Do you remember when Weezer was good? I know I do.
Despite their geeky veneer, these four guys from Los Angeles were effortlessly and unassailably cool. It certainly didn’t hurt that they wrote incredibly smart and catchy music.
Even frontman Rivers Cuomo’s iconic horn-rimmed glasses, laughable bowl cut and bizarre lyrics about “12-sided die” and consenting to [...]

Julianna White, senior communication studies major, missed class on Monday. When her professors asked her why, she had a good excuse, something they had likely never heard before — she had just won Miss New Jersey.
It sounds far-fetched, like a homework-eating dog, but several published news articles and radio broadcasts would confirm the veracity of [...]

When students entered the TCNJ Art Gallery of the Art and Interactive Multimedia building last Monday Sept. 20, it was like walking into Aimee Bender’s own literary universe. The gallery provided a surreal atmosphere — the white room was lambent, and emotionally evocative paintings and strange sculptures lined the walls.
Bender began the first installment of [...]

Sometimes when two people kiss in public it’s difficult to look away. When two people are kissing to break a Guinness World Record it’s nearly impossible to ignore.
When Matty Daley, senior English major, and Bobby Canciello, sophomore interactive multimedia major, decided to break the record for the world’s longest kiss, they were fueled by a [...]

Rachid Kalla, freshman mechanical engineering major, is an out-of-state student. In fact, he is from so far out-of-state that he had to take a plane over the Atlantic
Ocean just to get here.
After narrowing down his choices to schools on the east coast, Kalla ultimately chose the College because its size and close community reminded him [...]

Getting into a competitive college is no cakewalk — but sometimes a controlled pirouette or convincing daru can’t hurt your chances. Two of the College’s newest students danced their way through high school and straight into the class of 2014.
In 2008, Gayatri Oruganti, freshman sociology and international studies double major, joined 328 other dancers in [...]

Professionalism was paramount as members of the College’s brass ensemble took the stage in Kendall Hall on April 18 dressed entirely in black and white to deliver an eclectic array of music.
The ensemble included renditions of the work of John Philip Sousa, Léo Delibes, Quinto Maganini, Chris Hazell, Felix Mendelssohn, Giovanni Gabrieli and Ronald Lo [...]

Who wrote the diary? Was it Sam Ward? Was it William Hurlbert? Was it really even a diary in the first place?
Historians had been asking these questions for nearly 150 years before two professors at the College, David Holmes and Dan Crofts, unraveled the mystery once and for all.
The text in question is what has [...]

In stark contrast to the beautiful spring weather, students filed into the Library Auditorium on April 7 to hear Pulitzer prize nominee Christine Schutt spin stories of darkness and dysfunction. It was the final installment of this year’s Visiting Writer Series (VWS), sponsored by ink.
Despite her penchant for darkness, Schutt’s stories are lush with language. [...]

“Point Omega” is not a “pleasure read,” nor is it a “light read.” Although it weighs in at just 117 pages, it may take you a few aspirin to get through Don DeLillo’s most recent metaphysical thriller. Don’t struggle — DeLillo’s ability to disorient readers is just one of his many talents.
Following his widely acclaimed [...]

For the past 20 years, Avery Faigenbaum, associate health and exercise science professor at the College, has been working to disprove popular myths about youth health and fitness.
In opposition to the conventional wisdom of the time, Faigenbaum’s doctoral dissertation, written as a health and exercise student at Boston University, touted the benefits of youth strength [...]

Last Wednesday, students and faculty celebrated the women in science at the College who are at the vanguard of a period of increasing opportunity and acheivement.
Six female students from the science department discussed their recent internship experiences with interested students and professors in an event titled “Women in Science: Amazing Summer (and Semester) Experiences.”
Aliya Merali, [...]

Pixels are a tiny element of an image on a video display screen, as well as a large part of the College’s dialogue last semester. These enormous spheres have their origins in the vision of a single artist — Willie Cole.
Most recently, Cole’s artistic services were employed at the College. According to a “frequently asked [...]

After meeting with the Student Government Association (SGA) and Legal and Government Affairs (LGA) a total of seven times, Gabrielle Fuller, sophomore interactive multimedia major, saw her vision for a new organization at the College finally come to fruition on Oct. 14.
Travel Eminence Agency (T.E.A.) is a traveling organization that aims to take leisurely overnight [...]