Students on campus created a new club with an end goal for students & Syracuse officials to address current and future concerns in the Syracuse area.
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Vaughan: The new club Connect 315 connects students to the issues in the Syracuse area. Developed by S-U students , this club turns to campus to discuss current and future policies around concerns in the community, such as the I-81 highway demolition. Executive board member Anjana Dasam says the I-81 project is important for S-U because it is happening right next to two student dorms.
Dasam: “They’re literally a few steps away from the I-81 viaduct which is what we’re focusing on this semester, talking about how the deconstruction of it is gonna affect the community.”
Vaughan: President of Connect 3-1-5 Conor Murphy, says that the club hopes to educate students on projects in the community and how students can help.
Murphy: “We feel like students too are really talented and really capable, and really can be forces for good, and so we wanna encourage them to be informed about what’s happening, they’re not just here on campus, they’re in a community.”
Vaughan: Murphy says we’re not just students up on the hill, we have a duty as Syracuse citizens. Moira Vaughan, N-C-C News.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — Syracuse University students founded a club, Connect 315, that turns to fellow students to help address concerns in the Syracuse surrounding area. Connect 315 hopes to educate students on concerns in the community by choosing an issue once a semester to focus on, and working with Syracuse City Planners to come up with solutions to these issues. This month, the concern is the I-81 viaduct demolition.
SU student and club executive board member Anjana Dasam says it is our responsibility as students living in certain dorms to be aware of the impact of I-81. “People that live in Sadler, BBB, They’re literally a few steps away from the I-81 Viaduct,” Dasam says.
According to Dasam, the impact of I-81 has effected the community greatly with gentrification and the separation of close communities. Tearing it down, will cause even greater issues of construction pollution.
President of Connect 315, Conor Murphy says that the main goal of the club is to educate students on what is happening around them to . “We feel like students too are really talented and really capable, and really can be forces for good, and so we wanna encourage them to be informed about what’s happening,” Murphy says. “They’re not just here on campus, they’re in a community.”
Murphy says we aren’t just students up on the hill, and that we must be aware of how we can help improve the lives off campus as well by going out into the community.