Bright Night
Members of the Princeton Pro Musica enhance the holiday atmosphere. Students, faculty and staff witnessed a new tradition on Thursday, Dec. 7 — the lighting of Moore Library with numerous white holiday lights. Attendees
participated in a candlelight procession to the library after gathering in the SRC for Rider’s 15th annual Celebration of Lights. Various stations featured ...MORE
Yu Jane Jiang, an adjunct professor of Chinese, helps freshman Michael Jarmus construct cut-out characters.
Princeton campus aims to go Greek
After 80 years without a Greek organization on its grounds, the Princeton campus is closing in on its first officially recognized fraternity: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Upon transferring to Rider’s Westminster Choir College (WCC), Shane Christopher Olson, currently a junior, learned that his fraternity, or any Greek organization for that ..... MORE
The Chinese language has become popular in American schools, with about 50,000 students nationwide studying Mandarin, the most common Chinese dialect, according to the Los Angeles Times. This year, Rider added to that number. The University added elementary Mandarin Chinese to the foreign language roster for the first time. Two sections of Chinese I (CHI 100) were offered this semester. ... MORE
Event raises AIDS awareness, safety
In an effort to raise understanding about HIV and AIDS, the AIDS Awareness quilt was on display for World AIDS Day on Friday, Dec. 1. The quilt was shown in the Student Recreation Center to raise awareness around campus, where students may not be fully aware about the disease, said Josanne Sampson, a graduate assistant who helped .... MORE
Communication major could be ‘the next Katie Couric’
Senior Katie LaCorte has been given an opportunity that many communication and
journalism majors can only dream about. She was awarded the 2006 Audrey Tanzer Scholarship for $1,000 from the New York chapter of the American Women in ... MORE
CCS senior brings Hindi to classroom
CCS senior Puja Aggarwal teaches while she learns. The education major who is finishing a bachelor’s degree and planning to get a master’s in the College of Continuing Studies, volunteers her time to teach Hindi, one of the official language of India and the world’s second most spoken language, to children and adults. ... MORE
