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After a 90 point effort on Monday, the Hofstra women's basketball team returned home with a grinding 65-51 victory over the University of Hartford for its eighth consecutive win.
Just hours after the women's squad took down Hartford, the Hofstra University men's basketball team ground out a win of its own, defeating Holy Cross 71-56 for its second straight victory.
ALBANY, NY- The Hofstra University women's basketball team looked to stay hot in the frigid state capital in search of its seventh consecutive win against the Great Danes of the University at Albany.
What is the purpose of a movie? Is it meant to be a visual novel, opening the minds of it's viewers through interesting plot progression and deep characters, or can it merely be a sound and light show entertaining its viewers with innovative score and art direction? This was the question I kept asking myself while watching Tron: Legacy. Can style be so good that it trumps substance?
The Hofstra University men's basketball team looked to extend its four game win streak against former St. John's head coach Mike Jarvis' Florida Atlantic University on Saturday, December 11.
Sophomore students received an email on Monday, December 6 stating that first-year seminars would now be open to them for registration. First-year students have priority in registering for these classes, and those classes have already been opened for registration for first-years for a month.
Shakespeare, traditionally, tends to get lost in translation when moved to the big screen. The Tempest, the latest of the famous playwright's works to be transmitted as a film, remains fairly eloquent.
You might be familiar with Burger King's notorious commercials featuring an actual burger "king" with a large plastic royal head. If you haven't, keep your eyes open for Hofstra's own King d'Hofstra.
On the Unispan:
Girl: For my Secret Santa, I got her weed and Adderol.
One of the most interesting parts of being a freshman is probably the amount of time you spend with your friends.
In The Nassau Chronicle's first year, issue number 9 had "Christmas Greetings" written across the top of the paper and several pieces about Christmas events and articles that were Christmas-themed. The focus on a single holiday changed to "Season's Greetings" the following year with fewer and fewer mentions of Christmas as time went on.
When one commits a crime, they are sometimes imprisoned as a form of punishment. A certain amount of time is set for the perpetrator to be held in a prison, based on the severity of their crime. If, and when, a person who has been held in prison is finally released, this is supposed to be the end of their punishment. But is this really the end? In everyday life, regular citizens continue to judge former inmates for their past behaviors, to the point where it hinders the option to turn their life around for the better. It is not the sentence alone that acts as a hindrance to this possibility.
Sitting down to write this editorial I had every intention of writing about the things I will miss at Hofstra while being abroad this spring. Though, as I was generating my list it began to take a turn.
Now that it's after Thanksgiving, we can officially start thinking about Christmas. But it is such a loaded word in today's society. Christmas could be seen as an overly commercialized holiday with people lining up at three or four the morning after Thanksgiving just to snag super deals for gifts. Stores put up their Christmas displays as they are taking down their Halloween ones, sometimes even before, in the hopes of creating more shopping days and maybe even a frenzy.
You've finished your finals, you're back home, and everything seems great. The only bad news is all of your favorites shows are on hiatus and all that's playing are repeats. Now, what do you do? Simple: Just check out the new shows coming in January.
It is not very often that the phrase "Ballet thriller" is followed closely with "Masked serial killer" but Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan is just that. Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers, a supporting member of a major New York City ballet company.
For an unknowing bystander, the ground floor of Terminal 5 may have seemed more like a dance party than a concert on Saturday night. Minus the Bear played on December 4th to a full house, the majority of which was engaged in some sort of frenetic dance-jump hybrid.
As a senior, I can say that I have had a great educational experience at Hofstra. I have a lot of respect for the school's faculty and administration, and their work in increasing the school's academic standards and national ranking. However, I'm offended by the premise of their "Senior Class Challenge," in which each senior is asked to donate $20.11 to the senior class' funds.
As this is the last issue of The Hofstra Chronicle of, not only the semester, but of the year 2010, I felt that we should make sure we ran the obligatory "best of the year" list. The following is a list of, in this assistant editor's humble opinion, the best albums of the year 2010.
