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New York Post
2 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Boston University soccer player accuses assistant coach of sexual harassment after Alex Cooper's allegations
Boston University's women's soccer team has been slapped with yet another allegation of sexual harassment — just weeks after Alex Cooper's claims were highlighted in a Hulu documentary. The 'Call Her Daddy' podcast host, 30, said she was sexually harassed by former head coach Nancy Feldman during her time as a student-athlete at the college. Now, Feldman's former assistant coach Casey Brown is facing similar allegations made by soccer player Shayla Brown, The Boston Globe reports. Advertisement 5 BU's former women's soccer coach Casey Brown is facing allegations of sexual harassment. Boston University Shayla, a student-athlete at the university, had contacted the confidential ethics hotline about her assistant coach on September 14, 2024, according to the outlet. Four days later, the senior midfielder talked through her experience with the team's sports psychologist. Advertisement 'The coach, she said, was acting inappropriately toward one of BU's key players, focusing excessively on her and trying to manipulate her in ways that were distressing to the player and her teammates,' the outlet noted. 'This was not a case of a coach coddling a prized player, Shayla Brown said. Her teammate was 'being groomed,' she told the psychologist.' 5 The allegations come just weeks after Alex Cooper's claims against her former head coach were highlighted in a Hulu documentary. Call Her Daddy / YouTube The following day, Shayla was joined by 17 other BU women's soccer players as they took their claims to the university's Equal Opportunity Office. Advertisement The students had noted that one of their teammates, who asked not to be identified, also shared her experience with school officials after claiming she had been targeted. 'She recalled navigating a stream of awkward texts, unsettling invitations and unwanted attention,' the outlet reported. 5 The 'Call Her Daddy' podcast host, 30, said she was sexually harassed by former head coach Nancy Feldman. alexandracooper/Instagram In December, Brown, who succeeded Feldman in 2022, stepped down from her head coaching position after the school kickstarted an investigation into complaints from students on the team. Advertisement The Post has reached out to Boston University for comment. The allegations come just two weeks after Cooper said she endured three years of escalating sexual harassment at the hands of her former head coach. 5 Feldman coached BU's women's soccer team for 22 years before she retired in 2022. Hulu / Call her Alex Feldman coached BU's women's soccer team for 22 years before she retired in 2022, but Cooper said the former coach started to 'fixate on me way more than any other teammate of mine' during her sophomore season. Cooper was a member of the Terriers women's soccer program from 2013 to 2015. Start your day with all you need to know Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters Her revelation in the Hulu doc, 'Call Her Alex,' came 10 years after she claimed to have suffered through the ordeal. 'I felt a lot of anger — anger at my coach, anger at my school, and anger at the system that allowed this to happen,' the podcast host said in the documentary. Advertisement 5 Cooper was a member of the Terriers women's soccer program from 2013 to 2015. alexandracooper/Instagram 'I don't think anyone could've prepared me for the lasting effects that came from this experience. She turned something that I loved so much into something extremely painful.' In response, the university told The Post it has a 'zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment.'
Atlantic
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
In L.A., The Future Is Bolder, Tastier, and More Welcoming
When Danny Feldman took over Pasadena Playhouse in 2016, the historic theater near Los Angeles was on life support, emerging from bankruptcy but unable to fund a full season. Yet Feldman sensed an opportunity to spur change. 'When you're in those moments of vulnerability, there's a certain freedom,' he says. 'You might as well shoot for the stars and dream big.' Pasadena Playhouse's precarious financial position, he knew, was not entirely unusual. Across the country, regional theaters are staging fewer shows, scheduling fewer performances, and laying off staff. For Feldman, a Los Angeles native who previously led L.A.'s Reprise Theatre Company and New York's Labyrinth Theater Company, addressing this systemic challenge meant answering a universal, fundamental question: How do you make theater matter in the 21st century? 'My experience with theater in general—and this includes Broadway as well as regional theaters all over the country—is that we've lost our way. I think in many ways, we've become elitist,' he says. To ensure a future for Pasadena Playhouse, and to point the way forward for regional theater nationwide, Feldman knew he had to make theater as accessible and appealing to as many people as possible. To do that, he started by lowering the barrier to entry, offering $35 rush tickets, free shows for K–12 students, and an expanded roster of public access programs. He made sure that the theater's programming reflected a diversity of voices and styles, staging everything from experimental comedy (Kate Berlant's one-woman show, Kate) to revivals of classics (Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog). He also worked to transform the Playhouse into a flexible space, ripping out seats on multiple occasions for experimental formats and fostering a party atmosphere to attract different audiences, particularly younger ones. 'We make theater for everyone. And what that means in practice is that we want everything—the stories we tell, the people we have in our seats, and the artists on our stage—to represent the full spectrum,' he says. It was a fitting approach for a theater with a history of invention. Founded at the urging of community members in 1917, Pasadena Playhouse became a cradle of innovation: It launched one of the United States' first acting schools, premiered works by Tennessee Williams, and hosted a star-studded list of other playwrights and performers, from Eugene O'Neill to George Bernard Shaw and Martha Graham. 'We challenge assumptions here. It's in our DNA,' Feldman says. 'We don't just do things the way other people do things. We stop and say, 'What are we trying to do here? What's the assignment?' And that often leads to risk-taking.'
Business Insider
21-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Home Depot (HD) Gets a Buy from Telsey Advisory
Telsey Advisory analyst Joe Feldman maintained a Buy rating on Home Depot (HD – Research Report) yesterday and set a price target of $455.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at $349.62. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter According to TipRanks, Feldman is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 8.2% and a 52.56% success rate. Feldman covers the Consumer Cyclical sector, focusing on stocks such as Costco, Lowe's, and On Holding AG. The word on The Street in general, suggests a Strong Buy analyst consensus rating for Home Depot with a $428.77 average price target, representing a 22.64% upside. In a report released on June 17, Citi also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $433.00 price target. The company has a one-year high of $439.37 and a one-year low of $326.31. Currently, Home Depot has an average volume of 3.56M. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 84 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of HD in relation to earlier this year. Earlier this month, John A. Deaton, the EVP – Supply Chain & Prod. Dev of HD sold 8,892.00 shares for a total of $3,289,951.08.
Boston Globe
18-06-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Dozens of former players show support for ex-Boston University soccer coach accused of sexual harassment by Alex Cooper
A letter signed by 'student athletes and members of the Boston University Women's Soccer team,' obtained by the Globe, includes 74 names, mostly comprising players in Feldman's years at BU (1995-2022), and six assistant coaches. There also are 25 anonymous signatories, all said to be from the graduating classes of 2011-25. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'We want to share our collective perspective in light of the recent allegations against Coach Feldman,' the letter read, 'not to diminish or discredit anyone's individual experience, but to speak as a united group of alumni about how our time in the program was different. Advertisement 'During Coach Feldman's time leading the program, we categorically never felt unsafe. We were never at risk of or witness to inappropriate behavior or anything that could be characterized as sexual harassment. 'As a leader, she approached every day with professionalism, making decisions in service of the success of the team. For many of us, over the years, Coach Feldman has remained an important part of our lives, and we stand by her.' Advertisement Of those who signed the letter with their names and graduation years or stated their time on campus, at least four overlapped with Cooper, who graduated in 2016. They include three players ― goalkeeper Andrea Green, who graduated in 2014; forward Taylor Krebs (2015) and defender Kai (Miller) Wallace (2015) ― and one assistant coach, Ben Knight, who worked under Feldman from 2013-16. Though she signed the letter, Wallace said she was so burned out after playing for Feldman, she didn't touch a soccer ball for five years. 'I certainly can't say Nancy was my favorite coach I've ever had,' said Wallace. She compared Feldman to a hard-line corporate boss who wears out those underneath them. Wallace signed the letter, she said, because 'as a human being, I never felt unsafe.' Wallace, a Santa Barbara, Calif., native who was a year ahead of Cooper, said Feldman was an unnecessarily controlling coach. She said Feldman would pit players against each other for playing time, instituted dress codes that made her feel as if she was back in high school, and used BU financial aid as a cudgel to keep players in line. However, Wallace also said Cooper was an unprofessional teammate who clashed with Feldman regularly. 'One of the rules wasn't even Nancy's rule, it was that you didn't drink in the 48 hours before games,' Wallace said. 'There were multiple times of that not being the case. Things like that start to rub you the wrong way. Advertisement 'She was very loud about her life and what she's doing with it. That's fine. But we're all here trying to get a conference championship and make the NCAA Tournament.' Green, a goalkeeper from Nashua, N.H., is no longer involved with soccer. She said she signed the letter because she 'never saw, heard about, or experienced sexual harassment' under Feldman. 'I can't speak to any experience but my own,' Green said. '[Cooper] has a big megaphone and she's decided to share her experience. Most of us [signatories] are not public figures nor want to be. I don't have any interest in being in the public [eye], but if my opinion is asked I feel comfortable speaking my truth.' On Wednesday, a group from Plymouth State released a similar letter of support including 25 names of former Feldman players and coaches. Feldman, who coached at the school from 1990-95, was inducted into the PSU Hall of Fame last October. She earned the same honor at BU in 2008. Read the letter sent by supporters here: Matt Porter can be reached at
USA Today
18-06-2025
- Health
- USA Today
Dentists warn of taking fluoride out of NY water. But many counties already don't have it
Dentists warn of taking fluoride out of NY water. But many counties already don't have it Show Caption Hide Caption Fluoridated water important, stresses Ossining NY Supervisor Feldman Elizabeth Feldman, who worked as a dental hygienist, is joining the effort to push back against groups seeking to remove fluoride from public water. In New York, 336 community water systems, out of a total of 2,790, have fluoridated water. These 336 community water systems provide water to more than 13 million people, or about 72% of all New Yorkers. Now the nation's top health official, RFK Jr., is pushing for bans on water fluoridation, prompting pushback from many public health officials and local leaders in NY. Elizabeth Feldman sees her dental X-rays as a warning of the life-altering consequences of living in a community that doesn't add fluoride to its drinking water. The stark black-and-white images are rife with cavity-riddled translucent teeth. Bright white spots cover most teeth, revealing an extensive patchwork of dental fillings and crowns. Screws dig into parts of the jaw pockmarked by root canals. Taken together, the X-rays tell the story of a lifetime of dental pain and suffering. But Feldman, a town supervisor in New York's Hudson Valley who's worked as a dental hygienist for 30 years, believes she would have avoided most of that dental work, which cost thousands of dollars, if her childhood home had access to fluoridated drinking water. Instead, Feldman grew up drinking unfluoridated well water, and she missed out on the lifelong oral health benefits that many New Yorkers get from living in towns, cities and neighborhoods that have added fluoride to community water systems. Now Feldman is fighting to protect others from her fate as New York becomes a key battleground of the anti-fluoride movement being led by the nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 'I just wish people would get educated and look at real science and not be led astray,' Feldman said. New York's fluoride fight Kennedy has endorsed claims that fluoride is behind a host of health conditions, from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and hypothyroidism to lowering IQ. Dentists and epidemiologists have hit back at those accusations as scientifically unproven. At the same time, public health officials in New York are pushing back against anti-fluoride groups seeking to pass state or local measures to remove fluoride from public drinking water. Decades of research, health officials noted, has shown water fluoridation reduces tooth decay for entire populations, while uniquely benefiting poor and marginalized New Yorkers. "Because the fluoridated water supply reaches everyone equally, health disparities decrease, as we know not everyone has access to regular dentist checkups,' state Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said. 'Water fluoridation provides everyone with the same starting opportunity of having a healthy smile,' he added. Dental care: More than 30,000 wait for care as NY's dental crisis grows Overall, cavities drop by about 25% for those who drink fluoridated water when compared to others who don't, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Still, some states are considering passing measures that ban fluoride from community water systems, with Republican-controlled state governments in Utah and Florida recently taking that step. While a statewide ban is unlikely in deep blue New York, the fluoride debate has exploded at the local level in recent years. It was the focus of a class-action lawsuit filed in Buffalo in 2023 after residents learned the city quietly removed fluoride from drinking water, and it sits at the center of emotionally-charged town hearings that divide even the most close-knit communities from Ithaca to Westchester County. How many New York towns have fluoride in water? In New York, 336 community water systems, out of a total of 2,790, have fluoridated water. But these 336 community water systems provide water to more than 13 million people, or about 72% of all New Yorkers served by community water systems. That percentage mirrored the national average, as many of the largest water systems in the U.S. have added fluoride for the past nearly 80 years. But major disparities in water fluoridation persist. New York City and some upstate counties, such as Monroe and Onondaga, have nearly 100% coverage, while other counties, such as Rockland and Tompkins, have never added fluoride to public drinking water. Health care: As flu kills record number of NY kids, a mom who lost a child fights vaccine hesitancy The stakes of that disparity are unfolding in real time for Dr. Fanny Vainer. They are written on the faces of scores of parents who were stunned to learn their child has advanced tooth decay during visits to Vainer's Sparkill Dental practice in a tiny Rockland County hamlet. Many of those parents were simply unaware that Rockland County's lack of water fluoridation played a role in rotting out their kids' teeth, Vainer said. Recalling her talks with the guilt-ridden parents looking for ways to reverse the damage, she said, in many ways, 'It's already too late when you arrive here in the dentist's chair.' Further, Rockland's overall oral health should be studied, Vainer suggested, to improve understanding of the extent of damage done in communities with unfluoridated drinking water. If conducted, that research would seek to build upon a landmark 2010 state Health Department study that found, in part, the use of serious dental procedures and tooth extractions for New York kids on Medicaid was 33% higher in communities without water fluoridation. 'An unnecessary public health crisis' Meanwhile, in neighboring Westchester County, one town's leadership has already reversed course on its approach to adding fluoride to its water. Town leaders in Yorktown, a wealthy New York City suburb, voted in December to remove fluoride from their community drinking water system. Yorktown Supervisor Ed Lachterman spearheaded the action, citing in part a federal court ruling that asserted water fluoridation presents an 'unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.' The American Dental Association has since criticized that federal court ruling, however, noting it was based largely on an August 2024 report from the federal National Toxicology Program that included invalid biomarkers and insufficient sample sizes. Put simply, the federal court ruling reflects a 'fundamental misunderstanding and misapplication of the prevailing scientific literature on the safety of fluoride and community water fluoridation,' the national dental group added. At the same time, Yorktown's decision captured national attention, prompting public health officials across the Hudson Valley to launch new efforts to combat medical misinformation, citing rising distrust in everything from water fluoridation to vaccines. Investigation: Trust in science, medicine plummeted because of COVID. See inside the fight to rebuild it 'Like measles, this is catching on and once the anti-fluoride groups win in one community, they go on to the others,' said Susan Siegel, the lone Yorktown council member to oppose removing fluoride from drinking water. Westchester Health Commissioner Dr. Sherlita Amler attended Yorktown public hearings last year to provide facts about the benefits of water fluoridation. But she left them feeling concerned about how deeply anti-science sentiments had taken hold in some households. Recalling the conspiracy theories and debunked science claims being raised during the hearings, Amler said, 'I don't know how you wrap your head around that.' The Yorktown fluoride removal vote was also a call-to-arms for Feldman, who's been supervisor of nearby Ossining for three years and vowed to quell any anti-fluoride incursions in her community. 'So few things can be done so inexpensively to impact positively the lives and health outcomes of all the residents,' Feldman said of water fluoridation. How we reported it: NY, facing dental crisis, taking on RFK Jr.'s anti-fluoride push Addressing claims that people get enough benefits from fluoridated toothpastes or dental treatments, Feldman noted those do indeed help but are incapable of achieving the level of protection from drinking fluoridated water. Put differently, ingested fluoride becomes part of the tooth before it erupts and strengthens kids' teeth in a way that nothing else in dentistry comes close to, and adults with limited access to dental care benefit from drinking fluoridated water, too. 'It's baffling to me that they would want to create an unnecessary public health crisis and walk back on a proven public health achievement,' Feldman added. Includes reporting by Cybele Mayes-Osterman of USA TODAY.
