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Protesters gathered Sunday outside the county sheriff’s office in response to a video showing a deputy using profane language toward a minor during an arrest. Page 3

SUNY-ESF graduate student Mariah Gladstone teaches people how to cook Indigenous foods such as maple-glazed salmon and bison stew on her show “Indigikitchen.” Page 8

Chris Fox led SU to a national championship five years ago. Now, he reflects on his tenure as Syracuse’s cross country head coach. Page 12

men’s basketball

Boeheim tests positive for COVID-19, program pauses By Danny Emerman senior staff writer

Syracuse men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim has tested positive for COVID-19. Boeheim, 75, said in a statement Sunday that he’s not experiencing any symptoms and he immediately began quarantining at home. SU conducted an additional round of testing for all program members as part of its COVID-19 protocols and found that one other person tested positive. The additional infection has prompted Syracuse to pause all bas-

ketball-related activities, Director of Athletics John Wildhack said in a release. All members of the program will receive COVID-19 tests multiple times this week, Wildhack said. These are the first known positive tests within the Orange’s basketball program since the team returned to campus in July. SU Athletics doesn’t announce test results publicly. “Our top priority is the health and wellbeing of our student-athletes, Coach Boeheim and all members of the basketball program,” Wildhack said. “We are following all CDC

guidelines and ACC protocols, and working closely with the Onondaga County Department of Health, to mitigate further transmission of the virus.” Boeheim will have to quarantine for 10 days if he doesn’t develop symptoms, according to the NCAA’s guidelines. Should he develop symptoms, he would have to isolate for at least 10 days after. Syracuse’s season begins Nov. 27 at home against Bryant. The team has practiced with COVID-19 health procedures in place, Boeheim told reporters Thursday. Coaches

have worn masks and maintained 10-to-12 feet of distance from players. COVID-19 infections are rising at record levels in both Onondaga County and across the United States. Central New York on Saturday had the second-highest positive test rate in the state, at 4.6% There were 199 new cases reported in Onondaga County on Saturday, and Syracuse University moved all classes online earlier last week. As of Saturday, there were 244 active cases among students and employees and 700 students in quarantine. dremerma@syr.edu

For #NotAgainSU organizers, the fight against racism at SU isn’t over

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Just because I can go to Syracuse University doesn’t mean that this university is inclusive and welcoming of me Gaelyn Smith former #notagainsu organizer

hen Gaelyn Smith returned to Syracuse University to take graduation pictures, she felt unwelcome on the campus she had called home for four years. It was the first time Smith, who is now a graduate student at SU, had been on campus since #NotAgainSU’s 31-day occupation of CrouseHinds Hall concluded in mid-March. #NotAgainSU, a movement led by

Black students, protested the university’s handling of a series of racist incidents through two separate building occupations during the 2019-20 academic year. Smith was one of the movement’s core organizers. Returning to campus brought her a familiar sense of anxiety and discomfort, as well as the feeling that she was unwanted. “The last time I’d been on campus, there were people who didn’t want me on campus anymore,” Smith said. “It’s a really hard thing see #notagainsu page 6

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Protesters gather following minor’s arrest Students reflect on campus climate By Michael Sessa asst. news editor

Demonstrators from local advocacy groups gathered Sunday outside the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office in downtown Syracuse to condemn a deputy sheriff’s arrest of a minor. gabe stern enterprise editor By Gabe Stern

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Chants echoed around the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office as protesters gathered outside the building in downtown Syracuse on Sunday. About 20 demonstrators protested outside the office in response to a video that circulated over the weekend showing at least one deputy sheriff using profane and threatening language toward a 15-year-old during an arrest. The deputy pulled the minor out of the driver seat of a car and continued to use profane language throughout the encounter, as the minor pleaded with the deputy to stop. Photos accompanying the video show the minor, who is Black, with bruises on his face and neck. Demonstrators gathered on the sidewalk and spilled onto part of the street as speakers from

local advocacy groups passed the microphone to one another and chanted. Members from Last Chance for Change, RebirthSYR and OG’s Against Violence were all in attendance. The mother of the minor in the video, Liza Acquah, also addressed the crowd. “No mother should have to go through this,” said Clifford Ryan, founder of OG’s Against Violence and a member of the Citizen Review Board. “And I’m not going to lie to you. When I saw (Acquah’s) son crying and pleading for his life, I shed a tear. And my tears were twofold. It was tears of hurt and pain, and it was also tears of frustration.” He then gestured to a demonstrator’s sign displaying a picture of Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, kneeling on the neck of George Floyd. Chauvin’s killing of Floyd sparked nationwide protests this summer. “Because we continue to go

through this,” he said. The minor’s arrest occurred around 4 a.m. on Wednesday following a pursuit related to a stolen vehicle that ended in Oswego County, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s office said in a statement to The Daily Orange. The incident is under investigation, the spokesperson said. After opening the vehicle’s door, the deputy yelled at the minor, who was sitting in the driver’s seat with his hands up, to “get the f*ck out of the car.” “Please don’t do this to me. Don’t kill me,” the minor says at one point while off-camera. “Shut the f*ck up,” a deputy replies. “Get your f*cking ass up off the ground, motherf*cker.” After about 90 seconds, a white deputy reached into the vehicle and turned off the camera. Acquah sued the city of Syracuse and the Syracuse Police Department in 2018 after a school resource officer allegedly used excessive force

on her other son, Jabari Boykins. At Sunday’s protest, she said she feels like her family is “a target to any type of law enforcement.” “Those words that were coming out of my son’s mouth — ‘Please don’t kill me,’ ‘Stop hurting me’ — all this stuff that you saw in the newspaper, and you heard in that video, that was crazy,” Acquah said. “Put yourself in my shoes as a mother.” While the county’s internal affairs unit has reached out to her, she said she will not communicate with them before her lawyer gets involved. Boykins and the minor who was arrested showed up at the sheriff’s apartment toward the end of the protest. The 15-year-old was on crutches and had bruises on his face. He took a picture with the protesters and talked with a few of them afterward. “This can’t happen no more,” Acquah said. “I’m tired. I’m so tired.” gkstern@syr.edu

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Students work toward #NotAgainSU demands By Madison Tyler asst. copy editor

Students of marginalized identities have continued working to implement recommendations they presented to Syracuse University administrators a year ago following racist incidents on campus. After a series of more than 30 hate incidents took place on campus during the 2019-20 academic year, multiple groups of marginalized students submitted lists of demands, concerns or recommendations to the university. Some of those groups are still struggling to work with SU officials to make progress, organizers behind the groups’ demands said. SU has tracked its progress on those recommendations, along with demands made by #NotAgainSU, on a webpage.

Here’s the progress SU has made toward each group’s demands, according to organizers:

Indigenous student demands

Indigenous students submitted concerns to the university alongside other groups in November 2019. But those concerns, along with commitments made to Indigenous students signed by Chancellor Kent Syverud, were only recently posted to the site on Nov. 10, said Ionah Scullly, a doctoral student in SU’s School of Education. “We were one of the last student groups to have our solutions posted to the website,” said Danielle Smith, an SU alumnus and member of the Onondaga Hawk clan who has continued working on the list of solutions through the Ongwehonwe Alumni Association. “It was frustrating at points during the

negotiation phase and just kind of feeling like we were getting pushed to the backburner.” Scully, who is Cree Métis of the Michel First Nation, said Syverud didn’t sign the Indigenous students’ concerns list, which was presented to the university in December 2019 and then again in July 2020, until Oct. 8. The concerns include keeping the Native Student Program in its Euclid Avenue location, hiring at least two Indigenous mental health counselors and revising the university’s land acknowledgment, which the university reads at events to acknowledge SU’s presence on land traditionally belonging to the Onondaga Nation. SU has already hired an Indigenous-identifying counselor in the Barnes Center at The Arch, the university’s website shows.

When SU announced it would renovate the Schine Student Center and move many Office of Multicultural Affairs programs into the new space, Indigenous students speculated the Native Student Program and Indigenous Students at Syracuse would relocate there too, said Maris Jacobs, an SU graduate and former co-president of Indigenous Students at Syracuse. Maintaining the programs’ existing space on Euclid Avenue was important, Jacobs said. “That’s kind of our space,” Jacobs said. “From the very beginning it was really important to have that space from your freshman year all the way to your senior year. It fosters a kind of community for us on campus.” Smith said SU is currently working on renovations to the building

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A year after #NotAgainSU began protesting Syracuse University’s handling of hate incidents on campus, students of color at Syracuse University have mixed feelings about whether the campus climate has changed. While some students of color said the university has made progress in creating a safer and more inclusive environment for students from marginalized backgrounds, others said SU still hasn’t adequately addressed racism and systemic bias within the institution. Gaelyn Smith, a graduate student studying television, radio and film, said much of SU’s response to demands from #NotAgainSU and other student groups seems performative. SU seems more concerned with projecting an image of understanding than creating tangible change, she said. “I think SU does a really great job of ‘we see you, we hear you, we’re listening,’” Smith said. #NotAgainSU twice occupied university buildings during the 2019-20 academic year as more than 30 racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic incidents were reported at or near the university. The movement, led by Blacks students, presented a series of demands to administrators that spanned a variety of issues facing students from marginalized groups. The university has begun to implement some. The movement succeeded in increasing students’ awareness about systemic racism at SU, even if the university hasn’t implemented substantive changes, Smith said. “I don’t think now people can walk around on campus and say, ‘I didn’t know those things happened here,’ because it was so clear that they do,” Smith said. “It raised a level of awareness, but I think on a structural level, and students facing positions and systems, a lot hasn’t changed.” Sean Dorcellus, a senior broadcast and digital journalism major, feels SU officials have been working to improve conditions for students from marginalized backgrounds on campus. Dorcellus is a student member of SU’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion, a group that provides feedback about the campus climate. The council was one of the first recommendations of the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion, which was tasked in fall 2015 with developing solutions for creating a more diverse and inclusive campus culture at SU. Syverud announced the 2020-21 members of the council on Nov. 3. “I feel as though the university is making the efforts required to make our campus safer and more inclusive for students from see progress page 7

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SA maintains support of #NotAgainSU after protests By Kailey Norusis and Alexandra Pollack the daily orange

Syracuse University’s Student Association has continued to support #NotAgainSU a year after the movement began. #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, has protested the university’s response to racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic incidents reported at SU since last November. The movement presented demands to SU officials during two separate occupations of university buildings in the 2019-20 academic year, some of which the university agreed to. Since #NotAgainSU’s occupation of the Barnes Center at The Arch in November 2019, SA has advocated for the movement. Multiple students who protested with #NotAgainSU have since joined SA. The organization wants to use its resources to elevate the voices of #NotAgainSU members, said SA President Justine Hastings. “One of the actual goals of the SA is to support the demands of #NotAgainSU, international students, Jewish students and Indigenous students,” said Hastings, a member of #NotAgainSU. Hastings and SA Vice President Ryan Golden included supporting the demands of #NotAgainSU in their campaign platform during SA’s presidential election in the spring. SA still meets once or twice a month with administrators who were involved in negotiations with #NotAgainSU organizers, Hastings said. SA played a significant role in pressuring SU administrators to sign commitments the university made to #NotAgainSU during the movement’s occupation of Crouse-Hinds Hall in the spring, Golden said. “#NotAgainSU is obviously deserving of our support, but also it’s our job to back up student movements — especially when they are in the best interest of every student on campus,” Golden said. “Justine and I fully believe SA should be in the business of telling all student organizers and protesters that we

are a resource.” SA expressed support for #NotAgainSU during both its occupations. In November, SA canceled an assembly meeting to join protesters in the Barnes Center, and in the spring, the organization passed a resolution urging the university to acknowledge its mistreatment of protesters inside CrouseHinds Hall. #NotAgainSU and other student movements have continued to reach out to SA for resources and support, said Adriana Lobo, SA’s Community Engagement co-chair. Resident advisers reached out to SA for support when they submitted demands for additional COVID-19 protections to the university in September, she said. SA still faces challenges related to implementing commitments the university made to #NotAgainSU organizers during negotiations in March. SU has yet to make full transcripts of the negotiations publicly available. #NotAgainSU organizers were told that they would have access to transcripts of the negotiations, Hastings said. A university official has told SA that releasing the transcript will keep the university fixated on the past and prevent it from moving forward, Hastings said. She has sent multiple emails to follow up on requests that SU make the transcripts publicly available, she said. “There is no moving forward if there’s no accountability or acknowledgment taken for what happened,” Hastings said. “Maybe you feel like you’re moving forward, but, on all fronts, nobody else is.” SA plans to continue providing support and necessary resources to #NotAgainSU, though no official events or initiatives have been announced yet, Hastings said. SA intends to let student organizers take the lead and inform SA when they need resources or support, she said. “A movement is not a person but its people,” said Lobo. “We are stronger together because we are not fighting for the right one but for each other.” news@dailyorange.com

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Being a Black graduate student is hard Administrators neglect prisoners’ health

Correctional facility administrators do little to prevent the spread of COVID-19, endangering prisoners. gabe stern enterprise editor

Editor’s Note: Absence of Light is a project created in collaboration with incarcerated people at Auburn Correctional Facility in Auburn, New York. By Cliff Graham

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Making the adjustment to graduate school has its difficulties, especially for Black students searching for safe spaces that cater to their needs. emily steinberger photo editor By Camille Daniels columinst

ace is an issue many people will deal with in their lifetimes. It is even more prevalent for college students thinking about going beyond a bachelor’s degree. To be a graduate student — be it a master’s student or doctoral candidate — is a unique journey. Earning a graduate degree is a more defined experience than earning a bachelor’s, especially for students of color and Black students in particular. Simply finding a community as a graduate student at Syracuse University was difficult for Khira Fryar, who earned her bachelor’s from SU in 2014 and two master’s degrees in 2016. Even with her familiarity with the campus, her experience was different as a graduate student. She came into her master’s programs knowing only a sorority sister and one other graduate student. Fryar was essentially on her own. “I didn’t know any Black graduate students at all actually, other than one of my sorority sisters, but she had already graduated, and she’s actually the one that put me in contact with (Black Graduate Student Association),” Fryar said. Adjusting to graduate school can be tough regardless of one’s major, but when adding race to it, the process can be even more difficult. While Fryar said her experience was unique for her because she worked more than one job and had more than one internship while also being a student, she sees the need for a designated space for Black graduate

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students to decompress. “I think it is so important for Black grad students to be able to have a place that feels safe that they can have fun,” Fryar said. Visibility itself is an issue that sometimes can be left out of the conversation of the graduate student experience. The population of graduate students is a smaller pool, and when adding in race, the pool becomes even smaller. Unless an effort is made by a Black graduate student to go out of their way to find classmates that look like them, it’s difficult to fit in. This is especially true when reflecting on students’ experiences after graduating. “If you weren’t seeing people in class, you really weren’t seeing anyone unless you went out to search for places and spaces for Black grads,” Fryar said. Depending on the program, making time to be sociable is difficult, as graduate work is even more time consuming than undergraduate work. It’s why your classmates are sometimes your first or only lifelines when attempting to create a life outside of studying. Prior to the pandemic, David Wilcox, a first-year graduate student at SU, found himself scanning the classroom to see if there were other students who looked like him. “I definitely do go out of my way,” Wilcox said. Due to the small number of Black graduate students both on campus and in his Master of Public Affairs program, he makes an effort to get to know other Black graduate students in his • Please include your town of residence and any relevant affiliations • Topics should pertain to the Syracuse area • Letters should not include any personal information pertaining to other people unless it is relevant to the topic at hand, which will be decided at the

program first. Wilcox recognizes the importance of connecting with other Black graduate students, not only for social reasons but also to build a professional networking pool outside of one’s school. It’s also helpful, he said, to find emotional support with a fellow student who can relate to his academic experience and remind him that no one is alone in the academic process. Wilcox’s experience is different not only because of his race but also because of his gender. Since he is one of a few Black men in his program, representation matters, he said. “Talking to some of my classmates, you get a sense of where they come from. Now, I’m not calling anybody racist or any of that. I have yet to even experience microaggressions or what have you,” Wilcox said. “But I do recognize that I’m probably one of the few Black people that they have come in contact with that’s on (an academic) level similar to theirs because I’ve had experience similar to their own, so I do take it as a responsibility to carry myself well.” As for myself, I’m grateful that I immediately met students who looked like me in my classes, even if it was just a few, and that I eventually met others throughout my school. It helped make the experience a little bit easier knowing I was not the only one. Camille Daniels is a graduate student in the magazine, newspaper and online journalism program. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at cdaniels@syr.edu

hen the pandemic first hit, a lot of prisoners assumed that the administration of the facilities would assure that they would take the best measures possible to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Such hopeful thinking was far from reality. I watched as visitations, programs and recreation were practically eliminated. The administration never had a strategic plan. Which was scary, to say the least. Why were prisoners so hopeful? Partly because, prior to the pandemic, cleaning supplies were in abundance. Porters moved about sanitizing the galleries pre-COVID. Many prisoners theorized that the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s union and its coworkers used COVID-19 as a cover to enforce the very things they maliciously wanted to do all along. Many prisons became a lawless place behind the scenes and sometimes out in the open. In Auburn Correctional Facility, I watched as hope, ambition, dedication and life itself began to fade from prisoners’ faces. “They want us to catch it,” many claimed. “They stole everything for themselves,” others expressed. “They don’t know what to do,” a few observed. I saw guards come around with a gallon of some type of watered down bleach, pour 3 ounces inside a measuring cup and pour it into the mop buckets located in the

galleries. Not caring if the map bucket still had dirty water in it from the night before. Survival kicked in for most prisoners.Those who had resources in society began to ask for more soaps and shampoos. We unified to help each other stay sanitized. The guards who observed the unification began to despise it instead of encouraging it. They began harassing prisoners to disrupt the flow of our system. By the time masks arrived, a memorandum was issued mandating that they be worn by guards as well as prisoners. The prisoners saw the memo and followed it, but a majority of the guards didn’t care. So much more could have been done to accommodate the prisoners. Take, for example, our shower situation. Every gallery has two. No one is allowed to utilize them, with the exception of porters. When you ask a guard for a shower, they respond by saying, “They don’t pay me to do that.” At recreation, there are well over 100 prisoners in the yard. With the new “restrictions,” showers are limited to five people. Wth one hour of recreation, you can estimate how many prisoners won’t shower. One day I couldn’t help myself, and I stopped a guard to ask a question. “Set aside the blue and the green for a moment. Human to human. Do you think what we’re being provided with is adequate?” “Hey man, I’m just here to get a check,” he said. A majority of guards share the same perspective. It is what it is. If a facility’s operations are a reflection of its administration, what is currently going on since the pandemic began leaves prisoners across the state in danger of negligence.

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bringing food and supplies inside, Myree said. Many of the organizers received letters stating they had made the Dean’s List on the same day they received suspension notices, she said. “It’s disheartening and very upsetting that the school reacted the way that they did,” Myree said. “And we had enough faith in the institution that they would never react that way because it’s not something we ever thought of.” Chidube Egbo, a senior acting student who participated in #NotAgainSU’s occupations of the Barnes Center and Crouse-Hinds, said the first night and the second day of the Crouse-Hinds occupation were the most trying for protesters. Egbo was one of several students who showed up outside of Crouse-Hinds on the first night after word spread that SU was suspending students inside. “It was just sad and terrifying because we didn’t know what was going to happen,” he said. “We didn’t know what the university was going to do or how they were going to hurt students.” SU can only make up for its treatment of protesters in Crouse-Hinds by meeting the group’s demands, said Ursula Swiza, a senior biotechnology major and a former #NotAgainSU organizer. Over the course of the two occupations, #NotAgainSU submitted over 30 demands to SU’s administration regarding the university’s treatment of Black students and students of color. Chancellor Kent Syverud signed several of the movement’s demands in the fall but revised others. In the spring, #NotAgainSU organizers and university officials engaged in four contentious negotiation sessions but achieved common ground on few of the group’s key demands. The university has made incremental progress on meeting the movement’s demands, recently adding punishments for bystanders of hate crimes to the Code of Student Conduct and allocating $600,000 to a city volunteer program. “It’s an ongoing process,” Swiza said. “It’s not just going to magically fix itself in a span of a year. (SU) has a lot of work to do. And it’s going to take them years and years of ongoing

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#notagainsu to deal with, knowing that there are people at an institution of higher learning that don’t want you to get an education, that don’t want you to be there.” #NotAgainSU started its first occupation — a sit-in at the Barnes Center at The Arch that continued for eight days — about a year ago, on Nov. 13, 2019. In that occupation and the one that followed in February, the group pressured university officials to meet its demands to improve the campus climate for students of color. Student organizers with the movement told The Daily Orange that their memories of the protests, and the systemic racism that sparked them, remain fresh a year later. While the protests increased awareness about racism at SU, there will likely have to be more movements like #NotAgainSU before real change comes to pass, they said. Tayla Myree, who graduated from SU last year and was an organizer with #NotAgainSU during both protests, is disheartened by the way the university treated protesters during the early days of the CrouseHinds occupation. #NotAgainSU occupied Crouse-Hinds for 31 days beginning Feb. 17, making it one of the longest-running student protests in SU’s history. Some organizers opted to remain inside Crouse-Hinds when the building closed on the first night of the protest. About three hours after the building closed, the university suspended more than 30 students, including Myree, who had stayed. The following day, the Department of Public Safety sealed off the building, preventing outside food, medicine and supplies from entering, even as a crowd of protesters amassed around the entrance. DPS officers would engage in several physical altercations with protesters, and organizers alleged officials used food and supplies as bargaining tools before the building reopened. While #NotAgainSU organizers knew that being suspended was a possibility, they never thought DPS would seal off the building and prevent other students from

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nity was suspended in April 2018 after the university confirmed it was involved in the creation of online videos showing fraternity members engaging in behaviors that were “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities.” The video sparked protests on SU’s campus. Many students who took part in the #NotAgainSU movement also witnessed the Theta Tau video and participated in the protests that followed. Smith, who was an undergraduate student at SU when the Theta Tau videos surfaced, said she was infuriated to witness so many racist incidents at the university. “Syracuse continues to let things like this fly, which is why then you go into classrooms as a Black student and you have your white classmates making ignorant comments or thinking it’s appropriate to use the N-word in their classroom assignments,” she said. “Things like that happen because Syracuse doesn’t handle these problems.” If Myree didn’t participate in the Theta Tau protests, she wouldn’t have participated in #NotAgainSU. She said the Theta Tau video tarnished her view of SU and made her realize how prevalent systemic racism is on campus. Both Smith and Myree wish students wouldn’t have to protest to enact change on campus. Many #NotAgainSU organizers said they’re still experiencing trauma related to the university’s harsh response to the Crouse-Hinds occupation. “I genuinely hope the university gets better so that no one ever has to deal with what happened in Crouse-Hinds,” Myree said. But Smith doesn’t think students will be able to stop protesting until SU commits to being anti-racist. The #NotAgainSU movement and the fight against racism at SU are far from over, Egbo said. “I truly believe that, as long as there are Black students on this campus or just any students that can be impacted by this, that there will always be organizing,” Egbo said. “It’s just a matter of when and what triggers it.”

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work, and focus on that work.” While the university has the ability to protect marginalized students on campus, it doesn’t allocate enough resources or money to do so, #NotAgainSU said in a statement to The D.O. “(SU) has the power to decide who is a priority on campus and they are able to protect marginalized students,” the group stated. “But they don’t and they choose not to over and over.” More than making slow progress, the university also must actively commit to being an anti-racist organization, Smith said. “Just because I can go to Syracuse University doesn’t mean that this university is inclusive and welcoming of me,” Smith said. “Our educational experiences are not the same as our white counterparts because of the intense amount of microaggressions, overt and covert racism, the systemic racism that we go through.” Smith recalled when head men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim visited the Barnes Center sit-in. When Boeheim came to the protest, he told organizers they can’t blame the racist acts of a few rogue students on the university. His statement angered many in attendance. Boeheim later visited the building with pizza, and protesters rejected it. To Smith, Boheim’s visit demonstrated a glaring blindspot among white decisionmakers at SU and in the administration concerning what white privilege is and how it impacts Black people and people of color. “I think (moments such as Boeheim’s visit) opens up a larger conversation of ‘how does Syracuse University see the humanity of students, and does that change when we’re talking about Black students?’” Smith said. “Does it change when we’re talking about Asian students? Does it change when we’re talking about trans students or queer students? It’s clear that it does. And what is Syracuse University going to do to change and combat that?” For some members of #NotAgainSU, the racist incidents on campus in the 2019-20 academic year felt like a continuation of racism they had witnessed during their entire time at SU. SU’s chapter of the Theta Tau frater-

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demands on Euclid, including the addition of a bathroom and making the building accessible in compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Indigenous students have also spearheaded the construction of a new art installation honoring the Onondaga Nation on campus and have also revised the university’s land acknowledgment, Smith said. The Onondaga Nation Council still has to approve the acknowledgment before students will present it to the chancellor for approval, she said. “We’re in the process of finalizing the wording for that,” Smith said. Indigenous students will continue working to expand funding for Indigenous graduate students and create a Native American and Indigenous Studies major, which SU currently only offers as a minor. Organizers have also been working with Keith Alford, SU’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, and other professors to incorporate subjects such as settler colonialism and Indigenous erasure into the SEM 100 curriculum. “We need these kinds of curricular changes at SU,” Scully said.

Jewish student demands

Jewish student leaders have also made progress on their list of concerns and proposed solutions this semester. Syverud signed their list of concerns and recommendations in November 2019. Recommendations presented by Jewish students include proposed changes to the university’s religious observance absence forms, anti-Semitism training for students and the creation of an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Coalition. “The purpose of (the IDEA Coalition) is to bring students together in an open forum style to have people share their concerns and experiences on campus and then pushing those concerns up the funnel to the administration,” said Sam Aaronson, a

DANIELLE SMITH (LEFT), REBECCA SEREBOFF AND SAM AARONSON are some of the students still pressuring SU officials to make progress on demands. emily steinberger photo editor

junior political science and public relations major, who has worked with SU administrators to implement changes. Aaronson expects the coalition’s first open forum meeting to take place sometime next semester, she said. Hendricks Chapel representatives participated in a test anti-Semitism training session in October that all SU students will eventually take part in, Aaronson said. Rebecca Sereboff, a junior who has worked alongside Aaronson, said the training focuses on microaggressions Jewish face on cam-

pus. Anti-Semitism on campus isn’t always as blatant as what the SU community witnessed last semester, when swastikas and hate speech were graffitied on and around campus. “A lot of what the training focuses on is, what actually is anti-Semitism, and how do we not only identify it but combat it,” Sereboff said. SU will host more pilot training sessions during the spring semester with the goal of implementing the training university-wide by next fall, Aaronson said.

International student demands

International students also presented SU officials with a list of concerns and recommendations, which Syverud signed last November. Students asked administrators to revise the Code of Student Conduct with a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech and hire more multilingual resident advisers, among other recommendations. The university lists its progress toward meeting international students’ recommendations as “substantially complete” or “complete,” the university’s website shows. mntyler@syr.edu

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progress marginalized communities,” Dorcellus said. “There is more work to be done, of course, but I think that the leadership team has SU headed in the proper direction.” #NotAgainSU said in a statement to The Daily Orange that the university has “done little” to change the campus climate. “While they continuously send out updates about how they’re improving the campus and making sure they update the ‘Campus

Commitments’ website, students of color, specifically Black students, feel no more safe now than they did last year,” the group stated. Students and faculty have continued to speak out about racism at SU this academic year. In August, students and faculty condemned the actions of chemistry professor Jon Zubieta, who used derogatory language against Chinese, international and Asian American students on a course syllabus when referring to the coronavirus. The professor is now on administrative leave. SU Drama

students are also still in discussions with university officials after 684 students signed a call to action alleging “pervasive institutional racism” within the department. During the summer, a series of Instagram accounts launched that allowed SU students of color, LGBTQ students and other students of marginalized backgrounds to anonymously share their experiences with racism, homophobia and discrimination at SU. SU officials need to do more to build trust with current students, said Tayla Myree, a

member of #NotAgainSU who graduated from SU in spring 2020. The university’s poor record of handling protests has interfered with that, she said. “I think that’s the problem is that there’s no trust, and they’re not doing anything to really help build trust,” Myree said. “There needs to come a time when they get it, and hire people that get it and listen and collaborate with students and also create a trusting relationship between students and the administration.” msessa@syr.edu | @MichaelSessa3

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Exhibit challenges traditional art, history By Gavi Azoff

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MARIAH GLADSTONE, a SUNY-ESF graduate student, created an online cooking show called "Indigikitchen" where she hosts one- to two-minute long how-to videos courtesy of linda howard

SUNY-ESF student hosts online cooking show that features Indigenous recipes By Christopher Scarglato asst. culture editor

efore becoming a national park ranger for three summers, Linda Howard made sure to digitize photos of her daughter on her computer. One photo shows her daughter, Mariah Gladstone, in a garden with corn towering over her head, while another depicts Gladstone in the kitchen wearing a yellow blouse, concocting a recipe with a ladle. But the childhood photos are just the start of Gladstone’s cooking career that started when she was 2 years old. After Gladstone moved into her first house, Howard gave her daughter a file folder of recipes she had written as a toddler. Every year, her mother would give her graph paper to chart out a garden for fresh vegetables such as squash and zucchinis. And during Gladstone’s time at Columbia University, Howard would ship her daughter frozen venison from Montana. Cooking started with her mom, Gladstone said. Now, she’s trying to bring it to a

wider audience. In addition to being a SUNY-ESF graduate student, Gladstone hosts the online cooking show Indigikitchen, which promotes reintroducing Indigenous foods into the diets of Indigenous people. Diets of Indigenous people in the United States used to be full of protein and fresh produce before changing to ones filled with flour, sugar and lard, said Gladstone, who is Blackfeet and Cherokee. Indigikitchen produces recipes and short how-to videos with Indigenous foods. “I’m not going for fancy meals. This isn’t gourmet cooking,” Gladstone said. “It takes that recipe from, ‘I could never do that’ to ‘Oh, okay, that’s easy.’” Gladstone feels lucky that she was able to grow up in the kitchen. At first, she and her mother would bake banana bread and cookies before her mother allowed her to experiment with other recipes. Howard was fine with losing “a little” flour, eggs and milk, she said. Jotting down recipes in marker, Gladstone cated dishes see

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Loyal and new customers gather on Fridays at the With Love restaurant for takeout meals. Salt City Market, which plans to open in January, began offering “Takeout Fridays” on Nov. 6 and will continue until Dec. 18. Customers can preorder their takeout online as early as Wednesday and then pick up their food from 5-8 p.m. on Friday. The weekly dinner service aims to improve connections in the Syracuse com-

munity, said CJ Butler, marketing and communications specialist for the market. “People are really sick of takeout at this point in the pandemic,” Butler said. “It’s really exciting to have something that’s just fun. It’s different. There’s that element of surprise of having a different vendor every week.” Each week, the market allows one of its 10 vendors to offer takeout service. The market, located at 435 N. Salina St., includes a wide variety of cuisines, including Thai, Jamaican and Southern soul food.

Some vendors also make pies and cold-pressed juice. Adam Sudmann, the market manager of Salt City Market, wanted to create the service to introduce vendors to customers and create relationships before the market opens its location in January. “We just have a lot of really interesting talent-driven people in town who cook great food, and we’d love to share food and share culture and make those connections,” Sudmann said. The vendors have held events in the past such as pop-ups and

other takeout events since 2019. One reason the market decided to host “Takeout Friday” events during the pandemic is to offer customers a new takeout option, Butler said. The market planned to open on Nov. 16, but construction setbacks delayed the opening to January. The takeout events are also an opportunity for vendors to practice their skills by working under pressure and interacting with customers, Sudmann said. Dreamer Johnson, owner of see takeout page 9

In a video tour of Haitian artist Fabiola Jean-Louis’ exhibit, the camera pans to the display of an elegant floor-length gold and white striped paper gown. Jean-Louis handpainted the white sheets that make up the dress with flower details, tiny white lines and gold strips. This paper gown is one of the handmade pieces in the Rewriting History Exhibit at Point of Contact Gallery. The gowns, which JeanLouis created, are on display in the gallery among photographs of Black women wearing them. Rewriting History has been on display at Point of Contact since Sept. 17 and will stay until Friday. The exhibit explores the relationship between history, memory and identity. At the start of a virtual tour on Thursday, panelist and Syracuse University doctoral candidate Shana Gelin said in her voice-over that Jean-Louis’ work revives the Black beauty that Western civilization has cast aside. “Rewriting History is pure alchemy, true Black magic. It summons people to critically acknowledge (the) passion and oppression of Black people by empowering individuals to see that the experiences of Black women are not linear but unconditioned,” Gelin said during the panel introduction. During the panel discussion, Jean-Louis said that using the European lens to show Black power removes the blame from the victim and places it “where it belongs.” Tanisha Jackson, the executive director of Community Folk Arts Center and a professor of practice in the Department of African American Studies, was one of the panelists for the Rewriting History exhibit. In individual essays about the exhibition, each panelist wrote about how different aspects of the exhibit are examples of rewriting history, she said in an interview. The panelists’ essays served as voice-overs during the virtual gallery video. Much of traditional and classical art history, such as Renaissance and Baroque art, whitewashed Black women, which resulted in a lack of paintings representing Black women from that time, Jackson said. Jean-Louis’ art brings visibility to Black women of that time period by putting them in period style dresses. “I definitely appreciate her efforts to provide a platform for Black female subjects to give voice and space to Black women and to address the erasure,” Jackson said in an interview. Sara Felice, the director of Point of Contact, said that Jean-Louis’ work addresses many difficult yet relevant topics and conversations around racial justice and the representation of Black women. Jean-Louis’ work comes at a “crucial time,” and a lot of the discussion of her work revolves around race and racial identity in the treatment of others, Felice said during the panel. Jean-Louis said that it is see exhibit page 9

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cooking ranging from desserts to stir fry. While in the kitchen, her mother would also make her practice doubling recipes and using fractions, an introduction to math even before she went to a Montessori school. Learning math in the kitchen is something that Howard attributes as a start to her engineering career. As she grew up, cooking didn’t have a huge impact on Gladstone’s life until Columbia University when she cooked and baked as stress relief. At Columbia, Gladstone would bake desserts like layered brownies and give them to her floormates, but she eventually started getting more involved in creating Indigenous foods while living in an Indigenous community dorm during her junior and senior years. from page 8

exhibit important to respond to what is happening at this time and that she hopes that is what her work is able to accomplish. “It’s somehow speaking to not just all the

Gladstone first got the idea for Indigikitchen in 2016, when she took a couple of days off from her railroad engineering management job and went to an Indigenous nutrition conference. Discussions at the conference centered around health disparities within Indigenous communities caused by the limited access to traditional foods, as well as the work toward bringing healthy and affordable food into the communities. The need to relearn information on how to prepare and grow fresh foods, and cook wild game prompted Gladstone to pitch the idea of Indigikitchen — a combination of the words Indigenous, digital and kitchen — to a room full of youth attendees. She then went home to create her first video on what she described as a “janky” camera setup. But people loved the information and kept sharing it, Gladstone said.

“I kept building on that,” she said. “Native people are resilient; we use the tools that we have access to. I’m making it for folks that didn’t grow up reading cookbooks.” Despite the production quality of Indigikitchen improving, its mission has not changed. The program hosts one- to two-minute long videos creating dishes such as mapleglazed salmon and bison stew. Gladstone is a “Native influencer,” amassing more than 15,000 followers on Twitter, Howard said. Gladstone is now living with her boyfriend, Kenneth Cook in a two-story house in Montana. Cook hunts, helps Gladstone film and takes film classes while Gladstone works on her graduate thesis for SUNY-ESF and creates content for Indigikitchen. Indigikitchen will eventually show animal tanning processes along with different Indigenous cooking techniques, Cook said.

other things that I spoke to, but it gives a little solace even in the times of stress and trauma that we’re going through currently,” Jean-Louis said. “But I do believe that staying silent as a Black woman for me, it’s just not an option.” gfazoff@syr.edu

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takeout Miss Prissy’s soul food restaurant, has hosted three takeout events in the past, including this summer. The Salt City Market takeout events put pressure on her, but she enjoys interacting and getting feedback from customers. “People are inquisitive,” Johnson said. “People are curious, and if you get a chance to share just a little bit of your culture, that’ll bridge the gap and a lot of cultural biases will be eradicated.” It’s important for the market to work with vendors because it’s difficult to succeed in the restaurant industry, especially during COVID-19, Sudmann said. Providing a space for vendors to express their talents with a strong support system will relieve some stress, he said. “There’s easier, less risky ways of entering into this particular business,” Sudmann said. “(The vendors) feel more alive, more relevant and more powerful when they are cooking the food and sharing it.” Although there are limitations in the

“I always tell Mariah what she’s got is gold,” Cook said. “Being her own boss and stuff.” Gladstone has also been getting constant calls and emails for gigs, said Howard, who serves as Gladstone’s booking agent. Gladstone did a TEDx Talk on Indigikitchen about the importance of an Indigenous diet. She’s also hosted virtual cooking classes. About a month ago, Howard was participating in a food drive at the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation when a woman approached her asking if she was Gladstone’s mother. Howard responded yes, and the woman began to tell Howard how much of a fan she was of Gladstone. “Her message is more than just cooking,” Howard said. “It’s about how we re-Indigenized our diets and how we decolonize our diets.” csargla@syr.edu

kitchen for safety reasons, vendors and chefs still feel it is important to serve food during this time. Johnson works in a family business, so she has not faced many of the challenges other vendors have dealt with, she said. For chefs working in the kitchen, one of the largest challenges can be wearing a mask due to the heat and having limited amounts of workers in the kitchen, she said. The market has invested in COVID-19 precautions for when they open in January, Sudmann said. The building capacity is around 500 people for interior and exterior, and Sudmann plans to frequently sanitize all surfaces of the building and test workers according to state guidelines. Sudmann hopes that with COVID-19 precautions in place, customers will feel safe visiting the market and that the market will be a welcoming place to enter no matter customers’ race, religion, or ethnic background. “Food is the universal thing that keeps people together — signaling to people that their food is welcome here, their culture is welcome here, they are welcome here,” Butler said. juwalker@syr.edu

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The stats that defined Syracuse’s fall sports seasons By The Daily Orange Sports Staff

Several Syracuse programs are finishing seasons marked by shortened schedules and coronavirus precautions. Volleyball and women’s soccer played a conference-only, eight game schedule while men’s soccer managed just five games. As seasons come to a close, The Daily Orange Sports Staff analyzed the most telling statistics from each team:

Football:

Stat to know: 4.1 The lion’s share of blame for Syracuse’s abysmal 2020 season goes to its offense. There are plausible explanations for the offensive failures — two starting running backs opting out, an inexperienced offensive line and Tommy DeVito’s injury — but the woes are nonetheless alarming. Of the 125 FBS teams to play this year, Syracuse’s 4.1 yards per play ranks 121st. Its running game of 2.9 yards per carry has been non-functional, and its passing offense has been too reliant on home run plays. Offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert and head coach Dino Babers have been dealt a poor hand, but the product on the field has been disastrous.

Men’s Soccer

Stat to know: 2 In the Orange’s (0-3-2, 0-3-2 Atlantic Coast) winless season, the two points Syracuse accumulated meant it finished at the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference North Region stand-

ings. However, those two points deserve an asterisk. SU also had two regular season games canceled on its 2020 schedule, meaning it played the fewest games of any ACC program. But even in those five matches, there were opportunities to pick up a win. Deandre Kerr’s two-goal performance against Louisville, with the second putting Syracuse ahead by two, was emblematic of the Orange’s struggles in front of goal. Kerr’s two goals against the Cardinals were the only ones that SU forwards scored all season. It’s a small sample size, and Kerr, Luther Archimede and Manel Busquets all flashed in limited action. But if the Orange want to compete next year, they’ll need to be more clinical in front of goal.

Women’s Soccer

Stat to know: 5 Syracuse (1-7, 1-7 ACC) finished with its worst record in program history, scoring just five goals in eight games. The Orange played only ACC opponents and began with five straight scoreless games. In that stretch, SU took 31 shots before finally scoring against Boston College. Only winless Miami, who was Syracuse’s lone win of the season, scored fewer goals than the Orange in the ACC.The lack of goals ended any hopes Syracuse had of making it into the ACC tournament. The Orange’s forwards lacked that finishing touch all season, as most of SU’s goals were scored by defenders off of set pieces. In the ACC, SU finished the season ranked second-worst in scoring average and total shots and worst in corners won,

which is how the Orange managed to score three of their five goals.

Field Hockey

Stat to know: 73.4% All of Syracuse’s (5-4, 3-2 ACC) nine games this season were decided by one goal, making it paramount for Syd Taylor to have the best save percentage possible in her first season as starting goalkeeper. By the end of the season, Syracuse had the second-highest save percentage, 73.4%, in the ACC. Taylor faced at least 10 shots in all but one game this season. Taylor was named ACC Defensive Player of the Week after a career-high seven saves against Wake Forest on Oct. 19. Despite facing 41 shots in three games from Oct. 16 and Oct. 19, Taylor allowed just three shots to find the back of the net. But SU’s high save percentage wasn’t just down to Taylor. Freshman Eefke van den Nieuwenhof led the conference with three defensive saves, including a game-sealing save against Louisville with one minute left. Throughout the season, SU’s defense allowed plenty of shots, but few made it over the goal line.

Volleyball

Stat to know: 90 The Orange’s (4-4, 4-4 ACC) star offensive player, Polina Shemanova, had only 90 kills in eight games, the lowest total in her threeyear career. Shemanova, who set the program record in kills per set last season with 5.16, averaged only 3.33 this year. SU started the season with two straight wins against three-

time defending ACC champ Pittsburgh, but without Shemanova’s offensive presence, the team went on a four-game losing streak. But in its last two games of the season, Syracuse brought more offensive options into the lineup, such as middle blockers Marina Markova, Abby Casiano and outside hitter Ella Saada. Markova created an impact through a tactic known as the slide set, where she would sidestep behind the setter and go up for a kill. In the matchup against Boston College on Oct. 17, Shemanova had her second-lowest career total with four kills, but SU won in straight sets with 14 kills from Markova and 13 from Saada, finishing the season with a .500 record.

Cross Country

Stat to know: 26 Despite a disappointing end to a shortened season, Syracuse still had 26 top-10 finishes throughout the year. Syracuse men dominated the first meet of the season against Army in West Point, taking nine of the top ten spots. The women were able to finish with three out of the top 10 spots, with Amanda Vestri finishing first overall. The Battle at Beantown saw the men taking eight of the top 10 spots, while the women placed four in the top eight. The final standings in Boston also included JP Trojan and Vestri’s second firstplace finishes. In the ACC Championship, Vestri finished 2nd and the Syracuse women placed eighth overall. The men placed sixth due to strong finishes from Joe Dragon and Matthew Scrape. sports@dailyorange.com @DOSports

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Skaneateles HS golfer aims for 3rd straight section title tionals to the spring, Jones is hoping to win his third consecutive title and his first state championship after the pandemic canceled states in May. “Ty’s on the short list of high school golfers in the state that can make a run for the title. There’s 99 guys that are going to be in that field and, realistically, half a dozen or a dozen actually have a chance to win it,” Sevey said. “He’s one of them.” Sevey has been coaching Jones since seventh grade and watched the senior go from a “little kid” to a “grown man that plays golf.” On strokes where he previously hit a five-iron 140 yards, Jones can now hit 210 yards. In addition to physical maturity, Jones has strengthened his putting and short-game, the best aspects of his play, Sevey said. Jones is able to hit further than most opponents his age, Sevey said. On a good day, Jones can drive 340 yards.

But before Jones began golfing competitively, he never watched the sport. He thought it was boring, instead sticking to ice hockey. His obsession for golf started at 10 years old, when he started playing with his dad, a huge fan of the sport. The combination of Jones’ natural talent and his early start allowed him to take on a leadership role for Skaneateles when he was a freshman. By his sophomore year, everyone on the team looked up to him, Sevey said. Jones usually practices for at least six hours a day, five days a week. He appears level-headed on the course, but he’s trying to perfect every shot, his coach said. “It drives me nuts if I can’t do anything I want to,” Jones said of his meticulousness on the green. “It just drives me, and over time, it’s gotten me into where I am.” During his senior campaign, Jones strug-

gled with his swing, admitting that he didn’t feel good about his game until he found his rhythm toward the end of the fall. At times, he wanted to give up, but he’s glad he didn’t. Jones helped lead Skaneateles to a 6-1 record in the altered regular season, shooting an impressive under-40 in all but one match. “He’ll tell you that he battled his putter this year,” Sevey said. “Ty battling with his putter is still Ty putting better than anyone else in the field against him. Ty’s off day is still a pretty damn good day.” In preparation for the sectional and state tournaments in the spring, Jones will play in local and national tournaments that aren’t through the high school. He’ll try to be on the course whenever weather permits, continuing to position himself for a chance to play in college. “He’s got the whole package,” Sevey said.

to join Knight in establishing the Reebok Boston Track Club. Along with Knight and assistant coach Adam Smith, Fox recruited some of the top runners he coached at Syracuse, including Germano, Martin Hehir and Colin Bennie, to join him with the club based in Charlottesville, Virginia. As a result of Fox’s sudden departure, Syracuse had to quickly search for a replacement to its most accomplished running coach. The decision to put Bell in charge of the program was a result of his role in recruiting key runners on the 2015 national title team, Fox said. “Coach Bell was with me every day from when I started working at Syracuse,” Fox said.

“He certainly earned that opportunity… He’s a tireless worker and a great recruiter.” For 13 years, Fox and Bell were two constants in SU’s program. The two men were both there when Syracuse won its first national cross country title since 1951, a victory that Fox still calls “a personal highlight.” There were five key runners on that 2015 team, but two of them stand out the most to Fox now. Hehir was the “Pearl Washington” of the program because of his leadership abilities and the point guard role he fulfilled, Fox said. Knight was the star and the “Carmelo Anthony” of the team. For Fox, recruiting players helped develop his reputation. Jim Boeheim called Fox “the best coach in the department,” Gross said in 2017. Gaining that reputation took time. During

Fox’s first year at the helm, Syracuse placed 10th out of 14 teams in the Big East. Signing Hehir was the key to getting Bennie, and both were instrumental in leading Canadian runner Knight to central New York, Fox said. All three continue to run under Fox today. “I think we all get each other, and they’re special because they’re from ‘Cuse,” Fox said. “We think ‘Cuse people are a little more tougher, a little more understanding of how to be great.” With Hehir, Bennie and Knight came newfound success for the program. There were the five straight ACC titles between 2013 and 2017, the men’s national championship in 2015 and the individual national title for Knight in 2017. Fox was also named ACC Men’s Coach of the Year for three straight seasons, from 2013-2015. The decision to leave Syracuse was a diffi-

cult one, Fox said. He told Gross he could turn Syracuse into a top national program 13 years prior, and he had done just that. He still believes it remains an “elite program,” though Bell’s successes haven’t reached the same heights. Since Fox’s departure after the 2017 cross country season, the men’s team has failed to crack the top 25 in both national championship meets they’ve competed in since. The team recently placed 6th in this year’s ACC Championships. Although he hasn’t coached at SU in three years, many former SU runners still believe that Fox alone played the largest role in bringing SU cross country to national prominence. “He was always the fatherly figure for everyone,” Hehir said. “He is a huge part of what made Syracuse great.”

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Recruiting during a pandemic

players,” Desko said For Jimmy McCool, a four-star goalie, March opened the Zoom call with a PowerPoint presentation on the program, its storied history, its present and where the coaching staff wants to take it in the future. That was followed by a Q&A session, and then Desko closed the call with a statement: “Well, you know, we want you. We want you to come.” Jimmy committed less than a week later.

in the spring. Syracuse returns all three starting attackmen and all of its first-line midfielders, but Desko said that Hiltz — being one of just two or three pure lefties on the Orange — could lead to some playing time possibilities. Hiltz, who flipped from Denver to Syracuse in October 2019, scored 50 goals and tallied 62 assists during his most recent season in 2019, and was named to the Under Armour All-American team in 2020 despite the canceled season “I think the fact that his strong hand and his ability to play on the left side will get him on the field quicker than if he’s a righty,” Desko said.

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Tynan Jones hit his first hole-in-one in seventh grade. He stepped up to the tee on the 15th hole at the Skaneateles Country Club, a small par three, with the green elevated and tucked away. Swinging his club, Jones hit a straight shot that he and Brian Sevey, his coach, watched sail into the distance and out of sight. All they heard was “tink, tink” — the sound of the ball hitting the flagstick and then the cup. Jones and Sevey looked at each other, assuming that sound meant good news. The two walked up the green to confirm, finding the ball lying in the hole. Six years after his first hole-in-one, Jones, now a senior at Skaneateles High School, has won back-to-back NYSPHSAA Section-III Championships. After COVID-19 delayed secfrom page 12

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notebook away, Desko and his staff stuck to conditioning drills the first few weeks. They spoke with trainers Troy Gerlt and Mike Missen, and concluded it was important to have a steady build up throughout the six weeks. Once the conditioning phase finished, Syracuse began individual drills and ones with lower amounts of contact: clears, rides, basic offensive and defensive sets. In week four, it started with man-ups and man-downs, experimenting with different midfield lines and attack combinations.

During an unusual recruiting cycle, when Syracuse coaches couldn’t travel to summer tournaments or host prospect days like past years, the Orange secured the No. 1-ranked Class of 2022 according to Inside Lacrosse. In-person tours turned into virtual Zoom sessions with Desko, offensive coordinator Pat March and defensive coordinator Lelan Rogers. The three pitched their school, their program and their system to recruits and their families on the other side of their screen. “Everything was pretty much off of film, memory of tournaments, coaching staff comparing notes about when they’d seen similar

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During his Nov. 6 press conference, Desko provided some insight as to where Class of 2020 No. 3-overall prospect Owen Hiltz could line up

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Notebook: Syracuse’s fall ball season By Andrew Crane sports editor

CHRIS FOX took over Syracuse’s program in 2005 and built it into a national championship team one decade later. But in 2018, he left for the Reebok Boston Track Club. courtesy of su athletics

Chris Fox reflects on program rebuild 5 years after winning a national championship, former cross country coach looks back on his legacy By Connor Smith

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hris Fox was given five years to make the Orange a powerhouse. The timeline came from thenathletic director Daryl Gross, who was interviewing Fox for the position of head coach of one of the worst men’s cross country teams in the Big East. Fox looked at the budget and the amount of scholarships and responded, “OK, that’s reasonable.” By the time Gross’ tenure concluded in 2010, the Orange men’s team had won their second-straight Big East title. Five years

after that, Syracuse was a national champion for the first time since 1951. Fox built Syracuse cross country from the ground up and transformed it into one of the best programs in collegiate sports. It started with recruiting gems such as Philo Germano and Justyn Knight, continued through grueling practice runs on Sweet Road and ended with a lot of hardware. After Knight, the head coach’s most prized recruit, took home the program’s lone individual NCAA cross country title in 2017, Fox abruptly left the program to help lead a new professional track club with Knight. Brien Bell, his assistant, took over at the helm. Syracuse is still in the top-tier of the see fox page 10

Atlantic Coast Conference for both the men’s and women’s teams, but its performances at title meets have steadily declined since Fox’s departure. Near the five-year anniversary of the Orange’s NCAA title, Fox told The Daily Orange he doesn’t regret leaving Syracuse, describing the chance to coach professionally as “a once in a lifetime opportunity.” “What Coach Fox did is a legacy that will last forever,” former SU runner Jamie Navarro said. “He doesn’t talk a lot, not in front of the camera kind of guy, (but) his humility and the amount of effort he put in for his school adds to the legend he was.” In the summer of 2018, Fox announced he would retire from collegiate coaching

In Cole Horan’s three years at Furman, before the coronavirus caused program cuts and forced his transfer to Syracuse, assistant coach Andrew Athens always pulled out the short sticks when it was time to practice footwork. He used those “nubs” and “cut down shafts” to practice pressing defenders, a reflection of the emphasis on footwork at Furman. They were shorter than the sticks that short stick defensive midfielders used — he couldn’t rely on the length, even in the slightest. When Horan attended Floral Park Memorial (New York) High School, head coach Ryan Obloj realized that Horan’s feet weren’t moving as quickly as his stick during checks, the first sign of a need for improved footwork. Obloj emphasized agility ladder and ground ball drills, which laid the foundation to help Horan transition from scout team defender to the Paladins’ top cover guy. When close defender Nick Mellen was drafted to the MLL in May, an opening immediately surfaced. It was one the Orange filled last season with Brett Kennedy, Andrew Helmer and Grant Murphy, but then Jared Fernandez transferred to Johns Hopkins two months later. Six months after Horan’s transfer, he finds himself in position to compete for minutes at the close defender and long-stick midfielder spots for the Orange. He joined Gettysburg College’s Mitch Wykoff and Utah’s Nick Hapney as defensive transfers who committed to SU during the lengthened offseason. As the Orange begin their final week of fall workouts, with a slower progression this year as players ease back in, those new members find themselves settling into a rotation that keyed a No. 1 ranking for Syracuse last year. “They’re coming along at a speed that I thought they would,” head coach John Desko said about the defensive transfers, “and they’re doing a nice job.” But initially, Desko didn’t commit to finding replacements through the transfer portal, instead cautioning that approach. “If we saw someone that would come in and play right away for us, we certainly would have to take a look at it, but we don’t want to rock the boat either unnecessarily,” Desko said during a May 7 press conference. But then Horan committed three weeks later. So did Wykoff, and Hapney and Brett Tenaglia, an attack who played with Horan at Furman.

A different look for fall ball

Last year, and in seasons prior, Syracuse closed the fall with scrimmages against other Division-I teams in addition to the annual intrasquad scrimmage. This year, though, no spring teams were allowed to participate in exhibitions or competitions, per NCAA guidelines. Instead of throwing players into scrimmages and contact drills right see notebook page 10