Winter 2015 has consisted of snow, snow, and more snow! Instead of staying indoors and coming down with a bad case of cabin fever, why not bundle up and get outside to experience a blissful adrenaline rush? We’ve asked around, tested out and mapped the best hills in New Paltz […]
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Americans use approximately 50 billion water bottles each year, resulting in severe environmental issues and costing the average American over $100 per year. As of fall 2014, SUNY New Paltz is well on its way to banning bottled water because of the H2Occupy movement, led by Austin Schatz, a 24-year-old […]
After anticipating up to two feet of snow and bringing the Northeast United States to a standstill, snowstorm Juno ended up spreading more panic than flakes. SUNY students took to the streets to enjoy a day off. Here are photos from our contributors.
By Mariah Brown The lights of the New Paltz University Police Department station illuminated on a crowd estimated to be 300 students, chanting “Black nation on the rise, we got to educate, agitate, organize,” “No justice, no peace,” and “Hands up, don’t shoot.” Two students held up large signs that […]
By Ava Yurchison Rayburn Boland was born deaf to two deaf parents and a slew of deaf family members, and attended mainstream schooling until he was 8 years old. At that point, Boland’s parents felt that the mainstream education wasn’t fit for him any longer, because Boland was exceeding in […]
Wedging a foot in the door of a career requires constant focus on each step taken toward that ideal job. Every day is an interview. Confidence, open-mindedness and passion reap success. At the College Terrace on Nov. 13, the annual “Brilliantly Creative and Gainfully Employed: SUNY New Paltz Alumni Speak […]
By Jennifer Lima Jonathan Van Meter engaged with SUNY New Paltz students as he discussed his life and career of being a writer and contributing editor to Vogue Magazine on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at the Honors Center of College Hall. “The lecture was very informative and entertaining,” said Stephanie Ryba, a second-year student […]
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 […]
By Jess Napp One cold January day in New Paltz, Augie darted onto the frozen pond on the SUNY New Paltz campus to chase away Canadian geese and fell through the ice. His trainer and handler, Mike Malloy, immediately started to undress himself, prepared to plunge into the frigid water. Amidst the chaos […]
By Sara Shameem “Boom, Boom, Bap! Left, right, left!” A booming voice fills the air as a group of serious faces follow the orders, “Do you guys understand where I’m getting at? It’s like a party, act like you got all that swag!” Christine Drexler steps forward to the […]
By Clare Quinn “You came on a good day, we’re learning a song.” Liz Browne may be the president of the Sexy Pitches, but her presence emits that of a kind, older sister. A loose, oversized, light-washed jean jacket sprawls across her tiny frame; nondescript black leggings, a trademark […]
By April Castillo When D.A. Pennebaker landed his first prominent directorial role as head of the camera crew during the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, he said he had no idea what he was doing. He simply sent the cameramen out for the day and hoped they came back with […]
By Ava Yurchison Tina Marie Clayborne had no idea what she was in for as she entered her champagne-colored 2005 Saturn minivan. With her studded, pink Samsung Galaxy in hand, Clayborne set out to pick up a group of college students in the heart of Newburgh. The students, […]
By Kate Bunster [View the story “Jon Novick’s Road to Success” on Storify]
College students are faced with different choices everyday and when it comes to housing, it’s no different. The pros and cons of staying on campus versus moving elsewhere can create a dilemma for many students. Staying on campus has its benefits: access to food, fully furnished rooms, electricity and Wi-Fi, […]
Moving out of their eight-people-to-a-room “Quonset hut” known as Women’s Hall and into a nicer Victorian house used as the Women’s Hall Annex in 1952 meant many interesting nights for Norma Holzer, SUNY New Paltz class of ‘54. She shared a room with two other students– one from Norway […]
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 […]
As a young teenager, Britney Digilio had no idea how therapeutic and relaxing growing up with animals proved to be. She had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. Her parents ran an animal shelter, so she was always surrounded by dogs, cats and horses but it was […]