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February 7, 2018
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Yearbook’s fate sealed By Elizabeth Zakaim News Editor
Members of this year’s graduating class will leave the College with their diplomas, senior portraits and four years of education under their belts, but one memento of their time at the College will be missing –– yearbooks. Due to low demand and a lack of incoming leadership, the College’s yearbook club, The Seal, is no longer an active organization on campus. The Seal’s editor-in-chief during her junior and senior years, Angela Arguson (’17), could not find a successor to lead the club before she graduated. Ziyi Wang, president of the Student Finance Board and a senior marketing major, said the club has also been in debt for years. The College is not the only school that said goodbye to its yearbook in recent years. In the past decade, there has been a decline in the production of college yearbooks nationwide, according to David Chappell, the College Media Association’s yearbook committee chairman and professor of media and journalism at Northwest Missouri State University. Schools like Towson University in Maryland published its last yearbook in 2009, and the University of Maryland printed its last copy in 1986, according to a 2016 Baltimore Sun article. Chappell pointed out that this trend is specific to colleges, not high schools. The culture in high schools, where there are fewer students who are also familiar with each other, is vastly see CLASS page 2
Minhaj fights hate with humor
New Wi-Fi system to replace TCNJ-DOT1X By Jesse Stiller Correspondent
and the Muslim Student Association on Friday, Feb. 2. Touching on timely political issues, Minhaj’s set intertwined current events with a running commentary of his experiences as a Muslim-American. The crowd roared with laughter and applauded as Minhaj talked about his
The College’s Wi-Fi network will complete its long-awaited makeover this semester with hopes of a more reliable and optimized experience for students and guests. The new user-friendly service, known as “Eduroam,” will replace the current TCNJ-DOT1X system in late February. Just before winter break, the College’s Department of Information Technology sent an email notifying the campus community of the nearly completed project and its planned implementation. “The infrastructure has been evolving for two years, so it’s been a really big project,” said Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Sharon Blanton. The plan was greenlit and fully funded for some time, but had trouble getting off the ground for implementation until recently. The new plan will add wireless access points and upgrade existing points on campus, increasing reliability of connecting to the WiFi regardless of a user’s location on campus. Blanton said that the new network also aims to optimize the current outdated system for a faster and more reliable one, and increase bandwidth around campus so that students and faculty do not have to worry about shoddy
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Minhaj shares his journey to fame as a Muslim-American.
Gianna Melillo Copy Editor
Touching on topics like immigration, the refugee crisis, terrorism and racism, “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” correspondent Hasan Minhaj graced his audience in Kendall Hall with a politically charged comedy show co-hosted by the College Union Board
College renovates Student Health Services By Ariel Steinsaltz Staff Writer
This past summer, the College had the offices of Student Health Services and Counseling and Psychological Services renovated for the first time since they moved into Eickhoff Hall in 1992. “It was kind of dark and things were worn,” said Director of Student Health Services Janice Vermeychuk. “It really needed to be updated.” Costs for health services have not changed. There is no cost for office visits and treatment, and minimal cost for lab tests, vaccines and physicals. Talks of renovations began as early as the fall of 2014, but it was a long process before renovations could begin. At the end of the spring 2017 semester, both offices left their original location in Eickhoff 107 and moved into the basement of Decker Hall for the summer. Both moved back into Eickhoff at the beginning of the current academic year. The renovations were supervised
by the Office of Campus Construction and by Angela Lauer Chong, the Interim Vice President of Student Affairs. However, Vermeychuk and Mark Forest, the director of CAPS and interim assistant vice president for Student Affairs, oversaw most of the details and worked closely with the architects and designers. Several physical changes were made to the offices. The waiting room used to have two separate doors, one for each office, which meant that people could see who had come for medical services and who had come for psychological services. Now, there is only one door, which Forest said will “enhance privacy and confidentiality.” Vermeychuk described the waiting room as “brighter and more modern,” and said that now it looks more like a real doctor’s office. The reception area was also updated. Computers were also installed for future use, according to Vermeychuk. She hopes that they will serve as possible check-in stations or ways to fill
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RECreate Your Night
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Vermeychuk describes the waiting room as ‘brighter and more modern.’
out questionnaires or brief surveys needed for SHS and CAPS. Several new rooms were added as well, including two new counseling offices, a group counseling room and a new examination room.
Opinions / page 10
Since students schedule appointments during lunch time, staff members eat in a lounge in Eickhoff and do not go out for lunch. This lounge was updated, and a new emergency exit door was added on the CAPS side of the office
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Bellows and Bows
so that in case of an emergency, students would not have to be taken to the other side of the office. Forest explained that this provides a more efficient flow of patients. see MED page 4
Arts & Entertainment / page 16
Sports / page 24
Women’s Basketball
Students enjoy sober activites
Trio performs a variety of musical pieces
Lions defeat Rowan and Ramapo
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