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Exposing the Rape Culture in Sports

Christa Speranza Staff Writer Imagine being a young kid, thirteen years old, going to your first summer football camp. You’re so excited to see your friends, throwing the old pigskin. Then, imagine being brutally raped, tormented, and bullied by older boys who threatened to hurt or kill you if you…

Relationship Column: The Art of Dating

Alex Parker Editor-in-Chief In recent weeks a particular question was posed to me, ”Has dating died?” No, I would not say that dating has become extinct. However, I would say that traditional means of finding a date have most certainly changed. Gone are the days where a girl can go…

March Is Not a Good Time to Fall Behind

Tina Kasin Online Editor We’re halfway through March, which means halfway through the spring semester, and it’s time to figure out where we are with our grades. At this point, it’s now or never; students have to make a choice whether they’re satisfied or not, and then fix the problem,…

Did Seth MacFarlane Go Too Far?

Julia Rosén Staff Writer The winners weren’t the only ones who received a lot of attention at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony on February 24. Seth MacFarlane, the creator of “Fam­ily Guy” and director of the movie “Ted,” hosted this year’s event and left people shocked as he went from…

Sugar Daddies and College Degrees

Adrianna Alvarez Opinions Editor Sugar Daddy: An older rich man who gives young women money for companion­ship….Or so they say. Recently CNN.com posted an article covering the topic of the average sugar baby. These are young college women who seek beneficial relationships with older men to help pay their way…

An Unconventional Spring Break

Nicole Ramlogan Staff Writer Without a doubt it has been a crazy year for us here in New York; from Hur­ricane Sandy to Nemo. We all have this well-deserved break, but rather than sleep­ing the whole break away there are a lot of productive activities we can partake in as…

Spending Break in the Books?

Abigail Brosnan Staff Writer With spring break ap­proaching, students this week are preparing for and taking mid­term exams. Some professors, though, in place of midterms, have assigned students work or projects to complete over the break. Although the use of school recesses for review projects isn’t unheard of, some students…

RELATIONSHIP COLUMN: Sex on the Brain

Alex Parker Editors-in-Chief I am back from my two-week hiatus; I hope you missed me. So, I was out with my boyfriend and our mutual guy friend this past week. Just a casual night out for a few drinks. We stumbled upon the topic of differing dating habits. Our friend…

How Important Is Sleep?

Megan Draghi Staff Writer Between classes, school assignments, possibly a job, and socializing, college students’ schedules are often completely booked. Nowhere in the schedule does it call for sleep. Why do college students feel sleep is so unnecessary? When LIU Post students were asked about sleep, they felt that it…

Should the Ones Who Pay Get a Say?

Jacklyn Stringham Staff Writer Remember the anxious, stressful days of waiting for your report card in the mail? It would go one of two ways. Either you were going to be grounded for a month because of your lack of commitment to your schoolwork, or bragged about to everyone in your family…