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ReelAbilties online poster By Roman Gerus The audience was submerged in an ocean of tears during “Ocean Heaven,” a 2011 Chinese movie starring Jet Li, which played at the “ReelAbilities” film festival at the STEM auditorium at Kean. The movie’s emotional response reflected the real-life emotions and stories behind the message of this festival in “promoting awareness and appreciation of […]
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Kean University’s American Sign Language Club logo By Marco Rodriguez What do you get when you gather a group of college students in a room at Kean University’s East Campus? Silence. The students, all members of Kean University’s American Sign Language (ASL) Club, have devoted themselves to studying and mastering the silent form of communication on campus. With a mission […]
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Graduate student Laura Farrell in the classroom. By Christine Csaky As you walk around campus, you may pass 18-year old freshmen, 21 and 22-year old upperclassmen, and a lot of people who look like your parents. Are those people professors, other Kean employees, or are they your classmates? In 2011, the National Center for Education Statistics estimated that 2.5 million […]
Read moreBy Sade Cox Many New Jersey colleges and universities will soon ban the enforcement of default meal plan purchases while attending school. On Nov 13, 2014, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan (D-Union) proposed the bill (A2811) that passed under the state Assembly. Which, prohibited four-year public and independent higher education institutions, from requiring students to purchase meal plans and permit the schools […]
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Kean students work in a computer lab on campus By Daris Mendez Technology has rapidly become an important aspect of higher education and its use in classrooms has grown immensely. However, both students and faculty of Kean University are voicing their concern with the technology on campus. On Nov. 11, Kean’s Faculty Senate got together to discuss issues relevant to […]
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The conference table is located on the sixth floor of the Green Lane Building By Rebecca Panico The Student Government Organization is publicly defending the Kean University administration in its purchase of a $219,024 conference table, even as social media led by students continues to rage against the lavish Green Lane acquisition. The story of the conference table went viral […]
Read moreBy Nicole Brown Kean University’s faculty and students peacefully protested on campus December 3, mirroring protests in New York City after a grand jury failed to indict a police officer in the strangling death of Eric Garner. Garner died in Staten Island in July after a New York City Police officer put him in a choke-hold for allegedly selling single […]
Read moreBy Nicole Brown The controversy about changing the upcoming spring course-scheduling grid, seemingly to address parking problems, is over — but the issue is not dead. David Joiner, chairperson of the Faculty Senate, said that although the administration has rescinded its proposed course scheduling changes for spring semester, work still exists” to ensure that the needs of students are met […]
Read moreBy: Daris Mendez Dorm room whiteboards are usually used to communicate trivial things such as when your next floor meeting is or a reminder to clean up your dorm room before inspections. However, Nathaniel Sietz, senior Kean student, found a rather disturbing message on Oct. 6. Two swastikas and an X were marked on his whiteboard without a trace of […]
Read moreBy: Mak Ojutiku When Olayinka Gureje walked into his Kean University dorm for the first time this fall, he wasn’t impressed by what he saw. The curtains in his shower were dirty, trash bins were missing, and one of the two elevators in the building was broken. “It’s almost like they don’t prepare for us living here in the summer,” […]
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