A waitress walks by with a serving tray piled high with fries and a triple-decker turkey and bacon sandwich. A three-egg ham and cheese omelet with potatoes and toast sits on the tray’s second plate. It is placed at the table of two young girls, chatting about last night’s events. […]
Year: 2009
Sounds of furious typing and constant clicking can be heard in classes held in the computer labs at SUNY New Paltz. These sounds represent the struggle of professors to get the attention of their students when there is a computer staring them in the face. It’s becoming a demoralizing issue for […]
It was 11 p.m. in Austria. Ferdinand Sarnitz, 21, was sitting in his room with three friends. But 23 other people were chatting with them from other countries around the world. That day Sarnitz had hit 4,000 fans on his Facebook music page. He was celebrating by hosting a video […]
The campus of SUNY New Paltz is no stranger to nature. Located in the Shawangunk Mountain region and next to the Wallkill River, New Paltz is swarming with squirrels, deer, fish, bears and geese. In fact, SUNY New Paltz has its own pond that runs straight through the heart of […]
While I’ve always been a supporter of marriage equality, I’ve never paid much regard to the issue until recently. I hold the belief that marriage in its essence is a peculiar institution and wondered why a simple state-issued certificate could have such profound effects on people. What if someone simply […]
A. It’s the summer and we’re in the house that I found for us. The sun is shining through the open windows and the bits of cloth that I have draped over the curtain rod make an amber light in the room. We’re on our bed and you’re wrapped around […]
Those pictures and status updates that make your college roommate LOL (laugh out loud), might cause your employer to fire you ASAP. SUNY New Paltz students are careful of how much they expose on their profiles because of the negative effects it can have on their reputations and professional opportunities, […]
Some wait until they are at a traffic light or stop sign. Some only do it when they know it’s for something important. Others are trying to cut down. The frightening reality is that the majority of college students are guilty of texting while driving. “I almost got into a […]
Have you heard about Twitter? If not, I hope you are either a) a 2-year-old who wouldn’t be able to read this column anyway or b) have been in a coma for the past 18 months. If you’re in any way involved in the communication/media world and haven’t given in […]
Four hours of work in the Foreign Language Department in the morning, four hours of class in the afternoon, three hours of reading at night. Add on two hours to study French and Arabic, and a possible sorority meeting before bed. Look hectic? Seem stressful? This is a typical Thursday […]
“Do you know?” Campus fliers and advertisements with this campaign have been spread across the SUNY New Paltz campus. The campaign is a response to sexual assault by Resident Life officials and University Police. In the month of September alone there were two cases of sexual assault – one on […]
So here I am – two more weeks until I’m completely finished with college. After years of late nights in the library and countless hours spent buried under books, all I can think is: What now? I am well aware that this is a question most college students acknowledge as […]
I remember the day I began to lose faith in journalism. Not in a drastic I’m-going-to-change-my-course-of-life way, but I called its integrity into question. I started to ask myself, “What does journalism today really mean? How much respect do journalists really get? Does it hold any real value?” It was […]
My thighs are moldy Jell-o. When I walk, they jiggle with a delayed reaction, and I hate when that happens. I have to take my hands, move one leg forward and then the other. They are so heavy that my saggy arms become limp and so my leg drops and […]
SUNY New Paltz student Kate Long texts while she is walking, texts while she is doing homework, texts while she is eating, texts while she is watching television, texts while she is lying down and texts while she is hanging out with friends. Texting has become more and more of […]
If Facebook came with a side effects label like prescription drugs do, it might read something like this: “May attract creepy stalker-types, crumble communication skills, give the impression that you have more friends than you actually do and add a few hours onto an already time consuming term paper.” Facebook […]
You expel 20.2 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. You’re not the only one. So does every other person in the United States. That’s approximately 6,218,772,000 tons. That number, in part, explains why the United States is responsible for 30.3% of the global contribution to global warming. […]
Oil. This is the substance we as a nation are addicted to. We’ve even started a war over it. Josh Tickell does an amazing job at illustrating this in his documentary “Fuel.” The documentary has won various film awards but most notably, one at the Sundance Film Festival for the […]
