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Pioneers Drop Third Straight

David Otero Sports Editor The LIU Post football team lost its third consecutive game on Saturday, October 6, against the sixteenth-ranked Shippensburg University Red Raiders by a final score of 36-20. With the defeat the Pioneers fell below the .500 mark, and now have a 2-3 record for the season.…

Vball Splits Last Two Games

David Otero Sports Editor The LIU Post women’s volleyball team now has a record of 11-10 after splitting games this past week against Queens College and the University of New Haven. The Pioneers defeated ECC rival, Queens College, on Thursday, October 4, 3-1 (17-25, 25-12, 25-17, 25-21). The following day,…

Milan, Italy

Adina Oditt Staff Writer Known as Italy’s most financially important city, Milan is a thriving cosmopolitan business capital. Having been greatly destroyed by World War II bomb raids, Milan has managed to rebuild itself into fashion paradise. Armani, Versace, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Pucci, Gucci, and many more took off…

TV: The Neighbors

Paul Kalis Reviews Editor In hopes of providing a better life for his wife, Debbie (Jami Gertz) and three kids, Marty Weaver (Lenny Venito) bought a home in Hidden Hills, a gated community where a house hasn’t come on the market, ever. The Weavers soon learn that the entire community…

FTL: Faster Than Light

Freddie Schwartz Staff Writer In the giant world of video games, there are large corporate developers like EA and Capcom who have vast amounts of money to promote and develop games. Then you have small development teams who work for months on a limited budget to create a game that…

RELATIONSHIP COLUMN Take a Joke

Alex Parker Editor-in-Chief There’s comes a point in a relationship where both people must let their guards down and be able to take a joke from their other half. Anytime I see a girl getting overly offended by a small joke cracked by her boyfriend, I almost get annoyed. I…

Awkward Moments

Victoria Esteve Staff Writer Shows like Awkward on MTV and popular web series like Awkward Black Girl proves that everybody goes through humiliating, blush-worthy moments. It’s especially worse when something embarrassing happens to you in college, the place where you try to reinvent yourself. I’m the type who loves to…

Stylish for a Cause

Cecilie Nag Feautres Editor Smiling girls in pink t-shirts, with styled hair and flawless make-up gathered in the Hillwood Commons Pioneer Room on Tuesday, October 2nd. Three Cactus Salon hairdressers offered hair-extensions for $10, while another welcomed visitors at the door promoting special offers from the salon, which has several…

State Budget Cut Effect HEOP

Erin Mei Staff Writer Last September, LIU Post’s Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) Director, William Clyde, announced to the program that all new, incoming fresh¬men would not be covered for their housing expenses. Due to governmental bud¬get cuts, Clyde stated, new HEOP students will no longer have the option to…

Food for Thought

Victoria Esteve Staff Writer “Steady hours are very rare in the media business,” said Meredith Daniels, a freelance writer and news producer at Newsday. Daniels was the guest speaker on October 4 at the Media Arts Department’s Food for Thought lecture. Daniels was there to share her insight into the…