{"id":9028,"date":"2014-09-29T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:49:36","slug":"since-we-saw-you-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9028","title":{"rendered":"Since We Saw You Last&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>CAMPUS GOES TO THE DOGS\u2026AND CATS<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9029 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_207725332-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_207725332\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/>Faculty and staff members brought their pets to campus in May to help stressed-out students take a break from studying for finals. Research shows that interacting with animals can lower your blood pressure and heart rate, says psychology professor and therapy dog owner and handler Jean Kirnan. And who couldn\u2019t benefit from both of those things after pulling a caffeine-infused all-nighter?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>THE RESURGENCE OF COMFY CRAZY<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dudz-pants-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dudz-pants\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>If you came of age in the \u201980s, you might lovingly recall\u2014or shudder to think of\u2014Skidz, those baggy pants with the bold patterns that seemingly everyone was\u00a0 wearing by decade\u2019s end. Well, they\u2019re back\u2014sort of. Juniors Shea Paytas and Tom Athan started making the similarly styled Dudz pants and selling them out of their dorm room last fall, igniting a mini campus fashion craze in the process. Now the retro look might be catching on internationally: The students recently shipped a pair to a customer in London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>THE JERSEY SHORE COMES TO CAMPUS<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_173848004-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_173848004\" width=\"119\" height=\"119\" \/>It\u2019s rare to see funnel cakes on campus, but they were here in June when several parking lots were transformed into a Jersey Shore boardwalk for the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games. The college housed the Games\u2019 athletes and served as the site of Olympic Town, a seaside-themed amusement park featuring skee-ball, rides and even a mini-beach. The only thing missing was that incessant reminder to \u201cWatch the tramcar, please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>HIGH PRAISE FOR CURBING HIGH-RISK DRINKING<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-9032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_133546946-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_133546946\" width=\"111\" height=\"111\" \/>The college received a 2014 Award of Excellence from the TIPS (Training for Intervention ProcedureS) Program, a nationally recognized program that teaches students how to reduce high-risk drinking behavior among their peers. TCNJ was one of only five institutions in the country to receive the distinction. It was selected based on the collaborative model it uses, the volume of students it certifies and feedback from TIPS trainers and student participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus goes to the dogs&#8230;and cats, the resurgence of comfy crazy, the Jersey Shore comes to campus, and high praise for curbing high-risk drinking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2014","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}