awareness

Women are updating their Facebook statuses in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
By Shelby Fenster
October 7, 2010 - 5:45pm
Facebook News Feeds are exploding with status updates saying where women like...their purses.

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, women are telling the world that they "like it on" their desk, floor or many other places.  However, these status updates are referring to where these women like to put their purses, according to CNN.

The reason this campaign may have taken off so quickly is because of its sexual connotation.  Facebook friends have taken to commenting on the statuses in order to find out what they mean.

Green IQ
By Dina Spector
April 19, 2010 - 3:07pm
SU students show their (lack of) knowledge about environmental issues.

Imagine Syracuse University 50 years from now, under 10 feet of water — waves sloshing up the sides of the Carrier Dome, desk chairs and tables rushing past E.S. Bird Library, students backstroking down Marshall Street.  It’s a nightmarishly wet future for SU. But one that will become increasingly real if unmitigated global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise over the next half century, bringing the planet closer and closer to the point of irreversible change.