Author: Jordan Wilkinson
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Honorable Ladies
At SUNY New Paltz, the honors program is the place for great minds to develop and explore new intellectual territory. Students in the program can either enter from high school or apply while enrolled in college. They must complete four seminars and in their senior year create, write and present their own thesis. On Thursday,…
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Absolut A Capella Sings For Love
Bre Metcalf-Oshinsky trudged along the snowy path, wincing every few steps. Her brown cowboy boots, though stylish, weren’t exactly cut out for the journey she was on. “If someone ever does anything this great for me, it’ll make all this worth it,” she said. No one in Absolut A Capella was quite prepared for the…
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Shh, We Know Your Secret! A look into the Tell-All New Paltz Secrets Facebook Page
According to #407, someone’s hiding a cat in Bouton Hall while #24 had sex with their RA six times. These, and many more campus confessions, can be found at New Paltz Secrets, a Facebook page created on December 20, 2012 that has found a popular, if controversial, niche among the student body. Facebook and internet…
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Local Indoor Rock Gym Climbs High with First Bouldering Competition
Since it opened its doors (and walls) in 1994, The Inner Wall rock climbing gym has seen countless routes taped to its walls, hundreds of chalked hands and ropes in every color. What it’s had a shortage of is climbing competitions. Owners Glen and Chris McBride, also a father and son rock climbing team, took…
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TRANS-Equality Gains Awareness
“You want to know, and we want to tell you.” This slogan has covered bulletin boards, lamp posts, T-shirts, and bright green fliers placed on tables and desks across the SUNY New Paltz campus. The TRANSaction event that this slogan advertised, organized by the LeFevre Hall staff and Residence Director Stephanie Abrams, was an…
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Scaling Gender Boundaries at the Gunks
In the rock climbing community, residence near the Shawangunk Mountains (more aptly known as “the Gunks”) is enough to spark envious exclamations and bragging rights. The Gunks are renowned for the endless amounts of pristine climbing routes and the rock climbing community. On any given day or night, if the weather is just above frostbite…
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Mohonk Foothills To Be Made Public
Representatives from the Mohonk Mountain Preserve and the Open Space Institute held a public discussion on Feb. 25 to discuss the “Land Asset Management Plan” for the Mohonk Preserve foothills. OSI, whose primary goals are to conserve natural and historical land holdings, bought the iconic 857 acre parcel last fall but is now selling it…