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SU senior and music artist P.K. Rez released a song titled “Walt the Crane” in honor of the crane used to renovate the Dome. The track has 1.4K views on YouTube. Page 7
Syracuse University’s Student Association worked with the Office of Multicultural Affairs to plan the university’s 2020 Black History Month celebrations. Page 3
Sofya Golubovskaya came to Syracuse tennis in 2018. The program has since reached new heights and the junior has taken on a leadership role. Page 12
Allan Gonzalez 1997-2020
ALLAN GONZALEZ, a Syracuse University senior, was found dead Thursday after accidentally falling into Onondaga Creek in downtown Syracuse. Gonzalez’s family remembers their relative as a talented, intelligent and caring person. courtesy of karla leon By Emma Folts news editor
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arla Leon was the first person to see Allan Gonzalez come into the world. Karla was providing support to her aunt, Maria Delgado Gonzalez, as Maria gave birth to her first child in a hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Only Karla, Maria and a doctor were in the hospital room when
Gonzalez was born March 2, 1997. No one can replace Gonzalez, and nothing compares to who he was, Karla said Friday. It was a day before family members attended a funeral for Gonzalez in New Jersey. Family, friends and community members who knew Gonzalez were there. Gonzalez, a Syracuse University senior, was found dead Thursday after accidentally falling into Onondaga Creek in downtown Syracuse. He was 22.
on campus
LGBT studies director seeks major By Sarah Alessandrini asst. copy editor
Margaret Himley wants Syracuse University to implement an LGBT studies major and hire more faculty with backgrounds in LGBT studies. Himley, director and co-founder of the LGBT studies minor, has drafted a potential curriculum for an LGBT studies major with the program’s core faculty. The major’s curriculum hasn’t been proposed yet due to the lack of faculty committed solely to LGBT
studies, she said. “I think students are quite hungry, actually, to apply this to the real world and make a difference,” she said. SU introduced the interdisciplinary LGBT studies minor in 2006. The program does not have any full-time faculty. While core faculty members are consistent instructors for the LGBT studies program, their primary responsibilities remain in their individual departments. “It’s just kind of a side thing they do,” said junior Elliot Pippin,
an LGBT studies minor. “It’s not their main focus.” Pippin is one of 16 SU students currently pursuing the minor. He didn’t know Syracuse University offered an LGBT studies minor until his sophomore year. It’s hard for students to know it’s available when there isn’t an LGBT studies department, he said. Pippin, a television, radio and film major, said he would have considered a double major in LGBT studies if it were offered at SU. He plans on incorporating LGBT studies into his see major page 4
“It’s very, very difficult for a mother to bury her son, but I’m at peace because I knew that he lived a full life,” Maria said. “Anything he wanted to do, you name it, he’s done it.” Maria and Karla said Gonzalez, a systems and information science major, was intelligent, humble and caring. He was a loving brother to his two sisters and was proud of his family’s Ecuadorian roots, they said. He lived in Queens, New York until he see gonzalez page 4
city
Developers plan to build affordable city housing By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor
The city of Syracuse is seeking $1.75 million from the state to construct affordable single-family homes over the next two years. The Common Council approved the city’s request for state funding last week. The city will use the funding to build 50 affordable homes on vacant or abandoned city lots if the New York State Affordable Housing
Corporation grants its request. The project is part of Mayor Ben Walsh’s $13-million Resurgent Neighborhoods Initiative, which aims to increase homeownership among Syracuse residents. Walsh first announced the initiative during his State of the City address Jan. 16. The homes will cost between $90,000 and $100,000 to those within a set income bracket, said Kerry Quaglia, CEO of Home HeadQuarters, a see housing page 4