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By Greg Patuto | Published Feb 8, 2017 On Wednesday, January 25, 2017, students, alumni, staff, family and friends lined up inside the Harwood Arena in anticipation for the biannual Spring 2017 Meet the Greeks. Doors for this event opened at 5 p.m. and the festivities ranged from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. With music blaring inside the gymnasium, the fraternity […]
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By : Brittany Pavlichko | Published Feb 8, 2017 When Leslie LaFronz, field hockey head coach overheard Margie Acker, head softball coach at Kean University tell her about her brother’s son who has a brain tumor, LaFronz took it upon herself to join together with the Kean athletics to raise money. “Do not take anything for granted, enjoy every moment you […]
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By Monica Sudfield | Published Feb. 8, 2017 Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching and before we know it, it will be upon us. Although many people celebrate the holiday by showing their admiration for their significant other, many people feel it is a pointless celebration. What some fail to realize is that Valentine’s Day is not only celebrated between couples, […]
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By Joshua Rosario | Published Feb. 8, 2017 Kean University’s Union campus was hit with a power outage during a storm on Monday, Jan. 23. Around 6:30 p.m., the power went out on Salem Rd., Green Lane, and adjacent streets around the University. The new North Ave. building was not affected by the outage. It was the first day of […]
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By Mike Roche | Published Feb. 8, 2017 Some Kean students and professors joined the hundreds of thousands of Americans who marched in Washington, D.C., New York and other cities across the country to stand up for civil rights and express their fears about President Donald Trump on Jan. 21. “It has been clear to me since the day after […]
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Photo credit: Cody Louie By Cody Louie | Published Feb. 1, 2017 Students and faculty attended the annual start of Black History Month on campus today with speakers, live music, art and food in the Center for Academic Success building. Director of the Office of Africana Studies Dr. James Conyers led the raising of the Pan-African flag outside the Miron Student Center […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published Jan. 30, 2017 Kean University President Dawood Farahi today asked the the Trump administration to reconsider an executive order which restricted immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. “The University community understands and supports the need of the federal government to protect U.S. citizens,” Farahi said in a statement sent to all students, faculty and staff. […]
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Photo credit: Rebecca Panico Rebecca Panico | Published Jan. 30, 2017 A Muslim Kean student joined hundreds of protesters at a detention center in Elizabeth yesterday to rally against President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration. “We have to keep fighting!” shouted Asmaa Abdalla, a biology major at Kean, to much applause from her friends. “We have to keep protesting! […]
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By Craig Epstein | Published Dec. 20, 2016 Kean University Head Field Hockey Coach Leslie LaFronz was named New Jersey Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Only one other coach in Kean’s history has earned such an award, and that was Renee Clark back in 1994. “I am honored to receive Coach of the Year honors as I believe this […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published Dec. 18, 2016 Common, the rap artist who was set to speak at Kean’s 2015 commencement before being pulled, told a caller on WNYC radio Friday he “was disappointed” he didn’t get to speak at the university. The administration changed commencement speakers last year after New Jersey State Police expressed outrage over a song the […]
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