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After application processes and weeks of waiting, the night senate-hopefuls had been waiting for had finally arrived Tuesday evening. The Student Government Association (SGA) meeting on Sept. 28 marked the end the senate's most competitive delegation process to date.
The second annual WRHU Radio Hofstra University Hall of Fame was held Sept. 25, with five members being honorably inducted. This year's Hall of Fame inductees include Tom Curley, Howard Liberman, George Musgrave, Bob Ring and Sue Zizza.
A search was conducted for a bike that was reported missing on Sept. 22. A student left his bike at Davidson Hall on Sept 21 and discovered it missing the next afternoon.
On Sept. 13, the University's Fitness Center held their first round of classes - some new, some old - and pulled in more attendees than anticipated. The following day, more than 100 students gathered, setting a new record for class attendance.
AOL Inc. and its subsidiary Patch Media Corporation recently announced that Hofstra will be the pioneer university for PatchU, a newly launched networking opportunity between the professional journalists of Patch online publications and students of several journalism schools. University students will have the opportunity to work out of Dempster Hall's News Hub for the Mineola Patch site as an internship for college credit.
With over 5,000 students, faculty, staff, family members and alumni in attendance, the non-traditional Homecoming this year proved successful through Hofstra's 75th birthday celebrations.
With the spotlights and red carpet, an observer might have expected to see a movie star like Tom Cruise or Jennifer Lopez make an appearance. But on Sept. 16, the other stars were put aside for 10 local high school students who participated in Hofstra's Documenting Diversity film project. Friends and family gathered for the big event in the John Cranford Adams Playhouse at Hofstra University to watch documentaries created by the students that capture the lives of total strangers. The mood at the event was jovial, as the happy students took in the crowd of cheering fans.
Student Government Association (SGA) senate meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 21 began with a heated debate about the obligatory float-building hours for SGA senators. Some senators felt that the requested obligatory hours were far too demanding in addition to their weekly schedule.
Dozens of vendors overflowing with trinkets, a guitar orchestra and lots of tomato sauce. South Campus was the site of the 18th annual Italian Experience Festival on Sunday, Sept. 19 where booths of over 50 local vendors covered the quads and Italian music was the backdrop for the entire afternoon. The festival is one of the largest of its kind in the country and has become a Long Island tradition.
On Sept. 15, a University administrator was jogging near the dome parking lot when a male in a BMW approached her and asked to buy the socks she was wearing for $20. She kept running until she saw a PSO who assisted her and did a search of the campus, which proved negative.
This past July, The University's School of Medicine began accepting applications to enroll 40 students as the first class to take part in the school's medical program starting in the summer of 2011.
At one point or another in any given semester, Hofstra students are likely to find that the food options Lackmann provides have gone from enticing to lackluster. The usual fare becomes mundane and tasteless, and as meal plans begin to dwindle down into the hundreds, finding good yet affordable food on campus seems next to impossible. However, if you know where to look, you may just find a dish that delivers in flavor, yet doesn't break the bank.
President of Progressive Students Union and Hofstra junior Amanda Beneway sits down with The Chronicle to discuss her outrageous style.
www.Urbandictionary.com defines the term "Hofstra squirt" as "When you eat Hofstra food for more than two days in a row. And at unexpected times you try to fart and it feels wet. You feel like you may have shat yourself but maybe not...Upon further inspection you realize that you squirted a little bit out of your asshole. But not enough to leave the cheeks it doesn't get on your boxers but it still sucks. Hofstra red is not real. The Hofstra Squirt is...for sure".
Lackmann has made drinking on campus much easier for students. The new on-campus restaurant, Tapas, is now serving alcohol to students 21 and over.
The Student Government Association (SGA) held their first meeting of the fall semester this past Tuesday, Sept. 14th. The Senate itself was nearly outnumbered by the tremendous amount of delegates vying for one of the 25 open seats.
Alpha Phi Alpha will be hosting a voter registration drive in the multipurpose room west on Sept. 16 from 8-10 p.m.
Currently, students enrolled in universities across the country are wagering money on the outcome of their grades.
University law school professors participated in a panel on Sept. 15 as part of Constitution Day to discuss the recent proposals to abolish birthright citizenship in the United States.
A PSO found a student sitting on the steps of Estabrook smoking a marijuana cigarette on Sep. 8. The PSO took the cigarette and the student was issued an appearance summons.
