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P • Knock outs
Students gathered in the Whitman school this weekend to pitch their business ideas for the opportunity to win funding for their startup. Page 3
This is the first year Syracuse’s club boxing team fielded women to compete at this weekend’s national championship, hosted at the University of Michigan. Page 9
S • Catering service
Jocelyn Cater has recorded 188 strikeouts in her first season as a pitcher for Syracuse. She developed thanks to the help of former SU pitching coach Jenna Caira. Page 16
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SA week encourages service By William Norris staff writer
Impact Week has been absent from the Syracuse University campus for the past couple semesters, but this year Student Association MAKING AN Director of Student Engagement Here are some Alejandra Avina is bringing it back in events hapa different way. pening during Taking it a Impact Week: step further Tuesday from community Serving service, Avina breakfast at wants the SU the Samaritan Center community to truly define what Wednesday it means to make Nonprofit panel an impact. discussing Beginning this problems that exist in the Syr- week, Avina and acuse commuothers who have nity hosted by planned Impact Phi Sigma Pi Week will try to do just that. Thursday Impact Week, Packaging food hosted by SA and for Meals on the Residence Wheels and Feed My Starv- Hall Association, ing Children is a weeklong movement where Friday different groups Volunteering at and organizations Danforth Midcome together to dle School dissolve boundaries and work Saturday together, accordEarth Day event ing to the event’s at the BaltiVo l u n t e e r S p o t more Woods Nature Center page. Throughout the week, numerSunday ous community The Cuse Conevents, panels ference event and workshops will take place. Avina, working alongside Nedda Sarshar, director of civic engagement for RHA, wanted to make Impact Week bigger this year than in previous years. With a broader vision in mind, Avina said the groups made a list of
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Home sweet home RACHEL MORGAN, an incoming freshman in Syracuse University’s class of 2019 who will be majoring in communications design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, won the rock, paper, scissors tournament at Own the Dome on Sunday. Own the Dome is an event where around 500 of SU’s newly admitted students spend a night in the Carrier Dome. logan reidsma asst. photo editor
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Election forum draws audience of 1 student
Just 3 students attend candidates’ town hall
By Rachel Sandler staff writer
Only one student attended the official Student Association candidate forum Sunday night in Shaffer Auditorium. Aysha Seedat, the only nonwrite-in candidate running for SA president, was the only candidate allowed to be present, despite a field of four write-in candidates challenging Seedat. Phil Kramer, who is running uncontested for SA comptroller, was also a part of the forum. Seedat and Kramer, a former colum-
nist for The Daily Orange, answered around 15 questions posed to them by the moderators, despite only one student being in the audience. A major goal in Seedat’s campaign, she said, is to advocate for an increased role for the student liaison for the Board of Trustees, the president of SA and the president of the Graduate Student Organization. These three people are currently only allowed to sit in on meetings and are not allowed a vote on the Board of Trustees. “It’s nice to be able to sit in on the see forum page 6
By Lydia Wilson asst. news editor
A town hall meeting held Sunday by two write-in candidates in the Student Association elections was attended by just three people. AJ Abell and Jonathan Dawson hosted the 15 minute-long meeting in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications to discuss their campaign progress and platform and hear back from the Syracuse University community. Abell and Dawson are running as write-in candidates for Student
Association president and vice president, respectively. The pair updated the audience on the progress of their anti-sexual assault platform. Abell said he and Dawson discussed the importance of proactive rather than reactive sexual assault policies and initiatives with Vera House, a nonprofit organization to end domestic violence and sexual assaults. Abell and Dawson are also meeting with the DPS Crime Prevention Commander Ryan Beauford next week to create an open dialogue see town
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