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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 […]

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 […]

Sip Sip Away: Hunter’s New Bubble Tea Spot
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Sip Sip Away: Hunter’s New Bubble Tea Spot

There’s a new drink option available at the cafeteria in the West Building: bubble tea. Some students said they are open to trying the bubble tea, while others were rather indifferent to the opening of the new drink spot on Tuesday, April 9. The bubble tea is part of a […]

Ramadan Mubarak! Breaking Fast at Hunter College
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Ramadan Mubarak! Breaking Fast at Hunter College

  Despite over 330 attendees cramming into just two rooms on the Hunter College campus, both were silent at sunset as rows of people kneeled to the ground in prayer, or Maghrib as it is known in Islam. While a significant amount of the Hunter student population is Muslim, finding […]

Hunter College Welcomes Two-Time Academy Award Nominee Rick Goldsmith
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Hunter College Welcomes Two-Time Academy Award Nominee Rick Goldsmith

Most of the seats at Hunter College’s Lang Hall were full last Tuesday afternoon for a screening of two-time Academy Award nominee Rick Goldsmith’s latest film, “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink,” which takes a close look at a hedge fund that is plundering newspapers nationwide and the […]