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Starting Monday, SU students will have the opportunity to give the university feedback on everything relating to the school through an online survey. Page 3
Take an inside look at how SU’s Physical Plant changes the Hall of Languages clock for daylight saving time, and learn about the clock’s history. Page 9
S • Time out
Football beat writer Matt Schneidman argues that head coach Scott Shafer’s clock management shouldn’t factor into his job status debate right now. Page 16
AGAINST THE MACHINE Howie Hawkins runs for city auditor to promote left-wing Green Party policies By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor
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n the summer of 1974, Howie Hawkins — a rising sophomore at Dartmouth College and fierce left-wing, anti-Vietnam War activist — started officer training in Quantico, Virginia for the Marine Corps. A week into training, three captains came into his room in the middle of the night. “We need to talk to you candidate,” an officer said. They put Hawkins into a dark, bare interrogation room. A single lamp hung above a table where the officers told Hawkins to sit. “What are you doing here?” one of the officers asked Hawkins. As an ardent radical at Dartmouth and active member of the anti-Vietnam movement in the Bay Area before that, the officers were wondering why Hawkins enlisted in the Marine Corps. They had a file with pictures of Hawkins at anti-war demonstrations as young as a freshman in high school. “My draft number came up so I joined the Marine Corps because you’re the best,” Hawkins responded. Hawkins, now 63 years old, still has those anti-establishment, radi-
HOWIE HAWKINS, who has unsuccessfully run for office more than 20 times since 1993, is campaigning for the position of city auditor. He is challenging incumbant Marty Masterpole, a Democrat. benjamin wilson staff photographer
cal leanings as, for all intents and purposes, a political hero to New York state’s Green Party. At night, he works the late-shift unloading trucks at UPS, a job he has had since 2000. Since 1993, Hawkins has run for more than 20 elected offices, including governor of New York, Congress, mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse Common Council. He has lost every single time.
Hawkins is now running for city auditor, a lesser-known position within Syracuse’s municipal government. The city auditor’s job is to perform independent audits of other governmental bodies within the city government, according to the Syracuse city auditor’s website. Hawkins is challenging Democratic incumbent Marty Masterpole in what has become a contentious
race for a lower-profile office than what Hawkins is used to. Two Democratic common councilors have publicly endorsed Hawkins instead of Masterpole, who is a member of their own party, according to Hawkins’ campaign website. Additionally, Hawkins has used the media to attack Masterpole’s record as auditor, claiming that Masterpole hasn’t completed
enough audits. “This guy doesn’t have a good reputation for working hard,” Hawkins said. While Hawkins is not an accountant and has never completed an audit, something he admits, Hawkins said he sees the auditor’s office as a “public interest research group for the people of the city.” He wants see hawkins page 6
student association
Organization works to implement preferred name change By Michael Burke staff writer
The Student Association is working with the LGBT Resource Center and Information Technology Services to give students at Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF the ability to change their names on class rosters and university email addresses. SA’s Student Life Committee has
been working on the initiative in an attempt to be more inclusive to all students on campus, committee chair Keelan Erhard said. In particular, it aims to help transgender students who have changed their preferred names since enrolling at SU. “On their emails and on class rosters, their birth names are still what is presented,” Erhard said. “We don’t want an awkward situation in class
when the teacher calls out a name and that person has to correct them.” When SA pitched the idea to the LGBT Resource Center, the center had already begun working with SU’s Office of the Registrar and ITS on a similar initiative. Erhard said SA will be helping with the initiative however it is needed. He added that SU has been especially inclined to do something
because a number of other schools — including Columbia University and the University of Pittsburgh — already allow students to go by a different preferred name. SA Vice President Jane Hong met last week with Huey Hsiao, the associate director of SU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs; Katie Oran, an SA assembly representative who also serves in SUNY-ESF’s Under-
graduate Student Association as a liaison between SU and SUNY-ESF; and Derrick Rice, USA’s director of student affairs and diversity. During their meeting, the group discussed making the name change policy applicable to SUNY-ESF students. Hong said SA is also in communication with Scott Blair, SUNYESF’s director of student diversity see sa page 4