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WATCH: Protesters demand Farahi’s resignation at rally

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By: Rebecca Panico | Published Dec. 12, 2015 About 70 people gathered across the street from the S.T.E.M. building at noon yesterday to call for Kean President Dr. Dawood Farahi’s resignation and highlighted alleged discrimination against faculty, staff and students. Several ministers and representatives from the NAACP, the Kean Federation of Teachers, the People’s Organization for Progress, NJ United Students and state […]

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Kean’s full-time faculty union to join ministers in tomorrow’s rally

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By: Rebecca Panico | Published Dec. 10, 2015 A coalition of ministers who have called for the university president to resign are expecting about 150 people to attend a rally tomorrow at noon by the S.T.E.M building which will highlight alleged discrimination at Kean. Members from the university’s full-time faculty union, the Kean Federation of Teachers (KFT), are expected to […]

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Police: McKelvey claims she’s received death threats; Former Student Org prez defends her

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By: Rebecca Panico | Published Dec. 2, 2015 The Union Township Police Department confirmed that Kayla-Simone McKelvey called Kean University police yesterday after she claimed that she received death threats. McKelvey, 24, was charged on a third-degree count of creating a false public alarm after allegedly posting threats to Twitter that threatened to shoot black students and claimed that a […]

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Ministers still demand Farahi’s resignation despite alleged hoax

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By: Rebecca Panico| Published Dec. 2, 2015 After an African-American Kean graduate was charged in connection with making Twitter threats against black students yesterday, a coalition of ministers is continuing to call for the resignation of President Dawood Farahi. “I called for his resignation after the Twitter feed but not because of the Twitter feed,” said Rev. Ronald Slaughter of […]

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Students recount events on campus last night, this morning after Twitter threats

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Scenes from campus on Nov. 18, 2015, the morning after a peaceful rally was held and then an anonymous Twitter user made violent threats online. Credit: Rebecca Panico By: Alyssa Davis | Published on Nov. 18, 2015 Students shared their thoughts about the racially charged Twitter threats and peaceful rally last night, with some feeling safe and others refusing to […]

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Kean community reacts to Twitter threats

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By: Rebecca Panico | Published Nov. 18, 2015 Many students and professors stayed home today even though Kean University remained open after an anonymous Twitter user threatened violence against black students on campus last night. The online threats were made while students held a sleep-in at 9:30 p.m. last night supporting students at University of Missouri (Mizzou), said Tanaera Green, […]

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Kean Joins NYC to Protest Garner Decision

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By 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 […]

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