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SU in the News: Monday, October 8

Monday, October 8, 2012, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE A New York Times Sunday Review editorial on the role of affirmative action in college admission decisions notes Syracuse University’s efforts in this area and specifically names Scholarship in Action. Coverage of the “Common Ground…

Arts & Culture

La Casita Cultural Center will present an episode of PBS series ‘Black in Latin America’

Monday, October 8, 2012, By News Staff

La Casita Cultural Center will present an episode of the acclaimed PBS series “Black in Latin America“, from 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at the center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse.  The screening of the episode “Haiti and the Dominican Republic:…

Campus & Community

Transcript of “The Rise of Democracy in the Middle East” Panel (PDF)

Monday, October 8, 2012, By News Staff

ROUGH DRAFT NOT VERBATIM >> Please welcome to the stage, the voices of Afghanistan. [ Applause ] [ Applause ] >> Thank you, everyone. On behalf of voices of Afghanistan I would like to thank Sam Nappi and also university…

Arts & Culture

‘Moby Dick’ opens Syracuse Stage’s 40th season

Monday, October 8, 2012, By News Staff

Alive with a soundscape of 18 authentic sea chanteys and performed by an ensemble of nine, Syracuse Stage’s highly physical adaption of “Moby Dick” cuts to the core of Herman Melville’s searing narrative and plays with the fury of a…

Environmentalist Bill McKibben kicks off 2012-13 University Lectures series Oct. 10

Monday, October 8, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Bill McKibben, one of America’s best known environmentalists, will kick off the 2012-13 http://lectures.syr.edu”>University Lectures season on Wednesday, Oct. 10. McKibben will speak on “350: The Most Important Number in the World” at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The lecture,…

Frequently Asked Questions

Friday, October 5, 2012, By News Staff

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8th PANEL DISCUSSIONS WITH HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA Where are the Monday panel discussions? Both panel discussions will take place in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center on the Syracuse University campus. Each session will require…

Opportunities abound to participate online in ‘Common Ground for Peace’

Friday, October 5, 2012, By Kevin Morrow

Community members have many opportunities to see—and participate in—the “Common Ground for Peace” events Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 8 and 9, at Syracuse University involving His Holiness the Dalai Lama. While seating is at capacity for Monday’s symposium panels in…

Campus & Community

Call for nominations for the Chancellor’s Citations for Excellence

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By News Staff

The Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence seeks to recognize enactment of Education for the World—in the World, through which we prepare students for the world by embedding their learning in the midst of community and the pressing issues of the day…

Campus & Community

Call for SU Honorary Degree nominations deadline extended to Oct. 17

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By News Staff

The Syracuse University Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees invites all students, faculty, staff and alumni to nominate candidates to receive honorary degrees at the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Commencement ceremonies. Deadline for all nominations is Oct. 17, 2012. Persons…

Remembering Bassel

Thursday, October 4, 2012, By Kathleen Haley

Shortly before his death in his homeland of Syria last May, graduate film student Bassel Shahade was thinking of his friends back at SU. “The last e-mail I have from him was on May 21st,” says College of Visual and Performing Arts film professor Owen Shapiro. “He wrote ‘Say hi to everyone there. I will try to stay alive. Hoping to see you soon.’”