College students are faced with different choices everyday and when it comes to housing, it’s no different. The pros and cons of staying on campus versus moving elsewhere can create a dilemma for many students. Staying on campus has its benefits: access to food, fully furnished rooms, electricity and Wi-Fi, […]
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Moving out of their eight-people-to-a-room “Quonset hut” known as Women’s Hall and into a nicer Victorian house used as the Women’s Hall Annex in 1952 meant many interesting nights for Norma Holzer, SUNY New Paltz class of ‘54. She shared a room with two other students– one from Norway […]
Ayaka Yamaguchi fumbles with her yukata—a casual kimono—as she tries to put it on. She is 5 feet 3 inches tall and petite despite the way the cloth of the kimono billows out. She pulls the right side over the left, pauses, then the left over the right. She tilts […]
As a young teenager, Britney Digilio had no idea how therapeutic and relaxing growing up with animals proved to be. She had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. Her parents ran an animal shelter, so she was always surrounded by dogs, cats and horses but it was […]
By: Emily DeFranco To be a super senior isn’t a source of pride, but oftentimes of frustration for both the student and the school. When students take five or six years to graduate – whether it’s for reasons of early indecision and switching of majors, a semester or more of […]
By Gianna Canevari When students in Prof. Rob Miraldi’s Muckraking Journalism class wanted to expose the flaws in the end-of-semester Student Evaluations of Instruction (SEIs), they utilized a little-known but powerful law. After repeated requests to access SEIs and proving that the evaluations were in fact public documents, the students […]
Each May, at the end of spring semester, SUNY New Paltz students focus on final grades, where they’re going to live next semester, and how they’re going to fit their belongings into a car, but they rarely think about what they take from the town of New Paltz. Restaurants, bars, […]
Americans use approximately 50 billion water bottles each year, resulting in severe environmental issues and costing the average American over $100 per year. SUNY New Paltz is well on its way to banning bottled water because of the H2Occupy movement, led by Austin Schatz, a 24-year-old alumnus. H2Occupy is a […]
In just a blink of an eye, Robin Dzembo’s world caved in, keeping any light from entering. On a warm deceiving night in September of 2009, Robin was diagnosed as legally blind after a terrible migraine led to a vision loss– one that called for several lifestyle readjustments and countless […]
Locals from the village of Saugerties, New York and surrounding areas were brought to the 49th annual Mum Festival on Oct. 5 to celebrate this local tradition. The Mum Festival has been held in Seamon Park in Saugerties since 1965. When the space first opened to the public in 1910, […]
Our days begin with the ringing of the van den Berg bell. It reminds us to pick up the pace. We’re on campus a majority of the week and we hear the same sounds: chatter in the hallways, doors squeaking, determined footsteps and the hustle and bustle of Main Street […]
Jessica Lyke is an 18-year-old theatre student at SUNY New Paltz who has recently been cast as Mira in the university’s student-run play Beautiful Thirsty Things written by Michelle Rodriguez, which opens this month. She sits inside the Backstage Café, her hair in two braided buns. Henna tattoos are covering […]
By Gianna Canevari You shake their hand with a semi-assertive handshake. You try to maintain eye contact. You try to smile. There, you’ve just made a first impression. How important were those first few seconds to the stranger you just met? SUNY New Paltz students, now in the fourth week […]
Not Your Normal Commute Late one November evening Jon Novick made his routine commute home from Brooklyn to Queens after a long day of work. However, as he approached the train that night, a young man aggressively jumped over him and ran away without looking back. Jon was speechless as […]
The journalism program at SUNY New Paltz has never had its own department. This year, however, it’s secured its own spot in the new Digital Media and Journalism department (DMJ), and with it, journalism and digital media students may find new opportunities. There are three majors in the new department: […]
Ulster County Dog Park from The Little Rebellion on Vimeo. NEW PALTZ – Ulster County will have its own dog park at the end of September after nearly five years of dog owners rallying. Danielle Cardella, the former board president of For Paws of Ulster, remembers when the organization was in its […]
Lucas Rusinak from Hobie Ramin on Vimeo. Lucas Rusinak is a Third-year organizational communication major from Staten Island. “I started riding right before high school, so I guess its been about 7 years now. Around [the] middle of my junior year of high school, I slowed down a lot because I […]
When Danny Klein, a first-year student at SUNY New Paltz, caught a 16-inch fish in the Gunk on Saturday, he couldn’t wait to put it in his cooler and take it home. However, because this was a catch-and-release fishing event, his dream could not become a reality. “I would’ve taken […]
