The Vector

Building Your Personal Brand

Guest • December 2, 2015

Building Your Personal Brand By Micaela Itona If you were stuck in the elevator with the CEO of Apple, Google, or Cisco Systems, what would you say? Allison Fink of Hearst Magazines says you need an...

Whatever you, do it with Passion: A Message from Professor B.S. Mani

Guest • December 2, 2015

Whatever you, do it with Passion. A Message from Professor B.S. Mani On December 8, over 150 Mechanical Engineering students, mostly freshmen, will gather in the Campus Center Ballroom...

NJIT Athletics: Students Subsidizing Sports

Megan Sweeney • December 2, 2015

NJIT Athletics: Students Subsidizing Sports By Megan Sweeney, copy editor During my tenure at NJIT, I have not always agreed with the decisions the university has made. Recently, NJ.com posted...

Planned Parenthood: Newark and Nationwide

Prasanna Tati • December 2, 2015

Planned Parenthood: Newark and Nationwide By Prasanna Tati, staff writer This Thanksgiving weekend was met with tragedy as a lone gunman walked into a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood with a gun and...

Do you stand with Mizzou?

Prasanna Tati • November 18, 2015

Who Stands With Mizzou? Prasanna Tati Racist incidents in American streets have been nothing but top headlines in the recent past, but today a new variation of the same racism has been gripping headlines...

Drugs, Profits, and Civic Duty

Liem Ho • October 2, 2015

In a move that shocked many people and media outlets, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals Martin Shkreli increased the price of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750. Daraprim is a prescription medication that is used...

Change through understanding, understanding through education reform

Guest • April 28, 2015

Dear Mr. President, Despite the fact that this letter will undoubtedly be scanned by a plethora of eyes that belong to everyone in the District of Colombia but you, I have unjustifiable yet boundless...

NJIT Ranked No. 4 in New Jersey’s “Best Value Colleges”

Liem Ho • April 21, 2015

By Liem Ho A recent study (link) conducted by financial data and technology company, SmartAsset, assessed and ranked ten colleges for having the best value in the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Institute...

Status of women in Islam

Vector Staff • March 3, 2015

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful “O Mankind! Reverence your Guardian-Lord, Who created you from a single person, created of like nature his mate, from them scattered countless...

Remembering Malcolm X

Vector Staff • March 3, 2015

It has been 50 years since the assassination of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X. Malcolm defied all odds by transitioning from a drug dealer, pimp, and thief to one of the biggest reformers...

Keystone Pipeline: A step back for Environmentalism

Guest • February 24, 2015

Deepak Sela The Keystone Pipeline is a continental pipe that starts in Alberta, Canada and eventually ends up at major refineries in the southern half of the US. It is estimated to pump 830,000 barrels...

Ask the YAC: Introduction

Billy Barry • November 20, 2014

The NJIT Young Alumni Club (YAC) is adding a new, monthly feature in December 2014 called Ask the YAC to our weekly column in the NJIT Vector. Each month, we will select up to three questions posed by...