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By Jennifer Padilla | Published April 7, 2017 The Kean University Gospel Choir (KGC) has been selected, for the second year in a row, as a finalist in this year’s McDonald’s Gospelfest. The McDonald’s Gospelfest will be held at Newark’s Prudential Center on Saturday, May 13. “I am ecstatic about the McDonald’s Gospelfest,” said Rochanda Fegins, a graduate student in […]
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By Kiara Mays | Published April 4, 2017 Since its release on Feb. 24, critically acclaimed film “Get Out” continues to dominate at the box office. Having grossed over $147 million domestically and a rare 99% favorable review on Rotten Tomatoes, students at Kean University voiced their thoughts on the Jordan Peele (of Key and Peele), written and directed, thriller/comedy […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published March 30, 2017 The Nu Sigma Phi fraternity is getting a little creative this year to raise funds for the Friends of Union Township Animal Shelter. The fraternity brothers are organizing a benefit show for April 11 in the Miron Student Center’s Little Theatre at 6:30 p.m. It will feature nine artists from indie bands, […]
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By Monica Sudfield | Published March 22, 2017 The Human Rights Center, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and The School of Environmental and Sustainability Sciences united in the Miron Student Center lobby on March 21 from 10-3 p.m. to sponsor a virtual reality journey through Ethiopia that displays the water crisis occurring in so many places throughout the world. This […]
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By Joel Joly| Published March 3, 2017 The annual Black Love Affair event was all set and ready to go on February 15, 2017, in the STEM Building on the 6th floor. Doors were open at 7 p.m. and the festivities were ranged from 8 p.m to 11 p.m. “Black love is a tradition here at Kean University, many of the […]
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By Joel Joly| Published March 3, 2017 On Monday, Feb 13, 2017, students, alumni, family and friends gathered together inside the Center for Academic Success (CAS) building for Kean’s first annual paint and poetry night hosted by S.H.E. Vibes. Doors opened at 7 p.m and the performances started from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The founders of S.H.E are three juniors […]
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Published Feb. 9, 2017 A simple run-in with Kean University’s Graphic Organization President Ryan Quinn at freshman orientation last summer has led to a new masthead for The Tower. It was there that Rebecca Panico, The Tower’s former editor-in-chief and current web developer, struck up a conversation with Quinn about creating a new design for The Tower’s masthead. Panico had just redesigned […]
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By Adrianna Ruffo | Published Feb 8, 2017 From Jan 31st to May 12th, 2017, the Human Rights Institute will be hosting an art exhibit in the Human Rights Institute Gallery, called I Learn America: Explorations into Diversity, Identity and Inclusion. The exhibit, which was put together by Janice Kroposky, the acting director for the Human Rights Institute and Dr. Joseph […]
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By Johanna Ekladous | Published Feb. 8, 2017 Dr. James Conyers, director of Africana Studies at Kean University, shares how we can remember and celebrate Black History Month. With the Trump administration now in power and the Black Lives Matter movement gaining momentum, Dr. Conyers expressed the importance of understanding that it does not change how we are to celebrate and […]
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By Greg Patuto | Published Feb 8, 2017 On Wednesday, January 25, 2017, students, alumni, staff, family and friends lined up inside the Harwood Arena in anticipation for the biannual Spring 2017 Meet the Greeks. Doors for this event opened at 5 p.m. and the festivities ranged from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. With music blaring inside the gymnasium, the fraternity […]
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