I recently had the pleasure and honor of sitting down with Sid Ray, Ph.D., Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies and Co-Chair of Pace University’s English department, alongside Stephanie Hsu, Ph.D. Sid and the rest of the English department are leading groundbreaking projects and endeavors that span not only outside of the bounds of Pace itself, but have created the opportunity for progress in documenting the disaster of climate change and in the discovery of the Indigenous, Black...

The 2024 Spring semester at Pace had just begun; school was back in session, friends were reunited, and 15 Beekman was bustling with excitement. There were warm smiles on the faces of Pace students everywhere I looked—that is, until what seemed to be the start of a “fire” semester actually caught on fire. 
 At about 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, January 27, the first of three fire trucks arrived on the scene at Pace’s brand-new dorm building at 15 Beekman St. A student had pulled...

As a freshman at a New York City university, especially having come from a small suburban town in Pennsylvania, my experience here has been exciting and eye-opening, to say the least. It’s also been daunting, and often intimidating to the point where I’ve questioned my decisions in coming here— questioned whether I’m truly built for the energy and bustle of the city. I’ve heard similar sentiments echoed by my friends and peers, especially regarding finding internships, then...

Honors students branched all the way out to Central Park last Friday, for a trip to the Parkside Paint & Sip event, sponsored by the Honors Advisory Board and Women’s Leadership Initiative at Pace! We sat in the grass on one of the last warm and sunny days of the year, just as the leaves began to change colors. We sipped on apple cider and sparkling grape juice as we painted peacefully and enjoyed our escape from dirty sidewalks, polluted air, and midterm stress.
We all met in front of 1 Pace...

From September 27 to 29, Partners Coffee hosted a pop-up cafe in honor of Sabrina Carpenter's latest album, Short N’ Sweet, but fans complained that the themed drinks, exclusive merch stand, and photo ops were not worth the hours-long wait they endured.

On the last day, fans waited for hours in the rain to secure their last chance to taste the “Dumb & Poetic Latte,” named after her hit song of the same name, and take pictures with the coquette decor that plastered the walls. The line spanned more than four blocks from the peak hours of 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“Honestly, the long wait in the rain wasn’t worth the experience you got inside,” reflected longtime fan Sohani Sawant. “But I was with my friends, so we were able to make it fun.”

On entering the cafe, fans were met with a wall of merch, ranging from $15 socks to $85 hoodies. The menu included aptly themed food and drink options like heart-shaped pastries, a “Common Sense” cold brew, and a “Fuzzy Pink Spritz.” They were then directed to pose for pictures upon a bright red lip-shaped couch in front of a wall displaying the same baby blue, lip-sticked, heart-shaped motifs that covered the rest of the cafe. Soon after, they were ushered outside.

The question is: for such a short venture inside the pop-up cafe, was the experience exactly “sweet”?

Many fans who arrived after 3 p.m. waited in vain—with a wait time of about two hours, and a strict closing time of 5 p.m., some fans did not get a chance to experience the cafe. On the other hand, some fans who did get that chance were unsatisfied.

As Sawant put it, “It was shorter than it was sweet.”

Entering Pace University as a first–year can be a harrowing experience: you’re left stranded in the middle of New York City, forced to live with a bunch of strangers, and—worst of all—you have no one to make you home-cooked meals. You have no pantry to raid at 2 a.m., nor any room in your dorm to even put a pantry. You wait five hours for your dining hall tacos, you can’t get a sandwich until 12 p.m., and if you happen to be craving sushi over the weekend, forget it! So, where does a starving...

The Pforzheimer Honors community kicked off the 2024-2025 school year with less of a “bang” and more of an excited shriek. Mentors beamed in glee at the confused faces of their mentees as they walked through a tunnel of screaming mentors, stopping often to run and hug their mentors or to wave “Hi!” Worn out from an early morning after a long day of moving in, our Honors freshmen were able to rally for a lovely Chartwells lunch with their mentors and an energetic round of Human Bingo, followed by...

On Monday, April 8, 2024, occurred perhaps the most shocking, exciting, nail-biting eclipse since the 2010 movie revealed that Bella was in love with both Edward and Jacob. Just like The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), the “Great North American Solar Eclipse” was, for some, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, not only because the next total solar eclipse is not estimated to occur for the contiguous United States until August 23, 2044, but also because the recent eclipse was in many ways more...

It’s internship season in New York City: Pace is holding career fairs, companies are releasing applications on Handshake by the tens, and students are looking for ways to fill up their summer. I had the pleasure of sitting down with RA Emi Matsumae, who just scored her third internship, a twelve-week summer program with Netflix. I was glad to get her valuable insight into the interview process, what companies look for in an intern, and how to stay mentally healthy while preparing for a long-term...

Thesis season is swiftly approaching for Honors juniors; students will begin presenting their theses in just six months, and the pressure seems to increase by the day. Have no fear, however, because Lindsey Lee and our team of Honors advisors are here to provide support—both academic and emotional. Lindsey’s week of Honors Thesis Info Sessions has just concluded and, though they are mandatory only for juniors, her insight may prove useful for freshmen and sophomores who are also waiting in...

As the semester comes to a close, I, along with many of my peers, have begun to reflecton our time here and the way our first semester has “set the pace” for the years to come. I’m sitting down with three close friends from starkly different backgrounds and majors in order to get a reading on the way our first semester at Pace has treated us.  
Meet Sohani Sawant (‘27), an Acting BFA major from San Francisco, California (right). She describes her life in New York City as...

The annual New York City Marathon just made its revisit to the city on Sunday, November 5, wreaking the same havoc it does every year: closing down some major New York City streets for up to ten hours and hindering city residents’ weekly Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods runs. Like me, many other out-of-state Pace students may not have known of the immense gravity or deep history of this event as it passed—literally—across the Brooklyn Bridge.  
The first New York City Marathon...

Last Wednesday, October 4, the Honors Lounge was converted into a third-place-style coffee shop akin to Suited, a Pace favorite down the road from our very own dorms at 55 John Street. Accompanied by the smell of coffee in the air and the soft sound of smooth jazz, barista Eli demonstrated for his customers the art of the pour-over coffee brewing method. He led us through the process of cupping, or, in his words, "comparatively tasting different coffees to evaluate..."