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  1. The Empty Quad

    This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/21/the-

  2. The Empty Quad

    This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/21/the-

  3. The Empty Quad

    This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/21/the-

  4. The Empty Quad

    This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/21/the-

  5. Earth’s Hidden Thermostat Has Regulated Climate for 60 Million Years

    For tens of millions of years, Earth’s climate may have been stabilized by a hidden feedback linking sea…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #climatechange #MarineGeology #Paleoclimatology #sealevel #syracuseuniversity
    newsbeep.com/us/786809/

  6. Earth’s Hidden Thermostat Has Regulated Climate for 60 Million Years

    For tens of millions of years, Earth’s climate may have been stabilized by a hidden feedback linking sea…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #Climatechange #MarineGeology #Paleoclimatology #SeaLevel #syracuseuniversity
    newsbeep.com/au/824345/

  7. Earth’s Hidden Thermostat Has Regulated Climate for 60 Million Years

    For tens of millions of years, Earth’s climate may have been stabilized by a hidden feedback linking sea…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #Climatechange #MarineGeology #Paleoclimatology #SeaLevel #syracuseuniversity
    newsbeep.com/au/824345/

  8. Biden Mistakenly Names Syracuse Trustee as 'Barack,' Igniting Online Debate

    President Biden mistakenly called a Syracuse University trustee 'Barack' on Tuesday, leading to online discussions and accusations.

    #JoeBiden, #SyracuseUniversity, #PresidentialGaffe, #OnlineDebate, #BarackObama

    newsletter.tf/biden-mistakenly

  9. Here's another #OldPhoto I took in 1977, one of the earliest photographs I ever took. Love the tone, the composition, the feel of a relaxing moment just reading the newspaper in a public place, waiting for the day to begin. This is in #SyracuseUniversity's I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool.

    #OldPhotographs #FilmPhotography #1970s #Syracuse #SyracuseNY #BWPhoto

  10. Here's another #OldPhoto I took in 1977, one of the earliest photographs I ever took. Love the tone, the composition, the feel of a relaxing moment just reading the newspaper in a public place, waiting for the day to begin. This is in #SyracuseUniversity's I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool.

    #OldPhotographs #FilmPhotography #1970s #Syracuse #SyracuseNY #BWPhoto

  11. Here's another #OldPhoto I took in 1977, one of the earliest photographs I ever took. Love the tone, the composition, the feel of a relaxing moment just reading the newspaper in a public place, waiting for the day to begin. This is in #SyracuseUniversity's I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool.

    #OldPhotographs #FilmPhotography #1970s #Syracuse #SyracuseNY #BWPhoto

  12. Here's another #OldPhoto I took in 1977, one of the earliest photographs I ever took. Love the tone, the composition, the feel of a relaxing moment just reading the newspaper in a public place, waiting for the day to begin. This is in #SyracuseUniversity's I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool.

    #OldPhotographs #FilmPhotography #1970s #Syracuse #SyracuseNY #BWPhoto

  13. Photographically, this is terrible, but it's an absolute moment in time, and that moment was 1982/83. It's me (in the center) with my roommate (left) and my other roommate and eventual wife (right). We were kinda adorable, even in the midst of an amount of misery. Absolutely kicking myself that when we got together for our 40th anniversary a couple of years ago, we didn't recreate this photo.

    #OldPhotographs #OldPhotos #FilmPhotography #Syracuse #SyracuseUniversity

  14. Photographically, this is terrible, but it's an absolute moment in time, and that moment was 1982/83. It's me (in the center) with my roommate (left) and my other roommate and eventual wife (right). We were kinda adorable, even in the midst of an amount of misery. Absolutely kicking myself that when we got together for our 40th anniversary a couple of years ago, we didn't recreate this photo.

    #OldPhotographs #OldPhotos #FilmPhotography #Syracuse #SyracuseUniversity

  15. Photographically, this is terrible, but it's an absolute moment in time, and that moment was 1982/83. It's me (in the center) with my roommate (left) and my other roommate and eventual wife (right). We were kinda adorable, even in the midst of an amount of misery. Absolutely kicking myself that when we got together for our 40th anniversary a couple of years ago, we didn't recreate this photo.

    #OldPhotographs #OldPhotos #FilmPhotography #Syracuse #SyracuseUniversity

  16. Photographically, this is terrible, but it's an absolute moment in time, and that moment was 1982/83. It's me (in the center) with my roommate (left) and my other roommate and eventual wife (right). We were kinda adorable, even in the midst of an amount of misery. Absolutely kicking myself that when we got together for our 40th anniversary a couple of years ago, we didn't recreate this photo.

    #OldPhotographs #OldPhotos #FilmPhotography #Syracuse #SyracuseUniversity

  17. Of all the things from my past, the technology that I just cannot believe has completely disappeared is #ColdType pre-press technology – phototypesetting, pasteup, working on light tables to produce mechanicals for anything that had to be printed. These methods are just gone (while letterpress lives on). I made my living at #pasteup for several years. This is from a #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity in 1978. #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #OffsetPrinting #FilmPhotography

  18. Of all the things from my past, the technology that I just cannot believe has completely disappeared is #ColdType pre-press technology – phototypesetting, pasteup, working on light tables to produce mechanicals for anything that had to be printed. These methods are just gone (while letterpress lives on). I made my living at #pasteup for several years. This is from a #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity in 1978. #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #OffsetPrinting #FilmPhotography

  19. Of all the things from my past, the technology that I just cannot believe has completely disappeared is #ColdType pre-press technology – phototypesetting, pasteup, working on light tables to produce mechanicals for anything that had to be printed. These methods are just gone (while letterpress lives on). I made my living at #pasteup for several years. This is from a #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity in 1978. #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #OffsetPrinting #FilmPhotography

  20. Of all the things from my past, the technology that I just cannot believe has completely disappeared is #ColdType pre-press technology – phototypesetting, pasteup, working on light tables to produce mechanicals for anything that had to be printed. These methods are just gone (while letterpress lives on). I made my living at #pasteup for several years. This is from a #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity in 1978. #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #OffsetPrinting #FilmPhotography

  21. #SyracuseUniversity's Hendricks Chapel on a winter night in 1978. I always had a love of low light shots, even though I wouldn't say I was successful at making them very artful. This one, though, definitely evokes the loneliness of crossing the campus on a winter evening. Short handheld with Tri-X 400. There's dust on the negative but I'm not fixing these in post.

    #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #UpstateNY #BWPhoto #filmphotography

  22. #SyracuseUniversity's Hendricks Chapel on a winter night in 1978. I always had a love of low light shots, even though I wouldn't say I was successful at making them very artful. This one, though, definitely evokes the loneliness of crossing the campus on a winter evening. Short handheld with Tri-X 400. There's dust on the negative but I'm not fixing these in post.

    #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #UpstateNY #BWPhoto #filmphotography

  23. #SyracuseUniversity's Hendricks Chapel on a winter night in 1978. I always had a love of low light shots, even though I wouldn't say I was successful at making them very artful. This one, though, definitely evokes the loneliness of crossing the campus on a winter evening. Short handheld with Tri-X 400. There's dust on the negative but I'm not fixing these in post.

    #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #UpstateNY #BWPhoto #filmphotography

  24. #SyracuseUniversity's Hendricks Chapel on a winter night in 1978. I always had a love of low light shots, even though I wouldn't say I was successful at making them very artful. This one, though, definitely evokes the loneliness of crossing the campus on a winter evening. Short handheld with Tri-X 400. There's dust on the negative but I'm not fixing these in post.

    #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #UpstateNY #BWPhoto #filmphotography

  25. 1978: college students locking up their bicycles to a tree on the #SyracuseUniversity campus, while others are locked up to a chain fence surrounding this little area. My 10-speed was stolen within the first weeks of freshman year, so I was probably jealous of their mobility. This isn't a great photograph, and yet it captures so much – the bikes, the cars, the clothes.

    #photography #BWPhoto #filmphotography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #UpstateNY #1970s

  26. 1978: college students locking up their bicycles to a tree on the #SyracuseUniversity campus, while others are locked up to a chain fence surrounding this little area. My 10-speed was stolen within the first weeks of freshman year, so I was probably jealous of their mobility. This isn't a great photograph, and yet it captures so much – the bikes, the cars, the clothes.

    #photography #BWPhoto #filmphotography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #UpstateNY #1970s

  27. 1978: college students locking up their bicycles to a tree on the #SyracuseUniversity campus, while others are locked up to a chain fence surrounding this little area. My 10-speed was stolen within the first weeks of freshman year, so I was probably jealous of their mobility. This isn't a great photograph, and yet it captures so much – the bikes, the cars, the clothes.

    #photography #BWPhoto #filmphotography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #UpstateNY #1970s

  28. 1978: college students locking up their bicycles to a tree on the #SyracuseUniversity campus, while others are locked up to a chain fence surrounding this little area. My 10-speed was stolen within the first weeks of freshman year, so I was probably jealous of their mobility. This isn't a great photograph, and yet it captures so much – the bikes, the cars, the clothes.

    #photography #BWPhoto #filmphotography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #UpstateNY #1970s

  29. A night shot in the eternal snow of a #Syracuse winter, 1978. A taxicab pulling up to a freshman dorm at #SyracuseUniversity at Christmas break. Always a weird lonely feeling as the campus emptied out (I was often one of the last to leave).
    Looking at this, I remember thinking taxis to the bus station (or airport) were definitely for other students. It was a long walk but the taxi ride would have cost a good part of the price of my bus ticket home. #photography #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto

  30. A night shot in the eternal snow of a #Syracuse winter, 1978. A taxicab pulling up to a freshman dorm at #SyracuseUniversity at Christmas break. Always a weird lonely feeling as the campus emptied out (I was often one of the last to leave).
    Looking at this, I remember thinking taxis to the bus station (or airport) were definitely for other students. It was a long walk but the taxi ride would have cost a good part of the price of my bus ticket home. #photography #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto

  31. A night shot in the eternal snow of a #Syracuse winter, 1978. A taxicab pulling up to a freshman dorm at #SyracuseUniversity at Christmas break. Always a weird lonely feeling as the campus emptied out (I was often one of the last to leave).
    Looking at this, I remember thinking taxis to the bus station (or airport) were definitely for other students. It was a long walk but the taxi ride would have cost a good part of the price of my bus ticket home. #photography #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto

  32. A night shot in the eternal snow of a #Syracuse winter, 1978. A taxicab pulling up to a freshman dorm at #SyracuseUniversity at Christmas break. Always a weird lonely feeling as the campus emptied out (I was often one of the last to leave).
    Looking at this, I remember thinking taxis to the bus station (or airport) were definitely for other students. It was a long walk but the taxi ride would have cost a good part of the price of my bus ticket home. #photography #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto

  33. From 1977: three high school girls attending a summer #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity –Mary, Kathy, Karen. That I remember their names is remarkable; I find other names in my diaries that I can't begin to put a face to. This view from the patio of the I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool no longer exists – a third Newhouse building was built there.

    Rare color for me; Ektachrome, IIRC.

    #photography #OldPhotographs #nostalgia #Syracuse

  34. From 1977: three high school girls attending a summer #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity –Mary, Kathy, Karen. That I remember their names is remarkable; I find other names in my diaries that I can't begin to put a face to. This view from the patio of the I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool no longer exists – a third Newhouse building was built there.

    Rare color for me; Ektachrome, IIRC.

    #photography #OldPhotographs #nostalgia #Syracuse

  35. From 1977: three high school girls attending a summer #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity –Mary, Kathy, Karen. That I remember their names is remarkable; I find other names in my diaries that I can't begin to put a face to. This view from the patio of the I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool no longer exists – a third Newhouse building was built there.

    Rare color for me; Ektachrome, IIRC.

    #photography #OldPhotographs #nostalgia #Syracuse

  36. From 1977: three high school girls attending a summer #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity –Mary, Kathy, Karen. That I remember their names is remarkable; I find other names in my diaries that I can't begin to put a face to. This view from the patio of the I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool no longer exists – a third Newhouse building was built there.

    Rare color for me; Ektachrome, IIRC.

    #photography #OldPhotographs #nostalgia #Syracuse

  37. Jon Bosak's images from his college days keep setting me in a nostalgic mood.

    What hits me most are some of the details that reveal once-ubiquitous items that are now almost entirely gone from the world, like wax paper cups.

    So I was leafing through my old photos and here's one of the first that jumped out at me: a Coke-branded waxed paper cup.

    I'm sure I thought this was artistic in 1978.

    #photography #filmphotography #BWPhoto #Syracuse #SyracuseUniversity

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