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celebrating 121 years
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N • Finding the funds
C • Legion legacy
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SU student organizations reflect on Student Association funding shortages as executives work to prevent similar situations in the future.
One of the oldest predominantlyBlack American Legion posts has been in Syracuse’s Westcott neighborhood since 1947.
Billy Dwan III has always had an innate ability to create offense despite being a close defender, a difficult position to score from.
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MAJOR LEAGUE STUDENTS Syracuse University and the MLBPA will offer online degrees to current and former MLB players
SU hosts symposium with Rematriation By Harry Kelly staff writer
When Michelle Schenandoah was in seventh grade, she was excited when she saw a section in her United States history textbook that featured Native Americans. It was a moment she had been waiting for all her life: the chance to learn about her people’s cultures and history in the American education system. But after reading the chapter, Schenandoah said she found herself disappointed. “There were only two pages … It had maybe two black- and-white photos of the Lakota people on the plains with teepees,” Schenandoah, a member of the Oneida Nation’s Wolf Clan, said. “It was pretty much the story of the ‘Disappearing Indian.’”
Metaphorically, many of us are coming in today as brass pots. The motivation should be to rematriate the old knowledge that we used to have. Jamie Jacobs head curator
emma lee contributing illustrator By Justin Girshon and Aiden Stepansky
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ccumulating service time goes hand in hand with Major League Baseball players having successful careers. But doing so now is as difficult as ever. In an interview with Foul Territory, 10-year MLB veteran Tommy Pham said the average player’s service time was under three years in 2024 compared to five and a half years when he broke into MLB in 2014. With service time gradually decreasing, players reaching free agency is more of an anomaly. It’s why Chris Singleton, a Major League Baseball Players Association special assistant for player programs, said Syracuse University’s partnership with the MLBPA is vital to helping players have post-baseball career success.
“For a professional player who’s either at the end of his career or thinking about transitioning out of the league, a degree from Syracuse University is pretty good to have on your resume with a couple of years playing in Major League Baseball,” Michael Frasciello, dean of SU’s College of Professional Studies, said. On Feb. 25, SU and the MLBPA announced an agreement to offer industry-specific online degrees, certificates and credentials to current and former MLB players. To pursue a professional baseball career, most athletes forgo college or never graduate. Whether online or at SU’s campuses in New York City, Washington, D.C., or Los Angeles, players now have the chance to enhance their education at the David B. Falk College of Sport, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Martin J. Whitman School of Management and College of Professional Studies.
It joins a recent trend of universities partnering with the MLBPA and Arizona State with MLB in offering academic programs to current and former MLB players. Falk College Dean Jeremy Jordan said the university hopes to immerse SU students in the professional sports world and make similar connections with other professional sports leagues in the near future. SU and the MLBPA have no estimated total for enrollment, but Singleton said the new partnership has already demonstrated the MLBPA’s dedication to its members. “We’re always looking to be of service to our players and to create more opportunities,” Singleton said. “We understand that even though players don’t want to hear this, that you’re going to be a former player a lot longer in life than you were a current player or an active player, and that’s just the reality.” see mlbpa page 4
Schenandoah had similar experiences throughout the rest of her education at Cornell University, Syracuse University and New York Law School. This lack of representation led Schenandoah to found Rematriation, a non-profit organization and former magazine that works to uplift Indigenous women’s voices and share generations of accumulated knowledge. This past weekend, Rematriation partnered with SU’s Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice and the SU Libraries Special Collections Research Center to host an academic symposium on Haudenosaunee and Indigenous matrilineality. Matrilineality is a societal structure in which family heritage follows the mother’s line, not the father’s. In the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, made up of the Six Nations — Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora — husbands join their wife’s clan when they’re married, and their children also become part of that clan. Dr. Scott Manning Stevens, director of CGICEJ, said matrilineality goes well beyond its written definition, especially in Indigenous cultures. “It’s recognizing the centrality of women in our society…It’s about the equality between men and women…warriors and hunters often go to men. But in our societies, anything to do with village life see rematriation page 5