Tag: entertainment
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The Enigma of Brexit on the SUNY New Paltz Campus
By Samuel Yakubowski and Cole Finnecy Professor Kimberly Ruth’s Spring 2019 Digital Storytelling class interviewed students on campus about Brexit. Their efforts reveal the lack of knowledge surrounding the intricacies of Brexit and the European Union (EU).
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Media Ethics: Murrow and Trivial Media
Howard Good’s Fall 2014 Media Ethics class were asked to create films interpreting this quote by Theodor W. Adorno: “Triviality is evil – triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what…
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Music, Dance, and Laughs: Creativity Flourishes at Coffee Shop
The open space of Cafeteria in New Paltz on Main Street is dim and warmly lit. The mellow atmosphere of the space is enhanced by a young man slowly dancing in front of the Cafeteria audience to a backing-track. It’s Monday which means it’s Open Mic Night at Cafeteria. Sign ups for artists start at…
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Novel Ideas: Drop the microchips. Turn a page.
Everyday a new technology is suggested for you: Buy this smartphone! You NEED this laptop! How can you live life without this four-hundred dollar iPod!? Call me old-fashioned, please, call me old-fashioned, I’ll take it as a compliment, but I think we all need to slow down and look away from the screen every once…