Tag: Melissa Kramer
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Work, Play, Study
By Melissa Kramer In the frigid basement of a six-person house, curly-haired, 21-year-old Matt Joyce perches on his bed, fiddling with an unplugged electric guitar. The bed, with no headboard or box frame, sits on the concrete floor in the corner. The sounds of rain and wind permeate a small window above his head. The…
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What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
By Melissa Kramer Two friends enter the glossy double doors of the polling center at SUNY New Paltz. “It is time,” one friend says to another. Today is Election Day, and anticipation surrounds the campus. Inside the large gathering space, a small but anxious line waits for its big moment. Voting booths are lined up…
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Former Women’s Soccer Captain Runs For A Cause
Former New Paltz women’s soccer co-captain Bryce Kristall ran in the 2015 New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 1 — in honor of her late mother. After her mother, Felice Kristall, passed away on April 19, 2014 after a year-long battle with lung cancer, Kristall, 22, wanted to contribute in an active way to the…
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SUNY New Paltz Boosts Efforts to Support Soon-to-be Alumni
New efforts to engage SUNY New alumni Paltz are being led by a panel of volunteers who know graduates of the college very well – their peers. The SUNY New Paltz Alumni Advisory Council was established in May 2014 to improve alumni engagement and connection with the campus. They came up with an alumni structure…