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Common Council denied a provision that would have settled an unnecessary force lawsuit involving a SPD officer.
The Citrus Dolls are Syracuse University’s first majorette dance team, which debuted this semester.
Moo Galbus won a state title in Delaware as a senior with Padua Academy before finding a role with Syracuse women’s soccer.
Struggling to stay a f l o a t
on campus
Phi Psi suspended for alleged hazing By Julia Boehning and Henry Daley the daily orange
Syracuse University has placed its chapter of Phi Kappa Psi on immediate interim suspension, Chancellor Kent Syverud announced in a campus-wide email Wednesday afternoon. The chapter is under investigative status for alleged violations of the Student Conduct Code, according to the email. Phi Psi must suspend all activities amid the investigation, Syverud said. The Phi Kappa Psi national office has also ordered the chapter to cease and desist all activities. SU’s decision follows the circulation of multiple videos online that allegedly depicted members of the fraternity engaging in hazing. “I am disgusted by the actions that appear in these videos and condemn this conduct,” Syverud said in the email. “Hazing and related actions that place our students at risk is both a serious violation of University policies and of New York law.”
Project Callisto ambassadors participate in “Denim Day,” a Sexual Assault Prevention Month campaign. The initiative aims to dispel misconceptions about survivors of sexual assault. courtesy of carla guariglia
Sexual assault reporting service Project Callisto gains support amid financial woes By Delia Rangel
asst. news editor
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hen Project Callisto announced its imminent closing on Sept. 25, citing financial struggles, Carla Guariglia was devastated. Guariglia, a 2024 graduate of Syracuse University and former campus ambassador for Callisto, first encountered Callisto at a Be With Survivors SU demonstration in 2022 as a sophomore. Guariglia, the founder of BWSSU, decided to work together with the ambassador to intertwine their organization with Callisto, a non-
profit organization that allows survivors to anonymously document sexual assault on college campuses. Callisto established its SU chapter in 2020. Though their time as campus ambassador is over, Guariglia said they’re concerned about how its closing will impact sexual violence survivors at SU. “It was really important to keep Callisto on campus,” Guariglia said. “That’s the reality of it. You need campus ambassadors to continue the work.” The app, founded in 2011, is available on all college campuses and uses an encrypted site, Callisto Vault, to document assault cases and flag when multiple users report the same perpetrator, see callisto page 4
I am disgusted by the actions that appear in these videos and condemn this conduct. Kent Syverud su chancellor
A university spokesperson did not have further comment as of 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. The executive director of the national Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, Ron Ransom, responded to the videos of the alleged hazing in a statement sent to The Daily Orange Wednesday evening. He described the videos’ content as “disturbing,” and wrote that the acts of hazing violate fraternity policy. “Phi Kappa Psi will work closely with university officials to identify those responsible and ensure accountability,” Ransom wrote in the statement. “Hazing has no place in Phi Kappa Psi or in society, and we remain committed to eradicating it from our organization.” SU’s Department of Public Safety and Office of Community Standards have opened an investigation, and DPS has notified the see phi psi page 4
city
City auditor report calls for Good Cause Eviction law adoption By Roxanne Boychuk asst. copy editor
As homelessness in the city of Syracuse rises, Syracuse City Auditor Alexander Marion released a report outlining the implementation of New York state’s Good Cause Eviction Law, requiring reasonable cause for rent increase to combat evictions.
In central New York, 45% of people experiencing homelessness were previously living in a property where an eviction suit was brought against them or the leaseholder, the report states. The state’s Good Cause Eviction Law gives tenants in good standing a guaranteed right to a lease renewal, limits rent increases and requires landlords to demonstrate
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Family homelessness has risen by 192% in central New York since 2019.
the tenant violated the lease agreement before evicting them. The Syracuse City Common Council pushed its vote to opt into the law during its Tuesday meeting. In other places where the law was implemented – including Albany, Kingston, Beacon, Ithaca, New Paltz, Poughkeepsie and Newburgh – cities have applied the law to a “one-unit
threshold,” or landlords and LLCs that own at least one housing unit. Nearly two out of three rental property-owning LLCs in Syracuse own just one property, so they would not be exempt from the law with this rule, according to a Tuesday afternoon press release from Marion’s office. He said Syracuse city officials can decide see eviction page 4