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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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Diversity panel discussion ends in chaotic scene

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By Celeste Simmons and Nicole Brown | Published on Dec. 10, 2015 Just hours after authorities charged Kean University alumna Kayla-Simone McKelvey on Dec. 1 with creating racially charged death threats on Twitter during an anti-racism rally, a university panel on diversity escalated into a chaotic event with angry questions from the audience. The university announced via email blast on […]

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A “Mature” Perspective at Kean

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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 […]

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Kean Meal Plans: No Longer a Forced Purchase

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By 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 student bids farewell to dorms

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By Dominique Vinas It’s every college student’s dream to live on campus and to have the full college experience that they see in movies. It’s fun at first but then, just like all other good things in life, it gets old. Marcia Calle, junior, argues that although she did enjoy living on campus in the residence halls, this year it […]

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The struggle of Kean students

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By Gillian Findley Loans, tuition, insurance, car payments, bills, food, gas, bus and train money; where is there an end for college students? The expression “I’m not made out of money” rolls off of college student’s tongues as often as modest “hello” and “how are you?” greetings. It doesn’t matter how hold you are or how much you make, the cost of […]

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