THE HOFSTRA
CHRONICLE
HEMPSTEAD, NY VOLUME 89 ISSUE 2
TUESDAY February 14, 2023
KEEPING THE HOFSTRA COMMUNITY INFORMED SINCE 1935
OPINION
The ‘perfect’ partner doesn’t exist
Photo courtesy of Mindy Sabiston There are 7.89 billion people in the world, what makes you think you’ve found your soulmate?
By Anna DeGoede M ANAG I N G E D I TO R
It’s February, which means that almost everything feels like it’s centered around love. But behind the sweeping, intoxicating romances of Valentine-
themed advertisements and extravagant rose bouquets hides an ugly truth: most of the people who write something along the lines of “you’re the only one for me” in their cards are lying to you.
NEWS
Potential new guest policy for dorms in fall 2023 By Megan Naftali N EWS ED ITO R
If a residential student wants to bring a guest to their dorm, a resident safety representative (RSR) is required to sign the guest in, scan their ID and keep their card until the guest signs out. The policy was changed temporarily for the winter 2023 intersession due to RSRs not working during the break. However, RSRs are back and so is the old way of signing a guest in, but residential students may be seeing a similar policy in the future.
photo ID (non-residential student’s [Hofstra University] ID, driver’s license from a U.S. state, Federal or state ID card, Military ID card [or] Passport),” the email read. Once a student submitted a guest application form during the intersession, a senior staff member in the RSR program reviewed it and made sure the guest had a proper ID. Once that was verified, they sent the information to card services, which created an access card for the host and their guest to pick up, according to McGuire.
take a photo of the ID and give it back to the guest,” McGuire said. “That is one way in which we could do it, but it’s not the only way in which we could do it. We just don’t know for fall 2023 what the ultimate process for guest management will be.” During the intersession, Residence Life used a home-grown system for the guest application, but in the future, they plan to use StarRez, a self-proclaimed “platform for thriving residential communities,” according to the StarRez website. Residence Life hoped to use
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FEATURES
This Hofstra Life: Luke Farrell ing attitude. As a native of Huntington, Long Island, Farrell grew up knowing about Hofstra University, having competed in swim meets here at an early age. Being familiar with the campus made Hofstra stand out to Farrell when he completed the college decision Photo courtesy of Luke Farrell process, and he has made the Luke Farrell, a senior psychology and most of his time here since. mass media studies major, is a familiar face around Hofstra’s campus. Early in his college career, Farrell planned on pursuing By Julian Rocha the psychology and counseling FEATURE S E D I TO R dual-degree program. However, If you’ve walked around camwhen New York state changed pus, odds are you’ve crossed the requirements for the propaths with Luke Farrell. He’s gram, Hofstra dropped it from often found giving a tour of its offerings. Farrell decided to campus or engaging in concontinue with psychology but versation with peers or faculty added the mass media studies members. A senior majoring major to learn more about the in psychology and mass media communications field. studies, Farrell is known for his outgoing demeanor and uplift-
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Photo courtesy of StarRez The Hofstra University Office of Residence Life hopes to implement a pre-registration guest policy using StarRez for the fall 2023 semester.
An email sent out on Dec. 17, 2022, from Beth McGuire, the executive director of campus living, informed residents that from Dec. 19 to Jan. 29, RSRs would not be on duty in the residential buildings and in turn residents would need to fill out a guest application days in advance. “Residential students must fill out the guest application form [five] business days before the guest’s anticipated arrival. Residential hosts are required to upload a photo of their guest’s
At the current moment, a new policy is not set in stone, but the Office of Residence Life is looking to move to pre-registration for the fall 2023 semester, but there is a possibility it will look different than the intersession policy. “Students could pre-register their guests and then when they arrive at the booth they would say ‘I already registered this person, and then we would make sure to collect the ID of the guest. We wouldn’t hold IDs anymore. We would actually
StarRez during the intersession; however, the RSR booths were not equipped with the necessary hardware at the time. “We need iPads that will have a camera so that we can take photos of IDs instead of collecting IDs,” McGuire said. “We’re putting all of those budget proposals together. They’re in play right now, but we need things like privacy screens and security blocks for the iPads and different things like that.”
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