By Laura Mortkowitz

Try as the members of the Gay and Straight Alliance (GSA) might, they simply couldn’t upstage their president, Tamare Merentie, as she hosted the annual GSA Variety Show, “The Glitz and the Glamour,” on Wednesday.

Merentie, a junior, had high hopes for this year’s show because of the extra planning that went into the acts and the decoration.

By Oliver Joszt and Laura Mortkowitz

With the Writers Guild of America on strike, where will college students get news? After all, the strike means The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are on hiatus and will be showing reruns until it’s resolved.

What options are left to the college student eager to know what is happening in the country? A newspaper? A real news show?

By Jess Decina

In the first-floor hallway of Fine Arts on the right side, there’s a display case. Students who walk past it this week might think they’re looking at a chalkboard in a kindergarten classroom.

By Jess Decina

So how does a music lover-turned-curator wind up producing the award-winning Iraq documentary No End in Sight?

“It was totally by accident,” said Audrey Marrs, who will be screening the film at the University next Monday.

A few years ago, Marrs could describe herself as a typical 20-something. She spent a good portion of her 20s “playing in an indie rock band,” but when she reached age 30, she realized something.

By Jessica Lopez

“Just don’t call it indie or dance rock,” Danny Lane said. “I don’t like to call it what it is.”

Lane, a Rider alum, is talking about Paragraph, an up-and-coming band out of Staten Island, N.Y. Since 2005, Paragraph has toured coast-to-coast, boasting performances at venues such as The Knitting Factory, CBGB’s and Crash Mansion. Its next stop is Rider.

By Jordan Blum

The term “science fiction” is usually not associated with music. There have been countless films, books and even video games that explore the genre, but not nearly as many albums. However, a few years ago, the band Coheed and Cambria formed with an ambitious mission to change that.

By Kristie Kahl

After only three games, women are able to tie last season’s win total

Sometimes you have to expect the unexpected.

After winning a mere two games last season, the women’s team has two wins in this young season.
After losing to Hofstra by over 30 points last season, the Broncs defense held the Pride down where it didn’t have a lead for the entire game.

A whopping 159.4 pounds. No, that is not how much reading students have to plow through before the Thanksgiving break, even though it may feel that way. That is the amount of the garbage collected off student trays in just one hour in Daly’s. As part of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness (HAHA) Week, student volunteers weighed all the half eaten slices of pizza, left over green beans and stale desserts left behind. Who knew that taking out the trash, the nitty-gritty chore that most of us hate, would raise our awareness about the wasteful lifestyle many of us are living amid growing poverty and homelessness?

By Jetty Hartsky

The mark of a genuine leader is his/her motivation to serve the different people in his/her daily interactions. Some students choose to serve in Rider’s array of clubs and organizations. These organizations represent students’ interests and in turn, students foster those communities. During the academic year, leaders commit themselves to others because they recognize that true leadership is derived from service to others.

by Jess Hoogendoorn

Students were informed of the “perils of prejudice” at the Inaugural Marvin W. Prejudice Reduction Lecture held in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater on Nov. 7. The talk was held in honor of Goldstein, who retired recently after 38 years of service to Rider University’s Psychology Department.