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By Alexander Valdes | Published by February 15, 2020 One of the most powerful forms of expression is through words, and it is through words that people will unify. On Jan. 30 inside the Green Lane building, an event was held by the Lesniak Institute in collaboration with the Holocaust Resource Center called “Standing up for the Other” dealing with the topic […]
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By Lena Zhu | Published by December 11, 2019 Kizito Kalima’s arms were tied behind his back — with a pistol to his head — as his Hutu captors led him to a slaughterhouse where all the other Tutsi villagers in Rwanda were. Then he laid eyes on a small red Nissan. The Hutu killers opened the trunk, threw his mother […]
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By Salimah McCullough | Published by December 3, 2019 Olake Muhammad, 22, was one in four women in America who experience domestic violence in their lifetime. Only she didn’t realize it until she was already seeing doctors and therapists from the aftermath of her abuser. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, “one in four women experience severe intimate […]
Read moreBy Siobhan Donaldson | Published by October 22nd, 2019 PRISM, Kean University’s LGBTQ+ activism club, will be running a tampon drive with the American Medical Women’s Association to collect menstruation products and educate students about period poverty, the Pink Tax, and healthcare for transgender individuals who menstruate. The event will be held between Oct. 21st-25th from 12-4 p.m., in various […]
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By Bhriana Smith | Posted October 15, 2015 From Staten Island, NY, Qaudir Ishmael Johnson started playing football at the age of five, where he played for the Staten Island Boys, a football youth league. At the age of 10, Johnson started playing for the Staten Island Hurricanes. On that team Johnson had a myriad of positions, including running back […]
Read moreJoe Mendes, former playmaker for the Cougars By Mak Ojutiku “Hey, she looks just like me don’t she?” he says grinning. At first it’s hard to see a resemblance between Joseph Mendes and his daughter. After all, she’s a little three-month-old girl and he’s a towering 25-year-old linebacker. On closer inspection though, you can see some of the elder Mendes […]
Read moreBy Matthew Brittain It’s a beautiful sunny day in the middle of summer. The temperature is in the 80s and there is a nice swift breeze. Why not jump out of a plane? In the 1700s Bill Booth invented a three-ring release safety device, which allows a skydiver to cut away from a malfunctioning parachute and be able to deploy the backup […]
Read moreBy Annalise Knudson Being diagnosed with a physical disability at a young age has not stopped Caitlin Goerlich from devoting more time and effort to the sports she loves to play. Track and field, table tennis, archery and fencing are just a few of the sports that Goerlich, junior, has been participating in for the past 14 years. Pursuing these sports has taught […]
Read moreBy Gabrielle Gale Prendatt-Carter Michael A. Worlds, a Kean College graduate and member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., is the acting Associate Director of Transfer Student Services at Kean University. Worlds received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Kean College in 1986. Upon completion of his degree, Worlds was hired as the Assistant Director in Undergraduate Admissions at Kean […]
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