Newsday, Long Island's only daily newspaper, may no longer be available on campus for free. The paper, delivered for years every morning at close to a dozen campus locations as part of its college readership program, is negotiating with the University this week over how to keep the Long Island daily on its blue newsstands, despite tremendous financial obstacles facing the media industry as a whole.

When the Army Corps of Engineers started work on a $5.7 million project in January to dredge Jones Inlet in Point Lookout, civic and government leaders said the undertaking was just the opening salvo in a long-term effort to combat coastal erosion and protect property.

Chronicle: How did you get started performing? Rachael Yamagata: I had kind of written songs and played piano since I was twelve. My first performing experience was in my junior year at Northwestern. I joined band in Chicago, and I was with them for 6 years.

In Bits: Girl 1: Ok, name one place you really want to have sex. Girl 2: The back of a pick-up truck. Girl 3 (later): A chapel. Girl 2: In a house of God?! Girl 3: What, it has really great acoustics in there! In Library: Girl: S**t! I got Diana a Christmas present, and she's Jewish.

AFC East Breakdown: Just Win, Baby 1) Jets (8-5) Fire Mangini? That seems to be the $64,000 question. The reality is that the Jets head coach is loved by team owner Woody Johnson and GM Mike Tannenbaum, and they've already guaranteed Mangini a job through next year.

Rivalry games are known by sports not just for their tradition, but their unpredictability and usually their closer-than-expected results. Our men's basketball team's game against rival Stony Brook was no different. Despite finding themselves up by as many as sixteen points, they were only able to fell the Suffolk-based Sea Wolves by only five points.

Unless there's some way I'm allowed to keep writing after I graduate, this will likely be my last column for the Hofstra Chronicle. To those of you that have followed my articles since I began writing in March, I appreciate your support. I'm not really sure how many of you do in fact read my stories and analyses, but I'm fairly certain of one thing - Eric Mangini is probably not one of my readers.

Barbed-wire fences still surround Weeb Ewbank Hall, which once was a bustling center of activity as the Jets headquarters before the NFL franchise moved out in August. Vacant parking lots and padlocks on the doors have turned the north campus-based building into a dormant facility.

The relationship between humans and animals has always been important to Ralph Acampora, an associate professor in the philosophy department. Now, his studies and writing on the subject have earned him an award from the Humane Society of the United States.

As junior finance major Jon Knorr sat in his calculus class on a rainy Wednesday night, his 2004 Nissan Maxima caught fire in the Breslin commuter parking lot. Witnesses and firefighters responding to the scene said smoke billowed out from the hood before they saw fire.

Meena Bose, Chair of the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, teamed up with Congressional Quarterly and The New York Times and wrote "The New York Times on the Presidency: 1853-2008." It is the first in a series of reference books.

Well, kids, it's that time of the year again! No, I'm not talking about Christmahanukwanzastice (that's Christmas, Hannukkah, Kwanzaa and the Winter Solstice all rolled into one big holiday); I'm talking about my end-of-the-semester observations. Last year, a reader had the audacity to comment on my hatred of University squirrels.