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Charlie Burg, a senior music industry student at SU, is set to release the final EP from his three-part series, “Three, Fever,” by the end of the year. Page 7
Marshall Street business owners say the new luxury apartment complex that opened near their stores in September has impacted foot traffic and parking. Page 3
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After focusing on his pass rush this offseason through kickboxing, Syracuse defensive end Kendall Coleman is tied for seventh in the nation with six sacks. Page 12
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Ostrom Avenue organizations prepare to relocate
Greek life reviewers to submit report By Catherine Leffert asst. news editor
Syracuse University’s LGBT Resource Center will relocate from its 750 Ostrom Ave. address to the fifth floor of Bird Library by January. The center will be temporarily placed there until it can be moved into Schine Student Center. lauren miller asst. video editor By Gabe Stern staff writer
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yracuse University’s LGBT Resource Center has been located on Ostrom Avenue for most of its 17-year history. By January, the center will move to the fifth floor of Bird Library as SU prepares to potentially move forward with plans to expand student housing, the center’s director said. The LGBT Resource Center isn’t alone. The Daily Orange, the Center for Autism Research in Electrophysiology Lab and the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity all must relocate in coming years if SU expands on-campus student housing into the 700 block of Ostrom. SU plans to build two dorms on a stretch
of Ostrom between Shaw and DellPlain halls. The university announced the potential infrastructure expansion in May 2017 as part of the Campus Framework initiative, a 20-year plan for construction projects on University Hill. SU owns all of the properties in the 700 block, but leases them to different organizations. The exact timeline for the expansion is currently unclear. Pete Sala, SU’s senior vice president and chief facilities officer, did not respond to a request for comment on this story. But preparations for the housing expansion have already begun, said khristian kemp-delisser, director of the LGBT Resource Center. “There’s no more doubt,” kemp-delisser said. “The LGBT Resource Center will be moving.” SU has started construction on the fifth
floor of Bird to prepare for the resource center’s temporary move. The LGBT Resource Center will be housed in Schine Student Center after future renovations to that building are complete, kemp-delisser said. The Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Disability Cultural Center will share an office space with the resource center in the renovated Schine building, they said. Sala said at a May press conference that construction for Schine’s renovation could begin as early as January 2019. kemp-delisser said Colleen Bench, associate vice president for SU’s division of enrollment and student experience, had informed them in late September that the move was confirmed, and Bench has sent over moving boxes. see ostrom page 4
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MySlice to offer preferred pronoun option By Lyle Andrew Michael contributing writer
Syracuse University is working to ensure increased gender inclusivity for LGBTQ students on MySlice by adding a preferred pronoun option, officials with Information Technology Services and the LGBT Resource Center said. MySlice, the university’s online portal for applicants, students, faculty and staff, added a preferred name option in 2016. A preferred pronoun option is in the works with a targeted September 2019 launch, said Erik Anderson, director of ITS’s Enterprise Technology Group, in an email. The functionality for preferred
pronouns and their implementation will be reviewed between now and September, he added. Representatives from the LGBT Resource Center and ITS, as well as undergraduate and graduate student representatives, will spearhead those efforts. Student Association President Ghufran Salih said the correct expression of a student’s pronoun is essential for students and professors alike, as it would help avoid uncomfortable situations based on gender identity. “Gender identity can be a tough thing for students to discuss,” Salih said. “As representatives of student needs, we are working to get members on the advisory committee for this project and help them achieve
the change they are seeking.” Anderson said the prefered pronoun option may be included on MySlice after the next update. He said that the current system works effectively, with more than 1,000 students, faculty and staff having used the portal to change their preferred name in the system. The Preferred Name, Pronoun, and Gender Advisory Council, chaired by LGBT Resource Center Director khristian kemp-delisser, will be instrumental in the effort to introduce a preferred pronoun option, Anderson said. The council, formed in May, holds focus group sessions with students, faculty and staff. The council is gathering information to help understand student
needs so they can best establish the preferred pronoun option for SU’s LGBTQ community, kempdelisser said. “This will add another layer to sharing one’s identity online along with the preferred name option introduced two years ago,” kempdelisser added. kemp-delisser said one factor to consider when looking at increasing gender inclusivity is to make sure the process of changing preferred pronouns is completed in a timely and precise manner. Once the preferred pronoun option is implemented, students will be able to directly establish their identity online without going through see pronouns page 4
Greek life reviewers who visited the Syracuse University campus last month plan to submit a draft report by Oct. 17, Chancellor Kent Syverud said at a Wednesday meeting of the University Senate. Syverud said at the meeting that the external Greek life consultants are “impressive people,” and SU will take their report seriously. He also said USen and students will receive further reports throughout the process, but he did not give specific details on the extent of what those reports will be or when they will be distributed. The Greek life audit, which is split into four phases, began after the Theta Tau controversy last spring. The Theta Tau fraternity was expelled in April for videos the chancellor called, “extremely racist, antiSemitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities.” All full-time undergraduate students were eligible to take a Greek life survey that was sent out before and during the beginning of the school year. About 42 percent of students eligible to participate responded to the survey. “(The consultants) met with lots of groups of people, including students not affiliated with Greek life, the Syracuse Police Department, DPS, faculty, staff advisers, the Greek council presidents, Greek-affiliation alumni (and) various people in the division of enrollment and the student experience,” Syverud said. Senators on Wednesday raised concerns about the future of the campus-wide first-year experience, as well. A USen subcommittee has developed a permanent, mandatory three-credit course through the College of Arts and Sciences. It would teach students about diversity and inclusion and replace the current firstyear experience SEM100 course. Many senators said they have concerns about the potential course, including its cost, who will teach the course, that students may reject the curriculum and that it could impact other courses the students would take. In SEM100, a non-graded course launched this year, all first-year students are required to participate in a shared reading experience. SU distributed more than 6,000 copies of comedian and political commentator Trevor Noah’s memoir “Born a Crime,” and 400 facilitators were trained to lead discussions. The five-week course began Sept. 24. ccleffer@syr.edu