Author: The Griffin
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CHC Friday Schedule Change Put on Hold
By Joe Shuron The Chestnut Hill College administration has agreed to hold off on the plan to increase Friday classes and change common time to Tuesday and Thursday. After weeks of faculty and administration going back and forth on a myriad of issues including scheduling and dealing out space constraints due to losing Fournier to…
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Curb Your Enthusiasm Review: Season 12
By Joe Shuron By the end of the first episode “Atlanta”, Larry David let the audience know he was not afraid of ending “Curb Your Enthusiasm” like his co-created hit sitcom “Seinfeld”, with the main character ending up jail. The finale titled “No Lessons Learned” has almost the exact same plotline as the poorly received “Seinfeld”…
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Holocaust Survivor Shares Message of Peace and Love
By Joe Shuron Marion Blumenthal Lazan is constantly visiting schools and other locations in the U.S. and elsewhere to share her story of surviving the Holocaust because she wants to “prevent our past from becoming your future.” Blumenthal Lazan joined CHC via Zoom on April 10 and described her experience in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp…
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Marshall Manlove Hypnotizes CHC
By Joe Shuron Hypnotist Marshall Manlove hypnotized students in the East Parlor last night. Volunteers from the crowd joined Manlove on stage to go under a trance. Once under the volunteers found themselves being lead through a Zoo, reacting to the smells and changing weather. In a room that was 70 degrees, people on stage believed it…
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Marshall Manlove Hypnotizes CHC
By Joe Shuron Hypnotist Marshall Manlove hypnotized students in the East Parlor last night. Volunteers from the crowd joined Manlove on stage to go under a trance. Once under the volunteers found themselves being lead through a Zoo, reacting to the smells and changing weather. In a room that was 70 degrees, people on stage believed it…
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Holocaust Survivor Shares Message of Peace and Love
By Joe Shuron Marion Blumenthal Lazan is constantly visiting schools and other locations in the U.S. and elsewhere to share her story of surviving the Holocaust because she wants to “prevent our past from becoming your future.” Blumenthal Lazan joined CHC via Zoom on April 10 and described her experience in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp…
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My Top Spots in Chestnut Hill
By Bridie McCann I’ve had the chance to explore the neighborhood and see some new places since moving off campus near Chestnut Hill. Depending on how you’re feeling, Chestnut Hill’s strip of shops and eateries offers a wide variety of sections. Chestnut Hill provides everything you might want for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, or perhaps…
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My Top Spots in Chestnut Hill
By Bridie McCann I’ve had the chance to explore the neighborhood and see some new places since moving off campus near Chestnut Hill. Depending on how you’re feeling, Chestnut Hill’s strip of shops and eateries offers a wide variety of sections. Chestnut Hill provides everything you might want for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, or perhaps…
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Do Fitness Apps Actually Help Athletes?
By RJ Rybicki Do fitness tracking apps really help the athlete with progression towards being their best selves. I believe that fitness tracking apps are not the best thing for athletes. Fitness apps fail to motivate users and it’ easy to get bored very easily compared to writing down your daily workouts or even eating.…
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Women’s Sports are Finally Getting Recognition
By Bridie Mccann As a women’s student athlete, Chestnut Hill College has fulfilled all of my expectations. After only a few months here, the school has already given me new insights, one of which is a more accepting viewpoint on women’s sports. Women’s sports as a whole has surged in popularity over the last few…
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Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender
By Elijah Williams Netflix’s new television show Avatar: The Last Airbender had a few doubts when the show first was announced when Netflix said that the original creators of Avatar would not be part of the live action version. Nobody has forgotten how bad the 2010 film of The Last Airbender was. Besides that, the…
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Opinion: Civilians pay the price in Israel-Palestine war
By Bailey Lowe The ongoing genocide of Palestinians has shown the world that humanity has not evolved as much as we believe. Civilians are left with a feeling of powerlessness. Our tax money goes to an army that blows up civilians — 70 percent of whom are women and children, as per UN Women. To see…