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‘The School for Good and Evil’: Too Much and Not Enough

Mrunmayi Joshi, Managing Editor • November 15, 2022

This review contains spoilers. I first read “The School for Good and Evil,” a fantasy book by Soman Chainani, when I was in middle school. The novel revolves around best friends Sophie...

Reviewing ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’

Paridhi Bhardwaj, Staff Writer • November 15, 2022

(Photo from Environmental Justice in the Iron Bound) It was a sunny day on Sept. 7; I was jamming to “When You’re Gone” by Shawn Mendes. I had no classes to attend, so I decided to do what everyone...

Over the Garden Wall: Autumn, the Show

Aaron Dimaya, Staff Writer • November 1, 2022

This review contains spoilers. The year is 2014, and Cartoon Network is smack-dab in the middle of a renaissance. When in one calendar year you can count upon the likes of “Steven Universe,”...

Top Three Spookiest Albums of Halloween

Najee Manning, Senior Staff Writer • November 1, 2022

Some Halloween enjoyers are content with watching scary movies, trick-or-treating in costumes, or simply carving pumpkins. If you enjoy diving so deep into the atmosphere of Halloween that you wish to...

Six Horror Movies to Prepare You for Halloween

Najee Manning, Senior Staff Writer • November 1, 2022

Watching scary movies during October is the epitome of the perfect Halloween experience. While some horror films are more frightening or gory than others, every quality horror film brings something exciting...

Should Kim Kardashian be spared for ruining history?

Shreyal Sharma, Business Manager • November 1, 2022

Kim Kardashian chose to surprise her fans and viewers by wearing Marilyn Monroe’s famous “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress to the 2022 Met Gala. However, during the event, Kardashian ripped the...

A Conversation with Transfer Students

Mrunmayi Joshi, Managing Editor • November 1, 2022

Settling into college as a first-year student is difficult. There are new classes, friends, a daily schedule that is much more customizable, and hundreds of activities that students can choose from. Especially...

Whimsical Eras of Love in ‘five seconds flat’

Yukthi Sangoi, Editor-in-Chief • October 21, 2022

Singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine released her second studio but third overall album “five seconds flat” on April 8 of this year. She assembled 11 of the 14 tracks into a 29-minute film, which is divided...

American Students Should Read Russian Literature. Yes, Even Now.

Matthew Fleishman, Staff Writer • October 21, 2022

As I was finishing up my humanities sequence of 100- and 200-level General Education Requirements in my first year, I began planning my humanities classes for further years. Looking through the list of...

Latour Dives into Electronic ‘Probabilities’ with ‘001’

Yukthi Sangoi, Editor-in-Chief • October 13, 2022

“I'm at the edge of the world that I knew,” Maude Latour sings to open her newest EP, “001.” The singer-songwriter graduated from Columbia University as a philosophy major in Spring 2022; graduation...

I Can’t Even Parallel Park: The Story of Every Commuter

Paridhi Bhardwaj, Staff Writer • October 13, 2022

Fun fact: NJIT is a school with a majority-commuter population, with 79% of students commuting to campus according to U.S. News. This year’s incoming class has increased NJIT’s enrollment...

Pakistan Goes Underwater

Areej Qamar, Executive Editor • October 6, 2022

The rain started the same day I arrived in Pakistan this summer. My relatives, happy to see me and my family, exclaimed that we had brought “showers of blessings” with us. It did almost seem that...