Approximately 200 rising juniors and seniors discovered last week that they had not received a time slot for campus housing selection. These students are left with a handful of options: sign up for a wait list and hope a space opens up, search for a place to live off campus or plan to make the [...]

As a photo tech, senior art education major Rachel Germann is accustomed to the College’s darkroom and lighting studio, where students take and develop black-and-white photographs. This semester, though, she’s spending a bit less time there.
Her hours have been reduced, partly as the result of College-wide budget cuts, she said. But she also pointed to [...]

Things are looking bleak.
Ezra died of dysentery. Sally, poor little Sally, you lost her to measles past Independence Rock. Your wagon is hundreds of miles from the next fort and an inexplicable fire annihilated your food supply.
The buffalo are overhunted, the oxen are underfed, and everyone is screwed. Life is hard enough on “The Trail.” [...]

Campus bathrooms are shared by scores of people on a daily basis — staff, faculty, students, visitors and potential enrollees — and the College is responsible for cleaning many of these facilities.
According to Edward Gruber, who recently assumed the position of interim supervisor for buildings and grounds, “Restrooms have the biggest priority because you’re [...]

He grew up in a Russian shtetl and planned to become a rabbi, but moved to America instead. As a young telegrapher, he was among the operators who received the Titanic’s original SOS message. During World War II, he earned the rank of general as a communications advisor for Eisenhower.
As the head of Radio Corporation [...]

Consider this: a student finishes the last water bottle in his 12-pack. It’s time to dispose of the plastic wrapping. He could throw it in the trash can, but he opts for the blue recycling bin — to do otherwise would be to waste plastic, right?
Wrong. He’s just contaminated the whole recycling bin, and now [...]

The College sold about 350 more commuter decals than it has commuter-only spaces this year. Some commuters are frustrated with perceived overcrowding in campus parking lots.
Jonathan Ruff, president of the Off-Campus Student Organization and sophomore civil engineering major, said a number of factors — the construction of the Art and Interactive Multimedia Building, which eliminated [...]

Tis the season to be geeky.
See the press-anointed film of the year, “The Social Network,” which heralds the slippage of cultural dynamism into the hands of the nerd clique. Or its remarkable summer cousin, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” a comic-inspired marriage of rock and RAM.
If Black Francis and Beck hadn’t had the time, scoring [...]

Prior to his CUB-organized comedy show on Oct. 3, comedian Lewis Black granted The Signal a sit-down. The Q&A, included below, touched on Black’s gripes with Glenn Beck, the iPhone and the state of Delaware, among other things.

It’s tempting to call Lewis Black a nutty professor, but don’t let the blubbering breakdowns fool you — the man is utterly lucid.
With his notorious, profanity-laden logic, the comedian picked apart some of the naughtiest words in America — abortion and taxes — and railed against every national absurdity from the health-care fight to the [...]

What better way to open “The Social Network,” a film about one of the decade’s most notorious young CEO, than with a riff off its fieriest rock album? The opening twang of The White Stripes’ “Ball and Biscuit” is a brilliant mission statement: like “The Social Network,” it tells the story of an angsty young [...]

Greg Caiola, a 1979 College graduate, knows that recent grads aren’t rolling in money — he didn’t pay off his student loans until he was 35.
Even so, he plays a key part in the College’s focused and increasingly essential campaign to generate financial support from alumni donors, young and old.  As a member of the [...]

In the wake of a $5.2 million reduction in state funding, the College is making an extensive effort to compensate.
Spurred by a 15 percent cut in public funds this year and a 6.3 percent (over $2 million) cut last year, the College administrators and the Board of Trustees are taking a number of short-term and [...]

New Jersey has a massive student-migration problem, and College administrators say lack of state funding is to blame.
According to data from the National Center for Education Studies (NCES), New Jesey loses more college students each year than any other state. In fall 2008, just 58 percent of freshmen who had recently graduated from high school [...]