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By John DeFreitas | Published November 8, 2023 Kean University is home to beautiful stadiums and arenas like Alumni Stadium, Jim Hynes Stadium, and Harwood Arena. Now, about three miles away starting in the fall of 2024, incoming golfers will call Galloping Hill Golf Course home. Kean President Lamont Repollet gave his opening day address before the fall semester and spoke of the […]
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By Kervin Coleman | Published November 8, 2028 The Kean Men’s basketball team has a redemption arc. Last season ended controversially for the Cougars, with an ill-fated jump shot by former small forward Letrell West as he simultaneously stepped out of bounds in the opening round of the NJAC Tournament. “We don’t want to go out like that this year and are using […]
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By Nefertiti Nzameyo | Published November 8, 2023 Students went to Wilkins Theatre earlier this month to hear author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha shed light on her latest book, “The Future Is Disabled.” The book was chosen as the freshman class’s Fall 2023 Common Read which accounted for a large freshmen attendance. The Common Read is a selected book assigned to first-year […]
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By Justin McDaniel | Published October 19, 2023 “ In totality, it took eleven and a half minutes, from the time the altercation started to the time the victim was transported to the hospital. And I can honestly say that time did save his life, or we could be having a different conversation right now.” That was the response from […]
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By John DeFreitas | Published October 17, 2023 The Kean Cougars Women’s Volleyball team (now 12-6, 4-0 in conference) showed up and showed out against the William Paterson Pioneers (13-4, 1-2 in conference) at home in Harwood Arena. It started with an extra point in the first set that pole-vaulted the Cougars to their 5th sweep of the season on […]
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By John DeFreitas | Published October 16, 2023 It only took 121 seconds for Anabel Makutonin to make her presence known with a goal, slotted in the bottom right corner of the net, during the Kean Cougars’ home opener from Alumni Stadium. It was Makutonin’s brace (two goals in one game) that led her to earn the early season award for […]
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By Nefertiti Nzameyo | Published October 16, 2023 In an Advanced Public Speaking class, enrolled Kean students introduced themselves to the class by presenting cultural speeches. It was the second class meeting, and many students had not put names to the faces of their fellow classmates yet. The culture speech provided the professor with an idea of each member’s speech abilities while also […]
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By Josephine Carrillo | Published October 16, 2023 On Sept. 21st, Morris Ave Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), a student-run public relations firm at Kean University, decided to collaborate with Find Your Anchor (FYA), a non-profit organization that aims to spread awareness and educate on suicide prevention, in honor of September being National Suicide Prevention Month. Find Your […]
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By Isabelle Guthrie | Published October 16, 2023 From Oct. 2 to Dec. 8, 2023, Kean University will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a momentous occasion for this document that made history. A mural called “WE DECLARE” by Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Roig will feature many leading human rights activists. Human Rights Institute Annual (HRI) Conference speakers and […]
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By Layah Lopes | Published October 16, 2023 Spirits are on the rise, and it’s not just because of Halloween. Founded just seven months ago, the Kean University Cheer Club is quickly gaining traction. To raise morale, sophomore Shukuran Adewole has collaborated with track and field and cross-country coach Daniel Todman to start a new cheerleading club at the university. The […]
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