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Author Archives: Tony Marchetti ’96, MA ’02
Looking Back: Fall 2015
From camping out, to calling in, to connecting online, the way students register for classes has changed a lot through the years. One thing that hasn’t changed is the way students scour the course listings to find their favorite professor to register for whichever course he or she is teaching that semester. We want to know who… Continue Reading
Ten Things You Need to Know About: The Rat
Even at a school known for its construction projects, this change hit home harder than most: The Rathskeller, the spot on campus for great food, music, and high-spirited fun in the Brower Student Center, closed forever as the building that housed it undergoes a multiyear renovation. Here are 10 things to remember about that beloved establishment. Continue Reading
Quintessential Cuba
Students and faculty capture images of the island nation as it stands on the cusp of change. Continue Reading
Looking Back: Winter 2015
Back in the winter of 1952–1953, the women of Allen House went to work across campus—polishing shoes, cleaning rooms, mending clothes, and washing cars—all to buy a TV for their first-floor lounge. Within a month they had reached their goal—“proof that perspiration plus cooperation added to perspiration equals relaxation,” that year’s Seal editors proclaimed. Whether you’re among the “Allen House Service Squad” members pictured here, or you’re willing to share your own story about the odd jobs you worked in college, we’d love to hear from you. Continue Reading
Remembering Rosa Lee Eickhoff
If there was one lesson that Rosa Lee tried to impart on the thousands of TCNJ students she interacted with, it was this: That they had an obligation to leave the college a better place than it was when they came here. Exactly what you would expect from someone who led by example. Continue Reading
Since We Saw You Last…
Yik Yak, junk in the trunk, and hardhats for the women’s soccer team highlight this issue’s “Since We Saw You Last.” Continue Reading
Looking Back: Fall 2014
Billy Joel was supposed to open for Roger McGuinn at their February 8, 1974, concert at Trenton State College. But when some of Joel’s band members and instruments got stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike because of a snowstorm, the headliner became the opening act. Continue Reading
Picture Perfect Internship
Like many people, Joshua Lewkowicz filmed an ice bucket challenge this summer. Unlike anyone else, he shot it at the DreamWorks Animation Studio outside Hollywood. Continue Reading
Bears, beds and Bardolatry
To mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, we look at the lighter side of his life and works with a little help from our pal, Professor Emeritus John F. Erath. Continue Reading