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30 ways to serve Syracuse
By Jason Gruenauer
April 26, 2010 - 12:01pm
Syracuse offers a wide variety of community service opportunities, both on and off campus.

Community service is more than just an alternative punishment to going to jail. It can be a worthwhile experience of volunteering and making the world a better place.

A variety of community service opportunities exist throughout the Syracuse community. From parks and recreation centers to homes for the elderly and soup kitchens. From working with the very old to the very young. From working every single day to just a few minutes a year.

It's easy being green
By Hanna Dubansky
April 19, 2010 - 3:17pm
Green ways think, drink, and do your laundry on Earth Day.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, The NewsHouse presents Earth Day videos featuring two fun, easy ways to be greener, and a closer look at how much Syracuse University students really know about environmental issues. 

 

Striking a balance: An interview with Seamus Heaney
By Tiago Moura
April 13, 2010 - 6:59pm
The Northern Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner went to college and began writing 'to make sense of a life in that time.'

Tensions between past and present, rural and urban life, the individual and the community dominated the early life of poet Seamus Heaney who grew up in the ethnically torn Northern Ireland countryside.

Heaney, 71, came from a place where he and his family “still plowed with horses, lit the fire in the morning, carried water from wells.”

“In very quick time all that changed," Heaney said.

Rapid industrialization in the 1950s pushed his family to a more urban lifestyle.

Soon afterward, Heaney went to college and began writing “to make sense of a life in that time...

Record-breaking Relay
By Ana Yanni
April 10, 2010 - 11:52pm
Syracuse University's eighth annual Relay For Life raises more than $153,000 for cancer research, including $20,000 that night.

The luminarias shone bright green after the lights dimmed in the Carrier Dome. Thousands silently circled the path lit by the small memorials, the only sounds heard from the once rambunctious group being small cries of grief or sighs. Some walked with each other, hand-in-hand or arm-in-arm. Some stopped to sit together by single luminarias made in memory of loved ones. Each could see the words “hope” and “cure” illuminated in the stands. 

Gambling on a good time
By Brian Dawson
April 5, 2010 - 4:32pm
The video-chat Web site Chatroulette connects people around the world, 'looking for a random stranger...'

It’s unlike any other social experience you have had on the Internet.

The latest web craze, Chatroulette offers a blend of socializing, interactivity, anonymity and the constant surprise of which bizarre interaction will come next.

Snapshots of the Syracuse art scene
By NewsHouse Staff
April 5, 2010 - 10:38am
Explore the creative efforts aimed at keeping the local arts community thriving.

If the following profiles on artists, galleries and collectors are any indication, the Syracuse-area art scene has support and is quite alive in many respects.

Several participate in Third Thursday, a free event that involves two dozen Syracuse galleries and museums on the third Thursday of every month. The next event is scheduled for 5-8 p.m. on April 15.

A cultural collaboration
By Darren Benda
April 3, 2010 - 1:18pm
The Multicultural Fair showcases Syracuse University's diverse student groups through music, food and presentations.

Those in attendance at Thursday’s Multicultural Fair got a taste of the many different cultures on campus — literally and figuratively.

A musical appeal
By Jill Chandler
April 3, 2010 - 12:24am
Orange Appeal's passion for music and strong friendships add to their performance at their April Fools' Invitational.

There's more to this all-male a cappella group than just singing.  

Orange Appeal's musical bond goes deeper than their hobby, which was showcased during their April Fools’ Invitational in the Schine Underground last Thursday.  The invitational also featured the women’s a cappella group, Main Squeeze.  

We have a Snack-E-Tology champ
By NewsHouse Staff
April 1, 2010 - 11:19am
Snack-E-Tology 2010 needs a re-count to determine if Big Boeheim creator Pat Manley or pop-culture whiz Alex Fish would be champ.

Duke's thriller of a win over Butler not only crowned a national champion but also the Halftime Snack's first-ever Snack-E-Tology champ. But, it took a re-count before Alex Fish earned her title.

The Snack-E-Tology Bracket Rankings

140 candles
By Victoria Marlin
March 26, 2010 - 12:55pm
Syracuse University celebrates the school's 140 years with a carnival-style birthday party.

When you turn 140, you deserve a good party. 

And Syracuse University served up just that for this year's National Orange Day.