Category: Features

The Tower named top college newspaper in New Jersey & Ranked Number One for General Excellence

The Tower, Kean University’s independent student news organization, has been awarded the top honor for best college newspaper in New Jersey, public or private, by the NJ Collegiate Press Association.  It is a first for Kean University.  Tower reporters and staff also won individual awards in the categories of news writing, feature writing, and overall website.  The NJCPA, whose judges are professional journalists, awarded The Tower […]

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Student Organization Hosts Self Defense Event for Students

By Valerie Sanabria | Published by March 20, 2020 The Student Organization of Kean University hosted a self-defense class held at the D’Angola Dance Studio on Feb. 5. Members of the organization were outside the studio scanning students’ event passes and giving them a free personal mini-alarm with keychain.   Some students like Elizabeth Chacko, a junior at Kean University, were approached by a member […]

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Beautiful to See, Yet its Roots Create Rot: Sable Arias’s ‘Invasif Desires’

By Siobhan Donaldson | Published by February 23, 2020 The Student Art Gallery, located in the Vaughn-Eames building, displays large printings of invasive plants on recycled hand-made paper, delicate books bound together, and the artists’ desire to uproot weeds that encroach on herself. Connecting to the parasitic bamboo that surrounds her home in Little Egg Harbor, and the most recent […]

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The Return of Kean’s Helping Younger Hands Club

By Emily Robles | Published by February 21, 2020 In the Spring 2020 semester, Kean University re-introduced the Helping Younger Hands club as they made their comeback after taking a year-long hiatus.  Helping Younger Hands is a club at Kean University that raises awareness about disabilities and disorders among children. The club was originally founded in Fall 2018 by Breanna Hernandez. However, […]

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Student Spotlight: Youtuber Mary Linen

By Lena Zhu | Published by February 20, 2020 Summer of 2019 was overwhelmingly distressful for 21-year-old Mary Linen, working a summer job that did not offer her many hours.   “I went almost a month and a half without any money and I was very depressed,” Linen, a senior Media, and Film major and Photography minor, recalls. “So my friend said, […]

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Crime scene investigation: “How to get away with murder”

By Dan Papa | Published by February 18, 2020 Dr. Maria Denise Gemmellaro teaches a course called “How to Get Away with Murder.” In the course, she goes over scientific evidence usually found at crime scenes such as DNA and ballistics.  On Feb. 10, Dr. Gemmellaro ran a Murder Mystery event in Kean University’s Science Building. The event covered crime scene investigation tactics from law enforcement […]

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A Pledge for Kindness

By Alexander Valdes | Published by February 15, 2020 One of the most powerful forms of expression is through words, and it is through words that people will unify. On Jan. 30 inside the Green Lane building, an event was held by the Lesniak Institute in collaboration with the Holocaust Resource Center called “Standing up for the Other” dealing with the topic […]

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