Sammi Ragenklint earns spot at NCAA Nationals, men and women’s team score best team performances in school history. On Friday, November 13, the men and women’s cross-country team competed at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.It was a historic weekend for the Hawks, junior […]
Publication: Volume 94 (Fall 2021 - Spring 2022)
Red (Taylor’s Version) Left Swifties All Too Unwell
“Taylor really meant it when she said ‘it feels like one of those nights we won’t be sleeping,’” joked a fan after seeing the track list of all thirty (30) songs on Red (Taylor’s Version). For the uninitiated, Taylor Swift has been systematically going through all her studio albums prior to Lover and re-recording them, […]
Incoming: Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
As a lifelong fan of the Pokémon series, and more specifically a sucker for the remakes of original games, the impending release of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is beginning to take shape and it can’t come soon enough. The oft-memed-about remakes to the fourth generation of Pokémon games, Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl […]
9-1-1: Diversity & Inclusion on Network TV
To those who are as familiar with showrunner Ryan Murphy as I am, he is the mastermind creator of American Horror Story, another recent darling of American television. However, viewers should not go watch 9-1-1 with the expectation of an American Horror Story spinoff.Rather, 9-1-1 is a drama and action TV series following Station 118 […]
Adapting to a Sustainable Mindset
The recent push for sustainability has been noticeable, to say the least. No matter where you come from, you have undoubtedly gotten your plastic, single-use straws from a fast food drive through along with your food wrapped in a similar single-use, thin plastic bag. In fact, the space of single-use plastics in our lives is […]
Blue Hawk Records Artist of the Week: Samantha Spano
Samantha Spano, a freshman music industry student and country singer-songwriter, recently recorded music with Blue Hawk Records. Spano got into music from a very young age; she started playing piano when she was five and guitar when she was eight. She grew up with influences such as Taylor Swift and Shania Twain, rooting her in […]
First-Generation Student Spotlight: Briana Vazquez-Torres
First-generation college student. Does that word ring a bell? A first-gen student is an undergraduate enrollee whose parents do not have a bachelor’s degree. Many of these students typically come from underrepresented ethnic groups or from low-income families, but do not let those factors stop them from being the first in their family to graduate […]
Time to Make Plans
During my childhood, it was a common practice for my school to go into “lockdown” at least once a month. Some places practice tornado drills, other places practice earthquake drills, but I practiced active shooter and bomb drills. I remember these drills clearly. I remember the code that my district used to signal lockdowns, I […]
Expectations Not Met
Life has changed drastically since the start of the pandemic, and it continues to change. In the beginning of 2020, we were attending school like we always had. Completing work, maintaining a social life, and attending classes was all I knew. When the pandemic hit, students and teachers had to learn to adjust to the […]
University Police Captain Warns of Scammers
Dean Volpe, CHPP, Captain of the Monmouth University Police Department, sent out a campus-wide email addressing numerous attempts by scammers to steal money from University students, staff, and faculty. “Helping you to avoid falling prey to these scams is a priority of the Monmouth University Police Department,” Volpe wrote. To that end, I am writing […]