Volume 85 (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014)
“American Idol” season 8 winner is unstoppable. Soulful pop singer, Kris Allen got the start of the weekend going at Encore Events Center in Freehold, NJ this past Friday night, Feb. 21. Allen made hundreds of his fans feel like they were in his living room with his setlist of new and old tunes.
A new graduate degree, Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS), created to teach students how to process, manage and store data, was approved and will be offered to students in fall 2014. The program is the first cross-school program available to students in the School of Science and the Leon Hess Business School.
For the first time in over 40 years, “The Tonight Show” is back in NY. The controversial move came after a succession of line-up changes by NBC, who finally announced last year that Jimmy Fallon would be replacing long-time host Jay Leno in late night television’s most coveted time slot. The “SNL” alumnou, famous for being one of the happiest people in Hollywood, was all smiles during his hugely-anticipated debut on Monday, Feb. 17.
Alpha Phi Sigma, the University’s Criminal Justice Honor Society, hosted their third annual “Paws for a Cause” fundraiser to raise money for bulletproof vests for the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit on Wednesday, Feb. 19.
Check out some of Hawk TV’s original programming this Friday and Saturday What the Hawk 2:00 am | 11:00 pm Shadow Showdown 1:35 am | 4:00 pm | 8:00 pm | 11:30 pm Save Point 3:30 am | 3:30 pm | 10:00 pm M-Squared 3:54 am | 7:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:30 am […]
The Winter Olympics have brought upon us a generation of seemingly fearless athletes intent on advancing through extreme feats such as snowboarding and slopestyle and half-pipe skiing. The intensity with which these athletes train to ultimately endanger their lives for the sake of the sport truly makes us wonder, what is the inherent difference between these risk taking competitors and the rest of the masses content with simply watching them on TV? The answer may verily lie within our DNA.
The University held its fourth annual Rock ‘N Raise event in Jules L. Plangere Jr. Center for Communication on Friday, Feb. 21 to raise funds for The American Cancer Society and Relay For Life. The student-run television station, Hawk TV, and the student-run radio station, WMCX, hosted the event and raised over $1,800, the largest profit gained in the history of the event.
Attending a new school can be a nerve wracking situation for many. It is a new surrounding with new people, new schedules and new experiences to adjust to. For transfer students at institutions all over, this is a commonly shared feeling of anxiety.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about money; thinking about all of the money that I could use to help myself out financially. With all of the school loans and car loans, it’s seriously enough to make my head spin, fall off, and roll all the way over to the bank to ask for some more money to pay off what I already owe. I’ve thought about all of the money that I wish I could use to surprise my mother with a new car to replace her old, beat up, raggedy soccer-mom minivan that barely gets her to the grocery store around the corner, and about all of the money that I could make if I chose a certain career path that, on average, almost guarantees a certain salary so I would never have to worry about monetary issues again.
The University’s Shadow PR Firm and Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter organized a flash mob in the Multipurpose Activity Center (MAC) during the men’s basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 22.