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Your roommate isn’t who you thought they would be, and now you’re hiding away in the library or bathroom hoping for a change. Is it too late to switch? Will the awkwardness pass? Or will you be stuck with a problem child until May?

Starting classes. Making friends. Mounds of homework. These and many more things are the cause of stress for millions of students returning to college and arriving for the first time. There are different types of stress that can affect students, which can ultimately affect their performance at school and their mental health.      

Leather jackets, combat boots, ripped jeans: the quintessential “rocker” outfit. And the best thing about this apparel? It emerges in the fall, amongst the changing leaves and the dropping temperatures.

I remember when I was young, growing up I wanted so desperately to be older- I would drag my little feet around the house in someone else’s high heels, rub bright crimson lipstick across my lips, eventually smearing it on everything I touched. Being the youngest of four older half sisters, I looked at them as adults, not siblings. I wanted to be like them: traipsing around with significant others, graduating high school, being their own people–just like the movies. I didn’t know that when I got older, it came with a number of other things less glamorous than walking the halls hand in hand with friends. But, still, here I am today, looking back on the years I’ve spent wishing to be older, more mature, having an aura of seriousness and elegance that I couldn’t even imagine having, let alone deserving.

Playing for Change (PFC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded in 2007 by Mark Johnson, a producer and Grammy-winning engineer and award-winning film director, and Whitney Kroenke, a continuing advocate and participant in the arts.

With the recent rise in popularity of e-cigarettes, vape pens, and JUULs, a new conversation has started that questions their effects on user health.

The HERO Club has recently decided that the tradition of naming one student as Monmouth University’s Designated Driver of the Year does not represent the pulse of the campus community. 

Sexuality, Pride, Education, Community, Truth, Respect and Unity at Monmouth (S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M.) hosted its second annual Diversity Open Mic Night on Tuesday, April 10 in Magill Commons.

The Youth Activist Club hosted their annual Battle of the Charities event on Sunday, April 8 at the Library Lawn to raise money for various local charities.

As college students, sometimes we have to juggle several things at once while still taking a full course load, student athletes have an extra ball that they have to juggle.