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THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 3, 2022 high 69°, low 43°
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N • Cutting the ribbon
C • Gloomy weather
S • Road to glory
The new Tipperary Hill Community Center at the Westside neighborhood’s former Boys and Girls Club had its grand opening on Wednesday. Page 3
SU students feel the weight of seasonal affective disorder as the seasons change, especially in the famously snowy central New York. Page 5
No. 2 seed Syracuse will face North Carolina in the ACC Tournament this Sunday. SU was unbeaten in its final six games of the regular season. Page 12
ORANGE ORIGINS The storied history of Syracuse football began well before its first game against Rochester in 1889 By Anthony Alandt senior staff writer
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ohn Blake Hillyer walked onto Syracuse University’s campus for the first time nearly 133 years ago. The campus housed only four buildings — the Hall of Languages, Ranke Library, Holden Observatory and Crouse College. There was Mount Olympus for dorms, but no gymnasium or roads to meander through campus. Just $60 per academic year would earn you a degree in the Liberal Arts College, while $100 could be spent on a degree in the Fine Arts and Medical Schools. Victorian Era morality, one that preached sexual propriety, charity, family, and duty, held a firm grip over an “avowedly conservative town.” Horseplay, akin today to hazing, took place, but often led to the suspension of students. Sophomores would “salt” freshmen by throwing 500 bags and 10 extra baskets of salt at them. Athletics were seen as a frivolous way to relieve daily stress that administrators and adults found unfavorable. Former Syracuse professor Freeman Galpin called the 1890s an age that not only frowned on “play”, but condemned athletics as dangerous. This was the state of affairs that greeted Hillyer, Syracuse’s first football captain in 1889. There were whispers of established football games prior to the Orange’s first official game on Nov. 23, 1889. But according to The Pioneer Days, football was not recognized as an official sport until that first game, a 36-0 loss to Rochester. The group Syracuse football began in 1889, but rumblings of students’ desire for a team that began the then-Syracuse Varsity Eleven team kickstarted a started years before. courtesy of onondaga historical association see beginnings page 9
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SUNY ESF works toward single-use plastics by 2025 By Faith Bolduc
contributing writer
Sue Fassler, SUNY ESF’s Director of Sustainable Operations, wants students to “trash talk.” As more products like recyclable plastics end up in the trash or the wrong bin, Fassler
and ESF have hired students to stand by bins, cafes and at events to encourage people to sort their waste into the correct bins. In 2020, ESF pledged to eliminate single-use plastics by 2025. It was the first college in New York state and the third in the United States to sign the
pledge, which was created by the Post Landfill Action Network’s Break Free From Plastic initiative. Though the university may reach the goal a little later than anticipated, Fassler said ESF has implemented new initiatives to stay on track. “We have the framework in
place, we have the staff in place,” Fassler said. “If we can keep the same level of funding (and) if we keep the same level of staffing … there’s a good chance.” Since implementing measures in line with the pledge, ESF has reduced its trash weight by 34% and increased the amount
recycled by 46%. Each month, Fassler and a group of students weigh, open and sort trash bags from every building on campus, looking for high rates of contamination or incorrectly-placed waste materials. The college has also made see plastic page 4