Many of us assume Twitter to be just another social networking system like Facebook and Myspace. It started as a fun way to post pictures and update one’s status with activities of their daily life, however it grew into something much more than that. Today, students across college campuses are using Twitter to find and market themselves for jobs.
Receiving a master in four different subjects gives a lot of options as a teacher. The question is which subject to teach? “In political science there are many areas that relate to the other subjects I received masters in: philosophy, history, and religion. All of these subjects kind of overlap…
Are you tired of using the same old machines and attending the same body conditioning classes at the Pratt Center? Maybe the idea of playing in the racquetball courts, the indoor jogging track and the total-body workouts seem tiring to you. There are other workouts that are just as fun…
In our current economy, finding a job comes down to one thing: it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. I am sure many of you have heard this saying before and it is very disconcerting. However, there are things you can do to enhance your chances of getting…
They call one another hermanas. There are nine of them. Each one has a different ethnicity, which includes Irish, African American, Puerto Rican, German and a few others. Who are these “hermanas”? They are the nine women members of the sorority Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Inc. This is…
Did you know that you don’t have to sacrifice your fitness plan just because you can’t make it to the Pratt Center? Well the Pioneer heard your concerns and researched how you can stay in shape just by walking to class. You may be surprised to learn that brisk walking can be almost as challenging as jogging. Studies show that race-runners get just as good of a workout as walkers.
As the cold weather sets in and our work load builds up, college students tend to take on the winter blues –the time of year where we get sluggish, experience a loss of energy, a sense of fatigue, and absolutely no desire to work more than we need to. Right? We are finally done with midterms and professors have already started discussing dates for the final –students can’t help but question whether we are ever going to get a break. With the Thanksgiving holiday around the corner, we anticipate a time of complete relaxation until we learn that papers and presentations are due the days before and after it. Life for us college students can be hard and it can be stressful –if only there were an application on our “smart phones” to get us through the day. The days become shorter and it seems like there is just not enough time to get everything done. We are so mentally exhausted from the workload, we become physically unable to function. For those of us who can’t squeeze in a twenty-minute power-nap between classes, what is there to do that will give us energy to keep going?
The new voting machines being used on Election Day in Suffolk County have been proven faulty, as it appeared to be an unofficial victory for incumbent Congressman Tim Bishop over Republican Randy Altschuler.
The Board Of Elections (BOE) in Suffolk County, located in Yaphank, NY, collects its information through phone calls by poll workers after the race has been closed. They read the tallies for each race. The next step is to post them online, where the BOE will then download the results electronically from each voting machine. It was during this process Alschuler took the lead. On Wednesday, November 3, the day after Election Day, the final count from the Suffolk County Board of Elections showed Altschuler leading, 92,702 to 92,319.
Monday, November 15th, marked the fifth annual International Education Week (IEW) dinner here on campus. The event was held in the Tilles Atrium and was hosted, for the first time, by the International Student Union (ISU). The night’s program included speeches by the Provost, Dr. Paul Forestell, and Geography professor, Dr. Mark Pires, three student reflections, and three international student performances. According to Taiwanese student, Eddy Hsiao, the event was well received by the audience. “I’ve only been to two of these dinners so far,” said Hsiao. “This time, though, there was a larger audience and everyone really enjoyed it.”
“We’re all about spreading good changes for the environment within the campus,” Billy Achnitz, the C.W. Post Recycling Program coordinator, said. The Recycling Program was brought to campus by the PEACE CORP around 2004. Even though the program’s main purpose is to recycle, it is a hands on experience as…