News

The Outlook won The Best Overall Newspaper (non-daily publication) in the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Excellence in Journalism Competition as the newspaper that best represents its community.

The University’s Student Government Association (SGA) is launching The Nest, a food pantry that will be open later this semester to provide non-perishable items to serve food insecure students on campus.

Students received an e-mail on July 16 from Residential Life explaining that the staff will be conducting a pilot program for gender-neutral housing in Beechwood Hall this fall semester. 

An email containing a phishing scam was sent to students and faculty over the summer on July 17.

The Department of Communications and its student-run clubs held its first “Communication Kickoff” event in the lobby of the Jules Plangere Center on Wednesday, Sept. 5.

The free EZ Ride Shuttle service at Monmouth University will be discontinued due to budget concerns and a lack of riders on Sept. 30.

Four women have made me the woman I am today: Rapunzel, Elle Woods, Carrie Bradshaw, and my Mother. Okay, maybe I shouldn’t owe my entire personhood to three fictional characters, but hear me out.

If anything has defined my time here at Monmouth, it’s The Outlook. For the past four years, this newspaper has been my family. I started writing for this paper the first week of my freshman year and just never stopped, and now I find myself writing half a dozen stories per week. However, without some of the amazing people here, I would have never lasted this long. Being a part of this newspaper really did change my life, and I’m so thankful to anyone who ever stepped foot in the newsroom for the part they played in that.

We say goodbye again, flicking memories back and forth over wet asphalt. The rains come every year, maybe not this hard, but we’re always jolted by the wet embrace. The dry winter laced with books, papers, cracked skin, dusty wine, and promises the cold freezes and keeps, thaws.