- Hey everybody, my name is Malique Lewis.
I'm a junior, class of 2024,
and I'm so excited to take
over our school's YouTube right now.
Right now, we are in front of 119 Euclid.
This is one of my favorite hangout spots
and I wanna show you guys around.
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This is the living room area, living space
where a lot of students come,
they'll sit on the couch,
relax, got friends around, watching TV
and it's just a really good environment to be in.
You know, it really makes you feel included
into this university.
It could get cold, you could be away from home
and you may miss some of your friends
but this is where you make new friends
and this is where you make new experiences
and that's what it's all about.
So, yeah, let me show you guys the rest.
All right, I'm ready.
So this is our kitchen space area where you are
actually able to cook food.
Most importantly, it's about making memories and communion
and eating food with your friends and your peers.
So when we make memories
like that or when we have events here
we like to take Polaroid pictures so we can remember it
and we put it on our fridge, right?
Could also get snacks as well
because a lot of college students are food insecure
and so we want to make sure that we provide food for people.
And so one one nine does that.
It's a really, really cool space.
And when you come to Syracuse University,
you gotta check it out.
This is one of our quiet rooms,
and it's really a meditation room for us to come into.
You can sit down, you can reflect
but it's also really important to look
at the lives that we've lost, you know
in the hands of discrimination and, and, you know
in our country, which is a very serious issue.
But we come here so we can reflect
and we can find a way to move forward.
And if you have lost any loved ones
you can actually take a chalk, right?
And you can write it right up here
so you can commemorate your people that you've
that you may have lost.
So it's a very important room to us.
Very peaceful room, very loving room.
And we hold it in high regards here.
And we also have some quotes
on the wall, you know, just to, just to inspire
just to inspire people on a day-to-day basis. So.
- How's it going?
- It's going good, bro.
- You guys going on the tour?
- Yeah, I'm doing a tour right now
of one nineteen on the YouTube channel
and stuff like that. So.
- Yeah.
Mr. President of Black Student Union, right here.
Right here. This is my guy right here.
For real. For real.
- I appreciate you, bro.
- Yeah.
- That means a lot, man. What you got going on?
So, of course, a big part of Syracuse University
here is our academics
and my major's communications and rhetoric studies.
And this is where it all happens in Sims Hall.
So I wanna show you guys around.
I am, I'm, I'm recording on YouTube right now.
- [Person On Phone] Huh?
- I said I'm doing YouTube right now for the school.
- [Person On Phone] Oh.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- [Person On Phone] Yay.
- Beautiful statue here.
What I love about our campus is they really care
about artwork, and it's really cool to look around
and see historic artwork.
And right here we have communications and rhetorical studies
which is my major that I really, really like.
Right now, I'll tell you guys that I'm taking a class right
down this hall about communications in art and literature
and also about dialect and dialogue
and how it transforms within different cultures.
It's all about communicating better.
It's all about recognizing that we're different
and recognizing that people speak different.
So I really love that class.
I just can't wait to show you guys Hendricks Chapel.
It's gonna be cool.
Hendricks Chapel is also a place where you could go to.
If you're religious, you can pray,
but it's not always a religious spot.
You know, they have cool places where you can sit
around kind of like a library and you can do your work.
I call it a place of peace, you know, a place of solitude
also a place of community.
Whatever you need, Hendricks Chapel is there for you.
All right.
This is Hendricks.
I, when picking Syracuse University,
one of the reasons I picked it was because it has so
much rich history, it had a lot of great people
that came here too.
A lot of amazing alumni.
We go this way.
Oh, we gotta get the ceiling.
Can I tell you guys about this ceiling right here?
When you come here into Hendricks Chapel,
you have to look at the ceiling.
It is one of the most beautiful things on this campus.
And a lot of people, they forget to look up.
Like we always look here or we look around
but sometimes at Syracuse you have to look up
Head down.
- Okay.
- Hey. How you doing JB?
- I'm alright. How are you?
- Doing good. I'm on. I'm on.
- You got a camera crew today?
- Oh yeah.
- How are you?
- It's always good to see you.
- It's good to see you.
- This is the Hendricks Chapel office.
I had the opportunity to work here during the summer
had an opportunity to get close to the amazing team
and get close to this special guy right in here.
Mr. Dean Konkol.
So, I'll take you guys into his office.
One of my mentors, friends, pal.
- Oh boy. (laughs)
- Good to see you, Dean.
(both laugh)
- What is this? What is this? What are we doing?
- We're on YouTube right now. We're rolling.
- What's you all up to?
Where have you been today?
- Yeah, so right now,
so we did one one nine Euclid,
we did Sims
and we have to do Hendricks Chapel.
You know, places that really mean a lot to me.
So I had to stop by.
During last summer when I met Dean Konkol,
he told me that he wanted me to work
on an amazing event that we had for on campus.
The MLK event.
This was the man that was behind it
who saw something in me to help lead
and co-chair that event with him.
We, we wrote articles together on it.
We worked hard on what speaker do we want
what do we want the theme to be about?
And we brought it back to community.
That event went amazing and it was thanks to our team
but our amazing leader right here, Dean Konkol,
who brought that spirit back.
That what Martin Luther King wanted us to have.
Right. Of community and unity.
- It was a great event.
And one of the things that we like to remind people.
Syracuse University has the largest MLK event
on any college campus in the country.
- Yeah.
- Which is something we take really seriously
and we're proud of.
It was really great to work with you
on that.
- Yeah.
- And great to unexpectedly talk about it.
(both laugh)
- Right here we have People's Place,
which is an amazing coffee place here
on campus that students love.
It has a lot of rich history.
That's my friend right here, OG Kennedy.
- Oh my God. Malique, what's going on?
How are you?
- Good to see you.
I'm on, I'm on Syracuse's YouTube right now.
- Oh my God.
- And I wanna showcase People's Place.
Would you like to talk about it?
- Absolutely. Yeah.
So People's Place has been open since the seventies.
It's been student run the entire time here
in the beautiful Hendricks Chapel.
We serve coffee. We have baked goods.
People seem to love it and I love working here.
So.
- Yeah. Awesome.
- Have you enjoyed People's Place?
- Yes, I have.
My favorite here is Austin Powers.
- Austin Powers is the most popular drink by far.
It's very good.
- Yeah, it's really good.
- Do you want one? I can make you one.
- Yeah. I won't run out.
Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it.
Let's do it. Let's set it up.
Thank you so much. Have a good one.
- Of course. Thank you for coming here.
- But right now we are in the food pantry.
We have some amazing volunteers, right?
So I wanna thank them for the work that they do.
But the food pantry helps a lot of students.
- We get a lot of donations in,
whether it's from people on campus,
a lot of sororities and fraternities donate.
All you have to do is bring your SUID and sign up
with your phone on there, and you get a bag
of produce and you get a bag of dry goods for the week.
- Awesome. Awesome. Helps a lot of students out.
Even helps me out. So check it out guys.
Hey everybody.
So now we're talking
about studying, academics, when it's finals weeks
when it's midterms,
this is the place to go, Bird Library.
And I wanna show you exactly where I study
and the best place to be when you come
when you guys come here.
Awesome. All right.
Still rolling?
Cool.
We're almost there.
Here's the, the, the spot that I really wanna show you guys.
It's the quiet reading room.
Okay. So when you go in here, everyone's expecting silence.
Everyone's expecting us to be quiet, so I won't talk.
But this is where we are when, when its finals week
and I'm stressed out, you'll find me here.
Not a word, right?
It's beautiful. It's awesome.
That's the hack.
You come here to the quiet reading room
and you'll get it done.
All right.
So this is the Schine Student Center.
It's a place that I really like.
There's a lot of resources in here
which I really want students to know.
You don't just eat food.
You don't just hang out with your friends.
There's offices and resources
and opportunities for you to come here,
explore and learn.
Look. How you doing? Let's go. Let's go. (laughs)
- Hey.
- Hey. Good to see you, bro.
- See you man, how are you?
- I'm doing good. How bout you?
- Hanging in there.
- Awesome.
See you guys downstairs.
This is the the office where people come in, they relax.
There's a lot of cool stuff here.
And I really wanna show you guys what's in here.
We're talking about these resources.
I'm gonna put my brother on the spot right here.
How you doing?
- Hey. How you doing?
- We're rolling for Syracuse University's YouTube channel.
- I pretty much am a poet
and I have a poetry program called Verbal Blend
and it's to build the confidence
in students writing and performance poetry
but also how to have a platform now, YouTube, Instagram
where they're uploading their work
to Digital Kid and CD Babies.
So that way they would have a further reach
around the world.
So just trying to be a mentor
and someone that's a positive light
and showing them by example.
- Thank you.
- So, yeah.
- Yeah. And he's inspired me, I'll tell you that.
I appreciate you.
- Yeah.
- Let's go.
All right, everybody.
This is the Office of Multicultural Affairs Student Lounge
where students come back here again.
They have a space where you know
they could, you know, get food, go in the fridge
get some water, or just hang out, get some snacks
and meet a lot of friends and cool people.
Some books to read.
All right, everybody, thank you
for joining me on this amazing, amazing journey.
Syracuse University is my home.
I love it here.
I want you to come here.
I want you to experience the things that I've experienced.
I hope you've enjoyed this video.
Thank you for tuning in.
Peace.
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