Off Campus: Multimedia Belt

I know what you did last summer: SU style
By Sara Tracey
August 30, 2011 - 11:21am
The sun may have set on summer but SU students had plenty of stories to share from their vacation on the first day of classes.

Syracuse University students across the country found ways to keep themselves busy this past summer, with activities ranging from internships to traveling, waitressing jobs to playing lawn games in their free time.

The NewsHouse talked Monday to dozens of students from different states, asking what they filled their summer days with. Activities varied from coast to coast, with no real pattern surfacing.

Dan Klamm, marketing and communications coordinator for the SU’s Career Services, said he’s not surprised.

Hurricane Irene affects students' travel plans
By Annie Knox
August 28, 2011 - 9:16pm
The massive storm that hit the Northeast causes delays and dilemmas as students tried to make their way back to Syracuse.

While Hurricane Irene didn’t affect Central New York as badly as cities on the eastern seaboard, several Syracuse University students who planned on moving in this weekend had a lot of trouble traveling to campus.

The storm touched down in North Carolina on Saturday and slammed into New Jersey and New York today, intimidating authorities into shutting down public transit and throughways in the tri-state area and prompting flight delays nationwide.

Exploring Syracuse's roots
By NewsHouse Staff
August 16, 2011 - 1:11pm
Check out more than 50 video stories about Central New York originals.

Throughout a week in July and August, student journalists in a news writing and reporting class from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications branched out across the city of Syracuse and its surrounding areas in search of subjects whose roots are connected to the Central New York area.

The 57 video stories captured a range of characters, from those that are a part of multigenerational businesses to individuals just starting to establish a base in the area.

Steering away from texting while driving
By Storm Sebastian
August 9, 2011 - 3:01pm
Citizens and local police advocating for education on driving distractions are endorsing New York's new ban.

The day Jacy Good graduated from Muhlenberg College should have been filled with excitement.  Instead, it was a day marked by tragedy.

As Jacy and her parents, Jay and Jean Good, both 58, drove home to Lititz, Pa. after the commencement ceremony, their station wagon was struck by a swerving tractor-trailer. Jacy survived the crash, but was placed in the hospital with a shattered pelvis, collapsed lungs, a lacerated liver, and severe traumatic brain injury. Her parents died on impact. 

Press freedom still a threatened commodity
By Maliha Aqueel
June 1, 2011 - 7:45am
With turmoil in the Middle East and recent news of another Pakistani reporter killed, a journalist honored at SU shares his personal story of torture and the challenges of freedom of information.

As protests continue to rumble across parts of the Middle East and North Africa, freedom of the press has increasingly come under attack. In the spotlight have been high profile cases like the abduction of four New York Times' reporters in Libya.

Syracuse Grows leads the way to 'food justice'
By Ana Barbu
May 30, 2011 - 11:04pm
Volunteer-driven grassroots organization works to promote access to fresh, locally-grown food across the city's social strata.

Urban farming is becoming a prominent solution to the problem of food security and the sustainable development of urban vacant lots in Syracuse. Local non profit organization Syracuse Grows is focusing on ways to ensure that people have access to nutritious, affordable food. 

Witnessing the Historic Egyptian Revolution
By Lenah Hassaballah
May 18, 2011 - 1:39pm
A Newhouse junior who has lived in Eqypt most of her life spent spring break filming protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Note: Broadcast and digital journalism junior Lenah Hassballah returned to her home in Cairo, Egypt, for spring break and witnessed the protests in Tahrir Square on March 18. Hassaballah was born in the United States but has lived in Egypt for most of her life. She attended high school and part of college in Cairo before transferring to Syracuse University. For Hassaballah, the Egyptian Revolution was personal, and witnessing it from afar on the television was, in her words, "not enough."

March 18, 2011.

Royal Wedding a source of celebration, frustration for Britons
By Eric Vilas-Boas
May 3, 2011 - 1:53pm
Much of the United Kingdom celebrated the nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton with large public parties, but some find the grandiose affair socially irresponsible.

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and commoner Kate Middleton locked lips in marital bliss in front of billions on Friday, but not everyone in the United Kingdom was moved by the occasion. Although a large percentage of British citizens watched the wedding and celebrated in street parties throughout the UK, a much larger number of people watching from abroad engaged with the wedding as well.

Hear no evil
By Mackenzie Reiss
April 20, 2011 - 9:42pm
A Sudanese refugee living in Syracuse escaped the violence in his home country, but remains haunted by the horrors he witnessed.

To live in Sudan is to live at war.

Guerilla soldiers draw their battle lines through towns, homes and human lives; lines that tear the country apart.

Fifty years of civil war have split the country in two. In half a century, the war has taken two million lives and left more than four million others homeless.

On Jan. 9, 2011, the Sudanese had the chance to break that cycle of violence.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra suspends operations
By Leah Rankin
April 13, 2011 - 1:11am
For 50 years the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra has been a cultural cornerstone, but mismanagement, a tight budget and an unanswered fundraising plea forces the SSO to closed its doors.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra invited Buffalo Philharmonic conductor, Joann Falletta to conduct a concert featuring classical guitarist Eliot Fisk on March 25. But it was not the strummed acoustic chords that resonated with the audience that night. Before the concert’s second half Falletta, the recipient of 11 honorary doctorates and a slew of other astounding credits, addressed the audience.