Student Association president Eric Evangelista submitted his initial operating budget proposal to the organization’s Finance Board without approval from the cabinet and assembly, a violation of SA’s bylaws and constitution. Evangelista followed the precedent set by previous administrations, he said. Read more »
On-campus housing is only available to transfer students on a first-come, first-serve basis. Read more »
During SA’s assembly meeting Monday night in Maxwell Auditorium, Evangelista said the board is supposed to be comprised of SA’s president and comptroller, the Graduate Student Organization’s president and SLS’s comptroller. Read more »
SA is hoping to plan a census of student organizations to help identify which needs are being met by student groups on campus. Read more »
About 35 volunteers painted walls, cleaned up classrooms and engaged with students at the North Side Learning Center. The Spring Into Action campaign, a collaboration between SA and RHA, hopes to get students more involved in the community off-campus. Read more »
Each of DPS’s 68 full-time peace officers is trained to handle handguns and long guns. But before they’re armed, they have to go through almost 100 hours of training. Read more »
"The Speaker of the Assembly Cabinet Bill," which amends the speaker of the assembly’s role in SA, was passed Monday night. The bill will require the speaker to attend cabinet meetings in future legislative sessions. Read more »
Five SA assembly members have been referred to SA’s Judicial Review Board after failing to attend mandatory Monday night meetings. This comes after SA was unable to meet quorum for the second time this legislative session. Read more »
One bill would require the speaker of the assembly to attend SA meetings, while the other would make it a requirement for cabinet members to attend meetings. SA President Eric Evangelista also discussed an upcoming off-campus surveillance camera initiative. Read more »
The state assembly is expected to propose a ride-hailing bill similar to the Senate bill passed on Feb. 6. If passed, ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft will be allowed to operate in upstate New York. Read more »
SA is reassessing the program’s expansion after menstrual product caddies and signs were stolen from E.S. Bird Library. Read more »
SA sent an email on Jan. 26 opening the PR co-chair and community engagement co-chair positions to the student body. SA President Eric Evangelista is under judicial review for attempting to fill the vacancies without opening applications to the student body. Read more »
Free, small group tutoring will be available for select courses through the new Center for Academic Achievement in E.S. Bird Library. Read more »
In their first meeting of the semester, the Syracuse University Student Association debated vacant cabinet positions and sanctuary campus bill. Read more »
The group of 49 women and men braved massive crowds, train delays and two six-and-a-half-hour bus rides to march in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. Read more »
The Central New Yorkers traveling on the bus early Saturday morning were ready to join the 200,000 others descending on the nation’s capital to march following Donald Trump's inauguration. Read more »
Syracuse University is currently under a federal investigation for its handling of a sexual assault case. Here's an explanation of that investigation. Read more »
The heating system was installed on University Place promenade to deal with the winter weather. Read more »
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management received a $1.75 grant to establish the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society. The IES will study the relationship between public policy and entrepreneurship. Read more »
SU Abroad is abandoning its plans to organize a semester-long program in Cuba after the President-elect threatened to end U.S.-Cuban relations. Read more »
Two students from SU’s Trans Team have organized a makeup drive to help members of central New York’s transgender community. The drive will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in Schine Student Center. Read more »
The SU Sport Management Club will host its 12th Annual Charity Sports Auction to benefit child victims of physical and sexual abuse. Items up for auction will include signed sports memorabilia, electronics and sporting-event tickets. Read more »
Katko defeated Democratic challenger Colleen Deacon in the race for the 24th district, which includes all of Onondaga County as well as all of Cayuga and Wayne counties and some of Oswego County. Read more »
CRS alumni Joe Hatfield won M.A. Thesis of the Year Award for his research on queer southern transplants’ experiences in New York City during the AIDS epidemic. His research and findings show that while moving from the South to New York City is hard, moving from the South to New York City as a gay man during the 1980s AIDS epidemic is even harder. Read more »
