Syracuse University student injured after falling out of Brewster Hall window
Jessi Soporito | Asst. Copy Editor
The student fell out of a second-floor window in Brewster Hall and landed in snow outside.
UPDATED: Feb. 11, 2018 at 11:56 p.m.
A Syracuse University student fell out of a window on the second floor of Brewster Hall on Friday night and injured himself, students said Sunday.
The student is currently recovering after “an incident” at the dorm Friday, a university spokesperson confirmed Sunday night. The student has not been identified by police.
In April 2013, an SU student, Marianne Guppenberger, died after falling out of a window at Brewster Hall. Two other students were arrested on drug charges by the Syracuse Police Department as part of an investigation into Guppenberger’s death.
Jiashu Yue, who lives on the second floor of Brewster in a quad, on Sunday said he returned from dinner Friday night to find a student he did not know on his roommate’s bed.
Yue said the unidentified student became aggressive after Yue came out of the bedroom and the student asked if Yue was a friend of his. Yue is a freshman in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
“He tried to fight me, but I (didn’t) want to fight with him,” Yue said. “He was crazy, and then he pushed me.”
After the student pushed him, Yue said he left his room to get help. He returned to the room with a DPS officer, he said, to find his window screen broken and the student laying in the snow, on the ground below.
Nikita Kakani, who lives across the hall from Yue, said she also heard of the fall. Kakani is a freshman in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.
Aristotle Proskinitopoulos, a freshman in Whitman, said he was the roommate of the student who fell out of the window. Proskinitopoulos said his roommate was “doing better.” Proskinitopoulos lives in a quad on the fourth floor of Brewster.
Yue said the student’s friends came to apologize the day after the incident.
Several students in Brewster Hall, when asked about the incident Sunday afternoon by The Daily Orange, were still unaware of the fall. Resident advisers at the dorm’s main desk declined to comment on this story.
Students have fallen out of SU dorm windows in the past.
Before Guppenberger’s death in 2013, Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune died in 2003 after falling out of a seventh-story window in Sadler Hall.
This post has been updated with appropriate style.
Published on February 11, 2018 at 10:07 pm
Contact Jessi: jmsopori@syr.edu
