Life & Style

Four apps to make you a healthier human
By Alex Archambault
October 17, 2017 - 9:45pm
These phone applications will improve your productivity, health and wellness — for free.

Phone applications seem to offer just about anything these days. From addicting social media platforms to seemingly pointless but annoyingly fun games, it seems all apps do is prevent you from being your best self. Despite this, there are a slew of applications that aim to help you be a healthier, happier individual. Check out a few below:

 

Plant Nanny

Free with In App Purchase Options

Best running routes around campus
By Naomi Duttweiler
October 10, 2017 - 8:57am
Whether you’re training for a long-distance race or just heading out for a quick jog, plenty of enjoyable running routes surround the Syracuse University campus.

Try out these three runs to explore the university and its surrounding neighborhoods. And remember to exercise safely—bring your phone, tell a friend where you’re going and never explore unfamiliar routes in the dark. Happy running!

 

SU DanceWorks brings dance groups together for homecoming showcase
By Shuran Huang
October 6, 2017 - 10:08am
Syracuse University DanceWorks brings together dance organizations on campus to perform in annual Homecoming Showcase.

Syracuse University DanceWorks, along with nine other dance groups on campus, put on an annual homecoming showcase "The Best of 'Cuse" in Goldstein Auditorium Thursday night.

Over 170 students danced at Navratri Garba Raas 2017
By Abby Rose Sugnet
October 1, 2017 - 11:15am
Navratri Garba, a Hindu festival, featured dinner and dancing.

Syracuse University’s South Asian Student Association (SASA) presented Navratri Garba 2017, a Hindu festival which celebrates Lord Ram’s victory over the demon king Raavana.

According to PR Head of SASA Divya Murthy, over 170 students attended the festival. They enjoyed a dinner of rice, naan, vegetable korma, and dal, and finishing with gulab jamuns as desserts. Students took the dance floor both teaching and learning the traditional Gujarati and Rajasthani folk-dance, Garba.

Author discusses how people can influence technology's role in society
By NewsHouse Staff
October 1, 2017 - 10:05am
Alex Salkever co-wrote "The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future."

During a recent visit to Syracuse University's Newhouse School, author Alex Salkever joined The NewsHouse for an interview about the risks and rewards of technological advancement in our everyday lives.

Pin-up girls bring nostalgia to Syracuse
By Camille Nzengung
September 27, 2017 - 3:11pm
The growing pin-up subculture in Syracuse celebrate the 1950s and comforts veterans with a sense of nostalgia.

Dolled up in her signature blood-red lipstick, Marilyn Monroe style waves and bold polka-dotted swing dress, Melody Wilkinson, a vintage consultant and makeup artist, is used to attracting attention in Syracuse.

Syracuse Fashion Week and Syracuse Style host their semi-annual fashion show
By Andrea Henderson
September 15, 2017 - 4:10pm
Thursday's fashion show in Downtown Syracuse showcased styles from local boutiques, accessory and clothing stores

Syracuse Style brought local retailers and fashion lovers together to showcase the hottest trends this season on Thursday night.

The Downtown Committee of Syracuse, Inc and Syracuse Fashion Week co-produced the seventh semi-annual fashion show despite the last minute change of venues from Armory Square’s Walton Street to the historic Landmark Theatre.

Life's a pitch for cornhole players
By Madeleine Buckley
May 27, 2017 - 2:55pm
How the backyard summer game became one of the nation’s fastest growing sports.

Six hours into the doubles tournament of the Third Annual New York State Cornhole Championship in Liverpool's Holiday Inn ballroom, title sponsor Jim Willey stepped out from under the blue tailgating tent that served as event headquarters and grabs a microphone.

Willey, a towering man with broad shoulders who wears a custom T-shirt with his name across the back, begins to speak. The deafening melody of thudding beanbags fades as more than 40 cornhole players turn toward him.

New photo and video editing apps have become social media platforms for college students
By Dayna DiJoseph
May 16, 2017 - 2:35pm
The nationwide popularity of Musical.ly and VSCO among teenagers and young adults have changed the way some SU students are participating in social media.

They have been featured in Rolling Stone and Business Insider for bursting onto the social media scene. They have gained popularity and millions of users despite many older than 25 being unaware of their existence. They have climbed the Apple app and Google Play stores’ charts peaking in the top ten. All these reasons drove communications and rhetorical studies junior, Dalena Vu to download Musical.ly one spring night while hanging out with friends.

Female grads face the realities of gender pay gap
By Nisha Stickles
May 9, 2017 - 2:37pm
Starting from their initial salaries, female college students will most likely earn less than their male counterparts after graduation.

It’s 2017 and women, on average, still don’t get paid as much as men. That’s more than half a century after Congress enacted the Equal Pay Act in 1963.