Spring Break
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Get offline and save your local record store, one album at a time
By Nathan Mattise
There are too many devastating trends happening in our country right now. We've got a five-year-old war, extreme political divisiveness, education and income gaps and Gap stores that use "Puffy" in their advertising (alright maybe not that last one, but you get the point).
Nostalgia Nook | Bop It
By Erinn Connor
Games these days don't require much coordination - you just need some finger dexterity to push all those buttons on video game controllers. (Though the Wii is making small strides in causing people to build up those biceps and triceps.) But back in the day, there was such a device that encouraged kids to improve their coordination - Bop It.
Full speed ahead
Alternative rockers R.E.M. return to form in new album "Accelerate"
By Dan Kaplan
R.E.M. "Accelerate" Genre: College rock Sounds like: Counting Crows, late-90s Pearl Jam 80 decibels With its new album, "Accelerate," veteran college rock band R.E.M. has but one thing to say to the world: R.E.M. is back, and better than it's been in a long time.
Destination Times
WASHINGTON ARMS The Quad: 9 min. Carrier Dome: 10 min. Schine Student Center: 7 min. Marshall Street: 4 min. LAWRINSON/SADLER The Quad: 6 minutes Carrier Dome: 1 minute Schine Student Center: 8 minutes Marshall Street: 10 minutes SHAW/LYONS The Quad: 3 min.
House party
Students scramble during next two weeks to find the most ideal on-campus residence
By Amanda Allison
The housing reservation process has begun. Running through April 15 at 5 p.m., the online registration is four-week process that determines with whom and where current Syracuse students will live next semester. Today, the housing department is processing the thousands of registrations currently underway.
Housing Perspectives
By Kelina Imamura
What is your ideal dorm? Brandon Anderson Information studies Freshman "Haven, probably. It has food below, and it's closer to Whitman. (I) picked it because of the four-person suites with all singles." Chris McMillan Industrial design Senior "Just in terms of location, Shaw.
South Campus Basics
Available residences: SkyHalls: Built in 1966 and currently houses 350 freshmen on three floors. Slocum Heights: Built for 250 undergrad and grad students. Features one story one and two-bedroom apartments and one-bedroom with study options, all fully furnished.
Housing Information
BBB (Brewster, Boland and Brockway Halls) If you want exercise, live at BBB. There are more steps and steeper steps (leading up to the College of Law), than those going up to The Mount. Steps aside, the rooms look like semi-swanky apartments, complete with huge windows showcasing the underbelly of Syracuse.
