community service

Jerk Magazine awards the trendy, artsy and charitable
By Kaitlin Santanna
April 18, 2011 - 9:35am
On Saturday evening, Jerk Magazine hosted its first, soon-to-be-annual awards show. The magazine honored students and community members who do charitable and creative work but often go unnoticed.

Students dressed in artfully ripped tights, short dresses, and high-heeled boots mingled, nibbling their sushi rolls and finger sandwiches as thumping bass shook the walls of Smith Hall’s basement-turned-trendy-art-gallery.

Welcome to the 1st Annual Jerk Awards & Student Show.

The Jerk magazine staff and more than 100 students gathered on Saturday night to recognize groups and individuals doing “out-of-the-ordinary things” to contribute to their community.

Blitz-ing the neighborhood
By Matt Porter
August 9, 2010 - 10:59pm
More than 200 professionals and volunteers help Syracuse residents fix up their homes as part of Home HeadQuarter's Block Blitz.

For one day, more than 200 volunteers, including at least one contingent from S.U., descended on two small neighborhoods on Syracuse's South and...

A New 601 Tully
By Evan Klonsky
June 12, 2010 - 7:09pm
SU professor Marion Wilson leads volunteers from OrangeSeeds in rethinking and shaping up a Near Westside house.

Less than a year ago Marion Wilson bought a house on the Near Westside through Syracuse University's Scholarship in Action. The house had been run down and used as a drug headquarters among some area residents.

Imagining Lipe Art Park
By Evan Klonsky
June 12, 2010 - 6:33pm
Artists, students and volunteers combine forces to create art, vegetation out of a neglected space in downtown Syracuse.

A collection of Syracuse University students and local volunteers gathered in Lipe Art Park in April to clean up and prepare the area for gardening and art projects taking place there. Brendan Rose, a masters degree student in architecture at SU, used volunteers to mix cement for an art installation he is creating for the city. The installation is located in the center of the park and will serve as both a graffiti wall and shade canopy for the residents. 

Still Time to Join Relay for Life
By Heather Crowley
April 6, 2010 - 6:25pm
With four days left there is still time to participate in Relay for Life

In four days the Carrier Dome will become one giant sleepover.  From 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. on April 10 the American Cancer Society and Syracuse University will partner for the annual Relay for Life.  This year's Relay will feature a Mr. & Mrs.