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SA, USen and GSO are collecting student comments on the potential revocation of Rudy Giuliani’s honorary degree.
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SA, USen and GSO are collecting student comments on the potential revocation of Rudy Giuliani’s honorary degree.
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Give our food columnist’s recipe for egg yolk ravioli and mushroom bolognese sauce a try in honor of World Pasta Month.
All Wilmeth Sidat-Singh could do was sit. Because of a gentlemen’s agreement — an unofficial contract between Southern and Northern schools that prevented African Americans from playing anywhere under the Mason–Dixon line — Sidat-Singh didn’t dress against Maryland.
He sat next to teammate Marty Glickman in the locker room when the head coach and athletic director told him the news at a blackboard talk the night before the game. A week earlier, he threw three touchdowns to defeat Cornell. But No. 7 Maryland would’ve can celed the game if he took the field. Sidat-Singh kept his head down on the sidelines throughout the No. 17 Orange’s 13-0 loss.
“We were beaten, but not by 11 men in football togs,” The Daily Orange’s “Mulling It Over With Muller” col umn read after the game.
That game took place 85 years ago on Oct. 23, 1937. The gentlemen’s agreement also kept Sidat-Singh out of a Syracuse basketball game against Navy a few months later. Other Northern colleges like Northwestern ensured all their players would be allowed to play at Southern schools. Syracuse didn’t.
“Big man on campus, who had to sit out a game. It wasn’t our finest moment,” said Larry Martin, former Vice President for Program Development at SU.
Sidat-Singh starred on Syracuse’s football and basketball teams in the late 1930s, leading SU on the hardwood to three straight winning seasons. Former Washington Tribune writer Sam Lacy compared him to Joe Lewis and Jackie Robinson, saying he was one of the most talented athletes of his generation. Sidat-Singh was “on the absolute cusp of becoming a household name,” according to journalist Sean Kirst, but people forgot his importance after he died in a 1943 plane crash while training as a Tuskegee Airmen. Eventually,
Syracuse showed hope for its final slate of the regular season despite allowing Clemson to come back over the weekend while faltering its undefeated record.
Ken Keech found his students more engaged in their algebra lessons this past school year. While the math concepts and degree of difficulty stayed the same, Keech said adding the students’ own community to their work made all the difference.
“You can teach students how to find regression equations with any data,” Keech said. “They can col lect data for something like height versus arm length, run a regres sion and that’s a bravo lesson, but it won’t mean anything. We wanted to do something that would make an impact.”
Keech, along with fellow Not tingham High School teacher Betty Routhouska and Syracuse Univer sity Assistant Professor of Mathe matics and Mathematics Education Nicole Fonger, worked to integrate the history of Syracuse into their classwork. This February, Keech and Routhouska’s ninth and tenthgraders ran regression equations, which are used to find a relationship in a dataset, on the shift of the city’s Black population before and after the creation of Interstate 81.
The three published their research, “People, Place, and Popu lation Predictions,” through the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in August. On Oct. 12, the Syracuse City School District recognized the two teachers for the success of their curriculum and for sharing their work for other teachers to apply in schools around the world.
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh’s legacy was “forgotten” despite being SU’s first star Black athlete
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“Learning the tools of algebra is not only an abstract skill or concept—it’s directly applicable to making sense of our histories, our current times, and for designing our futures.” - SU Asst. Professor Nicole Fonger
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“When you have performers of a certain level, that can really bring life to the show and understand the comedy.” - Lloyd Culbreath, guest choreographer for Sweet Charity
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A town hall will take place at Clay Town Hall on Monday to discuss Micron Technology’s $100 billion investment in a new facility around 15 miles north of Syracuse in Clay, New York.
Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon will hold the town hall, which is set to begin at 6 p.m. It will be the first in a series held to increase community involve ment and engagement with respect to the new facility, CNY Central reported.
“I have committed to making sure that every corner of every neighborhood, village, and town feels the tremendously positive impact that Micron’s investment will have for Onondaga County and Central York,” McMahon told CNY Central. “Critical to that effort is ensuring we engage directly with the community to share exactly what this investment means and also hear what
thoughts and ideas they have as we welcome Micron to our community.”
McMahon’s office and the Town of Clay have not publicized the event.
Gov. Kathy Hochul confirmed on Twitter Friday that President Joe Biden is set to visit Syracuse this Thursday to engage with the community about the “massive impact” the facility will have on central New York.
In a media statement following the announcement, Biden called the com pany’s decision to invest in central New York “another win for America.” When he signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law in August, the White House recognized the legislation’s progress in bolstering the United States’s leadership in semiconductor, or microchip, manufacturing.
Syracuse University’s Student Association is collecting comments from undergradu ate students, the University Senate and the Graduate Student Organization Senate on Chancellor Kent Syverud’s proposed honor ary degree revocation process.
“It’s not (an issue) that necessarily really affects our lives directly … but I do think that there’s a lot of arguments that can be made here that people who are getting honorary degrees are meant to be emblematic of who our univer sity is,” SA President David Bruen said.
The process was prompted by calls for the university to revoke Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s honorary law degree. Giuliani received his honorary doctorate from SU’s College of Law in 1989. 30 years later, after he actively supported and campaigned to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, universities began to rescind honor ary degrees they previously awarded to him.
Students can submit their feedback on policies surrounding honorary degree revo cation until Tuesday at midnight. Bruen will then submit comments to the chancellor before Syverud and the University Senate meet Wednesday to review student-submit ted recommendations. The group will com pile the submissions into a report to deliver to the Board of Trustees at its November meeting, Bruen said.
“The timeline will be that the board will, if all things go well, approve the report and the recommendations that it makes, and therefore create the process and standard to revoke honorary degrees,” Bruen said.
The university will likely begin deter mining whether to revoke Giuliani’s degree once the process is finalized. He said it isn’t clear whether the board will vote on the revocation of Giuliani’s degree at the November meeting or at a later date.
“I know the chancellor, at least, supports revocation for this case. However, I think it might be referred back to start over through the process again,” Bruen said. “If that’s the case, then it may very well be that the honorary degree for Rudy Giuliani or any other wouldn’t be officially revoked until sometime in the spring.”
GSO President Yousr Dhaouadi said members feel “pretty unanimous” about revoking Giuliani’s degree.
“We didn’t have any internal resolutions or votes for (supporting the revocation of Guiliani’s degree), but we did discuss it as a senate and there were no points that were made against that,” Dhaouadi said.
assessed on a case-by-case basis, Dhaouadi said. Also, given that the College of Law awarded the degree, she said she wants to hear opinions from the college’s dean, Craig Boise.
Colleges and universities have awarded Giuliani a total of eight honorary degrees in recognition of his work as mayor of New York City and role in the response to 9/11, as well as for his roles as United States Associ ate Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
town University all previously awarded Giuliani an honorary degree, but haven’t rescinded it.
SA Speaker of the Assembly Will Treloar said most comments from students so far have supported the revocation of Giuliani’s degree.
SA will send its results to the Chancel lor’s executive team and University Senate, Bruen said.
Bruen said that the GSO Senate plans to submit individual comments on the revoca tion process.
Revoking honorary degrees should be
By Jan. 2022, Middlebury College, Drexel University and the University of Rhode Island had all revoked the honorary degrees they awarded Giuliani between 2003 and 2009. The Citadel, St. John Fisher College, Loyola University Maryland and George
“I am personally in favor (of) the revo cation of the degree and as we take in more student input we are seeing that the majority of this campus is as well,” Treloar said in a written statement to The Daily Orange. “This is a chance for the university to follow suit with similar processes undertaken by other schools in doing what is right.”
spwright@syr.edu @stephaniwri_This is a chance for the university to follow suit with similar processes undertaken by other schools in doing what is right. Will Treloar speaker of the assemblyThe act, which Schumer championed, aims to increase domestic semiconductor manufac turing via incentives including $24 billion in tax credits for industry investments.McMahon will host a series of town halls regarding Micron Technology’s investment in a facility in Clay, NY. emily steinberger photo editor see micron page 4
“We appreciate teachers like Mr. Keech and Mrs. Routhouska for their innovation and leadership,” said Anthony Davis, SCSD’s Interim Superintendent, at the district’s school board meeting. “With them in our district, we know that our students aren’t just learning information — they’re know ing how to use it.”
At the end of their instruction, Keech, Routhouska and Fonger all said that the students were noticeably more engaged with the lessons and their subject matter. Routhouska also found that her pupils were not just absorbing the material but wanted to use what they learned to take action.
“I had kids ask what they can do to help this situation in their community,” Routhouska said. “They wanted to help with the breathing problems, help correct what I-81 has done in the past and help with what’s going to be done when it’s torn down. You don’t just have kids learning the math — you have them wanting to make a difference.”
Getting high school students engaged with math early on is incredibly important in New York State, Keech said. In the state, students must pass the Regents Examina tion in Algebra I in ninth grade and in Alge bra II in tenth grade to graduate high school. Many of those who don’t pass the exams by the end of tenth grade drop out of high school, Keech said.
“The ninth and tenth-graders are the ones that we really have to focus on,” Keech said. “If we don’t make them understand that math is an empowering thing and not just a bunch of confusing worksheets, then we are going to lose them.”
The dropout rate in the state dis proportionately affects Black students, Keech said. New York State ranked 42nd in high school graduation rate of Black students in 2022 while having the 12thmost Black residents. Keech said that Nottingham, which has a predominantly Black student body, has a dropout rate of over 30%.
The Nottingham teachers met with Fonger weekly before they began teaching the lessons, ensuring that they would bring a “culturally and historically responsive lit eracy framework” to life, Fonger said.
“I believe it’s essential for high school alge bra students to see how algebra can be applied
in their everyday lives,” she said. “Learning the tools of algebra is not only an abstract skill or concept—it’s directly applicable to making sense of our histories, our current times, and for designing our futures.”
After weeks of meetings, Keech and Routhouska decided on a curriculum cen tered around the thriving Black community of Syracuse’s 15th Ward in the 1940s and 1950s. The budding 15th Ward was weeded out with the establishment of the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act in 1956, which led to the construction of I-81. The highway demolished Black-owned busi nesses and homes in the area, segregating the city and creating health risks for those living near the highway.
To combine this history with algebra topics, Keech and Routhouska had their students run regression equations of the population of the 15th Ward before and after the construction of I-81 and make predictions on how the project would have an effect. To effectively drive home their
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In a floor speech preceding the final senate vote on the legislation in July, Schumer said the investment in the semi conductor chip industry has the ability to “reawaken” the nation’s leadership in discovery and innovation.
“For much of the twentieth century, America was without peer in our com mitment to scientific research, to innova tion, to manufacturing, new cutting-edge manufacturing. It led to tens of millions of good-paying jobs and made the US the unquestioned economic leader of the world,” Schumer said. “Today the story is different: nations around the world are spending tens of billions of dollars to secure this century much like America secured the last one. With this bill, that is finally going to change.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) visited Syracuse on Oct. 18 to vocalize his sup port for promoting the use of domes
example, Keech and Routhouska showed their students photos of thriving Black couples and read interviews of people who lived in the 15th Ward.
Students also engaged with virtual reality simulations showing the past and current day 15th Ward, looked at maps of Syracuse diagramming the area and watched videos describing the prevalence
of asthma in the area.
“They would look at the maps and real ize they knew where those places were,” Routhouska said. “Some said that their grandparents lived near I-81 and have asthma. Things like that continued to bring up new connections for the kids and helped them get involved in the lesson.”
With the National Council of Teach ers of Mathematics’s publication of their work, Keech, Routhouska and Fonger hope that more math teachers take the time to develop historically applied les sons. While an algebra question requires many different steps to solve, Keech said that unless students embrace the reasons for those steps, they won’t fully under stand the concept.
“When I took woodshop in high school, we never had a hammer or a saw exam,” Keech said. “We were just told to make a box, and tools like a hammer or saw let us do that. Essentially, that’s what we did with these lessons. We told our kids to make a box.”
swarre03@syr.edutically manufactured semiconductors, like those set to be produced at the Micron facility in Clay, in place of those manufactured in China by governmentconnected companies.
Schumer said a provision of the pro posed National Defense Authorization Act would both bolster national security and help boost demand for chips made in the United States.
“It’s simple: if you want the federal gov ernment to buy your products or services, you can’t be using the kind of Chinesemade chips that put our national security at risk,” Schumer said in a press release.
Days after Micron’s announcement, Clay Town Supervisor Damian Ulatowski told Eagle News that the town expects thou sands of people to move in and live in Clay with the new factory.
“We want to make sure that we … put our best foot forward with welcoming Micron,” Ulatowski said.
Nottingham High used Interstate 81 and the historic 15th ward in math problems to connect with students. stephanie zaso design editor
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I believe it’s essential for high school algebra students to see how algebra can be applied in their everyday lives
Nicole Fonger su asst. professor of mathematics
Love is the root to many enter tainment stories, and the play “Sweet Charity,” Syracuse Stage’s latest performance, is no exception.
“(The play was) a sweet story of a quirky young woman trying to find love…leading mistakenly or purposefully into a journey of self discovery,” said Celia Salita, one of the audience members and a freshman at Syracuse University.
SU’s Visual and Performing Arts stu dents opened the play, written by Neil Simon in 1966, to the public Oct. 15, and it closed its curtains Sunday. David Lowenstein directed the show, which had over a two hour run time and only an 18-member cast.
The curtains opened to a musical number that concluded with the pro tagonist, Charity, played by Katarina Kelly, holding a suitcase that read, “The story of a girl who wants, more than anything, to be loved.” But by the show’s conclusion, Charity realizes the only beyond the hill
In its early years, the Community Folk Art Center was a small orga nization in a storefront building, known only as a gallery.
Fifty years later, Dr. Tanisha Jackson, CFAC’s executive director, said the center has developed into a haven for creativity and diversity across the entire city.
“We grew as an organization,” she said. “Now, we are a center that provides more space for work and conversation and education.”
Since its inception on May 12, 1972, CFAC at Syracuse University
aims to spread Black art and cul ture in central New York. While the center’s main goal is to show case the work of artists from the African diaspora, CFAC is open to all audiences.
Though events for the 50th anni versary began back in May, they’ve been ongoing throughout the year, such as an upcoming performance from Ailey II Dance Company, which will take place on Wednesday. The center also hosted a luncheon Saturday, which included an art auc tion to raise money for the Creative Arts Academy, CFAC’s free yearlong art program for children.
CFAC is also hosting an art
exhibit in the same location, fea turing art both by creatives closely associated with CFAC and some of their seven co-founders.
“They’re exhibiting their work, and we also have some photos from our archive that have been printed and framed that show you the early years of CFAC,” Jackson said. “That exhibit is also part of the celebration, and we’re excited about that.”
The Community Folk Art Cen ter has several different forms of art on display, Jackson said. Its programs, available for both chil dren and adults, include art class es, such as West African drum and
dance, painting, ceramics, hip-hop dance, theater, writing books, poetry and photography.
Jackson’s drive for diversity in both audience and art also inspired her to collaborate with Ailey II Dance Company.
“We wanted something that young people can come to, that mature adults can come to, and something that’s visibly beauti ful,” Jackson said. “(The perfor mance) encompasses almost all of the arts.”
José Miguel, founder and artis tic director of La Joven Guardia del Teatro y la Danza Latina, which works in partnership with
CFAC, applauded Ailey II Dance Company’s original combination of new and old dance styles.
“This company has this very unique and spectacular way to perform,” he said. “It’s so many things. It’s (a mix) between clas sical and contemporary together.”
The association has remained constant in its values in the time Miguel has partnered with them. It’s always been invit ing, enriching, and “like home,” Miguel said.
“We are turning, we are proud to say, 50 years old,” Jackson said. “It’s an incredible milestone.”
robypena@icloud.com2 1/4 cups all-purpose or semolina flour
3 whole eggs, plus three egg yolks
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
Pinch of grated nutmeg
1 pound ricotta
1/4 cup basil leaves, roughly chopped
1/4 cup fi nely grated Parmesan
2 tablespoons sage leaves, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons fi nely chopped chives
Juice/zest 1/2 lemon
2 garlic cloves, minced Kosher salt, to taste 1 egg
1 1/2 pounds combined baby bella and shiitake mushrooms
1/4 cup olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 large carrot, peeled and fi nely chopped
1 rib celery, fi nely chopped
1 large yellow onion, fi nely chopped
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
3 fresh thyme sprigs
3 tablespoons tomato paste
1 cup whole milk
Basil leaves, chi onade, for garnish Parmesan, for serving
It’s World Pasta Month, which celebrates a food that hits close to home with me as a cook and a food enthusiast. Pasta was the first food I learned how to cook, from the box and from scratch. As my expertise grew with this Italian staple, I began to formulate my own take on traditional pasta dishes. That’s how this recipe came about. I was inspired by the richness and satisfaction of a poached egg, and wanted to explore similar textures and flavors as a pasta dish. This ravioli al’ uovo, or egg yolk ravioli, accomplishes just that. When you slice into the perfect al dente ravioli, the egg yolk runs all over the plate, kind of like an eggs benedict. But the cheese filling and mushroom bolognese that I incorporated into this dish give both a flavor boost and new dimension to a ravioli that I want to share with you. This recipe will make enough dough for about eight large ravioli so adjust your ratios according to your desired serving size.
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Making the proper ravioli requires a time commitment to get the dough just right. That means not rushing the kneading
process, allowing the dough enough time to chill and rolling it out to the proper thickness. Ravioli is about patience, because trust me, it will be worth it once the egg yolk runs perfectly out of the center. To begin the dough, I start out with 2 ¼ cups of semolina flour (all-purpose is also fine, I’ve used both). Place the flour into a bowl or leave it on the countertop and make a round well in the center to place your cracked eggs. Crack 3 whole eggs into the well and then add 3 more egg yolks. Add a small drizzle of olive oil, a pinch of grated nutmeg and ½ teaspoon of kosher salt to the egg mixture and begin incorporating using a fork. Side note: This will make enough dough for about eight large ravioli so adjust your ratios according to your desired serving size. Once the liquid mixture is thoroughly combined, begin to slowly mix in the flour — you can use your opposite hand to do this simultaneously — as you continuously beat together the eggs. Once the floor has made the liquid mixture has too thick to stir, incorporate the rest of the flour — using a bench scraper if you have one — into that mixture until a shaggy dough forms (there will likely be extra flour and that’s fine — just reserve it for later). On a clear workspace, form your dough into a ball and begin to knead, folding the dough on top of itself repeatedly for about five to seven minutes. If you find that your dough is on the more moist side, add some of that extra flour to it, and if it’s too dry and cracking, add a few tablespoons of water until it homogenizes.
The dough will be ready
In honor of World Pasta Month, try your hand at our food columnist’s original egg yolk and mushroom ravioli recipe
Halloween in college marks a huge change in a young person’s life. Gone are the days of trick-or-treating with Mommy and Daddy. No more coming home before 10 p.m. and having two Almond Joys before hitting the hay. Most importantly, say goodbye to school-appropriate costumes that cover almost every inch of your skin.
Costumes in college are a big deal. They’re an opportunity to show off your creativity and, let’s face it, how hot you are. Your first Halloween in college is a monumental moment, and what costume you chose may be forever ingrained in your memory. Forget astrology — your freshman Halloween costume says way more about your personality than some
person who she truly needs is herself, and embarks on a journey of self discovery.
Though many of the performers played more than one role throughout the show, Sal ita said this didn’t hurt the actors’ abilities to develop their characters. Instead, it allowed them to experiment with several characters, which doesn’t always happen in the theater.
“I think every actor and actress was very well cast,” Salita said. “I felt like each person had a very thoroughly developed character and loved that they all got to portray many different roles throughout the show.”
The VPA program often invites industry professionals to be on the creative team and
when it springs back into shape willingly after you press into it with your finger. Once it reaches that consistency, divide the dough in half, shape it into a disc, cover it in plastic wrap and place it into the fridge for an hour.
Make the filling as the dough chills. In a large mixing bowl, add a pound of ricotta cheese, ¼ cup of parmesan cheese, ¼ cup of basil leaves, 2 tablespoons of finely chopped sage leaves and chives, 2 minced garlic cloves and the juice and zest of half a lemon. Add about a tablespoon of kosher salt and begin to mix with a gloved hand until everything is incor porated. Then crack 1 egg into the bowl to bind the filling and continue to mix by hand. Transfer the mixture into a large plastic bag and set aside in the refrigerator.
You can make this at any point during the cooking process since it’s easy to reheat once cooled off in the fridge, but if your dough still has enough time to chill, you can get started on this step since it can be prep-intensive.
If you dressed up as a devil your freshman year, I’m sorry, but you lack creativity. Before you’re like, “Boohoo, the Daily Orange humor columnist bullied me,” I’m allowed to say that, because I dressed up as a devil my fresh man year and I know I lacked creativity at the time. The devil outfit tells people, “I had a red crop top and five bucks to spend at Spirit Hal loween on some flimsy horns.”
If you dressed up as a black cat, you are defi nitely a procrastinator. While everyone else was organizing complex group costumes, Halloween wasn’t even on your radar. You procrastinated so hard that you were forced to throw on some black pants and a black
work with students throughout its shows. Guest choreographer Lloyd Culbreath, who has been in the industry for 30 years and is currently an instructor at the Broadway Dance Center, worked with the students in “Sweet Charity.”
Among other Broadway appearances, Cul breath was also in the cast of a national tour of “Sweet Charity,” and is a veteran in Fossestyle choreography, a form of hyper-stylized jazz dance. Bob Fosse, who conceived, direct ed and choreographed the original Broad way production of “Sweet Charity” in 1966, coined the style.
Coming from Broadway and the world of professional theater, Culbreath said he treated the students the same way he would industry professionals, and was impressed
Unlike a traditional bolognese, your finely chopped 1 ½ pounds of combined baby bella and shiitake mushrooms will act as the meat, giving the sauce a much needed umami boost.
Then, in a large saucepan set over mediumhigh heat, drizzle in some olive oil, 1 finely chopped carrot (peeled), celery rib and yellow onion. Stir occasionally so the vegetables don’t brown but rather soften and slightly caramel ize. Then add your chopped mushrooms and a few sprigs of fresh thyme, cooking until the mushrooms begin to brown and wilt.
After about 5 minutes, stir in 3 tablespoons of tomato paste and mix until fully incorpo rated. Then, add a cup of whole milk and sea son with salt and black pepper to taste. Adjust the heat until the mixture begins to simmer and reduce the sauce until thickened, which should take between 20-25 minutes stirring occasionally. If you find that the sauce is too thick, stir in about a half cup of water, and let the sauce simmer for another 3-5 minutes.
This is where a pasta roller will come in handy. Tightly secure it to your countertop and make sure it starts out on the highest thickness set ting. Before adding your dough to the roller, add flour to the counter, remove both halves
crop top that probably had a hole in the armpit. You were then forced to sheepishly ask the girls on your floor if they had any cat ears. You promised yourself that next year you’ll try harder, but between you and me, we know that isn’t true.
If you and your friends dressed up as space cowboys, you were probably super close with your freshman year friends. A group costume is a commitment that can test every fiber of a new friendship. Once the words, “we should do a group costume” are uttered, there is no going back. Settling on a group costume idea requires a group chat filled with endless bickering and compromises. You might not be close with those people anymore, but hey, at least you have those group pictures to look back on. God, you looked good in those metal
with their professionalism in the rehearsal room. He said while the play is intense, the production never has a dull moment.
“There is just such an optimistic feel ing of hope in the show Sweet Charity, and there’s something so endearing and just so bubbly 60’s — fun and sweet — it’s just that kind of a show,” Culbreath said. “When you have performers of a certain level, that can really bring life to the show and understand the comedy,”
While the students onstage have been preparing for months, the crew was hard at work as well. They heavily researched details, like the show’s costumes, to accurately depict the time period. Lillian Benge, an assistant costume designer and sophomore theater design major, said the
of the dough from the refrigerator and using a rolling pin, roll it out until it’s about ½ an inch thick. Then fold one side of it to the center of the rolled out dough and to the same with the other side, and using the roller, flatten the dough back out to that ½ inch thickness.
This process is called laminating the dough, which helps with the pasta’s gluten development. Repeat this process two more times before beginning to feed the dough through the pasta roller. Every time you do this, lower the thickness level by one until you’ve rolled the dough out to the second thin nest setting.
Between your two discs of pasta dough, you should now have two long sheets to work with. At this point, you can remove the ricotta filling out of the fridge and slice the very end of the plastic bag off to pipe the cheese onto the dough. Make sure you don’t cut too big of hole out of the bag so you have optimal control over how much you end up piping onto the dough.
Spaced roughly an inch and a half apart, pipe circles of the filling onto one sheet of the dough, leaving a large enough slot for the egg yolk you’re going to place in the middle. Before draping your other sheet of pasta dough on top of the one containing the filling,
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team began researching March, but that it was not a smooth process.
The show was originally supposed to be “Chicago,” another Fosse musical that opened on Broadway in 1975, so the design process started much later than usual.
“I think we did a fantastic job with the time crunch, and it encouraged us to spend a lot of long nights together just sitting and designing and doing research,” Benge said.
Still, Benge said the costume design team effectively transported the audience to the 1960s, and the musical’s message still rang true.
“(It’s a) story of finding your way, find ing your journey, and standing up for yourself, ” Benge said.
asberman@syr.edubrush water over all of the exposed areas of the dough surrounding the flour. That will help the ravioli contain its shape once it’s being boiled.
Now you can place the second sheet of pasta over top, making sure to merge the dough together where there is no filling. Using either a bench scraper, a round cookie cutter or a pizza cutter, separate the individual ravioli’s into either square or round shapes and place them into a large pot of boiling, generously salted water and let it cook for 4 minutes.
With about 1-2 minutes left on the ravioli’s cook time, begin to heat up your sauce if it’s not already hot and place a thin layer of it onto the plate. Then, once the ravioli is finished, place them onto a paper towel to soak up some of the moisture and then add to the sauce. Top the sauce with your desired amount of ravioli and grated parmesan on top of each one, and top everything off with a little bit of finely chopped basil. Make sure the first thing you do is slice the ravioli in half and watch the egg yolk ooze out onto the plate, adding even more richness to the sauce, making for the perfect bite of pasta.
cirinoalex19@gmail.com @alexcirino19The first time I felt seen as an AfroLatina, a Latino who is also descen dant of the African diaspora, was when I read Your Lips: Mapping Afro-Boricua Feminist Becomings by Yomaira Figueroa. The reading, required for my Latina Feminist Theory course, included a story about a little girl who was often isolated from her fam ily because of her Blackness, literally and figuratively. Throughout the story, she tries desperately to prove that she belongs in the family and deserves a spot at the kitchen table, a place that’s described as “a place of politics, poetics, kinship and sustenance.”
The reading affected me profoundly; the author was able to give language to an experience I’ve struggled with my entire life. I was raised in a traditionally Domini can household. That meant waking up to mangu in the morning, bachata blasting on the speaker and El Sabado Gigante on the TV. I love my culture and am so proud to be able to call myself Dominican. Despite this, I always felt like I was trying too hard to claim a culture that didn’t claim me back.
I’ve felt isolated from my family due to my Blackness several times throughout my life but the most poignant example of this exclusion occurred when I was 14 years old, traveling to the Dominican Republic with my white-passing mother and my aunts. We had all gone to the beach the day before, so we decided to go to a big salon in an upscale part of Santiago. My mom and my aunts were all assigned a stylist before I was, so they weren’t there to witness the humilia tion I felt when I was escorted to a smaller salon next door and assigned to the only Black hairstylist in the establishment. I can still remember the way her white coworkers looked at me and offered me a relaxer so that I could ‘fix’ my pelo malo (bad hair). My hairstylist told me all about the way that the white, wealthy patrons of the salon pre ferred that stylists used different brushes on their Black clients.
I was actively being discriminated against by my own people and the experi ence was devastating. After this experi ence, I felt as though the only way I could truly be Dominican was if I maintained proximity to whiteness at the expense of my Black identity. It didn’t seem as though there was a way for me to affirm both of my identities as Black and Latina.
Throughout my time at SU, I have not felt the pressure to choose between the Black and Latinx communities on campus. I believe that despite our small numbers, the multicultural community is tight knit.
Unfortunately, my experiences with anti-Blackness in Latinx culture are not unique. Being an Afro-Latina in America is a privilege because I have access to resourc es and education that are rarely afforded to African descendants in Latin America. There is a long history of anti-Blackness in Latin America that disproportionately impacts the livelihoods of those identifying as Afro-Latina. According to The Project of Race and Ethnicity in Latin America at Princeton University, 130 million people out of 550 million identify as Afro-descen dants in Latin America. Even though they make up a large portion of the Latinx popu lation, Afro-descendants are still 2.5 times more likely to be chronically poor and twice as likely to live in slums than their non-Afro-descendant counterparts.
October 15th marked the end of Hispanic and Latinx Heritage month in America and I find myself disappointed by the lack of AfroLatinx representation in SU’s celebrations. Any celebration of Latinidad is incomplete without Afro-Latinx voices as this exclusion directly contributes to their oppression and erasure of their blackness. We must expand what it means to be Latinx past the white washed versions of our culture that domi nate the media. There must also be a greater effort made by the university to celebrate intersectional identities so that students can feel like they have the space to affirm all the components of their identities at once.
Katrice Ramirez, Class of 2023
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Syracuse “got it right,” Martin said, retiring Sidat-Singh’s number in 2005 before Mary land apologized in 2013.
“It’s always important to know about our history and what went right and what didn’t go as well as it should have,” Martin said. “This man fought all kinds of barriers and nothing could hold him back.”
Sidat-Singh arrived at Syracuse on a bas ketball scholarship, but after former lacrosse coach Roy Simmons Sr. saw him “throwing the ball a mile” in the quad, he offered him a spot on the football team. Sidat Singh joined prior to Oct. 16’s matchup against Cornell despite not playing at all in high school.
Syracuse listed Sidat-Singh on rosters as “Hindu” or “Indian” because of his fair skin and Indian stepfather Samuel Sidat-Singh, according to the book “Gentlemen’s Agree ment: The 1937 Maryland-Syracuse Foot ball Controversy” by James R. Coates Jr.
His teammates called him “Sing” and he signed letters with “As ever, Singh,”
option and offensive line penalties cleaned up — but Syracuse should be excited about what the rest of its season has in store.
“We showed a lot of good. We showed some bad,” linebacker Mikel Jones said.
The Tigers haven’t lost a home game since November 2016. SU just took them down to the wire, and arguably should’ve won. This Syracuse team is good. And it has plenty to play for over these last six games, but Saturday’s loss can’t become a momentum killer that leaves a mark on the rest of the season.
Syracuse has the pieces to record a dou ble-digit win season for the first time since 2018. The defense is the best in the ACC and ranked 16th nationally. The offense, largely due to Shrader and Oronde Gadsden II’s improved play, has been strong. Teams will still continue to sell out to stop Tucker.
The Orange have games remaining against Notre Dame, Pitt, Florida State, No. 10 Wake Forest and Boston College. Only one, Wake Forest (6-1), appears to be a formidable threat. That game in Winston Salem, North Carolina on Nov. 19 could likely dictate who plays in the Orange Bowl.
The game was won when… Will Shipley took a read option handoff 50 yards for a Tigers touchdown early in the final quarter, giving them their first lead since midway through the first. Line backer Derek McDonald was in position to make a play, but he took a poor angle and could only dive at Shipley’s shoes as he sprinted by. Justin Barron also could’ve brought Shipley down, but the running back eluded him and ran down the sideline for a 22-21 Clemson lead.
The Tigers shut down the Orange’s offense in the second half, and Shipley’s score proved to be the game-winner. Syra cuse didn’t move across midfield until its desperation drive in the final minute.
but the local press in Baltimore and Syra cuse tacked on other nicknames. They called him “America’s only Hindu grid der,” “Manhattan Hindu,” “The hindu passer who came from the ranks of bas ketball” and “Ossie’s Hindu Halfback.”
Maryland would’ve let Sidat-Singh play if he was Indian. But an article from Lacy of the Washington Tribune revealed that SidatSingh was fully African American. His father died when he was extremely young, and Sidat-Singh took his stepfather’s last name.
“The players were under the impression that he was an Indian from India, and not of the Black Race,” Maryland defensive end Francis Beamer said in Coates Jr.’s book.
Lacy called the game “an unsoiled football record went by the boards here today as racial bigotry substituted for sportsmenship (sic.) and resulted in the removal of the spark-plug from the machine which was Syracuse Uni versity’s football team.” The New York Times didn’t put Sidat-Singh on the roster or give a reason why he wasn’t starting.
After Sidat-Singh’s death, he was “utterly forgotten,” said Kirst, a former columnist at
“I guess we have to sacrifice a billy goat or something next time we play Syracuse. Crazy stuff happens when we play these dudes.”
Saturday’s matchup was yet another close one between SU and Clemson. The Orange took down the Tigers in 2017, and held fourth-quarter leads in 2018 and this season. Syracuse was one kick away from taking Clemson to overtime last season at home, too.
Swinney specifically referenced Clem son’s four turnovers, uncharacteristic for a team that entered the day ranked No. 10 nationally in turnovers. Uiagalelei doubled his number of interceptions this season in less than three quarters of action, and the Tigers had to turn to their backup quarter back in an effort to save the game.
Tucker registered just five rushing attempts on Saturday, his lowest total since coming off the bench against Pittsburgh as a true fresh man in September 2020. Tucker averaged over 10 yards per carry against Clemson, but didn’t have any attempts in the second half in arguably the biggest game of his career.
Babers said postgame that Clemson’s schemes forced Shrader to keep the ball on read option plays. Shrader had 21 rush ing attempts, his most since recording 22 against Virginia Tech last season.
Jones sounded confident as ever going into the week, penning an article in The Players Tribune where he simply spelled out the team’s mindset going into Memorial Sta dium: “We’re ready man.”
The linebacker responded with arguably his best performance of the season, recording a season-high 12 total tackles, including seven solo ones. Jones stuffed Shipley on a touch down attempt in the first quarter, and stopped Klubnik for no gain inside the 10-yard line later in the game. It was Jones’ most tackles
The Post Standard. When Kirst wrote some thing on Bernie Custis, who was believed to be Syracuse’s first Black quarterback, SU graduate Luke LaPorta informed him that he wasn’t the first. Sidat-Singh was.
“I don’t know what the deal was, but no one knew anything about him,” Kirst said about the mainstream media at the time. “What I found was that the city’s Black community remembered him vividly, powerfully.”
Kirst began digging for more about Sidat-Singh. He spoke to Glickman, SidatSingh’s aunt, who was at that 1937 game, and others to learn as much as possible. Eventually, Kirst asked Martin: “Have you ever heard of this guy?”
Martin recognized the name and Kirst sent him information he found. Martin was impressed as Kirst delivered more informa tion. And more. And more.
“This guy was just an incredible indi vidual,” Martin said. “Then I thought, ‘What can we do with this?’”
Martin wrote a letter featuring the research to then-Chancellor Kenneth Shaw. When Martin ran into Shaw in New
in a game since he registered 16 in last season against Pitt. But postgame, he still lamented one or two tackles he missed.
“I feel like I could’ve played harder,” Jones said. “I feel like I could’ve put some more out there.”
That final drive Shrader had led the Orange on successful game-winning drives against Virginia and Purdue, but came up short on Saturday.
K.J. Henry went right by tight end Max Mang to slam Shrader to the ground on first down. Forced back nine yards, Shrader threw it toward Damien Alford along the Clemson sideline. The ball was thrown in a spot where only the 6-foot-6 Alford could go up and grab it. He hauled it in over his right shoulder, but the official said it was incom plete. Video play showed Alford’s right foot in bounds, though. The 22-yard play gave the Orange an opportunity to continue pushing downfield with less than a minute left.
Shrader completed three of his next four passes, including one to Gadsden in the soft spot of Clemson’s zone that moved the ball to the 30-yard line. On the next play, with less than 25 seconds on the clock, Shrader had plenty of time in the pocket, and rifled one toward Gadsden, stationed at the 12-yard line. But the receiver was encircled by three Tigers, and R.J. Mickens leaped in front of Gadsden to make the interception.
The quarterback said it was a concept that had worked for the Orange earlier in the game, but he just underthrew the ball. Gads den and Shrader both said postgame they’d like for another receiver to step up; Gadsden was the only SU wideout with more than 40 receiving yards on Saturday.
Babers’ clock management questioned again Last season, Babers made several ques tionable decisions that hurt Syracuse. He called timeout with 45 seconds remain ing to attempt a potentially game-tying 48-yard Andre Szmyt field goal instead
York City, the chancellor gave the “OK” to retire the jersey.
“We knew we had one chance to do it right,” Martin said.
A nationally broadcast basketball game against Providence on Feb. 26, 2005 pro vided the perfect audience. His aunt, fellow Tuskegee Airmen and his SU teammates were in attendance as his No. 19 entered the rafters. ESPN didn’t cut to a halftime break, filming the ceremony instead.
“They followed the entire ceremony,” Martin said. “It was a home run.”
The same year, Prior to a football game the same year, Martin told SU legend Jim Brown about Sidat-Singh’s story. Brown, a Civil Rights activist with Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, immediately understood the importance.
Brown walked into the locker room and told Sidat-Singh’s story “verbatim” to what Martin had told him. He said “‘when you go into the Dome and you look up, that’s a man that paved the way for all of us.”
anish.sujeet@gmail.com @anish_vasuof using Tucker or Shrader on 4th-and-1. Against Wake Forest, he accepted a hold ing penalty and replayed third down, lead ing to a Demon Deacons touchdown. The Orange lost in overtime.
Those issues have mostly disappeared this season. Babers deserves plenty of credit for getting Syracuse 6-0, and putting them in position to defeat the Tigers on Saturday. But his decision to let the clock go down from 2:03 to 1:38 before eventually using a timeout after Clemson was stopped on 3rd down was a serious head scratcher. It gave the Orange less time on their final drive, forcing them to throw downfield.
After Jason Simmons Jr. intercepted DJ Uiagalelei late in the fourth quarter, Swinney made the bold move to bench Uiagalelei in favor of true freshman Cade Klubnik. Klubnik proceeded to lead Clem son on two touchdown drives and secure a 7-0 start for the Tigers.
Uiagalelei said postgame he would’ve done the same thing if he were Swinney. “If your quarterback is struggling, you’ve got to be able to make a change,” he said.
When asked if Syracuse was prepared to face Klubnik, Babers said it was surprising to see him enter the game. Jones said they hadn’t prepared “at all” for the freshman.
Klubnik finished 2-of-4 passing for 19 yards, and ran six times for 15 yards.
The Fighting Irish are experiencing a down year after notching five straight double-digit win seasons. First-year head coach Marcus Freeman has led ND to a 4-3 record, which has included losses to Marshall and a 3-4 Stanford team.
Notre Dame will likely enter the game favored to win. Still, the Orange have a shot at a significant bounce-back win over one of the nation’s most prestigious programs.
CLEMSON, S.C. — It was one of the most hyped Syracuse games in recent memory, and for good reason.
The Orange hadn’t played in a top-15 matchup since 2015, and that one was a dud — SU fell 36-3 to Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium. The only other top-15 game involving Syracuse this century was in November 2001, when Miami blew out the Orange 59-0.
This game appeared to end much differently. No. 14 Syracuse was going to exit Memorial Sta dium — a stadium it had never won in — with an impressive win over No. 5 Clemson. The defense generated four turnovers, its most in two years, and the offense put a couple solid drives together that put the Orange in a position to win.
Then freshman quarterback Cade Klubnik entered the game for Clemson, SU’s offense disap peared and penalties went against the Orange. Syracuse led for nearly 30 minutes in Death Val ley, yet lost 27-21. The possibility of a programchanging win, one that could’ve led to multiple firsts — among them an Atlantic Division title, a conference championship, College Gameday finally visiting SU’s campus — faded.
But even with the emotional loss, this Syra cuse team still has the chance at a historic season. Syracuse has a legitimate shot to finish the regular season 11-1 as the ACC’s clear sec ond-best team. The Orange Bowl is still in play. There are some tough games left, but this SU
squad, once predicted to finish the year last in their division, has proved through seven games they can play with, and beat, almost anyone in the country.
The bumps that at times hurt the Orange the most Saturday came via penalty flags — or the lack of them in some cases. There were two personal fouls on Klubnik’s first drive under center, and a pass interference in the end zone that could’ve given SU’s offense more time to notch a game-winning drive. There was also a no-call when Shrader was shoved out of bounds in the fourth quarter in an eerily similar way to how Klubnik got hit along the
sideline moments before.
The hit on Klubnik was called. The one on Shrader wasn’t.
“I feel like mine was definitely a lot worse,” Shrader said.
The fact that a few officiating decisions possibly made the difference in this game is a testament to how well the Orange played. SU’s defense, in particular, shut down one of the ACC’s top offenses for three quarters, putting its own offense in positions to score. There are some things that need to be addressed — mainly Sean Tucker getting the ball more, another receiving
Syracuse fell two spots to No. 16 in both the AP Top 25 Poll and the USA Today Coaches Poll. The last second loss helped the Orange maintain their position in the top 20 rankings.
SU entered Clemson, South Carolina, as the No. 14 team in the country. The contest against the No. 5 Tigers was supposed to
be a two-touchdown loss for the Orange.
Instead, Syracuse stormed through the first half and entered halftime with an 11 point lead. Despite this, the Orange gave up 16 unanswered points and were burned by backup quarterback Cade Klubnik, erasing their undefeated record.
“It’s a horrible feeling,” linebacker Mikel Jones said after the loss. “It took a lot to get here and we just fell short again. It’s a bad
feeling but we’re gonna keep working.”
Syracuse returns home one game behind the Tigers in the Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic division. Notre Dame, who started the season ranked in the top five but will enter the JMA Wireless Dome with a 4-3 record, is Syracuse’s next opponent. SU hasn’t beaten the Fighting Irish since 2008. Following that contest, SU heads back on the road to face Pittsburgh before welcoming
unranked Florida State on Nov. 12. Then, Syra cuse travels to Winston-Salem, North Caroli na, to play No. 10 Wake Forest, its final ranked opponent on the schedule, before capping off the season in Boston College. Despite being bowl eligible and with three conference wins, the Orange are likely going to finish the season outside of the ACC Championship game.
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