Hempstead, NY Vol.76 | Issue 12
The Hofstra
Chronicle
Thursday
December 2, 2010
Keeping the Hofstra Community informed since 1935
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By Constantine Caviris SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Last year’s decision to termi nate the football program was controversial, but the athletic programs, as well as the academ ics, at Hofstra University seem to !"#$%&'(#)'"*# At the time, it was a very unpop ular move made by President Stuart Rabinowitz and Hofstra’s +%,-$#%.#/-012""1*# “In the moment, did we get some very unpleasant email, especially from former football players? And were we called a bunch of names and stuff like that? Yes, and that wasn’t pleas ,'2*#+02#3,1#&2#24"#-&(42#24&'(#2%# do for the university? Absolutely,” 1,&$#5-*#6"-7,'#8*#+"-9&'"-:# provost and senior vice president
for academic affairs at Hofstra ;'&<"-1&2=* After the decision, Rabinowitz released a statement that said that The University will “reinvest those resources into new aca demic programs and needbased 1>4%9,-14&?1*@#A4&9"#1%7"#%.#24"# money is being used for scholar ships, it will take time for all of it to be reallocated; football players who chose to stay at Hofstra are having their scholarships honored !=#24"#1>4%%9*# BA"#12&99#4,<"#,#10!12,'2&,9# number of those students [football players] that are working their way through the university,” said +"-9&'"-*##B81#24,2#7%'"=#!">%7"1# available, we’re using it for other 1>4%9,-14&?1*#C""$D!,1"$#,'$# 7"-&2#1>4%9,-14&?1*@# Hofstra began increasing its
emphasis on academics by creat &'(#24"#6%'%-1#E%99"("#&'#FGGH*# Since then, Hofstra’s rankings climbed up to a “tier 1” school, number 139 overall, according to ;*I*#C"31#,'$#A%-9$#J"?%-2*#K2#&1# ,91%#7%-"#$&.)>092#2%#!"#,$7&22"$# 2%#6%.12-,*#L<"-#24"#?,12#$">,$":# the required GPAs and SAT scores of incoming students have -&1"'* “Since President Rabinowitz 4,1#!""'#&'#%.)>"#3"M<"#-,&1"$# the SATs for our students by more than a hundred points,” Berliner 1,&$*#B/4"#,<"-,("#I8/#34"'# [Rabinowitz began] was 1060, it’s HHNF#24&1#=",-*#A4"'#4"#O!"(,'P# the GPA, the average GPA, was F*Q#.%-#24"#120$"'21#>%7&'(#&'*# K21#R*S#.%-#24"#120$"'21#>%7&'(#&'# '%3*@ Although there is an extra
emphasis on academics, prospec tive students are still interested in /4"#;'&<"-1&2=M1#1?%-21#?-%(-,71*# “They always ask about athlet ics,” said Janine McElroy, assis 2,'2#$",'#%.#,$7&11&%'#,2#6%.12-,*# “They always want to know what division we are and they always want to know if we have club and &'2-,70-,9#1?%-21*@# A4&9"#6%.12-,#;'&<"-1&2=#>%'2&' ues its quest for higher academic standards, its athletic programs 3&99#'%2#!"#9".2#!"4&'$*#T,'=#%.# the programs are thriving, such as the Men’s Lacrosse team and the A%7"'M1#I%>>"-#2",7*# “Athletics is an integral part of the growth of any university and Hofstra especially,” said Stephen 8*#U%->4%<:#,11%>&,2"#$&-">2%-# of athletics for communication ,2#6%.12-,*#B/4"#?%?09,-&2=#24,2#
athletics bring to a university goes hand in hand with whatever you’re $%&'(#,2#/4"#;'&<"-1&2=*@ Hofstra continues to strive for 4&(4"-#,>,$"7&>#12,'$,-$1*#/4"# school has also continued its rich tradition in athletics despite the termination of the football ?-%(-,7*#81#24"#1>4%%9#(-%31:# academics and athletics will go together in order to maintain the ?-%7&'"'>"#%.#6%.12-,#;'&<"-1&2=*# BA4,2#3"M-"#2-=&'(#2%#)'$#&1# 24"#!"12#%.#!%24#3%-9$1*#A"M-"# continuing our push on academic standards and we’ve made the adjustments in athletics,” said +"-9&'"-*#B+02#,99#%.#&2:#&'#2"-71#%.# the students that [athletics] attract, their GPAs, the other students that are interested, I think works for The University at this point in our "V&12"'>"*@
!"#$%&'#()*&%+,"'#-%&'*+.&&%"(*/+/-%0#+*+/1%"-/&* By Jessica Lewis CWAI#W5K/LJ
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The calendar for the 20122013 school year is currently in ques 2&%'*#I20$"'21#,'$#.,>092=#3"-"# given the opportunity to participate in a survey regarding the current school calendar, and any changes 24"=#3%09$#9&X"#2%#1""#7,$"*# BA"#Y012#)'&14"$#>%'$0>2&'(#,# survey for both students and facul ty about the calendar, we got over
2,000 responses and the surveys are completed but they are being analyzed by institutional research there was a lot of comments as well as data so it is currently being analyzed by the institutional research,” said Dean of Students, Z"2"-#[&!7,'*#BL'>"#24"#,',9= sis is completed it is going to be shared with the calendar com mittee who is then going to make 1%7"#-">%77"'$,2&%'1*#/4"#23%# big issues looked at are holiday
1>4"$09"1:#,'$#1?-&'(#!-",X*@ One of the proposals for the new calendar would be not clos ing The University for religious 4%9&$,=1*#BK2#&1#-"1?">2&'(#,99# %!1"-<,'>"1#!=#4%'%-&'(#'%'"*# If you start honoring some, and not others you start to alien ,2"#?"%?9":@#[&!7,'#1,&$*#B81# The University has gotten more diverse with time it is important we take in account students from vari %01#-"9&(&%'1#,'$#>0920-"1*@