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Virtual Commencement Announced For Seniors

Virtual Commencement Announced For Seniors

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff April 7, 2020

 President of Mercy College, Timothy Hall, announced via email on April 1 that while the college has been closely monitoring the current COVID-19 situation, it has been decided to cancel all events...

If I Die Before I Wake

If I Die Before I Wake

Valerie Lopez, Associate Editor April 6, 2020

COVID-19 has really done a number on all of us, with the confirmed deaths in the United States alone being 10,377 and counting. Every day, Governor Andrew Cuomo gives us a new briefing on the news in New...

NCAA, Mercy College Grant Eligibility To Spring Athletes

NCAA, Mercy College Grant Eligibility To Spring Athletes

Michael Panteleo and Ellis Joshua April 6, 2020

Spring athletes will get an additional season to live their athletic dreams after the 2020 season was suspended.  On March 30, The NCAA  announced that it will be giving eligibility relief...

Coronavirus May Force America Into Long Lasting Recession

Coronavirus May Force America Into Long Lasting Recession

Amber Perez and Valerie Lopez April 5, 2020

The coronavirus may have changed the world permanently, as Americans prepare for what might be a financial crisis that will take years to battle back from. Many companies are being forced to temporarily...

Passion or Prison? Mercy College Celebrates Music Freedom Day

Passion or Prison? Mercy College Celebrates Music Freedom Day

Julianna Ilise, Impact Staff April 1, 2020

The reward for some music artists in certain countries is not always money or fame. Sometimes it can be a prison cell.  In Malaysia, heavy metal bands are accused of Satanism. In China. Tibetan...

PTSD Survivor Finds Art To Overcome

PTSD Survivor Finds Art To Overcome

Alexis Lynch, Social Media Editor March 25, 2020

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder speaker Amy Oestreicher may be the strongest of them all. On March 3, Mercy College had a speaker come and talk to students about mental health and PTSD. Oestreicher...

Resident Assistants Face COVID-19 Scare On Front Lines

Resident Assistants Face COVID-19 Scare On Front Lines

Estefania Salinas, Impact Staff March 25, 2020

COVID-19 has been a growing outbreak since early January, sending many to leave their campuses and into their homes. But for the Residential Assistances of Mercy College, the process has been nothing short...

Bernie Sanders and the S Word

Bernie Sanders and the ‘S’ Word

Steven Keehner, Managing Editor March 24, 2020

On Nov. 9, 1989, the world played witness to one of the most iconic moments in the twentieth century: the fall of the Berlin Wall. Dividing the city for nearly three decades, the destruction of the wall...

COVID-19 Forces Mercy To Close Campus; Dorms To Close Next Week

COVID-19 Forces Mercy To Close Campus; Dorms To Close Next Week

Alexis Lynch, Social Media Editor March 21, 2020
Before Mercy announced their closing, students had taken action by making a petition on Change.org that has about 2,000 supporters titled “Close Mercy College Campuses” and it was targeted to Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, and the United States Department of Health.
Corona Steals the Luck from the Irish

Corona Steals the Luck from the Irish

Francesca Simone, Copy Editor March 21, 2020
The cancellation of such a beloved day in Irish culture hasn’t just put a damper on the country of Ireland alone.
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