Jan. 27, 2022

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N • Defective masks

C • First birthday

S • A man of many plays

During Wednesday’s University Senate, SU Provost Gretchen Ritter announced that the university is investigating if it had distributed recalled face masks. Page 3

After beginning operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Salt City Market is celebrating its one year anniversary with a week of celebration. Page 6

Vonn Read has accumulated nearly 20,000 plays over his 25-year career, allowing him to write several encyclopedias before becoming SU’s head coach. Page 12

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‘I was one of the numbers’

Pitt loss feels like seasonender

photos by max mimaroglu asst. photo editor, photo illustration by meghan hendricks photo editor

Students detailed their experiences receiving care from The Barnes Center to The Daily Orange By Danny Amron asst. news editor

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ust seven minutes before boarding her bus home for winter break, Eva Morris received a call. “I saw a call from Wireless Mobile Syracuse University, and I just knew,” she said. Morris, a freshman in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, took a COVID-19 test on the day of her last final to prepare for an upcoming doctor’s appointment when she arrived home. She was experiencing cold-like symptoms. Morris went to Flanagan Gymnasium for a confirmatory COVID-19

test, where she said a doctor examined a lump she had recently found on her neck. The doctor told her she may have mononucleosis or strep throat. After the confirmatory test came back positive for COVID-19, Morris was sent away to quarantine in Skyhall l with salt packets and cough drops from the Barnes Center at The Arch. After arriving, she initially felt fine. By the second night though, her symptoms worsened. “I was really struggling to breathe,” she said. “And it was just so uncomfortable. I couldn’t eat or couldn’t drink anything. I was just in so much pain.” Morris said that even though no one from the Barnes Center was checking in regularly with the students quarantining in Skyhall I, she was able to get a hold of an on-call doctor from the Barnes Center that Morris said provided her with additional care. Not only did the doctor call in a prescription for penicillin to Walgreens, the doctor woke up early in the morning to pick it up and deliver the prescription, Morris said, because the Department of Public Safety was not conducting deliveries to Skyhall I over winter break. The doctor also brought carnations, cookies, gummy bears and Tylenol to Morris. Morris said that the doctor came into her quarantine room to check in on her as well.

“I honestly teared up because it felt like no one cared that I was in pain,” she said. “They just cared that I had COVID, and (the on-call doctor) really went above and beyond to help me and look after me. My parents and I are still so thankful and overwhelmed at how nice that was.” Morris said she has had good experiences at the Barnes Center in the past, and she understands why her positive test was handled the way it was. She wishes the Barnes Center would prioritize a mechanism for checking in on students. “I was one of the numbers,” she said. Other students, along with Morris, feel that the Barnes Center as an institution can come up short when caring for students. Jenn Kim, a senior in VPA, said she was happy with her experience when removing a birth control implant at the Barnes Center about a year ago. But in the same appointment, they took a test for sexually transmitted diseases with unclear results. Kim said the person they spoke with at the Barnes Center told her over the phone that the person Kim was seeing at the time must have lied to her about not having an STD, despite Kim stating their partner took a test proving otherwise. Kim said the representative did not answer any of her questions, prompting her to end the call. see barnes

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PITTSBURGH — Two weeks ago, ahead of Syracuse’s first matchup with Pittsburgh, head coach Jim Boeheim was asked how concerned he was that SU may not make the NCA A Tou r n a ment . He gave the coach-spea k response: “I’m ROSHAN concerned FERNANDEZ about playing DO THE DA MN THING P i t t s b u r g h right now.” After Syracuse’s double-digit defeat to Pitt on Tuesday, one that can be reasonably characterized as humiliating for the Orange, Boeheim was asked a similar question. This time, his response was more telling of the bleak future for this season. “I’m concerned about winning a game,” Boeheim said. “Are you kidding me? Do you see anything that looks like a tournament team out there? Do you? … We’re concerned about trying to win a game. Period.” Boeheim didn’t explicitly say it, but the odds of Syracuse making the NCAA Tournament following Tuesday’s loss dwindled to almost zero. Like he said, SU’s having serious issues winning singular games. There’s still the possibility of a miracle where Syracuse plays like a completely different team over its last 11 games, or goes on a run and wins the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. But the harsh reality is that the Pittsburgh loss pushed SU to an overall record of 9-11, the first time that Syracuse has ever been two games under .500 in Boeheim’s 46 years as head coach. SU could very likely finish the season below .500 for the first time since 1968 (pre-Boeheim era), too — KenPom projects Syracuse to lose six of its remaining 11 games. Somehow, amid a season that included a loss to Colgate where the Orange gave up 100 points, another defeat to an underperforming rival in Georgetown and countless blown double-digit leads, the Orange managed to stoop even lower. This loss to Pitt was the curtain call. This loss signaled the end of Syracuse’s season. After the defeat against Pittsburgh, which entered the contest with the see fernandez page 4


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