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Beautiful
spring in Syracuse, NY
! Important
Announcements !
- To
accommodate student requests at this busy time of the semester, we will
have additional Travel Seminars from April
27th until May
8th.
Monday, 4/27 and 5/4 @ 2:00pm
Tuesday,
4/28 and 5/5 @ 5:00pm
Wednesday,
4/29 and 5/6 @ 1:30pm
Thursday,
4/30 and 5/7 @ 12:00pm
Friday,
5/1 and 5/8 @ 9:00am
Also we will have additional
Practical Training Seminars, which will be scheduled every Wednesday from April 22nd until May 27th.
Curricular
Practical Training (CPT) – 3:00pm
Optional
Practical Training (OPT) – 3:45pm
- Students who are planning to do an Internship this summer
should apply for Curricular Practical Training ( CPT ) .
- If you
would like to request Practical Training authorization after your May
graduation please attend an OPT seminar. Also, you can find all the
necessary OPT information and the application process here.
- Withdrawing from a course?
Dropping a course? Taking a leave of absence?
In
these last weeks of the semester, many students consider these options.
Please be VERY aware that taking such actions can put your legal non-immigrant F-1
or J-1 status at risk. "Failure to make academic progress" is
a reason for terminating a SEVIS record. Dropping a course may put your
status at risk because you might no longer be considered to be
maintaining full-time status. A leave of absence requires the academic
institution to terminate your SEVIS record.
Please
consult with an adviser at the Slutzker Center BEFORE you make any decisions
on these actions. Advisers are available daily from 8:30 to 5:00 p.m.
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The Syracuse International
Film Festival
April 24 - May 3
The Syracuse International Film Festival is
proud to announce the opening of advanced sales for SYRFILMFEST'09.
All
international films are shown with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.
Not all programming appropriate for children under 14. For more details and information about the movies please follow the
link: http://www.syrfilmfest.com/films/
Important dates to remember:
April 24, 2009
Opening Event - Palace Theater, Ben Hur
April
25, 2009
Focus on CNY Films - Palace, Everson Museum
April
26, 2009
Films: Political Resistance - LeMoyne College
April
28, 2009
Russian Program: Disabilities in Film - Weiskotten
Auditorium
April
30, 2009
Appaloosa Film and Party - Palace Theater and Daisy Dukes
May
1, 2009
Visual Technologies Drive-In - Montgomery Street - Free! May 2, 2009
New Technologies in Animation with Disney/Pixar's
"Up" May 2, 2009
Filmmaker Awards Party - MOST - Los Blancos
May
3, 2009
Closing Event - World's Greatest Dad and Party - Palace Theater and Ohm
Lounge
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Welcome the International Film Makers
and Producers!
The Slutzker
Center for
International Services will host a welcoming reception for the international
film makers and producers who are attending the Syracuse International Film
Festival on Friday, May 1,
from 1 p.m to
2 p.m. We would like to invite 20
students to join us. If you are interested and will COMMIT to attending
this event, please send an email to lescis@syr.edu as soon as possible
The first twenty students who write to us with a good reason
for receiving an invitation to this event will be sent a ticket to
attend. We cannot accommodate more than 20 students, unfortunately. The
director of the Slutzker Center will select the best 20 reasons submitted
over the weekend, and will expect to host those students on Friday.
We hope that you will take advantage of the wonderful opportunity to see
films from all over the world for the next ten days. The information in
the Syracuse International Film Festival website is comprehensive and we
encourage you to get out of the library and your apartment to engage in the
world through film! See you at the movies!
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An international graduate student, Abhijeet Bhanoori, won the first prize in Entrepreneurial Thinking Competition conducted by The School of Information Studies as part of the SU
Showcase (formerly May Fest). The competition took place in the form of a
presentation on what students have observed about Entrepreneurial Thinking in
a business environment and how was it rewarded.
Abhijeet also won the You Tube video Competition on How to Go Green in an Academic
Setting.
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An Afternoon in the United Nations Headquarters – A
Special Site Visit for Japanese Students
The United Nations has been making
efforts to recruit qualified Japanese citizens since Japan is one of the countries
where the number of staff within the organization is underrepresented.
This career-educational site visit is part of the efforts to increase the
awareness of and interests in opportunities among talented Japanese citizens
for the future.
When: Thursday,
May 7, 2009
What time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM
*You have to be able to meet with the
group on time in order to enter the building.
Where: New
York City
Who can attend: Japanese college undergraduate
and graduate students
RSVP
IS REQUIRED to Satomi Yaji
Chudasama at schudasa@princeton.edu Space
is limited, so reply early!
In your RSVP, please include the following information: Name, School, Class
Level (i.e. senior), Major (if any), citizenship (if not Japanese) and, if
any, questions or special interests. All classes are welcome!
Sponsored
by the United Nations Outreach Unit and Princeton University
Career Services.
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Academy of Television
Arts & Science sponsoring a
script writing competition for international novice writers!
Each year, The Foundation of The
International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences administers the Sir
Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award. The competition is designed to
motivate non-American novice writers under the age of 30, and to offer them
the recognition and encouragement that might lead to a successful career in
television scriptwriting. Entrants are asked to create a completed half-hour
to one-hour (commercial length) English-language television drama script for
a family audience. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2009, and the winner will be flown to New York City to be presented with an Award
and a US$2,500 prize at the International Emmy® World Television Festival on
November 21, 2009. For more information please check the following Link:
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FREE BUS
SERVICE FROM NOB HILL TO Syracuse
University Started
March 30th!!
There will be BLUE and WHITE buses
providing FREE
service from Nob Hill Apartments to Syracuse University.
This service positively affects folks living in Nob
Hill, Newberry Apts, Clarendon
Heights, Hidden Valley,
etc.
THESE ARE NOT CENTRO BUSES.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
This is
a trial run. If not enough students ride these
buses
they will not be available next semester.
For Bus Routes please click here and for the Bus Schedule please click here
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Volunteer Opportunity:
Ten Tons of Love, SU's annual
end of the year donation drive, is fast approaching! Last year's effort
was a record-setting success thanks to the hard work of volunteers. This
year's campaign runs April 27-May 15; volunteers are needed each day for on-campus loading and
moving of donated items.
Loading and Moving: (9 a.m.-1 p.m., Meet at Hendricks Chapel, Chaplain's Suite, 005)
Volunteers will meet at Hendricks Chapel at 9 a.m. and travel to
the residence halls to load donated items for transport to First English Lutheran
Church. Transportation
and lunch are provided. *This opportunity involves some heavy lifting.
This year’s collection drive takes place April 27 – May 15.
On-campus pickup ends on May 11.
To help, please register online at http://tentons.syr.edu.
Please
email Darya Rotblat at darotbla@syr.edu if you have questions.
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OPENING RECEPTION & DJ
PARTY & FILM SHOOT
2 May 2009 @ 8pm
*
Free and open to the Public
Redhouse Arts Center
201 S. West Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
http://www.theredhouse.org
Redhouse Director and curator Natalia
Mount is proud to present Internationally renowned artists Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro and their newest site-specific project commissioned
by Redhouse entitled "XAYC:Xybrid
Authenticity Ynder Construction."
XAYC is an art project that questions contemporary identity politics and the
concept of subjectivity in relation to authenticity. XAYC (pronounced
"house") is a Bulgarian transcription of the word
"house." It stands not for house music, but for chaos ('xaoc' in Bulgarian). It also stands for Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction.
By creating site specific work, both inside and outside of the Redhouse Arts Center building, Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro will enter a dialogue about architecture,
collectivism, cosmopolitanism vs. globalization, and a migration that will manifest
in a range of media, employ several environments, and create two
installations that vacillate between agreement and conflict.
Daniela Kostova will work inside the building to
create a 'house,' which will be the focal point for an exhibition on view at Redhouse
Arts Center.
Joro De Boro will create
an installation outside of the building of Redhouse Arts Center
that will be used for a performance (by both audience and artist as the
performer, DJ Joro-Boro) that, at once apes,
popular culture and rejoices in its forms.
During the night of the 2 of May, Redhouse Arts
Center and its
immediate surroundings (both inside and outside) will become an
all-encompassing experience - an organic space for engagement, play, and
exploration with the interactivity of a tree house.
"By juxtasposing Daniela's and Joro's works, their artistic styles and individual
dynamics, I aim to give the audience an alternative to the norm of most
collective experiences. The audience will participate in a very unique event
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- Natalia Mount/Executive Director
"XAYC exposes authenticity as mutation and artists Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro are serving it to you in an art form, with a smile,
a drink and a dance, "
- Laura Austin/Artistic Director
"Art is a brand, authenticity is capital, identity is imagined. There is
no process here, this is a freeze-frame of an implosion of space and time -
the general relativity of the free market becomes theory of culture,"
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Motivational
Quotes of the Week:
"The fruits of a fulfilling life—happiness, confidence,
enthusiasm, purpose, and money—are mainly by-products of doing something we
enjoy, with excellence, rather than things we can seek directly." by Dan Miller
"Observation
is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use.
Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder
of the world around you."
by Joe Navarro
"The
only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into
the impossible." by Arthur
C. Clarke
"Given
the amount of time we spend working, failure to find meaningful, significant
work is not just a minor misstep in living out God's plan; it is a deeper
kind of failure that can make each day feel like living death." by Dan Miller
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Note:
If you would like to submit a request to
publish your news or events in our SCISNEWS letter.
Please contact Daniela Baban Hurrle
at dbabanhu@syr.edu
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