Syracuse University Honors Program
Syracuse University Honors Program
I’ve blogged about this before, and now the folks at Community Folk Arts Center are coming right up the hill to us to encourage participation. PLEASE take some time out to take part. Get a picture of yourself making or holding the bone you make and submit it with your online civic engagement hours form for approved civic credit.
What’s up with Honors and all the talk about this thing called “the commons”?
Find out here and at the Thursday, 11/8 talk with Jay Walljasper at 8pm in LSB 001 to find out more.
These past few days have been trying, even frightening as Hurricane Sandy has battered the east coast. As I write, my sister, a physician in Manhattan, is living without power and heat in her Greenwich Village apartment. She’s still a young person and can manage. But this morning I’m thinking about all those who require help, the elderly and children, and people with disabilities.
This puts me in mind of what I think it means to be involved with honors at SU. Our collective goal is to become larger than our singular interests. That’s what our approach to civic engagement is all about.
As the university returns to business as usual let’s hold together the life of the mind and our lives as citizens. And let’s keep our friends and neighbors in our thoughts.
Stephen Kuusisto
Director
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too can become great.” –Mark Twain
Impact Week is an entire week of community service planned by the SU Student Association. Students and organizations are planning community service events to do throughout the week that remind us that while we are Syracuse University students, we are also members of the Syracuse community. Student Association will be tabling throughout the next few weeks allowing students to sign up to go to community service events.
Are you one in a million?
CFAC Office Coordinator Yudaisy Fernadez is one of the million bringing awareness to genocide through the One Million Bones Campaign.
CFAC’s doors will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday – Friday to individuals who would like to create bones. Groups (7 or more individuals) are encouraged to call to 315-442-2230 to schedule a time to create bones.
One Million Bones is a large-scale social arts initiative focused on bringing awareness to genocide in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo through the hands-on creation of clay and plaster bones, which will be brought to the National Mall in Washington, DC in June 2013. The One Million Bones display will serve as a visual petition against genocide and urge our politicians to act in favor of justice for the millions of genocide victims around the world.
