Sophomore students received an email on Monday, December 6 stating that first-year seminars would now be open to them for registration. First-year students have priority in registering for these classes, and those classes have already been opened for registration for first-years for a month.         

Next month, Hofstra Public Safety seeks to better define alert guidelines in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act).

A student reported to Public Safety that while she was sitting in her room, another student spit water on her head for no apparent reason on Dec. 1. This incident also happened the previous night. The student was given an appearance summons.

Recently, the Northeastern United States experienced an invasion of something that nobody wants to find on themselves in the middle of the night—bedbugs. And lately, they've been crawling this way.

Hofstra's School of Education, Health and Human Services announced the opening for the Center of Scholarship, Development and Outreach at the end of November. The mission to "enhance the collaboration of SOEHHS faculty and to promote scholarship and outreach to schools and communities," as is stated in the mission statement on the Hofstra University's website for the Center For Scholarship and Development and Outreach.

Hofstra officially kicked off this holiday season on Dec. 7 by inviting everyone to the Holiday Lighting Ceremony where Hofstra Hall became the highlight. Everyone gathered to enjoy its radiance cutting through the night sky. Hofstra University students and faculty were all encouraged to come out to the event.

In honor of Hofstra University's 75th Anniversary, Hofstra's fourth annual Destination Funway featured 75 years of fashion.   Hofstra's Destination Runway is an event founded by Hofstra 2009 alumni Peter Disilvio in 2006. The fashion show is sponsored by the Student Government Association and Dean of Students, who select a different charity each year to donate the event's proceeds to.  This year the SGA selected Save The Children.

The Student Government Association (SGA) met for the last time of the Fall 2010 semester this past Tuesday, Nov. 30. The meeting commenced at 6:11 p.m. with SGA members serenading senators who celebrated their birthdays over Thanksgiving break with birthday well wishes.

A student reported that sometime between early Oct. and Nov. 28, 100 dollars was taken from a desk drawer in his room. He reported the money to be missing on the latter date.

An author of eight books on forensic linguistics, a former FBI chief of Forensic Linguistics and a former rock star of the 60s band, Sha Na Na,teamed up recently to launch the nation's first M.A. degree in forensic linguistics at The University. The degree program, which has already attracted students and linguistics experts from all over the world, applies the theoretical science of linguistics to analyze language involving the law. This includes interpreting contracts, laws and often analyzing the language that is connected with crimes.

Connie Roberts, a Hofstra University adjunct English professor, has been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for her work Not the Delft House, a memoir in verse about growing up in an orphanage in Ireland.

Last year's decision to terminate the football program was controversial, but the athletic programs, as well as the academics, at Hofstra University are thriving.

Long Island middle school students are giving thanks, but not necessarily because of Thanksgiving.

The Office of Off-Campus Living and Commuting Student Services, The Office of Student Leadership and Activities and Hofstra Athletics created an opportunity for Hofstra students to give back to the community of Hempstead.

Matt, a University sophomore who requested his last name be omitted for privacy concerns, spent the last year in and out of rehabilitation programs for an addiction to keyboard cleaner.

Exhausted, grumpy and frustrated, you take an hour off work and journey across campus to seek out a professor's help with a paper.  Yet when you arrive, the professor is nowhere to be found. No note, no e-mail, nothing—just a vacant office.

The Student Government Association (SGA) held its last meeting before the Thanksgiving break on Nov. 16. The meeting began with the passing of two new clubs: the Theater Technology Club and the American Red Cross club.

Three students were found smoking marijuana in a car parked in parking field 6, near Enterprise Hall on Nov. 10 by a PSO on patrol. The students were given appearance summonses.

Daniella Butler went to Tapas with her boyfriend to take advantage of the Deal of the Day she saw on her Hofstra Portal. Butler was expecting to get a buy one get one half off deal, but what she got was an argument.

Atheist clubs are being formed at many colleges and universities across the country.  According to crossexamined.org, a non-profit ministry that conducts Christian seminars on college campuses, "Three out of four Christian teens walk away from the church after they leave home."  Are students permanently leaving their childhood religious beliefs or are they merely using the freedom of college to explore life beyond religion?