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Campus & Community

State Librarian Plans to Keep Fighting Censorship in Retirement

Tuesday, December 5, 2023, By Anya Woods

Sara Jones says she sometimes feels like she’s fighting an inferno with a spray bottle. As the Washington State Librarian, she is determined to stop censorship in libraries and says she plans to continue battling book suppression when she retires…

Health & Society

Lender Center Brings Labor Movement Leaders to Campus to Discuss the Fight for Workers’ Rights

Tuesday, November 1, 2022, By Jen Plummer

The revitalization of the American labor movement and the struggle for racial and economic justice were the central topics of a Lender Center Conversation held Monday, Oct. 24, in Dineen Hall. After introductory remarks from current and former leadership of…

Campus & Community

Fight Waste. Feed People! Volunteer With the Food Recovery Network

Wednesday, September 14, 2022, By News Staff

After the dining centers close, as most students are scattering back to their residence halls, to the library to study or toward other late-night activities, volunteers with the Food Recovery Network (FRN), a student organization with members from SUNY College…

Syracuse University Impact

Student Volunteers With the Food Recovery Network Fight Waste and Feed People

Monday, April 25, 2022, By Jen Plummer

After the dining centers close, as most students are scattering back to their residence halls, to the library to study or toward other late-night activities, volunteers with the Food Recovery Network (FRN), a student organization comprising members from SUNY College…

Agence France-Presse

“Musk-ruled Twitter: users left to fight trolls and misinformation?”

Monday, April 25, 2022, By Lily Datz

Kyla Garrett Wagner, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the Agence France-Presse story “Musk-ruled Twitter: users left to fight trolls and misinformation?” Wagner, who studies communications and the First Amendment, explained that she does not…

Campus & Community

Women’s Club Table Tennis Team Puts Up a Fight at National Collegiate Table Tennis Association Championships

Thursday, April 14, 2022, By News Staff

On April 8, led by Team Captain Rachel Yang ’23 and Club President Xinyue Mao ’22, the University’s women’s table tennis team showed up to the Round Rock Sports Center, marking the first time the club team has ever participated…

Campus & Community

School of Social Work’s Donation Drive to Fight Hunger in Syracuse

Tuesday, March 8, 2022, By Matt Michael

March is National Social Work Month, and this year’s theme is “The Time Is Right for Social Work.” For the Falk College’s School of Social Work, the time is right to help support the fight against hunger in the Syracuse…

KCBS Radio

“The Russian figure skating team under fire for their 15-year-old start figure skater”

Friday, February 11, 2022, By Lily Datz

Rick Burton, David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in the Falk College, was interviewed for the KCBS Radio story “The Russian figure skating team under fire for their 15-year-old start figure skater.” Burton, who served as the chief…

Media Tip Sheets

Why would governors fight vaccine mandates?

Friday, October 15, 2021, By Lily Datz

This week, the Republican governors of Texas and Florida challenged the coronavirus vaccine mandates put forth by President Joe Biden. Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning any entity in the state from enforcing a vaccine mandate. Florida…

Media, Law & Policy

In Memoriam: Joseph Strasser, ‘Forever an Important Figure in Our History’

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, By Jessica Youngman

Joseph Strasser ’53, G’58, H’20 was just 8 years old in 1940 when he and his brother escaped Nazi persecution on a Kindertransport rescue boat. Two years earlier, the Third Reich had annexed their home country, Austria. Their father, Paul,…