This year, CCNY announced the debut of ScareFest, an interactive “haunted house”-inspired walking tour of the infamous tunnels that run underneath campus. The tunnels – originally used for quick and convenient passage between the North Academic Center, Harris Hall, and Compton-Goethals – have remained dormant for quite some time, but will be brought to life […]
Gabriela Geselowitz (Hunter ’13), a double Theatre and Journalism major, undertook a rare and ambitious senior thesis project. Her production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with a steampunk twist, generated waves amongst Macaulay Hunter students, with sold out shows playing at Macaulay Central on April 15th, 16th, 17th, 21st, and 22nd at Macaulay Central. So […]
The Macaulay at Hunter College Senior Research Forum was held on October 17 at the Roosevelt House, and it was a time for the senior class to get together and present their current and past research projects. The evening started out with hors d’oeuvres and brief mingling out on the balcony of the Freedom room […]
Known for her late night sex show Sexually Speaking, frank yet respectful psychosexual therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer visited Hunter College at the Brookdale Campus late Tuesday, October 23 to speak to a large enraptured crowd. Many came to hear her speak and to ask questions — so many that audience members sat clustered on the […]
Madison Square Park became the center of an event called the Free University. Affiliated with the Occupy movement, the classes, both taught and attended by the public, were intended to be an “experiment in radical education,” according to the event’s website. Over 160 classes were taught and many focused on social and economic justice, like “Class Struggle, Socialism, and […]
The “Best of CUFF” is coming to Macaulay in order to generate interest in the March 2012 edition of the City University Film Festival (CUFF). The three year old festival will kick off a new event on Friday, December 2 from 6-8pm; the evening will feature past winners and other notable entries. Among the films […]
Children growing up with Willy Wonka all have the same eventual anguish by the end of the movie. The world of pure imagination will stay as pure imagination. There are no edible daffodils, no candy gardens, and there is definitely no chocolate river in reality. The Chocolate Room in Willy Wonka’s factory will remain sealed […]
