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N • Making history
The Syracuse Law Review has elected its first Black editorin-chief, Hilda Frimpong. The second-year law student will begin her role next fall. Page 3
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C • How they’ve overcome Three SU students share their experiences with eating disorders and recovery. Here’s how they overcame the disorders and choose recovery every day. Page 7
SU staff work nonstop through pandemic
S • Not enough
Syracuse’s 68-61 loss to No. 2 NC State ruins its chances at a secondround bye in this week’s ACC tournament. The Orange dropped to a No. 5 seed with the loss. Page 12
on campus
Drug and liquor violations decrease By Hannah Gonzalez asst. copy editor
RIUTH SULLIVAN, the assistant director of nutrition management for Food Services, and other employees set up desks in Sadler Dining Hall to arrange resources for students staying on campus after SU shut down in March. courtesy of keone weigl
In a year of challenges, employees have worked late nights and long hours to keep SU afloat
By Maggie Hicks, Kailey Norusis the daily orange
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ark Tewksbury recalls seeing just four cars on his way to work at Syracuse University last March. Tewksbury, who is the director of residence hall dining and Dome operations for Food Services, has been working to deliver meals to students in quarantine and those who had to stay on campus during breaks since the coronavirus pandemic hit. He was among the group of SU employees who continued working even after SU’s campus shut down last spring. “When the pandemic began back in March, most people were afraid to leave their house,” Tewksbury said. “But our staff just see employees page 4
Drug and liquor law violations at Syracuse University have significantly decreased since 2017, security data shows. SU referred 1,023 students on campus for disciplinary action for liquor law violations in 2017 but just 440 students in 2019. Referrals and disciplinary action for drug law violations dropped from 186 to 71 in the same period. The data is published as part of the university’s annual campus security report. Colleges and universities are required to publish the report under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure Act, which regulates the maintenance and publication of information related to crime on and near campus. A variety of factors, including updated university policies and educational programs for students, could be behind the decline in drug and liquor law violations, student leaders said. Former Student Association President Ghufran Salih and former Vice President Kyle Rosenblum worked with SU’s administration to adopt a Good Samaritan policy, which allows for students to seek support or medical assistance for drug and alcohol incidents without disciplinary action. The pair started working on the policy at the end of the fall 2018 semester and began to make significant progress by spring 2019, Rosenblum said. “It had been an initiative that has been taken on by different SA sections for the past 10 years, so we had a bunch of research from previous attempts,” Rosenblum said. SU’s amnesty policy now protects students reporting any prohibited conduct from punishment for drug and alcohol use. Previous policies limited those protections to students reporting domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and sexual assault. “ We did comparisons with other schools and what policies they had,” Rosenblum said. “Ultimately, it was taken up by the senior leadership for implementation in fall 2019.” Salih believed the Good Samaritan policy had a significant see report page 4