Articles by Katherine Speller

Women’s Basketball Falls in Semifinals

March 1, 2012 Katherine Speller 0

Despite a slow start to this season, the New Paltz Women’s Basketball team made strides to catch up and regain their footing in game-play leading up to their 2012 State University of New York Athletic Conference match up against SUNY Oneonta on Friday. Though the first four games of the season left the team with a string of November losses, the fifth game against Stevens Institute of Technology provided the Lady Hawks with a 62-50 win. The Stevens win provided the team with a confidence boost after the early season’s struggle, allowing them to pick up steam for the remainder of the season. The Jan. 4 match against Eastern Connecticut opened the floodgates as the […]

A Young Hero in New Paltz

March 1, 2012 Katherine Speller 0

First-year undeclared student Jacob Yoder recalls his first trip to Swaziland where he and others in attendance biked across the small nation in southern Africa, as a lifetime of experience. One memory that stands out to Yoder happened when he first rode across the country with others. The cyclists were riding by a school just as the students were being let out and the kids, barefoot and giggling, ran after the bikers to race them home. That experience stays with Yoder as he plans his next trip to the country. “It made me realize that happiness has no direct correlation with material possessions,” Yoder said, commenting on the touching simplicity of the experience and his time meeting […]