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Underappreciated Historic Sites in Westchester

May 14, 2012

By Jennifer LaGrippo Westchester has a somewhat bad reputation. The suburban county is too often associated with snobs and materialistic morals; a shallow misinterpretation. What...

Mercy Students and The Pursuit of Happiness

May 14, 2012

By Jennifer LaGrippo The Declaration of Independence declares that we are all entitled to "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Well, according to the Center for Disease Control,...

Prone to Bad Luck: A Consumer Affair

May 14, 2012

By Carlene Richards It's three a.m. but a video game player is still up sitting in front of the television playing his video games. He reaches his desired level, but before he can save his...

A Story of Triumph

May 14, 2012

By Larryse Brown Martin Jack, a likable far-rockaway Queens native and junior at Mercy College is friendly and pleasant, even in his quietness. There's something genuinely positive in Jack....

Transitions for Veterans: Return to Home and Community

May 14, 2012

By John Ceravino Veterans return from wars with wounds: physical and emotion. And some feel they are not getting the assistance and aid they were promised. The government and Veterans Affairs...

Artist Shares His Hudson Sketches With Mercy College

May 14, 2012

Ed Oberhaus had been driving his wife Dorothy to work at Mercy College for the past 35 years. He always enjoyed the view of the Hudson River from the Dobbs Ferry campus, and one day it occurred to...

DiCarlo Leads Mavericks in Lacrosse, Ranked Among Nation’s Best

May 14, 2012

By A.J. Martelli Some think it's an easy job. Yet those are the ones that don't have balls zooming at them at over 100 mph. "Being a goalie may look easy from the sideline, but...

Breaking the Ice: Coming Out of My Shell

May 14, 2012

By A.J. Martelli Friday. 10:35 a.m. I sat in the barber chair watching the stylist clip my hair. I looked on as my long, golden locks of hair fell to the floor. I had already bought...

Ripple Effects of Arizona’s Immigration Law

May 14, 2012

By Larryse Brown In the state of Arizona police now have the right to search "suspected immigrants" questioning them about the legitimacy of their citizenship. There is nothing else that sets...

Former Gang Member hopes to be an Aspiring Psychologist Shedeiky Hamilton

May 14, 2012

By Shedeiky Hamilton Spending five years in high school, missing prison life because of luck, Mercy College student Nathaniel Hawthorne decided to turn his life around when gang members almost...

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