Biking booms on the Hill, with SUNY ESF bike-lending program and plans in works at SU
By Nora Horvath
October 29, 2014 - 9:47pm
More than 80 students signed up for SUNY ESF's bike library in the fall.

Bicycling at Syracuse University is on a roll, thanks to a bike-lending program at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and other efforts to make using bikes more convenient.

iSchool students partner with global technology company to create “hack-proof” security initiative
By Kaitlyn Hobson
October 29, 2014 - 9:34pm
Known as Stealth, the still-developing technology will make the Internet go dark to hackers.

Five School of Information Studies students are collaborating with a global technology company to develop uses for a “hack-proof” technology called Stealth.

Stealth is a new security initiative for managing and preventing cyber-attacks. Dave Dischiave, an iSchool professor and advisor to the Stealth group, described the software as a “product or appliance that allows you to make the Internet go dark, meaning you can make it disappear.”

Multimedia artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses work in context of 60th birthday
By Caroline Koller
October 29, 2014 - 8:21pm
Weems is the third speaker in the annual University Lectures series of Fall 2014.

Artist Carrie Mae Weems recently celebrated her 60th birthday.  With this milestone, she is working to constantly keep her work relevant. 

Remembrance Week ends in rose laying ceremony, pledges to act forward
By Marlena Ahearn
October 25, 2014 - 11:31am
The emotional ceremony began at 2:03 p.m., the same time Pan Am 103 was bombed.

Emotional scholars ended Remembrance Week Friday with a rose laying ceremony honoring the 35 Syracuse University students who died on Pan Am 103.

SU commemorates 25th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall with recreation on Crouse College lawn
By Rachel Lockhart
October 21, 2014 - 10:24am
The university is among the 43 U.S. schools participating in German Embassy-sponsored programming this week.

Nov. 9, 2014, will mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In commemoration of this event, 43 schools across the U.S. are participating in “campus weeks” campaign sponsored by the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.

These campaigns commemorate the event through “challenging essay contests, fall of the wall celebrations, speaker events, German movie screenings and other unique events,” according to the German Missions in the United States website.

Red Cup Project draws attention to party culture, sustainability at SU
By Jessie Yuqing Shi
October 17, 2014 - 12:20pm
The solo cups that form the installations are made of a plastic that is not recyclable in Syracuse.

Structures built out of red solo cups appeared in different forms around campus this week, calling awareness to the party culture at Syracuse University and related issues of sustainability.

The solo cup installations are part of the Red Cup Project, a group project for the architecture class ARC 500: Politics of Public Space. The class is taught by associate professor Lori Brown. Three SU architecture students and one student from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry run the project.  

Eve Ensler of 'The Vagina Monologues' speaks on violence against women for University Lectures series
By Katelyn Faubel
October 16, 2014 - 11:59am
The activist has promoted change and education in more than 140 countries.

World-renowned performer, activist and playwright Eve Ensler continued the University Lecture series on Wednesday, lecturing a Hendricks Chapel audience on global violence against women.

“Stand up for your rights. Stand up for what you believe in,” Ensler said to the audience, in a message she emphasized throughout her passionate lecture.

Fraternity brings distinctive women in media to share their success with the Syracuse community
By Chantel Morel
October 16, 2014 - 11:44am
Women of Distinction panelists were media standouts LaLa Vasquez, Loretta Divine and Iyanla Vanzant.

Schine Student Center was filled with the sounds of laughter and words of inspiration this past Wednesday, when three distinctive women in the media industry came as guests.

Delta Lambda Phi fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men recolonizes at SU
By Tamara Rasamny
October 15, 2014 - 11:49pm
The fraternity disbanded in 2010 after originally coming to campus in 2004.

When Ivan Rosales-Robles went through the rush process during his first year at Syracuse University, he didn’t feel like the fraternities were for him. But when Robles heard about Delta Lambda Phi, a social fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men, he said he found a great outlet on campus.

“It’s a nice group of people I can go and hang out with, spend time with, and feel comfortable with,” said Robles, the current president of the fraternity.  “And I think that’s a great outlet to have.”

Maxwell School celebrates 90th anniversary with 1924-themed party
By Shi Shi
October 9, 2014 - 11:58pm
Chancellor Kent Syverud joined the anniversary party attendees to cut the signature cake.

With food, ice cream, cocktails and a signature birthday cake, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs celebrated its 90th birthday Thursday in the Joseph A. Strasser Commons.