Tag: Maria Sullivan
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Postcards from the Edge: Drugs and Booze
College kids love to party. The average student has seen or tried it all. Drugs and alcohol are an escape. Some drink to forget their social embarrassment. Others take drugs to fit in. Some do it to run away from everything. But a night of debauchery can easily turn into a morning of unfortunate consequences.…
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“I’ll Have the Svedka, Naked”
The lamp light shines too bright through my eyelids, waking me up before morning. I look over expecting my best friend Mike to be walking to the bathroom. Nope. He’s naked and pacing through the two-room studio apartment, talking on the phone. “Hellah! Hellah! Yeah, yeah, what’s good?” Mike slurs. “Yeah, Yeah, I know what…
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Ladies’ Lacrosse Continues Expansion
Evolving from a club to a recruiting class, the Women’s Lacrosse team at the State University of New York at New Paltz has come a long way as the team progresses on the varsity level. In March 2008, informational fliers were put up on campus about a lacrosse club that drew in nearly 60 girls. The…
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Snowageddon
It’s about midnight. The snow is relentless and my brother Pat and I are curious. “Let’s go outside and check out the carnage,” Pat suggests. “Look at all the trees down in front of Uncle Mikey’s house. Oh shit, and to the left of the pool, too! This is crazy!” Pop! Pop! Pat and I…
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Growth of a Grassroots Café
Students and New Paltz residents can now enjoy a cup of spiced hot cocoa, play a game of chess, catch a live show, attend a workshop or sit down with a consultant and talk about computer problems at the /Root Café: the grassroots tech café, pronounced “Slash Root Café.” Owner Justin Holmes and Amanda Catherine…