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By Roman Gerus The Kean University Police Department bites back against crime with a new K-9 unit aimed at sniffing out explosives. Kean University has been awarded a grant for a new K-9 unit that specializes in detecting explosives before they can be detonated. The grant covers the purchase of the dog and the preliminary start-up costs. The Kean […]
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By Vera Boateng In many places around the world people with craniofacial abnormalities like clefts of the lip and palate are shunned, rejected or abandoned to die at birth. Dr. Christina Luna, speech-language pathologist and professor in the School of Communication Disorders and Deafness on East Campus, had first-hand experience working with children with repaired clefts while teaching the […]
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By Bryan C. Kuriawa KUTV is set to launch a new comedy sketch show entitled “Kean Afterhours.” Developed by Cougar Radio’s Phil Giannino and Alex Wisniewski, this show intends to give students a satire of campus life. For both students, this represents both a new medium to tackle and a similarly personal project. “Alex is the one who had […]
Read moreSticking around for more than 150 years, people still seem to confuse history behind the holiday of Cinco de Mayo. In fact, the date May 5, 1862 is not Mexico’s Independence Day. Even though the calendar date May 5 is an important day in history and means more than just guacamole and alcohol, people who celebrate, celebrate because of the […]
Read moreBy Jennifer Deligne The world of Shakespeare has a new and raunchy angle in “Shakespeare’s *itches: The Musical”, a one-woman show performed by Kean professor Susanna Rich on May 7 and 8. Rich has composed a compilation of songs all written from the point of view of Shakespeare’s female characters. “Well I couldn’t call it Shakespeare’s bitches and think of myself of […]
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By Erica Weiss One look at Kean University professor Corinne Tighe is enough to tell that she is a dancer. Sitting in a hip flexor stretch on the floor in one of Kean’s stifling hot dance studios on a sunny April morning, everything from her lean, 5’7” frame to her long, curly, brown hair she kept up in a neat […]
Read moreBy Andrea Parr In a class on how to talk to children about sex, students discuss stages of sexual development and what parents should teach their children. So, should parents teach sexual skills? “What if they aren’t skilled?” responds one student. Human Sexuality is more than the typical sex-ed class as it delves past anatomy and into everything from relationships […]
Read moreBy Jennifer Deligne The Directors Workshop highlighted 13 students in the theatre department with their version of a final which involved directing short one-act plays. The directors had a chance to put their visions on stage with 2-3 chosen actors per play, some theatre students and others just wanting to act. The one-acts consisted of mostly comedies and a couple […]
Read moreBy Shelsie Ducheine It’s warming up at Kean University and the Cougars are out on the prowl. Sun dresses, shorts, and flip flops are slowly seeping out onto the cougars walk and by looking at the forecast, they will soon be out in full effect. Many students have been outward about the positive emotions about the weather and how alleviated […]
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By Andrea Parr In March the Staten Island Clown went viral on the Internet, and speculation grew as to who might be in the mask. Well, Kean students just might have class with the clown, or one of the men involved in creating the clown. “We did it just to prank friends. Then it started to explode, overnight it […]
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