As I am staring down the harsh reality of losing my childhood, and I write my last Cheap Seats article ever, I decided I would use this opportunity to defend myself and other Yankee fans.
Yankee fans are always getting criticized for being impatient, ungrateful and just generally obnoxious. In a lot of cases, I would [...]

The human element of music is something that cannot be duplicated or constructed with computer programs or schematics. But even still, the students of the interdisciplinary class, Conducting Robots, collaborated all semester to make a functioning robot that could conduct an orchestra.
On April 26 in the Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall, three different [...]

The most steady player for an inconsistent Lions team this season has been junior starting pitcher Connor Henderson.
In a road game against the No. 12-ranked Kean University last Friday April 9 he took matters into his own hands and picked up his second complete game victory of the season.
The College’s undisputed ace went the full [...]

Whether it was for the good cause or to see a childhood hero, students packed into WTSR’s “Laugh in the Face of Cancer” event hosted by Kel Mitchell on Thursday April 1 in Kendall hall.
Senior business management major Jason Cantor organized the event to raise money in honor of his mother.
“My mom was diagnosed with [...]

In response to the new health care bill that passed through Congress last March 21, the College community has been as split on the subject as the rest of the country.
College democrat President and junior political science, public policy/analysis/management and economics major Brian Block weighed in on the new bill and its effect it will [...]

In the lobby of the WTSR station in the basement of Kendall Hall, there sits one of Sega’s arcade classics — Golden Axe. The game was released back in 1989, when Kel Mitchell was 11, five years before his debut on Nickelodeon’s “All That.” Although he is now 31-years-old and it’s been almost 10 years [...]

The Lions experienced growing pains in the early part of the season. The College has three freshman starting in the field and a young staff struggling to get into a rhythm, and the team fell to 4-7 record rather quickly. But junior pitcher Connor Henderson and the offense rallied behind a large home crowd on [...]

As the weather outside begins to heat up, and the snow on the infield grass melts away, the Lions traveled to the warmer climate of Arizona over spring break to start the baseball season. But the College started the season unceremoniously as the team dropped six of its nine games despite being picked as the [...]

Paris-based video game developer Quantic Dream sought to create what it described as an “interactive drama” with the recent release of “Heavy Rain.” The end result was a very well-paced, beautifully designed psychological thriller that keeps the player hooked from start to finish.
“Heavy Rain” follows four seemingly unrelated characters: a broken-down man who has lost [...]

Through the trials and strains of training and competing in wrestling, bonds form between teammates. Athletes who were once strangers come together to battle through a season of both physical and emotional exhaustion. But for two Lions, those ties were bound more than a decade before they came to the College.
This season junior Ed Broderick [...]

February is a bitterly cold and unpleasant month. February usually seems to be the coldest month of the year, and we always see our fair share of blizzards and snowfall in the Northeast. But for a sports enthusiast, such as myself, February also means that there are no entertaining professional sports to watch until [...]

Although the College’s postseason hope had been extinguished Monday Feb. 15 by Kean University’s triple-overtime victory over Rowan University, the team was determined to send off its seniors with one last victory and the chance to finish the season with four more wins than the Lions’ previous mark lasst season.

Unfortunately for the College, senior forward [...]

The men’s basketball team had its back against the wall and was trailing the visiting Kean University Cougars 32-23 early in the second half of the Lions’ regular season home finale last Saturday, Feb. 13.
Although the team’s struggle would end up being all for naught a few days later, the Lions were determined to send [...]

The Lions were floundering last week with a chance to put some distance between them and the other teams in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) South Division. In four conference games, two at home and two away, the Lions only picked up one win and fell to third place in the South Division.
“We had [...]