Spring Break
Hunter's Model UN team is riding high this spring. In March, the team, essentially a Political Science class taught by Professor Pamela Falk, won two awards in the Second Annual CUNY Regional Conference hosted by the Macaulay Honors College. The winning streak continued as the team won top three awards at the National Model UN Conference during spring break.
In a decision extremely unpopular with many New Yorkers, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted last month to increase public transportation fares even as the MTA cuts back on bus and train services. The response from Hunter community is unequivocal: students say the plan "sucks.
Since he began his campaign for the American presidency, President Barack Obama has strongly encouraged young people to engage in local, regional, and national service projects. Even during the economic crisis, our President's visible commitment to volunteerism has remained strong.
After an eleven-year hiatus, Hunter College can boast about another Goldwater Scholar. Yelena Leitman, a junior biology major in the Thomas Hunter Honors program, recently won the Senior-level Barry M. Goldwater scholarship, an award "established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M.
Every time a Hunter student or faculty wins a grant, the department of Communications takes great pains to showcase their achievements on the front page of the college's website. Many students and visitors have astutely noted that a large number of featured individuals are affiliated with the science departments.
17 Again is the kind of movie you want to like. Zac Efron took much of the boy-next-door thing he had going on in the High School Musical trilogy, and applied it to his first non-singing lead role, as Mike, a talented high school basketball player, who reappears decades later as a 30-something-year-old in an adolescent's body.
After the very first day of an unspecified semester, I became so frustrated with a teacher that I wanted to tear my hair out. The teacher was a PhD student who happened to teach a subject that I don't have any natural aptitude for, so I became very concerned that she took it personally when I didn't know the answer (which, I might add, was often).
On Thursday, April 16, John Madden decided enough was enough; it was time to retire. He stepped down from the broadcast booth after 30 years of announcing football games. Family played a large role in Madden's departure, and he is leaving the game to spend more time with them.