Mornings on the Hill for October 21, 2020

19 cases drop on SU campus we have your latest COVID 19 update the first honorary undergraduate
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degree in su history is announced find out who’s receiving it an SU alum makes history
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with a million dollar deal on shark tank all that plus your
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weather and orange sports coming up on this edition of mornings on the hill good morning
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I m Sarah Al-Shaikh
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and I m Mat Mlodzinski thanks for joining us for mornings on the hill let’s get right
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to our top story our josh miller joins us live outside the dome as covet 19 testing
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continues josh thanks Sarah university officials say that
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the pin the occurrence that occurred last week a few weeks ago due to an off-campus
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gathering is now under control testing can be done here behind me in the carrier dome
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as it is part of phase three of the university’s plan for covet 19.
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Nearly 70 000 tests have been administered this year and a big help to that has been
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this third phase behind me at the carrier dome in an effort to generate more tests more
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efficiently there are still a couple days left to go get tested and the schedule is
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as follows today and tomorrow for juniors through graduate students Friday for undergraduate
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students with a couple makeup days spread out throughout the week it is required by
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all students to get a COVID 19 tested as well as now a mandatory flu shot faculty are not
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required but recommended to get tested the university has seen a positive response from
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students and faculty thus far and hopes to see the same in their next
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phase back to you guys it’s mental health awareness month
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Samantha Croston tells us how you can use the outdoors to boost your mental health
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this October many businesses have crumbled during the pandemic but the outdoor recreational
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industry is thriving these fall friendly places provide a safe way to have fun which improves
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mental health pumpkin hollow business owner Louise cox explains why her pumpkin patch
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is bringing in more customers than previous years
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what I hear from the parents that are coming is their kids need to get outside and they
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need to run, and they need to laugh mental health counselor maria Randazzo says people
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are experiencing zoom fatigue from all the hours they spend looking
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at a screen taking an outdoor break gives people an opportunity to reset but the part
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of it is just getting out of the environment that’s triggering you know we’re all inside
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that’s triggering us if we get anxious we’re inside if you go outside you automatically
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help to break that cycle of anxiety going a pumpkin hollow is more than just fun research
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shows that 120 minutes spent in nature each week can reduce stress and improve overall
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mood that means a trip to the hollow really can make you go from this to this whether
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it is because of the sights and smells that fresh air can be really really refreshing
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and being outside I know it’s not sunny but you know it’s brighter it’s natural
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light or the much needed break from virtual learning we’ve been cooped up a lot with you
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know home learning and everything so it’s definitely better to be outside doing something
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and being active the common denominator for improved mental health is spending time outdoors
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like being outside and coming here as the cold season comes
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Syracuse ramps up on flu vaccines and COVID testing Cyera Williams tells us how this plan
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includes students but there’s a gray area for faculty members yes that is correct there
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is some uncertainty among faculty and staff members getting tested and getting their flu
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vaccination this is the third round of mandated testing for Syracuse students but faculty
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and staff are not mandated to get tested or their flu shots professor Randall wenner tells
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us why the university may take precautions if the university has to be careful how many
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things especially health factors it forces people to take can you force employees to
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get for example the flu shot can you force them to get coveted where does it stop then
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can you force them to take whatever medications or vaccines you determine are needed before
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employees can come onto campus they are required to fill out a daily health screening form
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but the option to get tested is up to the faculty the university I think has all along
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suggested strongly that it would be a good idea for faculty and staff to get tested if
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possible though for most of this semester it really wasn’t mandated there was nobody
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was forcing me to get a test now for the entire semester only six faculty and staff members
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tested positive the university says that you do not have to
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get a flu vaccination if you have medical or religious documentation in Syracuse Cyera
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Williams mornings on the hill
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former us attorney general Loretta lynch held a town hall on Monday as her team continues
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its review of the department of public safety get a couple of shots of the car and then
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I ll then I ll have you initial proposal for public safety community review board it’s
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a process that everyone can get involved with really do want to hear from the Syracuse community
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about the best way to select individuals from the respective groups that we’ve identified
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we’ve identified undergraduate students and graduate students
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faculty members staff and administrators lynch is scheduled to hold another town hall this
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afternoon at 4 15 and one more tomorrow night at 7 15.
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well Kevin Richardson of the central park five stated his ambition to attend Syracuse
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university along with making contributions to the broader society and now Richardson
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will soon have an honorary degree mornings on the hill reporter Xavier brown joins us
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live with more
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chancellor Kent Syverud chancellor Kent Syverud announced Friday last Friday evening that
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he would be that Kevin Richardson a member of the central
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park five would be receiving the first honorary undergraduate degree here at Syracuse university
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it is my distinct honor to congratulate Kevin Richardson
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as the recipient of an honorary undergraduate degree the bachelor of fine arts in music
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of this honorary degree I warmly welcome you to the orange family where your example inspires
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us all I look forward to seeing you on this campus to celebrate with you in person I can’t
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wait to see what you will do next as a member of the orange family Kevin Richardson visited
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Syracuse university for the first time and was honored with the creation of our time
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has come Kevin Richardson scholarship which is awarded with a preference for supporting
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black and Hispanic students with unmet financial need this means the world to me from all the
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trials and tribulations I ve been through and to literally be here to accept this and
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to be recognized it’s the greatest honor it’s so surreal the honorary bachelor’s degree
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in fine arts and music will be formally given to Kevin Richardson during the spring commencement
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ceremony
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coming up on mornings on the hill find out how one SU senior is turning a personal health
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crisis into a way to make a difference weather forecast
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stay with us here on OTN
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time to check your weather for today our weather reporter Maya Lockett is live out on university
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avenue to tell us what to expect how’s it looking maya?
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good morning Syracuse it is currently 56 degrees with cloudy skies unfortunately you will need
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to pull out that umbrella because it’s going to be drippy
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for the rest of the day now let’s look at tomorrow’s forecast it looks like we will
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have another chance to enjoy some warmer weather here in Syracuse
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tomorrow is going to be 75 degrees with partly cloudy skies and a chance of rain but the
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temperature will drop to 48 degrees in the evening now let’s take a look at that five
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day forecast this week this week our weather will be all over the place with 75 degree
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weather on Friday which gives you another chance to enjoy a nice day out at the pumpkin
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patch but Saturday you will want to stay inside because it’s going to be 56 degrees with a
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60 chance of rain and on Sunday the cold weather will continue with 51 degrees on
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Sunday but even with bad weather I hope you guys are still participating in those food
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pantries across Syracuse and on campus
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I have the chance to visit a food pantry in downtown Syracuse yesterday just like some
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soft little rock rolls perfect hey have a nice day assumption church food pantry has
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been donating food and toiletries to Syracuse families for many years we give out three
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days worth of food which is nine meals per day for each family member three okay but
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in order to follow social distancing guidelines one main factor at a Simpson church has changed
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sometimes it’s hard right now that they can’t pick things out because um a lot of people
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are feeling that struggle if you’re giving me things that I don’t want or won’t use whereas
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if they were able to come in and walk around they would be able to pick exactly what they
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wanted before the pandemic families were able to come inside the food pantry grab a basket
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like this and pick out different kind of foods and toiletries but now because of the pandemic
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families must wait outside for their food in order to follow social distancing guidelines
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but one of the main things that shocked the food pantry the most was the amount of people
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that would show up every day actually because of all the stimulus available there’s less
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and less people coming to the food pantry I mean it is sad when we have these moments
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where we have so much food because we people are giving even more than before so we’re
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being given so much food that then it’s hard to get it out the door come daily for this
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for the food pantry about 25 families on a good day um 10 and
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sometimes five I think one that when the other resources start to dry up which is at the
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end of this month then folks are going to be coming back again but for some families
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the food pantry was their only option the restaurant they used to work at uh I didn’t
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work there for more than six months so I get no unemployment from that job so I get you
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know on appointment checks and without the food pantry I would go without
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food
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one Syracuse senior spent the summer dealing not just with the pandemic but a cancer battle
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as well our ford hatchet tells us how after kicking cancer the student is now trying to
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give back in early April Sean misik was still trying to adjust to online classes until a
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persistent stomach pain led him to the doctor’s office and I ended up having a ultrasound
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and an examination that for the reveal they had a tumor
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and so then from there I had to have surgery within a week diagnosed with testicular cancer
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misik had surgery and underwent chemotherapy treatments at Roswell park cancer center in
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buffalo but due to the pandemic his family wasn’t allowed to stay with him but support
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for Sean still flowed in from family friends and even some celebrities yo yo what’s up
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what’s your boy Juicy J wanna say what’s up the shine in sick hey Sean this is buddy here
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I just wanted to reach out and say I hope you’re recovering well it sounds cliche
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to say but when people are going through it you don’t fight alone but it really is true
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like the support that you get from people lifts you up and now miesic wants to turn
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that support into action so I have these bracelets that uh they’re just a purple bracelet for
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testicular cancer awareness which the theme color is purple and it has the purple ribbon
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he’s selling the bracelets for five dollars apiece and hopes to give back to the hospital
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that helped save his life so I want to take the Syracuse community and the medical community
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that helped me out so much in this time and bring them together and raise money by selling
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these bracelets taking the profits and donating them to Roswell park anyone interested in
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buying a bracelet or donating can contact music through social media or by email at
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seanmesic11 gmail.com for mornings on the hill I m fort hatchet
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well as you all know it is the fall season and the leaves have the beautiful golds and
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reds our sierra Ryder is live to tell us about a fun arts and crafts project put on by the
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su art museum involving those leaves sierra hi Sarah well if you need a fall activity
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and you need something to do with all those fall
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leaves on the ground I have the perfect fall arts and crafts activity for you the SU art
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museum hosted an art workshop along with the help of the education director at the joseph
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and Annie albers foundation the idea was to create leaf creatures something
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that the famous artist joseph albers did when he first moved to the united states albers
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taught at black mountain college where he was the head of the painting
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program and then he realized that the leaves around him in north Carolina and the mountains
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were turning these amazing colors and so they leave so the students went out and gathered
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leaves and they started making these studies that were related to their color studies in
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class this fall activity is perfect for families and adults, it’s a nice way to
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get your hands off a computer and onto creating something
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original with fall foliage we all spend a lot of time looking at computer screens right
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now and so anything that gets us away from the computer screen
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can be good to make a leaf creation you gather around
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20 leaves some construction paper glue and you just start to be creative there are so
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many ways to be creative with these fall leaves workshop was tons of fun for me and it was
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great to see so many kids and adults showing up to do these really creative things and
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there were surprise every single person who shared hair shared something that was surprising
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and wonderful if you are interested in doing an art workshop
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or two the Alberts foundation has a series of other online workshops found on their website
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as well as the SU art museum now I know that you guys are dying to see what I came up with
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so I brought them here’s my turkey family that I made and here is the pig that I made
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out of these leaves now I m no artist but I
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have to say it was a nice escape from work and school, so I highly recommend reporting
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live sierra Ryder mornings on the hill
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we love the leaf bar sierra coming up on mornings on the hill Syracuse football suffered another
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crushing defeat on Saturday but it’s not going to get easier find out why when we come back
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good morning I m James Corrigan and this is your orange sports update on mornings on the
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hill when it was announced three years ago that the orange would be playing the brand
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new FBS program liberty flames three years in a row fans naturally chalked it up as three
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easy wins but as they say the best laid plans often go awry and it was the four-and-oh flames
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that gashed the orange for 338 yards on the ground
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and had Dino Babers perhaps his most humiliating defeat as head coach it was hard enough as
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it was going into the year with numerous opt-outs but things have gone from bad to worse after
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the injury bug turned into the injury monster quarterback rex Culpepper is set to make his
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second start of the season for the injured tommy DeVito Saturday against Clemson and
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defensively true freshman and walk-ons litter the depth chart in fact half the available
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players for the orange as a whole are freshmen but dino babers is not worried as much about
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results on the field as he is getting his young guys better the biggest thing is to
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make sure they’re still improving okay we want to make sure that some of these young
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people that they don’t look the same as they did the first week or the second week there’s
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got to be signs of improvement and that’s what we’re looking for in the football staff
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and that’s what we’re looking for in the family
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young irons will have to grow up three times over this week if they want to avoid embarrassment
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against the top-ranked Clemson tigers Trevor Lawrence and company are coming off of a resounding
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73-7 win over Georgia tech and Vegas isn’t exactly selling high on SU the orange come
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in as 45 and a half point underdogs but coach babers says it’s a privilege
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just to share the field you get an opportunity to play the
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number one ranked team in the country you know whether you’re injured free or not whether
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you’re playing with all seniors or all freshmen you get an opportunity to compete now while
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calling these keys to victory may be a stretch there are still ways for the young orange
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to take positives from what will likely be a tough afternoon in death valley forcing
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turnovers has been a strength for Syracuse this year the orange lead the nation in turnover
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margin at plus 11 they have to take it away from Trevor Lawrence who’s thrown just one
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interception in his last 13 games on the ground freshman Sean tucker has been a bright spot
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he’s run for over a hundred yards two times this week including last week against liberty
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and the young guys like tucker will have a great opportunity to gain valuable experience
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in the Clemson game which could play dividends down the road and above all else the orange
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need to keep their heads up as coach babers said in his press conference focus more on
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improvement rather than the result and it’s worth mentioning that Syracuse
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is the last team to beat Clemson at home during the regular season the countdown to Syracuse
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basketball is on the men’s and women’s team each began practice last week as both squads
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prepare for a late November start of the season
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our own mat Mlodzinski has more
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has changed the basketball schedule a few times already but with practices now the November
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25th start date seems like a full go neither team
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has an official schedule but the acc is leaning on a 20-game conference schedule with a recommendation
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of at least four non-conference games the uncertainty of the exact schedule looms but
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one thing is for certain orange basketball season is here
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now for an inside look into the women’s soccer roster goalkeeper Lysianne Proulx is one of
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the best in the acc our steven shoemaker has more starting goalkeeper
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Lysianne Proulx coming from Montreal Quebec has been nothing short of sensational during
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her senior year for the orange pool is second in the acc in total saves this year with 47
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through the first five games and holds the top spot in saves per game averaging
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just under 10.
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number 22 has started every game between the pipes over the last two seasons but Proulx
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says there’s always room for improvement but regardless um yeah I think it’s just about
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just putting in the work and see it all come together and seeing the improvement from like
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game to game uh like fixing some mistakes that I did before
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and that I didn’t do this time because we practiced it the orange are improving and
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getting better every game and Lysianne believes the team’s first win is right around the corner
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going against Boston college I believe is a team that we can beat we have very talented
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individuals in the team and I think it’s a team that we can beat and now how can we all
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come together and make the small things work so that at the end it all works out on the
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bigger picture
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and you could catch Lysianne Proulx in action tomorrow night at 7 pm as the women’s soccer
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team take on Boston college at home the team’s looking for its first win and its first goal
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of the season they are currently 0 and 5. after the football game Saturday men’s soccer
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kicks off at Virginia at 6 p.m. they’re also chasing their first win of the year with a
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record of 0-2 and 1.
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field hockey is off this week and next Friday cross country laces up their sneakers for
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the first meet of the season that’ll do it for sports this morning on mornings on the
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hill matt back to you
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thanks, James still to come here on mornings on the hill a former SU alum makes history
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with the investors in the shark tank stay with us that story and more just ahead
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student activities are back in full swing when just a week ago they were temporarily
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on hold to prevent the spread of COVID 19.
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weekly changes like that are keeping one su group on their toes but they’re moving and
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grooving with all the twists and turns from the dance studio to the computer screen and
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now back into the dance studio otto’s empire belly dancing
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troupe is just one of the su student groups adjusting to the
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ever-changing copied-19 rules on campus but one of the belly dancers says regardless if
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they’re in the room or on studio students activities like theirs are needed during these
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stressful times we’d always say like oh it’s a great chance to like just dance and like
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release some emotions like de-stress release those endorphins and I think that’s now more
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important than it ever was now
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Syracuse based startup struck gold this weekend and even caught the eyes of business tycoons
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mark Cuban and Lori grinner our reporter Ryan Clark has the details a local Syracuse company
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hit it big this weekend I think the best way to do this is to let them make us an offer
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and we either say yes or no they received over 1 million on shark tank one of the top
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10 largest deals in show history the company spark charge created a triple a like solution
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for when electric cars run out of battery it started in Syracuse where the students
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involved donated charging stations to help bring attention to cleaner energy we’re hoping
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that these charging stations being installed here at Syracuse university will kind of spark
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the growth of electric vehicles on campus and electric vehicle
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adoption here at Syracuse university I m really happy that the university took our donation
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of the charging stations it’s really nice to drive by and kind of see the light blinking
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letting me know that they’re being used both other members Chris Ellis and Richard Whitney
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both got their start at the school right behind me right here Onondaga county community college
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spark charge says their goal is to take their shark tank winnings and make other cities
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as accessible for sustainable energy as Syracuse for ncc news I m Ryan Clark
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finally this morning we’re taking a look at what is happening this weekend on the hill
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if you don’t have any plans yet we’re here to tell you what’s happening on the hill it
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will certainly be a few full days full of campus activities on Friday it’s time to unwind
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after you finish a long week of classes the center for
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international services is hosting mix it up happening in person at the slouch care center
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this will be a very interactive and engaging activity discussing inclusion and diversity
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on campus and if you are looking to cool down after Friday s heat wave you can head over
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to the pavilion for glow skate now on Saturday you can get your cardio in by going on a hike
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to the beautiful beaver lake state park or you can hop on the campus shuttle to destiny
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at night you can relax after a long day by joining orange after dark for their first
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ever drive-in movie and on Sunday if you are not doing homework or enjoying football Sunday
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like me you can go on another hike but this time to
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green lakes state park matt what did you think about this weekend’s su football game yeah,
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I mean obviously with Syracuse playing the number one team
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Clemson on Saturday I mean that’s always going to be a tough one now the orange and Clemson
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have had some good battles in the past Syracuse beat Clemson on Friday the 13th a couple years
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back and almost gave Clemson a run for their money
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for a second straight win at Death Valley this year will be a
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little bit tougher what do you think about this weekend’s football game yeah I mean when
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you look at this Clemson team just being number one overall Syracuse last weekend against
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liberty just kind of like a tough game against the flames Syracuse didn’t have a lot of positives
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so they’re going to have to play a lot better against this Clemson team create turnovers
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and establish a running game on the ground well you’re going to be watching the game
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this weekend or what are your plans for this weekend matt
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I m of course going to be watching the game I mean this game is always one that Syracuse
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fans circle on their schedule when Syracuse plays the tigers as head coach dabo sweeney
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said this is a Syracuse team that you can’t take you know this is a Syracuse orange team
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that’ll do it for us this Wednesday here on mornings on the hill I m mat Mlodzinski follow
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us on social media
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and I m Sarah also thanks for watching orange nation we’ll see you next Wednesday live at
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10 a.m. right here on OTN