Category: Students

The Honors Reference Librarians!

Hello Honors Community!

The Honors Program is now fortunate to have two reference librarians designated specifically to serve our students!  Below is a bit more about Camille and Abby. Please do bring any and all of your research questions to them as they are eager to help you!

Camille Chesley and Abby Kasowitz-Scheer are pleased to serve as library liaisons to the Honors Program. Both Camille and Abby are librarians in the SU Library’s Learning Commons, an area of the Library dedicated to supporting student achievement and academic success through its services, spaces, resources, and partnerships. In their roles as liaisons to the Honors Program, they will be available to assist students in all stages of the research process, including refining topics; identifying and locating relevant, high quality information; evaluating information; and citing sources.

For more information on Abby and Camille, see:

http://library.syr.edu/about/people/staffbio/Kasowitz-Scheer_Abby.php

http://library.syr.edu/about/people/staffbio/Chesley_Camille.php

 

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!