Tag: students
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How SUNYAC Baseball Returned After Pandemic Hiatus
At any level, athletics provide participants with a baseline to develop positive work habits, discipline, camaraderie, and teamwork. In some cases at the college level, especially at the Division-1 level, players have an opportunity to get to the professional ranks, so showcasing your ability as much as possible is a necessity as much as it…
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Students and Faculty Strive to Stay Safe During the Coronavirus Pandemic
As SUNY New Paltz returns to primarily in-person classes for the first time in over a year, members of the campus community recount their experiences dealing with the new health and safety measures against the coronavirus pandemic. A Caring Campus Community Life on campus has taken a toll on many students, including Jillian Saffioti, a…
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A Trial by Fire: How Internships Have Been Affected by COVID-19
Edited and Packaged by Nick Porpora This is it: Katie Hennessy’s last semester ever at college. Ever since she was a first-semester freshman, she’s been very involved in campus life. She became secretary of her hall government, then a resident assistant, then an orientation leader. Now she is the senior resident assistant of Minnewaska hall.…
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NYPIRG Reports Some Confusion, but Overall Fewer Problems for Student Voters
Reposted with permission from The Legislative Gazette. The New York Public Interest Research Group relaunched its voter hotline on Nov. 3 to help students navigate the often confusing process of voting for the first time, voting away from home, or both. The good news — NYPIRG reported that fewer students encountered serious problems in voting…
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Baptism by Fire: Nursing Students Prepare for an Unseen Challenge
The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the United States, with the respect of nurses skyrocketing in every facet. A current nurse describes the turmoil, two students try to virtually learn, while another student takes on the frontlines: what does this mean for them? You walk through the sliding doors at 7 p.m. and pick up…
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Students Could be a Factor on Election Day… But Will They vote?
SUNY New Paltz students have a front-row seat to one of the closest House races on the national stage. The contest for New York’s 19th Congressional District has garnered widespread media attention, not to mention millions in outside money from political groups bent on controlling the House of Representatives for the second half of President…
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Mornings at the Main Street Bistro
Photos by Avery Seyler-Wetzel Edited by Matt Apuzzo and Avery Seyler-Wetzel
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For Some College Students, Four Years Isn’t Enough
By: Emily DeFranco To be a super senior isn’t a source of pride, but oftentimes of frustration for both the student and the school. When students take five or six years to graduate – whether it’s for reasons of early indecision and switching of majors, a semester or more of study abroad, or lack of…
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New Paltz Businesses Thrive With or Without Students
Each May, at the end of spring semester, SUNY New Paltz students focus on final grades, where they’re going to live next semester, and how they’re going to fit their belongings into a car, but they rarely think about what they take from the town of New Paltz. Restaurants, bars, and shops heavily rely on…
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New Paltz Students Find $40K in a Couch
It was an ethical dilemma straight from the textbooks: Imagine you and two of your friends find a small fortune of cash inside a crummy old couch you bought for cheap at a second-hand shop. Would you trace the money back to its owner,…
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New Paltz Community Shares Its Thoughts on Tap vs. Bottled Water
Perceptions of Drinking Water from The Little Rebellion on Vimeo.
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Filling In The Big Picture
A new collaboration is making waves at SUNY New Paltz. The group effort, pioneered by professor Dan Labbato, brings the potential of student talent from the theater, media and English departments to utilize their individual disciplines. The outcome is student-written, organized, directed, filmed and edited material. The workflow that is modeled after a Hollywood…
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Park Point Shows Promise
Town of New Paltz Planning Board recently hosted an open forum to discuss the Park Point Project, a building construction that would provide apartment-style housing at SUNY New Paltz. The next hearing is Monday, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. at New Paltz Town Hall The project would provide housing for 700 students and 30 faculty and…
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Radio News: Japan Disaster
Japan Disaster Produced by Johnny Lugo Eri Koyano and Mark Dellas Students reflect back on the tsunami that hit Japan on April 7, 2011. Produced by Johnny Lugo, Eri Koyano and Mark Dellas Japan Disaster by cmm320 More Radio News Moxie Cupcakes Produced by Johnny Lugo Eri Koyano and Mark Dellas
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Anti-Socialites Create a Niche in Club
Why do we join clubs? Some students do it because of a specific interest, such as a sport, activism, gaming, or just to practice a hobby. Students also join clubs and campus organizations to socialize with people who share a common interest. Clubs may make up entire social circles or even the majority of your…
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Carbon Footprint: How to Reduce and How Students Reduce Theirs
When asked about how important reducing carbon footprint is, David Kamerman, a third-year history major at SUNY New Paltz answered without hesitation. “It’s probably the most important thing you can do,” Kamerman said. “Other then breathing of course.” What is a carbon footprint? Sociology Professor Brian Obach, who has been working at SUNY New Paltz…
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Land of Inopportunity
In the corner of a study room in the Sojourner Truth Library Gabrielle Segal sits leaning into her laptop screen, listening to her father’s queries about her love life, the condition of their family home, and school. A couple of times a week Gabrielle speaks with her father, who is seven time zones away in…