{"id":2079,"date":"2018-04-09T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2024-05-07T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:37:07","slug":"campus-roundup-spring-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/campus-roundup-spring-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Boss approved<\/h2>\n<p>Blue Hawk Records students performed with original E Street Band drummer Vini \u201cMad Dog\u201d Lopez in January at Asbury Park\u2019s Light of Day Winterfest, an annual event that raises money for Parkinson\u2019s research. For their finale, an Elvis impersonator joined them onstage for a rousing rendition of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cRosalita.\u201d Two of Springsteen\u2019s friends sent him a clip of the performance, says Joe Rapolla, chair of the music and theatre arts department, who was among the performers. \u201cI\u2019m told he got a kick out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ytEmbed\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: \u201cRosalita\u201d Vini Lopez, Mark Wright, Zack Sandler, Gary Cavico - Rose A Montana Video\" loading=\"lazy\"  style='width: 500px; height: 281px;' src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PlzguGKetMs?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;rel=0\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Hanging 10<\/h2>\n<p><em>Surfer<\/em> magazine ranked Monmouth the 10th best university in the U.S., and tops on the Eastern Seaboard, in its recent listing of \u201cBest Surf Colleges.\u201d The publication cited Monmouth\u2019s personalized educational experience, historic campus, and proximity to New York City and Philadelphia as reasons why it\u2019s one of \u201cthe best universities in the U.S. for scoring waves while getting your degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Read On<\/h2>\n<p>Professor John Morano\u2019s Eco-Adventure Series is enjoying a resurgence. Last year, a 25th anniversary edition of<em> A Wing and a Prayer<\/em>, Morano\u2019s story about the last Guadalupe petrel, and a new edition of <em>Makoona<\/em>, his story about an octopus living in a coral reef and the refugee boy who fishes there, were released. This spring, the series\u2019 third installment, <em>Out There, Somewhere<\/em>, hits shelves; it features an \u201cappearance\u201d by retired Monmouth biology professor Don Dorfman. Morano says a new book, <em>Flocks of One<\/em>, featuring characters from the previous three books as well as \u201ca major scene set at Monmouth University,\u201d will be out soon after.<\/p>\n<h2>No question about it<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ytEmbed\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: President&amp;#039;s Day 2018\" loading=\"lazy\"  style='width: 500px; height: 281px;' src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wWsSXySIc0?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;rel=0\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Grey Dimenna marked Presidents Day by randomly quizzing students on their knowledge of U.S. presidential trivia. Unanimous response to the question \u201cWho\u2019s your favorite president?\u201d: Grey Dimenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene at West Long Branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":37,\"y\":64}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currents","category-tides"],"thumbnail":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-300x257.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-2382 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"object-position:37% 64%\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-768x659.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-1120x960.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-560x480.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-280x240.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-320x274.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-640x549.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-828x710.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-360x309.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2-9x8.jpg 9w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/rushmorev2.jpg 1235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>","catString":"Currents, Tides","issue":"Spring 2018","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/4811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}