By Professor Megan Sperry’s TV Studio Class Edited by Ally Turk Hawk News anchor Stephanie Molina explores internships throughout SUNY New Paltz. Students share their experiences with internships, and why they think it’s important. The Career Resource Center’s Beth King talks about what the Career Resource Center can help students […]
Month: December 2019
By Nadine Cafaro; Edited and Packaged by Annemarie Durkin New Paltz, N.Y.â After a shocking set of numbers was released about hard-to-count communities in New York, people fear a decrease in federal funding due to the chance of children under five being undercounted in the upcoming 2020 Census. The importance […]
The SUNY New Paltz Department of Physics and Astronomy will be hosting a free planetarium show on Jan. 2 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the SUNY New Paltz John R. Kirk Planetarium. For more information contact Raj Pandya at 845-257-3818 or pandyar@newpaltz.edu.
Written by Nikki Donohue Edited and Packaged by Joseph Juste Jonathan Raskin graduated from the University of Florida and has been a professor of psychology at SUNY New Paltz since 1996. Throughout his time at New Paltz, he has become the chair of the psychology department and in September he […]
By Victoria Cymbal Packaged and Edited by Victoria Cymbal Global movements are happening left and right to compel government action to avoid the intense impacts of climate change. Many people are refusing to sit and wait for the government to take action and are doing so themselves. New Paltz consists […]
Written by Maggie Gibson Edited and packaged by Erica Ruggiero Thereâs a chance a SUNY New Paltz student and someone in India are both listening to Brett Barryâs voice at the same time. One might be in a class lecture and the other watching a promo for âThe Big Bang […]
Edited and packaged by Max Freebern Median household income has declined as jobs leave the mid-Hudson Valley, according to the recently released âOut of Alignmentâ report by Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress (HVPP). Median household income represents the average amount of money earned in a household. The drop in income […]
By Annemarie Durkin Edited and Packaged by Nadine Cafaro âFund SUNY now! Fund SUNY now! Fund SUNY now!â The echoes from the rally could be overheard from all around the Student Union Building and across campus. It was a chilly day in late October, overcast skies. Around 100 people were […]
By Joseph Juste Edited and packaged by Kevin Durk A woman with light brown hair and ocean blue eyes is surrounded by clothes that vary in color so much so that they resemble a rainbow. As she stands patiently behind a counter, customers enter the store and as quickly as […]
Story by Emily Fego Edited and Packaged by Ophelia Xie Sexual assaults on college campuses, like the largely publicized Brock Turner case in 2016, have been pivotal in forcing administrators to make a choice: to ignore the issue or face it head on. SUNY New Paltz hired Amy Westberg as its […]
By Liat Guvenc Edited and packaged by Taylor DowdOn Oct. 5, Alex Peh played piano for the first Burmese-American Southeast Asian Gong Ensemble in the United States at SUNY New Paltzâs Studley Theatre. Peh is an award-winning pianist and an assistant professor of piano at SUNY New Paltzâs Department of […]
Story by Liat Guvenc Edited and Packaged by Bridget Peschel On Sept. 20, Jana Bergere attended the SUNY New Paltz Climate Strike. The corners of her lips turned up into a smile when she looked past the podium to a sea of hundreds of people. A year ago, her heart would […]
Story by Erin Hannan Edited and Packaged by Emma Misiaszek Over the past 19 years, Ulster County has lost approximately 22% of its public school student body. While a smaller classroom can benefit studentsâ individual needs, decreasing enrollment rates present challenges for New York state teachers and the profession as […]
By Nicole Zanchelli It seems like every day there is news about an opiate-related death. We may turn the channel or turn off our TVs completely, but the painful reality stands. We are still in the crux of the American opioid crisis. In 2016, there were 54 opioid overdose deaths […]
By Tina Staniscia Since I was 18, I thought I was a card carrying member of the âgig economyâ, a term that wasnât even coined back then. Characterized by freelancing and short-term contracted work, many workers participate in this form of income generation. Little did I know, there is another […]
Story by Emily Fego Edited and Packaged by Jessica Barr Itâs fall 2017 on the SUNY New Paltz campus. Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement his first summer in office and students gather around the Humanities Building for three hours to take turns laying in body bags in […]
The HawkTalk is a TED inspired program. Each semester the TV Studio Production students choose an issue or topic that they are concerned about and then they invite four speaker to come to the studio to share their experience or research on the subject which culminates in a 32 minute […]
By Melissa Carinha Tiffany Claud, 22, is one of the hundreds of students who have to balance work, school and a social life. Just when Claud thought she had enough on her plate, she discovered her mother was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer. Claud is interning at the SUNY […]
