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N • Nursing homes

As nursing home ownership shifts from public to private, complaints of neglect and poor living conditions increase, as was the case at one Syracuse facility.

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O • Glass ceiling

Senior Sammy Steiner created Eyes & Ears, a service agency that connects artists and nonprofits.

EDM artist Elaki was part of the agency’s first partnership.

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Gender and Sexuality columnist Mallory Stokker argues that due to social norms and harmful stereotypes, women are less likely to apply and receive internships Page 5

Stalemate

S • Pay for play

Syracuse head coaches give their opinions on paying college athletes, and whether they should be able to profit off their image and likeness.

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on campus

Protesters interrupt advisory panel

By Sarah Alessandrini asst. copy editor

#NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, will continue to occupy Crouse-Hinds Hall. The group, which is protesting SU’s response to hate incidents on campus, has been occupying the space since Feb. 17. sarah lee asst. photo editor

By Maggie Hicks and Chris Hippensteel the daily orange

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rganizers from #NotAgainSU are pushing to continue negotiations with Syracuse University officials after talks ended last week with several of the movement’s demands unresolved.

The movement, led by Black students, has occupied Crouse-Hinds Hall since Feb. 17 to continue its protest of the university’s response to at least 31 racist, antiSemitic and homophobic incidents that have occurred at or near SU since November.

Protesters met with university officials four times last week to negotiate the movement’s revised demands. After Friday’s negotiation session ended without a resolution, organizers said they’d be available to meet again Monday. An SU official said talks would resume “at a later date.”

#NotAgainSU calls for continued negotiation after SU says it won’t meet further Negotiations have been a tedious and frustrating process for multiple reasons A #NotAgainSU Organizer

SU officials walked back that statement Saturday when Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost John Liu announced the university would end negotiations with student protesters. SU will continue to provide other means for discussion with students, Liu said in an SU News release. #NotAgainSU will continue its occupation of Crouse-Hinds into a fourth week despite the administration ending negotiations, organizers said. SU officials need to resume negotiations with protesters for progress to occur, they said.

“The first and easiest step is to see out negotiations until they are complete,” a protester said. “Students here have worked really hard to prepare for the negotiations, but the administration has not.” #NotAgainSU has said it is a nameless, faceless movement. Organizers have asked see negotiations page 4

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Patients, families allege neglect at nursing home

By Madeleine Davison staff writer

Beulah Mae Jones-Bestman was level-headed. Her younger sister, Gloria Jones-Dykes, remembered how Bestman would talk her down when she was anxious.

“She’d say, ‘Gloria, listen. What is wrong with you? Do you see worry on my face?,’” Dykes said. “She said, ‘Until you see worry on my face, you have nothing to worry about.’”

It’s just horrific, what she went through every day. She never had a good day.

Mary Chappell

daughter of van duyn resident

But in spring 2017, Bestman — then 73 — fell and broke her ankle.

After treatment at Crouse Hospital,

she was discharged for rehab to Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Syracuse in May, according to medical bills. She never went home.

Bestman died that August.

Dykes believes her sister’s final months were painful and humiliating, marked by neglect and unhygienic living conditions at the nursing home.

“I saw worry on my sister’s face at Van Duyn,” Dykes said.

“It broke my heart.”

Dykes, who is 73 and lives in Baldwinsville, New York, is one of many family members and residents at Van Duyn who have raised concerns about the quality of care at the nursing home. Since Feb. 1, 2016, the New York State Department of Health has received more than 500 complaints about Van Duyn, more than twice the state average per bed.

Van Duyn had several see neglect page 4

#NotAgainSU disrupted a meeting with an independent panel on Sunday to urge Syracuse University administration to continue negotiations. #NotAgainSU, a movement led by Black students, is occupying Crouse-Hinds Hall to protest SU’s response to at least 31 hate incidents that have occurred at or near Main Campus since November. Negotiations with university officials on the movement’s revised demands ended Friday without a resolution.

Organizers interrupted the Independent Advisory Panel’s meeting in the main lounge of Ernie Davis Hall on Sunday evening. The panel of four independent experts is reviewing campus climate, diversity and inclusion at SU with a Board of Trustees special committee. The committee and panel formed in response to the hate incidents.

Student organizers asked the panel to advise SU administration to continue meeting with students.

“We have shown throughout this whole process that we are very willing to negotiate. The university has not shown that same good faith,” an organizer said. “We are asking that, in your talk with the administration, you advise them to continue meeting with us, because they walked away from the table.”

The panel said they were unaware that #NotAgainSU felt treated this way and invited students to stay and further express their concerns.

Student organizers told the panel that they were denied outside food, medical supplies and basic hygiene products during their occupation of Crouse-Hinds. The Department of Public Safety sealed off the building Feb. 18, preventing outside food and medicine from entering until the afternoon of Feb. 19.

SU provided lunch and dinner to protesters Feb. 18 and breakfast Feb. 19. Officials said students were free to leave Crouse-Hinds at any time.

“The most pressing thing for us now is the acknowledgement of what happened here,” an organizer said.

Organizers told panel members they hope to see them again tomorrow. #NotAgainSU told administrators after Friday’s negotiations that they would be available to meet again at 4 p.m. on Monday.

“Right now, our biggest recommendation for the university is to continue meeting with student protesters,” an organizer said. scalessa@syr.edu @sarahalessan

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Last week, former Syracuse distance runner Stefanie Slekis completed a marathon shortly after giving birth to her second child.

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Protest continues #NotAgainSU’s occupations of Crouse-Hinds Hall will enter its third week.

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Remembrance SU will honor members of the campus community who have died in the past year.

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In the epicenter See what students who live in Day Hall think about the bias incidents in their residence hall See dailyorange.com

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on campus

SU colleges to vote on redesigned SEM 100 curriculum

By Mira Berenbaum staff writer

Afternoon ensemble CHRISTIAN JAQUAY AND DAN SATO performed at Crouse College on Sunday as part of the Setnor Student Recital Series. Jaquay, a trumpeter, is a student in the Setnor School of Music. The school hosts more than 200 free performances from students, faculty and guest artists in its auditorium each year.

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Violations increase as nursing homes privatize

By Madeleine Davison staff writer

Health and safety violations at Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Syracuse increased after a for-profit company purchased the nursing home in 2013, public records show.

Family members and residents of Van Duyn have raised concerns about the nursing home’s quality of care in recent years. The New York State Department of Health has received more than 500 complaints about the nursing home since 2016, over twice the state’s average per bed.

Onondaga County once owned Van Duyn, but turned over the nursing home in late 2013 to Upstate Services Group, a company that provides administrative services to nursing homes.

Since the company took over Van Duyn, NYSDOH has substantiated an average of 13 complaints of health and safety violations per year between Jan. 1, 2014 and Jan. 1, 2019, according to public records from the department. Between 2009 and 2013, the department substantiated an average of 3.2 each year.

The company’s purchase of Van Duyn mirrors a statewide trend of

for-profit companies purchasing nursing homes that counties and nonprofits formerly owned.

Between November 2014 and November 2019, for-profit companies purchased 19% of all nonprofit nursing homes and 25% of those previously run by government entities, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Privatization of nursing homes is often associated with a drop in quality measures such as citations and staffing. For-profit nursing homes had nearly twice the rate of complaint investigations resulting in citations than their non-profit

and public counterparts, according to NYSDOH data.

Adjusting for the types of residents at each nursing home, the average for-profit nursing home in New York state offered 49 fewer minutes of staff time per resident than the average nonprofit or publicly-run nursing home, without accounting for the size of the nursing home, according to CMS data from November 2019.

Family members of residents at Van Duyn say understaffing and negligence left their loved ones humiliated, in pain and without needed medications or help with daily tasks. see violations page 5

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Professors collaborate on environment projects

By Abby Weiss staff writer

Syracuse University professors are teaming up with academics from across New York state to study and create environmental and energy technologies.

The Syracuse Center of Excellence announced in late February $109,368 in funding for eight research projects as a part of its annual Faculty Fellows program.

The program helps foster collaboration between researchers at different academic institutions, said Kerrie Marshall, assistant director of communications at the center.

Fifteen cross-disciplinary faculty members from SU, SUNY-ESF and other New York colleges are

contributing to the eight projects, according to a press release. The program also allows researchers to collaborate with companies SyracuseCoE partners with.

“Our aim is to bring together a diverse group, specifically with diverse projects, or cross-disciplinary projects,” Marshall said.

“Sometimes we have researchers from more than one institution working together or an architect and an engineer working together.

Diverse disciplines are brought together to further their research.”

The research projects promote sustainable well-being in urban environments, Marshall said.

SUNY-ESF professor Jamie Mirowsky will work with project leaders to measure the air qual-

ity and noise levels around Interstate 81 as the state decides how to redesign its elevated portions, Mirowsky said.

We need to be having these kinds of research, activities and conversations Nina Sharifi

professor of architecture

The New York State Department of Transportation in April chose a community grid option to replace the elevated portion of the I-81 viaduct in Syracuse, which reached the end of its usable life in 2017. The

grid would level the viaduct and reroute traffic along city streets.

The study will be one of the first studies of air pollution around an elevated system, Mirowsky said.

The project’s results can be used to assess the impact of lowering the highway, and can inform residents about what they’re being exposed to, she said.

“One of our focuses right now is, before any sort of construction starts, is that we have really good baseline measurements that we can use to compare farther down the line,” Marshall said.

SUNY-ESF professor Tao Wendong will research how to treat wastewater contaminants that cannot be easily removed by see projects page 4

Syracuse University’s Student Association is working with campus committees to redesign the university’s SEM 100 course.

SEM 100, a mandatory diversity course for freshmen and transfer students, is currently a five-week class that does not count for academic credit. Students have said the current program is ineffective in addressing diversity and inclusion issues at SU. The reformed SEM 100 would be a semester-long one-credit class that would pair with a separate three-credit diversity and inclusion course requirement, said Kira Reed, associate professor of management and chair of the University Senate Committee on Curricula.

If passed, the changes could be implemented beginning in fall 2021, SA vice president Sameeha Saied said. #NotAgainSU, a movement led

by Black students, called for the university to revise SEM 100 in its list of 19 demands presented to Chancellor Kent Syverud in November. The chancellor signed 16 of the demands as written, including the SEM 100 provision, and revised the remaining three.

“What students were demanding through that movement was already what was being aimed toward,” Saied said. “The biggest thing that they did was to let senators and faculty know that this needs to happen now.”

The university has worked to improve the seminar since it launched in fall 2018, Saied said.

SA has been involved in several committees working to revamp SEM 100, including the USen’s ad hoc committee on SEM 100 and the Curriculum Campus Engagement Committee, Saied said.

“One of the biggest issues with this course is that it needs to be approved by the (University Senate) in order to become a course,” Saied said. “Getting something like this to go through is extremely difficult.”

Every school and college at SU has to vote to approve the course before it can be a part of its curriculum, Reed said. The university is working to create a course that will keep students involved and interested, she said.

“Students want to have fun. They don’t just want these intense conversations every week,” Reed said.

“We want to have field trips and other activities in addition to the discussion sections.”

The revised seminar course will be based on lectures, podcasts and performances, Saied said. The sessions will take place during the regular academic day rather than see curriculum page 5

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negotiations not to be identified by name.

During last week’s negotiations, university officials and #NotAgainSU reached agreements on a handful of issues. SU officials committed to reviewing the campus policy towards peaceful protesters and devoting $5 million to scholarships and programs.

SU officials also denied a number of #NotAgainSU’s key demands, including the disarming of Department of Public Safety officers, a public statement acknowledging SU’s complicity in perpetuating white supremacy and the resignation or removal of four SU officials, including Chancellor Kent Syverud.

“Negotiations have been a tedious and frustrating process for multiple reasons,” the organizer said. “The administration has shown that they have come fully unprepared to negotiations, starting with not having people in the room.”

Negotiations between SU and #NotAgainSU cannot move forward until SU issues a statement about its treatment of student protesters, an organizer said. from page 1

neglect high-profile incidents in 2018 alone, from a body that decomposed in a too-hot morgue to a heating malfunction that left residents in rooms as cold as 60 degrees, according to Syracuse.com.

In the past four years, NYSDOH and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have cited the nursing home for violations including failure to protect residents against falls, failure to administer needed medications and unnecessary use of mood-altering drugs.

Dykes kept a journal of her conversations with nurses and administrators at Van Duyn.

Bestman fell multiple times while at Van Duyn, and staff didn’t hear or attend to alarms meant to alert them if she tried to get up on her own, Dykes said. One of the falls, in May 2017, was so severe that Bestman was taken to the emergency room at Crouse, according to bills from Van Duyn.

In July 2017, just weeks before Bestman died, nurses called Dykes to say that Bestman had fallen out of her wheelchair but was not injured.

Pictures of Bestman taken after the fall show what appear to be bruises on her eye and knee.

Dykes attributed these marks to the fall.

I saw worry on my sister’s face at Van Duyn Gloria Dykes

sister of van duyn resident

Between February 2016 and January 2020, Van Duyn received 76 citations from the NYSDOH for quality of life, medical care and safety issues. It was cited five times within that period for significant medical errors, like failing to administer needed medications.

Mary Chappell, the daughter of a deceased former Van Duyn resident, said her mother, Edna, was a victim of just such a medical error.

Chappell asked The Daily Orange not to use her mother’s last name on her lawyer’s advice.

Chappell pointed to medical records showing Van Duyn failed for more than a month to provide Edna with the medication she had been prescribed to control her hypothyroidism.

When Edna was admitted to Van Duyn in July 2018 from St. Joseph’s Hospital, her discharge summary noted that she suffered from dementia and hypothyroidism, a condition in which the body doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormone, according to the Mayo Clinic. Edna had been prescribed levothyroxine for the condition, according to the discharge summary. from page 3

projects traditional methods, he said.

His group will study how to turn shrub willow and other waste products into Biochar, a substance that attracts contaminants, he said.

The long-term goal of the project is to apply the new technology to other wastewater products and attach Biochar onto water filters, he said.

Wendong said New York state has new standards for the amount of emergency contaminants allowed in drinking water. They

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DPS officers sealed off Crouse-Hinds on Feb. 18 and 19, preventing food, medicine and other supplies from entering the building. The building reopened Feb. 20.

SU provided lunch and dinner to organizers on Feb. 18 and breakfast on Feb. 19. University officials said the students were allowed to leave the building at any time and were encouraged to do so.

“We can’t go anywhere if they can’t acknowledge what happened,” another organizer said.

“To brush aside everything that has happened here will only perpetuate more incidents, and not attack the root of what has happened at this institution and its relationship to oppressive systems, especially white supremacy.”

During Friday’s negotiations, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Keith Alford said the university would need until at least the end of the semester to craft such a statement.

After a tense exchange between organizers and SU officials on Friday, administrators said the university would no longer be open to issuing a statement. Liu confirmed this in his statement Saturday.

Organizers have continued to push for this demand, saying it is non-negotiable. The uniUntreated hypothyroidism can cause depression, nerve damage and heart problems, according to the Mayo Clinic.

But Edna’s medical notes from Van Duyn show the nursing home was aware of her hypothyroidism yet failed to provide needed medication until mid-August, when a lab exam showed her thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels had spiked. The spike indicated that her body wasn’t producing enough thyroid hormone.

Chappell said Van Duyn administrators said clinical personnel had missed the medication at intake and the person who made the error no longer worked at Van Duyn.

“It’s clear to me that Van Duyn is at fault and is negligent,” Chappell wrote in a complaint she filed with the nursing home Aug. 29.

“Also in Van Duyn medication list it has her list of (diagnoses) that shows she has thyroid disease. I’m not sure why any health professional who had seen that would not (have) questioned where her thyroid meds were.”

Before she went into the nursing home, Edna had at times acted aggressively due to her dementia, Chappell said. But once she moved to Van Duyn, she became depressed and cried nearly every day.

Medical staff frequently described Edna in their notes as “weepy,” observing on one occasion that, “Resident sleeps most of shift, but when she is awake, she is tearful … staff tries to meet her needs and make her happy, but we have no idea why she is non-stop crying.”

“It’s just horrific, what she went through every day. She never had a good day,” Chappell said. “One day, I went to visit her, and I said, ‘Let’s go outside.’ She loves to be outside in the summertime. She loves the heat. And we would just walk. And we were walking up and down, and she was just crying and crying, ‘I want to go home. I want to go home.’ It just kills you.”

Dykes and Chappell had the sense that their family members were being neglected.

They described feeling desperate, frustrated and powerless to change anything.

Chappell submitted formal grievances with Van Duyn administration, and Dykes said she has discussed her concerns with administrators on multiple occasions. Both said their complaints were acknowledged and circumstances would sometimes improve, but the changes were often temporary and superficial.

“They’ll kind of pat you on the hand, and be like, ‘Oh, we’re going to look into that,’” Chappell said. “Or they’ll give you a generic answer: ‘Oh, we’ll get back to you.’ But it never happens.”

The families said administrators at Van Duyn have met with the Van Duyn Family Council to discuss concerns and potential want to develop a technology to filter out these contaminants that would cause health risks such as cancer if not removed, he said.

Saving energy through smart building controls is the focus of engineering professor Bing Dong’s research. He will research technology such as sensors that change the room temperature and ventilation system based on the number of people in the room.

“People spend about 90% of their time in buildings, their homes, their classrooms and their offices,” Dong said. “Energy building is a very large goal.”

versity should publish the statement by next Wednesday, they said in Friday’s negotiations. #NotAgainSU organizers have also expressed frustration that Syverud has not appeared at the negotiations in person.

Syverud, who has been coordinating SU’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, called into the negotiations March 2 and sent a written statement on Friday, which an SU official read aloud. In his statement, Syverud took full accountability for the university’s response to the protest but declined to provide the names of administrators who advised his decision-making. #NotAgainSU has called for Syverud to issue a public apology. Syverud said in response that he has already apologized for the protesters’ treatment both in person and at a University Senate meeting.

“All of these apologies are sincere,” Syverud said in the statement. “Now is the time to move forward and continue the extensive work required to meet the commitments you have so admirably attained.”

Syverud’s prior apologies were inadequate, organizers said.

During Monday’s negotiations, Syverud

also restated his belief that SU officials should not resign.

Organizers have also questioned why DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado and other campus police officials have not attended any of the negotiations.

“We asked for things about DPS understanding the protocol and disarmament,” the organizer said. “We wanted to have a nuanced conversation about it, and the answer was always just no.”

Maldonado wanted to be at negotiations, but SU decided he wouldn’t attend given #NotAgainSU’s calls for his resignation, Gabe Nugent, deputy general counsel for SU, said during Friday’s negotiations. University officials said they will look into inviting Maldonado to any future negotiations.

While #NotAgainSU has pushed for continued discussions with the university officials, no plans are currently in place for further negotiations.

“We are here for institutional changes, and until those institutional changes take place, we are going to have to continue to be activists and continue to protest things until they are made right,” they said. news@dailyorange.com

Patients and their families have expressed concerns about the living conditions and quality of care provided at the facility. elizabeth billman asst. photo editor

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improvements. The nursing home has also recently overhauled its administration.

In November 2018, Van Duyn hired Amy Mahoney to replace former administrator Pat Deptula, who was removed in the wake of the heating malfunction in March 2018, according to Syracuse.com.

“Some of the residents you mention have been with us for many, many years,” Mahoney said in a May 2019 email statement.

“We understand (the families) want the best for their loved one and again we cannot thank them enough for trusting us year after year.”

Mahoney did not comment on the specific cases raised in this story or on questions regarding medical care, staffing and complaints. She did not immediately respond to a request for an updated comment.

Chappell and Dykes said they are tired of airing their grievances over and over without seeing the lasting changes they believe are necessary.

They both think of other residents, who don’t have the family resources their loved ones did.

“My mother’s roommate … no one ever came to see her,” Chappell said. “It’s just the saddest thing. So sad. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of people up there that no one comes to see them. … You shouldn’t have to live your whole life and that be the end of your life up there.”

Chappell said she intends to keep fighting for change at Van Duyn, despite the personal costs.

“It’s really time consuming, but I think it’s worth it — if nothing else, to get the message out there that you can’t do this,” Chappell said.

“It’s not right. It’s not fair.”

SU architecture professor Daekwon Park will research the development of a hybrid material that consists of agricultural waste and mycelium, a substance in a mushroom, which creates a biodegradable foam that can be used for building insulation, textiles and batteries, he said.

Artificial building materials require a lot of energy to produce and do not degrade, he said.

“You put it on the land and it stays for hundreds of years,” Park said. “And there’s so much waste if you think about how much artificial material is used in insulation in build-

ings, packaging materials, almost everything.”

Another project will analyze approaches to retrofitting existing buildings, said Nina Sharifi, faculty fellow and assistant professor at SU’s School of Architecture. The pilot project will install solar panels on Winding Ridge Way townhouses, she said.

“We need to be having these kinds of research, activities and conversations — people working with battery technology, energy infrastructure and transportation infrastructure,” Sharifi said. “They’re all interconnected.”

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gender and sexuality

Women less confident in applications Professors should allow mental health days off A student life

pplying for jobs and internships is a stressful process.

Spring is primetime for applying and hearing back from jobs and internships, running tensions high. However, gender could be impacting confidence level throughout the application process.

While individuals are different, research finds that women are 16% less likely to apply to a job after viewing it, and generally apply to about 20% fewer jobs than men. There is also a common feeling among women that they must have 100% of the listed job’s criteria, whereas men’s average minimum for applying is about 60% of those qualifications, according to the same study.

One potential reason for this disparity is that women are often taught to be less outwardly confident or assertive.

“As a woman, you’re socialized to follow the rules,” said Morgan Trau, a senior studying broadcast and digital journalism at Syracuse University. Trau is also president of Women in Communications, which aims to empower young women entering the communications industry. “Sometimes when I see job qualifications for an internship or job, if I don’t match that 100%, I’m gonna say ‘Oh, well. It’s against the rules for me,’” Trau said.

Oftentimes, women are subjected to social double standards, in which behavioral traits seen as positive or socially desirable in men are demeaned when women exhibit them.

“If a woman is assertive, she’s seen as aggressive, whereas a man is seen as ‘the man’” Trau said.

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Confidence is a key factor in all stages of the job application process, including applying, writing resumes and cover letters and interviewing. Because it is so important to career success, lacking confidence — or even appearing to lack it — can impede job opportunities.

“What you want to do — and this helps with confidence — is think that these people have a problem, and the problem is this vacancy,” said Kelly Barnett, the director of career development at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications’ Career Development Center. “They are rooting for you, that you are the person that’s going to fill this and solve that problem for them,” she said.

Providing an accurate yet confident account of one’s skills and strengths is important for anyone in the job application process.

However, acquiring the skills to confidently represent yourself can be more of a challenge if you’ve been socialized, as many women are, to be more modest or less self-assured.

“It’s not (that) women can’t move up,” said junior Marissa Goldberg, who is studying marketing at SU and is president of SU’s chapter of The Women’s Network, a student organization dedicated to empowering college women across different majors and fields of study.

“It’s just that we’re less likely to advocate for ourselves.”

Gender-related struggles with confidence can be con-

flated with ideas of masculinity because men have historically held positions of power.

“One of the things that we look out for is this idea of stereotype threat,” said Rebecca Ortiz, an assistant professor of advertising in Newhouse who researches media effects. “We often have a sense of what stereotypes are attached to us,” she said.

“Because we’re aware of cultural stereotypes that might exist, we may be nervous about actually playing into those stereotypes or being that stereotype... So from an individual perspective, it can make women feel that they have to act a certain way to be seen in a good light, or to be considered as a leader,” Ortiz said.

While confidence in one’s ability to perform a job well is essential in any field, it’s important to take a close look at standards of what truly makes a good professional or a strong leader. Becoming confident shouldn’t mean changing one’s personality to act more “like a man,” or more in accordance with standards of masculinity. Rather, confidence should stem from being the best version of yourself.

Taking the time to think about how stereotypes and social norms may affect your view of yourself and your self-esteem can change your application habits and improve your confidence.

Mallory Stokker is a junior magazine journalism major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at mstokker@ syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter at @_malloryyrose_.

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or students, there may be times when you wake up and feel the need to stay home and take care of yourself. The new era of self-care is promoted through cute face FERYAL masks, bath NAWAZ bombs, and N EWS W ITH a wine night A N EDGE with the girls.

However, the conversation around self-care lacks when it comes to an open dialogue between students and professors.

School can be stressful and hard to balance and there is a lack of understanding or communication about mental health for students.

Students should be able to take a mental health or self-care day when needed. Professors should have policies that allow students to take a mental health day when needed and encourage open communication and understanding about the topic with students.

There is a stigma surrounding mental health and that talking about it is taboo. What some fail to realize is that every person has to take care of both their mental health and physical health. Going to the gym, eating healthy, and drinking an adequate amount of water are necessary to keep good physical health.

Likewise, resting one’s mind and body, taking the appropriate steps to cope with emotions, and taking a break from stress-related activities are important for mental health.

Yet, it is easier for a student to turn in a doctor’s note stating they are sick or injured and need to miss class than an email from a student or counselor stating a student just needs one day off to mentally recoup.

Physical health and mental health should be treated on the same basis as both are important and can affect class attendance and performance.

“From a student perspective, I can see it’s really scary to ask a professor if they can have more time to handle something because of a mental health issue, especially with a new professor they don’t know,” said Charles Sprock, an instructor at Syracuse University’s University College and an active attorney. “For a professor it can be scary too, as university employees we can only go so far to inquiring.”

If professors are more vocal about understanding mental health and allow students to take a day off for self-care, then students will be better equipped to perform well academically. Some professors have very strict attendance policies that prohibit

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students from even missing class due to physical illness, barring a note from Health Services. Due to the social taboo of talking about mental health, some students fear emailing teachers to ask for a mental health day or for other mental health reasons.

If students think something is wrong physically, mentally believe them, and if it becomes a problem, then talk with them Emily Thorson assistant professor of political science

For example, strict attendance and assignment submission policies fail to acknowledge the many students who experience Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Syracuse is often without consistent sun for days or weeks, causing students to become unmotivated. They also fail to acknowledge people who cannot get out of bed in the morning due to stress, anxiety, or depression.

It is already hard for students to admit they may need help to themselves, so asking a professor for help can be petrifying.

Emily Thorson, an assistant professor of political science at SU, said mental health is just as valid as an excuse as physical health when it comes to missing class or needing help with assignments.

“If students think something is wrong physically, mentally — believe them, and if it becomes a problem, then talk with them.

They’re people, have a conversation,” she said.

Mental health is not discussed enough in educational institutions because the conversation can be uncomfortable. However, by normalizing the conversation that everyone has mental health they need to take care of, students will be able to be better understood by professors. Additionally, by allowing students to take mental health days, professors can ensure that their students are performing to the best of their abilities academically.

Feryal Nawaz is a junior political science major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at fnawaz@syr.edu.

She can be followed on Twitter @feryal_nawaz.

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violations Gloria Dykes’ sister Beulah Mae JonesBestman was discharged to Van Duyn in spring 2017. Bestman died that August. Her living conditions at Van Duyn were smelly, unsanitary and undignified, Dykes said.

Dykes saved pictures from June 2017 that show trash strewn around on the bathroom floor of what she said was her sister’s room.

Pictures also show a ring of scum lining the inside of a toilet and a stained hospital gown discarded in a corner.

One day, Dykes said she walked into her sister’s room and found her lying with her gown pulled up, her back exposed.

“How inhumane, how degrading — isn’t that awful?” Dykes said of her sister’s experience at Van Duyn. “No one deserves any kind of neglect like this.”

Dykes said sometimes the food her sister was served was moldy or unfit to eat. Between February 2016 and January 2020, NYSDOH repeatedly cited Van Duyn for nutrition- and food-related violations, including a citation in July 2019 for failing to serve food that was “palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.”

Mary Chappell, the daughter of a deceased former Van Duyn resident, Edna, said her mother fell often after being admitted to Van Duyn in July 2018. On her lawyer’s advice, Chappell asked The Daily Orange not to use her mother’s last name.

Several falls are noted in Edna’s medical records within her first month at Van Duyn, including one in which she suffered

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a “3x2 cm skin tear” on her right elbow.

Chappell took pictures shortly after one of the falls, showing her mother with a large bruise covering the side of her face.

Only after multiple falls did staff give Edna wedge cushions to keep her from rolling off her bed at night.

Chappell’s mother also lost more than 15 pounds during her time at Van Duyn. This was partly because staff didn’t give Edna the help she needed to open packages, and spoon food into her mouth, Chappell said.

“If we weren’t there for her meals, she never would have eaten,” Chappell said. “They’d just come in, plop the tray down, and leave.”

Van Duyn Administrator Amy Mahoney said in a May 2019 email statement that some of the nursing home’s residents have been with Van Duyn for many years.

“We understand (the families) want the best for their loved one and again we cannot thank them enough for trusting us year after year,” the statement read.

Mahoney did not comment on the specific cases raised in this story or on questions regarding medical care, staffing and complaints. She did not respond to multiple requests for an updated comment.

The effect of understaffing in nursing homes is apparent to Jeff Parker, regional coordinator of the New York State Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, a state-mandated team of resident advocates. The program, mandated by state law, sends volunteers into every nursing home to investigate complaints and mediate between residents, families and administrators.

It’s difficult for the ombudsman program or NYSDOH to enforce appropriate staffing levels, Parker said. That’s because New York, like many states, doesn’t have a required minimum staffing level. Current state law requires only that nursing homes have “sufficient” staffing, according to The Buffalo News.

It makes sense that for-profit nursing homes would likely have the minimal amount of staff necessary, said Parker.

“The privately-owned facilities are for profit.

So, their goal is to make money. They look to cut costs — not quality, necessarily — but they look to cut costs wherever they can,” Parker said.

Staffing levels are important because residents often depend on others for their daily needs, said Robyn Grant, director of public policy and advocacy at the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, a nonprofit group that promotes residents’ rights.

When facilities are short-staffed, residents don’t always get the help they need going to the bathroom, eating, drinking and moving around, Grant said. This can lead to bed sores, infections from sitting in soiled clothing, and malnutrition or dehydration when residents aren’t able to feed themselves.

“It’s not just the physical impact, because there’s a real psychological and mental toll that this takes,” Grant said. “When [residents] have to lie in their own waste, there’s just a huge lack of dignity — they’re just embarrassed, humiliated.”

The National Consumer Voice is one of several long-term care advocacy organizations that support requiring a 4.1-hour minimum total time with nursing staff per resident.

The specific number comes from a 2001 CMS report that studied the link between staffing and quality of care.

The report found that care improved with staff increases “up to and including” 2.8 hours with nursing aides, 1.3 hours with licensed practical nurses and registered nurses combined and 0.75 hours with registered nurses alone.

Like many for-profit nursing homes, Van Duyn falls short of the 4.1-hour mark. In particular, residents at Van Duyn only get an average of about 25 minutes per day with registered nurses, just more than half of the recommended minimum.

Van Duyn is far from unique. Of the 606 New York state nursing homes that reported staffing data to CMS in 2019, just over 17% met the 4.1-hour staffing standard.

Lawmakers in Albany have considered mandating the 4.1-hour minimum CMS recommended, but instead decided to fund a NYSDOH study that would look at how staff ratios affect quality of care, according to The Buffalo News. Industry groups oppose minimum requirements in part because of the cost of hiring additional workers.

NYSDOH announced in February that it was finalizing its study on staff ratios and expecting to release the report shortly, The Daily Gazette reported. The study has not yet been released on the NYSDOH website as of March 8.

“The big problem across the board is staffing, and not having enough,” Parker said. “I find that virtually every issue that comes up, in some manner, filters back to that.”

Students want to have fun. They don’t just want these intense conversations every week.

groups to collect data on SEM 100, Reed said.

The committee also hosted an open forum in January to hear student feedback on the course, she said.

The committee found that only 20% of students in last year’s SEM 100 course read the seminar’s required reading, she said.

“It’s going to be challenging to find any one book that will capture what we have, so podcasts and performances related to the topic and lectures is what students and

academic advisers have told us works best,” Reed said.

SA would like to send a letter to every SU school and college’s curriculum committee encouraging them to adopt the new requirement, Saied said at last Monday’s SA meeting.

The organization is seeking feedback from its members before moving forward with the letter, she said.

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curriculum the evenings, as SEM 100 classes are now, she said.

Reed said students and faculty from diverse backgrounds and from every school and college have been included in conversations about updating the seminar.

The USen ad hoc committee has collected over 4,000 surveys and has held several focus

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Freelance illustrator to speak to students

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Yelena Bryksenkova never anticipated becoming a graphic design illustrator. But she found her passion after completing a vocational art program in her final years of high school.

The Montreal-based freelance illustrator will lecture in the Shemin Auditorium on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. as part of Syracuse University’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series. During her lecture, Bryksenkova will share her experiences as a freelancer in the commercial art industry. She hopes to advise SU students about “the real world” of art as a profession.

After completing a vocational art program in high school, Bryksenkova applied to Maryland Institute College of Art in hopes of becoming a graphic designer. Since then, she has worked with several companies including Anthropologie, ESPN and The New York Times.

Just being able to draw is definitely not enough, you need to have some entrepreneurial skills Yelena Bryksenkova illustrator

EKALI headlined a concert at The Wescott Theater in conjunction with local nonprofit ARISE through the work of Eyes & Ears.

Created by senior Sammy Steiner, the agency seeks to connect musicians and nonprofits. will fudge staff photographer

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as part of his A World Away Tour. A portion of the merchandise sales at the concert was donated to ARISE, a central New York organization that supports people with disabilities and offers health and wellness programs, including school-based mental health therapy.

Eyes & Ears is a project that Steiner has taken on for an independent study. She started the business herself, with guidance from her professor Bill Werde, the director of the Bandier Program, and Linda Dickerson Hartsock, the executive director of Blackstone LaunchPad. Steiner thought of the name Eyes & Ears last year, before starting her independent study. The name symbolizes being attuned to one’s surroundings rather than just the physical functions of the eyes and ears, she said.

Steiner is particularly passionate about environmental

Eyes & Ears connects artists to local nonprofits

n top of her love for music, Syracuse University senior Sammy Steiner hopes to have a career that helps society.

“I couldn’t imagine myself going into the workforce and doing a job where I wasn’t giving back to society,” Steiner said. “And in that, I was like, ‘Well, if it doesn’t exist already, I guess I have to create it.’”

Steiner, a senior in the Bandier Program in Recording and Entertainment Industries, started a service agency called Eyes & Ears that facilitates partnerships with music artists and nonprofit organizations. Eyes & Ears recently facilitated its first partnership: a collaboration between Ekali, an electronic dance music artist, and ARISE. On Saturday night, Ekali performed at The Westcott

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Bryksenkova said that after declaring an illustration major at MICA, she felt that she found a field that best suited her interests. She praised the institution’s curriculum because they gave her valuable knowledge of both the principles and business of illustration.

“Just being able to draw is definitely not enough. You need to have some entrepreneurial skills,” Bryksenkova said.

Bryksenkova uses an acryla gouache paint for many of her works, according to her website. This type of paint is an opaque, matte acrylic paint that allows for quick-drying and cannot be reactivated once it has dried. Bryksenkova said she takes pride in being adept at both digital and handmade art.

With both skills, she typically starts with a painting or drawing and will then finish it digitally.

“I’m so grateful that I know how to do things by hand,” Bryksenkova said. “Like, people really appreciate it. There’s an old-world quality to it, and it’s a bit more time-consuming at times especially when a job has a quick turnaround, but it’s very meditative to work by hand.”

While Bryksenkova’s work mostly depicts everyday life, she said that she is more concerned in conveying a mood to listeners than being a mirror to the real-life appearance of the see illustrator page 8

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John Krasinski speaks about sequel to ‘A Quiet Place’

By Amy Nakamura feature editor

This past weekend, John Krasinski spoke with The Daily Orange about his upcoming movie, “A Quiet Place Part II,” which is set to hit theaters on March 20. Although he’s usually wary of sequels, Krasinski said he wanted to expand the world and metaphors of parenthood he created in the first movie.

The second movie is set in the same dystopian world where aliens prey on humans by listening to sound. The Abbott family must try to survive within these restricting parameters and beyond the comforts of their home.

Krasinski wrote, directed and acted in both the first movie and the upcoming sequel.

Emily Blunt, award-winning actress and wife of Krasinski, stars in the movie as Evelyn Abbott, the mother of Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe).

About directing and shooting with his wife, Krasinski says that Blunt is the greatest collaborator that he’s ever worked with on set.

“She’s all in on a project. So, she doesn’t just show up for her scene, she shows up for everybody,” he said. “I felt like I had my producer, codirector, co-writer and star all in one person.”

The first movie was shot mostly in Pawling, New York in the Hudson Valley region.

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sustainability, but the agency she created doesn’t limit artists to a specific cause, she said.

“It’s at the discretion of the artists as to what they want to explore, whether it’s a social or environmental issue or a cause,” Steiner said.

Ekali partnered with ARISE to support its mental health and wellness programs. Steiner said that she researched Ekali before reaching out to his management and saw that he has been vocal about mental health, including sharing his own experiences.

“He’s really authentic and really transparent and has used his story to then connect to his fans even better,” Steiner said.

ARISE had an information table set up next to the merchandise table at the concert. Carissa Guthrie and Catherine Metz, two clinicians who work in the mental health and wellness department at ARISE, provided information about the organization at the table.

Guthrie said that by speaking out about mental health, music artists can empower fans to seek the help that they might need.

“I think it really helps fans as well because a lot of the time people are afraid to step up themselves or afraid to get the help that they might need,” Guthrie said.

Abby Hawkins, the merchandising manager for Ekali’s current tour, said that music artists can use their platforms to inform and help others.

Hawkins said that many people connect to Ekali’s chosen cause of mental health and wellness.

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York. Krasinski said the former steel mill had about 23,000 employees and its own fire and police departments. This, Krasinski said, is what drew him to the area.

“It’s a universal thing, and I think it speaks to so many people. And we can all relate whether personally or if we know someone,” she said.

At the concert held at The Westcott, Ekali took the stage around 11:15 p.m., following Grayson Repp, Juelz and William Black.

Audience members danced to the songs Ekali played, some swinging light-up hula hoops and poi balls.

In the middle of his performance, Ekali said that some of the profits from merchandise sales would be donated to support mental health awareness.

After graduating, Steiner hopes to get a job related to the social impact of music. Steiner is considering expanding Eyes & Ears’ reach to national organizations, but is currently focusing on organizations in Syracuse.

“For right now, I really wanted to leverage the fact that I’m in Syracuse and the fact that Syracuse does have these social and economic injustices,” Steiner said.

For its next partnership, Eyes & Ears is working with another nonprofit and a student artist on a mixtape release party. She said that it’s been a gratifying experience to see artists use their platforms to promote causes they care about.

“Especially if you’re an artist and you have a fan base, a platform that reaches millions or thousands of people, oftentimes your fan base is bigger than even the members of like nonprofit organizations,” Steiner said. “So, I figured if you can mobilize your dedicated fan base, then you can really make a change.” ackrayna@syr.edu

“You get to see these places that, to be honest, drip with nostalgia,” he said. “These buildings have their own stories, and they were telling their stories in every shot, so all I

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illustrator subjects. To achieve this, Bryksenkova added that she adjusts the color palette of a given work to “fit the illustration better.”

As for her inspiration, she said this stems from the beauty that life offers her, whether that be through household items, local scenery or even her dog.

“Representing beautiful objects through my work helps me internalize them a little bit,” she said. “When something’s really beautiful, I kind of have a hard time dealing with it … I need to possess it somehow, and drawing it kind of relieves that feeling. It feels like possession, like somehow it’s part of me now.”

Her artwork is also a visual timeline of her migrations from her country of origin, Russia, to several American cities. When she lived in Los Angeles, she incorporated many sun-bleached, terracotta colors into her work.

Now, having relocated to Montreal, the style of apartments and life in Montreal complement her artistic vision, she said.

One of her best friends and fellow illustrator, Becca Stadtlander, whom she met in a

have to do is point the camera.”

Krasinski said he based the movie’s setting on the steel mill community in Pittsburgh where his father and grandfather worked.

Growing up, he said that he’d always hear stories about the comradery in the steel community. Throughout the movie, he said he wanted to make a statement that no matter how individualistic current society might become, having a strong community is essential.

“I hope that we don’t ever lose sight of not only how important community is, but how vital it is, and that we will never be able to get through anything if we don’t do it together,” Krasinski said.

The first movie raked in more than $340 million, according to Box Office Mojo. On its opening weekend, “A Quiet Place” grossed about $50 million after the movie had a budget of $17 million.

Krasinski said fans of the first movie felt very connected to the Abbott family, and he wanted to continue the message of how powerful family can be with a sequel. For Krasinski, this movie was a “love letter” to his kids about parenting.

“I would say the second movie is a letter that I wrote to them about all my hopes and dreams and what they could be,” he said. “I hope they’re as brave and courageous in these dark, dark times — that they would be the brave ones to light a candle in the middle of all that darkness.”

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sculpture class in MICA, was last month’s guest lecturer for the series. The two did not know that they would be lecturing on the same campus a month apart from each other.

When Ginnie Hsu, an assistant professor in the illustration department, found out the two knew each other, Hsu said she would have had the two speak together.

During her brief visit to SU, Stadtlander had the opportunity to see students’ work. She said she was impressed with the quality of the work of the students in SU’s illustration department, and the fact that they knew what illustration career paths they wanted to pursue.

Stadtlander told Bryksenkova of the caliber of the art projects at SU and said to keep in mind that the students are very receptive, very attentive and have a lot of questions.

Hsu said Bryksenkova was invited to give the lecture because she has a decade of experience in the industry, where she has worked both as a freelancer and with an agent.

Additionally, Hsu wanted SU art students to have an opportunity to network with illustrators that are in the industry right now, like Stadtlander and Bryksenkova. jchung19@syr.edu

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No. 4 SU rolls past No. 18 Virginia Tech for 6th-straight win

By Alex Hamer staff writer

At the Crown Lacrosse Classic in Charlotte, North Carolina, No. 4 Syracuse (7-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) opened conference play with an 18-8 win over No. 18 Virginia Tech (7-2, 1-1) to extend its winning streak to six. Coming into the game, the Hokies were on a six-game winning streak of their own.

Heading into Sunday’s match, SU head coach Gary Gait was wary of the potential issues VT’s No. 1-ranked scoring defense could pose for the Orange offense.

“They have a pressure player when the ball’s up top, (who) just follows the ball, with

three players just behind that zone up behind the pressure,” Gait said. “It’s very unique.”

Early on, it appeared Virginia Tech’s pressure defense was working, with the Hokies constantly fouling to stymie Syracuse attacks.

The first seven minutes featured more yellow cards (three) than goals (two).

But after two goals in under a minute from midfielders Vanessa Costantino and Sierra Cockerille, cracks began to show in the Hokies defense that has allowed just six goals per game this season. To that point, Emily Hawryschuk, who entered the day tied with the Hokies’ Paige Petty at 35 atop the NCAA goalscoring chart, had been kept quiet.

An Asa Goldstock save led to a Syracuse

fast break, with the ball eventually finding Hawryschuk, who dished to Megan Carney on the doorstep to extend the Orange’s lead to three. Minutes later, Virginia Tech’s highpressure strategy backfired, as Mary Clare McCarthy was shown a red card for a hit to Hawryschuk’s neck and Hokie fans booed the referee’s decision.

Hawryschuk responded with two quick goals, as Syracuse began to display its typical offensive potency. The Orange ended the half on a 5-1 run, with seven different players scoring in the half.

Hawyrschuk added three assists in that span.

The second half was more of the same for Syracuse, as its No. 4 ranked scoring defense kept Petty and the Hokie offense quiet, forc-

ing 17 turnovers and scooping up 24 ground balls, compared to the Hokie defense’s eight.

Meanwhile, Hawryschuk’s fourth of the game with just under 10 minutes left gave the Orange a 10-goal advantage — beginning a running clock.

Hawryschuk and Meaghan Tyrrell both finished with four goals, while Carney also recorded a hat-trick. And with seven points on the day, Hawryschuk moved into sixth alltime in the Orange’s scoring charts.

Syracuse will look to extend its winning streak to seven on Thursday, as it travels to Charlottesville and faces Virginia as conference play continues. athamer@syr.edu

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Syracuse takes weekend series against UNC with 8-6 win Syracuse (10-10, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) won its first ACC series of the year on Sunday, taking down North Carolina, 8-6, in the decisive third game.

The Orange have won four of their last five games after struggling in season-opening tournaments and took down the Tar Heels (9-13, 3-3) behind a four-run seventh inning.

Sophomore Jamie Gregg went 4-for-5 with one RBI on the afternoon to lead an 11-hit offen-

sive performance by the Orange. SU ace Alexa Romero took a no-decision with two earned runs in 3.1 innings, but freshman Catie Dobbs picked up the win in 2.2 innings of work.

UNC opened the scoring in the first frame despite not recording a hit. Romero walked Campbell Hutcherson, who reached third on a steal and a throwing error. Later in the inning, Megan Dray stole second after reaching on an error, and Hutcherson was called safe at home on an obstruction by freshman Jude Padilla.

At the bottom of the third, Dray hit a two-run

home run to extend Tar Heels’ lead.

Syracuse responded with three runs in the top of the fourth to take the lead. Gregg scored Rebecca Clyde on a single, and Neli CasaresMaher drove in two more on a triple. The Tar Heels tallied another unearned run in the sixth inning when Katie Perkins reached first on a passed ball strikeout. She landed at third after a subsequent single and scored on a sacrifice fly.

Down to its final two outs, SU showed resilience with a four-run seventh inning to win the game. Singles by Lailoni Mayfield and

Gabby Teran scored three runs, and a groundout by Miranda Hearn added a fourth. Dobbs struggled to close the game, allowing a walk and a double to bring the tying run to the plate, but freshman Kaia Oliver shut the door. She grounded out Lexi Godwin, which scored the runner from third, and then struck out two more to secure the save.

The Orange will head to Memphis, Tennessee, for the Tiger Classic next weekend — their final nonconference tournament of the year.

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Gary Gait, Women’s Lacrosse

When asked about the proposed legislation in New York that would pay college athletes evenly based on each athletic department’s annual revenue, Bell had no comment.

somewhere in there maybe there will be a compromise, but I don’t have the answer to that.”

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coaches to a point where people are getting $20,000 here, $10,000, $15,000, $20,000,” Boeheim said. “If they go here, they’re going to get a $40,000 commercial. Because that’s what’s going to happen.”

“I don’t see it,” Boeheim added. “I don’t see how it’s good.”

Here’s how the rest of the head coaches at Syracuse see it.

Dino Babers, Football

“First of all, I think it’s good that people can use their own likenesses for financial gain,” Babers told Brent Axe on ESPN radio in October. “That’s awesome, and kind of the American way.”

“From the NCAA standpoint, we gotta be careful, because it’s going to be really interesting how they balance it out for everyone,” Babers said in that interview. “Because if you’re talking about a quarterback or running back getting benefits, you know, it’s interesting that they probably wouldn’t get those benefits if it wasn’t for an O-lineman.

John Desko, Men’s Lacrosse

“I guess we’ve talked about that a little bit, not a lot because I’m not sure it would affect our sport,” Desko said. “I’m not so sure how many would pay for the likeness of a lacrosse player, but I’m sure maybe there’s a couple locally that would be interested. But it’s all speculation for me at this point.”

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slekis friend brought up the idea of running at the Olympic trials. Slekis ran the option by her midwife. Since she hadn’t suffered any setbacks while running pregnant, Slekis was told there weren’t any major risks in running.

Her original due date was 11 days before the trials, so Slekis ended up having more time to prepare. Friends urged that she could participate in the event, but she still laughed at what seemed impossible.

“I kinda just accepted the reality that I had qualified for the trial but wouldn’t get to run with my due date being February 18th and the trials being February 29th,” Slekis said.

“There was just no way.”

But 48 hours before the trials, Slekis woke up and ran 2.5 miles — her only run since giving birth. Two days later, she was one of 700 men and women lined up at the start line in Atlanta.

“Oh my god, I’m going to do this,” Slekis

“I actually haven’t even thought about it, so it doesn’t affect our team. So haven’t even worried about it, haven’t really put any time into that,” Gait said.

Quentin Hillsman, Women’s Basketball

“The hard thing about college is this: You come to college, and you’re an athlete, and you work hard, play for your university,” Hillsman said.

“I have no problem with players being compensated fairly. And I believe in that. I think that some of the things that they’re doing for cost of attendance and things like that has accomplished that. So, whatever the powers that be rule on that, I’m good with it,” Hillsman said.

Nicky Adams, Women’s Soccer

Adams has been involved in college sports for more than 20 years. As a player in the late-1990s, Adams led Texas A&M to two Big 12 titles and was nominated for the Herman Award — the women’s soccer version of the Heisman Trophy — twice.

Despite her experience, Adams said she doesn’t have a strong opinion on the issue, calling it a “crazy topic where there’s so much that goes into it.”

“We’re still trying to figure everything out,” Adams said.

Brien Bell, Cross Country/Track and Field Bell said his view aligns with Wildhack and he takes the university’s stance on the issue.

thought to herself.

Before the race, Slekis spoke with two other qualifiers who ran the race pregnant and told them her story. When she ran the Louisiana marathon while pregnant, she received two types of cheers from spectators: one for participating and another when they realized she was expecting.

At the trials, Slekis figured they’d wonder why she neared last place with no visual sign of pregnancy anymore.

Instead, the cheers increased as she fell behind near the end. “It was deafening,’’ Slekis said. “You couldn’t even hear your watch at the mile markers.” She went on to finish 389th with a 3:14:00 time, the latest finish added to a running career that’s spanned more than a decade. The Olympics in 2024 remain an ultimate goal. So is winning a marathon.

But in the moment, none of that mattered. She just wanted to enjoy the race with her family. skrivera@syr.edu

Ange Bradley, Field Hockey

Bradley has been coaching college field hockey since 1991, but she said she’s “really not familiar with the rules or laws” of paying college athletes. Bradley noted that paying players is “beyond what we do,” but “to have an education is an outstanding opportunity for anyone in life.”

As a non-revenue sport, field hockey likely wouldn’t be a sport significantly affected by college athletes being able to profit off their names, images and likenesses. The proposed legislation in New York, though, would make Bradley’s players compensated just as much as Boeheim’s.

Still, Bradley said she hasn’t thought about that possibility.

Paul Flanagan, Ice Hockey

“I don’t look at it probably like coach Boeheim, coach Babers and coach Desko, I guess. In our sport I don’t think it’s that much of an issue. So, do I think that some of these kids in these more high-profile sports are deserving of some type of remuneration? I don’t know,” Flanagan said.

Flanagan added: “You look at a school like ours, or just down the road a school like Colgate, that’s got all these Division I sports, how are schools going to do it financially?... In some way shape or form some of these elite athletes, they’re rewarded eventually…I think that

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Leonid Yelin, Volleyball

“I know what you want to ask, but you know, I don’t even have (an) answer,” Yelin said. “You can ask, but I don’t have – I don’t think so, not me. I don’t think anyone has (an) answer (right) now.”

“I’m just telling you in the future. You can ask anyone (on the team). I can tell you, nobody is going to give you an answer just because nobody knows (the solution),” Yelin said.

Shannon Doepking, Softball

“I think softball is so far off from that, that it is not really something that we think about, to be honest. I think softball is just a different beast in its own that it is not something that I think is going to affect us in any way,” Doepking said. “So honestly, it is not something that I think about ever.”

Younes Limam, Tennis

“Quite honestly, right now, we have more things to worry about,” Limam said. “I haven’t really thought about it too much.”

Dave Reischman and Luke McGee, Men’s and Women’s Rowing

Reischman “respectfully” declined to comment, and McGee did not respond when asked whether college athletes should get paid.

Syracuse men’s soccer head coach Ian McIntyre could not be reached for comment. sports@dailyorange.com @DOSports

STEFANIE SLEKIS (LEFT) ran in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials just four weeks after giving birth to her second child. courtesy of stefanie slekis

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Syracuse head coaches share their opinions on whether college athletes should be compensated

I don’t see it. I don’t see how it’s good.

Jim Boeheim men’s basketball

I think it’s good that people can use their own likenesses for financial gain. That’s awesome, and kind of the American way.

Dino Babers football

I’m not sure it would affect our sport.

John Desko men’s lacrosse

I have no problem with players being compensated fairly.

And I believe in that.

Quentin Hillsman women’s basketball

Story By The Daily Orange Sports Staff Illustration by Sarah Allam illustration editor

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mong the biggest controversies in sports is the ongoing debate over whether the NCAA should compensate college athletes.

Across the country, states are beginning to pass legislation that would force the NCAA to reform its structure and redefine amateurism.

In California, the recently passed Fair Pay to Play Act allows college athletes to hire agents and make money off endorsements. That and

other ongoing proposals, including in New York, forced the NCAA — which annually reports more than $1 billion in revenue — to respond.

In late October, the NCAA’s board of governors unanimously voted to move toward allowing players to profit off their names, image and likeness.

Syracuse Director of Athletics John Wildhack said in a statement, “We appreciate and support the NCAA Board of Governors’ recent action that paves the way for student-athletes to benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness in a manner consistent with the collegiate model.”

As it stands now, college athletes aren’t allowed to receive compensation aside from

their scholarships. In 2017, Central Florida’s kicker was ruled ineligible because he made money off his YouTube channel.

After the NCAA’s October decision, Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim addressed the issue after a preseason scrimmage against Carleton for five minutes and nine seconds, then walked away from the podium without taking followup questions. He called the situation a “real difficult puzzle” and said allowing players to profit would stir more inequality and other unintended consequences.

“It’s a good idea, but it’s a bad idea if it gets

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Former SU runner finishes marathon 4 weeks after giving birth

By Skyler Rivera staff writer

Stefanie Slekis wasn’t supposed to give birth for another month, but as she drove her husband to the New Orleans airport on Jan. 29, the contractions started.

The Nicholls State University cross country coach and former Syracuse long-distance runner had cruised through her second pregnancy without complications and stayed active by running regularly.

Just 10 days earlier, she completed a marathon in Louisiana and was slated to race in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials four weeks later.

The pair turned around and drove to a nearby hospital for tests. When Slekis went into labor, one thought remained in the back of her mind.

“If I have the baby now maybe my midwife will let me start the race,” Slekis recalled.

Others asked the same question.

You can make a seven-day turnaround, a coaching friend joked in

December when Slekis’s due date was Feb. 18. Be careful, a running reporter warned when Slekis hinted she planned to complete the full Olympic trial marathon. Slekis ran just 2.5 miles after giving birth before beating the cut-off time at the Marathon Trials by exactly one minute. She was one of 13 former Syracuse runners who raced in the event and finished second-to-last among those who made the cut, but still completed the whole 26.2-mile course in Atlanta with her newborn child present.

“I knew that it was really difficult at the end with minimal training, my goal was just the under that cut off time,” Slekis said. “And then obviously I had to be a little bit more ambitious.”

Slekis initially qualified for the trials by running a 2:42:24 at Grandma’s marathon in Minnesota last June. Even though she started coaching college runners after graduating from Syracuse, Slekis maintained a personal running career on the side. She was the first

recruit that signed when Chris Fox and Brien Bell became the head and assistant coaches at Syracuse in 2005. “Patient zero,” Bell called her.

Slekis’ specialty was half and full marathons, and last fall she ran two half marathons while pregnant. In January, she ran the Louisiana marathon 23 weeks pregnant, finishing fifth in the women’s category.

“I was surprised at how fast I was,” Slekis said.

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