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Celebrating the End of the Semester Without Letting Alcohol Derail Your Goals

Khristian Guidi, writer April 23, 2019

With spring break behind us and the summer that much closer to us, the sense of relaxation and freedom from our studies is just weeks away. With the rigorous note taking, study sessions with new classmates...

SHE SHOOTS-- SHE SCORES- Jersey Blue basketball team member fights to take the ball back from opponent's hands. 
Photo courtesty of Brookdale Athletics

Women’s basketball team tackles one goal at a time this season

Danielle Griffith, Staff Writer December 20, 2018

This is head coach Rich Brunson’s third year coaching the women’s basketball team after being the assistant coach for the men’s team for five years. Because Brunson, who was a Division 1 scholarship...

Brookdale Students Relax During Anti-Stress Week

Corine Tamayo, Editor December 20, 2018

Last week, Brookdale’s Student Life Board held Anti-Stress Week, featuring a series of events dedicated to decompressing before final exams. Events were held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with different...

Glam and Glitz - Jada Morris poses with newly done nails at LUXX Nails and Beauty Salon located in Neptune City. Her nails have an intricate design of abstract faces.

Neptune City Nail Salon Encourages Women-Owned Businesses

Jada Morris, Staff Writer September 21, 2018

Walking into the LUXX Nails and Beauty Salon in Neptune City recently, I remembered how I had visited this place before. It was a little over a year ago, when I had come in to get my hair done for my senior...

Guests at First Annual Macoproject Screening

Monmouth County Student Hosts Film Festival

Corine Tamayo, Feature Editor September 21, 2018

“I’m not a filmmaker,” says Avery Cohen, a 19-year old business major and film minor at Montclair State University, from Freehold. This time, last year, he was writing the screenplay for his sixth...

Schwartz answers questions after event

Holocaust Survivor Reveals the World through His Eyes

Sonal Madhok, Editor-In-Chief April 5, 2018

Leslie Schwartz, 88, a Holocaust survivor and lifelong learner, revealed his truth to an audience gathered in the Twin Lights room at Brookdale Community College’s Lincroft campus on April 2. Although...

Terrance Hayes reads sonnets from his yet-to-be-released poetry book, "American Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin." to dozens of listeners during the the first Visiting Writers’ Series event of the semester on Feb. 7.

Award-Winning Poet Shares His Thoughts on Inspiration

Minh Connors February 19, 2018

Acclaimed poet and educator Terrance Hayes opened the spring semester’s Visiting Writers Series Feb. 7 drawing dozens of students and other guests to the Navesink rooms at 7 p.m. to listen to him read...

Acupuncture needles.

Students Learn about Growing Alternative Medicine Fields

Sonal Madhok, Editor-In-Chief December 11, 2017

Kristopher Sparacino, holistic health practitioner and alumni of BCC, spoke to massage therapy students Nov. 15 about the up-and-coming field of alternative medicine. “As coordinator of the massage...

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