Posts Tagged ‘2012’
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.
Tags:2012, Joseph and Amelia Borgognoni Lecture in Catholic Theology and Religion in Society, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Religion, Syracuse University
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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.
Tags:2012, Journalism, Lamees Dhaif, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Roy S. Gutterman, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication, Syracuse University, The Tully Center for Free Speech
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Friday, October 12th, 2012
SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor informed the University Board of Trustees that she will step down in 2014.
Tags:2012, Business, Community Engagement, Education, Nancy Cantor, Near West Side Initiative, Say Yes to Education, Scholarship in Action, Southside Innovation Center, Syracuse University, The Stand
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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).
Tags:2012, advisory board, Andrew Young, Cold Case Justice Initiative, Janis McDonald, Law, Linda Carty, Martin Luther King III, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Paula Johnson, Syracuse University, The Past is Not Past: The Continuing Quest for Racial Justice and Peace
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
Rose Viviano, director Art Rage Gallery. Art Rage is currently located on Hawley Avenue. She is pictured her during the Salt City Slam Poetry Finals, held at the Gallery on Thursday.
Tags:2012, Art Rage Gallery, Business, Hawley-Green, Syracuse, White Rose Books & Antiques
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Friday, September 28th, 2012
Poet JoJo brings the pain last night at Art Rage for the Salt City Slam!
Jojo shares a laugh before her second round performance.
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Fellow slam poet Kelly congratulates Jojo after her first poem, which she wrote for her father.
Tags:2012, Art, Jojo, Poetry, Salt City Slam, Syracuse
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