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News & Announcements
Swine Flu Preparedness Update
Like many colleges and universities across the country, Rider has been experiencing flu-like illness among students, faculty and staff since earlier this semester. The good news is that the numbers are still relatively small. As of November 9, we know of 120 students and 33 faculty and staff across both campuses who have reported flu-like illness since the start of the fall semester. Most have since recovered. Three students have been diagnosed with H1N1 (swine flu). Procedures for dealing with these cases have proceeded as planned.
Founder’s Day Program Honors 61 Scholars
Rider’s Family Weekend was highlighted by the Founder’s Day Awards Ceremony, a tradition that honors Rider’s top students as Andrew J. Rider Scholars, on Saturday, November 7. The award, named for the founder and first president of the institution, honors the top one percent of sophomores, juniors and seniors in each of Rider’s six academic colleges and schools – the College of Business Administration, the School of Education, the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Continuing Studies, Westminster Choir College, and the School of Fine and Performing Arts – based on their grade point averages.
Legacy of Success – Second-Generation Rider Scholar Shines in Founder’s Day Address
 Up until the second grade, Meghan Brett was pretty sure that she wanted to be a hairdresser. She loved playing with her friends’ hair, and she was “fairly good” at it for a kindergartener and first grader. Then Elena Bruno M.A. ’97 came along.“Her dynamic, innovative, enthusiastic approach to teaching ignited a spark in me that has grown into a blazing fire of passion for teaching,” said Brett about her second-grade teacher at University Heights Elementary School in Hamilton, N.J. “She was so passionate about her teaching. Even as a second grader, I knew that. She left a big impression on me. She’s the person who inspired me to become a teacher.”
Rider Holds Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
While some of their fellow classmates are studying or sleeping in the warmth of their residence halls, another group of students plan to sleep out on the Campus Mall for an overnight from 11 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18, through 7 a.m. on Thursday, November 19.
Booker to Students: Seize Opportunities
 Although Cory Booker held degrees from Stanford University, Oxford University and Yale University, it was not until he knocked on the door of Mrs. Virginia Jones, tenant president of the Brick Towers housing project in Newark, that he learned a very valuable lesson that helped him launch his political career. The mayor of Newark since 2006, Booker shared the story on a visit to the Lawrenceville campus on Monday, October 26.
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November 12 - 21
Rent
The Yvonne Theater
For ticket information, call the box office at 609-896-5303
November 16 - 21
Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
November 22
Westminster Kantorei to Perform Vocal Works from Colonial Latin America
Westminster Jubilee Singers Will Perform "We Need One Another"
Princeton Brass Band Thanksgiving Concert
Yvonne Theater, 5 p.m.
November 25 - 29
Thanksgiving Recess
December 4
Cranberry & White Night
Alumni Gym, 8:15 p.m.
December 4-5
Westminster Opera Theater and Westminster Festival Chamber Orchestra Present Albert Herring
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