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By Joshua Rosario | Published by April 13,2018 Turning 30 hovers over you like the unpleasant and lingering smell of Axe Body spray. Everyone you know reminds you you’re turning 30. I can’t help but wonder if they think I can’t keep count. You would think I stopped counting at 21. I have never been that drunk… at least this […]
Read moreBy Donia Zaky | Published by March 16, 2018 T-minus 30 minutes until an assignment is due, anxiety is building; rushing. Time seems to be speeding up– one can only type so fast. Racing with time, most college students find themselves sighing in disappointment. “Why did I wait so long?” “Will I ever change?” “I have to start managing my […]
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By Jennifer Padilla | Published by March 16, 2018 A group of friends and I were sitting at Kean Starbucks having coffee and reading some of President Trump’s tweets. Occasionally, we find typos and grammatical errors on them and we talk about it for days wishing we could somehow hit an edit button and fix them. Criminal justice major Steven […]
Read moreBy Jennifer Padilla | Published by Jan. 29, 2018 Despite the desperate islanders’ attempts to not only escape the poverty in which hurricane Maria has left them in, but also the economic crisis that was already present in Puerto Rico, I—on the contrary— want to move back to the commonwealth. According to Pew Research Center, the Puerto Rican population has […]
Read moreBy Josh Palgi | Published Jan. 29, 2018 College is called the best four years of your life. Exercise could make the college experience less stressful and more enjoyable with endless short and long term benefits. So, what percent of college students exercise regularly? Only 50.4 percent of males and 39.9 percent of female students met these recommendations. Is it […]
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By Joshua Rosario | Published Jan. 29, 2018 We all want to be healthier in our food choices. We all ask for salads but we really want fries. In a perfect world, we would be stuffing our fat little faces with all that greasy goodness all the time without worry of calories. Sadly, this is not a perfect world and […]
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By Rafaela Teixeira | Published Jan. 2, 2018 I have read countless posts online about how unfair and ridiculous it is to have copious amounts of assignments due around Thanksgiving break. As a third-year college student, I have come to the conclusion that semesters are constructed around this very special holiday. A typical fall semester usually goes like this: In […]
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By Dr. Josh Palgi | Published Nov. 28, 2017 Every year on the third Tuesday of November, smokers across the nation take part in the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout — an annual event that encourages smokers to make a plan to quit or to plan in advance and quit smoking on that day. The 42nd annual Great American […]
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By Gail Fredricks| Published March 3, 2017 As a college student, it’s always interesting to see the difference in number of students in the classroom in the beginning of the semester from the number of students still standing strong towards the end of the semester. Earnest and eager, it’s like the first day of kindergarten. We all dress in our best […]
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By Daniel Rego | Published Feb. 9, 2017 Irony is not dead, but is living quite well. Take, for example, members of the free world bemoaning the death of an authoritarian tyrant. Fidel Castro, the pretend president of Cuba, died last November. Yet while the Cuban exiles who formerly lived under him celebrated in the streets of little Havana, many […]
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