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Earthquake tremors rattle SU hill
By Erica Sanderson
June 23, 2010 - 3:31pm
An 5.0-magnitude earthquake near Ottawa, Canada, is felt throughout Upstate New York.

Sara Brodowski was typing away on her MacBook Pro in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications' Collaborative Media Room when she noticed something out of the ordinary.

The media management graduate student's fingers were shaking on the keyboard, so she looked around to see what caused the commotion. 

"I thought it was someone stomping around," Brodowski said. 

But the real catalyst wasn't a rowdy student. It was an earthquake.

Tweeting athletes @ SU
By Jennifer McCaffrey
May 22, 2010 - 2:52pm
SU players are using Twitter to reach fans and friends across the university community and beyond.

Eileen Finn remembers telling her Syracuse University women’s lacrosse teammates about Twitter in the training room one day.

“We had a half hour conversation," Finn said, "and the next day I think three people had it."

Win prizes in our Tweet & Seek
By NewsHouse Staff
April 23, 2010 - 11:09am
Follow @NewsHouse on Twitter and answer trivia this week for your chance to win T-shirts, Block Party tickets or an autographed SU basketball.

Do you like winning stuff? Think you know your way around NewsHouse? Well then, we have plenty of fun in store for you this week.

Now through Friday, The NewsHouse Tweet and Seek will have you searching for clues in our articles, scratching your brain for answers to trivia and snapping photos around campus for your chance to win dozens of great prizes.

On Friday, we'll put you on a quest to find a specific Syracuse University student for a chance to win a basketball autographed by members of the men's basketball team.

Instant isn't always better
By Sherri Williams
March 29, 2010 - 9:47pm
Columnist Cynthia Tucker speaks to Syracuse students on opinion in the age of Twitter.

Veteran political columnist Cynthia Tucker told Syracuse students she tweets, blogs, writes her column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution twice a week and she often appears on television. 

But as the news cycle rapidly spins there still has to be time to slow down and think, Tucker said to about 100 people Monday while speaking on “Opinion and Commentary in the Age of Twitter, Blogs, MSNBC and Fox.”

The Birth of "Big Boeheim"
By Jared Diamond
February 24, 2010 - 8:07pm
When Pat Manley made a giant cutout of Syracuse Basketball coach Jim Boeheim's head, he wasn't planning to start a phenomenon.

All his life, Pat Manley heard the criticisms of the Syracuse student section at the Carrier Dome. It was always too quiet, too boring. That it lacked the creativity of other, better student sections around the Big East. 

It is a perception Manley, a current SU graduate student majoring in political science, set out to change. So when the opportunity arose to do something about it, he made sure to take advantage. 

Ira Glass: Twitter updates
By NewsHouse Staff
November 17, 2009 - 1:33pm
See the conversation on Twitter (#IraGlass) as the popular host of 'This American Life' speaks at Syracuse University.

Following are the Twitter updates from Ira Glass' lecture at Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday, Nov. 17. To join the discussion, add #IraGlass to your Twitter updates.

Tweet this
By Alyssa Henry
October 20, 2009 - 4:12pm
The staff of The NewsHouse fills you in on our social media strategy.

Let’s talk social media.

Celebrities are doing it. Businesses are doing it. And most likely, you’re doing it too.

According to a blog by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerburg, there are 250 million people on Facebook. That number is from July 2009, and it’s only getting larger. People are signing up for accounts as you sit here reading this.

Like many other...

Hand-held cell phone law is being enforced
By Heila Nir
October 19, 2009 - 5:59pm
Thruway State Police crackdown on cell phone use

According to 9WSYR.com, Thruway State Police issued tickets to drivers during a four-day crackdown nicknamed “Operation Hang Up II”.  Police say they gave over 900 tickets to thruways drivers who violated the hand-held cell phone law.

The New York Sate law...

Iran ignores international requests to get rid of nuclear fuel
By Valerie Crowder
October 19, 2009 - 4:53pm
Tehran says it plans to keep enriched uranium for peaceful purposes.

Iran has announced that it will not transport any of its enriched uranium out of the country, despite requests from the six world powers, according to a report on Foxnews.com. 

Unnamed Iranian officials appeared on the state-run Press TV Monday and announced that Iran plans to keep its uranium and buy what it needs for its Tehran reactor abroad.  The Islamic Republic said it needs the uranium for nuclear fuel...

The Pogue interview
By Matthew Doxtad
October 11, 2009 - 2:35pm
A few insights into the day The New York Times' tech guy stopped by.

David Pogue had just hit the 1 million follower mark on Twitter the day he spoke with The NewsHouse for our video interview.

Though later on Sept. 20, Pogue jokingly tweeted that his followers were a combination of spam, auto-follow and users who had left the site, during his interview it was clear why so many people look to him for tech advice.  Barely 5 minutes had passed before he began talking about gadgets.  All it took was one quick glance...