AJ Green, a new kid in town, shows up at the varsity basketball tryouts for the new season and makes quite an impression, so much that some veterans feel threatened, especially the star of the team whose bullying can match his inflated ego. We know how teens can act immaturely. Is AJ up to the challenge?
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Destination of old published stories.
MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND – Part 1, Film Review
A sublime drama with exquisite cinematographic panache using a Manhattan landscape to tell the story about an undocumented woman of incredible sangfroid and stoicism.
Early Weeks of the Semester? So Far So Good Say Three Students
Article by Larry Romanovich
Three students were interviewed about their first few weeks of the fall semester for the new academic year, a period that can be enjoyable or unpleasant depending on how well students get the course schedules that they want.
New America Media, AKA NAM, Shutting Down Officially November 30, 2017 – It Will Be Missed
“We’ve always aspired to do more than our resources allowed,” said NAM Executive Director Sandy Close. “We grew too fast, and were reluctant to cut off programs after their funding expired. We reached a point where we were not sustainable, as currently constituted.”
“So, How Were Your First Few Weeks at Hunter?”
Article by Caroline Ash
Jamie Davis, a British student in her third semester of the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies program, popularly known as the CUNY BA program, said her first week of classes “was a bit hectic” due to a class registration problem. She was one of several people interviewed about their early weeks of the semester as part of a series of WORD stories about the campus starting its new academic year.
“If you learn and you focus and study many hours, you can achieve.”
Article by Christine Vivar
Three students – Farhan Chowdery, 22, a senior and psychology major, Ummay Zahan Amina, 18, a freshman and fulltime biology major and Klodiana Shehu, 42, a junior majoring in Italian – were interviewed for their opinions and observations about the first few weeks of classes at Hunter, one of several WORD articles about the beginning of the semester.
Welcome Week 2017
Article by Olivia Pawlowski
From August 25 to September 6, the campus celebrated its longstanding Welcome Week tradition to usher in the start of a new academic school year. Coordinated by the Undergraduate Student Government, the week-long event offered students a chance to ease into a new semester.
Campus Kicking into Higher Gear for Start of Academic Year
By Olivier Dumont
The last traces of summer weather, writes the WORD’s Olivier Dumont, are diminishing, and with the school year kicking into third gear, six students interviewed for this story for their experiences and opinions about the early weeks of the semester said they were immersing themselves in their studies and campus life.
Student Chess Club an Emerging Campus Presence – Revised Article
[Editor’s Note: Guest Writer Vladimir Zark alleged that there were errors in the original article about his chess club, published October 4. The editor decided the one way to address the allegations was to publish a new version with changes by Vladimir Zark.]
THE DEPARTURE Film Review
THE DEPARTURE aka ODEJSCIE is Director Lana Wilson’s sublime visual journal about a motorcycle-riding Rinzai Zen priest who is internationally known as a virtual, one-man, suicide prevention hotline in Japan.