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To observe the Jewish holidays during the pandemic, student organizations such as Chabad House have held socially distanced outdoor services.

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Mayors from large cities across New York state met at Syracuse City Hall to call for more federal aid as the coronavirus pandemic negatively impacts economies.

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Starting from his days playing youth football to his touchdown against Georgia Tech, Syracuse cornerback Trill Williams has always had a knack for big plays.

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DPS expands enforcement of public health guidelines

By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor

Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety will more strictly enforce social distancing guidelines in the university area following a surge in coronavirus cases among students, university officials said Wednesday.

The department will shift its protocol in neighborhoods near SU from “education to enforcement,” said Rob Hradsky, vice president for the student experience, and DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado in a campus-wide email. SU will refer students who participate in social gatherings that

violate public health guidelines to the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities for disciplinary proceedings, they said.

For months, the university has threatened similar disciplinary measures. But SU now says it will “immediately” place students under review for disciplinary action if they are listed as a leaseholder or occupant of an off-campus property where a party is held in violation of state or university directives. It’s unclear how the university will work with landlords to identify students who hold off-campus parties.

“At this point in the semester, you should know what is and is not permitted under

current public health law and guidance, and the University’s expectations for compliance,” Hradsky and Maldonado said. “We are not going to villainize the individuals who have made choices that have jeopardized the health and well-being of our community. We are, however, going to hold those individuals accountable for their actions.”

The new protocols come a day after SU identified a cluster of student coronavirus cases stemming from at least one party that took place at an apartment complex on Walnut Avenue late last week. The university announced Tuesday that it had found as many as 45 coronavirus cases

associated with the party on Walnut Avenue.

There are currently 45 active coronavirus cases among students, faculty and staff in central New York, an increase of 20 since yesterday. SU’s active case totals have increased by 36 since the university first announced the cluster.

As of Wednesday, SU had reported 47 positive coronavirus tests within a 14-day period. Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s guidance for reopening schools, colleges and universities that report 100 positive tests within a two-week period must transition all classes to an online format and limit on-campus activities for at least 14 days.

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SU agrees to drama students’ demands

By Chris Hippensteel news editor

The university reserves rapid diagnostic tests to confirm known or suspected cases of COVID-19 among students who show symptoms or have been exposed, preserving testing resources that are in short supply. emily steinberger photo editor

How SU overcame national testing shortage SUNY Upstate lab conducts thousands of pooled saliva tests of SU students

By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor

Frank Middleton recognized in early March that the country needed to expand coronavirus testing immensely and quickly.

Middleton, the director of the Molecular Analysis Core at SUNY Upstate Medical University, has focused much of his research on identifying RNA using saliva samples. When the pandemic began, Middleton realized he could use a similar process to conduct widespread, saliva-based testing for the coronavirus.

“As soon as we reached the development of (the saliva-based) test, it became apparent to me that, in order to reach the most number of people possible, we should be developing (widespread testing) in see tests page 4

Ralph Zito, chair of Syracuse University’s Department of Drama, has agreed to a series of demands from Black students in the program.

The demands, which 11 students signed, include removing preselected studio classes for secondyear students and offering Black students at all course levels the opportunity to play three-dimensional Black characters written by Black playwrights.

Zito agreed to students’ demands for the department to provide Black students participating in SU Drama or Syracuse Stage productions with healthier options for styling their hair and to include conversations about race as a part of initial table and scene work.

“We’re pleased, excited and grateful to see this commitment from not only our faculty, Ralph, the chair, and also Dean Tick to implement these things to ensure the future better experience of Black performance majors in this department,” said Isaiah Brooks, a senior acting major and the core organizer behind the demands.

The department chair also agreed to work with the Office of Enrollment and the Student Experience toward meeting a demand to ensure that people of color make up at least 40% of the entering Acting and Musical Theatre class.

In response to a demand for hiring an additional Black acting professor by the 2021-2022 academic year, Zito said the university’s current hiring freeze may temporarily preclude the department from making a full-time see drama page 4

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New York mayors call for more federal aid GSO forms pandemic information committee

By Dominick Pfisterer contributing writer

Mayors from large cities across New York state met in Syracuse on Wednesday to discuss the negative economic impacts of the pandemic and to call for increased federal aid.

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Mayors from 10 cities in New York state met at Syracuse City Hall on Wednesday to call for more federal aid as municipalities across the state face budget crises related to the coronavirus pandemic.

The mayors who attended the event, which was hosted by the New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials, said the lack of federal support as their cities face economic downturns has frustrated them.

A decline in revenue due to the pandemic has forced cities to raise taxes and lay off employees, they said.

“You’re putting mayors in a position where they have to raise taxes during a time when the economy shut down, or to lay off critical first responders in the middle of a pandemic,” said Richard David, mayor

of Binghamton. “That’s just ridiculous. You can’t pick and choose. And that’s what Washington is doing.”

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh also attended the event. The city expects to lose $41 million in revenue due to the pandemic, and Walsh has cut $18 million from the city’s budget and furloughed more than 400 employees to make up for the deficit.

Syracuse has projected that its budget cuts will last until the end of the fiscal year in June. If the losses continue after the November election, the financial toll will result in the city cutting more jobs, Walsh said.

“I think that the longer we go without help, the more everyone will see what those losses look like, and it will just get worse,” Walsh said.

Laying off essential workers during a health crisis poses a serious safety hazard, David said.

“The last thing you want to have is a reduction in first responders and people who are on the frontlines of dealing with the health and safety issues of a pandemic,” David said.

David chose not to raise taxes despite the loss in sales tax. Rockville Centre Mayor Francis Murray has halted transportation and construction projects to avoid raising taxes.

The federal government should allocate more funds to New York because the state sends more money in tax dollars to the federal government than it receives, Murray and other mayors said.

“We’re asking Washington for some of that money to come back to New York,” said. “We’re all affected and need Washington’s support.”

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan criticized the narrative that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders

in Congress have presented that federal aid would bail out only Democrat-run cities.

The federal government has the resources to provide cities sufficient aid, but refuses to allocate them, Sheehan said.

“It is time for Washington to recognize that you cannot bail out cruise lines and airlines and Fortune 500 companies and leave cities in the dust,” she said.

Federal leaders need to recognize that long-term economic recovery following the pandemic starts with towns and cities, David said.

“The concept that mayors in villages and cities and states are now some sort of bargaining chip for some discussion in Washington is just obscene and ridiculous,” he said. “Because who gets hurt? It’s the American people.” akweiss@syr.edu @abbyweiss_21

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Legislation banning ‘pink tax’ takes effect

By Francis Tang staff writer

A New York state law that prohibits businesses from charging different prices for goods and services marketed toward women took effect Sept. 30.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the ban on the “pink tax,” in April and included the measure in his 2020 Women’s Agenda, according to a press release. Businesses that violate the law will be charged fines.

Gender-based pricing is pervasive and historically rooted, said Danielle Taana Smith, an African American studies professor and a faculty affiliate of women’s and gender studies at Syracuse Uni-

versity. Women on average pay approximately 7% more than men for similar products, according to a study the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs conducted in 2015.

“By abolishing the pink tax, women and girls will no longer be subject to harmful and unfair price discrimination and any businesses who fail to put an end to this despicable practice will be held accountable,” Cuomo said in a press release.

Legislation such as the pink tax ban should be welcomed, said Margarita Estevez-Abe, a political science professor at SU. But there’s more work to be done in terms of promoting gender equality in society, Estevez-Abe said.

These harmful practices against women are systemic and embedded within major social institutions Danielle Taana Smith african american studies professor

“Discrimination goes beyond pink tax,” Estevez-Abe said.

“Doctors pay less attention when women complain about some

symptoms. Female academics are cited less frequently. Students evaluate female professors more harshly than male professors. The list goes on.”

Women are expected to spend more on personal care and are routinely charged more for those goods, Estevez-Abe said.

“These harmful practices against women are systemic and embedded within major social institutions,” Smith said. “These practices contribute to windfall profits for a few, with fewer ethical considerations, and a laissez-faire economic doctrine further perpetuates such practices. The New York State ban on the pink tax is welcome news and is long overdue.” btang05@syr.edu

Syracuse University’s Graduate Student Organization created a committee to identify and help resolve issues facing graduate students as a result of the pandemic.

Vito Mariano Iaia, the Graduate Pandemic Committee chairperson and a member of the GSO Senate, said at a Senate meeting Wednesday that the committee will provide resources and manage outreach regarding graduate students’ coronavirus-related concerns. The committee currently has 14 members and is now the largest of GSO’s campus committees.

“When it was brought up at the first meeting. I thought it was something that was much needed,” Iaia said. “I took initiative on something that needed to be done.”

The committee will advocate on behalf of graduate students and provide updates about COVID-19 statistics on campus, in Syracuse and across the region, Iaia said.

Graduate School Dean Peter Vanable said SU will be ramping up coronavirus monitoring and mitigation efforts following a steep rise in coronavirus cases among students this week.

Specific data about trends like this has been hard to come by for some students throughout the pandemic, said George Zenzerovich, co-chairperson of the pandemic committee.

Expanding knowledge of how the virus spreads and how quickly it is spreading locally is significant to recovery, Zenzerovich said.

“We will provide data distribution,” said Zenzerovich. “We will take records of the stock of resources such as the New York state open data that we can access, as well as creating a forum for other students to voice their concerns and create an outlet for advocacy.”

As graduate students face challenges teaching and redesigning their courses to better accommodate students using a variety of online, inperson and hybrid learning models, the pandemic committee will provide a place for graduate students to voice their concerns, Iaia said.

SU confirmed 20 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday among students in central New York, one day after confirming that a COVID19 cluster had emerged on campus.

There are now 45 active coronavirus cases among students, faculty and staff in central New York, the highest number of infections since SU began reporting cases on Aug. 2.

The university as of Wednesday has reported 47 positive COVID-19 tests within a 14-day period. Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s guidance for reopening schools, colleges and universities that report 100 positive tests within a two-week period must transition all classes to an online format for at least 14 days.

When dealing with issues stemming from the pandemic, graduate students should know that they have greater strength in numbers, Iaia and Zenzeorovich said.

“We are strongest when we work together, and this is an opportunistic opportunity that we can take to overcome this situation,” Zenzerovich said. dpfister@syr.edu

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tests parallel with the individual tests,” Middleton said.

Months later, the pooled saliva testing model Middleton helped design has become the backbone of Syracuse University’s coronavirus testing strategy. The tests, which pool 12 saliva samples together at a time, have allowed the university to test the entire campus population during a national shortage of commercially available rapid coronavirus tests, said Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie, who has spearheaded SU’s fall reopening plans.

SU partnered with Middleton and Upstate in June to implement pooled saliva testing on campus. Unlike individual coronavirus tests, which have been in short supply, the saliva testing kits were readily available because they aren’t typically used to detect COVID19, Haynie said.

About 67% of clinical labs in the United States are having difficulties obtaining coronavirus testing kits, according to a study the American Association for Clinical Chemistry conducted.

“We were looking at a way to use public health surveillance to test a large population — mostly asymptomatic, healthy people — without disrupting the supply chain for diagnostic tests that are needed in healthcare facilities across the country,” said Brittany Kmush, an assistant professor of public health at SU who runs a lab from page 1

cluster on-campus activities for at least 14 days. ` “Almost this entire increase in COVIDpositive cases can be traced to one offcampus party,” Hradsky and Maldonado said. “This fact, and our current situation, should serve as a clear and visible reminder of just how vulnerable we all are to a small number of individuals not upholding the Stay Safe Pledge.”

The university is asking any students who attended a gathering late last week or over the weekend at an apartment complex on from page 1

drama hire. In the interim, the department will work to hire Black visiting part-time instructors equivalent to the number of full-time faculty members.

The demands from the SU Drama students come after the program’s alumni and current students issued a call to action in June urging the department to address its “pervasive institutional racism.”

The call to action, which has garnered nearly 700 signatures, includes pages-long accounts of racist incidents students have allegedly experienced or witnessed during their time at SU. The students issued the new demands because they wanted to address what many students have said is a lack of urgency from the department to address racism, Brooks said.

“It’s time that we make sure they hear our voices,” said Spencer Lombardo, a junior musical theatre major and core organizer behind the demands. “The call to action, the initial

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that pools the university’s saliva samples.

Once SU collects individual samples from test subjects –– students, in most cases –– Kmush’s lab pools them together and sends them to Middleton’s lab at Upstate. There, the samples undergo testing for traces of COVID-19.

When a positive sample appears in one of the pools, the individuals in that pool receive an individual rapid diagnostic test. Limiting

pool sizes to 12 students helps lower the number of individual tests needed when a pool tests positive, Kmush said.

“If your pool is really large, you’re doing a lot of individual tests if that pool tests positive,” Middleton said. “But if you’re doing an intermediate number based on the positivity rate of that campus, then you’re using the optimal amount of tests.”

SU has used the pooled testing system since students arrived on campus in August, in both regular surveillance testing and mass tests of the entire student body. The university has more recently shifted its strategy to “freedom from disease” sampling, which will entail ongoing, randomized testing of students.

The university will conduct another test of the entire student body in late October and again before the end of in-person classes on Nov. 24.

SU reserves its individual diagnostic tests for students whose pooled saliva sample tests positive, as well as students who show COVID-19 symptoms or have been exposed to the virus, Haynie said.

“We only use rapid diagnostic tests to confirm known or suspected COVID-positive cases – therefore preserving those resources that are in short supply,” he said.

One of the first instances in which Middleton and his team used the pooled saliva testing model was when SU football players returned for summer practices, Middleton said.

While the athletes had to receive corona-

virus tests prior to arriving on campus, the pooled saliva tests were able to detect positive cases in players who had already been cleared for practice, Middleton said.

The pooled saliva tests not only allow for widespread testing without straining limited resources, but they also save time and money, Middleton said. Upstate’s lab estimated that the pooled saliva system has saved universities about $9 million, he said.

The lab has conducted nearly 121,000 pooled saliva tests across 40 campuses in New York state, including about 40,000 at SU since August. SU has been taking “exemplary” precautions to limit the spread of the virus on its campus, Middleton said.

The university identified a cluster of coronavirus cases among students Tuesday that are related to at least one off-campus party that took place at an apartment complex on Walnut Avenue late last week. The cluster has resulted in as many as 45 new coronavirus cases among SU students, Haynie said in an SU News release.

The university has since isolated and quarantined students who could have a connection to the cluster and is working with the Onondaga County Health Department to trace the outbreak.

“I haven’t seen another campus equal (SU) among all the other campuses we’ve done testing for,” Middleton said. “Syracuse University is truly committed in a very, very dramatic way. And that’s been the big game-changer.”

Walnut Avenue to report to the testing center at the Carrier Dome as soon as possible.

As a result of the uptick in cases, SU has tightened its coronavirus-related restrictions, canceling all in-person student activities with the exception of classes, associated coursework and intercollegiate athletics.

This includes all student organization and university-sponsored events. The university has also lowered the in-person gathering limit among students from a maximum of 25 to five or fewer.

The Barnes Center at The Arch and all satellite gyms, including Ernie Davis Fitness Center and outdoor workout spaces

on the Women’s Building field, have closed as well.

“The vast majority of our community continues to be vigilant, accountable and proactively engaged related to the public health practices necessary and appropriate to sustain our residential campus experience,” Hradsky and Maldonado said. “That said, our primary concern—above even sustaining our residential campus—is to safeguard the health and safety of our campus and Central New York community.”

Under SU’s new restrictions, all Greek life-related events are canceled as well. Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie requested Tuesday

that fraternities and sororities adopt a “novisitors” policy at their chapter houses. Pam Peter, assistant dean of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs at SU, sent an email to SU Greek life Tuesday afternoon urging fraternity and sorority members to receive COVID-19 testing “out of an abundance of caution.”

SU is the site of one of two emerging coronavirus clusters in Onondaga County. The other is a local manufacturing plant.

“Please: Make the right choices,” Hradsky and Maldonado said. “Think of those around you. And remember, it’s on all of us to successfully finish the semester safely, together and on campus.”

one, was great, but there are also things happening here that students, that our alumni wouldn’t know.”

SU’s Student Association also passed a resolution in support of the students’ demands at an Assembly meeting Monday night.

The #NotAgainSU movement served as an inspiration for the demands, Lombardo said. The movement, led by Black students, held two separate sit-ins last academic year to protest systemic racism at SU and the university’s response to a series of hate incidents on campus.

Chancellor Kent Syverud signed a list of demands presented by #NotAgainSU in November, and the university made further commitments to the movement after organizers occupied Crouse-Hinds Hall in the spring.

The movement’s success in creating change at SU inspired the students to push for change in their own department, Lombardo said.

“We have power when we mobilize, as Black people,” Brooks said. “When we mobilize, there’s nothing we cannot do.”

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Blaming specific students is wrong

Students have shared names of students in lists and memes who have tested positive online, shaming them and violating their privacy.

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By Feryal Nawaz columnist

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ot only is COVID-19 circulating on campus, but so are memes and content about the students who allegedly brought the illness to campus after traveling. Starting Monday, students began speaking about the party that occurred on Walnut Avenue late last weekend, where at least one student had COVID-19. The party has now been linked to as many as 45 cases.

Despite privacy violations, students are spreading rumors about and mocking those testing positive through memes and lists on social media, causing an uproar on campus. The consequences that would follow demonstrated the severity of the situation.

I personally received an email from my job at Barnes Center at The Arch stating that we would be closing for the next week. Next, an email stating all in-person activity with the exception of classes would be canceled, as well as new COVID-19 safety protocols, proving how out of hand the

case numbers have become on campus. To think that this entire situation stemmed from a single party is believable, but the treatment of the situation by students is rather concerning.

Many students have attended social gatherings throughout the semester with more than 25 people at off-campus apartment complexes, in violation of the Stay Safe Pledge.

While none of these parties contributed to a large COVID-19 outbreak, the students at these parties were not always being as safe as possible.

An outbreak may have just as easily spread at any of these off-campus parties and fortunately did not.

All it takes is one student carrying COVID-19 to participate in a large social gathering to cause a widespread outbreak, and by chance it happened to be this past weekend. One student has been allegedly traced as the original “Patient Zero” and has received blame for the outbreak.

Looking at the situation from another perspective though, the same students creating the memes and casting blame may also very well be the same students who went

out and partied unsafely. The situation that occurred could have happened to anyone, but with poor luck and poor decisions, it happened to be one student and a group that was affected. To create a list of students who had tested positive and to then send that list around is a violation of students’ privacy, period.

There have been other small clusters of cases on campus that were not publicized to the same degree. If a student feels the need to ridicule those testing positive, they should make sure they were not participating in the same behavior that caused this outbreak in the first place.

It is a sensitive time for all, especially with an outbreak of a virus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans. Respect, kindness and sensitivity are important values to remember when so many are going through a hard time.

Feryal Nawaz is a senior political science major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at fnawaz@syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter @feryal_nawaz

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Strict COVID-19 response is necessary

By Samantha Kolb columnist

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yracuse University sent out a campus-wide email early Tuesday informing students and faculty of an emerging cluster of coronavirus cases on campus due to the poor actions of a small group of students. As a result, inperson events and gatherings have been temporarily suspended.

For the majority of students on campus who have been cautious, this will come as a slap in the face.

They’ll be suffering the consequences of actions they did not commit. But while the temporary suspension of activities is unfair to these students, it is necessary to keep the community safe.

SU initially confirmed on Tues-

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day that 13 COVID-19 cases had emerged after a large social gathering took place off-campus late last week. Now, only 24 hours later, SU has confirmed 20 new infections, bringing the total number of active cases to 45.

Almost all of the current active cases can either be directly or indirectly connected to the single offcampus party held this weekend, Vice Chancellor Michael Haynie said in a statement.

The students’ decision to leave central New York to visit what were likely their friends at another college was shortsighted, and it has directly worsened the semester for all other students. COVID-19 should be taken seriously by individuals of all ages, but for some, partying outweighs the risks.

This recent development has taken a bad situation and has made it worse for the responsible students living on campus this semester. But despite how grim the circumstances may look now, as long as students continue to be diligent and smart about COVID-19, this will get better for everyone.

Students have gone far too long without being able to have what most would consider a normal social life, but putting others’ health and lives at risk to enjoy the company of friends is extremely reckless.

Samantha Kolb is an environmental studies major at SUNY-ESF. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at sakolb@syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter at @SamiiKolby

Cluster shows students’ privilege and ignorance

Off-campus parties spreading COVID-19 shows the privilege of parts of the student body. alex malanoski contributing photographer

By Camille Daniels columnist

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he amount of privilege, ignorance, and selfishness that stems from an off-campus party during a global pandemic is beyond disappointing and also predictable. How, at a time when people are dying all over the country and world, can anyone possibly think now is the right time to throw a party?

The only question that comes to mind is, was it worth it? Apparently, it must be worth having as many as 45 COVID-19 cases on campus tied to a single party.

The amount of privilege to not care about these consequences is astounding. The ability to purposefully ignore the fact that someone attending the event or that the host could in fact already have COVID-19 makes me question how anyone attending the event could even be accepted to the university because of their lack of intelligence. One’s character is truly in question at a time such as this.

This virus is so new to the human community that no one really knows its last longing effects. Why would you

put yourself or others at risk?

For a party? No, the decision to attend this party, let alone host it reeks of a stench that cannot be washed away. Now, so many who were not even in attendance are carrying its consequences, with most inperson activities canceled and recreational facilities closed.

If all that is being asked of us as college students is to focus on our work, why do some feel it is okay to ignore that? Generations before us went to war, fought for civil rights to protect and make things better for us. Now is our chance to do the same. All that is being asked of us at the moment is to stay home when we are not in class or at work.

Right now is our chance to show who we really are, and right now the view of us is far from pretty.

Right now we are living up to all the stereotypes that are there about the younger generations.

It did not have to get this bad.

If partygoers would have stayed home and studied remotely, the rest of us would have appreciated it. Thanks for nothing.

Camille Daniels is a graduate student in the magazine, online and digital journalism program. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at cdaniels@syr.edu

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Holiday hope

RABBI YAAKOV RAPOPORT of Chabad House drove a wooden sukkah around Syracuse on a pickup truck to bring the Sukkot, or autumn harvest, celebration to students. emily steinberger photo editor

By Sydney Bergan asst. culture editor

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uring the summer months, Syracuse University junior Morgan Salomon and her family were already looking ahead to the High Holy Days and worrying about how they would have a meaningful celebration in the fall.

Salomon usually sees her grandma and attends big services, and she wasn’t sure what the holidays were going to look like due to the pandemic and its restrictions.

“As it got closer and I wasn’t able to go home and everything, I was really nervous,” Salomon said. “I think a lot of students who would usually go home or attend big services were feeling that stress of ‘what are we going to do.’”

Salomon serves as co-president of Syracuse Jews, an off-campus Jewish organization for SU and SUNY-ESF students. Hosting socially-distanced Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services and out-

Jewish organizations hold modified holiday services and celebrations with pandemic regulations

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Sisters support Latino community

By Louis Platt

asst. copy editor

Although they don’t work together, sisters Tere and Rita Paniagua have similar missions: broadening education opportunities to younger members of the Latino community and preserving Latino culture in Syracuse.

The two strive to achieve their missions through their work with local nonprofit organizations, such as the Spanish Action League and Syracuse University’s La Casita Cultural Center, along with Rita’s local political career.

“It’s about having a voice for our people for them to feel comfortable coming forward and trying to get (them) involved and having somebody

they can relate to,” Rita said.

In 1978, Tere enrolled at the Newhouse School of Public Communications to study newspaper journalism.

After graduating in 1982 she returned to Puerto Rico, where she and Rita grew up, to work for a newspaper.

Meanwhile, Rita did marketing and sales for Santurce Crabbers, their father’s baseball team in Puerto Rico.

Tere told herself she would never leave Puerto Rico again.

But while the Puerto Rican economy went through a 10-year recession in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Tere began thinking about moving back to Syracuse. She reached out to familiar faces at SU, and in 2002, she landed a teaching position in the university’s Spanish program.

While teaching at SU, Tere became

door events for Jewish students wasn’t what she was used to, but it all came together for Salomon.

Syracuse Jews is one of several Jewish organizations for SU and SUNY-ESF students, including two campus organizations, Hillel Jewish Student Union and Chabad House.

For Sukkot, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the autumn harvest and runs from Oct. 2 to Oct. 9, Chabad built a traditional sukkah, an outdoor structure where Sukkot celebrations are held, on the Quad. They also drove a wooden sukkah around Syracuse on a pickup truck so they could bring the Sukkot celebration to students, said Shawn Lewis, an SU senior and co-president of Chabad.

“It was definitely something I’ll always remember,” Lewis said. “If you were to tell me 10 years ago that you’ll be spending this holiday outside and whatever, I don’t think I would’ve picked Syracuse as the place that would be.”

Syracuse Jews, which Salomon and Honey Herman

the executive director of La Casita Cultural Center in 2012. She’s now the executive director of cultural engagement for the Hispanic community at SU and teaches a few classes including “Hispanic Journalism Practices” and “Conceptualization in Contemporary Verbal & Visual Arts.”

Even though Tere did not come into the job with a teaching degree or teaching background, she considers herself a good fit for the job because she has experience in writing and curiosity for the topics she teaches.

“She was really a perfect fit,” Myrna García-Calderón, associate professor of Spanish, said about Tere, who is now a part-time professor at SU. In 2003, Rita moved in with Tere’s

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SU Records offers music industry experience

By Shrishti Mathew

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Syracuse University Records began 20 years ago with two record labels, SU Recordings and Marshall Street Records. The two labels eventually combined, and now, students work with SU Records to get hands-on experience in the music industry.

Each semester, students in the “Music Enterprise Laboratory” course decide on the genre of music they want to produce with SU Records. Students can take the class three times over three semesters.

The label is currently hosting

artist auditions, mainly on Zoom. “(SU Records) gives them the freedom to run it how they want.

And it depends on the dynamic of the people in the class and who they want to bring into the fold as artists.

The idea is really to have students be able to run this,” said Todd Herreman, the label’s academic adviser and an associate teaching professor in the Setnor School of Music.

The first month of the semester is usually spent assigning roles and deciding the type of songs students would like to produce, Herreman said. Students then see label page 9

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holidays founded during the fall 2019 semester, hosted High Holy Day events outdoors for students on both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For Rosh Hashanah, which is the Jewish new year, Syracuse Jews hosted a brisket dinner on the night of Sept. 18. The dinner had about 50 people in attendance, said Herman, a SUNY-ESF junior and co-president of Syracuse Jews.

“It was a really beautiful event because even though everybody was six feet apart wearing a mask, it was still like everyone was interacting (and) people were meeting people that were Jewish,” Herman said.

Along with the brisket dinner, Syracuse Jews also offered services throughout Rosh Hashanah weekend to celebrate the new year.

Although Salomon said that it is hard to stay optimistic, she added that Syracuse Jews engaged more students than it had in the past.

The group was able to reach Jewish students who usually went home for the holidays and weren’t involved in Jewish life on campus, Herman said. And even though it was cold outside during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur celebrations, Salomon said that the from page 8

sisters family in Syracuse for a year. During that year, Rita started a job at LA LIGA, the Spanish Action League, and ran the ALAS program at the Seymour Elementary School.

As the ALAS coordinator — “alas” means “wings” in Spanish — Rita ran an afterschool program with activities designed to help Latino children integrate smoothly into predominantly English-speaking schools and communities.

After about four years at LA LIGA, Rita was named the executive director. While director, Rita grew more in touch with Syracuse’s Latino community.

In 2015, Rita pursued a new avenue for advocating for the community and ran for the

“warmth of everybody’s spirit was radiating.”

“The services, yes you’re six feet apart, but it kind of created your own little bubble of prayer and finding your space and your own personal connection to God,” Salomon said.

Hillel Rabbi Joel Goldstein also provided SU students a place to celebrate the High Holidays this year, offering services in the tent outside of the Hillel building.

Hillel held both its Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services in this tent, which holds 25 people with social distancing. The tent’s capacity has caused logistic problems and frustration, but Goldstein said overall, in person-services and Hillel activities have gone better than he anticipated.

During his services, Goldstein has tried to give attendees opportunities to safely interact with the people around them. Though he describes himself as a “traditionalist,” he has also tried to bring more creative and interactive aspects into his services, such as having attendees write poems about that week’s Torah portion and using movement to understand Jewish text.

“I’m a traditionalist in general, but I’m not always serving a traditional population, and I think that the ability to think creatively about Commissioner of Education for the Syracuse City School District. After serving a four-year term, she set her sights on a Common Councilor-At-Large and was elected in November 2019, a position only one other Latina woman held before: Bea González.

“Nobody else stepped to the plate until now,” Rita said. “I did this without even knowing we were going to have the results we had.”

In the future, Rita hopes to benefit the Latino community through literacy programs and by increasing the education on politics and how to register to vote in Spanish.

“Something that we’re beginning to see and hopefully we’ll see more, the contributions of all of the many people in this community that contribute in such a positive way to a better quality of life,” Tere said. lcplatt@syr.edu

how we celebrate, how we greet the holidays, is really something that I’m going to keep doing,” Goldstein said.

Hillel offered pre-packaged Rosh Hashanah dinners to students that they could pick up at the Hillel building or Hendricks Chapel.

The organization also provides pre-packaged meals to students every Shabbat, on Friday night. Goldstein said that when people pick up their pre-packaged meals, they are also getting more interaction time with others.

Lewis said that it’s been harder to engage students because they may not feel comfortable gathering in person. The organization experienced a “hit to the attendance” of High Holiday events, said Kate Berman, SU junior and the other co-president of Chabad.

Chabad is a Jewish organization on campus that works to expand the scope of Jewish awareness, consciousness, knowledge and observance. For Rosh Hashanah, they hosted services Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as a Shofar sounding on Sunday.

Like Hillel, Chabad is also offering prepackaged meals to students. Esty Rapoport, the Chabad rabbi’s wife, makes the meals in advance. Berman said that because Rapoport is making the meals beforehand, she has more

of an opportunity to talk to the students.

For Yom Kippur, Chabad offered services on Sunday, Sept. 27, when observing Jewish individuals begin a 24-hour fast. They also offered services all day during Yom Kippur on Monday, Sept. 28 until the break-fast on Monday night.

Chabad held its services and events in the backyard of the Chabad house on Ostrom Avenue. Lewis said that the seating, which was set up to adhere to social distancing guidelines, encouraged people to be more engaged in the services.

For Goldstein, the High Holy Days mark a new year and a chance at hope. It is a chance for people to reflect and potentially be angry with the way the universe is working right now, he said.

“This is a chance for us to kind of reset, and I think that’s the important thing- to reset and to have a year where we hope that things will be better, that illnesses will be gone, that racial relationships will improve,” Goldstein said. “I will say it is also a time of a lot of fear for a lot of people that the next year will be worse and there is that element of it that hopefully, we can give people some meaning and some hope.”

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tent creation, social media and strategy.

The coronavirus pandemic has also changed the class, Herreman said. A class such as “Music Enterprise Laboratory” requires a lot of close contact, especially for the recording process. But the class has found ways to get around this by using Zoom and Blackboard.

Lauren Goodyear, a junior music industry major, signed on as an artist in the spring and joined the class as a student this fall.

Despite the pandemic cutting her semester short, signing with the label was one of the best things she did as an artist.

“I would highly encourage anybody who has songs in their pocket and they don’t really know what to do with them to present them,” Goodyear said.

label move on to auditioning and vetting artists.

Once they’ve finalized the artists, the students produce the music and put together a marketing campaign. By the end of the semester, SU Records releases the songs on its own website and SoundCloud. The music doesn’t belong to the label, allowing students to own their work, Herreman said.

But the short time frame isn’t always a problem. Taylor Bradbury, an SU senior majoring in communication and rhetorical studies, is taking the class for a second time.

She enjoys the fresh start every semester.

Bradbury works on the marketing aspect of the records and uses the class to hone her brand consulting skills. In the class, she works on con-

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Beat writers predict 2nd straight win versus Blue Devils Syracuse and Duke enter Saturday’s matchup as the two worst offenses in the ACC, according to offensive success rate.

The Orange will be able to run the ball on the Blue Devils, as they have the worst defensive line against the run in the entire conference. That enables the Orange to get some offensive rhythm going, but red zone inefficiency turns potential 7s into 3s. SU and Duke are also two of the worst offenses in the country in finishing drives, which means the game will come down to two things: Syracuse’s top-tier special teams and ability to create havoc defensively.

Syracuse gets back to .500 with a chance to reach a winning record when Liberty visits the Dome next week.

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he was unique. One night when Tre’s wife, Yolanda, was pregnant, the words “a trillion” repeatedly appeared in his dream. He woke up the next morning convinced that should be his future son’s name. His wife agreed and the name Atrilleon, Trill for short, was born.

Opponents and coaches soon realized he was unique, too. For Gunther’s team, Trill — who was second on the team in touchdowns — was one of the only 7-year-olds routinely on the field in the fourth quarter, Gunther said.

One game, Trill ran down a sprinting opposing running back in the final minutes, stripped him of the ball and helped his team score a gamewinning touchdown.

“He had been dominating for Eastchester for so long that scoring touchdowns didn’t excite him as much anymore,” Tre said. “He switched over in eighth grade because he didn’t feel like there was enough competition.”

Trill found Richardson and the Yonkers Knights, a team with a 1-9 record the year before.

From that first practice, when Trill leaped over the trash can pylon, he electrified his teammates.

In Trill’s first year, the Knights went undefeated.

In the first scrimmage, he took a sweep right for a 50-plus-yard touchdown untouched.

Then, a sweep left untouched. Then, one up the middle untouched. During the regular season, Trill scored so many points and created so many turnovers that his team won games by 70 points. He was forced to sit out second halves or his coaches risked suspension, Richardson said.

Trill’s “big play ability” caught the atten-

tion of Don Bosco, Paramus Catholic, Archbishop Stepinac and multiple other private high schools, Tre said. Multiple kids from his neighborhood attended Stepinac, and it was closer to home.

Trill struggled to adjust from the slowerpaced JV to varsity level, squaring off against Division I bound seniors as a sophomore. He started the first two games due to an injury to star cornerback TJ Morrison. His talent was evident, but he was often in the wrong positions, unable to make plays on the ball.

Not many youth teams introduce complex schemes or play zone coverage, Richardson said.

So he, Tre and Trill watched film together that showed the sophomore where to stand, how to outmuscle receivers and when he could break on the ball. Gunther, who also served as Stepinac’s JV football coach, said he saw Trill working on his hand placement after one practice.

In the third game of the 2015 season, Trill jumped a curl route and picked off a pass for a touchdown. Teammates mobbed him, coaches slapped his helmet, and Tre smiled from the stands.

“That’s when everything took off,” Richardson said.

Trill split time with Morrison once the original starter returned, and by Trill’s junior year, he received offers from Rutgers and Syracuse. Penn State, Michigan State and Michigan, among many others, were interested.

A torn left ACL sidelined him for six months his junior season, but Tre said Trill returned his senior year a better player. He broke out for

long touchdown after long touchdown, catching five interceptions in 12 games and leading Archbishop Stepinac to its third straight state title game.

Facing Canisius in that championship and ahead by three scores, Trill launched into a deep crossing route. As he entered the end zone, he tripped, falling onto the turf. From the ground, he saw the ball flying toward him and stuck out his arms, hauling it in on his back like Tre taught him ten years prior.

“When I looked up, I saw you throwing that football at me,” Trill told Tre. “To me, it was a natural catch.”

For Syracuse, Trill continued making highlight plays, landing on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays twice. The first, a walk off strip-andscore against Wake Forest at the end of 2019.

The second, the lateral touchdown against Georgia Tech last week.

On that lateral, Carter, a freshman safety, snatched an underthrown ball by Jeff Sims.

But when he ran into tacklers at the 40-yard line, Trill was standing right behind him — prepared, like always.

“Me and Ja’Had, we’re roommates, so we talked about, ‘Hey, if you catch a pick and you’re about to get tackled, just pitch it back,’” Trill said after the game.

Carter did just that. The two made eye contact and the ball was in Trill’s arms as he dashed toward his second career Syracuse touchdown. The play was just another highlight in an already deep vault.

and two-time All-ACC first team selection Polina Shemanova. Yelin traveled to Russia to recruit both of them in person.

Since he started coaching Division I volleyball in 2004, Yelin has never coached a team without at least one European player. And since coming to Syracuse in 2011, he has never had fewer than three.

Despite the large number of international players, Yelin said he does not put any special emphasis on recruiting in Europe — rather, he tries to seek out the best talent he can.

“We’re not dividing them by where they’re from,” Yelin said. “If I could get (a) player from the moon, if she is a good player, good person, good student, I would take her.”

Regardless, Yelin’s European recruit-

ing has paid off. Last season, Shemanova broke her own program record for kills in a season with the current scoring format. Karakasi is 10th in school history for career assists. Markova was second on the team with 22 aces as a freshman. This season, two of the team’s three captains are European.

For Karakasi, the diversity of the team is what brings them together. Players from different countries and states have playing styles

that make the team unique. How she played in Greece might be different from how Markova played in Russia or how Casiano played in the U.S. What’s important to her, she said, is that they are all able to come together and mesh as a team.

“I don’t really think it’s Europe vs America,” Karakasi said. “It’s (more) like Syracuse.”

Asst. Sports Editor Alex Hamer contributed reporting to this article.

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By The Daily Orange Sports Staff

Syracuse’s first matchup out of its bye week is a visit from Duke to the Carrier Dome. The Blue Devils are currently winless this year and have lost three of four games by double digits. Its quarterback, Chase Brice, has already thrown seven interceptions. And the Orange have built momentum through a Georgia Tech win where they forced five turnovers and scored 31 points.

Here’s what our beat writers think will happen during Saturday’s game.

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williams “There was never any doubt in his mind that this was what he was going to do. Nobody was going to outwork him,” Tre said. “Everything for him was, ‘I’m going to the NFL.’” Ron Gunther, Trill’s coach for the Eastchester Blue Devils, didn’t need much convincing to let a 7-year-old Trill play with 10-year-olds, he said. After all, Trill was outperforming the older kids, Gunter said.

In the annual draft to decide the two Eastchester travel teams, Gunther allowed the other coach to take three 10-year-olds as long as he could select Trill. His change of direction, backpedaling and reaction speed were advanced for his age, and he could break runs that other players couldn’t.

“He never stumbled and never seemed awkward,” Gunther said. “Trill did drills like he’s done them before.”

That’s because Trill had practiced all those exercises before. He did them with his father every day. Sometimes, they did pushups, squats and pullups — only bodyweight lifting at that age. Other times, Trill ran with a parachute attached to his back to work on increasing his explosiveness.

When he learned how to properly catch a football, Trill would lie with his back on the ground and Tre would circle around him, throwing ball after ball. If Trill didn’t catch one, his dad would start over.

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engineered a 94-yard, game-winning scoring drive in the fourth quarter.

After that game, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said “I’ll never forget this one.” Babers hasn’t either, but for the opposite reason.

“I know that he’s never going to have to buy a hamburger or milkshake in Clemson again,” Babers told reporters this week.

“People will always remember his name, and I’ll remember it. That’s for sure.”

How Syracuse beats Duke:

In addition to the usual — force turnovers to serve the offense prime field position on a platter — Syracuse will have to be much, much better at executing in the red zone.

In seven trips inside the 20-yard line this year, SU has found the end zone just once.

Offensively, Duke has fared much better than that, converting touchdowns on five-of-11 red zone chances. But defensively, against two strong opponents in Boston College and Notre Dame, the Blue Devils have allowed 11 touchdowns in 19 tries. If Syracuse is going to break out of its red zone slump, it’ll have to be against Duke.

Brice has already thrown seven interceptions this season, suggesting Syracuse’s turnoverhappy defense could feast once again. Plus, the Blue Devils have also lost seven fumbles as a team in 2020.

If SU’s 3-3-5 can disguise blitzes and continue to ballhawk in the secondary, a repeat of the five-turnover Georgia Tech performance could happen.

Betting odds: Duke -2.5 points (per DraftKings) Player to watch: Victor Dimukeje, senior defensive end With four sacks in as many games, Dimukeje poses a threat off the edge for Syracuse’s offensive line. The 6-foot-3, 265-pound Baltimore product earned a second team All-ACC spot in 2019 with 8.5 sacks, 10 QB pressures and 9.5 tackles for loss.

In his weekly virtual press conference, Babers noted Dimukeje and redshirt junior DE Chris Rumph II as key to Duke’s man-to-man defense. He called them both “exceptional” players on the defensive line.

“They’ve all been talked about in the ACC,” Babers said. “They’re coming back to get paid.

This is their money year.” dremerma@syr.edu | @DannyEmerman

Devils in the Red Syracuse 28, Duke 17

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If you went to a lab and tried to concoct the perfect matchup for this Orange team, you’d create the 2020 Duke Blue Devils.

The nation’s worst at protecting the football meets SU’s vaunted 3-3-5. A mushy interior defensive line meets an offense predicated on establishing the run. Duke, losers of nine of its last 10 regular games (dating back to last year), enters the Carrier Dome as favorites — bulletin board material for the 1-2 Orange.

So, put on your mask, take a ride over to Turning Stone or Yellow Brick, and hammer Syracuse +2.5.

Back to .500 Syracuse 27, Duke 17

No Syracuse player would admit it on Tuesday’s press conference, but the Orange being underdogs against a winless Duke team is ludicrous. SU’s only losses are to now-No. 8 North Carolina and previously ranked Pittsburgh, and both were relatively close games.

Neither of those defenses have allowed more than 30 points. The running game will churn out yards, and Tommy DeVito will make enough plays against a defense that allowed 38 points to Virginia. sports@dailyorange.com | @DOSports

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Behind Trill Williams’ history of highlight plays

European players adjust to life at SU

By Allie Kaylor

asst. copy editor

Elena Karakasi and Abby Casiano spent the entire summer together. With Karakasi unable to return home to Athens, Greece, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Casiano welcomed Karakasi into her home in Riverview, Florida.

“If I could get (a) player from the moon, if she is a good player, good person … I would take her.”

Leonid Yelin su volleyball head coach

TRILL WILLIAMS, a Syracuse defensive back, had one interception and 90 return yards against Georgia Tech last weekend. In youth football, his big-play ability impressed coaches and teammates. corey henry senior staff photographer

Williams’ touchdown against Georgia Tech wasn’t new. He’s made those plays since Peewee.

By Adam Hillman staff writer

T

he first time Jamel Richardson saw Trill Williams, his new star player dove over a trash can.

It was Trill’s first practice for the Yonkers Knights, a Pop Warner team in Westchester County, and the players were practicing on a converted baseball field with trash cans as pylon markers.

Trill, a rising eighth grader at the time, took a sweep right, dashed past the defense and leaped from the half-dirt, half-grass field into the end zone. In disbelief, Richardson called a huddle to question the new player. “‘Is this kid out of his damn mind?” Richardson remembered asking.

“I know, coach, but I’m competitive,” Trill replied.

“I’m having fun.”

Jaw-dropping touchdowns, like that run, blowout

victories and dominant defensive performances headlined Trill’s youth football career. He played almost every position and constantly faced opponents above his age or weight class. While Trill’s plays were surprising to some, Tre Williams, his father, watched him prepare for each one.

His big-play reputation has continued at Syracuse, when Trill stripped Wake Forest receiver Kendall Hinton in overtime in the 2019 season finale and returned it for a touchdown. He also earned ACC player of the week following Syracuse’s (1-2, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) 37-20 victory over Georgia Tech, which included a lateral and 43-yard touchdown runback off a Ja’Had Carter interception. Trill, who’s third in tackles for the Orange, has drawn little attention from opposing quarterbacks, Tre and Trill said, but still deflected two passes and intercepted another through three games this year. see williams page 10

football

Opponent preview: What to know about Duke

By Danny Emerman

know about the Blue Devils.

Coming off its bye week, Syracuse (1-2, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) welcomes the winless Duke Blue Devils (0-4, 0-4) into the Carrier Dome on Saturday with a chance to reach the .500 mark for the first time in 2020.

The Orange defeated Georgia Tech, 37-20, on Sept. 26 for their first win this season while Duke fell to Virginia Tech to remain winless.

Heading into SU’s matchup this weekend, here’s what you need to

Last time they played:

senior staff writer

All time series: Duke leads, 3-1 In a completely dominant performance, the Orange rushed for 286 yards and four touchdowns in a 49-6 win. Running backs Moe Neal and Jarveon Howard both tallied over 100 yards on the ground, keeping the Orange’s Bowl Game hopes (briefly) alive. Without Neal, who graduated, or Howard, who opted out, it’s unclear if SU has the running game to repeat that performance. Sean Tucker broke out

in SU’s last game against Georgia Tech but will have to prove his 112yard, two-touchdown afternoon wasn’t a fluke.

The Duke report:

Duke has only played in one competitive game in 2020, with last week being the 38-31 loss to the Hokies. It leads the nation with 15 turnovers, and their offense is second-worst in efficiency — in front of only Syracuse — based on predicted points added.

Duke’s turnover issues might not be an outlier, as head coach

David Cutcliffe’s team also led the Power Five in turnovers in 2019.

Going back to the middle of last season, Duke has lost nine of its last 10 games.

Notably, the last time Syracuse faced Blue Devil starting quarterback Chase Brice was in 2018, when he was a member of the Clemson Tigers. Brice came in for an injured Trevor Lawrence in the second quarter and did just enough to stave off the Orange.

Brice finished a pedestrian 7-for13 with 83 yards and an intercepsee duke page 10

With nearly half of its players from Europe, Syracuse has more European-born athletes than any other Atlantic Coast Conference program and is home to 40% of European players in the conference. For Karakasi and her five European-born teammates, playing NCAA volleyball forced them to adapt to a style of play different from what they had experienced before.

“It’s just (a) different energy, different vibe, different warmup,” Marina Markova, from St. Petersburg, Russia, said.

Many minor rules differ between Europe and the U.S., Markova said, including what happens when the ball hits the ceiling and the fact that setter assists are not an official statistic. In the U.S., the team captain’s role is an honorary position, with responsibilities varying from team to team, but in Europe, however, the captain is second in command behind the head coach.

According to SU head coach Leonid Yelin, who’s had significant coaching stints in both Europe and the U.S., volleyball is structured differently on the two continents. In the U.S., the best high school athletes in the country usually play in college.

In Europe, the European Volleyball Confederation has competitive club teams that the best players join. Yelin described college teams in Europe as “intramural” level teams.

“As much as it looks we have a lot of international players, it’s still few — how many good, young players playing in different countries come to us,” Yelin said.

Yelin, who is from Uzbekistan, said he frequently uses connections he has overseas to bring international players to SU. Sophomore Viktoriia Lokhmanchuk and senior Yuliia Yastrub are two of the only Division I volleyball players from Ukraine, a country where Yelin spent several years coaching. He also said that he had connections in Russia that helped him recruit Markova see recruiting page 10