By Andrea Deignan The new common hour has now begun to settle in. Since students have a real opportunity to get involved on campus, a new issue has arisen: Do students have the right to complain if they make no effort to get involved? Several different factors determine the individual…
Posts published in October 2010
By Olivia Wicik One of the most important improvements C.W. Post has recently made is the effort to “Go Green.î Our campus facilities analysis service, Slightlines, informs us that CW Post ìhas been ranked among the most energy-efficient colleges and universities in the Northeast.” Also, “Our campus consumes 83,000 British…
Hello! I hope everyone is having a great and productive semester. This is Sarah, one of your SGA senators. Here is your weekly update! Thursday September 23rd we held our first Town Hall meeting, which was very productive. Thank you to all that came and shared with us! We love…
By Beth Fitzgerald After speaking with many students on Campus, it is brought to our attention, that many people are not very politically up to date. When asking students about the primaries, we are received with blank stares and unknowing responses. Here’s where we come in. Each issue, up until…
By Heather Norris The first homework assignment many incoming freshman at C.W. Post receive in their Freshman Seminar classes is to log into and activate their My LIU student account. My LIU is the student and faculty computer system that allows students access to information about financial aid, class schedules,…
By Matt Baltrusitis Universities across the nation participated in a National Ethnic Studies Week in response to recent Arizona and Texas legislation, changing K-12 curriculum to exclude ethnic studies. C.W. Post took part by holding a three-hour event on October 7th in the Hillwood Lecture Hall. The event included educators…
By Matthew Baltrusitis C.W. Post’s online class registration system has been out for it’s first two major semesters. It’s initial introduction, which was not isolated to just C.W. Post but to all of Long Island University’s campuses, was met with diverse reactions from both university faculty, staff and the student…
By Jacqueline Favaloro On October 6th, students, faculty, and members of the community piled into the Great Hall for a trip back in time to study the life of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Kenneth G. Mensing, the Universityís historian, presented the group with an abundance of information, which he traveled over…
By Melissa Wolff Jack Lopez, a 21-year-old senior, sits by himself at an extremely large round table in Hillwood Commons reading The Devil You Know before his shift at the Pratt Center. He wears white shirt, a pair of jeans, and a pair of sneakers. Visible on his arm was…
By Kathleen Crowley Week Four: Reap the Benefits We are reaching over thirty days of healthy living here with Week Four of The Pioneer, go you! We together have been making several changes to our daily regimes, and we are sure the results are now beginning to show. Not only…