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A former SU student pleaded guilty on an animal cruelty charge Tuesday after police said he repeatedly threw his ex-girlfriend’s cat at a wall in 2017. Page 3
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Student Life columnist Maria Sanchez believes SU should promote student barbers by hosting different events on campus. Page 5
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SU Professor Lori Brown will speak at the Everson Museum of Art on Thursday as part of its Women in Architecture Series, discussing women’s influence in the industry. Page 7
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Syracuse women’s lacrosse’s veteran defensive unit has propelled it from being one of the worst groups in the country to earning SU a top-five ranking. Page 12
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Candidates react to map, survey Researcher discusses women in science By India Miraglia asst. news editor
The Department of Public Safety released a map detailing its jurisdiction throughout Syracuse on Sunday. The map only covers university-owned and -operated properties. bridget slomian presentation director By Gabe Stern
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One day after Syracuse University and the Department of Public Safety released new public safety developments, several Student Association leaders and presidential candidates said it was a good first step toward making DPS more transparent for the student body. DPS published a map on Sunday that detailed its law enforcement jurisdiction and clarified what measures the department is able to take outside of its jurisdiction. SU also emailed a campus-wide survey to students Monday asking what they think about off-campus safety. The map came five weeks after students called on DPS to clarify its jurisdiction following the assault of three students
Student Association leaders, candidates say DPS has taken steps toward improving transparency of color on Ackerman Avenue. SA condemned the university in February for not publicly referring to the assault as racially-motivated. At a February forum, several students criticized DPS and SU for what they called a lack of transparency and communication. DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado said its jurisdiction extends only to universityowned and operated areas, and the rest of the city is handled by the Syracuse Police Department. The map,
which was released Monday night, detailed DPS’ jurisdiction on and around SU’s Main Campus, South Campus, the Drumlins Country Club and several university-owned buildings in Syracuse. “Both the map and the survey are two good steps in this journey to be more transparent with the student body,� SA President Ghufran Salih said. Salih said she wants DPS to take input from the survey and analyze student responses to create change in the department. She met with Maldonado, SU Chief Law Enforcement Officer Tony Callisto and others on Friday as part of a Student Advisory Committee. SA presidential candidate Jalen Nash said the release of the map
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Research engineer and LGBTQ advocate Lynn Conway asked her audience sitting in Hendricks Chapel to imagine that they were in the room with her while she attended the 2013 LGBT Pride Month celebration at the CONWAY White House. The room was full of joy, Conway said. She said she could see how far the United States had come since the 1960s. Conway said she tried to envision the struggles and oppressions of other LGBTQ individuals, and through seeing all that suffering had an epiphany: “We’ve come so far so fast that many of us could now begin uncovering too,� she said. Conway shared her story to a crowd of more than 50 people at the semester’s second University Lecture on Tuesday. She currently serves as a professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. At the lecture, she spoke about the erasure of women’s work in the scientific field. She used her work to revolutionize the way silicon chips were created, as an example. Conway worked to simplify Very Large-Scale Integration technology, in which an integrated circuit was created by combining large numbers of transistors into a single chip. VLSI had complicated building methods, and certain parts of the chip had to be worked on by hand, she said. The method Conway developed, which allowed the chips to be designed through computer-
based methods, shortened the process and made it easier to do. But she wasn’t recognized within the technology field for her work. “Down through the decades, no one could explain how the VLSI revolution actually happened. The results were simply taken for granted,� she said. Conway went on to write a textbook on VLSI, as well as to set up an exploratory “experimental launch� course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to teach students the computer-based technology. Soon after, the course spread to 12 other major research universities, Conway said. By the 1982-83 academic year, the course was being taught at 113 universities around the world, Conway said. The whole time this innovation was happening, though, no one really knew that Conway was behind it, she said. Scientist Carver Mead, who worked with Conway, received awards and recognitions, from around 1981 to the early 2000s, but not Conway. She said he even received recognitions for innovations that were solely hers. Conway said her being a transgender woman caused her to feel that she had to work in “stealth mode.� She was fired from computer hardware company IBM after it was discovered that she was undergoing gender transition. While answering questions from the audience, though, Conway said being fired was the best thing that ever happened to her because she was forced to leave the security of the company. Conway said that a bigger part of her innovations being covered up was due to what she coined the “Conway Effect.� People do
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3 takeaways from New York Mets’ practice at Carrier Dome By Billy Heyen
Here are some takeaways from the Mets’ workout.
One of the Carrier Dome’s end zones featured a dance-off between Otto the Orange and Mr. Met on Tuesday. It was one of many firsts for the building, which opened in 1980. The New York Mets open its season Thursday in Washington, D.C. But they spent Tuesday afternoon — two days before — in the Carrier Dome. Syracuse’s Triple-A team switched owners last October, becoming an affiliate of the Mets and sharing the team’s name. Forty-eight hours before playing the Nationals, the Major League club worked out for about an hour-and-a-half on the Dome turf to meet local fans.
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One of the Mets’ star pitchers, Noah Syndergaard, made noise earlier in the week over the travel to Syracuse being an unnecessary addition to a hectic late-Spring Training schedule. The Mets played a game in Sarasota, Florida, on Monday and they open the season Thursday in D.C. But once in the Dome, Syndergaard “embraced� the scene, Mets’ outfielder Brandon Nimmo said. He was one of two Mets pitchers to throw bullpens on a special mound built just for the occasion. Syndergaard threw less than 20 pitches, seemingly all fastballs.
“They did a great job of building (the mound),â€? Mets manager Mickey Callaway said. â€œâ€Ś You didn’t even have to rake it.â€? But the highlight of the day came when Syndergaard emerged from one of the Dome’s tunnels with the large, white flag that features a block “Sâ€? that is waved during SU athletic events. It was all Syndergaard’s idea, Callaway said. He ran around half of the Dome’s perimeter carrying the flag, then he headed to midfield. Syndergaard had expressed conditioning concerns before the Syracuse trip. Callaway said Syndergaard got his work in, though. “He got a lot of conditioning in running that flag around today,â€? see mets page 6
AMED ROSARIO (CENTER RIGHT) attended practice at the Carrier Dome on Tuesday. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer