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Students describe gaps in SU’s COVID-19 response

Mahoney appointed SUNY-ESF president By Mary Rand staff writer

SU allowed students to depart campus prior to their scheduled move-out time after the university transitioned to online classes last week. emily steinberger photo editor

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uinn Schmidt never heard from a Syracuse University contact tracer. After one of his friends tested positive for the coronavirus, Schmidt, a sophomore public relations major, immediately contacted SU’s COVID19 hotline to see what he should do next. After explaining that he had been around his friend only the night before, the employee on the hotline told him he could still go to class and see his friends. “That just didn’t seem right to me just because I was in such close contact with somebody who tested positive,” Schmidt said. “They were kind of apathetic toward what I was going through.” SU announced Nov. 11 that it would transition to online learning for the remainder of the fall semester amid a rise in COVID-19 cases on campus and across Onondaga County. Five days

Students received mixed messages from SU after they were exposed to COVID-19 later, the university reported a record of 700 students in quarantine. SU confirmed 280 active coronavirus cases among students and employees in central New York and 586 students in quarantine as of Wednesday evening. While SU’s COVID-19 office tries to contact all students in isolation or quarantine daily, the rising cases have made doing so difficult, said David Larsen, an associate professor of public health who served on SU’s Public Health and Emergency Mansee response page 4

agement subcommittee. “Ideally, we communicate with everyone in quarantine or isolation every day,” Larsen said. “That hasn’t happened over the last couple weeks because we’ve had thousands of students in quarantine. There’s not enough bodies in the COVID office to call every single person and still do the contact tracing.” At the beginning of the semester, the facility that processed SU’s COVID-19 tests was able to process tests overnight, Larsen said. Now, because the facility processes tests beyond just SU’s, test results have been slower to come back. “That process has been too slow this semester,” Larsen said. “It is frustrating for me to watch it, and it is frustrating for it to happen.” Larsen also attributed some of the new cases to an increase in off-campus parties and to the popular restaurant Margaritas Mexican Cantina, which recently confirmed 19 cases of the virus among its employees. Despite SU’s extensive COVID-19

For Joanie Mahoney, accepting the job of SUNY-ESF president just made sense. Mahoney, who previously served as the Onondaga County executive for 11 years, was appointed president of SUNYESF in early November. Her work in the county led her to the position, she said. “I used the network that I built over the years as one of the assets that I bring to ESF, not simply by virtue of the network, but as evidence of the skill set that ESF needs right now,” Mahoney said. Her appointment comes after a year-long search to replace former President Quentin Wheeler, who resigned in early 2018. Wheeler left after the college’s Academic Governance body voted no confidence in him due to what they deemed to be poor leadership and a climate of fear. He also faced criticism for firing three faculty department chairs before the start of the spring semester in 2018. Mahoney, who was the first female Onondaga County executive, will also be the first female president of SUNY-ESF. She plans to apply her government experience and passion for solving environmental issues as president. “I feel an extra sense of responsibility coming first,” Mahoney said. “I’m proud of that and take it very seriously.” After receiving her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University in 1987 and her law degree from SU’s College of Law in 1990, Mahoney began her career at SUNY-ESF in 2018 as chief operating officer. She now aims to strengthen the relationships she has already forged with the school’s faculty and staff. “I have always been impressed by the faculty and the quality of the research, the students that I’ve interacted with,” Mahoney said. “Having an opportunity to come to an institution I already knew about and already admired was great for me.” Gary Scott, who is the director of SUNY-ESF’s Division of Engineering and co-chaired the college’s Ways and Means committee with Mahoney, said she’s see president page 6

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Students relieved to head home for break Senate considers prison program By Dominick Pfisterer staff writer

The Graduate Student Organization will consider working with a program to allow Syracuse University faculty and graduate students to teach courses in prisons. Christopher Rick, a doctoral student in public administration and internal affairs, said at Wednesday’s GSO Senate meeting that he is currently working with SU administrators to establish the program, called “Collegein-Prison,” for fall 2022. The program would allow SU faculty and graduate students to teach SU courses to incarcerated people at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, New York. The students would receive an SU degree upon completion. Some SU students said while they are happy they were able to stay on campus this long into the fall semester, they’re relieved to be able to go home, especially with COVID-19 cases rising both on campus and in Onondaga County. emily steinberger photo editor By Abby Weiss

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Syracuse University students leaving campus ahead of winter break said they’re relieved to return home after a semester of coronavirus precautions and social isolation. After holding in-person courses for 12 weeks, the university transitioned to online classes Nov. 16 due to rising COVID-19 infections both on campus and in Onondaga County. Students told The Daily Orange that they’re surprised SU was able to offer in-person instruction for much of the semester and hope they can return to campus in the spring. Julia Pepin, a sophomore electrical engineering major, was surprised by how many students wore masks this semester. She was also impressed by how SU handled the virus among students and how cases remained low enough for in-person

instruction to continue for so long. “People were a lot more responsible than I thought they were going to be,” Pepin said. “I really thought we were going to get sent home within the first month.”

It felt very isolating. It never felt like there was a break. It was just school and nothing else. Emma Platten su sophomore

Pepin’s eager to return home because coronavirus-related restrictions have made it challenging for her to meet friends. She missed the sense of community on campus and felt she couldn’t get to know people in her classes.

For Emma Platten, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, taking classes virtually made it hard to separate her social and academic lives. “It felt very isolating,” Platten said. “It never felt like there was a break. It was just school and nothing else.” Despite SU’s restrictions on social gatherings and visits to other residence halls, Joshua Freson, a freshman sports analytics major, was able to make friends. For Nick Luttrell, a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major, the fear of being sent home encouraged him to experience as much of SU as he could while following health guidelines. “You never know when the COVID cases are just going to shoot up like they have in the past week,” Lutrell said. “And so you’re kind of soaking everything up to really enjoy the little things and hang out

in small groups.” SU is requiring all students moving out of university housing to pack and label their belongings in case residential instruction doesn’t resume in the spring semester. The university is also requiring students to receive a negative COVID-19 test before leaving central New York for winter break. SU is prepared to accommodate students who choose to remain at the university over break and those who must remain in Onondaga County for a mandated quarantine or isolation period, Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie said in a press conference Tuesday. The university is using South Campus apartments and rooms in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel to quarantine students. The university has “excess capacity” to quarantine students, and quarantine housing in the see winter

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Syverud discusses plans for spring semester By Kailey Norusis staff writer

Syracuse University will consider expanding testing for students in the spring and adding more indoor spaces for academic and nonacademic purposes, Chancellor Kent Syverud said at a University Senate meeting Wednesday. While it is still unclear how the pandemic will look come the spring semester, the university still plans to hold in-person classes beginning Jan. 25, Syverud said. SU will continue working with local and state health authorities to ensure a return to campus is safe, he said. SU transitioned to online learning Thursday following a spike in COVID-19 cases at SU and within Onondaga County. The spike was the first time SU saw evidence of transmission of the virus within residence halls all semester, Syverud said.

“As we work to wrap-up the residential part of fall semester as safely as we can, we are learning from that and looking to the spring,” Syverud said. Six committees that met ahead of the fall semester — including committees focussing on public health, academic strategies and residence life — will reconvene again during winter break to establish updated policies and guidelines for the spring semester, Syverud said. The university will also develop new policies during the winter break to address challenges posed by cold and snowy weather as well as the rise in cases in the Syracuse area, Syverud said. “It’s important that we do everything we can to prepare to be here in person in the spring,” Syverud said. “But we all need to be humble to realize there are things outside our control in the world that may make that not prudent.”

Senator Lee McKnight, a professor in the School of Information Studies, said he is concerned that some students living on campus will still prefer to attend class remotely, despite efforts to make an in-person spring semester possible. The university’s reopening plans should accommodate those who prefer remote learning, he said. Syverud said the university will make it a priority to provide high quality in-person options for students. The Schine Student Center, which is currently undergoing renovations, will reopen in January and can be used as a safe indoor space suitable for social distancing, Syverud said. The renovated Schine will also house several student resources offices, including SU’s Disability Cultural Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs and LGBT Resource Center, as well as additional dining options.

The university is also considering other well-ventilated, open spaces on campus for student and faculty use, Syverud said. Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie has said that university officials are working to repurpose the Carrier Dome as a place to host classes and other student activities. The recently renovated stadium features the highest quality air filtration system on campus and can replace the stadium’s entire air volume nearly 10 times an hour, Haynie has said. Though SU wasn’t able to continue in-person classes until Nov. 24 as planned, Syverud said he is proud of how university employees and students managed the virus. “As a university, I think we did relatively well compared to our peers in the fall, but the spring semester has to be even better,” Syverud said. kmnorusi@syr.edu

This is for us. It shows who we want to be as a university and a community Christopher Rick doctoral student

“It’s Syracuse University in a different setting,” Rick said. “This is for us. It shows who we want to be as a university and a community.” While SU does not currently have a program like College-inPrison, other colleges and universities in New York, including Columbia University, Cornell University and the University of Rochester, offer similar programs. “This is a tangible and significant investment in our push for diversity, equity and inclusion,” Rick said. “Prison education promotes social and racial justice.” Keith Alford, SU’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, also joined the meeting to discuss issues of racial injustice on SU’s campus. Alford cited recent instances of police brutality, such as the killing of George Floyd by police which sparked nationwide protests last summer, as examples of another “pandemic” that society has faced during 2020. The creation of #NotAgainSU is evidence of the collective effort SU students have made to combat racial injustice going on in and around the campus community, Alford said. #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, led two occupations last year in response to a slew of racist incidents that occurred at or near SU. The group has criticized the university’s response to those incidents and its handling of campus protests. Alford called on the GSO and graduate students to continue to fight against racial injustice together. “We are still dealing with a racial injustice pandemic,” Alford said. “It is pivotal that we continue to advocate for change and fight against it.” dpfister@syr.edu

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response response plan, several students told The Daily Orange that they were never contacted by the university after their friends tested positive for the coronavirus, leaving them frustrated and uncertain about what to do next. Mia Miele, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, received a call from SU asking her to quarantine in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel after her friend tested positive for COVID-19. After spending one night at the Sheraton, Miele was told by an employee from the COVID-19 office she could complete her 14-day quarantine at her family’s second house nearby. She said she later got tested for COVID-19 on her own and did not hear from the university again until her quarantine period was over. “I got a text like three days ago saying ‘SU is here to help,’ but SU hasn’t called to check in to see I have symptoms or anything like that,” Miele said. “Once I was off campus, they didn’t really ask me anything.” Four hours after he initially called the Barnes Center at The Arch, Schmidt spoke with a nurse. While he was able to make an appointment to receive a rapid test the next day, other people he knew who had also been in contact with students exposed to COVID-19 didn’t qualify, he said. “Out of my four friends that were right there, I was the only one who got an appointment within 48 hours,” Schmidt said. “The rest of them had to wait three, four days to get tested, and once they did get tested, they didn’t even get a rapid test.” Larsen said SU reserves rapid tests for students who are “highly likely to be infected.” “It shouldn’t change behavior whether you get a rapid test or you wait three or four days to get a test,” Larsen said. “If you are exposed, you should still be in quarantine.” Nicole Salpini, a senior marketing and real estate major who is on SU’s figure skating team, said one of her teammates tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 1. Salpini went into quarantine at the Shera-

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ton. But after receiving a negative test result from a rapid test, an SU employee told her she wasn’t even supposed to be there and that she had never technically been exposed to the coronavirus. “No one had any answers,” Salpini said. “There was no protocol. Everyone had a different idea of what to do.” Miele, like other students, said SU’s testing and quarantine protocol was unnecessarily stressful — characterized often by miscommunication or conflicting guidance. “It caused me a lot of stress,” Miele said. Sydney Schroeder, a sophomore studying English and public relations, said that the lack of communication from SU throughout her quarantine has been aggravating. Schroeder, who went into quarantine after a member of her sorority tested positive, said that she often received updates from her sorority sisters rather than from the university directly. “The lack of communication between students and the COVID center is actually concerning,” Schroeder said. “The lack of communication sometimes is a little disheartening especially during times of struggle.” Schroeder, who began quarantining at her sorority house, later moved to South Campus as other girls in the sorority began testing positive. But Schroeder said there was little supervision or enforcement of quarantine guidelines on South Campus. It was ultimately at her discretion to follow the quarantine order, she said. “It’s been us being disciplined and knowing that this is for our safety and the safety of others that we quarantine,” she said. Schroeder also said she faced difficulty obtaining a test during her quarantine. While she participated in a pooled saliva test on Friday, she was unable to obtain a rapid test. She said she plans to get tested before returning home to Los Angeles out of an abundance of caution. Morgan Grenz, a junior dual majoring in magazine journalism and information management and technology, said she was more frustrated by her interactions with SU’s COVID-19 office than being exposed or having to quarantine. “They clearly weren’t on the same page because we got so many different recommen-

SU has given students the option to quarantine in their off-campus residences or with family members if they live nearby. emily steinberger photo editor

dations,” Grenz said. “I really think because it’s the last two weeks of the semester, we have a surge in cases. The university really doesn’t know what to do.” Grenz and her roommates had to coordinate much of their testing and quarantine on their own, she said. Still, she understands

that the university is overwhelmed with so many students in quarantine. The university needs to create a more organized system in the spring, she said. “It’s not an easy situation,” Grenz said. “But I do hope they refine it a bit for next year.” news@dailyorange.com

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Both SU and its students are to blame for campus shutdown After 12 weeks of residential instruction, Syracuse University has transitioned classes online, a switch many of us expected to happen just two weeks after the start of the semester. Though this achievement deserves recognition, we must also recognize the flaws in SU’s COVID-19 guidelines that led to an abrupt end of in-person learning right as campus entered the home stretch. Just as cases are rising on campus, infections are also spiking Onondaga County. SU’s move to online learning is not solely the result of students neglecting to follow health guidelines or the university failing to enforce them. But since October, the campus community has come close to reaching the state-mandated threshold for moving classes online several times. While the SU administration may attempt to blame this sudden spike in cases on students, and vice versa, both could have done more to keep cases low. The campus has seen multiple COVID-19 clusters among students and a lack of regulation from SU on extended and holiday weekends. As the semester draws to a close, more than 600 students, faculty and staff have contracted the virus. Five weeks into the semester, SU’s COVID-19 testing policies worked. The number of cases were down, and this was made possible due to pre-arrival testing, mandatory randomized testing and frequent wastewater testing. Now, many of those protocols have come to a halt. The COVID-19 saliva tests are no longer randomized or required, leaving it up to students to keep track of their health.

The university implemented an abundance of protocols at the start of the semester but developed a sense of overconfidence that led to a lack of surveillance. emily steinberger photo editor

We haven’t heard any updates about any discovered traces of COVID-19 in dorm hall wastewater. And as students begin to travel home for winter break, pre-departure testing is required but not enforced. The university implemented an abundance of protocols at the start of the semester, but as these measures proved effective in preventing an outbreak, SU developed a sense of overconfidence that led to a lack of surveillance and enforcement. So when Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie blamed the majority of the 280 active cases as of Tuesday on student-to-student transmission, he failed to consider that part of the blame should fall on the administra-

tion. By letting their guard down when it came to COVID-19 testing, they unintentionally sent a message to students that it’s OK to do the same. Uncoincidentally, this recent spike in on-campus cases comes after the weekend of Halloween. By that weekend, the mandatory randomized testing that we saw in the first five weeks of the semester was nowhere to be found, even prior to and after a holiday that college students are known to celebrate by congregating with more than five people. That weekend, personal responsibility was obviously lost on both SU and its students. The university did not prepare for the holiday, and many students decided to ignore the

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Voter registration should be automatic By Megan Cooper columnist

hough the United States experienced record-breaking voter turnout in this election, the country has historically had lower voter turnout and registration numbers than most other long-standing democracies around the globe. We rarely represent the citizens of our country adequately, and a lack of political engagement and difficulties in registering to vote are major parts of that. All Americans should be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18. There are various obstacles that hinder citizens from registering to vote. Each state has its own voter registration process, which can be difficult to navigate. Registering also takes time and effort that people don’t always have. Whether people are working fulltime or trying to support their family, too much effort goes into registering, which may feel meaningless to some. We should still encourage people to register to vote, but the system can be changed to help them do so. A number of states already have means of automatically registering voters, allowing people to register

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to vote when they have any routine government interaction. A FiveThirtyEight analysis found that people who were registered automatically voted at similar rates to those who were registered by choice in most states and at higher rates in others. This data clearly shows that automatic voter registration is worth it. There are very few downsides, too, with one being that a government agency still has to verify an individual’s identity to register them. But even getting a few more people out to vote means greater participation in our democracy. This participation helps create a country that’s representative of all its citizens. The current automatic voter registration laws in some states are not sufficient in enfranchising voters. By relying on states to determine these election rules, we don’t give them equal protection or access that is guaranteed to them. Every individual, regardless of the state they live in, deserves easy access to voting. Voting is more than the act of supporting a certain candidate or policy. It is a symbolic act that binds us as Americans and produces the type of democracy we have said we believe in for centuries. Voting car-

ries a legacy of exclusion and deeply rooted racism and sexism that has prevented people from voting. Some formerly incarcerated people remain disenfranchised, too. We are actively silencing hundreds of thousands of people by making voter registration such a difficult task. Even for those of us who care about voting, registering can be too difficult or complicated to understand. Most of the people without the time or resources to register are people who are already marginalized and underrepresented in our political environment. There is no reason that we should keep the system overly complicated. Implementing automatic voter registration is possible within our existing structure, making it cheap, accessible and beneficial to citizen engagement. All citizens deserve to have their voices heard. In a democracy, it’s the government’s job to help amplify them.

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idea of social distancing altogether. SU is lacking most in enforcement, even after implementing policies such as the Stay Safe Pledge and threatening to report students who violate it to the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities. If the university fails to stay true to its word, students will unintentionally disregard its guidelines. The Department of Public Safety is the main entity that has the resources to change this by enforcing maskwearing rules and gathering limits. But while DPS needs to do more to enforce COVID-19 protocols, it’s unfair to not state the obvious: temperatures have dropped, and more people are now congregating inside

and out of DPS’ immediate view. It’s unfair to place all the blame on the students. The majority of students have stayed in central New York, have worn masks in public and have understood that other students’ health is dependent on theirs. But as the three COVID-19 clusters among students prove, not everyone in our campus community has taken public health guidelines and the safety of others seriously SU has done a solid job of safely bringing students back to campus, addressing COVID-19 clusters and contact tracing students who may have been exposed to the virus. But the university must diligently adhere to these practices throughout the entire semester, not just in the first five weeks. If we resume in-person learning in the spring, SU’s campus culture needs to change. The university needs to step it up when it comes to enforcing testing, social distancing and mask-wearing protocols. Students need to start normalizing social gatherings of five people or fewer, avoiding going out to local restaurants and wearing masks properly. We’re lucky that we made it this far. But we need to be able to count on ourselves more than on luck to make it through next semester. The Daily Orange Editorial Board serves as the voice of the organization and aims to contribute the perspectives of students to discussions that concern Syracuse University and the greater Syracuse community. The editorial board’s stances are determined by a majority of its members.

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SU shouldn’t have opened campus this semester By Camille Daniels columnist

’ve only been on campus once this semester, but from the news reports and the campus emails sent throughout this semester, I don’t know how much sense it made to open up. Yes, it has financially helped many who depend on the campus being open. But for the rest of the university system, it doesn’t seem like it was the best option. For the freshmen of the university, my heart goes out to all of you. This couldn’t be a stranger way to start off your higher education experience. But what kind of college experience can anyone have between trying to attend class, study and receive testing for COVID-19? I know that seems cold, and maybe I’m looking at it this way because I’m a graduate student and have been out of undergraduate school for a few years, but SU should have gone remote for the entire year. There is always more a university can do, but it’s almost impossible to do more than what SU administrators have to prevent the spread of COVID19. Students at this stage of their lives are adults, or at least they are supposed to be. Despite this, these so-called adults are not immune to making extremely poor and downright stupid choices.

There does not seem to be genuine regard on the students’ part to put others before their own needs. The recent spike in COVID-19 cases due to social gatherings off-campus is purely on the students. If you decide to go to a party or any gathering where social distancing and mask-wearing are not encouraged, an increase in cases is almost inevitable. Common sense says to go to class, stay home and focus on your work. But you’re young, and you don’t believe the rules apply to you, so you don’t follow them. SU is far from perfect when it comes to returning to campus amid a pandemic. Nonetheless, I applaud the university for even attempting to give it a shot, even if it was a shot in the dark. Students wanted to come, and the university needed its money, so the university opened. The results are not surprising, but they are embarrassing. But as the saying goes, “you get what you pay for.” If you’re willing to pay to attend college in the middle of a pandemic but disregard your fellow students by not adhering to health guidelines, no one will get to have the complete college experience. 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.

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president a good listener and has a unique interest in the people around her. Mahoney would never hesitate to ask questions or find an expert if she came across a concept she didn’t understand, Scott said. “She was a consensus builder and will move ESF in a direction that plays to the strengths of faculty, staff and students,” Scott said. Mahoney began her first term as county executive in 2007, just before 2008’s financial recession. Under her leadership, Onondaga County had the highest bond ratings — which indicate the county’s ability to pay back its debts — of any county in the state after the recession.

I feel an extra sense of responsibility coming first,” “I’m proud of that and take it very seriously. Joanie Mahoney esf president

She wants to use similar strategies to combat the financial difficulties that SUNY-ESF may face as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. “We didn’t just survive that recession, we thrived,” Mahoney said. “Generally, I want to focus on the finances and get that foundation rebuilt for faculty and students.” from page 3

winter break Sheraton is not full, he said. The spring semester is set to resume on Jan. 25, and it will not include a spring break. Alex Malanoski, a broadcast and digital journalism major, expects the university to

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During her time in county government, Mahoney spearheaded eco-friendly wastewater treatment initiatives that have since been replicated in other cities across the country. In 2009, she renegotiated a federal order that required the county to build waste treatment plants to include investment in green infrastructure. As president, Mahoney also plans to build connections with organizations beyond campus. Mahoney wants to continue SUNY-ESF’s partnership with SU, develop relationships with high schools outside of New York state and secure research grants, she said. Above all, Mahoney said she intends to have an active presence on campus. Lexi Chipules, president of the SUNY-ESF Undergraduate Student Association, said Mahoney has been in contact with students and has been receptive to their concerns and ideas. Mahoney attended the association’s meeting the day after she was appointed president, Chipules said. “I’ve also noticed an increase in the speed of communications coming from the college since she has become president, which is very much appreciated, especially in this uncertain time,” Chipules said. Mahoney aims to be present and available to students, following in the footsteps of David Amberg, SUNY-ESF’s interim president, and Cornelius Murphy, who served as SUNY-ESF’s third president between 2000 and 2013. “Being around the students is what is so inspiring,” Mahoney said. “We’re lucky we have a small enough college that you can do that — be out and about and get to know folks.” mmrand@syr.edu

resume in-person instruction next semester, but he plans to bring all of his belongings home in case students can’t come back in January. “I’m hesitant,” Malanoski said. “I’m trying to be optimistic about it, but obviously what’s happening here is not a good sign.” Pepin said she’ll continue to adhere to

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public health guidelines when she returns home so she’s able to return to SU for the start of the spring semester. She and her friends have followed the university’s COVID-19 guidelines throughout the fall semester because they were determined to prevent SU from shutting down, Pepin said. She hopes students will

have the same mindset in the spring. “We want to start off with a clean slate again, just like we did in the fall and not start behind because then we’re gonna get sent home way earlier,” Pepin said.

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MICHELLE SCHENANDOAH (LEFT), founder of Rematriation Magazine, and editor-in-chief Rachel Porter hope to restore Haudenosaunee culture into society through their magazine emily steinberger photo editor

Michelle Schenandoah created Rematriation magazine to form a community for Indigenous women in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

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or 20 years, Michelle Schenandoah dreamed of creating a magazine that would amplify the voices of Indigenous women like herself. As a member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, she felt that her story was erased from history and mainstream media. This led her to found Rematriation Magazine, a multimedia publication for Indigenous women to gather for collective healing, storytelling and empowerment. The online publication consists of articles, short films and podcasts created by Indigenous women across the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. But the publication goes beyond what people expect of a magazine because it is focused

on creating community within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Schenandoah said. “What we do within the close spaces is provide a lot around healing from those intergenerational traumas but then also helping to move us into more positive spaces where there is a lot of support for each other and building of community,” Schenandoah said. In 2017, Schenandoah attended the Newhouse School of Public Communications for a master’s degree program in magazine, newspaper and online journalism. While studying at Newhouse she tailored her coursework to create a magazine that would educate the public about the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which is made up of the Six Nations — Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora — and is the Indigenous confederacy in Northeast see magazine page 8

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For over 30 years, Syracuse University has held its “International Thanksgiving Celebration” in Goldstein Auditorium This year’s celebration will look different, as SU will be hosting the event on Thursday at 7 p.m. over Zoom. The event is open to all international students who are staying in Syracuse during Thanksgiving break, and for many it is an introduction to the American autumn tradition. “It is quite hard for anyone to

hold gatherings like last year,” said Ze Zeng, a sophomore from Beijing. “It’s understandable and reasonable that the school is putting it online, and I am very grateful that under these very difficult circumstances, the school is still putting this kind of event together.” Students will start off the event by picking up their individually packaged Thanksgiving meals provided by SU Food Services in two different locations on campus — the Life Sciences Atrium and the Inn Complete — between the times of 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Opening remarks from Chancellor Kent Syverud and Ruth Chen, Syverud’s wife and a professor of practice in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, will start the evening followed by clerics who will do the benediction and implication, or the prayers at the end of the service, Tavares said. Each randomly assigned table has a host — usually a faculty member, staff member or alumnus — who facilitates a conversation about Thanksgiving with the students. This year, students will meet with their table hosts

in Zoom breakout rooms to continue the tradition, but since they haven’t reached 500 students yet, Tavares said he is uncertain about how many students will attend. “Nothing is scripted so it’s an open conversation, but it’s mostly about the tradition of Thanksgiving,” Tavares said. “The talking points for the table host is to talk about how they remember Thanksgiving growing up in the United States and what it means to them.” Yuhsun Peng, a doctoral student from Taiwan, attended the event in 2019 for the first time. The event is an inclusive opportunity for internation-

al students, she said. Even though she went with her Taiwanese friends and her boyfriend, they met international students they did not know before. Although she won’t be attending this year due to her busy schedule, she enjoyed the celebration last year because the food was great, she said. She will try to attend the event next year, if her schedule allows. “I also appreciate that the school is having this kind of event,” Peng said. “Where international students can sit together with each other and talk to each other when they are far away from home.” aharve05@syr.edu

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Student displays drawings of fictional characters in exhibit By Mandy Kraynak culture editor

Omari Odom remembers watching old, black and white Mickey Mouse cartoons as a child. “I said in my mind, ‘I want to do that,’” he said. “From that moment forward, I just started drawing and drawing.” Odom, a Syracuse University senior studying animation and a student in the InclusiveU program, started drawing characters, including some of his favorite superheroes like Spider-Man. An exhibit of Odom’s work featuring drawings of Harry Potter, Power Rangers, Black Panther and other characters is on display in the Sharon H. Jacquet Education Commons in SU’s School of Education. Presented by Light Work and the Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education, the “Desires and Harmony: Paintings and Drawings by Omari Odom” exhibition began on Oct. 30 and will remain on display for the rest of the semester and probably into the spring.

Seeing his work displayed in Huntington Hall at the university was “a surreal moment” for him, Odom said. Brianna Shults, the internship and employment coordinator for the Taishoff Center, reached out to Mary Lee Hodgens, the associate director at Light Work, to coordinate a potential internship for Odom. Light Work wanted to support Odom and his work, and the exhibit is part of his internship. “With our limitations with the virus, we thought, ‘OK, we’ve got this talented person. And what can we do to support an artist?’” Hodgens said. Light Work decided to support Odom in one of the ways that the gallery has always supported artists — through an exhibition. Odom worked with Hodgens to prepare and install the exhibition. After Odom and Light Work selected which pieces of art to include in the exhibit, Light Work scanned the images and printed them

out on adhesive Photo Tex material. Odom and Hodgens then went to the space in the School of Education to determine the placement of each piece on the walls. While a reception was not possible due to COVID-19, Odom and Hodgens planned to hold a “Drawing with Omari” workshop at the School of Education with a limited number of attendees. But due to rising COVID-19 cases on campus, Odom and Hodgens had to postpone the workshop and instead hope to hold it in the spring. Odom said each of the pieces take about two hours to create. He focuses on making sure that the lines in the drawings are accurate, sometimes going back to redraw if the lines do not meet his standards. “I just sit down and just draw it,” Odom said. “And every character that I sometimes think about or that I think about just comes to my mind. I just draw.” He also strives to make the characters look as if they were alive, rather than just images.

For Omari, the goal of the exhibition is to show who he is and what he’s about. His older brother Marcus Odom said he sees Omari’s personality through his art. Omari has the “gift” of retaining the likenesses of characters and then capturing them through his art, Marcus said. “It was like he had a way of capturing those images and … with the contour lines, to a quality where it’s like, ‘You didn’t just sit there and draw that,’” Marcus said. “And I’m just like, ‘Where’d you get these images from?’” One piece in the exhibit that stands out to Marcus features Harry Potter and other characters from the Harry Potter movie series, including Hermione Granger and Severus Snape. Omari started drawing the pieces around his junior year of high school, and his work has been evolving since then. “There’s way more stuff that Marcus hasn’t seen yet or nobody else has seen yet that’ll probably blow you away,” Omari said. ackrayna@syr.edu

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Junior sells custom-made jewelry through online shop By Mary Kate Tramontano staff writer

Syracuse University junior Julia Schwenderman was making earrings for themselves when they began receiving compliments from other students. And when they did, the students asked where they could buy the jewelry. “It’s kind of just something that I do because I love it,” Schwenderman said. “Because I know that it makes other people really happy, and they think it’s really cool.” Schwenderman then created their online shop, QWLRY, in August. QWLRY mostly sells earrings, along with charm bracelets and keychains. Customers can find photos of various

products or reach out to Schwenderman with custom orders on the shop’s Instagram page. Schwenderman said they get a lot of influence for their jewelry from custom orders. Most of the time, a customer will request a new object be placed on an earring. Then Schwenderman will open up the new item to all customers who visit their page. For Schwenderman, the emphasis on the jewelry they create is how fun and different it is. The inspiration they get for their jewelry is “anything that’s fun and different.” For materials, they will go to supply stores, as well as repurpose items like wine corks. They also have turned objects such as plastic aliens and rubber skulls into earrings. Katie Volkomer, an SU junior who placed a

custom order through QWLRY, said the process was simple and it was easy to ask for certain changes and specifications. The earrings Volkomer purchased had stars on them, and even though Schwenderman didn’t initially have star jewelry in stock, they fulfilled the special request and created the earrings. Recently, Schwenderman completely rebranded their jewelry store. The shop started off with the name ShopSchwendy, a play on their last name, but they changed the name to QWLRY to define the shop as a queer-owned business. Car Shapiro, an SU sophomore and QWLRY customer, appreciates the emphasis the shop has placed on the LGBTQ community. As a queer student, they would go out of their way

to support a queer business on campus ”just to create that sense of community between people,” Shapiro said. Schwenderman plans to bring the shop back home to the Philadelphia area with them over winter break. They also hope to eventually arrange fundraisers through the shop for organizations they care about. “My earrings are still for anyone,” Schwenderman said. “It gives a lot of other queer individuals on campus or people that I’m selling to outside of campus a way to express themselves outside of the ordinary and also see that there are other people on campus who are happy with being fun and different.”

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largely erased us from history and also taken away our voice in the larger national narrative that happens,” Schenandoah said. Afton Lewis, Rematriation’s new media creator, said the community the magazine has created for Indigenous women empowers her. Lewis was born into the Mud People Clan, which is a Navajo clan. She was first introduced to the magazine through Schenandoah’s brother Cameron at the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico, where she was studying filmmaking. “Indigenous people have been silenced for so many years, and it feels great to finally be heard and to finally have allies — non-Indigenous people — understand and even give back to what was once ours,” Lewis said. Rachel Porter, Rematriation’s editor-in-chief, also believes that the magazine creates a safe place for Indigenous women to share their stories. Porter is deeply connected to Haudenosaunee culture and said women hold important knowledge that can restore our society. As editor-in-chief, she hopes to continue Schenandoah’s goal of uplifting Haudenosaunee women. “It’s a unique voice, and I think that nonNative readers are really going to get an insight into some of the wonderful traditions but also solution making that Indigenous women are doing in response to our rapidly changing world,” Porter said. In the future, Porter and Lewis said they hope to produce a physical copy of the magazine. Schenandoah’s vision for the magazine is that it continues “to grow and reach more Indigenous women” across the United States. She hopes to continue to “build connections and friendships with allies who also seek to employ and center our voices and to help the work that we’re doing,” she said. But Schenandoah also believes her work extends beyond Rematriation. She said that there are Indigenous people throughout the world that are fighting for their right to be heard. “In our rapidly changing world, humanity is now being called to a higher consciousness,” Schenandoah said. “As Haudenosaunee and Indigenous people, we offer a pathway to a restored balance between humankind and our Mother Earth.”

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North America. Two years later, at an event at SKY Armory that 200 Indigenous men and women attended, she officially launched Rematration Magazine to tell the untold stories of her culture’s history, she said. Schenandoah defines rematriation as “returning the sacred to the mother,” or the idea of Indigenous women reclaiming their identities after experiencing genocide and stereotypes. There is a lack of knowledge about Indigenous culture in mainstream media, she said. “Surviving through hundreds of years of acts of genocide, forced removal and forced assimilation, to be able to stand on our own lands, maintaining our identity, language and ceremonies to this day is nothing short of a miracle,” Schenandoah said. “And is a testament of our people’s resilience.” The magazine has three different parts — sacred, secret and shared — which Schenandoah said aim to create a community of Indigenous sisterhood across the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. She, along with 75 other Indigenous women, created these three focus areas at a summit Schenandoah held in 2018 at Newhouse. Rematriation holds “sacred” events that focus on healing from the impacts of colonization. In addition, there are closed online safe spaces within the magazine’s website for Indigenous women to have open dialogue and share knowledge with one another. The website also has public “shared” spaces where women can share their knowledge and wisdom with those outside the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Their short film “An Indigenous Response to #MeToo” was featured in the Red Nation International Film Festival in 2018. In addition, Schenandoah said Rematriation just finished a short 10-part documentary film series called “Indigenous Women Voices.” Three of the films can be viewed online at this year’s festival. “It’s a lot of positive networking and reclaiming our own voice as Indigenous women, because those colonial histories have

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o-line Louisville, North Carolina State and No. 2 Notre Dame. “There has been improvement this season, but I think when you add up the overall numbers, it puts us at the bottom,” Babers said. “We understand that. We had a really rough beginning. Sometimes it’s hard to overcome huge numbers like that.” Last year, the Orange came roaring out of their bye week with three games to go, dominating Duke in their most complete performance of the season. SU ran for 286 yards after true freshman Matthew Bergeron replaced Ryan Alexander on the offensive line. Alexander later left the program midway through the season, and Syracuse kept its five-man lineman rotation for the final three games. It was three of the Orange’s best games of the year offensively. Syracuse posted 49, 34 and 39 points en route to two wins. The Orange’s yards per rush were much improved in those final three games, and their offensive line yards also ticked up. This year’s poor play has been a continuation of 2019. Injuries have decimated any

hopes the Orange had of building depth along the offensive line. Former lineman Sam Heckel announced his retirement from football due to an undisclosed injury last fall. Anthony Red, who was expected to compete for a potential role in the line, tore his Achilles tendon. Babers tried to address the lack of depth through the transfer portal, by adding lineman Chris Bleich, a transfer from Florida, but his waiver for 2020 eligibility was denied. Davis has worked his way back into the rotation in the Orange’s last loss to Boston College before the bye week. He’s played every third series as he works his way back to fitness. Airon Servais didn’t directly say it, but suggested he was playing through some type of injury in October. Babers swapped Bergeron with Servais along the line and moved Servais to right tackle ahead of the Duke game. Injuries have piled up at quarterback, too. DeVito played a stretch of last season through a rib injury. Clayton Welch said he played through a broken collarbone in the Pittsburgh game. This season, DeVito was hurt escaping the pocket, and Culpepper missed the Boston College game due to an undisclosed injury. Two games into the season, DeVito was on

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coordinator Chip Foster said. “I was like, ‘Good lord, why hadn’t he been playing quarterback the whole time?’” Foster said. “If he did not play quarterback, we probably wouldn’t have scored.” At the time, C.J. was a four-star recruit, ranked 84th in the nation and seventh-highest among safeties, according to ESPN. Now a senior at Louisville, C.J. is being scouted again — this time by NFL teams. Halfway through his freshman season, then-head coach Bobby Petrino and Louisville’s defensive staff shifted C.J. to inside linebacker. C.J.’s co-captaining the Cardinals and is the bright spot on an otherwise struggling 2-6 Louisville team that allows 29.8 points a game. At linebacker, he’s likely to be an NFL Draft prospect.

I was like, ‘Good lord, why hadn’t he been playing quarterback the whole time?’ If he did not play quarterback, we probably wouldn’t have scored. Chip Foster granada hs coach

“He was (already) big, and I knew he was going to get bigger, and I figured he would be a linebacker,” Foster said. “He’s so involved in the weight room and so dedicated to strength.” C.J. gained 16 pounds during his sophomore year, up from 205 the year prior, and

track to be sacked more than any quarterback in a single season in Football Bowl Subdivision history. The Orange had completely failed to establish the run. Babers thought it would get better, and it did, if only for one breakout performance against Georgia Tech by freshman running back Sean Tucker. DeVito was sacked only once. Encouraging offensive line performances against Liberty and Clemson were sandwiched between poor ones against Duke and Wake Forest. Wide receiver Nykeim Johnson hinted at it earlier this season, but the Babers’ offensive system and pace is reliant on early down success. The Orange haven’t been able to play fast because they’ve had too many negative plays on first down. When they can’t run the ball on early downs, it is impossible to gain an edge through the lack of huddling. “The running game is everything,” Johnson said. “A team’s identity starts with the running game.” The Orange’s offensive line woes are reflected in the 2019 and 2020 passing data. In 2018, when the Orange had a more effective offensive line, Eric Dungey was able to push the ball further down the field. 28.8% of Dungey’s passes traveled more than 10 yards

in the air, and 36% of DeVito’s did, according to PFF’s passing metrics. The last two years, DeVito’s percentage dropped to 26.4% in 2019, and even lower to 23.8% in 2020. DeVito is throwing the ball behind the line of scrimmage at a much higher rate the last two seasons than he did or Dungey did in 2018. Many expected tight ends to be a bigger part of the 2020 passing attack because of their efficiency numbers in 2019, especially in the red zone. Hackett had 27 targets in 2019, and the Orange were 23 for 27 with six TDs when targeting him. In 2020, he’s had only 10 targets because he’s been stuck in the backfield blocking more to protect the line. When he was asked on Monday, Babers said that he believes his offensive line has shown improvement. With three weeks left in the year, they have a chance to prove that. The Orange are coming out of a bye after a loss to Boston College with three games remaining, and will be underdogs in all three games. Just like last year. “We’ve got three opportunities against three teams where we won’t be favored,” Babers said. “We’ll see where the chips fall. Maybe we can pull one out down the stretch.”

tripled his solo tackle tally. He finished second on the Cardinals, with a total of 56 tackles in 2018. In his junior season, he nearly doubled that number, leading the team with 93 tackles as the Cardinals beat Mississippi State 38-28 in the Music City Bowl that year. He trained during the offseason with his cousin Genard Avery, a defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles, who converted his grandmother’s garage into a miniature gym. Genard, who also attended Grenada, has heavily influenced his cousin’s football ambitions. In previous years, Genard — then at the University of Memphis — would return to his former high school and help C.J. train. “Just as C.J. entered 10th grade, you could tell he had something different about his work ethic,” Kuhn said. The Avery’s are a football family that spans three generations. C.J.’s father had stints in the

Arena Football League and the World League of American Football in Spain. His grandfather also played at the University of Virginia. “In ninth grade, when they decided to move him up to varsity, is when it really kicked in. Like ‘Okay, I can do this. I’m going to do this. It’s in my genes, it’s in my blood,’” said Claudette Avery, C.J.’s mother. At Grenada, C.J. broke into a starting role halfway through his freshman year, something Kuhn has never seen from someone his age. The then-safety played a significant role even as an underclassman, Kuhn said. C.J.’s shifts from safety to quarterback to inside linebacker highlight his versatility and all-around abilities, Foster said. The defensive coordinator felt confident that his team would be “safe” no matter where C.J. was on the field. “I wish we had more Avery’s,” Foster said.

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2015 title based in Charlottesville, Virginia, features former SU runners Knight, Hehir, Bennie and Paige Stoner, of the women’s team. Fox and Smith helped kickstart the Reebok team in July 2018, which competes in running events worldwide and helps the company conduct research and test products. “Those are my guys,” Fox said of the former SU runners at Reebok. “Justyn’s sort of like a son at this point and a good friend. It’s just a great group of people that came together at the right time.”

Brien Bell

Brien Bell took over as head coach of the program following Fox’s departure. He’s currently in his third year, and he also coaches track and field, like Fox. He led the men’s team to an ACC Championship in 2019 and was named the 2019 ACC Coach of the Year. Fox talks with Bell around “five or six days a week,” and said he’s maintained a tight relationship with the program since he left because he played such a large role in laying from page 12

hughes One year later, after Battle and Brissett both left for the draft, Hughes became Syracuse’s focal point on offense. He averaged 19.0 points and 4.9 rebounds per game, and his scoring average led the Atlantic Coast Conference and helped him land a first-team allconference spot. His road to the draft started with the end of Syracuse’s win against the Tar Heels, and his subsequent decision to leave school a year early. Forty-four seconds after hitting a 3-pointer from the wing, catching a crosscourt pass from Quincy Guerrier and swishing his shot, Hughes strolled toward the Syracuse bench. It was the first round of the ACC tournament, and Syracuse had already secured a

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its foundation. “(The program) is in good hands with Bell. He was one of the architects with Fox from day one,” said Chris Getman, an SU runner from 1992-97. “There is no reason to think there are no future national championship titles to come.”

Justyn Knight

The leading runner for Syracuse in 2015, Knight is a seven-time First-Team AllAmerican, two-time world champion finalist, Team Canada member and a Canadian record holder. Now 24 years old, he’s been with Reebok for two years and is considered one of the top runners in North America. Knight is expected to run in the Tokyo Olympics next summer and has continued training during the pandemic. At Syracuse, Knight placed fourth in the 2015 national championship, won the 2017 individual national championship and led the Orange to two ACC titles in 2016 and 2017. “(He) matches right up with some of the best guys in the world,” Fox said. “He’s still young — relatively young — in our sport. I think the sky is still the limit for Justyn. I don’t think he’s come close to reaching his potential.” blowout victory against the Tar Heels. In a normal season, the Orange would’ve had a game against Louisville the next day, another chance for Hughes to further etch his place in Syracuse history by inching them deeper into the tournament. But when Guerrier tipped a rebound out of bounds, Hughes subbed out for what would be the final time of his Syracuse career and ended his night with 27 points, leading the Orange that night. He stood at the end of the bench, Gatorade towel wrapped around his neck, watching the walk-ons close SU’s victory. Eight months later, he sat in Beacon, New York, embraced by his parents as others cheered behind him. Hughes, with the Pelicans’ selection and transfer to the Jazz, had secured his shot in the NBA. arcrane@syr.edu | @CraneAndrew

Colin Bennie

Bennie is another member of the 2015 championship team who runs professionally for Fox’s Reebok Club. He’s planning on running a marathon in Arizona with teammate Marty Hehir in December and is working toward the indoor Olympic trials next summer. He’s embraced the opportunity to continue running for his college head coach, he said. “Most people have five years at most, usually, of being able to train with their college coach,” Bennie said. “The fact that I was able to continue working with (Fox) is just a dream, honestly.”

Marty Hehir

Hehir, who is currently a fourth-year medical student at Thomas Jefferson University, is “running on the side” with Fox’s professional Reebok team. Hehir considers his current lifestyle to be a balance between family — he has two daughters — running and medical school. He relishes the opportunity to continue training with an athlete of Knight’s caliber. “Training with (Justyn) is great because he raises the level of everyone around him,” Hehir said. “He just has the most youthful

energy on the team, always rapping, laughing, keeping everything light.”

Phil Germano

Philo Germano, the fourth runner to cross the finish line for SU in 2015, ran professionally for two years with Fox’s group. He put competitive running on hold last fall and moved to Albany for a job. He’s still searching for his future career path. For Germano, not running competitively is a “weird feeling,” but he’s grateful for the way his former teammates shaped him into the person he is today.

Joel Hubbard

Hubbard, an All-ACC performer in 2014 and 2016 who finished 47th in the 2015 championship race, works in medical device sales now. He’s getting married in May and said that many of the Syracuse teammates he ran with remain “best friends to this day.” The Daily Orange will continue its Five for Five series on Nov. 21, exactly five years after the historic day in Syracuse cross country history, with a look back at the national championship victory. csmith49@syr.edu ncshay@syr.edu

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nov. 19, 2020

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HUGHES TO NBA

ELIJAH HUGHES, drafted 39th overall by the Pelicans, is the first Syracuse player to be drafted in the NBA since 2017. He was traded to the Utah Jazz. max freund staff photographer

The former SU basketball forward is heading to the Utah Jazz after being picked No. 39 in the NBA Draft By Andrew Crane sports editor

ormer Syracuse forward Elijah Hughes is headed to the Utah Jazz after being selected as the No. 39 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The New Orleans Pelicans originally held the pick before trading to the Jazz. Trades aren’t made official until the draft’s completion. Hughes, who entered the draft on March 21, becomes the first SU player selected since 2017 and the 13th former player selected within the past decade. Hughes’ ranking going into the draft fluc-

tuated between late first round and early second, and some analysts labeled him a sleeper pick. One month after declaring, he announced his intention to remain in the draft and officially leave Syracuse. That decision started a “weird” road to the draft, with combines and pre-draft workouts canceled due to the coronavirus, he told The Daily Orange in March. “No one knows what’s going to happen,” Hughes said of the pre-draft process. “It’s kind of a wait and see kind of thing.” Last season, the Jazz finished 44-28 and were eliminated by the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Playoffs. Donovan Mitchell, Jordan Clarkson, Bojan Bogdanovic and Joe Ingles fill the top of Utah’s shooting guard and

small forward depth chart, position spots that Hughes would likely slide into. Hughes positioned himself as an NBA Draft prospect with SU after transferring from East Carolina and sitting out a year. He started just seven games with the Pirates, averaging 7.8 points and 2.3 rebounds per game. After his redshirt year, Hughes entered the Orange’s starting lineup in 2018-19 as a complement to Tyus Battle and Oshae Brissett, SU’s two primary options. He averaged 13.7 points per game, primarily serving as a 3-point threat in the corner and scoring a seasonhigh 25 points in Syracuse’s loss to Baylor in the NCAA Tournament’s first round. see hughes page 10

Offensive line stunts Syracuse’s growth By Anthony Dabbundo senior staff writer

Dino Babers’ forced decision to move former fullback and tight end Chris Elmore to left guard before the first game of the season signaled just how little depth Syracuse had at the position. A lingering preseason foot injury for Dakota Davis threw Elmore into a position he hadn’t even played in high school. His first two opponents were two teams that began the year in the Associated Press Top 25, North Carolina and Pittsburgh. Eight games into the season, Elmore grades out as the best offensive linemen on the Orange this year, based on Pro Football Focus’s positional grades. He’s allowed the fewest pressures among Syracuse’s five regular starters. “The guy is a fighter,” Babers said after September’s Pittsburgh loss. “If you watch the tape, he’s competing with very, very big people, and he’s doing extremely well.” The Orange’s five-man offensive line featuring Elmore, Airon Servais, Carlos Vettorello, Darius Tisdale and Matthew Bergeron has improved slightly as the season has progressed. But the Orange rank 104th out of 126 teams in pass blocking grades and 116th out of 126 in run blocking, according to PFF’s positional grades. For the past two seasons, Syracuse’s offense has fallen from the highs it reached in 2018. There are other issues with the offense, but it starts with the five up front who haven’t held up. An offense that carried the Orange to a 10-win season in 2018 is now one of the least effective in the entire country. Looking at points, success rate, line yards or PFF grades, SU hasn’t been able to execute consistently on offense. Their ineffectiveness has led to multiple quarterback injuries within the past two seasons, with Tommy DeVito, Clayton Welch and Rex Culpepper all taking hit after hit, and, eventually, picking up injuries. Now, Babers had the second bye week to try and improve his offensive line ahead of the final three games against

see o-line page 9

five for five

football

Where is 2015 title-winning XC team? C.J. Avery aims for NFL after position shift ville, The Daily Orange looked back on where the five runners and their coaches are now.

By Connor Smith and Nolan Shay the daily orange

When Philo Germano crossed the finish line for Syracuse in 2015, he joined teammates Justyn Knight, Martin Hehir and Colin Bennie in a panic. The four were trying to figure out what place Syracuse had finished in. Minutes later, head coach Chris Fox burst onto the scene, screaming. They’d won the national championship.

The national title was the first for Syracuse’s men’s cross country team since 1951. For Fox and top assistants Brien Bell and Adam Smith, the win served as the culmination of their 10-year-long effort to rebuild a struggling program. Five years after standing on the podium in Louis-

Fox’s 13-year tenure as SU’s head coach ended abruptly in 2018, when he left to coach professionally. He stayed through the end of Justyn Knight’s collegiate career before joining the future-Olympian at Reebok Boston Track Club. The team, see 2015

By Alex Cirino

contributing writer

Chris Fox

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C.J. Avery, then a junior at Grenada (Mississippi) High School, was being scouted as one of the nation’s top safeties when head coach Ashley Kuhn needed a replacement quarterback. Grenada’s starting quarterback was injured, and C.J.’s ath-

leticism made him the top candidate to take over. In his first start at the position, he engineered all 15 of the Chargers points in a 37-15 loss. Balancing quarterback with safety, he led Grenada to its third-ever district title. He was a better quarterback than the original starter, defensive see avery page 9