Maria Contreras-Sweet, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced that SU is the recipient of another grant, and that the SBA is furthering its relationship with SU. Read more »
Tickets to the 2015 Block Party event, which is hosted by University Union and will take place Friday, have officially sold out. Read more »
Residence Hall Association president-elect Nedda Sarshar was elected as the SA Board of Trustees representative at the meeting in Maxwell Auditorium. Sarshar, the current director of civic engagement for RHA, was selected out of three candidates after a series of assembly discussions and voting. Read more »
Millions of college students arrive on campus each year with a mental illness or mental health concerns. In the 2014 National Survey of College Counseling Centers, 94 percent of directors reported an increase in students with severe psychological problems on their campuses. Read more »
Driscoll, a professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, is now among the 13 members the University Senate approved Wednesday to be on the selection committee. Read more »
SU signed a master agreement”with Benefunder which allows for 20 professors to connect with possible donors through the platform. Read more »
Walnut Place and Walnut Avenue will be closed to parking Friday due to Mayfest. Read more »
Fraternity and Sorority Affairs
Tae Kim, 19, and Jeffrey Yam, 21, have both been charged with hazing in the first degree, a misdemeanor. They pled not guilty in court last month. Nothing was decided and the case is still in the early stages, said James Hopkins, Kim's lawyer. Read more »
Earthfest, which took place in the Thornden Park Amphitheater, was held by Students of Sustainability and the Sustainability Division at Syracuse University. Read more »
The Cuse Conference, held Sunday, worked to bring students, faculty and administration together in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium to encourage open dialogue of important issues on the Syracuse University campus. Read more »
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More than 100 members of the Syracuse University community participated in Alpha Phi Alpha’s annual Walk to Remember on Sunday, which raised about $2,000. Read more »
"The Big Event" is organized by OrangeSeeds, a first-year empowerment organization that coordinated the event with the support of the Student Association and its Impact Week. Read more »
On Friday, Syracuse University announced that Mary Karr, an award-winning poet, will speak at the university's commencement ceremony on May 10. Karr is also a professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of best-selling memoirs “The Liars’ Club.” Read more »
AJ Abell, Safet Mesanovic, Tatiana Cadet and Jesse Nichols all campaigned as write-in candidates for president, while Seedat and her running mate, Jane Hong, were the only candidates to appear on the ballot on MySlice. Seedat was declared the winner around 1 a.m. Friday, with 24.1 percent of students voting in the election. Read more »
Seedat defeated four write-in candidates who were running campaigns for president. A total of 24.1 percent of the student body voted in the elections. Read more »
The recently announced policy that requires all Syracuse University students to have health insurance by the start of the 2016–17 academic year was the result of “deferred maintenance,” Chancellor Kent Syverud said. Read more »
Fraternity and Sorority Affairs
Brion Neary, a brother of Alpha Chi Rho — the fraternity partnered with the “It’s On Us” initiative — spoke first about how he started the initiative, which is a part of Greek Week. The event, located in the Physics Building, drew more than 200 attendees. Read more »
This year's SA election saw the first all female candidate ticket for president and vice president: Aysha Seedat and Jane Hong, respectively. The pair is part of the growing national trend of an increased number of female candidates in college government. Read more »
In this year’s Student Association elections at Syracuse University, four pairs of students have taken advantage of the opportunity to earn hand-typed votes by campaigning as write-in candidates. Read more »
In Mesanovic's platform, he has pledged to put the ideas of students above his own, and ensure the voices of all students be heard, even those of international students like himself and other marginalized groups. Read more »
Three of the five Student Association presidential candidates, along with one pseudo candidate, took part in the latest SA debate Tuesday night, hosted by The Kumquat, a satirical campus publication. Read more »
Tatiana Cadet was a junior transfer student from Georgia Perimeter College. Cadet and Fatima Bangura are now running for Student Association president and vice president, respectively. Cadet is advocating for and talking to transfer and nontraditional students on campus. Read more »
The 14.2 percentage mark surpasses the 10 percent needed for the election to become official, meaning elections will not run into Friday. Read more »
As a part of Nichols and Hein’s “Om for SU” campaign, the pair wants to create a holistic stress reduction center. Sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion, the center would act as a one-stop shop toward feeling better. Read more »
