The Hunter Envoy

The Battle for the CLC Continues

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

On the afternoon of Feb. 11, with the streets still blanketed from the previous day's blizzard, a student-run committee defending the Children's Learning Center (CLC), took Hunter College to court. Led by student-parent activists Angela Molfetas and Luz Schreiber, the committee challenged the school's decision to remove room 209 in the Hunter North building from the allocated CLC facilities.

Pride Regained in Time

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

"Everything's going to be alright" is the ultimate message of Manhattan Class Company Theater's production of The Pride, a new play by Alexi Kaye Campbell. The plot revolves around three friends and a love that traverses two time periods. The play begins in London, 1958.

BioShock 2

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Often, with a sequel, there are certain expectations: Either it will be absolutely awful or, more rarely, it will be absolutely amazing. BioShock 2 actually goes in a third direction. It is an almost perfect extension of the first game.

The atmosphere is faithfully reproduced down to the leaky walls and occasionally desolate hallways.

NYC Fashion Week, From Africa to Haiti

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The word model is derived from the Latin root modellus, which describes a human's typical approach in coping with reality. Models are able to illustrate and define the segment of reality that they are representing. In the case of fashion models, the same rules apply.

October Country

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Let's take it on faith that October Country, an intimate documentary of a working class family by Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri, is indeed heartfelt. The filmmakers certainly make a case, plundering the cinematic bag o' tricks for a surplus of hokey effects.

The Homesteader

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

D.W. Griffith fathered the complex cinematic narrative. That's film 101. But his role in precipitating the production of American "race movies"-films made by and mostly for black audiences-goes practically unmentioned. (The whole history of "race movies," for that matter, receives little attention: Decades of extra-Hollywood black cinema have been erased from common memory.

Finding Community Four Years Too Late

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

As a general rule, I do not discuss the contents of meetings of The Envoy. Or, to put it another way, I try to keep to a sort of, "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" maxim. This one time I will make an exception. At a recent meeting, an idea was pitched on the difficulties of finding community at Hunter College, considering it is a commuter school.

Paranoia of the Uptight Heterosexual Male

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

What is the military's preoccupation with trying to sniff out all homosexual soldiers? What's with the military's obsessive drag show of finding all the non-heterosexuals within the ranks of the theoretically macho armed forces? Aren't we living in the most progressive era of our nation's history? Won't we be the ones telling our kids that we elected the nation's first black president? That's in case you actually voted for Barack Obama.

Tuning In and Tuning Out Simultaneously

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

I am standing primly behind the Express Lane in the supermarket where I work weekends, when an all-too-familiar type of customer saunters over to my lane. I do not generalize my customers, but working at the supermarket for the past twenty months has exposed me to certain customers who have similar, annoying characteristics: They all have an unseemly attraction to using their Bluetooths and iPhones in public places.

From the Courts of Brooklyn

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

When Vaughn Mason of the John Jay Bloodhounds sank a three pointer with three seconds remaining in the first half of his team's face off with the Hunter College Hawks on Feb. 13, he brought his team within two points, with the score 41-39.

Both teams retired to their locker rooms.

Hawks at CTC Championships

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

On Saturday, Feb. 13, the men's and women's indoor track and field teams competed at the CTC Championships in Middletown, Connecticut at Wesleyan College. The Hawks not only faced their regular CUNYAC and Division III competitors, but Division I competitors as well.

Solid Regular Season for Hawks

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The business end of the season is about to get underway for the Hunter men's basketball team. They finished the regular season with a solid 8-5 CUNYAC record (12-13 overall), accomplishing their pre-season goal of a top four finish. A home first round playoff game awaits them.