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Flyers containing derogatory language found in Bird Library Daily Orange File Photo Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. Flyers containing derogatory language directed towards Chinese and Black people were found in Bird Library on Tuesday.  Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety removed the flyers and is investigating the incident, according to the department’s most recent bias incident report. “My team and I are frustrated and disappointed that this kind of behavior persists,” DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado said in the report regarding the incident.  Since...

Thomas Shults writes on how and why he grew and changed over his four years at Syracuse.

Subscribe to our newsletter here. About a year ago, Stephen Kuusisto said “hello” to a professor in an elevator in a Syracuse University building. The professor didn’t acknowledge Kuusisto’s greeting. Kuusisto, who is blind, said “hello” a second time, and the professor still didn’t respond. But when some students stepped onto the elevator, the professor went on to talk to them. Kuusisto confronted the professor outside the elevator, where the professor said they didn’t have to talk to people they didn’t want to. “From my perspective, that was outright ableism,” said Kuu...

SU receives grants to digitize Oakwood Cemetery, Latinx community records Micaela Warren | Staff Photographer The grants come as SU Libraries faces its own battle to preserve rare materials in its Special Collections Research Center. Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. A pair of state grants will enable Syracuse University professors and staff to digitize valuable records pertaining to Oakwood Cemetery and Syracuse’s Latino community.  The grants, awarded by the Central New York Libraries Resource Council, will support two projects: converting decades-old death and burial records fo...

SU, SUNY-ESF students discuss history of anti-Asian racism at forum Screenshot Roughly 3,800 incidents of racial violence against Asian Americans have been reported during the pandemic, according to Stop AAPI Hate. Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF experts and students discussed the history of anti-Asian racism in the U.S. and how to combat it during a public forum on Monday. The forum included remarks from Asian students, staff and faculty concerning their experiences with anti-Asian racism, especially as hate crimes against Asian Americans have cont...