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How to Improve Your Productivity

Ryan Canney November 19, 2023

    Imagine it's a Sunday night. It's 6:00 pm, and you need to get started on a group of assignments due on Friday. You open your computer, but instead of typing your essay, you open...

S.A.I.L Profiles: Angelique Rodriguez- There is Always a Silver Lining

S.A.I.L Profiles: Angelique Rodriguez- There is Always a Silver Lining

Darby Ryan May 9, 2022

Angelique Rodriguez is a 22-year-old queer woman at Westfield State University. She is a Liberal Arts major with concentrations in education, music, and ethnic and gender studies and is planning to graduate...

S.A.I.L Profile: Lorenze Beltran; A Self-Educated Man

S.A.I.L Profile: Lorenze Beltran; A Self-Educated Man

Darby Ryan April 28, 2022

Lorenze Beltran is a 21-year-old from the small farm town of Easthampton, Massachusetts. He has been working for S.A.I.L. since the fall semester of 2021 and will be graduating from Westfield State in...

Portrait by Jenny Boivin

Photo of the Week

Tara Wallace April 14, 2022
Please send Photo of the Week submissions to our Photo Editor Tara Wallace at [email protected]!
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Dining Service’s Sustainability Initiatives 

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Dining Service’s Sustainability Initiatives 

Daniel Currier April 12, 2022

Credit: Daniel Currier At the beginning of the 2021-2022 academic year at Westfield State University, several vacancies in Dining Services and a faulty conveyor belt prevented students from utilizing...

S.A.I.L Profiles: Alex Antuna --  A Healing Journey

S.A.I.L Profiles: Alex Antuna — A Healing Journey

Darby Ryan April 7, 2022

Alex Antuna is a 22-year-old Westfield State University senior Business Major from Chicopee who struggled to face his own emotions. On his twentieth birthday, March 15, 2020, that had to change. March...

Melissa Roti, professor and director of the Exercise Science Program in the department of Sports Medicine & Human Performance with students to celebrate Westfield State’s silver-level designation from the group ‘Exercise is Medicine’

‘Exercise is Medicine’ efforts create culture of wellness on WSU campus 

April 7, 2022

WESTFIELD, Mass.— Westfield State University is one of only 156 universities and colleges around the world to be honored by “Exercise is Medicine” for its efforts to create a culture of wellness...

Images from Westfield State University, May 2021

Let the Games Begin

Rory Regan March 23, 2022

The Spring 2022 sports season has begun, and the nice weather is showing its face. With Covid-19 restrictions slowly being lifted, life has started to get back to normal for everyone. Student-athletes...

S.A.I.L Profiles: Dionn Casanova - A First Generation Student with a Voice 

S.A.I.L Profiles: Dionn Casanova – A First Generation Student with a Voice 

Darby Ryan March 17, 2022

Dionn Casanova is a young Puerto Rican man who came from Greenfield, Massachusetts, and is the first in his family to come to college and even graduate high school. He had to learn about college on his...

Image credit- iStock.

February’s RA of the Month

March 2, 2022

RA of the Month- Zia Meyer Anyone would be lucky to have Zia Meyer as their RA! As the 4th floor RA of Dickinson Hall, Zia cares about each student's well-being, which is evident by her thorough...

PHOTO OF THE WEEK by Jenny Boivin

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Tara Wallace March 1, 2022
Photo of the Week by Jenny Boivin
A Time to Heal: Wind Symphony Concert Amidst a Pandemic

A Time to Heal: Wind Symphony Concert Amidst a Pandemic

Cristina Ferraro December 14, 2021

On Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 at 7:30pm, the Westfield State University Wind Symphony performed their fall concert, “A Time to Heal.” This was the first in-person performance after almost two years,...

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