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N • Next chapter
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner will leave office at the end of the year. In the spring, she plans to teach in the public service school at New York University. Page 3
O • Blurred lines
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P • Stepping forward
Gender and Sexuality columnist C.C. Hendricks discusses a recent Supreme Court case and what redefining gerrymandering matters to women. Page 5
Remembrance Scholars reflect on their decision to kneel during the national anthem at Syracuse University’s football game against Pittsburgh. Page 9
S • Rare imports
As a Canadian citizen, Patrick Davis had to go to 14 football camps in 16 days to get exposure to football coaches based in the United States. Page 16
on campus
Remembrance Week 2017
University to offer vaccines By Jordan Muller Asst. news editor
Student-athletes and undergraduates at Syracuse University will have the opportunity to receive a booster dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine this week, Onondaga County Health Department and SU officials announced at a press conference Monday. The announcement comes more than a month after the officials confirmed the university’s first mumps infection. Since the end of August, there have been 27 confirmed and 45 probable mumps cases at SU. All who have contracted the disease have been properly vaccinated.
JACQUELINE PAGE, a 2017 Remembrance Scholar, is representing Timothy Michael Cardwell as part of SU’s program honoring victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. alexandra moreo photo editor
Upholding the
legacy
Scholar hopes to honor victim through ROTC bond
By Catherine Leffert staff writer
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or Jacqueline Page, being an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet is one of the biggest parts of who she is as a person, just like it was for Timothy Michael Cardwell when he attended Syracuse University in the 1980s. Cardwell’s life, though, was cut short. He never got to serve as an active duty Army officer, like Page might. He was killed when a terrorist bombing destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. This year, Page, an SU senior, is representing Cardwell as part of the Remembrance Scholars program, which honors the 35 SU students killed on Pan Am. The group was returning to the United States after studying abroad in Europe. see rotc page 8
student association
Assembly representatives question DPS officials By Mary Catalfamo asst. copy editor
Two representatives from the Department of Public Safety fielded questions from members of the Syracuse University Student Association during a meeting Monday evening. Associate Chief John Sardino and CJ McCurty, crime prevention coordinator, were originally slated to give an informational presentation on DPS jurisdiction, shutting down parties with “a racial undertone,” hospital transportation, Uber and the LiveSafe mobile app. McCurty started the meeting by talking through the DPS mission
statement and its services listed on the website, including the Rape Aggression Defense classes and Ride-Along services. About 20 minutes later, the floor was given over to Sardino to answer questions for the remainder of the discussion. Over the next hour, members of the SA assembly and cabinet asked questions about the geographic jurisdiction of DPS, the Safety Escort Program and criteria to shut down parties in light of alleged incidents at Castle Court after the win over Clemson University. The Safety Escort Program, which operates when Centro buses stop running from 3 a.m. to 6:30
a.m., provides a walking escort or vehicle transportation home for students, faculty and staff. However, Sardino said, DPS will not
We will get that person help, we will help them walk home, but we’re not going to put them in a vehicle and transport them. John Sardino department of public safety associate
transport an intoxicated student. “We will get that person help, we will help them walk home, but we’re not going to put them in a vehicle and transport them,” he said. If a student is dangerously intoxicated, Sardino said it is standard for DPS to call Health Services or provide hospital transportation. The geographic jurisdiction of DPS in relation to calling for emergency assistance and its policies on shutting down parties were points of contention between SA members and the DPS representatives. Many of the students shared grievances and recommendations based on personal experience with
see dps page 6
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Number of confirmed mumps cases at Syracuse University as of Monday
Student-athletes, who were primarily affected by the outbreak when it began spreading in September, will have the first opportunity to receive the booster shots on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Dolan Evanovich, senior vice president for enrollment and the student experience. The rest of the undergraduate population can receive an MMR booster shot in Flanagan Gymnasium on Thursday and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., according to a campus-wide email sent Monday afternoon. The vaccination clinics are primarily for undergraduate students, said Karen Nardella, medical director of the Office of Health Services. “Other people may come, and we won’t turn them away, but we’re focusing on the undergraduate population,” she said. Evanovich said there will be more than 4,000 MMR doses available at the clinics. Of that number, New York state provided 1,300 vaccines and SU purchased the rest, Nardella said. The vaccine will not prevent the mumps from spreading to people who have already been exposed to the disease, said Brad Hutton, deputy commissioner of public health at the New York State Department of Health. He also said he thinks there will be an increase in mumps cases before the outbreak ends. Though a third dose of the MMR vaccine has been used during other mumps outbreaks in New York state, Hutton said the effects of the third vaccine are unclear. The additional dose of the vaccine has often been distributed see mumps page 6