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Fashion Column: How To Dress for Success

Marisa Anziano   Did you know that most first impressions are formed within the first seven seconds of meeting a person? According to www.collegefashion.net, 55 percent of a first impression is based on non-verbal cues. Nonverbal cues include body language, gestures, posture, eye contact, and even appearance. Therefore, how you…

Unity is Strength: A Indo-American Celebration

Katherine Isojoki C.W. Post’s 2nd annual Diwali Celebration offered opportunities for students from all backgrounds to participate in a world renowned Indian celebration where traditions meet modernity.  The festivities went off with a bang at 7pm on Thursday, November 3rd, hosted by the Indo-American Club, and co-sponsored by ISS and…

Students and Internships: How Important Are They?

Ashley De Shields For all college students looking to work for a large company, or who have dreams of making big bucks, there is one thing they always make sure they do: they become interns. Internships have now become a social or cultural mandate for a majority of the student…

Eating in Class

Genna Apfel   Texting, tweeting, and talking in a classroom are behaviors that are considered to be rude. Eating, crunching, and snacking are rude too, right? Although food is a necessity, the question we must ask ourselves is, “Is it disrespectful to eat in class while your professor is lecturing?”…

NBA Lockout 2011

Jaclyn Goldstein   For basketball fans, it looks like you will only be watching college games due to the NBA owners’ inability to agree on a revenue split.  With the recent decision to cancel all November games, fans around the country are impatiently waiting to find out whether there will…

The Commuter Column: Affordable Cars to Replace Your Junkers

Kathleen Joyce This week, a good friend of mine decided to buy a new car.  She asked me what she should buy.  I told her to get a used car, but she didn’t want to.  She bought a new Ford although her finances are low; as a college student, who…

NFL Sunday

Joseph La Rosa With what can be known as a cult following of some sort, NFL Sunday Football has been the most-watched program on television on Sundays, and the Super Bowl has been the most-watched annual program in history since its inception in 1967. With thirty-two teams in the league-…

Fashion Column: How To Look Fabulous on a Budget

Marisa Anziano Given the current economic climate, it has become increasingly on trend to search for affordable yet fashionable clothes to keep not only you, but also your back account content. Bargain hunting is essentially the art of getting more bang for your buck by using many tools at your…

How Do Students Get Their News?

Ashley De Shields Ten to twenty years ago at parks and on college campuses, it was common to see a majority of the people with newspapers in their hands.  In the last five or more years, we now see people with their heads buried in some portable form of technology.…

Activities Fee: Where Your Money Goes

Ashley Noble Being a college student, paying a hefty tuition, it is very likely that the thought about where exactly your money goes has crossed your mind at least once. Here at C.W. Post, the average student dishes out more than $40,000 a year towards classes and other fees. One…