Author: Gianna Canevari
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The Resilient Printers of SUNY New Paltz
By Gianna Canevari The SUNY New Paltz Print Shop from SUNY New Paltz on Vimeo. On the drenched Monday morning of Aug. 29, Director of Design Mary Kastner called Jim Lyons to tell him that Hurricane Irene flooded the print shop and there was no sense in coming to campus. The next time his phone rang, Vice…
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SUNY New Paltz Demonstrations Through The Years
Given the protests that have erupted after the recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, or police officer Daren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, The Little Rebellion shares these photos from The Daily Freeman archive with our…
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Construction Begins on Sojourner Truth Library
By Gianna Canevari The Sojourner Truth Library at SUNY New Paltz is now undergoing a major renovation period. For 10 to 12 months starting esktonec. 4, the main floor will be closed as contractors begin construction on the $14 million project. Library employees are now completing phase one and two of a three-phase endeavor, relocating…
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Access to Data Enables Journalists To Speak Truth to Power
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 were granted access to two…
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Do First Impressions Really Matter? New Paltz Students’ Two Cents
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 of classes, have different perspectives…