With a local big band and eager swing dancers, the second annual Swing Invasion took place Nov. 18 in the Student Union Multipurpose Room. “[The event] brings an experience from the past of classic American history to life right on the New Paltz campus,” Alvin Arnold, co-founder of the Swing Dance Club said. Arnold, a fourth-year education major, and Jill Exman, a fourth-year environmental and organizational biology major, started the New Paltz […]
Jackie Wolozin (Co-President): fourth-year, technical theatre major In her tenure on the New Paltz Slam Team, co-president Jackie Wolozin’s goals have shifted. Though she first joined with the ambitious intentions of becoming a great poet and she acknowledges her own improvement, her focus is on her teammates. “While good writing is very important to me, fostering the community and being an effective leader is just as important,” said Wolozin.“I feel that what I have to offer the team is administrative as well as poetic.” Her growth as a poet, despite no formal study of the craft, began with her own try-out as a first-year student. She said she considered that year to be a bit of a lucky break, considering the incredibly fierce competition brought on in the following […]
The book has closed on the SUNY New Paltz Women’s Soccer Team’s fall 2011 season. The Lady Hawks completed their run in the NCAA Div. III Tournament after a 1-0 loss to No. 1 Messiah College. A week before the loss to the No. 1 seed, the Hawks defeated No. 11 Lynchburg college after tying 0-0 in regulation and advancing on penalty kicks. The team then went on to beat Rowan University with a 2-1 overtime victory. “It was amazing,” Head Coach Colleen Bruley said. “I think after the Fredonia game the confidence kept building and building and every […]
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