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International students fear new regulations on communications app WeChat will cause difficulty connecting with their families and friends. Page 3
The cancellation of the 2020 New York State Fair has left vendors without an otherwise dependable source of income. Page 7
Five current and former SU broadcasters have adjusted when covering professional and collegiate sports during the pandemic. Page 12
SA plans to support SU’s marginalized communities
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Advisory committee recruiting members By Madison Tyler asst. copy editor
JUSTINE HASTINGS (LEFT) AND RYAN GOLDEN ran on a platform of making SU more financially accessible, supporting marginalized communities and increasing accountability within Student Assocation. will fudge staff photographer
Hastings and Golden helped facilitate the chancellor’s signing of #NotAgainSU demands made in the spring By Mira Berenbaum asst. copy editor
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ustine Hastings and Ryan Golden know their goals for Syracuse University’s Student Association might seem unrealistic to some. But that hasn’t stopped them from putting their plans into action. Hastings and Golden were elected SA president and vice president in April over two other campaigns. The pair ran on a platform focused on making SU more financially accessible, supporting marginalized communities, enacting the demands of #NotAgainSU and increasing accountability within SA. Despite the coronavirus pandemic and its financial fallout for the university stall-
ing some of their progress, Hastings and Golden have already taken steps toward achieving some of those goals. “Even during the campaign, we were told a lot that some of our goals were very ambitious,” Hastings said. “Some will come easily. Others will take more time.” A key component of Hastings and Golden’s action plan for the 2020-21 academic year is supporting the demands of #NotAgainSU. The movement, led by Black students, has protested SU’s handling of a series of racist incidents reported at the university last academic year. Hastings is a member of #NotAgainSU. The pair also aims to add a student vote to SU’s Board of Trustees, make campus more accessible to students with disabilities
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The concerns that we’re raising are important, and the university needs to address them in an appropriate manner Ryan Golden sa vice president
Syracuse University’s Student of Color Advisory Committee is recruiting new members six months after the committee informally disbanded during #NotAgainSU’s occupation of Crouse-Hinds Hall. The committee, composed of more than a dozen students, took shape about a month after the Department of Public Safety was criticized for its handling of an assault of three students of color in February 2019. Committee members didn’t have the authority to change DPS policy but met regularly with DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado and other SU officials. At the height of the #NotAgainSU’s occupation of CrouseHinds in February, many students involved in the committee chose to stop meeting and instead support the protest, former committee members told The Daily Orange. The decision to informally disband came as the committee felt that DPS hadn’t taken concrete action to meet their recommendations. “The overarching goal was to increase trust and have that relationship between DPS and students so that students of color also felt safe and protected,” said Kate Abogado, who served as the co-chair of the committee with Maldonado. Abogado graduated from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the School of Information Studies in May. “That goal was not being reached.” #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, has protested the university’s response to a series of racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic incidents on campus since November. Both Abogado and Ashley Hudson, a senior policy studies major who served on the committee during the 2019-2020 academic year, said DPS didn’t take enough action in response to the committee’s recommendations. Some students on the committee began to lose faith in its ability to produce change after DPS did not disclose racist graffiti found in Day Hall in November 2019 to students, Abogado said. “The biggest problem was (when) the initial vandalism happened in Day Hall, we weren’t notified, and that was basically the whole point of the inception of the committee, so that students of color could be integrated into that see committee page 4