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Published Articles from
Montclarion Staff
Central Receiving is Not so Central
It is almost Valentine’s Day and on-campus residents at Montclair State University are eagerly expecting a special something from that special someone. For students living on campus, getting mail can sometimes be a bit of a hassle. If it is not an Amazon purchase, it requires a more complicated process. When students expect a delivery, they sit by their computers and browse through their emails, looking for a message from Central Receiving notifying them their packages have been delivered....
We Got 99 Problems a Quarter Won’t Solve
On a Friday afternoon, many students at Montclair State University drop their books and study materials and head over to the Willowbrook Mall to make a few extra bucks in the food court. At the end of their shifts, they are eager to receive their paychecks, but they are surprised to see their hourly wages have slightly increased. On Jan. 1, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy gave a raise to thousands of workers in minimum wage jobs by increasing the hourly rate from $8.60 to $8.85. Those who work at mi...
FAFSA Shutout by the Shutdown
On the first day of October, thousands of college students around the country began scrambling and searching through their financial documents in order to fill out their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). In New Jersey, many students at Montclair State University have already completed their applications in the fall, but there are some who choose wait to complete it during winter break instead of balancing the stress of managing finances and midterms at the same time. In most case...
Final Schedule Frenzy Turned Easy
With the last few weeks of school left, students’ stress levels are at an all-time high. That means students are either running to save a study room for their friends on campus to cram for finals or they are trying to figure out how many days they have to come on campus. No matter the circumstance for the student, everyone is pulling their hair out around this time. In the midst of all this, Montclair State University has created a new way to check the finals schedule times, which has ease...
Where Are All of Our Swipes?
As the semester comes to a close, students at Montclair State University search for any spare change as they walk toward the registers in the Student Center Cafe. Some students have already burned through their Flex and Red Hawk Dollars, forcing them to rely on swipes, another form of payment used in some of the dining locations on campus. As they stand in line, they may wonder how many swipes they have left. In previous years, getting this information was very simple in the palm of your hands w...
Poor Preparation Leads to Slippery Slope for Montclair State
The roads were slick with sheets of ice and slush as students were either helping each other or screaming inside their cars in frustration while stuck in traffic on Nov. 15. This was Montclair State University’s first snowfall of the fall 2018 semester, which turned terribly wrong for students, professors, employees and everyone in between. As the first snowflake fell on the frozen pavement at the university, everyone stirred into feelings of panic and excitement. After a few hours, those stil...
Shhhh, I’m Trying To Study Here
With half of the semester already completed, Montclair State University students are in perennial “save my grades” mode. Students are either flying to Cafe Diem, Harry A. Sprague Library or someone’s dorm to study. There is only one issue with these study plans: if you need quiet to study instead of side chatter, the flicking of someone’s pen or someone chewing obnoxiously on their gum, then you might be out of luck. The root of student strife is the fact that Montclair S...
Moldy Montclair State Makes Mighty Mistake
Every student becomes excited to depart from their parents’ arms and to finally call their dorm room home. Let’s not forget to remind ourselves about how much money parents and students have to fork over to live on university campuses. But what happens when you start getting sick from mold that you did not even know was there and the university shrugs it off? As students reside in residence halls, it becomes a second home for them. Students invite their friends over, do homework and ...
Editorial: Judging a Bookstore on its Aisles
One of the biggest headaches all students have to deal with is getting their textbooks. Recently, the Montclair State University Bookstore tried to alleviate that stress by reorganizing their book collection from a course-based system to an alphabetical system. For years, the bookstore organized textbooks by course number and students could find all the textbooks needed for a course in one pile instead of having to go from shelf to shelf for each class. Starting the fall semester of the 2018-201...