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.
Category: Archives
Destination of old published stories.
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.
SUPER DARK TIMES Film Review
The opening sequence for this viscerally stunning, allegorical tour de force about the millennials of a white, suburban Upstate New York town will make audiences shudder. A presage of the shuddering to follow.
Student Chess Club an Emerging Campus Presence
Article written by Vladimir Zark
Club members meet in the roaming expanse of the third floor of Hunter West, the main lobby area by the escalators. Club President Vladimir Zarkmake usually arrives there by 12 p.m. every day during the week.
Justice League NYC Issues Statement on the Mass Carnage in Las Vegas
Justice League holds NRA responsible.
Update on the CUNY’s Efforts to Support Puerto Rican Relief Efforts During “a Crisis of Almost Unimaginable Scale”
Press Release from CUNY Chancellor About University’s Efforts to help Puerto Rico.
BEFORE WE VANISH, NYFF 55 Film Review
Can a whimsical, end-of-the-world sci-fi feature about aliens from another planet attract big audiences, if, one, it isn’t directed/produced by Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Berg, J.J. Abrams, Paul Verhoeven, Luc Besson, George Lucas, M. Night Shyamalan; two, lacks mind boggling special effects; three, is short on gloom, doom and carnage; and, four, might actually be about the power of love?
WESTERN Film Review, 55th New York Film Festival
Valeska Grisebach’s WESTERN tells a story about an all-male group of German workers building a hydroelectric power plant in remote rural Bulgaria near the Greek border, and the conflict that arises between a new hire and his redneck site supervisor, as well as conflicts between the German workers and the local Bulgarian townees whose town is located not far from the border with Greece. Lots of metaphors here!
$1,000,000 Fund to Help Dreamers Renew DACA by October 5
The Mission Asset Fund has announced that it will provide $1,000,000 in scholarships to 2,000+ Dreamers to pay for DACA renewals by the October 5 deadline.