Artist and teacher’s art displayed at Kean’s library

By Melissa Jewels   If you have not been in the library to see Steven Speeney’s peculiar, yet, inviting art display, you really haven’t reached your full potential to appreciate art. Speeney’s art, which is merely pieces of ceramic and wood with a unique style or pattern, require no glue to fit together. Speeney’s approach to art is different to say the least. His pieces […]

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Kean hosts first annual Relay for Life

By Andrea Parr   A test, a beat, a dash, with these three words Lindsay Zaccardi captivated the room at Kean University’s first Relay for Life on Oct. 7. Attending as a cancer survivor, Zaccardi, a junior at Kean, gave one of the opening speeches on living with cancer, the importance of friends and family and her three life motivators. […]

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LeAnn Rimes brings country to Kean University

By Sonia Aquije   LeAnn Rimes, the country/pop star who has sold some 37 million albums, will grace Kean University’s Enlow Recital Hall with an acoustic performance on Oct. 26. The American singer is on tour from October 2012 to March 2013 to promote the release of her 12th studio album “Spitfire”this spring. Rimes said in an interview with New Castle News that she […]

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State Senator speaks about ending the death penalty

By Xirena Wormley   Byron Halsey, an African-American man, was convicted of murdering two children and although the prosecution pushed for the death penalty at the time, he was sentenced to life. Years later, it was discovered that Halsey was, in fact, innocent. Had he been sentenced to death he would have been wrongfully killed. The story was told by state Sen. Raymond Lesniak (DUnion), who was the honored speaker on Oct. 9 in […]

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Dr. James Connor—author and professor

By Melissa Jewels   Dr. James Connor is a successful author and professor English at Kean University. He has had five of his nine books publishes and now, in between authoring books and his professorship at Kean, he is embarking on a new endeavor as a publisher. Connor, who teaches World Literature and Creative Writing, writes both fiction and non-fiction. […]

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Sesame Street still changing lives today

By Thomas Antonelle   Now a father of two, Joseph Mazzarino has transformed the way young African-American girls feel about there hair. A director, puppeteer, and head writer for Sesame Street, Mazzarino was introduced to this issue when he and his wife adopted their first daughter from Ethiopia. “I started to notice when she was four that she was having a problem with her […]

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