October 21, 2008

In 1970, during the first season of Sesame Street, Kermit the Frog lamented that It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green, but in 2008, showing a commitment to preserving the environment and its natural resources couldn’t be much easier – or important. For that reason, Rider University and the Energy and Sustainability Steering Committee (ESSC) will celebrate the first Campus Sustainability Day on Wednesday, October 22. More


During the first two games of the recent National League Championship Series in Philadelphia, millions of viewers made sure to situate themselves in front of their televisions in time for the first pitch. And while those countless Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers fans sat in their living rooms, anxiously waiting for the game to begin, the home-plate umpire stood peering into the dugout at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Ballpark, looking for the signal from one Rider University junior that it was time to yell, “Play Ball!” More


Two new faces recently joined Rider’s Campus Ministry. Rev. Dawn Adamy is the new chaplain of the Protestant Campus Ministry, and Father Ian Trammell is the new chaplain of the Catholic Campus Ministry. Both of the new chaplains plan to expand programs and service projects on both the Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses. More


New Rider University freshmen have often had a hard time locating the pool, which is tucked away inside the Maurer Center, in back of the Lawrenceville campus. Now there will be no excuse for not finding it because of a new sign, bearing the name of Rider’s former swimming and diving coach, Richard Coppola. More than 140 alumni attended the 17th Annual Alumni Swimming & Diving Meet on October 11 outside Maurer Center, for a swim and dedication ceremony of a new sign for the Richard Coppola Pool. More
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  • Unity Days Speaker, Donna Brazile, Encourages Campus to Strike Up Conversation
    After Hurricane Katrina struck, Donna Brazile was called to action. At the time, her greatest challenge was sitting down with someone she thought she could not agree with – President George W. Bush. But, despite their differences, they were able to work together and agree on a plan to help rebuild New Orleans. This same message of cooperation resonated throughout Brazile’s keynote address during Rider’s Unity Days celebration.

  • Westminster Family Weekend Concert Features New Ensemble on October 25
    The Westminster Choir College 2008 Family Weekend will be marked by two firsts on Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center at Princeton High School. It will be the first performance by the freshmen studying on Rider’s Westminster Choir College campus in Princeton who make up the Westminster Chapel Choir. It will also be the debut performance by the Rider Chapel Choir, the newest ensemble at Westminster College of the Arts, which is composed of freshmen and upperclass students on Rider’s Lawrenceville campus.

  • Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style
  • Scott Sandage readily concedes that the revival of narrative has brought a new vitality to the discipline of history. Sandage, who presented the 17th Annual Levine Lecture at Rider University on October 16, arrived with a new twist on a story that had been often told on the old American frontier. In doing so, Sandage not only shone a new light on the social conceptions of race, but framed it in a surprisingly personal context.

  • Rider to Host Second Annual Goldstein Lecture on Prejudice Reduction
    Rider University will host the Second Annual Marvin W. Goldstein Lecture on Prejudice Reduction on Wednesday, October 29, at 7 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater. This year’s lecture will feature Joshua Aronson, Ph.D., an associate professor of applied psychology at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, who will speak on Stereotypes and the Nature and Nurture of Intelligence.


  • Rider’s Midnight MAACness was Medieval Madness

    About 35 years ago, college basketball coaches conceived a novel attention-getting ploy: beginning practice at the earliest possible time allowed under NCAA rules. Today, every basketball fan knows Midnight Madness as the hoopla surrounding the official start of the college basketball season, and the event is the ultimate pep rally and team promotion. On October 17 at Rider University, Alumni Gymnasium became the site of Midnight MAACness, with the entire campus mall being transformed into a renaissance village resembling what can be seen during a visit to a Medieval Times festival.



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