The St. Francis College Men's Basketball team is playing in the Madison Square Garden Holiday Classic for the first time against Northwestern on December 20 at 7:00pm. The winner of that game plays for the Championship the next night against the winner of the St. John's, Davidson match-up. The losers of both games will meet in a Consolation contest also on December 21.

Coming from different backgrounds but all a part of the Brooklyn Literati, five authors and publishers from Brooklyn came together December 10 for an open discussion on how changing neighborhoods are having an impact on the writers' community of the borough for Brooklyn in Literature, 1855-2010 at St Francis College.

A collection of St. Francis College students presented a deeply moving and personal production with a focus on hate in our society in their two performances of Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx and their original production How We Got That Way, in the College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education on December 9.

Students from St. Francis College were witness to a very honest and emotional talk on depression from noted public relations expert and author Terrie Williams on Tuesday, December 7 at the College.

In an annual tradition at St. Francis College honoring the Franciscan ideal of giving back, more than 150 people, including scholarship recipients and the people who funded their awards, came together for a special reception on December 6.

A highly excited and contented audience gathered on Dec. 6 at St. Francis College for another Concert at Half-Past Twelve. The audience warmly welcomed Terry Quinn and Company for a one of a kind performance. The songs ranging from opera arias to theater were all written and introduced by Terry Quinn, a noted librettist, novelist, and playwright.

With inspiration and an education from epic tomes including Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and George Eliot's Middlemarch, Julie Orringer produced the highly acclaimed novel The Invisible Bridge, which she shared with a crowd of literature lovers at St. Francis College for the latest event in the Walt Whitman Writers Series on November 3.

After a rally and visit from a World Champion Water Polo coach, the St. Francis College Men's Water Polo team is off to Berkeley, California for its semi-final match Saturday, December 4 at 4:00pm (EST) against the defending champion, the University of Southern California. The game is viewable on ncaa.com.

For the vast majority of NCAA Division I student athletes, college will be the last time they play competitively in their chosen sport, but it doesn't mean they have to leave athletics behind. For the second year in a row Cheretta Robson, Assistant Director of Career Development at the St. Francis College Career Center will be a facilitator at the NCAA Career in Sports Forum in Indianapolis.

In a spirited debate at St. Francis College November 15, a bipartisan panel of experts discussed the real world affect that American Elites play in a democracy that is based on the ideal of one person, one vote. The event, co-hosted by St. Francis College and the Manhattan Institute, is the latest in a series about contemporary politics.