If you are interested in showing your support for the LGBT community at the various ceremonies coming this May, please respond by e-mailing LGBT@syr.edu or contacting the LGBT Resource Center at 443-3983. We would like to get an idea of how many people are interested so that we know how many extra cords to purchase!

In 2003, the Syracuse University Foundation Awards were established to recognize individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, whose personal or professional lives have positively affected the LGBT community in a significant way. Please help us identify individuals, LGBT and straight, who have made a contribution to the LGBT community at Syracuse University or in the greater Syracuse community. We look for those whose work, while fundamentally important, often goes unnoticed beyond their peers, family, and co- workers. The nominees may work professionally or informally towards a more positive environment for the LGBT community and all of us.

The categories available for nomination include undergraduate student, graduate student, faculty member, staff member, and SU department/ organization. The awards will be presented at the 5th Annual Rainbow Banquet on Saturday, April 21, 2007 in the Regency Ballroom of the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel. The nomination deadline is April 2, 2007.

Syracuse University?s students, faculty, staff and alumni are making plans to celebrate National Orange Day, marking the 137th anniversary of the University?s founding on March 24, 1870. This year?s campus celebration will take place on Friday, March 23. Festivities will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the atrium of the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. A visit by Otto the Orange and music and entertainment by Z89 will also be part of the event.

The Tennity Ice Skating Pavilion will offer free skate rentals to persons wearing orange that day, and the SU Bookstore will offer a 25 percent discount on SU collegiate apparel to anyone wearing a sticky orange. Rachael?s Restaurant in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center and the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center will prepare ?orange? luncheon specials. In the evening, the Carrier Dome, Crouse Hospital and the National Grid building in downtown Syracuse will be illuminated in orange.

For more information on National Orange Day history and activities, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at (315) 443-3258 or sualumni@syr.edu.