Musician of the Week: Kyle James Miller
YEAR: Third MAJOR: English/Creative Writing HOMETOWN: Altamont, N.Y. What’s your instrument of choice? Why? Guitar. It’s just the instrument I’m best at. But I […]
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Chomsky Coming to Campus
MIT linguist, political scholar and activist Noam Chomsky will be coming to campus on Sunday, Dec. 4 to give a lecture in honor of social historian Howard Zinn. Zinn, who passed away in January 2010, was well-known for his influential book, “A People’s History of the United States.” It told an alternative history about the United States, giving voice to marginalized populations including the […]
Farm Flooding Foils The Season
While the town, village and campus have all focused on recovering from Tropical Storm Irene, local New Paltz farms don’t even know where to begin. As of Sept. 4, local farms in New York lost a total of 140,000 acres and about $45 million in damage, according to The New York Times. Farms including Huguenot Street Farm, Taliaferro Farms and Springtown Sweetview Farm were all considerably hurt […]