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.

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.

Baldwin -Neil Armstrong, 27, of Uniondale, and Chadd Trent, 21, of Freeport, entered a residence on Milburn Avenue through a basement window and stole computer hardware/software and video games on Nov. 30, according to police. Great Neck -Charles Barnwell, 26, of St.

After losing two games in Pennsylvania last month, the Pride Ice Hockey team's chances of making its first trip to nationals is a long shot. But there is still hope. A team that is self-proclaimed "full of heart" must refocus its efforts on the Metropolitan Collegiate Hockey Conference, where a deep playoff run might get them a second chance at ACHA #1 SUNY Albany and increase their portfolio for nationals.

When Hofstra head women's basketball coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey was asked during the preseason to name a CAA team that will be tougher to beat on the court than its status on paper would imply, she immediately responded with Lea Henry's Georgia State squad.

High Fidelity, the new musical based on the novel and film of the same name, falls into the category of "when bad books happen to good shows." It is little more than a series of great rock music (all written for the stage) tied together in a sub-par book about a character that nobody cares about.