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NJIT's Student Newspaper

The Vector

How to Be a Vegan on Campus

How to Be a Vegan on Campus

Katherine Ji and kji October 30, 2019

This past summer marks four years of being a vegan for me, and—what I believe to be even more of an accomplishment—one full year of eating plant-based on a college campus with relative ease. I first...

NJII Hosts Pop Up Health Clinic

NJII Hosts Pop Up Health Clinic

Katherine Ji and kji October 24, 2019

The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) is making community service in business the norm. On Oct. 19, the healthcare division of NJII went to the Barringer High School of Newark, NJ to host its second...

How and Why to Get Involved on Campus

How and Why to Get Involved on Campus

Katherine Ji and kji August 29, 2019

In periods of stress throughout high school, I’ve always turned towards arts and activism for comfort: buoyed by books, transported through writing and grounded in my support for animal rights and environmental...

The Sinister Politics of E-Cigarettes

The Sinister Politics of E-Cigarettes

Katherine Ji, kji, and pagrawal February 21, 2019

In 2015, Juul began releasing USB-rechargeable e-cigarettes and cartridges (called pods) with 5% nicotine content—the equivalent of one pack of cigarettes—while competing companies offered products...

Movie Review: Bandersnatch

Movie Review: “Bandersnatch”

Katherine Ji January 31, 2019

The Netflix anthology “Black Mirror” has earned its spot as my favorite television show for its ability to predict how the more technologically advanced society we are striving towards will meld with...

Amazons New HQ2: Its Not Newark

Amazon’s New HQ2: It’s Not Newark

Katherine Ji December 7, 2018

On November 13, Amazon’s 13-month-long, nationwide search for a new headquarters finally came to a close. This new headquarters, or rather, multiple, new headquarters, termed “HQ2”, will be located...

Veterans Affairs Hit Home: Thousands of Veterans are not Receiving Benefits

Veterans’ Affairs Hit Home: Thousands of Veterans are not Receiving Benefits

Katherine Ji December 7, 2018

On November 12, 2018, NJIT joined millions across the country in celebrating and thanking veterans for our freedom, with the Dean of Students and Campus Life holding a ceremony in the Campus Center Atrium....

The $289 Million Monsanto Case

Katherine Ji November 7, 2018

Monsanto found liable of causing a school groundskeeper's cancer On August 10, 2018, a San Francisco jury awarded Dewayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper, $289 million on account of Monsanto’s...

Music in the Library: Vramensco Quartet

Music in the Library: Vramensco Quartet

Katherine Ji October 31, 2018

On the night of October 23, 2018, it was anything but quiet in the Littman Library. Indeed, the College of Architecture and Design’s library was bursting with playful, graceful, and downright powerful...

Commercial Fishing Banned Across Arctic

Commercial Fishing Banned Across Arctic

Katherine Ji October 18, 2018

With continuously rising temperatures, it’s no wonder polar scientists recently reported the sixth lowest extent of ice on record. Climate change points to diminishing ice cover and thickness in much...

Light: With the College of Architecture and Design

Katherine Ji October 15, 2018

[ngg src="galleries" ids="60" display="basic_thumbnail"] A twisting tower of glowing scissors, shadowed footsteps under a door, and a model of natural light streaming through a bedroom over one day. Curated...

“Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut

Katherine Ji October 15, 2018

Cat’s Cradle is an incomparable satirical comedy on modern man and his undertakings. However, it must be said that the novel was only acceptable because of Kurt Vonnegut’s use of humor. Cat’s Cradle...

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