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By Gillian Findley Puffs escape and disappear from the mouths of students standing and chatting in front of Kean University buildings like the CAS, the UC and the library. Students and faculty loosen their day by smoking either cigarettes or the now trendy: E-cigs. As the weather gets warmer, the more mists and clouds of smoke are exposed. Electronic […]
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By Sade Cox What started as “just an idea,” is blossoming into a different kind of womanhood on campus. The women of The Black Rose Society of Kean University offer an excellent opportunity for women of all nationalities on campus to change society’s views on women today. The club was first introduced in Fall 2013 and has been going […]
Read moreBy Jazzmin Cox “Road to Becoming a Lawyer” kicked off on Wednesday, April 2 as Kean University Pre-Law Society Organization’s first event. The event was held at Kean University’s Center for Academic Success Building Lecture hall as an endeavor to help inspiring lawyers understand what is needed to succeed in a career in Law. The event was held in […]
Read moreBy 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 […]
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