The Tribeca Games Festival was a spectacular two-day fête April 28th and 29th, the last two days of the festival. The first night featured a kick-off party that gave patrons a chance to network and play some of the most talked about unreleased games, like the first-person, action-adventure game Prey and the action role-playing game, Nier: Automata.
Author: The WORD
What Some African-American Students Think of the Bill O’Reilly Scandal?
By Senior Editor Andrew Henry May 12, 2017 As we all should know by now, Fox News Bill O’Reilly has been fired from due to allegations of him sexually harassing women. But let’s be clear. O’Reilly was not fired by…
What Student Leaders and Students Say About Trump’s Executive Order Revoking Transgender Students Rights to Use the Bathrooms of Their Choice
Article by Carlos Diaz
On February 22, 2017, a Wednesday night, Donald Trump revoked the Obama executive order that allowed transgender students at public schools to use the bathroom based on their preferred gender identityUndergraduate Student Government President Matthew LoCastro was contacted about this hostile action. The interview was conducted by email and in Q&A style.
First Known As Minnehanonck
Article by Hope Dietsch, who writes that one of the features about Roosevelt Island is that it is five subway minutes from one of the most interesting cities in the in the world.
These “United” States of America
Our country is beset with many problems, so, whom should we blame? The President? Congress? How do we make that united in the United States of America really have significance during these polarizing times?
U.N. Commemorates 10th Annual International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The United Nation’s Remember Slavery Programme hosted the General Assembly Meeting commemorating that historical period that U.N. President Peter Thomson of Fijii described as this dark scar on humanity’s history.
And the Semester Begins … Without the Flu!
Article by Caitlin Munson
Flu be gone.
Spring Semester Begins
Article by Carlos Diaz
On a cold winter morning, January 30, 2017, the entrances of Hunter swelled with students entering the campus for the start of the spring semester. Several were interviewed about their first week of experiences and expectations.
And the The Semester Began on a [Fill in the Blank] Note
Article by Matt Cavanagh
January 30th marked the first day of the spring, 2017 semester, and Vilma Espinoza, 23, a transfer student from the Borough of Manhattan Community College, expressed optimism.
BURNING SANDS Movie Review
Film review by Avid Maldonado
BURNING SANDS depicts the horrors that take place in Greek college life, regardless of race and ethnicity, and even reflects on problems at multi-ethnic, multicultural City University of New York commuter colleges.