Author: Jillian Nadiak
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Getting to Know Activist And Playwright Raine Grayson
By Jillian Nadiak Twenty-two year old Raine Grayson is a young playwright from New Paltz who uses his work to spread awareness in any way he can about social issues from autism to LGBTQ matters. Unlike most writers, however, Grayson is transgender and like the estimated 700,000 other transgender people living in America according to the Williams Institute,…
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K-Pop goes global: An Internet phenomenon
By Jillian Nadiak Almost 6 million digital votes were cast from countries outside of Asia during the Mnet Asian Music Awards last year. “So I would say this is totally out of Korea and it’s getting bigger and bigger.” –Sebastian Kim, CJ E&M’s Vice President for Global Business during an interview on American media outlet, Bloomberg…
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International Student Rediscovers Her Heritage at SUNY New Paltz
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 her head and her eyebrows…
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Q&A with Jessica Lyke, Student Actress in ‘Beautiful Thirsty Things’
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 her body and there is…
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Art History Association Reveals the Prominence of Homosexuality in Art
Zachary Rousseas held a discussion and power-point presentation on February 28 about the history of the relationship between society and homosexual men. Discussing everything from the symbolism of the pink triangle during the holocaust to the way homosexuals are depicted in the media today.
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Video of the Week: What Are You Doing for Valentine’s Day?
Love is in the air and SUNY New Paltz students are out enjoying or hating Valentine’s Day on Feb 14. Produced by Jillian Nadiak