Spillover Effect: East Fayette Street (Midtown)
Archive for October, 2012
Neighborhood in Transition (part 18)
Friday, October 19th, 2012JD Express
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
Jamesville-Dewitt quarterback Ryan Wright
The Jamesville-Dewitt Red Rams remained undefeated (8-0) and won a sectional playoff game tonight by rolling over Watertown High School. The final score was 49-0.
Here are a few photographs.
Running back Rasheed Baker breaks away in the first quarter.
Taumeras Howard returns a punt.
Receiver Ben Honis catches a touchdown at the start of the second quarter.
Street Seen
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Panorama from Syracuse in Focus on Vimeo.
Take this Job and Love It
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Brother B, street activist, at 601 Tully (The Treehouse)
Below listen to a clip from Brother B’s talk during an art show featuring Maars (at 601 Tully).
Townsend Acts
Monday, October 15th, 2012
Author Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the daughter of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy speaks at Syracuse University’s inaugural Joseph and Amelia Borgognoni Lecture in Catholic Theology and Religion in Society. She discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also advocated that it’s wrong to legislate something that you can’t get people to do morally. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church).
Townsend, who wrote Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way, discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church).
“It’s wrong to legislate something that you can’t get people to do morally,” she said.
Lamees Dhaif
Monday, October 15th, 2012
A Choice of Weapons from Syracuse in Focus on Vimeo.
Profiles in Courage (part 2)
Monday, October 15th, 2012
Journalist Lamees Dhaif (Bahrain) speaks at Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Public Communication.
Dhaif is an award-winning reporter and writer. She covers protests and highlights human rights abuses in the Middle East. She was interviewed by Tully Center Director Roy Gutterman, a professor at SU.
Visioneering
Friday, October 12th, 2012
SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor informed the University Board of Trustees that she will step down in 2014.
No Justice, No Peace
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
The Past is Not Past: The Continuing Quest for Racial Justice and Peace panel at was held before a capacity crowd at Syracuse University’s Newhouse III this morning (pictured l to r: Janis McDonald, Andrew Young, Linda Carty, Martin Luther King, III, and moderator Paula Johnson).
SU’s Linda Carty (Dept of African American Studies) cited several statistics and said there are several obstacles to the notion of peace, including: substandard education, poverty, and the misapplication of justice that spawned the prison industrial complex.
Former Ambassador Andrew Young said freedom is a constant struggle. He also advised students not to get mad, but to get smart.
SU alum and SIF Advisory Board Member John Giles, Jr. (pictured in the audience near event co-organizer Scott McDowell of SU-NYC and media personality George Kilpatrick) dialouges with the panel about coalition building as it relates to seeking justice in the modern day Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King, III, the son of the legendary civil rights leader, said true justice is justice across the board (for everyone).
Don’t sleep
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
Sign (under Route 81)