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Room selection process frustrates some students
This year's room selection process has undergone some major changes. Instead of being a one-day process, it is now taking place over the course of an entire week, from Monday, April 20 to Friday, April 25.
Dominic Petruzzeli, director of Residence Life, said he feels a week-long room selection is more beneficial to everyone in the long run.…
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Televison goes wired
Just as the Internet has developed legitimacy over the years, the activities created through it have also become validated. As a result, Web series have become one of today's most popular entertainment forms.
The popularity of Web series first swelled during the 2007-08 Writers' Strike.…
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Hall of Fame St. John's basketball coach Lou Carnesecca talks hoops recruits and New York's team
The Torch: Do you miss coaching?
Looie: No, but I have a good reason. I was there 22 years. I left with a good taste. I got burnt out, and I got a lot done. After 22 years, it was time for me to go.
Dean Smith and John Wooden still have offices at North Carolina and UCLA and give advice to Roy Williams and Ben Howland.…
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FeaturedSJU reveals commencement speaker for Queens campusRwandan Genocide survivor and author Immaculée Ilibagiza will deliver the commencement address at this year's graduation on the Queens campus, University officials announced yesterday. Ilibagiza is the author of the New York Times best-selling autobiography, Left to Tell, which chronicles her 91 days spent in a bathroom with seven other women to escape the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.Has Twitter become as big a phenomenon as Facebook?When senior Andrew Conti first came to St. John's in 2005, Facebook was the obvious social networking site of choice for most college students. Four years later, though, a slew of new networking sites have appeared on the Internet, with Twitter leading the pack - so much so that it has emerged as one of Conti's favorite new services.Odds without endsA call to students, faculty and journalists to continue to keep the University in checkWhen I began my tenure as Editor-in-Chief as a sophomore in Spring 2007, the University was reeling from one of the most controversial decisions it had made in recent history - a controversy that, two years later, half the current undergraduate student body likely has never heard about.From right to leftLooie puts basketball's future in perspectiveI had it all planned. The few and proud who put themselves through the weekly reading of the words in this space know that I have been saying the same thing, in different ways, for weeks. Norm Roberts and Lance Stephenson have been the protagonists of the story I've been trying to tell for a while now.Scene and heardClassical coldnessGossip-we're all guilty of it-intentionally or not. While in real life, gossiping can be hurtful, let's face it-it's also addictively fun. But the characters on my favorite TV show, Gossip Girl, take talking about each other to a whole new level, and I have to admit, I love every second of it.Administration goes survey happy on student e-mailsEvery student at St. John's can attest to the constant flow of surveys and University e-mails that seem to clutter up their inboxes on a daily basis. On one hand, the University e-mailing system provides a convenient way for the school to stay in contact with their students.Running for a causeSenior Andrew Conde is up for a major challenge: he, along with senior Sean McGrath and recent graduate Rory Quinn, are preparing to run in the Long Island Marathon on May 3. The race begins in Nassau County on Charles Lindbergh Blvd. in Uniondale and ends at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. |
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