Still moving in
By Lindsay Rittenhouse | September 19The third week of school has arrived and most students are settled into their daily routines by now, however some students are still moving into campus housing.
The third week of school has arrived and most students are settled into their daily routines by now, however some students are still moving into campus housing.
Seton Hall University has officially made plans to team up with Newark Technology High School in a "program funded by AT&T Inc. aimed at preparing the youth for the tech-savvy real world while bettering the community," Seton Hall's president Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban said on Sept. 13.
Seton Hall's annual faculty convocation, is designed to welcome new faculty members and to celebrate the accomplishments of tenured members of the community, was held on Friday, Sept. 14 in the Jubilee Auditorium.
The Office of the Provost has formed the Block Scheduling Committee, a faculty, student and administration collective assigned to negotiate alternatives to the recently published spring 2013 schedule revisions.
New trends emerge and develop everywhere, and this year skateboarding seems to be the leading trend at Seton Hall.
There are now five teaching fellows taking over Journey of Transformation and Christianity and Culture in Dialogue, each teaching three sections of Core as of this academic year, according to the director of core curriculum Dr. Anthony Sciglitano.
This year for the junior computer refresh, the university gave 400 Lenovo ThinkPad tablets to science and honors majors in place of an upgraded computer.
The Aspiring Kindness Foundation, a non-profit charity, sponsored a blood drive at the sixth annual free South Orange Health Fair on Saturday, Sept. 8 at the South Orange Fire Department.
Seton Hall's bookstore has implemented a new system for ordering textbooks this semester which is meant to increase the availability of books for students.
This past weekend proved to be quite the headache for most faculty members who experienced an email blackout.
A Seton Hall graduate student will be participating in this year's Red Bull Flugtag event on Sept. 15 in Penn's Landing, Pa., in which he will launch a homemade, amateur flying apparatus into the Delaware River.
Twenty-two candles lit up the 9/11 memorial outside of Boland Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 11 in remembrance of those who lost their lives 11 years ago. Students gathered in the Boland Chapel for a prayer service at 8:30 p.m. followed by a ceremony out- side of Campus Ministry offices.
One of the latest trends for course work in education technology is access codes, and this year at Seton Hall they are becoming even more popular among science and nursing majors.
The class of 2016 arrived on campus well equipped with cutting-edge technology distributed during the students' respective Pirate Adventures.
More than 950 have moved onto campus, and volunteers from throughout the Seton Hall community came out to help them move in and start their first year away from home.
Seton Hall University has recently become a more transfer-friendly school by matching the New Jersey STARS II grant starting this fall.
Seton Hall is warning students that parking will be tight this semester and students should plan ahead to ensure they will find a parking spot on campus.
The South Orange Police Department set up check points on the night of Aug. 30 where people driving past were stopped and told to take a breathalyzer test.
Classroom scheduling guidelines have been published following a decision by the Office of the Provost to alter the spring 2013 course schedule that will introduce Friday courses into many students' schedules, largely eliminating the previous 75-minute Monday and Wednesday courses.
Just off the second floor promenade at the Walsh library sits one of Seton Hall's tastiest new arrivals on campus.