The Hunter administration has decided to take action in response to growing tension between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli forces on campus.
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The Hunter administration has decided to take action in response to growing tension between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli forces on campus.
Students skipped class for the benefit of mankind late last month to give blood at a two-day collection organized by Hunter's Blue and White Society in conjunction with the New York Blood Center. The blood drive took place on Hunter West's third floor, where each student is said to have saved three lives.
The recent earthquake-tsunami disaster in Japan has left Hunter students and staff eager to help. Since the catastrophe on March 11, Hunter has poured efforts into both helping the Japanese community in school and sending relief to thousands of people in Japan who have been affected.
On March 30, students, professors, and renowned journalists alike gathered in Hunter College’s Lang Recital Hall to celebrate extraordinary investigative journalism and honor the recipients of the 2010 Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism and Cartooning with a Conscience.
“I have always believed that the visits of men who have made their mark in the world become object lessons to the young and ambitious.” These words were written ninety-nine years ago in the autobiography of Dr. Thomas Hunter. The inspiration he speaks of can be found in the man who wrote them, the man who gave our school its name.
Come next winter, Hunter College students can expect improved study spaces and decreased check out times at Hunter’s central library branch. The third floor of Hunter College’s Wexler Library will undergo a large-scale renovation starting this June. The renovation will continue into the summer, and is anticipated to be completed in January of 2012.
According to a recent talk given at Hunter, Mayor Bloomberg and City University of New York have joined forces to increase English Language proficiency in the five boroughs and help adult immigrants better integrate into their new home.
A decade in the making, students at Queensborough and Queens College have begun to use CUNYfirst, a new, innovative registration system. A plan to replace E-sims began in the early 2000’s in response to laws regulating personal security.
The recent death of Osama bin Laden has generated a mixed response from Hunter students.
Everyone tenses as the lights are switched off and the professor starts playing our first film. On the classroom projector, a woman is howling in pleasure and pain as another woman enters her. She orgasms, emits a loud guttural moan. I am fascinated. I look around to see the other students’ reactions: Some are avidly watching, and a few are turned away in mild shock or disgust. Enter “Sex Wars: Feminist Perspectives on Pornography,” a class taught at Hunter...
"Hallelujah" is a tune that many people nowadays associate with that dreadlock-sporting contestant from American Idol, rather than Leonard Cohen, who originally wrote “Hallelujah,” and Jeff Buckley, who made the song famous. Still, much credit is deserved to the contestant as his performance resulted in Buckley's version of the song debuting at number one that week on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart. Eleven years after his tragic drowning in 1997, Buckley’s resurfaced song shot past gold and platinum, and...
Under the glass ceiling of the Skylight Room on Mar. 9 at the CUNY Graduate Center, Ana Bozicevic, Gregory Laynor, Astrid Lorange and Christopher Nealon contributed to a discussion regarding queer theory.
In light of International Women’s Month, Hunter College students have recently been engaged in discussions on how domestic violence affects their lives and the resources available to them on and around campus.
This past March 8, New York State Supreme Court Judge Emily Jane Goodman reluctantly announced that the long-disputed reduction of childcare space at Hunter College is not within the court’s legal power to overturn. Though Goodman dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds, she criticized Hunter’s decision to reduce childcare space, calling it both “arbitrary” and “capricious.”
