THE HOFSTRA
HEMPSTEAD, NY VOLUME 88 ISSUE 1
CHRONICLE
TUESDAY September 13, 2022
KEEPING THE HOFSTRA COMMUNITY INFORMED SINCE 1935.
Britain mourns Queen Elizabeth II “Queen Elizabeth was a life well lived. A promise with destiny kept and she is mourned most deeply in her passing,” said King Charles III after addressing the nation. “I pay tribute to my mother’s memory, and I honor her life of service. I know that her death brings great sadness to so many of you, and I share that sense of loss, beyond measure, with you all.” Most Hofstra students were in class when the queen’s death was anPhoto courtesy of Wikipedia nounced. The United Kingdom’s longest-reigning Jasmine Truong, a senior monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, died on double major in anthropolThursday, Sept. 8. ogy and history, was in a history class when someBy Ahjané Forbes one shared the news. NEW S E D I TO R “We kind of saw it coming, Queen Elizabeth II, the United but it wasn’t something we were Kingdom’s longest reigning ready for,” Truong said. monarch, died Thursday, Sept. Monitoring live updates from 8, at the age of 96. Ascending to The New York Times and CNN, the throne after her father King Lizzy Tauro, whose full first George VI died in Feb. 1952, name is Elizabeth – a name she the queen served for over 70 feels honors the late queen – is a years, meeting with 15 British close follower of the royal famprime ministers and 14 Ameriily and was stunned when she can presidents.
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found out. “When we got the notification that she died, I was just kind of shocked because she’s always been in my life,” Tauro said. “She’s been in all of our lives for so long, and it was just weird.” Some Hofstra professors expressed different feelings about the queen, the British empire and the monarchy. Paula Uruburu, a professor of English and film studies, is half Irish and acknowledged the queen’s accomplishments but reflected on Britain’s history of imperialism. “I have mixed feelings about the empire, but I always thought she was an amazing individual,” Uruburu said. “The idea that she even became the queen was under such almost incomprehensible circumstances.” With the loss of a public figure that has affected everyone in various ways, a counseling professional explains the importance of talking about your feelings during this time. CONTINUED ON A2
Hofstra honors victims of 9/11
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The 9/11 memorial lights up where the Twin Towers used to stand.
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Members of the Hofstra community gathered to commemorate the 21st anniversary of 9/11 during a remembrance ceremony on Friday, Sept. 9. “On Sept. 11, 2001, at 8:46 a.m., a hijacked passenger jet,
American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it on fire,” said Julie Singh, vice president CONTINUED ON A2
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State of the union with Hofstra director of athletics Rick Cole Jr. By Andrew Fantucchio SPO RTS ED ITO R
Jacob Lewis / The Hofstra Chronicle Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics Cole believes there are more changes to come in college sports.
What is success in collegiate athletics? As the landscape of collegiate sports undergoes drastic shifts, the definition of success in a billion-dollar business built on amateurism isn’t as cut and dry as it once was. From the use of players’ names, images and likenesses to conference alignment and membership, programs at
all levels are pivoting to remain competitive. “There’s a lot of governance issues that are affecting what can and can’t be done by institutions,” said Rick Cole Jr., Hofstra vice president and director of athletics. “It’s going to shift the funding model of college athletics. The [debate over] media rights that is going on across the country is a significant shift that is impacting conference mem-
bership. Everybody continues to say, ‘Well, that’ll be the last shift.’ It’s not the last shift. I think some of the changes are so reactionary. We’ve made all these rules shifts, but there hasn’t been a whole lot of strategy or talk about systems that can be sustainable.”
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