May 1, 2017

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may 1, 2017 high 81°, low 54°

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N • Helping out

S • Running away

Syracuse University recently announced it will begin providing childcare subsidies to some graduate students this coming fall semester. Page 3

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SU and North Carolina were even for much of the game. But UNC used a late run to blow past SU in an 18-11 win. It’s the second straight year SU lost to UNC in the ACC final. Page 16

P • Great Scott!

Mayfest and Block Party celebrations livened the SU campus Friday as students enjoyed music in Walnut Park and the Carrier Dome. Page 9

CROWD CONTROL

Syracuse University students took to Walnut Park for Friday afternoon’s Mayfest festivities. Throughout the day, SU’s Department of Public Safety officers viewed surveillance cameras from their control room to monitor the activities. SU has at least 1,100 total cameras across campus. colin davy asst. photo editor

How DPS monitored Mayfest using surveillance cameras By Chris Libonati

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yracuse University Department of Public Safety employee Alex Lynch trained a surveillance camera in the lobby of DellPlain Hall during Mayfest on Friday. The circular camera, which viewed the lobby from the ceiling, could move 360 degrees. A red indicator in the top left corner of the screen showed where the camera was facing. Swiping a computer mouse changed the view. DPS had received a call that a bathroom door had been locked for an irregular amount of time. The

There was a heavy police presence throughout Mayfest, which was held Friday ahead of Block Party. colin davy asst. photo editor

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emergency call triggered suspicion that someone may be in the bathroom and might be unresponsive. The cameras watched as the Syracuse Fire Department entered DellPlain and headed for the bathroom. Because a key entry wasn’t immediately available, the fire department had to take the door off. As the firefighters exited the camera’s view, DPS commander Andrew Mrozienski and SFD Deputy Chief Paul Cousins traded stories about having to take doors off to get to people in past jobs. “Do they really know there’s someone in there?” someone sitting in the room asked. see mayfest page 8

student association

Faculty call for bathroom equity Vice president reflects on legislative session

By Haley Kim

asst. copy editor

SUNY-ESF faculty have asked the university to examine its on-campus bathrooms, which some say are not accommodating to all students. The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Academic Governance body recently passed a resolution, 44-11, calling for bathroom equity on campus. Faculty have said a lack of accessibility has plagued SUNY-ESF for years, leaving some

students — especially transgender students — often feeling uncomfortable using the bathrooms. The resolution asks the administration to conduct a bathroom audit, change the signage of some bathrooms in the Gateway Center, renovate and re-designate other bathrooms across campus and write a policy to improve bathroom equity for future buildings. “The excuses that I hear are our buildings are old and we don’t have a lot of money, and lack of money in different places, but at some point

we need to invest in the comfort in the people that work here,” said Kelley Donaghy, an associate professor of chemistry and one of the co-writers of the resolution. The administration is to present its results of the study and plans for renovation by May 11, the next Academic Governance meeting. While President Quentin Wheeler has expressed support for the resolution, nothing has been done yet to Donaghy’s knowledge, she said. In Illick Hall, there are 38 places see bathrooms page 4

By Jordan Muller staff writer

As the Student Association’s current legislative session comes to a close, Vice President Joyce LaLonde said she wishes she could have done more. “It’s just the type of person I am,” she said. “I wish that all my policy recommendations could

have taken place. I wish that I could’ve had every single student … and every single assembly representative and every single committee chair’s ideas come to fruition.” When LaLonde, a senior policy studies and public relations dual major, was elected vice president last April, she entered SA with no previous experience in the student

see lalonde page 7


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