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In high school, everything on the court revolved Joe Girard III. Now for SU men’s basketball, he’s stepped into more of a floor general and defender role. Page 12
The Women’s Network, founded at SU by Jamie Vinick, started chapters at other universities, such as Cornell University and University of Florida. Page 7
SA President Mackenzie Mertikas and Vice President Sameeha Saied have planned several initiatives for the spring semester, including SEM 100 reform. Page 3
Call for unity
on campus
Student fell into creek, police say By Emma Folts news editor
When you are accustomed to privilege, parity and equity might feel like oppression Rev. Raphael Warnock senior pastor of the ebenezer baptist church
The Syracuse Police Department has determined that missing Syracuse University student Allan Gonzalez fell into Onondaga Creek on Jan. 19. Gonzalez, a senior in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was last seen Jan. 18 in the city of Syracuse. SPD has led a missing person investigation into Gonzalez’s GONZALEZ disappea ra nce since his roommate reported him missing Tuesday. see student page 4
on campus
REV. RAPHAEL WARNOCK delivered the keynote address at Syracuse University’s 35th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday. He encouraged unity amid racism and hate. lucy messineo-witt staff photographer
SU celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. with performances, keynote speaker
Swastika found in Marshall Square Mall By Michael Sessa asst. news editor
By Michael Sessa asst. news editor
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yracuse University leaders and invited speakers called for unity in response to racism and hate at SU during the university’s 35th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday. The celebration featured performances and a keynote address by Rev. Raphael Warnock as part of this year’s theme, “A Living Legacy.” Warnock is a senior
pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King served as co-pastor of the church from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. This is a critical moment where racism and bigotry have become rampant in America, Warnock said. Colleges and universities don’t exist in an academic vacuum, he said. “It doesn’t matter if it shows up in a church or on a campus,” Warnock said. “It’s not enough to be nonracist — we have to be anti-racist. We have to stand up and say no, never again.”
see celebration page 4
Anti-Semitic graffiti depicting a swastika was found Friday in Marshall Square Mall, the Department of Public Safety reported Sunday. The graffiti was found in a men’s bathroom stall on the second floor of the mall, according to a DPS bias incident report. Marshall Square Mall houses stores, restaurants and eight university classrooms. The incident is one of at least 22 racist, anti-Semitic and biasrelated incidents to occur at or near see graffiti page 4
on campus
ITS anti-phishing security can’t detect all threatening emails By Richard J Chang asst. digital editor
Syracuse University’s Information and Technology Services is unable to detect all threatening and targeted emails through its security system, ITS security officials said. Christopher Croad, chief information security officer at ITS, said about 1 million emails are sent to SU email
addresses on a daily basis. An estimated 50,000 emails on average are potential phishing or spam emails. All emails sent to SU faculty, staff and students go through ITS’ spam email and anti-phishing security system before reaching the recipient. The system’s rules are manually drafted based on patterns of prior harmful emails. Threatening emails cannot be
prevented through ITS if the department has not discovered a similar email previously, said Richard Ameele, manager of ITS core infrastructure services. “It’s not dynamic,” Ameele said. “It doesn’t learn on its own. The rules are written by people and they’re pushed to us once per day. If we don’t customize something based on feedback from the community, the filter
doesn’t learn anything.” SU professor Genevieve García de Müeller received a threatening anti-Semitic email in November that referenced the Holocaust. She reportedly received another “racist threatening email” on Dec. 20. The Syracuse Police Department is investigating both incidents. A targeted email such as the one sent to García de Müeller went
through the ITS system and was likely undetected, Ameele said. Croad did not see a rise in threatening emails during or after racist, anti-Semitic and bias-related incidents that occurred at and near SU last semester, he said. ITS removes a majority of suspicious emails before they reach the campus community, he said. see emails page 4