April 23, 2015

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N • Down to a science

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P • Bottoms up

The Educational Model Program on Water-Energy Research at Syracuse University is the recipient of a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Page 3

Mayfest is here and that means live music and plenty of alcohol. Check out Pulp’s guide to making the best jungle juice on the block. Page 9

S • Getting his chance

Bobby Wardwell gave up 10 goals on 13 shots in one half against UNC on April 11. The senior gets another chance against the Tar Heels on Friday at PPL Park. Page 20

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Details of plan revealed

MENTAL HEALTH SERIES PART 3 OF 3

DOCTORS’ ORDERS

Sasaki Associates shares preliminary Campus Master Plan By Justin Mattingly asst. news editor

Images of an academic promenade, a university promenade and a renovated Carrier Dome were on display Tuesday at a presentation regarding preliminary findings for Syracuse University’s Campus Master Plan.

Nearly three years after adding full-time psychiatric services, SU is still assessing best way to meet student needs

what is the campus master plan?

Editor’s note: This three-part series explores the role of mental health services on college campuses, both nationally and at Syracuse University.

The Campus Master Plan is part of the Fast Forward initiative and will guide the university in infrastructure decisions moving forward. About 100 members of the SU community gathered in the Milton Atrium in the Life Sciences Complex on Wednesday to see the ideas presented at an open house by Sasaki Associates, a Massachusetts-based architecture firm hired by SU. The preliminary ideas include the creation of the university and academic promenade, and renovations to key campus buildings. There is no timetable for the implementation of the ideas because of other factors, said Lou Marcoccia, SU’s chief financial officer. The Campus Master Plan is part of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Fast Forward initiative. Another part of Fast Forward is the Academic Strategic Plan, which “everything branches off,” Marcoccia said. Funding the planned changes is “complex” and requires having the Campus Master Plan and the Academic Strategic Plan see fast

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By Jessica Iannetta staff writer

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photo illustration by frankie prijatel photo editor

s Madeleine Slade stood in the bright sunlight on the Quad last September watching students mill about between classes, one of her friends spotted her and walked over. “Hey, where did you come from?” Slade’s friend asked. “You don’t want to know,” she replied. Slade, a junior illustration and women’s and gender studies dual major, had spent about four hours waiting to see a psychiatrist at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. She visited the Syracuse University Counseling Center earlier that day when the anxiety medication her hometown psychiatrist had prescribed her stopped working. Her panic attacks had returned and Slade said she began to experience suicidal ideation. The Counseling Center gave her an emergency appointment but told her she would need to schedule a regular counseling appointment and then get a referral to see the SU psychiatrist. The process, she was told, would take about two weeks. Slade told them she couldn’t wait that long and was referred to St. Joseph’s. Psychiatric services at SU have become an increasing visible topic of debate on campus in the last few months. THE General Body, a coalition of SU student organizations, included

the expansion and improvement of psychiatric services in its list of demands and grievances that served as the centerpiece for the organization’s 18-day sit-in last November. But while students have advocated for more psychiatric services, nearly three years after adding full-time psychiatric services for the first time, administrators said they’re not sure adding more staff is needed. Ben Domingo, director of Health Services, where psychiatric services is housed, said Slade’s situation may have been the result of a breakdown in communication between the Counseling Center and Health Services. But he added that if a student is a threat to themselves or others, they should be referred to St. Joseph’s. Even at its current level, the presence of psychiatric services at SU remains a bit of an outlier in the college mental health landscape. Nationally, only 58 percent of four-year colleges offer psychiatrist services on campus, according to the 2014 National Survey of College Counseling Centers report, despite 86 percent of directors reporting an increase in students arriving on campus already on psychiatric medicines. The university added full-time psychiatric services in Fall 2012 when the school hired a psychiatrist and then, due to high demand, added a psychiatric nurse a month later. Previously, the university had a partsee mental

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