I chose my topic because it has affected my life drastically as well as many of my friends. My question was, does the Connective Corridor program help integrate Syracuse students with downtown Syracuse. I have found after interviewing many people at the warehouse as well as people from downtown with no real relation to the warehouse that many feel it has made little or no change to the integration of students and residents of Syracuse. The few people who had positive views of this program were mostly staff and faculty which leads me to believe they like it more because of the location and the space which has little to with the students and why students like it. After doing a lot of primary research I have discovered that I am not the only one who feels the warehouse is segregating art majors and not giving us the atmosphere that every other college student gets while on main campus. I have found that the same issues mainly upset a lot of students that disliked the move to the warehouse. They hated the bus route and had many similar complaints about how long it took and how it stops at 12pm when most design students are still trying to work at the warehouse. The warehouse also has no book or art store, so for all design students that need supplies they have to travel back to main campus to get their supplies and then go all the way back to the warehouse to do work which on average could take close to an hour for such a short trip. After conducting the interviews and finding similarities between peoples answers I have discovered this program is exactly how I originally thought it was, a failure! I keep interviewing other people from different majors in hope of finding answers that could give me some kind of different opinion but many students don’t even know what the connective corridor is. In fact when I was asking random student on main campus about the Warehouse many had said all they knew about it was that they receive emails about the bus route but that’s about it. I still want to know more about the chancellor’s view of this program. She has to see it is not integrating the students with downtown and she must get complaints about this from parents whose children study at the warehouse. I am curious to know if she has future plans for the warehouse. Also in my findings I have discovered that there was a speaker who deals a lot with trying to use space wisely and integrate towns with schools which is very similar to what the chancellor is doing here. She had a lecture here in March and it was based on the warehouse, I am hoping to get a hold of her because I am sure she has a lot of helpful information and maybe some ideas that I haven’t come across in my research. I haven’t found a gap in my research yet however some of the faculty members that I interviewed had some different responses to the questions I asked both them and the students. I hope to use these differences to add some controversy in my essay. If I were to make an inquiry today based on the research I have right now it would be that the warehouse has done nothing more then segregate art majors from the rest of campus. It has yet to be proven anywhere in my research that its helping businesses downtown or helping to integrate the students with the Syracuse residents.

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