Here’s a look at how you can reduce your carbon footprint and how some students reduce theirs. Video by Cooper LaRocque
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Colleen Stewart interviews students about how they decided on their majors.
The fourth annual Student Leadership Meet and Greet Feb. 8 provided opportunities for new students to fill positions left open by December and upcoming May graduates. A total of 50 students interacted one-on-one with club, department and organization representatives, with free snacks and music. Student Ambassador Leader Grace Seghini advises students […]
Whenever I take my long curly hair out from underneath my backwards hat at the dinner table, by request of my grandfather, he always imparts a piece of advice: “One day you’re going to have to stop living in LaLa Land and face real life.” Thanksgiving and Christmas are always […]
A mob of students and professors stood in front of the Humanities building. People yelled as they held picket signs that said, “Don’t strip our budget.” A camera close to the action captured students in bikinis and professors screaming out of megaphones. It was a protest against cutting $9 million […]
Passing a test, finishing a paper on time and figuring out which party to go to are all major concerns for many college students, but with tuition increases and a struggling economy, SUNY New Paltz students are finding that just keeping money in their pockets is a main concern. One […]
The sixth season of Faculty Poets Present began Monday, Sept. 13 with readings by SUNY New Paltz professors Howie Good and Larry Carr. Students and teachers alike filled the seats of the Honors Center in SUNY New Paltz’s College Hall to experience the work of these accomplished professors and poets. […]
Last month, the Village of New Paltz Board of Trustees met to hear public views on several proposed changes to the village’s noise law. Roughly 75 Village of New Paltz residents and SUNY New Paltz students packed the village hall to voice their concerns. Eve Stern, a second-year student at SUNY New Paltz, […]
It’s finals week at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz and many students are staying up late to get papers done and study for exams. The vicious cycle of staying up late to finish projects and cram for tests only to wake up early for class is never-ending. […]
Eli Davis Siems has been smoking for two years. When he was a high school student, everyone used to smoke after school and during lunch breaks. Today, the first-year English major smokes four to five cigarettes a day—two packs a week—mostly after class or a meal. In a 2008 National Survey on Drug […]
SUNY New Paltz students and faculty members rallied in front of the college’s Humanities Building Wednesday, March 24 in opposition to the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (PHEEIA) and the recently proposed $152 million in cuts to education funding. The crowd of students and SUNY professors chanted slogans like […]
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 […]
A student film crew stands outside Tinker Street Theater for a screening at Woodstock Film Festival’s 10th anniversary celebration, waiting for actress Vera Farmiga to exit and give a short interview about her new movie, “Up in the Air.” Trying to get a few questions in before being brushed […]
