2018 has been a strong year for films, including coming-of-age drama Call Me by Your Name and the peculiar, but beautifully crafted, The Shape of Water. This year’s Oscars are also full of firsts. We have director Jordan Peele, the first African American to be nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for…
For years, scientists have known that Earth is something special. Its distance from the sun allows for the perfect amount of light and heat to enter the atmosphere, giving us the perfect temperature and energy to sustain life. While the debate about the origin of said life still continues, no one can deny that Earth…
An untrained observer, upon visiting Queens College for the first time, may notice a few defining quirks: its location some ways away from mass transit, its clashing buildings (found in every style from Spanish architecture to 1980s window-less caves lined with carpet and linoleum tile), and its surprisingly green-for-a-CUNY campus. What goes unseen is the…
As a part of the Macaulay Honors core curriculum, students participate in four special seminar courses that help them understand New York City through unique perspectives involving arts, the sciences, and unique trips. According to the Macaulay Honors website, these seminars “feature primary research, classroom learning and hands-on experiences that use New York City as…
The Health Sciences Career Fair took place at the Macaulay Honors College building on Friday, Dec. 1. For the first hour of the career fair, the college hosted a Public Health Panel titled, “Educate, Heal, and Get Hired!” in the Screening Room. At the panel, Macaulay students heard Mary Pearl (Dean of Macaulay Honors College),…
All Macaulay Honors students at Hunter are required to take a minimum of four honors courses in addition to the general Macaulay seminars. While there are often mixed reviews about the seminars themselves considering the fact that not all four topics appeal to every student, there is more positive reception to the honors designated courses…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales have hit historical highs, breaking the brick-and-mortar retail tradition. Instead, it has resulted in a surging online-exclusive revenue. For retail chains, this drastic switch from in-store hurdling to online searching and purchasing has led to significantly less in-store traffic. The 2017 shopping year has illustrated the “sad” and “dead”…
Hawkins, Indiana just got a whole lot darker. The Duffer Brothers “pull no punches” with the second season of their hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, and our favorite gang of misfits has returned from the aftermath of the heart-stopping events from last season. Stranger Things 2 picks up a year later with the town still…
The golden snitch is feet away from you. Upon seeing it, you lunge forward on your broomstick. The golden snitch is inches away from you.Your fingers graze its smooth, golden surface. Then you fall onto a bed of vibrant green grass-just like Harry Potter did in his first Quidditch match. But once you realize that…
Julia Cho’s Office Hour is a poignant depiction of gun control, Asian American race relations, and mental health. Shown in the Public Theatre (closing night is on December 3), the play is a response to the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting and certainly succeeds in recreating an unnerving atmosphere. The plot involves an adjunct English Professor…
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