Stockton’s Community TV Partnership provides unique opportunity for students

By Michael Heilman

It’s that time of year again where students register for Summer and Fall classes at Stockton University. For students who need to take an internship, look no further than the Community TV Internship. This internship gives students a real-world working experience in the television industry. Michael Zubrzycki, the Liaison for TV Studio and Academic Support, who works with the students in the studio says “Through the internship, students gain hands-on experience in television studio production, participating in a number of crew positions from director to camera operator. Students receive broadcast credit, as these programs are not only online, but also aired on through local broadcasting sources. The internship is focused on providing students real-world experience that will enhance and strengthen their resumes.” Students will produce three shows a week, and those shows are Latino Motion with Bert Lopez, 30, The Press of AC television magazine and South Jersey Business with Joe Molineaux.


Students who decide to take this internship will come away with a ton of knowledge and understanding of how the industry works. Zubrzycki explains, “Students gain the advantage of developing their technical, teamwork and interpersonal skills in the studio environment will increase. Interns will also be exposed to the production processes within the studio that demand teamwork and group cooperation in order to succeed. Students will also develop professional interpersonal skills by utilizing their skill sets successfully with program clients and guests.”


Student’s will have the opportunity to network with the talents of Latino Motion’s Bert Lopez, South Jersey Business Joe Molineaux, and Pamela Dollak, Maxwell Reil along with other staff members from the Press of Atlantic City. Zubrzycki adds that “Interns are exposed to a variety of professionals through this internship, including local politicians, business owners, non-profit organizations and community organizers. Students have a unique opportunity to form professional one-on-one connections, and such networking may lead to valuable references, recommendations, interviews and employment offers.”

Students who are interested in the internship are encouraged to contact Professor Ludovich and Professor Newman by email, phone or visit their office. The internship is offered every semester.

Stockton Student TV to Host Masquerade Ball

By: Luke Miller & Colton Van Cleave

On Friday April 6th at 8pm, Stockton Student Television will host Stockton University's first ever Masquerade Ball at the Lakeside Lodge. The event costs $7 a ticket for basic admission to the dance or $10 for a ticket plus a masquerade mask. The event's intent is to raise money for Make A Wish NJ in hopes of making a child's wish come to life! The event organizers have made it a goal to raise a total of $1,000 for Make A Wish NJ, and it's a goal the organizers themselve believe to be obtainable. Along with the main goal hoping to be accomplished by hosting the dance, they hope to provide a special night for students, one that has not been seen at Stockton University before! This formal styled dance will entail everything from night-life entertainment, provided by Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s Zach Muntazar, as DJ. The event organizers are Nadira Anderson, Jessica Burton, Colton Van Cleave, and Mikayla Yuen. Also assisting in hosting and organizing are volunteers from SAE Fraternity, and media coverage from the event host, SSTV, and their reporters and personnel. 

After sitting down with Colton Van Cleave, member of SSTV and one of the event's organizers, we learned more about how the event started as an idea, and came to fruition. "We got the idea from our friend Brittany Valenti who helped us out at the beginning stages of setting the event up. Considering the idea of Make A Wish NJ, it got me thinking as to how the dance would make a real positive impact for a child out there. An event like this will also boost Stockton University by showing that we are here to make real positive changes in the community around us, and while doing that, improving on campus entertainment life on a Friday night." Colton went on to explain, he was inspired by Tim Tebow who has held similar events in the past, but for different charities. Colton and Tim both chose the dance style format to raise awareness and funds for their respective charities. Colton explained why it's important for Stockton students, "By them coming out to an event like this, they are taking the first step in making a positive impact on child's life. Too often, we are engulfed by everyday rhetoric where we often forget who we are as people, and it starts with a community, and student body uniting like this to create real change."

Make sure to come out and support SSTV and the Make A Wish NJ on April 6th at 8 pm, at the Lakeside Lodge. It is sure to be a great event, with a great cause attached to it.

Stockton prepares to launch first Thrift Store

By Timothy L. Shanahan

In the Lakeside residential area, parallel to D-court lies shed 31, Stockton Universities’ first trading post. The grand opening to residential students will take place on March 29th at 9am – 1pm. The Trading Post will be selling a variety of goods that will assist students on campus, namely tools, clothes, and even various camping equipment for the students that can’t afford such materials. The cost of these items will be very affordable for college students and prices are said to compare to those of a thrift store. Students can also bring their old clothes and exchange them for clothes in the post. This new store is run by a Katlin Clark, Who started to set up this store with her staff on January of this year for the purpose of reducing waste on campus as well as recycle unused tools and clothes that get unused and left behind in campus dorms when students leave, and use them to help new students that have a rough time adjusting to the costly needs of college.

The staff consists of Katlin Clark as the store manager, as well as her three staff members Richard Feather, Anthony Featherman, and Sidney Hunter. All of which are taking turns to clean up, inventory management, and register. There is plenty of room for this staff to grow as the donations grow more and more each day. They are currently accepting donations in hopes of expanding their inventory. Since establishing The Trading Post, they have been receiving stacks of donated clothes and would appreciate it if other items were donated as well with the goal of having various college necessities at a low cost. So grab all of your unwanted items and line up on March 29th, remember, another man's trash is another man's treasure.

Ted Greenberg on Telling Traditional News in an Untraditional Time

By Kate Rowland

NBC 10’s Jersey Shore reporter Ted Greenberg visited Stockton on March 26th, with the intent to teach a class of digital storytellers how to do just that. Overall, the role of traditional media has changed drastically in the age of the internet-driven, 24-hour news cycle of social media. In a world that moves so fast, not everyone has the time to wait till 4 o’clock to get their news. This is why 7 in 10 Americans use social media to connect with both their colleagues and their daily news. But how has this surge of online users looking for digital news changed how the business is run? As Ted pulls up his Facebook live stream he taped during the previous storm, he comments, “This has definitely changed the game with what we do every day. There’s more pressure to do that [use social media], not only to keep people updated with what is happening right in front of our eyes but also to push people towards watching the news on television.” Essentially, Ted’s use of social media as a news tool works in that he’ll give his audience a slice of cake now while promising the rest if they tune in later.


This switch from traditional to digital has also changed how Greenberg gets his information as well. “I can communicate with people who follow my page way easier than ever before….The other day I had to do a story on medical debt, and I needed to find somebody who’s problems with medical debt had affected their credit. It used to be I would have to reach out to a whole bunch of experts, ask them if they knew anyone….Now I put a post on Facebook, and within 10 minutes 4 or 5 people write back to me with a material I needed for my story.” Engaging with members of the public has helped not only with just getting real stories upfront but also in voicing the previously unheard. Overall, it seems as though the digital train has no scheduled stops, running full steam ahead and taking news along for the ride for as long as it can.

New Campus? More Courses

By Amanda Genovese

Come Fall of 2018, there will be a new campus in Atlantic City, Stockton University is expanding. There are some big changes coming in the Fall and this new campus is one of them, Students of Stockton University who live near the Atlantic City area will have a new change in scenery for their studies. Students who want to take classes here, there are many advantages to doing so. There will be more than one-hundred courses being offered at the Atlantic City Campus. Students who have been heated over parking, this campus will allow more than five-hundred students to have beachfront housing and parking garages, which will soon make the parking issues at the Galloway campus be somewhat resolved.

Students who decide to live in the beachfront apartments on the Atlantic City campus will be able to cook in their apartments or dine in on campus. Atlantic City offers a whole different experience for the average Stockton Student, there will be so much to do inside and outside of campus. There is the Boardwalk, beach, and the casinos if you are twenty-one or over.

The Atlantic City campus will offer a wide-range of courses, internships, service-learning, and engagement. Not only that but if there wasn’t a class offered for your major at the Galloway campus it will probably be at the Atlantic City Campus. Whether you are performing arts major, hospitality major, accounting, the list goes on there will be more selective courses for everyone. “I did not know about a new campus opening, this is great news to me because I live closer to the Atlantic city area so it will make my commute a lot easier and I am happy that the parking situation may be much better now come Fall.” Junior, Alondra Gammara said.

“It was always frustrating for me when I wanted to sign up for a course and I couldn’t because it got easily filled, this will make things a lot easier because there will be more course options.” Freshman, Alaina Rush said. The Atlantic City campus will have courses and new opportunities to offer all of Stockton students. Come Fall 2018, Atlantic City Campus will be making its debut.

Vagina Monologues

By Dominick Tarangelo

As the semester starts to wind down, Stockton University and the Office of Service Learning presents the Vagina Monologues for another year. This year the auditions were held on Friday, March twenty-third. The event will be held on Wednesday, April 25th at 7:30 PM in the Campus Center Theater.

Over the past few years, other facilities on campus have helped create Vagina Monologues for that year, such as the Wellness Center and the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. The Vagina Monologue was first created by Eve Ensler. Ensler created it to show the struggles that modern face across the globe. As stated in the media release from 2016, “Each monologue deals with an aspect of the feminine experience, touching on matters such as sex, love, rape menstruation and female genital mutilation. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.”

The money raised from this event is donated to an organization that supports women and has been donated to The Women’s Center and RAINN. At the moment it is unknown where the money will be donated to but it will most likely be The Women’s Center. Tickets can be bought at the Campus Center Information Desk and the price will be five dollars for students, ten dollars for faculty and staff, and twelve dollars for community guests. If anyone has any questions they can call the Office of Service Learning at (609) 652-4256.

March Madness: The Cinderella Story – Love it or Hate it?

By Zach Freihofer


We all have heard of the fairytale “Cinderella.” It’s about an unexpected girl who becomes the leader. Well, wouldn’t you like to know that we have that in our very lives today! Introducing, the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers, the present-day Cinderella’s. If you do not know what I am talking about, well then you must not be a very avid sports person. During the month of March, the NCAA hosts a basketball tournament, called March Madness, where there are 64 teams that enter to become the “top dog.” People can fill out brackets, place bets, and so on. If someone does fill out a bracket all right, they win a ton of money. However, the chances of that are not in your favor, with the odd being at 1 in 9.2 quintillions, that’s a nine with 18 zeros behind it.

This year, there is an 11th seed team that no one has even heard of, unless you live there, or you go there the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers. This team has beaten the odds and has entered the Final Four of the tournament. This team has won the whole thing before, but that was back in 1963, where they won over the two-time defending champions Cincinnati Bearcats 60-58, going into overtime. Now, they can relive that moment again. They will need to get past a hot Michigan team. If they win that, they will face either Villanova or Kansas, both #1 seeds in the tournament.

Many people love the Cinderella stories from the tournament. Everyone loves the underdogs. Well, I wouldn’t want to say, everyone. Earlier today, Stephen A. Smith, an American sports television personality, sports radio host, and sports analyst had this to say about a Cinderella story team possibly being in the championship game. He states, “When it comes time for the National Championship, I want the big boys up in there as appose to a particular team who had a nice, little run.” What he is saying is that he wants to see two teams, who will battle it out and make the game entertaining, rather than a Cinderella team go up against the best team in the nation.