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By Melissa Jewels You may have noticed some changes going on at Kean University’s bookstore. Kean has teamed up with Barnes and Noble Bookstore to better meet the needs of students when it comes to course books, advanced technology, school and dorm supplies, general reading books, and much more. One of the biggest issues Kean students have is high textbook prices. […]
Read moreBy Fatimah Sanford Sophomore and Trenton emcee Jaryd “Lewie2Stacks” Lewis, has been kicking rhymes and stealing the spotlight since the third grade. Since the age of eight, Lewie was making songs about money, cars and nice clothes, until his brother, “Roc” sprinkled him with some wise words that gave him just the spark he needed. “They like you when you rap, but they love […]
Read moreBy Xirena Wormley Freshman, transfer students and returning pupils alike arrived on campus Tuesday Sept. 4 for the first day of Kean University’s fall semester. The sidewalks were filled with new faces navigating their way to unfamiliar destinations. Many walked with their course schedule in one hand and a campus map in the other. The start of a new […]
Read moreBy Brian Konchalski It’s October during a leap year, and we all know what that means, another presidential campaign season is upon us. While this election season has taken a somewhat nasty turn with attack advertisements on each candidate, a never endings 24/7 new cycle, telling half truths, and one candidate sarcastically saying that Big Bird, from Sesame Street, is the reason why […]
Read moreBy Andrea Parr When Kean University graduate Edyta Drobniewska and her fiancée traveled to the Dominican Republic in June they were eager to see the countryside during their stay. It was then that she first encountered the discrepancies between life for those in a resort area and life not many see on vacation, that of the people who live below the poverty line. During a […]
Read moreBy Christy Petillo Kean University and the Chinese Government made huge strides when they came to the conclusion to build Kean’s first foreign campus at Wenzhou University in Zhejiang Province. Branching Kean University to China has been an aspiration of President Dawood Farahi for some time. In 2006, Kean officials had begun working towards establishing a campus in Wenzhou. It is intended that by 2016, the China campus […]
Read moreBy Dasia Brown The Kean volunteer group “Be the Change” is being allotted a grant from the Hess Corporation in the amount of $500,000 to help with Newark’s “A Hundred Gardens in A Hundred Days” project. This grant came after the July 7 memorial garden, named the “Rica Jenkins Garden”, located in one of Newark’s high crime areas South14th Street, was […]
Read moreBy Sonia Aquije Kean University students have mixed reactions about a new policy being enforced this semester that requires those taking video production classes to purchase a video camera. The cameras were once allowed to be rented out but the ongoing cycle of damaging and keeping them past their due date has contributed to the decision. The communication department’s […]
Read moreBy Christy Petillo Although Kean University has been placed on probation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, students and faculty members remain both hopeful and positive that Kean has made the necessary changes in order to remain an accredited university, echoing statements from a Middle States Visiting Team that said Kean appears in compliance with the four […]
Read moreBy Brian Konchalski The Board of Trustees, on September 17, voted to extend Dawood Farahi’s, President of Kean University, contract with the university for another five years. The board voted unanimously on the resolution, 10-0, extending Farahi’s contract until 2018 at his current salary of $293,550 a year, according to numbers obtained by The Star-Ledger. He is still eligible for […]
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