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Student attendees and the BSA executive board at the club’s first open-house event.
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Community on Campus: Built By Students, For Students

Student-led clubs have gotten creative in fostering a sense of community on Hunter College campus, a major commuter school. As the school welcomed its largest incoming freshman class in Hunter’s history in the fall of 2023, the majority of the students were commuters, according to the Student Affairs Department. Most […]

Hunter’s Silence on FAFSA Delays Leaves Students Uncertain
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Hunter’s Silence on FAFSA Delays Leaves Students Uncertain

Screens across Hunter showcase information about the FAFSA’s update and available filing workshops. (Photo by Laila Gad) A line trails out of the financial aid office, filled with students anxiously waiting to speak with a counselor about their tuition balances barring them from class registration. For almost half of CUNY […]

Students Question if Campus Starbucks Should Remain Open
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Students Question if Campus Starbucks Should Remain Open

Students who support Palestinian rights said there is no need for the college to host a Starbucks on campus and the space should instead be used as a much-needed student lounge. When the Israel-Hamas war started on October 7, many former Starbucks patrons aligned themselves with the Palestinians as various […]

Students at the November 16 Hunter Senate meeting display signs condemning the Hunter Administration's censorship
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Hunter Community Takes a Stand Against Canceled Film Screening

  When a Hunter professor learned that the college’s president canceled her film screening, she appealed to student protestors, Hunter organizers, and the senate to save it. Tami Gold, 74, scheduled a screening of Daniel J. Chalfen’s award-winning documentary “Israelism” to provide an opportunity for dialogue on Palestine and Israel […]

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.
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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’ […]