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Six SU students have been chosen to attend the TIME 100 Summit. They were identified as next generation leaders as part of the “Rising Stars” Progam. Page 3
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Student life columnist Jennifer Bancamper urges students to take advantage of National Poetry Month events at SU to challenge their ways of thinking. Page 5
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NCAA data shows the lack of racial inclusion and equity in lacrosse. The underrepresentation extends to coaches and players. Page 12
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LIZ LIDDY, dean of Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, is retiring after more than 30 years in various roles at SU. Liddy was first appointed as dean in 2008. She publicly announced her retirement at the iSchool’s opening convocation ceremony last September. molly gibbs photo editor
iSchool Dean Liz Liddy reflects on her decades-long career at SU
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eff Hemsley arrived for the keynote event early. The then-University of Washington doctoral student was attending the 2013 iConference and wanted to save a seat, so he put his belongings on a chair. A woman walked up to him. She was petite, with cropped blonde hair and glasses. She wore no name tag, and he had never met her before. She introduced herself as Liz Liddy. “I said, ‘So, so who are you? And I noticed you don’t have a name badge,’” Hemsley said. “And she
By Haley Kim
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says, ‘Well, most people around here know me.’” A few minutes later, Hemsley realized he was speaking to the dean of the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, the first-ever — and a top-ranked — iSchool in the United States. But Liddy had introduced herself simply with her name. Hemsley said Liddy was warm, welcoming and friendly, especially to a doctoral student. She made
him far more aware of SU’s iSchool, particularly as a possible job location. Hemsley joined the iSchool faculty a year later, one of the many hires Liddy brought on as dean. When Liddy retires at the end of this academic year, she will be leaving a school that has been characterized by its growth during her 10-year tenure. She helped increase undergraduate enrollment by 71 percent and graduate enrollment by 66 percent, raised over $26 million for research and started see liddy page 4
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Investigations into several SA election campaigns continue By Gabe Stern
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Several Student Association campaigns remain under investigation across multiple committees more than a week after the elections ended. The investigations come after a contentious election night that resulted in Syracuse University students accusing SA of election rigging and bias. Mackenzie Mertikas was elected SA president along with running mate Sameeha Saied just after midnight on Friday, April 12. Junior
Stacy Omosa was also elected as comptroller. Investigations are ongoing in the Board of Elections and Membership, the Judicial Review Board and the Administrative Operations Committee, said Academic Affairs Committee Chair Ryan Golden, who ran for SA president against Mertikas and junior Jalen Nash. Sophia Faram, SA’s elections and membership chair, previously said she could not name the specific campaigns in question because the investigations are ongoing. BEM will release a report detailing the
investigation in the near future, Faram said last week. She also said there are “no serious allegations” detailed in BEM’s report. Golden said on Sunday that one of the BEM investigations stems from an email he sent to Parliamentarian Drew Jacobson about his lack of communication with presidential candidates. In an emailed statement to The Daily Orange, Jacobson said he would not to disclose his communication with another SU student and that he had no knowledge on what BEM or the JRB are investigating in that sense.
Faram confirmed on Sunday night that Golden’s email was part of a BEM investigation. Comptroller candidate Eduardo Gomez’s campaign was suspended less than 20 minutes before polling closed for the election in what the BEM described as a “serious infraction of SA bylaws.” Several people then left comments on SA’s Instagram page accusing the organization of rigging the election. Faram said the BEM received evidence the night before the election about a member of Gomez’s campaign being “crude to a lot of
different people and a lot of different organizations.” The BEM had to decide within a day whether to suspend his campaign — a decision that committee members discussed late into election night, Faram said. “We went into this making sure that we were doing the right things because it’s such a big decision,” Faram said. “We did not feel comfortable until we had everything that we could come up with a decision about.” SA’s Public Relations committee see campaigns page 4