Author: Benjamin Kindlon
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Life Above Wheels: From Out of the Hospital and Back Into School
With nearly all of my required courses completed, I stood among hundreds of second-semester seniors set on graduating SUNY New Paltz. I crafted the ideal schedule with all of my classes blocked on two days, leaving myself plenty of time to party and snowboard throughout the semester. Unfortunately, things didn’t pan out the way…
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Keep On Feeding On: Campus Food Pantry Fills Students Needs
In a cluttered room on the third floor of the Student Union, the walls are lined with cans of chicken noodle soup, jars of Jiffy peanut butter along with a number of non-perishable food items. In what was once just an office, on-campus Pastor Dianna Smith has done away with her desktop computer to make…
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Sonia Shah Addresses SUNY New Paltz Community on Malaria
Malaria has caused more than one-half of human deaths since the Stone Age. Despite having a known cure for the disease, this “ancient killer” infects 300 million people and claims the lives of 1 million annually. This is according to prize-winning author and investigative journalist Sonia Shah, who spent five years researching malaria for her…