The Envoy

Sept. 21,

Hey there, escalator riders! Friendly reminder to NOT STAND ON THE LEFT SIDE. Everybody is mad at you, and it’s unbecoming of a Hunter student. Fortunately, Monday is Yom Kippur—the Jewish day of attonement—when all our sins are forgiven. Just don’t do it again… ok?

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Monday, Sept 21

• Yom Kippur — no classes scheduled. No Hunter events on the calendar today. G’mar chatima tova to everyone observing.

Tuesday, Sept 22

• Resource Fair — 12–4:30pm, Game Room, Thomas Hunter Hall Rm 205. Academic support, tech, wellness, food assistance and career resources all in one room. Snacks while supplies last.
• J-Day: NYC Youth Journalism Coalition at City Hall — 12pm press conference on the steps of City Hall. City Council Education Chair Eric Dinowitz and Higher Education Chair Rita Joseph join student journalists to announce a new Council commitment to high school journalism programs, following new DOE data on journalism access. Students then testify at the Education Committee’s 1pm hearing on Portrait of a Graduate at 250 Broadway. Open to the press.
• Campus Navigation: Exploring Hunter’s Website — 1–2pm. Office of Advising workshop for first-year students.
• Assembly Now! CUNY & The Climate Democracy We Need — 4–6pm, Hemmerdinger Screening Room, 921 Lexington Ave. A Climate Week event on the CUNY Climate Assembly Project on Waste, the first university climate assembly in the US (43 Hunter students took part). Reception after in the Leubsdorf Gallery.
• Celebrating Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem — 6pm, Roosevelt House (47-49 E. 65th St.). In-person tributes from Jane Fonda and Kimberlé Crenshaw, hosted with the Sisterhood is Global Institute. RSVP required, space is limited.
• Distinguished Writers Series: Karan Mahajan — 7:30pm, Lang Recital Hall, 695 Park Ave. The National Book Award finalist behind The Association of Small Bombs and The Complex. Free, RSVP.

Wednesday, Sept 23

• Seltzer Lecture: Ortiz’s War and The Pilot, The Doctor, and The Spy — 12pm, Zoom (link sent on RSVP). Journalist Katie Sanders on a true story of WWII resistance.
• Cover Letter Clinic — 1–2pm, Career Center (East Bldg. E 216, Cooperman Library).
• Graduate Admissions Information Session — 1–2pm.
• Congo’s Neglected War: Thirty Years On — 6:30pm, Roosevelt House. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on three decades of war in eastern Congo. RSVP.

Thursday, Sept 24

• Your Journey to Internship Success: Internship Strategy Workshop — 1–2pm, Career Center.
• CENTRO Open House — 3–5:30pm, CENTRO en El Barrio, 2180 Third Ave. Tour the Puerto Rican archives and library. Free food and a swag giveaway.
• AMLC Presents: Carmiel Banasky — 4–5:15pm, Zankel Arts Hub (Thomas Hunter Rm 409). The writer and climate advocate behind the podcast The Last City. Free for Hunter students, no RSVP.
• Campus Navigation: Global Class Search and Degree Maps — 4–5pm.
• Latinx Heritage Month Celebration: Dreaming and the City — 5:30–7pm, Lang Recital Hall. A one-woman play by Amalia Oliva Rojas about immigration and belonging, followed by a Q&A.
• Mario: A Documentary Screening and Talk Back — 5:30pm, Roosevelt House. The Tribeca-premiered Mario Cuomo documentary, with a talk back from former Cuomo staffer Tonio Burgos and Roosevelt House director Harold Holzer. RSVP.
• Opening Night: NY Premiere of Desarchivar la mirada — 6–8pm, CENTRO. An exhibition rethinking colonial-era postcards of Puerto Rico from 1898–1915.
• Meet Best-Selling Author Meg Wolitzer — 7–8:30pm, Frumkes Center for Writing and Culture (East Bldg. Rm 1022). The Interestings author in conversation, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

Friday, Sept 25

• BS in Nursing (Generic) Program Info Session — 4–5:30pm, online.

Saturday, Sept 26

• Ace That Interview! — 12–1pm, online.

Around the city this week

• Climate Week NYC — citywide, through Sept 27.
• Pelea premiere and panel — Tue Sept 22, 6:30–8pm, The Bench, 49 Elizabeth St. Free. A Climate Week premiere of an animated teaser, hosted by Pelea Animation and Pelea Movement, with a panel moderated by Jamie Margolin.
• The Armory Show — Sept 24–27, Javits Center. Student tickets $40 vs. $65 general.
• New Museum: Arthur Jafa “I Am Tony” — opens Thurs Sept 24, 235 Bowery.
• Feast of San Gennaro (100th anniversary) — Mulberry St., through Sept 27. Grand Procession Sat Sept 26 at 2pm. Free to walk.
• Global Citizen Festival — Sat Sept 26, Central Park Great Lawn (gates 2pm, show 4pm). Tickets are earned through app actions, not walk-up.

Save the date

• Mon Sept 28, 6pm: Democracy Under Pressure: Race, the Ballot, and the Fight for Democracy, Roosevelt House.
• Tues Sept 29, 12pm: Student Activities Fee (SAF) performing arts grant applications due.
• Tues Sept 29, 12:45–2:15pm: Free Lunch & Learn: Careers in International Affairs, Roosevelt House.
• Tues Sept 29, 7:30pm: The Right to Housing in Politics & Fiction, Hunter East 706.
• Wed Sept 30, 5:30pm: Emergent City screening and Q&A, Roosevelt House.
• Thurs Oct 1, 6pm: Nancy Foner on Immigration: How the Past Shapes the Present, with Suketu Mehta, Roosevelt House.
• Thurs Oct 1, 6–7pm: 25 Years Later: Reflections of a Generation, 180 Greenwich St.

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Event research assisted by Claude (Anthropic AI), September 2026.