Archive for 2024

The bathroom door on the third-floor of Thomas Hunter.
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Queer Student Union Revives Gender Neutral Bathroom Dilemma

For almost 11 years, Hunter students have advocated for all-gender bathroom access on campus and things may finally change, according to the Queer Student Union. At the start of 2024 spring semester, e-board members of the Queer Student Union began to release the locations of the all-gender bathrooms as more […]

The Shikari Team at a SACC event this semester (Courtesy of Salina Qadri)
Culture / Student Life

Hunter College Shikari Represents South Asian Diversity in Dance

In her early years at Hunter, Taniya Bhambra, a senior majoring in Human Biology, found a familiar community within Hunter’s South Asian Culture Club, or SACC. The club frequently held events and forged close friendships amongst members with similar cultural backgrounds. But one vital component of South Asian culture was […]

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Do Not Allow the NYPD on CCNY Campus, Says CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment

  Students from City College, part of the City University of New York, set up an encampment on their campus on Thursday, April 25, joining fellow students from Columbia University, New York University, and other college campuses across the nation to ask their administration to divest from Israel and protest […]

Students talking during a Spill Ur Guts session hosted by QSU.
Culture / Student Life

Spill Ur Guts: Where Hunter Students Can Speak

On a recent weekday in Thomas Hunter Hall 105, fingers interlaced, twisted, and untangled themselves. Toes thumped against the green carpet and knees bounced up and down. Cookie crumbs tumbled to the ground and steam protruded from a water kettle.  The words that came out of the students’ were like […]

Hunter College MFA Alum Wins Documentary Film Award
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Hunter College MFA Alum Wins Documentary Film Award

Deep in the vast mountain range of China’s Loess Plateau, Yehui Zhao found herself aboard a small tractor, hitchhiking toward what she hoped would be the remains of her great-grandfather’s now empty village.  It was 2022, and Zhao, a filmmaker, was navigating with information garnered only from word of mouth; […]