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SU students express frustration over slow response times and lack of follow-up from SPD amid recent staff shortages and 48% increase in burglaries. Page 3
After the passing of Boom Babies owner Lorraine Koury, her employees and friends remember her as a strong, caring, “one of a kind” individual. Page 5
Head coach Ian McIntyre brought a new culture of discipline to SU’s men’s soccer team. In his second year, he led the Orange to a Sweet 16 finish. Page 12
Local roots Democrat Francis Conole’s local ties drive his policy goals for central New York in the race for NY-22 By Danny Amron asst. news editor
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rancis Conole said his Syracuse roots drive his desire to serve his community. His mother was born on Merriman Avenue in the Southwest neighborhood, and his father was a Carrier Global employee in the 1980s. Conole, the Democratic nominee for New York’s newly drawn 22nd congressional district, will face off against Republican nominee Brandon Williams in the November general election, and hopes to represent the community that raised him. “Truly representing the community means working to make people’s lives better,” Conole said. While Conole acknowledged that Syracuse’s manufacturing jobs of the past are not coming back, he hopes his policies will create a “foundation for opportunity and greater shared prosperity.” Specifically, he believes that Syracuse’s technology sector holds the most promise for the city. Recent initiatives such as clean energy job creation and the potential microchip manufacturing plant that may be built in Onondaga County as a part of the new CHIPS and Science Act align with Conole’s economic vision for the district. “As Central New York becomes a stronger force in the New Economy and as our nation grapples with political extremism, these skills
FRANCIS CONOLE won the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for NY-22 in the August primary. danny amron asst. news editor
are needed now more than ever in Washington DC,” Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh wrote in his endorsement of Conole. The issue of climate change and clean energy production is one that spans political ideology and age with effects being felt locally, Conole said.
“It’s going to take continued robust investment in making sure we make those transitions,” he said. “It’s an all-hands-ondeck approach.” During Conole’s 2010 deployment with the Army Special Forces in Iraq, he took the GMAT
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Local orgs fight food insecurity during Hunger Action Month By Rosina Boehm contributing writer
With rising inflation and COVID-19 relief funds ending, one Salvation Army location in Syracuse is struggling to deal with food insecurity in the city. “Federal and local governments were saying, ‘here’s all this money to bulk purchase food to feed people because people can’t work’ and essen-
tially all that has stopped now,” said Allison Brooks, the director of emergency services at the Syracuse-area Salvation Army. Feeding America, a nonprofit that connects food banks across the country, marked September as Hunger Action Month. Throughout the month, organizations in Syracuse — including Syracuse University, the Food Recovery Network and the Samaritan Center — have collected
leftovers, pushed for greater community awareness and held food drives. The Food Recovery Network, a campus student organization, goes to Graham Dining Hall to collect leftover food and transport it to local organizations that serve meals to Syracuse residents. Elliot Salas, the organization’s president, said many students question why SU does not transport its own leftover food to local organizations.
“I really want to be as important as the Student Association because the Student Association has their own little office and they have all these resources,” Salas, a junior majoring in electrical engineering and computer science, said. “Food recovery has a classroom where we meet to do all these meetings and that even gives you a perspective on where the school stands on whether or not food insecurity is a problem.”
SU itself also conducted work for the month, with the university’s Office of Community Engagement dedicating Sept. 13 to 17 as Food Insecurity Awareness Week. The week ended with a food drive near the JMA Wireless Dome at the Sept. 17 football game against Purdue University, an event Brooks referred to as “Dome Day”. High levels of poverty and food see insecurity page 4