Category: News Releases

NEW PALTZ — The “conscience clauses” of the First Amendment affirm the right to free speech and religious freedom. Many scholars believe that these rights were understood by the founders to be mutually reinforcing. However, there have been many recent circumstances – often highly publicized — in which they have…

NEW PALTZ — Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Bernard Stein will visit SUNY New Paltz on Thursday, October 19 to talk with journalism students about the importance of community press. Stein has been visiting various journalism programs in New York state as the first Center for Community Journalism Journalist in Residence. The…

NEW PALTZ — Two recent graduates of SUNY New Paltz will return to their alma mater on Thursday, October 19 for a presentation of their award-winning films. Claudia Amaya, a 1997 graduate, and Yat-Hong Chow, a member of the New Paltz Class of 1996, each earned a bachelor’s degree in radio/television…

NEW PALTZ — The Women’s Studies Program at SUNY New Paltz will host its 23rd annual conference on Saturday, Oct. 28. The conference entitled “Through the Looking Glass: Feminism and Popular Culture” will explore the complexity of popular culture’s relationship to female autonomy and power. “While popular culture has often been the…

NEW PALTZ — Four SUNY New Paltz political science professors will discuss, debate and analyze this fall’s presidential and U.S. Senate election races in a forum to be held on Wednesday, October 11. The forum will begin at 4 p.m. in the university’s Lecture Center 112. It will be free and…

NEW PALTZ — The end of the first U.S. presidential debate between Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush will be the beginning of an influential project for SUNY New Paltz associate professor Mary L. Kahl. The faculty member of the New Paltz Communication & Media Department will conduct…

NEW PALTZ — “Making Tracks in the New Millennium” is the theme of Homecoming/Alumni Weekend 2000, to be held on the SUNY New Paltz campus October 13 through 15. This year’s event will incorporate Alumni Reunion Weekend and Parents Weekend, and include activities for alumni, students, and the parents and…

NEW PALTZ — Stefan Schlüter, Germany’s deputy consul general in New York City, will be speaking October 11 on the SUNY New Paltz campus to commemorate the 10th anniversary of German reunification. This event, which will begin at 7 p.m. in Lecture Center 100, is titled “Germany Ten Years after Unification:…

NEW PALTZ — A need for social change drove muckraking journalists’ efforts in the early years of the 20th century, but SUNY New Paltz Professor Robert Miraldi argues in a new book that these investigative reporters’ eagerness to expose wrongdoing often came from their strong spiritual values. The book, The Muckrakers:…