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Part-time Connection
A recent study links part-time instructors to the freshman drop-out rate. At SU the positions have a different effect.
By Angela Cave
Tere Paniagua could not support her three children with the $3,500 Syracuse University was paying her to teach part-time in 2002. "Part-time teaching at SU would not permit me to be a provider for my family," said Paniagua, a single mother. Paniagua, a journalist of 25 years, pioneered the Hispanic journalistic practices course at the school.
God of War II video game animation director speaks at annual symposium
By Brian Goetsch
Cory Barlog would ask potential designers looking to work with him an open-ended question. "You're at a Coke machine and you want a Coke. A single Coke costs 50 cents. You have a quarter. How do you get a Coke?" he said. Barlog asks the Coke machine question because, "You really get to know a designer's mindset when you ask the question.
Student pulls pellet gun after disagreement
By Lauren Bertolini
During a barbeque in the 1100 block of Madison Street, two students were threatened with what appeared to be a black handgun, according to a Syracuse Police Department report. On Sunday at 1:50 p.m., two Syracuse University students - a junior and a senior - were in their friend's backyard when they were approached by a student from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Sleep supplement proposal places first in business competition
By Rebekah Jones
The door closes. This is it. For the next half hour, Salvatore D'Amelio and his three teammates, Matthew Malone, Graham Tuttle and John Cuyler, pitch their Some Where Out There business plan to a panel of judges who could make or break their entrepreneurial plans.
Music, speakers encourage sustainability for Earth Day
By Melanie Zilora
The Kid Fresh and House Party took the stage with two guitars, a bass, a drum set. As he took the microphone, the audience started cheering and shouting, "What's poppin', Kid," getting ready for a good show. After opening for Nas in Syracuse University's Goldstein Auditorium on Friday night, Kid Fresh, a LeMoyne College alumnus, spent Saturday helping an environmental cause.
Six professors honored with teaching award
By Abram Brown
Johanna Keller's first paid job was as a teacher when she was 12 years old, helping a younger neighbor learn to read. "I was fascinated with the process," she said. Keller decided she wanted to be a teacher at a young age, and now she is being honored for her commitment as one of three professors to receive the Meredith Professor's Teaching Recognition Award for her development of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program in the S.
Prospective students share public policy plans in scholarship contest
By Brett LoGiurato
Approximately 105 prospective Syracuse University students presented public policies to improve their local communities as part of the 63rd Annual Maxwell Citizenship Scholarship Conference at Schine Student Center Saturday afternoon. The conference, which started in 1946 and is sponsored by the public affairs program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, announces a winner each year who receives $5,000 in scholarship money for each of his or her four years at SU.
