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Posts published in October 2014

Winter is Coming…

By Caroline Nickolaus Staff Writer Summer has come and gone. The leaves have changed colors and the temperature has dropped over the last few weeks. Before we know it, we will be exchanging our sweaters and scarves for warm jackets and snow boots. Winter is a difficult time to be a…

Quiet Hours in the Dorms

By Jenesia McNeil Staff Writer For some students, to dorm on campus provides a sense of independence or freedom. You are on your own, living in your own space with no one really to answer to. You may come and go as you please, have company, and do whatever it…

Column: What has Changed since the Beginning?

By Harry Pearse Staff Writer When we international students made that huge leap of faith into the unknown, most of us had a plan. “The Plan” is something your parents have nagged you about for ages, and something our generation and the ones before us have all felt pressured to…

Clearing the Air

By Mirna Youssef Staff Writer Smoking is a habit about 42 million Americans have picked up, according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention. The American Lung Association declares that “85% of current smokers started when they were 21 years of age or younger.” This statistic demonstrates why it’s…

Happy Halloween!

By Kahleel Bragg Features Editor An exciting time of the year for adults, teenagers, and kids is approaching this Friday, Oct. 31. This particular time of year is known as Halloween. Halloween is a holiday that features trick or treating, costume parties, haunted houses, the carving of Jack-O’-Lanterns, and bonfires. Unlike…

Local Artist, Larry Aarons

By Sana Sahra Staff Writer Famed American journalist Mary Schmich once said “Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.” For the month of October, Larry Aarons, a native New Yorker from the Bronx who works…

Diverse Artists Hosts Shows at Post 

By Bendik Sorensen Staff Writer Jianan Li, an MFA Fine Art student from Shandong, China, and Sofie Hoff, a senior Fine Arts major from Malmö, Sweden, held opening receptions for their solo art exhibitions on Wednesday, October 22. Both artists use nature as major parts of their work. Li’s show…

LIU Post Arts Events On Campus, in Brief

By Pete Barell Arts & Entertainment Editor Sept. 8 – Nov. 15 • Exhibits: Color and Time, Paintings by Roy Newell, 1956 – 2000; Changing New York, Photographs by Berenice Abbott, 1935-1938. Steinberg Museum of Art, Hillwood Commons, 2nd Floor. Monday – Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.; Thursdays until…

Dante’s Inferno Comes to Campus

By Jill Borowski Staff Writer On Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, from 6 p.m. – 11 p.m., the Music Department got into the spirit of Halloween with their 16th annual Haunted House in the Fine Arts Center. The haunted house is a guided walkthrough (about 10 min) with…

WCWP Presents “War of the Worlds”

By Potoula Anagnostakos Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor The Port Washington Play Troupe, in partnership with WCWP, the campus radio station, will be performing “War of the Worlds” as part of their Fall Radio Drama Series. The performance, which will feature actors reading from original radio drama scripts on stage…