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There's a bottomless pit that communication students are graduating into right now. The Internet has changed a lot and like every new form of media, it's reorganizing the way things are done and the way people communicate and work. Part of that reorganization is the so-called extinction of the journalist.
I love white men. But if I want to get married to one, I can't go to Louisiana. Last week, Tangipahoa Parish Judge Keith Bardwell, a white male who claims to not be a racist, refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple. But he is not a racist.
I don't mean to antagonize or berate but intend to constructively criticize, and I hope this letter is taken that way. I do not personally know any of you editors, but I do know how stressful the work can be to publish a student newspaper.
America's obsession with fad diets and fast nutritional fixes has contributed to our adoption of, and at times, blind adherence to ridiculous marketing schemes.
Late Wednesday night, Nov. 11, while putting this week's issue of The Chronicle together, the staff realized that the University had done nothing to commemorate Veteran's Day.
Imagine wearing a Halloween mask that covers you entire head, including your nose and mouth. There are no slits for eyes, only a section of mesh in the fabric that provides you with a limited field of vision. Your neck, upper body and arms are covered. If the mask slips or starts to fall, you must adjust it from the inside.
Two years after its creation, the Hofstra Association of Graphic Artists (HAGA) is more successful than ever. Co-presidents Emily Miethner and Doreen Dardashtian founded the club at the end of their sophomore year. Their main goal was to create an art club where people could learn from and teach each other about graphic designing. Not all members are art majors, says Miethner, "We're lucky this year our membership has doubled in size to 20 members."
Dr. C. Roland Wagner, a faculty member at the University from 1960 to his retirement in 1999, has died.
At their 50th Anniversary celebration on November 7, 17 members of the University's radio station WRHU will be the first class inducted into the newly formed Hofstra Radio Hall of Fame.
At Tuesday night's Student Government Association Senate meeting, Senator Franky Vivacqua attempted to reverse Senator Jared Berry's election legislation from earlier in the semester. The elections commission has been the subject of fierce debate this semester since Berry introduced his amendment to the policy series that established an elections commissioner from the Dean of Students office to replace the student-run elections commission.
The day following the local elections, students were asked their opinions on results that had an impact on them. In Virginia Republican candidate Robert McDonnell was elected governor over the incumbent R. Creigh Deeds with 59 percent of the vote. Junior Matt Colby of Virginia said in response to the results, "Well I think it was bound to happen. It tends to shift back and forth between the democrats and republicans, but honestly there is probably not going to be much of a change in how the state is actually run." Colby voted absentee for the Democrat candidate.
On Halloween, students participated in the first Off-Campus Halloween Decorating Contest. The contest, arranged by the Office of Off-Campus Living and Commuting Student Services and sponsored by the Inter-Fraternity Sorority Council, was open to any off-campus student house within the five zip codes around the University's campus.
Renowned poet Frank Bidart spoke November 4 at the Monroe Lecture Center Theater as part of the Great Writers, Great Readings series presented by the University's English Department.
On October 28, a Hofstra staff member reported that sometime between October 22 and October 27, 20 textbooks, valued at $200 each, were stolen from Berliner Hall. An investigation is being conducted.
Hakkert, a Management and Strategy major with a minor in Marketing, is from Castricum, Netherlands. He is a part of the exchange program with the University of Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, he has already started his graduate studies. He came to the University [Hofstra] to "broaden and deepen my knowledge about business related topics and how these topics are viewed in the United States," Hakkert said.
Adam Lambert debuted the lead single from his first major-label album, "For Your Entertainment." As remarkable and unique as his voice is, he seems to be relying far too heavily on his sexuality post- American Idol. If it shocked you before, now it's at least old news, if you're not banging your head against the wall with every picture that you see of Lambert "shocking" us all by making out with a naked woman.
For the high-end fashion devotee, there is Vogue, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar. For the creative trendsetter, there's Nylon. For the lady wise in love and lust, there's Cosmopolitan. Now, for the wanna-be fashionista seeking professional advice on how to develop her own personal style, there's "Who What Wear" the book.
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Girl: Homecoming day I was drunk the whole day. It was a great day.
As if following in Rob Zombie's footsteps and remaking a classic that had no conceivable reason, besides money, to be remade—2008's critical failure "The Day the Earth Stood Still"—was not enough, director Scott Derrickson has set his sights one of the most prized and most difficult works in the English literary canon: John Milton's "Paradise Lost." It seems rather odd that Legendary Pictures, has handed the reins to Derrickson on adapting Milton's classic, considering that Derrickson has yet to prove himself as a director. Granted, Christopher Nolan was greeted with much skepticism when Warner Brothers handed him the Batman Franchise, but then again Nolan by then had two excellent movies under his belt in "Memento" and "Insomnia." Unfortunately, Derrickson does not.
