From The Newsroom
John Jay Builds “Pipeline” For Prison
By Manolo Morales This year there have been approximately 100 incarcerated men from Otisville Correctional Facility who applied to the John Jay Prison to College Pipeline Program that would allow them to earn college credits while still being in prison, but there were only fourteen slots available. The program is oriented towards men who are [...]
John Jay Student Government Holds Elections
By Kamar Jay Foster After a month-long campaign for the student council presidency, the incumbent has been deposed and Mehak Kapoor now holds the coveted office. “It is about the students and it will always be about the students and that is why I serve,” said Kapoor, who, after a fierce competition, dethroned Whitney Brown [...]
Students Voice Tension In Town Hall Meeting
By Eric Jankiewicz and Taja Whitted A large group of students bristling with anger stormed into the last town hall meeting of this semester. They were ruffled up about, what they saw as, John Jay’s security abusing power. On the listening end of the meeting sat President Jeremy Travis, Student Government President Whitney Brown [...]
New Cafeteria Opens
On April 19, something rarely seen in John Jay occurred. More than 200 students gathered on the second floor Atrium, excited by the opening of the New Building cafeteria. “Everyone’s talk about it,” Jesse Nia said at the opening ceremony. The cafeteria has a holding capacity of 449 people and is armed with [...]
Forget Your Party. Your Party Is America
By Denise Batista John Jay’s Republican club invited former congressman turned author, Joseph DioGuardi, to speak. He came to John Jay to inform students on the problems he believes occurs within the government due to the financial scams that are hidden from the public. DioGuardi plainly presented his main concerns with what he saw [...]
School News
John Jay Builds “Pipeline” For Prison
By Manolo Morales This year there have been approximately 100 incarcerated men from Otisville Correctional Facility who applied to the John Jay Prison to College Pipeline Program that would allow them to earn college credits while still being in prison, but there were only fourteen slots available. The program is oriented towards men who are [...]
John Jay Student Government Holds Elections
By Kamar Jay Foster After a month-long campaign for the student council presidency, the incumbent has been deposed and Mehak Kapoor now holds the coveted office. “It is about the students and it will always be about the students and that is why I serve,” said Kapoor, who, after a fierce competition, dethroned Whitney Brown [...]
Students Voice Tension In Town Hall Meeting
By Eric Jankiewicz and Taja Whitted A large group of students bristling with anger stormed into the last town hall meeting of this semester. They were ruffled up about, what they saw as, John Jay’s security abusing power. On the listening end of the meeting sat President Jeremy Travis, Student Government President Whitney Brown [...]
Forget Your Party. Your Party Is America
By Denise Batista John Jay’s Republican club invited former congressman turned author, Joseph DioGuardi, to speak. He came to John Jay to inform students on the problems he believes occurs within the government due to the financial scams that are hidden from the public. DioGuardi plainly presented his main concerns with what he saw [...]
Homeless Receive Habitat Of Choice
By Jason Chester The Midnight Run Organization was started primarily for individuals who were either too sick or too weak to fend for themselves in homeless shelters. So instead, those who had nowhere else to turn chose the streets over the shelters. This almost seems counterintuitive at first. “Shelters are worse than prisons,” Sarah Shattuck, [...]
Sports
Meet New B-Ball Coach
In September, the John Jay Men’s basketball team, coming off of a 9 – 17 season, named Otis Fenn the new head coach. Fenn isn’t a rookie in the coaching field. As assistant coach in 2005, he helped lead New York City College of Technology to a CUNYAC championship and to the second round of [...]
Women Swimming
College of Staten Island’s women swimming team lost to Hunter College with a score of 55-31. Now the CSI’s dolphins will face off against the John Jay bloodhounds on November 4th at 6pm.
Player Of The Week
John Jay College soccer player Brenda Pitts was awarded City University of New York Athletic Conference(CUNYAC)/Applebee’s Women Soccer player of the week. A co-captain of the soccer team, she wins the award for the first time this season. She won the CUNYAC All-Star and sportmanship award last season. She led the soccer team to victory [...]
Baruch College defeats Women’s Tennis Team
John Jay’s Women’s Tennis was defeated by Baruch College with a score of 6-1. To read more about the game and the results click here To read more about John Jay sports click here
Men’s Volleyball
John Jay College’s Department of Atheltics has added men’s volleyball as an sports team available in the college. This makes it the fourteenth sports team for the college. Currently the college offers baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men and women cross country, men and women soccer, softball, women’s swimming and women’s volleyball. There has been a [...]
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