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Syracuse Studios, a full-service film production company operating in a middle school in Liverpool, is finishing its fifth feature film since opening in 2017. Page 9
Catch up on Rep. John Katko and Dana Balter’s positions on national and regional issues before polls open Tuesday in the congressional midterm election. Page 3
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After a 7-2 start marked by the Orange’s second road ACC win and their first November win under head coach Dino Babers, Syracuse football is back. Page 12
Remembrance Week 2018
The journey home
For five Scotsmen, a 3,238-mile cycling journey from Lockerbie to Syracuse was more than just a bike ride Story by Haley Kim
senior staff writer
Photos by Alexandra Moreo senior staff photographer
(ABOVE) The five cyclers arrived at Syracuse University’s promenade on a cloudy, rainy afternoon.
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he low moans of bagpipes, thousands of miles from Scotland, reverberated across Syracuse University on Friday. Two pipers, wearing traditional green and purple tartan kilts, led five Scotsmen in orange and blue cycling uniforms to the memorial they had been preparing to visit for a year. They walked in unison, each gripping a thin bicycle. Their uniforms, still damp from the rainy ride from Utica, clung to their bodies, dirt slick on their backsides. Their eyes roamed the crowd of students, faculty, media and families. One nodded his head, and another pressed his fingers to his lips and blew a kiss. The cyclers reached the crowd and handed their bikes to waiting students. Then, they glanced at each other and embraced tightly. see cyclists page 4
student association
Theta Tau controversy inspires student safety challenge By Gabe Stern staff writer
Student Association is organizing a Campus Safety Challenge to provide solutions to campus problems through innovation. The 24-hour hackathon-style event, which will take place on Saturday and Sunday, will split students into teams to build technical solutions combating three campus problems: bias/racism, sexual assault/rape and mental wellness.
The event was inspired by the SU administration’s handling of the Theta Tau videos controversy in spring 2018, said David Fox, SA’s director of technology. Fox started talking about the idea two to three weeks into the fall 2018 semester, SA President Ghufran Salih said. Since then, he’s mostly worked independently to organize the event. The three categories are based on student feedback that Fox gathered by surveying students on campus. Before he sent out a Google feedback
form to a larger number of students, Fox said he asked students what they thought were most prevalent issues on campus, particularly from students in minority fraternities and sororities. He’s noticed a bias problem on campus for the past three years, Fox said. He said he has been stopped by SU’s Department of Public Safety while walking with friends to a minority fraternity party. The Theta Tau videos, which showed people using racial and ethnic slurs and miming the sexual
assault of a person with disabilities, were a reflection of what he’s seen in the SU campus culture for the past three years, Fox said. He added that the administration didn’t act in a way that he felt was “necessary” to the situation. SU permanently expelled the fraternity and suspended 14 students involved in the videos. “Seeing the Theta Tau video come out so publicly and exploiting that bias and racism that I’ve kind of seen ingrained in the culture here
for years,” he said. “It was kind of a wake-up call.” During last Monday’s assembly meeting, SA voted to fund the full $4,204 requested for the event. Fox said he’s raised close to $4,500 from outside sponsors. Kyle Rosenblum, SA’s vice president, said he is confident SU administrators will hear about the outcome of the event and could be open to solutions that could change the university. gkstern@syr.edu