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Syracuse Revamps Annual Festival Towards a Serious Side

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

All fun and no play make students dull folks.  Though Syracuse University is retaining its MayFest celebration, they are continuing classes, which have previously been cancelled for the entire day. Quite the bummer, if you ask me.

Heading Off to Make a Name For Themselves

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Freshmen are embarking on a new chapter in their lives, there’s no debate about that.  It happens every year and every year these students plunge into it head first.  Carol Cassara over at The Post-Standard discusses the move in happenings over in Syracuse.

Syracuse U. Added to List of Sustainability Campuses

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Folks over at Syracuse University in New York have decided to join the bandwagon of making their campus more sustainable.  It’s always nice to see good things like this spread to other universities and colleges.  Warm my heart..

Honors for Syracuse University

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The students at SU aided in getting the college the gold in the National Student Advertising Competition.  To clarify, there is only one winner, so calling it ‘the gold’ is a bit unneccessary, but you get my drift.  Apparently they were up against over 100 other colleges and universities.  Not too shabby, Orangemen (see, now [...]

The Weirdest Mascots in College Sports

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

College mascots tend to range from the stereotypical to embarrassing. In my own experience, it’s tended to be the latter. My high school team, the highly questionable Bellarmine Bells, had a mascot called the Bellarman. Literally, a giant bell with a mean face. Not exactly fear-inducing.
Then at NYU, our team name was the Violets. And [...]