Spring Break
The Daily OrangeNews
Making noise: Residents reflect on neighborhood tensions over Mayfest
By Julia Terruso
Thirty years ago, Harry Lewis watched the elm trees canopying Lancaster Avenue wilt, yellow and die from Dutch elm disease. Fifteen years ago, a 135-mph wind blew through his neighborhood, sending a tree into his upstairs window. Lewis, who's lived at 935 Lancaster Ave.
Students, community gather to dedicate home
By Ashley Collman
Members of Syracuse University's Habitat for Humanity spent their 2008 Spring Break camped out in front of the capitol building in Albany, N.Y. They lobbied the government for affordable housing. But the members also began to erect the framework of a house on the steps of the capitol, one window, one wall at a time, in order to draw attention to their cause.
Student team rakes in $25,000 at business competition
By Rebecca Toback
After putting in an estimated 1,000 hours of work creating a business plan, Greg Ackerman and his partner, Peter King, won $25,000 in the Panasci Business Plan Competition, hosted by the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Ackerman, a graduate student in the entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises program, has been working since September 2007 on his business, called BSApp.
