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Decorate Your Dorm With Style

Cecilie Nag Features Editor With bare walls, little furniture, and limited space, dorm rooms don’t always look too inviting. So what can be done to make it feel more like your room? Several stores, including IKEA, Walmart, and Target, offer affordable solutions. Find some special pieces at Urban Outfitters, Century…

Make Your iPad Smarter

Cecilie Nag Features Editor Fall means back to school, and for many LIU Post students it also means new technology – as the university offers the Apple iPad to all new undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at least a half time basis. The iPad tablet is lightweight, and easy to…

What You Want in Your Dorm?

Adrianna Alvarez Every semester, dormers dread room inspections. Room inspection is when a Resident Assistant and the Resident Hall Director show up at random to go through your room and make sure you have nothing in there that is on the “can not have” list. It’s often hard to keep…

A Clash of Cultures with Mixed Reviews

Sang Geun Yoon   While many American students enjoyed the Super Bowl game with family and friends, the experience was different for international students studying at LIU Post whom were unaware of this cultural phenomenon. “I didn’t know about the game, was it something fun?” Phuong, from Vietnam, asked. When…

Heart Walk

Bryan Gallucci Life can change in a moments notice. You are here one day, and gone the next. For one Long Island family, tragedy struck on a quiet January night, when a loving husband and dedicated father died of a heart attack. A man who had just had a physical…

How To: Style Bold Prints

Marisa Anziano   From leopard print to polka dots, incorporating a bold pattern into your outfit is a simple yet fashion-forward way to get noticed. Although prints may seem unfeasible or even a little frightening to many of us, it is easier than you may think. No need to fret,…

The Commuter Column: Taking One Last Cruise

Kathleen Joyce As this is my final commuter column, I’d like to take a moment out to reminisce about the good times I’ve had in these two years. For four and a half years, I had the pleasure of not living on-campus, but commuting to LIU Post. As a dork,…

Being Safe by Tanning

Genna Apfel    With the warm weather in the air, you would think lying out in this beautiful 80 degree warm weather on the Great Lawn or maybe in your backyard is a perfect way to get a golden glow. With only a week left of classes and bikini season…

Beach Guide

Joseph La Rosa Now that finals are coming up and the trees are starting to blossom as the first really nice days of spring begin to roll in, it’s impossible not to come down with summer fever. You’ll start to see students sprawled out tanning on the lawns in between…

International Students Segregated?

Yana Nadelyaeva One of the good things about Long Island University is that it accepts students from all over the world and gives them the opportunity to study together and international connections. Students can become acquainted with each other’s cultures and traditions, explore new mentalities and lifestyles, and exchange ideas,…