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Letter From The Editor
Trending / Lost In Translation
Interview: Eva Baldo
Fall On Syracuse’s Farms
IMPRESSUM
Student Hopes To Be A ‘Light’ On Campus With New Organization
Man’s Best Friend
Opinion: Health Insurance Should Cover Birth Control
Favorites of the Holiday Season
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Meghan O’Brien Editor-in-Chief
a word from meghan //
Jamie Doppelt Creative Director Mindy Rosenthal PR Director EDITORIAL/
Lauren Spieza Front of Book Editor Samantha Perkins Opinions Editor Nick Manning Features Editor
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Ashley Mendez Photographer Vivian Wong Photographer Alex Mayeri Photographer Jaci Caputo Photographer
My name is Meghan O’Brien, the new Editor-in-Chief of SV. I am so excited to have been given this opportunity and share some incredible stories with all of you. I am even more excited to be working with Jamie, a new member of the SV family and our incredible Creative Director. When I joined Student Voice back in 2016, I was a small, little freshman who never thought I would be running a magazine. But here I am three years later, a strong, confident senior managing so many things in my life. Seniors, it’s truly crazy how much we’ve grown!
I started college like most students: eager to join clubs and wanting to put my name out there. Although I am a broadcast and digital journalism major, I have always loved magazines and jumped on the chance to write for one. I remember spending hours on my first published article about dance orgs on campus, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.” As my final semester of college approaches, I want to dedicate my time to the things and people I love, including this publication. To all of the freshman, congrats on finishing your first semester of college! Enjoy the many semesters that are to come, they really do fly by.
Meghan O’Brien Editor-in-Chief
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Katie Merken Copyright Editor
hi everyone!
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B e w a r e o f t h e P u m p kins by: George Hashemi
IT’S 11:55 PM, September 30th. The wind is howling
M usic: a S ocial Medium
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by: Nick Manning
WHILE ONLINE TROLLS ruin the comment sections on
Twitter and Instagram, opening up Spotify or Apple Music brings us an escape from the noise of social media, spending time with just the sounds of our favorite artists. However, as satisfying as it is to sit back and vibe to albums alone, listening to music is much more fun when done with other people. Anyone at Syracuse can tell you how exciting (and hot) Juice Jam was, as we gathered together by the thousands to dance and mosh to P layboi Carti and A$AP Ferg. Listening to music with others is what keeps a song like “Mo Bamba” so entertaining for so long, even when you’re packed shoulder-to-shoulder at a house party and dripping with sweat. There’s just something so thrilling about jumping up and down with your friends, yelling together, “ Young Sheck Wes and I’m getting really rich!” W hen we forget about the stresses of the world through music together, we create a special moment for ourselves that we can’t replicate when we’re alone and experience a unity that is desperately needed in our world today.
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outside, carr ying a small whisper almost too quiet to pick up. As the c lock ticks on, the whispers get louder “puu…” “pumpppp…”. You know what ’s coming. You can’t escape it. It ’s here. The c lock strikes 12. The voice grows stronger … “Pumpkin”. Okay, I might be being a little dramatic, but once October hits ever y year, it ’s like the wor ld decides to shove a literal pumpkin down your throat. The food becomes invested in ever ything– and I mean ever ything. You have pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin candles and even pumpkin c lothing. Now don’t get me wrong, I love a good pumpkin spice latte on a chilly morning or a pumpkin cookie af ter dinner. But, when did society decide that it ’s “give me pumpkins or give me nothing ” all month long? It almost makes me feel bad for the rest of the fall vegetables. W hat about squash? Maybe they also want a drink or to be the centerpiece of front porches. We haven’t even given anything else a chance. It seems a little discriminator y to me. There so many opportunities we might be missing out on. So, hopefully this fall you can stray from the norms and take a risk.
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Em e r g e n c y E x i t 紧急出口 by: Kelly Jia
The translation of “Emergency door” into Chinese sometimes can be confusing for some people due to a complex language system of Chinese. For someone who just arrived in America, like myself, the concepts of “emergency door” and “safe exit ” are the same in my mind. In China, people could often see a green sign with the “exit ” logo in the stair well and can always open that door, no matter the situation. Once, I had dinner with my friends in the cafeteria. We lef t from the nearest entrance. W hat ’s embarrassing is that when we pushed the door open, the alarm rang and all the locals looked at us. We were ver y embarrassed. Later, when I went to the cafeteria again, I saw a sign on the door said: Don’t open without an emergency.
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LOST IN TRANSLATION
由于中国复杂的语言系统, 在翻译 “EMERGENCY DOOR” 的时候不能够很好的翻译出其真实的含义. 对 于刚刚到米国的我来说, 在我的脑海里“紧急通道”和“安全出口”的含义是—样. 因为在中国人们常常会 在楼梯间看见—个带有“EXIT”的标志的绿色牌子, 无论在什么情况下人们都能通行. 有一次和朋友在 食堂吃饭，就从最近的门离开了. 尴尬的是当我把门推开的一刹那警报就响了, 所有的外国人都往我 们这边看. 那—瞬间感觉极其丢人. 后来再去餐厅的时候就看见门上贴着: 非紧急情况下不能走.
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Interview
Eva Baldo: diving into entertainment
by: Nick Manning
INTERVIEW
What was it like working for Republic Records? It was definitely an amazing experience. I got to learn a lot about not only marketing, but marketing in a music sense and what that means to a label. I worked a lot with product managers at Republic—which is basically the manager for an artist at the label. They dealt with all the marketing plans, they worked handin-hand with the press, and all the appearances that the artists would be doing. My place in Republic was with all of the digital marketing team as well so we didn’t really have a separation. I got to see how they constructed social media campaigns and which visuals they wanted to accompany each post. They had inhouse designers for a lot of things so it was really cool. But as an intern, we were kind of limited on what we were really able to contribute within the marketing plan. We had to work a lot with newer developing artists because the Drakes, the Ariana Grandes, and the Nicki Minajs—they were all pretty set; they didn’t really need any work with anything. We worked with Jeremy Zucker and a lot of the new signees for Cash Money. We also brainstormed for Maty Noyes and Jordan Smith, winner of The Voice. We needed a lot of marketing plans and brainstormings for interactive things with fans to tr y and broaden their audience reach because they were so small and their social media numbers or their streaming numbers weren’t matching up or balancing out.
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How important has the Bandier Program been for your passion of music? I think it is pretty crucial for me. Coming into college, I was looking at performing arts and music business programs; I looked at Berklee College of Music, Ithaca, and NYU—basically the standards for music industr y. I always wanted to do music. I sang my whole life, performed in high school, I had bands, and performed at The Stone Pony. I’m from New Jersey, it ’s at Asbur y Park where Bruce [Springsteen] performed. I was like, “I’m not good at anything else. I feel like I need to do this, other wise I’m wasting my life.” I think the program has given me so many useful tools: the classes I’ve taken, the professors I’ve had. Also, with Newhouse too, both of them combined are such a powerful force of knowledge. It has helped me develop what I want to do, who I think I am, and what I can achieve in the industr y. So, I think without the program I wouldn’t be as driven as to what I want to do in the industr y and I wouldn’t have the knowledge I have about the different aspects of the industr y. There are so many intricacies within the industr y that I would ’ve never known on my own if I was outside of the program. It ’s definitely given me a lot of guidance.
What else are you involved with on campus? I was involved, up until I went abroad, in UU, the University Union programming board on campus. I did their social media, marketing, and was on their e-board. I thought that was the perfect way for me to stay in the music sphere on campus. I learned a lot about programming and it ’s honestly amazing to see what students can do in terms of entertainment,
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bringing the biggest stars on campus in music, entertainment, comedy, and lecture. It is really cool to see. I’m also the senior co-producer, which is basically vice president, of Danceworks on campus, which is the audition-based dance organization on campus. We’ve been around since 1986, so quite a while. That ’s where I can do my performing side that I’ve missed since high school. Danceworks is a huge part of my college experience. It ’s taught me a lot about leadership and also show production, which I didn’t really think about [before]. It has definitely helped me in my music career, looking at how a festival or a production is put on in comparison—I mean, it ’s not dance—but there’s still the elements of lights, production, organization, booking, hiring help, and catering. It ’s really useful.
What’s next for you when you finish school? Hopefully I will get a job. I’m really hoping to be at Universal Music Group which is the parent company of Republic. I think a lot of their labels are really cool, like Def Jam and Capitol Records in L.A. I think that they really know how to treat their artists well. I really hope that I could be there af ter graduation, but entertainment—especially in music—is ver y like, “Oh, we don’t have someone here. We need the spot filled in a week. Can you be here?” Ever yone I’ve talked to for my internship is like, “Don’t even think about working here until like graduation because we need you.” As soon as someone leaves, they need a replacement. It ’s ver y touchy, ver y scar y because you don’t know what ’s actually going to happen. But it ’s a fun gamble.
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Photo Journal
F a l l on Syracuse’s F arms
Photography by Alex Mayeri and Jaci Caputo
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Student Hopes to be a ‘Light’ on Campus with New Organization by: Samantha Perkins
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE Riley Berg always
had a desire to help people from the low-income and homeless populations. Af ter working with the homeless community in her hometown of Milwaukee, Berg wanted to continue that work af ter coming to school at Syracuse. D uring Berg ’s second semester freshman year, a friend confided in Berg about a particularly bad day she had. Berg ’s friend, an SU student who comes from a lowincome situation and works multiple jobs to support herself and her family back home, lamented how that morning the soles of her winter boots ripped off and her winter jacket tore on a hook, resulting in a walk through the heavy Syracuse snow in tennis shoes and a borrowed jacket.
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P h otography by Ashley Mendez
“ J ust being just that little bit of hope you could see in her life made a difference”
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Af ter Berg and her friend parted ways, an idea hit Berg: “I can do something for her. I can be a light in her life right now when this is a ver y hard time for her.” Berg managed to find her SU friend a sponsor willing to buy her a new pair of boots, while Berg and her mother bought her a new winter coat. After Berg gave her friend the new c lothes, her friend remarked how she felt on top of the wor ld, and that she never had friends in her life like this before.
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“Just being just that little bit of hope you could see in her life made a difference,” said Berg. “And I want to be able to do that for other kids on campus and also for the community.” Thus, Berg ’s idea for her campus organization Shoes of Light was born. The goal of Shoes of Light is to impact SU students coming from low-income situations by providing a support system on campus and matching the students up with sponsors who can help them buy the winter clothes they need to live comfortably in Syracuse. Berg also hopes to branch out further and do the same for those living in poverty in the city of Syracuse. “I want the organization to be a light in their life when it is such a dark time for them financially,” said Berg.
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Currently, Berg is tr ying to get her organization approved by the university ’s RSO Review Board and hopes to be fully functional in time for the university ’s Spring 2019 Involvement Fair. “ This organization is an opportunity not just for me, but for other students to come in and change someone’s life for the better, to make a difference,” said Berg. “Hopefully when we make a difference, those students and those community members can then go out and make a difference in someone else’s life, just cause a complete chain reaction.”
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by: Annie Farber
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Man’s Best Friend
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FOUNDED IN 2016, Ser vice Dogs at Syracuse is a student
organization that trains and raises puppies to become ser vice dogs. The organization enlists student “raisers” to teach the dogs basic commands before sending them to advanced training where they learn to perform tasks such as opening doors and turning on lights. Ser vice Dogs at Syracuse was founded by Gianna Cacciatore in her freshman year at Syracuse. Dogs have always been a huge part of Cacciatore’s life, but it was a visit to her friend who was a raiser for the ser vice dog program at University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign that inspired her to start the club. “I got to see her interact with the dog and learn more about their program and really fell in love with it,” Cacciatore said. “Dogs are one of my favorite things and I strive to help people in any way I can. The club was a combination of those two things.”
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There are currently two dogs being raised through
“ D ogs are one of my favorite things and I strive to help people in any way I can. The club was a combination of those two things.” Ser vice Dogs at Syracuse, both of whom came from Canine Companion for Independence’s headquarters in Santa Rosa, CA. The first dog, Taya, came to the organization in the summer of 2017, and is raised by senior Olivia Mance. The second dog, Princeton, is raised by Cacciatore herself and has been with her since June of 2018. “I think the amazing things about both of these dogs despite their personalities, is that they know the difference between when they are working and when they are not,” said Cacciatore. “As soon as the vest comes out and goes on, they know it ’s time to work and are completely different dogs.”
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The dogs go to their raisers when they are eight weeks old, and they stay with them for a year and a half. Once they are done with their raisers, the dogs go back to Canine Companion for Independence, where they receive advanced training to prepare them for life as full ser vice dogs. Af ter training, the dogs ser ve as companions and helpers for people with different types of disabilities, helping them function on a day to day basis. Ser vice Dogs at Syracuse is about more than just the dogs – it ’s also about the people they help. “I hope that our message and purpose reaches all of SU to not only educate them about ser vice dogs but also about the disability community as a whole,” said Cacciatore. Although Cacciatore will graduate in the spring of 2020, she hopes to see Ser vice Dogs at Syracuse continue and grow. Her ultimate goal is to have 15-20 raisers on campus whose dogs will eventually graduate and become fully functioning ser vice dogs who can make a difference in the lives of the people who need them.
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TYPES OF DOGS Service Dogs
Skilled Companions
Help adults with physical disabilities perform everyday tasks.
Help children and adults with physical, cognitive and developmental disabilities become more independent.
Facility Dogs Assist professionals at places such as hospitals and schools.
Hearing Dogs Alert those with impaired hearing to important sounds.
PTSD Dogs Provide support to veterans.
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Opinion
health insura n c e s h o u l d cover birth c o n t r o l by: Lauren Spiezia
Contraceptive coverage has slightly improved since the O bama administration passed the Affordable Care Act, as several states have implemented laws requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives similarly to other ser vices or medications. However, there’s still work to be done; late last year, the Trump administration enacted a set of regulations granting employers freedom to limit birth control coverage under their company ’s health insurance plan if they have some moral or religious objection. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, several states have challenged the regulations, but 19 states currently do not require coverage of all contraceptive methods. This leaves a huge gray area in what company insurance plans are required or not required to cover and allows for employers to possibly discriminate against female employees by hindering their ac-
cess to affordable birth control. Regard less of their employers’ personal opinions, women should have equal access to affordable birth control no matter where they work or which state they live in. The uses of birth control go beyond avoiding pregnancy ; several methods have been prescribed to treat menstrual-related disorders such as endometriosis, debilitating period symptoms or irregularity, and hormonal acne as well as lessen the risk of ovarian cancer. These uses further prove that birth control should be equally attainable to all women because in some cases, it ’s considered medically necessar y to improve a woman’s quality of life. Restricting birth control coverage of ten forces women to pay hundreds of dollars out-of-pocket, which some may not be able to afford. Granting all women birth control coverage can also help lessen stigma about the type of medication; many assume that they are only utilized as contraceptives, and normalizing insurance coverage can open the doors to more people becoming educated about its many uses. This could potentially change some people’s opinions about the necessity of birth control and prove its legitimacy. W hile religious and socially-con-
ser vative people may renounce using birth control, their personal objections to it should never dictate if another person has the means to receive medication. The separation of church and state, a principle supposed ly bred into the United States government, should still be exercised in the discussion about regulating birth control coverage. In other words, it is the government ’s duty to assure equal access to medical ser vices, as well as legally prohibit people from using religion as a basis in denying others access to them. Instead, these regulations provide a platform for employers to potentially use the law to their advantage and push their own religious beliefs. Employers have no right to control what a woman can or cannot do with their reproductive system in any circumstance, and promoting equal accessibility to birth control coverage over all 50 states is one way to give women the autonomy over their body that they should have always had.
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In a countr y where the “my body, my choice” narrative has exploded on social media and in political narratives, it ’s time to bring that phrase into the health insurance sector. Specifically, a woman choosing to use birth control shouldn’t be deterred or unable to as a result of high prices from lack of insurance coverage.
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“ M u lled w i n e for SURE . ”
“ M y g r a n d m a ’ s lobster bisque, my mom’s crepes, and every meal in between” - Joseph Lawlor
- Kate Menegio-Stahl
“ D e c o r a t i n g the tree with my family and seeing all the ornaments t h a t m y p a rents have had since they were kids.” - Chelsea Hurd
“ Spendin g time wi t h my fami l y and eat i n g lots of traditi o n a l Polish Christm a s food.” - Ellie Legg
“ Decorat i n g the hou s e a n d the tre e w i t h the peo p l e I love. ” - Tanya Ablaeva
“ S e c r e t S a n t a with my family every Christmas Eve! It’s rigged every year but it’s still a lot of fun”
“ B o n d i n g w i t h my cousins over how weird our extended family is.” - Peter Levchuck
- Mackenzie Sammeth
“ A c c i d e n t a l l y blacking out on Port Wine and belting Celine Dion while wearing English Christmas crowns” - Brendan Weaver
“ S l e e p i n g i n until it’s dark out because I’m on break and I can!” - Gabe Milluzzo