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Chantel Diaz

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April 4, 2018 // By Chantel Diaz

New Faces, New Potential for Change: After SGA Elections

The Student Government Association (SGA) elections have passed, placing new members in prominent positions for next year. It is exciting to see fellow students rise to positions of power where they can create opportunities for student voices to be heard. These fresh faces can bring fresh points of view and have the potential to change how students interact and engage on campus. They also have the ability to improve the level of communication between students and the administration. Like most sch...
March 21, 2018 // By Chantel Diaz

Editorial: What is to Come After Last Week’s Walkouts

Students all over the nation walked out of classrooms to join the National School Walkout Day protest on March 14. The rallying cries for gun reform rang loud and clear. From New Jersey to Iceland, student protesters were no longer accepting condolences or comfort from Congress. Instead, they called for changes to be made to prevent mass shootings like at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last month. While it is still unclear what long-term legislation will come out of th...
March 20, 2018 // By Chantel Diaz

Editorial: Walking Out on Gun Violence

Around 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, thousands of students, teachers and faculty walked out of classrooms across the U.S. to protest in the National School Walkout. For 17 minutes, participants stood outside in solidarity for the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida shooting last month. The nationwide movement was also meant to send a message to Congress to pass stricter gun control laws and background checks prior to gun sales. Most schools were lenient...
January 31, 2018 // By Chantel Diaz

99 Problems, and a Pod is One

For most students, doing laundry is a chore. For others, laundry is a breakthrough challenge; a challenge that beats both cinnamon and Kylie Jenner’s lip challenge. You can eat tide laundry pods in exchange for spewing soup bubbles in your mouth and likes on social media as part of the “Tide Pod Challenge.” Challenge accepted? Like most of these challenges, the new “Tide Pod Challenge” is both ludicrous and dangerous. According to a report from The Washington Post, consuming ti...
January 17, 2018 // By Chantel Diaz

Red Hawk Central is Here

The Office of the Registrar, Student Accounts and Financial Aid have been relocated. Red Hawk Central is now open in Lot 7, located next to the Panzer Athletic Center. According to the Montclair State University website, the building provides coordinated support services for students all in one place. Montclair State officials seem to have turned around the inconvenience of College Hall’s renovation and made it into a perfect opportunity to test out a new idea. In doing so, the school has miti...
December 4, 2017 // By Chantel Diaz

The Social Confines of ‘Beauty’

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet, who is the beholder of one’s beauty? The answer is meant to be different for everyone. However, on my recent stop to the women’s restroom in the Student Center, I revisited that phrase once more. On the mirror’s right hand side, there is a sticker that gives students a warning. It reads, “Warning: Reflections in the mirror may be negatively affected by socially constructed ideas of ‘beauty,’” along with the Montclair State Univers...
December 3, 2017 // By Chantel Diaz

Attack on Attendance

Penalizing students for not physically being in class can be unnecessary and unfair. While there are some professors who swear by the necessity of an attendance policy, at the end of the day college students are adults and should be able to make their own decisions about going to a class without it affecting their grade. While Montclair State University’s website states that the attendance policy does not mandate professors to penalize students for attendance, there are some professors that ha...
November 14, 2017 // By Chantel Diaz

Murphy Making Moves on Students

Around 8 .pm. on Tuesday night, Democratic nominee Phil Murphy won the New Jersey governor’s election. If his campaign promises are enacted, great changes will be made for our state. College students have gained a governor who values our education and future. Murphy has promised lower college tuition and state-based refinancing for student loans at lower rates, which means that we take out another loan from the state to replace our school loans with lower interest rates. Dreamers, undocumented...
November 1, 2017 // By Chantel Diaz

Editorial: Are Votes Lacking the Student Voice?

The semester’s halfway point has arrived. Homework, exams and projects all seem to pile together, and the end feels closer but still far away. However, another event is in our midst – voting for the next New Jersey governor. Eight years have passed since Governor Chris Christie took office. Now, the ballot will decide whether Democrat Phil Murphy or Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno will take his place. These two candidates promise to bring very opposite yet extreme changes for our st...
October 11, 2017 // By Chantel Diaz

Convocation Comes Back Without January Commencement

As the saying goes, when one door closes another one opens. Well, for Montclair State University, the opposite can also be true. Montclair State decided to bring back convocation, but cancel the January commencement. Provost Willard Gingerich stated in a letter to the Editor-in-Chief of the Montclarion that the commencement was removed because students and family members were disgruntled by the disarray and lack of organization of it last year. While it’s apparent that many students are ex...