The College is conducting a re-survey of student ethnicities according to the requirements set forth in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. Nationally, colleges must use the new categories in their Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) surveys starting next fall.
The College’s survey, which students can complete through PAWS, will act as a [...]

A case of mistaken identity over two decades ago changed two lives forever and resulted in an unlikely friendship. Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, authors of “Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption,” spoke to a full Kendall Hall on Monday March 15 about the wrongful conviction that brought them together.
The event included a [...]

Despite campus-wide concern, all students who applied for housing and paid the required deposit by the deadline were accommodated for the 2010-2011 school year.
The College was able to provide housing for all applicants primarily because of the reopening of Decker Hall, Bryan Dunphy-Culp, assistant director for housing, said.
Decker Hall, which was closed for renovations [...]

Speaker The Scary Guy delivered his anti-hate message to a full auditorium in Kendall Hall on Tuesday Feb. 23.
His lecture included a video, “The Scary Truth,” which showed images and newspaper headlines portraying hate and violence around the world, as well as audience participation.
Covered in tattoos, The Scary Guy has been a computer salesman, a [...]

The Chemistry Department received $500,000 for undergraduate research in organic chemistry from an anonymous donor.
The money was donated “by a friend of the department and a friend of the College who specified that it would be used to support faculty and student scholarship through research,” David Hunt, chairperson of the Chemistry Department, said.
When asked why [...]

Students and professors from Villanova University visited the College to show their documentary, “Price of Life,” on Wednesday Feb. 3 in the Library Auditorium.
Accompanying them were Robert Childs, the subject of the 40-minute film, Kofi Asante, executive director of the National Comprehensive Center for Fathers (NCCF) and Muhammad Shakur, education supervisor of NCCF.
Childs showed serious [...]

Fire safety policies at the College, like those of schools across the country, changed in response to the fire that killed three students at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. 10 years ago.
“The recent adoption of the International Fire Code, New Jersey edition, made several changes to the fire code, some of which come [...]

In an effort to aid victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti, the Haitian Students Association (HSA) is holding a drive for those effected by the devastation, which registered at 7.0 on the Richter scale. The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is co-sponsoring the drive.
For the next two weeks, HSA will collect “everything from [...]

Rising one spot from last year, the College ranked 23rd in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s “100 Best Values in Public Colleges 2009-10.” The top spot was awarded to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“The idea of value is particularly powerful,” said College President R. Barbara Gitenstein. “It combines cost with quality.”
According to the [...]

The Records and Registration office has been “inundated with e-mails” about problems students are having with PAWS, the new scheduling system, said Frank Cooper, director of records and registration.
One such student is sophomore civil engineering major Christian Zografos. “I can’t register for classes on PAWS because I’m a transfer student,” he said.
Since he did not [...]

Over 320 people attended Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s visit to the College on Tuesday, Oct. 27, according to sophomore Olaniyi Solebo, the Student Government Association’s (SGA) vice president for Legal and Governmental affairs.
Booker’s talk was “one of the most successful programs we’ve had, at least this year,” Solebo said.
The mayor’s stop at the College was [...]