Keith Cerrato, a Hofstra senior and member of the University's roller hockey team died Friday night, after a car hit him while he was walking only blocks from campus. According to police reports, Cerrato, 24, of Garden City, N.Y., was walking north across Fulton Avenue near Meadowbrook Lane at around 10:20 p.

Amid so much controversy, the Ohio State Buckeyes and Florida Gators will contest one another for the right to be crowned college football national champions in the Tostitos BCS Championship Game. The two teams earned the right to face one another in the championship through the BCS system, or Bowl Championship Series system, for which the game is named.

Last Saturday evening, fans of the Goo Goo Dolls lined up and waited for hours outside the Hammerstein Ballroom, anxiously awaiting their performance. As cruel as these conditions were, once the concert started, it was obvious that the time they had spent in the cold was well worth it.

Imagine waking up in your bed at home to drive through an hour of traffic, sit through classes, then drive another hour to your off-campus job, and back home again. Then, if you want to attend the soccer game or hang with some friends on campus you would have to make the trip again.

Donald Rumsfeld forgot to close the door behind him when he left the Bush Administration. Now the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is following him out. Bolton announced Monday he would not seek confirmation by the senate after his temporary appointment as ambassador expires at the end of the congressional session.

Stress might just be more common than a winter cold. In one way or another each student is affected by it. Aside from the expected overflow of assignments, lack of sleep, and pressure to fit in, stress can take form in other less obvious situations as well.

MUSIC 10. Arctic Monkeys - The hype for their first album seemed overbearing before it was even released, but even though the inevitable letdown came, it wasn't as severe as might have been expected. Either way, Whatever You Say I Am.. stands as one of the best British albums of the decade.

Friday 12/8 Dashboard Confessional & Brand New @ Madison Square Garden - 7:30 p.m. - $26.50 The Pernice Brothers @ Mercury Lounge - 9 p.m. - $15 Kayo Dot @ Tonic - 8 p.m. - $12 Ricky Martin @ Roseland Ballroom - $102 Saturday 12/9 We Are Scientists & The Oxford Collapse @ NorthSix - 8 p.

Beyond the film itself, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer boasts both an extensive back-story and, as of 2006, the highest price tag ever for a German film. Numerous high profile directors have been attached to direct this adaptation, including the late Stanley Kubrick, who called the novel off which it is based unfilmable.

According to environmental experts, if people do not start taking care of the planet today, there will be no one left in the future to use it. On Nov. 30, the Sierra Club of Long Island, the Progressive Student Union and the Student's Organization for Animal Rights welcomed environmentalist Tina Weishaus to the University.

In the vast ocean of jobs, one job engine seeks to give applicants more control: SimplyHired.com. This internet job engine, a relatively new company started in March 2005, by internet entrepreneur Gautam Godhwani who says his aim is to make the job search better.

Sandwiched between the constant traffic of the Hempstead Turnpike, the noise of the football fields, and hidden behind the University Club, the University Bird Sanctuary has taken the punishment for its neighbors. The Progressive Students Union (PSU) and the Student Organization for Animal Rights (SOAR) at Hofstra have recently been working on a project to clean and renovate the sanctuary.