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Syracuse’s history is preserved in landmarks scattered across the city. Here are 10 that students should visit in order to learn more about Syracuse’s rich past.

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Upstate University Hospital is one of about 50 hospitals participating in trials to measure the efficacy and safety of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in children.

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Syracuse men’s lacrosse welcomed the general public to the Dome for the first time this season. Fans share their favorite memories and what they missed the most.

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Students find community amid anti-Semitism

(CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) SYDNEY SCHROEDER, JASON RESNICK, SAM AARONSON AND DAPHNE BUDIN are Jewish students at SU who said they found community through Jewish organizations on campus. emily steinberger photo editor and courtesy of daphne budin

Despite facing discrimination on campus, Jewish students said they found a sense of community at SU

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aphne Budin had never eaten non-kosher meat before coming to Syracuse University.

But because of the limited options in SU’s dining halls, Budin, a sophomore human development and family science major, has since started eating meat that isn’t kosher.

Most dining halls don’t serve kosher foods, and Budin’s allergies can make finding suitable options even harder.

“When I would go into the dining hall, there were just not so many options,” Budin said. “It

kind of just became a routine that I started to eat ‘unkosher’ meat.”

Some Jewish students keep kosher — they don’t eat pork or shellfish, they don’t mix meat and milk, and they only eat meat that has been slaughtered in a particular way, among other laws. SU provides kosher food options in Shaw Hall, but Budin, who is Jewish, doesn’t know anyone who lives there. She would rather eat in her Ernie Davis Dining Hall with friends than walk farther and eat alone.

The lack of kosher food on campus is just one issue that Jewish students face. In a survey conducted by

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SU to host listening sessions to improve campus climate

By Sarah Alessandrini asst. news editor

Syracuse University’s Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion task force will begin compiling its strategic plan for improving campus climate.

SU’s Board of Trustees requested that the task force propose a strategic plan by June 1 for improving campus climate. The task force con-

vened earlier this year to devise this plan, which will set long-term goals for the next five years and strategies for achieving them.

The task force is currently in its “brainstorming phase” and plans to begin drafting the plan in May, said Shiu-Kai Chin, a professor of electrical engineering and co-chair of the task force.

In addition to using data from a survey on campus climate, as well as

a report from former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch about the Department of Public Safety, the task force will hold several listening sessions to gauge input from the campus community, including students.

“A lot of what we’ve been doing has just been getting our heads around what those reports are saying,” Chin said. “We’re trying to make sense of where we are and what the strategic objectives should be.”

Damon Williams, an expert in diversity efforts, and the Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation implemented the campus climate survey last fall. The survey found widespread dissatisfaction among students and employees, many of whom said they had experienced discrimination or doubted the university’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

“It kind of speaks for itself that there’s tremendous dissatisfaction on campus that we have to address,” said Philip Arnold, an associate professor of religion and task force member. “The climate on campus is quite concerning for all kinds of students.”

The task force — which consists of several faculty, administrators and students — is led by see task

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Upstate launches vaccine trial for children In-person dining to resume Monday

By Sarah Alessandrini asst. news editor

Over 1,200 children across central New York were put on a list of potential volunteers for the trial within two days of Upstate’s announcement of the study. corey henry senior staff photographer

By Gillian Follett staff writer

When Amanda Alnutt-Hauptfleisch’s two sons saw an opportunity to enroll in clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccine for children under 14, they were eager to participate.

Alnutt-Hauptfleisch’s sons aren’t the only ones interested in participating — they’re among hundreds in central New York on the lengthy enrollment list for the trial at Upstate University Hospital.

Upstate announced April 1 that it was seeking participants for a clinical trial of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12. After 48 hours, Upstate had a total of 1,200 children on a list of volunteers for the trial, said Kathleen Froio, the assistant director of public and media relations at Upstate.

The trial at Upstate is part of an international study sponsored

by Pfizer that will involve roughly 50 hospitals and 4,500 children around the world, said Joseph Domachowske, the principal inves-

tigator in the trial at Upstate. But Upstate is one of just four sites in the world that will include children under 5 in its trials.

“Children make up 17% of our population in the United States. If we don’t include them in our vaccine efforts, we won’t have enough community immunity to really reduce transmission of this virus across the entire U.S.,” Domachowske said.

This trial, which began on April 5, will measure the efficacy and safety of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in children between 6 months and 11 years old. The trial is currently in its first of three phases, Domachowske said.

The first phase, which is set to conclude by the end of May, is designed to determine the optimal dosage of the vaccine for children in different age groups.

“Enrollment (for phases two and three) will probably only take four to six weeks for each age group because there’s so much community interest in this,” Domachowkse said. “And for the 50 or so sites that are doing it, we all have very long

lists of people that are really interested in being involved.”

Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas is one of the other sites involved in establishing the optimal vaccine doses for children.

There, the trial is being led by Dr. Flor Munoz, an associate professor of pediatrics and infectious disease. Over the past few weeks, she has received a similar flurry of phone calls and emails from parents volunteering their children for the Baylor study, she said.

“Right now, everybody knows that the studies are happening for COVID vaccines … so even if you don’t advertise, people want to have their children join and are contacting the sites,” she said.

Both Munoz’ and Domachowske’s teams are currently finalizing their determination of the optimal vaccine dose — one that causes minimal side effects but results in a sufficient antibody response — for children between 5 and 11.

The trials will differ from those involving adult participants, Munoz said, as children don’t expe-

rience as many COVID-19 symptoms as adults and are rarely ill enough to be hospitalized. Measuring the vaccine’s efficacy in children will require conducting blood tests to measure their antibody levels and comparing them to the levels present in adults who have been vaccinated, she said.

JD Hauptfleisch, 14, is one of the participants in Upstate’s trial of 12- to 15-year-old children. He received his first dose in December and his second in January, and returns for antibody testing every few months, he said. He is also required to keep track of any potential COVID-19 symptoms over the next two years through a smartphone application.

Though Hauptfleisch received financial compensation for his involvement, he chose to donate the money to Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital to help fund more research into infectious diseases like COVID-19. He said he’s grateful for the opportunity to help protect more children against the virus. gifollet@syr.edu

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Students host vigil in response to anti-Asian hate

By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor

For a long time, Valrie Paynton did not have a community that she could rely on.

Paynton, who is Asian, was adopted by a white family and grew up in an environment where race wasn’t discussed much. But Paynton still experienced racist jokes and comments from the people around her.

“It was hard because I was treated like an outsider, but I also had a white family and I didn’t have an Asian culture growing up,” said Paynton, who is a sophomore at SU. “I felt like I was an imposter as an Asian person, but I also felt like an imposter as a white person.”

Paynton is one of several SU students who shared their experi-

ences with anti-Asian racism and discussed ways to combat antiAsian hate at a vigil on the Quad.

The Sunday night vigil was held in response to incidents of Asian hate over the past year.

Roughly 3,800 incidents of racial violence against Asian Americans have been reported during the pandemic, according to Stop AAPI Hate, a nonprofit that tracks hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. A white man shot and killed eight people — Hyun Jung Grant, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Paul Andre Michels, Yong Ae Yue, Suncha Kim, Delaina Ashley Yaun and Soon Chung Park — in three spas in Atlanta on March 16. Six of the victims were women of Asian descent.

The campus community has

also experienced anti-Asian hate recently. Notes containing racist language targeting Chinese students were found in at least three SU buildings on March 11, and on Feb. 28 two people reportedly used anti-Asian language toward a student.

Shortly after the coronavirus hit the U.S., Kimberly Ng, a senior studying forensic science and biology, took a bus to Buffalo. During the ride, she noticed two passengers using anti-Asian slurs.

“What if I needed to sneeze?

What if I needed to cough? What is going to happen to me when they know I’m two rows in front of them?” Kimberly Ng said.

Kimberly Ng has also experienced racism at SU, sometimes from professors, she said.

Tessa Pulgar, a sophomore

music business major, said Asian people in the U.S. are often told that what they’re experiencing isn’t racist. Pulgar, who is Korean and Filipino, grew up in a predominantly white area.

“I was never able to put a name to the face of racism in high school,” Pulgar said. “I never realized that the way people treated me was racist.”

Crystal Ng, a first-year graduate student in the music department, is working to address discriminatory incidents that occured in one of her classes last semester. Many of the people she’s worked with or spoken to about the incidents have downplayed them, trying not to label them as acts of racism.

“Wherever you go, people are going to do anything but to identify see vigil page 4

Syracuse University dining halls, as well as the Schine and Goldstein Student Centers, will reopen for in-person dining at 50% capacity Monday at 11 a.m., university officials announced Sunday.

The university suspended all inperson dining on campus in March after seeing an uptick in COVID19 cases. Dining halls and dining options in SU’s student centers have been operating with grab-andgo service since then.

SU will limit and position seating in these dining areas to adhere to social distancing policies, said Robert Hradsky, vice president for the student experience, and Kris Klinger associate vice president of auxiliary services, in a campuswide email.

“With more and more community members receiving COVID19 vaccinations and as infection rates on our campus gradually decline, Syracuse University is taking action to expand indoor, in-person dining options,” said Robert Hradsky, vice president for the student experience, and Kris Klinger associate vice president of auxiliary services, in a campus-wide email.

SU reported 62 active coronavirus cases among students and employees in central New York as of Sunday, with 143 students in quarantine.

The university began offering vaccination appointments at the Barnes Center at The Arch on April 7. It switched from offering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday after federal health officials recommended a temporary pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations.

In addition to closing dining areas in March, SU also mandated COVID-19 testing twice a week for all Main Campus residents. The university also placed enhanced regulations on DellPlain, Shaw and Booth residence halls, which saw clusters of cases. These regulations included closing f loor lounges and requiring residents to double mask.

These three residence halls have since reopened floor lounges but did not notify residents of lifting the double mask mandate.

Students living on Main Campus have been following a regular schedule for double testing.

Under this schedule, residents in Day, Flint, Brewster, Boland, Brockway, Shaw, Haven, Lyons and Walnut halls must get tested on Thursday and again on Monday.

Those living in Booth, DellPlain, Marion, Lawrinson, Sadler, Watson, Kimmel, Ernie Davis and Washington Arms halls are required to get tested on Friday and Tuesday.

SU officials have not said whether the university intends to continue twice weekly testing.

“It is our hope that as infections decrease and vaccination rates increase, other day-to-day activities we are used to can resume as well,” the officials said. scalessa@syr.edu @sarahalessan

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came to SU. “Coming to Syracuse and seeing some antiSemitism was jarring to me,” Schroeder said. “I was lucky to have my Hillel community to fall back on and talk about what happened.”

In November 2019, students found a swastika drawn in the snow across the street from The 505 on Walnut, a luxury apartment complex where many SU students live. Other instances of vandalism on campus also included swastikas.

Jewish students presented a list of six concerns to SU’s administration following the incidents, which Chancellor Kent Syverud signed in November 2019. The concerns include security assessments of university-owned buildings, reevaluating the university’s religious observance policy and implementing training and other educational programs that recognize Judaism as identity.

According to SU’s campus commitments page, where the university tracks its progress on diversity and inclusion initiatives, three of the concerns from Jewish students have been completely addressed while progress on three others is “substantially complete.”

Budin, who also grew up in a vibrant Jewish community, said that the vandalism and campus unrest was her first real encounter with anti-Semitism.

Many Jewish students at SU come from the greater New York City area, Westchester County or Long Island, which have been heavily

impacted by anti-Semitic violence, Williams’ report noted. It is important that the university be aware, understanding and supportive of these students, according to the report.

Despite anti-Semitic incidents at SU and across the nation, Schroeder has enjoyed her experience in Syracuse, largely because she has found a community with Syracuse Hillel, one of the Jewish student organizations on campus.

When anti-Semitism does occur on campus, Schroeder said she’s able to turn to her friends at Hillel to talk about what happened.

“Hillel has been working hard to include all Jewish-identifying students on campus and having open dialogues about anti-semitism and conditions on campus,” Schroeder said.

Syracuse Hillel and Chabad House Jewish Student Center, which operate under Hendricks Chapel, are two student organizations that Jewish students engage with. Some Jewish students also go to Syracuse Jews, an off-campus organization that doesn’t operate under Hendricks Chapel.

Jason Resnick, a senior accounting major who’s also involved in Hillel, said the organization was swift in reaching out to Jewish students and providing them with the resources they needed when anti-Semitic incidents occurred.

Resnick hasn’t personally experienced discrimination as a Jewish student at SU, but he has friends who have. Organizations like Hillel gave them a place to turn for support, he said.

For Resnick, getting involved with Jewish student organizations has been essential to his experience at SU. There are resources on campus for Jewish students to feel comfortable reporting incidents of discrimination and antiSemitism, he said.

But for students who haven’t found an organization or group to be a part of, finding a comfortable environment and support can be challenging, Aaronson said.

“If you’re tapped in to the Jewish network on campus, then there are plenty of resources,” she said. “But if you’re not necessarily tapped into one of those, I could see students feeling uncomfortable and feel like they don’t have a place to go.”

In addition to the concerns SU officials have worked to address, Aaronson said she and other Jewish students have been working to develop and implement anti-Semitism training for student organizations across campus. She hopes to see some form of antiSemitism training next fall in the first-year seminar course replacing SEM 100.

The university has modified the SEM 100 course to become a 12-week, one-credit course called FYS 101 beginning next fall.

“Educating people would help create a welcoming and safer environment for all students,” she said. mlberenb@syr.edu scalessa@syr.edu

relayed results of the campus climate survey to the task force.

Several other sessions will take place Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Keith throughout April. Each session will focus Alford and co-chairs Chin and Diane Mur- on a different topic, including general lisphy, dean of SU’s Falk College of Sport and tening forums for faculty, staff and stuHuman Dynamics. dents, as well as diverse faculty recruit “We definitely need student input. And the ment and retention. student responses to the pulse survey will be The next session open for registration very helpful in forming a plan of action for the online is this Wednesday at 10 a.m. and will be a next five years,” Arnold said. general session for all students. There will also The first listening session took place on be a general session for multicultural students The Summer is a series of “Lisworkshop-style courses March 31 over Zoom.

InInstitute this session, the later 3-credit that day at 4 p.m. to enable participants to manage disputes tening and designed Accountability” forum, Williams and Thedifferences task force, along with SU’s Office

of Diversity and Inclusion, facilitate these 60-minute listening sessions, which are open to registration for all SU students, faculty and staff.

“The purpose is essentially to hear everybody’s voice that wants to be heard,” Chin said.

The upcoming listening sessions will be helpful in informing the task force about the depth of challenges that students face on SU’s campus, Arnold said.

Chin and Arnold both encouraged students to attend the listening sessions this month, emphasizing that community input is especially critical to compiling a successful

strategic plan.

“What we see is not only the data but what we all are bringing to the table, as well as the important feedback we’re getting from the community this month,” Chin said.

The best way for the SU community to help inform and assist the task force in developing its plan will be attending listening sessions, Arnold said.

“Students have already been involved, but we also need their involvement going forward in the next month or so,” he said. scalessa@syr.edu @sarahalessan

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and they’re always in labs and that’s what they do,” Stewart said. “It was really disheartening to experience that through such a large systemic level.”

Kimberly Ng also mentioned the university’s recent campus climate survey, which showed that 43% of SU students, 43% of staff and 37% of faculty said they are unsatisfied with the university’s climate.

“I don’t know what else needs to be changed because our voices are not being listened to for the past four years, so that makes me concerned for future students as well,” Kimberly Ng said.

Even as SU students and the university host events to address the national rise in antiAsian racism, several students at the vigil said there’s still more work to be done.

“Hopefully when people see this or they hear about it they will spark change within them so that way there can be more vigils, there can be more conversations, there can be more protests, whatever we need to get our voices out there,” Paynton said. mehicks@syr.edu @maggie_hickss

students Damon Williams, an expert on diversity efforts, Jewish students said disrcrimination is one of the biggest obstacles they encounter at SU. Jewish students who responded to the survey reported experiencing discrimination at higher rates than other students.

The Board of Trustees Special Committee on University Climate, Diversity and Inclusion engaged Williams and the Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation to implement the campus climate survey last fall.

Sam Aaronson, a junior political science and public relations major, said she feels safe as a Jewish student on campus, but some of her non-Jewish peers aren’t well educated about Judaism, which can sometimes lead to misunderstandings or microaggressions.

“When I encounter students sometimes that don’t know all that much about Judaism is when things get a little bit difficult to be a Jewish student on campus,” Aaronson said. “Sometimes there are questions that get awkward or uncomfortable.”

Sydney Schroeder, a sophomore majoring in public relations and English, grew up in Los Angeles and attended Jewish day school from kindergarten to high school. Schroeder, who grew up in this widely Jewish community, never experienced anti-Semitism until she from page 1

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Police reform must happen in Syracuse and across the US

By Micaela Warren columnist

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he institution of policing needs reform in the U.S. Headline after headline about police officers’ brutal killings of Black people shows this starkly. In the past year alone, 986 people have been shot and killed by the police.

That’s 986 too many.

Knowing this, a logical solution would be to take away guns from police, but changing weapons is not enough. We need far more in-depth change to the entire policing system to stop police brutality, and this change needs to extend to Syracuse, too.

The police officer who shot Daunte Wright in Minnesota claimed the killing was an accident.

She said that she meant to reach for her Taser but instead pulled her gun.

But why would a police officer use a Taser on a resident after pulling him over for a small traffic violation?

Police should be de-escalating situations, not escalating them.

Police have proved over and over that they are capable of killing Black people with or without guns.

In May, only 20 minutes away from the location of Wright’s killing, former Minneapolis police officer

Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, suffocating him until he died.

Syracuse University students and Syracuse residents must ask what policing and police reform should look like in our community, and we should hold elected officials accountable to ensure our vision is met.

The city of Syracuse recently released a plan for police reform and reinvention in response to a June executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Both the executive order and plan create room for change, but Syracuse residents have yet to see the full effects of these efforts.

For example, the plan outlines that crisis intervention training for officers with fewer than five years of service won’t be developed until between October and December. We could lose more Black community members before then, and that training may not even make a difference.

These are large discussions that the Syracuse Police Department and the city are having. These types of conversations need to take place in communities all over the U.S. In an August update to his executive order, Cuomo states: “I urge everyone to begin these discussions immediately. Restoring the relation-

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ship between the community and the police is in everyone’s best interest, and conversation may be required to enable each stakeholder to understand others’ points of view.”

Conversation is certainly a large part of the equation, but it’s igno-

rant and privileged to assume that, at this point in history, there is any relationship to restore, or that there could be a positive relationship formed between police and a community constantly threatened by them. We need real tangible change,

and we must do more for Black community members.

Micaela Warren is a freshman communication and rhetorical studies major. Her column appears biweekly. She can be reached at mgwarren@syr.edu.

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Biden’s infrastructure plan can fix I-81’s redlining problem

By Will Ducott columnist

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resident Joe Biden’s sprawling $2 trillion infrastructure plan could have extensive implications for the Syracuse community.

The plan, which would be funded over eight years through corporate tax increases, details the proposed spending on our nation’s roads, bridges, internet access, transportation and many areas in between. The plan is a national endeavor, but one $20 billion earmark by the president has direct ties to his old stomping grounds of Syracuse.

The Syracuse community could finally see change regarding the Interstate 81 highway, the product of redlining in New York state. This change is long overdue.

A White House statement on the proposal reads: “Too often, past transportation investments divided communities – like the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans or I-81 in Syracuse.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer quickly pounced on Syracuse’s national attention with his own written statement of support, too.

“It is wonderful for Syracuse that President Biden listened to us and included the vital I-81 reformation as a poster child for

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enlightened infrastructure policy,” Schumer said in the statement.

Now, it’s easy to get excited about the possibility of a much-needed redesign funded by the national budget, but this plan is still in its infancy. And, as with all national policy, alterations are a natural expectation, especially with our current Congress.

With such a narrow split between parties, Biden will need every Democrat on his side to steamroll his current plan through Republican opposition. An equally likely scenario, though, is that he will be compelled to work with his GOP counterparts, a move that could leave the final draft looking drastically different.

Biden has signalled that he’s open to bipartisan negotiations, but with the GOP spending target at less than half of the current proposal, it’s hard to say if that will get anywhere. But GOP opposition isn’t his only problem.

A group of 17 Democratic House members from New York state have also made an ultimatum. The group refuses to support any tax legislation unless the SALT cap is repealed, a provision in former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul that limited the amount high earners could deduct in state and local taxes from their federal

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return. Democrats largely agree with this stance, though, especially since it disproportionately affects earners in states with high taxes.

High-tax states, unsurprisingly, are mostly blue.

Of course, opposition to Biden’s plan is expected, but steamrolling becomes a highly unlikely way forward without full Democratic support. Excitement about changes to I-81 being funded by Biden is understandable, but a lot can change before the plan is passed.

Luckily, it seems that I-81 will be receiving an update regardless of Biden’s infrastructure proposal. I-81 has been a topic of conversation for years now, representing everything wrong with American highway projects of the past. A past where communities of color were not given a second thought when decisions were made about constructing an interstate that created substantial redlining in the city of Syracuse.

As a quick aside, redlining is the systemic denial of goods and services based on where a person lives. The practice began in the early 1930s, when the U.S. was facing a housing shortage. The solution was to make it easy for people to move to the new suburbs just outside the city and commute in.

Unsurprisingly, these new suburbs were designed primarily for

white residents. Black residents, on the other hand, were herded into urban housing projects, where the Federal Housing Authority refused to insure mortgages anywhere near these communities. As a result, these neighborhoods were long forgotten by public services and looked down upon by city planners.

The city planners, looking for a way to “cleanse” their cities, used funds granted by the federal government to build highways through these neighborhoods, effectively destroying them to connect the new booming suburbs.

This story is all too familiar to Syracuse with I-81. City officials deemed the 15th Ward, a predominantly Black neighborhood, to be an undesirable area. But by replacing it with a new elevated highway, they could attract the new suburban residents with cars. The closely knit community in the 15th Ward was decimated and forced to move elsewhere, with no remorse or aid from the government.

After decades of reflection, however, it appears as though the new head of our federal Department of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, is open to change for I-81. Or at least that’s what Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh thought, and that’s what compelled him to reach out to Buttigieg back in January.

Walsh’s eye for opportunity paid off.

“Overall it was very encouraging,” Walsh said just weeks later, after pitching the I-81 plan to members of Buttigieg’s staff, Syracuse. com reported. “They see I-81 as a prime candidate for a demonstration on how to do federal transportation projects the right way.”

I have complete confidence that I-81 will see some sort of change in the very soon future. It has drawn the attention of people near and far, all of whom agree that it is worthy of an update. A disgust for the racist history of I-81 has found a way to bring together all levels of government.

And even if all of those highranking names fail somehow, Walsh is working to solve the issue that’s been in discussion for years.

Although Syracuse made a devastating decision by building I-81, it’s reassuring to finally see so many people in power recognize it as such. And so, with a former resident of Syracuse as president and the current mayor championing the cause, the time might finally be upon us to make the necessary changes.

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Syracuse staples Syracuse’s vibrant history is present in each one of these 10 spots

By Daily Orange Culture Staff Illustration by Nabeeha Anwar

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hen David Haas started documenting landmarks in Syracuse, he would drive around the city, snap a picture of intricate homes “and be like ‘Alright, I want to bang out the story of this place.’”

Haas uploaded the photos to @SyracuseHistory, an Instagram account that documents historic homes and landmarks across the city. He started freelancing for the Syracuse New Times, a now-defunct publication, and oftentimes connected the city’s past to its present. He used to budget time for driving around the city, but now, documenting Syracuse has become more routine.

“I feel like the stories come to me often. I get contacted, or I’m just out and about doing other things and I’m like ‘Holy cow, what is this?’” said Haas, who grew up in the city’s Eastwood neighborhood. “I kind of learned that a story will lead to a story that leads to another story.”

Syracuse — founded by white settlers on Onondaga Nation land, developed along the Erie Canal, situated along the Underground Railroad, spurred by an industrial boom, split by redlining and uneven growth, and now growing again — is filled with with parks, trails, shops and buildings that give a glimpse into its complicated history and evolving present.

Customers shop at the Syracuse Antiques Exchange, located in a former textile mill from Syracuse’s booming industrial era. Students can walk to Corcoran High School by cutting through Elmwood Park, once a 19th-century resort that was a cornerstone of the temperance movement. A bike trail winds around an abandoned quarry on the Jamesville border, where a processing company once mined salt from under the ground to produce soda ash.

“You can almost pick an activity in every neighborhood,” Haas said.

Here are 10 places students should visit this spring, as recommended

by Haas.

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Onondaga Creekwalk

The Onondaga Creekwalk runs throughout the city of Syracuse, along historical sites such as an old railroad bridge and downtown spots such as Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and the Museum of Science & Technology.

While walking along the trail on April 10, resident Eileen Ponto described the Creekwalk as “a little jewel for the town” that showcases the creek, the downtown area and Franklin Square. Another Syracuse resident, Daphine DeRosa, walks at the Creekwalk every day, often with the rescue dog she adopted a few months ago. DeRosa enjoys the nature she sees at the Creekwalk. Aside from the trees and blooming flowers, she’s seen foxes and opossums there.

To central New York resident Ray Trudell, the Creekwalk is both a beautiful and historical area. He pointed to a water tower left over from a New Process Gear plant that occupied the Franklin Square area during its industrial days. A sign along the trail says that the now-quiet neighborhood of Franklin Square once “rumbled with trains and machinery” when it was a factory area in the 20th century.

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Oakwood Cemetery Tree Trail

For Cristian Toellner, the best spot in Oakwood Cemetery Tree Trail is a European beech tree with a tire swing hanging on it. Architecture students created the swing to promote public interaction in the cemetery, hoping people passing through would stick by and hop on.

Although Toellner, Joseph DiStefano and Jonnell Robinson created the trail with Syracuse Community Geography in the fall, Oakwood has been around since 1859. The cemetery was first created through the rural landscape cemetery movement, a 19th-century effort to enhance the beauty of burial grounds.

Toellner helped form the trail for an internship, plotting a path of 24 different GPS markers. The trail loops around the cemetery, with stops at different tree species such as a weeping cherry and Austrian pine. Besides being a way to utilize Oakwood, Toellner hopes the trail fosters a greater appreciation for burial grounds.

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To Searing, the stretch of James Street between the old movie theater, the used bookstores and the antique shop is like “stepping back in time.”

The signage on the Palace Theatre hasn’t changed since the 1950s. The buildings are the same, just with different storefronts. As Syracuse’s population grew after the Civil War, developments spread south, west and east, including an enclave to the east of Syracuse called Eastwood, a village incorporated in 1895.

At Books and Melodies, owner Jon Goode enjoys the characters that walk in and out. “Every day’s different,” he said. After a decade of owning the store, which buys and sells used books, vinyl records, CDs and other art, Goode’s music taste has been shaped by the records his customers bring in.

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Abolitionist George Barnes first built the mansion in 1853.

Barnes would host Underground Railroad meetings in the house with fellow abolitionist Samuel May. He would also announce larger abolitionist meetings in his own newspaper, according to Spectrum News.

Due to Syracuse’s proximity to Canada, the city served as a major stopping point on the Underground Railroad. Jermain Loguen, an abolitionist who escaped slavery in Tennessee, helped more than 2,000 people escape enslavement, said Robert Searing, curator of history at the Onondaga Historical Association.

Helping one person escape took Barnes and approximately two dozen people to plan, and it’s one of the most defiant anti-slavery efforts in the U.S. before the Civil War, according to Syracuse.com.

The house is one of many sights that played a key role in the Underground Railroad. Frederick Douglass spoke in Syracuse several times. Loguen became a preacher at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church on the Southside.

Christopher Scarglato Asst. Culture Editor

In 1806, when the city of Syracuse was known as the “Village of Syracuse,” European settlers lived around the presentday Southside.

Now, Furnace Creek runs through the park, passing picnic tables, a playground, hiking trails and a baseball diamond. The park is shaped like a valley, leading to Corcoran High School’s back entrance. Nearby homes on Glenwood Avenue tower over the green.

The area stayed as farmland after the war for more than 50 years until 1889, when it was converted into the First Class Temperance Pleasure Resort. At the entrance to Elmwood Park, near where the furnace was used, a sign recites the rest of its history: the land was leased as another resort in 1908, which burned down in 1909. It sat vacant until the city bought it in the 1920s. Then, it was established as the Elmwood Park that stands today.

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Hiawatha Lake in Onondoga Park Located 10 minutes from Syracuse University’s campus, in Upper Onondaga Park, Hiawatha Lake is a small oasis amid the city traffic. It’s bordered by a stone house with a recreational area, the park’s walking trails and a line of houses all located in the Strathmore neighborhood.

Residents visit the lake to take wedding photos, exercise, walk their dogs and swim in the recreational area’s pool during the summer. Created in 1898, Onondaga Park was built into two sections. The Syracuse Water Company originally built the lake to use as a reservoir.

The park became a major gathering place, Searing said. The gazebo served as a bandstand, and residents loved to swim there. But drownings in the lake were common, as it was dark and murky, forcing the city to ban swimming in Hiawatha Lake in the 1930s.

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Wildflowers Armory Before becoming a permanent shop in November 2019, Wildflowers Armory was better known as Infinite POP, a pop-up shop.

Wildflowers, a marketplace featuring local artists from New York state, aims to promote arts in the area, said Dan Bingham, one of the seven store owners. The store does this through events such as their immersive Van Gogh experience and by selling products from all art genres and local businesses.

What makes the shop unique is that the products they sell are all local and handmade, with some from businesses such as Johanna Wall Jewelry, Kingsley Street Artisan Soaps and Syracuse Salt Company. One artist is a high school student photographer.

The local products are the main draw that brings people into the store, Bingham said.

“It’s like a nonstop area that people have gotten to know to check out,” he said. “It’s their way of kind of sampling pieces of Syracuse, all in one area.”

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The Kind Coffee Co. Doug Nicolaisen avoids advertising his business, relying instead on word-ofmouth and a sign he put outside of his business on the Westside. It says “strong” coffee is sold there.

Nicolaisen treats every new customer to a shot of black coffee and usually his coffee pitch: He’s been at 715 W. Fayette St. for 26 years, he sells the “kobe beef of coffee beans” and all coffee beans are used the day they’re roasted.

He considers his business a coffee roastery — his convection-oven roaster is the first thing customers see when they walk in. Every week, he chooses a different bean or a blend of beans to roast, and each day, he intensifies the roast.

“Everyone brews it weak, and it’s sh*t,” Nicolaisen said. “I give you what used to be the truth.”

Louis Platt Asst. Culture Editor

Tipp Hill Bars, Stoplight 1920s Irish kids didn’t like that green — their Irish green — was on the bottom of a Tipperary Hill intersection traffic light, so they hurled rocks at it. And even after the city fixed the broken light, the kids broke it again. And they did a few more times after that.

Eventually, the city flipped the light upside down, with the green on top and the “British” red on the bottom. A century later, the traffic light at Tompkins Street and Milton Avenue is still flipped upside down.

“It’ll always be upside down,” Searing said. “I can’t imagine that they’ll ever flip it.

Even if there are no Irish left in Tipp Hill.”

Besides hosting the U.S.’s only green-ontop traffic light, Tipp Hill also features ageold Irish bars such as Coleman’s Authentic Irish Pub and Nibsy’s Pub nearby.

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Brother of SU faceoff specialist Danny Varello It’s so great that we’re back and we’re able to see (Danny) play, especially for his Senior Day. It’s been a long time coming … We left this morning at 5 a.m. to get COVID tests up here at 11 a.m. I left last night from where I work in Rhode Island, drove to New York, and then left this morning with my parents to come up here.

We’ve just been patiently waiting to have the opportunity to see him play in the Carrier Dome, and thankfully we’ve been able to get at least one … My mom, dad, sister have been traveling up and down the east coast to watch (Danny) play. So the family as a whole would be here every weekend in the Carrier Dome … If this year had been a regular year, all five of us would have been here every single game no matter what.

The main attraction is Danny Varello and the Syracuse Orange tonight, so we’re really looking forward to that.

Dennis and Elaine Costanza

Brother and mom of faceoff coach Tommy Costanza, pregame Dennis: I think (we missed) the general atmosphere, just being in the Dome. It’s the Dome.

It’s home. It’s awesome. Just simply being in there, the atmosphere, the crowd — especially for a lacrosse game — when the guys score, nobody does it like ‘Cuse, I think.

Elaine: It was a great atmosphere, and I’ve from page 12

louisville Louisville by moving the ball with quick passes — a majority of the Orange’s goals, like Ward’s, came from assists. The Orange made sure to circle the ball around the field to create free passing lanes, trying to spot holes in the Cardinals’ defense.

Syracuse exposed holes in the center of Louisville’s 8-meter by firing passes inside or having SU’s attacks charge into the middle. The Orange put in a lot of their backups in the second half, but they still found offensive success with eight more goals.

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florida state 16-2). SU’s last win against Florida State was 16 years ago, on March 19, 2005.

Game one went to extras, its second in as many weekends, and fielding woes plagued Syracuse in the top of the eighth.

The first game of Sunday’s doubleheader against FSU was Gabby Teran’s 150th consecutive game starting. During that streak, she amassed a 96.6% fielding percentage, including an error-free year through 20 games last season.

But in the top of the eighth, Teran botched a ground ball from Josie Muffley, panicked and quickly rifled the ball wide and to the right of Calista Almer. The error allowed Dani Morgan to score, giving FSU a 3-2 lead it would hold on to.

“When the ball’s on the ground in a spot where we can make a play, we got to be able to make a play on a weekend like this where our pitchers struggled as much as they did,” Doepking said.

Syracuse entered the game with the ACC’s third-best fielding percentage. It was tied with FSU for the fewest errors in the conference, with 22. But Teran’s error wasn’t an anomaly. In the top of the sixth inning in game two, the Seminoles sent 11 batters to the plate.

The sixth inning began with a walk from Oliver. Then, Kaia LoPreste grounded a ball back to the mound. Oliver reached down to grab it, but she wasn’t able to secure the softball in her glove. LoPreste also reached for it, then two runners were on base with no outs.

The game was already out of the Orange’s grasp — it was 8-1 — and the “drop dead” time limit was quickly approaching. For travel purposes, Florida State had to end the second game at 2:45, no matter where they were in the course of an inning.

A flyout separated the second error of the

sat at a lot of lacrosse games in my lifetime outside. I like being inside instead.

Dennis: (We miss) the nachos, the Dome dogs …

Elaine: … the bathrooms. (No, I’m just joking).

We haven’t seen the new Dome, we just want to see it renovated.

Carole Kametz Fan, postgame

It’s nice to have a big center sign like you see in most of the bigger, newer stadiums. Otherwise, it was the same. The bathrooms were the same, unfortunately.

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Kevin and Patriece McPeak

Richard and Shannon Long

Kevin: We live in San Diego, so we watch all the games on ACC Network or ESPNU, so this is our first time in-person this year ... Because we’re at a distance, we would probably come to one in-person game in other years too. This is our traditional one game this year.

We realized 10 days ago (that the general public was allowed), and we were shocked and surprised. Like how can we make this work for our kid, just to celebrate him on Senior Day. We said “Let’s buy some plane tickets.”

Shannon: I think we missed being with other fans and being able to cheer with other fans.

You can watch at home, but it’s not as fun. It was more comfortable on the couch.

Richard: You knew that when you got done with the game you wouldn’t be walking through the cold to the parking lot or anything else, but it’s not the same thing as being there.

It’s more the aura of being there too.

The biggest thing that I remember was the fact that there’d be so many people here for a lot of the big games. And trying to go to the concessions, or even if you’re trying to make your way to the bathroom, you’d have to go up and down the steps to the upper aisles to be able to make any headway. I think a lot of it is just looking to see the renovations, but whatever they end up being, we’ll end up coming anyway.

Parents of SU goalie Nate McPeak, pregame

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Fans, father and daughter, pregame

Chip: (On gameday), it’s about a five-hour drive from Connecticut. We meet in Scranton, (Pennsylvania) go to Coopers Seafood House, then drive straight up …

Bob: We’ve known each other since seventh grade, 1966 ... and we generally come to two or three events a year.

I was impressed last year how they handled the handicap situation, because of my crutch, and I’ve had a condition for a while.

And they put us up on this ramp, and there’s another friend of ours, and he was with us.

They got up on a ramp, got to see very well, they were just very accommodating for my situation, so that’s very impressive.

Chip: Bob always gets the best seats in the house, because he’ll go in, and then they’ll (tell us), “Well, your tickets are up in the nosebleed” and then “Oh, Bob, come down with us.”

Jim: We got four games in last year, but it’s great. It’s exciting (to be here now). It’s better than TV. We both played lacrosse, so it’s an important part of our lives, and you want to be a part of it. There’s nothing like being at a game live as opposed to watching on TV. I’ve had season tickets for 47 years for football, so I’ve seen the Dome as it progressed through the 40 years that it’s been open, so (the renovations) have been a small factor … I am curious to see how the lighting, how the boards and stuff are, but hopefully come September in football I’ll be able to see that again. I was disappointed that the Utah game was unfortunately canceled, but this is our shot.

Steve: I worked up here for 14 years. I was a yellow coat (Dome staff member), and I haven’t seen the Dome yet. For me, the renovations are a lot because I spent so much time here.

goals, an area where it struggled earlier this year. Through Thursday, the Orange had a 39% success rate on free positions, the worst in the ACC and 66th in the nation.

Last season, Syracuse was creative at the free position, using strings of passes to confuse the opposition’s defense. But against the Cardinals, the Orange didn’t need to create hesitation from the top of the arc. Cara Quimby charged the goal on a free-position attempt and found the back of the net just five minutes into the game.

On the other side, Syracuse’s defense conceded three free-position goals but stifled the Cardinals on the other six attempts.

SU’s defenders collapsed Louisville’s attacks

quickly, forcing tough shots.

Syracuse’s defensive strengths didn’t just come on their own side of the field.

The Orange were able to create multiple second-chance opportunities after shots by collapsing on the ball off missed shots.

Halfway through the first half, the Orange lost the ball in the 8-meter. Louisville defenders tried to surround the ball and get it clear, but Ward scooped it up herself. She dove, whipping the ball past two defenders and between Schaaf’s legs. Ella Simkins won the ensuing draw — a battle the Orange won 16-11 on Sunday — and ran downfield to connect with Ward once again. And at the edge of the crease, Ward

again found the back of the net in less than 15 seconds.

Ward won another draw, and Syracuse found Carney for another score. Ward won a third, and the Orange forced a shooting space violation, which they converted into a free-position goal.

Syracuse scored four goals in nearly a minute span, a period that stretched its lead from 6-1 to 10-1 and included one solo goal from Ward, one assisted goal and one from the free position. From all over the field, the Orange dominated in their sweep over Louisville.

inning. But Rebecca Clyde’s miscue loaded the bases. She had trouble corralling a ground ball and attempted to tag out Harding, who was bolting for third base. That proved unsuccessful, and Clyde looked around at the three Seminole baserunners — all of whom were safe.

“I didn’t think we made plays when we had opportunities. Even if they’re tough plays,” Doepking said.

a belt-high pitch over the left-center field wall, and Doepking subbed out Romero for Lindsey Hendrix.

Romero’s velocity has been high in previous games, but it was lower this week, Doepking said.

“When your velocity’s not quite where it needs to be, obviously we need to spin it a little bit more,” Doepking said.

Each of the four pitchers SU used throughout the two games allowed a home run, and the defense didn’t do much behind whoever was in the circle to make up for it. Martin fought the sun on fly balls. On one home run, she was standing about 10 feet away from where the ball flew out of the stadium.

After winning nine straight games, Syra-

cuse fell back to .500 overall and finished the weekend four games below .500 in conference play, eighth place in the conference. Doepking said the team looked good, especially in game one, because they had “everything to gain and nothing to lose.”

Doepking said she knows the team can do the little things to win games, that pitchers like Hendrix won’t go from throwing “7 feet off the plate and then coming back over the middle.” But in the last two innings of game one, and in all six innings of game two, they didn’t, and Hendrix didn’t.

“We got sh*tkicked,” Doepking said.

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The Seminoles only hit 18 home runs before this weekend. Syracuse’s pitching allowed 13 in four games, many of which sailed far over the trees beyond the outfield fence. One fan said Sunday he was worried about his car sitting just beyond the hill where Skytop Stadium sits. The Orange pitching staff has, for the most part, also kept the ball down, serving up 26 home runs.

After allowing five home runs in her start on Saturday, Alexa Romero gave up two more on Sunday.

The team decided to do a “pitcher by committee” approach for Sunday’s game, Doepking said. In the first inning, Romero found how short her leash truly was.

After retiring Landers via a groundout, Sydney Sherrill socked a double through the left-center field gap, Harding crushed

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SU All-American midfielder, postgame The vast majority of the fans in the Dome, it was our parents and our loved ones. So that made it even extra special, the fact that you can look up in the stands and see mom and dad and know that they’re finally going to watch you play after such a long break.

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No. 11 SU’s comeback falls short in OT against No. 1 UNC

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SJ Quigley trotted over to the left side of the goal to take the corner late in the fourth quarter. Quigley played the ball to the stick of Kirsten Oudshoorn, who laid it off to Charlotte de Vries. In one touch, de Vries drove the ball into a clump of North Carolina players.

Roome Joosten managed to get a touch on the ball before the UNC players and tapped it past them to an open Pleun Lammers, who scored her second goal of the game on an open net. For the first time all game, Syracuse had a lead over No. 1 North Carolina.

No. 11 Syracuse (8-8, 4-6 Atlantic Coast), who had scored one goal in each of the last three games, came back from down 2-0 against top ranked UNC (15-1, 9-1) with three straight goals in the second half. Despite its offensive prowess, Syracuse fell short in their comeback and eventually lost the game 4-3 in overtime in their final regular season game of the spring season.

Syracuse had dominated early and outshot UNC 5-1 with a minute remaining in the first, but the top team in the nation showed why they are, as Erin Matson slid in a pass behind seven Syracuse players to Katie Dixon in the circle. She drew Emily Streib out of her net and passed it across to Hannah Griggs, who had a clear shot into an open net.

But UNC took over in the second quarter as Syracuse lost its energy. On UNC’s second corner of the game midway through the quarter, Matson scored her 22nd goal of the season, her first of three on the day. The Orange failed to record a shot and or get a corner in

the quarter and headed to the locker room down 2-0.

Despite being down, Syracuse came out in the third quarter firing. Laura Graziosi took the ball from her own half and raced past UNC players on the left side before dishing it to de Vries. de Vries took a touch toward the middle, looked up and found an open Hailey Bitters right in front of the goal, who drove the shot past goalkeeper Amanda Hendry to come within one goal of the Tar Heels.

Bitters’ next shot touched a UNC player’s foot, earning a penalty corner. Syracuse, who hadn’t scored in its last 29 corner attempts, was finally able to knock one in. de Vries stepped up and faked a shot, letting the ball pass behind her to van den Niewenhof who slapped in the shot for her fourth goal of the season.

Syracuse was on a roll, but late in the third quarter, head coach Ange Bradley was ejected from the game after arguing with refs led to two yellow cards. Tied with the Tar Heels, the Orange had to finish the game without their head coach.

At first, Syracuse played well without Bradley. Bitters stole the ball from a UNC player for a breakaway. After out-pacing the player she stole the ball from, she had a one on one with Hendry, but her shot went wide. The Orange wasted no time in creating another scoring chance, as two minutes later Lammers knocked in a goal giving Syracuse a 3-2 lead with eight minutes left in the game.

Syracuse’s early pressure had faded, and UNC began their counterattack. On their third penalty corner and sixth shot of the game, the Tar Heels evened the game at three off of a

Hailey Bitters scored Syracuse’s first goal of the game and earned a third-quarter penalty despite SU’s 4-3 loss. meghan hendricks staff photographer

deep shot from Matson.

On a penalty corner with four minutes left, the Orange ran the same play that led to their second goal by using de Vries as bait. This time, UNC was able to read it this time and blocked the shot. Neither team would score for the rest of the quarter, forcing overtime.

Syracuse was winded heading into overtime. Chiara Gutsche got a weak shot off almost immediately that was saved by Hendry. Later,

van den Nieuwenhof got a yellow card, and the Orange found themselves down a player.

Paityn Wirth received a pass in the circle.

Graziosi caught up to her but Wirth quickly crossed over, shielded the ball and slipped it behind Graziosi. Matson barely needed to tap the ball in as it was already behind Streib, and Syracuse players silently left the field after their last game of the regular season. amccaffe@syr.edu

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Syracuse snaps 2-game losing streak, defeats Marshall 6-1

By Bryan Bush staff writer

Syracuse bounced back after two consecutive home losses against No. 1 North Carolina and No. 14 Duke and defeated Marshall 6-1 on Sunday in Huntington, West Virginia. SU Athletics announced the match between the Orange and the Thundering Herd on Saturday, and it was not on SU’s original schedule.

Syracuse (7-10, 5-8 ACC) entered Sunday’s finale winning about 82% of matches in which they won the doubles round. This trend continued against Marshall, as Syracuse took the doubles point and five of the Orange’s six singles players won their respective matches.

Miranda Ramirez was Syracuse’s only singles

loss, dropping sets 3-6 and 3-6 to Marshall’s Liz Stefanic.

Polina Kozyreva and Sofya Treshcheva were back in the No. 1 doubles spot after losses at No. 2 doubles against UNC and Duke. The switch-up proved ineffective, as the pair was unable to find success and lost 4-6 to Marshall’s Stefanic and Jutte Van Hansewyck.

Despite dropping the No. 1 doubles match, Syracuse came back with consecutive victories at the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles spots to take the doubles point.

Natalie Novotna and Viktoriya Kanapatskaya defeated Marshall’s Anna Smith and Daniela Dankanych 6-4, picking up their first doubles win in four matches.

Ramirez returned to the team after miss-

ing Syracuse’s matches against North Carolina and Duke due to contact tracing. Ramirez paired with Guzal Yusupova for their ninth match together this year and defeated Madi Ballow and Madison Riley 6-4.

Moving up nine spots to become the No. 14- ranked singles player in the nation, Kanapatskaya capped off an impressive freshman season as she cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Smith.

Zeynep Erman remained in the singles lineup for the third straight match. Erman has won three consecutive singles matches since earning her spot in the team’s lineup again in the North Carolina match. She defeated Marshall’s Van Hansewyck 6-2, 6-1 at No. 5 singles.

Novotna and Kozyreva also earned

straight-set victories with the same scoreline as Erman, both winning 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3 and No. 6 singles, respectively.

Yusupova was the last to finish in the singles round, defeating Dankanych 6-2, 5-7, (103). Despite Yusupova winning the first set 6-2, Dankanych forced a third after fighting back from being down 4-5 to win the next 3 games and take the set 7-5. Given that the match was already decided at that point, a 10-point match tiebreaker was played instead of a third set.

Yusupova dominated the tiebreak, winning 10-3 and sealing a 6-1 victory for Syracuse.

The ACC Tournament is scheduled to start on Wednesday. Match-ups and a full schedule for the tournament have yet to be released. brbrush@syr.edu

softball

Bullpen struggles in Syracuse’s 2 losses to No. 9 Florida State

By Connor Smith asst. copy editor

Freshman reliever Lindsey Hendrix only needed one more out on Sunday to secure a marquee win over No. 9 Florida State. But FSU’s Kiersten Landers knocked a double into the left-center field gap, putting the tying run in scoring position in the top of the seventh.

Pitching coach Michael Steuerwald came out to talk to Hendrix, but she walked the next batter with a pitch in the dirt and was pulled for Kaia Oliver. Oliver allowed Kalei Harding to single through the right side, and Landers ran through SU catcher Geana Torres and tied the game at 2-2.

The next inning, with a runner on second, second baseman Gabby Teran fielded a grounder cleanly but threw the ball past Calista Almer, allowing the Seminoles (31-6, 16-2 Atlantic Coast) to score. Syracuse (15-15, 8-12) secured its fifth straight loss after leading 2-1. Two hours later, the losing streak was extended to six, as the Orange suffered a 13-1 blowout loss that only lasted six innings due to the mercy rule being invoked. Teran’s throwing mistake, along with two other errors, proved to be costly at home on Sunday.

“When your pitchers struggle as much as

we struggled, defensively we got to figure out a way to support them,” head coach Shannon Doepking said postgame. “When the ball’s on the ground and in a spot where we can make a play, we got to make a play.”

Syracuse allowed 16 runs on Sunday, 13 of which were given up by relief pitchers out of the bullpen. Hendrix and Oliver combined to give up the three crucial runs in the first game, and Florida State scored 10 runs in the second game off of three SU relievers. For the second straight day, FSU ensured that one game of the doubleheader wouldn’t see all seven innings played.

Dani Morgan hit two home runs in the second contest, one into left field off Hendrix in the fourth inning and the other into center field against Jolie Gustave in the seventh. Morgan totaled five RBIs on Sunday in game two, leading a Florida State offense that knocked 13 homers this weekend despite entering the series with just 18 over 33 games this season.

The Orange walked the Seminoles 21 times, too.

“They hit the sh*t out of the ball,” Doepking said. “(It’s) super hard to defend when we’re putting people on for free and then the ball’s going over the fence.”

After being outscored 16-3 in Saturday’s contests, SU had to find a different pitching approach against the ACC leader, the third-

year head coach said. Syracuse opted to pitch by committee, giving each pitcher one time through FSU’s lineup. Alexa Romero — who started once on Saturday — started both games Sunday but allowed three runs in four innings. Romero’s velocity was notably low Sunday, as the power pitcher was throwing in the low 60s instead of her usual spot near 70 mph, Doepking said.

After Harding and Cassidy Davis launched home runs in the top of the first inning in the second game, Doepking pulled Romero for Hendrix. Romero faced just five batters and put SU in a 3-0 hole. Hendrix pitched 2 1/3 innings in relief in the second game, giving up 2-run homers twice before Oliver replaced her. That performance came after Hendrix pitched four innings in the first game and lost.

Hendrix’s struggles with location in 0-2 counts have hurt her, Doepking said.

“She’s got a lot of tools, but she’s also got a lot of learning to do,” Doepking said.

“Understanding … when you’re ahead in the count, there’s a little more thought process behind where we need to put some of these balls, not 7 feet off the plate (or) coming back over the middle.”

Oliver has started 11 of the 18 games she’s appeared in this season, including on Satur-

day, when she gave up nine runs — six of which were earned — over 5 2/3 innings. But Doepking used her out of the bullpen in both games on Sunday, and Oliver took the loss in the first game and allowed three runs over two innings in the second game.

In the sixth inning of the second game, Oliver was unable to field a grounder cleanly, putting runners on first and second base. She left the game with an apparent injury after the play, walking off the field slowly as Gustave came in from the bullpen.

Both runners whom Gustave inherited scored, putting FSU up 10-1 and enabling the mercy rule. Morgan’s 3-run homer off Gustave extended the Seminoles’ lead to 12, and Neli Casares-Maher struck out swinging in the bottom half of the inning. It cemented the Orange’s third straight doubleheader sweep and sixth consecutive loss.

The bullpen’s struggles with walks and home runs, combined with the defensive mistakes, led to two losses against FSU, a team ranked in the top 10.

“When we throw the ball over the middle of the plate, we boot the ball all around, we walk people, it ends up being a really, really quick game,” Doepking said. csmith49@syr.edu @csmith17_

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No. 3 SU blows out No. 15 Louisville

‘It’s the aura of being there’

By Anish Vasudevan asst. digital editor

The general public returned to the Carrier Dome for its first men’s lacrosse game in 405 days. Fans shared what they missed. courtesy of rich barnes usa today sports

What SU fans missed about the Dome in first men’s lacrosse game with general public

By Roshan Fernandez sports editor

T

he general public waited 405 days to attend its first men’s lacrosse game in the renovated Carrier Dome. On Saturday, 683 fans watched Syracuse’s game against North Carolina, potentially the last and only home game this season that the general public was able to attend.

Syracuse welcomed a limited number of students back to the Dome beginning on March 6, and just over a month later, the general public returned for SU’s women’s lacrosse game on April 10. Parents who waited a year to watch their kids play in the Dome were in attendance on Saturday and last weekend, too.

The Daily Orange talked to fans before and after Syracuse’s 21-9 loss to UNC about their favorite Dome

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memories, what they missed the most and what they were looking forward to about the renovated venue. Here’s what they had to say:

Ian Findlay Fan, pregame

It’s been a rollercoaster ride over the past year — that’s the way I’d put it … I was most looking forward to having more fans in the building than we have today, but just looking forward to seeing the players on the field and hearing the fans, as opposed to watching it on TV. It’s been hard to yell at the TV and not at the field. It’s been frustrating. It’s been a year since I’ve been here, so I guess I just missed the colors on the field and being so close to the players themselves and hearing them on the sidelines.

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women’s basketball

Syracuse adds ASU transfer forward Eboni Walker

By Thomas Shults staff writer

Arizona State forward Eboni Walker is transferring to Syracuse, she announced Saturday via Instagram.

Walker is SU’s third transfer to join the program this offseason, and she joins former Southern California guard Shalexxus Aaron and former Howard guard Jayla Thornton as transfers to SU.

Last season, Walker averaged 7.4 points and 5.2 rebounds while improving her 3-point shooting to 35%. In her freshman season, Walker did not attempt a shot from behind the arc.

Prior to spending two seasons at Arizona State, Walker was a fivestar high school recruit and the Nevada 2019 Gatorade Player of the Year. At Centennial High School in Las Vegas, Walker averaged 11.5

points and 10.1 rebounds.

Walker started only nine of 22 games last season with Arizona State, and she playing just over 21 minutes per contest. With four of SU’s players transferring to Atlantic Coast Conference foes and another six current players in the portal, there will likely be opportunities for Walker to claim playing time under head coach Quentin Hillsman.

While the Orange have now

Syracuse passed the ball around the arc, looking for open holes in Louisville’s defense midway through the first half. With the shot clock winding down, the Orange had a player-up opportunity as Meaghan Tyrrell charged to the 8-meter arc.

Louisville goalie Jen Schaaf saved it, but Tyrrell scooped the ball off the deflection. After an immediate double team, Tyrrell whipped a pass behind her back to Megan Carney, in between the two defenders. Carney had an open lane, but she sent an extra pass to Emma Ward at the crease.

Ward found the back of the net for a hat-trick and SU’s tenth goal of the afternoon.

No. 3 Syracuse’s (11-1, 7-1 Atlantic Coast) defeated No. 15 Louisville (5-7, 1-6) 19-7 on Sunday in its last away game of the regular season. The Orange dominated with passing, scoring 13 of its goals off assists. Asa Goldstock finished the afternoon with six saves, and SU’s defense picked up 16 ground balls. Four Syracuse players recorded five points, including Emma Tyrrell’s careerhigh four goals and an assist.

Throug hout the ga me, Syracuse took advantage of

brought in three transfers and will add four top-100 commits from the 2021 recruiting class, they’re still replacing three starters and three key role players. With forward Emily Engstler transferring to Louisville and Digna Strautmane still in the transfer portal, Priscilla Williams is the only returning forward with substantial playing time.

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softball

SU drops 2 games, swept by No. 9 FSU

By Anthony Alandt asst. copy editor

Kiersten Landers hit a pitch up the middle, and Syracuse center fielder Toni Martin moved to her right and stabbed at the ball to pick it up. She missed, and Landers easily reached second. The next batter walked, and head coach Shannon Doepking opted for Kaia Oliver to get a oneout save.

Instead, Florida State’s Kalei Harding knocked a single through the right side. Landers raced around third and collided with catcher Geana Torres in front of the plate, jarring the ball loose and knocking the wind out of the mid-season transfer. The game was tied, and any momentum Syracuse had to begin the inning on Sunday faded.

In Sunday’s doubleheader against Florida State, a late-inning collapse from the unranked Orange (15-15, 8-12 Atlantic Coast) in game one led to a 13-1 mercy-rule loss in game two against No. 9 FSU (31-6, see florida

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