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 [...]

By Cathleen Leitch
Assassins, once a Broadway musical, has come to the Rider community as the most recent performance at Westminster Choir College.  Opening night was Friday, Oct. 30. Directed by adjunct professor Douglas Hall, the musical was a satirical yet serious take on nine assassins who murdered, or attempted to murder, a United States president.
The [...]

By Julia Ernst
Four days a week at 11:30 a.m., all juniors, seniors and half of the graduate students at Westminster Choir College sing together in the Westminster Symphonic Choir, and all sophomores rehearse in their choir, the Westminster Schola Cantorum.
On top of remembering their music and warming up their voices, students at Westminster also spend [...]

When biology professors aren’t lecturing on the evolution of the species, and music professors are finished helping students use muscles in their bodies beside the vocal chords to sing their best, they spend their time researching the effects of chemotherapy on the human body or recording their own CDs.
A number of professors across all departments [...]

By Dalton Karwacki
Well-intentioned people can discriminate against others without realizing they are doing so, said a speaker in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater Wednesday.
Dr. Samuel Gaertner, the director of social psychology at the University of Delaware, delivered the third annual Marvin W. Goldstein Lecture on Prejudice Reduction, entitled “Prejudice Among the Well Intentioned.” He said [...]

By Amber Cox
A man who first set foot on Rider’s campus as an American Legion Boys State delegate returned Monday as the Mayor of Newark.
Mayor Cory Booker was brought to the campus by the College Democrats to back Gov. Jon Corzine. He was excited to come back and encouraged students to get involved with the [...]

Hit and run
The passenger side of a vehicle belonging to a female resident student was damaged by a hit and run last week.
On Wednesday, Oct. 21, Public Safety received a call at 2:13 p.m. about the damage. The student said that her vehicle was hit sometime between Oct. 20 and 21 while parked in a [...]

By Emily Landgraf
Rider, Monmouth and Rowan are three universities that have a few things in common: They’re all located in New Jersey, they’re all mid-sized schools and they all have their fair share of alcohol violations.
Although Rider is half the size of Rowan and has roughly 1,000 fewer students than Monmouth, it  still has just [...]