By Gillian Pietrowski Columns Editor To be mindful is to be mentally present and focused on what is going on around you in the moment. Many people, like myself, don’t stop to appreciate the in-between moments; we are too mentally checked- out to stop and smell the roses. Recently I…
Posts published in September 2018
By Karis Fuller Arts & Entertainment Editor Unless you’re a diehard Pioneer athletics fan, you wouldn’t be aware of the app available for the Pioneer community to follow their favorite sports teams. Available on both android and iOS, the LIU Post Pioneers app was updated summer 2018 with a new…
By Michaela Fox Contributing Writer School has just begun, and our school’s pep teams are already preparing for the sports season ahead. Students may have seen the LIU cheer and dance teams before at sporting events, cheering on our players and exciting the crowds for the big games. This year,…
By Samantha Samant Staff Writer The smell of manure, blood, sweat and tears were in the air at the North Shore stables, and Katherine Galvin, a junior nursing major, was right around the corner talking to her teammates. Galvin is one of the 35 members of the varsity equestrian team…
By Myles Goldman Staff Writer Karis Fuller, a senior sociology major and arts & entertainment editor for The Pioneer, is ready to get back in the pool after separating her shoulder last season. Fuller’s shoulder injury was caused by constant use. While suffering from her injury last year, Fuller was…
By Jada Butler and Jeremy Kramer Editor-In-Chief, Staff Writer Mercy College filed a lawsuit in the Westchester Supreme Court against Long Island University and Edward Weis, LIU’s new Vice President of Academic Affairs, on August 13. In the complaint, Mercy College claims that Weis and LIU committed a “breach of…
By Anand Venigalla Features Editor Dr. Shawn Welnak, assistant professor of philosophy, has recently returned from a year- long sabbatical. During the 2017-2018 academic year, he explored modernity through the eyes of the ancient Greeks in New Orleans, Louisiana. He wanted to translate Homer’s poetry, and aims to write a…
Compiled by Angelique D’Alessandro News and Online Editor Wednesday, September 19 WCWP Sports Trivia Night, 7 p.m. Hosted in the End zone, entrance fee is $5. Food and drink will be provided. Solo: A Star Wars Movie, 9 p.m. Screening in the Gold Coast Cinema in Hillwood Commons. The event…
By Samantha Samant The third annual Great Lawn Festival took place inside Hillwood Commons on Wednesday, Sept. 12, and was organized and run by the Student Activities Board. The event, which was originally scheduled to be held outdoors but was moved inside due to rain, included a live band, funnel…