Students may believe that Rider is a very green place. The school recycles, there are signs in the bathrooms reminding students to turn off the water and lights when they are not in use, and printers can be set to print on both sides of the page. But, on the College Sustainability Report Card, Rider [...]

As co-adviser of The Rider News, I was proud of the students’ coverage of class times in last week’s issue. I also think their findings should run up a red flag for departments.
Faculty may be surprised to realize that the story grew out of student dissatisfaction with the lack of morning classes. The News found [...]

The DeLorean, thanks to Universal Pictures and Dr. Emmett Brown, will forever represent a car that transcended time and space. Too bad nothing like that exists today. Or does it?
We all know that America has long been a land of automobiles. We average more than two cars per household and consume more oil than any [...]

“Come, my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.” These words, penned by Tennyson, have a message that young Americans should know: The potential to do great, honorable things exists, and we must push on to find it.
The backbone of this effort will undoubtedly involve morality, but some fear America’s moral integrity [...]

Some students may remember back in August when Alumni Gym was flooded as a result of constant rain. Because of the damage to the floor, all major activities scheduled to be held in the gym were put on the back burner, including Midnight MAACness, our conference’s version of a nationwide event held at midnight on [...]

Morality. That is a term that went relatively unexamined for me until recently. Presumed by some to be a relative of religion, it is a word that does not seem applicable to tangible, policy-making decisions. Yet by understanding the morality of Americans, we can sketch the skeleton of our country’s current position and, more importantly, [...]

I can smell it already. The stuffing. The creamy mashed potatoes. The mouthwatering turkey and cranberry sauce. The freshly toasted rolls and the pumpkin pie that seem to melt in your mouth. And I can smell the thousands of calories, the cholesterol, the carbohydrates and the sugar. But Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have to be a [...]

How do you clean your room? Well, we all take out the trash and the recycling, maybe use a vacuum, do some laundry. When cleaning, it’s not really common to think of how these actions affect the environment. It’s very easy to change how things are done to reduce the footprint on our planet. You [...]