Here are three Syracuse University and city of Syracuse news stories you may have missed during spring break.

Monds charged again

Garrett J. Monds, who was arrested after police said he videotaped women in a Syracuse University bathroom earlier this year, has been charged again for a similar incident.

Monds, 27, was charged in Cicero for spying on women in a public bathroom at a Walmart in the town, Syracuse.com reported on Friday. Police said the Cicero incident took place after 9 p.m. on Dec. 17, according to Syracuse.com.

Cicero police were only able to identify Monds, a Liverpool resident, after he was arrested for other similar incidents in the last few months, per Syracuse.com.

He has now been indicted in connection to five separate incidents in which he either videotaped or took photos of women in restrooms, according to Syracuse.com. That includes the SU incident.

On Jan. 17, Department of Public Safety officers responded to a suspicious person call at SU’s Life Sciences Complex, 107 College Place, police said.

A woman had reported that a man was in a woman’s bathroom on the first floor of the complex. DPS officers then observed Monds leaving the bathroom, police said.

Detectives in the Syracuse Police Department’s Abused Persons Unit were notified of the incident and conducted an investigation, said SPD Sgt. Richard Helterline, in a press release at the time. Police later determined that Monds was using a cell phone to videotape women in the bathroom, Helterline said.

Students speak out

More than 100 students participated in a demonstration against gun violence on Wednesday at Nottingham High School as part of a nationwide protest on the one-month anniversary of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, according to Syracuse.com.

Tens of thousands students left school across the country to push lawmakers to support stricter gun control laws. About 700 West Genesee Central School District students also walked out Wednesday as part of the protest, Syracuse.com reported.

“Students organized an incredibly well-run, respectful and powerful ‘seventeen minutes for seventeen victims’ outside of the high school this morning,” said Christopher Brown, the district’s superintendent, according to Syracuse.com.

About 50 to 80 Jamesville-DeWitt High School students planned to walk out of classes Wednesday, but due to weather, said they would Thursday, instead, Syracuse.com reported.

Hendricks leadership team expanded

Syracuse University announced two new officials will join Hendricks Chapel’s leadership team.

Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, who previously worked as SU’s interim senior associate vice president for the student experience and dean of students, will join the Hendricks Chapel team as associate dean.

Peg Northrup will join Hendricks Chapel as director of operations. She has worked at SU for more than a decade as an assistant director, according to her LinkedIn.

Both appointments will help align the chapel with SU’s Academic Strategic Plan, an initiative to meet goals in improving the student experience and research, among other things, according to an SU News release. Hendricks Chapel’s new leaders will also support SU’s mission and vision, per the release.

The Academic Strategic Plan is a master document developed by the university under Chancellor Kent Syverud.

Published on March 18, 2018 at 9:06 pm

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