The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz) is a
public university
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in
New Paltz
New Paltz () is an incorporated U.S. town in Ulster County, New York. The population was 14,003 at the 2010 U.S. Census. The town is located in the southeastern part of the county and is south of Kingston. New Paltz contains a village, also with ...
,
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School, a
secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an
academy
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in 1833.
History
![Old Main at SUNY New Paltz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Old_Main_at_SUNY_New_Paltz.JPG)
Following a decimating fire in 1884, the New Paltz Classical School offered their land to the state government of New York contingent upon the establishment of a
normal school
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. In 1885, the New Paltz Normal and Training School was established to prepare teachers to practice their professions in the public schools of New York. It was granted the ability to award baccalaureate degrees in 1938, when it was renamed the State Teachers College at New Paltz; the inaugural class of 112 students graduated in 1942. In 1947, a
graduate program
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The organization and struc ...
in education was established. When the State University of New York was established by legislative act in 1948, the Teachers College at New Paltz was one of 30 colleges associated under SUNY's umbrella. An art education program was added in 1951. In 1960, the college (assigned the moniker of the State University of New York College of Liberal Arts and Science at New Paltz in 1961) was authorized to confer liberal arts degrees.
There were several student-led demonstrations in the late 1960s and early 1970s, primarily against the
Vietnam War
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. In the spring of 1967, a
sit-in
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protesting military recruitment on campus blocked the entrance to the Student Union for two days. While there were scores of demonstrators the first day, all but 13 dispersed before
New York State Troopers
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History
The Stat ...
arrived and bodily carried the demonstrators to a waiting school bus for a trip to court. In the fall of 1968, students rallied in support of Craig Pastor (now Craig DeYong) who had been arrested by New Paltz Village Police for desecration of the American flag which he was wearing as a superhero cape in a student film directed by
Edward Falco
Edward Falco is an American author. His latest book is the novel, ''Transcendent Gardening'' (C&R Press, 2022). His previous books include the poetry collection ''Wolf Moon Blood Moon'' (2017), ''Toughs'' (Unbridled Books, 2014) and ''The Family ...
. College President John J. Neumaier posted bail. Pastor was released and charges were dropped.
The
Cambodian Campaign and concomitant
Kent State shootings
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in May 1970 led to a protest that culminated in a five-day student occupation of the Administration Building, subsequently renamed Old Main after the opening of the Haggerty Administration Building two years later. A March 1974 sit-in at the Haggerty Building reacted against perceived discriminatory hiring practices, the state-mandated reintegration of Shango Hall (which then housed underrepresented students), and the threatened cessation of the Experimental Studies Program in the wake of a budget shortfall.
![Van den Berg Hall - SUNY New Paltz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Van_den_Berg_Hall_-_SUNY_New_Paltz.JPG)
Amid this tumult, the college's general education program (including then-vanguard introductory surveys of African and Asian cultures) was eliminated in 1971; a distribution requirement was re-instituted in 1993. A program in
African American studies was established in 1968. Three years later, the Experimental Studies Program (reorganized as the Innovative Studies Program in 1975) began to enroll students, instructors, and local residents in credited and cocurricular courses that encompassed myriad disciplines, including
video art
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(under
Paul Ryan
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),
dance therapy
Dance/movement therapy (DMT) in USA/ Australia or dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) in the UK is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body. As a modality of the creati ...
,
clowning
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History
The most ancient clowns have been found in t ...
,
camping
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, and
ecodesign
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. Instructors in the program were hired by students and compensated through student activity fees. A environmental studies site operated by students and community members under the aegis of the program at the southern periphery of the campus included
geodesic dome
A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The triangular elements of the dome are structurally rigid and distribute the structural stress throughout the structure, making geodesic dom ...
s, windmills,
kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay int ...
s, a solar-powered house funded by the
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, and more inchoate variants of sustainable architecture. Upon ascending to the college presidency in 1980, Alice Chandler characterized the edifices as "shacks and hovels" and abolished the program in the early 1980s, demolishing most of the site in the process.
Under Chandler's leadership, the college (then known as the State University of New York College of Arts and Science New Paltz) began to offer professional degree programs in nursing, engineering, journalism, and accounting. The ''
Legislative Gazette
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'', a journalism and political science internship in which students live and work in Albany and produce a weekly newspaper about state politics, was established in 1978.
![The Pond - SUNY New Paltz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/The_Pond_-_SUNY_New_Paltz.JPG)
On December 29, 1991, the campus was the scene of a widely reported
PCB
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Science and technology
* Polychlorinated biphenyl, an organic chlorine compound, now recognized as an environmental toxin and classified as a persistent organic pollutant
* Printed circuit board, a board used in electronics
* ...
incident that contaminated four dormitories (Bliss, Gage, Capen and Scudder Halls), as well as the Coykendall Science Building and
Parker Theatre. Under the direction of the county and state health departments, the university began a massive, thorough clean-up effort. As an additional precaution, 29 other buildings were thoroughly tested and, if necessary, cleaned. The clean-up process lasted until May 1995. Since 1994, PCBs have not been used on the SUNY New Paltz campus.
The college was rebranded as the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1994.
In November 1997, two events on campus attracted nationwide media attention. The first, a feminist conference on sex and sexuality sponsored by the
Women's Studies
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department entitled "Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women's Sexual Freedom", featured an instructional workshop on
sex toys
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offered by a Manhattan sex shop proprietor and a lecture panel on
sadomasochism
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("
Safe, Sane and Consensual
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S/M: An Alternate Way of Loving"). The second, a seminar entitled "Subject to Desire: Refiguring the Body", was sponsored by the School of Fine and Performing Arts. One presenter,
Fluxus
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performance artist and longtime New Paltz resident
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and ...
, was best known for ''Interior Scroll'' (1975), a piece that culminated in her unrolling a scroll from her vagina and reading it to the audience; at the seminar, Schneemann exhibited abstract photographs of her vagina as part of ''Vulva's Morphia'' (1995), "a visceral sequence of photographs and text in which a Vulvic personification presents an ironic analysis juxtaposing slides and text to undermine
Lacanian
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semiotics, gender issues,
Marxism
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, the male art establishment, religious and cultural taboos."
![Academic Spine - SUNY New Paltz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Academic_Spine_-_SUNY_New_Paltz.JPG)
Political conservatives were outraged that a public university had hosted such events, and Governor
George Pataki
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and SUNY chancellor Robert King expressed their displeasure. The controversy escalated when the Theatre Arts department staged ''
The Vagina Monologues
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'' shortly afterwards. The college's then-president, Roger Bowen, defended freedom of expression on campus and refused to apologize, doing little to allay conservative ire. "The real issue," he said, "is whether some ideologues, however well-intentioned, have the right to dictate what we say and what we do on this campus." SUNY trustee Candace de Russy called for him to be dismissed. Bowen later resigned.
Campus
![Inside the Atrium at SUNY New Paltz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Inside_the_Atrium_at_SUNY_New_Paltz.JPG)
The SUNY New Paltz campus consists of about in the small town of
New Paltz, New York
New Paltz () is an incorporated U.S. town in Ulster County, New York. The population was 14,003 at the 2010 U.S. Census. The town is located in the southeastern part of the county and is south of Kingston. New Paltz contains a village, also wit ...
. There are 14
residence hall
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s, centered mostly in two
quads. The main campus has two dozen academic buildings, including the Haggerty Administration Building, a lecture hall, Old Main,
Sojourner Truth
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Library, one main dining hall, the
Student Union
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Building, Science Hall and extensive gymnasium and sports areas.
The college also operated the Ashokan campus in
Olivebridge, New York
Olivebridge is a hamlet in the town of Olive, Ulster County
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, consisting of another . In 2008 it was sold by Campus Auxiliary Services to the
Open Space Conservancy; it is now operated as the
Ashokan Center
The Ashokan Center (formerly the Ashokan Field Campus, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as the Ashokan Field Campus Historic District is an outdoor education, conference, and retreat center located in the Catskill Mountain ...
.
SUNY New Paltz has undergone extensive construction projects since 2008, totaling nearly $300 million, including:
* Renovation of Hasbrouck Complex Residence Halls (ongoing)
* Student Union Building addition: "The Atrium" (completed fall 2010)
* Old Main renovation (completed spring 2011)
* The Concourse Landscaping/Renovation (completed fall 2011)
* Hasbrouck Quad Landscaping/Renovation (completed fall 2011)
* Construction of Mohonk Walk (completed summer 2012)
* Ridgeview Hall (completed summer 2015)
* Sojourner Truth Library renovation (completed fall 2015)
* Wooster Science Building renovation (completed summer 2016)
* Construction of Science Hall, a new science building (completed winter 2017)
* Engineering Innovation Hub (completed fall 2019)
Campus theaters
SUNY at New Paltz contains three on-campus theaters.
McKenna Theater
McKenna Theatre is a fully equipped
proscenium theatre
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seating 366. The theater is named in honor of Dr. Rebecca McKenna, professor of English and Drama and the founder of the theatre arts program at New Paltz. At the rear of the theater is a sound booth for digital audio equipment which has the capabilities to play back, mix, and amplify audio. There is also a lighting booth with a computerized light board (controlling over 200 dimmers) and LCD video projection equipment behind the audience (and upstairs). There are 32 line sets in the fly space above the stage. There is also a scene shop behind the stage, storage area for scenery, a paint shop, and other technical facilities.
Parker Theater
![College Hall at SUNY New Paltz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/College_Hall_at_SUNY_New_Paltz.JPG)
The building was originally built as a dining hall. Parker was then converted to a theatre venue and teaching space. In 1972 it was made into a theatre production facility. The building was renovated in 1994, featuring a modified thrust stage surrounded by a three-quarter audience configuration seating up to 200 people. In the rear are lighting and sound booths with computerized light board (controlling over 90 dimmers) and digital audio equipment. To both sides of the stage are performance studio spaces. Classes are offered in acting, voice, movement, and musical theatre. On the same floor of the theater are a costume studio, dressing rooms, costume maintenance, storage facilities, and faculty offices.
Parker Theatre was built in 1962. It houses the Raymond T. Kurdt Theatrical Design Collection, one of the most significant
collections of original costume and set designs in the nation.
Max and Nadia Shepard Recital Hall
Max and Nadia Shepard Recital Hall resides in College Hall, the oldest residence hall on campus. Built in 1951, it is a landmark, and is the closest hall to the village of
New Paltz
New Paltz () is an incorporated U.S. town in Ulster County, New York. The population was 14,003 at the 2010 U.S. Census. The town is located in the southeastern part of the county and is south of Kingston. New Paltz contains a village, also with ...
. Its basement, now used primarily for storage, was built as a fallout shelter, and was stocked as such until the 1980s. The only remaining remnant are the "
fallout toilets".
The facility contains 125 seats and is named in honor of patrons of the performing arts programs at SUNY New Paltz. The hall offers a delicate setting for student recitals and chamber music performances. The rear of the hall contains a small studio equipped with Pro-tools HD and a Control 24 sound board used for recording professional performances.
Max and Nadia Shepard Recital Hall is an important facility for the community. It hosts many recitals and is an integral part of the
Piano Summer program.
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
At the center of campus is the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, which opened in 2001. With more than 9,000 square feet of exhibition space in six galleries, the Dorsky is one of the largest art museums in the SUNY system. The East Wing includes the Morgan Anderson Gallery, Howard Greenberg Family Gallery, Sara Bedrick Gallery, and the Corridor Gallery, and the West Wing includes the Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and the North Gallery. The Dorsky's permanent collection comprises more than 5,000 works of American Art (with emphasis on the Hudson Valley and Catskill Regions), 19th, 20th and 21st century photography, metals, and a "world collection" of art and artifacts dating back to ancient times and representing diverse cultures. Through its collections, exhibitions, and public programs, the Dorsky supports and enriches the academic programs at the college, presents a broad range of world art for study and enjoyment, and serves as a center for Hudson Valley arts and culture. The Dorsky's facilities include research and seminar rooms for visitors, students and professors at SUNY New Paltz.
Also on SUNY New Paltz campus is the Fine Art Building Student Gallery, which features student works.
Student life
Athletics
SUNY New Paltz teams participate as a member of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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's
Division III
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Association football
*Belgian Thir ...
. The Hawks are a member of the
State University of New York Athletic Conference
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(SUNYAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, swimming & diving, volleyball and lacrosse; women's sports include basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis and volleyball.
For the first time in program history, New Paltz men’s volleyball team captured the NCAA Division III Tournament title in 2016. The win also marked the first NCAA title for any New Paltz team. Three years later, they defeated UC Santa Cruz to win their second championship in the sport and second for the school overall.
Greek life
Recognized fraternities and sororities at the university include:
Clubs and traditions
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The student governance is operated by the Student Association, which funds most student activities through a mandatory fee. There are many clubs,
fraternities
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, and
sororities
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Generally, membership in a fraternity or sorority is obtained as an Undergraduate education, undergraduate student, but conti ...
. Clubs that are recognized by the Student Association are organized into one of six boards: Academic, Advocacy, Athletic, Fine and Performing Arts, Media, and Social and Cultural. There is also an on-campus government, the Residence Hall Student Association (RHSA).
The college has an auxiliary services corporation common to many state campuses in New York, called Campus Auxiliary Services, Inc. (CAS). This on-campus company operates the dining halls and bookstore, as well as being the source of discretionary funds for spending by the college president and the RHSA.
The college has a foundation and an active alumni association.
The college's official student newspaper is ''The Oracle''. In 2010, it was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists for having the Best Affiliated Website for four-year college or university (Region 1 competition). It was named as a runner-up for the National Title.
Among the many clubs and associations on campus is the Nifty Nifflers, a Quidditch team inspired by the fictional sport played in the ''Harry Potter'' series.
The campus TV station is WNPC TV. It broadcasts on channels 3, 6 and 8 in the New Paltz area.
The college's radio station, WFNP, is known as "The Edge". It broadcasts part-time at FM 88.7, and also streams online. Its
public service announcement
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program is called the "voicebox of the Valley".
Beginning in 2006, "geeky" SUNY New Paltz clubs have run two conventions on campus: "New Paltz Convention" in the Fall and "Conquest" in the Spring. The first year the conventions were run by the Anime, Live Action Role Play, and Gaming clubs on campus. Each year various other "geeky" clubs have taken part. In the 2017-2018 school year, the two conventions were combined into one event, the New Paltz Convention (NPC) in the Spring.
Among the social and cultural clubs is the Asian and Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APISA), which hosts several programs, trips, and events celebrating and spreading Asian culture and history. Some of APISA's yearly traditions include a week-long film festival series focusing on Asian success in the film industry as performers, film directors, and producers, culinary nights where students are invited to learn how to cook Asian foods, and a gala in May to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Notable alumni
SUNY New Paltz alumni include:
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Salvador Agron
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– "The Capeman," the main figure from the Broadway show ''The Capeman''
*
Michael Badalucco
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– actor
*
Yak Ballz
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– underground rapper born Yashar Zadeh
*
David Bernsley
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(born 1969), American-Israeli basketball player
*
Rob Borsellino – reporter
*
Kevin Cahill
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Cahill graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1977 with a BA in politi ...
– member of the
New York State Assembly
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The Assem ...
*
Regina Calcaterra – author
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Joan Chen
Joan Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese-American actress and film director. In China, she performed in the 1979 film and came to the attention of American audiences for her performance in the 1987 film ''The Last Emperor''. She is also ...
– actress
*
Scott Cohen – actor
*
Murali Coryell
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– guitarist
*
Marco DaSilva
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Early life and education
DaSilva wa ...
- multimedia artist
*
Anthony Denison
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Early life
The eldest of three, he was born and raised in Harlem. He wo ...
– actor
*
Mary Deyo (1887 graduate of normal school) – missionary teacher in Japan
*
James Dolan – owner of the
New York Knicks
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,
New York Rangers
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and
Madison Square Garden
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; former CEO of
Cablevision
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*
Jessica Faieta – Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
*
Edward Falco
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– novelist and Professor of English at
Virginia Tech
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Helen K. Garber – photographer
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Michael J. X. Gladis – actor
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Vinny Guadagnino
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Early life
Guadagnino was raised in the Staten Island boro ...
– ''
Jersey Shore
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'' reality show actor
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Maurice Hinchey
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'68, M.A. '70 – member of the
United States House of Representatives
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*
Vicky Jeudy
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Early life
Jeudy was born and raised in Queens, New York. She is of Haitian descent ...
– actor
*
Gary King – University Professor of Government at
Harvard University
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Robert Kyncl
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– Chief Business Officer at YouTube
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Kenneth LaValle
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– member of the
New York State Senate
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Partisan com ...
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Christopher Manson
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Background
Born in Buffalo, New York, Manson graduat ...
– children's book author and illustrator
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Tomas Morales – president of
California State University, San Bernardino
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Eileen Moran Eileen Moran (January 23, 1952 – December 3, 2012) was an American visual effects producer and former executive producer at Weta Digital.
Moran was born in Queens, New York, on January 23, 1952, was raised Lindenhurst, New York, on Long Island. ...
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visual effects
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a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
The integration of live-action footage and other live-action foota ...
producer and former executive at
Weta Digital
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Fabrizio Moretti
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– drummer for
The Strokes
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Berhanu Nega
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– Ethiopian politician
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Ann Nocenti
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– Marvel Comics editor; journalist
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William Parment
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Parment was born on March 5, 1942, in Jamestown, New York, and raised in Ellington. He is a "sixth generation Chautauqua County native". He graduated A.A.S. fro ...
– member of the
New York State Assembly
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Andrea Peyser – ''New York Post'' columnist
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Roseann Runte
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– President of
Old Dominion University
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Ilyasah Shabazz
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Early life
Shabazz ...
– daughter of Malcolm X; writer
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Andy Shernoff
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He is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and k ...
– songwriter, rock musician
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Frank Skartados
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Skartados was a member of the Democratic Party. A resident of the Ulster County hamlet of Milton, where he ...
– member of the
New York State Assembly
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The Assem ...
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Alex Storozynski – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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Brianna Titone
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- geologist and Colorado state representative
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Aida Turturro
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Early life and education
Aida Turturro was born in Buffalo, New York, daughter of ...
– actress
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John Turturro
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– actor
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* ]Jason West
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A graduate of the State University of New Yo ...
– Mayor of the Village of New Paltz, New York
* Zach Zarba
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– NBA official
* Kevin Zraly Kevin Zraly is an American wine educator and the founder of the Windows on the World Wine School, who has been described as America's most famous and entertaining wine teacher.
Career
Between 1976 and 2001, Zraly held the position of wine director ...
– wine educator; founder of the Windows on the World Wine School
Notable faculty
* Clinton Bennett
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– adjunct lecturer, Religious Studies Program; authority on Islam
* Jamie Bennett – emeritus professor (1985–2015) of art
* Manuel Bromberg
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Life
Bromberg was born in Centerville, Iowa, ...
- professor emeritus of art
* Lew Brownstein - historian and former chair of Political Science and International Relations Department
* Arthur H. Cash (died 2016) – SUNY Distinguished Professor and professor emeritus of English; authority on Laurence Sterne
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*Robert Ebendorf
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– former professor in the metals department, starting in 1970.
* Vladimir Feltsman
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– University Professor, Music Department
* Heinz Insu Fenkl – professor of English; novelist, translator and folklorist
* Carol Goodman
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– adjunct in creative writing; novelist
* Laurence M. Hauptman – Distinguished Professor of History
* Ray Huang
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– late professor emeritus of history; authority on the Ming dynasty
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; author of '' 1587: a Year of No Significance''
* Nancy Kassop - former chair of the Political Science Department
* Chaim Koppelman
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(1920–2009), American artist, educator, and Aesthetic Realism
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consultant
* John Langan
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- instructor of creative writing and gothic literature; author of horror stories, notably the Bram Stoker Award
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History
The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since 1 ...
winning novel "The Fisherman"
* Joe Langworth – adjunct, Musical Theatre
*Kurt Matzdorf
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– professor emeritus of goldsmithing and silversmith (working from 1957 to 1985); he founded the metals department.
* Anthony Robinson – professor emeritus of English and former director of Creative Writing Program
* Harry Schwartz – ''The New York Times
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'' editorial writer, Soviet specialist
* H.R. Stoneback – SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and professor of English; authority on Ernest Hemingway
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, William Faulkner
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, and Lawrence Durrell
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Born in India to British colonial pare ...
* William Strongin - Rabbi, author, and Professor who is currently the director of Jewish Studies
See also
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References
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*Webdesign Team. "Parker Theater", ''https://web.archive.org/web/20100527142006/http://www.newpaltz.edu/map/loc_parker.html'', 2010 All Rights Reserved
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New Paltz, State University of New York
State University of New York at New Paltz
The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz) is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School, a secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an a ...
Tourist attractions in Ulster County, New York