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Arts & Culture

Syracuse Stage Presents Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama ‘How I Learned to Drive’

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, By Joanna Penalva

Come along for the ride as Syracuse Stage presents Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “How I Learned to Drive.” This deeply compassionate play looking into how one woman’s courage to face a troubled time in her past leads her to…

Campus & Community

Brown, Pati Named Class of 2018 Senior Class Marshals

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, By Shannon Andre

Gerald Brown and Anjana “Angie” Pati were named senior class marshals for the Class of 2018 by the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience, which oversees the selection process. Brown and Pati will lead their class and carry the…

Arts & Culture

Symposium Focuses on Place of Religion in Film

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, By Renée K. Gadoua

László Nemes’ 2015 film “Son of Saul” has earned a slew of awards, including the Cannes Grand Prix, a Golden Globe and an Oscar. Set in Auschwitz-Birkenau at the end of the war, it also has spurred debate over the…

Health & Society

Feminist Rhetorical Scholar to Speak on Necropolitics and Black Boyhood, Political Mobilization March 30-31

Monday, March 27, 2017, By Erica Blust

Feminist rhetorical scholar Lisa M. Corrigan, Ph.D., will deliver lectures on March 30 and 31 as part of the colloquium series in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies. The talks are free and…

Campus & Community

Spiritual Life Council Shares Message of Unity Through Peace Poles on Quad

Monday, March 27, 2017, By Kathleen Haley

“May Peace Prevail on Earth.” A simple phrase with a powerful message. The words—in 23 different languages and in Braille—are inscribed on two red cedar “peace poles” installed over winter break in front of Hendricks Chapel through the work of…

Campus & Community

Flight from Syria, New Life in the College of Law, Now Helping Fellow Refugees

Monday, March 27, 2017, By Sean Kirst

Violette Khabbaz, silent, is listening to a conversation on a March afternoon. Sunlight pours through a window and illuminates her face as she leans across the counter of the Byblos Mediterranean Café, the restaurant she operates on North Clinton Street…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Symposium to Host Scholar of Modern Italian Literature April 4-5

Saturday, March 25, 2017, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong study of “Place” with a visit by a scholar of modern Italian literature. Mauro Novelli, associate professor of contemporary Italian literature at The University of Milan, will discuss “Places of Resistance: Simulation and Dissimulation in…

Campus & Community

Syracuse University to Celebrate National Orange Day on Friday

Thursday, March 23, 2017, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Friday, March 24, is a special day at Syracuse. It is the University’s 147th birthday, a day to celebrate its founding on March 24, 1870. “National Orange Day is probably the most amazing day out of the whole year because…

Campus & Community

Community Ambassador Program Application Deadline Thursday, March 23

Wednesday, March 22, 2017, By News Staff

The Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services (OCCS) is seeking student applicants for the 2017-18 Community Ambassador (CA) program. Selected applicants will assist students with their transitions to off-campus residences. CAs serve as role models for other student-residents. As leaders…

The Wall St. Journal

Professor Yilin Hou on China and Property Taxes

Tuesday, March 21, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Yilin Hou, Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal story titled “China Kicks Property Tax to the Curb—For Now” Hou, who has extensively studied the possibility of a property tax in China, says…