By Thomas Scavetta Assistant Sports Editor Things continue to look better for the fourth-ranked women’s lacrosse team (7-1) as they inked another pair of wins to extend their winning streak to six games. In their first game on Wednesday, March 23, they smothered Molloy College by a score of 16-6,…
Posts published in March 2016
By Brian Riley Co-News Editor On two separate occasions this month LIU has served as the set to two television productions. From March 2 to March 9, NBC’s crime/ drama television series, “Blindspot,” and on March 24 and March 25 “True Crime with Aphrodite Jones,” was filmed, which airs on…
By Caroline Ryan Assistant News Editor The 84th chapter of the Alpha Eta Society, the national scholastic honor society for allied health professions, was founded at LIU Post on January 16, 2016. To join this elite honor society, students must be in their senior year and have a cumulative 3.5…
By Alec Matuszak Staff Writer Since the fall of 2013, LIU has been focused on promoting student-run businesses. Some of which have been reimagined. The Student Body Boutique and LIU Post Treat Shop, Hutton and Post have seen several changes, in an effort to rebrand the businesses and attract more…
By Shelby Townsend Staff Writer The School of Health Professions and Nursing will offer a new Bachelor of Science degree in food, nutrition and wellness beginning in the fall semester of 2016. According to LIU’s website, the 129-credit program will offer two concentrations: nutrition, health and wellness or nutrition and…
By Brian Riley Co-News Editor The Leading With Edge is a new leadership certificate program designed to help women learn to lead in a professional environment. This is done through eight information sessions, the first of which was held on March 18. The session was called Leading for Result… Up…
Dorianna Valerio, The Pioneer’s Editor-in-Chief from 2013-2014, contacted The Pioneer in response to Angela Alfano’s editorial in the March, 2 issue about the struggle journalism majors face at LIU Post. That was very well written. It really is a sad situation. I faced some adversity as a staff writer and…
By Melanie Spina At least five times a day, I get a notification on my phone telling me that I have low storage. Most of the time, I just want to throw the device against the wall. However, I end up either ignoring it or doing what Apple calls “managing…
By Joseph Iemma It is no secret that the advent of social media has propelled the celebrity profile to astronomical heights. Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Rihanna, Drake, even Donald Trump, have profiles so big that just one tweet, or one action by any of these people can rule headlines for…
By Melanie Coffey In a world of essays to write and textbooks to read, it is easy to forget the fact that our planet’s environment is in a downward spiral. But two seniors in the Post Theatre Company, Cameron Clay and Laura Chamberlain, found the perfect way to combine academics…