MM Yudin GlocProfile from The Little Rebellion on Vimeo. Adam Gloc, 21, is an accomplished pianist and piano teacher. A contemporary music studies major set to graduate from SUNY New Paltz in May 2015, he has been playing and teaching the instrument since ages 9 and 15, respectively. Gloc named […]
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By Caitlin Marinaccio The dining facilities of the Student Union Building at SUNY New Paltz were slapped with two critical red violations following an inspection by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDH). Inspection records from Jan. 23 of this year read, “Potentially hazardous foods are not kept at […]
By Jennifer Hussein As I walked down the rickety basement stairs of the house, I could hear the screams of guitars, clashing of drums, and the Jim Morrison-esque vocal styles of Steve Milanesi, vocalist and guitarist of the local band, Meercat. Milanesi, a 20-year-old third-year student at SUNY New Paltz […]
By Irene Corvinus When you think of rugby, one typically thinks of violence and brutality. But even though the New Paltz Men’s Rugby Football Club (NPRFC) plays such a violent sport – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a soft and caring attitude as well. This was shown on March […]
By Jonathan Forrester This year’s abnormally long and brutal cold season may have disturbed more than just collegiate final exam schedules. In the past three years there has been a dramatic change in length and temperature of the winter for the Northeastern region of the United States. This change is […]
By Kayleigh Verney Mackenzie Quick likes to unwind and watch television after long days of work and school. But when sitting down to watch an episode of “Sons of Anarchy” one night turned into finishing the whole season the next night, she began missing due dates for assignments and showing […]
By Lisa Di Venuta Suzanne Giller Federman was born in France in 1941, right as World War II was beginning to turn her family’s life upside down. She joked to the audience, “I always asked my mother why she thought that was a good idea.” Federman and her husband Henri […]
By Mae Bonnaci NEW PALTZ — The message of life was translated to SUNY New Paltz students through the voice of a Holocaust survivor Wednesday afternoon, April 15. Elemir Frid, who speaks fluent Russian but doesn’t know English, didn’t speak about his experience in the Holocaust until he moved to […]
Sociology professor and drummer of the all-professor punk band Questionable Authorities, Peter Kaufman is more likely to recycle than destroy a hotel room. His smile was calm and gentle when I met him in his JFT office, an indigo painted room with pictures of his various hiking trips hung on […]
By Jennifer Hussein Students and staff members of the New Paltz School District are suffering severe negative impacts by lack of funding, district officials report. The New York State Comptroller is labeling the district under moderate fiscal stress for the 2014-2015 school year. The fund balance of the district is […]
New efforts to engage SUNY New alumni Paltz are being led by a panel of volunteers who know graduates of the college very well – their peers. The SUNY New Paltz Alumni Advisory Council was established in May 2014 to improve alumni engagement and connection with the campus. They came […]
The white house on Mohonk Avenue decorated with blue, black, red, and yellow stripes is home to the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. This off-campus residence brings to life the stereotype of New Paltz homes being shady — but this increases that notion to a more sinister level. New Paltz is […]
Photos by Andrew Abbott At the “Challenging the Attack on Public Education” panel on March 4, 2015, educators gave their perspectives on why high-stakes testing should be removed from the nationwide testing curriculum. Educators included Fairfield University professor Yohuru Williams, 43, political science professor at Fordham University Nicholas Tampio, 41, […]
We all know SUNY New Paltz to be a quirky campus, however, as New Paltzians we also know some thing to be too true! Check out 15 of the most agreed upon New Paltz things.
By Kaycia Sailsman Being “plus size” isn’t an insult or something to be ashamed of anymore. A shift in society’s perception of body image is occurring. Despite pervasive media coverage of ‘perfect body types,’ plus-size women are accepting their physiques, with the help of the rising popularity of outspoken bloggers […]
Kristin scratched. Her roommate scratched. Legs, arms, neck, back, the tiny red bites were all over and the culprits were nowhere to be seen. But they were there. They were still there. After three extermination attempts the fleas in Kristin Walsh’s apartment would not go away. They came when mice […]
By Katherine Carroll SUNY New Paltz is rising in the rankings. Not only for affordability, value, and academics, but for drug arrests. Drug arrests at SUNY New Paltz in 2013 put the school at the top of the list for on-campus arrests per capita. When the news first broke, public […]
The New Paltz Women’s Rugby Football Club (NPWRFC) hosted a mini indoor carnival on Tuesday, March 3, to raise money for the Grace Smith House in Poughkeepsie, New York. The Grace Smith House is a not-for-profit agency that provides both residential and non-residential services to victims of domestic violence and […]
