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N • Leading women
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P • Sing it
An event held through the BlackStone LaunchPad and meant to inspire women entrepreneurs will take place on Thursday from 4-6 p.m. in Bird Library. Page 3
Syracuse University choral director and associate professor John Warren received a state award after glowing recommendations from his former students. Page 9
S • The turnaround
When Ian McIntyre took over as Syracuse men’s soccer’s head coach, the Orange program was in the dumps. In six years, he has taken SU to new heights. Page 16
‘INSURMOUNTABLE’
PAGE GARBEE, a Syracuse University alumna, sits outside her home in Washington, D.C. Garbee was assaulted by a male SU student while abroad in 2014. The case provides a glimpse into how SU handles incidents of violence abroad.
How Syracuse University handled a case of assault against a student abroad Text by Michael Burke asst. news editor
Photo by Moriah Ratner staff photographer
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hen Page Garbee returned to her hotel after one of the worst nights of her life, she went into the bathroom and collapsed to the floor. From grief, from being overwhelmed, from pure exhaustion. She then mustered the strength to shower before retreating to her bed, where she sobbed as she drifted off to sleep. “I was a huge mess,” said Garbee, then a Syracuse University student studying in Poland with SU Abroad’s Central Europe program. Previously that night, Oct. 18, 2014, a male SU student punched Garbee in the face at a bar in the city of Krakow, inflicting her with a black eye. The punch was thrown after she repeatedly denied the student’s sexual advances throughout the night as
they moved from bar to bar, she said. Now, as she fell asleep, the night was over, but it was just the start of months of distress for Garbee. Though SU would later find the student guilty of the assault, what followed was a series of what some described as questionable decisions made by the university — decisions that would cause Garbee more suffering while doing little to punish the student, she said. In some cases, the decisions may have violated SU’s own policies. Garbee went public about the episode over the summer, writing a blog post about the incident and later agreeing to an interview with The Daily Orange. Further reporting also revealed the male student was, on multiple occasions, celebrated see assault page 4
Graduate students can unionize, national board rules By Stacy Fernandez asst. news editor
Graduate students at Syracuse University now have the option of unionizing after a recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board.
The ruling overturned a decision from 2004 which stated graduate students serving as research or teaching assistants at private universities were considered students, so they would not be entitled to the same union rights as workers, according to The
Atlantic’s website. Both Rajesh Kumar, president of the Graduate Student Organization, and Can Aslan, former GSO president and current GSO vice president of internal affairs, said they had positive individual reactions upon hearing the
decision of the NLRB. “I think it’s a good opportunity, at least we are now legally authorized to have a collective demand,” Kumar said. Aslan added that the ruling seemed to be a long overdue decision. The GSO represents about 5,000
graduate students on campus. Unionization would affect about 25 percent of these students, since they are employees of the university, Kumar said. SU’s GSO passed a resolution last see unionize page 8