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The SU PRSSA has an executive board of 11 women and has added a vice president of equity and inclusion. Here’s how they plan to change the PR industry.

SU officials said an early spike in coronavirus cases this semester could be due to “COVID fatigue” and said they’ve had to be more vigilant about enforcing safety procedures.

As an athlete on Syracuse’s rowing team, our writer argues that Syracuse’s failure to retire a women’s jersey paints female athletes in an unequal light.

Back in the Dome When Syracuse reopened the Dome to 900 fans for the first time in 370 days, only 250 came

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Committee publishes diversity report

By Michael Sessa news editor

Syracuse University reopened the Carrier Dome on Saturday for the first time in 370 days, allowing 900 student fans to attend a men’s lacrosse game as part of a “trial” run. Instead, only 250 came. (top) rich barnes usa today sports, (bottom) will fudge

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hen Owen Hiltz and Brendan Curry shoved Vermont goalie Ryan Cornell late in the third quarter, fans in the Carrier Dome climbed to their feet.

Players on both benches held teammates back, and one fan yelled “Aw, does it hurt?” in Cornell’s direction.

Minutes later, another fan yelled “Let’s f*cking go,” when Syracuse attack Chase Scanlan charged Cornell again, and another taunted him by yelling “Where’s your hairline, bro?” when Cornell removed his helmet.

The crowd’s volume peaked less than two minutes into the fourth quarter when Hiltz sprinted downfield on a breakaway, but that crowd only comprised 248 people — 0.5% of the Dome’s capacity, and 27.5% of Syracuse’s intended 900-student trial run.

When Syracuse University reopened the Dome on Saturday — the first game in 370 days with fans — the stands were still

largely empty.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Feb. 23 that indoor venues could start hosting

a limited number of fans. But SU’s plan to allow fans back into the Dome wasn’t approved until Wednesday night.

SU emailed students who had season tickets last year on Thursday morning with detailed instructions of how to claim their ticket and the pregame testing procedures.

Syracuse men’s lacrosse’s 17-13 win over Vermont was meant to serve as a “pilot” run following the state’s approval of SU’s plan to return fans.

Students attending the game had to take two COVID-19 tests: one 24 hours prior during a twohour window on Friday morning, and another 15-minute rapid test on game day.

Upon arrival at Gate N, students were sectioned into groups based on whether they were waiting on results or still needed to take their rapid test.

Students sat in the upper decks of the Dome waiting for results before they could go to their pre-assigned seats. Once seated, they sat in pods of no more than four people, each spaced 9 feet apart in the lower section of the Dome. Masks were required at all times, and concession stands were closed, except for water.

“I know a lot of people that didn’t think the testing see fans page 4

A Board of Trustees committee recommended significant changes to student housing, faculty hiring and curriculum in a report published Thursday.

The Board of Trustees Special Committee on University Climate, Diversity and Inclusion — which first met in December 2019, off the heels of #NotAgainSU’s occupation of the Barnes Center at The Arch — was commissioned to address issues of diversity, inclusion and accessibility at Syracuse University.

The committee, which is composed of seven members of the board’s Executive Committee, visited campus multiple times and spoke with 17 groups of students, faculty and staff. It also assembled an Independent Advisory Panel of diversity and inclusion experts who also visited campus.

The committee initially planned to release its report in August but delayed its rollout until March because of the coronavirus pandemic. After more than a year, it released its findings and recommendations in a 19-page report.

Here’s a breakdown of what the committee heard from students, faculty and staff and how members of the committee plan to implement their recommendations:

Hiring, retention and career development

During its visits to campus in February 2020, the special committee heard from students and faculty that faculty diversity is inadequate.

Members of the campus community reported a lack of effort on SU’s part to recruit and retain female faculty and faculty from underrepresented groups.

In response, the committee recommended an expansion of an existing faculty diversity hiring initiative that proposes SU commit up to $50 million over the next 10 years to build programs that diversify its full-time faculty. It also recommended further investment in recruitment and retention efforts to change university culture at the department level, which instructors have indicated is often not welcoming.

The push for more resources related to hiring was largely driven by deans, said Jeff Scruggs, one of the special committee’s co-chairs, in an interview with The Daily Orange.

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‘Covid-19 fatigue’ causes increase in cases SA plans to revise framework, laws

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Following the fall semester, SU has found that COVID-19 cases have not spread through in-person classes. University officials have attributed recent spikes in cases to “COVID-19 fatigue.”

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By Kailey Norusis asst. digital editor

Syracuse University officials have attributed early semester spikes in COVID-19 cases to students’ carelessness and “COVID19 fatigue.”

As of Sunday, 145 SU students are in quarantine. There are 36 active cases among students and employees in central New York.

Mark Lodato, dean of the Newhouse School of Public Communications, sent an email last week to

students addressing the issues of unmasking in classrooms and forming clusters at the food.com cafe.

“The reality is we are all suffering from COVID fatigue, and it’s difficult every day to remember to put on the mask and keep your social distance and all the other things that we need to do to ensure that we stay safe,” Lodato said in an interview.

There is no evidence of COVID-19 cases spreading through classes, Lodato said. After the fall 2020 semester ended, SU

I think students are tired, and I don’t blame them Mark Lodato newhouse dean

said it had not documented any cases that came from classes.

SU placed the Sigma Chi fraternity chapter on interim suspension for public health violations on Feb. 12. A party at Sigma Chi was the source of at least 20 new COVID-19 cases, a university official said.

The 20 COVID-19 cases resulting from the Sigma Chi fraternity party contributed to 56 reported COVID cases at SU after the first week of the spring semester, which is five times the amount reported after the first week of the fall 2020 semester.

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College replaces plastic bottles on campus

By Tyler O’Neill

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SUNY-ESF has eliminated plastic products from its vending machines and replaced them with aluminum options.

This change went into effect at the beginning of the spring 2021 semester, after ESF signed the #breakfreefromplastic campus pledge in 2020. ESF is working to eliminate all single-use plastic items from its campus, and plastic bottles were at the top of the list, said Susan Fassler, sustainable facilities manager at ESF. “Aluminum is able to be recycled more readily than plastic,” Fassler said. “Aluminum cans can be recycled back to beverage cans without a degradation of quality, whereas plastic bottles are oftentimes downcycled to lesser items and are usually only able to be recycled once.”

Single-use plastics are a major environmental issue, said Jessica Proctor, a student member of the Break Free From Plastic Committee at ESF. “ESF identifies as an environmentally conscious institution, so it is important that we practice what we preach,” Proctor said.

“While I would eventually like to see the campus at zero waste, there are better alternatives to plastics, so this was a necessary step in the

right direction.”

The options in the vending machines will be the same with a few exceptions — including the elimination of Gatorade and milk.

The committee is considering offering Gatorade powder that can be mixed with canned water, Fassler said.

The Trailhead Cafe on ESF’s campus still sells plastic items, but Fassler and her team are working with the cafe’s management to see if they are also willing to switch to aluminum.

The committee is also working on a disposable glove recycling program, which will be executed in the Trailhead Cafe and two labs on campus.

The Office of Sustainability at ESF is developing a sustainability action plan for the school this year with suggestions from students studying environmental and energy auditing during the spring semester, Fassler said. The staff will work to introduce new changes next fall.

“Students are absolutely instrumental in the mission for sustainability,” Proctor said.

“If we see something that can be improved, we need to use our voices to fix it.”

Students can email Fassler directly to offer feedback and suggestions for eliminating plastic products on campus. If there are

ESF replaced all of the plastic products in its vending machines with alumuninum alternatives. deandre gutierrez contributing photographer

single-use plastic items anywhere on ESF’s campus, Fassler will add them to the ongoing list and the committee will brainstorm ways to remove and replace them, she said.

“It’s a great start, but this definitely is not the finish line,” Proc-

tor said. “ESF has a long way to go before we reach our true potential for sustainability as an institution.

I’m excited for this step but looking forward to our future initiatives as well.” tmoneill@syr.edu

Several Student Association members have rewritten the organization’s constitution to improve its representation of the student body.

SA will vote on the proposed constitution during its Monday night meeting, said SA Parliamentarian Joshua Shub-Seltzer. If approved, the organization will then hold a referendum election, which would allow the entire student body to vote on the new constitution.

Many of the new amendments in the constitution change SA’s election procedures. One proposed change to the constitution would add a second school-wide election in the fall for assembly members, Shub-Seltzer said. Currently, SA only holds one election in the spring for students to vote for president, vice president, comptroller and representatives from Syracuse University’s schools and colleges.

“These documents dictate the way that we function, the way that things can be done, and all the processes and procedures we do,” ShubSeltzer said. “Small shifts in language can have a really big impact on the way our organization functions.”

Small shifts in language can have a really big impact on the way our organization functions Joshua Shub-Seltzer parliamentarian

Shub-Seltzer and several other SA members formed the Organizational Review Committee last fall to update the constitution, which he said is almost decades old. After spending a year working on small changes to the document, ShubSeltzer realized it would need a complete overhaul.

“I spent my first year really trying to tweak things, shift what is written to what we do in practice,” Shub-Seltzer said “The student body and the environment has changed immensely (since it was written), and I thought it was time we did a deeper look into what is the purpose of SA and how the rules can reflect that.”

There are often several assembly seats left vacant after spring elections. SA members typically vote on student representatives to fill those positions at the start of a legislative session. Adding a second election could improve student representation in SA and involvement in elections, he said.

“This new constitution really strengthens that everyone should be elected popularly by the student body,” Shub-Seltzer said.

The new constitution will also allow different student groups on campus to petition for a seat on SA, Shub-Seltzer said. Currently there are only seats for SU’s schools and colleges, but the change would give groups of students, such as SU athletes or

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requirements were worth getting in for one game,” Otto’s Army President Jonathan Danilich said.

“There were going to be people like that regardless.”

Danilich also said the poor attendance was due to the short notice. SU didn’t email students until two days before the game, meaning many already had plans or weren’t available in the five-hour window allotted for claiming tickets. Danilich himself wasn’t able to attend, as he had a prior commitment for a class.

Saturday was also the first time fans were allowed back in the Dome since it underwent a $118 million renovation project that included a new video board, improved accessibility and other modernizations.

“We don’t really know lacrosse, but we had the chance to go to the Dome, so we went,” sophomore Julia Palazzo said. “It’s just a sense of normalcy.”

Students rose to their feet as each player in the Syracuse starting lineup was announced pregame, stomping on the bleachers, slamming their hands on the empty seats to make it feel like the stadium was packed. The from page 1

report which they would have more carte blanche to diversify their hires,” Scruggs said. “With the financial commitment, this gives them the resources and the weapons, if you will, to get it done.”

If fully implemented, the faculty hiring program could bring up to 70 new faculty members from underrepresented groups and approximately 100 new postdoctoral fellows, according to the committee’s report.

Training, curriculum and facilities

The committee recommended expanding diversity training for all SU employees, students and stakeholders — including tenured faculty.

Contrary to SU’s previous diversity training methods, the new training programs would be ongoing and include metrics to assess their effectiveness, the report said.

Multiple students told the committee that faculty and instructors didn’t understand diverse cultures and exhibited problematic behavior in the classroom.

“We heard things that were, quite frankly, very painful to Jeff and me and to the other members of the committee,” said Richard Alexander, the committee’s other co-chair.

The committee will support efforts to replace the zero-credit

announcement to return fans came on too short of a notice for Otto’s Army to coordinate their typical student section cheers. No one made the “O” motion during the national anthem or stayed after the game to sing the fight song, either. But the fans still made their presence felt.

“There were a couple boys in the crowd who were really juicing me up in particular,” Syracuse goalie Drake Porter said postgame. “So I Iike that. It’s always appreciated.”

As Hiltz neared the crease for a fourth-quarter goal, students rose to their feet and erupted when he found the back of the net. They could only high-five the people in their pods but cheered in their small groups nonetheless.

Every time a goal is scored, the player’s selected goal song gets blasted through the Dome’s speakers, something that SU has done for years. Palazzo said dancing to each song with her friends in her pod was one of the best moments of the instadium experience.

“The energy in the Dome is just different,” said sophomore Bradley Levine, who attended the game. “It’s something out of a movie.”

For junior Katie Lane, a typical Syracuse game day morning in 2019 meant “getting Orange-d up”

with her roommates. They’d listen to “Rich Girl” by Hall & Oates and head to the Dome to wait in line for tickets. But on Saturday morning, all of Lane’s roommates slept in as she headed over to the Dome, alone. Her roommates didn’t have season tickets and weren’t eligible to attend.

“I’m just excited to be surrounded by people as excited as I am to cheer on the Orange in person,” Lane said before the game.

Some students experienced difficulties with the process, however, and were denied access. Rory Leeds, now a master’s student at SU, said he’s never missed a lacrosse game in the Dome. He used to sit at the 50-yard line in row G or H, where he had the row to himself.

Leeds got tested Friday morning and filled out the daily health screening form, just to make sure.

He walked up expecting to be let in.

Usually, he said, you don’t need a ticket for lacrosse games. But with the strict guidelines, Leeds was turned away and had to watch, once again, from home.

SUNY-ESF sophomore Jacob Morrison also had difficulties attending the game. Since Morrison isn’t an SU student, he didn’t receive the SU email and instead had to email the box office since he was a

season ticket holder last season.

While Morrison was able to attend, he was disappointed that he wasn’t able to bring his friends along with him, whom he sat front row with at almost every basketball or football game last year.

Lane, who said Syracuse’s sports and school spirit initially drew her to campus, said she wished SU made tickets available to freshmen. Lane said it’s unfortunate that freshmen, including her brother, have never attended an inperson game and will have to wait longer to attend their first. Danilich echoed those sentiments, adding that he hopes people that weren’t season ticket holders last year will be able to get tickets.

“This past year has been really sad not having that campus climate,” Lane said.

Syracuse wasn’t able to get approval from New York state in time to bring back fans for basketball season — SU’s final home game was Wednesday. An SU Athletics spokesperson said that the university supplied “the information it needs” to the necessary governing bodies that would need to approve the plan, but didn’t receive approval until late Wednesday night.

Though SU just missed out on basketball season, sophomore

Anthony Tricarico, who attended the game, said that having a men’s lacrosse game as the first one back was a great decision because of the caliber of No. 6 Syracuse.

“When we’re winning, there’s no better student section, there’s no better fans,” Tricarico said. “Obviously it’s tough when you’re losing, but when we’re winning, this is definitely one of the best stadiums in the country.”

For seven months, COVID-19 safety reminders have echoed through a Dome that’s been empty, except to the media and teams.

They reminded fans — who weren’t present — to be mindful of the density around concession stands, time their trips to avoid a halftime rush and remain 6 feet apart. They reminded fans to wear masks and to only eat in their seats, too.

For seven months of fanless run-throughs, it’s as if Syracuse was planning and rehearsing for fans’ inevitable return. Saturday, though, there was one distinct change during the postgame announcements.

“A very special thanks to our students for attending today’s game and supporting Syracuse men’s lacrosse.”

SEM 100 freshman seminar, which many students have called ineffective, with a one-credit First Year Seminar.

It expressed support for a requirement, previously passed by the University Senate, to mandate all upper-level undergraduate students take a threecredit course related to diversity, equity and inclusion. It stopped short, though, of explicitly endorsing the university-wide diversity curriculum several faculty members proposed in 2019, saying such a curriculum would be challenging for SU’s professional schools to implement.

The committee also recommended a mandatory course on civics and citizenship.

“This is an inflection point, and the work will change, and inevitably, we will face new challenges, but we think if we can create the infrastructure and the oversight, we will be in a better place to deal with those issues going forward,” Alexander said.

The committee also recommended additional training and infrastructure updates related to accessibility. While there is “admiration” for the academic research and programming on accessibility at SU, people the committee spoke to said that level of excellence isn’t matched in the commitment to services and access for people with disabilities at the university.

Campus commitments

South Campus housing.

A disproportionate number of students of color relocate to South Campus during their sophomore year, and those students have reported feeling higher levels of DPS surveillance than their white peers, the report says. The report doesn’t acknowledge that such a disparity exists, referring instead to students’ “perceived” marginalization.

Students who spoke with the committee said they were more heavily policed than white students living in Greek life chapter houses on Comstock and Walnut avenues.

The committee attributed this issue to the chapter houses falling under the Syracuse Police Department’s jurisdiction, where “there is seldom enforcement of underage drinking, open alcohol containers and noise violations.”

The committee also made recommendations that expand training for resident advisers and other staff in university housing.

“The experience that someone has in their dorm, walking down the hall and feeling belonging, in that moment can be so much more powerful and impactful than whether we have a committee,” Alexander said.

When asked about the board’s lack of diversity, Scruggs and Alexander denied that the committee’s makeup had any impact on its findings or recommendations.

“I understand the question.

It’s not the question I would ask,” Alexander said. “I think we actually had a very diverse group of people who listened very, very carefully. So I don’t think our work was in any way, shape or form impacted by the composition of the committee.”

Going forward, the special committee will continue working with university officials, as well as students, faculty and staff, to allocate resources that improve diversity and inclusion efforts at SU, Alexander said.

“Our job is really one of oversight,” Alexander said. “And our job is to make sure that the university is putting its resources, to the extent that we have control of those resources, to support the recommendations and initiatives.”

Scruggs said the committee intends to continue its work and will use future surveys and discussions to assess the effectiveness of its recommendations.

“Now that we’re in this, we can’t, don’t want to and shouldn’t remove ourselves at this board from this oversight function,” Scruggs said.

“This is going to be evolutionary, and it’s not ever going to stop.” msessa@syr.edu @MichaelSessa3

The report also recommends SU fully implement its commitments to student groups that protested in the 2019-20 academic year, including #NotAgainSU demonstrators, as well as Jewish, Indigenous and international students.

SU has agreed to and completed progress on several demands and is still working to address others.

When asked about nine demands from #NotAgainSU the university hasn’t agreed to — which include calls for university officials to resign, for the Department of Public Safety to be disarmed and for SU to state that the university is complicit in white supremacy — Alexander said the committee couldn’t comment.

“To the extent that the administration entered into commitments with various student organizations, our recommendation or expectation is that those commitments are going to be met, and that they’re going to be appropriately met, and that they’re going to be appropriately resourced,” Alexander said. “And if you’re talking to things beyond that, I don’t think Jeff and I are really in a position to comment on them.”

Housing and residence life

The committee proposed moving all student residences to Main Campus to “better integrate” SU’s student population. This would mean eliminating, or at least sharply reducing,

The board’s role

In its final recommendation, the committee expressed support for increasing diversity in SU’s predominantly white and wealthy Board of Trustees.

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he Syracuse University community did not need a 97-page report compiled by hired investigators or a diversity review created by a predominantly white Board of Trustees special committee to prove that marginalized communities are, indeed, marginalized. Yet, we got them anyway.

Once again, SU’s administration, Department of Public Safety and Board of Trustees have selfexposed their detachment from the student body.

It starts with former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s independent review of DPS. Prompted by the #NotAgainSU movement’s occupation of Crouse-Hinds Hall, Lynch was brought on to investigate DPS’ handling of the protest. The yearlong investigation amounted to 97 pages in total and ultimately concluded that there’s an erosion of trust between the SU community and DPS. While this finding is true, why did SU need outside investigators to come to a conclusion that students have known for years?

It boils down to the fact that SU refuses to listen and take action — beyond the formation of a committee or creation of a review — when students who are marginalized say that SU’s policies are systemically discriminatory. Instead, the university pays a third party to investigate whether the students are correct. Worse, SU refuses to admit to or break down these systemically discriminatory barriers.

The irony is almost laughable. Almost.

The university does not consider the concerns and demands of students as having the same weight as the recommendations of independent third parties and other SU officials. #NotAgainSU organizers raised concerns in February 2020 about DPS treating students as less than human, but it took over a year and the report from Lynch for the university to begin assessing revisions to DPS’ policies for interacting with students, particularly those participating in protests.

Ultimately, SU believed that someone with a Harvard degree and no connection to SU had better insights into the issues on campus than SU students themselves.

It’s been two weeks since Lynch’s report was released. Con-

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sequently, it’s been two weeks since Chancellor Kent Syverud announced that, “In the coming days, I will share more specific information on how the University will fulfill these recommendations.” Yet, we haven’t heard or seen any plan for the implementation of the recommendations. This lack of immediate action is glaring.

But, once again, we are not surprised. Immediate transparency does not seem to be a priority of SU. It should also be noted that there’s a prominent bias in the investigation.

Lynch was hired by SU, and it shows.

She applauds DPS for a concerning amount of its approaches. She deems the disconnect between DPS and the SU community an “erosion of trust,” when it is, in fact, a trust that DPS officers are responsible for eroding.

She even goes as far as to erroneously state that “DPS did not ultimately make the decision to restrict food and personal items from (CrouseHinds Hall)” — even though DPS officers, at least one of whom was armed, enforced that decision.

Though Lynch stated herself that many DPS policies are not public, that DPS does not mandate the de-escalation of mental health crises, and that its protocol falls short of holding officers accountable for harmful actions, the report was a see-through cop-out for SU to do the bare minimum when it comes to institutional reparations.

The report’s failure to fool the student body into thinking SU was actually taking action against its systemic discriminatory policies should have been a sign that committees, reports and investigations are a lost cause.

Instead, mere weeks later, the Board of Trustees Special Committee on University Climate, Diversity and Inclusion puts out yet another review. This committee is supposedly “devoted to addressing issues of diversity and inclusion,” but six of its seven members are white.

In this review, the committee makes it clear that they believe the marginalizing actions of DPS should be blamed on marginalized students. They go as far as to not consider marginalization a reality but rather a “perceived” notion created in the heads of students of color. The use of the word “perceived” and “marginalization” in the same sentence is unsettling. No one that detached from the issues of racism should be on a committee addressing issues of inclusion.

One thing needs to be set straight: people do not perceive their marginalization, they are marginalized.

Most often by those who believe marginalization is merely a feeling and not a form of oppression.

The special committee’s final report recommends eliminating South Campus housing and moving students to Main Campus to “better integrate” the student body. The recommendation is offensive to students of color, who view South Campus as a safe haven. SU needs to instead focus on making every on-campus residence a safe haven for students of color. It does not need to force students of color to live in threatening environments where they don’t often feel safe in their own skin.

But, once again, we are not surprised. The Board of Trustees has proven time and again to be blatantly misinformed on issues of inclusion. So misinformed that they believe their predominantly white and unanimously wealthy committee to be the best make-up for a diversity committee.

“I don’t think our work was in any way, shape or form impacted by the composition of the committee.

Quite frankly, quite the opposite,” said Richard Alexander, one of the co-leaders of the committee in an interview with The Daily Orange.

The committee knows nothing about true diversity, despite its overuse of its three favorite words: inclusion, equity and, of course, diversity.

The defensive tactics of both Lynch’s 97-page report and the Board of Trustees’ special committee’s review are telling. They want to solve SU’s issues of systemic discrimination with simple summarizations and no follow up.

It’s time for SU to come to terms with the fact that marginalized students on campus don’t want committees, reviews, reports or investigations that focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. We want action.

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arch 14, 2020 was the day the world shut down for me right here in my hometown of Syracuse. That seemingly normal day started a spiral of events that altered my dating life for the worse.

I dated someone for 11 months.

Seven of them occurred during the pandemic, and around four of those seven months were spent in strict quarantine.

It was hard. There’s no way I can explain the fights that ensued or the emotions that we both felt during that time. I couldn’t see the guy I was dating even though he only lived 15 minutes away, and it hurt.

I am no longer dating this person, but one of the most important lessons I learned from being with him is that dating during “normal times” and dating during a pandemic are two completely different things.

College is supposed to be a place where we form relationships that last throughout our life, but it’s virtually impossible to do that right now because everything is online.

Campus activities are held on Zoom, faces of students are shrouded by masks both in the classroom and on campus, and going to a party is a risk not worth taking. How are we supposed to meet people if all of these obstacles stand in the way?

Of course, there’s dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble and Hinge that students have always used, but it’s already hard enough finding someone on them who wants the same thing as you. Let alone during a pandemic.

Downloads of dating apps increased dramatically during quarantine because people were stuck in their houses with little opportunities for socialization. People who legitimately want to date someone have to differentiate between those who want a relationship and those who just want a quick one-night stand.

Doing so isn’t easy. You can’t tell what a person is looking for just by looking at some pictures and a cheesy bio.

You’re also limited to the people in your building when it comes to hanging out at night or when it comes to randomly meeting someone in the lounge. The latter is how SU senior Tom Russo met his girlfriend of over two years: She was sitting on the couch and watching a movie with her friend. A meeting like this is less likely to happen now. Nobody wants to sit for two and a half hours with a mask on to watch a movie; they want to sit in their room where they aren’t required to wear one.

Russo and his girlfriend went through quarantine barely seeing each other. He believes that dating is harder during a pandemic.

“It’s not the same. Don’t let any-

one convince you otherwise. You don’t have that same connection or closeness that you want to have in a relationship. It’s a problem. If you can’t have that physical closeness, it makes it a lot harder to have a relationship,” he said.

However, some st udents think otherwise.

SU senior Linzy Dineen said her relationship probably wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for the pandemic. While lots of people find relationships in college, she found hers in her hometown.

When students were sent home last March, she had the opportunity to spend time with her friends there.

One of those friends was someone she ended up building a relationship with.

“It’s different for everyone, but you can find a relationship anywhere, really.”

While there are students who are just looking for hookups, there are also students who want a relationship here at SU. Some students want to find the person who they’ll sit with on SU’s famous kissing bench and who they’ll marry one day.

People are lonely right now, but it’s a different kind of lonely. Some students just want to talk through an app and nothing more, some people want to find someone to spend the night with and others want something serious.

“Trying to find someone looking for the same opportunity as you is hard enough as it is, and this makes it worse,” SU sophomore Angel Gonzalez said.

It will be a long time before we can go back to the way it was before March 2020. Every aspect of our lives has been impacted, including dating.

Dating is already difficult because you have to find someone you truly connect with and who you ultimately want to love. When you put a pandemic on top of that, it’s even worse. There are many couples who met in past years at SU and are still together, whether they’re now dating, engaged or married with two kids. What effect will the pandemic have on the relationships that blossom from SU that couldn’t have formed if it never happened?

I don’t know if I’m looking for a relationship right now, but I do know that, when I was in one during this pandemic, it became a challenge that took a toll on both myself and the relationship.

The pandemic didn’t ruin our college dating experience. It just altered it. Know that it’s not impossible to find your person right now.

It’s just a bit harder.

Teagan Brown is a sophomore history and broadcast and digital journalism dual major. Her column appears biweekly. She can be reached at tbrown30@syr.edu and followed on twitter @teagannbrownn.

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coronavirus “I think students are tired, and I don’t blame them,” Lodato said.

SU Libraries staff had to be more vigilant in reminding students to follow guidelines at the beginning of the semester, said David Seaman, dean of libraries.

The libraries implemented COVID19 regulations, such as door monitors at entrances to ensure everyone is wearing a mask and has a valid ID, plexiglass shields at the service desks and socially distanced seating, Seaman said.

“Everybody is tired of this, so it’s understandable,” Seaman said. “You’re in college. This isn’t what you signed up for.”

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constitution those who utilize the Disability Cultural Center, the chance to have a say in SA, he said.

David Bruen, speaker of the assembly of SA, worked with Shub-Seltzer to propose the Campaign Finance Reform Act, which will provide approved SA campaigns access to a shared pool of funds. Each set of candidates will be restricted to spending $200 on their campaign, and SA will return extra money to its budget, said Bruen, who previously served as SA’s board of elections chair.

“Serving as the board of elections chair, I got to see through the election how a lot of our election codes were obsolete, not just in the bylaws, which we could change in a meeting, but in the constitution,” Bruen said. “This led me to create public financing of campaigns so that campaigns can be bigger and more accessible.”

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The decreased amount of space for students to socialize while staying socially distanced due to the winter increased the feeling of fatigue, Lodato said. During the fall 2020 semester, students were able to socialize on the Quad and other outside space, which is unrealistic to do in the cold weather, he said.

“We’ve been looking at spaces where we can add more chairs and areas for students to hang out and study remotely in the building,” Lodato said.

Even with an increase in COVID-19 fatigue, students seem grateful of the regulations in place and the faculty working to implement these regulations, Lodato said.

The times that Lodato sent emails reminding Newhouse students to remain vigilant, he received thank you emails, he said.

Especially with expanded vaccine eligibility, Lodato said he’s hopeful that the country is making progress.

“I sense a little bit of momentum,” he said. “To me, that’s fantastic news and very encouraging.” kmnorusi@syr.edu

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also improve the structure of SA and allow for a better understanding of how the organization operates.

“Our hope is since our SA constitution is redrafted every few years, that this will last longer,” Bruen said. “In many ways this is a great time to do this. It’s an adaptation to what the student body needs and what it may need in the future.”

SA Chief of Staff Kailee Vick also worked with Shub-Seltzer and Bruen on the proposed constitution. She hopes the constitution will give more students the chance to participate in SA and have more of a say in how SU’s campus operates.

“What I’d love to see is engagement go up and for students being able to see SA in their daily lives,” Vick said. “I’d love to see students and future leaders be able to work together so that students know who SA is and that we’re their first point of contact if they need anything.” kperson@syr.edu

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femUNITY creates health platform

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While women make up 75% of the pubilc relations industry, only 30% run global public relations firms. This year’s Public Relations Student Society of America team at SU includes an all-female executive board. wendy wang staff photographer

The women of public relations PRSSA chapter boasts all-female executive board

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uring Sara Caywood’s sophomore year, a former president of the Public Relations Student Society of America encouraged her to take on a leadership role in the Syracuse University chapter – as the vice president of events.

Despite considering herself a shy person, the position pushed Caywood out of her comfort zone by forcing her to meet people and lead PRSSA members. It also led her to take on the co-president position this academic year so she can mentor and encourage newer members to explore leadership positions in the public relations industry, she said. “(The former president) saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself,” Caywood said. “I think that PRSSA has inspired me to lead by helping people see things that they can’t see in themselves.”

PRSSA is a national organization that teaches students public relations skills that they wouldn’t learn in the classroom and gives them opportunities to network with professionals in the industry.

SU’s 11-member executive board for the 2020-21 year is made up of all women. Samantha Cooper, a senior and copresident of PRSSA, said this is significant because she won’t see this amount of female leadership in the public relations industry after she graduates, since white men dominate most leadership positions in the field.

As of 2018, women occupy nearly 75% of jobs in the PR see prssa page 8

After scouring Google for answers, Caroline Koller texted her sister, Laurie Beth, that she thought she had cervical cancer.

Five days later and 45 minutes into her next gynecologist appointment — after going to nine different doctors over six months for answers about her chronic bleeding and lower back pain — the doctor found the tumor in her cervix.

“I was doing tons of selfresearch, going down like Reddit rabbit holes and on page four of Google reading someone’s random blog, just to try to find someone who had maybe experienced what I was going through,” Caroline said. “I was in so much pain and so confused, like, ‘What the heck is going on?’”

After the Syracuse University alumna’s diagnosis in October 2019, she went through a six-week treatment plan right away. And in December, she received her one-year cancer-free PET scan – a positron emission tomography imagery test.

But instead of leaving her experience in the past, Caroline chose to create femUNITY, a platform for women to crowdsource their health issues, in July. The site now has over 600 contributors, who can post in 11 different forums categorized by topics such as mental health, gynecologic health and general symptoms.

The platform is not backed by medical professionals, but rather, it’s a place for women to get information from other women about symptoms and health issues so they can go into their doctors’ appointments better equipped to self-advocate.

“To see her go from surgery to surgery and then create this platform that is going to help so many women, I struggle with the words,”

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from the studio

Goldie Scott left SU. Now, she’s releasing 2nd single ‘RaRa.’

By Gavi Azoff

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Goldie Scott is on a mission to expose misinformation in modern media. And she’s spreading her message through music.

Scott, a former SU student, is releasing her single “RaRa” on March 17. The satirical song is about how it’s easy to gain a false sense of reality from the media when there’s actually a lot going on “behind the scenes,” she said.

“I want to know the truth,” Scott said. “I want justice to be

served for the people who need it, and (show) that people in power, a lot of them are not good, and this is sort of a way that I can shine light on just trying to open people’s eyes.”

Scott attended Syracuse University for her freshman year and the first semester of her sophomore year. She dropped out after the fall of 2019 to pursue her music career full-time. She said she blossomed at SU because she started playing gigs on campus and grew into herself through fashion and style — which are a big part of who

she is as an artist.

SU is where Scott found inspiration for a few unreleased songs she’s written. “RaRa” will be accompanied by a music video filmed at The Westcott Theater in Syracuse.

Music runs in Scott’s blood, as she comes from a family of musicians and became interested in the art from a young age.

Much of her inspiration and love for music comes from her dad, who was in a band for most of his life and played the bass. He introduced her to genres of music and artists she

wouldn’t have listened to otherwise, such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kiss.

She began writing poetry when she was 6 years old and has been singing since she could talk. In middle school, her focus turned to songwriting and becoming more serious about her music.

Scott met her co-managers, SU juniors George Aloia and Alexandra Pepper, while in the Newhouse School of Public Communications. Scott and Pepper first met in their CAS 100, a poetry and songwriting class. The two

hit it off while talking about their shared interest in songwriting.

Aloia describes “RaRa” as a “very pro-people song.” Scott is able to show that “together we can tear down tyrants, we can tear down anything that’s bad for the world,” Aloia said.

Scott said the songs she’s releasing are very in tune with her brand in regards to stepping out of the box and telling stories. Each of her songs tells a different story, including “RaRa,” she said.

She doesn’t think her music see scott page 8

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prssa industry, but only 30% run global PR firms, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Women occupy only one in five senior positions.

“We have reached a point where that conversation is being had, and then the next step is to make real actionable changes to make sure that that structure doesn’t continue,” Cooper said.

One cause of the gender disparity in the public relations field, Cooper said, is the phenomenon called “the glass escalator,” which is the idea that it’s easier for men to rise up in femaledominated professions due gender stereotypes and patriarchal structures in the workplace.

Having an all-women executive board is something she hopes will be beneficial for connecting to female club members and teaching them the necessary skills to prepare them for leadership positions in the industry.

Karley Warden, a senior and PRSSA’s vice president of professional development, is happy to have an all-female executive board because it has helped her gain the confidence necessary to be a leader.

Still, the focus of the executive board is to recognize issues of intersectionality in PRSSA. This includes making members of all races, ethnicities and identities feel more included and represented.

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health Laurie Beth said. “The only word that comes to mind is that Caroline has shown such grace through it all.”

Creating a space for women to discuss health issues had been on Caroline’s mind since before her diagnosis, but it wasn’t as much of a priority during her treatment.

Not even six months after her treatment ended, Caroline, Caroline’s boyfriend, Laurie Beth and her mother jotted down ideas for a platform that would eventually become femUNITY. Besides managing the company’s partnerships and promoting the name femUNITY to brands, Caroline’s sister is also a contributor to the site. The 2018 SU graduate has endometriosis, a condition that is common among women but on average takes seven and a half years to diagnose.

After sharing her experience with her second endometriosis surgery on femUNITY, Laurie Beth heard from a woman across the country who was also struggling with the same disease. The woman said she couldn’t find anything about that specific surgery until Laurie Beth’s post.

“I firmly believe that femUNITY is there to make women feel less alone,” Laurie Beth said.

Madeline Oleszkiewicz, a friend of Caroline’s and a 2016 SU alumna, was a beta tester for the femUNITY website.

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scott style falls under one genre. One of her producers, Bob Brockmann, told her that she writes pop music. Scott said her main three genres are pop, soul and R&B, and folk and alternative, but she doesn’t want to be put into a category.

I want her to be creating content that she loves and that she feels is current and uplifting and resonates with her audience Alexandra Pepper

scott’s co-manager

Scott has yet to perform at any venues due to the pandemic, but her first live performance

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8.3% of jobs in the industry and Hispanic or Latinx people make up 5.7%, according to the Harvard Business Review.

We need to ensure that we’re not just thinking about our gender identity, but we’re thinking about the minorities that we’re reaching in our community Karley Warden prssa’s vice president of professional development

“It’s certainly really great to have an all female executive board, but we need to ensure that we’re not just thinking about our gender identity, but we’re thinking about the minorities that we’re reaching in our community,” Warden said.

One step the board took to improve diversity and inclusion in PRSSA is the addition of an eleventh board member, the vice president of diversity and inclusion.

PRSSA hired Kiana Khoshnoud, a sophomore PR student, to take the position on Friwith doctors telling her there’s nothing she can do about it.

While there’s no common treatment for the disorder, it has been nice to relate to other women and what they’re going through, she said.

“Knowing that you’re not alone is just such a huge benefit, and just being able to be like, ‘Hey, yeah, that’s happening to me, too,’” Oleszkiewicz said. “It’s really just a comforting feeling to know that there’s others going through the same thing that you are.”

Caroline hopes to take the information that women are sharing on femUNITY to push further initiatives and enact policy changes related to women’s health.

Megan Schofield, the digital director of the platform, never had a space where she could have conversations with other women about their health experiences. Through femUNITY, she can connect to real people going through similar issues and not just comb through articles that only scare her.

Schofield met Caroline in Virginia Beach last summer, and they spent hours sharing their health experiences. After hearing Caroline talk about femUNITY, she was instantly connected to the idea.

She knew how lonely going through her own 10-year battle with endometriosis had been, and she wanted to put her graphic design skills to use to help Caroline build the company.

In her current role at femUNITY, Schofield creates graphics for the company’s social media and worked closely with Caroline to give the website a “calming, beachy” feeling. will be Thursday at the Ludlow House in New York City. The venue is part of a members’ club for creatives called Soho House. In the future, she hopes to perform at larger venues and do a mini tour.

Pepper has high hopes for Scott’s future, including her winning a Grammy Award and hitting one-million streams on a song. Above all, she wants Scott to continue creating meaningful music.

“I want her to be creating content that she loves and that she feels is current and uplifting and resonates with her audience,” Pepper said.

Aloia has only seen success come from Scott, and he hopes to see more of that in her future.

Scott wants listeners to take a step back and think about the lyrics of “RaRa.” She hopes that, with the song, she can impact the way people perceive aspects of society, such as the role media plays within it.

“The moral of the story is I want people to realize that they have the power within themselves and that nobody else in their life, or who comes into their life, can dictate what they do, every decision that they make,” Scott said. gavi@dailyorange.com

day. Her goal with the role is to make diversity an essential part of the program and a major component in all initiatives.

Khoshnoud, who is a daughter of immigrants from Iran and a person of color, said a few people at SU have said something ignorant to her without realizing it. She hopes the position will make people of marginalized communities feel better represented and will educate members on ignorant remarks.

The position will create a long-term plan for diversity and inclusion within the chapter, run at least one event centered around this topic for chapter members each academic year and partner with various campus organizations, Caywood said.

“I think that it was a little disheartening that it’s 2021 and this position never existed before,” Caywood said. “And we’re taking the necessary steps to push forward and to make the change in our executive team where we see it.”

Other ways the board is focusing on inclusivity in the organization is by holding focus groups, or open-ended discussions with a randomly selected group of members. Last month’s discussion went for over an hour, and members were very open to giving feedback, Caywood said.

Warden, who organizes events for the chapter, has invited speakers of color and other identities to give advice to members of the organization. By inviting these speakers, Warden said she’s trying to make all members, especially those of marginalized communi-

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ties, feel represented and empowered to take on positions they want in the PR industry.

One of last semester’s speakers included Oladotun Idowu, an SU alumna who founded Sisters in Media, an organization that aims to increase the presence of women of color in entertainment.

Warden said that her generation is demanding to hear more voices in the media, but PR representatives need to connect with the public in some way to build trust.

“If we don’t have a representative industry of public relations professionals who are diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, identity, background, sexuality, then how are we going to expect our consumers and our constituents to believe that what we’re saying is true? Or that what we’re saying is right?” Warden said.

Neeve Prendergast, a senior and the codirector of EDGE — a PRSSA program at SU for first-and second-year students — said that it’s important to address inclusivity in the PR industry because professionals need to represent their audience to form a connection with them.

PR is very influential on public opinion and has the power to make the public think about inclusivity in everyday life, she said.

“At the end of the day, we’re putting out campaigns and putting out these communication efforts,” Prendergast said. “And if we don’t include diverse and inclusive perspectives, and if they don’t have a seat at the table, then we can’t really progress forward.” akweiss@sr.edu

LAURIE BETH KOLLER (LEFT) AND CAROLINE KOLLER have built femUNITY to empower women to talk to each other about health. courtesy of laurie beth koller

The branding for femUNITY is focused on water because it “ebbs and flows” like life, Caroline said.

“The energy that we get from women sharing their experiences and wanting to connect with other women is such a huge

force for us to stay moving and to stay on top of things,” Schofield said. “So it’s a really awesome source of energy for us to keep going and want to get that information out there for them.” sydney@dailyorange.com

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boeheim Carolina and Clemson when losses likely would have sunk their NCAA Tournament hopes.

From now on, every game is win-or-go-home in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament and, potentially, beyond.

Boeheim’s been in this spot countless times over the past 45 years. High-pressure games with seasons, careers and championships on the line. Rivalries, conference tournaments, March Madness matchups.

The approach is the same for them all. The key to getting Boeheim’s teams in the right mindset for big games is staying even-keeled and keeping everything familiar in the leadup to tipoff. The more comfortable his players can be under pressure, the better. There are no chest-banging pregame speeches, no special pregame routines. Just Boeheim, poised in hopes his team can match that presence.

For Syracuse’s upcoming ACC tournament matchup with North Carolina State, it’ll be more of the same.

“He’s just very, very calm,” Lydon said. “Playing for as long as I have, you get coaches who are absolutely fired up. And most of them are. And it’s not that he’s fired up, not showing it, but he’s just so calm. Yet at the same time is able to make you want to run through a brick wall.”

Boeheim has won 979 career games, seventh all-time even after getting 101 wins vacated. His teams have made the NCAA Tournament in 35 of his 44 seasons heading into this year. This year, Syracuse has played its best ball in the past two games — when they’ve mattered the most.

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clemson “There was no verbal message,” Yelin said. “You’re not going to say one magical word, so they want to win more.”

While Clemson generated a comeback in the fourth and fifth sets, Franco and

Players know what to expect when they walk into the Carmelo K. Anthony Center, and that simplicity pays off when March comes.

Before this year’s matchup with Duke, annually a game circled on everyone’s calendars, Syracuse didn’t prepare any differently, junior guard Buddy Boeheim said.

“I feel like sometimes if you hype it up so much, it just adds extra pressure that you don’t need,” Buddy said after the 85-71 loss.

In Eric Devendorf’s four years at SU, the Orange played in two Big East conference title games and four NCAA Tournament matches.

For each, Devendorf said Boeheim had the same composure. “He never changes his focus regardless of if it’s Le Moyne or if it’s Georgetown.” That’s why the Hall of Famer has had so much consistent success over the years, Devendorf said.

Because Boeheim has such a calm demeanor, his players know that when he has something to say, it’s meaningful, according to some former players. Boeheim can be animated on the sidelines, both at officials and his own players. But from a player’s perspective, Devendorf said his calmness is evident in tense situations — when SU is trailing at halftime or in clutch situations — when Boeheim needs to get his point across in huddles.

“His focus, his composure, it definitely rubbed off on us during those games,” Devendorf said.

That doesn’t apply only to in-game situations. John Wallace, a star forward from 1992 to 1996, remembers Boeheim encouraging him before his first ever college game. Wallace had struggled in practice, but Boeheim assured him that his shots would fall and he’d play every game because he was the team’s best rebounder.

As an All-American in 1996, Wallace led SyraViktoriia Lokhmanchuk dominated down the stretch, fending attacks to lead SU to victory. Franco, who set career-highs in kills, points, digs and blocks, broke through the Clemson defense with a crucial kill in the fifth set and put the Orange on top after blocking a Tiger attacker for the Orange’s 16th point. Lokhmanchuk, who

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cuse to the national championship game. He recalls Boeheim “always just chilling” during the Orange’s run.

“He was what we call phlegmatic,” Wallace said. “It was like a quiet confidence. And then the team had a quiet confidence. We rode that wave all the way to our Final Four when I was there.

Carmelo then rode it to a championship.

Still, signature wins have escaped Syracuse this year. The Orange are 1-6 in Quadrant 1 games, with blowout losses to Virginia, Duke

and Clemson. It also collapsed at home against a less-talented Pittsburgh team on Jan. 6. With the season hanging in the balance, every game presents the need for Boeheim’s calm demeanor.

“He is the best big-game coach that there is,” Hopkins said. “He is the master. He finds ways to win. But in big games, there’s nobody else that you’d rather have than Jim Boeheim, for sure.”

also set career-highs in kills, points, digs and blocks and served the first ace of her career, dominated the Tiger defensive front, garnering five kills in the pivotal fifth set.

“I don’t know who could tell you why I performed so well,” Lokhmanchuk said. “I was in my right mind condition, and that helped.”

While Franco and Lokhmanchuk commanded the Clemson front throughout the fifth set, it was Karakasi who was able to put away the game for good.

“We won, and I’m very happy about that,” Karakasi said. “But I couldn’t imagine how it would be to lose another five-set game.”

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Syracuse falls 3-1 to No. 1 Clemson in 1st ACC spring game

By Eric Storms staff writer

With an early flurry of shots, it didn’t take long for the No. 1 Clemson Tigers to impose their will on the Orange. It took just six minutes for them to find the back of the net. Despite a quick equalizer from Syracuse, Clemson scored once more in the 13th minute and never looked back. It amounted to a frustrating spring Atlantic Coast Conference opener for Syracuse (1-5-3, 0-4-2 ACC) as Clemson (9-21, 4-2-1) went on to win 3-1.

The scoring started as Isaiah Reid darted into the box in the sixth minute, trailed closely

by Simon Triantafillou. Reid launched a shot at SU goalkeeper Russell Shealy, who made the initial save but couldn’t prevent a rebound.

Reid gathered the ball back right away and from page 12

rivera As a coxswain on the women’s rowing team, it’s degrading. Syracuse Athletics continues to remind us that no matter how great a female athlete plays, no matter how great I play, we still haven’t been recognized like male athletes.

On paper, there’s a facade of equality.

Each NCAA sport is allotted equal practice time during competition season — 20 hours for men, 20 hours for women. Title IX requires men’s and women’s programs to receive the same “level of service, facilities, supplies.” Yet when it comes to equality in honoring accomplishments, Syracuse has turned a blind eye.

The Orange are one out of five Atlantic Coast Conference schools without a single retired female jersey number — the others are Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Louisville and Notre Dame.

In 1967, Syracuse student Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially participate and complete the Boston Marathon.

Under the alias K.V. Switzer, she registered after noticing the rule book never mentioned gender, receiving bib No. 261. Despite assault from page 12

murphy matchups while Nick DiPietro has proven to be a reliable No. 2 cover player, as well as a physical presence around the defensive zone. Mitch Wykoff, a D-III transfer, didn’t play against Army but is already tied with Murphy for the Orange’s most caused turnovers. Murphy remains the “lunch pail” player, George said.

“He’s going to come to work. He’s going to give you his best,” George said. “He’s a tough kid, and he expects a lot of himself.”

Murphy played in 28 games — mainly at short-stick defensive midfield — during his first two years at Syracuse despite being recruited as a close defender. The Orange returned their starting unit of Tyson Bomberry, Nick Mellen and Marcus Cunningham both years. Switching to a short-stick was Murphy’s best chance of getting playing time as a newcomer, defensive coordinator Lelan Rogers said.

When Bomberry and Cunningham departed, Murphy reclaimed his long-pole as SU’s clear-cut fourth choice defender last season.

Then when Mellen got injured in the first game of the season, Murphy started the remainder of the shortened schedule. He led the starting close defense unit in ground balls last year with 10, and his confidence flourished with an increased role at his preferred playing position.

“I still don’t think I’m all the way back to where I should be, but it’s so good to get (the long pole) in my hands,” Murphy said early last season.

That momentum carried into this year.

He’s started all three games in 2021 at close defense and has become an organizer and offball defensive leader for the Orange (2-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast). He’s watched extra film, preparing himself to fill a key role at the back for a squad hoping to challenge for a national title.

“Grant understands the schemes, understands what we’re doing,” Rogers said last year. “He’s a kid I have to spend less time with explaining things to because he picks up

fired it into the open net.

The Orange struck back in the 10th minute as Triantafillou worked the ball to the far right of the box near the goal line. His pass found Noah Singelmann inside the box near the far post, and Singelmann converted the shot for his third goal of the season.

Just three minutes later, a Syracuse turnover in Clemson territory allowed for a quick Tigers counterattack. Luis Felipe FernandezSalvador worked the ball ahead to Callum Johnson, sprinting past Orange defensemen Olu Oyegunle in the open field. Johnson unleashed a shot from just outside the box out of the reach of Shealy for a goal.

Johnson scored again in the 51st minute, connecting on a volley from just outside the goal area. Shealy got a hand on it, but not enough to make the save.

Clemson won the majority of 50/50 balls throughout the game and made it difficult for the Orange to gain time of possession.

And even when Syracuse did, the Tigers’ defense prevented plays from developing in the box.

Not helping matters for the Orange was the 45-minute absence of DeAndre Kerr who went down with an apparent leg injury in the 15th minute. After limping off, he eventually got subbed back in during the second half and recorded a shot, though it sailed high of the goal.

The game could’ve gotten more out of hand for the Orange in the 22nd minute after a foul was recorded in the box by Amferny Sinclair on a sloppy slide tackle. Oskar Ågren hesitated on the penalty kick before sending it low and left, but Shealy guessed correctly and made

the save with ease.

Syracuse was able to create a few more chances in the second half, but was still outshot 16-9. Jack Coleman provided the best opportunity in the 75th minute with an evasive move to shake free and into the box untouched, trickling a shot past the Clemson goalkeeper just wide right. The Orange also struggled to convert set pieces into shot attempts with Clemson often stifling crosses and clearing before any SU player could handle a meaningful touch.

Syracuse will continue to search for its first ACC victory of the 2020-21 season in Kentucky on Friday night at 7 p.m. against Louisville. The Orange recorded a 2-2 tie in its first meeting against the Cardinals this past fall.

by the race manager when he realized she was a woman, Switzer finished the marathon in four hours and 20 minutes. Switzer did not participate in athletics, but she was a student at Syracuse University.

Switzer set an example for female athletes, like myself, everywhere. It doesn’t matter that she wasn’t an SU athlete — she broke barriers and received verbal and physical assault just for being a woman, and her strength and courage deserves to be immortalized.

Alexis Peterson ranks second in Syracuse women’s basketball history with 1,978 career points, second in all-time free throws made (440) and third in program history for career steals (278). She was drafted 15th overall in the 2017 WNBA draft, Syracuse’s fifth alum to play in the WNBA. Peterson’s aunt, Carla Norris, began teaching her niece how to play basketball at 6 years old to help craft her into the professional player she became. As a former collegiate athlete, Norris understands that while Title IX forced academic institutions to create equal opportunity for women’s sports, women have never been treated the same.

Syracuse’s failure to retire her niece’s jersey means it’s like every free throw Peterson made was erased, only noted in the record

books. Every hour of practice she dedicated will only be remembered as a season statistic.

“They’ve put in the work, and they’ve earned that recognition,” Norris said. “And their jerseys should be retired as well.”

In 2014, Alyssa Murray completed her collegiate lacrosse career second on the university’s all-time scoring list (362 goals) and became the first Syracuse lacrosse player — men’s or women’s — to record more than 100 points in three seasons.

She was a two-time Tewaaraton Award finalist, and US Lacrosse Magazine named her a finalist for the greatest lacrosse player of all time. Murray also sits at 14th on the NCAA’s all-time points list. “(Retiring women’s jerseys) is a small step in just recognizing that women athletes are putting in time and putting their bodies on the line to bring something to the university,” Murray said.

As a coxswain, there is a weight minimum for NCAA competition. Prior to each race, the four other coxswains and I step on a scale as an NCAA official notes our weight. If we are under 110 pounds, we are required to carry a bag of sand to make up for the lost pounds. It’s an unspoken rule that coaches require coxswains be as close to that mark so they don’t

add excess weight to the boat.

I’m 5-foot-1 with an athletic build sculpted by years of gymnastics, karate and functional fitness. My freshman year, I weighed in heavier than coaches would prefer. After a race at Cornell, I was asked what I ate for dinner the night before.

Three years later and 15 pounds lighter, I’ve sacrificed hours of my time in the gym and obsessed over my nutrition to make myself the best I could be for Syracuse rowing. I’ve sacrificed sleep, waking up for 5 a.m. workouts three times a week. The least Syracuse could do is honor that the same way they would a man.

It’s not an issue of who, but when. The list of women qualified for jersey retirement spans decades in every sport. It’s time for Syracuse to step up and create an environment where future Syracuse female athletes can look up in the rafters for the name of someone like them — a woman who’s walked the same path and transcended the ceiling of success.

Until then, in the eyes of SU, everything a female athlete accomplishes won’t measure up to that of a male athlete.

things very quickly.”

Rogers said that when he goes through film on Mondays or Tuesdays, Murphy already comes in with a “good grasp” of the Orange’s future opponent. Rogers rarely calls on Murphy to answer questions during film sessions because the defender already knows most of the answers.

After games, Murphy said he’ll often watch back the replay later that same night. It’s entertaining for him to hear what the commentators say about the team, but also helps him notice mistakes in his own play. And in the days leading up to a game, Murphy likes to find high school footage of his opponents, if he can, in addition to the video provided by his coaches. Some of their high school tendencies tend to stay in their game even in college, he said.

“Really, the thing that Grant adds to us is his ability to understand and know what offenses are trying to do and how to get our guys in position to help defend whatever comes at us,” Rogers said.

Murphy’s ability to consistently read the game helped him transition to short-stick defensive midfield. He felt he “needed” to do the extra preparation work because he found it much more difficult to guard players with a short stick.

Murphy rarely touched a short-stick in high school, though. He played some “Texas box lacrosse” — six-on-six field lacrosse with short sticks inside of a caged arena or roller hockey rink. Outside of that, he played with a long-pole all throughout high school.

In his first game in his new position in 2018, Murphy had to borrow a stick from a teammate.

He brought both a short and long stick to games that season, his mom, Mandy, remembered, though he rarely used the long stick.

During his senior year of high school, Murphy jumped onto the man-up unit at times, Woodlands head coach Keith Tintle said. The experience helped him as a transition player, and Tintle estimated that Murphy earned around 25 points on the man-up, in addition to opening up passing lanes with defenses sliding to protect against his shooting.

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GRANT MURPHY played out of position at short-stick defensive midfielder for two years.

Since last year, he’s returned to close defense for SU. will fudge staff photographer

Murphy’s athleticism and footwork from playing slot receiver on a state-championship team helped him play with a short-stick, too.

Running routes is similar to dodging as a lacrosse player, he said. The physicality that comes with playing in the ACC wasn’t a problem either because of his football background, Rogers said.

Playing under Mellen and Bomberry for two years allowed him to mature and understand the level of play at Syracuse compared to his high school career in Texas. As a two-time AllAmerican at the Woodlands, George said Murphy naturally excelled without always having to put in extra work due to his athleticism and high lacrosse IQ. During a playoff run his sophomore year, Murphy, playing at long-stick midfield but staying on the field almost the whole game, helped The Woodlands shut out Dallas Jesuit, a powerhouse of Texas high school lacrosse, 7-0. It was Jesuit’s first-ever time being shut out in a game, Tintle said.

Then against the Episcopal School of Dallas, The Woodlands led 9-8 with about 20 seconds

left. Now-Navy attack Patrick Skalniak dodged past his defender and cocked his stick back to shoot. Murphy slid off his man and whacked the back of Skalniak’s stick head, dislodging the ball and sending the Woodlands to the state finals.

“He made the play when all the lights were on (him),” Tintle said. “That was just him understanding what was going on.”

In the second quarter against Army this year, Murphy stepped out to block a shot from longstick midfielder Kyle Beyer. The ball and Beyer’s follow-through struck Murphy square on the chest. Head coach John Desko said that in the locker room, he could see the imprint of the head and handle of Beyer’s stick “embedded” in red on Murphy’s skin.

Murphy went back to the locker room at halftime to receive treatment from the team trainer, but came back out for the second half, playing through the pain. For Syracuse, after a position shift for two years to earn playing time, Murphy’s become the player that can’t be kept off the field. armajumd@syr.edu @aromajumder

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SU needs to retire a female athlete’s jersey

Inside Murphy’s positional shift

By Arabdho Majumder senior staff writer

illustration by nabeeha anwar illustration editor

As a female athlete, SU’s failure to retire a female player’s jersey is degrading

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he walls of Sanford Rowing Center –– the indoor training facility that houses Syracuse men’s and women’s rowing –– are lined with names of former SU rowers who competed in the Olympics. Engraved in silver plaques, the names date back to the early 1900s.

But the accomplishments of those athletes, who won gold medals and performed on the world’s biggest stage, are confined to the basement of the Barnes Center at The Arch.

Syracuse has retired 21 jerseys in its athletics history, 15 from men’s basketball and six from football. But beyond the two bigname sports, Syracuse has done little to honor its other legendary athletes beyond their time at SU. More specifically, it’s done little to immortalize female athletes.

SKYLER Eleven out of Syracuse’s 18 collegiate sports are women’s RIVERA R EA DY A LL , teams, yet Syracuse has never retired a jersey from any of these teams. There’s no doubt the talent is there, but it’s 2021. SyraROW! cuse’s reluctance to retire a female athletes’ jersey is proof that it doesn’t view them in the same light as male counterparts.

In 2019, Syracuse.com writer Brent Axe acknowledged Syracuse’s failure to retire female athlete’s jerseys. Axe questioned Syracuse Director of Athletics John Wildhack on the issue, and Wildhack expressed support in retiring female jerseys, stating it’s “the right thing to do.”

Fifteen months later, with International Women’s Day on Monday, Wildhack and SU Athletics have yet to retire a woman’s jersey. SU’s also yet to publicly announce a plan or acknowledge the matter since. see rivera page 10

volleyball

SU defeats Clemson, 3-2, in 1st win of spring season

By Sam Warren

contributing writer

After Clemson scored two points to tie the pivotal fifth set at 14 apiece, Syracuse head coach Leonid Yelin called a timeout. His team was locked in a fierce five-set battle for the second game in a row. After losing the fifth set 18-16 against North Carolina two days before, it looked like

the Orange’s late-game woes might materialize again.

Instead, Syracuse exploded out of the break. After a long backand-forth between the two teams, middle blocker Izzy Plummer and right-side hitter Naomi Franco rose to meet a Clemson attacker, emphatically blocking her kill and causing an attack error from Clemson outside hitter Cate Long. In the match point,

Elena Karakasi approached and leapt to the net, powerfully sending the ball past the Tiger defense and killing their victory hopes along with it.

Syracuse (5-5, 5-5 Atlantic Coast) notched its first win of the season since resuming play this spring. The Orange escaped narrowly with a win, beating the Tigers (10-7, 4-6) 25-20 and 25-21 in the first two sets. But the Tigers roared back and dominated

the next two sets behind 37 kills from freshman outside hitter Camryn Hannah, an ACC season-high, before the Orange climbed back to secure the win in the fifth set.

Despite a much different result in the Orange’s second game of the weekend, Yelin said that no extra inspiration was needed to will his team to a win at the timeout. see clemson page 9

Against the flow of play, thenhigh school wide receiver Grant Murphy ran a flat route which the defense didn’t anticipate. His quarterback escaped three pass rushers and lobbed the ball to Murphy, who snagged it, then raised it high above his head as he trotted into the endzone. The next morning, a photo of Murphy crossing the goal-line graced the front page of the local newspaper’s sports section.

Murphy wasn’t the “superstar” wide receiver who caught all the touchdowns, said his father, George, a former football player at Louisiana-Monroe. His main role was as a blocking slot receiver. On that day though, Murphy sealed a spot in the 2016 UIL 6A Division 1 football state finals for The Woodlands (Texas) High School and an upset of one of the great powerhouses in Texas football, Allen High School.

Murphy has since shifted his primary focus to lacrosse at Syracuse. But even now, he fills a similar role to that of his high school football team. Among SU’s defenders, Murphy doesn’t always stand out. Brett Kennedy takes on the toughest one-on-one see

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men’s basketball

How Jim Boeheim preps for big games

By Danny Emerman senior staff writer

Looking back at his time at Syracuse, Tyler Lydon remembers a distinct emotion: the feeling before high-pressure games. Gonzaga in the 2016 Sweet Sixteen.

Then Virginia. North Carolina in the Final Four.

At the center of those recollections stands Jim Boeheim.

“It’s like the weird way that (Boeheim is) able to get you fired up for the game and keep you confident at the same time,” Lydon said. “He’s got this weird way of just kind of being able to control everybody else’s emotions a little bit. I think that’s part of what makes him such a great coach.

He’s able to go into these games, and guys are just ready to go.”

Syracuse has already had its fair share of high-stakes games in 2020-21. Not quite like Lydon’s 2016 Final Four run, but significant nonetheless. The Orange kept their season alive in the last two games by beating North see

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