The Spirit Publishing Company

05/09/2018

by Anthony La Porta As a cab driver in New York City you are bound to cross crazy. Week in and week out of driving around The Rockaways, bizarre events always seem to happen. At 4am there is always the feeling you are bound to run into something, whether an overly intoxicated individual, a manic drug addict having withdrawals, or just someone normal heading to public transportation to get to work. [ 494 more words ]

by Anthony La Porta   As a cab driver in New York City you are bound to cross crazy. Week in and week out of driving around The Rockaways, bizarre events always seem to happen. At 4am there is…

03/22/2018

By Anthony Olskey Heading into the 2018 regular season both the Mets and the Yankees have a lot to prove to their fans. Last season the Mets suffered a lot of injuries and had a horrible season as a result. On the other hand the Yankees exceeded expectations and managed to make it as far as the ALCS where they lost to the Houston Astros, who went on to win the World Series. [ 566 more words ]

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02/22/2018

By Elizabeth Briguglio On Sunday, March 4th at the famed Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the 90th Academy Awards. To mark this historic anniversary, oscars.com has 90 stories from 90 years, a feature on the most memorable moments in Oscars history. From Marlon Brando refusing his award in 1972, to Jennifer Lawrence’s stage stumble in 2012, the site’s impressive archive is certainly worth a visit. [ 273 more words ]

https://sjcspiritblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/the-90th-academy-awards/

By Elizabeth Briguglio On Sunday, March 4th at the famed Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the 90th Academy Awards. To mark this historic anniversary, oscars.com has 90 sto…

02/22/2018

By Hailey Borrero After missing five games in the middle of the season, SJC Brooklyn men’s basketball senior captain Alec Willis returned in memorable fashion, dominating Mount Saint Vincent at The Hill Center on January 24 for a season-high 27 points on 9-for-17 shooting. The Bears fell behind by double-digits in the first half, but Willis finished a layup to cap off an 11-2 run bringing the gap down to 30-28 with 7:31 on the clock. [ 291 more words ]

By Hailey Borrero After missing five games in the middle of the season, SJC Brooklyn men’s basketball senior captain Alec Willis returned in memorable fashion, dominating Mount Saint Vincent at The…

02/21/2018

By Anthony Olskey The Philadelphia Eagles have defeated the New England Patriots 41 – 33 and won their first Super Bowl in franchise history. Minneapolis played host to Super Bowl LII, which saw the Philadelphia Eagles take on the New England Patriots in a game that left everyone including Tom Brady stunned. Entering the game on Sunday many football fans thought that the Eagles stood no chance of defeating the Patriots in the Super Bowl. [ 514 more words ]

By Anthony Olskey   The Philadelphia Eagles have defeated the New England Patriots 41 – 33 and won their first Super Bowl in franchise history. Minneapolis played host to Super Bowl LII, which…

01/08/2017

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Though he never lived there, Frederick Douglass and the city of Brooklyn engaged in a profound repartee in the decades leading up to the Civil War, the disagreements between the two parties revealing the backward views of a borough that was much less progressive than it liked to think. "Despite the…

10/13/2016

By Arianna Cardinale The McEntegart Library is the one of the main places on the Brooklyn campus students gather between classes. Yet beyond just laptops, DVD’s and books to check out, the library has a wealth of other resources available. In addition to a wide range of research databases, there are magazines and educational journals that can be read within the library. [ 278 more words ]

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10/13/2016

By Daniela Cardinale Patchett (left) joined by Sullivan (right) A wise mother once said, “None of it happened, and all of it’s true.” In mid-September, SJC’s Brooklyn campus hosted international best-selling author and independent bookseller Ann Patchett, who discussed Commonwealth, her latest novel. Held as part of SJC’s ongoing “Brooklyn Voices” series in partnership with Greenlight Bookstore, the conversation was also featured as a Brooklyn Book Festival event. [ 242 more words ]

http://sjcspirit.com/2016/10/13/ann-patchett-shares-commonwealth-at-sjc

05/14/2016

By: Adriana DiBenedetto Through the nerve-wracking process of selecting our year’s Valedictorian, narrowing down the list again and again and examining each eligible student’s academic career, we now know who will be representing our year. The SJC community would like to take this time to introduce our 2016 Valedictorian, Claudia Fernandes. Claudia is a Child Study major with a double major in Speech, has been an Orientation Team Leader for three years, has taken part in the SLE Program, and has been a member of the Child Study Club, the Speech Club, and Campus Ministry. [ 312 more words. ]

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By: Adriana DiBenedetto Through the nerve-wracking process of selecting our year’s Valedictorian, narrowing down the list again and again and examining each eligible student’s  academic career,  we…

05/14/2016

By: Urwah Ahmad The Professional Studies undergraduate Valedictorian is… Michael McGrann. He is graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Nursing. Michael had previously received his Bachelor of Arts in Fine and Studio Arts from Hunter College. He then went back to school at the age of twenty five to get his Associates of Applied Science in Nursing from Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing, where he was also part of the Honor Society. [ 360 more words. ]

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By: Urwah Ahmad The Professional Studies undergraduate Valedictorian is… Michael McGrann. He is graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Nursing. Michael had previously received his …

04/05/2016

By Michelle Darris As the third installment of the Spring 2016 Brooklyn Voices series, St. Joseph’s College and Greenlight Bookstore welcomed Ken Corbett to discuss A Murder Over A Girl, his newest novel. Leading the conversation with Corbett was Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and activist Tony Kushner. A Murder Over A Girl covers the 2008 murder of Larry King, a 15-year-old transgender teen. [ 346 more words. ]

http://sjcspirit.com/2016/04/05/novelist-ken-corbett-speaks-on-brooklyn-campus/

By Michelle Darris As the third installment of the Spring 2016 Brooklyn Voices series, St. Joseph’s College and Greenlight Bookstore welcomed Ken Corbett to discuss A Murder Over A Girl, his newest…

04/05/2016

By Arianna Cardinale The McEntegart Library is the one of the many places students gravitate towards when they are looking to do research or work on assignments in between classes. Yet, there are so many other things students do not know they have access to use at our library. I am giving you the inside scoop on things you did not know you could do at our library. [ 500 more words. ]

http://sjcspirit.com/2016/04/05/knowing-your-campus-things-you-did-not-know-you-could-do-at-mcentegart-library/

By Arianna Cardinale The McEntegart Library is the one of the many places students gravitate towards when they are looking to do research or work on assignments in between classes. Yet, there are s…