Utica College

John Meier was born in 1933 and raised on Long Island, New York. He worked briefly for the New York Life Insurance Company before being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1952 and sent to the war in Korea. Upon his honorable discharge in 1954, Meier returned to working for New York Life.[1] In 1959, Meier was hired in the computer division at Hughes Aircraft and two years later transferred to Hughes Dynamics, a Los Angeles-based information management subsidiary of the Hughes Tool Company."[2] During the Watergate hearings, one man wanted to tell a spellbound nation secrets about the Nixon White House, the CIA and Howard Hughes. He could have told them why the burglary happened, but that was not what the Committee wanted to hear. To keep him from telling his secrets, he was persecuted, jailed and forced into exile in Canada. Investigative reporter Gerald Bellett deatiled everything in a book called Age of Secrets. In a revised edition for the first time is an excerpt from John Meier's diary on the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination. John Meier is the first person to reveal everything from the Hughes Organization, and Robert Maheu’s, involvement with the assassination, to Thane Cesar ’s connection to Jack Hooper. According to Jim Hougan, “John Meier’s story is really interesting and, I believe, important. I’ve spent a number of years studying the American cryptocracy and there is no question in my mind that Meier is dead-right when he says that the CIA was running the Hughes empire…

Jessica Florentino is; loud, honest, funny, and a city girl at heart. She grew up in the Bronx with her two brothers and sister, who she is very close to. Throughout her past academic career, she attended performing arts schools. Jessica had a passion for the arts and she knew this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. However; the odds of making a career for herself in this industry caused her to look other ways and go down a different path. One of the main reasons Jessica is came…

My cousin, Juan, graduated from high school in 2013. His number one choice for college was Utica College in Upstate New York. He was a football star in high school, but chose not to pursue it any further in college. Therefore, he could not receive any athletic scholarships for college which would’ve helped with the cost of tuition. Everything was going well for him until after the first month of college his financial aid was not processed. He had to leave Utica and return to the Bronx. He worked…

After high school, I plan on attending Castleton University in Vermont. In college, I intend on studying Athletic Training, however, I also plan on pursuing outdoor recreation. In my community, I am very involved in many outdoor activities. I have always loved the outdoors along with the athletic opportunities it provides. I plan on devoting my life to outdoor recreation because I believe it is important to breathe the fresh air and have a good time with it. Although I plan on majoring in…

Imagine not having to worry about the how much it will cost to send your children to college. This is an issue that parents continue to stress about to make sure that they can give their child the best opportunity to succeed in their future. The rise of college admission prices is an ongoing problem in America, caused by the inflated demand to educate more and more students each year. This continuous issue can be resolved by creating a tuition cap and a student loan borrowing limit. It must be…

Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn? Failure is not unusual but having the courage to get back up and fight for what I believe in is indeed unusual. Much earlier in my studies, I have surmounted tremendous hardship which caused me to drop out of college. I have migrated to America in the early 2000s with my family seeking a better life because my country did not have much to offer. While I attended Rockland Community…

The Day I Choose LCC Have you ever thought about what college you would attend and how successful you would be? Well I have, as child I would imagine what college I would attend and would I be able to succeed. I imagined how collage would be, would I attended a large university or a small local community college. Students may even worry about the ACT and SAT and how successful will they be when taking those two extremely important tests. Luckily, I choose a school that didn 't stress me out…

children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many would argue that this philosophy helped the older generation be successful in their educational and post-educational careers, so it should not be changed; however, in the words of Ken Burns, “the problem is that the current system of education was designed…

Up program was introduced, I had a fair idea of what I was intending to study, but I remained unsure and had made no further necessary decisions about my post-secondary education. The reason I had not even thought about what university I wanted to go to or what career I wanted to pursue was due to a lack of resources and guidance. My parents, although always supportive of me, were limited as to what they could help me with when it came to making academic decisions beyond high school as they had…

Many say that American high schools teach students to learn how to take standardized tests on writing, rather than actually prepare them for college. Therefore, most secondary students are entering college without an understanding of how to meet demands of college writing beyond the prescribed “standard five-paragraph essay.” Susan Fanetti’s “Closing the Gap between High School Writing Instruction and College Writing Expectations” examines the discrepancy between American high schools and their…