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By, Kristen DeMatos on Sept. 28, 2015 Twenty years ago, Friends was one of the hottest new television shows on the air. Throughout the series, one of the main characters, Chandler, discusses his parents and their divorce. He explains the divorce was caused by infidelity and his father being gay. In later seasons, we finally meet Chandler’s father and discover […]
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By Rose Marie Kitchen on Sept. 28, 2015 A new way of getting from point A to B is hitting the streets and college campuses across the country. The days of casually walking to class are starting to become extinct. We’ve seen bicycles, skateboards, longboards, and now the new hover board/glider trend has arrived. The boards are described as a […]
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By: Rebecca Panico on Sept. 26, 2015 Kean University was ablaze with school spirit today as thousands of prospective students and their families flooded the campus for the Fall 2015 Undergraduate Open House. This was the largest open house the university has hosted, attracting nearly 4,500 people today, said Kean spokeswoman Susan Kayne. Attendees were greeted at Harwood Arena — which was […]
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By Yayonah Bangura on Sept. 24, 2015 The Liberty Hall farm is looking for volunteers to help plant and tend to the variety of crops being grown on Kean’s land. About a year ago, Kean teamed up with the “Come Grow with Us” program of Groundwork Elizabeth, an organization that builds food-producing gardens around Union County. Kean’s urban farm […]
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Photo credit: Rebecca Panico By: Nicole Brown on Sept. 24 National nonprofit organization 10 Billion Lives, which campaigns against human consumption of animal produce, paid Kean University students one dollar each to watch a four minute video on animal cruelty outside the University Center on September 23rd and 24th. Students gathered around four touch screen monitors and watched the mournful video […]
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By: Rebecca Panico on Sept. 24, 2015 Officials confirmed that a Kean University student died Wednesday after sustaining injuries in a car crash in Caldwell, N.J. earlier this week, NJ Advance Media reported. Devon Smith, 22, of Newark, N.J., was the driver of the 2015 Ford Mustang that crashed into a telephone pole and tree, authorities told NJAM. The fatal […]
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Ursino, located in the S.T.E.M. building, utilizes a farm-to-table model using ingredients from Liberty Hall’s nearby four-acre farm. By: Rebecca Panico on Sept. 16, 2015 Ursino, Kean University’s fine-dining restaurant inside the S.T.E.M. building, has been temporarily closed for renovations, according to the restaurant’s website. “Starting September 8, 2015, we will be closed while we undergo renovations,” the restaurant’s website […]
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By: Rebecca Panico on Sept. 16, 2015 The Kean Federation of Teachers protested impending layoffs for student services’ staff during the Board of Trustees Sept. 14 meeting where university President Dr. Dawood Farahi’s employment contract was extended. About 30 people from the Center for Academic Success (CAS), Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) and library are expected to be laid off as a result of a […]
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By: Rebecca Panico on Sept. 8, 2015 University officials voted to increase tuition and fees for the 2015-16 academic school year by 3 percent, up $337 from the previous year, following suit with rising costs at some nearby public universities. Yearly tuition and fees at Kean for an in-state, full-time student who commutes now amounts to $11,580, up from $11,243 […]
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Kean University Class of 2014 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. By Bhriana Smith It is May, and in the world of college students, it is the end of a long, safe, pre-determined path that most of us have followed: go to high school, go to college, then graduate. Now that you have made it to the end, the […]
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