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Syracuse University’s Information Technology Services is continuing to defend the campus community from cyber attacks known as phishing emails.

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on campus theta tau

Lawsuits to continue in state, federal courts

Student visa limits prompt concerns

By Casey Darnell asst. news editor

Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, was permanently expelled from Syracuse University this spring. Following the expulsion, several students afilliated with the fraternity filed lawsuits against the university. dan lyon staff photographer

By Jordan Muller news editor

A federal court judge ruled Tuesday to not stop a lawsuit filed against Syracuse University in state court by 10 students involved in the Theta Tau videos.

Judge Frederick Scullin’s Tuesday ruling comes as the university faces two separate lawsuits over its response to last spring’s controversial Theta Tau videos. Nine students involved in the videos are anonymously suing SU in federal court, while ten students are anonymously suing the university in Jefferson County Supreme Court.

The federal lawsuit was filed in April, while the state lawsuit was filed in August.

Lawyers for SU attempted to prevent the state lawsuit from proceeding by filing a preliminary injunction in late August. The university’s legal team accused the students of “forum shopping” — choosing a court most likely to provide a favorable outcome – in court documents.

Scullin denied the university’s injunction request Tuesday. In his order, Scullin acknowledged that both lawsuits involved

disputes over SU’s disciplinary procedures and decisions, but he said the differences in the two cases were enough to allow them to proceed simultaneously.

The federal lawsuit involves nine SU students disciplined for their involvement in videos showing behavior Chancellor Kent Syverud in April called “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities.” The students in that suit are requesting $1 million in damages each and that their disciplinary records be cleared, according to court documents.

The state lawsuit is an “Article 78” proceeding, which can be used by plaintiffs in New York state to challenge a university’s internal student conduct review process.

The 10 students in the state lawsuit are requesting the judge reverse SU’s disciplinary sanctions — which include one- or twoyear suspensions — but are not asking for $1 million in damages each.

James McClusky, the judge in the state lawsuit, previously ruled that SU could not enforce disciplinary action against students in the suit until a hearing that was originally see theta

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State court hearing adjourned

By Catherine Leffert asst. news editor

At least two Syracuse University students involved in a lawsuit against the university in connection to last spring’s controversial Theta Tau videos will be allowed to continue to attend classes on campus at least until mid-October after a Wednesday hearing in Jefferson County was adjourned.

James McClusky, the judge in the New York state lawsuit, temporarily prevented SU from enforcing disciplinary action against students suing the university in Jefferson County Supreme Court until the initiallyplanned Sept. 19 hearing. Karen Felter, a lawyer representing the students in the lawsuit, confirmed in an email the hearing was pushed until Oct. 17 at the request SU’s legal team.

At least two students suspended

by SU for “serious violations” of the university’s Code of Student Conduct were allowed to attend classes see hearing page 4

Graduate students at Syracuse University are concerned about changes to the visa renewal process for Chinese students in certain fields.

The United States State Department rolled out a new policy in June that requires Chinese students in some STEM fields to renew their visas annually rather than every five years. The change is designed to prevent intellectual property theft by the Chinese government. In interviews with The Daily Orange, students said research theft is rare and that the policy will delay students’ studies and research.

Jiaming Huang, vice president of SU’s China Student Development Think Tank, said after the visa restrictions were announced, some Chinese students at SU decided to return to China after completing their undergraduate degree rather than pursuing a graduate degree.

The think tank promotes Chinese international relations and informs Chinese students about American culture and politics.

To renew their visas, students will have to return to China every year instead of every five years.

Huang, a junior Chinese international student studying economics, political science and international relations, said many of the Chinese students at SU can afford the travel between the U.S. and China, but the visa restrictions will make it difficult for graduate students to finish their studies.

“I anticipate there will be a very low acceptance rate regarding visas,” he added. “(Immigration officers) will issue less visas to students whose research topics concentrate on security issues or emerging technologies.”

Students who don’t renew their visas would be legally allowed to stay in the country as long as their student status remains valid, but they won’t be able to re-enter the country if they leave to visit family or attend an academic conference.

The State Department hasn’t publicly released information about what fields will be affected, but instructions sent to U.S. consulates said students studying topics such as robotics, aviation and high-tech manufacturing would be targeted, according to the Associated Press. The three fields for which visas will be restrictions are listed priority areas in China’s “Made in China” 2025 manufacturing plan, per the AP. Visa lengths for Chinese students have varied across presidential

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Associate provost appointed

By Colleen Ferguson asst. news editor

Shared governance Academic Governace, SUNY-ESF’s academic governing body, held its first meeting of the semester at the Gateway Center on Tuesday. The body discussed an upcoming shared governance consultation designed to improve relationships between faculty, staff and administrators after the tumultuous tenure of former SUNY-ESF President Quentin Wheeler. corey henry contributing photographer

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Academic Governance talks strategic plan

By Micah Castelo

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SUNY-ESF’s Academic Governance discussed shared governance and strategic plans for the 2018-19 academic year at its first meeting of the semester at the Gateway Center on Tuesday.

Melissa Fierke, the 2018-19 AG chair, said a consultation team from the SUNY University Faculty Senate will visit the SUNY-ESF campus in January to hold discussions about shared governance, which is a set of guidelines for faculty and staff to work with administrations in decision-making processes.

David Amberg, SUNY-ESF’s interim president since July, also

addressed what he called “elephants in the room.”

AG’s executive committee and university faculty senator Kelley Donaghy sent a request for a consultation team with experts in shared governance in spring 2018.

Those discussions, pending the support of the Academic Council and other SUNY-ESF groups, will be part of the college’s annual mentoring colloquium, Fierke said.

They requested guidance in areas such as “understanding the roles and responsibilities of different constituents within a healthy shared governance climate,” according to a letter sent to UFS president Gwen Kay. The request came after years of tension between administration,

faculty, staff and students over university decisions and leadership.

Fierke said that after a few meetings with UFS, the executive committee decided consultation was the most appropriate option, rather than moving through an arbitration or grievance system to resolve a conflict.

UFS’s most recent governance handbook states that the visitation committees are developed “in the event of a serious, prolonged conflict about faculty governance.”

After a visit, the committee is expected to submit a report, which may include recommendations to resolve campus conflict.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Amberg said that the SUNY-ESF community must work together to restore pro-

ductive communication and relationships, especially after students called for increased communication from administrators. He added that disagreements should be discussed face-to-face, rather than using email as a “weapon of dissention.”

He also said he’s been meeting with Chancellor Kent Syverud once per month to discuss studentfocused shared services, including a payment for information technology services with Syracuse University. SUNY-ESF is also working to create support hubs for their students through regional partnerships, including with the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, he said. see suny-esf page 6

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Phishing attacks continue to plague university

By Nicole Valinote staff writer

Phishing attacks at Syracuse University are in a “period of intense attacks right now,” according to Christopher Croad, the information security officer for ITS. “The attacks tend to come in waves,” Croad said in an email.

“Months can go by with very little activity, and then we’ll have several weeks of intense attack activity.”

Phishing is a type of cyber attack that sends emails with fake links and attachments.

Attackers will often pretend to be a trusted source, such as SU or its Information Technology Services, and include attachments or links that will take the reader to another website that asks for personal information, such as usernames and pass-

words or banking information.

Phishing usually increases about twice per year, at the start of the fall and spring semesters, according to Paul Frazier, the program lead of Webster University’s cybersecurity team.

These recent attacks on SU students have become increasingly sophisticated and malicious, said Christopher Finkle, the communications manager for ITS. He’s come across emails that link to a website that appears to be MySlice in an attempt to steal students’ usernames and passwords.

“They are emails that are tailored and developed to take advantage of the reader’s inherent trust,” Finkle said.

People who send phishing emails can attach software like viruses or computer infections —

some can even infect all computers on the same network.

Whenever an account has to be locked due to a potential phishing attack, security has to find who is threatened, and the service desk has to assist students whose accounts have been locked, Finkle said.

“It’s a big resource drain for us,” Finkle said. “So, regardless of what the bad guys are doing with the data, they’re certainly costing us money.

The people who are handling this could be doing other things, but they have to deal with this because it’s a security issue, both in terms of protecting our personal data and the university’s data.”

ITS is working on multiple defenses to combat phishing, including protecting MySlice information through multi-factor authentication and responding to

phishing attacks, Croad said.

“The best protection, though, is for members of the university community to be careful about what they click, what websites they visit, and how they manage their passwords,” Croad said. “Informed vigilant students, faculty and staff are our first and most effective line of defense.”

Some tips that ITS advises members of the SU community to adhere by to avoid phishing scams include: don’t recognize clicking to verify that they are what they say they are ware updated will never ask for NetID or passwords for any reason.

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Chris Johnson, a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Syracuse University, has been named the associate provost for academic affairs, Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly announced Monday.

The Board of JOHNSON Trustees’ Executive Committee approved Johnson’s appointment, which is effective immediately, according to an SU News release. He fills a vacancy created in June, when Jeff Stanton stepped down to return to his faculty and research role at the School of Information Studies.

The announcement comes after faculty, university senators and other leaders reviewed Johnson’s overall ability to advance SU’s vision and mission as outlined by the Academic Strategic Plan, per the release.

Johnson joined the College of Engineering and Computer Science as a faculty member in 1990, a year after he came to SU as a postdoctoral research associate. He chaired the department from 2010 to 2014 and also served as interim director ors Program, where he still teaches, from July 2016 to June 2018.

He’s served on various committees and task forces both within and outside the College of Engineering and Computer Science and has been a visiting faculty member at universities in Prague and Australia.

Outside of his work with the university, Johnson has served on advisory panels across the world, including one for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

His current research projects involve different facets of environmental chemistry. cefergus@syr.edu @ColleenEFergus2

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theta tau scheduled for Wednesday. That hearing was adjourned until Oct. 17, though.

At least two students who committed “serious violations” of SU’s Code of Student Conduct have been allowed to return to campus after McClusky’s order, according to court documents.

All students in both lawsuits face sanctions ranging from probation to suspension in connection to the Theta Tau videos. Some have attempted to transfer to other schools, from page 1

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hearing as a result of McClusky’s order, according to court documents.

“Syracuse University is engaged in active litigation and is legally obligated to comply with the state court order requiring reenrollment of certain Theta Tau students, should they choose to re-enroll,” said Dara Royer, SU’s senior vice president and chief communications officer, in a statement. “Due to federal privacy law, we cannot comment on the specific status of any student.”

The lawsuit, which was filed anonymously by 10 students disciplined in connection to last spring’s Theta Tau videos, is the second suit filed against SU over its handling of the controversy.

Another lawsuit anonymously filed by nine students is currently being litigated in federal court.

The students filed the state lawsuit as an Article 78 proceeding, a provision of New York state law that allows judges to make decisions on the fairness of a private institution’s internal processes, including student conduct proceedings.

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according to court documents, but have not been able to obtain SU transcripts without a disciplinary notation.

Law yers for the students suing in federal court filed a motion earlier this month to drop the case and consolidate their claims in Jefferson County Supreme Court. Karen Felter, Kevin Hulslander and David Katz — all attorneys at the Syracuse-based branch of the Smith, Sovik, Kendrick and Sugnet law firm — are representing the students in the federal and state lawsuits. jmulle01@syr.edu | @jordanmuller18

semesters if the court rules in their favor.

SU’s legal team has attempted to halt the state lawsuit. In court documents, lawyers for the university have accused the students of “forum shopping” by opening a lawsuit in state court while the federal remains ongoing.

SU filed a preliminary injunction to stop the state lawsuit in late August, but a federal court judge ruled on Tuesday that the state lawsuit would be allowed to proceed.

The university permanently expelled its chapter of the Theta Tau engineering fraternity in April after videos surfaced showing people in the Greek organization’s house participating in behavior Chancellor Kent Syverud has called “extremely racist, antiSemitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities.”

Several videos filmed in the house were uploaded in the secret Facebook group. In one recording, a person, using anti-Semitic language, yells at two other people.

“You f*ckin’ k*kes, get in the f*ckin’ showers,” he says, and the two people run out of the room as others laugh.

In another recording, a person sits down in a rolling chair and a different person yells, “He’s drooling out of his mouth because he’s retarded in a wheelchair.”

The videos led to campus-wide protests and a slate of diversity and inclusion initiatives.

— News Editor Jordan Muller contributed reporting to this article. ccleffer@syr.edu | @ccleffert

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SU professor urges people to stay curious

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ou’ve probably heard of a bromance. But you probably haven’t heard of a “bromosexual.”

“Bromosexuality” is an emerging term which is cheekily used to describe a straight man who is comfortable forging meaningful relationships with his gay friends.

What’s troubling is the possibility of a collective desire of wanting to call this supposedly newfound idea anything at all. There’s risk in boxing yourself into a term such as being a “bromosexual.”

Sometimes guys just need to cry, talk, hug or cuddle — but satisfying those needs through a male friendship is not a precursor to establishing some sort of rigid sexuality.

Robin Riley, director of LGBT Studies at Syracuse University and an assistant professor of women and

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gender studies, said a society’s tendency to reinforce labels often holds people back.

“I think everyone agrees that the categories we currently live with are limited and unnecessarily restrictive and not realistic,” Riley said in an email. “Both gender and sexuality are more complex than the existence of concrete categories would suggest.”

Unfamiliar with the term “bromosexual,” Riley pointed out that “it has a long way to go until it actually signals a movement or changes in masculinity.”

She couldn’t be more right.

A lthough The New York Times published a piece in 2016

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about the rise of the “bromosexual” friendship, pointing to its increasing depiction in media, the term “bromosexual” is a double-edged sword.

It embodies a freedom and fluidity that is needed when it comes to understanding sexuality, but labeling it as bromosexuality can be unnecessary. It creates a rigid social construct — that’s why the increasing popularity of the term could be problematic.

But it’s still important to take the leap. Explore. Experience.

Expand your boundaries. Just remember you’re not a bromosexual. You’re just you.

Michael Sessa is a Gen + Sex columnist and a freshman newspaper and online journalism major. His column runs biweekly.

He can be reached at msessa@syr.edu.

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’m a professor who happens to be blind. You may have noticed me walking with my guide dog, a yellow Labrador retriever trained by Guiding Eyes for the Blind. My blindness is only a part of my humanity: I’m also a father, husband, baseball fan and owner of two incredible horses. Like all of you, the list of “other” things I may be is much longer than anything appearance suggests.

What makes any life beautiful seldom has anything to do with what I look like. This is a common enough assertion. Yet when I look around Syracuse University (yes blind people look around) I see too many people making first glimpse assumptions about others. I’m only a blind person. She’s just a woman of color. He’s tall, probably just a basketball player. As the novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. would say: “and so on.”

Lately there’s been important talk about diversity at Syracuse.

Efforts are underway to foster dialogue about the critical importance of inclusion. Faculty are engaging in workshops, students are talking about Trevor Noah’s wonderful memoir and a new committee is examining SU’s approach to disability issues.

These things are good.

Yet they’re of little value unless we take a genuine interest in each other. This may be naive but

“naive” is etymologically derived from youthfulness. Let’s be young and curious.

I’ve had a hard time as a disabled professor. Some days my dignity has been in question. We’re not great at disability inclusion.

We’re not great at welcoming anyone who appears “different.” One aim of higher education is to make us critical thinkers, all of us, yet we shy away from engaging deeply with why first assumptions about people are so easy.

They’re easy because often fear trumps curiosity.

Unless you’re a history major you probably won’t remember that Franklin Roosevelt tackled fear during the Great Depression by creating a program that put artists and writers to work celebrating local communities across the United States. Roosevelt knew that when we take an interest in each other, we’re strong.

I want to see us be strong together. Please, when you see me walking with my guide dog, say hello. Introduce yourself. I’m never in so much of a hurry I can’t take time to talk. That’s what a campus is for.

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visas administrations. George Athanas, interim director of SU’s Slutzker Center for International Services, said in an email that Chinese students were previously issued one-year visas dating back to President George W. Bush’s administration.

The U.S. made the switch to five-year visas for Chinese students in 2014, so these visas were only issued for four years before the policy was reversed for certain graduate students.

Chinese undergraduates and graduate students in other fields aren’t affected by the change.

Chenyu Hao, a master’s student studying forensic science, said President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Chinese students are spies is “offensive” and that research theft is not an issue. She said that even though her major won’t be affected by the visa restrictions, Trump’s rhetoric has made her uncomfortable because her studies involve the topic of national security.

“Most of us are here for the learning experience, for the research that will otherwise be intangible in China,” Huang said when asked about the possibility of students selling stolen research.

Rajesh Kumar, a doctoral student in the computer science department, said research theft is “impossible” due to faculty supervifrom page 3

suny-esf Amberg also discussed SUNY-ESF’s budget issues, saying initial estimates for SUNY-ESF’s 2018-19 operating deficit were “concerning.”

After conducting an analysis, administrators found that 60 percent of the deficit was due to labor costs, he said.

The administration is currently discussing options to reduce the projected deficit with new revenue strategies and cost-cutting ideas, including pausing $600,000 budgeted for new administrative and staff hires.

Amberg said that the pause doesn’t mean SUNY-ESF is freezing faculty hires. He said

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“Here, everyone is fighting to get to their Ph.D., to build their profile,” Kumar said. “If a spy comes and they don’t care about their Ph.D. or profile, still there is supervision involved.”

The visa renewal process generally takes two or three months, a length of time that could delay a research project, Kumar added. The lack of a system to renew student visas in the U.S., he said, harms international students.

Many international students renew their visas during the summer, but Kumar said doctoral students often use the summer to focus on their research because they’re not teaching or taking as many classes.

Jack Wilson, president of the Graduate Student Organization at SU, said the policy shift “takes these students in bad faith,” and the added costs of renewing the visa annually could discourage students from studying in the U.S. He cited a proposal to increase student visas fees by $150 as an additional financial burden on international students.

Athanas said the Slutzker Center is helping students impacted by providing students with information about visa requirements for returning from travel abroad. He added that students are given information when requesting a travel signature on their immigration documents and that they can speak with an adviser if needed. cdarnell@syr.edu | @caseydarnell_

the college is looking at each request thoughtfully to maintain the university’s programs and competitiveness.

“I can’t commit to those salaries in light of the large projected deficit,” Amberg said of the money going toward new hires. “I have seen universities go through extended periods of freezes, and it leads you into a death spiral.”

Amberg also reviewed the ESF Discovery Challenge, a strategic plan request by SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, on Tuesday.

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Sister Sparrow to play at Westcott

By Amanda Byrne

contributing writer

Ahead of Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds’ performance at the Westcott Theater this weekend, The Daily Orange spoke with Sister Sparrow’s lead singer, Arleigh Kincheloe. Originally from the Catskills, Kincheloe has been performing since she was a child.

When and why did you start performing?

I actually started when I was a little kid. My parents were always in bands together – my dad is a drummer and my mom would sing – and I used to go to their gigs when I was little. I think I first started singing on stage when I was 9 years old and then kind of through the years singing with (my parents).

Then, I started writing my own music when I was about 18, which was the beginning of what Sister Sparrow is now.

It’s fun to be able to go all over the place and play for different people in different settings. lead singer of sister sparrow

How did you come up with the name “Sister Sparrow”?

That was actually a name that my sister gave me once when we were on a road trip together. I started calling her Mama Quail, since we were staying at the Desert Quail in Sedona, Arizona. She started calling me Sister Sparrow because she said I was “too little to be a mama.”

What is your favorite part about being on tour?

Touring is really hard, and the travel is really intense. Obviously, it’s my favorite getting to play. see sister

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For the past 18 years, The Mission restaurant has specialized in Mexican cuisine fused with Latin American flavors. The restaurant is located in downtown Syracuse in the former Wesleyan Methodist Church. molly gibbs photo editor

BREAKING BREAD The Mission restaurant serves Mexican cuisine at a former stop along the Underground Railroad

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cross from Columbus Circle resides an old church where ivy vines crawl up a red brick exterior toward a gray steeple.

Through its oak front doors, mid-afternoon sunlight filters through stained-glass windows, glinting off crosses and candelabras that decorate the walls. Leon Bridges’ “Better Man” plays softly in the background, accompanied by the clinking of glasses at the bar and the scraping of knives on plates.

For the past 18 years, The Mission restaurant in downtown Syracuse has specialized in Mexican cuisine fused with

Latin American flavors. But more than 150 years ago, the former Wesleyan Methodist Church was the site of a different cultural landmark: It was a station along the Underground Railroad.

“Our abolitionist history is absolutely pivotal in the movement that led to the eventual end of slavery,” said Gregg Tripoli, executive director of the Onondaga Historical Association, in an email.

“It helps define our community identity at an early stage of our development as one that took action about issues and values we felt strongly about,” he said.

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was established in Syracuse in 1846, splitting from the Methodist Episcopal

Church because of its affiliations with slavery. Under the leadership of its minister, Luther Lee, the Wesleyan Methodist Church operated as a way-station for fugitive slaves fleeing the South leading up to the Civil War. Housed in the church’s basements, archaeological research conducted by two Syracuse University professors in 1994 revealed several clay faces carved into the walls. The Onondaga Historical Association has the markings on display in their downtown location.

Steve Morrison, owner of The Mission, didn’t know about the church’s historical legacy when he began leasing it nearly two decades ago. Some might have just seen see the

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Onondaga Art Guild provides community to local artists

By Izzy Bartling staff writer

Watercolor. Oil. Acrylic. Sculptures. For art lovers in Syracuse or anyone who’s curious, the Onondaga Art Guild Fine Art Show and Sale is a place to explore local creativity.

Visitors can expect a range of artwork created by members of the Onondaga Art Guild (OAG), a group of artists who meet at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church the first Tuesday of every month.

Libby Hughes, the former presi-

dent of OAG, said the atmosphere of the art show helps promote the artistic visions of its contributors.

“Upon entering the room they would see walls filled with beauty, color, energy, peacefulness and calm,” Hughes said in an email. “I hope they will allow themselves to get lost for just a wee bit, and experience each piece of art before moving on to the next.”

Hughes said the work of 18 artists will be on display, with a total of 43 hanging pieces, as well as some sculptures for the free standing bases, utilizing contemporary and

traditional styles. The art consists of oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, in addition to some drawings and sculptures, she said.

Not only does the gallery showcase local art, but Hughes said it radiates a similar kind and welcoming atmosphere nurtured by the guild.

“I think the best thing about the guild are the people, their kindness and how well they get along,” Hughes said. “I see a lot of care and concern for each other, the genuine pleasure shown when something good happens to another member.”

The guild plays an important

part in strengthening the art community in Syracuse, outlining their mission “to promote artistic skills and interest in the fine arts through education and practice.”

For more than 50 years, the guild has provided artists with an environment that fosters creativity and regards art as a powerful expression of the soul. For Hughes, the art exhibits hosted by the OAG gives members of the Syracuse art community a chance to showcase their hard work and create an emotional bond with viewers.

The Onondaga Art Guild Art Show and Sale runs until Oct. 30 at the May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society Art Gallery in Syracuse. The art gallery is free and is open Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Viewers will have the chance to meet the artists personally at the “Meet the Artists” reception on Sunday, Sept. 23 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society Art Gallery. icbartli@syr.edu

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the mission an abandoned church, closed for shop. But in it, Morrison — an SU alum with a degree in sculpture — saw the opportunity to cultivate something new.

“A proverbial light bulb went off one day and I thought this was potentially a good location,” Morrison said. “Taking an existing church building and the idea of putting a restaurant in it was sort of tweaking that notion that … I’m not walking into a church anymore.”

As Morrison learned more about the building’s connection to fugitive slaves, he could feel that same energy in the framework of the building — a spiritual connection, he said, that is felt in the atmosphere of the restaurant.

“I think it just brings a really cool vibe and good karma, if you will, to this space, that it was used as part of the Underground Railroad,” he said. “I’ve been here at all hours of the day and night, and I know some people talk about ghosts and those sorts of things, but I’ve only felt good vibes in this space.”

Morrison’s initial inspiration for running a Mexican restaurant came many years earlier, when he was a high schooler and tried salsa for the first time.

“I know, it sounds novel, but it’s funny,” he said. “At the time, literally the only things in the supermarket were maybe Ortega and Old El Paso. It was very new to us.”

As he and his high school friends experimented with preparing traditional dishes, he fell in love with the richness of the cuisine. While Morrison is not of Latinx heritage, his newfound love of spicy dishes paired with the cultural significance of Mexican food inspired him to make a career out of preparing the same dishes he had first been captivated by years prior.

Morrison specializes in what he refers to as “new Mexican cuisine,” a fusion that pays homage to the traditional methods of classic dishes while providing a modern twist.

“There are a lot of very traditional techniques and recipes and things that you have to understand if you’re going to play and do things off the beaten path a little bit,” Morrison said. “I do the best I can, and most often people walk away pretty happy.” from page 7

sister sparrow It’s fun to be able to go all over the place and play for different people in different settings.

Like, I’ve played on top of a mountain and right on the beach and every different setting imaginable and it’s pretty awesome.

The D.O.: Have you performed in Syracuse before?

Kincheloe: Yeah, we’ve performed many times actually. I can’t even count how many

The Mission is a reminder of Syracuse’s abolitionist history. Beginning in the 1840s, it was a way station on the Underground Railroad.

People housed fugitive slaves in the church’s basement. molly gibbs photo editor

Shayne Cohen, sous chef at The Mission, has worked alongside Morrison for the past two years. What solidifies the restaurant’s stance as a staple in Syracuse’s food scene, he said, is the passion and devotion every member of their staff puts into the craftsmanship of the final product.

“We always have to be striving to learn something new and to be doing something better or in a different way, and I think that kind of just leads to a mutual respect between all of the people in the industry,” Cohen said. “These are all opportunities to learn and better ourselves.”

For Cohen, food is just as much a political act as it is a cultural one. Sharing a meal together, he said, is about more than breaking bread. It’s about cultivating an experience and generating a level of understanding into cul-

tures unlike one’s own.

“Food is the way to start,” Cohen said. “If you want to start understanding somebody, eat their food.”

In recent years, prominent members of the food industry have started to look more critically into the people and identities that outline the values of an entire group of people. Both Morrison and Cohen highlighted the work of the late Anthony Bourdain in his CNN television series “Parts Unknown.”

“The basis for his whole thing wasn’t just about, ‘Hey, look at me eating your food.’ It was a gateway of really getting into the culture,” Morrison said. “Food is that thing that we all have in common. It brings us all together.”

The Mission is a restaurant whose history

is a rich, complex reminder of its cultural significance — an attribute, Cohen said, it tries to generate for its customers each and every day.

“We try to garner that air of acceptance,” Cohen said. “Everyone is welcomed here. You can come here in your suit or you can come here in your pajamas, we don’t care.”

In traditional churches, the centerpiece of the building is its altar. But at the heart of The Mission, beneath a figure of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Morrison joins his staffers in the kitchen to begin preparations for that evening’s dinners.

Golden sunlight streams in through the windows, tinted orange by the stained-glass hues.

“It’s that time of day,” he said, smiling. “The rays are coming in.”

times we’ve been to the Westcott, so this should be a really fun time.

The D.O.: What is an average day on tour like for you?

Kincheloe: Usually, it involves very little sleep. I used to be really good about taking naps in the van but lately we’ve been taking my son on tour with us so I haven’t been taking very many naps at all. We get in the van and are driving forever, and we find a good place to get coffee and food, it’s a lot of little mundane stuff. Then, we get to the

club and it’s kind of like hurry and wait. So, you kind of rush around and try to get there on time and then you’re waiting for a while to perform ... It’s almost like all day is spent preparing to do this one thing and it goes by so quick. We usually hangout and talk to people after the show and then try to get to the hotel and try to get some sleep and start all over again.

The D.O.: What’s your process for writing your music?

Kincheloe: It varies for sure, sometimes

a song will just be there. It will just pop up in your brain and you just got to write it down really fast. But sometimes you have to really work on it. A couple songs that I’ve written have taken forever, like it will take years until its fully done. And, I have all of these voice memos in my phone and go back and be like, ‘Oh yeah that could be cool,’ like three years later.

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“Invisible People” by San Diego-based artist Neil Shigley offers an intimate look into the lives of people living on the streets across the United States. The project started in San Diego. The exhibit is on display at ArtRage Gallery until Oct. 27. paul schlesinger staff photographer

Artist Neil Shigley’s “Invisible People” exhibit pushes dialogue on housing insecurity, poverty

By Matthew Gutierrez senior staff writer

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eil Shigley, a visionary artist, once took the portrait a man named Mark, 46, near a freeway entrance in San Diego.

Mark told Shigley that city workers had cleared all of his belongings, including his tent.

“I’d rather be disliked than ignored,” Mark said, according to Shigley. “No one wants to be ignored. So I choose to do what I’m doing now, just living, surviving … you can call it surviving.”

In Shigley’s “Invisible People” exhibit, on display at Syracuse’s ArtRage Gallery on Hawley Avenue until Oct. 27, Shigley creates portraits that address housing insecurity and poverty. The 17 detailed portraits on display are complemented with a series of events including panel discussions on Sept. 26 and Oct. 18, and a video session on Oct. 6.

When he started the project in 2005, Shigley said he had no intended message, but the more people he met, the more the project became a cause.

He wants to redefine how the public views people living on the streets and bring the public together by using art to create dialogue about social issues. He wants to allow people who do not have a traditional home to become visible to society and reclaim their identity.

Shigley began drawing shortly Los Angeles and married at 16. Bella’s after his fingers could pick up a pencil. mother told Shigley that her husband His inspiration came from his father, was violent, so she escaped him with her a former military officer who liked to three children to live on the street and draw. He and his family traveled across in shelters.

Europe, Korea and the United States Shigley also met Linda, who was layincluding Chicago and San Francisco, ing in a bedroll on the sidewalk when he where he went to high school. Shigley met her. The 49-year-old said she was said both of his parents were empa- waiting for an appointment that would thetic, a theme he seeks to portray in his decide whether she’d be up for tempowork. His artwork changes how he looks rary housing. Linda said she had been at others, because he homeless for 17 years. has come to realize just Shigley also knows how much every person, that Dorice, 67, preWomen are every face, has in comferred living on the mon, he said. streets. She wants to victimized on the “I would hope that help other women in people would at least street. I try to make similar situations. consider these people met Luther, 49, them visible again, whoHewas in a different way once stationed in in some way. they see the work,” San Diego as a sailor and Shigley said. “I would returned to the area, hope people would do living on the streets. “invisible people” artist something for someLuther has grown sons. body who doesn’t have it as good as “Both meetings left me feeling good,” they do. Help somebody out. It makes Shigley recalled. your life much richer.”

“He’s not an expert in homelessness, Because many people actively make but he’s purposely engaging with people to people on the streets invisible, they tell their stories,” said Kimberley McCoy, feel isolated, Shigley said. By spending the community engagement organizer at time with his subjects, he has come ArtRage Gallery. to appreciate their strengths, dignities Shigley greets people on the street and vulnerabilities. with a smile and sometimes a laugh.

He met 7-year-old Bella, whose He starts up a conversation and asks if mother grew up homeless in a gang in he can photograph him or her with his

iPhone. If the person obliges, he snaps only one or two photographs. It’s not a photo shoot, he wants them to be comfortable. His current focus is on women and children.

“That’s a weak spot for me,” Shigley said Tuesday night at the gallery in Syracuse. “Women are victimized on the street. I try to make them visible again, in some way.”

Shigley said his proudest artistic achievement is a mural honoring Martin Luther King Jr. He spends two minutes with some subjects and up to an hour with others. All some people own is clothes, a blanket and pillow.

Others might have a stash of stuff or a locker somewhere.

“Having portraits on the wall is raising their awareness and spreading the conversation of homelessness,” he said.

“I believe in my heart that this is bringing to light an important issue.”

The artist plans to continue expanding his project, which could include four additional portraits of people living on the streets in Syracuse. Shigley said there are no boundaries on how far the series — much of his life’s work — can go.

“Part of the larger point of these,” he said, “is it forces people to acknowledge people right in front of them.” mguti100@syr.edu @Matthewgut21

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tooker school, Saratoga Springs’ head coach Shane Zanetti said.

While most recruits assume they will redshirt their freshman year, Tooker displayed to then-head coach Chris Fox and then-assistant head coach Brien Bell he could contribute.

Trying to be the only one in his class not to redshirt, Tooker made his mark by practicing longer and running further than other freshmen. The coaches bought in and took a chance, as they had with a freshman Knight.

Tooker’s first race was at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational on Oct. 14, 2016. His expectations were high, he said.

Tooker finished 166th: the last of SU’s seven runners.

“I saw college running in its rawest form,” Tooker said. “It’s not gentle at all — it’s harsh and real.”

Two weeks later was SU’s annual Tully run, which is a dirt road equivalent of the team’s Sweet Road trail. Athletes run for 24 minutes until they reach a 1000-meter plateau at the top of the hill.

From there, seasoned vets like Germano ran six to eight intervals with brief breathers every kilometer. Most young runners drop halfway, running three to four sets.

Tooker didn’t. On the way up, he ran stride for stride with Knight and Bennie and held his own on top of the hill with eightstraight reps. from page 12

howard get at it.”

Howard knew he’d slide in the depth chart behind Strickland and Neal at the start of the season. His only mindset was to stay ready, he said. Getting into the game against Wagner was something that was expected. Florida State was a different animal.

When offensive coordinator Mike Lynch

“He made it look effortless,” Germano said.

“That’s when, in my mind, he punched his ticket to what he was about.”

Tooker’s role was still limited at meets — and he didn’t run in the postseason — but he started to develop relationships with older athletes on the team. Tooker wanted to learn how to “lurk” from Knight, a technique used to put the bulk of a runner’s energy and skill into the final 200-meters of a race. Knight, who was known for his kicks, took Tooker under his wing.

During a workout several days before the 2016 NCAA championships, Bennie raised the idea of Tooker replacing SU’s big three. Tooker had never thought that far ahead before.

“Things were just going off through my mind, things just clicking,” Tooker said. “It was terrifying.”

Going into 2017, Tooker’s role expanded as Syracuse remained a top team in the nation. At Nuttycombe last year, Tooker went from the last Orange runner to cross

the line to the first. The sophomore placed 10th, beating Bennie and Germano on a day Knight didn’t run. As a sophomore in 2015, Knight led the Orange with a second-place finish at Nuttycombe, too.

Tooker followed up Nuttycombe with AllACC and All-Northeast Region honors as the Orange sported a No. 3 national ranking.

The night before Tooker and Dragon’s first NCA A Championship meet, they stayed up past 11 p.m. talking about the possibilities. The roommates at SU also roomed together on the road, but they never talked about strategy that late into the night. They were amped, Dragon said.

But SU had a collective bad day. Even Knight, who placed first, didn’t run his best race, Bell said. Hours after the Orange’s 13th place finish, Fox gathered his players in the Louisville International Airport. Before they boarded a plane to New York, Fox sat them down. One thing he said that stood out to Tooker: “We’re better than what we showed.”

“It’s a layered statement,” Tooker said. “It can be taken as a disappointment of a season or that we have more potential and that the past is the past.”

Two days later, he texted Germano to start training again, and the two took a lengthy run around SU’s campus.

He had a breakout track season in the spring. He snapped a 10-year-old SU steeplechase record with a fourth place finish at nationals. While it satisfied the expectations he’d fallen short of so many times

before, he won’t be fulfilled until he proves himself on the grass.

Back home in Saratoga Springs, after two weeks off, it started with 30-minute runs.

Then 40. Then 50. As days continued, times got longer.

Tooker ran almost every day, usually resting on Sunday. When July hit, Tooker pushed his limits. There were no late nights anymore. This was his “time to expand,” Tooker said, to start the process of replacing Knight.

The first days of SU cross country practice opened with a team reflection on its race at Louisville. The coaching staff apologized to the team, new head coach Bell said.

They hoped to pinpoint and learn from the main factors of the race.

Tooker thought about the meet a lot during the summer, but now he wants to move past it. He doesn’t like to think ahead, make predictions or dwell on the past. This season, Tooker said he wants to emulate Knight’s impact on him by incorporating his teaching ways.

Tooker learned from Knight for two years.

For the next two, he’s in charge.

“Most programs never see a Justyn, and if they do, they never see them in consecutive fashion,” Germano said. “You could tell he was in line to be the next Justyn, and that’s big for a program. We told (Tooker) that this would be your show this year, and it should be.”

approached Howard to inform him that he’d play the series that he rushed for 47 yards on, Howard was shocked.

“It’s your time. What are you about to do?”

Howard remembered Lynch saying.

Howard’s first run was up the middle for a two-yard gain. But on his second rush, he broke through a hole in the line and juked right as a defensive lineman made an attempt to tackle Howard around his legs.

Howard skipped through the tackle and broke free. Everything slowed down, he

said. The words that Lynch said rang in his mind: “It’s your time. What are you about to do?”

When Howard was tackled at the threeyard line, his mind was still focused on the drive. But when he came off, he was stunned at what had happened.

“Is it real?” Howard thought. “Like is this really real?”

For as exciting as the run was for Howard, only one thing sticks out to Babers: the way he chose to protect the football.

As Howard neared the end zone, Babers said, Howard could sense FSU defensive backs closing in. And rather than trying to extend out for a touchdown, in a potentially dangerous spot that could lead to a fumble, Howard tucked the ball in tight.

“He gives up that part of it to protect the football, to give us an opportunity to get the ball down in there tight,” Babers said.

“That just told me everything I need to know about him.”

I saw college running in its rawest form.

It’s not gentle at all – it’s harsh and real.

Aidan Tooker men’s cross country runner

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Howard emerges as 3rd option

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AIDAN TOOKER placed 109th at NCAA Championships last season. After the loss of Syracuse’s star-studded senior class of 2018, Tooker is posied to step into a new role leading the Orange. max freund asst. photo editor

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idan Tooker lay on the ground of the winner’s circle trying to catch his breath. He scanned the scoreboard, and Syracuse was nowhere near the top of it. Tooker thought a foggy Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, would be his breakout day en route to another Syracuse cross country national title. Neither happened.

He placed 109th.

“It was a hiccup,” Tooker said, “for me, the team, all of us.”

A few feet away, Justyn Knight finished embracing his mother and conducting interviews. As Tooker watched teammate Knight bask in his first national championship, he

Aidan Tooker leads a new era of Syracuse cross country without Justyn Knight wondered why his legs weren’t there. But that wasn’t important in the moment. Tooker stood up and pounced on Knight.

He wanted to feel what Knight was feeling, but he wasn’t ready. It wasn’t his time, yet.

For Knight, along with fellow 2017 seniors

Colin Bennie and Philo Germano, it was the Orange’s most accomplished recruiting class’ last cross country race in a Syracuse uniform. For SU, it was the start of a new reign: one with Tooker now at the helm.

The past two years, Tooker has been in the shadow of Knight’s success. This season will be Tooker’s first time with the team’s expectations weighing on him, and he’s ready for the pressure, he said.

“He’s the best guy,” redshirt sophomore Joe Dragon said. “We’re just trying to chase him now.”

When Tooker came to Syracuse in 2016, the Orange were fresh off a national championship. At first, he was shy and kept to himself, which was unlike the usual enthusiastic and lighthearted approach he had in high see tooker page 10

Jarveon Howard slipped through a hole in the offensive line and broke a tackle just past the line of scrimmage. The freshman running back raced through the Florida State linebackers and the secondary.

After breaking loose, Howard’s lead on the defense dwindled.

Just when it looked like Howard would have enough separation to close the run, FSU’s Cyrus Fagan closed in from behind and tackled him on the three-yard line.

“Things happen,” Howard said, laughing about whether he thought he would score.

Howard’s 45-yard breakaway run helped set up Syracuse (3-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) for a three-yard touchdown to give the Orange a 20-0 lead over Florida State (1-2, 0-2) and put Saturday’s contest out of reach. Howard didn’t know he’d play in the game, yet he produced one of the longest plays of the season thus far in a 30-7 win that led to SU earning votes in the AP Poll for the first time since 2011.

“We thought he had the makings that he could do something,” SU head coach Dino Babers said.

“We wanted to put him in a controlled situation, but those were live bullets out there. Those were five-stars and four-stars shooting at him. So to see him take that ball, break a tackle at the line of scrimmage and be able to take it 45, 46 yards on his run was really a sight to see.”

That wasn’t Howard’s first game action in college. The freshman rushed for 69 yards against Wagner on 13 carries, marking the most carries of anyone in SU’s 62-10 win.

But in a tight ballgame Saturday, Babers went with his third-string running back over his two veterans.

“We wanted to give guys an opportunity to see what they can do,” Babers said. “It’s also important for us to see if guys can ‘game up.’ Doing it against an FCS opponent is one thing, doing it against an ACC opponent is something else.”

The 5-foot-10, 210-pound Howard spent all of fall camp fine-tuning his skills and mixing them between Dontae Strickland and Moe Neal’s games. He watched film with the pair for hours before continuing on his own, he said.

When asked the key to being a good blocker this early on, Howard said “not sleep.”

“If you really want something, you just gotta take out the time to really get what you want,” Howard said. “Sleeping is the biggest part, you can’t really slack. Every night when I’d get out of camp and practice, I’d just be watching film and watching games.”

“Just keep your mouth closed and

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