Is vaping the new nicotine addiction?

By Chelsey Jaipersaud | Published by May 15, 2019 Twenty-three-year-old Dylan was a senior in high school, smoking cigarettes almost every day and unaware of the damage it could cause until he saw a commercial of a young boy playing catch with his Dad. Realizing the importance of a healthy future he quit cigarettes and now vapes.   Vaping has grown in popularity […]

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Holocaust Survivor shares life story

By Erin McGuinness | Published by April 5, 2019 Kean University students and community members gathered in the Miron Student Center Little Theatre April 4 to listen to the testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Fred Heyman was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. He lived through twelve years of The Nazi’s power, he said. Heyman took audience members on the journey […]

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Kean students raise money for animal shelter for group project

By Bhriana Smith | Posted on April 26, 2016 When Kean students take Group Communication, a course required by the Communications Department, students must form groups and find a way to give back to their community together. Students from Professor Allison Edgely’s course hosted an event titled KUPLAYFURPAWS on Thursday, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Miron Student Center game room. […]

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‘Ground Surge’ cites America’s freedom fighters

By Annalise Knudson | Posted on March 3, 2016 For the past 10 years, Syd London has been documenting freedom fighters in the United States using her camera. Her photographs focuses on people of all different cultures including: low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, inter-sex, gender non-conforming (LGBTQIGNC), people-of-color communities, disabled people and most recently, Two-Spirit Native Americans. London also […]

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Students, rally organizers react to McKelvey charges

By Nicole Brown | Published on Dec. 10, 2015 Many in the Kean community had mixed reactions when they learned via email on Dec. 1 that Kayla-Simone McKelvey, a May 2015 graduate, was charged in connection with making racially-charged threats on Twitter during a campus protest against racism. McKelvey, 24, was one of several students who participated in the demonstration […]

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To train or not to train?

Kim Kardashian’s instagram post: Captioned “On set using my @premadonna87’s waist trainer before I shoot!” By Celeste Simmons Trends come and go, some being better than others, but one of the most recent trends is not as great or beneficial to one’s health as it may seem. The waist-training craze has been sweeping the nation among women of all shapes and sizes. Starting […]

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Social media and the law: think before you send

C.L.A.S.S. ‘Computing and the Law’ event flier By Sade Cox The Campus Life Activities for Student Success at Kean University, also known as C.L.A.S.S., sponsored a lecture on the laws of communicating online at the Little Theater on Feb. 26. Since the early beginnings of Myspace, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram have become the new form of communication among students, who […]

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