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Students hold 'Hoodies for Trayvon' rally amid national calls to action
By Eva McKend
March 26, 2012 - 10:08pm
More than 100 students stood on the steps of Hendricks Chapel to show support for Trayvon Martin, a slain Florida teenager.

More than 100 students and faculty shivered through Monday night's windy 30-degree weather in hooded sweatshirts to rally on the quad in support of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17 year old who was shot and killed a month ago by self-appointed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla.

Happy Valentine's Day from The NewsHouse
By NewsHouse Staff
February 13, 2012 - 5:15pm
Syracuse University students, young children from the Bernice Wright lab school and The NewsHouse lead producers wax poetic about love.

Valentine's Day has never been simple. Everyone has an opinion somewhere in between on what they think love is. Accordingly, the NewsHouse decided to ask, because clearly we can't pin it down, right? We talked to the Bernice M. Wright Child Development Lab School to get their opinions as well as the views of SU students across the hill. Read the staff's answers below:

Dancing For development
By Marwa Eltagouri
February 16, 2011 - 11:03pm
Syracuse University students danced the night away to help raise funds for Habitat for Humanity.

In the brightly-lit Sky Barn on South Campus, two girls toss around a balloon to each other, anticipating the arrival of students. A disc jockey sets up his equipment at the front of the barn, facing the dance floor. Balloons and streamers line the sides of the walls, and snacks donated by Pepsi are spread out on a table in the back. Everything needed for the dance is set, including several gallons of ice water, because this isn’t a typical dance — it’s a 12-hour dance marathon.

Four SU students flying out of Cairo today
By Matt Raponi
February 9, 2011 - 12:39pm
Students studying abroad transferring to other programs in Middle East, Europe.

The four students studying via SU Abroad in Egypt at the American University in Cairo were safely evacuated to a safe haven in Istanbul, Turkey, The Daily Orange reports. All four students had the option to transfer to the London program, another Middle Eastern program or to return to SU.

Student protests disrupt living in Italy
By Marquise Francis
November 30, 2010 - 3:47pm
Students marched through Italian cities today disrupting roads and railway lines while legislators continue to vote on education reform.

Students in Italy are irate about possible education reforms all throughout Italy. Reforms in place have been drawn up without any dialogue with students and teachers says Babara Marchetti, a 27-year-old PhD student at Rome University. Instead of sitting put and letting such events take place, students have been taking action into their own hands with numbers of protests and reform themselves.

Lockdown is lifted for 300 schools in Florida
By Stephanie Narvaez
November 10, 2010 - 6:32pm
Radio call warns of a possible shooting at a 'random' school, Search still on

A lockdown is lifted after almost 300 schools in Broward County in Florida after a local radio station received a phone call just after 8:30 a.m. from a woman warning officials that her husband was preparing to open fire on one of the schools.

Thousands of students were forced to stay in their school until the threat was eliminated. Officials say they did not want to take any chances.

Syracuse University students to report on Election Day
By Carson Daniels
November 2, 2010 - 10:46am
More than 140 Syracuse University students will travel to different polling places across Central New York on Tuesday to cover stories of democracy.

Undergraduate and graduate students from the S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University will visit 80 polling stations for a project called Democracy in Action, according to The Post-Standard.

The project is used as a method to teach students how to gather interesting news stories on Election Day, not just poll results.

The truth will set you green
By Erica Sanderson
June 8, 2010 - 8:22pm
ESF's Green Campus Initiative reveals the trash habits of its students.

When an environmentally conscious school has trouble recycling, what do you do? Tell people.

At Commencement, students cut Dimon slack
By Paul Brockwell
May 16, 2010 - 4:46pm
Protesters don’t come to bear; accountability was the major theme of JPMorgan Chase CEO's address.

Jamie Dimon doesn’t mind being held accountable. In fact, he wants to be. For Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co., it’s a crucial element of achieving success.

“It is completely appropriate to hold me accountable for those things I am responsible for,” Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co., told students in his commencement address. “We all should be held accountable.

Eat. Sleep. Bathe. Poop?
By Mallory Passuite
April 12, 2010 - 6:45pm
How a cultural exchange in Morocco made me rethink the basics

A gray-haired, Guatemalan Harvard graduate, my professor of Latin American Short Story squats over a dusty, orange, dirt path outside...