| Traveling brings music to performer’s ears | November 20, 2009 |
By Kaitlin MacRae
Although most students typically spend their summers vacationing and working, one Rider student has spent the last several summers touring up and down the East Coast as part of two a cappella singing groups.
Junior Paul Vacchiano began working with Cantaffappella shortly after graduating from Howell High School. The company is home to two [...]
By Helen Mannion
As 2009 comes to a close, one of Rider’s and the country’s finest will be headed to Iraq to serve in the United States Air Force (USAF).
Xarviera Brown, 24, is a sophomore journalism major who divides her time between attending school and working in the medical field in the USAF. Her schedule is [...]
| Tweet and Greet | November 13, 2009 |
By Adrienne Stazzone
Imagine over 400 public relations students interacting with some of the best in their field, exchanging advice and opinions on issues such as communication ethics and the importance of internships. Now imagine that this whole scene takes place not in a conference room or lecture hall, but on Twitter, the social networking site [...]
By Lacey Colby
Anyone seeking inspiration for a future career in theater doesn’t need to look any further than McCarter Theatre’s Emily Mann, who spoke to Rider’s Acting III class last week about her experiences as a director.
Mann, the artistic director and resident playwright at McCarter in Princeton, has enjoyed great success in her theater career, [...]
| Letting HerStory be told | October 30, 2009 |
By Melanie Hunter
The women of Rider can look forward to having a continued voice on campus as HerStory, the university’s first feminist literary journal, is going strong into its second year.
Julie Morcate, a junior English major and the president of HerStory, said the journal will cover a wide range of women’s issues.
“We want to cover [...]
By Jess Scanlon
Above the Kroner Lot, a bat flies into a small dark box posted above a “No Freshman Parking” sign after a long night of hunting bugs.
Bat houses are small structures that provide a safe haven for the animals during daytime hours. They are made of very rough pieces of wood so the bats [...]
| Showdown: Macs v. PCs | October 23, 2009 |
By Nicole Veenstra
For years, this has been a PC place — but things have changed. At Rider, the growing presence of Macbook laptops and iMacs in classrooms is sparking further debate over whether the university is becoming a Mac campus.
According to Rhon Fitzwater, a Rider technology support specialist, the number of people using Macs continues [...]
By Megan O’Connell
Very few students take the time to appreciate the beauty and complex construction of the six abstract sculptures on both of Rider’s campuses. Many have no idea what they are or who made them.
“I’ve never actually taken the time to stop and look at them,” sophomore Lindsey Fonseca said.
Modernist sculptor Isaac Witkin designed [...]
| Alumnus reaches new heights | October 16, 2009 |
By Cathleen Leitch
A Rider alumnus has taken his art to new heights — billboard heights, to be exact. After receiving an e-mail from a friend who works for the New Jersey Arts Council, Mark Oberndorf, class of ’83, decided to enter an art competition. The winning piece would be erected as a billboard in Palisades [...]
By Jess Scanlon
The research of two senior biology majors may have an effect on the medicines of the future, and they have the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) to thank for the opportunity.
Seniors Daniel Graham and Megan Kozlowski applied for and were awarded Undergraduate Research Fellowships by ASM last spring and spent their summers at [...]
