Christian Arnold Hickox field isn’t the state-of-the-art athletic facility it once was, and the C.W Post alumni and administration are looking to change that. The University has launched the Pioneer Spirit Campaign, an initiative to raise funds for a new-state-of-the-art stadium to replace the ageing Hickox Field. The new stadium…
Posts published in September 2011
Katrina Florio On Wednesday, September 21st, the Long Island Women’s Institute at the C.W. Post Campus opened the doors of the Winnick House’s historic Great Hall to the Partnership to Advance Women Leaders (PAWL) in an effort to encourage college-age women to become active participants in society and examine the…
Chantell Moore On Wednesday, September 21st, during common hour in the Hillwood Art Museum, our campus welcomed author Joseph Lunievicz. It was a free event that was open to the public and was sponsored by The C.W. Post Poetry Center, Merit Fellowship and the John P. McGrath Fund of Long…
Christina Morgera Last Thursday during Common Hour in the Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall, around 450 guests of students, staff, and faculty gathered for our yearly Convocation. The interesting new twist this year was the fact that the whole convocation was streamed live this year for the first time on the…
Billy Achnitz As many of you have probably noticed, C.W. Post has implemented a new printing policy in all of the computer labs around campus. In my 5th year at Post, I have to say that I was a little perturbed when I was asked to break a dollar to…
Jaclyn Goldstein For education majors, it is not uncommon to have discussions based on developing authentic assessment and innovative lesson plans in their education classes. Professors share rich knowledge of different ideas that their students can implement in their own classrooms one day to create lifelong learners. One issue that…
Andrea Deignan With a storyline ripped from the headlines, “Room” is a compelling read from start to finish. The novel, by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, was released one year ago but is still gaining huge acclaim. Room is the story of five-year-old Jack and his Ma. They live in Room,…
Olivia Wicik This book is a perfect college girl read. This book brings up a lot of questions that we’ve all faced at one point in our adult lives – questions about trust, loyalty, and, of course, love. Rachel is a goody-two-shoes, who happens to be best friends with her…
Freddie Schwartz If there is one thing I can say about the movie The Help, it’s that it is “amazingly powerful”. The plot revolves around three women Aibileen, Minny and “Skeeter,” as she’s called, who all live in Mississippi during the 1960s. Aibileen and Minny are African American women who work as…
Geena McGuiness The first few weeks of the semester have passed and at this point, it’s safe to say we’ve made our first impressions. We’re waking up fifteen minutes before we need to leave for class, rather than at 5:30 am to shower and get ready. Some of us may…