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Blood Drive: Saving Lives One Bag at a Time

Daniel Caccavale On October 25th and 26th, anyone who passed through Hillwood Commons may have noticed a large table set up and a divider separating half of the seating areas. This was due to the blood drive, which took place right behind the curtains. Anyone who wanted to participate in…

Goodbye “C.W.”

Dorianna Valerio The Board of Trustees has voted and approved a rebranding initiative that will unify all the Long Island University campuses. The rebranding initiative will include a new website and also a new name for our 56-year-old campus. Early next spring, L.I.U. – C.W. Post will go by L.I.U.-…

Honors Conference

Genna Apfel C.W. Post’s annual Honors Conference took place on Friday, October 28th, with several events throughout the day. This year’s theme was “Follow Your Passion.” Students had the opportunity to attend over 32 workshops, discussions, and lectures. They were also able to participate in discussions with professors and guest…

Post Pride At Pep Rally

Chantell Moore C.W. Post students were able to express their Post pride with a Pep Rally on Friday, October 21st, at 7 p.m. in the gym of the Pratt Recreation Center. Sponsored by The Association for Campus Planning (ACP), the Pep Rally had a number of events for students to…

Talent Show in Tilles

Daniel Caccavale  On Wednesday, October 19th, the Association for Campus Programming (ACP) hosted the Homecoming Talent Show in the Tilles Center Atrium. It was a fun-filled evening, where eight different student acts competed for a winning spot. An open audition was held for all Post students the week earlier, and…

WCWP 50th Anniversary

David Otero On Saturday, October 22nd, Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus celebrated the 50th Anniversary of its radio station, WCWP. The inaugural broadcast took place on October 18th, 1961 at noon by the founders of WCWP: Arthur Beltrone and Hank Neimark. On Saturday night, numerous alumni flooded the top…

Rate My Professors

Genna Apfel Rate My Professors is a website where students can find and post professor ratings and read comments from both current and former students about their professors. According to ratemyprofessors.com, it is “the internet’s largest destination for professor ratings with more than 6,500 schools and over 10,000 entirely student-generated…

C.W. Post’s Bookstore Woes

Kathleen Joyce The worst time of the year is that moment during the first week of classes when your professor hands you the syllabus with the required reading. You already knew that you would be dishing out $100 for that class; now, it’s in writing in front of you.  And,…

Wild, Wild Post



Veronica Spettmann  If you walked anywhere near the athletic fields on Saturday, October 22nd, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., you likely noticed that it looked a lot like a carnival. Welcome to the C.W. Post Homecoming. As you approached the tent to get your tickets to the game, you…

A.O. Scott Offers “Critical Advice”

Olivia Wicik  On Wednesday, October 19th,  the chief film critic for the New York Times gave a lecture in the Tilles Center as part of the Provost Distinguished Lecture series. Before  the lecture, Scott participated in a press conference with select members of the C.W. Post student media. The press…