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The 27th annual Westcott Street Cultural Fair took place Sunday and featured more than 70 local artists, performers and community organizations. Page 7
Learn more about how Student Association’s Euclid Shuttle project fits into Syracuse University’s $100 million Invest Syracuse initiative. Page 3
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Eight-man football has expanded in central New York, providing small schools an opportunity to win games and keep football programs alive. Page 12
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A HEALING’ Syracuse clergy call for peace in wake of recent gun violence
ASHLEY DELEE holds a photograph of her nephew, 24-year-old Lawrence Moore Jr., who was fatally shot in April. She identified Moore’s daughter as a victim in a mass shooting last Thursday. paul schlesinger staff photographer By Jordan Muller
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s Syracuse clergy shuffled behind the pulpit for a press conference Saturday at Immanuel Temple Church of God in Christ, local pastor Erik Eure wanted to make sure cameras caught the group standing in unity. “You guys are the media, we are not,” said Eure, a pastor at the Promise Land Church in
East Syracuse, to the handful of journalists gathered to hear the clergy address a shooting that occurred just a few blocks away. Bryant Gerald, a pastor at Immanuel Temple Church, was about to deliver a statement. “Should we stand around him to show solidarity?” Eure asked. That’s exactly what the handful of clergy members did as they addressed the media to talk about the shooting that injured
Syracuse University will host the first seminar in a series focusing on social media and its impact on politics on Tuesday. The Social Media and Democracy seminar series is co-sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the School of Information Studies, and consists of three panels throughout
the fall semester. The first panel, “Activism in the Digital Age,” will be hosted in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The panel features three professors, including Biko Gray, a professor of religion in the College of Arts and Sciences. Gray studies how religion influences social justice movements. Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer, a communication studies professor at Widener University, and Tia Tyree, a professor
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of strategic, legal and management communications at Howard University, will also speak on the panel. Regina Luttrell, a professor of public relations at Newhouse, will be moderating the discussion. Pallmeyer is a documentary producer who explores news audiences and media critics. Last year, he collaborated with Luttrell on a chapter in her book “Trump Tweets, The World Reacts.” Pallmeyer said that he sees an increasing difficulty in mak-
By Gabe Stern staff writer
Syracuse University’s Student Association is more academically diverse than in past years, former SA leaders said. In the past, few students in majors outside the College of Arts and Sciences, particularly STEMrelated fields, ran for general assembly seats, SA leaders said. Of the 21 new assembly members elected to SA’s assembly last week, 12 were from schools and colleges outside Arts and Sciences. Two new members from the School of Architecture and three new members each from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Visual and Performing Arts were elected to the organization — a process which lasted until after 1 a.m. Tuesday. Election nights usually last from three to five hours, former SA President James Franco said.
We have so much more representation in every sense of the word. We have reached out not only to students of different identities, backgrounds or experiences but also of all the colleges. student association vice president
SU to host lectures on social media, democracy staff writer
Election expands academic diversity
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ing sense out of information when it’s disseminated through social media. “I’ve been working on college campuses for many years,” Pallmeyer said. “But it’s only been in the last 10 years when personal communication has taken a hit because of devices like cell phones and laptops.” Personal communication is important for a true democracy, Pallmeyer said. SU and Newhouse have a responsibility to continue see lectures page 4
Twenty-three candidates ran for assembly seats in this year’s elections. “We have so much more representation in every sense of the word,” said Kyle Rosenblum, SA’s vice president. “We have reached out not only to students of different identities, backgrounds and experiences but also of all the colleges.” While SA creates policies that affect the overall student body, former and current SA leaders said the body has historically had trouble addressing the concerns of students campus-wide because of the lack of architecture, STEM and VPA members. “You can’t even begin to approach a problem if you don’t know what the problem is,” Franco said. Of the 31 members in SA’s 201718 assembly, 17 assembly members were from Arts and Sciences, see sa page 4