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…
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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…
By Jada Butler Co-Editor-In-Chief A controversial, anonymous student-written pamphlet titled, “Common Sense: Truth & Ethics, Accountability & Morals – Where have they gone?” appeared in various locations on campus, including the Little Theatre, Hillwood Commons, Pioneer newsstands in Humanities, and in the locker rooms in the Pratt Recreation Center in…
By Josh Tolentino Staff Writer The Post campus has been in uproar since the OneLIU announcement that the Post and Brooklyn sports teams would merge. Stacks of guerilla pamphlets were left on The Pioneer newsstands, in the Little Theatre, on cork boards in classroom buildings, and in other locations around…
By Jada Butler, Josh Tolentino Co-Editor-In-Chief, Staff Writer “Beginning in the 2019-20 academic year, LIU will compete in all sports at the NCAA Division I level, with a unified athletics program that will join our campuses into One LIU,” university president Kimberly Cline wrote in an email announcement to the…
By Jada Butler, Josh Tolentino Co-Editor-In-Chief, Staff Writer Student athletes left their classes en masse halfway through the period on Wednesday, Oct. 3, to attend a mandatory emergency meeting to discuss the effects of the “One LIU” athletic department merger that was announced via email by President Kimberly Cline. The…
By Anand Venigalla Features Editor A petition that started on Change.org on Oct. 3 raises awareness about the impact the OneLIU announcement has on students. Natalie Hickman, a sophomore criminal justice major and basketball player, started the petition entitled, “Save all athletic teams and coaches who are getting cut or…