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N • Student Association

President David Bruen and VP Darnell Stinfort seek to improve the organization’s image and visibility on campus for this upcoming semester.

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C • Spoonful of sugar

S • 25 years later

This SU alumna went from selling her baked goods by delivery to opening her bakery, Kevi’s Treats, on South Salina Street during the pandemic.

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Syracuse women’s soccer played its first match in team history a quarter century ago, after the team was created in response to Title IX. Page 12

Students frustrated about SU’s tuition increase

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5 news stories you may have missed

By Lilli Iannella and Karoline Leonard the daily orange

From Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation to a new campus mask ing policy, here are some of the most prominent stories The Da ily Orange c over e d th i s s u m mer.

Students petition against change in meal swipe options

After Syracuse University removed meal swipe options at campus convenience stores and Schine, students created a petition in late June challenging the updated policy change.

The students who created the petition thought SU’s decision was too restrictive and inequitable.

SU did not respond to the petition or alter their meal swipe policy change despite the petition gaining over 1,850 signatures as of June 20. graphic by maya gooseman digital design director

SU's decision to increase tuition for the 2021-22 academic year leaves some students feeling frustrated

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n the summer of 2020, Hunter Franklin heard that Syracuse University was going to raise tuition for the upcoming school year.

Despite the ongoing pandemic, the cost of tuition would rise 3.9% for the 2020-21 academic year, SU said in May of that year.

“It hit me like a ton of bricks,” said Franklin, who was going into his sophomore year as a dual major in the Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Franklin, along with fellow classmates, wrote a petition asking the university to suspend the tuition raise for the 2020-21 academic year. SU’s Student Association quickly supported the petition, which received over 7,000 signatures on Change.org by the end of May. Although Franklin was allowed to express his concerns to university officials alongside then-SA president Justine Hastings, the petition largely fell on deaf ears, he said.

SU announced another tuition increase for the 2021-22 academic year in late March as part of an SU News release.

For the 2021-22 academic year, tuition will increase by 3% for all full-time undergraduates, the March release said.

Tuition will total $52,240 for students admitted prior to fall 2018 and $55,920 for those admitted after that date. Room rates will increase by an average of 3.5% and meal plans will increase in price by an average of 3%, depending on the selections by the student.

“It definitely causes a lot of disillusionment for students who first came to Syracuse University being told that we were going to be part of one big orange family and the university was committed to making sure that the students were successful,” said Franklin, now a junior.

The release also mentioned a 7% expansion of SU’s financial aid commitment, making the $307 million budget the highest allocation for aid in the university’s history.

“On one hand, we can certainly commend the university for having a fairly unprecedented allocation towards financial aid. However, we could also condemn that they are still going with this runaway cost type,” said David Bruen, president of SA. Bruen said that he thought the

university should be doing far more to alleviate the rising costs of getting an education that have been made worse in the past year, including offering better financial security services.

“That can be something as small as making the process of working with a financial aid officer that much easier, better communication and better use of technological services, but also hopefully seeing an even bigger increase in financial aid,” Bruen said.

Despite the increase in aid, SU’s decision to continually increase tuition costs during a pandemic has raised concern from members of the student body and leaders on campus alike.

SU declined to comment on the reasons behind the increase.

The tuition increase came at a time when SU is experiencing record numbers of applicants.

Over 30,000 prospective students applied to SU for the 2021-22 academic year — a 24% increase from the previous year.

SU also declined to comment on where the extra tuition money will be allocated, or if they would be willing to work with student organizations to find solutions.

Nevertheless, Bruen said he and SA plan to see tuition

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SU alumna Kathy Hochul takes over as NY governor

Following months of sexual assault and harassment allegations, former governor Andrew Cuomo stepped aside, and Kathy Hochul became New York’s 57th governor and first female governor.

Hochul earned her bachelor’s degree from SU in 1980 and went on to serve as the representative for New York’s 26th Congressional District from 2011-2013.

Gov. Kathy Hochul was officially sworn in at midnight on Tuesday, August 24.

SU implements 4-tier masking framework

SU announced in early August that it would be adopting a color-coded masking policy. SU was on the blue-level alert when the university implemented the policy, and it is currently on red-level alert.

At the green-level alert, SU requires non-vaccinated students, faculty, staff a nd v isitors t o w ear masks indoors as well as outdoors when in the presence of others. For vaccinated students and faculty, masks are optional.

At the yellow-level alert, SU still requires non-vaccinated people wear masks indoors as well as outdoors when in the presence of others. For vaccinated people, masks are recommended indoors and in large outdoor gatherings.

At the blue-level alert, masks are required for academic instruction see summer

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“It definitely causes a lot of disillusionment for students who first came to Syracuse University being told that we were going to be part of one big orange family.” - Hunter Franklin, an SU junior Page 3

OPINION “A cultural toolkit would provide SU students of color a new sense of power with the information it would hold.” - Khadesia Tomlin, a Syracuse hair stylist Page 5

CULTURE “My community has stepped up and really supported me tremendously.” - Shankevia Dean, owner of Kevi’s Treats Page 7

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SA plans to improve advocacy, visibility

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Faculty call for stricter COVID-19 prevention

By Richard J Chang news editor

While Bruen has served as the speaker, Stinfort is coming into her new role without prior SA experience. It’s a perspective that she said allows her to see the problems in the organization from a new lens.

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By Nick Robertson senior staff writer

Darnelle Stinfort, vice president of Syracuse University’s Student Association, believes SA has an image problem.

Most students aren't aware of what SA does, and those who do don’t care enough to participate, Stinfort said. Stinfort, along with SA President David Bruen, were

elected last spring with only 10.2% of the student body voting for them, just 0.2% above the required amount for the election to be valid.

As in-person meetings start again this school year, Stinfort and Bruen are looking to increase visibility within the student body by emphasizing SA’s role as a student organization. While SA controls funding for clubs and organizations through its

comptroller, most people don’t realize it’s also an organization itself, Stinfort said.

Stinfort hopes that SA can collaborate with other organizations on campus to raise its image profile by expanding its newsletters. But she’s worried students are not going to read them.

Bruen helped the effort to write a new SA constitution, passed in March, which adds two new cabinet

positions — an internal affairs member and a student advocate.

Those positions will allow him and Stinfort to focus more on engaging with and advocating for students, he said.

“SA is just as much, if not more, of a student advocacy organization than it is a government,” Bruen said. “If we pass something in SA, it doesn’t do a whole lot in the grand

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More than 150 Syracuse University faculty members signed a letter calling for the university to implement more stringent COVID19 prevention procedures.

The letter, which was circulated to faculty members among SU’s schools and colleges, urges SU’s administration to re-implement strict indoor maskwearing guidance, extensive student testing and social distancing enforcement.

On Thursday, Mike Haynie, vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation, announced some of SU’s new and returning policies regarding COVID-19. Some of the faculty members who signed the letter — which was circulated before Haynie’s email update — told The Daily Orange that they still have some unanswered questions, such as what to do if one of their students tests positive and how to accommodate students in quarantine.

The letter states that some faculty are concerned about the color-coded mask guidance laid out on Aug. 13 because it does not specify numbers of COVID-19 cases required for the university to switch to a different alert level.

Dave Larsen, an epidemiologist on SU’s public health team and associate professor of public health at SU, said he took issue with the letter signed by faculty members.

It’s more than the honey: SU’s Bee Orange That letter reflects the anxiety of professors on campus, and it reflects their ignorance, I don’t think they appreciate everything that’s ongoing that they don’t see.

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Despite numerous setbacks after the launch of Bee Orange at Syracuse University in 2019, the project’s leaders managed to continue their community connection and sustainability efforts to sell their honey across campus.

The project, inspired by Bee Campus USA, established six honey bee hives on South Campus in the spring of 2020. The project aims to protect pollinator habitats, increase environmental awareness and encourage appreciation of nature, said Meg Lowe, sustainability coordinator and SU Bee Campus USA committee chair.

“To bring the SU community outside and get them a little bit out of their comfort zone and then have that accessible visual element opens up the conversation about why it’s important to have the honey bees on campus,” she said.

The bee hive program was initiated by SU’s Sustainability and Management department, with the goal of promoting sustainability and benefiting native pollinators.

Lisa Olson-Gugerty, an associate teaching professor in Falk College, has become the primary manager of the hives. She said her team’s hard work, effort and money put into the project have been worth their time and has helped them achieve their community-driven mission.

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The bee hive project was initiated by SU’s Sustainability and Management department in 2019, and six bee hives were established in the spring of 2020. courtesy of meg lowe

“Bringing people into understanding public health doesn’t have to be complicated,” she said. “People see this as positive action by the university to contribute to the community as an act of good nature — literally and figuratively.”

With the onset of COVID-19, the team's plans for spring 2020 were diverted, and the campus hives

faced a colony collapse over this past winter, resulting in the loss of all the bees. The Bee Orange team installed six new nukes — or sets of bees — in May. Two months later, a car drove into the enclosure and knocked over two hives which cost over $4,000 to rebuild, Olson-Gugerty said.

“Luckily, the way we have to look at it is that our bees are okay

and still producing honey,” Lowe said. “It was a cost to us and our program, but our bees are letting us know that they’re still okay.”

To recover from these costly obstacles and earn proceeds, the Bee Orange team sold honey that the campus bees produced in campus convenience stores and the Schine Student Center beginning see bee

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Chancellor Kent Syverud responded to the concerns of the faculty members in an email obtained by The D.O. In addition to restating the new safety protocols, Sy verud said that 2.1% of the entire student body have received a medical or religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine requirement.

Unvaccinated students without an exemption will not be allowed on campus and will be disenrolled from fall classes, Syverud said.

“This is a fundamentally different situation than we faced in fall 2020,” Syverud said.

Larsen also said that SU’s see faculty

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tuition increase push for changes.

“One of the things [SA] is talking about, which a lot of students have talked about and a lot of our peer institutions have done, is a tuition freeze to suspend any raise in tuition,” Bruen said. “Should have been done last year. from page 1

summer stories regardless of vaccination status. SU can also require masks during nonacademic events on a case-by-case basis. Masks are recommended for vaccinated students indoors and in large outdoor gatherings.

At the red-level alert, masks are required indoors at all times regardless of vaccination from page 3

student association scheme of things except make our position very clear for administration.”

Internally, Bruen has also relied on his previous experience as the SA’s speaker of the assembly to reform the SA’s cabinet, a group of policy-minded members who work with the president and vice president.

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bee orange on Feb. 8.

The one-pound jars of honey were sold for $12, and the 144 jars that were available on campus sold out by early to mid March, Lowe said. “(Our plans) kind of got put on the back burner,” she said. “It didn’t have the big rollout like we wanted it to, but this past year, especially this past spring, I think it was from page 3

faculty letter objective this upcoming semester is different due to SU’s population having such a high rate of vaccination. The vaccines “disrupt transmission, and then we (SU) have to tailor our strategy after that,” Larsen said.

The faculty-signed letter says that because the university is not requiring students to wear masks in hallways, bathrooms and other non-academic indoor areas under the “BLUE” alert level, it presents a risk to university employees, their families and the greater Syracuse community.

“Infections will not be contained to campus; they will show up at county testing sites and community hospitals,” the letter reads. “They will impact the lives of students, staff, faculty and their loved ones. They will impact the lives of community members with no association to the university.”

But Larsen said he also has confidence in SU’s contract tracing system, which is now filled with individuals who don’t need the training they did the previous year.

In his email to SU faculty, Syverud said that the university is still doing what it believes is necessary to protect SU and the greater Syracuse community.

“To suggest the university has in any way abandoned our commitment to public health is wrong,” Syverud said.

The letter states that in early August, faculty and staff with unvaccinated family members — including children and those who have an underlying health condition — began demanding SU increase safety protocols in classrooms to prevent the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19. Faculty said in the letter that they have not seen these concerns addressed directly as a result of bringing them up to administrators.

“We have tried many other available avenues at our disposal with no effect that we can tell,” the letter reads. “We ask again for the university to implement the successful and rigorous safety protocols it has the capability to so that we can all feel

Should have been done this year.”

Some of SU’s peer institutions, such as Marquette University and Ithaca College, decided against increasing the cost of tuition for the 2021-22 academic year in the face of economic hardship caused by the pandemic to their student body.

As of April 20, SU reported losses of at least $35 million during the pandemic but was

unable to use its $1.4 billion endowment fund to offset this lost revenue due to restrictions.

Franklin said students like him were above all concerned by the financial impact the increase would have on families, many of whom are struggling due to the pandemic.

“It’s very disturbing that the concentrations keep skyrocketing,” Franklin said. “And yet,

the quality of education is declining, the quality of services is declining and families continue to be punished inancially by this university.”

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status. Additionally, masks are required outdoors when in the presence of others.

The only exceptions are when students are in their dorm rooms or when faculty are alone in private work spaces.

justice relating to the Interstate 81 viaduct.

The demonstrators called for I-81 to be removed as quality of living issues such as air pollution raise concern for bordering neighborhoods.

Additionally, they advocated for local residents to receive the jobs created by I-81’s removal.

Lawsuit alleges SU’s website fails to meet federal accessibility standards

prospective SU student alleged that the university’s website does not fulfill federal accessibility standards.

The prospective student cla imed that the design of SU’s website is not compatible w ith computer screen reading programs, therefore depriving access to the site to those who are blind or visually impaired.

organization from a new lens.

While Bruen and Stinfort have emphasized SA’s role in advocacy, that has not stopped the duo from making some progress on their broad campaign platform. Last spring, they proposed a 26-point platform, which includes a tuition freeze and implementing what they call the “Green New Deal for Syracuse University.”

Over the summer, SU implemented free laundry services in residence halls, announced by the university a month after Bruen and Stinfort were elected, checking off a campaign goal. Bruen expected a fight over that issue, he said.

SA has also compromised with SU’s

administration to create an online portal for sexual assault survivors to gain easy access to helpful resources. Bruen and Stinfort wanted an in-person office, something they are still hopeful to implement.

While they have seen slow progress towards bigger initiatives like their climate sustainability plan when talking to administrators, Bruen said staff and faculty seem open to making changes to help their cause. He had productive talks with SU food services staff this summer on sourcing more sustainable food, he said.

The best cooperation from SU officials

has been from outgoing DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado, Bruen said. SA openly supported #NotAgainSU protesters in fall 2019 and their demands for DPS reform.

Bruen has been pleased with Maldonado’s willingness to speak with SA and believes his promises of reform are genuine. But current reform efforts have not gone far enough, Bruen said.

“The Loretta Lynch report is good at attacking 60% of the issues. There was a lot that it included but was not clear on how to address, like hiring for example,” Bruen said. njrobert@syr.edu

pretty successful.”

The team plans to start selling more of the honey starting between the end of September and beginning of October, depending on impending harvesting conditions. Lowe expects to harvest more than the 144 pounds of honey extracted last year, and the selling locations will remain unchanged.

In the spring, the honey was pale yellow with a green hue and had a menthol-like flavor, as the linden and basswood trees

surrounding the hives give it a distinctly unique and minty flavor, Olson-Gugerty said. In the fall, the honey will be darker and consists of a stronger flavor due to the golden rod trees in the area.

Lowe said she hopes to eventually install more hives across campus, but she plans to wait a year or two to allow for sustainability and comparative studies. For now, the team plans to create a bee boutique — a house for burrowing bees.

“We want to make sure that we’re

producing what it is that we need and leaving enough behind for the other pollinators as well,” Lowe said.

Bee Orange has been involved with nutrition education, service learning and public health courses at SU. The program hopes to expand their connection with the campus community to inspire active participation.

“Honey bees are a keystone species in our ecosystem,” Lowe said. “Without them we wouldn’t have one-third of our food.”

Demonstrators march for local hiring, environmental justice in I-81 project

On Aug. 14, Syracuse community members marched for economic, racial and environmental

safe and protect others.”

As a parent with unvaccinated children, Larsen said he does not completely dismiss the emotions of staff who signed onto the letter.

“I get it, I get the fear. I get the anxiety about it,” he said.

John Liu, interim vice chancellor and provost, also responded to these concerns in an email, obtained by The D.O. Faculty should ask any student who is not compliant with the university’s mask mandate to leave the classroom and report the student to the Dean of Students Office, Liu said.

Liu’s email did not provide any additional guidance for faculty in an academic setting.

Haynie reiterated and added to SU’s COVID-19 protocols for the upcoming semester in a campus-wide email on Thursday. Many of the precautions taken in previous semesters — such as contact tracing, required testing for unvaccinated people and wastewater surveillance testing — will continue for fall 2021, Haynie said in the email.

The email also detailed some of SU’s new COVID-19 policies for the fall 2021 semester. These policies include random testing of vaccinated people and SU’s alert system.

Also new to the university’s policy is students’ options if they are exposed as a close contact to COVID-19. For those who are vaccinated and asymptomatic, they may either wear a mask for 14 days or receive a COVID-19 test three to five days after exposure. Students who choose to take the test must wear a mask until they get their result, and if they test positive, they will have to be isolated for 10 days, Haynie said.

Vaccinated and symptomatic people are advised to stay at home and receive a COVID-19 test as soon as possible, Haynie said. If the result of the test is negative, they must receive another test three to five days after exposure. If the initial or second test is positive, the student, faculty, or staff member must isolate. rjchang@syr.edu

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A ‘cultural Yellow Pages’ directory could aid students of color

By Camille Daniels guest columnist

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f you were born before the 2000s, you may remember when telephone companies sent out Yellow and White Pages to your home with the listing of various contacts — White Pages for personal home phone numbers, and Yellow Pages for commercial businesses.

Before this information was one Google search away, these directories made it somewhat easy to look up a business or someone’s name. New students of color at Syracuse University could use something like this — their own cultural Yellow Pages.

Unless you are one of the few students to have a connection to Syracuse prior to your arrival, it’s not always easy to know where to go for certain necessities. This is especially true for students of color with certain needs and wants that not just anyone can address.

One big issue for students of color is their hair. If you’re a young Black person on campus who wants or needs it done in a specific way, it can be difficult to find someone that can properly help.

Mazahar Kalia, an SU law student and a Syracuse native, said that when students learn of the co-owned business that she and her sister share, there is a sense of relief for those who find them.

“When they find another Black girl that can do hair, they’re just so ecstatic about it because it’s always difficult to try to find services in a town you’re not from,” Kalia said.

Kalia said that, when dealing with clients who are new students of color at SU, she does her best to provide them with as much information as possible, such as where to find a beauty supply store to tend to their hair.

“I’m kind of able to educate

about the city of Syracuse, the ethnic part of it, rather than what is portrayed,” Kalia said.

Given that new students are adjusting to classes and the culture of the university, it is understandable that many students are not familiar with the city itself. However, that does not mean it is right to leave students culturally unaware of life outside of campus.

Thoughts of life outside of campus may only occur when the need to tend to things such as hair and food arise. Perception is key and, in some cases, it may appear as if ethnic culture in Syracuse does not exist.

Kalia feels this perception is being confirmed by the most influential voices in town.

“The way Syracuse as the city is presented through Syracuse University is as this upstate New York school, predominantly white town,” Kalia said. “And that isn’t necessarily the case.”

“We have culture in the city of Syracuse, but because the campus is so big, and because it’s like in the middle of everything, it kind of takes away from the actual city and the ethnic part of it,” she said.

To edit the story of what the city of Syracuse is like beyond the campus of SU, a cultural toolkit — a book or website with information, services and resources helpful to students of color — should be created to better tell who represents Syracuse.

“Having a toolkit … for everything all Black women would want, or all Black men would want, having some sort of resource that the school provides, I think that students would benefit tremendously,” Kalia said. “Because it would be in the package, they wouldn’t have to search all on their own.”

Besides the issue of hair, transportation can also be an issue for some students in search of cer-

Providing students of color access to resources that help them acclimate to life in Syraucse would give them more room to thrive.

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tain kinds of cultural foods that campus dining options may not provide. Kalia said that students frequently talk to her about the issue of transportation.

Students may use a variety of methods in their research, including social media. One hair stylist in Syracuse — Khadesia Tomlin, also known as Kay Kay — is known by students for using specific hashtags for certain hairstyles on Instagram.

However, even with the convenience of Instagram, Tomlin feels more could be done to make it easier for students of color to find what they need.

“The college kids should have some type of pamphlet or web-

site like something that’s holding information of hairstylists, makeup artists and people who run their own business that they can attend,” she said.

Tomlin said that a cultural toolkit would provide SU students of color a new sense of power with the information it would hold. It would let them decide what is best for them, rather than being at the mercy of whatever services they just happen to find.

Tomlin also said that, for any type of database being curated, research should be done on each business. In her interactions with students, some have had bad experiences with hair stylists, who are not

always reliable. She said it would be helpful if the toolkit included only recommended businesses to help students feel better about their choices of who to do business with.

SU students of color — both new and established students — flourish even more where they know who and where they can go without questions asked, and a cultural toolkit would help students of color find necessities that fit their needs.

Whether this toolkit is created by the Office of Multicultural Affairs or another group on campus, SU administration and students should support and encourage the toolkit’s creation.

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The greater Syracuse area offers more than students realize

By Teagan Brown columnist

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s a native of Syracuse, New York, I have noticed that Syracuse University students are so enraptured by downtown Syracuse that they forget there are surrounding towns and villages that hold new and exciting endeavors. Syracuse also contains a diverse population with many different, beautiful cultures.

SU students should exit the bubble that downtown Syracuse provides and explore the other amazing aspects of the surrounding area. Luckily, there are endless activities to enjoy around the city this school year.

Roughly a 12-minute drive from

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campus, you can find the best hotdogs in the whole state at Heid’s of Liverpool. You can grab a hotdog, a pickle spear and some local Byrne Dairy chocolate milk — a great meal for a cheap price. While eating, you can walk right across the street to Onondaga Parkway and enjoy the excitement that the local community has to offer.

There are also plenty of places with alternative options if you’re vegetarian, vegan and gluten free. Carmelita’s Mexican Restaurant in Cicero, New York, has veggie tacos that my best friend said “are to die for.”

In addition to the food, many Syracuse residents and SU students are drawn to this area due the love of sports throughout the city. It’s undeniable — sports are a huge part

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of Syracuse culture. Some popular local teams include the Syracuse Orange, Syracuse Mets, and the Syracuse Crunch Hockey club.

But fifteen minutes from campus, at Esta Safety Park Drag Strip, you can join a crowd of spectators as they watch cars fly down the track at 165 mph. Although you may not know about the drag strip, anyone can go on Sundays to experience a fast-paced environment and an uncommon sport.

If you’d like to get out of the loud crowds and into a calmer environment, you can travel farther from campus to Skaneateles, New York.

In this beautiful town adjacent to Skaneateles Lake, there are plenty of small businesses that sell goods such as handmade jewelry.

Another benefit of being in central New York is that the area experiences all four seasons, although winter tends to feel longer than the others.

Around Christmas time, Skaneateles looks like it is straight out of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” with actors and actresses dressing the part for incoming visitors.

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After giving back to her community through cooking classes and social work with kids with disabilities, Shankevia Dean’s community in turn anya wijeweera photo editor supported her bakery business.

How a teacher went from running a baking class to opening her own bakery during the pandemic

By Ashley Clemens staff writer

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t all started with lemon drop cookies, Shankevia Dean said.

After finding herself jobless during her master’s degree program at Syracuse University, Dean knew she was going to have to scramble for income. She quickly realized she could start selling cookies, specifically her selfdescribed “very soft and it’s got a little crunch around the edges” lemon cookies.

She started out by hand-delivering the cookies to customers before expanding to mason jar desserts — starting with banana pudding. The pudding was popular, so she expanded her mason jar dessert selection to include peach cobbler and strawberry shortcake.

“I started becoming the mason jar queen,” Dean said.

The delivery service was the predecessor to

her newly opened bakery on South Salina Street, Kevi’s Treats, which now offers nearly 60 desserts. The space has an inviting brown-and-pink color scheme with photos of her baking hanging up throughout the room.

Though Kevi’s Treats is only open Thursdays and Fridays in order to accommodate Dean’s busy schedule, she has sold out every Friday since her July 1 opening.

During the school year, she is a social worker at OCM Boces, a school for adults and kids with disabilities. Her social work inspired her to start her own cooking classes five years ago in a rented kitchen at Grace Episcopal Church for kids in her community.

The classes are meant to be a safe space where kids of all abilities are able to learn practical kitchen skills, and kids can then bring desserts home to their families. Dean said she is a firm believer that it benefits kids with disabilities to not be “singled out” by

having separate classes, so she worked on integrating students with learning disabilities into the classes.

“They need to be with general kids so they can see they’re normal as well,” Dean said. “They just have a little disability that hinders them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not successful as well. So I started putting them in these classes and it was a hit.”

The cooking classes have been on hiatus since Dean opened the bakery, but she said she plans to start up once-a-month classes in October.

The classes start with students learning about safety in the kitchen before cooking a small meal and dessert. Dean said one of the kids’ favorite meals has been walking tacos — tacos put together in a chip bag so the students can shake up the food and eat it while walking.

In addition to being motivated by her background in social work, Dean said that her son see bakery page 8

black business guide

‘On The One’ DJ center holds training sessions at mall

By Louis Platt culture editor

Destiny USA attracts visitors looking for many things – new clothes, a place to go out for dinner and somewhere to catch a new movie. Now, people are visiting the mall to learn the art of disc jockeying with the help of Jasmine Coan, who goes by the artist

name DJ Bella J. Coan, who is the official DJ of the Syracuse University women’s basketball team, founded a DJ center called On The One in Destiny USA in June after the pandemic temporarily halted DJ gigs at clubs and private events. Influenced by a relative who is into disc jockeying and her childhood spent listening to disc jockeys like DJ Jazzy Jeff

and DJ Spinderella, the Brooklyn native dove into the DJing industry about 10 years ago. The opening of Coan’s DJ-training business offers the Syracuse DJ community a public outlet to practice their passion and network.

“We don’t really have a spot.

That’s why it’s so important for me to open On The One in Syracuse because it’s dedicated to the

DJ,” Coan said. “It’s owned by a DJ; it’s run by a DJ. And any DJ — they can walk in there for resources (and to) share music, practice skills (and) get advice.”

Despite starting her professional DJ career in her early 30s, Coan got her introduction to the trade at about 8 years old in Coney Island. Her godbrother brought his turntables to family parties,

where he mixed the music everyone danced to, she said.

At the time, Coan wasn’t allowed to touch the turntables, but watching his hand movements control the records and the music coming out of the speakers captivated her.

“I absolutely was intrigued by what he was doing and how he was playing music,” Coan said. see disc

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Last-minute tips for changing your class schedule

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Building your class schedule can be tricky, and it almost always leads to last-minute alterations and additions. The Daily Orange compiled a list of classes from a few interesting subjects that still have a reliable number of open seats available.

FST 102 — Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues

There won’t be food thrown across the classroom as you debate your classmates about food systems in the United States, but this introduction to food studies concepts will make you a well-rounded consumer. From learning about migrant labor systems within the country to discussing the local dairy industry, you’re bound to leave this class with a deeper appreciation for the food you pick up from the dining halls or supermarkets.

including design, interface and structures of play. ENG 156 also compares modern games to older games such as chess, giving students the chance to see how many aspects of gaming have stayed the same throughout the past few centuries.

ENG 217 — Introductory Fiction Workshop

Have you had an idea for a story in the back of your head for years but lacked the time or motivation to work on it? Introductory Fiction Workshop will provide you with both. In this course, students submit original short stories of any genre and receive written and verbal feedback from their peers and professor. With a formal writing setting to get your creative juices flowing, you may discover an eye for plot and way with words you didn’t know you had!

HOA 300 — History of Art: Art After the Second World War

Now would be a great time to consider taking your fall semester under the sea. BIO 106 offers some flexibility with a last-minute addition or change to your schedule because of its multiple available sections. Ranging from introductory marine life biology to the conservation issues of today, this class has it all – except maybe Nemo.

Now is your chance to stock up on art history facts to impress your family and friends with when you return home over Thanksgiving break. But, if your intentions are true and you want to learn about the likes of Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, or dive into the mysterious rise of street artist Banksy from Bristol, England, to across the globe, this may be the class for you.

ENG 156 — Interpretation of Games

PHI 325 – Existentialism

BIO 106 — Ocean Life

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bakery inspires her to help other kids in the community. Her classes are not only “therapeutic” but practical because the classes allow kids to become self-sufficient when it comes to snacks and meals.

Latisha Harper, one of the bakery’s regulars, said Dean plays an important part in the community because she does everything with love. Harper said Dean “put in work,” so she’s happy people can come to Dean now, instead of Dean driving to them.

Though Dean’s bakery is not yet a year old, the community has taken notice. “She’s part of the community,” Harper said.

Mayor Ben Walsh attended Dean’s official ribbon cutting ceremony, and she won an award from the CenterState CEO Ambassadors, which is on display at the location. from page 7

disc jockey Coan didn’t follow in her father’s, siblings’ and cousins’ footsteps as singers, she said.

Instead, as soon as she was old enough to go to nightclubs with her friends, Coan once again found herself gravitating toward the DJ booth.

Coan moved to the Syracuse area to attend Le Moyne College to study accounting. She and her friends frequented the local clubs — especially her favorite one, Traffik, which is now called Studio 54.

“When I went to a club, I would be right near the DJ booth,” she said. “I wanted to see their hands and what they were doing. I would always anticipate a song in my mind that will be coming next.”

But, when the DJs didn’t play the song she anticipated would come next, it got her thinking about what she would play and what she could bring to the industry as a female DJ. On The One’s founder told LocalSYR.com that while growing up, she didn’t see many DJs who she could relate to. After college, Coan went the corporate route first and started a career in the customer service industry.

At age 28 and with two children, Coan wanted a career shift, so she enrolled at Scratch DJ Academy in New York City to study on the weekends. With her daughters at her sister’s house, Coan drove to the city to attend Jam Master Jay’s disc jockey school, where she met other aspiring DJs from across the country.

Do you spend hours pondering the meaning of life? If you do, then you will find yourself in great company in this philosophy class. PHI 325 is available to juniors, seniors and students who have taken a PHI class “My community has stepped up and really supported me tremendously,” Dean said.

Since Dean’s bakery is still a new venture, she has a few volunteers who help her manage behind the counter and work the register. One of these volunteers, Demaris Seibles, is an old friend of Dean’s.

Seibles said she wasn’t surprised by Dean opening a bakery because Dean has cooked since she was young, and she used to spend time in the kitchen with her mother.

The bakery will reopen Sept. 17 with different hours to accommodate Dean’s work at the school. The fall hours will be Fridays from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 3:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Dean said the response and love she’s received so far “makes my heart feel good, it makes me happy.” aeclemen@syr.edu @aec104

“I had to travel over 300 miles there and back, just to go to a place to learn,” Coan said.

While studying at the academy in 2012, Coan learned many of the basic scratch skills needed to be a DJ and to improve her sound, but what she really gained from attending the school was exploring the business possibilities, including opening her own DJ company, during classes, she said.

For the next decade — while working club and private gigs in Syracuse — Coan knew she wanted to create a space for the Syracuse DJ community to connect and excel. And especially to provide a place for young girls to have an opportunity to learn how to disc jockey.

“I want to offer those workshops to tell (young girls) about the possible career path or the career that they can have doing what I did, based on what I did,” Coan said.

When the outlets for DJs to perform live temporarily ceased to exist during the pandemic, Coan saw an opportunity to start her own DJ-training business, she said. On June 29, Coan opened On The One — a reference to starting the next song of a mix on the first beat — and started hosting training sessions for students of all ages at her Destiny mall space.

One of Coan’s mentees is 18-year-old Dale McMillian Jr., who started disc jockeying about six months ago. For the last two months, McMillian, who goes by the artist name DaleThaRockstar, visits On The One to test new mixes alongside Coan, pick up tips from her and utilize Coan’s central space at Destiny USA.

Whether it’s learning to write your own piece of fiction or about art history, SU has a wide variety of classes to take advantage of. emily steinberger editor-in-chief

before who want to take advantage of their time at college to explore new schools of thought. Through the words of classic writers Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beauvoir and more, this class is a chance to debate and decide the purpose of living, if there is any purpose at all.

COM 427 — Social Media for Communicators If you think you know everything there is to know about social media, think again.

This course, which is available to juniors

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After giving back to her community through cooking classes and social work, Shankevia Dean’s community in turn supported her bakery. anya wijeweera staff writer

JASMINE COAN, whose artist name is DJ Bella J, founded a DJ center called On The One in Destiny USA in June. courtesy of jasmine coan

“It feels like home,” McMillian said.

The impact On The One is making is just the beginning of what she hopes to accomplish for the DJ community in the central New York region, Coan said. On Sunday, she co-hosted the first DJ festival at The Great New York State Fair with 14 DJs from around the state, including DaleThaRockstar. Coan hopes to host larger events in the future that unite local

and international DJs together.

In the meantime, she’s proud to provide a platform for New York state DJs. “Right now, I’m getting different DJs coming in from different parts of the state,” Coan said. “It’s amazing to see DJs excited about it because that’s who I’m doing it for.” louis@dailyorange.com @JBL__98

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anniversary who worked at James Madison University before joining Syracuse in January 1996. “She was a walking billboard.”

While opposing coaches played their seasons during the fall, Kater went into prospects’ living rooms across the Northeast. After cracking a suitcase open to show off SU through photos and VHS tapes, the head coach made her pitch: how they had the chance to pave a legacy, the chance to be the first.

Kater corresponded with players, too. They sent letters back and forth before, but when Erika Hadjoglou Palmer, who played from 199699, tore her ACL during a tournament her high school senior year, she received another letter from Kater. “We hope your knee heals. Keep us posted,” Palmer recalled it saying.

This comfort made Palmer go on an official visit at Syracuse, she said. During official visits with prospects, Kater and later Rojas looped groups of players around Manley Field House and its facilities, walked outside and pointed out the construction plot that would be SU Soccer Stadium.

By summer 1996, Syracuse assembled a team of 19 players. In the mail, each recruit received a manila envelope with a packet detailed with fitness, weight and soccer exercises to complete over the summer.

“It is important that you do not ignore any particular part of this training,” one section read. “Preseason will seem much longer, demanding and unenjoyable if you do not prepare yourself now.”

Months later at preseason, some players from page 12

men’s soccer down and Christian Curti went two yards further back than Syracuse’s set defensive line, keeping the PSU sophomore onside.

“They put a lot of quality in the box,” Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre said. “We talked about it going into the game that it’s important to man mark in the box, and unfortunately today we got exposed a couple times and they punished us.”

Syracuse (1-1-0, 0-0-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) struggled to shut down No. 11 Penn State (1-0-1, 0-0-0 Big Ten Conference) from close range and lost 3-0 in its first loss of the season. Despite outshooting Penn State 15-13, the Orange’s defensive struggles cost them its 31st all-time loss to the Nittany Lions.

Five minutes into the second half, Syracuse dealt with another Awadesu throw-in, this time deeper into their half near the opposite corner flag. The throw was lobbed over two Orange defenders and brought down by Pierre Reedy, who dribbled into space in the penalty box. He pulled a pass back near the penalty spot to Mangione, who then made a first-time pass to Kuhn.

Kuhn’s point blank shot was denied by a from page 12

women’s soccer Through 20 shots, 13 corner kicks and 90 rocky minutes, Syracuse (2-1) stormed back to beat Eastern Michigan (0-4) 2-1. Just three games into its 2021 campaign, Syracuse has already surpassed its five goals from last year’s season and are tied for its most wins since 2019, which was Nicky Adams’ first season as head coach.

After they left the field, SU players roared from the locker room at Ensley Athletic Center before Adams and senior Meghan Root emerged. When asked about passing last season’s paltry goal record, Adams walked through her past three years as head coach.

She took over in April 2019 with a depleted roster, ran the team in the midst of COVID19, went 1-7 in Atlantic Coast Conference play and has now landed here, opening the from page 12

field hockey from last season, wasn’t fazed about her team’s schedule.

“We really aren’t even focusing on our competition,” Bradley said. “We have to be able to keep growing, and things that we do really well — we have to keep building upon those.”

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gasped for air during lap-aheads, a fitness drill where Rojas would take off and circle around the field while players would chase after her.

Midfielder Jenna Szyluk zipped in front of the pack while others such as goalie Riley Wogamon Smit lagged behind. The entire team needed to touch Rojas to complete the drill.

“I was dragging,” said Smit, who played from 1996-99. “(I thought), ‘I’m a goalkeeper, what do I need to run for?’ And I paid for it. Man, it was brutal.”

Besides lap-aheads, players would also run 10x120s and sprinting drills called “cone monsters.” Running was a cornerstone of Kater’s mindset: If her team couldn’t beat an opponent by skill, they would outrun them.

Sure enough, after winning against Buffalo, the Orange won their first six games in a row through nonconference play. Beyond practices, where they had Mondays off, freshmen players spent time together through team meals and on the Mount. Players filed in and out for meetings in Kater and Rojas’ offices, which sat across from each other at Manley. The team built chemistry, and at the start of October, Syracuse had posted a 8-0-1 record.

Soon, though, on Oct. 3, 1996, the team’s streak finished with a loss to St. Bonaventure.

Three days later, they were shut out by Colgate, then by Villanova and Vermont — “heavy hitters,” the former head coach said. Kater recalled players being burnt out, something she felt that was bound to occur as midterm season approached.

Syracuse split its games toward the end of the season. For their last game, the Orange faced West Point’s Holly Pedley, one of the best players in the country at the time, Kater said. Syracuse

led in the first 45 minutes. But after halftime, Pedley went on a scoring rampage. With each goal scored, Army players jumped to the ground and completed pushups. West Point eventually won 5-3, and the loss cemented Syracuse’s record at 10-6-1.

Postgame, Kater told her team that the program could only grow. She understood that her team was still building an identity, that it was about maintaining the team’s standards of fitness and hard work. Stacy Shanning Boccabella, who played from 1996-98, recalled her head coach would bring up “The Army Game” in coming seasons as motivation.

The next year, Syracuse went 14-5 in its first season in the Big East.

diving Russel Shealy, but his rebound found the left foot of Andrew Privet, who found the upper corner which extended Penn State’s lead to 3-0.

“We got punished for a couple of soft goals early in both halves,” McIntyre said. “You can’t hand an opponent as good as Penn State’s soft goals.”

Sunday’s game, which was nearly threatened by a premature cancellation due to potential lightning in the area, gave the players a consistent downpour to play under.

The ball skipped and hindered more than the players had hoped for, McIntyre said, which deferred Syracuse’s routine plans to send long balls out wide and to its two target forwards.

The rainy surface also challenged the Orange when playing through the middle of the field. Just two minutes before Pitllick’s goal, Shealy lined the ball up for a goal kick and played an ordinary bouncing ball towards midfielder Amferney Sinclair inside his own half. But the ball bounced all the way up to Sinclair’s head, rather than being set up for an easy first touch, as he jumped to try and keep it in front of him.

His defender behind him collected the ball and brought it down, which led to a Nittany Lions cross that found an open Reedy

in the right side of the box. As he brought the ball down cleanly, Reedy was rammed to the ground and drew a clear penalty. Reedy then stepped up to the penalty spot and converted Penn State’s second, calmly slotting off the right post and in.

season with her senior forward standing behind her and a 2-1 record against nonconference teams.

“Our goal is a goal a game: that’s a 20-goal season,” Adams said. “I don’t know when that (last) happened in Syracuse, but that’s our ultimate goal is trying to create that. We’re getting there.”

In the first half of Sunday’s game, though, Syracuse didn’t create anything. Adams said SU’s working on the offense to “pull the trigger,” and even though they had the ammunition of six corner kicks, the Orange never hit their target.

“At the end of the day, my team is creating chances — it’s not like we don’t have chances,” Adams said. “We have to put the ball into the back of the net. Plain and simple.”

Telly Vunipola advanced the ball, but through balls met the legs of EMU defenders. Jenna Tivnan beat her defender 33 min-

utes in, then stepped in the right side of the box and rifled a shot over EMU’s goal, but the ball flew over the post. As the clock dwindled under 11 minutes remaining, Natalie Weidenback moved to another corner on the right side of the field, trying — but failing — to connect on a header inside EMU’s box. As a result, the Orange entered halftime scoreless.

At the 63-minute mark of the second half, Simone Chiodo lined up for a penalty shot off a Zoe Van de Cloot foul and yellow card. The shot was aimed for the right side of the goal, but Proulx deflected it, leaving her on the ground and a wide-open goal. As Syracuse and EMU players stormed inside the box, EMU midfielder Maddie O’Farrell knocked the ball inside the post just as Syracuse’s goalkeeper picked herself up.

Down 1-0, Adams called Root over and the two began “chessing people” together

and developing a strategy in the hopes of coming back. The head coach said she almost switched to a 3-3-4 combination to bolster Syracuse’s frontline.

But with 18 minutes left, Vunipola advanced the ball to the left side of the field, beating off her defender. Before she sprinted out of bounds, the senior midfielder sent another through ball into EMU’s box. The Eagles’ goalkeeper Rebecca Przybylo flung her body to the right side of her goal, ricocheting the shot off her arm, before Hannah Pilley tapped a shot into the left corner of the goal.

With three minutes remaining, a ball landed to Root, who lined up for a right foot chip shot out of the EMU’s box. Vunipola found it and rifled the ball to the right side. Once it landed in the back of the net, it was already enough to surpass the five from last year.

corner during the first quarter as Syracuse held the bulk of possession. Syracuse couldn’t convert on early opportunities despite controlling possession. The Catamounts thwarted the Orange early on but rarely found themselves in the opposing half, not getting a shot off until the fourth quarter.

The 11 shots and seven corners Syracuse produced proved to be too much for the Vermont backline and goalkeeper Sierra Espe-

land, who saved 14 shots.

For the remainder of the game, the Orange continued to keep Vermont in its own half.

Whenever the Catamounts would win the ball, SU forwards and midfielders worked to quickly win the ball back.

Syracuse wasted no time pressing its advantage after the half, scoring two goals within the first four minutes of the third quarter. Laura Graziosi contributed to both,

slotting home a cross from freshman Quirine Comans before assisting Florine van Boetzelaer just over two minutes later. SU’s Hailey Bitters notched her second goal of the season to finish off the third quarter. “(We have to) put our best version of ourselves together when we get into the ACC,” Bradley said. “Win or lose, we’re going to evaluate the same way.”

Being that hardcore translated to the demands we put on the players, and they didn’t realize—they were part of that legacy.

They weren’t just part of the Title IX movement.

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“Maren and I were pretty hardcore those first couple seasons because we didn’t have room for error,” Kater said. “Being that hardcore translated to the demands we put on the players, and they didn’t realize they were part of that legacy.

That second goal really hurt us.

Although we huffed and puffed, we didn’t really create enough quality.

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“We were caught in transition a little bit and gave away a soft bounce,” McIntyre said.

“That second goal really hurt us. Although we huffed and puffed, we didn’t really create enough quality.”

But while Syracuse struggled defending crosses, its best chances came when the Orange had crosses of their own. With Giona

They weren’t just part of building a new program — they were part of the Title IX movement.”

When Boccabella read aloud “Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?” to her fourth graders during Women’s History Month this year, the Porter-Gaud School (South Carolina) teacher brought up her own experience on the topic of Title IX. After thumbing through the section about the law and sports, Boccabella pulled up pictures of her and her former teammates wearing puffy Syracuse uniforms on the classroom Smartboard.

“I was a part of the first women’s soccer team at Syracuse,” Boccabella told her class.

“Your uniforms were so big,” one student called out.

“Look at your hair,” another said.

Like Boccabella, the majority of former players are hundreds of miles away from Syracuse, along with being decades removed from the school. Now they have jobs, kids and last names that don’t match the ones on scorecards from their playing days. But outside of soccer, Kater and Rojas’ “sixth sense” made them keep in touch, players said.

There’s a group chat, one which buzzed while the US women’s soccer team played during this year’s Olympics. And although COVID-19 has limited it, almost every year, a handful of them carve out a weekend to meet up. It’s where memories of that 1996 season and other old times flood back, players said.

“April and Maren really made it a family for us,” Palmer said. “I wouldn’t trade it for the world.” cscargla@syr.edu @chrisscargs

Leibold temporarily playing in the center of the field, he opened up a wide open left wing for midfielder Colin Biros to meet a through ball down the left flank.

Biros’ bouncing cross found the head of Sinclair crashing in towards the back post, sending a head-on net — that would’ve been the eventual first-half equalizer — right into Penn State goalkeeper Kris Shakes.

Then, early in the second half, Syracuse moved the ball along the right wing to Luke Biasi, who had space to look for open players in the box. He found Leibold at the back post who took a quick shot at Shakes. Shakes spilled the rebound and the ball made its way to the top of the penalty box where DeAndre Kerr trapped the ball. Kerr’s low, blistering shot went right into a wall of Penn State defenders, who deflected it towards the left touchline.

Despite the missed chances and successfully outshooting Penn State by two attempts, McIntyre views the loss as a lesson against the 2019 National Champions.

“It’s a steep learning curve,” McIntyre said.

“Over the 90 minutes, there wasn’t a lot of difference between the two teams, yet we lost 3-0.” ahcirino@syr.edu

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aug. 30, 2021

PAVING A LEGACY Since starting the program from scratch 25 years ago, April Kater shaped SU women’s soccer into what it is today

men’s soccer

Defense struggles in 3-0 shutout

By Alex Cirino

assistant copy editor

Penn State defender Femi Awadesu sent a pass up the right wing that was blocked by a sliding Giona Leibold, sailing out of bounds for a throw-in. The ball nearly rolled into the Syracuse bench, but Awadesu sprinted to collect it.

Awadesu took the throw quickly to preserve PSU’s early momentum just four minutes into the game. He found a surging Peter Mangione running into an open gap, and then he collected a loose ball trickling down the line.

Awadesu’s cross loomed over everyone in the box, but it landed just near the left corner flag for his opposite winger to collect. He quickly dished the ball off to Seth Kuhn who found Mangione in the goal box for a header, which tucked into the bottom left corner. Mangione was ahead of a perfectly aligned group of three Orange defenders, but the assistant referee’s flag still stayed APRIL KATER dedicated over a year and a half to building a winning culture within Syracuse women’s soccer program. In her first six years as head coach, she had all winning seasons. courtesy of kim kisner begley

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women’s soccer

By Christopher Scarglato senior staff writer

A

pril Kater had spent 457 days molding a program from scratch, so the then-Syracuse University women’s soccer head coach plopped on a sideline bench to watch it all come together. It was Aug. 31, 1996, shortly after 3:30 p.m, and SU was competing in the first game of its inaugural season against the University at Buffalo.

While the head coach scanned the field, her players’ white jerseys glimmered in the afternoon sunlight. Just months prior, Kater was on the recruiting trail with her assistant coach Maren Rojas, pitching to prospects, attending tournaments and handwriting letters for a program that didn’t exist.

The two constructed the foundation for Syracuse women’s soccer, a program created because of Title IX, the federal law that bans sex-based discrimation in any education program. With a collective of transfers, freshmen and club players, the team ended with a 10-61 record in its inaugural season. After being built on the legacy of that 1996 team, the Syracuse women’s soccer program enters its 25th campaign this year, hoping to improve on last season’s 1-7 record.

Through a year and a half of preparation, from recruiting to preseason, Kater attracted prospects as far as Oklahoma, maintaining an animated presence during practice. But during games, the head coach was the opposite, normally sitting stoically on the sidelines.

In the 23rd minute of the Orange’s first game,

though, Kater rose up. Forward Jaime Mingoia Vollmer rifled an 18-yard shot at the net. Buffalo’s goalkeeper Joanne Chillingsworth bobbled the ball in her mitts, letting it roll between her legs and past the post — Syracuse’s first goal.

Vollmer and her teammates beelined toward SU Soccer Stadium’s new bleachers. As a pre-planned celebration, they slid on the grass and laid down, white and blue diamond Adidas uniforms all stretched out in a row. Syracuse went on to score four more goals and win 5-2. “(That goal) was the definition of our season,” Kater said. “Blue collar work ethic, outwork our opponent and have some fun doing it.”

Syracuse defeats Eastern Michigan

Kater knew the gravity of her situation trying to create a program from the ground up. She was 26 years old, 5 years removed from winning the Hermann Trophy and becoming the head coach for a fresh Division-I soccer program. SU Athletics wanted her to arrive later in the summer, but Kater moved her start date up to June 1, 1995 since she wanted to start recruiting as early as possible.

Days after arriving in Syracuse, Kater ventured into a Marshall Street apparel shop, handed over a credit card and bought a polo emblazoned with a Syracuse logo. At recruiting events, other college reps and players started to notice a blip of orange and blue in the stands.

“I think her shoelaces were Syracuse. She was head to toe orange and blue. It was unbelievable,” said Rojas,

senior staff writer

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By Christopher Scarglato

Eastern Michigan ticked down to its final seconds, goalie Lysianne Proulx tossed up the ball, cranked back her right foot and punted a kick toward the center circle as EMU players retreated toward their sideline. On the right side of the field, Syracuse’s players began to group together. Freshman Pauline Machtens fell to the ground, landing on her back in exhilaration after a come-from-behind victory. It was the Orange’s second win of the season — they already exceeded their 2020 total wins after only three games of play. see women’s

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field hockey

Orange shutout 2nd consecutive nonconference opponent

By Bryan Brush staff writer

SJ Quigley inserted Syracuse’s first corner of the game with a pass to set up Eefke van den Nieuwenhof, who controlled the ball before firing a low-driving shot into the bottom left corner of the goal to put SU up 1-0 in the second quarter.

Less than a minute later, Quigley and Nieuwenhof connected again.

After earning another corner, Quigley inserted the ball and set up Nieuwenhof for a direct shot a second time. Nieuwenhof’s powerful shot found the goal to double the Orange’s lead.

After initially struggling to break down the Vermont defense and capitalize on attacking opportunities in the first quarter, the Orange took control of the game during a breakout second quarter, firing 11 shots

and earning seven corners.

“We played pretty composed.

And at one point they had everyone behind the ball, and I thought we demonstrated a lot of patience,” head coach Ange Bradley said.

After going into halftime with a 2-0 lead, Syracuse (2-0) remained in control throughout the second half and went on to defeat Vermont (1-1) 6-0 on Sunday. Syracuse’s offensive front has produced 13 total goals

this season despite the absence of forward Charlotte de Vries. The junior is set to return next week against Kent State after playing in the 2021 women’s Junior Pan American Championships.

The Orange began the fall 2020 season with just one win in the team’s first five games, and three games were either canceled or postponed during that period.

Syracuse isn’t slated to face an

Atlantic Coast Conference opponent until Sep. 17 when the Orange will visit Boston College. Against Sacred Heart and Vermont, Syracuse didn’t concede any goals, outshot them 59 to three and earned 22 more corners.

But Bradley, who returned to the sidelines today after serving a suspension in SU’s game against Sacred Heart that carried over see field

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