On Friday nights, the streets in Jerusalem are silent. Few cars travel the road as the city prepares to observe the Sabbath. Instead, many people walk with their families to their synagogues to pray. However, on Friday, Jan. 27, a 21-year-old Palestinian gunman drove to a synagogue and disturbed this peaceful scene. As worshippers finished […]
Hunter College’s most affordable dorm option, Brookdale Campus, also known as the current home for many Macaulay Honors and Hunter College students, is being demolished to make way for SPARC Kips Bay: a “first of its kind,” 1.6 billion dollar life sciences campus. The new building is slated to house “Hunter’s School of Nursing and […]
From a young age, most of us are taken to the doctor’s office. Whether it be for a cold, cough, fever or the flu, we have all been treated by a physician. Unfortunately, it gets harder to seek the same level of treatment as the years pass by due to our existing physician shortage problem. […]
The growth and expansion of digital news media has led to widespread debate regarding the future of print publications, particularly that of pop culture magazines. Glossy issues of Entertainment Weekly were once the primary source for lifestyle and celebrity news. Yet, after three decades on newsstands, the American entertainment magazine announced in February of this […]
Banana Bonanza! Macaulay Honors College hosted its annual Halloween party on Friday, Oct. 28 at the Macaulay building on W 67th St. The event, which had either been canceled or had its capacity heavily restricted for the past few years due to COVID-19 was finally back in full swing. All CUNY students were allowed to […]
Congratulations to Alaina DiSalvo: winner of the Halloween Scary Story Contest, co-hosted by the Macaulay Messenger and Macaulay Scribe! DiSalvo wrote a review on Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman, in which she discusses the ties between witches and women. We at the Messenger are proud to publish her work, […]
Evan Mandery’s book, Poison Ivy, was published on Oct. 25, one week from when this interview took place. A professor of criminal justice at John Jay College, Mandery routinely teaches Macaulay John Jay students. As a student in one of his courses titled “Intellectual Foundations I: What is the Common Good?,” I sat down with […]
The ever-widening gap between the elites and masses continues to cause problems for us all. Where oil barons profit from burning fossil fuels that lead to rising coastlines and then safely retreat to their in-land luxury penthouses once regions become uninhabitable, the poor struggle to recover life earnings from tropical storms. While the vast majority […]
CUNY Macaulay Honors College students have long regarded “A Night at the Museum” as the highlight of the Arts in New York City Seminar. After being canceled for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Macaulay was finally able to celebrate a triumphant return to the Brooklyn Museum last month. Freshmen, sophomores and […]
Leaves are falling, rain is pouring and the list of upcoming entertainment is growing. Here is what to watch, read, listen and see during Fall 2022. Television ABBOTT ELEMENTARY, SEASON TWO – This fall, students are returning, not just to CUNY schools, but also to Philadelphia’s Willard Abbott Elementary School. Abbott Elementary is in its […]
