Category: Students

Celebrated poet Marvin Bell will read from his latest work, Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2 in Syracuse University’s Hall of Languages, Room 107.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU’s paid lots. The events are presented by the Renée Crown University Honors Program, which is administered by SU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Vertigo is Bell’s 23rd book of poetry and his fourth collection of “dead man poems,” a form he invented and about which author and critic Judith Kitchen has written: “Bell has redefined poetry as it is being practiced today.”

Recently the Syracuse Creme de la Kremlin team, consisting of David Kopel and Samm Costello, won in the Franklin and Marshall tournament in Lancaster, PA on March 10, 2012. The judging panel for finals consisted of 5 judges and all 5 voted for them. Their case was about Vladimir Putin dueling Tupac Shakur, and was written in the 15 minutes before the round (usually people bring cases they’ve spent a lot of time on to such important rounds). This win places David and Samm in 15th place in the Team of the Year competition and makes Syracuse 14th in the Club of the Year competition.

Nationals will take place on April 20-22 at Wesleyan University located in Middletown, Connecticut.

Meng Shui’s Capstone project “WHISPER OUT LOUD;
Forbidden Topics in China” opens tomorrow night,
March 23rd, at 7:00 PM in the Coyne Gallery,
Comstock Art Building.

The show will continue til March 30, 2012.

 

The University has just selected this year’s Syracuse Scholars — the highest academic accolade given to graduating seniors.  They will lead the student processional at Commencement.  This is a mark of tremendous accomplishment, and  nine of the twelve students named are Honors students:

 

Stephen Barton

Bailey Fitzgerald

Oriana Fuentes

Christina Levin

Marc Mason

Tsubasa Morioka

Robert Solonick

William Weigand

Vivian Yu

 

Congratulations to this wonderful group of students!

 

HopePrint is a local Syracuse organization dedicated to helping local resettled refugees find a healthy place in the Syracuse community.  They need some help with communications, media (both online, video and print) as well as some basic IT and networking help. These are offered in the form of internships.  This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your media skills while making a great impact.  Added bonus: It will count towards your Civic Engagement requirement.

 

See the bottom of their “Get Involved” page for more detailed descriptions.

What: Closing Reception and Video Presentation for Price Check, a Curatorial Research Project

When: Saturday, March 10, 2012, Reception 4-5 PM; Presentation at 5 PM

Where: Red House Arts Center (in the Cafe, Theater, and Gallery), 201 S. West St. in Syracuse, NY

How much: Free, and there is parking!

“Price Check” is an interactive curatorial exhibition and research project organized by Courtney Rile and Roslyn Esperon that examines the variations of the visual art market based upon geographic proximity to a major art center. The research focused on the state of New York where the art market ranges vastly from the urban art hub of New York City to the neighboring art town of Beacon, and more distantly, to the post-industrial city of Syracuse.  The exhibition debuted at Delavan Art Gallery in 2009 before traveling to Floor One Gallery in Beacon, NY and LaunchPad in Brooklyn, NY.  The exhibition features works by artists from each of these three locations, including: Michael Barletta, Carol Flaitz, Carla Goldberg, Novado Cappuccilli, Jason Varone, Fred Wellner, and Laura Wellner.

For further information, visit the project’s web site: http://PriceCheckNY.wordpress.com or listen to this radio interview: http://blogs.wcny.org/arts-talk-price-check/ with Courtney Rile and Roslyn Esperon on WCNY ArtsTalk with Marguerite Mitchell-Sundberg.