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Archive for November 6th, 2009

By Michael Mack
The field hockey team capped off its phenomenal regular season the way it wanted to: on top. The Broncs defeated NEC foe Lock Haven on Sunday for the regular season conference championship.
Both teams were undefeated in conference play going into the game, but 70 minutes and almost two full overtimes later, the Broncs [...]

By Josh Veltrie
It has become routine for Rider’s wrestling team to have a high pre-season ranking in the conference, yet fail to clinch the conference title. Each of the past three seasons, the Broncs have come painfully close but fallen short of winning the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship.
This year, the team is hoping things [...]

By Cord Stasolla
The women’s soccer team found itself in the same situation last weekend as it was in the 2005 MAAC Championships, as the Broncs, seeded eighth, faced off against No. 9 seed Manhattan.
Manhattan, bouncing back from a 4-1 defeat Oct. 23 at Rider, walked onto the field ready to play soccer.
“We played well given [...]

By Victoria Lyons
The cross country team competed in the MAAC Championships at Van Cortlandt State Park in New York last Friday, with the men finishing third out of nine teams and the women claiming fifth out of 10 teams.
The Rider men really pulled through, according to Head Coach Bob Hamer.
“They executed the race plan perfectly [...]

By Jordan Hall
The Marist Red Foxes, an archrival of the Broncs for years, visited Rider on Saturday for the biggest meet of the  season thus far. The Broncs lived up to the hype and swept the Red Foxes; the men cruising by with a score of 170-124 while the defending MAAC champions squeezed out a [...]

By Jess Hoogendoorn
Sometimes an exit sign is vandalized, a door is broken or maybe someone sets off a fire extinguisher. No matter what it is, if a residence hall is damaged and the person responsible is not identified, all students in that hall get charged.
No matter how little a repair costs, students are charged a [...]

By Charles Cartagena
After fighting their country’s battles on the land and sea, three members of the armed forces have traded in their uniforms for Rider sweatshirts, thanks to a new program.
Rider has a long history of supporting men and women in the armed forces, dating back to the end of the Civil War when the [...]

By Julia Ernst
Students anticipating that governor-elect Chris Christie will improve funding for higher education in New Jersey shouldn’t get their hopes too high, according to Ben Dworkin, director of Rider’s Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics.
Around 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, with 91 percent of the precincts in New Jersey reporting, the Associated Press [...]

Mischief night
A few individuals got a little carried away on Mischief Night, according to Public Safety.
Pubic Safety responded to a call on Friday, Oct. 30, at 9:44 p.m., from a female resident student in West Village. She reported that someone had thrown eggs at her door.
Public Safety checked the area for possible witnesses or suspects [...]