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THURSDAY
oct. 26, 2017 high 60°, low 41°
t h e i n de p e n de n t s t u de n t n e w s pa p e r of s y r a c u s e , n e w yor k |
N • Mumps update
A Centers for Disease Control advisory board recommended Wednesday some people get a third mumps, measles, and ruebella vaccine. Page 3
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O • Mostly cons
Conservative columnist Joshua Nelson explains why he thinks New Yorkers should vote in November against a potential constitutional convention. Page 5
S • Captains’ club
Mo Adams’ and Eva Gordon’s careers are winding down for SU men’s and women’s soccer. The two captains are trying to go out on high notes. Page 20
HALLOWEEN GUIDE 2017
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Remembrance Week 2017
‘Not a disaster theme park’
Lockerbie, a small Scottish town, was where Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in 1988. The area to the right of the rainbow, Tundergarth Mains, pictured here in 2012, was a major site for fallen bodies after the bombing. courtesy of lawrence mason By Haley Kim
senior staff writer
How Lockerbie has moved on after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
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OCKERBIE, SCOTLAND — For Colin Dorrance, Dec. 21, 1988, was supposed to be a night off. Then 18 years old, he had recently joined the police force and was driving to a Christmas party at home in Lockerbie. The radio weather report played as Dorrance cruised at 70 miles per hour. The grassy fields lining the road — nearly invisible in the night — blurred. Then he saw the explosion. It burst behind a line of trees, silhouetting them in the darkness.
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su athletics
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Miner: Athletes should be paid Anti-abortion group met by counterprotesters By Michael Burke senior staff writer
With the college basketball world bracing for further fallout from the FBI’s corruption investigation into the sport, advocates for college athletes’ rights say the scandal is evidence that the NCAA should allow athletes to be compensated for their work. In Syracuse, at least one prominent public figure agrees: Mayor Stephanie Miner. Miner tweeted twice last week in support of college athletes being paid, calling on the NCAA to “stop
the madness.” She said paying athletes would help “end the corruption and stop the exploitation.” On Friday, Miner, who is nearing the end of her second and final term as mayor, will deliver a farewell address at SU, home to one of the country’s top college basketball programs. It will be Miner’s only farewell address. It’s not clear what Miner’s next political move will be once she leaves office, but she has yet to rule out a run for governor of New York in 2018. Miner announced this week she will spend next spring teaching at New York Uni-
versity’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service as a “visiting distinguished urbanist.” In a press release announcing the appointment, Miner said she will use that role to “enhance my relationships and learn more about the issues impacting people across New York State.” If she were to run for and be elected governor, Miner would have the means to take on the NCAA, experts say. Miner was not made available for an interview for this story, but she told Spectrum News CNY last see athletes page 4
By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor
Matthew Stuart, 33, jogged up to the line of Syracuse University students, standing in front of the city’s Planned Parenthood Health Center, and thrust his young daughter at them, over his head. He mumbled prayers, and as students screamed chants of “We’re not ashamed, we’re not sorry, keep your laws off our body,” a Syracuse Police Department officer stepped in and
asked Stuart to move back. “I do regret … kind of my instincts took over, my impulse sometimes gets the better of me,” said Stuart, a Syracuse resident, when later asked if he was comfortable holding his young daughter out a few inches in front of a group of counterprotesters. The counterprotesters, who were mostly SU students, rallied Wednesday night against 40 Days for Life, a national anti-abortion organization whose local chapter see protest page 4