By Angelica Beneke Staff Writer This week’s meme is totally safe to inhale. But consider this a warning against going to a paint shop and just inhaling paint. That is bad for you. With that,...

By Emily BarnesASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR“Children chase after life, even if that chase might end up killing them,” Valeria Luiselli writes in her book, “Tell Me How It Ends.”Written...

By Kirstyn Brendlen STAFF WRITER Hofstra health professions professor, David Hymowitz, out of the classroom on a Monday evening at Farmingdale High School unzipped a small blue pouch. “The problem...

By Megan Byrd special to the chronicle I was 15, my grandmother’s friend Flo grasped both my shoulders, looked me in the eyes and told me, “I love big women.” It was so abrupt, intense...

By Kirstyn Brendlen STAFF WRITER We stood next to a line of old Israeli tanks in the Golan Heights – lined up along the Syrian border in a false show of force, creating the illusion of troops...

By Nailah Andre and Mack Caldwell STAFF WRITER AND FEATURES EDITOR *Certain names have been changed in regard to the interviewee’s safety. There is a popular saying in black feminist circles:...

By Helen Porskova SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Veronica Toone, a host at High Hopes, faced me with an easy grin in the very same backyard where people gather in between sets every Sunday night, chattering...

By Kirstyn Brendlen STAFF WRITER Gate 38 to Tel Aviv at Newark Liberty Airport has a particleboard wall around it. It’s the first time I’ve ever flown by myself, and I’m standing on...

By Angelica Beneke SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE This week’s chosen Hofstra meme is what I’ll call, “The Fire Drill Meme.” The original poster (who I will call OP from here on out)...

By Robert Kinnaird Special to the Chronicle Nicholas Locke posted this provocative image on the Facebook page “Hofstra Students for Memeingful Discussion,” and it instantly struck a chord...

By Emily Barnes ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR “I will be the first African American woman to win an Oscar for directing,” Raven Cordice vehemently stated without any room for hesitation. “I...

By Sarah Hanlon SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE For most college students, if given the choice between dressing on-trend for class or getting an extra fifteen minutes of sleep in the morning, sleep will most...