TCNJ Celebrities

Celebrities

	Carmella Holl: Changing Lives, One Zumba Move at a Time By Leigh Casenek October 10, 2012 - 5:00pm In honor of Zumba week, which started Oct. 6, our campus celeb is Carmella Holl, a junior Spanish major and Marketing minor. This Zumba instructor is known for her packed classes in the T/W Fitness Center on Monday and Thursday nights. Carmella’s classes have girls coming back week after week to work out despite the fairly crowded room and the fogged up mirrors that her classes draw. To Carmella, instructing Zumba isn’t a job; it’s a place to have a fun workout, meet new people, hang out with, and have a positive and healthy impact on The College’s students. READ MORE
	A Mission, Not a Job: Danielle Cassidy By Jackie O'Malley September 25, 2012 - 6:14pm As this week’s celeb looks back at how her life has unfolded, it just makes sense. While her friends were busy constructing their solar system dioramas for the middle school science fair, Danielle Cassidy, was busy volunteering her time at food drives. Nearly a decade later, not much has changed for the TCNJ senior. As she watches those same friends enter med school, she will be walking a different path as she prepares for her mission with the Peace Corps. READ MORE
	Kevin Shaw, Our Athlete of the Week By Jackie O'Malley September 18, 2012 - 12:00am We had a hard time deciding if Kevin Shaw should be featured as Campus Celebrity or Campus Cutie, and with just one glance at his picture we think you’ll know why. But there’s so much more to our soccer captain than his good looks and charming personality. Not only has the senior math major racked up four goals this early in the season, he was also just our featured athlete of the week. READ MORE
	U-Jin Lee: Chasing the News and Her Dreams By Kristen Lauletti September 10, 2012 - 3:00am Imagine a breaking story happens. You jump into a news van and cruise to the location. You get to experience the action play out in front of you and watch reporters capture the reactions of the people involved. Okay, so most people will probably never do this in their lives, but for U-Jin Lee it all became a reality this past summer. U-Jin, a senior Communication Studies major, was given the chance to intern at My9 News, a sister station to Fox 5, for three months. “It was really eye-opening, you get to see how the media operates under pressure and time constraints”, says U-Jin. READ MORE
	Justin Corazza- A Once in a Lifetime Abroad Experience By Jackie O’Malley September 4, 2012 - 2:09am The flight was long. Justin Corazza reaches for his carry-on luggage neatly tucked away in overhead storage, lets out a long yawn and joins the herd of travelers moseying down the airplane aisle. As he steps off the plane and into the foreign air circulating the Florence airport, Justin clutches his luggage a little closer, as they are the only pieces of home he will see for ten weeks. READ MORE
	The Cutting Edge of Perfection By Kimberly Horner April 24, 2012 - 12:26am One day after a Student Government meeting, 14-year-old Erin Casey* came home from high school and sat alone on her bed. AP and honors textbooks, ballet slippers, cheer pom-poms, and a work uniform were strewn about the pale blue room. With the photographs of friends and family on the walls smiling down around her, Casey made the first of many cuts – gliding the sharp edge of a pair of tweezers across the smooth skin of her inner forearm. READ MORE
	Samantha Sorin: Finding Peace of Mind and Body through Yoga By Jackie O'Malley April 16, 2012 - 7:44pm It’s 6:30 a.m- an hour most college students prefer not to hear or talk about. But Samantha Sorin glides out of her bed and opens her curtains, revealing a still, gray landscape outside of her dorm room. The only movement is the sun inching its way up the distant horizon. Sorin moves to the center of her room, sits down, closes her eyes, and begins to meditate. READ MORE
	A Pageant Queen Among Us: Kirsten Haglund By Jessica Corry April 10, 2012 - 10:00am The College of New Jersey welcomed royalty on Monday, February 27th when former Miss America Kirsten Haglund visited campus for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. “You don’t have to be thin to be worth something,” says the former Miss America. From the glitz and glamour of the pageant world emerged a voice of reason, one that said, “I’m not perfect. I have flaws and I am still successful.” READ MORE
	Wiebke Struck: All Around the World By Samantha Pena April 1, 2012 - 11:00pm For this 23-year-old globetrotter, her semester here at TCNJ is not her first time traveling to distant destinations. Wiebke Struck, a foreign exchange student from Germany, has been around the block—literally—due to her studies and her job. READ MORE
	Lindsay Vastola: Just Own It! By Alexa Rozzi March 16, 2012 - 10:27pm Lindsay Vastola is driving through Manhattan, leaving one fitness seminar and on her way to another. She is nine months pregnant and due in a few weeks, but that doesn't slow her down. For this fitness specialist, it's just all part of a day's work. READ MORE