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Jennifer Hererra (Cougar) poses with Kean University police officer and K9 Credit: Jennifer Hererra By Angel Ospina | April 29, 2016 You see the Cougar strolling around campus with enthusiasm trying to get the crowd pumped regardless of the event. The Kean Cougar is constantly dancing, waving, jumping and taking pictures with the same smirk upon its face. When it […]
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By: Gail Fredricks | Published April 29, 2016 Student Organization failed to field candidates for some key positions in the recent election, but despite the low voter turnout history was made: Emily Cubilete was elected as Kean’s first female president. Just nine percent of the student body voted in the election, but missing from the ballot were candidates for the […]
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By: Gail Fredricks | Published April 12, 2016 Over 1,400 students took to CougarLink on April 5 and 6 to elect officers for the full-time undergraduate Student Organization and the Graduate and Part-Time Student Council (GPSC), but several positions remain vacant since there were no candidates. Emily Cubilete was voted in as the full-time undergraduate president, while Lawrence Owens was […]
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By Rebecca Panico | Published March 7, 2016 Kayla Simone McKelvey, the Kean alum accused of making threats against black students on campus via Twitter in November, was denied entry into a probation program, according to NJ Advance Media. Instead, Union County Assistant Prosecutor Shawn Barnes recommended a plea bargain, which would result in a six-month jail term in exchange […]
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By Redina Demushi | Published March 3, 2016 Student loan debt has become a central issue in debates for the Democratic and Republican nominations for president, but not all Kean students are for free college. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is running against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, has stressed the idea of making public higher education free for everyone in the United States, […]
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By Gail Fredricks | Published on Feb. 18, 2016 Kean University’s Student Organization is now accepting applications for upcoming open positions. Applications have been available since Feb. 5 and the deadline to submit applications is March 4 at 2 p.m. Student Organization, as shown in their mission statement, “strives to enhance the intellectual, cultural, and personal growth of those is […]
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By: Rebecca Panico | Published Dec. 31, 2015 A year after news of Kean University’s $219,024 conference table went viral, the apparatus has generated over $22,000 for the school through rentals, the university said in a statement. Now, retired finance executive and 1970 Kean alumnus William Loehning has donated $250,000 to “underwrite” the conference table. The Green Lane Building’s sixth-floor […]
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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 […]
Read moreBy Rebecca Panico on March 27, 2015 About 20 students demonstrated inside and outside the University Center on March 12, hoping to bring attention to alleged racist comments of a Kean professor, a supposedly unsupportive Student Government Organization and other national issues currently facing black Americans. Students gathered in a circle in front of the UC at approximately 3 p.m. […]
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