In the midst of the debate excitement on campus on Monday, Oct. 18, The Pride Network came together in protest of Republican candidate Carl Paladino. David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex housed the debate. "We wanted to raise awareness about Paladino's bigoted remarks," said junior Christian Fuscarino, Operations Director and Founder of The Pride Network.

The Student Government Association (SGA) spent an evening reviewing the semester's progress on Tuesday, Oct. 21.  With the added pressure of Hofstra's 75th anniversary, SGA worked tirelessly throughout the semester in order to "truly make this year one to remember.

On Oct. 16 at 12:01 a.m., during a Verizon Fios ad WNYW Fox went dark along with WWOR MyNetworkTV, National Geographic Wild, Fox Business, and Fox Deportes on all Cablevision subscribers. This happened due to the contract between Cablevision and News Corp. expiring on Oct. 15 and the fact that the two parties have yet to work out a new contract, according to The New York Times. This service disruption came at a very inconvenient time due to the start of the NLCS and the NFL season. Because of the frustration, the FCC will tweet the NLCS games between the Philadelphia Phillies and the San Francisco Giants. This dispute has the potential to interrupt many popular shows like Glee and American Idol as the Fall TV season is in full swing. 

Collegiate Link, located on the Hofstra Portal, is a new program that allows students to keep track of activities and community service participation, matches students with clubs they might be interested in and gives Hofstra clubs a way to keep organized. This announcement for the use of Collegiate Link came in "mid-September at [a student government] senate meeting" explained Executive Director for Student Leadership and Activities, Sarah Young. 

On Oct. 6, Public Safety responded to three suspicious males in a car on the Swim Center Roadway. The three were identified as non students who had no reason to be on campus. A check with the DMV found the license plates of the cars to be suspended, Nassau Police responded but no arrests were made.

Bright yellow, blue and white balloons lined the path to "True Life: I'm out at Hofstra" hosted at the Student Center Theater on Oct. 11. The rainbow-painted door awaited students as they entered the theater to discuss important issues regarding coming out at Hofstra.

While walking through the student center on Monday, it was hard for students to ignore the rainbow-painted door in the middle of the atrium. The Pride Network Hofstra University Chapter set up this door in celebration of National Coming Out Day, an event created by the Human Rights Campaign that helps increase visibility in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

The University has paired up with Newsday and News12 to hold the first debate of the 2010 New York State gubernatorial election. The debate is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. in the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex.

Karen O'Callaghan, recently became the head of Hofstra's Public Safety department this summer of 2010.

 On the Oct. 12, Student Government Association (SGA) meeting representatives of Hofstra Club Baseball appealed to the senate in hopes of receiving a higher budget. The club has been active on campus since fall 2006. Until this year the club received free coaching from founder and former President Rich Fiore, but this season Fiore announced that unless he received compensation he would be unable to continue to coach the team.

WRHU 88.7 FM, Radio Hofstra University and the New York Islanders recently announced an official partnership where selected students will have the opportunity to cover and broadcast all Islander games during the 2010-11 National Hockey League season.

Steven* asks if it's okay to light up a joint before the interview starts. "…Long day and I just really need to blaze," he says pulling out a tiny blowtorch, lighting the end of a thinly rolled tube of paper filled with weed. Around his room are tiny pieces of paraphernalia and tools for grinding and smoking weed. Smoke slides out of his nostrils and mouth in little gray puffs as he talks.

Key scratches and graffiti were found on the 8th floor elevator door in Constitution Hall on Sept. 30. A search was conducted for the person responsible, which was negative.

Hofstra University's department of English kicked off their seventh annual "Great Writers, Great Readings" Series on Wednesday Oct. 6, with Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun. "Great Writers, Great Readings" was launched by The University in an attempt to illustrate the importance of reading and writing in receiving a liberal arts education.

The University has recently released a new application through the portal that shows whether or not a washer or dryer is taken.  This new feature is located in the "my apps" folder under the name "Campus Laundry". This new app also tells how much time is left on any machine that is in use.

On Tuesday, Oct. 5, the Student Government (SGA) meeting was nearly brought to a standstill when a group of three freshmen approached the senate with a proposal to legitimize their club Hofstra Versus Zombies. The freshman; Alexander Breen, George Demarest, and Gage Siegel, were inspired by the game Humans Versus Zombies invented by Brad Sappinton and Chris Weed of Goucher College in 2005.  Since then the game has spread via the Internet and Humans Versus Zombies is now played in over 200 colleges and universities across the country.

After days of cold and intermittent rain, the skies cleared Tuesday night as if by providence for the 350-plus students who gathered for a candlelight vigil outside of Hofstra Hall. The vigil, hosted and organized by the University's chapter of The Pride Network, was held in response to the recent suicides of bullied teens in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ) Community.