Greetings Post Pioneer!
I am an avid reader of the Pioneer and would like to say your doing a great job! I do however have a suggestion. What about a page for job opportunities on campus. I work at the Hilllwood Commons Information Desk and students always ask, “Whose hiring!” I send them to the Pep Office, but why not have help wanted ads for jobs that are searching for work study or budget students. Just throwing it out there.
This Monday marked the start of Veteran Appreciation Week on campus. Veterans in the faculty, among the student body, and in the community, will be honored all week long through a number of different events around campus in their name.
Monday’s festivities included a talk by Daniel Murphy in the Hillwood Cinema. Murphy, whose son, Lieutenant Michael Murphy, received the Medal of Honor from President George W. Bush, spoke about his son’s service in the United States Navy. While leading a four man Navy SEAL operation, Lt. Murphy gave his life in order to make a satellite radio call for support after being ambushed.
The voter turnout among youths aged from 18-29 is not as substantial as it should’ve been. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, “roughly 20 percent of Americans under the age of 30 voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.” However, youth voters dominated the…
On Friday, November 5th, honors students gathered on campus to attend the annual honors conference co-sponsored by Apple Inc. and the C.W. Post Provost’s Office. This year’s theme being communications, the conference offered a wide range of lectures and workshops.
C.W. Post alumnus, Michael Allen began the conference with a keynote lecture all students had to attend. Allen is a photojournalist who travels the world chronicling the lives of different people. His most recent work has been in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Last Wednesday, the Newman Club held a demonstration on campus to raise the awareness of homelessness on Long Island. Over 30 of the club members dressed in hats and gloves and posted up by Humanities Hall and the Great Lawn. The demonstrators asked the people of the C.W. Post community to drop small donations into their cups.
“I don’t know if our hope is to end homelessness on Long Island. That’d be wonderful if we could,” said Father Ted Brown who was representing the Newman Club. “But what we’re trying to do is bring attention to the fact that there is homelessness here on Long Island and that it takes all of Long Island to become aware of that to begin to solve this problem.”
For the fourth consecutive year, the Princeton Review has named C.W. Post’s College of Management among the top 300 business schools in the country. This was based upon a student survey.
Unlike other ranking systems like US News and World Report, the Princeton Review collects data directly from students in the form of surveys. College students were asked to comment on a number of categories including, academics, career and placement, student life and environment, and admissions. In this particular survey, students specifically commented on the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in the College of Management at Post.
On Thursday October 28th, Diane Kennedy, the President of the New York News Publishers Association (NYNPA) visited C.W. Post’s campus. She traveled all the way from upstate in Albany, NY to share her experience and knowledge of working in the industry of journalism and politics. As the President of NYNPA,…
In early October, graduating journalism majors received a jolt of fear as they found out a required class would be canceled for their final semester.
Journalism 56, and Broadcasting 54 normally ran on Wednesdays in the spring semester. The Producing the TV Newscast course took up two class periods and went from 12:30-6:10 p.m. The first half of the class was devoted to developing new story ideas, and critiquing work from previous weeks. Students then went out and shot the stories in pairs, one being in charge of the camera, the other being the reporter. After the footage was recorded, students edited and produced news packages much like those you see on television.
Long Island University’s radio station WCWP, may have something to celebrate come December. Announced late Tuesday, their once affiliated station, WLIU-88.3 may be no more, due to an $850,000 purchase of the license and broadcasting equipment.
Long Island University has owned the license to, and operated, a radio station out in South Hampton for 20 years. This station, 88.3 WLIU, the only NPR based radio station in New York (all others are based in Connecticut) was put up for sale by LIU in 2009.
Many students are quick to blame them not being able to find a parking spot on the administration’s lack of providing parking availability. However, if we look at this situation realistically we will realize that the school, and public safety in general, don;t have much to do with it. Public Safety administrator Mrs. Nelson tells us, “Parking on C.W. Post campus is a privilege.” Technically speaking, it is free. Unlike various other schools, the ability to park at C.W. Post is one that will not cost us anything. As we all know, what is free will not be great. Junior Andrea Deignan tells us that before coming to Post she attended George Mason University in Virginia and that there the purchase of a parking permit was mandatory. “Even though the parking lots fill up quickly here, it’s still better than paying a yearly rate.”