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Some students said they are concerned for their safety while running in the university neighborhood due to recent break-ins and assaults on university property.

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All four acts at this year’s Juice Jam rocked the crowd. Headliner Jack Harlow proclaimed he wanted his performance to be the best he’s ever done at a university.

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Andre Szmyt was at the bottom of the pile after his first game-winning field goal in a moment of celebration.

The kicker then reflected on the significance of the make.

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Against all odds Meet Angelina Facciolo, Syracuse field hockey’s new addition

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Black Civil War veterans honored

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ANGELINA FACCIOLO has found a way to ride horses and bikes, rock climb and be a special member of SU’s field hockey team despite being told she wouldn’t be able to. courtesy of erin facciolo

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laire Cooke and Hailey Bitters could only watch as Kent State forward Jenna McCrudden fired a shot into the net, securing the Golden Flashes a comeback victory. Syracuse was stunned after recording 11 more shots and five more penalty corners than Kent State.

But the Orange only found the back of the net once, suffering their first loss of the season.

Usually after a loss, Bitters and Cooke’s emotions would exclusively be negative. But the two players felt mixed emotions. The reason? Angelina Facciolo, a 10-year-old girl with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was in attendance.

“It was nice to kind of decompress in the locker room and then come out and kind of try to separate the two and welcome her as best we could,” Cooke said.

Facciolo came to the game as Syracuse field hockey’s Team IMPACT representative. Team IMPACT is a nonprofit organization that matches college athletic teams with children who have chronic illnesses. Syracuse has multiple teams involved with IMPACT, including women’s lacrosse. Until this season, the field hockey team had yet to meet Facciolo in person.

The experience was one of the countless experiences Facciolo was told she wouldn’t be able to do. Facciolo’s mother, Erin Facciolo, remembers doctors telling her that Facciolo would be lucky to see her

second birthday. On Tuesday, Facciolo celebrated her 10th birthday. And now, Facciolo has a whole college field hockey team behind her back.

Erin describes Facciolo as the family’s “old soul” and “mother hen” because she’s always cautious about what everybody else is doing. Sometimes when Erin, her husband Frank, or her other daughter Rosalie, talk with the 10-year-old, they think they’re talking to a 90-year-old, Erin said. Still, Facciolo has all the hallmarks of a fifth-grader at J.D. George Elementary School.

“I love to draw and play outside,” Facciolo said. “I also love horses, my favorite color is red, and my favorite subject in school is science.”

Facciolo’s world changed when she received her diagnosis of SMA at just nine months old. Erin remembers the day when the world was closing in on her. It is something no parent ever imagines happening to them, Erin said. Looking back on that day, the hardest thing for Erin was hearing all the things Facciolo wasn’t going to be able to do. She hated that instead of encouragement, all she heard were things in the future that wouldn’t happen for her daughter.

“We heard that she’s never going to do this, she’s never going to do that,” Erin said. “And we just had this glimpse and this whole image of being parents, and then it’s all been flushed down the toilet.”

According to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, SMA is a genetic disease that affects the central nervous system, peripheral nervous system and voluntary see impact page 4

James Jameson and other Black Civil War veterans, many of whom are in unmarked graves, were honored at Oakwood Cemetery on Saturday.

Jameson, originally from Syracuse, enlisted in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, which was the first African American troop in the Civil War. Recruitment for the regiment began in February 1863, shortly after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Historic Oakwood Cemetery Preservation Association hosted the ceremony. State Sen. Rachel May, (D-Syracuse), who attended the ceremony, thanked David Haas and other members of HOCPA who took the time to uncover the stories of these men so the Syracuse community can honor them.

“We all owe an enormous debt of gratitude to these men who gave their bravery and their courage and their time and in many cases, their lives,” May said.

Sharon Owens, the deputy mayor of Syracuse, also honored Jameson during the ceremony.

“Mr. Jameson … stood up magnificently to that challenge to fight on behalf of a country but more so for their own freedom and that of their family for this nation,” Owens said. “It is an honor today to stand here today to recognize that service, and it is a tragedy that it took so long because they as many other African American people step forward as the first to do something that in the minds of many people made no sense.”

Owens thanked the community for allowing her to attend the ceremony. Nitch Jones, pastor at Zion Hill World Harvest Baptist Church, followed Owens with a speech honoring the veterans.

“Today we say the names of these heroes. Today we honor the lives of soldiers. Today we give them the honorable ceremony they deserved,” Jones said. “Although they are not being laid to rest in Arlington, although they are not being laid to rest in the veterans memorial cemetery. They have the distinct honor to be laid to rest surrounded by a community of other heroes, warriors, and world changers right here in the great historic Oakwood Cemetery.”

Jones ended his speech with a message to the Syracuse community to look at Jameson as a role model. see veterans page 4

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Students fear for safety while running at SU University College changes name

By Charlotte Striar contributing writer

Syracuse University’s University College changed its name to the College of Professional Studies this summer in an effort to bring clarity to its students.

The college is the hub of parttime education at SU and housed the university’s first full online credit courses in 1997. SU’s Board of Trustees approved changing the name of the college in May. “I think it’s a wonderful change for the college. We’ve had a very strong and long history as University College,” said Ryan Williams, the associate dean of academic affairs in the college.

Michael Frasciello, the college’s dean, said that a central reason for changing the school’s name was that the name “University College” tended to be problematic. For many students, the name raised questions about whether University College was a college or a university, he said.

Some students said that recent break-ins on South Campus and other incidents have sparked concerns over running in and around Syracuse University neighborhoods. corey henry senior staff photographer

By Karoline Leonard asst. news editor

When Jessica Liberopoulos leaves Watson Hall to set out for a run, she wedges a key between her fingers.

Liberopoulos, a sophomore in Martin J. Whitman School of Management, uses the key as a precautionary self-defense method, similar to brass knuckles.

“I try to run with a key because even though nothing has happened to me personally, I have heard the stories and sometimes I want to be extra safe,” said Liberopoulos, a sophomore in Martin J. Whitman

School of Management.

Liberopoulos and other students expressed that they often find themselves concerned over their safety while running in and around Syracuse University.

Madeline Gage, a studio arts major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, said that even running between South and Main Campuses has made her nervous.

“If I run late at night, or even walking back from (Comstock Art Facility) at night, I always just feel uneasy,” Gage said. “It’s dimly lit, and I always think that I am getting followed.”

Gage said the recent reports of robberies close to campus have made her especially wary about running in the university neighborhood. She mentioned the incident last year when a man attacked and attempted to sexually assault a female student jogger.

“When that student was attacked last year, I was sitting in Flint about to go for a run, and I remember that me and my friends were too nervous to run for a few days and weeks after that,” Gage said. “I’ve heard about robberies at knifepoint and stuff, so it’s scary to be walking alone as a girl.”

Alexander Leff, a second-year

architecture student, said that even though there have been recent student concerns over robberies on South Campus, he still runs almost every day.

“I wouldn’t say I am any more worried than I would be otherwise,” Leff said. “I wanna run. I usually don’t run at night but if I need to run I am going to.”

Leff said, however, that he runs with pepper spray or a pocket knife when he runs at night, but he’s never needed to use either.

“Nothing has really happened to me in particular, however, I

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Speed humps introduced around Syracuse area

By Danny Amron

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On Sept. 10, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh announced a pilot program to install speed humps, a wider version of speed bumps, in five locations across Syracuse.

The goal of the pilot program is to study the humps’ impact on reducing speeding and improving pedestrian safety, especially in parks and residential neighborhoods, according to a press release.

“We heard from residents and community groups that speeding has been an issue,” said Neil Burke, the transportation planner for the city of Syracuse. “The frequency of these complaints has increased, specifically over the lockdown periods. So we wanted to take a step here and institute some traffic calming using some techniques that we hadn’t evaluated previously.”

The new speed humps are a part of the city’s Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, which will additionally focus on upgrading crosswalks and traffic lights to increase

pedestrian safety across the city.

The pilot program, which includes the humps as well as signs and pavement markings, will cost about $35,000 of the total $1.54 million in federal funding allocated for the program.

The city worked with a private contractor on the project but had city crews on site to learn how to implement the humps going forward, Burke said.

Speed humps will be placed on Burnet Park Drive in Tipperary Hill neighborhood, Shonnard Street near the West Side neighborhood, Onondaga Park Drive in the Strathmore neighborhood, Stafford Avenue in the Eastwood neighborhood and North Edwards Avenue in the Eastwood neighborhood.

The city’s Department of Public Works chose each location to “best represent all the different typologies and characteristics that (the department) might see if (it) were to roll this out to a larger program,” Burke said.

The DPW will observe speeds at these five locations through the

fall before compiling and analyzing the data in comparison to data collected before the installation of the speed humps, Burke said. A final decision on whether to continue or expand the program will be made in the spring.

“Slowing traffic is a surefire way to increase pedestrian safety,” Burke said. “So if we can use speed humps to do that, then we absolutely want to evaluate that and have it in our toolbox.”

While the city will wait until the spring to determine new potential locations for speed humps, Burke said that the DPW “would absolutely love to work with Syracuse University or SUNY-ESF on rolling some of these items out” on roads near the colleges.

Dawit Negussey, a professor at SU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, said that if the university were to implement speed humps or bumps throughout the campus, it should utilize segmented bumps instead of continuous ones. “(Segmented speed bumps) have a width that would allow trucks and

buses to go without experiencing a bump, so they can speed up if it is an emergency,” Negussey said. “But for the smaller vehicles, they cannot manage to go without encountering the bump.”

Additionally, Negussey said that the heavy snow that Syracuse gets could cause difficulties when plowing roads in the winter, as the bumps may need to be removed or plows would need to proceed with caution.

Burke said the high volume of pedestrians and cyclists in the university neighborhood underscores the need for facilities that promote pedestrian safety. Most recently, the city added bike lanes to Euclid Avenue to make the road safer, but the addition of speed bumps is another step the city could take to improve the safety of pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists.

“If we’re successful and we move into a program, it’s very likely that some streets in (the SU) area would be great candidates for (speed bumps),” Burke said. ddamron@syr.edu

We have all these really interesting professional studies programs, and so the name ‘Professional Studies’ just reflects what we’re doing Michael Frasciello dean of su’s college of professional studies

“We have all these really interesting professional studies programs, and so the name ‘Professional Studies’ just reflects what we’re doing, and it helps to identify the college on campus but also in the wider national and global community,” Frasciello said.

Before the pandemic, Frasciello believed that the future of higher education was a combination of hybrid classes. He still believes that having this option of learning is important for students because the pandemic has highlighted that everyone learns differently.

“Middle-aged students are now looking for an educational experience that includes a blend of residential instruction, online instruction and hybrid instruction,” Frasciello said.

“That’s higher education responding to what students are demanding.”

The pandemic has had no impact on the decision to change the school’s name, but a name change could have potential drawbacks, Frasciello said.

“The largest sort of drawback is that University College is a 103-yearold tradition at Syracuse University,” Frasciello said. “That’s a lot of brand awareness. That’s a lot of individuals who knew Syracuse University through University College.”

The name “College of Professional Studies” sets the college up for the future, Williams said.

“The change over to the College of Professional Studies allows us to think about how we are going to be a new and improved college for the 21st century,” he said. cistriar@syr.edu

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impact muscle movement. It results in the loss of nerve cells called motor neurons in the spinal cord. So as Facciolo gets older, her muscles will deteriorate.

Facciolo is now confined to a wheelchair despite being “cognitively intact,” Erin said.

She also has a feeding tube and wears a ventilator while sleeping. Since she was five, Facciolo has been receiving a spinal injection every four months to slow the progression of the disease.

But the struggles don’t end there for the Facciolos, as the ignorance of disabilities in the rest of the world takes its toll, too.

When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed in 1990, it said schools and workplaces were required to have ramps, elevators, designated parking spots and provide accommodations for people with a range of disabilities. It was a transformative law that helped protect people with disabilities from discrimination. But Erin still finds the laws come up short, as she finds many older buildings are still not accessible.

The most memorable moment was when the Facciolos went out to a restaurant several years ago and immediately noticed that there wasn’t a ramp for Facciolo to enter the building. They were confused and asked the restaurant staff where it was. But the staff gave them no answers and then offered the Facciolos a takeout option instead.

“It’s hard for people to understand how not accessible our world truly is,” Erin said. from page 1

veterans Jameson made a difference at a young age, from page 3

running wouldn’t say that I feel safe,” Leff said. “I’ve heard of things happening … It’s not that I don’t expect anything to happen to me. I just don’t want to hide from the world. If something happens, something happens.”

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“And how our world caters to people with two legs and what that’s like not to people who have wheelchairs.”

But Erin said the most challenging aspect is making their own home and its services accessible. When they first got to their home four years ago, the Facciolos filled out paperwork to have their bathroom modified to make it accessible for their daughter. Today, they’re still on a waitlist to make the proper changes to the bathroom.

The Facciolos have found a way to get her to the bathroom and take a shower, but the frustration still looms. Erin wasn’t able to even provide an accessible vehicle for her daughter early on. For over a year, the Facciolos used a manual ramp to get Facciolo in and out of the car.

Even getting a wheelchair for Facciolo was an arduous process. When Frank and Erin started the process, their primary health insurance provider denied them because “it wasn’t medically necessary for her to be mobile as she was just two years old.” They then turned to New York state Medicaid, but the family was once again denied.

Next, the Facciolos had to go in front of a Medicaid judge to try and overturn the ruling.

They even got an attorney to overturn the denial just to get their daughter a power wheelchair.

But the court felt like she didn’t need to have the power wheelchair, denying the Facciolos again. Through the 16-month long process, Facciolo became old enough to go to preschool, so the family decided to take their story to NewsChannel 9 in Syracuse.

The day after going on NewsChannel 9, the

Facciolos obtained a wheelchair just in time for their daughter to start school.

With the help of her parents and outside resources, Facciolo has done things that she never thought she could do. She has found adaptive programs that helped her rock climb and ride a bike and a horse. She also was able to go on a hike with her family last summer, and her mom even carried her up a waterfall.

“She’s done all these things that we were just told that she would never do,” Erin said.

“It’s not about what she can and can’t do. It’s about how it affects the way around it to help her successfully do it.”

Team IMPACT was another venture the Facciolos wanted to try. Erin found out about the organization last fall after a friend with a child with a disability posted about their experience on Instagram.

The Facciolos filled out the forms with Team IMPACT, and Facciolo was asked about her favorite sports, one of them being field hockey.

And since the family was 35 miles from SU, they were paired with the Orange’s field hockey team.

Facciolo first interacted with the team on Zoom in November 2020. Because of the pandemic, they met on Zoom almost every week last year.

The team gave Facciolo a Syracuse hat as a gift, promising that whenever she wore it, they were sending her strength. When asked about it, Facciolo had a big smile on her face, saying “it felt really good.”

Every meeting featured a different group of field hockey players who would speak with Facciolo. During the meetings, the group

would play many online games, like trivia.

Whether the trivia was about TV shows or actors, Facciolo loved every second. Cooke especially remembered when they played a trivia game about Disney’s “Descendants” franchise and Facciolo got every question right. Syracuse’s players would just let Facciolo surf the web or talk about her day. Erin said her daughter was on “cloud nine” during the Zoom meetings.

Head coach Ange Bradley said by hanging out with Facciolo nearly every week, the team grew as leaders.

“They have been great leaders on the field, but they also are showing how they are great leaders off the field,” Bradley said. “That’s what we want to do here. We want to create strong leaders.”

Through those Zoom meetings, the anticipation for finally meeting in person kept growing. When the tailgate happened after the Kent State loss, Bitters remembers Facciolo acting differently than she had in the video conferences. She was nervous and shy, Bitters said.

“But then once we talked for like 10 minutes, she came out of her shell again,” Bitters said.

Erin loved that she and her daughter could finally put some names to faces they had only seen virtually. But she remembered the gifts that Facciolo got the most, including a piccolo that one player brought from Ireland.

“Now Angelina is going to play the piccolo in the school band,” Erin said.

Jones said.

The ceremony closed with a rendition of “Taps,” a bugle melody typically played at military funerals. Jameson’s headstone

was one unmarked gravestone that is now named, said Rick Naylor, president of HOCPA, who also said that the association will continue to get gravestones for the vet-

erans’ gravesites that remain unmarked at Oakwood Cemetery.

Siena Smith, a policy studies major, said that the recent break-ins haven’t affected her running, but she makes sure to never run at night and to look out for her surroundings.

“There’s a lot of cars that go really fast by the trails on South and near Main Campus, so sometimes things like that make me feel unsafe,” Smith said. “I’ve had one weird

instance with a guy that I thought was following me, but otherwise, I haven’t had anything out of the ordinary affect me.”

Even though many students said that they don’t feel safe the majority of the time while running, that hasn’t stopped them from their routines.

“Sometimes, if I am especially nervous, I

will make sure to go in the middle of the day when it is especially busy with people and students,” Gage said. “But I am trying to remember all the ways I can stay safe, keep myself out of harm and try to feel less nervous while running in the neighborhoods.”

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SU was unprepared to deal with COVID-19 spread this fall

By The Daily Orange Editorial Board

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yracuse University’s administration began the fall semester unprepared to handle the spread of COVID-19 on campus. The lack of appropriate COVID-19 protocols became evident through SU’s attempts to control an outbreak on campus that was far from unpredictable .

With SU fixated on bringing back the in-person experience, it has put the health and safety of students, employees and the greater community at risk. The university must improve its shortcomings regarding COVID-19 protocols.

SU’s 2020-21 academic year proved the university’s ability to employ appropriate measures to contain the spread of COVID-19.

Weekly tests, a strict mask mandate and a limit on large gatherings protected our campus against the virus.

SU’s diligence for health and safety protocols was admirable.

This semester, however, feels different. Although the university showed that it can employ these containment protocols, it decided not to do so this semester — and the difference shows.

SU’s lackluster preparation was illuminated when the university relocated 53 Skyhall II residents from

their building on Sept. 9 to house students in isolation. The university used Skyhall as isolation housing last year, yet this year, the dorms weren’t even an option for isolation housing until the university ran out of options.

Additionally, SU relocated 16 students as of Sept. 21 four miles off campus to Onondaga Community College to isolate. SU only told the 16 students that it is using OCC for isolation housing; it failed to communicate this important information to the rest of campus, leaving students uninformed.

The administration’s failure to recognize the heights at which cases would rise once students returned to campus has resulted in last-minute attempts to control the spread. SU has not communicated these lastminute efforts to the wider student body — possibly as a way of saving face, because if SU was clear about its lack of preparation and subsequent scrambling, students may doubt the university’s ability to control the virus.

Although SU has not been transparent about some of its policies such as where students will be placed for isolation, it has been sure to clearly emphasize that no exposures have been linked to the classroom.

Still, SU should require professors to have a Zoom alternative for students who are sick, as both stu-

dents and faculty have expressed a desire for online classroom options.

Although hybrid classrooms have both negative and positive aspects, during a public health crisis, it is better to err on the side of safety.

Students who are quarantined can miss up to four days of a given class for a 10-day quarantine order, with no access to class materials other than the information their professors provide on Blackboard.

Consequently, some students who think isolation or quarantine could jeopardize their grades may decide to go to class, even if they are feeling ill.

Many faculty members, too, say that the ability to hold class over Zoom would give them the freedom to choose the platform for their class based on ever-changing variables such as number of students in class and their own health risk.

The university had the ability to take what it learned from last year, when it demonstrated that it is possible to successfully teach and learn in a hybrid manner, and implement it this semester. But the university failed to do so, and instead disregarded many of the benefits of the Zoom classroom.

Over the summer, SU came up with a tiered, color-coded COVID-19 alert system, which identifies campus mask mandates based on new rates of infection, testing data and contact tracing

information in the campus and local community. Although this provides an obtainable goal — to attain the “GREEN” alert level — the university has barely promoted this goal.

Despite being on the “RED” alert level, there are still community members who don’t wear their masks in the presence of others, which is problematic. If students don’t adhere to the changing mask guidelines and SU does not enforce the rules, the tiered system won’t be effective, and it may be better to return back to a general mask mandate.

Additionally, the university has continued with large in-person events despite the rise of cases. The Class of 2020’s commencement took place on campus last week, bringing thousands of people outside of the campus community to campus. Juice Jam, football games at the Dome and other events — many of which have mask mandates that go unenforced by the university — have the potential to contribute to the spread of COVID-19 on campus and in the community.

Although SU missed its opportunity during the summer to recognize that the community might not remain out of the woods with COVID-19 and to take proper precautions to better limit the spread as it did last year, there are certain steps that SU can still take to

improve safety on campus.

SU should reinstate weekly testing for all students, vaccinated or not. Vaccinated people can still get and transmit COVID-19, so vaccinated students who have not been randomly selected may still be asymptomatic carriers with the ability to transmit the virus to others.

The university also needs to be more transparent. We have seen SU’s attempts to downplay or obscure its decisions regarding the pandemic.

Being transparent would have given students, faculty and other campus community members more clarity on the semester at hand.

SU needs to prioritize the health of the community. It has a responsibility to its students, faculty and employees, as well as the greater Syracuse community, to keep everyone safe.

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More SU dining options could improve students’ eating habits

By Karla Perez columnist

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ne of the most common concerns as a college student is the disruption of eating habits. Students have the burden of figuring out their daily eating schedules — something made unnecessarily complicated by the predetermined food regimes in dining halls on campus.

Syracuse University offers five residential dining halls accompanied by on-campus food courts and cafes. With the hectic and diverse schedules that students attend to every day, however, the limited capacities of these on-campus options create a rupture in many students’ eating habits.

Not all students have the same class schedules. But it seems like most have similar meal times, aligning perfectly to create havoc during breakfast, lunch and dinner. A visit to Schine Dining from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. reveals this chaotic high demand.

The long lines at all the dining locations at Schine (Dunkin’, Panda Express, Tomato Wheel, CoreLife Eatery, Halal Shack and Biscotti Cafe) make it intimidating even to consider eating there. A sophomore on campus,

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Maria Figueira de Mello Gomes, expressed her frustration with not eating at the food court even though it is the closest place to eat for her during the day.

“Although Schine has a really good location, right in the middle of all my classes, I eat at Ernie (Davis) because I don’t have time to stay in the lines,” Gomes said. “I feel like I always eat the same meals.”

Gomes is one of many SU students who cannot take advantage of the diverse food options at the Schine Student Center due to limited time slots in between classes and endless lines. Also, some dining locations have reduced hours or are closed due to Food Services staffing shortages.

SU has reviewed these concerns and is currently attempting to find possible solutions to reopen cafes closed due to COVID-19 and improve the speed of services, Residential Dining Director Sue Bracy said.

“Open locations may experience longer lines and slower service, as new employees are trained and get up to speed. Food Services is working hard to hire and train the staff necessary to open all of its locations,” Bracy said.

The solution should go beyond training employees to relieve the

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understaffed locations. SU should focus on opening up more nondining hall options to distribute the demand and cover the busiest regions of campus. The location of the residential dining halls can sometimes be problematic for students’ schedules since some are on the outskirts of campus and are often a 10+ minute walk from students’ classes.

The lack of suitable dining options can also lead to irregular eating habits and skipped meals, which can lead to binge eating. SU students shouldn’t have to worry about unhealthy eating habits due to limited food options. The university is responsible for ensuring the health of their students first, but it sounds as though it will be a long time before students see new options. Bracy explained the extensive process of determining what restaurants make it to campus, which includes time to gather student feedback, as well as planning for space considerations, dietary considerations and contract considerations.

“It depends on many factors.

At Schine, the process began with soliciting student feedback, including focus group sessions, pizza parties in residence halls, pop-ups, meetings with student

leaders, etc., to hear what students wanted to see on campus,” Bracy said.

As SU makes thought-out decisions for the future of food options, students are currently struggling on a daily basis with the food situation on campus without any shortterm solution in sight. Moreover, as SU students planned out their living conditions for the 2021-22 academic year, many realized a change in their meal plans.

SU transitioned from a weekly meal plan that allowed swipes at food courts and cafes to a block or unlimited meal plan, limited to only the residential dining halls, with Dining Dollars and ‘Cuse Cash options for other dining locations.

This change led to many students having to rethink their routines to accommodate the financial challenges of this new policy. During the spring 2021 semester, students could use meal swipes at dining locations other than residential dining centers as a pandemic-related effort to reduce density in dining halls. Now, students can only use meal swipes at residential dining centers, though.

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meal swipes to be accepted at other locations,” Bracy said.

But the long lines at Schine demonstrate that there is indeed a need to “de-densify” dining centers, and, according to a popular student petition, there is also a financial need for last year’s practice. Not all SU students can afford to spend money at these on-campus locations, leading to a restrictive food experience based solely on the dining halls.

Students’ grades tend to fall when they have a hard time affording food, a problem that SU should immediately address. To wake up and plan out where to eat in a day is an added stressor for students with an already overloaded schedule. Balancing academics, social life and extracurricular activities can add up to an exhausting day-to-day itinerary, and food should not be a disruption. Food is a source of energy, and it is highly essential for success in an academic setting. If SU wants its students to succeed, it should add more food options to satisfy their needs.

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‘WHAT’S POPPIN’ Juice

By Siron Thomas asst. digital editor

Photo By Elizabeth Billman senior staff photographer

When asked what it was like to perform in Syracuse for the first time, Audrey Nuna didn’t mince words.

“I personally had a f*cking blast,” Nuna said.

Sunday marked the first in-person Juice Jam, presented by University Union, in two years. UU hosted last year’s concert virtually. This year’s lineup included four artists in the hip-hop and pop genres: Audrey Nuna, Bea Miller, Jack Harlow and B.o.B. To mark the occasion, students made sure to show out and show up at Skytop Field.

Before any artists took the stage, Aux Cord Wars, a DJ collective, entertained guests who arrived early with karaoke and throwback songs like “Party in the U.S.A.” by Miley Cyrus and “Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj. The DJ collective performed in between sets and threw Juice Jam merchandise, including bandanas and T-shirts, into the crowd throughout the concert.

Audrey Nuna took the stage after and came out to a few hundred people in the audience. She wore an allwhite outfit, including a jac ket

adorned with silver accents, with two long braids. Nuna kicked off her performance with her defiant anthem “Cool Kids,” a song from her newest album “a liquid breakfast,” which came out in May 2021.

During her set, the singer and rapper introduced herself to the crowd, telling them that she’s from New Jersey and allergic to cats.

She had the students yell as loud as possible as she listed their class years, which got the crowd engaged.

Along with her high energy songs “Top Again” and “Comic Sans,” the Korean American artist also performed some of her more mellow songs like “Space.”

Nuna’s set finished off with her most-streamed song to date, “damn Right,” telling the audience that she wanted to see them fired up for the song. The crowd abided, and Nuna thanked Syracuse as she exited.

After her performance, Nuna told The Daily Orange that when it comes to thinking creatively, both music and fashion intertwine.

“I wanna do New York Fashion Week with my own clothes and make the music for it,” she said. “I think they’re interconnected. I think everything creative comes from the same wavelength in your body.”

Bea Miller took the stage second, just as more students were starting to arrive on South Campus.

As the former “X Factor” contestant performed songs like “it’s not u it’s me” and “I Wanna Know,” an NOTD song featuring Miller, the crowd became more lively, jumping up and down in unison.

Miller stopped her set in its tracks when she noticed a girl wearing a birthday tiara. She got the girl’s name and got the audience to say happy birthday all together.

After Miller closed her set wit Wars once again took the stage du students up to the stage and takin When the clock hit 3:15 p. introduced fellow Georgian B.o.B “Give it up for one of Atlanta’s b howled together.

The rapper, whose legal nam came ready for Juice Jam, and with his song “Ready.”

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After following his command song until the mass of students the opening seconds of “Airplan Hayley Williams’ part of the song Before B.o.B left the stage, h heading back to campus.

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choosing, the pair also teased the crowd by asking if they were ready to see Harlow. About 20 minutes after B.o.B left the stage, it was time for the headline performance.

The crowd of what started as a few hundred students bolstered to thousands, cheering in full force as the first few seconds of “Tyler Herro” kicked in.

Harlow also took time to perform some covers that resonated with the audience, including “Fireflies” by Owl City. While the crowd seemed confused initially by the song choice, they quickly joined in, singing along with hands in the air.

Harlow took a break to tell the audience it was his first time in Syracuse, that he was on tour, but after Juice Jam he would be able to take a day off.

“I wanna cap everything off with y’all,” Harlow said to the crowd.

Then Harlow started performing “I WANNA SEE SOME ASS.” As the bass boomed through the speakers, the song was met with instant approval as students began singing along.

The Louisville rapper played some of his newest singles like “Black on Black,” featuring Pooh Shiesty, and “INDUSTRY BABY,” by Lil Nas X and featuring Harlow. Before rapping his portion of “ IN DUST RY B A BY,”

Harlow shouted out his co-collaborator.

“Does this university have any love for Lil Nas X? Does Syracuse have any love for Lil Nas X?” Harlow said.

Along with his newer and popular songs, Harlow also made sure to play his older songs like “GHOST,” which he said he hoped would reveal some of his “day one fans.”

To close off the show, Harlow played his Grammy-nominated hit “WHATS POPPIN,” as the crowd sang along without missing a beat. He introduced the song in a classically optimistic Jack Harlow fashion.

“I want this to be the best performance of this song I’ve done at any university,” Harlow said. sthoma10@syr.edu @sironthomas

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‘Westcott Nation’ is back and its residents are excited

By Louis Platt culture editor

Sophistafunk’s lead singer Jack Brown jumped around on the NY State of Health Center Stage, hyping up the 200 to 300 people nearby.

“Westcott Nation, we’re back,” he told the audience.

The Syracuse band headlined the Westcott Street Cultural Fair this evening, the first fair since 2019 due to the pandemic. The organizers anticipated this year’s turnout would be lower than in previous years, but the fair ended up one thousand visitors away from breaking its record of 11,000 guests, Westcott Fair chairperson Sharon Sherman said. Westcott residents and people from the greater Syracuse region filled Westcott Street from noon to 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the diverse community known as the Westcott Nation.

Debra Gertz, a Westcott neighborhood resident, has attended every Westcott Street Cultural Fair since its inception in 1991. The Westcott resident felt hesitant about coming to this year’s event with the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, she said.

“It’s really wonderful, and it’s a little mixed because of the outbreak and the pandemic is still happening,” Gertz said.

“I like that it feels a little mellow today compared to other years.”

Sherman agreed that today would turn out to be a lighter crowd than previous years. She compared the Westcott fair attendance lull to the attendance issue the Great New York State Fair’s faced due to the pandemic.

The total number of visitors for this year’s fair came to 10,013, Sherman confirmed and said that that’s about the average number when the fair has bad weather.

To avoid the crowds roaming along Westcott Street, Gertz stationed herself by the Health Center stage with her mask on to see her friend and Westcott favorite Colleen Kattau perform with her band, Dos XX. Kattau opened her set with a shout out to the neighborhood, yelling, “it’s about to get more Westcott Nation.”

Kattau and Dos XX’s music primarily honors women and Latin culture, both of which Sherman said are represented at the fair.

There were about 120 tables at the fair, from artist Jaleel Campbell’s “Jalethal Dolls” stand to an upcycling clothes vendor. Colleen Brown runs Colleen’s Creative Outlet Upcycled Clothing, a clothing business that sells used clothing after making alterations to it, and she has sold at the fair on numerous occasions.

Brown said she’s a part of the “Westcott clique” despite living about 30 miles north of Syracuse.

While she’s come to love the

environment of the fair, the students from the nearby schools play a big role in her returning each year, Brown said.

She likes to follow college students’ clothing trends when she’s making alterations, especially before attending the fair. As she described that pleated skirts are “in,” she called the attention of a customer browsing through the skirt rack.

“Today, everybody had the pleated skirts on. Am I right?” Brown asked the customer.

Even though the fair saw a solid resurgence of visitors this year, it came with some hindrances along the planning process, Sherman said. The fair had to dip into its reserve fund to finance some of its art projects.

“It’s been pretty tough,” Sherman said.

These minor bumps in the road didn’t seem to alter the atmosphere of the entire event. Martha Stansberry, a member of the University Christian Fellowship, was selling sweet buttered corn, chicken wings and salt potatoes today for the organization’s scholarship program. She noticed the crowd was thinner today than other years that she tabled for UCF, but she said people were noticeably nice to each other today.

“People seem a lot happier, and people are just very generous to each other,” Stansberry said. Festivalgoer Sylvia Lewis shared the sentiment that the crowd seemed united and excited to be

back together. The fair offered visitors and members of the Westcott Nation the chance to “be human and together again,” she said.

While the fair didn’t have a strict masking rule, the organizers were following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sherman said. But, if she had children younger than 12 years old, she would have been concerned about bringing them to the fair, she said.

Sherman expected to see fewer children at this year’s fair because they are not eligible for vaccination yet. Another fairgoer, Morgan Jantzi, opted to bring her young daughter this year.

“You have to live your life,” Jantzi said.

Korrie Flowers, a mother of four children all under 12 years old, brought her kids this year as well.

Flowers started attending the fair in her teenage years and wanted to make sure her children were able to experience it, too. The mother’s prerequisite to coming was that her kids had to remain masked at all times, she said.

This way, the kids could participate in the “Kids Race,” which she said is the main thing they look forward to.

“The Westcott fair is something to bring our whole community together,” Flowers said. “We can all come together and explore new things.” louis@dailyorange.com @jbl__98

slice of life

Heather Dubrow returns to SU to record her podcast in person

By Kasey O’Rourke staff writer

A countdown on the television in the Schine Underground commenced, cameras in the back began to roll, and the lights turned on.

At 6 p.m., Heather Dubrow walked down an aisle and toward the stage in a black bandage dress. Her hair shined, and her makeup looked expertly applied. She wore a big white smile fit for reality TV. “Nice to see you all,” Dubrow said to the crowd of about 90 people.

Dubrow, College of Visual and Performing Arts alumna who has appeared on “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” returned to campus Thursday evening for the first time since graduating in 1990 to tape a live recording of her podcast “Heather Dubrow’s

World.” The alumna’s podcast has over 100 million downloads, and this is the first time she’s recorded with an in-person crowd in three years due to the pandemic, she said.

Since graduating as a musical theater major, Dubrow has appeared in shows such as “Hawaii Five-0,” “Jenny” and “That’s Life.” The alumna also owns a skincare and supplement line called Consult Beaute with her husband Terry Dubrow, a plastic surgeon and fellow reality TV-star. The alumna, who she said was named “most likely to be famous” in high school, spoke to the audience about her struggles at SU and her career successes since graduating.

For her first visit back to SU since graduating, Dubrow’s family joined her and watched from the front row. She opened the podcast expressing how great it was to be back on campus.

“This is our first show in almost three

years because of the pandemic, and it is phenomenal to see half your faces,” Dubrow said. “You look amazing.”

Halfway through her 40-minute live show, Dubrow welcomed special guest Ashley Iaconetti on the television screen. Iaconetti, a 2013 Newhouse master’s alumna and former “The Bachelor” contestant, joined over Zoom for a question and answer segment.

After attending graduate school at SU with a focus in broadcast journalism, Iaconetti used “The Bachelor” as a platform to launch her career in media and entertainment coverage. It was what she planned to do with her Syracuse University degree all along, she said.

Though she’s made a career of portraying a picture-perfect and Instagrammable life, Dubrow did not shy away from sharing that at times her SU experience was anything but.

“I really lost myself and found myself here,” Dubrow said. “I showed up here and folded into myself in a way I hadn’t before.”

But it wasn’t until Dubrow won the title of “Miss Syracuse” in 1989 that she figured out what she wanted her life to look like. During the pageant process, she learned public speaking skills and the importance of staying up to date on current events.

Now as her oldest twin sons begin the college application process, with SU as a prospect, Dubrow said she encourages them to follow their hearts and stay faithful that it will all work out in the end.

“It’s great to have dreams and goals and life plans, but you have to listen to the universe, you have to pivot,” she said at the end of the podcast.

“Ages come in stages. Enjoy it, live it to the fullest.” korourke@syr.edu

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liberty plan was to chew the clock and set up Szmyt, Shrader said. Sean Tucker rushed for a gain of eight, and then one, before Shrader burst through a small hole for a gain of two and a first down. Shrader rushed again for a gain of eight, and Babers called timeout with one second remaining on the clock. The biggest emphasis was on not losing yards, Shrader said, though it worked out better than expected since the Orange gained 13 yards of field position.

All this time, Szmyt had been nailing shots into the kicking net that sits along the East sideline of the Carrier Dome. A couple teammates told him to be ready since they knew that it would likely come down to his right foot. Szmyt knew too.

“I had that feeling that it was gonna come down to me so I was getting ready as soon as we got the turnover,” he said.

Liberty called timeout before Szmyt could get the initial kick off, so the kicker had additional time to think about the high-pressure situation while standing on the field. He said he wasn’t thinking about it a lot when they “iced” him by calling a timeout.

Teammates tried to talk to him, and they told him “Hey, don’t worry about it, you got it,” he said. Abdul Adams reassured him that it’d be fine because it’s something he’s been doing his whole life, Szmyt said. People told him “no pressure,” which he said didn’t really help. For Szmyt, he said the important thing was to just focus on doing his “own thing.”

“It’s just natural for me,” Szmyt said. “I just go out there and do my thing no matter what anyone says or if they call timeout or don’t. I still do my job.”

Syracuse had what Szmyt described as “a bitter taste in our mouth” ever since Liberty upset SU in the Carrier Dome last fall. The Flames celebrated to the song “Empire State of Mind” and took photos on the field after the program earned its first-ever win over an ACC opponent in 2020.

So when the moment arrived, a 35-yard try from the center hash, Szmyt said he “kinda blacked out.” He said he didn’t really remember the kick itself, something that hasn’t happened on other field goals for him. The pressure affiliated with the game-winning kick changed that, but Szmyt still delivered what Shrader called “a great kick.” from page 12

injuries by having more presence in the opponent’s box. It’s different from the head coach’s normal playing style, one focused on attacking aggressively through her front line and having three or four key goal scorers.

On Thursday, Louisville was the Orange’s first exposure to playing with its new playing style, and it resulted in a loss. Notre Dame was the second. As the Orange enter into ranked play next week against ACC opponents Duke and Florida State, it’ll again be one of the only options it has with a depleted roster. from page 12

offense ball. Although they had time on the ball, Adams seemed disappointed with Syracuse’s offensive runs.

“It’s not like we didn’t have opportunities in transition,” Adams said. “When you’re not playing the proper foot or the movement’s not there you’re not going to have too many opportunities in front of the goal.”

In the 15th minute, Syracuse had its best transition run. Koby Commandant received the ball in the midfield and ran straight through Wake Forest’s defense before dishing it to Meghan Root at the top of the box. Root slotted the ball to Kylen Grant streaking through the box. Grant then slid the ball into the right corner of the goal, but the play was flagged for offsides and the goal was nullified.

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upenn Syracuse earned four penalty corners in the first two quarters, not conceding any during that time.

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“It’s the same thing that I’ve been doing in practice, every game, my whole career so I just knew I had to do the same swing, same stuff,” Szmyt said. “I knew Bo (long snapper Aaron Bolinsky) was gonna be ready, I knew (holder) Mike (Midkiff ) was gonna hold the ball for me right.”

The game was won when...

Szmyt hit the field goal. Syracuse held a 21-7 lead in the third quarter when Shrader ran the ball into the end zone from the 10-yard line to cap off a 74-yard drive downfield. But the Orange then watched that lead dissipate as the offense stalled out for much of the second half. Still, with 4:21 remaining in regulation and a chance to march downfield, bleed the clock and win the game on a field goal, Willis coughed the ball up when he was hit

by Wax and Roscoe. Jones fell on the loose ball, Babers ran the clock all the way down to one second — a sight that made Syracuse fans nervous — and then Szmyt drilled his first-ever game winner.

Game ball: Sean Tucker... and also Marlowe Wax

Sean Tucker is the obvious choice here. Syracuse fans held their breath when he went down during the second half and lay on his back for multiple moments, but they erupted when he returned to the field. Chants for “MVP” rang through the Carrier Dome as Tucker walked off the field under his own power after taking that big hit. He was Syracuse’s entire offense — responsible for 196 of 228 total offensive yards.

But beyond Tucker, Marlowe Wax played a complete game with four solo tackles and three sacks. Wax combined with Roscoe to force Willis’ fumble late in the fourth quarter, the play that set up the game-winning field goal. Wax also sacked Willis midway through the third quarter on a third down, and once more earlier that quarter.

“He’s a real dog,” Jones said of Wax. “He knows exactly what he needs to do to get better, and he did it all offseason. I watched him work hard all offseason — (he’s) definitely (at) a better level than last year.”

Three final points

walked away from the play pointing to his own jersey as if to suggest he ran the wrong route.

“We had a shot with Damien, we missed the shot, that could’ve been seven. We had a shot with Taj, we missed a shot, that could’ve been 14.

We came back later and Damien was there, he didn’t run a great route,” Babers said postgame.

“All three of those shots could have ended with 21 more points and now it’s a different game.”

Whether it’s a matter of chemistry or an attribute that Shrader simply doesn’t possess with his arm, this will certainly be something that Babers and offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert discuss with the quarterback this week. Babers said the quarterback decision was made late — in the hotel right before the game.

“We need to throw the ball better,” Babers said. “In dealing with quarterbacks and certain football teams, you have to have standards. And the standards can’t change. You can’t settle for things.”

Despite limited time, Abdul Adams looked solid.

Adams’ stats don’t jump off the page: two carries for 10 yards, and one catch for 11. After opting out of the 2020 season, the redshirt senior hadn’t had any meaningful carries through the first three games of the season — he played during garbage time against Ohio and again against UAlbany. But Friday night against the Flames, Adams came in during a first quarter series and had a shifty, 10-yard rush. He provided a chance of pace from the Sean Tucker-centric offense, and it seemed to throw the Liberty defense off, at least temporarily. He caught a checkdown and went for an 11-yard run on that same series, again highlighting his elusiveness.

Babers has emphasized the Orange’s depth at running back, and Airon Servais said the same thing. Adams is no Sean Tucker, but he provides a fresh look to an SU offense that could be beneficial on occasion.

Liberty, on the other hand, was flagged for seven penalties, one being an untimely pass interference call in the second quarter which led to a Tucker touchdown run.

Halfway to a bowl game?

In purely technical terms, yes, Syracuse is halfway to the six wins it needs to be eligible for a bowl game. But two of those three wins were over Ohio — a Mid-American Conference team — and UAlbany — a Football Championship Subdivision team. At 3-1 overall, the Orange look good on paper right now, and they have a good chance to improve to 4-1 at Florida State next week. But the offense is still extremely one-sided, and without Sean Tucker, the passing game has been stagnant.

The defense is consistent, but as was evident against Rutgers, that doesn’t mean much unless SU can put points on the board. A win over Florida State is likely, but matchups with Louisville, Pitt and Boston College will be much more contentious.

Shrader throwing the deep ball: This is one area where Tommy DeVito clearly has the edge on the Mississippi State transfer.

On the first play of the game, Shrader missed Damien Alford on a deep shot where the freshman wide receiver had established separation over the top. DeVito connected with Alford on a long bomb last week against the Great Danes, but that was a lower-tier defense. Shrader missed a handful of other mid- to long-range chances during Friday night’s game. On one, he missed Taj Harris by a wide mark near the right sideline in the red zone, but Harris

“ACC is unforgiving,” Adams said. “They do not care if you’re injured.”

Wake Forest pressed their offense into Syracuse’s box early, taking advantage of a shifted Syracuse defense that switched around throughout the game, such as moving up center back Emma Klein to the midfield. Just 10 minutes into the game, Sofia Rossi rifled a shot out of Syracuse’s box with her right foot, but completely missed right.

Adams said the main strategy Syracuse had going into the game was beating Notre Dame out on the transition end and using its high attacker to regain the zone on the field. In an opportunity during the 13th minute, forward Meghan

Root right-foot passed outside Wake Forest’s box toward Grant while she enclosed on the left side.

Grant knocked the ball into the right corner, but a whistle was blown for offsides.

Six minutes later, Wake Forest’s Ryanne Brown fed Hulda Arnarsdottir while she sat at 12-yards. The ball landed into the high right corner and put the Deacons up 1-0.

Syracuse, who has thrived off corner kicks to create scoring options throughout the beginning of the season, had four corners in the first half. But with Syracuse’s primary target on corners, Jenna Tivnan who’s out due to injury, graduate student Natalie Weidenbach said her team’s option has expanded to covering multiple options inside the

box — including a shot on goal within the game’s dwindling minutes, all of her kicks didn’t connect.

In the second half, an injury to Root added onto the pile of lost Syracuse forwards and with a field of primarily out-of-position Syracuse underclassmen playing against ACC foe Wake Forest. In the 73rd minute, Shalaya Smart inside Syracuse’s box chipped a shot over Syracuse defenders. The shot hit Lysianne Proulx left mitt, but it hit the high corner and extended the Deacon’s lead to 2-0.

Following Wake Forest’s second goal, DeNoyer mumbled from his chair: “Does it ever end?”

its first goal, a deflating blow to Syracuse’s hard work in winning possession. Down a goal, the Orange tried even harder to pressure the Demon Deacons, Root said.

“We were gonna press, we were gonna try to get higher and win the ball up higher so we can attack. We kind of shot ourselves in the foot not connecting passes there,” Root said.

Aysia Cobb played a career-high 54 minutes at forward, but she was frequently disconnected from the remainder of Syracuse’s offense. She didn’t receive the ball frequently, but when she did, she often ran straight into the defense without an outlet to pass to.

Syracuse tried to beat Wake Forest in transition, but it couldn’t set up the overloads needed to create opportunities near the goal, Adams said. Instead of being patient on the ball while running in transition to make twoon-one chances, SU players passed the ball

too soon, leaving attackers stranded and surrounded by defenders.

Especially in the first half, SU’s two holding midfielders were often left out of position on the same side of the field. It meant Syracuse didn’t have a passing outlet from the middle of the field to drive an attack.

Adams also pointed to Syracuse’s “dangerous” set pieces as a way to beat Wake Forest’s seemingly impenetrable defense. The Orange won 12 free kicks and six corners, but they could not score despite several good deliveries by Natalie Weidenbach.

Heading into back-to-back matchups with Duke and Florida State — the top two teams in the nation — Adams said Syracuse needs to change its attacking philosophy to rely on more players.

“I don’t think we’re going to be able to depend on just three or four that can just go-go. It’s going to be more of a unit-based attack.”

But in the third quarter, UPenn was able to earn three penalty corners.

Still, the Quakers weren’t able to convert on any opportunities as sophomore goalie Sabien Paumen made six saves, limiting attacking chances from the Quakers dur-

ing the outing.

Syracuse ends its five-game road stretch with four wins, only falling to No. 10 Rutgers 3-2 in double overtime on Sept.

10. SU bounced back after the Rutgers loss to defeat No. 12 UConn and hand No. 3

Quote of the night: Dino Babers on Garrett Shrader

Shrader finished 6-of-15 for 77 yards, in addition to 65 yards rushing and two touchdowns on the ground. Postgame, after Shrader’s first career start for Syracuse, Babers reflected on the Mississippi State transfer’s performance.

“Garrett did the things we asked him to do,” Babers said. “One thing when you’re on the team and Sean Tucker is running the ball the way he is, that our No. 1 job is to find ways so he gets the ball.”

Stat to know: 5

Penalties have been a struggle for the Orange, particularly over the last two weeks when SU had eight against Rutgers and then matched that total in one half against UAlbany. The Orange seemed to be off to a rough start when their first quarter featured a false start on third down of the opening drive, a holding penalty and another false start. But Syracuse showed more discipline throughout the rest of the game, and it finished with five total penalties.

We kind of shot ourselves in the foot not connecting passes there Megan Root senior forward

“Wake wasn’t high pressing anybody. Everybody had time,” Adams said. “It’s more ‘Hey stop,’ look around what they’re doing and maybe you can receive the ball without any pressure.”

Next up: Florida State

Syracuse travels to Florida State to open Atlantic Coast Conference play on Saturday afternoon. The Seminoles have lost to Wake Forest and No. 12 Notre Dame, but one defeat came 20-17 against a Football Conference Subdivision team — Jacksonville State.

The Seminoles sit at the bottom of the ACC’s Atlantic Division, and might be SU’s most legitimate shot at a much coveted conference victory. @roshan_f16 rferna04@syr.edu

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Boston College its first loss of the season.

The Orange will now play four consecutive home games, resuming ACC play against No. 7 North Carolina on Friday.

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Behind Andre Szmyt’s game-winning field goal

women’s soccer

Injuries plague Syracuse o ense

By Chris

Scarglato

senior staff writer

Facing a wall of Wake Forest players, Pauline Machtens lined up for free kick with Koby Commandant to her right on standby. For the past 65 minutes of Sunday’s game, Syracuse had come close to scoring against the Demon Deacons but had difficulties connecting for a goal. This time, though, there was a plan.

They’re all out. I’m not getting them (back) for the rest of the season.

Nicky Adams

ANDRE SZMYT finished Friday night’s game with the final dagger from 35 yards after missing from 52 yards earlier in the game.

He broke SU’s all-time record for field goals made last week. daily orange file photo

Szmyt kicked his first-ever game-winning field goal to lift Syracuse over Liberty, a team that previously sat just outside the AP Top 25

By Roshan Fernandez senior staff writer

A

ndre Szmyt looked to the sideline and saw his teammates charging onto the field in celebration. He said he thought he was tackled by running back Cooper Lutz after splitting the uprights, but then everyone jumped on top of him in joy after his 35-yard field goal lifted Syracuse to a 24-21 victory over Liberty and to 3-1 on the season.

“It was not fun,” Szmyt said when asked about the celebration.

“Everyone just piled on.”

“I was just watching him,” starting quarterback Garrett Shrader said in response. “You can’t win in that situation because he’s not gonna outrun half the kids on our team, so he chose to be on the bottom of the pile.”

The attempt marked the 61st make of Szmyt’s Syracuse career. He hasn’t found the same consistency or accuracy that he possessed during his 2018 Lou Groza Award winning season, with a 43-yard miss against Rutgers that Babers later criticized as costly and another 52-yard miss during the first quarter of Friday’s game.

But last week, his two made field goals from 48 yards and 28 yards lifted him past Cole Murphy to make him Syracuse’s all-time leader in made field goals. Babers told the story of when

Szmyt earned a scholarship as a walk-on during his freshman season, and he recalled when Sterling Hofrichter told him that Szmyt was a better kicker than he was. On Friday night, Szmyt added to that record-breaking total when he booted the first game-winning field goal of his Syracuse tenure.

“It feels good,” Szmyt said after the game. “This is my first game-winner in four years so it feels good but I’ve been doing the same thing since my freshman year, just doing whatever I can to help the team win.”

The chance to score the field goal arose when Liberty quarterback Malik Willis was hit by Marlowe Wax and Cody Roscoe with less than four minutes remaining in regulation. The score was tied 21-21, and Liberty was backed up in its own half of the field.

The Orange defenders combined for the strip sack, and linebacker Mikel Jones fell on the loose ball.

From there, it would’ve been a near-50 yard field goal attempt for Szmyt. Earlier in the game, the kicker came out for a similar attempt from 52 yards. It went short in terms of distance and wide-left. The rest of the game, in between kickoffs and extra points, he stood on the sideline and watched.

“Any kicker needs to have a short-term memory loss,” Szmyt said. “Kinda forgetting about that 52-yarder … and just going out and hitting that field goal.”

With possession after the fumble recovery, Syracuse’s

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Head coach Nicky Adams yelled out from the sideline to begin. Commandant jumped over the ball, streamlining toward the left of the Deacon’s box to fake out her defenders. Machtens passed the ball with her right foot and went wide, missing Commandant completely. Assistant coach Brandon DeNoyer’s hand slapped the metal chair to the left of him in frustration.

The Orange lost 2-0 against Wake Forest (10-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) from a lack of cohesion on its offensive end.

Syracuse (4-5-1, 0-2 ACC) only shot twice on goal by utilizing a shifted playing style that was spurred by five of SU’s forwards and several defenders. Injuries are a main factor in why Adams has thrusted defenders such as Kylen Grant into the Orange’s offensive plan, why they’ve scored only one goal in the past five games and why they’ve extended their losing streak to four.

“They’re all out. I’m not getting them (back) for the rest of the season,” Adams said. “We’re having to readjust and reinvent an offensive identity now that’s not what we’re used to.”

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SU struggles in loss to Wake Forest Syracuse defeats UPenn for 2nd-straight shutout

By Connor Pignatello staff writer

Wake Forest had allowed just one goal in its first 900 minutes off the season, the best mark in the NCAA. Syracuse had been struggling to score for weeks. In their previous four games, the Orange scored just one goal.

Sunday’s game went just as the statistics expected it would, as Syracuse (4-5-1, 0-3 Atlantic Coast) struggled to connect with its forwards and lost 2-0. The Orange entered the game with a plan of pressing the Demon Deacons (10-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast), but problems in transition and positional play

squashed nearly every Syracuse attack before it began.

Wake Forest began the year with 738 shutout minutes, a school record and goalie Kaitlyn Parks ranks second in the nation with just one goal allowed in 866 minutes. The only goal the Demon Deacons allowed all season came in a 1-0 loss to No. 7 Virginia on Sept.

17. For the eighth time in eleven games this season, Wake Forest held its opponent to two or fewer shots on target.

In practice this week, SU head coach Nicky Adams said her team focused on beating Wake Forest in transition because the Demon Deacons hadn’t faced many high-pres-

sure teams like Syracuse this season.

Syracuse followed through on that and it began the match with intense pressure on Wake Forest’s midfield.

As soon as the Orange lost the ball, they sprinted to recover it.

But even early on, Syracuse could not progress the ball into the box without losing it. Although SU was comfortable in possession, it could not advance the ball to its forwards. Whenever the Orange made runs down the sideline, they were caught by the Demon Deacons’ quick defenders.

Wake Forest employed a zonal marking scheme, meaning that Syracuse was not pressured on the

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By Bryan Brush staff writer

Nearly 400 spectators went to Ellen Vagelos Field to witness the seventh all-time meeting between No. 12 Syracuse (6-2, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) and UPenn (3-5, 0-1 Ivy) on Sunday. The Orange emerged with two scores for their second straight shutout victory, after defeating Cornell 1-0 on Wednesday. SU has only conceded only one goal in its last three matches.

SU midfielder Laura Grazio-

si scored her third goal of the 2021 season, assisted by Pleun Lammers, in the second quarter to give the Orange a 1-0 lead.

Quirine Comans eventually notched her fifth goal of the season with less than nine minutes in the fourth quarter. Comans now leads the SU roster in points with 13, passing Lammers who has 12.

The Orange also outshot the Quakers 12-6, only allowing them to register one shot on target throughout the entire game.

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