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celebrating 120 years
‘THE
BEST
OF US’ By Connor Smith
senior staff writer
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is name followed him everywhere. Snow. Snowbeat. Snowy Strong. Not because it was unique, but because he was the type of person that people couldn’t forget. His intelligence, confidence and passion for storytelling stood out from the first time he stepped into 744 Ostrom Ave. — The Daily Orange’s house. He was so good that as a sophomore, editors had to create a beat just for him — the “Snowbeat” — where he wrote about SU’s opposing players and coaches. That name — and Chris Snow’s name — stuck instantly and didn’t go away. As editors budgeted upcoming stories, they’d write “FB” for football, “MBB” for men’s basketball and so on. For Snow’s stories, it was just his name.
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chris snow, a former D.O. staff member, died last month at the age of 42 after a public battle with ALS. courtesy of dave levinthal, christian tomas
Chris Snow worked as a sportswriter and NHL front office executive after graduating from SU in 2003. He passed away in September after a battle with ALS.
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Cornell student accused of posting threats arraigned in Syracuse By Stephanie Wright news editor
Patrick Dai, a Cornell University student accused of threatening to kill Jewish students on Cornell’s campus, appeared in court for an arraignment hearing in Syracuse Wednesday. Dai, a 21-year-old junior from Pittsford, NY, did not enter a plea, CNN reported. He appeared in the James Hanley Federal Building in downtown
Syracuse after being arrested Tuesday. Prosecutors said Dai posted threats that he would kill Jewish Cornell students and “shoot up” the university’s Kosher dining hall, 104 West, on the online forum Greekrank. Dai faces federal charges for posting threats to kill or injure another person using interstate communications. The posts were made on Oct. 28 and 29. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul first released an announcement that state
police had a person in custody in relation to the threats on Tuesday. “When I met with Cornell students yesterday, I promised them New York State would do everything possible to find the perpetrator who threatened a mass shooting and antisemitic violence on campus,” Hochul wrote in the Tuesday statement. “Public safety is my top priority and I’m committed to combatting hate and bias wherever it rears its ugly head.”
The Cornell Daily Sun reported that Dai admitted to making the posts in a recorded interview with the Cornell Police Department and the FBI. “We remain shocked by and condemn these horrific, antisemitic threats and believe they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” said Joel Malina, Cornell’s vice president for university relations, in a statement Tuesday night. If Dai is found guilty, he faces up to five years in prison and a fine of
$250,000. He is currently being held in the Broome County Jail and waived his right to a timely detention hearing, CNN reported. Dai was returned to the custody of U.S. Marshals after the hearing for being both a flight risk and a “risk of danger,” according to CNN. He is set to return to court for a probable cause hearing on Nov. 15. spwright@syr.edu @stephaniwri_