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scientists terms of the sensitivity, to potentially pick out one cell then profile it. Kacey Christian: I think this machine will be really helpful in terms of, if someone is a survivor of gang rape violence, it makes it easier to separate those sperm cells. This would make more accurate readings and results. This shows that forensics as a field is getting more and more serious on these cases. It shows that people are devoted into seeking justice and truth. FNSSI, here at Syracuse, is really spearheading that to change the world. Something like this is going to change the world and really impact survivors. As it stands, statistically victims of this sort of violence don’t go forward trying to pursue justice. They don’t feel they have a chance. This gives those survivors another weapon in from page 1
appointment In a campus-wide email sent Tuesday afternoon, Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala told university community members to direct questions regarding accessibility to Hodukavich. That was four days after Hodukavich left SU. As of Wednesday evening, he was still listed on SU’s website as its ADA coordinator and director of the Office of Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Resolution Services. “We are grateful to Aaron for his leadership and insight,” said Andrew Gordon, the university’s senior vice president from page 1
advising Visual and Performing Arts, Nicholson said. Arts and Sciences only has two career advising staff members for more than 5,000 students, while VPA does not have any dedicated career advising staff. The Daily Orange data analysis of SU’s Career Services Outcome Report last spring highlighted the inconsistent career services offered at the university’s schools and colleges. Under the new program, incoming freshmen will receive general guidance until they settle on a major. At that point, they will be assigned specific academic and career advisers who will work with them throughout their time at SU, Nicholson said. “The idea is to help students … find their passion and get them set on a path for success with teams of people in the colleges that work on both career and academic advising,” Nicholson said. One of the benefits of the new program is that advisers will now work with one set of
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their arsenal. This shows we are on their side and that we are there to help them. The D.O.: What does this mean for sexual assault victims? M.M.: It is another tool in the toolbox. It doesn’t get more heinous than sexual crimes, and this is another innovative tool that can be a game changer that will help provide closure to victims. Forensic science is not the science of putting people in jail, it’s the science of uncovering the truth. It is making sure that the right suspects are in custody and that those who are innocent are proven to be so. K.C.: It means that they have another source to back them in courts. For survivors, it means they have a chance to put the truth forward and prosecute the perpetrators. For survivors, it means they have power in the situation and keep such a tragic scenario from happening to anyone else. It gives them and the families closure, it gives them the ability to have the truth and to show it to the world. olcole@syr.edu
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inside a one- or two- family rental only if the owner or tenant requests an inspection, said Ken Towsley, director of Syracuse’s code enforcement department. If the owner refuses entry, code enforcement is able to petition a judge for a warrant based on a tenant’s claim that the building has code violations, Towsley said. Steven Thompson, a councilor at-large, said he doubted that if the proposal is passed an owner’s refusal to allow inspectors inside the rental would be enough to prove probable cause to a judge. “The proposed ordinance would establish a routine, periodic inspection, which, thereby, the council is stating the city’s interest in having the properties within the city inspected to prevent fiascos, such as fires or other disasters,” said Kim Mor-
rell, a staff attorney at Legal Services of Central New York. Morrell cited the 1967 Supreme Court case Camara v. Municipal Court as evidence for her legal opinion. In that case, the court ruled that San Francisco’s ordinance requires routine, periodic inspections were enough to justify probable cause, she said. Mary Traynor, also from Legal Services of Central New York, said the city would need an environmental impact study to allow for inspectors to enter homes to look for lead. After the study, the city would be able to pass a lead ordinance that would be used to conduct interior inspections based on the assumption of lead being present. At present, code enforcement does not look for lead issues during inspections, Towsley said. The council was unable to come to a decision on the amendment but is expected to discuss the issue at later meetings. cdarnell@syr.edu | @caseydarnell_
and chief human resources officer, in the release sent to The Daily Orange. Myhill is currently the director of legal research and writing at the Burton Blatt Institute, an organization at SU that aims to advance the “civic, economic, and social participation of people with disabilities.” He has also served on the board of directors for the Disability Rights Bar Association. Gordon in the release said SU will launch a search for a permanent ADA coordinator following a disability services review this spring. That review is being conducted by Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly and Dolan Evanovich, senior vice president for
enrollment and the student experience. In a statement to The Daily Orange on Wednesday afternoon, Access Collective, a group of student leaders with disabilities from multiple campus organizations, said SU’s “lack of timely communication” about Hodukavich’s departure was “distressing for disabled students, staff, and faculty who rely on the coordinator to resolve access issues and discrimination faced at the university.” “This lack of action from the university goes against the ‘nothing about us without us’ motto that Chancellor (Kent) Syverud recently used in an address to the campus community, and it cannot be accepted,” said
Access Collective in the statement. Hodukavich joined the university in July 2015. THE General Body, a campus activist organization, in 2014 called on SU to appoint a new ADA coordinator in a list of grievances and demands as part of an 18-day sit-in. During his time at SU, Hodukavich was a member of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion and served on the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion. Hodukavich, before taking his position at SU, served as ADA coordinator and directed the disability services office at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington.
majors within a school or college, said Kristen DeWolf, associate director of corporate relations in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s career center. Each career adviser will be paired with an academic adviser, so students will get information about career possibilities and course options from both advisers. DeWolf said a version of the new collegewide method has already been used in Whitman for the past two or three years. DeWolf, who’s a career adviser in the business school, works with her academic advising counterpart, Rachel DuBois, to guide students majoring in retail management or entrepreneurship. “We work together to really get to know the whole student, from when they first come in until they’re going out and getting their first job,” DeWolf said. “It’s helpful for the students because they know they have a team of people.” Career services and advising would remain mostly decentralized under the new model, with a separate dean of advising for each college and school at SU, DeWolf said. The new model is intended to ensure each student has a
similar advising experience. “We’re trying to really make it a more even distribution of talent to help our students across all the schools and colleges,” Nicholson said. The costs of the new program will be funded in part by Invest Syracuse, a five-year $100 million fundraising plan that includes a $3,300 per year tuition hike for incoming students in fall 2018, she said. Money for the program will also partially come out of student fees and tuition, she added. Nicholson declined to give a total budget estimate for the project but called it a, “significant investment.” Last spring, based off The D.O.’s analysis of its 2014-15 budget, SU’s Career Services operated at that time with about $174,000. That money came from fees, employer sponsorships, co-curricular funds and the Graduate Student Organization, according to the university’s Class of 2016 Career Services Outcome Report. The average Carnegie Institution’s annual operational budget ranges close to
$240,000, according to the report. SU is a Carnegie Institution. DeWolf said that, for the two advising branches to work together cohesively, each side must learn about what the other does. That can be a challenge for some people, DeWolf said, because the academic advisers have to learn about the industries students hope to find jobs in. When Whitman first implemented the new plan, the career center invited academic advisers on field trips to learn about the various industries so they could better advise students about which classes were most relevant to their career aspirations. “It can be hard for people who have maybe been with the university for a while to … change their way of thinking,” DeWolf added. DeWolf said that in her experience, the version of the new model Whitman uses has been beneficial for students. “I think it’s helped students feel more comfort in the school, and more of a home base,” DeWolf said.
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