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Diversity and Transparency Rally unites protest movements on campus
By Hanna Horvath
November 4, 2014 - 1:20pm
The rally took place in front of Hendricks Chapel at 3:30 p.m. on Monday.

Drawing together many of the individual protest movements active on campus this semester, approximately 200 people gathered on the steps of Hendricks Chapel Monday afternoon for the “Diversity and Transparency Rally.”

Maxwell School's 90th anniversary brings Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff to SU campus
By Haley Chouinard
October 31, 2014 - 2:28pm
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey spoke at the changing role of public service.

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey visited campus Friday morning and delivered a lecture to the several hundred people who crowded into the Melanie Gray CeremonialCourtroom in Dineen Hall.

“One of the principles to takeaway from today is that public service still matters,” Dempsey said, as part of his lecture focused on the ways in which public service is changing.

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. 

Changing her body to match her gender
By Christine Rushton
October 29, 2014 - 3:58pm
Freshman Dez Rivas plans to undergo surgery to alter her male physical appearance to fit her female identity.

Several trips to the doctor and weeks of shooting hip pain revealed a harsh reality: with surgery comes risk for some transgender people.

Dez Rivas, 20, endured the sharp pain in her infected hip after her body rejected a liposuction treatment. She wanted to add feminine curves without artificial implants.

Instead, she lost 75 percent of the fat moved in the procedure.

“The pain is starting to going away progressively, but I was still in pain when I went back in August for work,” Dez said. “Even to this day I still get little pains where the scars are.”

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.

Living dead invade Tipperary Hill for Zombie Crawl
By Shannon Hazlitt
October 24, 2014 - 1:25am
The nightlong event was structured like a bar crawl, except most of the attendees dressed as the undead.

Those who decided to go out last Saturday night at Tipp Hill likely encountered someone with a bloody wounds and tattered clothes.

There was not some fierce battle -- just a lot of makeup application and clothing destruction for the 6th annual Zombie Crawl on October 19.

The event was structured like a normal bar crawl, except many of the attendees didn’t look like they should be alive.

Taking a chance at truth
By Christine Rushton
October 22, 2014 - 9:49pm
She struggled to understand her emotions until she came to Syracuse University and learned about the transgender community.

Hiding an identity from friends and family takes strategy; it takes giving up a certainty to live in safety, one Syracuse University student said.

“The easiest way I think to hide something is to get very close to the truth, but just turn slightly,” she said, identifying as a transgender student on campus.

The 20-year-old student — who asked not to be named for safety reasons — left her hometown in Franklin, Mass., to study English and illustration at SU. Two years in, she realized her male body didn’t reflect her female personality.

Hack Upstate participants solve real-world problems with technology
By Shannon Hazlitt
October 9, 2014 - 12:30am
CNY technologists and designers collaborated to create new apps and technologies to aid their communities.

Jaws dropped around the room when 14-year-old Jack Cook presented what he had taken fewer than 24 hours to create. 

Cook, a freshman at the Bronx High School of Science, had, alone, created a virtual tool to make website programmers aware of errors that are normally nearly impossible to see and resolve.

He was presenting his program, called Fetch Errors, at Hack Upstate, one of the largest gatherings of programmers and techies outside of New York City.

Van Jones kicks off University Lectures series, praises youth activism
By Thomas Beckley-...
October 1, 2014 - 10:39pm
The environmental activist and CNN talk show co-host commends students supporting Divest SU ESF for their rally before his lecture.

In his lecture at Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday evening, civil rights and environmental advocate Van Jones called for young people on college campuses to take action.

“There is a new generation — the biggest, most diverse in world history — taking the stage,” Jones said. “When they look at the future we’re giving them, they don’t want it.” The audience gave him a standing ovation after he called for young people to “build a new civilization.”

Sustainability rally urges SU to invest in renewable energy, divest from fossil fuels
By Jessie Yuqing Shi
September 30, 2014 - 9:12pm
Students of Sustainability and Divest SU and ESF hosted the rally Tuesday on the Quad.

“Divest! Divest! Put fossil fuel to rest!”