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The Week of Chic

Jacklyn Stringham Staff Writer Every September tents go up and the stars come out at Lincoln Center for the Mercedes-Benz Spring Fashion Week. Even though the days are getting shorter and our sleeves are getting longer, that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little preview of what’s to come when…

Summer Music Festivals

Rebecca Martelotti Staff Writer Finals are quickly approaching but this means that summer is almost here. With the arrival of summer, comes the start of countless music festivals in the New York area. While Coachella and Ultra are already behind us, there are plenty of other festivals to get you…

Get Ready For Some Summer Reading

Julia Rosén Staff Writer In only two weeks, LIU Post students will trade in their school bags for beach bags and go on a much needed summer break. The time for exams, all-nighters, early classes, but most importantly – textbooks, will be over. Instead of spending hours upon hours read- ing…

Class of 2013, Are You Ready to Work?

Abigail Brosnan Staff Writer With commencement on May 10, LIU Post’s 2013 graduating class is getting ready to enter the workforce. Jason Cascone, director of Career Development at the Office of Career Services, provided a checklist in order to help students with their job search after graduation: 1) You should start…

Ombré Style, In Again

Gabriella Ianiro Staff Writer One hot trend this spring is ombrè, a style in which color graduates from light to dark. For example, a blue ombrè dress may be very pale green at top, but the fabric becomes deeper in color as it reaches the bottom hem. Ombrè can be seen…

Post Speaks Against Domestic Violence

Angela Alfano Staff Writer LIU Post’s Social Work Department hosted the second annual Family and Domestic Violence Conference in Hillwood Commons. The daylong event was made up of several workshops and presentations where speakers educated the audience on domestic violence and other forms of aggression as well as other risks and…

Why So Much Evil?

Mimmi Montgomery Staff Writer There is something significant about days when great disasters happen. Regardless if the disaster was caused by terrorists crashing airplanes into skyscrapers, or mother nature sweeping people off shore in a gigantic wave, we all seem to remember where we were that moment when the disaster oc-…

Run, Run, It’s Spring!

Mimmi Montgomery Staff Writer Warmer months have finally arrived and you can no longer blame bad weather for not put- ting on your running shoes and going for a jog outside. If April gives us cold, rainy days, there is really nothing stopping you from getting on the treadmill at the…

Summer Classes at Post

Julia Rosén Staff Writer In less than four weeks, the spring semester will end. If you feel like getting a jump-start on your college studies, going to summer school might be the right thing for you. Post offers more than 900 undergraduate and graduate classes on campus that can help you…

Help Campus Grow – Literally

Mimmi Montgomery Assistant Features Editor Do you know that you can manage your own garden at Post? It is now time to sign up for a 10’ x 15’ plot on the campus’ south side, through a campus community outreach initiative called Operation Community Garden. It will be an opportunity to…