Amanda Rhoads

Interviews-

1. I want to discover the perspectives of students at Syracuse University and the residents of downtown on the connective corridor program that has been put in place.
2. I plan on conducting individual and group interviews with random students at the Warehouse because they are the students that are affected by this program most. I also want to talk to professors and get their perspective of the new change at the Warehouse. The challenging part will be to find Syracuse residents that are downtown and willing to talk to me about this program especially ones that actually know anything about it. I think I will start off by locating people in Armory Square.
3. I will also be observing the café at the Warehouse because its an easy center point to locate students and possibly even Syracuse residents that once and a while stroll through to see what the Warehouse is. I will talk to my roommate who is not a design major and spends all of her days on main campus so that I can gain a wider range of date. I then will also interview more random people on main campus that are not necessarily accessible to the connective corridor program.
4. The art and design majors will be easily accessible because I am at the Warehouse every day and it is always full of students. I will gain access to the Syracuse residents through Armory square during lunch time to get various quick interviews with people who both live and or work near the Warehouse and would probably have a better understanding of the program then others outside of this area.
5. I feel that the connective corridor does nothing but segregate myself and the rest of the design majors from main campus and having the same daily experiences as every other student at Syracuse University. Besides taking the ridiculously long bus ride downtown the students that I know do not go any further then that. I do not think this is effectively connecting downtown with main campus, in fact I think it’s doing the opposite. I do not agree with the Chancellors decision and feel it is unfair to segregate only art majors there.
6. By getting a wide range of interviews from various types of people I can make sure my bias does not come through and affect my paper.
7. I expect to discover the real truth behind what Syracuse residents really think about the students at Syracuse University and what their opinions are of this program. I also hope to understand what main campus thinks about our position at the warehouse and what they would do or feel if it were their majors being moved downtown.

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