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By Blanca Mora With Donald Trump elected as president to run the country again, Kean University activists and The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA) recipients are expressing anxiety over how his policies could affect their lives and the place the called home. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was established in 2012 as a temporary solution to […]
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By: Layah Lopes With the Holidays coming as a student, you might be dealing with two significant decisions: what to give and what to get. With school taking up portions of the day, raising the money to buy gifts for all your loved ones might be challenging. We compiled a list of cheap and easy gifts to give and some […]
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By Davaughnia Wilson | Published March 3, 2023 Pride. That’s what I feel every day as I commute to Kean University. Knowing that I have accomplished much more than I could ever imagine and that I have been a stellar student. That pride was replaced by fear for just a split second when I received an email from the Dean’s […]
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By Davaughnia Wilson | Published November 17, 2022 High School is supposed to be momentous. When we walk across the stage at the end of our high school careers, we are promised a brighter future and a successful journey by our administrators. For me, it was no different. I had an idea of what I wanted to do with my […]
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By Julia Strugala Lambda Pi Eta is the National Communications Association’s official honor society that has more than 500 active chapters at four year colleges nationwide. Kean University is one of them and the induction ceremony was held on Thursday, April 28. Back in February, The Communications Department sent out an email to all students in the School of Communication, […]
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By Cindy Lazo | Published April 15, 2022 Easter season has often been associated with spring, egg hunts, Easter eggs and of course the Easter Bunny–in my case, however, this is a period of sacrifice and abstinence. The practice of fasting and obligated dietary abstinence was something I had been practicing since I was young. It is a religious observation […]
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By Valerie Sanabria | Published by April 15, 2021 After a semester studying Cervantes’ writing and going through a terrible break up I learned that “True love has no conditions” as Dr. Gregory Shepherd, World-Languages Coordinator at Kean, constantly repeated during one of the many literature classes I took with him during the last two years. I’m not sure how […]
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By Zoe Strozewski, Editor-in-Chief | Published by September 1, 2020 As we begin the fall semester, I want to impart a critical plea to my fellow students: do not treat this semester like semesters of the past because it is the opposite of ordinary. The consequences of irresponsible student behavior and a COVID-19 outbreak on campus could be devastating to […]
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By Zoe Strozewski, Editor-in-Chief | Published by June 5, 2020 Kean University frequently likes to tout its status as one of the most diverse schools in the country. In fact, that statistic is front and center on the Kean website’s home page. However, the Kean community only heard crickets from the school administration for days after George Floyd was murdered. […]
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By Anastasia Zhelezova | Published by May 5, 2020 The Strokes’ most recent album The New Abnormal, produced by Rick Rubin, was released on April 10, 2020, and the title could not be more fitting of what life looks like today. With people required to stay home and self isolate from their loved ones during this strange and stressful time, […]
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