Author: Blythe

Welcome to Our House!

Image of Bowne Hall, Honors LocationYou might not think the facilities of The Renée Crown University Honors Program look like a house. If anything our setup in Bowne Hall looks like a suite of offices you might find in a professional building devoted to law or medicine. As the director of Honors at Syracuse I can assure you this is indeed a real house, or as the ancient Greeks would say, “a house hold.” We offer a place for conversation, for nurture–a place for growing your ideas and yes, even a place where you can have a laugh. My seeing-eye dog Nira can tell you a lot about the laugh factor here in the Honors program.

In the world’s most famous travel story, Odysseus struggles to return home after fighting in the Trojan war. In the ancient world home meant something more than a roof overhead or a strong set of walls. In the Homeric worldview home was where you demonstrated you were a good citizen. Home was where you welcomed strangers, listened to their stories, and where you shared your own good fortune with those who might come your way.

I hope you will spend time with us, read books in our lounge, drink our excellent coffee, make use of our computer cluster, and best of all, find time to talk to our students, faculty, and staff. I think you’ll find that the Honors program is a welcoming and affirming place. Oh, and our seeing-eye dog? Come visit her too!

JERK Magazine Recruiting Now!

Hello Honors Community,

Today we have a message from student, Chelsea Perry, who is part of the Jerk Magazine team and would like to let everyone know about an opportunity to get involved with this on-campus publication! Sooooo…here she is:

                                               

To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Chelsey Perry and I am part of a small group of students from Jerk Magazine who are starting a podcast for Jerk on campus this upcoming fall semester. As the fall semester slowly approaches we are looking to recruit students to become a part of our team.

Announcement:
JERK is expanding and we are looking for people like you to help! We are in need of capable individuals who want experience working in sound editing/recording for us on a new JERKventure. Oh, and you better believe working for JERK looks pretty good on a resume!

What we need is a couple of people who are interested in doing audio work for the upcoming JERK podcast. Specifically, we need someone who is has the capacity to produce quality sound bytes for the show as well as editing the recordings. Essentially, you’d be our audio producer! Oh, and did I mention it can go in your portfolio when you go after those internships?

If this sounds like something you wanna do, sending us the following items is a good place to start.

Resume
Letter of Interest
Demo Reel (If no demo reel, tell us about your experience in with podcasting/audio work)

Send all that to jerkpodcast@gmail.com and we’ll get back to ya ASAP.

Thank you for your time and enjoy the rest of your summer!

 

 

Honors Community Sends Best Wishes to Alum Wounded in Colorado Shooting

Dear Honors Community,

We write a simple message today for Honors Alumnus, Stephen Barton ’12, who was was wounded by a shotgun blast at the premiere of the Batman movie in Colorado.
We at Honors send our positive thoughts to Stephen and his family and wish him a speedy recovery. We are proud to have Stephen as a member of our community and we know you will all join us as we send him our warm wishes of healing.

Stephen Barton
Stephen Barton

Honors Alumnus, Jordan Rosin ’11, Produces ‘Butoh Electra’ at the Historic Irondale Center

Butoh Electra

Hello Honors Community,

We write to you today to share some amazing work by an Honors Alumnus and an important fundraising campaign to help support his work! Jordan Rosin, Class of 2011, is the Creator and Producer of Butoh Electra, a physical theatre performance event that follows the story of Electra, from Greek mythology, whose inner life stood at odds with the world of the walking dead in which she lived.

Last year he and his team put on the show at FringeNYC and the show sold out every performance; being named a highlight of the entire Festival by a range of news outlets including The Village Voice! Now, this August, they have been invited to present Butoh Electra again! This time it will have a two-week run as part of the kick-off to the 2012-2013 season at the historic Irondale Center, an enormous and well-regarded multi-arts venue in the heart of the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY. As the host, the Irondale Center is generously providing the production with:

  • a gorgeous space to perform the show
  • access to their state-of-the-art sound, lighting, and projection equipment
  • box office & front-of-house support
  • inclusion in their season-related marketing materials

However, that means the show’s creators are responsible for all of the other major costs associated with producing the show, including, but not limited to:

  • costumes
  • scenery
  • props
  • production staff
  • marketing
  • production materials i.e. copies of the script

The cost of putting on the show will run just about $4,000 in all and this is where we are calling on the Honors Community to support your fellow student and Alum in his amazing, creative venture! With everyone’s help, they can make this production even bigger and better than the last and continue to build towards a more sustainable model of making theatre. So, would you like to support Jordan and the production? Perhaps you still have some questions? Jordan’s team has setup a Kickstarter.com page to make that easy! Just visit -> Kickstarter.com <- and you can choose to “BACK THIS PROJECT”, “Like” the project on Facebook, “Tweet” about it on Twitter, or otherwise share the word with your friends.  If you are a local to New York City, you’ll want to donate soon since the first 20 people to pledge $15 or more get a special code for discount tickets to the show!

 We congratulate Jordan Rosin and his team for all of their hard work, hope you share in our excitement for them, and encourage you to show your support!

Anna Ebers, Ph.D. candidate at SUNY ESF and Fulbright Fellow, is looking for interns!

Hello Honors students! An exciting opportunity has presented itself and we wanted to pass the word onto all of you! Anna Ebers, a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY ESF and Fulbright Fellow, is looking for an E-Commerce and Marketing Intern, a Marketing Intern, and a Grant-Writing Intern to work on a really great project. If there are students who may currently be in the Syracuse area, she is hoping you decide to read a bit more and look into volunteering some of your time! (Additionally, she would love to have the same interns working on the project throughout the school year so there’s a longer possibility as well.) As this is an unpaid internship it would be a great way to earn civic engagement hours for your Honors requirements and a great resume booster!

Anna explains, “Solar Solutions for Mexico project brings affordable solar technology to villages in rural Jalisco, Mexico, one village at a time. We electrify homes with stand-alone solar systems that come with 2 LED lights and a UV filter to purify water. These systems are produced in Mexico, and a partner NGO takes care of their installation and maintenance. Children can finally study in the evenings, not impaired by smoke from burning candles and kerosene lamps. Schools, medical centers and community spaces also benefit from our initiative. To meet their needs, larger more powerful solar panels are donated from Germany, where we formed a strategic partnership with another NGO. Solar electricity brings clean light to schools and connects both teachers and students to the outside world via solar PCs. With solar electricity, hospitals can store life-saving medicines in solar fridges.  Light in community centers allows grown-ups to use their evenings productively: charge their radios and cell phones or take evening literacy classes. Access to clean light empowers the community, especially women, who can work on their handicrafts in the evening as a source of income.  To help families pay for solar products, we purchase handicrafts fair trade from local women and merchandize them through our NGO in the US. We cut out the middle man and all proceeds go back to benefit the community in Mexico. We bring economic, social, and environmental benefits to the community through solar technology”.

So, if you’re interested, click on the images below and read up on what she is looking for in an intern!

For more information do not hesitate to reach out to Anna Ebers, the project director, at aebers@syr.edu or Rev. Gail Riina, director of the Step Center, at lutheran@syr.edu.