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THURSDAY
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N • On the issues
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P • Game on
Read about where the Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2016 presidential and New York state elections stand on the issue of immigration. Page 3
Erik Garb started a group of Super Smash Bros. players that has now grown to nearly 800 members and connects gamers of different generations in central New York. Page 11
Ripple effect
S • Lights out
SU men’s soccer took down Pitt, 4-0, after the lights went out at SU Soccer Stadium. SU advanced to the ACC tournament semifinals with the win. Page 20
Student-led protests mark trend on college campuses 2 years after THE General Body sit-in
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By Stacy Fernandez
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asst. news editor
T 3. 1 Students protested during THE General Body’s sit-in in November 2014, which was part of a national protesting trend. daily orange file photo 2 Locals marched in 2015 for Freddie Gray, a black man who died from injuries he sustained while in police custody. daily orange file photo 3 A student lay down on the promenade during a die-in held earlier this semester to protest police brutality. sam ogozalek staff writer
wo years after THE General Body protests at Syracuse University, protesting has become a national trend across college campuses — something SU has stayed a part of. Most recently students on the SU campus held a die-in, which students at Stony Brook University, a part of the State University of New York system, cited as the inspiration for the one they held about two weeks ago. Exactly two years ago on Nov. 3, THE General Body, a coalition of student organizations seeking to address the issues of marginalized groups on campus, started its occupation of Crouse-Hinds Hall for an 18-day sit-in. Since then, student protests have occurred on campuses across the U.S. Together, members of TGB identified large issues within the university and compiled them into a 45-page document with a list of Grievances, Needs and Solutions. It was first presented on Nov. 3, 2014, after a Diversity and Transparency Rally, organized by TGB, said Danielle Reed, an
SU alumna who was involved with TGB. “They revived the sense that (protesting) is a possibility. … It has reminded students that, ‘Wait, that’s an option,’” said Harriet Brown, an associate professor of magazine journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Brown, who has been at SU for nine years, said she doesn’t remember seeing any protests before the year of TGB, but since then there has been a spark in protesting on college campus. While the news of TGB was picked up on a few major national news outlets, she said she does not credit SU as the inspiration for other major campus protests in the United States. “It’s a tide that’s rising across campuses,” Brown said. “We were just part of a bigger trend.” During the fall 2014 semester about 160 student protests were held across college campuses in the U.S., according to a compilation made by Angus Johnston, a history professor who specializes in student activism at Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York system. “I think it was an explosion triggered by see protests page 4
election 2016
Local Board of Elections looks to minimize voter fraud By Sam Ogozalek staff writer
In a squat, ashen building off Erie Boulevard West, employees shuffle papers, murmur and pace around a long, rectangular room. Empty Diet Pepsi bottles and folders are scattered on desks in
Dustin Czarny’s office, . Two computers are running. On Halloween, the Democratic elections commissioner for Onondaga County isn’t in costume. He is wearing a blue striped buttondown shirt, with dress pants accompanied by a flapping tie. “I can’t leave the counter
today,” he says. Outside, a steady flow of voters picking up absentee ballots at the election headquarters continues. For Czarny and the other workers at the Onondaga County Board of Elections, Oct. 31 is not the important day. Rather, they are gearing up for Nov. 8, Election Day.
And with the 2016 presidential election, the spotlight is on county election boards more than ever, thanks in part to the Republican presidential nominee. Beginning in early October, Donald Trump rolled out a new talking point for rallies and events, pressing supporters to self-moni-
tor polling locations on Nov. 8. Trump’s urgings added to a narrative common throughout his bid for the White House: that the election is being stolen from him, and the system is rigged in favor of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. see voter
fraud page 6