Articles written by: Stella Chu

Stella is a third-year Film & Media student at Hunter College. She is also the General Manager of WHCS, the school's official radio station. In her free time she enjoys films and discovering new recipes to cook. Find her on Instagram, @stellarainechu.

How Hunter’s Unsung Heroes Keep the School Clean
Multimedia / News

How Hunter’s Unsung Heroes Keep the School Clean

The Athenian’s Stella Chu explores the intricacies of some of Hunter’s most overlooked staff: the Facilities Office. Through speaking to supervisors and laborers and getting a look at the work for herself, Chu shows Hunter how the 2,000,000-square-foot campus is maintained each day and highlights the people who make it […]

Notes exchanged on the bathroom stall wall on the North Building fifth floor girls’ bathroom. (Top) Absolutely devastated. I’m graduating and feel like a failure. (Left) I know just how you feel. Everyday I wake up in pain and agony just wondering what the hell I’m going to do. (Right) Same… Did I make a mistake choosing passion over practicality? Maybe I was too stubborn.
News / Student Life

How Hunter Students Can Prepare Themselves for Life After Graduation

On the wall of a bathroom stall in the fifth floor girls’ bathroom reads a message: Absolutely devastated. I’m graduating and feel like a failure.  Alongside it, someone else agrees: Same… Did I make a mistake choosing passion over practicality? Maybe I was too stubborn.  This sentiment goes beyond girls’ […]

USG Hosts Halloween Bop-a-Thon in Collaboration with Band-of-Parents
News

USG Hosts Halloween Bop-a-Thon in Collaboration with Band-of-Parents

 This Halloween, Hunter Undergraduate Student Government hosted a Bop-a-Thon to fundraise for Band-of-Parents, a non-profit that funds research and clinical trials for children with neuroblastoma.  Due to the high cost of research and small population of children diagnosed, research for neuroblastoma has moved slowly. But Band-of-Parents is looking to change […]

Students Don’t Have to Hate the Hunter Experience
Culture / Student Life

Students Don’t Have to Hate the Hunter Experience

There’s a big problem with CUNY’s biggest school: it seems like no one wants to be here.  There seems to be a general disdain for Hunter among the student body — for its campus, faculty, students, food and social life, to name a few. Common complaints concern the leaky, peeling […]