By Lia Hauser After criticizing his opponent at the first presidential debate on Tuesday September 29th for wearing “the largest mask you’ve ever seen,” President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19. Trump’s public appearances sans-mask have sparked controversy consistently throughout the pandemic that has overtaken life in the United States. Forbes has broken down a definitive timeline […]
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Accountability in Quarantine
By Dylan Senkiw Across many social media platforms, we are seeing posts on how to be productive during quarantine—build a schedule, don’t procrastinate, and make your bed every morning. These suggestions make sense and are probably effective, assuming you get out of bed in the first place. Since we are mostly confined to our apartments […]
Pandemic Pen-pals
By Siddrah Alhindi Social-distancing, a measure taken to ensure the minimization of the Coronavirus. This act has separated us from our loved ones, friends, colleagues, and pretty much anyone that does not live in the same household as us. It is the least we can do as average citizens who aren’t medically certified to save […]
History Among the Stars
By Urooj Khan On February 24th, 2020, a pioneering mathematician who paved the way for women to travel to space found her own space amongst the stars. She broke so much more than the physical barrier between our atmosphere and space. She passed away peacefully at 101 in her retirement home in Newport News, Virginia. […]
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Makes Social Distancing More Bearable
By Lauryn Andrews If you look closely, you’ll notice that we aren’t standing 6 feet apart. If, like me, you are at home for the foreseeable future due to the spread of COVID-19, you may be looking for an escape from the monotony of self-quarantine. Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which launched on March 20th, […]
Cultivating Connection: What It Means To Be a Peer Mentor at Macaulay
By Victoria McGrath When I think back to my freshman orientation at Lehman College, I hazily recall working collaboratively with my peers on a hot summer day; however, I remember more strongly the emotions that I had that day. I felt optimistic about making friends and embarking on a new, exciting chapter of my life, […]
CUNY ASRC Building Gives Insight into the Future of Nanoscience
This January, CCNY students enrolled in the Nanomaterials class were taken on a tour of the Adavanced Science and Research Center (ASRC). Though the ASRC building is one of the new buildings on the CCNY campus, it is not in fact a CCNY building. The center is an overall CUNY building that other universities in the state have […]
Macaulay Author Series with Alexander Chee: A Recap
Early February kicked off Macaulay’s Author Series, with a discussion between The Queen of the Night author Alexander Chee and New York Magazine‘s Boris Kachka. Chee’s novel, a work of historical fiction set in nineteenth-century France, tells the tale of an opera singer with a mysterious past. The novel had been receiving rave reviews in advance of its […]
Baruch College, One of “Top 25 Schools for Entrepreneurship”
Baruch College was ranked 6th on the 2016 Top Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship list by The Princeton Review. This is the eighth consecutive year that Baruch was included in either or both undergraduate and graduate lists. The Zicklin Graduate School of Business was ranked 9th on the Graduate list. Between May and August of 2015, The Princeton Review […]