Four of the seven runners from the women's cross country team traveled to Hobbs, New Mexico to run in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I Championship. Erika Manley, Sierra Downs, Jaqueline Goncalves, and Anajae Register competed in the five kilometer run on November 12.
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Mercer's women's soccer team started the season off down seven games to one, but turned it around to finish the season with seven wins, twelves losses and one tie, enabling them to compete in the Region XIX semifinals. Mike DeAngelis, the assistant coach of the team for four years, said that the team had a lot of "tough luck losses" at the start of the season.
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An interview with Jose Rodriguez, president of MCCC's Future Business Leaders of America club
Q. What do you think about The Occupation's lack of concise demands? A. I'm certainly not the 99%, they have their numbers wrong. I think that what they are doing is healthy for the democracy. It creates dialogue amongst the various factions within our country.
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Occupations’ Lack of Concise Demands Could be Advantageous
The approach to Penn Square down North Broad Street is still the same. The Academy of Fine Arts rises and falls to your right, and the intricate masonry of City Hall looms ahead. The revolution, it seems, is nowhere in sight. But round the corner past the Freemason's Lodge, and there they are.
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Occupy Wall Street started out as a call from Canadian magazine Adbusters to come to the financial district of New York City on September 17, 2011 to answer the question, "what is your one demand?" Since then, the protesters have moved to Zuccoti Park in an attempt to get their voices heard through a stand-in style protest.
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In an attempt to help current students get the advising they need to schedule their classes for the spring, Mercer held an Advisement Festival the week of October 24 on both West Windsor and James Kerney campuses. However, student turnout was low because the event was not well advertised.
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"Quit your bitchin' and start pitchin'." In May of 2000, this became the slogan for the Colonial Quoit Club, a quoiting league based in Hamilton, New Jersey. The Colonial Quoit Club, now one of the most established quoit leagues in New Jersey, has just wrapped up their 2011 season with Mike Cech taking the championship title.
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The military policy "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was repealed on Sept 20, 2011. I believe the history and repeal of DADT cuts to the core of what America is and has become; it shows how when one group's rights are trampled upon, the entire culture is diminished.
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The VOICE held its second annual First Amendment 5K Run-Walk on October 1. Despite the poor weather forecast, nearly 70 participants arrived to race for prizes and show support for both the award-winning paper and the first amendment. For Stephanie Nawracaj, the first place overall woman's finisher with a time of 22:41, the themes of freedom and charity were incentives for participating in the race.
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"I never thought I'd be dishing out potato salad to rich people," says Justin Rossi, 25, as he talks about his job hunting experiences. Rossi graduated magna cum laude from Mercer County Community College in 2006, with an Advertising Design degree, and also earned a Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design 2008 from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, with honors.
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The children of Jefferson Elementary in Trenton started their first day of school in a building warranting health risks. Parents walked into a slum, finding the conditions of the building to be dangerous to their children. Rumors of moldy ceilings, unclean water, and unsafe walls were among these dangers.
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Walking though the hallways of Mercer can give someone the impression that no one wears, or even displays, their student ID tags. However, that is no longer the case for Erika Niglio, a second year nursing major who was stopped by security for not wearing her student ID.
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On Monday September 12 at noon the first of two "Unity Through Diversity" panel discussions was held at the Kelsey Theater on Mercer County community College's West Windsor campus. The second discussion was held at Mercer's James Kerney campus in Trenton two nights later.
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Hundreds of locals gather to mourn and remember the fallen
A ceremony to dedicate a September 11, 2001 memorial took place in Mercer County Park on Sunday, September 11, 2011. A decade after the attacks, the ceremony on Sunday's gray afternoon brought together over a hundred spectators to commemorate the now infamous date of 9/11.
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Vincenzo Campo says his swastika is a symbol of peace; his peers don't see it that way
According to police reports, an altercation between two students, one with a swastika insignia on his arm, the other an African American, broke out near the cafeteria of Mercer's West Windsor campus at 3:08pm on August 30, 2011. The student wearing the swastika has been identified as Vincenzo Campo.
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In a survey of 50 Mercer students, 90 percent said they regularly use their during their classes. What are they using them for? Seventy-five percent of the students surveyed said they use their phones in class to send text messages, 17 percent to send text messages and go on social networking websites such as Facebook, while six percent of students are using the phones in class to play games.
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Mercer's Student Center does boast a strong Wi-Fi signal, but if you want to use Wi-Fi devices anywhere else, you may be out of luck. I had a class in ET building last summer, and I learned to expect the Wi-Fi signal to be unpredictable and sometimes next to impossible to use, but ET looks good compared the CM building, where the student Wi-Fi signal is close to non-existent and unusable.
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1. SHOCK AND DENIAL: I did a spectacular job of denying Mercer. I had gotten in to all the other colleges I applied to, and continued pretending I was choosing between schools. I knew I would have to pay for college myself, and that I couldn't afford any of my schools, even with scholarships.
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