As Seton Hall’s first-year students navigated tentative paths through the lunchtime dining hall on their first full day on campus this fall, a man in a suit threaded among them, carrying his own tray and greeting everyone he passed. “How are you doing?” Joseph Nyre asked one student after another. “What’s your name? Where are…
Leave a CommentTo have a friend, you must be a friend, as the old saying goes. And that has been the positive experience of the more than 100 students who have participated in Seton Hall’s cross-cultural iBuddy program. The “i” stands for international, and the program was launched in 2016 by counseling psychology doctoral students in the…
Leave a CommentJennifer Itzkowitz was walking to dinner with her husband one night on Manhattan’s Lower East Side when they came upon an unprepossessing food shop that would soon change the course of her academic career. The shop was AAA Avocados, and the company name, splashed across the green awning in both English and Chinese, got Jennifer…
Leave a CommentThe son of a U.S. diplomat, Daniel Acon ’80 met famous people growing up, including George H.W. Bush and Henry Kissinger. “It trained me to be at ease around anyone,” he says. This has served him well in a film career that has involved working with top directors such as Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese…
Leave a CommentGerald “Jerry” Buccino ’63 was in his sophomore year of high school when he marched into the vice principal’s office and requested an appointment. It wasn’t something students normally did, but Buccino had important business to discuss. Every Friday night, his school held a dance with live music, and every week, the administrators booked a…
Leave a CommentDon’t get the wrong idea. Taylor Cutcliff ’19 wouldn’t want to relive the worst months of her life, when doctors told her she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. But Cutcliff, a standout defender during her four years on the Seton Hall women’s soccer team, admits that those frightening days back…
Leave a CommentJust a few weeks before he died, former Seton Hall baseball coach Mike Sheppard Sr. ’58 spent the day doing what he’d done throughout his life: watching baseball with his family. His son Rob Sheppard ’92, the current Pirates coach, drove him to watch the scrimmage between Seton Hall Prep, coached by Mike Sheppard Jr.…
Leave a CommentThe rise of social media as a news source. Fake news. Accusations of corrosive bias. The U.S. media industry is embroiled in a period of disorienting upheaval, a time when the principles that guide the news are being sharply re-examined. But according to Matthew Pressman, an assistant professor of journalism in the College of Communication…
Leave a CommentAs you read this, I will be nearing the end of my fourth month as Seton Hall’s president. Every day I am learning more about our outstanding Catholic university, the remarkable dedication of its people, and the myriad strengths that have made it a leader in higher education for 163 years. I am filled with…
Leave a CommentFifty years ago, on a bright morning in early June, Elaine Lardieri stood on Seton Hall’s commencement stage and addressed the Class of 1969 and their families. It was a landmark moment for her, of course, but also for the University at large: after 113 years in existence, the school had its first female valedictorian.…
Leave a CommentEven at a young age, Dagen Hughes felt called toward broadcasting. Since coming to Seton Hall, the College of Communication and the Arts student has explored every avenue of the business, working behind the camera on Pirates games and serving in both play-by-play and analyst roles.
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