Welcome to the homepage of Robert Costello, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Criminal Justice Department. Please visit my site periodically during the semester as I will continue to update annnouncements.  Please feel free to contact me in G 157 or call (516) 572-7178 or e-mail Robert.Costello@ncc.edu.

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I am on sabbatical for the Fall 2009 semester working on a project at Hofstra University Law School and traveling under a Fulbright Scholarship Award.  But I will check emails and with my office staff for voicemail messages.

Don't Quit

Anonymous

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and its turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about When they might have won, had they stuck it out. Don't give up though the pace seems slow, You may succeed with another blow. Often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the victor's cup; And he learned too late when the night came down, How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out The silver tint of the clouds of doubt And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worst that you must not quit!