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.

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.

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.

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.

A staple of my childhood was the Christmas movie "A Christmas Story. As I grew up in the South, I felt a special connection with the main character Ralphie who, for those sad souls who have not seen the film, wanted nothing more than for Santa to bring him a Red Ryder BB gun.

The third showing of Thursday Nite Live aired last Thursday to a full audience broadcasted from Dempster Hall. Aside from some overly long skits if TNL keeps their writing up they are going to return with a great spring season as well.

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.