The three New York City public library systems are facing budget cuts totaling nearly $53 million as the city looks to slash spending next year. Beyond the numbers, the struggle to keep libraries funded has become a major fight this spring between lawmakers and the many New Yorkers who depend on branches to take out books, study and use computers.
Read MoreThe King’s College hosted its nineteenth – and possibly last – Spring Interregnum from March 29 to 31. The winners of the Interregnum Cup and the annual House Cup were the House of Sojourner Truth and the House of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, respectively. This year’s Interregnum theme was Flourishing, an adjective that might appear difficult to embody under the current circumstances at King’s. Some students at the college chose to skip Spring Interregnum because of the school’s situation.
Read MoreChatGPT Plagiarism became available to the public in February, a software designed by Tomer Tarsky to differentiate between original work and ChatGPT writing. Tarsky created his software to specifically detect ChatGPT usage and is consistent with its results. With the unreliability of other plagiarism checkers and the rise in ChatGPT usage in school, Tarsky’s software will prove invaluable for educators.
(REVIEW) ‘Knock at the Cabin,’ a horror, mystery and thriller by director M. Night Shyamalan, arrived at theaters on Friday, Feb. 3. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ addresses a specific question of ethics that a College student might contemplate: the Trolley Problem. The central question of the movie is one you might prefer to contemplate during office hours with a philosophy professor rather than in a dark theater for an hour and forty minutes.
Read MoreThe student organizations and Houses of The King’s College are already feeling the effects of the shortened school hours and budget cuts coming to King’s this semester. Despite navigating the new financial adjustments, many King’s students remain hopeful.
Read MoreOn Saturday, Dec. 3, the House of Margaret Thatcher and the House of C.S. Lewis held their traditional Christmas dance, the Red and Green Affair, at the King’s College. This year, the Houses partnered with the King's chapter of the International Justice Mission to turn RGA into a charity gala.
Read MoreThousands of people gathered to cheer on friends and family who embarked on the daring challenge of completing a 26.2 mile run through all five boroughs of New York City on Sunday, Nov. 6. One face among all the onlookers from this year's race is one that many students of The King's College would recognize — Leticia Mosqueda. Mosqueda ran in the New York City Marathon in 2013, 2017 and 2019.
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