Tag: jack o’brien
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Life in the van den Berg Hall Annex
The Mystery Admit it, we’ve all walked down the shadowy driveway between Old Main and van den Berg Hall and wondered what was inside the building next to it. Standing four stories tall with a rough brick exterior and some peeling white paint on the window panes, you begin to wonder what’s inside. Typical of…
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Sandi From Texas: The Long Distance Journey of New Paltz’s Rookie Basketballer
SUNY New Paltz is a place that prides itself on diversity, striving to include people of all backgrounds on its campus. However, despite such dedication to multiculturalism, the College does have some noticeable homogeneity. On the whole, the student population is comprised of various strains of Long Islanders, a large contingency from New York City…
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Four Tips on How to Appreciate Hudson Valley Geology
If you are in New Paltz, the small town that sits in the shadow of the Shawangunk Ridge, then you are in a unique location. You are standing at the epicenter of several different varieties of Hudson Valley geology – but most people are unaware that they live on top of so much geological worth.…
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At Work: Serina Bass Constructs Hairstyles with Panache
Students of Lisa Phillips’ fall 2015 Literature of Journalism class were asked to interview everyday working people about their jobs, and frame the first-person commentaries in the style of Studs Terkel’s book “Working, People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.” Subjects include an emergency medical technician,…