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Residents came together to protest the presence of the statue in Columbus Circle, a year and a half after Mayor Ben Walsh announced plans to remove it.

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Charles Guthrie, an SU grad and Akron’s athletic director, has moved quickly through the NCAA ranks and is seen as a “rising star” within collegiate athletics.

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Sour Sitrus Society member Meghan Hendricks recalled her breathtaking experience traveling to Brooklyn for the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament.

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Aspen Syracuse residents frustrated about conditions Aspen Syracuse residents complained about crime, violence and maintenance issues for months, but are now starting to take action

By Francis Tang asst. news editor

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iaxuan Tang swiped into the stairwell of Aspen Syracuse’s Building 1 garage on the night of March 7. He had to climb the stairs to his apartment on the third floor due to an elevator malfunction, he said.

As Tang was about to step onto the stairs, he felt someone touching him from behind. Tang turned around and saw a man holding what appeared to be a handgun pointed at him.

“Give me the money,” Tang recalled the man saying to him.

Tang, a Chinese international student studying economics at Syracuse University, was the victim of an armed robbery at Aspen Syracuse apartments that evening. The suspect, who fled the scene on foot, was described as a man in his 20s, wearing all black and a black mask, according to a campus-wide email from SU’s Department of Public Safety on the same day.

Tang lives in Aspen Building 1, one of the three apartment buildings of Aspen

Residents have voiced concerns about issues at the apartment complex that range from car break-ins by trespassers to pre-move-in cleanliness. francis tang asst. news editor

Syracuse, a student housing apartment complex located at 4101 Brighton Place.

For months, residents of the apartments — many of whom are Chinese international students — suffered from a string of crimes and violence happening on the property, including car damage, trespassing, larceny and robbery.

Residents also shared their unpleasant living experiences with The Daily Orange, such as poor maintenance response, infrastructure damage and unreasonable security deposit charges.

Such complaints have often gone unresolved, residents said.

Aspen Heights Partners and Asset Living, Aspen Syracuse’s owner and

property manager, respectively, declined multiple requests for comment on residents’ allegations. In a statement issued through Antenna Group, Aspen Heights Partners’ public relations partner, Asset Living said it does not publicly comment on resident matters.

“As policy, we do not publicly comment on resident matters. At Asset Living, we are diligent to address all resident concerns in a timely manner and will continue our correspondence directly with residents at Aspen Syracuse to ensure that any and all concerns are resolved,” the statement reads.

Property relations

Built in 2017, Aspen Syracuse is owned

by Aspen Heights Partners, a property management company founded in 2006 in Texas. The company owns student housing communities in over 33 locations throughout the country.

To the east of Aspen Syracuse’s Building 3 lie the red-brick buildings of Vincent Apartments, a property owned by Green National. There were 149 past-deadline housing code violations reported at Vincent Apartments as of June 1, 2021, according to a press release from the state attorney general’s office. see aspen page 4

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SU alum develops new website construction platform

By Biying Wang

contributing writer

Clarke McKinnon came into Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management wanting to go into corporate entrepreneurship, but he soon realized he could have a greater impact and leadership position if he started his own business.

In 2019, McKinnon, who graduated from SU in 2014, launched The.com

alongside his brother, Jeff McKinnon, with a goal of making the web more composable and collaborative. The two had $4.4 million in seed funding.

The McKinnons’ business breaks down templates, a standard way to build websites, into customizable “blocks.” A block is a “reusable website building unit,” such as a header or a banner, according to The.com.

Users can press a “create sites” button on The.com, which makes blocks

appear as editable cells where a user can directly adjust website features such as font size. This “low-code” construction makes website building more accessible to the population outside of engineers, McKinnon said.

The website can be traced to McKinnon’s first website agency, AFJ Venture Strategy, which he created at the end of his sophomore year, also working alongside his brother.

During his freshman year at SU,

McKinnon met Ray Wimer, a professor at Whitman. McKinnon said Wimer noticed his entrepreneurial spirit while he was a student, and Wimer was critical in McKinnon’s journey to realizing his potential.

“I thought the unique characteristic about Clarke is his inquisitiveness and curiosity,” Wimer said. “It wasn’t always in the class. It was usually after the class — he would come up and ask a question or make

a comment that showed he was thinking a step or two ahead.”

At AFJ, McKinnon helped build thousands of websites, but he said he was frustrated by the traditional website construction technology that utilizes templates. He added that a template makes websites look identical even though everyone is telling a different story.

From his frustration grew the

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Dozens protest Columbus statue verdict

GEM coalition wins award

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DANIELLE SMITH, a member of the Onondaga Nation, stands alongside other Syracuse community members to protest the Columbus statue’s place in the city’s center. emily steinberger editor-in-chief

By Emily Steinberger editor-in-chief

One and a half years after Mayor Ben Walsh said the city of Syracuse would remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from its plaza, the statue again watched over demonstrators who gathered in the city’s center.

This time, community members including those from Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation and Women of Italian and Syracuse Heritage were there to protest against State Supreme Court Judge Gerard Neri’s recent ruling that Walsh does not have the authority to remove the statue.

Andy Mager, a member of NOON, said to the crowd that people have been protesting the statue’s presence in Syracuse for years.

“Some of you who are a little older like me will remember in the early 1990s, when we were looking at the 500th anniversary of Columbus getting lost on the seas and finding his way to Turtle Island here,” Mager said.

More recently, though, the Resilient Indigenous Action Collective, in addition to NOON and WISH, has been working with Walsh and the city to remove the statue and repurpose what is currently known as

Columbus Circle.

Danielle Smith of RIAC and the Onondaga Nation said that the process has been frustrating and tiring. Smith has had these tough, uncomfortable conversations because the only time change happens is when people talk to one another, she said. Still, even when she shows up, the Columbus statue remains.

“It just gets prolonged and prolonged,” Smith said about its removal.

Mager said that the reason for this slow change is partially due to the Italian Americans who are still pushing to keep the statue in the city’s plaza.

“They’re holding on,” Mager said.

“They’re holding on dearly.”

Many Italian Americans, however, denounce the statue’s presence.

Natalie LoRusso, who is Italian American and a member of WISH, said the organization doesn’t want Columbus to represent the collective Italian experience.

She added that the monument should no longer be a symbol of pride for Italian Americans.

“We all respect the legacy of our ancestors. We are obligated to honor historical truths, not myths or made up scenarios,” LoRusso said.

Smith said that she wants the full story to be told — the story of the genocide Columbus created and the harm he inflicted upon others. She said that she gets that Italian Americans in the early 1900s, when this statue was created, wanted to honor their own history.

Because they didn’t really know at the time the harm he caused to Indigenous peoples and others, she said that she understands.

But now, in 2022, Smith said the statue has no place in the city’s center.

“There’s no excuse now,” she said.

“You know better, now do better.”

Smith and Mager both said that the Syracuse community must push the city’s Common Council to take down the statue. This should be an effort from the entire Syracuse community, LoRusso said, because Columbus’ impact and the statue’s presence affect all community members — not just Indigenous people.

Columbus’ colonization of people indigenous to Turtle Island led to the eventual enslavement of Black people in Africa and America, LoRusso said. Sarah Nahar, a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University, said to the demonstrators that there is an inherent connection between the freedom of Black

people and the self-governance of Indigenous people.

“Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty are…” Nahar said.

“Linked!” the crowd shouted back.

This connection among marginalized people through their resilience to oppression is just what the proposed Heritage Park hopes to celebrate, the project’s website reads. Mager said he acknowledges the suffering of Italian Americans and added that no one should ever be marginalized.

“But we don’t move forward by then inflicting deeper pain on other people in order to deal with what has happened to us,” he said.

The people of Syracuse must continue to think together, act together and organize in order to create change, Mager said.

“That’s what we’ve been doing, and that’s what we’ll continue to do,” he said.

Before the crowd dispersed, they sang together a song of resistance that rose above the streets of Syracuse, high above the Columbus statue.

“We have come this far. We won’t turn around. We’ll flood the streets with justice. We are freedom bound.” ersteinb@syr.edu @madlehead

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SU continues test optional admissions policy

By Kyle Chouinard

asst. news editor

Syracuse University will not require SAT or ACT scores throughout the fall 2023 and spring 2024 admission periods, the university wrote in a press release Thursday.

In the release, SU said that students who are either unable to submit standardized test scores or choose not to will not be penalized.

In the same vein, students who do not submit scores will still remain eligible for merit scholarships.

The university wrote that the decision comes from recognizing the pandemic’s impact on students applying for college and their families.

“Many students and their families are understandably concerned about the availability of and having safe access to testing sites,” said Maurice Harris, SU’s dean of admissions.

Harris said the university hopes the decision will alleviate stress for those applying to SU. The policy was first introduced by the university in June 2020, and in a February 2021 press release the school waived standardized testing scores for the 2021-22 admissions cycle. Harris said in the 2021 release that the application process will place further emphasis on other criteria such as academic performance and extracurricular engagement under the policy.

“Standardized test scores have always been just one component of our holistic review process,” he said.

According to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, also known as FairTest, SU is one of over 1,815 colleges and universities to not require ACT or SAT scores for fall 2022. Included in the count are schools that will not look at scores even if they are submitted by applicants.

At least 1,400 institutions will continue one of these two policies for the fall 2023 admissions period, FairTest wrote.

SU freshman Alex Jenkin told The Daily Orange in October 2021 she was confident in her test scores, and submitted her scores to SU

despite the school being test optional when she was applying.

“My score was right around the average for Syracuse,” Jenkin said. “I thought it would help me rather than hurt me … I wasn’t really stressed about that in particular.”

“Claire Moore, a high school senior in Connecticut, told The D.O. in October 2021 she would not be submitting test scores to all the schools to which she would apply.

Moore said she appreciated testoptional policies. “(The) SAT and ACT should not be weighed equally to the years of hard work that went into GPAs and extracurriculars,” Moore said. kschouin@syr.edu @Kyle_Chouinard

The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) fellowship program, which offers fellowships for marginalized students completing Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in STEM fields, won the 2022 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

Syracuse University is in the top 10 for numbers of applications to the GEM fellowship program among the program’s 129 member universities.

GEM connects students from underrepresented groups with STEM graduate programs at member universities and provides full-tuition scholarships and stipends, according to the program’s website.

SU has been a member of GEM’s fellowship program for nearly 30 years, according to a press release, and students in the School of Architecture, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Information Studies have been awarded fellowships over the past five years.

Dawit Negussey, a civil and environmental engineering professor and Graduate Dean’s Faculty Fellow for Diversity and Inclusion, is SU’s representative to GEM. Under Negussey’s leadership, SU recruited 12 students to graduate programs through GEM between 2018 and 2021, according to a February 2021 press release.

“The award recognizes the contributions of the GEM Consortium in providing a scalable path to STEM careers in academia and industry for underrepresented students,” Negussey said in the press release.

Black, Latino and Indigenous students are eligible for GEM fellowships, according to SU’s financial aid website. SU’s sustained and growing involvement with GEM reflects a dedication to diversity within graduate programs, Graduate School Dean Peter Vanable said in the release.

Increasing diversity in contribution and participation in STEM fields are central to GEM’s mission, according to its website. The award recognizes the role of mentorship in developing the next generation of STEM professionals, according to a National GEM Consortium press release.

“For the past 45 years GEM has been supporting the best and brightest talent in STEM, who are also members of underrepresented communities,” GEM CEO Brennon Marcano said in the release. “This award goes to every GEM fellow, alum and consortium member who have always believed in the power and positive effect of mentorship. It is a community that has advanced scientific impact, and we are ecstatic to be recognized at the highest levels in the U.S.” jlseal@syr.edu @JanaLoSeal

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aspen On Feb. 22, New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced an agreement with Greenland Property Services, LLC, and its related entity Green National, requiring them to address all housing code violations within 60 days or face a $300,000 fine.

Although Aspen Syracuse does not belong to Green National, multiple Aspen Syracuse residents have said they witnessed outside people enter through the fences between Aspen Building 3 and Vincent Apartments. It is unclear whether the fence is part of Green’s property or Aspen’s.

According to a city of Syracuse Division of Code Enforcement document obtained by The D.O. through a Freedom of Information Law request, the city of Syracuse has determined an open code violation of Aspen Syracuse as of March 9. Aspen Syracuse failed to obtain a current certificate of compliance of the premise as required by law and was ordered to apply for the certificate within 15 days.

Aspen Syracuse did not respond to The D.O.’s inquiry on if the property has followed the city’s order as instructed.

Safety concerns

Tang was robbed in the Aspen Syracuse garage. To him, the garage cannot be labeled as safe at all.

Since October 2021, residents have reported outside trespassers entering the garage multiple times. On Oct. 17, 2021, around seven vehicles parked inside the Aspen Building 3 garage were damaged by several people who appeared to be teenagers, said Yuefeng Wang, another Chinese international student at SU who lives in Aspen Syracuse.

Tang said the design of Aspen Syracuse’s garage makes it especially easy for trespassers to get in, as there are windows near the ground level of the garage that are easy for people to climb over. Yingrui Liu, a Chinese international student resident of Aspen Building 2, said the same.

“The only benefit of Aspen’s garage is probably that your car won’t be buried in the snow over the winter,” Liu said in Mandarin.

“It won’t help you at all in terms of security.

Instead, your car might be more likely to get smashed because there are not so many people walking around there.”

On Feb. 21, Liu drove back to Syracuse from Rochester, New York, and parked his car in front of Aspen Building 2. He chose not to park in the garage because he had heard cars had previously been damaged there. He went upstairs to cook dinner.

Liu said he then received a message from a WeChat group with Chinese student residents — which has about 500 international students, among which 300 to 400 currently live in Aspen Syracuse — saying that multiple trespassers climbed through the broken fences between Aspen Syracuse and Vincent Apartments. The message said the trespassers were heading to Aspen Building 2. It didn’t take long for someone to hear cars beeping downstairs, Liu said. Liu checked his car’s mobile app, which showed the driver’s seat door and the trunk were unlocked.

Zipeng Lin, a second year graduate student at SU who lives in Aspen Building 3, was the one who witnessed four people — who appeared to be teenagers — climbing through the fences and notified other residents in the WeChat group at from page 1

websites backbone of The.com, which breaks down the web into “atomic pieces” where developers can grab different aspects of other websites, such as a footer or navigation tool, to create their own website. McKinnon said simplifying the website construction process is something he was put on earth to solve.

“In terms of business ideas, you really need to find something that has either made your life worse for long enough or something you are super passionate about,” he said.

McKinnon had both.

8:33 p.m. on Feb. 21.

Lin said he followed the trespassers walking from Aspen Building 3 to near Building 2, and went back after he did not see anyone entering the building. He notified the group chat again at 8:39 p.m., sending a video filmed from afar, which shows a vehicle’s emergency light flashing in front of Aspen Building 2.

At 8:56 p.m., Liu texted in the group chat in Chinese, “My car was rummaged.”

“I was like, ‘Sh*t.’ I went out to check my car.

The emergency flasher was on, and the car was beeping,” Liu said to The D.O. Liu said he and his girlfriend’s jackets were gone, along with Liu’s headphones, vehicle registration, glasses and a box of gum.

In the lease, Aspen Syracuse outlined that the landlord is not responsible for any theft, damage or towing costs in its parking areas.

“There is no solution,” Liu said. “The … solution (Aspen Syracuse provided) was ‘not to put valuable items in your car.’”

Liu also said the fences in front of Aspen Building 3 were damaged once around Thanksgiving, and residents have witnessed trespassers walk in through the damaged fences multiple times.

“Me, my girlfriend and my roommate have been endlessly reaching out to Aspen,” Liu said.

“They always say they are going to dispatch more security aids. Even after I reached out again (the morning before the robbery happened), they told me today that they’ve added security officers 24/7. Now we’ve got an armed robbery.”

Tang, the victim of the armed robbery on March 7, said he handed about $90-100 in cash to the robber, who then left the scene after making sure Tang didn’t have any more money. Both DPS and SPD’s information releases said no injuries were present.

“Terrible service, vehicle frequently got sabotaged and nobody cares. Fence were broken for weeks, nobody cares…” Lin wrote in a comment on Aspen Syracuse’s Google review. Aspen Syracuse responded with a comment apologizing for the delay in response time and adding that they’re doing everything they can to ensure a positive resident experience.

In an email addressed to Aspen Syracuse residents sent on March 1, Aspen Syracuse stated the property had hired a fourth courtesy officer who resides in the buildings. The property also hired armed officers to patrol the property at night and monitor the parking garages and the leasing center starting at 11 p.m., the email reads.

It also stated that SPD will be monitoring the property’s entrance on Brighton Avenue.

After the March 7 robbery, Aspen Syracuse told residents it will add more security measures on its property in collaboration with outside support from SU and local law enforcement agencies.

“In response to this event, we have further expanded our third-party patrol services both in terms of individuals monitoring the property as well as hours monitored,” wrote Marlynda Walker, the community manager of Aspen Syracuse, in a Wednesday email addressed to residents. Walker added that security officers will be onsite, patrolling the property and parking garages.

The real situation, however, is far from “luxurious” and “top-notch,” multiple residents said.

Jenny Yang, an SU alumna who graduated in May of 2021, lived in Aspen Building 3 when she was a student. Yang said it took weeks for Aspen Syracuse to address elevator malfunction, which she said happened frequently while she lived in the apartments.

Han Mo, a first-year graduate student at SU, lived in Aspen Syracuse for a year starting in 2019. She then returned to Aspen, now living in building three, in August 2021. To her, the experience hasn’t been as pleasant as compared to what she had years ago.

“I actually felt different when I moved in this time. The last time, the room was clean,” Mo said in Mandarin. “This time, the floor was sticky, the fridge was dirty, the dryer and washer were full of sand and broken glass, along with the clothes from the previous resident.”

Mo said she and her boyfriend had to spend five hours cleaning the room when she first moved into the new apartment back in August 2021. While Aspen Syracuse staff apologized and solved certain issues on the same day, according to the email Mo’s boyfriend sent to Aspen Syracuse on Aug. 16, 2021, there hadn’t been any updates until Mo’s boyfriend reached out again a week later. The staff apologized again in an email.

When Mo’s boyfriend emailed again asking if Aspen Syracuse would provide any compensation in ways such as a one-time reduction on rent, Aspen Syracuse said it cannot offer any rent reduction but “would be happy to offer” some compensation in another form in reply to Mo’s boyfriend.

The proposed compensation was a $20 Amazon gift card.

“I told them, ‘I don’t think that’s compensation. I think that’s an insult,’” Mo told The D.O. Aspen Syracuse ended up paying her and her boyfriend two $200 Target gift cards as compensation, Mo said.

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“Luxurious apartments, top-notch amenities, 4hr maintenance response guarantee, events intended for a busy college student, and monthly rates that don’t break the bank,” Aspen Syracuse describes the living experience at the apartment complex on its homepage.

Jingyao Wen, Yang’s boyfriend who graduated from SUNY-ESF in May 2021, lived with Yang in Aspen Building 3 until they both moved out after their lease ended in July 2021.

Before moving out, Yang and Wen did a thorough cleaning of the entire apartment. Pictures Wen sent to The D.O. show a clean room with an empty fridge and a clean bathroom.

When Yang and Wen moved out, Aspen Syracuse informed them they would deduct $450 for paint damages from the $1,729 security and pet deposit. Aspen Syracuse staff said they needed to repaint the walls as there were traces of friction between a table and the wall, Wen said.

Wen consulted with legal services at SUNY Buffalo, where he is currently a graduate student in urban planning. The legal counsel he reached out to said the landlord should be responsible for the cost in this case, he said. After receiving no updates from Aspen Syracuse, Wen filed a small claim lawsuit against Aspen Syracuse in Syracuse City Court in September 2021. Wen said he expects the trial to start this summer.

Mo and Lin said charging security deposits is typical among landlords in the U.S. But they’ve also heard many residents of Aspen Syracuse say they couldn’t get a full refund for that deposit for a variety of reasons.

Based on the law, landlords are responsible for normal wear and tear while the tenants are responsible for any damages, said Christopher Burke, an attorney and the director of Student Legal Services, a legal service funded by SU stu-

Scott Friedberg, who has remained close with McKinnon since their time together at SU, has supported him throughout the development of The.com.

“Clarke is a very thoughtful person, also very detail-oriented in all aspects of his life,” Friedberg said. “That carried through to his business.”

Friedberg said The.com’s success working with creators and building more than 4,000 websites in the last six months is a culmination of the years of experience McKinnon has had in website building. “(The McKinnon brothers) have been very strategic in how they maneuver through that opportunity, and have never been stuck in their ways, always working

with the developments in the industry to make sure they have the right product for that particular time,” Friedberg said. “What they have right now is genius.”

When asked about the qualities that contribute to an entrepreneur’s success, McKinnon responded with persistence, self-confidence and being able to let things go.

Being persistent is something McKinnon said he learned from his business partner and brother. Watching the persistence he demonstrated in reaching out to potential connections frequently, Clarke McKinnon was motivated to do the same.

As a freshman at SU, McKinnon listened to Jerry McDougal talk to students. McDougal, an

Unmet expectations

dents through their undergraduate and graduate student activity fee.

According to the city of Syracuse’s Property Conservation Code, Section 27-125, a landlord has 21 days since the end date of the lease to return the security deposit or to provide an itemized list of what the damages are and the reason for the charge.

Such a security deposit cannot exceed one month’s rent, according to the Residential Tenants’ Rights Guide issued by the New York State Attorney General’s Office.

Actions taken

Mo said she is organizing SU international students who live in Aspen Syracuse to spread the word to university departments. Ava Hu, an Aspen Syracuse resident and the editor-in-chief of WeMedia Lab, a Chinese-based new media platform serving the SU Chinese international community, wrote in a column on March 10 that Chinese international students living in Aspen Syracuse have jointly reached out to many SU departments and law enforcement agencies.

Eric Nestor, SU’s director of apartment and off-campus living, wrote in an email to The D.O. that his office will work with students who live or are interested in living off campus by reviewing options and resources to address the concerns they may have within their living environment.

After the Monday robbery, Tang reached out to Aspen Syracuse about moving out of the apartment. But based on his lease, residents who move out before the lease expires will still be charged the full amount of monthly rental installments until the end of the lease term.

At 7 p.m. on March 10, DPS Officer Joe Shanley met with around 15 Chinese international student residents at Aspen Syracuse. Shanley told residents that while Aspen Syracuse is not part of the department’s jurisdiction, DPS has been working with SPD on enhancing the security measures of the neighborhood.

“You’ve already taken these steps that I probably would have told you,” Shanley told the residents during the meeting. “You are taking very appropriate, mature steps.”

After the meeting, residents told The D.O. that while they are thankful for the increased police presence on the property, there is still ambiguity left in terms of a detailed schedule and long-term solutions.

“If we need DPS to protect an off-campus community, that means (Aspen Syracuse) has been dangerous enough in the first place,” said Will Jiang, a senior industrial and interaction design major who has been living in Aspen Building 1 since August 2019, in Mandarin.

“The fact that (Aspen Syracuse is) hiring armed security officers also proves the same.

This is the last resort. (Aspen Syracuse) had many chances to improve the situation but they chose to wait until now.”

In situations like this, Burke said, potential actions residents can take include reaching out to government agencies such as the Syracuse Corporation Counsel and the city’s Division of Code Enforcement. The latter can inspect the apartments and see if any code violations exist.

There are difficulties, however, in terms of initiating lawsuits to protect student rights in this case, Burke said. Considering many international students are only here for four years, a class action lawsuit against the landlord will be possible but difficult in this case, he said.

“That’s a long process. Nothing is overnight,” Burke said. btang05@syr.edu @francis_towne

executive at Apple at the time, was one of the first senior businesspeople McKinnon came in contact with, and he inspired McKinnon to want to join their ranks.

McKinnon reached out to McDougal on LinkedIn every two months with no response, he said. It took him three years to finally get a response from McDougal, who eventually gave him advice.

Persistence isn’t perceived as a negative to senior business people, McKinnon said.

“You kind of have to look at it (starting a business) as a marathon,” McKinnon said. “As long as you are moving towards the finish line, it is a good thing.” bwang29@syr.edu

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Bands and ballers The Sour Sitrus Society traveled to Brooklyn, New York, for the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament

Winner crowned at Drag Show Finals

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Though the Orange failed to advance past the tournament’s second round, Hendricks and the rest of the pep band were happy to have shared their music outside of the Syracuse community. meghan hendricks photo editor

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lthough many people go to Syracuse University’s games for the teams, they don’t realize that a large portion of the energy comes from the band. The Sour Sitrus Society — SU’s pep band for basketball games — creates the atmosphere, bolstering the cheering and yelling from the crowd to support the team and liven spirits.

So when the men’s and women’s basketball teams pack up and head to the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA Tournaments, a few lucky members of Sitrus join them wherever the game takes them. This year, the men’s team traveled to Brooklyn, New York, and I was one of the lucky 29.

On March 8 at 8 a.m., the band loaded our coach bus outside of the Carrier Dome. We packed all our luggage and instruments underneath and picked up the spirit squad, members of SU’s cheer and dance teams, from Manley Field House before heading off to the Big Apple.

When we arrived at our hotel in Brooklyn, we were immediately set free — our only requirement was that we be ready to leave for the game at 10:30 a.m. the following morning.

After finishing some homework, my friends and I set out to find dinner

and explore the city.

Our adventures took us underground to the Union Street subway station and 30 minutes away into Times Square. Coming out of the subway into Times Square at night was a surreal experience — the bright colors of the billboards reflected off of our eyes, wide with the excitement of being in the city and free from classes for a moment.

We entered Barclays Center the next morning with the same awe and fascination — screens lit up with orange and blue and big letters that screamed ACC Tournament. Reality hit us at that moment: we were about to energize a stadium full of fans as the Orange played against Florida State University. There was something special about being at Barclays Center; it had a different feeling than the Carrier Dome. It was flashier and came with an ambiance that only this kind of event could create.

Tightly packed together in our designated section behind the media tables, we kicked off our performance for the day with our arrangement of the Youngblood Brass Band’s “Brooklyn.”

What else would you start with when in Brooklyn? In that moment, the 29 of us created music that bounced off the walls and filled the stadium with the energy and sound we are known for within the Syracuse community.

Considering how this season had been playing out for SU, we had a gut

feeling that we would be heading back to Syracuse following the game. The stadium, however, was a sea of orange and blue rooting for SU. Sitrus joined the crowd, energetically cheering and playing with a passion that we hoped would rub off on the team and give them a win.

Between songs, we would also uphold the responsibilities of the student section by hyping up the crowd.

Every free throw, our arms were up sporting the fours, and every time the cheerleaders shouted “Let’s go Orange!,” we were right behind them.

And when FSU lined up for a free throw, we shouted the ABCs at the top of our lungs — our most successful tactic in getting it to miss its shots (following screaming and counting).

And it worked. The next morning, we were back in Barclays, this time playing against Duke University. After the previous day’s win, spirits on the bus to the stadium seemed a little higher with optimism of a second win, even with the news of Buddy Boeheim’s suspension.

I looked around at the stands, hoping to see a sea of orange combat the Duke blue that swept the stadium, but the blue overtook any Syracuse representation. At that moment, I knew that we would really have to put the “pep” in “pep band.”

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Thursday night kicked off with high energy as drag enthusiasts arrived at Goldstein Auditorium while music played and colorful lights radiated around the auditorium. The audience cheered and clapped in anticipation of the start of the show as the music got lower and the stage lights dimmed.

On March 10, three contestants competed in the Syracuse University Pride Union’s 20th annual Drag Show Finals. The competition took place a month after the preliminary competition held on Feb. 10.

To kick off the night, “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” season six contestant and guest host, Pandora Boxx, gave a delightful performance of Donna Lewis’ “I Love You Always Forever.” Following the performance, members of Pride Union’s executive board welcomed the audience and introduced the second special guest, winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” season six, Kylie Sonique Love.

One audience member, television, radio and film senior Paul Levine, said they came to the show to see Love and all of the talented performers competing. After attending the preliminaries, Levine said their expectations for the night were some “sickening” performances.

“I’m obsessed — love the lighting, good vibes, happy to be here with great people,” Levine said.

Love and Boxx then introduced the judges for the competition: Judas Joe Manson, one of the top Lady Gaga impersonators, Maxi Glamour, who competed on the third season of “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula,” and Tenderoni, the 2021 Drag King of the Year.

The queens cracked jokes as the audiences laughed out loud, and they introduced the next performance of the night from one of the judges, Glamour.

The self-proclaimed “Demon Queen of Polka and Baklava,” Glamour delivered a live flute and singing performance. Glamour impressed the crowd with their powerful vocals and fearlessness as they death dropped from the stage onto the floor.

Dirty Lucciano was the first contestant to hit the stage. The queen commanded the stage from the moment she walked in, delivering a performance of Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary” that had the audience on their feet. The stage lit up in orange lights as the song reached its peak.

The next contestant to perform was Vita Vanitea. She paid homage to her Chinese culture with an entertaining performance of Sue’s “Mean Time”— 時候. The performance incorporated mesmerizing props, intricate choreography and lots of red glitter. She delivered her performance with her charismatic see drag page 8

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played at: the double overtime game against Indiana University at the end of the fall 2021 semester. Throughout our music and in the moments in between, we could feel the elevated heart rates as we — alongside the rest of the fans — screamed at the teams as they fought to win. You know that it’s a good game when you come away from it with no voice.

The high tension of the game created a sense of unity felt among every member of the band. We played arguably better than that group ever had before, and our successful game play meant that we got to play “Talkin’ Out the Side of Your Neck” — one of the band’s favorite tunes. We cheered harder than I thought possible, and we supported our team until the very end.

It was a rough bus ride home after that game, but truthfully, I wasn’t upset with the outcome.

At 9 p.m., when our bus rolled back into the stadium control spot outside of the Carrier Dome where we began our journey almost three days prior, it was obvious that everyone was ready for a good night’s sleep and to begin spring break. We had played a fantastic performance — not to mention the Orange played a fantastic game — and we left that night with smiles on our faces, having shared our music outside of our Syracuse community and having made memories to last a lifetime along the way. @megghan_rose mehendri@syr.edu

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6 1. Horn angles look sharp while the trumpets play their melody in Brooklyn, New York, at the ACC tournament.

2. Members of the pep band watch the scoreboard as the Syracuse basketball team’s hype video is displayed.

3. Luggage and instruments are packed underneath the bus as the band prepares to depart for the Big Apple.

4. Ralph Santos, a freshman snare drummer, clicks his sticks together as the band begins playing one of their favorite tunes, “Talkin’ Out The Side Of Your Neck.”

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5. Sour Sitrus Society enters Barclays Center before the SU’s first game in the ACC tournament against Florida State University.

6. Junior Allie Nelson glances around Times Square taking in all colorful billboards and bright lights of the city nightlife.

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The wintery return of Syracuse’s St. Patrick’s Day parade

By Sophia Moore asst. copy editor

Even through wind and snow, Syracusans’ excitement for St. Patrick’s Day couldn’t be stopped.

On Saturday, March 12, the 40th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade took place in downtown Syracuse. Spanning the broad stretch from Clinton Square down North Salina Street to the intersection between West Onondaga Street and South Salina Street, the sidewalks of downtown were packed with attendees decked out in green.

The 40th annual parade was the first Syracuse has seen in two years due to COVID-19 restrictions. Anxiety conflicted with the excitement of hosting the parade again, as an impending cold and windy weather forecast caused uncertainty among parade goers about the ability to attend — Albany postponed its St. Patrick’s Day parade because of the weather. Despite the wind chill, hundreds of local residents showed up to watch the parade kick off at noon.

Amber Joyce and her daughter Magnolia, two parade goers living in downtown Syracuse, bundled up and braved the cold to spend time at the event.

“We’ve lived downtown for just over a year and we wanted to be a part of the celebration,” Amber said. “Especially after it’s been closed down for so long, this is a big part of who we are as a community.”

The theme of this year’s parade was “Dance Through Downtown,” and it appropriately featured a plethora of Irish dancers from the Syracuse area. The planning committee also invited Irish dancers from the community to perform a collective step dance to kick off the parade in an attempt to set a record for the most dancers at one time in the Syracuse St. Patrick’s Parade.

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Irish dancers from the community and music from the Syracuse Scottish Pipe Band were some of the highlights of the Saturday event, which was appropriately themed “Dance Through Downtown.” sophia mo0re asst. copy editor

for the duration of the event. Highlights of the procession included dancers from several local Irish dance companies, including the Johnston School of Irish Dance, members of the Syracuse Scottish Pipe Band and a massive truck of Coleman’s Imported Green Beer.

Representatives from Crouse Hospital, the Baldwinsville Marching Band and several local philanthropic organizations participated in the parade as well.

During the event, volunteers walked along the route providing hand warmers to parade goers. Nadine Jones, who roamed South Salina Street with a cart of St. Patrick’s Day themed merchandise, including Irish flags and shamrock-adorned memorabilia, offered another

opportunity for viewers of the parade to keep themselves warm and buy novelty items and items. In Jones’ case, the cold was a help to her business, she said, as there weren’t many other vendors during the parade.

“The only people that showed up were me and my sister,” Jones said. “She has one side of the whole parade and I have the other.”

Parade festivities continued after the procession ended. The Marriott Syracuse Downtown hosted a post-parade celebration, featuring more live music, Irish dancers and food.

Even though the parade was scheduled to end at 3 p.m., activities continued at the Marriott until 5 p.m. for parade attendees who wanted to keep the festivities going.

Janet Higgins, president of the Syracuse St. Patrick’s Parade, said she was excited to finally bring the parade back to the city after two years of cancellations. Though the cold was a deterrent for some patrons and parade acts, she said she was grateful for the city’s effort to clear the snow ahead of the event.

“I stayed at the hotel the night before and I could hear the snowplows starting at about four o’clock in the morning,” Higgins said. “It was a great parade, and we do live in central New York. … We’re one of the snowiest cities in the United States — we’ve got to be used to it.” sophia@dailyorange.com @SophiaaMoore

written in the stars

Astrology birth charts and what yours says about you

By Liam Hines

astrology columnist

Thus far in this column, we have looked indepth at transits — passing, real-time planetary configurations — and interpreted their significance in our collective life as a university community. This is a practice known as “mundane astrology” — the astrology of the world in contrast with that of the individual.

In doing so, we have until now left out another widely known and widely misunderstood branch of our art: natal astrology.

Natal astrology tells us that the position of the cosmos, from our mother’s perspective, at the moment of our birth indicates the symbolic potentialities to be realized in ourselves and in our lives. Our birth chart provides us with signs or omens about our life, clueing us into the overall nature of our being, telling us where we may encounter ease and good fortune and warning us about those parts of our lives in which fate may deal us a bad hand.

Why should I study my birth chart?

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and sensual energy.

One of Vanitea’s friends, public relations senior Phoebe Velez, came in with full support. Although she couldn’t make it to the preliminaries, Velez said she came to see her friend and cheer her on.

“I am expecting to get really loud when Vita comes on stage. There’s just a lot of excitement in the air,” Velez said.

The last contestant to perform was Dilf Dangerbottom. The drag king took the audience on a three-part adventure, performing

ogy, shine light onto frustrating patterns in relationships and life or simply pull us into a relationship with divinity.

For many, seeing aspects of their lives mirrored in the stars is deeply therapeutic.

Whether you believe existence is random chaos or you are a staunch determinist, it is undeniably true that many events in our lives, are completely outside of our control.

Astrology helps us to form a healthy relationship with this reality.

American spiritual teacher Sharon Salzberg explains this in her book, “Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection.”

“If we think we will be able to dominate the streaming rapids of life through our efforts at control, we are destined to fail, and we will be ashamed at our failure,” she wrote.

Astrology is as deeply complex as it is rewarding and magical. It will give to you in wisdom and insight as much as you give to it in study.

You will find right away that examining a birth chart requires a depth of understanding many interlocking elements, and serious astrologers will spend their entire lives refining and

reworking their understanding of these basic elements of the craft. With this in mind, I offer you some instructions and interpretive tools to pull some meaning out of your chart.

First, with your birth date, time and location in hand, use a birth chart calculator like astro-seek.com to cast your chart. If you don’t have an exact birth time, no worries. This is only tells us the location of the ascendant, or eastern horizon, and the exact location of the moon. Though these are important, you can still do much interpretive work without them.

A chart has four main components,codependent: planets, signs, houses and aspects.

Planets are the wandering stars of our solar system, each with its own archetypal significance. The signs are the 12 30-degree divisions of the zodiac, each acting as a temple, or domicile of one of these planets. The houses are the divisions of the sky from our perspective, with the first house on the eastern horizon, the seventh house in the west, the fourth house at the invisible lowest point of the ecliptic and the tenth house at the highest point in the sky above us. Each house is associated with different life topics, and the planetary ruler of a sign in which a house falls can clue us into our fate

in regards to that topic. Finally, the aspects are the interactions of the planets through geometric alignments within the circle of the zodiac.

Although it would take volumes to flesh these elements out fully, we can quickly examine one placement with this information: the ruler of your ascendant.

The horizon, being the place where the sun rises to start the day and the visual point at which the heavens meet the earth, signifies your character and your body. The ruler of the ascendant is the planet which rules the sign in which your ascendant falls. For example, if you were born while Leo was rising in the east, the sun would rule your ascendant and the placement of the sun by house and sign, as well as the aspects the sun makes to other planets, would offer you a range of symbolic meanings regarding these topics.

If this formula seems inscrutable, don’t fret. Each placement in your chart can be thought of as a puzzle to be solved over the course of your entire life, the secrets contained therein a treasure to be obtained only through a long process of reflection.

Be patient, and you very well may gleam from your nativity the eternal wisdom of the stars.

a medley of songs that merged into a wellrounded performance. The king incorporated chairs, shoes, whips and cheeks, turning up the temperature in the auditorium and leaving the audience wanting more.

Following the last competitor, Judas Joe Manson performed Lady Gaga’s “Teeth.”

The queen effortlessly lip synced every single word and nailed the choreography, leaving the audience in awe of her resemblance to the pop icon.

After her performance, Drag King of the Year Tenderoni performed a medley of highenergy songs. The king demonstrated how he won the title as his smooth moves graced

the stage and turned the vibrations up. His medley ended with MNEK’s “At Night (I Think About You),” which excited the crowd as they sang along.

Love delivered the last performance of the night, with a jazz rendition of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” The queen entertained the audience with her overf lowing white dress and accidental full frontal. It was a good way to end the night before the audience drumroll to find out the winner. After much excitement and anticipation, the winner of the night was Dilf Dangerbottom.

Dangerbottom fell on their feet as their

name was announced, overwhelmed with joy.

Then Love crowned Dangerbottom, and they strutted down the runway like a champion.

The competition was followed by a meet and greet with all the guest hosts and judges.

One of Dangerbottom’s closest friends, SUNY-ESF student E Schwartz, shared their excitement and pride after the win.

“Tonight was everything I expected at minimum (and) 100% more,” Schwartz said. “I knew they could do it —I had no doubts; I had no reservations. It was all just like, ‘Were they gonna get in their head?’ And the answer was no, they killed that sh*t.”

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The lack of diversity in media is damaging to young viewers

By Sophia Leone columnist

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he media we consume makes us who we are. As defined in the field of media research, the Cultivation Theory states that the media content we are exposed to influences our takes on the world. The influence it holds over us changes our attitudes, beliefs and behaviors about ourselves and how we perceive others.

This is a vital reason as to why diversity in the media is important.

The Newhouse School of Public Communication produces wellestablished professionals in the media industry. Chuck Hayward, class of 2002, is among the famous alumni.

His notable work on shows like “Ted Lasso,” “Wanda Vision” and “Dear White People” is impressive enough to leave viewers with their jaws dropped.

In his recent visit to Syracuse University, he spoke to students on the importance of diversity in media.

Hayward’s intimate conversation told a chilling yet heartwarming story of a young boy questioning his identity in regard to race and sexuality, and how he came back to the media to find it. It was important for him, at a young age, to see people on screen that were like him.

“The first example I saw was the Real World of MTV. It was the first time I saw gay characters having loving freindships with straight people.” Hayward said in an interview. “I don’t know why but I didn’t think that was a thing that was possible before. I was eleven when that came out and it was really rensuring and really impactful.’’

Watching diverse media content that Hayward related to made him feel accepted. That sense of normalcy prompted him to write characters with complex storylines to make viewers who are underrepresented feel seen and heard. There is comfort in knowing that people behind

the script understand your identity and struggle and can relate to experiences you have gone through.

The exposure of cinematic diversity and its effects are also reached by professionals. Carlos Cortes, a historian cited in Vice, said in his book that different types of media, including news and entertainment, educate viewers about marginalized communities.

“This mass media curriculum has a particularly powerful educational impact on people who have little or no direct contact with members of the groups being treated,” he said.

Once the writers behind these characters develop a strong background into the storyline, they can be broadcasted in a positive way. When stories with people of underrepresented identities are being talked about in a positive way, it can have a monumental effect on viewers. Growing up a majority of the representation Hayward saw was daunting, he said.

“The representation I saw was

scary. It was people getting discriminated against,” he said. “That kept me in the closet for much longer.”

Like many others, Hayward hid his true identity because of the negative depictions of which he was viewing. If viewers such as Hayward had positive examples to see, then it would have helped with self-acceptance.

It is important to understand that the media we consume can also help underrepresented people become humanized by someone who is not used to seeing or being close to a diverse array of people. Although this may seem overbearingly intense, it’s true.

About 40% of white Americans do not have a person of color in their circle of friends. This fact is astonishing, and production studios, with the help of their talented writers, need to create content to expose people to realities other than the ones they experience. The more diverse their staff, the more receptive the production companies as a whole will be to

diverse creative content.

Growing up and watching shows that showed a multitude of identities and races made me become aware of differences that people can have, and the friendships that can be formed among people with differing identities. As of today, new shows such as Netflix’s “Sex Education” provides a diverse cast that shows an array of identies in a comedic way to help people relate while being entertained.

Media influences the narrative, which can affect our perceptions about the world in front of us. We need to have production studios that produce masses of positive representation so our society can be more cohesive about understanding and respecting one another.

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

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Unification is needed to overcome new global challenges

By Patrick Fox columnist

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s I sat in front of my laptop, familiarizing myself with Blackboard Collaborate in my first class of the fall 2020 semester, Professor Horace Campbell confronted our class with a new and intimidating phrase: “a paradigm shift.” The COVID-19 pandemic would destabilize and disorient existing power structures in ways that we could not yet imagine.

Hearing such a dramatic and somber warning from someone who had been studying the world since before even my parents were born was a sobering realization. Our generation will be forced to live in an unfamiliar world, and less than two years after I was presented with this prediction, my faith in Professor Campbell’s wisdom has only deepened.

The world is changing radically in both the short and long term — as young people, we must work to present a determined focus and unity in the face of these challenges. Of course, it is difficult and potentially irresponsible to attempt to specifically define how the world will change. Nonetheless, I would say that the shifting of global paradigms can be interpreted through breaches of long-standing precedents.

The most notable breaking of a longstanding precedent in global politics has been Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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almost a month ago. While Russia has banned the words “war” and “invasion,” this is a large-scale effort to fully dominate and control Ukraine, under the guise of “denazification” — a historically weighted concept.

While Russia has invaded other countries like Georgia in the recent past, this ongoing war shows a brutality and cruelty that represents a shocking change in the existing global power balance. This invasion of Ukraine has been hardest on the millions of Ukrainian citizens who have been targeted by the Russian military, but it has also destabilized global power balances.

The primary response to the invasion has been some of the harshest sanctions ever imposed on a country as large as Russia. Despite this, the massive Russian energy sector has caused economic turbulence in the United States and has forced American allies and rivals alike to either tow the line or opportunistically pursue relationships with Russia.

In the cases of some perceived allies like India and the United Arab Emirates, ambition has aligned them with Vladimir Putin’s regime.

While all of this may seem overly complicated or specific, the point is simple: the next few years will likely bring major changes in how world leaders make decisions, and almost always to the detriment of the U.S.-dominated paradigm for global power that the past several

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generations have grown accustomed to. This could mean both large-scale bloody conflicts and grasps at justice in an unjust world. Change at this scale isn’t good or bad — it’s both.

When I reflected on this concept of a “paradigm shift,” I was reminded of a far more terrifying phrase that a family friend once told me when explaining the grim nature of our climate crisis: “You won’t retire into an armchair.” By the time that our generation is old enough to sit back and retire, the world will be damaged not just beyond repair but recognition.

It is shocking how desensitized everyone conscious of the climate crisis has become of its encroaching advancement. In just the past few days, there was an unprecedented warming on the North and South poles — temperatures rising 40 C or 100 F above the temperatures expected, even after factoring in the climate crisis. It is not an exaggeration to say that events like these, paired with the well-documented trends, cause experts to wonder if it’s even possible to save ourselves anymore.

By 2030 — a date near enough to conceptualize — the world’s ecosystems will be collapsing, flooding will inundate vast low-lying areas, natural disasters will increase significantly in frequency and intensity. Hundreds of millions of climate refugees will trigger violent conflicts over resources, with death at a scale that is terrifying to imagine.

By 2030, most current Syracuse students will be young professionals, likely looking to purchase real estate and likely with young children.

Even today, beyond the climate crisis and within the relatively safety of American borders, our domestic politics have been shrouded in such fear and distrust that three in five Americans fear that the 2024 presidential election will bring unprecedented violence. Trust in the sanctity of democratic elections — largely continuous since 1800 — appears to be disintegrating.

Instinctively, anyone would want to push these predictions out of their minds — of course we will live the kinds of lives that our parents have, of course our children will grow up with hope and opportunity. But our generation has been cursed with a vast disparity between what we have been promised and what we have been given.

In writing all of these dramatic predictions, I fear that I will be written off as overdramatic or neurotic.

Living in fear of tomorrow is not an option. Our only path forward is to take ownership of it. We must sternly evaluate our own priorities — refusing to collaborate with one another on fixing the world could be catastrophic. Regardless of how we identify ourselves or perceive others, the truth is that we are all here on Earth together and that is not changing.

But where do we start? Modern politics depends on us being distract-

ed — we need to remain informed, and we need to be loud. Even entrenched business lobbying interests in world governments can be forced to change by political unrest. Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela among many others have achieved justice in ways that seemed impossible at the time.

We must work together to demand change that matters.

The climate crisis is a great example of this — timelines proposed for energy reform are so long-term that they will be eclipsed by the impacts of the climate crisis. America’s Tennessee Valley Authority proposed hitting “net zero” emissions by 2050, a date by which at least 20 million Bangladeshi people will have lost their homes. Meaningful change must be swift and intense. Green alternatives and holding multinational corporations accountable for their massive responsibilities in this crisis must be prioritized for areas of the world that are rapidly industrializing.

Our lives will be hard. Our challenges will be terrifying. We cannot admit defeat, and we cannot distract ourselves with hedonism that is increasingly accessible for young people. We must prove ourselves to be focused and energetic in the face of these challenges. I am excited to share this world and this challenge with all of you.

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SU falls 7-0 against No. 5 Duke, drops to 1-5 in ACC play

By Wyatt Miller staff writer

Syracuse was shut out 7-0 for the second time this weekend, against No. 5 Duke on Sunday to close out its two-game road trip. The Orange lost by the same scoreline against No. 1 North Carolina on Friday, and they will return for a five-game Atlantic Coast Conference home stretch after the losses to the two top five squads. from page 12

guthrie State was the latest calculated step in a series of moves intended to concoct a formula with Guthrie becoming a power-conference athletic director as the solution. The level didn’t matter — he didn’t want to sit in a Power Five athletic department for years and earn promotions that way — and he embarked on a chain reaction of 10 different stops, including one at Clark, one at San Francisco State and one at Wisconsin-Green Bay as an athletic director, before arriving at Akron, his current university, last May. Guthrie’s just the second Syracuse graduate, with the other SU Director of Athletics John Wildhack, to actively serve as a Division-I athletic director, and he’s used an intricate web of connections dating back to an unpaid internship with the Eastern College Athletic Conference in 1998 — one where he slept in his car for a week and drove a taxi cab at night for additional money — to trigger his hiring in the decades since. And in the first year with the Zips, he provided stability to a university that cut three sports due to COVID-19, snatched Oregon offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead as the new head football coach and watched as the basketball team won the Mid-American Conference Championship to earn an NCAA Tournament berth against UCLA last Thursday.

“He’s going to be the athletic director at a Power Five school soon,” said Mark Murphy, the Green Bay Packers President and CEO who hired Guthrie in 1998 when he was Colgate’s athletic director.

“He’s a rising star.”

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seniors were not contributors. Moloughney was a top 10 scorer in the CHA, totaling 11 goals and 23 points. Moloughney and DiGirolamo tallied the most power-play goals for the Orange with six and four, respectively. Bellefontaine also won 379 faceoffs, setting up her prolific career from the faceoff circle with the thirdbest mark in the conference. SU defeated Robert Morris to win the 2019 CHA title before losing 4-0 to top-ranked Wisconsin in the NCAA Quarterfinals.

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observations defeat before winning just one game in two sets against Penn State, ultimately falling to G ​​ abrielle O’Gorman 6-1, 6-0.

While facing O’Gorman, the senior appeared to be in constant discomfort.

The situation reached a tipping point in the middle of the second set when Treshcheva delivered a shot that dribbled slowly into the net. As she walked back to her corner after the lost point, tears started welling up in her eyes, and the match was out of reach.

On Feb. 25, Treshcheva made her 202122 ACC singles debut against Virginia Tech before being rested for the next two conference matchups for singles play. This season, despite her physical limitations,

SU featured a new doubles pair in freshman Shiori Ito and senior Sofya Treshcheva, but Duke’s Margaryta Bilokin and Eliza Omirou shut them out 6-0. Meanwhile, Syracuse’s No. 1 doubles pair, juniors Viktoriya Kanapatskaya and Ines Fonte, put up a fight against Chloe Beck and Ellie Coleman, but they ultimately fell 5-3.

Beck and Bilokin have won nine of their 13 matches and are the 35th-ranked national doubles pair, while Karolina Berankova

and Georgia Drummy sit at 79th with a 7-6 record, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

Syracuse played equally poorly in its singles matches, winning only one set. Kanapatskaya battled with Beck, the No. 8 singles player in the country, but came up short in both sets 6-4, 6-2.

In the second slot, freshman Miyuka Kimoto dropped both sets 6-1 against senior Kelly Chen. Ito, a fellow freshman, took on one of

Duke’s first-year’s in Coleman but lost 6-3, 6-2 in straight sets. Meanwhile, Treshcheva was shut out 6-0 in both of her No. 3 singles sets against Bilokin.

Duke’s Omirou was the only Duke player to drop a set when Fonte took the first set 6-3. Omirou countered by winning the next set 6-3, too. Ultimately, Omirou won the tiebreaker 9-5 to keep the shutout against the Orange intact.

Island, Florida, his supervisor spotted someone he wanted the ECAC intern to meet. Guthrie had attended the 1998 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics event as a quasi-scout.

By that point, Guthrie had finished his undergraduate degree at Syracuse and started a postgraduate track at Albany, where he walked into athletic director Milt Richards’ office to inquire about a graduate assistant position for coaching and left with one for the athletic department’s administrative side instead. That prompted Guthrie to apply to the ECAC’s summer internship in Cape Cod, drive down for the interview and leave with a position that’d start once the semester concluded.

At the conference, his supervisor had introduced Guthrie to Murphy, and said, “You need to get to know him,” Guthrie recalled.

Murphy mentioned to Guthrie he’d applied for a grant that would allow him a position on his athletic department staff, so Guthrie went to Hamilton after finishing up the internship with the ECAC and the grant was approved.

“The ECAC paid dividends and opened up a lot of doors for me,” he said.

That kick-started the stops that followed at Columbia and UC San Diego, with the latter emerging from a connection that summer with Earl Edwards, before Guthrie decided to leave athletics for a job as the director of alumni and parent relations at Cal State San Marcos. At that point, he didn’t know if he’d ever become an athletic director. The tension deepened a few years later when he went back into athletics at Cal State Los Angeles, tried to interview for an athletic director position and was told it’d be difficult for him to get one without a graduate degree, as he hadn’t finished the master’s program at Albany.

Guthrie moved back to his mother’s house in New York and finished the master’s program before returning.

But the difficulty of landing the athletic director job still remained. Joe Moeller, the then-senior associate athletic director at San Diego State, told him over lunch that it would be difficult to get an athletic director position in San Diego. So when that first opportunity emerged at Clark College, Guthrie pounced on it. Even as athletic director, he set up tables for events, cut the grass low on the machine when the soccer coach wanted it cut a certain way, swept the floors at basketball games and cleaned the glass backboards “because you want that feel of March Madness,” he said.

And at the Don Nasser Family Plaza, Guthrie continued to orchestrate his latest athletic department reboot. Wong wanted him to write a strategic plan for the athletic department and present a draft within the first two months, and Guthrie provided snapshots of all the coaches that needed replacing and all the equipment that needed funding.

Before Guthrie left for WisconsinGreen Bay, the women’s track and field team won their championship, and in a ceremony that followed, with everyone packed on the gym floor that Guthrie had once helped redesign — and helped notice the wrong dimensions — Wong walked up where Guthrie stood with the team, posed for a picture and received his ring.

••• Guthrie had made a change with the men’s team and fired then-head coach Linc Darner before hiring Will Ryan — consulting Will’s dad Bo, and others, along the way

before making the decision. He became Ryan’s “hype man,” asking which players the coach planned to recruit and watching their highlight clips and YouTube videos, and two of the players Guthrie liked earned All-Freshman honors in the Horizon League this year. Guthrie had been a part of the Black Panthers intramural basketball team at Syracuse and, “was probably the most involved AD” Ryan had ever been around.

At Green Bay, Guthrie forged the relationship with chancellor Gary Miller that continued after Miller left to become the president at Akron. Guthrie followed Miller in 2021, becoming the university’s new director of athletics, and proceeded to hire Moorhead as the Zips’ new football coach.

“I hope that (hire of Moorhead) caused people to sit up and take notice,” MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said. “I don’t know many people who would have thought he could land the people he was going after.”

The latest high point came 10 days ago, when Akron defeated Kent State for the MAC title and secured a bid in the NCA A Tournament. He walked around the court postgame during the ceremony before climbing up a yellow ladder to cut down the net from in front of the clear backboard emblazoned with the MAC logo.

And that feeling of March Madness — and everything else he’d accomplished up to that point — became much more concrete, with a trip to Portland, a 16-minute drive from that first athletic director job at Clark College, needing to be scheduled for the next weekend.

crucial in the power play when they scored 68% of Syracuse’s power-play goals. The unit helped the Orange score the most power-play goals in the CHA and the ninthmost in Division I. Bellefontaine, Moloughney and DiGirolamo were all on the top power-play line along with freshmen Madison Primeau and Sarah Marchand.

The unit’s efficiency was fueled by the connection of Moloughney and Bellefontaine, who combined for 195 shots, eight power-play goals, 25 goals and 54 points this year. The two have played on the same team since 2014, starting with the Nepean Jr. Wildcats of the Provincial Women’s

Hockey League. Bellefontaine didn’t play a game in 2014 or 2015, but when the pair shared the ice together in 2016, they combined for 87 points the following two years at the junior level.

“We grew up playing hockey together since we were 11. Ever since our first hockey game, we’ve been playing online for probably five-plus years,” Bellefontaine said. “So we know how each other plays; we know exactly where we’re going to be on the ice.”

While Bellefontaine and Moloughney had played with each other for a much longer time, DiGirolamo and Klimek both

decided to return for an extra year together, extending their playing time together that started in 2017. DiGirolamo (158) and Klimek (123) also ranked first and second in shots, respectively. And DiGirolamo’s 95 points were the third-highest in SU history, while Klimek’s 73 points ranked 11th.

“With Lauren, Abby and Shelby in that class, they’ve just done a great job,” Flanagan said after winning the CHA Championship. “Getting the fifth years to be able to combine at one big, you know, ‘super senior’ class has been pretty special.”

Limam knows what a healthy Treshcheva can bring to the table.

Miyuka Kimoto and Shiori Ito add important depth

Syracuse’s No. 2 singles position and has maintained it despite being heavily contested with SU’s veteran players. The freshman’s strength for playing at the net has helped her record seven singles victories so far, with two coming at the No. 1 position.

She can slide, she can hit flat, she can play with spin and she can go high.

Younes Limam head coach

“She’s not a one-dimensional kind of player,” Limam said. “She can slide, she can hit flat, she can play with spin and she can go high.”

Shiori Ito and Kimoto started the spring season off as doubles partners and quickly took off, earning comfortable wins over Army and Brown. But the duo’s triumph over Cornell’s Jenny Wong and Alexandra Savu would be their last doubles victory together as Limam separated the two Japanese natives in SU’s win over Drexel pairing Kimoto with Polina Kozyreva and Ito with Treshcheva.

Ito started the season with seven straight singles wins, the second-most consecutive wins for any SU player behind Kozyreva. Ito has since been Syracuse’s first choice in the No. 4 singles position with the bulk of her points coming from a mixture of backhand and forehand slices.

Kimoto, on the other hand, began in

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Syracuse has already faced three of the top 30 teams in the nation, according to the Iatest Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll, with the Orange losing each matchup.

With seven games remaining before the ACC tournament, SU will have to face three more top 30 opponents.

“The consistency of higher-level players in the ACC is going to force us to earn more points and extend the rallies,” Limam said.

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‘A RISING STAR’

Syracuse seniors leave large impact

By Henry O’Brien asst. digital editor

Charles Guthrie has worked in eight different athletic departments, and his first men’s basketball team went to the NCAA Tournament with Akron’s MAC Championship win. courtesy of michele guthrie

By Andrew Crane

senior staff writer

O

ne month into his tenure as San Francisco State’s athletic director, a program that university president Les Wong told him was “at the bottom of the pile” during their first meeting, Charles Guthrie realized the university’s old basketball court was four feet shorter than it needed to be.

It was the summer of 2014, and he’d arrived from Clark College in the middle of San Francisco State’s project to revamp the Main Gym at the Don Nasser Family Plaza, and Guthrie was helping to redesign the floor without seeing what the original surface, oak wood from the 1950s, looked like. Since it was a basketball court, the length would be 94 feet. The width would be 50. And when the backboards and rims lowered from the ceiling toward their markers, everything would align perfectly.

But it didn’t. An official measurement confirmed Guthrie’s instinct. The new surface reflected the right dimensions, but dozens of inches separated the basket’s desired destination and the actual one. That meant the Division II school had designed it wrong for decades, and it became the latest issue Guthrie was

tasked with fixing as an athletic director — bridging the gap that separated the goals and the reality, the “basement programs” and the playoff ones, and erasing the inches of false hope in between. By the time Guthrie purchased two of the Spalding rollout nets to serve as replacements, the old floor had turned into “a $40,000 mistake,” he said.

When Wong started as president in 2012, he started to call others around the industry to gauge interest about potential athletic director hires, and Guthrie’s name kept emerging. Wong was a “competitive president,” Guthrie said, and always donned his watch from when Northern Michigan’s hockey team won its conference championship. He wore it as a momentum of what could be done, Guthrie added, and always remarked that he wanted another watch, or even better, a ring, before his time at San Francisco State ended. “I’m going to get you something,” he’d tell Wong when he showed him the watch.

It started with the gym renovation, then the head coaching changes and investments, that in an ideal scenario, would lead to tangible success. Leaving Clark College for San Francisco

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tennis

Observations from the first half of SU’s season

By Tyler Schiff staff writer

Syracuse’s most recent Atlantic Coast Conference matchup against Duke University finished 7-0, its second straight shutout for the spring season.

The Orange entered confer-

ence play with a 6-1 record but have only won one of their last five since then. Although SU impressed in its nonconference matchups through powerful hitting and nimble play around the net, a large gap in talent against several ranked opponents has pushed Syracuse to the bottom

half of the ACC standings.

Here are some observations from Syracuse’s season so far:

Treshcheva’s injury woes

Sofya Treshcheva has been dealing with a nagging shoulder injury all season long, Limam said. Although the senior held

her own in SU’s season opener against Army, Treshcheva could not continue her singles success against Brown’s Gabby Soliman in her second game against Brown.

After playing the Bears, Treshcheva recorded a singles see observations page 10

In Syracuse’s College Hockey America tournament opener against RIT, SU head coach Paul Flanagan started his first forward and defensive units. This featured an all-senior group with Lauren Bellefontaine at center, Abby Moloughney and Victoria Klimek at the wings, Jessica DiGirolamo and Shelby Calof at the blue line along with Arielle DeSmet in the net.

As she normally did, DiGirolamo set up from the right side of the RIT zone and fired a wrist shot toward goaltender Sarah Coe in the opening period. But as Tiger defender Mia Tsilemos blocked the shot, Klimek was able to gain control of the puck and lightly tap it to Moloughney.

The left winger easily beat Coe’s stick from close range to put the Orange up 1-0, the first goal of Moloughney’s hat trick in a 3-2 overtime win that advanced the Orange to its eventual CHA title.

For Syracuse’s graduating classes, it was the group’s second conference championship and subsequent appearance in the NCA A Tournament. Before this class came to SU, the program had no CHA titles or NCA A Tournament appearances. In 2019, they were role players that added to one of the conference’s best attacks to win SU its first conference title, and this season, the seniors were once again relied upon at even strength and on the power play.

“Our group accomplished a lot this year,” Flanagan said. “They went to two NCAA Tournaments and won two CHA Championships.

And that’s the first group that’s done that at our program.”

The seniors graduated at or near the top of many program and conference records. DiGirolamo’s 95 points were the most ever by a Syracuse defenseman, and she is also ranked among the top five in CHA’s career goals, points and assists all-time leaderboards. Moloughney recorded 46 career goals, which is only second behind Melissa Piacentini in Syracuse history.

In the 2018-19 season, the then-first year players initially did not need to be Syracuse’s top point scorers. That year, the Orange had defenseman Allie Munroe, who recorded 28 points, the fourth-most in the conference. SU also had veteran forward Brooke Avery, who was second on the team with 270 faceoff wins, only behind Bellefontaine. The Orange also had Emma Polaski who led the team with 11 goals.

Still, this did not mean that then-freshmen and sophomores see seniors page 10