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Review: Let’s Yo, a positive frozen yogurt experience

ALEXIS CAMARENA
Senior Editor

Being a frozen yogurt aficionado, I just had to check out Let’s Yo: A Yogurt Experience, a parlor that just recently opened its doors to the yogurt-loving public a few weeks ago.

The parlor, is located in Florham Park, just off of Columbia Turnpike and in the same shopping center as popular burger joint Smashburger and sandwich shop Panera Bread.

On April 1, Let’s Yo hosted an extravaganza for its grand opening, complete with music, games, face-painting, and balloon animals.
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Personal essay: Memories turn to everlasting photographs

CAROLYN RUBINFELD
Contributor

I yawn, slowly scrolling through my Facebook feed.

It’s 7:20 a.m., but I can’t sleep. A flood of my old pictures bombards me, if only to pass some time.
A bright orange wig explodes out of a photo while a brimmed sun hat with a thin black ribbon tied at its base makes just solemn whispers.

Another picture passes.

A girl is wearing a pair of blue ears. Spikes protrude from both of her hands. She is standing proudly next to another wearing a long black flowing cape and a handmade blue hat with a painted sash. My best friend. The friend I have not seen in almost three years.
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Opinion: America’s presidents should not be imperial presidents

TOM STROWE
Contributor

With debates over the budget deficit, gun control and immigration policy dominating political discussion in Washington, D.C. and across the nation, another important political issue, the Imperial Presidency, has not been receiving the attention it deserves.

The Imperial Presidency refers to the idea that the Presidency of the United States has grown too powerful and has exceeded its constitutional limits.
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Short story: Cecily Jones’ coming of age in a not-so-tolerant community

CHRIS BEDELL
Columnist

Sex outside of marriage just wasn’t frowned upon in Aklava, it was against the law. Hell, it was even punishable by death. Although, teenage girls were sometimes shown mercy. All forms of birth control and abortion were also illegal – usually punished by jail time and sometimes by death when Chieftains wanted to make an example of you.

The sad thing was that even though the law technically applied to everyone, men were usually given a free pass. The double standard against my gender was nervy, although I guess it wasn’t totally surprising.

But where do I, Cecily Jones, fit into this? Well, let’s just say Aklava isn’t the best place for a seventeen year old girl to come of age.
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Personal essay: I know it’s no way to live, but it’s all I know

MONIQUE VITCHE
News Editor

In Ithaca N.Y., there’s a stone bridge that goes over the Cascadilla Gorge, leading to Cornell University. There’s a ninety-foot drop between the bridge and the Cascadilla Creek, which empties into Lake Cayuga, one of the Finger Lakes.

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On the ride up you see nothing for miles. Just land. I close my eyes and try to block it out, the nothingness. I start wondering if I made the right decision by coming up here. Eventually we coast along the Susquehanna River and we’re in the village of Owego, N.Y.
Only an hour left.
We eat lunch in this restaurant that used to be a jail.
I can feel the old souls left behind. No matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to shake them.
Around dinnertime we meet my best friend who studies music education at Ithaca College, the reason we drove up here in the first place. We’re on the second level when we hear a voice.

“What are you guys doing down there?”
I look up and see her leaning over the railing on the third floor.
“I don’t have a brochure, this isn’t a travel agency,” she says about her upcoming recital as we walk to the car. I laugh, and it’s the first time I’ve done so and meant it in days.
I keep drifting in and out of the conversation taking place around me during dinner at Mahogany. No one notices, and if they do, they don’t say anything.
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Men’s golf has successful start, hopes to reach NCAA tourney

STEVEN MACRI
Sports Editor

For senior Billy King and the rest of his class, this is their last chance to meet their goals and accomplish the task they came to do when arriving at Fairleigh Dickinson University. The men’s golf team currently sits at a 2-1 record, but have placed in multiple tournaments this season, including winning the Misericordia University Tournament.

For King, a better parting gift to cap off his career and the careers of the rest of his fellow seniors would be to win the big prize, the MAC Tournament, and head to the Division III NCAA Tournament.
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From the editor’s desk: Ready to graduate?

MELANIE ANZIDEI
Editor-in-Chief

For the past four years, I have been preparing myself for May 21. I know I’m not alone when I say that.

Being a senior has opened my eyes to a world I never knew existed. I mean, I knew it was there, but I never knew what it looked it or how it’d make me feel. For the past eight months I’ve grown from a scared, young girl into the woman that’s ready for the next big step – graduating college.
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Student body expresses concern over housing priority points

CHRISTI PEACE
Staff Writer

As previously reported, on March 25, students received an email about priority points earned. Two days later, students voiced their concerns over FDU’s new housing process at the Student Government Association meeting.

The new process bases a student’s priority on four different categories – academics, judicial standing, campus involvement and residence hall involvement – instead of relying on academic credits earned and a student’s grade point average.
Jas Verem, dean of students, was at the meeting to clear up any confusion about the process and to listen to what students had to say about it.
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Updates to be made to Village buildings over summer break

MONIQUE VITCHE
News Editor

Students can expect changes to be made to some Village residence halls by the fall semester.

Buildings 1 and 2 will have upgrades made to the bathrooms in all of the suites, according to Paul Palladino, campus property manager.

Jas Verem, dean of students, said there will be new cabinets and shower curtains installed, among other changes.

Additionally, building 3 will have its heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system updated over the summer. Last year, buildings 1 and 2 had their HVAC systems updated.

“It’s a gradual step,” Verem said of the upgrades.
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U.N. Pathways welcomes Under-Secretary-General; Public information focus of U.N. Pathways event

Photo by Joe Castillo. Under-Secretary-General Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, left, talks to students in Lenfell Hall.

Photo by Joe Castillo.
Under-Secretary-General Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, left, talks to students in Lenfell Hall.


MEGAN HEINTZ
Managing Editor

On April 2 in Lenfell Hall, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Public Information, gave a lecture titled, “Communications and Public Information: Key to U.N. Success or Failure?” Part of the Office of Global Learning’s U.N. Pathways program, it was about how the U.N. disseminates information.

Apart from the FDU community, Lehigh University and the general public were also welcomed.

Launsky-Tieffenthal was appointed to his current position in 2012. Prior to this appointment, he was a spokesman and head of the Department for Communication and Information of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, among others.
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