An Award Winning Newspaper Volume 69, Issue 10 www.liupostpioneer.com April 5, 2017 Senior Events Preview NICOLE CURCIO tasks all at the same time,” concierge, where tickets are NEWS EDITOR Michael Berthel, associate being sold. Seniors and their dean of students, said. guest may purchase tickets From 11 a.m. to 3 Students of all years together but pay separately p.m. “The Grad Fair offers will line up outside of the if desired. The formal will graduates an opportunity to Winnick Student Center on include a dinner, open pick up their cap and gown, Wednesday, April 26 at 9:30 bar and DJ. “I’m excited for take senior photos, order p.m. for Midnight Breakfast. senior formal because it is our a class ring, As graduation An open buffet, featuring last celebration together as approaches for the class of pancakes, waffles, french toast, undergraduates,” Alyssa Navas, 2017, planned, end-of- hash browns, bacon, sausage, a senior dance major said. s e m e s t e r senior events fruits and pastries will be Senior events will will bring them together available while students listen continue on May 1 for senior for one last time before to music played by a dj in the paint night. Tickets are $10 and commencement. April is main dining area. Students limited one per LIU senior ID. filled with senior events, will be able to sign up for From 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. soon- including a graduation fair, free massages in the Long to-be graduates will enjoy cap decorating, paint night Island room as a relaxer in paint night at the End Zone and formal, all leading preparation for finals week. in the Hillwood Commons. up to the commencement A senior formal will According to Berthel, wine will ceremony on May 5. be held on April 27 at Jericho be an option for all seniors at The senior events Terrace from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. least 21 years of age. On May will be held throughout the Buses will depart campus 2, a cap decorating event will second half of April. On at 6 p.m. from Hillwood take place in the End Zone for April 18 and 19, a “grad fair” Commons. Tickets are $60 those interested in making will be held in the Hillwood and guests are $75. Each their graduation cap unique. Commons from and take care senior may bring one guest, At 8 p.m., the of other graduation related according to the campus night before graduation, Continued on page 3 Students Lose Sleep Over Side Door Alarm KRISTINA HUDERSKI The alarm is very loud and Samantha Negron, disturbed. It’s affecting my FEATURES EDITOR if students keep the doors a senior broadcasting major sleep and concentration propped open throughout who resides in Brookville, greatly,” she said. Last year, the office the night, residents who live said, “It’s getting out of Breana Rowe, a junior of campus life installed an close by are woken up or hand with the side door. public relations major, who alarm system connected cannot sleep. Many students I’m constantly woken up also resides in Brookville, said, to the four side doors of in Brookville leave the side in the middle of the night “I hear it all the time, at night Brookville Hall. The alarm doors propped open because by the alarm going off. The like at 3 a.m.” Rowe said she’s goes off between the hours they do not want to walk to door never gets closed all lucky because she is a heavy of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. if the the main entrance at the of the way and I have to go sleeper so it does not wake her doors are opened. The alarm front of the building. downstairs to close it in the up as much as other students. repeats, “Warning, warning, On Sunday, March middle of the night.” Negron What annoys Rowe the most you have violated an area of 26, a resident placed a sign said she spoke with both the is the people who bang on the protection. Violation security on a dorm room window CLC, who is the person in dorm windows closest to the system. The authorities directly above a side door charge of Brookville hall, and side doors asking for residents have been notified. Leave asking residents to keep the the hall’s security, and both to open the door for them. immediately.” side door closed. Another sign told her they are taking care Representatives from the Although this alarm was placed on the side door of it. Negron has yet to see any office of campus life have yet KRISTINA HUDERSKI is intended to provide safety closest to the chapel on March changes. “I’m just frustrated. to respond to inquiries about for Brookville’s residents, it 27, again asking residents to I pay a lot of money to live in the ongoing issue. has also caused concerns. keep the side door closed. a room where I’m constantly 2 BOARD OF EDITORS Upcoming Events: Caroline Ryan Thomas Gillen Immigration Panel to Take Co-Editors-In-Chief Nicole Curcio News Editor Place at Tilles Center Jada Butler Assistant News Editor CAROLINE RYAN The speakers on the panel will include CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Murtzaza Hussain, a journalist, who has Kristina Huderski been on CNN, BBC, NPR and the Intercept Features Editor covering the recent immigration order and Alec Matuszak A panel on immigration will be held issues pertaining to Muslim Americans; Arts & Entertainment Editor on Wednesday, April 12, between 12:30-2 Susan Gottehrer, the director of the Nassau in the Patrons Lounge at the Tilles Center. County Chapter of the ACLU and an adjunct Ruhi Gandhi Topics will include immigration, DACA professor at LIU Post who teaches a graduate Assistant Arts & Entertainment (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), course on radical social movements, Laura Editor a U.S. immigration policyn started by the Lemus, special projects coordinator and Shelby Townsend Obama administration in June 2012 that Maryann Slutsky, executive director from Sports Editor allows certain immigrants who entered the Long Island Wins, will talk about DACA, Paul Whitbeck country as minors to receive a renewable ICE raid, rapid response network and know Layout Editor two-year period of deferred action from your rights training. deportation and eligibility for a work permit. Shaireen Rasheed, a professor Rebecca Kane Andi Silverman Other topics will include sanctuary of philosophical foundations and Layout Staff spaces and local activism (where students multiculturalism, encourages all faculty and have the opportunity to become engaged in student organizations to attend. “If you are Paola Guzman organizations that better inform them on an international student who has questions Head Copyeditor immigration issues affecting them at local, you might want to attend this,” she said. “For Ashley Bowden national and global levels.) By participating in those of you who want to get involved at the Assistant Copy Editor organizations like the ACLU, Immigrant Rights local level in organizations like the ACLU, Sarah Fiore and Long Island Wins, students can make their Long Island Wins and others, representatives Promotions Manager voices heard on immigration issues. from the mentioned organizations and more will be there,” Rasheed said. 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All materials The Pioneer, Hillwood Commons, 2nd floor, Long Island Univer- in The Pioneer are protected by United States copyright law and sity, LIU Post Campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, New may not be reproduced, distributed, tra nsmitted, displayed, pub- York,11548; [email protected]. lished or broadcast without prior written permission of The Pioneer. April 5, 2017 NEWS 3 University Updates Wifi ALEC MATUSZAK design major Thomas Farrell uses ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR the Wi-Fi quite often in Hillwood Commons. He has noticed that “the Reliable wireless internet Wi-Fi strength varies in several access on campus is crucial for locations around the school.” “In students. It helps them complete the library, the Wi-Fi is not bad their work while they are between at all. When you get to Hillwood classes, in the dorms, or on other Commons, the Wi-Fi isn't that parts of the campus. It’s also used strong,” Farrell said. Despite the to leisurely watch Netflix in between shortcomings with connection classes. strength, the difficulty connecting In the past, some students to the internet has not affected have expressed frustration with the Farrell’s ability to get his work done. performance of the wireless internet “As long as I know where the strong on campus. The strength of the areas are…then I’ll be able to work,” connection in many areas is poor, he said. Farrell notes that the Wi-Fi which forces students to complete connection is often stronger in the their work somewhere that might morning, when there is less traffic.