| Rider contributes to Haiti relief | March 4, 2010 |
By Lisa Henderson
Junior Rance Robeson remembers watching basketball when the earthquake struck Haiti. It barely crossed his mind. Instead, he was upset that Kobe Bryant wasn’t playing well. Then reality set in. Haiti was in ruins.
Robeson spoke Wednesday in the BLC Theater at “Haiti: A New Beginning,” organized by Rider graduate student Danielle Holmes.
According to [...]
By Amanda Grisafi
The sky-high price of textbooks is nothing new to students, but one Rider student is getting creative in order to pay for them. A sophomore has opened her own handmade jewelry Web site to help cover the cost of her school books.
Sonya Maizell, an English major, opened her own Web site featuring handmade [...]
| Singing for a cure for autism | February 25, 2010 |
By Valis Vicenty
Not everyone is blessed with a golden voice like Mariah Carey, but many belted it out for a good cause last Friday at the Alpha Xi Delta (AZD) Karaoke for the Cure Pub Night to help raise money for the irnational philanthropy Autism Speaks.
Sophomores Monique Kuhl and Michelle Wall, both co-philanthropy chairs for [...]
By Katherine Johnson
A new opportunity to help others who are less privileged is now available to students right on campus.
The TOMS Shoes Club is a new organization founded by senior Emma Basilone, a sister of Alpha Xi Delta, who hopes students can find a way to get involved.
“It’s a different kind of community service,” Basilone, [...]
| The ‘art’ of volunteering | February 18, 2010 |
By Audrey Yeager
Some students are passionate about sports, some travel and some spend time volunteering. This past semester, Westminster’s arts administration majors reached out to the arts community. These students volunteered at a range of organizations to build their résumés and gain further understanding of what it takes to be a successful arts manager.
In October, [...]
By Cathleen Leitch
Julie Morcate, a junior English major, has taken her writing outside the classroom. She recently had a review of Memphis, a Broadway musical directed by Christopher Ashley, published.
The Broad Street Review, a review Web site, accepted Morcate’s submission of a review written for a class. The review was quickly accepted by the publication, [...]
| The politics of a composer | February 11, 2010 |
By Amber Cox
The FBI was keeping a close eye on a great American composer by going through his trash, clipping newspaper articles about him and obtaining information from secret informants.
That scenario was the picture of Leonard Bernstein’s life, beginning in the 1940s, when he was accused of being part of the Communist Party.
Dr. Barry Seldes, [...]
| Relay returns for another run | February 4, 2010 |
By Cathleen Leitch
After exceeding last year’s fund-raising goal, Rider’s Relay for Life creators are trying to top their success. The senior pair, Heather Fischler, University Affairs team leader and Relay for Life event chair, and Megan Ptaszenski, team recruitment and retention leader, are “tapping into new resources” to keep the success going.
Last spring’s Relay for [...]
By Lacey Colby
It isn’t surprising that all things New Jersey are gaining popularity when America has become obsessed with things like the reality TV show “Jersey Shore.”
Two local males have recently benefitted from this popularity with their line of T-shirt designs that play with stereotypes about New Jersey, such as “Dirty Jerzey.”
About six months ago, [...]
| Skating on the edge of greatness | December 11, 2009 |
By Megan O’Connell
Twirling and spinning on skates is what junior Chelsea Hinkle does best. However, Hinkle is not an ice skater; she is a competitive roller figure skater.
Hinkle, an accounting major, practices 15 to 20 hours on the weekends during the semester. During the summer, she is at the rink 30 to 40 hours per [...]
