By Luca Gross
Young people are the driving force behind not-for-profit organizations such as SADD, formerly known as Mothers against Drunk Driving, then Students Against Drunk Driving and now Students Against Destructive Decisions. They have started student-run chapters across the...
By Bryn Fawn
A precedent was established May 2, when Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s majority draft on Roe v. Wade court case leaked. The original case was settled in 1973 — with a subsequent case of Planned Parenthood v....
By Jessica Landman
The Plattsburgh softball team had a sunny start to their SUNYAC tournament on Saturday where they faced the SUNY Geneseo Knights. The team had previously faced Geneseo and lost both the games so the Cardinals were looking...
By McKenna Brazie
The SUNY Plattsburgh theater department’s “Nefarious” closed out a strong year of performances April 28. Directed by Shawna Mefferd Kelty, “Nefarious” is a superhero-themed comedy written by Kristen Ritter. Plattsburgh’s performance was the world premiere of the...
By Olivia Bousquet
After printing hand-held newspapers for the past 53 years, Cardinal Points will become a solely digital news source starting in fall 2022. SUNY Plattsburgh students, faculty, staff and alumni will continue receiving the weekly edition through a...
In the fall of 2018 I moved to Plattsburgh from Anchorage, Alaska to attend SUNY Plattsburgh. I didn’t know anyone. I didn’t know the area, I just knew I wanted to study journalism. At the beginning of the semester,...
By Alana Penny
A University Police Lieutenant filed a lawsuit against the SUNY Plattsburgh assistant director of human resources. He filed this lawsuit after he was disciplined, when the human resources department found out he has been in a romantic...
Cardinal Points staff celebrating after being named an All-American Newspaper in 2001.
Shawn Murphy, Melissa Hart, Monica Paticci and Stephen Sowley at the end-of-the-year reception party in Monopole in 2000.
Two editors taking a power nap in the Cardinal Points office...
By Laraib Asim
SUNY Plattsburgh’s Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Support Initiative celebrated in mid April the approval of a $8.25 million grant from the New York State Department of Health. The grant allows Caregiver Support to expand a series of free...
By Jessica Johnson
Calling all “Directioners” and “Harries” – Harry Styles, an unproblematic and multi-talented king, has done it again.
Over the past seven years, Styles has come out of his shell, transforming his fashion sense and music style into his...