THE HOFSTRA
HEMPSTEAD, NY VOLUME 93 ISSUE 6
CHRONICLE
TUESDAY November 11, 2025
KEEPING THE HOFSTRA COMMUNITY INFORMED SINCE 1935
Richard Nuttall: A farewell to greatness SPORTS
By Anthony Hidalgo SPORTS EDITOR
What makes a successful college athletics program? Is it great players, coaches, a university with a great reputation and resources for its players? Perhaps it’s the culture or history of winning. Hofstra University men’s soccer head coach Richard Nuttall represents all of this and then some. To put it plainly, Nuttall is the men’s soccer program. Over the last 37 years, Nuttall has seen the men’s soccer team grow into one of the most successful and well-recognized teams in the nation. Before Nuttall arrived in 1989, the Hofstra men’s soccer team had 11 winning seasons in its 33 years of existence, winning just one East Coast Conference Championship in 1985. Nuttall became the ninth head coach in the program’s history and is the only coach to spend more than 11 years with the program. To say Nuttall is synonymous with the men’s soccer program would be an understatement, but ask him, and he will say this was never meant to happen. “I fell into it,” Nuttall said. “I was playing in a very high level,
Photo courtesy of Hofstra Athletics / Matteo Bracco
Richard Nuttall was presented with a bike by Athletic Director Rick Cole as a retirement gift.
level five in England, which is still very good, and teaching. And the teacher there was a guy called Pete Casket. He asked me to help him with the town team, so I started off coaching and playing.” Nuttall spent the next few years traveling between England and the United States, playing for a local men’s team in Glen Cove, New York, and working as a physical education teacher
at North Shore High School in Glen Head, New York. It was there that he met his teammates, many of whom were Hofstra graduates. Eventually, the head coach position opened at Hofstra. Nuttall applied and got the job. The rest is history. “My interest just grew from there,” Nuttall said. “I thought, ‘I’ll do this job for two or three years,’ and then I was think-
Hofstra students react as Mamdani wins mayoral race NEWS
By Kumba Jagne MULTIMEDIA EDITOR
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election on Wednesday, Nov. 5, becoming the first Muslim, African and South Asian individual to be elected as mayor. This election had the largest-ever turnout for
early voters in a non-presidential election in the city, according to The Guardian. At 34 years old, Mamdani is New York’s first millennial mayor and the youngest mayor in over a century. Hofstra University students from New York City and beyond expressed their opinions about Mamdani’s platform and highlighted their
relationship to voting. Senior political science and public policy double major Adallis Pantry noticed people in California and London cheering for Mamdani when he won. Although she was not eligible to vote in the mayoral election, she followed Mamdani’s campaign
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ing about going and living and playing in Australia. But I got a severe injury with the knee … I was enjoying life here.” With Nuttall now at Hofstra for so long, he can’t imagine a better job than the one he’s held on to for nearly four decades. “What more do you want?” Nuttall said. “Come to work with young people – you know, on the men’s team – the people
of the same ilk as me, people who love the sport. It’s been very few days I didn’t want to come to work.” Nuttall’s success wasn’t overnight. His first few seasons at the helm were a struggle. The team went 4-15-1 in his first season and wouldn’t record a winning season until Nuttall’s fifth season in 1993. Nuttall had to grow into his new role and learn some valuable lessons to build the program from the ground up. “I think just working hard,” Nuttall said. “The [Athletic Director] at the time said, ‘Look, I know you think you’re a great coach, but I don’t care how good a coach you are.’ He said, ‘It’s the players you [bring] in that will make the program.’ So that stuck with me, and just getting the best players possible … We never really lost many transfers. They had a great experience, they enjoyed Hofstra and we built slowly over time.” Nuttall wasn’t just growing as a coach. He was still a young man, adjusting to a new life in a new country. It took some time until he truly felt at home on Long Island.
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Wake up, Western media OPINION
By Julia Capitelli NEWS EDITOR
Good journalism requires courage and adherence to journalistic values without compromise. Too often, many Western news media outlets have lacked the courage to uphold key values, especially in the face of political pressure. This defeats a major purpose of journalism: to be a watchdog. The Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ)
code of ethics explicitly tells us to “be vigilant and courageous about holding those with power accountable. Give voice to the voiceless.” Some may argue that in the United States, the news media is bowing to President Donald Trump’s administration. While this may be true, it is not an excuse to abandon journalistic ethics, nor is it new.
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