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Expressions of love
By NewsHouse Staff
February 14, 2016 - 7:12pm
Whether it's a another person or activity, these students and local residents are passionate.

Valentine's Day is the annual reminder of love, and that love isn't necessarily limited to another individual.

As several of our digital reporters discovered in their quest to find expressions of love, human passions extend to animals, activities and themselves.

Watch the series of videos above to learn more about the way love can be expressed.

Videos produced by Natasha Amadi, Kate Capodanno, Mariana Domingues, Danielle Gehman, Nicole Griffin, Shumin Lai and Jackie Prager.

Celebrate Galentine's Day with close friends and great food
By Kristin Mascolo
February 8, 2016 - 12:44pm
Mark your calendar for a Feb. 13 day out with the girls to celebrate Galentine's Day.

Valentine's Day is usually filled with stress and (hopefully) chocolate. We’ve all stressed about wearing the perfect outfit, giving and receiving the cutest gifts and figuring out how to tell that special someone that you actually exist. 

DeWitt community shares lessons in love, life through poetry
By Nathan McAlone
October 8, 2014 - 11:31pm
A free workshop on writing love poetry at the DeWitt Community Library brings quirky and touching moments from community members.

Love can be an erupting volcano, purring, the emotional trajectory of a yo-yo or even an aardvark. These were just some of the thoughts shouted out by eager participants in a free love poetry workshop held at the DeWitt Community Library. Local poet and retired librarian Martin Willitts Jr., 65, had invited the dozen or so members of the crowd to expand their definition of love through free association, while he scrawled their responses on a large sheet of paper.   

Will you be my Valentine?
By Tyler Greenawalt
February 17, 2014 - 10:55am
The NewsHouse team combed campus to see if Tyler and Katy could make loveable first impressions.

What if a stranger approached you on the street with a heart-shaped bouquet of fake roses, asking you to be their Valentine? Would you say yes? Would you walk away quickly?

Katy Beals and I took to the Hill to see how people would react to such a situation. Maybe it was the cold weather, maybe it was tacky fake roses, but the duo received mixed results during their casual competition. 

Perched outside Marshal Square Mall, between Schine Student Center and Newhouse and on the Quad, we tried multiple methods of finding Valentines on cold-yet-sunny February morning.

Caring for Doug
By Andrew Renneisen
December 3, 2013 - 4:13pm
A Liverpool couple's love and commitment endure six years after a stroke changes their lives forever.

It was like surreal. You don’t realize what having a stroke means until you are actually living it.

Doug Paul lost everything he had known before his stroke in 2007. How to walk, talk, and eat were all forgotten. 

Six years later, Doug and his wife, Leesa, persevere as they face the challenges that his rehabilitation has brought. 

Even though the stroke has changed the Liverpool couple's lives, the two have only grown closer throughout the recovery process.

Love is in the air
By NewsHouse Staff
February 14, 2013 - 7:04pm
Check out how Valentine's Day made its mark on 'Cuse this year.

Congratulations, you survived another Valentine's Day! Whether you spent it cuddling up to a special someone or hanging out with your friends, we hope that you felt the love.

Scouring campus and the Syracuse community, we saw signs of celebration all around, from heart-shaped balloons to semi-creepy kittens.

Relive the romance by checking out this Valentine's Day slideshow above or checking out the special romance-themed videos below.

"Amour" intimately explores the limits of love
By Lucia Camargo Rojas
September 29, 2012 - 2:34am
Review: Haneke's Palme d'Or winning film successfully portrays the visceral and tragic sides of a husband's devotion.

Shocking and brutally honest is Michael Haneke’s new movie, Amour. Most of the film takes place in the Parisian apartment of an 80-year-old couple who has to face a hard situation: She suffered a stroke and the right side of her body was paralyzed.

Happy Valentine's Day from The NewsHouse
By NewsHouse Staff
February 13, 2012 - 5:15pm
Syracuse University students, young children from the Bernice Wright lab school and The NewsHouse lead producers wax poetic about love.

Valentine's Day has never been simple. Everyone has an opinion somewhere in between on what they think love is. Accordingly, the NewsHouse decided to ask, because clearly we can't pin it down, right? We talked to the Bernice M. Wright Child Development Lab School to get their opinions as well as the views of SU students across the hill. Read the staff's answers below:

Valentine's Day with Joe Blum
By Erica Sanderson
February 13, 2010 - 4:45pm
After years of rejection, Joe Blum finally nabs a Valentine.

Joe Blum delivers all his best pick-up lines in his conquest to win a date on Valentine's Day. But his suave suit, nice bouquet and sweet smile isn't impressing the ladies. Just when he begins to lose all hope, Blum bumps into fate, and a girl named Bridget. Watch the greatest Syracuse love story unfold.  

Lovesick on Valentine's Day
By Eric Vilas-Boas
February 10, 2010 - 10:52pm
Joe Blum finds love just in time for Valentine's Day in an Orange Shorts Production.

February 14th is the day we can be closer to others than molecular bonds allow. It's also the day we can spend lonelier than anyone on the planet. We welcome it with our current partners when we aren’t cursing our ex-lovers for dumping us. We crave it as much as we dread it. Yes, Valentine’s Day is upon us yet again, and The NewsHouse brings you this special Orange Shorts Production to commemorate it.
 
If you want to find love like Joe Blum, here are our tips for a romantic and successful first date: