{"id":9434,"date":"2015-07-14T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:32:25","slug":"since-we-saw-you-last-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9434","title":{"rendered":"Since We Saw You Last\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Grad-caps-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grad caps\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Grad-caps-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Grad-caps-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Grad-caps-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Grad-caps.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>A first for TCNJ &gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The college\u2019s inaugural Lavender Graduation honored graduating seniors who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered; studied LGBT-related issues in their coursework; or were involved with LGBT-related advocacy initiatives or organizations. Provost Jacqueline Taylor commended the 23 graduating students and 30 faculty and staff allies in attendance for their \u201cwillingness to stand up, stand out, and be counted as vocal advocates for a more just world.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/p-9-C-cardoni_HGraves0515_05cymk-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"TCNJ The College Of New Jersey   May 7,8 2015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>She\u2019s got spirit, how \u2019bout you? &gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talk about leaving your mark on your alma mater: Hayley Graves \u201915 won first place in TCNJ\u2019s Spirit Mark Competition, which challenged art students to draw a cartoon version of Roscoe, the college\u2019s mascot. Her design, which will be used in casual settings, joins the school seal and the college and athletics logos as part of TCNJ\u2019s official visual identity.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/9-9-cardoni_Regatta0515_037cymk-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"TCNJ The College Of New Jersey   May 7,8 2015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A hull lot of fun &gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cardboard Boat Regatta, for which students construct cardboard boats and then race them on Lake Ceva, is an end-of-the-year campus tradition that dates back to at least the 1980s. The hilarious regatta is a foolproof indicator as to which participants are engineering majors and which ones aren\u2019t. For the second year in a row, electrical engineering majors Alin Bojkovic \u201917, Thomas Approvato \u201917, Eric Brokaw \u201917, and Tim Laux \u201917 won the competition. Their 2015 time was 45 seconds faster than the runner-up. We smell a dynasty.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P9-Smaller-HiRes-YOGA-cymk-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"P9 Smaller HiRes YOGA cymk\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Campus gets its om on &gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>February\u2019s Breathe In-Breathe Out Mindfulness Challenge, which was named the top collegiate wellness challenge in the U.S. by the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities, invited TCNJ students, staff, and faculty to engage in a friendly competition of mindfulness-related activities\u2014think yoga and meditation\u2014to help everyone de-stress. Which begs the question: isn\u2019t a destressing competition a bit of an oxymoron?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Tamara Fuentes contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first for TCNJ &gt; The college\u2019s inaugural Lavender Graduation honored graduating seniors who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered; studied LGBT-related issues in their coursework; or were involved with LGBT-related advocacy initiatives or organizations. Provost Jacqueline Taylor commended the 23 graduating students and 30 faculty and staff allies in attendance for their \u201cwillingness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-2015","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}