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P • Who art in Hendricks
Missed the debate? Read what Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had to say about various topics during the first presidential debate Monday night. Page 3
Follow a day in a life of Hendricks Chapel Chaplain Gerry Waterman, from leading church services to recommending the best local restaurants. Page 9
S • Clean cuts
Syracuse men’s soccer is off to an 8-1 start to its season and 2-1 start to ACC play. The Orange is doing it with nifty hairdos, which you can check out, here. Page 16
GROWING STRONG
Naming rights deal discussed Syracuse reportedly attempts to negotiate Carrier Dome contract By Jon Mettus asst. sports editor
SU community members gathered Monday in the Sheraton Syracuse University and Hotel and Conference Center to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the LGBT Resource Center, which has laid a foundation for safe spaces at SU. xiao xinran contributing photographer
LGBT Resource Center works to promote safe, inclusive campus By Lydia Wilson staff writer
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he Syracuse University LGBT Resource Center has stood at 750 Ostrom Ave. for 15 years. Some years a rainbow flag can be seen hanging from its entrance, but some years it’s been taken down. Tiffany Gray, the director of the resource center, said while the flag can mean pride and visibility, it can also be a source of tension. Many people have expressed feeling unsafe or conflicted about walking to the center when the flag is hanging, Gray said. Acts of vandalism have occurred at the center, and Gray said she sometimes worries the flag can become a target. “Just because we’re not reading things daily in public safety news alerts, that doesn’t mean things aren’t happening to students individually or systemically,” Gray said. For 15 years, the resource center has been counteracting these issues
and working to foster a safer campus through education, advocacy and outreach. The center is guided by its core values of accountability, awareness, community and social justice. Looking back at its years of service, Gray said she is proud of how deeply embedded the core values are in everything they’ve done. “The complexity in thinking has grown at the center,” Gray said. “There hasn’t been a time where we weren’t trying to be as inclusive, thoughtful, complex and dynamic as possible.” Looking to the future, Gray said a goal of the resource center’s is to assess the accessibility and visibility of their current location. They would like to improve the accessibility for students with limited mobility, she added. Gray said she hopes to one day see a campus where the all of the spaces that support marginalized communities are truly integrated. “People view our work as see
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SU community celebrates 15 years of LGBT Resource Center By Haley Kim asst. copy editor
The LGBT Resource Center is more than just a community for LGBT students. It is also a reminder that students and administration can work together to break down barriers and create change, said Tiffany Gray, the director of the center. “If that’s not an example of collaboration and breaking down barriers that sometimes exist, real or not real, between administrators and students, I don’t know what is,” Gray said. Gray spoke at the LGBT Resource Center’s 15th Anniversary Celebration, hosted in the Comstock Room at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center. For two hours, current students, alumni, administrators and faculty members mingled and ate as they listened to speakers recount the center’s history.
The room, decorated with banquet tables topped with napkins in rainbow colors, was festive as colleagues reconnected and students took photos in front of the selfie wall. The walls were decorated in a visual timeline, with posters, articles and mementos recognizing each year of the center. Along with Gray, there were four other speakers: Jordan Potash, an SU alumnus who wrote the proposal to create the Rainbow Task Force in 1997; Barry Wells, then-senior vice president for student affairs in 1997, who worked with Potash; Adrea Jaehnig, the founding director of the resource center; and Maysam Seraji, a student staff member who presented the timeline and photo slideshow of the center. Potash and Wells spoke about how there was a need for LGBT students to be represented on campus in the late 1990s. “During my junior year, my see
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Syracuse is attempting ending its original naming rights deal with Carrier Corp. for the Dome made in 1980, according to Bloomberg. Carrier originally paid $2.75 million dollars for the naming rights, which was never supposed to expire, but now SU is asking for more money, according to Bloomberg. The deal was one of the first of its kind 36 years ago. Companies are paying millions of dollar per year for the naming rights to stadiums like the Dome now. Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, declined to comment. According to Bloomberg, SU Vice President and Chief Campus Facilities Officer Pete Sala said the university is negotiating with Carrier and Irwin Raij, a partner at Foley & Lardner law firm, co-chair of the firm’s Sports Industry Team and consultant for SU, is leading the talks.
2.75
million The amount Carrier originally paid for naming rights of the Dome
SU announced in May that planned renovations to the Dome roof will cost about $105 million, and other minor improvements to the Dome will cost about $100 million. Sala said on Sept. 13 that the university may not have to move any home football or basketball games as a result of the upcoming Carrier Dome renovations by building the new Dome roof over the current one. jrmettus@syr.edu | @jmettus