Kean community reacts to dreadlock ruling in the South

By Joshua Rosario Kean students and faculty weighed in on a recent court ruling in the South which favored a company that fired a black woman because of her dreadlocks. The Equal Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on behalf of Chasity Jones, an employee at an Alabama- based insurance company called Catastrophe Management Solution, after she was told she couldn’t […]

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Kean Police Department secures campus in wake of false alarms

By Cody Louie Kean University police responded to three reports of suspicious packages on campus, with the latest occurring on Oct. 13 which led to the evacuation of the Green Lane Building. A suspicious package was found near the Union train station around 10 a.m. on Oct. 13 when authorities decided to evacuate the building. The Union County Bomb Squad […]

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Senioritis: An excuse to slack off or a real condition?

By Babatunde Dahunsi | Published Oct. 25, 2016 Senioritis — a colloquial expression used by students in their last year of college who are eager to graduate, but lose the motivation to give 100 percent toward their studies — can spread like wildfire for students who take more than the traditional four years to graduate. The definition of what it means […]

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Taco outfit wins best costume at Cougar Color 5K run

By Mike Roche | Published Oct. 24, 2016 The sun shone on Kean University on Oct. 16 for the 2016 Nathan Weiss Memorial Cougar Color 5K. Dr. Jeffrey Beck, dean of the Weiss Graduate School, presided over the race and kept everything running smoothly. “It’s going great, we’ve got perfect weather for the run.” said Beck. He spoke about the […]

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Kean drops health insurance plan for students

By Rebecca Panico | Published Oct. 22, 2016 Kean stopped providing health insurance to students this fall and is instead directing them to the Affordable Care Act website, more commonly known as Obamacare. The change comes in the wake of state legislation from 2013, which sought to make higher education more affordable by nixing the requirement that students needed health […]

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Kean group rewards Elizabeth heroes after bomb incidents

By Rebecca Panico | Published Oct. 22, 2016 When Prof. Norma Bowe heard of the bombs found near the Elizabeth train station on Sept. 18, it bothered her that the two men responsible for alerting police of the danger were known only as homeless. “Anyone can be a hero, even someone homeless,” said Bowe, founder of Be the Change, a […]

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