What were a knight, a two-man horse, a lobster, a bear, and an evil lord doing in Lois Fichner-Rathus’ Art History II classroom? You’ll have to watch the video to find out.

Senior Week, the annual rite of passage for TCNJ’s graduating classes, returned this May after a one-year hiatus. The tradition started in 1999 as a way for seniors to spend the week leading up to Commencement, together, in the same dorms where many of them started their college careers (Wolfe Hall).

Despite its name, Gospel Choir Ministries (GCM) is about more than just singing. The group, which has been active on campus for 35 years, devotes many hours to community service activities.

Adam Mamwala was crowned “New Jersey King of Campus Comedy” at the 2007 NJ Comedy Festival in December. He beat out 36 other campus clowns from 12 colleges to win the festival competition. In the process, he picked up $1,000 cash, a trip for two to Cancun, and the chance to open for a big-name comic at New York’s Laugh Factory.

Terence Grado ’09 was one of just 13 college students to take part in the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL’s) Second Annual Current and Future Leaders Study Mission to Israel this past winter. During his 10-day trip, Grado discussed the peace process with Israeli and Palestinian journalists, and met with “everyday Israeli citizens, minorities within Israel…members of Knesset, Israeli students, and [Israeli] soldiers.”

This June, four TCNJ students took a ride on a NASA DC-9 jet—affectionately referred to as the “vomit comet”—as part of NASA’s Microgravity University. Brandon Bentzley ’08, Mike Hvasta ’08, Justin Nieusma ’09, all physics majors, and Rachel Sherman ’09, a physics education major, were accepted into the highly selective program based on a research proposal they submitted last semester.

For years, Vera Goodkin, a Holocaust survivor, kept her story of atrocity, tragedy, inspiration, and courage to herself out of fear and pain. Last fall though, she shared it with English major Ashley Reichelmann ’08. The exchange between Reichelmann and Goodkin was one of many that occurred between TCNJ students and Holocaust survivors as part of an ethnography project.

If you’re curious as to what some of your fellow alumni are doing, just turn on the TV. TCNJ Magazine tracked down more than one dozen alumni working in television to learn how they got where they are and what the future holds.

The School of Business achieved its first-ever ranking in the Business Week Survey of Best Undergraduate Business Schools, placing 72nd out of the 96 undergraduate business schools that qualified for inclusion in the 2008 survey. TCNJ is the only school ranked in the prestigious survey that caters exclusively to undergraduate business education.