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Syracuse Universtiy’s ILTA Community of Practice are looking to implement “informational literacy” and “technology agility” in university classrooms. Page 3

Flower Skate Shop is providing a missing piece to the Syracuse skating community by offering a variety of skating merch from national and local brands. Page 7

Josiah Gray received one offer to play college baseball as a shortstop. Three years later, he was drafted in the second round as a starting pitcher throwing 95 mph. Page 12

Faculty and staff reflect on COVID-19 protocols and in-person learning

By Emma Folts

senior staff writer

Graphic by Shannon Kirkpatrick presentation director

On the first day of the fall 2021 semester, history professor Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn taught an in-person lecture to nearly 200 students. She loves her students, and when she’s able to teach in-person, she’s “in bliss.”

But this semester, she’s terrified, too. Lasch-Quinn, who taught online last academic year, has two children with underlying health conditions and an elderly mother. She doesn’t want to bring COVID-19 home to her family. She wants to be able to visit her mother if her health declines. She wants to ensure that her students remain healthy and that the virus doesn’t spread from her classroom to vulnerable community members.

Though the university has transitioned to a mostly in-person semester this fall, she would have preferred having the choice to continue teaching online. “I have been extra good throughout the entire pandemic of just following every single rule and guideline, being very safe. I taught online all last year. I was very grateful to the university to make that possible. I was hoping to be able to continue to see faculty page 3

commencement 2020

Gov. Kathy Hochul shares experiences at SU during speech By Richard Perrins

asst. news editor

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke at Syracuse University’s commencement ceremony for the Class of 2020 on Sunday. An SU News release on Friday announced Hochul, who graduated from SU in 1980, as the commencement speaker. On

Sunday, she addressed the Class of 2020 a year and four months after the original commencement date, which was postponed due to the pandemic. Hochul became New York’s 57th governor in August after Andrew Cuomo stepped down from his position. Hochul said the events of 16 months ago, when the pandemic

got in the way of graduates’ plans to celebrate their careers and launch into the world, gave recent SU alumni the ability to adapt in a world that’s always changing. “Yes, you’ve heard the words endurance and perseverance, and today they may just be words. But they’re part of your soul now,” she said. Hochul said her time at SU

had a “profound inf luence” on both her rise to the position of governor and the person she became on that journey. As a high school senior, Hochul toured college campuses all across New York state with her father. She remembered what her father said to her after they visited the Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship.

“Some of those other schools we went to, they’ll probably teach you a lot. That’s probably where the wife of a Congressperson would go. You go to Syracuse, you could be a Congressperson,” Hochul said. In 2011, Hochul won a seat in Congress for New York’s 26th district. SU sparked a passion for see hochul page 3


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