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NJ College Cracks Hot Missing Persons Case NJ College Cracks Hot Missing Persons Case
NJ College Cracks Hot Missing Persons Case Students and staff from a New Jersey college center have cracked a hot missing persons case from across the country. The Ramapo College of New Jersey's Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center (IGG) worked in collaboration with authorities in St. Louis County, MI, to successfully identify “St. Louis John Doe,” who had been missing since 2021. "This was a hot case, which generally refers to the presence of active, investigative leads," reads a release from Ramapo College's IGG. "The use of IGG in hot cases is a fairly new and growing concept." IGG's assistant director, Cairenn Binder, sa…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Worker Critically Injured In Explosion At Ramapo College Worker Critically Injured In Explosion At Ramapo College
Worker Critically Injured In Explosion At Ramapo College UPDATE: A construction worker was gravely injured in a pipe-valve explosion Tuesday morning at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah, responders said. Mahwah firefighters carried the victim out after he was struck in the head and knocked out by a valve cap during a pressure test on an 8-inch water line on the second floor of the college library shortly after 8 a.m., they said. A helicopter was cancelled because of the weather and he was taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center with severe head trauma, responders said. They were doubtful about his chances for survival. T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
College Dropouts Take Over As New Owners Of Edgewater's 'Pizza Club' College Dropouts Take Over As New Owners Of Edgewater's 'Pizza Club'
College Dropouts Take Over As New Owners Of Edgewater's 'Pizza Club' Michael Ghinelli of Wyckoff was in his junior year and distracted from classwork by designs for his own t-shirt company when a teacher told him he'd never go anywhere. That stuck with him, he said. But now, the 21-year-old has taken over Pizza Club in Edgewater with business partner Hadi Parhizkaran. And he says he's proving his teacher wrong one slice at a time. Ghinelli and Parhizkaran, also of Wyckoff, have always been motivated to work, talking about potential future business ventures when they first met as teenagers in the kitchen at Blue Moon Mexican Cafe. “We were just kids at …

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by Valerie Musson
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Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28 Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28
Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28 Jacqueline Winter Thomas of Emerson died on April 18, having recently been accepted as an English fellow to Brandeis University’s PhD program. She was 28 years old. Jacqueline earned a Bachelors degree in literature from Ramapo College of New Jersey and a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, her obituary says. She was also a poetry reader at The Adroit Journal and a contributing editor at Eratio Poetry Journal. Jacqueline was remembered in her obituary as "a poet, a philosopher, a lover of trees, and delighted in snowfall, …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Judges: Ramapo College Immune From Sex Assault Case Of Student Raped In Dorm Room Judges: Ramapo College Immune From Sex Assault Case Of Student Raped In Dorm Room
Judges: Ramapo College Immune From Sex Assault Case Of Student Raped In Dorm Room A panel of three judges declared that Ramapo College of New Jersey was immune to a sex assault lawsuit filed by a student because it's considered an "arm of the state" NorthJersey.com reports. The state-funded college is exempt under a statute granting federal immunity to certain government agencies, the judges at the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled. Student "Jane Jones" says she woke up in undressed in a Ramapo College dorm room undressed and thought she may have been sexually assaulted at a fraternity party on campus the night before in November 2014, the report sa…

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
Demarest School Counselor Wins Big Award Demarest School Counselor Wins Big Award
Demarest School Counselor Wins Big Award DEMAREST, N.J. – A guidance counselor at Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest has won a prestigious award. Colleen Spafford, of Fair Lawn, is the recipient of the Nancy Jaeger Award for Excellence in Counseling. The award is named for Ramapo College of New Jersey’s former director of admissions, who fostered close relationships with guidance counselors throughout New Jersey during her nearly 40-year career. Spafford is the fourth counselor to earn the recognition. “Colleen is always professional, friendly and a joy to have as a colleague,” said Ramapo Senior Admissions Counsel…

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by Lauren Kidd Ferguson
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REPORT: Ramapo College Ranks Among Top 10 In U.S. For Low Student Debt REPORT: Ramapo College Ranks Among Top 10 In U.S. For Low Student Debt
Report: Ramapo College Ranks Among Top 10 In U.S. For Low Student Debt MAHWAH, N.J. – Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah ranks among the top 10 best value colleges in the country at graduating students with the lowest average debt, according to a new list released by Kiplinger. Kiplinger – a Washington, D.C.-based publisher of business forecasts and personal finance advice – found that in 2016 “the average student borrower at a four-year private college graduated with $32,000 in debt, while those attending public colleges borrowed an average of $27,000.” But Ramapo was one of the schools “most successful at getting their students out the door with the lowe…

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by Lauren Kidd Ferguson