Rider sophomore Kevin Mehaffey awoke in total darkness and a smoke-filled room wearing only sweatpants and a T-shirt when he realized he was in the middle of a raging house fire. He was eventually able to escape, but after several failed attempts to notify neighbors, Mehaffey was left in the freezing cold at 4 a.m., only to later find himself in the back of an ambulance heading toward Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.
Mehaffey, a sophomore business administration major from Jamison, Pa., recalled the near tragedy of Friday, Feb. 16, and the difficulty while finding his way to safety out of the ranch home he rented with four other housemates on Quakerbridge Road.
“I tried to find my way outside but had a hard time because the entire house was filled with smoke,” he said.
Away from home, the year still renews
There is good reason why the Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival. Starting on the first day of the first lunar month and ending 15 days later, the Chinese concept of the New Year is an optimistic celebration of renewal and cleansing.
New Year celebrations are rooted in deep tradition, and this year Rider University has started a tradition of its own. Thanks to the efforts of Anne Mandel, professor and assistant to the dean for Leadership and Internship in the College of Business Administraion, and a group of talented Sanda students, the Rider community had the good fortune to celebrate this cultural event by enjoying an enriching three-hour display of dance, music, fashion and, of course, food.... MORE
Wilde’s ‘three trials’ leave one verdict
Most of us don’t like to be made uncomfortable. We like drawing lines that we ought not cross; we smother ourselves in boundaries and buffer zones. But often, someone with different ideas or values nudges us outside our comfort zones.
When it came to demolishing comfort zones, Oscar Wilde was no exception; he arrived with a wrecking ball of sexual and decadent works into Victorian England’s culture of conservatism. Wilde’s allegedly immoral writings paired with his questionable friendships with younger men led to his eventual social decline – a downfall that is captured in Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde....MORE
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Champions at Last
Women finally overcome Manhattan; men finish close second
Like a middle child living in the shadow of an older sibling, the Rider women’s track and field squads – always so potent, always a contender – went a decade without being taken seriously.
Say no more.
The squad at long last got over the hump and gave the school its first athletic title of the year on Saturday when it thwarted longtime rival Manhattan, 195-169.5, to capture its first MAAC Indoor Championship. The win snaps the Jasper women’s 10-year stranglehold on the conference.... MORE
