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Unsung Hero recipient Peipei Liu wants to bring her identity as a Chinese international student into promoting intercultural understanding in the SU community.

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SU students get creative with ways to avoid profuse boredom after winter storms by sledding down Crouse Hill or having snowball fights on the Quad.

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Syracuse’s Vera House has seen a rise in cases, such as sexual and domestic abuse cases, over the pandemic. However, the organization is wendy wang staff photographer experiencing funding cuts in addition to staff shortage.

Vera House is struggling with a lack of funding and staff that has affected their ability to maintain services for victims of violence

By Ivana Xie

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n Monday night, Randi Bregman, a coexecutive director of Vera House, brought a client to the hospital when no other staff could. Angela Douglas, another Vera House co-executive director, escorted a separate client to the hospital last week.

“What you might think is a typical day for coexecutive directors, is anything but,” Bregman said.

Vera House, an organization that offers emergency shelter, advocacy and counseling for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, is facing a financial crisis due to the pandemic and the “Great Resignation” — a term that refers to the economic trend where American workers resigned from their jobs in 2021. Private organizations are pulling their

staff away by offering higher pay.

“The staff left because the work is overwhelming and exhausting, and amidst the general COVID overwhelm and exhaustion, some people have left,” Bregman said. “Other people left because COVID made people reconsider their lives.”

Bregman and Douglas have seen a rise in cases during the pandemic, which involve issues such as sexual abuse and financial hardship. With a shortage of staff, it’s difficult to assist everyone who seeks services from Vera House, the two said.

“We’re experiencing (funding) cuts. Vera House has made a commitment to retain all of our staff because we need them, and we need all of our positions filled to deliver the services,” Douglas said. “We need the staffing in order to be sustainable and do our best work, but the funding cuts make the tension greater.”

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The Vera House to hold on-campus office hours weekly

By Kyle Chouinard asst. news editor

Syracuse University announced that the Vera House — a nonprofit advocating against domestic and sexual violence — will have a representative on campus every week for the remainder of the spring 2022 semester.

The representative will be in room 304, the group therapy room, in The Barnes Center at the Arch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Monday, a press release said.

Students can use the office hours to get information about the Vera House’s services as well as learn about healthy relationships.

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announced the new Vera House office hours on Jan. 31 in a document they published to provide their opinions on the university’s actions and lack thereof.

SWSSU requested in their Oct. 2021 demands that SU brings the Vera House, as well as Planned Parenthood and Callisto, for a seminar on consent, anti-rape cul-

ture, sexual and relationship violence and resources for survivors.

In SU’s press release, the university wrote that Vera House staff members are on the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence as well as other working groups.

The Vera House can be contacted at (315)-425-0818. The

press release promoted the university’s Sexual and Relationship Violence Resources website, which highlights services such as the Office of Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Resolution Services and the Department of Public Safety. kschouin@syr.edu @Kyle_Chouinard

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Peipei Liu speaks out for her community SPD to implement street cameras

By Jana Seal

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Peipei Liu helped organize a campaign with her friends to write anti-racist and positives phrases on Post-It notes throughout Day Hall back in fall 2019. Liu works at WeMedia Lab, a platform for Syracuse University’s Chinese international community. francis tang asst. news editor

By Francis Tang asst. news editor

Coming back to Syracuse from her hometown in Wuhan, China, in January 2020, Peipei Liu did not encounter much kindness from the surrounding community.

Liu, a junior television, radio and film major at Newhouse School of Public Communications and one of the 2022 recipients of Syracuse University’s Unsung Hero Award, felt mild flu-like symptoms 11 days after she came back to Syracuse that winter. After she read about the outbreak of a newly identified coronavirus back in her hometown, she started to worry that

she had the virus herself.

Liu consulted with the Barnes Center at The Arch, complied with multiple tests and spent three days quarantining in Upstate University Hospital and then on Syracuse University’s South Campus, but doctors then confirmed that she wasn’t infected with the virus. Still, Liu chose to be cautious and wear a mask both on and off campus, though the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the university hadn’t yet required people to do so.

One day when Liu was eating in Ernie Davis Hall, someone yelled “coronavirus” at her and pretended to cough. Another night, when she was walking near Marshall Street, another person

walked by, put an open umbrella toward her and stepped off the sidewalk to avoid her.

Liu was saddened. She wasn’t sure if these actions were prompted by bias.

“If we don’t speak out loud, these kinds of things will certainly happen again and again,” Liu said in Mandarin. “But if we do speak out, even if it’s just a small group of people, we are still making a positive change.”

In February 2020, after all the unpleasant experiences and discriminaton she confronted after the outbreak of COVID-19, Liu decided to carry out a street experiment by holding a sign w ritten “#FightVirusNotUs. A HUG in exchange for a word

of Encouragement” at different locations on campus.

While Liu and her friends worried about her physical safety, the experiment received a considerable turnout, Liu said.

Many SU community members embraced her and gave her the courage to continue. Yajie “Lannie” Lan, a friend of Liu and a junior architecture major at SU, wrote a song in Mandarin dedicated to the city of Wuhan and filmed the street experiment in the song’s video.

The video was circulated in the news and on social media back in China. Although some comments criticized it as a photo op, see unsung

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Syracuse nonprofit plans charter school

By Katie McClellan, Francis Tang the daily orange

The 100 Black Men of Syracuse, a nonprofit advocacy group, held an education forum in the South Side Innovation Center at 2610 S. Salina St. on Saturday.

Around 15 community members attended the forum, which discussed the quality of education children of color received in the Syracuse City School District.

SCSD consistently performed below the state average on New York state’s English Language Arts assessment, said Reggie Stephens, the vice president of the Higher Learning Network. In 2019, only 18% of all the city school district students scored at or above pro-

ficient level on the state’s ELA assessment, Stephens said.

The assessments were adopted by the state’s Board of Regents in 2010 to more accurately reflect students’ progress toward college and career readiness, according to the New York State Education Department’s website.

Stephens conducted a presentation on Syracuse City School District’s assessment data during the forum. In 2021, out of 1,389 eighth grade students enrolled in Syracuse City School District, 791 chose to take the ELA assessment, according to NYSED data.

Among the 406 Black children who took the test, only 52, or 13% of the total, were proficient. No Black

or Hispanic/Latino students in the eighth grade were proficient in the math assessment this year, per NYSED data.

Although the high school graduation rate in Syracuse City School District has been constantly rising in the past few years, members of the 100 Black Men of Syracuse worry that children in the community won’t be able to translate that to college.

“When you talk about investing in children, when you talk about the education of children, it’s got to be about more than the college you see,” said Vincent Love, the vice president of finance of 100 Black Men of Syracuse. “Our children are struggling … we need to do something

to help them.”

Osupa T-Davis, a Syracuse community member and attendee at the forum, told The Daily Orange that although she doesn’t currently have a child in her household who’s attending school in Syracuse, she’s nervous that children in the community are receiving low-quality education.

“I don’t think that they will be ready for college,” T-Davis said. “After seeing if they’re not good in math and reading and the literacy rates are so low, then they won’t be able to hold jobs … and how do you excel in the world?”

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The city of Syracuse is working to implement proposed street cameras and GPS tracking of Syracuse Police Department vehicles. An executive order from Mayor Ben Walsh establishes provisions to ensure community input and collaboration.

The order’s stated goal is to allow citizens to contact their representatives about surveillance technology in the city and “ensure technologies are implemented in a safe and well governed way.”

One measure implemented by the order is the creation of a working group to oversee financial, privacy, equity and efficacy concerns, according to Mayor Ben Walsh’s Surveillance Technology Policy. The group — consisting of eight representatives from the city of Syracuse and five representatives from community institutions and organizations including Le Moyne College, Syracuse University, the CNY Community Foundation, the Community Data Group, NYCLU and NuAir — is responsible for defining and categorizing different surveillance technologies and presenting recommendations, a May press release said.

The order defines guidelines for bias prevention, privacy standards and honest representation.

It also defines surveillance technologies as those which “observe or analyze the movements, behavior, or actions of identifiable individuals in a manner that is reasonably likely to raise concerns about civil liberties, freedom of speech or association, racial equity or social justice,” according to the order.

The working group accepted public comment for 14 days, from Dec. 6-20, 2021, to gauge and address community response to increased surveillance along the lines of the Surveillance Technology Policy.

Though he hasn’t yet reviewed responses submitted during the public comment period, privacy is one of the most common concerns regarding surveillance technology, said Lt. Matthew Malinowski, the public information officer of the Syracuse Police Department.

“People don’t want to be walking down the street and feel like they’re being spied on, (and) we get it,” Malinowski said. “We have to understand that this community had … hundreds of incidents of shootings with injuries. So we need to be able to combat that crime. We need people to understand it’s not there to spy on you, it’s there to try to reduce crime and keep everyone safe.”

Malinowski clarified that the cameras would not be surveying any area that police officers would not otherwise look at — biometric, facial recognition and whole-body gesture analysis technologies are banned from use in the city, according to the city of Syracuse’s surveillance

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funding Vera House also lost a $125,000 grant for an elder abuse program, Douglas said.

The two are committed to reforming the organization to also provide care and sustainability to their staff.

“We, looking into 2022, said we want to recruit staff at the level we think they deserve to be earning at the organization,” Bregman said. “And we want to address equity issues in the organization and retain the staff we have, so we committed to invest in that coming into 2022 even though we didn’t have the income to support it.”

Vera House currently has a budget for $6 million but is only receiving $5.5 million for 2022, Bregman said.

“We’re hoping and praying that the community is able to rally around to offer additional support to us and that we’re able to find some more long term sustainable funding through grants and other opportunities,” Bregman said.

Survivors who have used Vera House services are grateful yet concerned about the organization.

Aneesah Evans, a 41-year-old woman, discovered Vera House in high school but thought the organization only helped those who have experienced physical violence. She didn’t realize that Vera House offered different kinds of support until she was 26.

Evans currently participates in family therapy through Vera House. Evans’ therapist asked her children if they underfrom page 3

unsung hero the experiment itself meant far more than that for many people because it brough confidence to a lot of Chinese international students at that time, Lan said.

“I once told Peipei that I wanted to become a person who could have more imagination about others’ happiness and suffering,” Lan said in Mandarin, referring to a quote from a Chinese author. “I believe that’s what Peipei has been always thinking, too.”

The pandemic wa not the only source that anti-Asian discrimination originated from, nor the first time that she had personally confronted racism, Liu said. During her first semester at SU, she witnessed everything from racist graffiti found in Day Hall to the #NotAgainSU sit-in at the Barnes Center as an international student.

After the university attempted to control the information about the graffiti found in Day Hall, Black students at SU organized the #NotAgainSU movement and an eight-day sitin at the Barnes Center. Liu said while many Black students had actively spoken out for themselves and their community against racism, there were few international and Asian from page 3

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“Governments and private sector businesses have increasingly used technology such as video to improve security in public places.

In general, citizens expect the police to collect information from us in public places that could serve public safety interests,” said William Banks, a professor in SU’s College of Law from page 3

charter of God Church said that providing Black students with Black role models is crucial to their success.

“It’s very imperative that you see someone successful who looks like you, who can relate to you,” Stephens Sr. said.

Additionally, Love announced at the forum that the group wants to found a charter school that is “established, maintained and operated by people of color” in the community where they can offer

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stood why they were there, but they were unaware about the situation.

Evans felt anxious about their ability to support patients.

Other survivors who’ve used Vera House’s services, such as Bhutanese refugees Man Gurung and Monu Chhetri — both of whom are deaf — shared how Vera House has helped bring them to safety.

“I was in an abusive situation with my husband, and so I went to the shelter.

Some of the services I got were social work services. They helped pay for my groceries and provided clothing for me,” Gurung said through sign language interpretation.

Gurung has also received support during the pandemic. She said that Vera House provided assistance in navigating her children through online schooling.

Chhetri arrived in the U.S. in 2011 and has been using Vera House services since 2012. Not knowing the American culture and language, she faced many challenges.

Vera House provided her social work services, assistance in court, interpreters and other services in an accessible way, she said through sign language interpretation.

But Chhetri noticed that the services are not as efficient as they used to be.

“It is getting harder to receive services.

It’s harder to contact people when you need them. It’s not as accessible as it was before,” she said. “Before, whatever you needed, things would happen very quickly, but now unfortunately if someone is in an abusive situation, with COVID happening and (a) reduction in staff, there’s some people who aren’t able to get services.”

Chhetri eventually returned to Vera

House as a survivor and is working with the Deaf New Americans Advocacy Office to provide support for deaf people.

Alena Cerro, a project manager for audio, film and TV at the New York Times, was also concerned about Vera House’s financial deficit. Cerro was shocked that Vera House had to transition mainly online. She said it was difficult to watch from afar as she knew the strain on the staff was growing.

Cerro, originally from Liverpool, started using Vera House services in 2014 after being sexually assaulted, and continued through 2015. She was also offered advocacy and shelter services from the organization.

“I wouldn’t be here without Vera House,” Cerro said.

Cerro said she wishes she could contribute more to Vera House services.

She noticed the higher demand for Vera House’s services are more extreme cases of violence and abuse, and some of their programs have little to no funding.

Douglas acknowledged the staff is just as important as their survivors. She doesn’t want her staff to burn out but also recognizes they are similar to essential workers.

“For those folks who may be in pain from harm that has happened to them that they are really not alone — we are here 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Douglas said.

“There are no snow days for us and it’s just important for (people) to know that regardless of the times, Vera House will always be the beacon that it’s always been.”

students who chose to get involved, partially because of their cultural differences.

Liu, a Day Hall resident at the time, organized a campaign with her friends and other international students who lived in the building. They wrote anti-racist messages and positive phrases such as “love” or “smile” in different languages on PostIt notes and displayed them all across the building. Soon, people from even outside the hall joined their campaign.

“The most important lesson I’ve learned in Syracuse is to never be ashamed of your identity,” Liu said. “I wanted to create that space where everyone can fight back against racism in their own ways.”

Liu also wants to bring her identity as an international student into promoting intercultural understanding between Chinese international and the broader SU communities.

After her hometown experienced the lockdown and a severe shortage in medical supplies, Liu participated in “A Hand for Wuhan,” a fundraising campaign organized by Chinese international students at SU that raised over $50,000 in support for hospitals in Wuhan and later to hospitals in New York after the pandemic hit the U.S. Ruohan Xu and Ze Zeng, two “A Hand for

Wuhan” organizers and Liu’s friends, both said Liu has assisted the campaign by contacting medical supply manufacturers in the U.S. as well as local hospitals in Wuhan.

“Peipei is someone who really cares about others,” Xu said in Mandarin. “Anyone who really knows her would treat her as a true friend, and she definitely deserves it.”

tion’s editor-in-chief.

The founding of WeMedia Lab goes back to the 2016 murder of Xiaopeng “Pippen” Yuan, a Chinese international student at SU, said Zeng, who is also WeMedia Lab’s director. The tragedy shaped the organization’s mission of creating a more efficient connection between Chinese international students and the university. Liu’s talent and passion to help others makes her a perfect fit to fulfill that mission, he said.

“The way that she tells stories really can connect with the Chinese international students who are far away from home,” Zeng said. “I find that she’s always very pleasant to work with.”

Liu said the Unsung Hero Award validated her beliefs and efforts in “making the world a better place.” Though she had wondered if her work was meaningful and essential enough for the community before receiving the award, this honor motivated her in continuing to push these efforts forward.

“Dr. King spoke out for his rights and the rights of the community he belonged to, with the vision of making this world a better place,” Liu said. “Speak for yourself, speak for your community — that’s what I want to do.”

and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “Citizens should always be wary when government enhances its surveillance of citizens, but street cameras have an upside that likely outweighs privacy concerns.”

Ultimately, Malinowski said, surveillance technologies are valuable investigative tools. Without cameras and “proactive policing,” he said, neighborhoods affected by crime may experience more effects.

“If you ask the people who live there that

are afraid to walk to their convenience store, because they’ll be the victim of a robbery or stray bullet or some sort of crime, I think that the people in those communities actually do want more police, they want to be safe,” Malinowski said. “They do want more technologies.”

Due to delays caused by COVID-19 complications, acquiring parts for the cameras was slow, ultimately resulting in setbacks in the cameras’ implementation, Malinowski said. Funding for the cameras,

as well as for maintenance and storage, are also concerns, he said.

“These are very sophisticated, and they require a lot of maintenance. So for when you go from 500 cameras to 600 cameras to (700), and now you’re trying to maintain 700 cameras.

It just becomes a pretty substantial cost. But we do think it’s worth it. And that’s why we continue to push forward with this initiative.”

additional services such as tutoring and after-school programs.

Love recognized that charter schools in the country are a controversial topic.

Despite widespread critiques, Love said charter schools are more closely scrutinized by the government and society.

Charter schools won’t be allowed to stay open if their students perform the same way as shown in the Syracuse City School District’s data, and they are mandated to accept students from different demographics, he said.

“This vision has been in the works for

about three years now,” Love told The D.O. “Our role is going to be to provide support to the students and parents of the school with all of the programming we now run.”

Love also said during the forum that 100 Black Men of Syracuse must submit a letter of intent to the Board Regents and if they receive approval, the group will submit an official application and be granted an interview. Love anticipates it will be several years before the proposed school is open.

“All of our services that we already provide to the community will be accessible

to all of the students and all the parents of the school,” Love told The D.O. “We will be constantly reinforcing their educational journey outside of school hours.”

T-Davis said she fully supports the charter school plan. “I believe that children who see people who look like them, they (will) feel more comfortable,” T-Davis said. “If you love them … they will know that this is the community that I came from, and they can tell stories about this.

So I do believe that it’s a mutual love that is going to happen.”

We’re hoping and praying that the community is able to rally around to offer additional support to us and that we’re able to find some more long term sustainable funding through grants and other opportunities Randi Bregman co-executive director of vera house

“Once he started explaining the purpose of Vera House, then I had to explain the history,” Evans added. “I never really talked to my kids about what was happening between me and their dad. I felt like that was something that they didn’t need to hear from me. And I don’t like the idea of parents bashing one parent to the other, no matter how horrible it was, so I kept a lot in.”

With Vera House’s cut in funding,

The most important lesson I’ve learned in Syracuse is to never be ashamed of your identity Peipei Liu 2022 unsung hero recipient

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SU’s First-Year Seminar course is ineffective and uninteresting

By Sophia Leone columnist

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f there is one class that most freshmen dread going to, it is First-Year Seminar 101. I’m sure Syracuse University freshmen are taking a huge sigh of relief entering the spring semester now that they have finally completed the requirements for this mandatory course.

According to the class description, FYS 101 is a course that “engages all first-year and transfer students in guided conversations, experiential activities, and written assignments about transitioning to Syracuse University.” I am not sure what description this class is for, but it is certainly not the FYS 101 I took.

In reality the “guided conversations” were more like getting slammed with repetitive questions with no

meaning. This amounted to everyone sitting in awkward silence, scanning the room, praying that someone would say something to end the agony.

The conversations were less about transitioning to SU and more about how to interact with other students who may have the slightest difference from us, as if we have been alienating ourselves from people who identify as such.

The deep dive into “conversations” of sexual identity and race are structured as if we are ignorant about such topics. Fellow freshmen, no matter the section of FYS 101 they were in, can relate to having the same classroom experiences. Will Rourke said he thought the class didn’t live up to expectations.

“The concept is good in theory, but the execution is done poorly,” Rourke said. “They force conversa-

tions and I know plenty of people who don’t feel comfortable speaking their minds. The whole thing is awkward, having tough conversations with strangers that most people don’t have with their families or friends.”

Anna Mulhern had similar things to say about the course. The discussions didn’t feel natural, she said.

“FYS is a good concept but the conversations seemed forced. It took away time for my other courses too.”

The unfortunate fact is that these topics are vital to living in a conglomerate of students, however, SU has structured this class in such a way that makes the students not care. The amount of money and work that goes into constructing this class amounts to nothing if students can not grasp the material as intended.

The most frustrating part about this situation is it frequently seems

that the university is aware of how the students feel. Through my first semester, multiple different, non-FYS 101 professors have asked the class their thoughts regarding FYS 101 and course feedback, in hopes the university would take it and revise the class.

Since these topics are important to the society we are living in, the course needs to get the students to interact with the material. FYS 101 should allow room in the structure of the class for the students to discuss what they want rather than forcing specific conversations upon students. Everyone is from a different background and has a different story, so it’s important that students help guide the course.

If SU allowed students to structure the course through topics that are meaningful to them there would be more intimate conversations, conver-

sations that would strike chords, create connections and educate. Students learn and participate better when they feel connected to the topics, not forced to participate, and FYS 101 would actually create a positive impact on their college career and beyond.

SU is a place full of diverse students and FYS 101, at least the way it is set up now, fails to show a true sense of the unique diversity at SU. Allowing the students to structure it would allow for a steady flow of ideologies and experiences to come together and generate a body of students who not only respect one other but better understand one another.

Sophia Leone is a freshman broadcast, digital journalism major with a minor in political science. Her column appears biweekly. She can be reached at seleone@g.syr.edu.

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Updating MySlice was a mistake. It should be modernized.

By Melanie Wilder columnist

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hen I first logged into MySlice to officially accept my letter to attend Syracuse University in 2020, I thought, “This is the student portal?”

At the time MySlice looked like it was made in 1990 and hadn’t been updated since. I was committing to SU to major in information technology … and this is the website they created for their students? It definitely made me wary.

Nevertheless, after using it for a little bit, I got used to the website. I knew where everything was, and there were headings for each resource and links to useful information. If I wanted to find something like Degree Works (a resource to see the classes necessary to ful-

fill the requirements), it was easily accessible through the website.

Don’t get me wrong, the old MySlice website had many issues.

The Schedule Builder wouldn’t let students transfer classes from their planned schedules into their “Shopping Carts” for enrollment. It looked very chaotic, and the text was incredibly small. But, just like many other SU students, I got used to the way MySlice looked, and it was an easy website to navigate with some practice.

Last semester, SU announced that the MySlice website would be updated. SU even emailed all students in September promising that the new MySlice website would feature “increased mobile capacity, accessibility, and personalization.” I thought that all SU students would finally have a website that is easy to navigate and

visually appealing. I was wrong.

The update made it even more difficult for students to access the website.

After the update, MySlice would say “stale request” when students tried to login. In order to fix this, people had to clear their cache and cookies on their browser. Personally, I just use the search bar to find anything.

Visually, the website went from looking like it was made in the ’90s to looking like it was made in 2000. While this is somewhat of an improvement, MySlice still looks outdated. We need a modern-looking website that even students who are new to SU can comprehend and easily use to find information.

Students register for classes, pay bursar bills, select housing and meal plans, see their financial aid and look at their grades through MySlice. Why

is a website that is so crucial to students so difficult to navigate?

It’s hard to fully understand why we do not have a visually appealing and easy to navigate student portal.

There are many third party websites that we could use to create a student portal. For example, My School Design is a company that builds websites specifically for schools. Appypie, a no-code web and app development platform, is another great option.

We also have many qualified and incredible technology professionals on campus: Jeffrey Rubin, Michael Fudge and Lauren Hardee-Chase, just to name a few. There are also incredibly talented students in the School of Information Studies and the College of Engineering and Computer Science who would love the opportunity to fix the MySlice website.

Personally, I would like to see the SU community come together to build a great website that is both visually appealing and easy to navigate. Having professors who teach how to make a website and students who interact with MySlice on a day-to-day basis coming together to create an excellent myslice website — wouldn’t that be the perfect solution?

The bottom line is: SU students need a student portal that is easy to navigate and looks like it was made in 2022. We already have so many great professors and students here on campus — why don’t we utilize them to create a website that works for all of us?

Melanie Wilder is a sophomore policy studies and information management double major. Her column appears biweekly. She can be reached at mewilder@syr.edu.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate should be extended

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n Jan. 24, Judge Thomas Rademaker struck down Gov. Kathy Hochul’s statewide mask mandate, writing in his decision that the New York State Health Department did not have the authority to enact such a mandate.

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Rademaker showed a startling lack of foresight by striking down Hochul’s mask mandate. He not only helped promote the belief that mask wearing is a “personal choice,” but also prevented Kathy Hochul and the state’s health departments from maintaining a crucial tool in helping to fight the spread of the virus.

Almost two years into the pandemic, it is well known that masks

are effective at preventing the spread of COVID-19. This disconnect has spread from the halls of government out into the streets, ensuring that mask wearing will be a central issue in the upcoming elections.

By Rademaker striking it down in the name of “government overreach” less than a week before it was set to expire he sets a dangerous precedent.

Instead of upholding the mandate or simply letting it expire, he helped codify the belief that wearing a mask is a per-

sonal choice and something the government has no business regulating.

His actions also turn the simple action of masking, which is meant to be for the collective good, into a political lightning rod, taking individuals who refuse to wear masks and turning them into martyrs in the name of “freedom.”

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First-year student Maggie Lefebvre participated in multiple snow day activities after the storm, including sledding down Crouse Hill and a snowball fight with her friends.

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By Grace ‘Gray’ Reed contributing writer

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yracuse University students have made their way back to campus for the spring 2022 semester. Upon their return, there have already been multiple winter storms that have coated the campus with ice and snow.

It is well known that Syracuse is prone to intense winter weather, but what may be less understood are the different approaches students take to keep themselves entertained in these often undesirable conditions.

For Maggie Lefebvre, a freshman television, radio and film major, it was easy to become accustomed to

After a winter storm barreled through Syracuse earlier this month, SU students took the chance to have fun in the snow

Syracuse’s winter weather, as it often snows in her hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania. She recalled an evening she had with friends at SU following a day stuck inside due to on-and-off snowstorms.

“We had a little snowball fight just on the Quad,” she said.

Later, Lefebvre took part in one of the campus’s most beloved traditions: sledding down the Crouse Hill. She said that she had not been prepared for the speeds she encountered while going down the steep slope.

“I did not realize how fast I was going to go down the hill,” Lefebvre said.

Such experiences are common for students who take on the see sled page 7

beyond the hill

Nave Law Winter Fair returns with food vendors, live shows

By Adriana Lobo

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Azella Alvarez has been participating in the Winter Fair as a food vendor since its first edition in 2019, where she said over 250,000 people attended. In 2014, Alvarez started the first Filipino restaurant in Syracuse, Oompa Loompyas.

Alvarez said she began participating in the fair to share Fili-

pino culture through lumpias, a Filipino style of mini egg rolls made from beef and chicken.

“My purpose was to introduce it, and now nine out of ten people will say I brought (lumpias) to upstate New York.

So very proud of that and representing New York in general.”

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ties in the Exposition Center, the largest open space venue outside New York City between Boston and Cleveland, according to the fair’s website.

Because of the pandemic, the Winter Fair could not take place last year, Steve Becker, the fair’s promoter, said in a press release. However, he and Sean Kelsey, the chief operating officer of Nave Law Firm — the naming sponsor for the

fair this year — were eager to bring the community together this year.

“It will be great to have an event to chase away the winter blues,” Becker said. “The New York State Fairgrounds have great (year-round) events, and we want to have The Nave Law Winter Fair be an annual tradition in ‘Making Memories,’” Becker said. see fair page 7

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‘Womanifesto’ sheds light on sexual abuse on SU’s campus

By Allison Oey

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Three Syracuse University film students released a documentary on Feb. 6 about gender discrimination at SU. The film, titled “Womanifesto,” aims to bring more attention to gender inequality and share personal stories of women around campus.

Erica Negrini, Jeanisha Mariah and Cristie Kwon, started the documentary during the fall semester, and they incorporated elements such as statistics regarding sexual assault and gender discrimination rates at other universities into their film. They also interviewed a wide range of women.

“We split up the documentary into three parts. In the first main part, we talk about gender inequality in specific majors,” said Negrini.

The film then expands on interviewing women involved in Greek life and other student organizations, as well as their feelings toward their involvement.

“We interviewed a lot of really powerful, anonymous women who are brave enough to share their stories with us, and they did a great job,” said Mariah, a sophomore.

Negrini said the students were able to interview about 10 to 15 people, with many sharing their personal stories and opening up about sexual assault.

“One of the first women that we interviewed felt safe enough to open up about her sexual assault story and just tell us that. At the end of the interview, I just remember me and Jean were crying. It was so overpowering and very emotional,” Negrini said.

Mariah said she feels this conversation needs to be had not only with SU’s administration but with students on campus and colleges everywhere. She added that many students are afraid to speak about these issues and therefore don’t receive help. This film aims to encourage people to listen to students regarding gender discrimination and hopefully create change in the future.

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challenge of sledding down the hill for the first time, with many ultimately being unable to stop themselves. Lefebvre said at one point, her sled slid into the road at the bottom of the hill. Despite the seemingly chaotic nature of the activity, it is a tradition many students hold close to their hearts.

But not all students have adjusted to the city’s colder climate, especially when that means potentially being stuck inside for long periods of time. Kyra Zabretsky, also a freshman television, radio and film major, said that despite being ready for the snow herself, many of her friends have had different experiences.

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Moreover, Kelsey, who spent time with his family at the fair, highlighted the importance of being involved and supporting the fair, as well as making the experience of the community memorable.

Attendees enjoyed the fair indoors by taking part in a variation of attractions such as The Villa Pizze Fritte, a Ferris wheel and performances by the Six Nations dancers. The fair featured many

“It shows women getting better treatment and telling ( you) about what a woman deserves. Listening to the Manifesto, I immediately thought, ‘That’s going to be a great combination between women and manifest,’” Kwon said.

The film was shown at the Shaffer Art building in the Shemin Auditorium on Sunday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. Musical guest Liv For Now performed prior to the film premiere.

Liv For Now is a band that consists of songstress and multi-instrumentalist Liv DuFine, guitarists Maria Nido and Jesse Herman, bassist Jared Rowland and drummer Nick Beebower.

One of the first women that we interviewed felt safe enough to open up about her sexual assault story and just tell us that. At the end of the interview, I just remember me and Jean were crying.

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“Written by Liv DuFine herself, (the) songs use jarring, intricate lyrics to peek into her reality,” Negrini said. “The newest face of R&B-infused indie brings experimental melodies and fresh chord progression to the table.”

All donations received during the event went to Vera House, a nonprofit organization that seeks to prevent, respond to and try to bring an end to domestic violence, sexual assault and elder abuse.

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yet,” Zabretsky said.

Regardless, she’s planning a ski trip for her birthday that she believes will help change their perspective.

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Even with various activities to partake in after a heavy snowstorm, some may still

opt for indoor affairs due to some outdoor conditions being unbearable. This does not mean they are completely throwing away the winter spirit, though.

A freshman history and political philosophy major and Syracuse resident, Abi Greenfield explained that they would rather go ice skating with their friends than venture outside. Thankfully, the opportunity to do so is not so far away.

“My friends and I go ice skating at Tennity instead of going out in the snow,” Greenfield said. “I really just enjoy being able to practice skating because it’s a nice little brain break.”

Tennity Ice Pavilion is located on SU’s South Campus and is home to not only multiple ice-based sports, but free, open skating for students with their SU ID. The facility also hosts weekly Late Night Ice, an ice skating event that features music

late into the evening.

When they are not out with friends, however, Greenfield passes the time by studying in their room.

“I like to take the time I have indoors to get my work done,” they said.

In spite of all the fun activities the SU campus has to offer this winter, both inside and outside, many newcomers to the snow may be overwhelmed by the change of scenery.

Luckily, Greenfield was able to offer some advice for those who choose to go outside during periods of winter weather based on their own personal experience of growing up in the area.

“Always dress warmer than you think you need to be,” they said, “because it’s easier to take off layers if you get too warm.”

contributors, including performers and food vendors who took the opportunity to share their culture.

For people in the community, the fair served as a great way to spend time with loved ones while gaining cultural enrichment. Shamier Jackson, a digital marketer in downtown Syracuse, came to the fair because a friend invited him. He said he looked forward to it because it was his first time attending the fair.

“I loved the idea that the fair was indoors, because I do not

know how long I would have stayed if it was outside,” Jackson said.

As a lover of history, Jackson added that watching the Six Nations dancers was his favorite part of the fair because he got to learn about the culture of the original people of the land in New York. He said he enjoyed watching children in the crowd also join in the dances.

Jordan Smith, a member of the Mohawk Nation, had grown up coming to the fair with his family. As a dancer of the Six Nations, Smith said he and other perform-

ers utilized various art forms to invite other Indigenous people, as well as others, to come to the fair.

“It’s really about the opportunity of the interaction to educate … other people,’’ Smith said. “Because if we don’t educate and give the knowledge that we have, I can’t expect the next coming generations to do that.”

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boycotts Summer Olympics to PyeongChang, South Korea, another event marred with protests amidst the Free Tibet movement. Protesters tried to put out the Olympic torch as it was carried across parts of South Korea in the weeks leading up to the Games, prompting the Korean Olympic Committee to surround whoever was carrying the torch with guards as protection.

“It didn’t really feel like a celebration of the Olympics,” Kim said. “It really felt like a very politically contained, contaminated event.”

But Kim said the boycotts — much like the U.S.’ this year — have become more sophisticated. Boycotts in the Cold War era, such as in 1980, simply involved pulling all athletes from competition, a move Kim believes was heavily influenced by nationalism placing the country’s agenda over an athlete’s Olympic preparation.

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hockey captained the Orange and earned a spot on the CHA All-Second Team.

Now, Hosoyamada’s heading to Beijing for her second Olympic Games appearance. She’s the second Syracuse ice hockey graduate to go to the Winter Olympics along with Stefanie Marty — previously a member of Switzerland’s 2006, 2010 and 2014 teams.

Born and raised in the small Canadian town Banff, Alberta, Hosoyamada, whose parents are Japanese, knew she wanted to play collegiately in the United States.

Once she arrived at SU, Hosoyamada said current coaches Paul Flanagan, Brendon Knight and then-assistant coach Alison Domenico pushed her to play for Team Japan.

Nicole Renault, Hosoyamada’s SU teammate, said Hosoyamada realized she could only play at Syracuse for so long and it was ultimately a question of what was next.

Hosoyamada mostly played defense but occasionally played forward at Syracuse.

Regardless, she was vital in close-game situations, power plays and penalty kills, SU teammate Julie Knerr said.

“If you’re playing against her one-on-one on the corner, you better be ready to go,” Knerr said.

“She’s pretty active, shifty and has a lot of drive.”

Despite being eligible to play for Team Canada, Hosoyamada never received an invitation to the U-18 national team. But she still felt from page 12

marty debuted, and played for three years while scoring 32 goals as a forward. She became the first-ever SU Winter Olympian with appearances in 2006, 2010 and 2014 before retiring from hockey in 2017. This winter, Marty will be watching as Switzerland competes in the Beijing Olympics, as the team looks to medal again like it did in 2014.

Marty and Julia started playing hockey at 8 years old after they spent six months figure skating, Julia said. The two were teammates every year they participated in international play from 2003-15. The only time they didn’t suit up together was in college when, after both spent the 2007-08 season at New Hampshire, Marty transferred to Syracuse and Julia transferred to Northeastern.

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lousness and lack of empathy.” Campbell said he worked for six or seven years to get to the Moscow Olympics, and he said Carter’s move to boycott was like taking away your home and “saying we don’t give a sh*t about you.” He and Mills both agreed that the decision, regardless of safety or a country’s human rights concerns, should be left up to the athletes.

“If you have the rationale of boycotting the Olympics because the country’s violating human rights, there’s no place in the world where you can have the Olympics,” Campbell said.

But since Carter’s decision, Kim said countries have placed more emphasis on the individual, ensuring that they can still compete while protesting another country’s decisions.

In 2014, people called for boycotts of the Winter Games in Sochi, citing LGBTQ laws that violated human rights. The U.S. responded by sending openly gay athletes Billie Jean King and Caitlin Cahow as the country’s delegation.

There were calls to boycott the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, because the Olympic committee and Brazilian government moved residents of lower-income communi-

ties to build stadiums. Burton said that when he worked with the 2008 Olympics, they estimated that 70% of the world saw some part of the Games. Protesters at each event know that billions of people will be watching, giving them one of the largest platforms in human history to broadcast their movement or message.

Still, the Olympic Charter Rule 50 states that “no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.” The U.S. Olympic Committee changed that rule in 2020, allowing for political protests during the Olympic trials.

But how you define social justice, Kim said, is “tricky” as the global perspective of social justice is much different than the U.S.’ and other “westernized countries.” Boycotting the Moscow Olympics led to Russia and multiple other Eastern Bloc nations skipping the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Burton said each boycott lends itself to be revisited upon by other countries later on.

“What we do as a country circa 2022 may be revisited upon us in 2028 because I think we as a country are not without our own mistreat-

ment of the poor, or the racial injustice that we’ve seen over the last few years,” Burton said.

Recent events, such as the murder of George Floyd, serve as concrete examples other countries can point toward as human rights violations within American borders, Burton said. “We’re doing all of these horrible things as a country, really, really horrible, evil things, and we want to boycott China?”

While Syracuse’s one former athlete — Japanese women’s ice hockey player Akane Hosoyamada — will compete in the games, the announcement of boycotts reopened memories and emotions for Mills and Campbell about their lost opportunity. Mills was bitter for “many, many years.” Campbell said he gets more disgusted each time he thinks about the boycott or the way in which Carter handled it.

“It’s nice that the politicians are saying that the diplomats won’t go, because that’s fine, and I think that shows maturity,” Campbell said.

“Hopefully there won’t be (anyone) who comes up saying that we should boycott again.”

she was ready to compete at the international level, citing her time playing against high-level competition at Syracuse.

Hosoyamada first watched Japan at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, where the team finished last, losing all five of its games. By 2015, she started attending Japan’s training camps, though she needed to wait one gap year before she could compete because of eligibility rules.

Professionally, Hosoyamada wasn’t sure on where she wanted to play. She knew the Canadian Women’s Hockey League was developing and a U.S.-based league was forming in 2015.

Hosoyamada joined the CWHL’s Calgary Inferno in 2016-17 before relocating to Japan to continue her hockey career both professionally and nationally, and she now plays for Tomakomai’s Douro Kensetsu-Peregrine.

“I always played in North America, so I wanted a challenge internationally,” Hosoyamada said.

At first, the move was slightly difficult with the language and cultural barriers, but it was “nothing too big,” Hosoyamada said. After a few years in Japan, she’s noticed a change in the style of play.

“In North America, there’s a certain style of play that everyone plays, but internationally, every country has a different style,” Hosoyamada said. “So just being able to adapt or not being able to adapt, I think that’s something that really made me realize how different it is internationally.”

Hosoyamada noticed North American

teams’ physical style of play, while internationally, more teams focus on the skill and technical aspects like passing and handling.

Japan’s strengths are stamina and speed, the Czech Republic plays “clean hockey” with “clean passes,” and the U.S and Canada, are just “well-rounded” as both teams are the only ones to ever take Olympic gold, she said.

The defenseman earned a gold medal at the 2017 Asian Winter Games where Japan outscored opponents 98-1. At the 2017 International Ice Hockey Federation Division I Championships in Austria, Hosoyamada notched a hat trick against Norway in a 5-3 comeback victory. An undefeated Japan topped the group, earning a promotion to the 2019 IIHF World Championship in Finland, where the team fell 4-0 in the quarterfinals to the U.S. In the PyeongChang Olympics, Hosoyamada assisted Japan’s third goal in a 4-1 win over combined Koreas, Japan’s first Olympic victory. The team placed sixth with a win over Sweden and loss to Switzerland in the fifthplace game. Hosoyamada said having the experience will allow her to focus, calm down and play her game in Beijing.

This Olympic cycle, Japan’s 2020 IIHF ranking guaranteed a direct Olympic berth, but it limited the international games the team could play since the pandemic canceled competitions. Hosoyamada said there was a period of about eight months when the team didn’t get together and had to instead focus on individual fitness and conditioning.

During the pandemic, Hosoyamada lifted roughly five days a week for an hour and a half in a training regiment that mimicked the one she had at Syracuse. Hosoyamada said the training helped her adjust to the pause, and Japan eventually returned several months later to prepare for the 2021 IIHF World Championship. The team’s sixth-place finish was its best-ever.

“I think culturally, we have smaller bodies than some of the other international teams.

We were really focusing on building our bodies, making them stronger, more stable,” Hosoyamada said.

In November and December, the team held more rigorous training to prepare for the Olympics, having near-daily morning lifting sessions and evening practices. Currently, the team is “slowing it down” with only one training session a day, focusing on correcting its systems and conditioning with a few exhibition games against local high school boys teams, Hosoyamada said.

Despite COVID-19 adding uncertainty to the 2022 Olympics, Hosoyamada said Japan’s still prepared for play beginning on Feb. 3 against Sweden.

“I’m born and raised in Canada, but both of my parents are Japanese so just being able to go back to my roots and representing where I’m coming from is just truly an honor,” Hosoyamada said.

played separately for three years.

“When I had (Julia) beside me, I didn’t have to step up every single time because I knew she would do exactly the same as I would,” Marty said. “We’d share the work we thought had to be done when we thought something didn’t work well with the team.”

The two parted ways prior to their sophomore years because Julia wanted to go to school in a big city and Marty wanted to help build a program from the ground floor, which she was able to do at Syracuse.

Marty felt her consistency set her apart from other players since she was “able to perform pretty much every game at a high level,” she said. SU head coach Paul Flanagan called her “as consistent a player as we’ve ever had (at Syracuse).”

Flanagan said he often told other players to model themselves after Marty. He referenced her training habits, specifically her active warm ups before practice — something Europeans brought to U.S. hockey, he said.

While Marty’s international experience helped her succeed at the collegiate level, she also said playing at Syracuse made it “easier to adjust” to Olympic competition. Upon arriving in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics, Marty said she was used to playing at a higher level than her teammates who played in the Swiss Women’s Hockey League.

Marty’s experiences in 2006 helped her at the 2010 Olympics as well, she said. With all the distractions in Olympic Village, it was difficult for the 2006 team to stay focused on hockey, she said, since it was so easy to go watch other events, play billiards and watch movies.

“It was much easier for the whole team in Vancouver because at least half of the team had experienced that already,” Marty said.

“We knew we were there to play hockey and we wanted to have success as a team.”

That mindset also helped Marty increase her production at the 2010 Games, where she tied Canada’s Meghan

Agosta for top scorer of the tournament.

Following a hat trick in a 5-2 win over Slovakia in group play, Marty posted four goals against China in the fifth-place semifinal game. She then capped off the Olympics by scoring both of the team’s goals — the latter of which iced the game in a shootout — in a 2-1 win over Russia, securing fifth place for Switzerland.

Currently, Marty is an assistant coach for SC Reinach of the SWHL. She likes sharing what she learned from her playing days with her players, she said, and she thinks it’s good for them to be coached by someone who played at the highest level.

“You want (the players) to work hard, but the biggest thing is you want them to have fun — it’s only a game,” Marty said.

“They should go out there and have fun but also give everything so they don’t have any regrets at the end.”

The Orange briefly returned to their 3-point success versus the Cardinals, shooting 50% from that distance in the first half.

“It was just a matter of time — they’ve been getting some good shots,” acting head coach Vonn Read said after the win over the Panthers.

In the first half, the Orange spread the wealth from deep between four of their five starters, making a total of seven. Chrislyn led the team

with three 3-pointers, getting one off a feed from Styles while scoring the other two on her own.

Midway through the second quarter, Chrislyn found Hyman at the top of the key with the shot clock winding down. Despite being a few steps behind the 3-point line, Hyman let the ball go. The shot was a little strong, hitting the backboard before ultimately falling through the net.

But in the second half, the Orange were a lot less successful from deep. They went 0-for-7 in the third quarter, only breaking their miss streak two minutes into the final period. Rice made the shot, using one dribble to step back and get enough space for the heave.

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SU’s defense falls apart in 36-point loss to No. 4 Louisville

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At the start of the fourth quarter, Louisville moved fast in transition, feeding Chelsie Hall inside for a layup. But Syracuse’s Najé Murray was able to catch up with Hall, forcing her to miss the layup.

Still, UL’s Ahlana Smith trailed behind Hall, securing the missed layup off the glass.

Teisha Hyman tracked back to defend Smith’s layup attempt, fouling Smith as she scored for the and-1. The 3-point play gave the Cardinals a 20-point lead, a lead they would increase to 36 by the end of the afternoon.

“We just struggled to compete on the boards there, and they scored 65 points in the paint,” acting head coach Vonn Read said.

“They’re a good team. They do a really good job of moving the ball.”

Louisville (21-2, 11-1 Atlantic Coast) continued that success against Syracuse’s (9-12, 2-9 Atlantic Coast) 2-3 zone defense, winning 10064 with 60 points in the paint. Six Cardinals finished scoring in double-digits, with Liz Dixon recording a team-high 18 points off the bench.

The Cardinals immediately got on the board with a mid range jumper from Hall, but they started to set up attempts from deep later in the first quarter. Specifically, Louisville targeted the left side of the Orange’s 2-3 zone,

which normally stationed Murray. By having shooters on the wing and in the corner, Murray was unable to guard both players at the same time, and on some possessions Hyman was unable to support defensively.

Assisted by Hailey Van Lith, Hall hit the Cardinals’ first 3-pointer from the left wing. Kianna Smith scored from the same spot on the ensuing possession. And on the last play of the first quarter, Payton Verhulst freed up in the corner, letting go of the ball while Murray was still running at her to try and get a hand up. Verhulst beat the buzzer, giving Louisville a 13-point lead.

Murray said that Louisville was a “pick your poison” kind of team, meaning that it could score from 3-point range and in the paint. So in order to try and protect the paint, Murray was forced to give up deep shots.

“Louisville’s just one of those powerhouse offenses where everywhere you go, they have options to score,” Murray said. “In terms of effort, we did the best we could.”

The Cardinals also repeatedly scored on long possessions where they passed the ball around the arc before finding cutters inside. Chrislyn Carr said this was because of the Orange’s lack of communication on the defensive end, helping Louisville’s players get space in the paint.

“We messed up a little bit because our communication was off,” Chrislyn said. “We just need to be there for each other and know

when to switch off.”

Specifically, Dixon and Smith were able to exploit the soft spots which were unguarded in the paint for quick layups. Following a 3-pointer from Chrislyn with four minutes left in the first quarter, the Orange’s 2-3 zone left an opening in the paint. Dixon received the ball from former Syracuse star Emily Engstler and scored an easy layup, giving the Cardinals a nine-point lead. Later in the quarter, another hole was left in the middle of SU’s zone during a Louisville inbound pass. Hall spotted the gap, directing Smith toward it for another score.

Smith finished with 16 points while Dixon was 8-for-8 from the field. Read said that matchup with Dixon revealed the strong depth of the Cardinals roster as the former All-American wasn’t even a starter.

“They just continued to bring bodies off the bench,” Read said.

In the second half, the Orange briefly brought out their full-court press after Chrislyn or another guard at the front of the system had scored a basket. This allowed them to control the shot clock, forcing SU players like Alaysia Styles and Christianna Carr to make big plays.

Christianna, who was out of her normal position at the back of the press, stole the ball from Olivia Cochran near midcourt. She immediately found Murray to cut the Cardinals’ lead to nine. Styles also intercepted the

ball near the end of the third quarter, which eventually made its way to Alaina Rice for a contested layup that fell.

Styles and Christianna were also able to draw offensive charges on consecutive possessions in the third quarter. But the Cardinals continued to win the battle on the boards with 15 offensive rebounds by the end of that period. After Van Lith missed a 3-pointer, Smith rebounded the ball and found Dixon wide open in the paint for another easy layup.

By the midway point of the fourth quarter, the Cardinals had put the game away following 19 points in three minutes. The Orange took out most of their starters, which Louisville did as well, leaving Chrislyn in the game to facilitate the offense.

With two minutes left in the game, the Cardinals targeted the spot in the Orange’s zone which Murray had given up earlier. Nyah Wilson was in Murray’s position, but as Louisville swung the ball around, Wilson abandoned her spot.

Mykasa Robinson was left wide open along the left wing and hit a 3-pointer on her first attempt. Engstler stole the ball from Chrislyn on the ensuing possession and Robinson was left unguarded in the same spot, this time stepping in to hit a mid-range jumper that would bring Louisville’s lead to 37. anish.sujeet@gmail.com @anish_vasu

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Syracuse improves to 4-1 with a dominant win over Drexel

By Tyler Schiff staff writer

Since coming to Syracuse, freshman Shiori Ito has been perfect in the singles competition, winning all of her matchups on the season.

Against Drexel’s Cristina Corte González on Sunday, Ito only lost one game. She’s now undefeated on the year.

Ito’s teammates replicated her outstanding all-around play as Syracuse (4-1, 0-0 Atlantic Coast) emerged victorious over Drexel Dragons 7-0 (0-3, 0-0 Colonial Athletic Association) on Sunday, dropping only one doubles matchup en route to a dominant overall performance.

It was an interesting outing for the

Orange, who changed up their doubles lineup for the first time this season. The regular pairing of Japanese duo Ito and Miyuka Kimoto shifted as head coach Younes Limam opted to pair Ito with experienced senior Sofya Treshcheva and Kimoto with Russian ace Polina Kozyreva. Although it didn’t work as Limam hoped, with Ito and Treshcheva falling in the No. 3 doubles matchup, 6-4, the rest of the tandems won.

In the No. 1 doubles matchup of the day, Ines Fonte and Viktoriya Kanapatskaya continued their excellent play as the two sophomores defeated Drexel pair Lorie Lemongo and Mya Fuentes.

Fonte and Kanapatskaya have not lost this season.

On the singles front, Syracuse was perfect

in every matchup. Kozyreva, the only Syracuse player besides Ito to remain undefeated in the singles competition this year, cruised to another comfortable win, defeating Fuentes 6-1, 6-2.

Kanapatskaya, who recently bounced back from a series of early-season struggles, continued her winning ways as she downed senior Tara Veluvolu despite a difficult final tiebreaker set.

In the first No. 1 singles matchup in her young collegiate career, Kimoto also won convincingly, defeating Lemongo in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. The pressure didn’t seem to faze her as she made quick work of her freshman opponent. In the remaining matchups between the Orange and the Dragons, Fonte delivered her first bagel of the season in her first set before

winning the second to finish 6-0, 6-4.

Treshcheva, who has recently struggled with shoulder issues, finished Syracuse’s stellar afternoon with a quick 6-2, 6-3 victory. Treshcheva’s battle with her long-term injury was most notable in a frustrating defeat to Penn State’s Gabby O’Gorman, but since then, she’s been able to string together two straight wins.

Syracuse will be back at its home court at Drumlins Country Club on Feb. 12 to play Buffalo in a New York state clash and the 10th all-time matchup between the two programs.

Limam and the Orange hope to improve to 5-1 on the season before entering conference play. trschiff@syr.edu

women’s basketball

Observations from Syracuse’s 36-point loss to No. 4 Louisville

By Anish Vasudevan asst. sports editor

The Orange snapped a six-game losing streak against Pittsburgh only to fall again a few days against Miami. And in a rematch against No. 4 Louisville, their toughest opponent so far this season, Syracuse lost 100-64.

Still, SU kept the game somewhat close like it had done against the Cardinals earlier this season when it shot 48.1% from the field, shooting 50% from deep in the first half. But Louisville continued to answer almost every Syracuse basket with one of its own, not letting the Orange launch into a scoring run even though their offense was playing efficiently.

Here are some observations from Syracuse’s (9-12, 2-9 Atlantic Coast) second straight loss:

Najé Murray shines

Following a rough stretch of shooting earlier this season, Najé Murray has picked up her play in recent games for the Orange. She had 12 points in the first half against Miami before getting ejected from the game after two intentional fouls in the third quarter.

But after hitting one 3-pointer against Louisville, Murray started to become more of a point guard than a shooting guard, moving the Orange quick in transition. Despite being 5-foot-6, Murray outrebounded the

Cardinals’ 6-foot-5 Liz Dixon on one possession before heaving a cross-court pass to Christianna Carr for the transition layup.

On UL’s next possession, Murray stole the ball and mimicked the previous play, this time to Chrislyn Carr.

In the second quarter, Murray hit from deep again. Then, she took the ball up to the top of the key on her own before taking a few steps in for a mid-range jumper. The jumper fell, and Murray was fouled though she missed the free throw.

Still, Murray said that at this point in her career, with four years of undergraduate experience, she’s perfected her own shot selection.

“I know what’s the right shot. I know the timely shot,” Murray said earlier this season. “My teammates know when I’m going to shoot it.”

At the end of the third quarter, Murray didn’t look for an open shot, instead electing to go into the lane. Murray created enough separation from her defender off a pass from Christianna for the score.

Defensive blunders

This season, Louisville entered the game averaging over 70 points per game and has beaten teams by an average margin of 17.8 points. The Cardinals immediately got on the board with a mid-range jumper from Chelsie Hall, but they started to set up attempts from deep later in the first quarter.

Specifically, Louisville targeted the left side of the Orange’s 2-3 zone, which normally stationed Murray. By having shooters on the wing and in the corner, Murray couldn’t guard both players at the same time, and Teisha Hyman was unable to come over and help on some possessions.

Assisted by Hailey Van Lith, Hall hit the Cardinals’ first 3-pointer from the left wing. Kianna Smith scored from the same spot on their ensuing possession. And on the last play of the first quarter, Payton Verhulst freed up in the corner, letting go of the ball while Murray was still running at her to try and get a hand up. Verhulst hit the shot at the buzzer, giving Louisville a 13-point lead heading into the second period.

And the Cardinals also found success inside through Dixon, who found the soft spots which were unguarded in the paint for quick layups.

In the first quarter, an opening was left by the Orange’s 2-3 zone in the paint off the inbounds pass, giving Smith the same opportunity.

In the second half, Louisville continued to go inside, though Alaysia Styles and Christianna drew offensive charges on straight possessions. But the Cardinals continued to win the battle on the boards with 15 offensive rebounds by the end of the third quarter. After Van Lith missed a 3-pointer, Smith rebounded the ball and found Dixon wide-open in the paint for another easy layup.

Christianna Carr and Alaysia Styles

In its win over Pittsburgh, Syracuse unleashed Christianna and Styles offensively, with Christianna tying a season-high 19 points.

With Hyman double-teamed early on by Louisville’s defense, the Orange looked for the pair of bigs to contribute again.

Styles took advantage of how the Cardinals’ defense was playing her first, taking a wideopen 3-pointer at the top of the key while her defender sagged off. While the shot didn’t fall, Christianna put the Orange on the scoreboard by driving through the lane for an easy layup.

Styles eventually scored from deep, but she was able to find other open shooters earlier in the first half. With four minutes left in the first quarter, Styles received the ball while she was double-teamed in the paint.

Despite having two defenders on her, she got the ball out to the corner where Chrislyn drained a 3-pointer.

At the start of the second half, Louisville tried to break through the Orange’s full-court press. But Christianna, who was out of her normal position at the back of the press, stole the ball from Olivia Cochran. She immediately found Murray to cut the Cardinals’ lead to nine. Styles also stole the ball near the end of the third quarter, which eventually made its way to Alaina Rice for a tough layup that fell.

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Syracuse offense struggles in loss to No. 4 Louisville

By Alex Cirino

asst. sports editor

Payton Verhulst was wide-open when she called for the ball in the left corner. Louisville controlled the ball on the right side of the arc, and Syracuse’s 2-3 zone shifted to contain the Cardinals in that respective corner. But Hailey Van Lith easily sent the ball over the Syracuse defense to that left corner, giving Verhulst an easy look from 3.

Najé Murray, Syracuse’s closest defender, sprinted over and jumped as high as she could to swat the ball away but couldn’t get a hand on it. Verhulst’s shot gave Louisville a 30-17 lead to end the first quarter.

It was a play that summed up how Louisville defeated Syracuse on Sunday. The Cardinals hit their shots, relied on their size and used their depth to easily handle a smaller Orange team that couldn’t replicate its opposition — and got blown out in the process.

No. 4 Louisville (21-2, 11-1 Atlantic Coast) completed its season sweep over Syracuse (9-12, 2-9 ACC) with a 100-64 win at the Carrier Dome. While the Orange shot nearly 45% from the field after the first half, its shooting deteriorated in the latter stages of the game, and it couldn’t keep up with Louisville.

Syracuse continued to shoot the ball the way it had in recent games, including its January matchup against Louisville. At the half, the Orange were sitting just below 45% from the field.

“In the first quarter, they were really outrunning us, and that was their goal,” acting head coach Vonn Read said. “I thought we did a good job in the second quarter getting back and stopping them, stopping them from making transitions and make them score in the half court.”

Louisville committed two turnovers in the opening minutes of the second quarter, which led to a 5-0 run for Syracuse. Chrislyn Carr stole the ball at center court and sent Najé Murray in transition for a layup. Then Mykasa Robinson was called for a five-second violation ahead of a Louisville inbound pass. After a missed 3 from Christianna Carr, the ball was rebounded by the Orange and worked from

Chrislyn to Murray for a 3-pointer, pulling SU within eight points.

“Najé was hot at that time,” Chrislyn said.

“Giving her the ball in those moments — we stopped doing that in the third quarter — but we have to keep trusting in each other even when we’re tired.”

Louisville stayed hot from the field, but Syracuse never let up, keeping the difference within 10 points for the majority of the half.

The game was a back-and-forth shooting contest in the first half — like it was the last time the two teams played. The closest the Orange would tighten its deficit against Louisville was after a 9-4 run just before halftime.

SU took its only lead at the end of the third quarter in January by excelling at what it does best: hitting 3s. The Orange made three consecutive ones that led to it taking a one-point lead.

Late in the second quarter, Alaysia Styles hit a 3-pointer from the right wing, and on Louisville’s next possession, Chrislyn picked up a loose ball off a Van Lith 3-pointer. She dribbled out of Syracuse’s zone and hit Teisha Hyman inside the paint with a long pass for a layup. On the ensuing possession, Syracuse worked the ball around to Chrislyn, who hit a 3 that brought the Orange within nine.

That, though, was the closest Syracuse would come to pulling off a comeback. The Orange made half of their 3s at halftime, but Louisville was better, shooting 57.1%.

In the second half, though, Syracuse would not come close to matching those numbers, and its already increasing deficit got out of reach very quickly. In the third quarter, SU missed all seven of its shots from deep and was down nearly 20 points heading into the final quarter. After nearly breaking 50% shooting from the field, the Orange’s shooting rate diminished to an underwhelming 33%, while Louisville shot 53% from the field, making 19 second-half shots to the Orange’s eight.

“They’ve got some really good players inside and out,” Read said. “I thought in spurts we did a really good job, but again, transition points, second-chance points, they had 32 so it’s really hard for us to combat that.”

Louisville’s second-half shots came mostly from outside rather than in the paint, as for-

Syracuse was outscored 35-14 in the fourth quarter in its second defeat to No. 4 Louisville this season. courtesy of dennis nett | syracuse.com

mer SU forward Emily Engstler recorded her fourth personal foul of the game early in the third quarter. But Engstler still recorded the Cardinals’ second-most rebounds with 10.

Engstler had already recorded seven rebounds midway through the second quarter, which was as many as Syracuse had as a team.

Engstler also made her mark on defense.

Foul trouble limited her aggressiveness in the paint, but Engstler, the country’s 36thbest blocker, per Her Hoop Stats, recorded four blocks and three steals in just over 20 minutes of game action. Despite her limited action, she was still the only player on the court to record a double-double.

Louisville more than doubled Syracuse’s 22 points in the paint from January, and the Orange were outscored in the paint by 40 points on Sunday. The Cardinals finished with nearly as many points inside as Syracuse had total, recording 60.

Early in the third quarter, Hyman drove inside on Engstler, dribbling past her but

missed the layup. The rebound was picked up by Olivia Cochran, who found Van Lith inside. Van Lith made her layup and was awarded an and-1 on the play after being fouled by Christianna.

In the fourth quarter, the Orange’s typical fatigue set in, as Louisville nearly doubled the Orange’s field-goal attempts. Similar to its final quarter 19-7 run in January, the Cardinals used a 9-0 run even while up 30 points to break the 100-point mark via back-to-back field goals from Robinson.

It was the easy victory Louisville was looking for after nearly being upset the last time they faced the Orange, as Syracuse again suffered a loss to a team that simply outmatched it on both sides of the ball.

“The score got away from us,” Read said.

“We just struggled to compete on the boards there and they scored 65 points in the paint, so I just got to find a better way to help them.” ahcirino@syr.edu @alexcirino19

ice hockey

Elite passer Sarah Marchand emerges as top scorer for SU

By Henry O’Brien asst. digital editor

Syracuse already had a two-goal advantage against RIT in the third period when Tiger forward Lindsay Maloney was called for interference. The Orange sent out their top power-play unit, which includes forwards Lauren Bellefontaine, Abby Moloughney and Sarah Marchand.

SU set up its usual offensive formation, which Marchand calls the “reverse umbrella.”

Moloughney and Bellefontaine usually move to opposite faceoff circles while Marchand skates behind the net to fight for the puck on the boards.

But on this power play, Marchand faced no pressure as she collected the puck near the boards. Two RIT players were in the passing lane, but Marchand found room to find Moloughney, who buried the puck to make the final score 3-0. “(Marchand) passes really well into space,” Moloughney said. “It might not be right on the stick, but it’s somewhere where you can easily take a shot from.”

In her freshman season at Syracuse, Marchand has established herself as one of the team’s best passers. She leads the Orange with 15 assists and is tied for fifth-most in the College Hockey America conference. Earlier in the year, Syracuse’s coaches said Marchand was guilty of passing too much and not having a shooting mentality. It took Marchand nine games to score her first career goal when she finally scored against Lindenwood on Oct. 23. Since then, Marchand has combined both

assets of her game, scoring the team’s secondmost points since the start of December.

“I still think she has that pass-first mentality, but she’s improving,” Syracuse head coach Paul Flanagan said. “We’re trying to get her to (have something) that is sometimes called a ‘gunslinger’s mentality.’”

This adjustment is similar to what Marchand has experienced throughout her junior career. Those who coached her before Syracuse knew her as a forward who was an elite scorer with solid attributes.

For the first nine years of her hockey career, Marchand never played on an all-girls team, exclusively playing on and against boys teams.

Kevin Beuglet, Marchand’s junior coach until she was 16 years old, said being a part of a boys team rather than an all-girls team was massive for the young forward’s development.

“She played (with) the boys because that’s where she was comfortable and that’s where her friends were,” said John Marchand, her father. “It was where she had fun, and we knew it was good for her development.”

Beuglet noted that the speed and the physicality of the boys’ game helped Marchand get used to playing a system that emphasized puck movement. John said that her vision on the ice was influenced by her team’s ability to pass and shoot at the right time. In this system, Marchand became one of the best passers on the team, using her vision to separate her from other players on the team when it comes to passing.

“What makes Sarah so good is how well she sees the ice,” Beuglet said. “She sees the

opposing players and her own players … so well offensively and defensively that she makes adjustments as she skates down the ice.”

Beuglet remembered when Marchand and her team were playing in the fifth game championship of their local league. The game went to overtime, and Marchand made the assist on the game-winning goal to Beuglet’s son.

But according to John, his daughter was not always a natural passer. Unlike at Syracuse, Marchand never felt the need to pass up a shooting opportunity when she played with boys teams, but since Marchand is a freshman now, she feels more inclined to pass to her senior teammates, Beuglet said. Marchand was always a “top three or four scorer” on those junior teams, recording as many goals as she did assists. Her goal-scoring prowess came from her pinpoint shooting accuracy, Beuglet said, with her shots being as hard as some of the boys’ on her team.

This gave Marchand an edge as she finally moved to exclusively playing on girls teams.

When Marchand made the switch by playing for Cambridge Rivulettes of the Provincial Women’s Hockey League, John said that she was always “the best player on the ice.”

In 2019-20 with the Southwest Wildcats, Marchand finished second on the team in points with 30, scoring 13 goals and tallying 17 assists.

Southwest’s head coach, Jennifer Hitchcock, said Marchand used her skills to create good on-ice connections with her teammates. Beuglet said that when Marchand played against other girls, her hockey sense was much higher than her

teammates, which only helped the team.

“She was affecting them to be places they didn’t even know they were supposed to be,” Beuglet said.

At Syracuse, however, Beuglet’s observation has held true as Marchand passed up on opportunities to score early in the season.

Against Union, Marchand made multiple dekes to keep Syracuse’s attack alive but eventually passed the puck to a teammate. In a twominute span, she passed off twice and neither of those shots became goals.

“All she wanted to do was pass, pass, pass, and she didn’t have a goal for a while,” Flanagan said.

While Flanagan still thinks there is improvement to be made, Marchand has definitely found the net more. Since the start of December, Marchand has shot 33 of her season total of 55 shots.

In the final minute of overtime against Penn State on Feb. 5, Marchand retrieved the puck in the neutral zone after Mae Batherson battled for it at the boards. A two-on-one had been generated as Marchand had Victoria Klimek flanking her on the left.

Marchand never passed to the graduate student, holding the puck as she moved toward the right faceoff circle where she fired a quick shot that beat Nittany Lions goaltender Josie Bothun.

“She can put the puck in the net,” Beuglet said. “And as she gets older and continues to play for Syracuse, you’re going to see her put the puck in the net a lot.” henrywobrien1123@gmail.com @realhenryobrien

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SU’s lone athlete prepares for Games

Marty’s path to 3-time Olympian

By Cole Bambini

ATHLETES FIRST

A diplomatic boycott of this year’s Winter Olympics could impact future games Story by Anthony Alandt digital managing editor

asst. copy editor

In February 2017, Team Japan entered its final Olympic ice hockey qualification tournament match against Germany. With France and Austria mathematically eliminated, a win would secure a berth to the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games and a second consecutive Olympic appearance for Japan.

Captained by Syracuse ice hockey alumna Akane Hosoyamada, Japan notched two goals in the first 11 minutes of the second period, with Hosoyamada assisting the second on the power play.

Germany scored later in the period, but a Japanese goal in the third period secured a 3-1 win and sweep of the tournament field.

Japan earned a trip to South Korea for its third Olympic appearance and Hosoyamada’s first.

“I think that was just a huge moment for me,” Hosoyamada said. “Just playing in my home country and just seeing how hockey is growing in Japan.”

Hosoyamada played at Syracuse from 2010-15, recording 151 appearances — the second-most behind Victoria Klimek — and she notched the program’s fi fth-most points by a defenseman with 61 (10 goals and 51 assists). She was named to College Hockey America’s All-Rookie Team as a freshman, and in her fifth year, Hosoyamada see hockey page 8

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hite House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that “the Biden administration will not send any diplomats or official representation to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics,” on Dec. 6, 2020, citing human rights violations the Chinese government has infl icted upon Uyghurs in the country. The move furthered a long line of political and social events outside the Games that have contextualized the international event since Tommie Smith and John Carlos displayed the Black Power salute in 1968.

Multiple nations joined the U.S. in announcing they wouldn’t attend the games, hoping “to embarrass the host city,” according to Rick Burton, a professor of sport management at the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University. Then, following the disappearance of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, the World Tennis Association announced it would be pulling events from China, encouraging countries to boycott the Beijing Games.

For athletes, however, foreign relation conflicts thrust them in the middle of a battle they can’t take part in.

Decisions of boycotts from the Olympic games were made without their input, jeopardizing years of training to qualify for the event. They’ve affected

former Syracuse athletes like Gene Mills, barring them from competition. While athletes from the U.S. are still allowed to compete in the Winter Olympics, former prospective Olympians hadn’t been as lucky. Past boycotts, such as the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, have spelled controversy for athletes.

Mills, a former wrestler at Syracuse, remembers Olympic coach Stan Dziedzic telling him in January of 1980 that American athletes might not be able to go to the Olympic games in Moscow. The Soviet Union had just invaded Afghanistan, prompting then-U.S. president Jimmy Carter to recommend not going to Russia, citing a lack of security for the athletes. The team ended up going to a tournament in Tbilisi, Georgia, “not really with President Carter’s blessings,” Mills said.

Mills had worked his way to becoming one of the top wrestlers in the world, pinning the men that eventually finished first through fourth in Moscow.

That June, Mills got a call from Dziedzic while Mills was driving back from a wrestling camp in Massachusetts. He told Mills that Olympians were “definitely not going” and were to be at the White House to support Carter.

“I had to pull over a few times because I couldn’t see because my eyes were filled with tears,” Mills said.

For Mills, the Olympics were an opportunity to create peace and not have politics involved. Jeeyoon Kim, an assistant professor at Falk, said she genuinely believes in the Olympics’ values.

Kim worked in 2018 to get the

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Trailing 2-0 after two periods of the 2014 Winter Olympics bronze medal game, Switzerland’s Stefanie Marty lined up at center ice for a faceoff.

Marty lost the faceoff, but it only took a minute for Switzerland to cut its deficit in half. Less than five minutes later, after Marty drew a tripping penalty that resulted in a power play, Switzerland tied the game and later won 4-3, earning the first women’s hockey medal in the history of Switzerland’s program.

It was Marty’s third time competing in the Olympics after appearances in 2006 and 2010. But after seventh and fi fth place fi nishes, respectively, in her fi rst two campaigns, the third period comeback against Sweden gave Marty her fi rst and only Olympic medal.

“If you ask me now, or anyone on the team, ‘How did you do that?’ We don’t even know,” Marty said. “It was just 20 minutes (where) we went out there all for one goal — something we worked for more than four years (for) — and it was just unbelievable that we made it happen.”

Those 20 minutes were preceded by the 17 years of work that Marty and her sister Julia Marty put into hockey. Marty came to Syracuse in 2008, the same year the women’s hockey program see marty page 8