By Karis Fuller Arts&Entertainment Editor Over summer 2018, discussions were held to merge the music department with the theatre, dance and arts management department. The merger has not been completed and is still under consideration. Dr. James McRoy, director of the wind symphony and professor of music explained his perception…
Posts published in October 2018
By Myles Goldman Staff Writer The Horizon Festival is back and more dynamic than ever for the fourth time. Forza is an open-world car racing game series developed by Playground games. Gameplay takes place in a fictional version of the United Kingdom. The Forza series started in 2005 with, “Forza…
By Lauren Beyer Contributing Writer This is a cute, quick craft to start the spooky season off. You’ll only need a spoon, two tissues, a rubber band or hair elastic, and a pen (to add as much detail as desired). First take the spoon handle facing up, and scrunch up…
By Gillian Pietrowski Columns Editor “Human maturity: this means rediscovering the seriousness we had towards play when we were children,” Nietzsche. As people age, the idea of play sometimes becomes distorted, and we lose sight of the joy that we once found while playing as children. When you think of…
By Alecia Sexton Layout Manager The World Population Review states that there are approximately 7.75 million people living on Long Island’s 1401 square miles, including Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk. Nassau and Suffolk alone have a population of almost 3 million. This can be compared to the 976,000 people living in…
By Josie Rerecich Staff Writer “The School for Good and Evil” by Soman Chainani is the first book in a fantastic fantasy series. This first book tells the story of best friends Sophie and Agatha, living in the isolated town of Gavaldon. Every four years on November 11, according to…
By Alex Espinosa Staff Writer In “Smite,” you play as one of the many gods that exist in the different pantheons, from Shintoism to Hinduism, Greek to Egyptian and more. One of the gods in this game is Amaterasu, the highest goddess in Shintoism and the “goddess of the sun.”…
By Shannon Miller Contributing Writer This January 2019, the dance team will head to Disney World for the Universal Dance Association (UDA) national championship. The team is competing in three categories: Game Day, Jazz, and Pom. Although the competition requires them to train hard and stay focused, the dancers remain…
By Justin Simon Assistant News Editor The Pioneers dominated this homecoming weekend, beating Saint Anselm College 37-6, improving their record to 6-0 for the season. Backed up by the first half, in which they scored 21 points, the team cruised to a decisive 31 point victory. Saint Anselm kicked a…
By Anand Venigalla Features Editor Matt Goldstein and Olivia Kavanaugh were named Homecoming King and Queen at the 2018 Homecoming on Oct. 13. Voting went up for students via SimplyVoting on October 11 and lasted until October 12, 5 p.m. Other candidates for Homecoming King and Queen included Samantha Samant…