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N • Defining family Page 3
C • Organized obstacles
S • Athlete’s activism
Syracuse City Common Councilors are seeking to change the official definitions of family units in a potential upcoming rezoning process.
Even with changes after the pandemic, student organizations are still having issues with the Student Association’s tiered funding system.
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Pushed onto the patio of Hun tington Beard Crouse Hall by wind and rain, around 20 people holding signs which read “WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM,” rallied in support of protests in Iran against the country’s “morality police” on Wednesday.
The event was among hun dreds of Iranian Scholars for Liberty rallies in the United States, Europe and Australia.
Sara Akbarnejad Nesheli, one of the event’s organizers and a PhD student at SUNY ESF, said the rally aimed to project the voice of the Iranian people.
“(We want) everyone around the world to know what happens
in Iran,” Nesheli said. “This is a revolution, and the people of Iran want to spread their voice.”
Protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini – a 22-year-old detained for improperly wearing her hijab as mandated by the Ira nian government – began in Sep tember. Once detained, Iranian police beat Amini, according to a
After helping SU win its secondever CHA championship, Rayla Clemons became a representative for the ACC’s Champions of Racial Equity. Page 12
Since 1966, there have been nine mass shoot ings on college campuses, with six taking place in the last 15 years.
Since the start of the 21st century, shoot ings on college campuses have risen consistently. A 2016 study by the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City found that between the academic years of 2001-02 to 2005-06 and 2011-12 and 2015-16, shooting incidents on or near college campuses increased by over 150% and fatalities by over 240%.
Joshua Horwitz, co-director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins University, said that shootings at universities are part of a bigger prob lem with gun violence in the U.S.
“Unfortunately, what I think you see in universities is a microcosm of what’s going on in the larger society, and it’s a tragedy of death in the United States because of guns,” Horwitz said. “There’s lots of opportunities
In efforts to prevent a potential national railroad strike, the Unit ed States House of Representatives passed a preliminary agreement Wednesday that is now waiting to be voted on in the Senate.
The legislation comes in the wake of ongoing debate between
rail unions and rail companies. As of Monday, four out of 12 unions reject ed an agreement negotiated by the Biden administration, according to Forbes. If the unions were to strike, Syracuse University professors said it could impact industry in the city and Amtrak travel.
“This could cause chaos, without a doubt, for the holiday
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“What I think you see in universities is a microcosm of what’s going on in the larger society, and it’s a tragedy of death in the United States because of guns.” - Joshua Horwitz, co-director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions Page 1
“There’s so (many) things we wanted to do, but because of the restraint, we couldn’t.” - Andrea Magdaleno, Mexican Student Association fiscal agent Page 5
“As a member of the LGBTQ community, watching this bill pass brought immense relief after months of worry about the direction the country was moving.” - Evan Butow, columnist Page 8
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“To get the experience we had, you just had to be there. The biggest goal (when we returned to campus) was to relay what we learned to our teammates.” Mikel Jones, Syracuse linebacker Page 12
Noteworthy events this week.
WHAT: Cozy Season Open House WHEN: December 1, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Syracuse University Art Museum
WHAT: Red Light, Green Night WHEN: December 1, 7 p.m. 9 p.m.
WHERE: Flanagan Gymnasium Court 3
WHAT: Book Talk and Reception with Daphne E. Jones
WHEN: December 2, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Whitman School of Architecture
In Syracuse, zoning ordinances are the only documents which actively define the concept of family. But because the city has not been rezoned since 1967, Syracuse City Common Councilors Jimmy Monto and Pat rick Hogan want to pass a new ordinance with new and changed definitions to ensure they’re inclusive.
“I don’t think these definitions reflect the way things are in a 21st century America,” Hogan said.
Syracuse’s next rezoning is under way through an Onondaga County Plan ning Agency and Common Council project named ReZone Syracuse. According to a 2020 report by the Center for American Progress, language in laws nationwide does not accurately reflect what families can look like in America today.
The ReZone Syracuse project aims to implement of the Syracuse Land Use & Development Plan 2040, which was cre ated in 2012. The plan has five goals based on preserving and enhancing land use pat terns through sustainable practices and using high-quality urban planning design throughout the city.
Although a zoning ordinance was issued in December 2019 that defined family in three different ways, there hasn’t been an actual rezoning.
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to reduce gun violence, if we have the will.”
Sarah Scalese, Syracuse University’s senior associate vice president for commu nications, said the university is constantly engaged in training in order to ensure the campus community knows how to handle a possible mass shooting event.
“There’s nothing more important… than being prepared and looking at other cases, and then figuring out how to evolve and adapt our own response protocols,” Scalese said. “I think that’s why so many folks are involved in these different trainings all the time.”
One of those other cases occurred over two weeks ago, when Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a student and former football player at the University of Virginia, alleg edly shot and killed three football players and injured two others at the University of Virginia. Jones faces three counts of seconddegree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony.
Four days after the UVA shooting, SU and the FBI office in Albany together hosted active shooter training for university faculty and staff in Hendricks Chapel.
Craig Stone, chief of Syracuse Univer sity’s Department of Public Safety, told The Daily Orange that DPS’s Crime Prevention Unit provided 56 officer training sessions, including active shooter response, between Aug. 1 and Nov. 22.
One of the current family definitions, according to Syracuse zoning documents, defines individuals related by blood, mar riage or adoption, and another qualifies a family as headed by one or more people responsible for providing care for a “reason able” number of individuals. Both defini tions require that the individuals compris ing a “family” share a kitchen and live in a “family-like arrangement.”
A final definition qualifies a group of no more than five unrelated adults who occupy a premises and live together as a single housekeeping unit. The issue with defining family is the vagueness of the term, Hogan said.
“I also worry about codifying (into) law anything that might be construed as the city making decisions on what a family unit is,” Hogan added. “It doesn’t even make sense.”
Despite an unclear definition, Monto still said he thinks there should be a number limit on family units included in the language of the upcoming ordinance because having no outline creates a lack of consistency.
“The details are not the problem. The problem is that the language definition of a family feels to me like we are overstepping,” Monto said. “We’re saying something that we don’t need to say.”
Monto also said that if the fam ily definition doesn’t have a number attached it could result in unsafe hous ing practices. Still, both councilors said
“It’s important to train… stop, (and) respond to an active shooter threat, and make sure we have the resources, equip ment and training to continue to do that,” Stone said.
July trainings, which took place in Sadler Hall, put officers and dispatchers through “stressful situations and scenarios,” Stone said, designed based on best practices and prior knowledge of mass shooting attacks. Syracuse Police Department Lt. Matthew Malinowski said SPD and DPS have similar training and have worked “very well” with DPS in previous cases.
“We are definitely at a heightened aware ness, so it’s something that’s always on the top of our minds, even … as rare as it is,” Malinowski said.
DPS has plans to respond immediately to any on-campus shooting which may occur by sending out an order of notice through the OrangeAlert app, which provides upto-date safety updates and information on campus events. Stone said the first person on scene is in charge of stopping the threat.
Stone and Scalese both also said they encourage students to practice the “run, hide, fight” model in crisis situations.
Active shooter protocols for schools changed significantly after the April 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in which two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded 20 others before taking their own lives, Malinowski said.
The city of Syracuse’s criteria defining a family hasn’t been revised since 1967, the last time the city underwent rezoning. deandre gutierez contributing photographer
the language cannot be amended until ReZone Syracuse goes through the final approval process.
Following the approval of the ReZone Draft Generic Environmental Impact State ment describing possible environmental impacts and solutions regarding the pro posed zone changes and solutions, Monto said the next steps for rezoning the city will be to pass a new ordinance.
“You don’t typically have us waiting anymore for the special weapons and tac tics teams with the shields or the special armored vehicles,” Malinowski said. “You, as a police officer, are expected to go in.”
Allen Groves, SU’s senior vice president and chief student experience officer, said the idea of “threat assessment” became promi nent after a 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech which left 27 students and five faculty members dead.
Groves said DPS’s threat assessment management team can evaluate certain students, faculty and staff based on their conduct if a complaint is reported through a DPS reporting outlet, which can potentially result in an interim suspension. Because SU is a private university, Groves said, it can establish a clear policy that forbids weapons on university-owned or controlled property.
Gov. Kathy Hochul in August announced new concealed carry laws that prohibit handguns, rifles and shotguns in colleges and universities after the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso ciation Inc. v. Bruen. The ruling required state residents looking to carry a handgun in public to present a “special need for selfdefense,” such as a pattern of receiving physical threats, according to the ruling.
Jake Morel, an SU sophomore, said col lege students are becoming “desensitized” by the frequency of mass shootings across the country.
“These mass shootings are not normal by
A series of committee meetings, public meetings and a public comment period will involve diving into problems – such as the language – people have with the older ordi nance, Monto said.
“Some people may think it’s semantics — I don’t personally think it’s semantics,” Monto said. “I need to change that term.”
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any means, but they’re so frequent here in the U.S. that I fear our youth will start to believe that they are,” Morel said.
Six mass shootings, which collectively resulted in 27 victims and 24 injuries, have taken place in the US since the UVA shoot ing on Nov. 13, according to a database which USAToday compiled in partnership with The Associated Press and Northeast ern University.
Though he has confidence in DPS’s prepa ration to respond to an active shooter threat, Morel said it’s difficult for DPS to “inspire confidence” in ensuring student safety outside of testing the university emergency alert systems.
Allison Myers, an SU sophomore, said the lack of change has led to gun violence becoming more common.
“It’s a bad trend, and every incident makes a violent act seem more common,” Myers said. “No major rules are being made to prevent or deter these incidents.”
Horwitz described the lack of change to address gun violence as “maddening.” He said to address gun violence, the US needs policies to make it harder to access guns and greater investments in communities most impacted by gun violence.
“There’s plenty of answers to this,” Horwitz said. “ We can do this if people focus on it, if we invest the resources, (and) do it. I don’t know any other problem where investment would be more worthwhile than this problem.”
United Nations report. The country’s gov ernment contends her Sept. 16 death was due to a heart attack.
Protests in Iran against the hijab law have spread to as many as 80 cities, making it the largest anti-government protest in Iran since 2009, the New York Times reported. Since the protests began, over 18,000 people have been detained and over 450 protesters have been killed, according to the Human Rights Activists organization.
Along with spreading the people of Iran’s voices, Nesheli said she wants the campus community to understand the dif ference between the Iranian government and the people.
Outside of Syracuse University and ESF, students at other upstate New York col lege campuses -- including Siena College, Cornell University and the University of Rochester — rallied with Iranian Scholars for Liberty.
One of the signs at SU’s protest com prised photos of 49 children, all of whom it said have been killed by “the Islamic regime in the last two months.” The sign listed the names and ages of the children, along with the phrase “For the children of Iran.” The youngest child on the board was 7 years old.
UNICEF said on Sunday that over 50 children had been killed and injured throughout the “public unrest” in Iran.
“UNICEF also remains deeply con
season,” Patrick Penfield said, professor of supply chain practice in SU’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. “If this strike does happen, it’s going to really cause a major issue within the supply chain.”
While Penfield said the postal system, which traditionally relies on trucks as its means of delivery, would be fine, other products such as livestock, diesel fuel, food products and chemicals are primarily transported by train and would be affected by the strike.
Penfield said he anticipates that Syra cuse will feel the effects of the impending strike on all of these fronts, specifically citing livestock as a potentially hard-hit industry for the city.
“I think some of the livestock that we ship out, that could be an issue,” Penfield said. “We may have a difficult time trying to move livestock and so what will happen is, unfortunately, they’ll probably have to dispose of their livestock because they’ll be unable to move it.”
Two of the U.S.’s largest rail unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation - Transportation Division, were split on the Biden adminis tration’s agreement. While BLET ratified the deal, SMART-TD voted against it.
CNBC, however, reported on Nov. 21
cerned about continued raids and searches conducted in some schools,” the organiza tion wrote in a press release. “Schools must always be safe places for children.”
Throughout the hour, those rallying began to sing. One of the songs, translated from Farsi into English as “In the name of daughters of the land of the sun,” was writ ten in support of the ongoing movement in the country.
“Together we form a sea — We rage as a storm — Together we are strong fists — We shout, Freedom,” the group sang in Farsi. “O Freedom! O Freedom! — Woman Life Freedom,” protestors sang.
During the rally, Medhi Nejatbakhsh, a Ph.D. student in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, read an abridged version of the Iranian Scholars for Liberty’s statement. He said the point of the rally in Syracuse, and across the world, was to demonstrate students’ role in Iran’s ongoing revolution. The “socalled morality police,” Nejatbakhsh said, have brutally suppressed any peaceful demonstration or protest.
“As we are here, many students and academics are being assaulted, detained, abducted and held in unknown locations,” he said. “Many of them, if not all, are being subjected to brutal interrogations, coerced confessions, torture, rape and some are facing wrongful convictions.”
In the full statement, the organiza tion demanded that colleges, universi ties and global governments issue an official statement condemning “the assault on the academic community in
that BLET will still strike with SMART-TD despite the group voting in favor of the original agreement. According to CNBC, workers are set to strike on Dec. 9 if an agreement is not reached.
Penfield said railroad companies cut ting back on the labor force has led to record profits made in the past few years, increasing the demand on the hours of workers that remain. Gary La Point, a professor of supply chain practice in Whit man, said the agreed number of sick days in the proposal is the “sticking point” for unions in the debate.
Under the previous proposal, the Biden administration did not grant any paid sick days to the union. The new proposal passed by the House on Nov. 30 added seven paid sick days.
“Our members want and need sick leave, but even more so, they need relief from the damning effects of operational changes made by the railroads over the last five years,” the statement read. “If Congress truly wants to take action to improve the industry for our members, then we recom mend legislation that will work to reverse the devastation of Precision Scheduled Railroading.”
Before the agreement was passed by the House on Wednesday, La Point said he believed government bodies would step in to prevent mass economic breakdown before a strike even began, as the federal government has done in the past.
“The real problem with the railroads
The rally was among nationwide protests of hijab laws in Iran by Iranian Scholars for Liberty following the Sept. 16 death of Mahsa Amini. meghan hendricks photo editor
Iran” as well as boycott Iranian univer sity officials and academics “facilitating the Regime’s attacks on Iranian students and scholars.”
“The unity of the academic voice and leveraging our platform to promote dem ocratic values will influence the world’s interactions with Iran and will advance the world toward peace and equality,” the group wrote.
After the rally, Neshli said the event was only the first from the Iranian Scholars for Liberty. She added that the organization will continue to support the Iranain people until they have their freedom.
“I hope our next event will be a cel ebration,” Nejatbakhsh said, closing out the rally.
kschouin@syr.edu @Kyle_Chouinardis the bulk that actually is going to cause havoc everywhere, because the railroads ship primarily bulk materi als,” La Point said.
Bulk materials like coal and heating oil for the winter, grain, gasoline and even commuters that take the train to work every day will be affected by a potential strike, he said.
“If it goes for any length of time, it’s going to be a mess,” La Point said.
In the wake of potential turmoil on the
rail lines, Penfield says companies may look to ship by truck to try to maintain produc tivity. Now, he said companies are proac tively moving away from rail. But Penfield said switching from railways to trucks is not a sustainable option and would still leave companies vulnerable to a slowdown in commerce.
“The longer this is drawn out, the worse it’ll be, especially it being around holiday time,” Penfield said.
Senior Simone Bellot has yet to see a student organization experience a large increase in access to funding in her four years at Syracuse University.
Four “funding tiers” dictate how much money the over 300 regis tered student organizations at SU receive from the university. Each tier has a specific cap on the total amount of funds an organization can request per event.
Student leaders from various RSOs told the Daily Orange that organiza tions often feel disconnected from the funding allocation process, and that it can prevent new student organiza tions from gaining a foothold on cam
pus and achieving their missions.
“I don’t think the tier system takes into consideration the nuances of organizations. I think it doesn’t necessarily consider the importance and what kinds of organizations need money,” she said. “The tier system isn’t considering the populations (student organizations) are serving.”
Organizations receive funding through the student activity fee, which SU’s Student Association dis tributes based on how organizations rank in the tier system, said Nyah Jones, SA’s comptroller. In order for an organization to move up a tier, they need to show that they have been successfully putting on events over a certain period of time.
As comptroller Jones is the only spokesperson for the student activi
Content Warning: This story con tains mentions of suicidal thoughts. On the surface, Shanti Das was the portrait of success. She had a six-figure job, drove an expen sive car and worked with topnotch hip-hop and R&B artists like Usher and Outkast. She held numerous leadership positions at the prestigious recording labels Capitol Records, LaFace Records, Sony Music and more. But Das stepped away from music when her mental health deterio rated, and she knew something needed to change.
“I was like, ‘I can’t do this any more.’ And this is something I’ve worked so hard for my entire life,” Das said. “It’s just one thing after another, and I had an emotional breakdown at the airport and was just like, ‘you know, you don’t have to do this anymore.’”
On Wednesday night, Das, a graduate of the Newhouse School’s television, radio and film pro gram, spoke to students as part of the Leaders in Communication Speaker Series about her journey in the entertainment industry and her work to dispel stigmas around mental health. She also spoke about the experience of founding her non-profit, Silence the Shame, which works to eliminate mental health stigmas and reduce the disparities in mental healthcare access between different socioeconomic groups.
But Das didn’t always recognize that she had depression, or that she needed help. She recalled referring to her time at SU as her “bad days,” something everyone had to deal with, as she didn’t feel comfort able being vulnerable with how she really felt.
Bellot president of the national pan hellenic councilShe worked hard in her classes and held leadership positions at student organizations like Z-89 radio, eventually landing her an internship at Sony Music straight out of college. Then, four months
Organization leaders question the tier system through which SU allocates money to clubs on campus
I don’t think the tier system takes into consideration the nuances of organizations. I think it doesn’t necessarily consider the importance and what kinds of organizations need money
Three musicians from central New York join forces under the name King Squiddy and the Sethlapods at the Lost Horizon this weekend. Seth Panebianco, the band’s bassist and vocalist, formed the group alongside guitarist Chris Watson and drummer Evan Gray. The show is open to attendees 16 years old and older.
WHEN: Saturday, December 3 at 6 p.m. PRICE: $12
95 Xmas Pajama Jam is a winter festival-style show happening at the Westcott Theater this weekend. The lineup for the event includes Wilderado, Andrew McMahon and Almost Monday — a varied spread of prominent indie artists. The show is open to attendees of all ages.
WHEN: Saturday, December 3 at 8 p.m. PRICE: $30 for advance tickets, $40 at the door
By Abby Presson senior staff writerWhen Josh Walls was growing up in Phila delphia, he loved watching “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” The award-winning TV show was a source of entertainment for many people, but for Walls, it was some thing more — the inspiration for his lifelong dream of attending law school.
“Will Smith was big in Philadelphia households for the little boys, because we all kind of envisioned that as a dream of success to a degree,” Walls said. “From there, I just got really interested in it.”
Walls, currently a first year student at the Syracuse University College of Law, is well on his way to obtaining his Juris Doctor. But, while balancing his coursework, he widened his focus to include managing the Miss Black and Gold pageant, a philanthropic fundrais er put on by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. The pageant is a one-day event that raises money for at-risk students in the Syracuse School District. Walls also sees it as a chance to showcase women of color and celebrate the differences between people.
While earning his bachelor’s degree in sport management at SU, Walls was a member of various campus organizations, including Alpha Phi Alpha. At the time, the fraternity hosted the pageant on an annual basis, but Walls was hesitant to get involved with the program.
He’d never considered working with pag eants before, and didn’t think it was some thing he would have an interest in doing.
After learning more about the program, though, Walls knew he wanted to be involved.
“Once I really understood, I said, ‘I want to sit as a head of this committee,’” Walls said. “I’d seen it was about development, I’d seen it was about building community, I’d seen it was about highlighting the contribu tions and accomplishments of people who look like my mother and my grandmother and my aunt.”
After Walls graduated in 2015, he took a step away from his collegiate extracur riculars and turned to his career. He knew he wanted to take a break from academics before attending law school, so with a goal of one day applying his law degree to the world of sports agencies, he took a job with Octagon, a sports agency that represents athletes like Steph Curry. Walls held a variety of jobs between obtaining his undergraduate degree and starting law school, working in event man agement and media and brand partnerships.
Walls also took the opportunity to travel. He’s visited 28 countries, and credits that exploration with teaching him the value of organizational skills and maintaining an open mind. Seven years after his college graduation, though, Walls looked at his life and decided he was ready to go to law school and achieve that childhood dream.
“I looked at where I was at in my career, I understood where I was going next, and I looked at where I was at as a person, as a man, and what I learned and what I still wanted to learn,” Walls said. “The timing was perfect, so I made it happen.”
Once Walls was back at SU, the pag
eant was no longer an annual event. He approached the current members of Alpha Phi Alpha, and explained what the program was like while he was a student. They trust ed him and his leadership, Walls said, and so he began working to bring Miss Black and Gold back to the campus.
Though he’s not a fan of the term, Walls’ job with the pageant is typically called “Pag eant Dad.” The role, Walls said, is essentially the project manager for the entire event, a responsibility given to him in part due to his experience and prior knowledge from working with the pageant during his under graduate years.
“When you dig a little bit deeper, I think I knew the nuances of it, I knew the logistical aspects of it, I knew the importance of it, I knew the empowerment pieces of it, I knew the legacy of it,” Walls said. “It was only almost natural that I took on this role with the event.”
When it came time to recruit the con testants, the members of Alpha Phi Alpha identified women who they thought would make good candidates. In particular, they looked for leaders on the campus — good people and friends who could be a strong contestant in the pageant. After giving potential contestants a chance to learn more by attending some early meetings before fully committing, Walls and the members of Alpha Phi Alpha were ready to move forward with their planning.
Walls worked with students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts to build out the theme of “Broadway” used in the pageant.
As part of the Setnor Student Recital Series, Benjamin O’Connell will be performing at Crouse College this Saturday. The show, which will be a vocal performance, starts at 5 p.m. If you’re not able to make it to the concert in person, the recital will also be livestreamed. The event is free and open to the public.
WHEN: Saturday, December 3 at 5 p.m. PRICE: Free
The free, annual performance of Holidays at Hendricks will be put on starting December 4 at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. The program features the Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse University Singers, Crouse Chorale, Setnor Sonority and more. Though the in-person events are sold out, there is still a running waitlist open to join. There will also be a virtual performance to stream on December 11 at 7 p.m.
WHEN: Sunday, December 4 at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.
PRICE: Free
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ties fee and votes on budgets for all student organizations in conjunction with the finance board. The tier process can be espe cially inaccessible due to language used in the point system and availability of information on how to receive more funding, she said.
But Jones has been trying to implement changes to ensure it serves student organi zations to the best of its ability.
Iyanu Adeoba, the fiscal agent for Syra cuse’s newly formed Black Student Union, said student organizations serve unique purposes as outlets for different identities.
“The different organizations on campus all represent different themes, which is why we have so many,” Adeoba said. “They all have their different purposes to help students come together and engage with each other.”
With less COVID-19 restrictions on campus, the rules and procedures stu dent organizations have to abide by have changed, Jones said. Still, the system creates obstacles for new organizations
who want to solidify their presence on campus, said Andrea Magdaleno, the fis cal agent for the newly-formed Mexican Student Association.
Mexsa has struggled to understand the various processes it has to go through to gain funding and find a way to solidify itself as a staple organization on campus, Magdaleno said.
The organization recently hosted their first big event for Día de los Muertos, and while the event went well, Magdaleno wish es they could’ve done more. The organiza tion is currently ranked in tier one, and can receive up to $12,500.
“That went pretty good but it could have been better in a way,” Magdaleno said. “There’s so (many) things we want ed to do, but because of the (funding) restraint, we couldn’t.”
Before the current fiscal year, organi zations needed six semesters of successful programming to apply to move up a tier, Jones said. Successful semesters and events were evaluated based on a point system, which Jones and the finance board dictated,
she said.
While SA still has the point system in effect, it changed the eligibility require ments so organizations only need four nonconsecutive semesters of successful programming to move from tier one to two. They need five semesters to move from tier two to three and six semesters to move from three to four. SU has not yet published the application to change tiers.
Organizations are also struggling with each tier’s caps staying stagnant while infla tion raises the cost of hosting an event every year, Bellot said.
Bellot is the president of the National Pan-Hellenic Council and vice-president and interim fiscal agent for the Caribbean Student Association. The NPHC is one of two registered student organizations that are classified as tier four organizations, and CSA is classified as tier three, Bellot said.
Many organizations have signature or “staple” events that they host regularly. For CSA, it’s Caribfest. But as a tier three organi zation, CSA has faced issues annually host ing the event, Bellot said.
“In 2015 this was a lot of money and you could get an artist and book Goldstein, but in 2022, that’s just not the case,” Bellot said. “For the amount of money, you just can’t throw the same caliber of event. And I don’t think that the tier system is accurately reflecting that.”
Though the only people allowed to pres ent and comment on the financial codes were previously SA members, Jones put for ward a bill last year that created a separate ad hoc committee for students outside of the association to change financial codes. Jones is also creating an application process for organizations to move up a tier.
Still, while it’s too early to see the effect of Jones’ changes, student organizations may not have the time to wait, Bellot said.
“Black Student Union is an extremely important organization to any Black student’s experience. The first thing you do when you come to college and you’re Black… (is) look for Black Student Union,” Bellot said. “They can’t do that (if) the E-board is stifled.”
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later, she was hired by LaFace Records as a promotions director.
For Das, the “shift” happened when her job brought her to New York City, when the fast-paced, high-stress entertainment industry engulfed her life. It was her first time working in a corporate setting, and by nature, music is around the clock, which she said only made it harder.
“There were no boundaries established. I’d be working all hours of the day and night. Then I also had to deal with guys trying to talk to me and that made me uncomfort able,” Das said. “I kind of started wearing baggy clothes to divert the attention so I wouldn’t have to deal with all the sexual advances. It was just a lot of things that really stressed me out about the industry.”
Plainly, Das was suffering. She said her depression grew deeper and she began to even question if continuing on in life was worth it at all.
“I went home to my boyfriend at the time and I said to him, ‘I don’t know if this is for me. Maybe I should just kill myself,’” Das said. “I think a lot of times, we’ll hear people in society kind of throw those words out. Sometimes they are actually pretending, but when you hear someone say that, you really have to take it seriously.”
Das then decided to start therapy and actively work to improve her mental health. As she looked around at her life and job, she began to realize her passions no longer fol lowed an entertainment path.
It occurred to Das that if she was feeling the way she was — suffering in silence — there were probably countless others who felt the same, but because of the stigma, felt that they had to hide. Then it clicked. Das stepped away from her role at Universal Music and took a chance, forming Silence the Shame, to change the perception of men tal illness in the music industry.
“I made $500,000 a year, when I had a Range Rover, a corner office. I traveled around the world. I did all the award shows
and everything, and I’ve worked with some incredible artists,” Das said. “I wouldn’t try to say that I wish things were better, but I wish I had better ways to cope.”
Das’ message also resonated with her audience, many of whom were students. For Julia Stehr, a public relations student, she felt that Das’ story is a common one in today’s work-driven society, and that the message that it’s okay to be vulnerable and prioritize yourself is one that all young people need to hear.
“A lot of times, you feel like someone who is in a high-level business doesn’t experience the same struggles as the everyday person,” Stehr said. “I can see how it’s so important that someone in the industry is vulnerable with these things, so we all learn it’s okay.”
Another student in attendance, Grace Piatko, a sophomore studying Broadcast and Digital Journalism, echoed the importance of feeling seen and validated. Surrounded by students who are high-achieving, Piatko admitted she struggles with self-compari
son and often feels very alone.
But hearing someone like Das, who has the accolades and success, admit that she struggles too helped Piakto realize it’s okay to not be okay.
“I always feel like I’m the only one expe riencing trauma and struggle. (Das) made me feel like I can overcome my trauma and struggles because she dealt with so much and has turned her struggles into something positive,” Piatko said. “Things do get better. She has shown that.”
Das’ work in the mental health field is far from over, and she hopes to grow Silence the Stigma to be a household name, particularly on college campuses. To Das, there is always work to be done — mental health is not a box to check — and she will work to better herself and her organiza tion for the rest of her life.
“I feel like my destiny was already writ ten out and my purpose,” Das said. “That’s what I am doing now — living my purpose.”
@sophszyd from page“I think building bonds or relationships or fostering those that already existed was also equally important to me, but I think if I had to pick a favorite part, it would have been just spending time with the pageant contestants and just building a family out with them,” Walls said.
Though the fraternity contacted Mar iama Barry, a junior, about being a contes tant, she’d recently participated in a differ
ent pageant, though, and didn’t want to do another so soon. Instead, she took on the role of a “pageant mom,” helping to support, guide and manage the contestants through out the pageant preparations.
Each day she worked with the pageant, Barry provided emotional and moral support, along with critiques and advice to the contestants. Both from her own pageant experience and her time as a pageant mom with Miss Black and Gold, she knows that watching talented women in a pageant can be an inspiring moment for the audience. Some of the confidence and uplifting environment, though, she attributes to Walls.
“I’ve never seen him have a bad day,” Barry said. “He said that if he’s having a bad day, he wouldn’t show it and that he’s going to make sure to uplift everyone in the room.
I don’t think the show would have been pos sible without him.”
Walls’ work organizing the pageant was essential for the contestants. SU senior Kennedy Campbell was a contestant in this year’s pageant, and said the experience enabled her to make many lasting friend ships and relationships.
Though Walls was working to execute his vision for the pageant, Campbell said he still made an effort to listen to the opinions and ideas of others involved with the program.
“He worked with us to fulfill his vision, he still had the idea in his head,” Campbell said. “But if we wanted to change some thing, he would work with us through that and allow us.”
The pageant, which was held on Nov. 5 in Goldstein Auditorium, drew audience members from a variety of cities and states,
including New York City and Massachusetts, Walls said. The fraternity also invited judges from around the Syracuse area.
Through both the pageant and philan thropic aspects of Miss Black and Gold, Walls aimed to demonstrate the value of community building and to highlight women of color as role models for the audi ence and campus.
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The Senate voted 61-36 to pass the Respect for Marriage Act Tuesday, codifying the right of same-sex and interracial marriage into law and granting federal protections to previously existing same-sex and interracial marriages. The bill drew wide bipartisan support, with 12 republicans joining all of the democrats in the chamber in support of the bill. The bill is mov ing to the House of Representa tives, where it is expected to pass swiftly and could be on President Biden’s desk as soon as next week.
As a member of the LGBTQ community, watching this bill pass brought immense relief after months of worry about the direction the country was mov ing, especially after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer.
It was hard to watch that case unfold and wonder what might happen next. I distinctly remem ber having a conversation with a friend when we both broke down, crying out of fear that our right to marry might be stripped away. That is why watching the senate pass the Respect for Marriage Act brought on such joy.
The act is a victory for sup porters of LGBTQ rights, who feared that marriage equal ity might be overturned. Fol lowing the Roe v. Wade decision, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas even stated his belief that the cases of Lawrence v. Texas, which enshrined the right of queer couples to engage in pri vate sexual acts, and Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the
right for same-sex couples to be able to marry, should be revisited. Thomas called them “ demonstra bly erroneous.” Thankfully, the Senate was able to protect a right that Thomas dangerously hinted at blocking.
In a recent statement from the White House, President Joe Biden stated that “the United States is on the brink of reaffirm ing a fundamental truth: love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love.” While Biden may have his dissenters, even in his own party, hearing him lend such strong support to this bill brings on a sense of euphoria, especially as someone who identifies as a part of the community.
The bill also drew wide sup port across the political spectrum. Notably, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which historically has been a staunch opponent of any advancement of LGBTQ rights, came out in sup port of the bill. This proves that religion and progression can coexist in America. Conservative politicians need to realize that freedom should not have religious boundaries. Ensuring the rights of LGBTQ people does not take away the rights of anyone else. If anything, it makes America more of a true democracy.
The thirty-six Republican senators who voted against the bill need to wake up and smell the roses. In May, a Gallup poll found that a record 71% of Americans supported the right of same-sex marriage, a nearly ten percent increase from 2015 when mar riage equality was legalized. In addition to being in the minor ity of the public who believes
same-sex marriage should still be illegal, they are also now in the minority in their own party. Last year, Gallup found for the first time that a majority of republi cans (55%) supported legal samesex marriage.
Perhaps the most egregious
vote against the bill was cast by Mitch McConnell, who voted against interracial marriage despite being in an interracial marriage. Any senator who voted against this bill, in addition to needing a huge wake-up call, must reckon with the fact that they
voted against the fundamental human right for people to marry whoever they love.
Evan Butow is a junior maga zine, news and digital journalism major. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at enbutow@syr.edu.
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Whether it’s from the new man-to-man defense or the traditional 2-3 zone, SU is struggling defending the long ball. Its win over Northeastern and its recent loss to Illi nois are the only games this year in which the opponent shot below 30% from deep.
After Syracuse’s loss to Colgate, Boeheim said that the Raiders are used to playing against a man-to-man. The team has recruited players to be pass-first guards and even forwards and centers that look up when deep in the lane. Teams like Vir ginia, Duke and North Carolina are going to use the same blueprint in their approach against Syracuse, Boeheim added.
Boeheim said prior to the season that it’s much harder for a team — specifically one with six freshmen — to learn man defense versus the zone. There’s dozens of different offensive plays and schemes that take younger players a long time to learn. No matter if it’s against Richard son, Illinois’ Terrence Shannon Jr. or St. John’s David Jones, settling into a man defense can cause players to lose their man. Boeheim mentioned that fact after the Colgate loss and in a blowout win
how much depth you have on football teams…We got to find a way to win. But if you’re asking me the question, those are the answers.”
Babers deserves credit for leading Syracuse to its best start in 35 years this season, and earning bowl eligibility for the first time since 2018. He brought excite ment to a program that’s been lacking a spark for two decades. After beating NC State, Babers’ job seemed as secure as ever.
But after losing five-straight games, Babers was suddenly being asked if he deserved a contract extension after this season. SU’s success this November makes it tough to argue in favor of an extension.
This November was full of question able coaching decisions, an injured quar terback, a deteriorating defense, lots of penalties and double-digit losses. Babers didn’t give Sean Tucker the ball enough at Pitt, didn’t go for a 2-point conversion against Wake Forest and admitted that his coaching staff didn’t prepare Syra cuse enough to beat Florida State.
Shrader’s injury changed the entire offense. Syracuse drastically altered its game plan ahead of Notre Dame since Shrader couldn’t run, and it couldn’t get anything going when he returned against Florida State. Without Shrader’s running ability, Tucker couldn’t find space, and neither could his receivers.
Babers has dealt with an injured quar terback in every season of his tenure. Eric Dungey missed the last three games in both 2016 and 2017 with injuries, and the Orange went winless in November both years. Dungey stayed mostly healthy in 2018, missing only three quarters against Notre Dame. The Orange went 3-1 that
against Lehigh when Evan Taylor scored 20 points, shooting 4-of-5 from deep.
In its best form, a zone allows cen ters to bleed out and stick a hand in a shooter’s face, and when the forwards crash inside, it can lead to quality defen sive rebounds and halted possessions. At its worst, the zone creates open chances, especially when younger players are caught motionless.
“Our freshmen have got to learn that you can’t stand there and let people shoot,” Boeheim said after SU’s first win over Lehigh. “Guys are going to make those shots.”
The problem hasn’t gone away thus far, with Boeheim frustratedly reiterat ing the same line after it allowed Rich mond to go 13-for-31 from deep. SU’s struggles have come despite having a strength of schedule that ranks 120nd in the country.
After the game, one that also featured poor shooting from the Illini, head coach Brad Underwood said there’s no reason to drive more against the zone despite Terrence Shannon Jr. missing 10 shots from beyond the arc. If Syracuse is going to stick with the 2-3 — even though Boeheim said before the season that SU’s
November. Tommy DeVito missed games in 2019 and 2020 with injuries. And last season, Shrader dealt with a lingering elbow injury.
A healthy quarterback has made a big difference in Syracuse’s success under Babers. That’s why it wasn’t a good idea for Shrader to run 21 times against Clem son while Tucker ran it just five times. It took weeks for Shrader to recover. That falls on Babers.
Babers has pointed several times to injuries as a reason for this year’s skid, but the team needs to be able to adjust. Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, who filled in for Shrader against Notre Dame and Pitt, didn’t look equipped to lead the offense despite possessing a more-than-capable skillset.
The offense went stale, and there weren’t many changes until LeQuint Allen got more snaps against Wake Forest. More wildcat looks against BC also pro vided more variety than just read options between Shrader and Tucker. Oronde Gadsden II admitted after the Virginia game that opposing defenses figured out the new offense. Still, little changed.
Syracuse also lost more than its quar terback this season. Key defensive start ers went down, and the defense fell out of its No. 1 spot in the ACC midway through the season. While the number of seasonending injuries was uncommon, every team deals with them in some form. Pitt was missing Israel Abanikanda, one of the nation’s best running backs, against Syracuse, but still ran the ball success fully and controlled the clock.
“Everybody has the same issue,” Babers said before the Florida State game. “Nobody’s going to play the violin for us up here. We’ve got to figure out a way to win with the guys that we have
personnel lent itself to a man-to-man defense — the scouting report for oppo nents is out on how to beat the Orange. Illinois managed to make just 28.2% of its 3s against the Orange, yet when Jayden Epps hit a 3 with 9:28 left to go in the second half, it sunk Syracuse into a 13-point hole.
“It’s something we have to learn, every game we’re learning that as a team,” Jesse Edwards said of the zone after the loss to St. John’s. “We stopped those shooters more at the end than before.”
At the start of the Bryant game, Ken Pom gave Syracuse an 88% chance to beat the Bulldogs. Coming off of a 1-1 record in the Empire Classic, a tourna ment in which Boeheim said Syracuse played “really well,” the Orange were hoping to rebound against a Bryant team that it beat two years ago.
With just over 16 minutes left versus the Bulldogs, SU battled for slim leads and small boosts of momentum, trading baskets after Mintz’s ejection.
syracuseTeams are putting up many 3s in the country against Syracuse and opponents are making enough to completely blow out the Orange. Syracuse defenders are left on their heels in a zone defense that causes open takes from the wings and corners. Coupled with a paint defense that allows 45% of shots from inside the arc, SU has developed a costly habit that — in part — is responsible for a skittish 3-4 start.
there on the football field.”
In the first eight games, SU allowed only 18.4 points per game. In the last four, all in November, that number jumped to 31.5. This was nothing new for the Orange — in five of Babers’ seven years,
Charles Pride began a 10-2 scoring run over the next three minutes with an offensive rebound and putback. Then in transition, the Orange left Miles Latimer wide open in the right corner, where he calmly put up a 3-point shot.
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penalties,” Tucker said after the FSU loss. “That was just holding us back all game.”
Avoiding penalties wouldn’t have helped SU much against FSU in the 38-3 loss. And that was the only latest blowout November loss under Babers. There was the 54-0 smacking at Clemson in 2016, and allowed a program-record 71 points and the back-to-back 30+ point losses in Louisville in 2020 and 2021.
4Syracuse, and most Power Five teams, traditionally play easier opponents early in the season, with tougher conference matchups scheduled for the final weeks. But regardless of who is on the sched ule next November, something needs to change. A 7-23 November record isn’t OK, especially given the talent Babers has accumulated through seven seasons.
the defense has given up at least 10 more points per game in November than in the first two months of the season. Last year, there was a 15-point increase. And a 23-point one in 2017, when Syracuse allowed at least 42 points in its last three games. Defensive coordinator Brian Ward got fired in November 2019 after Boston College posted 58 points and 496 rushing yards, a single-game record for an SU opponent.
Fixing the injury problem is likely harder than solving the penalty one. For the fifth time in Babers’ tenure, SU ranks 100th or worse nationally in penalties per game. The 8.8 penalties per game this season is the worst in the nation, after rankings of 104th in 2019 and 118th in 2016. Tucker and Shrader have reiter ated the impact penalties have had on the offense as holding calls routinely brought back big plays, even touchdowns. The lack of discipline nearly cost Syracuse its win over Boston College.
“The biggest issue was the holding
To ensure next November is different, Babers has to protect his quarterback, build up defensive depth through recruit ing and the transfer portal, and preach discipline and proper technique to reduce costly penalties. The latter is the most practical. Shrader is a game-changing quarterback, and Tony White knows how to coach a good defense. Babers must teach his players to not hold, line up in illegal formations and commit foolish personal fouls. It’s inexcusable that the penalties keep adding up seven years into his tenure.
Syracuse has a decent team this year, and will return to a bowl game — a big step for the program. There are no dayto-day and week-to-week off-field issues, and that’s important. But they have not changed the results on the field, and that matters, too. Babers had another lousy November in a tenure littered with them. It makes you wonder: When will it stop?
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Syracuse has gone winless in November in four seasons since Dino Babers took over in 2016
Our freshmen have got to learn that you can’t stand there and let people shoot.
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Asia Strong made her fourth 3-pointer with less than three minutes to go, cutting a once 21-point Purdue lead to six. But on the other end, just like she had all game, Lasha Petree scored driving into the right lane, earning an and-one and pushing away a potential Orange comeback.
These were just a pair of 54 points inside the paint that allowed Purdue (7-1, 0-0 Big Ten) to get past Syracuse (5-2, 0-0 Atlantic Coast) 87-78 in SU’s final game of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. It marked the second loss to a Big Ten opponent with Penn State defeating the Orange earlier in November. SU fought back after being outscored 24-11 in the second quarter, cutting its 21-point defi cit to as low as five with the help of a 14-2 fourth-quarter scoring run. But Purdue held off the Orange.
Syracuse trickled back after it seemed like it would never compete near the end of the game. By halftime, the Orange trailed 47-29 and their field percentage dropped to 33%. And Fair, who had been coming off a season-high 25 points, was silent in the first half.
It was a completely different start for Syracuse than against Bucknell, where it scored just six points in the first quarter. On Wednesday, SU scored eight points within the first two-and-a-half minutes, including a couple 3s from Georgia Wool ley and Dyaisha Fair. Both sides went back-and-forth early in the first quarter as the Boilermakers led 13-12 by the first media timeout.
But following that timeout, Purdue took control, using a 24-point second quarter to balloon its lead to doubledigits. Syracuse’s field-goal percentage dropped to just 33% at the half. Teisha Hyman provided most of the scoring for Orange, scoring 13 points in the first half, but the 11-point second quarter for Syra cuse created a large deficit. In the second period, SU shot 26% from the field while Purdue shot 66.7%.
Even throughout the fourth quarter comeback, the Orange couldn’t stop Petree, who continued to drive down the right side of the lane for six points in the
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similar situations, and the reasons why they both chose Syracuse.
Clemons and Jones had the shared goal of teaching their teammates about the his tory they learned.
“To get the experience we had, you just had to be there,” Jones said. “The biggest goal (when we returned to campus) was to relay what we learned to our teammates … Rayla’s done a great job of doing that.”
Clemons also connected with other ath
third quarter and finished with 31 points. The Boilermakers attacked the inside, scoring 18 of 23 first-quarter points down low, including a basket from Madison Layden inside just four seconds into the game. Purdue recognized its 3-point shooting wasn’t there — it finished 3-of17 from deep — and so it went inside.
Prior to Wednesday’s game, head coach Felisha Legette-Jack said Purdue’s quickness and pace provided it the option to “lull” the Orange inside before kicking it out for outside shots. The Boilermakers were fast, but they didn’t need to rely on its outside shooting since they easily beat Syracuse directly at the rim instead.
As the Boilermakers’ season-lead ing scorer, Petree notched her fourth 20-point performance, with the others against Murray State, Harvard and Okla homa State. Converting on 62% of her shots, she also added one 3-pointer and four free-throws.
Typically, though playing against weaker opponents, the Orange have con trolled the glass, relying on Strong and Dariauna Lewis to secure rebounds. Lewis and Strong still contributed as they nor mally do with 11 and 10 rebounds, respec tively, but Purdue dominated the boards overall, outrebounding Syracuse 44-38.
Purdue started the second quarter with a 13-7 run behind a pair of free throws and a 3 from Petree, extending its lead to 36-25 before the media timeout. To conclude a 7-0 run, Cassidy Hardin was doubleteamed, but Jayla Smith cut into the lane to provide an option. Smith caught the pass and went straight up for the layup.
Syracuse often went fast, and those possessions just ended after one shot. Hyman stole the ball on a solo press as Purdue brought the ball up the floor. She found herself open with a long-range jumper, but it didn’t drop in and instead gave the ball right back to Purdue. And after Woolley broke the full-court press, Strong tried to drive into the right side of the lane, but the ensuing layup was contested and missed. On another pos session, Strong tried to crossover, but she lost the ball out of bounds for just one of 12 Syracuse turnovers.
Woolley, who made her second start for Syracuse, tried to drive down the right side
letes like her roommate, Jacoria Burton, a sprinter on Florida State’s women’s track & field team.
Clemons and Burton created YouTube vlogs, comforted each other whenever something disturbing arose throughout their learning of the history in Alabama, and prayed together each night when they returned to their room.
Additionally, on the last night of the trip while in Birmingham, Clemons and Burton invited a group of other athletes from the Big Ten, Pacific 12 Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference to hang out.
Purdue’s dominance in the paint and Lasha Petree’s 31 points led to the Orange’s second loss of the season. courtesy of su athletics
of the lane towards the end of the second quarter. She was met with defenders and lofted a right-handed off-balance layup that wasn’t close to the rim. Woolley finished with just six points on 2-of-6 shooting. SU tried to force shots often, rather than being patient and setting up possessions, though Legette-Jack likes the team to be fast.
Other starting players like Hyman, Fair and Strong provided the bulk of the scor ing for Syracuse. The Orange received no help from their bench, which totaled three points from Cheyenne McEvans. The Boil ermakers saw scoring from nine different players, including 33 bench points.
The Boilermakers also capitalized in transition, registering 10 fastbreak points and forcing five Orange turnovers. Purdue’s last four points in the first half came off fastbreak layups, one from Abbey Ellis and the other from Smith.
In the third quarter, Syracuse’s lack of success was more of the same. Trying to advance the ball up the floor on a fastbreak, Lewis passed the ball behind Fair and out of bounds. It allowed Petree to score at the other end. And after Hyman tried a low-percentage heavily contested layup, Petree scored another layup inside.
Though Purdue continued to score inside and counter anything Syracuse
They facilitated a karaoke night, explored nearby waterways, met locals who shared their experiences of living in Birmingham, and wrapped up their night in a game room set up by the ACC. After experiencing these few days with her in Alabama, Burton noticed Clemons changed for the better.
“Throughout the trip, I noticed (Clemons) let some type of guard down,” Burton said. “She started to walk with a purpose. I could tell she was shy at the beginning of the trip, but at the end of the trip, she had some type of confidence that went over her.”
Clemons returned to campus as a junior
put on the board, Strong finished with 18 points in the game, including mak ing four 3s. She could’ve had another 2-pointer at the end of the period as she nailed the long-range jumper but was called for a travel with 0.9 seconds left. The buckets helped mitigate Purdue expanding even further on its lead as the Orange ultimately still trailed by 18.
Syracuse trickled back temporarily, stopping a fastbreak seemingly for the first time all game. Legette-Jack said on Tuesday she wanted SU’s defense to keep the Boilermakers in front, and it only could during the comeback. After Purdue rebounded a missed 3 from Fair, Abbey Ellis had a breakaway layup. But Hyman sprinted back, forcing Ellis to stop in the paint, which allowed more SU defenders to collapse on her.
The play ultimately forced a 3-second violation and was part of a 7-0 run for Syracuse that cut the deficit to 68-57. But Petree ended it with another layup, con tinuing to create issues for the Orange’s defense. By the end, despite cutting the deficit to 78-72, the Boilermakers closed the game on a 9-4 run behind an and-one from Caitlyn Harper to fend off SU.
colebambini@gmail.com @ColeBambiniand immediately got involved with the Diver sity and Inclusion Student-Athlete Board at Syracuse. Clemons has become a vital part of the club as she helps student-athletes learn and develop culture. Clemons was also named one of four alternate captains for the hockey team, a role she said she wouldn’t have been in without her trip to Alabama.
“I used to be a little quiet, a little more shy, and just keep a lot of things to myself, but I learned that everybody’s opinions matter, especially when we want to make change,” Clemons said.
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Tucker Richardson collid ing into his own teammate couldn’t stop him from drilling a 3-pointer against Syracuse. Midway through the first half, Richardson bumped shoulders with Braeden Smith at the top of the key while receiving a pass from the paint.
Instead of firing yet another wide open 3, the contact allowed Joe Girard II to readjust from the free throw line and get right in front of Richardson. It didn’t matter, as Richardson calmly rose up over Girard’s out stretched hand, nailing one of the Raiders’ 19 3s on the night.
Two possessions later, Rich ardson settled in the left corner and watched as Smith conducted the offense. The ball eventually made it back to Richardson in three passes around the arc, lead ing to an open 3. Open 3s became the norm throughout a deep-ball onslaught against Syracuse.
“We were in it, we had a chance. But we let their best shooter shoot three 3s,” head coach Jim Boeheim said after the Colgate loss. “That’s some thing we’ve prided ourselves in not allowing.”
Teams know they can put up 3-pointers with relative success against the Orange. SU ranks 230th in the country in defend ing 3-pointers and opponents score 34.3% of their shots from beyond the arc against Syracuse in a given game. Illinois lived by the long ball and banked on an eventual breakdown from SU’s defense, which came early in the second half. Richmond utilized the 3 to storm back and take Syracuse into overtime. It’s played just seven games, but SU’s 3-point defense is a clear problem, one that will likely hinder it as nonconference play wraps up.
Rayla Clemons didn’t know what to expect when she arrived in Alabama over the summer. The plan was to spend a few days at important land marks from the Civil Rights movement like the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Civil Rights Memorial Center and the Equal Justice Initiative Museum with a handful of other collegiate athletes.
But she met specific individuals who experienced the civil rights movement firsthand, like Lynda Blackmon Lowery and Sheyann Webb-Christburg.
“I hear around me how people always say that they support these things and they post on social media, but I met individuals who are actu ally taking part in social movements,” Clemons said. “That motivated me to be a better person and want to be a part of something bigger than myself.”
Clemons, along with linebacker Mikel Jones, represented Syracuse as a part of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s UNITE platform.
In Alabama, Clemons learned about the history of social justice and herself. This trip has given her a completely new mindset. Clemons desires to become more of a leader, bring more positive change to the world as the people in Selma and Montgomery did. She has a greater appreciation for those who
sacrificed their lives to give her and her loved ones a better life.
“I personally believe this was an experience of a lifetime that I will never forget and forever cherish,” Clemons said.
In early June, Clemons received a phone call from Salatha Willis. Willis, Syracuse’s associate athletics director for diversity, culture, and climate, pre sented Clemons with the opportunity. Initially, the initiative was planned by the Big Ten Conference in February, but it invited the ACC and the Pacific Ath letic Conference to join them on the trip.
“Each conference was looking at doing something very similar, so we were able to collaborate,” said Kelvin Anthony, the chairperson for the ACC’s Champions of Racial Equity (CORE).
As Syracuse’s representative for ACC CORE, Willis had to select two ath letes from SU. With her excellence aca demically (2x CHA All-Academic Team and 2x ACC Academic Honor Roll) and skills on the ice (eighth in the NCAA in short-handed goals as a sophomore), Clemons was an easy choice for Willis.
Jones was also chosen by Wil lis. Before the trip, Clemons and Jones didn’t really know each other. But now, Jones considers Clemons to be like a sister to him. Clemons and Jones made a special connec tion because of their similar beliefs,
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The last time the Orange won a November football game was in 2019, when Trill Williams stripped the ball and returned it 94 yards for a game-sealing touchdown in SU’s 39-30 win over Wake Forest.
There were 1,092 days between that win and Saturday. In between, Syracuse lost nine straight games in college football’s most important month. But it was nothing new for head coach Dino Babers. He didn’t win a game in November at Syracuse until 2018. Needing just an extra win or two to secure bowl eligibility in 2016, 2017 and 2021, SU fell flat in the final stretch. And this year’s fivegame losing streak included three losses in November. Babers’ postHalloween record at SU is just 6-20.
This is a pattern, and there are patterns within it, which all lead to some serious concerns about wheth er Babers can make his program match his motto: “Consistently good, not occasionally great.” Not just for the bowl game, but in 2023 and beyond.
It isn’t hard to find the culprits of SU’s November woes. Syracuse quarterbacks have been incredibly injury-prone over recent years, and the offense hasn’t adjusted accord ingly. The defense has frequently imploded late and SU has been one of the most penalized teams nationally, ranking dead last in total infractions (105) this year.
“The first thing you think about is an opponent. The second thing you think about is your health,” Babers said last Monday when asked about his poor Novem ber record. “It comes down to