would attract such a large crowd. Another surprised that Black chose to perform at SU. “She’s such a niche artist, and Syracuse is such a niche school,” Amy Tena said.

As a fan since elementary school, Tena felt it was no coincidence that Black performed at her school. “It was like it came full circle,” Tena said.

Catalfano said the restaurant didn’t deal with many staff issues. A La Mode, like many restaurants, relies heavily on parttime workers, especially students and other young people. The staff is usually cyclical — as college students take off in the summer, students who return to the Syracuse area for the summer take their spots, Catalfano said.

But in the spring of 2021, her workers began to steadily quit for different reasons, and Catalfano did not receive any applications to fill their positions. A La Mode’s usual daytime staff of seven was cut down to two. Catalfano said she advertised all over the area, but the only applications she received were for the night shift. On Aug. 21, A La Mode suspended operations.

“I was definitely taken aback because I

thought that A La Mode was really popular within Syracuse,” Zippin said. “It was definitely sad. There’s no other sandwich place in my opinion that does what A La Mode does.”

Catalfano attributes the staff shortage to a multitude of issues. Food service positions are usually low growth, temporary, part-time work that young people use as stepping stones to other places.

But with the federal government’s boosted unemployment program, Catalfano said she thinks many prospective applicants decided to go on unemployment instead of coming back to work.

And, Catalfano said, students’ workloads are heavier, meaning they can’t work in the restaurant and still have time to study. Due to A La Mode’s status as a small

business, it can’t offer some of the benefits large corporations can, such as child care for employees.

Although Murray and Zippin both agreed that increasing pay is the key to securing more employees, Catalfano disagreed.

“We can offer people tons and tons of money and that’s not it. That’s not motivating people to come back to work,” Catalfano said.

A La Mode is currently holding open interviews and hopes to reopen in October, Catalfano said. Its only obstacle to reopening is staff shortage. As soon as the restaurant returns, it’ll be sure to welcome back crowds of hungry students and locals alike.

“It’s a staple in the community,” said Murray.

said that those house shows are what instilled confidence in the band. He said the band aims to cultivate a “vibe” and community in which the audience wants to be friends with them.

Stuart said the group’s strong friendship translates into their music and that they are extremely committed to working as a team. They collaborate on writing all of their songs, and between writing, producing, editing, logistics and marketing, everyone has their own role.

When creating a song, Greenblatt said it isn’t really finished until everyone puts their own personal spin on it.

“At this point it feels like we’re a family,” said Stuart. “When you’re writing music together, that puts you in a very emotional place … You have to be honest and vulnerable.”

When COVID-19 squandered the band’s performance opportunities, they used the year to record music and get closer as a group. Not only did they write, record and release new music, but they also created TikToks and videos that helped them expand their reach on social media.

While NONEWFRIENDS. describes its music as indie-pop, Greenblatt said that each member influences each song, and Stuart commented on the jazz background that many of them have.

“If you get to know everybody in the group, you can really hear how all of our influences are apparent,” said Greenblatt.

“There are jazz influences, there’s funk, there’s rock … Everybody brings their own style to the table.”

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NONEWFRIENDS. performed at Pianos in New York City this summer, and the band plans to perform at more house shows soon. They will be opening for Melt, a popular indie-soul group, at Funk ‘n Waffles in downtown Syracuse on Oct. 21. They also plan to release a new song soon, Stuart said.

Both Greenblatt and Stuart hope to eventually go on tour, and the band wants to keep making music together for as long as it can.

Stuart said the group currently has a strong foundation and footing. She said this year is important for them to keep pushing before they all graduate, but the band generally agrees that they want to continue playing together after college.

“My goal is just to keep making music with people that I love,” she said. “As cheesy as that sounds, it’s the best feeling in the world.” kshopsic@syr.edu

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travis Travis finished with 113 yards rushing on 19 carries, an average of 5.9 yards per carry.

He added another 131 yards passing and two touchdowns in Florida State’s (1-4, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) 33-30 win over Syracuse (3-2, 0-1 ACC). The matchup marked the second week in a row that SU faced a mobile, dual-threat quarterback. But last week against Liberty’s Malik Willis, a likely future first-round NFL Draft pick, SU’s defense limited him to 49 rushing yards and 2.9 yards per carry.

“Just staying in coverage, knowing that he was going to be running around,” cornerback Garrett Williams said of Willis after the Liberty win. “We were trying to stay in coverage the whole time and respect the double moves knowing that they were running a lot of them.”

So why did SU have more trouble containing Travis?

Syracuse’s defense had a sluggish day on Saturday in Tallahassee, at least compared to its usual standards. The unit conceded season highs in total yards (378), rushing yards (247), first downs (22) and points (33). The clutch interception from Chestnut nearly bailed them out, but the harsh missed holding call and roughing the passer penalties against Wax certainly didn’t make things easier.

Still, on numerous occasions just like the final drive, SU couldn’t keep Travis in the pocket. The quarterback continuously stepped up and eluded the defensive line’s pressure before taking advantage of space downfield. He made SU defenders miss.

Babers said after the game that Travis was a quarterback who beat the Orange with both his arm and his legs.

“You’re trying to pass-rush, and if you leave a lane open and he steps through, you either you got a whole bunch of guys deep, playing zone, (or) you got a whole bunch of guys with their back turned to the quarterback playing man-to-man,” Babers said.

In the first quarter, Travis converted to two-straight fourth down plays, the latter of which he kept it on fourth and short and bulled forward for the first down. A week ago, Willis tried to do the same thing on fourth-and-goal during the fourth quarter.

But when the Liberty quarterback tried to put his head down and charge ahead with the pile, Kingsley Jonathan broke through a gap in the Flames offensive line and wrapped up Willis for a one-yard loss.

Cody Roscoe got a strip-sack on Willis on the final drive to set up the game-winning field goal, too.

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columbia On Sunday, the Orange maintained the majority of possessions at the start of the game and first tested Columbia’s goal with Lammers. Lammers drove into the inner circle, brought up her stick and swiped it toward the cage only for her shot to be blocked by Columbia goalkeeper Alexa Conomikes’ leg guards. She shot again 25 seconds later, but her attempt missed entirely.

But the third attempt from Lammers went in when Sienna Pegram lasered a pass to her at the penalty mark. Lammers grabbed the ball with her stick, twisted herself around while two defenders approached her and rifled the ball into the back of the goal. Syrafrom page 12

offense get cleaned up.”

Columbia was only able to break through and create space near Syracuse’s shooting circle when an SU player was dispossessed or misplaced a pass. SU freshman midfielder Willemijn Boogert was caught out twice in the third quarter, which resulted in Columbia driving up the field with a numbers advantage. Laura Graziosi also botched a pass in the midfield that gave Columbia the ball in Syracuse’s defensive half of the field.

But even in these situations, SU’s backline trio — Sommer, van den Nieuwenhof and Pegram — was there to derail any chance of a successful Lions counterattack.

“It’s nice because we’re finally getting the outcome that I think we deserve,” Pegram

FSU, both of which came during the second quarter, including a big one from Jonathan where he blew past his man and drilled Travis into the ground before taking a bow in celebration.

But after halftime, the Orange defense looked more worn out. Syracuse watched as Travis threw a lateral pass to the flat on third and goal and the receiver dropped the pass.

The ball was still live, but SU didn’t react soon enough. FSU scooped it up, and ran it in for the touchdown.

That same mentality carried over into the fourth quarter when Travis continued to run quarterback keepers and the read-option. He negated a false start penalty on the previous play by pump faking and then stepping up to his right to outrun SU’s four-man rush for an 11-yard gain. That drive ended in a touchdown that put the Seminoles up 10 points.

On FSU’s next possession, he again alluded to SU’s four-man rush by darting through a hole on his left on 3rd-and-5. Wax had a chance to make the play before the sticks, but Travis showed strength to shake the tackle.

Chestnut’s incerpetion came on the next play, but Travis continued more of the same on the game’s final drive to lead the Seminoles to their first win of the year.

The game was won when…

Travis’ two big runs on the game’s final drive put FSU into field goal range. FSU’s redshirt freshman kicker, Ryan Fitzgerald, forced overtime with a clutch 43-yard field goal against then-No. 9 Notre Dame in the Seminoles season-opener. Saturday against the Orange, he split the uprights from 34 yards as time expired. Babers iced him with Syracuse’s second timeout, but it didn’t work. A week after winning on a field goal at the buzzer, SU lost in the same fashion.

Quote of the night: Head coach Dino Babers

Tucker’s added a dimension to an SU offense that looked flat at times this year.

But, despite putting up 30 points in its loss, the Orange still went 2-of-12 and 0-of-3 on third and fourth down, respectively. SU hadn’t missed a fourth down conversion until Saturday’s game in Tallahassee, Babers pointed out after the game. On the first, a predictable handoff to Tucker ended with a two-yard loss as FSU’s defensive linemen exploded through the gap.

The second was Shrader’s hail mary to end the half, and the third was another controversial call where officials called Shrader down inside the one yard line on a fourth-and-goal rush.

But SU’s struggles on third down are perhaps the most concerning. This year, the Orange have a conversion rate of 32.8%, good for 110th of 130 FBS teams. SU went threeand-out on three of its first four drives against FSU, and converted just 4-of-13 despite a win over Liberty.

“We can do better,” Babers said postFSU of the low conversion rates. “We were disappointed that we didn’t get it and there (were) third down(s) that were pretty much the same.”

Duce Chestnut’s miraculous — and timely — pick:

Game ball: Garrett Shrader

Slow starts:

In his second career start for SU, Shrader sparked the offense with his 55-yard touchdown run, and then kept it going. He had three touchdown runs — and was inches away from tacking on a fourth — in addition to a touchdown pass. The offense ran through Tucker for the first four weeks, but this was the first time that Shrader’s playmaking abilities were on display for an extended period of time.

“We made one big play in the run game and kind of gave us a little confidence to start spreading the ball out and giving the ball to other guys,” Shrader said after the game.

Three final points Tucker’s gradual emergence:

Syracuse’s offense looked the most balanced its been thus far this year. Shrader was able to throw the ball with more success than in the past, and his legs combined with Sean

Compared to his first four games, a stretch where Tucker was averaging an FBS-leading 177.8 yards per game from scrimmage and was second in the nation in total rushing yards (536), it was a quiet afternoon in Florida for the running back.

Tucker’s first half started slowly. He had 34 rushing yards over the first two quarters, and didn’t record a rush of 10 or more yards until less than four minutes remained in the half. But in the second half, his consecutive carries of 17 and nine yards helped set SU up in the red zone. He ran for 12 and a touchdown on Orange’s next possession, though it was overturned. When Shrader got going in the run game, both he and Tucker were the beneficiary of the read-option.

cuse maintained a 1-0 lead and shot seven times throughout the first quarter, but it didn’t capitalize on three penalty corners in the period.

Before the first quarter ended, Bradley called out from the sidelines to Charlotte de Vries, yelling at her to extend Columbia’s defense. De Vries, who normally plays forward, has moved back to the midfield as Lammers and Quirine Comans have surged in their offensive output at the front of the offense in recent games. But de Vries began to create more shot opportunities as Syracuse entered the second quarter.

De Vries first shot with nine minutes remaining in the first half, but she was blocked. Her second shot, which she sent at the cage after beating off Columbia’s Jaimie

McCormick while in the inner circle, met Conomikes’ left leg guard.

At five minutes, Syracuse increased its lead to 2-0. Lammers scored her second goal of the game when a pass from outside the circle entered into the junior’s possession. Lammers then drove into the right side near the post and chipped a reverse shot. De Vries would later score as well, stationing herself at the top of the inner circle before twisting her stick backward to release a reverse shot into the back of the cage.

With a 3-0 lead at halftime, Bradley switched out Brooke Borzymowski for Louise Pert at goal in the second half. But even with the switch, Columbia still couldn’t breach the Orange’s defense, and their lead into the fourth quarter and continued its shot

Before the start of the season, Babers said with confidence that he’d want this team over the one he had last year. Saturday after SU’s loss in Tallahassee, he reiterated that sentiment.

“This team is not like last year’s team, even though we’ve got people missing, last year was something totally different,” Babers said.

“We’re going to be able to compete, we’re going to be able to battle… this team has got some stuff to it.

Stat to know: 2-of-12, 0-of-3

said. “All we can do is just keep it going and keep getting better.”

With just under three minutes left in regulation, it seemed as though Columbia earned their first penalty corner of the game. The play was reviewed, though, and only resulted in a long hit for the Lions.

Following the review, Rockefeller received a pass in the shooting circle and was able to attempt Columbia’s first shot. But her effort didn’t amount to anything, as Rockefeller’s shot was blocked before it even reached Pert. The Orange played out the final minutes for their sixth-straight win and have not conceded a goal in their last four games.

“We just have a plan, we stick to it,” Pegram said. “(We’re) just keeping our heads focused for the bigger picture.” brbrush@syr.edu

The true freshman’s highlight interception came at the perfect time for SU. With the Orange down three points and the fourth quarter halfway gone, Chestnut leaped into the passing lane and secured the pick on a designed screen pass play, giving the Orange a chance to take the lead with a touchdown (they’d be forced to settle for three instead). It’s the second week in a row that the defense has come up with a timely takeaway after last week’s strip sack of Willis.

The moment required impressive instincts, Babers explained later. Chestnut had to commit to the play, dodge the first receiver’s block and then jump the route. The fact that he secured the catch was even more impressive, Babers said, because oftentimes when a wide receiver’s elbows are the first body part to hit the ground, it jars the ball loose.

“He had so much confidence that he stayed locked on,” Babers said. “‘I’m telling you, the catch was a lot harder than what you guys think it was — and he made it look easy.”

Syracuse didn’t score a first quarter point against Florida State, Liberty or Rutgers. It did score opening drive touchdowns against UAlbany and Ohio, albeit the two worst opponents the Orange have faced this season, but has struggled to get going early the remainder of its higher-caliber opponents.

“In the first quarter, our base stuff, they kind of shut us down,” Shrader said after FSU. “But when we spread things out and started making plays and letting other people touch the ball, different run schemes and stuff, you saw what the offense has the potential to be.”

Babers and the Orange are aware of what lies ahead in their ACC slate. They’ll also need to be thinking about how to get the offense going quicker.

Next up: No. 19 Wake Forest

The undefeated Demon Deacons are the most unlikely of conference leaders five weeks in the college football season. They notched resounding wins over ACC opponents Florida State and Virginia, and beat Louisville on a last-second field goal to improve to 3-0 in conference play. They recorded wins over Norfolk State and Old Dominion, too. With the conference wide open, and Wake Forest the highest ACC team in the AP Top 25 poll as of Sunday, this will be a crucial game in the Dome for Syracuse. rferna04@syr.edu @roshan_f16

production until the very end of the game.

The last shot, the 22nd, came with a Marie Sommer penalty corner. Carolin Hoffmann collected the ball with 13 seconds left and fired, but the shot went wide.

While Syracuse had 22 shots throughout Sunday’s shutout win, the Lions could only create one. With two minutes left in the fourth quarter, Columbia’s Sophie Rockefeller lofted a shot — which only reached nearby Syracuse defenders — on the right side of the circle.

“I’m disappointed that we did give up a shot,” Bradley said. “Honestly our lines at the end were a little messy and that was just stuff that we need to get cleaned up.” @chrisscargs cscargla@syr.edu

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Syracuse wins 3rd straight match, sweeps Virginia Tech 3-0

By Adam McCaffery asst. digital editor

The ball was falling down to Virginia Tech’s Cera Powell after a high set from Marisa Cerchio on the left side. Powell locked her eyes on the ball and jumped — looking to send a strong spike over to Syracuse’s side of the net.

But Powell mistimed her jump, and instead of hitting the ball, all she could do was grab the air. The ball fell down on her chest and onto the ground as she looked disappointed. What could’ve been a point in the third set for the Hokies happened to be an attack error and a point for Syracuse late in the third set, putting the Orange up 22-11.

Powell’s missed hit and attack error was common for Virginia Tech. Syracuse (14-2, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) was able to build on its win on Friday with a stronger overall performance and forced a sloppy game from Virginia Tech (9-7, 0-4 ACC) in a dominant sweep.

After Friday’s win against Wake Forest, head coach Leonid Yelin said he felt the team’s front line and defensive performance was still not strong enough. Even though the team won in four sets and had more block assists than Wake Forest, there were frequent gaps between two frontline players going up for the block, forcing backline players like Lauren Hogan to deal with more difficult balls.

Middle blocker Abby Casiano said she felt there was too much disconnect between the frontline on Friday, but Sunday, the Orange were able to improve their timing.

“What we found was one of us was jumping to the right and one of us was jumping to the left which would cause that hole,” Casiano said. “We really worked on syncing that jump together and jumping the same way which led to a lot of blocks.”

In the first set, Syracuse and Virginia Tech went back and forth with each point. After the first kill by Virginia Tech, Syracuse had an attack error to help give the Hokies a 4-1 lead. But that was just one of only six total attack errors on the day for the Orange.

Quickly, SU gained its footing and went on a 13-7 run, including a span when Casiano and Viktoriia Lomanchuk earned two blocks in a row on the left side, forcing a Virginia Tech timeout after Syracuse went up 14-8.

Syracuse kept the distance for the rest of the first set, winning 25-17, as the Hokies finished with a .047 hitting percentage in the set. Throughout the set, multiple players got involved on attacks, and were able to outsmart Virginia Tech by utilizing light taps instead of hard spikes. To get the 23rd point, Izzy Plummer saw Virginia Tech players back up anticipating a spike, so she snuck the ball in front of them with a tap to

get the point.

Virginia Tech came out stronger in the second set, and was able to get past the Syracuse middle blockers with powerful hits to earn two quick points. SU trailed 6-2 early, but the Hokies couldn’t hold the lead. Markova and Lomanchuk stepped up their game and notched two kills each to tie the game at 8-8.

We really worked on syncing that jump together and jumping the same way which led to a lot of blocks Abby Casiano syracuse middle blocker

Later in the set, Mara Perry set the ball out of bounds for a Syracuse point.

Naomi Franco then earned two consecutive points for the Orange with a kill and then a block alongside Abby Casiano. At that point, Syracuse led 16-14 and Virginia Tech called a timeout before SU could continue its run.

But the timeout did little to help the Hokies as Syracuse ended the set on a 9-3

run to put the set away. Markova ended the set with two untouched aces in a row.

In total, the team finished the game with seven service aces compared to only one from Virginia Tech.

“Our serving was really strong today,” Casiano said. “That always gets a team out of system … when they’re scrambling then you can assume who they’re going to set which helps us to set up a really good block.”

In the third and final set, Syracuse cruised to a 25-13 win. Throughout the set, the Orange had a .344 hitting percentage in the third set and the Hokies finished with a poor .051 percentage.

The first play was a long rally, but it ended with a combined block from Casiano and Naomi Franco. Shemanova then added two service aces to put Syracuse up 4-0. To get the sixth point, Izzy Plummer and Markova met VT’s Amanda Lowe at the top of the net and threw the ball down back to the Hokies’ side, which was followed by two SU kills, stretching the third set to a 8-1 Syracuse lead.

After the timeout, Virginia Tech totaled eight more errors throughout the rest of the set due to the pressure of the Syracuse blockers and its accurate serves. The Orange also managed six blocks during the set, while VT couldn’t notch a single one. @adamccaffery9 amccaffe@syr.edu

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Peyton O’Brien, Abby Casiano emerge in Syracuse’s 3-0 win

By Cole Bambini staff writer

Syracuse’s outside hitter Marina Markova dug a Virginia Tech kill attempt and allowed freshman setter Peyton O’Brien to set up middle blocker Abby Casiano for an easy spike. The next point, Casiano and Viktoriia Lokhmanchuk blocked a kill attempt from the Hokies’ Griere Hughes, who fell back down with the ball in her lap, putting the Orange up 13-8. In the middle of a 7-0 run, SU cruised to a first set victory 25-17.

Syracuse (14-2, 3-1 Atlantic Coast) dominated Virginia Tech (9-7, 0-4 Atlantic Coast) in all aspects on Sunday, defeating the Hokies in straight sets. Last spring, SU lost to Virginia Tech in five sets. But Sunday, the Orange’s collective performance led to the team’s dominant display, complemented by strong performances by from page 12

jones from West Virginia University’s 2011 team — the 3-3-5.

Three years after his time at Mater, Jones would play under Babers’ 3-3-5, where he is now a hybrid of a defensive end and linebacker, coming up to the line on a large number of defensive snaps. Pond said Jones has the build of an “undersized” defensive lineman, making him a threat in pass rushing and coverage with the 3-3-5.

“We put him in the position where he was pretty much playing a defensive line position standing up,” Pond said. “He was the perfect size for a linebacker.”

Mater Academy’s defense featured several future DI players, and the team only allowed 62 total points in 10 regular season games.

The unit had five shutouts in those matchups.

But Jones was in search of tougher competition, something he found at nearby IMG Academy (Florida). So he made another change back to defensive end and transferred to IMG. Jones said the move was the “best” for him, as he was able to go against some of the best offensive players in the country every day.

“Iron sharpens iron every single day of practice,” Pond said. “He was a first-time linebacker when I had him, and IMG polished him up to help him become the finished product he was in his senior year.”

At practices, Jones would run one-on-one pass rushing drills against offensive linemen while also getting coverage reps against top-

O’Brien and Casiano.

Usually, Elena Karakasi handles the majority of the setting on the Orange’s offense, but Sunday, O’Brien — in only her eighth appearance of the season — rotated with Karakasi frequently to share setting duties, allowing O’Brien to record 16 total assists in the match. It was her secondhighest total so far this season.

O’Brien set the ball to a strong SU offense, which was led by Markova, Lokhmanchuk, Polina Shemanova and Naomi Franco. Casiano recorded five kills of her own, having the highest hit percentage for SU at .625.

Formation-wise, SU played with a 5-1 and 6-2 offensive formation. The 5-1 formation allows the team to have the same setter regardless of their position in the front or back row. In the 6-2 formation, a team will have two setters but it creates six attacking options. Head coach Leonid

Yelin said SU prefers to play the 6-2 system, which meant O’Brien was rotated into the game frequently.

“We always want to play 6-2 because we can be bigger, stronger and have more options,” Yelin said. “So playing in this system, we have two setters and Peyton (being) one of them.

She did what we needed to play 6-2.”

Defensively, SU had 14 more block assists, with Casiano recording five block assists.

On the first point of the third set, Virginia Tech set up an attack only for the spike to be blocked by Casiano, who sent it all the way behind every VT player.

“We were really really focused on timing because Virginia Tech’s timing is a little bit different. We had to get there and be really really patient,” Casiano said.

Timing, patience and synchronization of the block were all keys to SU’s strong blocking performance in the win. Casiano would yell “Wait, wait” to tell her pin hit-

ters before they would move over and jump for the block.

“That was just my main focus, was being really patient,” she said postgame.

Offensively, while the outside hitters usually recorded the majority of the kills, the attack often featured a fake kill attempt

by Casiano. In the middle of the second set, Shemanova recorded a kill off an assist from Karakasi, but Casiano screamed “Yes, yes,” attempting to deceive the Hokies’ defense from thinking she would be the one completing the attack. This allowed for kills from Markova and Shemanova.

The win marks SU’s third straight conference win after suffering a loss at Boston College in September. Next weekend, the Orange will travel to Notre Dame and No. 3 Louisville, SU’s highest-ranked opponent this season. Both teams defeated Syracuse twice last season.

tier running backs, including future Alabama running back Trey Sanders — a player “not common at your local high school,” Pond said.

In Jones’ senior season, IMG Academy was ranked the best school in the country, and the team traveled out of Florida to play some of the nation’s best teams. Against Mater Dei High School in Los Angeles, California, Jones went against quarterback Bryce Young, who now starts for Alabama. There, Jones dominated the middle of the field despite a 28-24 loss.

By the end of his senior year, Jones had become one of the top 25 linebackers in the country despite only learning the position less than two years prior. After receiving several DI offers, Jones chose Syracuse, which was coming off a 10-3 record in 2018.

Jones said the competition at IMG Academy prepared him for his freshman season at Syracuse. As a true freshman, Jones made four starts, leading all first-year players with 38 tackles.

The 4-3 system that Babers employed at the time was different from the 3-3-5, and it required Jones to spend less time at the line — making him work as a typical linebacker. Before the 2020 season, however, defensive coordinator Tony White introduced the 3-3-5 system that Jones was already familiar with.

But during spring practices, Jones had to wait on the sidelines for one of the first times in his life, unable to use the skills he had already displayed in the 3-3-5 while in high school. Instead, he was Geoff Cantin-Arku’s middle linebacker backup.

“I knew the new coaches weren’t just going to go off of last year. They wanted to see what I

could actually do on the field,” Jones said.

After just four spring practices, COVID19 sent the entire team home. Jones said he wanted to use the time to get bigger so that he could fight for the starting position once the team was allowed to practice again.

Jones said he reached his target weight of 230 pounds by the end of the summer — he had built strength using old weight plates at home in Florida.

In 2020, Jones solidified a starting role and led the team with 69 tackles. His success on the field came from his ability to process things faster due to his experience at defensive end, Pond said. That year was the first where he became the “quarterback” of the defense, according to Tommy DeVito. But the team only won once, and Jones’ success was overshadowed by the team’s 1-10 record.

Heading into this season, Jones said the team was better prepared with an entire offseason to implement more strategies to the 3-3-5. Syracuse added twists and more blitzes to its playbook, looking to utilize the strength it had at the linebacker position with Jones, Marlowe Wax and Stefon Thompson.

Now, the Orange are off to a 3-2 start, the best start they’ve had since Jones joined the team. From the middle of the field, Jones has become one of the top linebackers in the ACC, and ranks third in the conference in tackles, averaging 9.4 per game.

Syracuse’s toughest defensive task this season came against Liberty quarterback Malik Willis. Willis recorded over 250 yards of offense and two touchdowns against SU last season.

But Jones was already used to play-

ing against talented quarterbacks from his childhood in Florida. He had stopped a nowHeisman Trophy frontrunner in Young in high school, and Jones wanted to do the same against Willis.

With eight armbands — six more than he had as a freshman — tightly wrapped, Jones played a “QB spy” role against Willis. His sole purpose in this role was to stop the quarterback’s dual-threat abilities.

“I was watching a lot of film knowing that I was going to get the opportunity to stop (Liberty),” Jones said. “A lot of people are looking at (Willis) right now, and I took pride in watching the film and seeing his tendencies.”

In the first quarter, Willis gave the Orange trouble by breaking away from a collapsed pocket. But the Orange continued to send as many players as possible toward Willis, knowing if they stopped the NFL prospect, they would have a good chance to win the game.

SU brought four players up to the line at the beginning of the second quarter, including one linebacker. But Jones stayed at home in the second level, ready for Willis if he tried to run.

After dropping back on third-and-3, the pocket completely broke down on Willis. He saw an opening down the left side of the field, but Jones expected him to make this move.

The captain of the defense wrapped up the Heisman candidate’s legs, one yard short of the first down marker.

“He’s the key to everything,” Babers said of Jones. “He’s the guy.”

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How Travis troubled Syracuse

By Roshan Fernandez senior staff writer

MIKEL JONES started his high school career at defensive end. He switched to linebacker and currently leads Syracuse in tackles with 47. elizabeth billman senior staff photographer

After moving positions throughout his career, Mikel Jones is settled as a linebacker at SU

By Anish Vasudevan asst. sports editor

A

t 4 years old, Mikel Jones was the size of a 6-year-old.

When Emma Griffin, Jones’ mother, first put him into pee-wee football when he was 4 years old, he was bigger than most of the kids. But during games and practices, Jones didn’t want to hit anybody.

“In his mind, he was hitting little babies, he was hitting smaller kids. That’s not what he wanted to do,” Griffin said.

Griffin said she wanted to keep Jones in football, so she put him with kids two years older than he was the following season. Jones didn’t get accustomed to the contact until he was 14, his mom said, but he realized one skill he had compared to the other older kids. He could call the plays.

“He always was the one that would huddle the kids up and be like, ‘Okay you do it this way, you do it this way,’” Griffin said. “He was

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telling the bigger guys how to play, and I guess it worked in his favor.”

At home, Jones “calls the shots” to make sure his niece and older sister are the most comfortable they can be, Griffin said. On the field, Jones has led his Pop Warner teams, three high school defenses and now Syracuse’s 3-3-5 defense. After his promotion from backup to starting linebacker last season, Syracuse head coach Dino Babers said Jones is the “quarterback” for SU, and he leads the team in solo, assisted and total tackles.

Jones began his football journey at defensive end instead of linebacker. Griffin said Jones only realized right before high school that he “had the strength to knock people down.” Once he got into high school, Jones received an offer from Clemson after his freshman season, when he starred on Champagnat Catholic School’s varsity team.

But Jones made another switch after his freshman year. He transferred to Mater Academy (Florida), where he played under head coach Jeff Pond. Pond had a defensive scheme that he learned

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Backline limits Columbia to single shot in shutout

By Bryan Brush staff writer

Columbia’s Sophie Rockefeller lofted a shot off with 2:33 left in the fourth quarter marking the Lions’ first — and final — shot of the game.

But it was blocked in a crowded shooting circle, it didn’t require a save from Syracuse goalkeeper Louise Pert.

In No. 11 Syracuse’s 3-0 (8-2, 2-0 Atlantic Coast) win over Columbia (6-3, 0-2 Ivy League), the Orange limited the Lions to only one shot and didn’t concede a single penalty corner. The SU backline continuously thwarted Columbia whenever the Lions progressed up the field, clearing the

ball and rarely allowing them to carry possession into the shooting circle. On top of this being SU’s sixth-straight win, it cemented its fourth straight shutout victory. In the past four games, The Orange have scored 11 points and all four opponents have gone scoreless.

“We are good at our (defensive) lines but they got that one shot at the end,” head coach Ange Bradley said.

Syracuse stifled Columbia in the absence of veteran midfielder SJ Quigley, who was on the sideline during the game with a boot on her left foot. Bradley declined to comment on the status of Quigley and the timetable for her return.

Quigley was named ACC Defensive

Player of the Week on Sept. 21.

Starting her first game of the 2021 season, SU junior Marie Sommer stepped in and filled Quigley’s role of inserting the ball on penalty corner plays. Sommer also played at the right-back position, alongside Eefke van den Nieuwenhof and Sienna Pegram to complete SU’s backline.

“She kept it clean,” Bradley said about Sommer. “She did her job.”

A pair of first-half goals from Pleun Lammers followed by one from Charlotte de Vries was enough to secure victory for Syracuse. But SU’s offense only scored three goals out of 22 shots and didn’t convert on any of the six corners the team earned.

What Garrett Shrader did with his legs on Saturday in Tallahassee, Jordan Travis seemed to replicate.

With 40 seconds remaining and a chance to win the game if the Seminoles got into field goal range, Travis scrambled. The pocket collapsed on the second play of the series, so Travis darted out the front side and then cut up the left sideline. SU linebacker Marlowe Wax expected Travis to step out of bounds — he’d already been called for a controversial late hit during the second quarter. So Wax stopped early, and Travis continued down the left sideline for a 33-yard gain that put the Seminoles on the edge of field goal range.

Then, on 3rd-and-7 with 20 seconds left, Travis rolled out of the pocket and bolted upfield for a gain of another 25, albeit a missed holding call on FSU against Wax. “Obviously he broke contain, he went down the sidelines,” Babers said. “I thought some guys were pulling up, and (Travis) kept tiptoeing down the sideline and turned it into a huge play.”

“That’s not good enough,” Bradley said about the team’s offensive production.

Pegram shared a similar sentiment. “It’s definitely not the greatest outcome we wanted,” Pegram said. “We had a lot more chances.”

With a sluggish offensive showing, it was the Orange’s strong defensive performance that allowed them to preserve their lead throughout the game. Outside of the opening minutes of the first quarter, Syracuse set the pace of the game.

“We controlled a majority of the possession,” Bradley said. “Our lines at the end were a little messy and that is just stuff that we need to

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SU beats Columbia after 22 shots

By Christopher Scarglato senior staff writer

After Syracuse beat Columbia 3-0 on Sunday, head coach Ange Bradley unfolded a stat sheet. Two numbers stood out.

“The pro is we scored three,” Bradley said. “The con is we took 22 (shots to do it).”

No. 11 Syracuse (8-2, 2-0 Atlantic Coast) peppered 22 attempts against a Columbia (6-3, 0-2 Ivy League) defense which allowed the Orange to continually penetrate the scoring circle. Still, SU was only able to find the back of the cage three times. Pleun Lammers led Syracuse’s offense with two scores on four shot attempts.

The last time Syracuse cracked at least 20 shots in a game was on Sept. 12, when it beat UConn 5-3 with 25 attempts. In the following games, against ranked opponents, the Orange competed against tight defenses that limited their shot counts. With the 3-0 win against Columbia, Syracuse continues a six-game win streak and posted its fourth shutout in a row. Still, it failed to fully capitalize on all the shots the Lions’ defense allowed.

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