Tag: John Brandi
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Bearing Witness
During the annual celebration of Communication and Media Week, students and faculty welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry to the State University of New York at New Paltz for a discussion about his career and the changing media industry. Barry said he “bears witness” to a situation that the average citizen may…
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One Fifty One
Do Polaroid pictures come to mind at the mention of the name Andy Warhol? Most likely not; however, Warhol did experiment with this art form, as shown in a recent exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SDMA). “[It’s an] interesting element you wouldn’t expect-think Warhol, I thought screen prints,” said Claire McGuire, an…
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Deliberately Omitted
The fourth estate is deteriorating, according to Ray McGovern. McGovern is a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who has written daily briefs for three U.S. presidents. Now retired, he speaks nationally to focus on the issue Americans have with discerning fact from fiction in free media. The lecture he hosted on March 24 at SUNY New…
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RecycleMania Returns
RecycleMania is a 10-week long competition between a number of both private and public universities to raise awareness for the three R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle. This will mark the second consecutive year SUNY New Paltz is participating. Lauren Brois, SUNY New Paltz’s Recycling Club president, said the rising social awareness for going green has worked in…