How will you haunt Hofstra on Halloween?!

Each year around this time, Hofstra's campus comes alive with ghosts, goblins and some seriously creative Halloween costumes. As the Resident Director of the Netherlands complex, I feel especially lucky that I have the opportunity to view and judge the Hall Council-sponsored house decorating contest.

In a night of spooky fun, residents throughout the Netherlands create haunted mazes, brew creepy concoctions and put ramen noodles to some of the most oozy uses I've ever seen. Until this year, I never realized what a chicken I really am! For someone who really, really loves scary movies; I seriously squirmed in some of the house lounges during last Sunday's contest.

When it was all said and done, everyone had a great time. I was amazed at the level of interaction and creativity - but was pleased to announce that Delft House won the contest overall. Enjoy some pictures from our night of festivities and ask yourself ...

... How will you haunt Hofstra on Halloween?!

Registration Fiesta!

I know it was four years ago, but I can clearly remember the first time I tried to register by-myself as a freshman here at Hofstra. During Orientation the summer before your first semester, it's SO easy. Your adviser's there to recommend what to take, your OL is there to hook you up with the best possible times to take your classes and then you're set!

Not exactly how it worked my fall semester....

I totally didn't know it was coming up and then I heard about it walking through my building and it was late Sunday night and I hadn't even thought to talk to my adviser, and I was confused and couldn't read my DAR and then it was 12:01am and I HAD to get into something or else everything would be closed, and just like that, it was over, and I was like 'what just happened'!?!

Well it doesn't have to be like that any more! Why?.....REGISTRATION FIESTA!

It's a late night registration party where students with freshman class standing come and can talk to academic advisers as well as a student financial services rep right before they register for classes at midnight! It's the second annual Registration Fiesta (check out the pic from last year) and it's bound to be a good time, with good food and lots of friends and helping faces to make registration a much smoother and less stressful experience. Here are the specifics:
When: November 6th, 2011
Time: 10:30pm
Where: Netherlands Cafeteria
What to Bring?: Your lap top! So you can register with everyone else :)

Good luck everyone!

Go Pride!

Erica Serrazina (ARD Netherlands)

Delta Alpha Pi Bake Sale

Hi everyone!

The Delta Alphi Pi Bake Sale is today at 11am in the Atrium! Come on by and support your fellow Hofstra peers!

PARTY IN PINK ZUMBA!

What a better way to celebrate

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

than coming to the

PARTY IN PINK!

The Department of Recreation and Intramural Sports & Delta Phi Epsilon presents

Party in Pink ZUMBA!

Saturday, October 29th

from 2-3:30 pm in the

Hofstra Fitness Center.

Buy your tickets in advance at the Fitness Center ($3) or at the door ($5).

Zumba instructors Leah and Kelly will take you through an hour and a half of pure Zumba fun! Prizes and freebees will be given to all those who wear PINK!

All proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

For more info contact:

Jeanmarie jdoher9@pride.hofstra.edu

Leah leah.bank@gmail.com

Delta Alpha Pi Hofstra Chapter Bake Sale

Hi from Services for Students with Disabilities!

There will be a bake sale at the atrium tables tomorrow in the Student Center brought to you by Hofstra's Delta Alpha Pi Chapter. Stay tuned... we will post the exact time shortly...

Leadership in Action

SGA Retreat

The last few weeks have brought about tons of leadership development opportunities through OSLA! We had the SGA Retreat, October 15^th, during which I took 30 senators and delegates from the Student Government Association (SGA) away for an overnight retreat! Students started the weekend half asleep as we met at 7:30am on Saturday morning to take a 2-hour bus ride to Camp Woodstock in Woodstock Valley, Connecticut. Equipped with sleeping bags, notes for our goal-setting sessions, and plenty of chocolate and sugar to wake up and motivate the students, the weekend was bound to be exciting. New senators spoke with more confidence and knowledge than they had prior to the weekend and senior senators succeeded in empowering and mentoring some students with less experience. SGA and I spent the majority of that evening solving a convoluted case study detailing issues that SGA faces every week such as club accountability, finances, Senate attendance, and university initiatives. While tackling both internal and external issues, SGA worked for hours to come up with a mission and a common viewpoint that they are excited to return to campus and implement. After the case study, senators participated in round robin sessions, facilitated by members of Cabinet. Topics included professionalism, goal-setting and action plans, parliamentary procedure, club relations, finance overview, and a “getting to know you” activity. The rest of the retreat was full of community building including a campfire, archery, and boating. All in all, it was a great weekend – one in which students came back more connected to each other and more focused on important issues they plan to tackle this year. We look forward to next Fall’s retreat!

Student Leadership Conference

This past weekend was the Student Leadership Conference! Over 170 students registered for the conference, ranging from different affiliations around campus including Greeks, RA’s, Club leaders/members, OL’s, and more! Students enjoyed the keynote presenter, Jon Vroman who spoke to them about the importance of Living Life in the Front Row (photo attached)! Following the keynote was 16 break-out sessions facilitated by staff across the Division of Student Affairs. Participants picked whichever session appealed to them the most, and used it as a developmental opportunity to hone their skills. The Conference concluded with a short presentation from Alumni Sean Hutchinson who left students with a motivational message to take advantage of their time at Hofstra. Students enjoyed the experience, and they look forward to the Spring Leadership Conference, coming in March!

The Blue Leadership Series applications were given out for any student interested in pursuing further leadership development. The Program is being revamped and will launch February 2012. Applications are due December 5th to OSLA (260 SC).

Even Mattel Knows, Careers Start Early

In case you missed this post on The Career Center blog:

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop to a group of Hofstra first-years. Discussions centered on the importance of planning early when constructing a resume in preparation for future career goals. One student passed the comment, “I’m only a first-year student, and I have a couple years to figure out what I’m going to do with my life.” This comment, one we hear quite often in The Career Center, is what I like to call a MYTH! Career development and the preparation that goes into making sure you are the ideal candidate by the time you graduate does not happen overnight and must be worked on.

You are probably thinking, “What does this have to do with Mattel?” For those who don’t know, Mattel is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of toys, most famously Barbie. In my mail box, (yes I still get snail mail), was an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education about who else… Barbie. There in all of her glory was a picture of “Architect Barbie” from the new “I can be…” series of the famous doll. This doll is aimed to inspire children ages 3 to 11 years old about the possibility of a life as an architect. Mattel and the researchers working on this doll know the importance of inspiring children to investigate their career options early.

Let’s take a page from Mattel and follow in Barbie’s footsteps. It’s important to start thinking about your career development as soon as you can. I’m not saying that if you don’t figure it out by the age 3 then you’re doomed, but you should begin thinking about what you want to be post graduation as soon as you step in the door. You should push through the steps and work on your resume now, land that internship, and show the world you are a proud Hofstra graduate!

~Joseph Gebbie, Assistant Director