By Kaitlin MacRae Although most students typically spend their summers vacationing and working, one Rider student has spent the last several summers touring up and down the East Coast as part of two a cappella singing groups. Junior Paul Vacchiano began working with Cantaffappella shortly after graduating from Howell High School. The company is home

By Helen Mannion As 2009 comes to a close, one of Rider’s and the country’s finest will be headed to Iraq to serve in the United States Air Force (USAF). Xarviera Brown, 24, is a sophomore journalism major who divides her time between attending school and working in the medical field in the USAF. Her

By Kaitlin MacRae In an amazing display of talent, the hit Broadway musical Rent came to life in the Yvonne Theater last weekend, opening to rave reviews. Directed by Assistant Professor Miriam Mills, the accomplished cast of Rent delivered a powerful and moving performance, instilling in its audiences the importance of love and friendship. A

The DeLorean, thanks to Universal Pictures and Dr. Emmett Brown, will forever represent a car that transcended time and space. Too bad nothing like that exists today. Or does it? We all know that America has long been a land of automobiles. We average more than two cars per household and consume more oil than

“Come, my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.” These words, penned by Tennyson, have a message that young Americans should know: The potential to do great, honorable things exists, and we must push on to find it. The backbone of this effort will undoubtedly involve morality, but some fear America’s moral

By Katherine Johnson True love knows no boundaries, especially when one person has the ability to jump through time to visit the one he loves, as is the case in The Time Traveler’s Wife. In the movie, based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger, Claire Abshire (Rachel McAdams, The Notebook) is a young girl who

By Dalton Karwacki and Emily Landgraf Kaitlyn Carter, an elementary education and psychology major, ran into a “big problem” trying to register for spring courses on the Lawrenceville campus. “A lot of my classes overlap,” she said in an e-mail. “My special education classes are only offered 11:30 to 1 on Monday and Wednesday, which

By Jillian Shutt Rider’s field hockey team, the regular-season NEC Champions, were upset 2-1  in overtime by Monmouth, the fourth ranked team in the Northeast Conference semifinals. The game turned in Rider’s favor 40 seconds before halftime with senior Erin McGinniss scoring the first and only goal for the Broncs. McGinniss’ goal was assisted by