Sept. 26, 2022

SU students express frustration over slow response times and lack of follow-up from SPD amid recent staff shortages and 48% increase in burglaries. SPD shortages

C • Constant presence

After the passing of Boom Babies owner Lorraine Koury, her employees and friends remember her as a strong, caring, “one of a kind” individual.

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S Culture builder

Head coach Ian McIntyre brought a new culture of discipline to SU’s men’s soccer team. In his second year, he led the Orange to a Sweet 16 finish.

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Local roots

By Danny Amron asst. news editor

Francis Conole said his Syracuse roots drive his desire to serve his com munity. His mother was born on Merriman Avenue in the Southwest neighborhood, and his father was a Carrier Global employee in the 1980s.

Conole, the Democratic nominee for New York’s newly drawn 22nd congressional district, will face off against Republican nominee Bran don Williams in the November general election, and hopes to represent the community that raised him.

“Truly representing the community means working to make people’s lives bet ter,” Conole said.

While Conole acknowledged that Syra cuse’s manufacturing jobs of the past are not coming back, he hopes his policies will create a “foundation for opportunity and greater shared prosperity.”

Specifically, he believes that Syracuse’s technology sector holds the most promise for the city. Recent initiatives such as clean energy job creation and the potential micro chip manufacturing plant that may be built in Onondaga County as a part of the new CHIPS and Science Act align with Conole’s economic vision for the district.

“As Central New York becomes a stronger force in the New Economy and as our nation grapples with political extremism, these skills

are needed now more than ever in Washington DC,” Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh wrote in his endorsement of Conole.

The issue of climate change and clean energy production is one that spans political ideology and age with effects being felt locally, Conole said.

“It’s going to take continued robust invest ment in making sure we make those tran sitions,” he said. “It’s an all-hands-ondeck approach.”

During Conole’s 2010 deployment with the Army Special Forces in Iraq, he took the GMAT

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Local orgs fight food insecurity during Hunger Action Month

By Rosina Boehm contributing writer

With rising inflation and COVID-19 relief funds ending, one Salvation Army location in Syracuse is strug gling to deal with food insecurity in the city.

“Federal and local governments were saying, ‘here’s all this money to bulk purchase food to feed people because people can’t work’ and essen

tially all that has stopped now,” said Allison Brooks, the director of emer gency services at the Syracuse-area Salvation Army.

Feeding America, a nonprofit that connects food banks across the country, marked September as Hun ger Action Month. Throughout the month, organizations in Syracuse — including Syracuse University, the Food Recovery Network and the Samaritan Center — have collected

leftovers, pushed for greater commu nity awareness and held food drives.

The Food Recovery Network, a campus student organization, goes to Graham Dining Hall to collect leftover food and transport it to local organizations that serve meals to Syracuse residents. Elliot Salas, the organization’s president, said many students question why SU does not transport its own leftover food to local organizations.

“I really want to be as important as the Student Association because the Student Association has their own little office and they have all these resources,” Salas, a junior majoring in electrical engineering and computer science, said. “Food recovery has a classroom where we meet to do all these meetings and that even gives you a perspective on where the school stands on whether or not food insecu rity is a problem.”

SU itself also conducted work for the month, with the university’s Office of Community Engagement dedicating Sept. 13 to 17 as Food Inse curity Awareness Week. The week ended with a food drive near the JMA Wireless Dome at the Sept. 17 football game against Purdue Uni versity, an event Brooks referred to as “Dome Day”.

High levels of poverty and food

FRANCIS CONOLE won the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for NY-22 in the August primary. danny amron asst. news editor

Democrat Francis Conole’s local ties drive his policy goals for central New York in the race for NY-22

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NEWS

“Truly representing the community means working to make people’s lives better.” - Francis Conole, candidate for NY-22

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CULTURE

“Being around Lorraine was like being around the presence of a classical statue or a piece of architecture. Just solid.” - Meredith Graves, coworker of Lorraine Koury

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OPINION

“Different elements of ballroom went mainstream as it influenced pop culture, however, the Black and Brown creators that were impactful in the space did not receive credit for their work.” - Michael Spencer, guest columnist

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“None of us knew that we’d be sitting here 10 years later, ‘Oh they’re playing in Final Fours and Sweet 16s, and they’re competing for ACC and National Championships.’” - Alex Bono, goalkeeper on SU’s 2012 men’s soccer team

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Students frustrated with SPD response times

common council Current state of Gether’s arrest

By Stephanie Wright asst. copy editor

After Syracuse police arrested Common Councilor Amir Geth ers Wednesday morning follow ing a domestic physical violence call to Syracuse police, the com mon council has not made a deci sion regarding Gethers’ future in the council.

Here’s the current state of the situ ation and what could happen next.

The story so far

Police charged Gethers with criminal obstruction of breath ing and second-degree harass ment.

The victim was a past girlfriend of his who has not been identified by name, syracuse.com reported.

Gethers pleaded not guilty at the arraignment, which is an initial pretrial court hearing, on Wednesday night.

He was released with an order of protection that prohibits him from contacting the woman he is accused of choking.

By Shantel Guzman asst. digital editor

While driving her friend to a dinner in May, SU senior DonnaNicole Zaiens approached a stop sign on Walnut Avenue just off Syracuse University’s campus. As she was pulling away, a car crashed into the front of her car. She imme diately called SPD following the accident, but said it took them two hours to arrive.

“I don’t know why it took so long for them to come,” Zaines said. “They didn’t give an explanation. We were basically just sitting on the side of the road waiting for it to be handled even though there were pieces of my car in the road.”

Between 2020 and 2021, the Syr acuse Police Department’s number of sworn officers dropped from 425 to 387. Though SU’s Department of

Public Safety handles on-campus security issues, some students are still feeling the effects of the SPD staff shortage. SPD did not respond to The Daily Orange’s request for comment regarding police response times in Syracuse.

Following a combination of resignations and retirements, the amount of officers in the city of Syracuse have dwindled to where SPD has to “order in,” or pay their current officers overtime, in order to function. Still, Spectrum News 1 reported that officers sometimes address less urgent calls 24 hours after they’re reported.

“We don’t want to have to order in,” SPD Deputy Chief Richard Trudell said in an interview with Spectrum News 1. “But we’re ordering in on shifts, we’re order ing in on CIDs, we’re ordering in on Dome games. We’re doing

everything we can to limit that amount of ordering in.”

In a Sept. 8 briefing, SPD Chief Joe Cecile said burglaries in the city of Syracuse are up 48% from this time last year and have nearly doubled in the area of the city that includes SU and Le Moyne College.

Over the summer, SU student Natalie Sternlicht’s house was bro ken into while nobody was home. When she arrived on campus at the end of August to move in, Sternlicht was showing her roommate around the apartment on FaceTime, and her roommate noticed items miss ing from her room. Sternlicht later noticed that a flatscreen television in another room was also missing.

When she called Campus Hill, the property’s landlord, the com pany told her one of their mainte nance workers had already called the police and filed a report.

Once Sternlicht and her room mate found out about the report, the pair followed up with the police. Sternlicht said when they inquired about the report, police told her they knocked on the door to the apartment, but left because nobody responded.

She said her roommate decided to file a new report and called SPD to their Syracuse apartment to meet with Sternlicht. Police arrived 30 minutes after being called, she said. They asked Stern licht questions, gave her a card with the case number on it and told her to follow up with them. But she hasn’t heard back in a month.

“The fact that they really haven’t handled this and we have to do so much and get nothing back is disap pointing,” Sternlicht said.

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SA tabling Monday to gather student feedback

By Sarah Wells contributing writer

Syracuse University’s Student Asso ciation is set to host a six-hour long table event on Monday to listen to student concerns and complaints related to the university.

“This event is very much like a reconnecting event so that people know that we’re here to hear people’s concerns,” said Dylan France, a member of SA’s finance board.

The event, No Problem Too Small, started from a small survey

SA Speaker Will Treloar created last

spring for students to air their griev ances with the university, France said. Speaker Pro Tempore Anna Ginelli said the event will allow SA to hear student concerns and then work to address them on a larger scale.

France said SA members want ed to make an effort to accom modate SU students’ new experi ences three years after the onset of the pandemic.

SA members plan to compile the complaints they receive after the event, identify concerns they aren’t yet aware of and then work to advo cate for students, France said.

Ginelli said the SA has created five committees to address con cerns in different areas: diversity and inclusion, community engage ment and government affairs, engagement and outreach, aca demic affairs and university affairs.

Aside from their main goal of aiding student issues, SA members are also hoping that No Problem Too Small will make students more aware of SA’s purpose on campus, which France said is to elevate the overall student experience.

Ginelli said SA’s position in addressing students’ concerns

can be difficult, as some students expect the organization to be directly changing things that stu dents complain about. SA’s advo cacy is a uniquely important part of solving issues, she said.

No Problem Too Small is set to take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday on the Shaw Quad. For students who are unable to attend, SA created an online form for students to put forward concerns that can be accessed through the link on their Insta gram account.

Following the arraignment, authorities released more infor mation regarding the nature of the incident.

The woman said in her state ment to police that Gethers choked her in bed on two separate occasions, on Sep. 18 and Wednes day morning before the arrest.

In the statement, the woman also detailed conversations between her and Gethers that alluded to Gethers planning to serve her with legal documents, according to syracuse.com.

What local leaders have said “The charges against Councilor Gethers are very concerning,”

Common Councilor Michael Greene wrote in an email to The Daily Orange.

“The Council does not have any additional information other than what has been reported so we will be looking to understand the situ ation fully in the coming days.”

Mayor Ben Walsh called the situation “serious,” according to CNY Central.

“At this time, it must be han dled through the legal system to provide due process,” Walsh said.

Gethers did not appear at Wednesday’s public works com mittee meeting, though he is a member, following his arrest.

Common Councilor Latoya Allen said the council does not know if he will be in attendance at the council’s Monday meeting, syra cuse.com reported.

Allen said that the common council will most likely wait to discuss the events until the Mon day meeting since it would be inconvenient to gather the coun cil members for an emergency meeting over the weekend.

Although Syracuse University has its own DPS that handles most on campus security issues, some students are still feeling the effects of the SPD staff shortage. meghan hendricks photo editor

— the admissions exam for graduate business programs. He used the G.I. Bill to cover 90% of the cost of his MBA, which he received from the University of Maryland.

Because of the impact the G.I. Bill had on him, Conole wants to create and expand simi lar programs for people who serve the United States in different ways, such as teachers and healthcare workers.

Conole thinks Biden’s recent relief actions aren’t targeted enough to resolve the issue of student debt. Instead, Conole plans to advocate for reforming interest rates and increasing the value of Pell Grants.

“It was not a holistic reform,” he said. “It was just a little bit of a shot, and then what happens now? So I still think there needs to be more of a holistic approach to this.”

Conole also recalled his family’s experience with accessing health insurance when his father retired from the military. At the time, his mother wouldn’t be covered under TRICARE, a singlepayer health insurance option for members of the military, veterans and their families.

While his mother was ultimately able to qual ify for his father’s TRICARE coverage, Conole said his mother saw the “astronomical” costs of other plans before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. He said he wants to protect the ACA and expand access to it, especially for dental, hearing and vision for seniors, while lowering prescription drug costs.

“(The cost of healthcare) affects college stu dents. It affects working families. It’s a tax on working families because costs continue to go up,” Conole said. “A lot of young people stay on their parent’s health care until they’re 25, which was a big thing for a lot of college students.”

Conole’s service began nearly two decades

ago when he graduated from the Naval Acad emy in 2001 just months before the Sept. 11 attacks. Despite traveling around the country and world in the years since then, he always loved his community in central New York and wants to fight the challenges facing it.

In the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Conole said he wants to ensure that women across the nation have access to reproductive healthcare. He plans to make Roe’s codification his first priority as an elected official if he wins in November.

“I’m not saying it’s going to be an easy thing to get this passed,” he said. “We are going to have to work hard. We are going to have to think strategic, we’re going to have to chart that path.”

In the short term, Conole said he’ll advocate for legislation that protects access to abortion pills through the mail.

The overturn of Roe and the stripping of other rights from Americans were some of the

main reasons Conole decided to run for office.

Conole’s bipartisan work and military experi ence earned him the support of Walsh as well as Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri. He also received an endorsement from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and State Senator Rachel May.

“From his time in the Navy, to serving under Secretaries of Defense of both parties, Fran has shown that same ability to bring people togeth er, find common ground and solve problems,” Walsh wrote in his endorsement.

While Conole has roots in Syracuse, May wants to see him connect more with the other counties in the newly drawn 22nd congres sional district.

“He can reach across the aisle and talk to everybody,” May said. “And I think his life experience is also quite valuable to our district at this time.”

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insecurity both on and off campus catalyzed the creation of the awareness week, said Cyd ney Johnson, SU’s vice president of community engagement. Food insecurity is also a major con cern, as Syracuse has the highest number of children living in poverty of any major city in the United States. According to 2020 census data, 48.4% of children in Syracuse live below the poverty line.

“Syracuse University has a long history of supporting food drives for community organizations, and the Salvation Army has always been a really great partner with us for food drives,” Johnson said. “So, we decid ed we were going to take advantage of a great football game.”

Local volunteers, such as teachers, doc tors, SU students and players from Syra cuse Rush, a local youth soccer club, sta tioned the collection bins in several loca tions around campus.

“As we brought attention and awareness, we were also made aware and learned of so many wonderful student-led organizations and efforts to combat food insecurity,” Johnson said.

But many SU students are not aware of the severity of food insecurity in Syracuse, Johnson said.

“We’ve done Dome Day, but to be honest,

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feedbackAllen and Greene said the common council will not make a decision regarding Gethers’ future as a member of the body until they have learned more about the situation and discussed it further.

Greene told CNY Central that there is no suspension protocol in place for remov ing a member of the common council.

“He can choose not to attend meetings, it’s totally up to him on what decides to do, but there’s not any mechanism in the city charter to suspend a member,” Greene said.

None of the other common councilors responded to a request for comment from The D.O.

What’s next?

Criminal obstruction of breathing is a class A misdemeanor under the New York state penal code.

Second-degree harassment is classi fied as a violation.

According to the Syracuse City Char ter, a member of the council can be punished or expelled for “official mis conduct” by a three-fourths vote by the common council following a hearing in their defense.

If Gethers is found guilty of criminal obstruction of breathing, he may be sen tenced to a maximum of one year in jail or three years of probation.

Gethers is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 3.

sometimes our cans for collecting goods are filled with garbage when people walk by,” Brooks said. “We want to bring some awareness to show that we’re collecting food for the poor.”

The importance of the food drive spans beyond providing relief to the local area. Brooks said the Salvation Army is looking to build lifelong volunteers and donors for not just themselves, but any local food and housing program.

During the awareness week, SU highlight ed a series of organizations both on and off campus in campus-wide emails. The univer sity promoted the Samaritan Center, which provides hot meals to locals in Syracuse.

Student athletes also sponsored Blessings in a Backpack, which gives local students a backpack full of food for a weekend.

Johnson sees the university’s role as the catalyst for local organizations to do the work they do best.

All the involved organizations aim to provide more awareness and aid to food insecurity in the area, Brooks added, especially as many SU community members do not come from a back ground of food insecurity.

“Hunger has many faces,” Brooks said. “We have a lot of working people, working families, working veterans, that have jobs and have families and have homes and just can’t make ends meet.”

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On Monday, SU’s Student Association will host a new event, No Problem Too Small, on the Schine Center terrace in an effort to let students voice complaints and ask questions. nina gerzema contributing photographer

This month, organizations in Syracuse have held food drives and collected leftover food for donation. rosina boehm contributing writer

Loss of a legend

You should be worried, darling

By Nate Lechner screentime columnist

“Don’t Worry Darling” was one of my most anticipated movies of the fall, but not for a good reason.

By Rachel Raposas culture editor

Surrounded by delicate jewelry and prom dresses, a memorial for the late Lorraine Koury sits in the center of Boom Babies. In the largest photo of her, Koury wore a striped shirt with a bright pink oversized belt and bold jewelry — an outfit that was “quintes sentially Lorraine,” said co-store manager MacKenzie Wilkinson.

Koury, the woman behind Boom Babies since its inception, passed away on Thurs day, Sept. 15.

A shop of eclectic style and vintage finds, Boom Babies has been the epicenter of fashion in Syracuse — from glittery prom dresses to classic denim, from trendy sun glasses to old-fashioned gold rings. Since opening its doors in 1986, Boom Babies was under Koury’s care for over 30 years.

The “Boom Girls,” Koury’s employees, wrote in a Facebook post the following Sat urday that she was a “fearless, kind, gener ous, dynamic leader.” Wilkinson said she looked up to Koury and that she was an amazing woman to work with and learn from, and simply as someone who went above and beyond for those around her.

“Over her 30 plus years in business, she empowered and mentored countless women who had the chance to work for her. She treated her girls like family and really a sisterhood that spans generations,” Wilkinson said.

Koury originally created Boom Babies because her own collection of vintage

pieces was too large, Wilkinson said. As she spent a portion of her childhood in the gro cery store her father owned, Koury seemed to always have an appreciation for small businesses and the dedication and passion it takes to run one.

Meredith Graves, a past employee who worked at Boom Babies in the 2010s, did a little bit of everything during her time at the shop, including working the floor during prom seasons and some seamstress work. She said Koury was one of the most unique people she ever had the pleasure of knowing.

“Lorraine was a truly solid person — her energy was concrete. When she walked into a room, or even if you walked into the same room that she was in, it was like walking into a room at the Met,” Graves said. “Being around Lorraine was like being around the presence of a classical statue or a piece of architecture. Just solid.”

Koury hoped that her shop would make clothes and fashion fun for people, Wilkin son said, for both customers and employees. This held true for Nikki Kelly, who began shopping at Boom Babies in her childhood

CultureFest showcases SU’s cultural organizations

By Dylan Kujawski contributing writer

Music, dancing and the aroma of food trucks filled the quad Thurs day, immersing students in Cul tureFest immediately upon arrival.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion hosted Syracuse Uni versity’s first CultureFest last week, which showcased over 20 clubs and organizations to help students connect with cultural

opportunities on campus.

Newly appointed Vice President of the Diversity and Inclusion pro gram, Mary Grace A. Almandrez, said events like CultureFest sup port important opportunities for students to learn about their own culture and identity, and grow a more inclusive environment.

“As this is my first year at Syra cuse, it was a great introductory event for me to meet the students and the cultural basis of the com

munity,” Almandrez said. Attendees could try foods from an array of diverse food trucks at the event. One truck, Oompa Loompyas Filipino Fusion served tacos, fried rice and lumpia, a dish resembling a crispy meat spring roll. Birdsong Café offered its patrons laven der lemonade, Mexican coffee or sweet crepes as dessert. The event also featured perfor mances from the Haudenosaunee

and African communities as well as several spiritual groups, such as Syracuse Hillel and the Christian Outreach Program. Students don’t have to be Jewish or Christian to join either group.

”CultureFest is important to us as it gives us the opportunity to interact with a wider cultural audience and we can convey the message that the Christian com munity is for all people,” said Sandy

Amid a long and ugly press tour for director Olivia Wilde’s second feature film, a major Hollywood drama story unfolded between Wilde, Harry Styles, the male lead in the film, and Florence Pugh, who plays the female lead. Prior to the film’s opening, there were many rumors that the atmosphere on set was toxic and tense, particularly in Wilde and Pugh’s relationship.

Though we didn’t get many answers to our questions about the cast’s drama, we did learn one thing about the film itself -- it wasn’t very good.

The film follows Jack Chambers, played by Harry Styles, and his wife Alice, who is played by Florence Pugh, and their utopian life in the fictional town of Victory, California in the 1950s. Jack and Alice have the same routine every day — Jack goes to work at the mysterious Victory Project, while Alice takes care of the house.

The other couples in Victory, including one pair played by Nick Kroll and Asif Ali, have identical lives. The town is also home to Vic tory Project founder Frank, played by Chris Pine, and his wife Shelley, played by Gemma Chan.

The audience quickly discovers that everything is not as good as it seems, and Alice starts to question if anything about her “ideal” life is even real. A series of sinister events follow, involving Alice, Jack, Wilde’s character Penny and Frank, all of whom try to convince Alice that all of her worries are unsubstantiated and that she needs to stop question ing her surroundings.

All of these scenes are meant to make the audience uneasy, but they are filled with clumsy writing and a lot of thriller cliches. A good psy chological thriller creates suspense and makes the audience feel the same amount of uncertainty that the charterers do. Unfortunately, Wilde is unable to properly take the audience into Alice’s psychosis, and the elements of horror that we do get are flashy and don’t add anything to the overall plot.

For example, viewers see a recurring image of ballerinas danc ing in black-and-white that is a little unsettling, but the film doesn’t explain where the ballerinas came from or what they are meant to represent to Alice. Every time Alice comes close to discovering a crucial part of the mystery, the screen and her mind go dark, and we are left feeling confused about what any thing really means.

While it is better in thrillers to show and not tell, when it comes to the psychological torture our pro

After the passing of Lorraine Koury, her former colleagues and employees spoke glowingly about the amazing woman she was

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LORRAINE KOURY created a legacy of sisterhood between herself and her customers at Boom Babies. rachel raposas culture editor

Please Don’t Destroy brings laughs, sketch comedy to SU

By Maddy Brousseau contributing writer

A little after seven on Saturday, Schine Stu dent Center was abuzz with students anx iously waiting to see comedy trio Please Don’t Destroy. Freshman Sydney Trapp was thrilled by the opportunity to see some of her favorite comedians live.

“I ran down my dorm hall with no shoes on to get tickets,” Trapp said.

University Union hosted a Night of Comedy for SU and SUNY ESF students and faculty featuring Please Don’t Destroy – with Mar tin Herlihy, Ben Marshall and John Higgins – Chloe Troast and Jamie Linn Watson on Saturday.

Please Don’t Destroy is best known for writing original skits that have been fea tured on Saturday Night Live, notably their viral skit “Three Sad Virgins” featuring Pete Davidson and Taylor Swift. The comedians met during their undergrad career at New York University, and have been making com edy ever since.

Before Please Don’t Destroy performed, they brought out two openers, Jamie Linn Watson and Chloe Troast. The two are room mates and good friends of the comedy group known for their stand-up and studio sketches.

Watson took to the stage first, running onstage and performing stand-up. She used her set as an opportunity to interact with her audience, even inviting a male audience member onstage to play opposite her in a romantic scene about a man who saved her on the subway.

Her scene followed a plot of her being whisked away by the man who had saved her earlier that day. He brings her to upstate New York, or as she describes it, “the most romantic place on Earth.”

Troast’s set immediately followed Wat

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son’s, including stand-up and two impressions of people the audience had likely encountered before — a contentious professor and a jock trying out for the school play.

Please Don’t Destroy closed out the night, with Herlihy sliding onto the stage and Hig gins running laps around the audience. Despite Marshall being absent due to sickness, Herlihy and Higgins captivated their audience and created uproarious laughter.

The comedians performed six original sketches that didn’t make the cut for SNL, with Watson and Troast filling in for Marshall. At the end of each sketch, the audience tried to guess which sketches were pitched to different hosts, while choking back laughter.

The loudest applause between sketches occurred when talking about their experience with Taylor Swift the week she was the musical guest. Higgins could not hold in the flood of compliments he had for the “superstar.”

“She was really really cool,” Higgins said. “She even invited us to her birthday party… but I probably shouldn’t have said that.”

Please Don’t Destroy was a massive hit among the SU audience, with the crowd erupt ing in laughter at the absurd sketch premises, like when Herlihy played an unhinged barista or when Higgins pretended to be a student with a crush on a lunch lady.

“They were jaw-droppingly hilarious,” Wells said.

The four comedians returned to the stage after their sets for a Q&A, hosted by University Union. When asked about their favorite sketch that they wrote for SNL, Herlihy immedi ately responded with “Garlic Aioli,” a skit they wrote in collaboration with comedian Will Forte, but it was unfortunately never pro duced. They performed it for the crowd that night with help from a student volunteer.

“[It] was the hardest I’ve ever laughed,” Herlihy said.

Higgins mentioned the Weekend Update jokes they write for comedian Sarah Sherman on the show.

“It’s hard to feel pride for yourself on the show because it’s just so weird and scary, but doing it with somebody else performing, I feel so much pride for her, she’s so funny”.

The show concluded with Higgins and Her lihy sharing the advice they would offer to their younger selves, or to others who hope to break into the comedy space.

For Herlihy, he emphasized the importance of constantly getting up onstage and perform ing, which Higgins immediately agreed with.

Higgins also discussed the importance of the people he surrounded himself with, and how that elevates his work.

“Find people that you trust and think are funny, because you will come up with a voice together, and it makes it a lot easier… you learn a lot more with working with people you trust and love,” Higgins said.

John Higgins closed out the night with some advice for students as they navigate their early 20s and early adulthood.

“Believe in yourself, believe in your friends, and never give up.”

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Bring your dancing shoes, competitive spirit to these Syracuse

By Rachel Raposas and Anthony Bailey the daily orange

Undergrad Nights: Board Games and Special Collections

Hosted by the iSchool’s Information Lit eracy Scholars, Undergrad Nights are aimed at introducing students to the resources and opportunities at SU libraries. The event also provides de-stressing activities and snacks. The event will be on Monday in the lower level of Bird Library from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

D&D 101

The LGBTQ Resource center will host a basics of Dungeons and Dragons lesson ahead of their IdentiD&D program. Attendees will learn about characters, dice and the standard rules about the game. The event will take place from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in room 132 at Schine Student Center.

Rhythmic Connections:Community Drumming

Join Jimbo Talbot of Drum Quest for a night of community drumming — an event known for creative musical expression, personal well ness and spontaneous connection with those around you. The event will be from 7:15 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday in 044 Exercise Room 2 at the Barnes Center at the Arch.

Brain Freeze ‘N Lawn Games

Soak in the last of summer on the lawn between Ernie Davis and DellPlain Hall with snow cones and lawn games! The event will be from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday.

Dr. Cerri Banks Memorial Book Giveaway

The School of Education is hosting a book give away in honor of the late Cerri Banks, a three-time SU alumna, vice president for the student experi

ence and chair of School of Education Board of Visitors. Attendees can learn about Banks’ impact on the school, and the many books she kept in her collection. Visitors can even take a few of them home. The event will take place Thursday at Sharon Haines Jacquet Education Commons in Huntington Hall from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Empty Bowls

Empty Bowls is an annual event that aims to raise awareness of world hunger and organizations that support people who can’t afford food by selling locally-made ceramic bowls. Those who donate to the Interreligious Food Consortium will receive

a meal of soup and bread from local restaurants. Empty Bowls will be at the Nancy Cantor Ware house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday.

Challenge Course Zipline

Take advantage of the weather with a ride on the South Campus’s zipline. Closed toed shoes or boots are required to participate in this event, which will be on Friday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday Night Salsa at Epicuse

Shake off those rainy day blues with some salsa dancing. Epicuse in Downtown Syracuse is host ing free salsa dancing lessons open to the public

every Monday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The first two hours will include dancing lessons and the last hour will be an informal Latin dance social.

Confetti Mountain Watercolors

Paintings from Katie Turner’s “Confetti Mountain” will be on display in Betts Branch Library starting Monday, Sept. 26. Her paint ings are an abstract approach to landscape work, and her inspiration mostly comes from the Adirondack Mountains. The display will be up at the library until Oct. 31.

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Dance the night away, go on a zipline adventure, check out a new exhibit, experience community drumming or try out another fun event this week. young bin lee staff photographer

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and still frequents the shop to this day.

“I grew up shopping in that store, and I got all my prom and ball dresses from there,” Kelly said.

Just inside the entrance to Boom Babies is a memorial dedicated to Koury, filled with many framed photos of her, a bright variety of flower bouquets and a board filled with personal messages entitled “Love Notes for Lorraine.”

“We created a message board to leave notes, because we know how many lives she touched

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tagonist is going through, the film shows so little that the final reveal feels rushed and ends up leaving the audience with more questions than answers.

The film’s leads also display a major dif ference in acting abilities. While Styles is more famous than Pugh, his acting skills are nowhere near as close to that of the talented young actress. Many of their scenes together are meant to serve as the emotional crux of the film, but in several scenes Styles doesn’t match Pugh’s strong feelings.

A key moment in both the film and Jack andAlice’s relationship occurs when Frank’s men take Alice away as she begins

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Slovikosky, president of the Christian Out reach Program

Almandrez, who has been in the higher education field for more than 25 years, said CultureFest helps bring people together to

and changed in this store and in her personal life,” Wilkinson said. “It’s been really amazing reading the messages people have left her.”

Wilkinson looks back fondly on the times she traveled with Koury to find clothes and dresses for the store. She said Koury was full of life, with a passion for eating and playing around that matched her love for the work she did at Boom Babies.

Graves recalled the time that Koury had spontaneously decided to fix her car with pink and black checkered duct tape, the color pal ette on brand for the aesthetic of Boom Babies. Moved by her commitment and love for Koury, Graves ran all over town to find the exact right

to break free from the proverbial chains of the Victory Project. Styles is trying to show a serious amount of rage at what has hap pened to his wife, but he is unable to show that anger, and his performance is more comical than emotional.

Styles is criminally miscast in this role, and does not bring any of the dramatic elements needed to sell the film’s thriller nature.

On the other hand, Pugh is exceptional in this film and her performance transforms as Alice continuously uncovers the truth about the world she is living in. Although Pugh is playing the classic archetype of the woeful victim who is gaslit into thinking she is com pletely wrong about everything, she gives Alice a true sense of confidence that keeps the audience rooting for her throughout the film.

make a more diverse campus. The event fos tered important conversations about how to make the university a more inclusive envi ronment, and how students can support each other, she said.

CultureFest is just one of the plethora of events at the university for students who are seeking cultural diversity and opportunities,

kind of duct tape and spent hours indulging Koury’s attention to detail on her car.

“I just put up with it because I loved her so much,” Graves said. “I loved her so much, I would have crawled under the car.”

Graves worked on and off at Boom Babies because she was a part of a touring band with many shows. And even though being a musi cian took away from Graves’ ability to work at the shop, Koury always came to the shows to support Graves’ passion.

Looking back, Graves realized just how much Koury affected the way she grew into herself, stating that she was both the wisest and wild est person she had ever met in her life.

The other major standout performance in this film is Chris Pine as Frank. While he doesn’t have much to do besides being sinister and condescending, Pine does a tremendous job of making the leader of the Victory Proj ect extremely detestable while still being an intriguing character that audiences want to learn more about.

Towards the end of the second act, Alice confronts Frank about the Victory Proj ect’s true intentions. In this scene, Pugh delivers her lines with a sense of assurance and determination that is unmatched by the rest of the cast. Pine’s performance is equally as impressive, as he brilliantly plays a cunning and manipulative villain who is constantly trying to undermine Alice’s denial of her life in Victory.

Almandrez said.

“When will there be (another) time when you’re enveloped in such a diverse environ ment with equally diverse opportunities?” Almandrez said. “College is the time to get involved.”

Almandrez said she believes events like CultureFest support the important opportu

“She insisted on everything being a specific quality and everything being treated with a certain degree of respect,” Graves said. “Seeing that at a younger age set me up to be the adult I am now. She had a massive impact on me.”

In Koury’s passing, the “Boom Girls” remem ber her as a fearless, caring, hard working person with a huge heart — a “one of a kind individual,” Wilkinson said.

“I feel really lucky to be a part of such an amaz ing legacy,” Wilkinson said. “She is an icon and will be missed.”

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While some moments in “Don’t Worry Darling” are genuinely interesting and entertaining, the overall story feels incom plete and the film abruptly ends without much resolution for the characters or the viewers. The supposed twist when viewers discover the truth about the Victory Project feels rushed and leaves the audience with more questions than answers.

After months of celebrity gossip, on-set turmoil and a disastrous marketing campaign, the release of “Don’t Worry Darling” can best be described as disappointing. There were plenty of talented people who worked on this film and will certainly see more success in Hollywood in the future, but only a few of them were right for this film.

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nities for students to learn about their peers’ culture and identity as well as their own to create a more inclusive environment.

“It is an opportunity to learn further about what’s going on in the office and to ask questions on a more intimate basis,” she said.

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It’s time to acknowledge Black queer culture appropriately

By Michael Spencer guest columnist

Ballroom culture emerged in the 1920s in Harlem, New York after white queers excluded Black transgender artists and LGBTQ+ folks from the dance hall scene. In the aftermath of the Stonewall Riots in the late 1960s, the ballroom scene became a commentary on race, gender and sexual ori entation. Queer Black and Brown people were forced to create this space for themselves in response to police brutality and erasure.

In ballroom culture, contestants perform for trophies, money and glory by dancing, lipsyncing, and modeling. Each drag queen or performer has a persona for each category that they exude for an audience in hopes of bring ing fame to their house, or teammates.

For decades, ballroom was an underground cultural movement that was created by AfricanAmerican and Latino queers who wanted a space to express themselves freely despite the oppres sion they faced. Different elements of ballroom went mainstream as it influenced pop culture, however, the Black and Brown creators that were impactful in the space did not receive credit for their work. Common phrases like “purr”, “sis”, “she ate”, “on fleek” and “kiki”were created and popularized by Black queer actors in ballroom culture, but are often credited to Gen-Z.

Television series like “Pose” and similar media made by Black Queer artists highlight ed ballroom culture and allowed it to grow. Ballroom culture is an LGBTQ+ subculture that originated in New York City. Competitors include teams of transgender people and any one apart of the LGBTQ+ community, going against eachother. This culture includes balls with fashion, pageantry and dance with cat egories like Vogue Performances, Realness and Runway in which competitors can walk.

“I think Pose provided the Black queer community with an enriching, intimate vision

of our people and our history creating ball room culture. The show confronts a lot of hard realities faced within our communities but it humanizes the characters, and celebrates the dynamic beauty of existing as Black queer folks,” said Jayla Hart, a poet and recent Uni versity of Virginia graduate

My first experience with ballroom was with the dance crew Vogue Evolution on “America’s Best Dance Crew” in 2009. They included the trans performer Leiomy Maldonado who led the group throughout the series. The Vogue Evolu tion performances captivated my attention and made me aware of ballroom culture in the media.

Initially, I didn’t understand the connec tion between ballroom and Black culture but overtime, I started connecting Black culture to the pioneers who uplifted the ballroom scene. After America’s Best Dance Crew, I consistently followed Leiomy’s career which led me to “Pose”. Leiomy choreographed the series’ performances.

The musical drama “Pose” centers around the lives of gay, trans and gender non-con forming people in the New York ballroom culture throughout the mid-1980s before the subculture went mainstream. Rolling Stones’ Striking a Pose: A Brief History of Ball Cul ture,” explained that the cultural evolution of the ballroom was “facilitated” and “appropri ated” by Madonna’s Vogue and Jennie Liv ingston’s Paris Is Burning, among others.

“Pose” and other similar television series were impactful because they connected real people to the work that inspired mainstream culture for years. It also allowed for Trans and queer artists to receive the credit they deserve. For example, actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez became the first transgender woman ever to be nominated for an Emmy in the leading actress category due to the success of “Pose.” She was also the first trans gender woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Television Actress in a Drama series.

Ballroom culture’s impact isn’t just lim ited to TV. The release of Beyoncé’s 7th studio album, “Renaissance,” further solidified the impact of ballroom on pop culture. “Renais sance” includes both physical and symbolic ties to Black, queer people throughout history. The album credits Black queer people like Ts Madison, Big Freedia, Kevin Aviance, Syd, Moi Renee, Mike Q and Honey Dijon for samples, interpolations, songwriting and production.

Renaissance was created with the support of Black queer people because the music cen tered on their culture; along with symbolic references in the music to balls, exuding confi dence and vogueing. Ballroom references were ever present in the album as it explored genres like dance, house, disco, pop and R&B.

Both “Renaissance” and “Pose” represent the intersection between ballroom and pop culture – they’re massive projects that inno vate art and performance. They both included a multitude of Black and Brown queer people who developed impactful stories that pay homage to the history of the ballroom scene. Take the time to learn about ballroom, the creatives it inspired and its history with Black and Latinx people to better understand how it influences mainstream culture.

By learning about ballroom, whether it’s through Beyoncé ’s “Renaissance’’ or a series like “Pose”, people can expose themselves to the hidden history and culture of Black and Brown communities.

Michael Spencer, Class of 2022

The word Latinx: When being inclusive becomes insensitive

By Daniela Dorado columnist

Since moving to the United States, I’ve been conducting a small experiment.

A few days into living in a new country, I heard the term “Latinx”: a gender-neutral word to describe people of Spanish or Latindescent. At first, people corrected me every time I said Latinos, and prompted me to say its gender-neutral form. Although I was raised in Colombia and consider myself Latina, I personally did not feel a part of the Latinx community. Once I heard the term, I started asking people both in Syracuse University and at home what they thought of it. Unsurpris ingly, nobody at home had heard of it, and were even shocked by it. But those in SU who have never lived in a Spanish-speaking country, but are of Latin-descent, identified with it.

Different studies have also demonstrated a lack of satisfaction from the Hispanic communi ty when it comes to the term “Latinx.” According to a poll conducted by Bendix and Amandi Inter national, approximately 40% of Latinos believe the term “Latinx” is insulting and offensive to some degree given that the United States is forc ing the term onto the Latino community, but not everyone in the community accepts it. Only 23% of U.S. adults who identify as Hispanic or Latino have heard of the term, and only 3% use Latinx to describe themselves.

Many people also believe that the term Latinx is an anglicism— something adhering to English customs— and is “laughably incompre hensible to any Spanish speaker without some fluency in English”. The word is incomprehen sible in Spanish because it does not follow the grammar and diction rules of the language. Spanish is a gendered language, but altering a

language to include the gender-neutrality of English is not a way of moving forward.

People living in Spanish-speaking coun tries are already facing our own genderneutral revolution. Maybe if people knew about this revolution, the term Latinx would not exist since “Latine” is more popular in Spanish-speaking countries. Though the Real Academia Española (RAE), the main institu tion that analyzes and enforces the Spanishlanguage, didn’t officially accept “lenguaje inclusivo,” it has gained traction throughout the past years. Latinx is an American term, Latine is the gender-neutral term that origi nated from Spanish-speakers. Even though “lenguaje inclusivo” is still not the norm, in English, words like Hispanic or Latin are gender-neutral and adequately describe the population.

The term Latinx may come from a place

of inclusion, but it also developed from igno rance. The biggest critique of the term is its lack of understanding of the Latin commu nity and its language. Only if the Hispanic community acknowledges the term will it be acceptable, but, in the meantime, people are forcing a category on us that we did not agree to. Hispanics understand the limitations of the Spanish language, and we are adjusting it in our own way in a form that follows the grammatical rules of Spanish. In contrast, less than half of the Hispanic-American commu nity uses Latinx, and Latinos living in Span ish-speaking countries rarely use it, unless they have a tie to the United States. Though it emerged in the name of inclusion, this term excluded those it was meant to represent.

Daniela Dorado is a sophomore creative writing major. Her column appears bi-weekly, and she can be reached at ddorado@syr.edu.

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The Orange’s newcomers got their first opportunity to perform against Albany. Tony Asante, a transfer forward, didn’t think he was going to play because he twisted his ankle before the opener. Asante still practiced on the sidelines during the game, and McIntyre subbed him in.

Asante scored a tap-in goal in the 2-0 win over the Great Danes. In a postgame interview, Asante said SU could win the Big East.

In the next win over Binghamton, Vale scored on a header off a Murrell corner. Vale headed in at least three of his nine goals that season, always arriving late to the box before leaping to get his head on the ball. Cribley

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quarter to play.

Levin turned nine carries into 128 rushing yards and two touchdowns — a 46-yard touch down and a 56-yard touchdown in the second half. On the season, despite fewer rushing opportunities than three players, Levin had 249 rushing yards.

Levin received advice from the senior back, who now plays football at Milford Academy in New Berlin, New York. Mel linger and Levin developed their “great rela tionship” while running track together. Mel linger said he wanted to take Levin under his wing, similar to how previous senior football players did to him.

“When I would learn something new, he’d be the first one I’d tell and we’d apply it togeth er and see the results together,” Mellinger said.

An appendix surgery prevented Levin from participating in summer workouts before he cemented his role as the starting running back. But once he returned, Levin jumped into a competition with two other backs to take over Mellinger’s role.

called Vale’s heading style “miraculous.”

Four days after Vale scored in a game against Colgate, SU defeated NJIT and St. Bonaventure in the 36th Mayor’s Cup Tourna ment. As conference play started against Seton Hall, the Orange won on a header from Vale. In the remaining seven conference games, SU went 4-3, including a double-overtime win over Rutgers and a 2-0 win over DePaul.

While the Orange lost their first game in the Big East Tournament against No. 7 Notre Dame, their 12-6 record secured a spot in the 2012 NCAA Tournament. Syracuse was unseeded and traveled to Cornell.

In a freezing cold game, Cribley replaced his cleats at halftime because his original cleats molded. Still, Muller scored in the 10th minute and Bono made three saves to defeat Cornell.

In Baldwinsville’s opening game against Rome Free Academy, Levin started, finishing the game with 177 yards and four touchdowns on just 10 carries in a 55-13 victory. In the next game against Liverpool, Levin rushed for 134 yards and in another blowout victory. While he didn’t name a starter before the sea son, Bees head coach Carl Sanfilippo said he wasn’t surprised with Levin’s output given the school’s history at developing running backs.

“No part of me in the slightest is sur prised by Brandon’s success,” Mellinger said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he surpasses my accomplishments at Baldwinsville.”

Levin has his eyes set on going back to the Section Championship after losing to Cicero-North Syracuse in 2021. The Bees lost to the Northstars on Sept. 23 and played an undefeated Christian Brothers Academy on Sept. 30. Sanfilippo said Levin will need to step up with more great rush ing performances.

“Every week the stage gets bigger, every week the performance of players like Brandon has to get bigger,” Sanfilippo said.“Our (run ning backs) are the key to the offense.” justingirshon@gmail.com

But the Orange had less success in the second round against VCU, allowing two goals in the first 14 minutes. Cribley said the Rams weren’t deserving of the lead, so the Orange felt confident they could come back.

Louis Clark notched SU’s first goal in the 21st minute. Nine minutes later, Stefanos Sta moulacatos tied the match. For the remainder of regulation, the Orange and Rams remained deadlocked at 2-2. Then, in the 107th minute, Vale drove toward the box and passed to Clark, who made a move to the net and fired the shot to send SU to the Sweet 16.

“Because of all the trials and tribula tions that we’ve been through, and the confidence that we’ve brought through from the season, we’ve managed to pull it back to two,” Cribley said. “Then Louis scored the extra time goal…I get emotional

just thinking about it.”

In the Sweet 16 against No. 6 Georgetown, Vale scored off a free kick from the left side of the pitch. But the Hoyas responded with a gametying goal in the 85th minute, winning 4-2 on penalty kicks in overtime. Bono conceded the last penalty shot that eliminated the Orange, but looks back at 2012 as the revival for the program.

On Saturday, Bono returned to Syracuse to reunite with some of his teammates, carving out an “alumni corner” in the stadium.

“None of us knew that we’d be sitting here 10 years later, ‘Oh they’re playing in Final Fours and Sweet 16s, and they’re competing for ACC and National Champi onships,’” Bono said. “So I know that we all take pride in that.”

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16 to Miami’s six, but stayed committed to their defensive identity, head coach Nicky Adams said.

“I’ve said it all along, guys, we are defending to attack and nothing’s going to change this year,” Adams said.

The two players at the helm of the Orange’s defense have been Gillard and Jenna Tivnan. Although Gillard is a freshman and Tivnan is a senior, Adams said the two have formed a strong connec tion on and off the field. They regularly give each other notes and work together to make stops.

“I think Jenna and Gilly together are playing some of the best soccer, because they’re together,” Adams said. “They understand each other’s movements. They’re strong. They’re not giving their opponents anything.”

On almost every goal kick from Miami, either Tivnan or Gillard was there to at least contest the deep ball, sometimes heading it back to a Syracuse player. They two were relentless from midfield to the goal, not allow ing Miami to get anything going inside the box. Only five of the Hurricanes’ 10 shots were on goal and only two players collected shots on goal from inside the 18.

Tivnan stole the ball just seconds after Miami kicked off in the second half, find ing Erin Flurey down the left seam. Flurey maneuvered her way to the left corner of the goalie box where she sent a hard shot at the goalie’s feet.

Because of its defensive domination throughout nonconference play, Adams is focused on preparing SU to play aggresively.

“For the first time I’ve coached here at this program, I can solely concentrate on us,” Adams said. “I don’t have to concentrate on the opponent and figure out ‘how are we going to stop them?’ Now, it’s like, ‘how are we going to attack them?’”

This ball-dominant mindset has made it rare to see Orange jerseys behind mid field while either team is on the attack. Even in enemy territory, Syracuse’s for wards have a defensive mindset in order to be fluid going onto the attack.

Forward Chelsea Domond illustrated this in the 57th minute, getting back into position after losing the ball in on the left sideline. She jumped the lackadaisi cal pass by Hallie Salas and immediately crossed the ball into the box, though it didn’t connect.

Just two minutes after a diving stop by Shea Vanderbosch, who had a career-high eight saves last match, Miami reset in SU territory. But there was a miscommunica tion on defense and Emma Tucker was left open halfway between the goal and midfield. She sent a high, curving ball into the top left corner of the net in the 73rd minute. The Hurricanes tied the match at 1-1 before Rauch retook the lead for SU just nine minutes later.

That goal occurred during the only fiveminute period of the match that Miami consistently kept the ball in SU territory. Otherwise, the Orange dominated from start to finish.

“We had about a five minute lull in that second period, second half where they hit us,” Adams said. “But the ability to rebound and bounce back was awesome.”

Two goals in the final eight minutes of the match put Syracuse over the top. But it committed 10 more fouls than Miami and led 8-1 at the half. Adams did not put much stock in the foul discrepancy though, as the Orange played their usual brand of soccer.

“At the end of the day, we’re going to be the aggressor,” Adams said. “We’re going to get in people’s faces and make it hard. We are going to be that gritty Syracuse team that you see that people are like cringing to play against.”

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Players raise awareness for Ukraine at ACC home opener

By Zak Wolf staff writer

During starting lineup introductions, Viktoriia Lokhmanchuk burst off the bench draped in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. She stood arm-inarm with her teammates as she watched outside hitter Polina Shemanova sing the national anthem.

On Wednesday night against Boston Col lege, Syracuse held “Support Ukraine Night” to show its support for Lokhmanchuk and SU students from Ukraine, as the country defends itself from Russia. The invasion has caused 5,800 deaths and has displaced 12 million Ukrainian citizens. Lokhmanchuk still has family living in Ukraine’s south eastern region.

Shemanova, who is from St. Peters burg, Russia, felt compelled to support Lokhmanchuk, one of her closest friends on the team, as she worried everyday about her family.

Shemanova talked to her teammates about dedicating one of their home games to Ukraine and raising awareness about the war. They revealed the plan to the coaches, who helped them organize the event along with Taras Colopelnic, the president of the Ukrainian Club at Syracuse.

Colopelnic tabled in the front of the Wom en’s Building gym with posters that informed how the war on Ukraine heavily impacted education and sports. Nearly 3,000 facilities have been damaged or destroyed since the war started.

Throughout the five-set win over the Eagles, the in-game point celebrations car ried more weight and emotion than normal.

“The celebrations played a huge part. When you score a point and you see how people around you support you, it helps,” Lokhman chuk said. “The same goes for the other play ers’ teammates, when they score, you give everything to that person emotionally.”

Sheamova led the celebrations frequent ly, yelling after an important spike or block, and said she had motivation to “win the game for Ukraine.”

Lokhmanchuk and Shemanova com bined for 30 of Syracuse’s 54 kills against Boston College.

“At the end of the day, it all comes down to speaking the truth and believing it,” Shemaova said of the event. “You have to be nice to everyone, and just understand what’s going on in the world and give as much support as you can. That’s what it comes down to.”

For Lokhmanchuk, she felt that she needed to represent her country in a time of need.

“I wasn’t nervous but it’s something you’re more responsible for because you’re playing for your country,” Lokhmanchuk said. “But I’m so glad how the game turned out and we were able to get the win.”

In his first season as head coach, Bakeer Ganesharatnam has been preaching togetherness. He found that Wednesday night was an example of the team’s growth.

“We have a player from Ukraine and Russia, and they’re really good friends, and they’re working together,” Gane sharatnam said. “Those two individuals show the beauty of sports, it brings people together. They showed it doesn’t matter where you’re from.”

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Syracuse dominates offensively in 6-0 win over Dartmouth

By Jason Mazer staff writer

Eight minutes into Syracuse’s matchuo against Dartmouth, Clodagh Ferry glided around the opposing defender and took the ball down the baseline. As Dartmouth goalkeeper Hatley Post came out to close the angle on Ferry, she slipped it into the middle, just missing the leg pad of the keeper. Lana Hamilton controlled the pass, and quickly slotted it into the open net to go up 1-0.

Prior to that goal, Syracuse scored just one goal in the last eight periods of play. After they went 1-1 in those games, the Orange’s (8-2, 1-1 Atlantic Coat) offense turn to show out, scoring six goals in a dominant win over Dartmouth (3-5, 0-1 Ivy League), outshooting the Big Green 26-1.

With 11 minutes left in the second period up 1-0, Hamilton struck again, bringing Syra cuse’s average up to beginning of the season when it had over five goals per game. Sopho more Willemijn Boogert powered through the center of the area and found Hamilton on the left side. Hamilton fired a shot that bounced off of Post, but she was able to find the back of the net on the rebound to put the Orange up two, moving Hamilton’s season total up to three. Even though the Orange did not score again before the first half ended, they out shot

the Big Green 5-0 in the final five minutes.

When the second half began, SU’s offen sive dominance continued as it had eight scoring chances to start off the third period to Dartmouth’s none. With two minutes to go, Willemijn Boogert started off the penalty corner, finding Eefke van den Nieu wenhof on the near side. van den Nieuwen hof quickly fired a shot that snuck through the Dartmouth defense into the back of the net. Syracuse held a 3-0 lead going into the fourth period.

The SU offense exploded in the last five minutes, with Charlotte de Vries grabbing a loose ball in front of the Dartmouth goal. She spun around a Dartmouth defender and flicked the ball over the goalie to put the Orange up 4-0. That was de Vries’ team lead ing ninth goal of the season.

Syracuse converted their second penalty corner of the day, with van den Nieuwenhof netting her second of the day. Laura Graziosi controlled the pass off the baseline from SJ Quigley, and van den Nieuwenhof was able to fire it home. Quirne Comans scored the sixth, tapping in another shot from van den Nieuwenhof off a penalty corner. Comans is now tied with de Vries for the team lead with nine goals on the year.

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Syracuse needed a flight to Rich mond. It had just defeated Cor nell in the first round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament, but had a “nightmare of a time” finding transporta tion to face its next opponent, VCU.

The circumstances gave SU its first opportunity to travel on a private charter plane, then-freshman goalie Alex Bono said. But it wasn’t any of the planes that Syracuse uses now with Private Jet Services Group. Bono described it as a “janky prop plane” that got the team down to Virginia, where the Orange won 3-2 in double overtime.

Eventually, Syracuse lost to Georgetown in the Sweet 16. But 2012, the first tournament appearance under head coach Ian McIntyre, marked the Orange’s first tournament appearance since 1984. The success came two years after SU hired McIntyre, who constantly recruited, finding “cultural architects” like Mark Brode and leading scorer Jordan Vale. Since McIntyre’s appointment, SU has made the tournament six times.

Brode, who started playing for SU in 2009, was initially recruited by McIntyre and assistant Jukka Masalin when the duo was at Hartwick, but Brode wanted to play in the Big East. When he played basketball in the Dome as part of a visit in high school, it was a “done deal.”

But the Orange won only three games in Brode’s first season, and

SU fired head coach Dean Foti. Once McIntyre and his staff were hired, Brode noticed the differences between the two coaches “from the jump,” espe cially with recruiting.

“They were constantly bringing guys that were competing, which in turn makes your team better,” Brode said.

After Brode’s freshman year, McIntyre collected pieces for the 2012 squad. The Orange picked up defender Nick Bibbs and midfielder Ryan Tessler from the transfer portal. They brought in European players Ted Cribley, Louis Clark and Lars Muller, who became top scorers on the tournament team. In 2011, freshmen Nick Perea, Jordan Murrell and Tyler Hilliard were also recruited to supplement the starting midfield and backline.

“We didn’t have a lot to sell in our program at that time,” McIntyre said. “Our recruiting class was based on individuals that really wanted to be here.”

In the spring of 2010, when McIntyre first practiced with SU, Brode said the coaching staff forced players to run and work out much more than before.

Brode said when players arrived late or missed a tutoring session, they had to meet with SU’s trainer, known as “Big Dan,” at 6 a.m. as punishment. Brode said he became more involved in the gym and focused on getting better once McIntyre came in.

“The first two years were tough,” Tessler said. “But we had to set the standard and go through it.”

Brandon Levin is next up for BHS

By Justin Girshon contributing writer

In eighth grade, Brandon Levin went into football with a com plete blind eye. His friend, Toby McIntyre, encouraged him to play for the modified Baldwinsville middle school football team.

Levin first played for the C team, but the coaches bumped him to the B team after a week because of his speed. Levin made his way into competitive games and showcased his big play ability. Levin’s B team outscored the A team in a scrim

mage thanks to Levin’s quickness. The B team designed wildcat plays for Levin, and he rushed past all of the defenders.

“This is his sport,” Levin’s father, Andrew, said after seeing his son’s performance against the A team. “We’re onto something here.”

Levin decided to continue his football career at Baldwinsville High School, playing on the fresh man team and then the JV team as a sophomore. But on varsity, he was relegated to special teams as the Bees utilized All-CNY running

back Sam Mellinger. But Levin capitalized on his limited oppor tunities, finishing with the second most rushing yards on the team in 2021, and eventually becoming Baldwinsville’s starting running back this year.

During blowouts, after Mel linger was subbed out, Levin played as the lead back for Baldwinsville. Against Rome Free Academy in the Section III Class AA quarterfinal, Mellinger rushed for three touch downs in the first three quarters, giving Levin time in the fourth

women’s soccer Elite defense helps SU clinch its 1st ACC win

By Wyatt Miller asst. copy editor

After SU’s eighth foul of the first half, Miami calmly swung the ball around the box to Jordan Felton on the right. She made a quick move to the outside and sent a cross into the box, where at least three Orange defenders waited between her and her intended target. Grace Gillard was amongst them, clearing the ball with a massive boot down field.

Syracuse (8-3, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) allowed 10 shots – its fewest shots against an ACC opponent this season – against Miami (3-4-2, 0-3 ACC) in Sun day afternoon’s 3-1 victory. SU played stout defense at all three levels to dominate the time of possession in its first conference win since October 2020, also against Miami. The Orange had some foul troubles, committing

Over the past decade, Syracuse has made the NCAA tournament six times. The Orange’s 2012 campaign served as the catalyst for their success since then. daily orange file photo

Following two losing seasons, Ian McIntyre led the Orange to their first tournament appearance since 1984

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