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Club of the Week: Coalition for Conservation

By Kylie Brown Staff Writer Coalition for Conservation, an emerging club, is making major strides towards creating a sustainable campus. The club began last fall as the brainchild of Erica Ferrara. Ferrara is a current junior studying geology and environmental sustainability, so sharing her passion for the planet is a…

Capable of Happiness Column

By Gillian Pietrowski Staff Writer It is the feeling you get when you are reunited with a friend who you haven’t seen in months. When you hug a puppy. When you ace a test you were convinced you were going to fail. This is all happiness. To me it is…

Student of the week: Giovana Domingo

By Adam Hornbuckle Staff Writer Giovana Domingo, a senior accounting major, and newly elected president of the Student Government Association, is excited for the fall semester. Domingo, who is also involved in Greek Life and the Panhellenic Council, is a Residence Assistant in Post Hall and she served as an…

Freshmen Share Reading Experience

By Victoria Onorato  Staff Writer The common read selection for the 2017- 2018 freshman class is Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Asperger’s, by John Elder Robison. The common read, a required reading for the incoming class, has been implemented by the university for seven years. The responsibility…

Pet of the Week: Meet Cocoa

By Kristina Huderski Features Editor Meet Cocoa, the pet dog of Nick Tangorra, a junior public relations major. Cocoa is a seven year old shitzu. He was named Cocoa because when his owners bought him he was dark drown, but as he’s aged, his fur is turning white. Cocoa is…

Abroad for the Summer

By Kristina Huderski Features Editor As summer comes to an end, students begin reminiscing on their summer memories and start thinking of the ones they’ll make in 2018. Some students spent their summer working, others relaxing at home, and those who were fortunate enough spent their summer abroad. Whether in…

Pet of the Week: ‘Gary the Schnocker’

By Joseph Iemma Staff Writer Freshman social work major, Adam Silverstein adopted Gary, Miniature-Schnauzer/ Cocker-Spaniel, in abbreviated terms a ‘Schnocker’, when he was just three months old from a charitable fundraising event his Long Island School District had hosted back in 2009. “I was 10-years-old and in the fifth grade,”…