Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s inaugural year theme of University as Public Good: Exploring the Soul of Syracuse inspired Syracuse University Library staff to explore the object of her theme itself— the soul.

By offering this venue for conversation, we invite our Syracuse University community friends and colleagues to join us in a communal exploration of the meaning of soul. We view our University community in its broadest sense— in the sense of fellowship, community of relations and feelings intended by its Latin origin communis.

To this end, we have built this virtual community center for the gathering and placing of your reflections on soul— reflections gathered from our students, faculty, and staff (current and retired!), from our alumni, and from our Lockerbie, Scotland community members and other people at home and abroad who care about our University.

Please visit us often, for we will:

 Gather and display the growing contributions of our community’s reflections on soul for others to read and contemplate

 Offer information about the Library's inaugural year activities, including our upcoming February 14, 2005 event entitled Looking Within: A Socratic Symposium on Soul, led by Christopher Phillips, author of Socrates Cafe and Six Questions of Socrates and co-founder of The Society for Philosophical Inquiry

 Convey information about the Library’s forthcoming Soul of Syracuse keepsake print publication that will include a diversity of quotes and definitions about soul, a sampling of our community’s reflections on soul, and a selected list of suggested additional readings

 Link you to other Syracuse University Soul of Syracuse events