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Rutgers community grieves death, injury of students

Rutgers 250th anniversary inspires coffee table book

Eagleton alumni share advice for pursuing political careers

When he sat at the end of a conference table with future governor Chris Christie, Christopher Paladino joked with him about when they’d order pizza.Dec 4 2014

Faculty, students create digital history of New Brunswick

Instead of assigning a lengthy final paper his students would probably forget about after winter break, Andrew Urban asked students to use their knowledge for the community. Urban, assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and the Department of History, created the project, “Mapping New Brunswick Memories,” a collaboration with Chris Rzigalinski. Dec 3 2014

Rutgers student embarks on project to save Delaware oysters

Three years ago, 85 percent of wild oysters in the global ecosystems had been lost due to overfishing, causing Columbia University’s Earth Institute to deem them “functionally extinct.”Nov 25 2014

Barchi confronts student issues at RUSA meeting

Athletics, the Big Ten Conference, faculty salaries and campus housing are just a few topics that have stirred controversy over the past few months. Yesterday evening, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi addressed these issues for an hour in front of the Rutgers University Student Assembly at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus. Nov 21 2014

City considers game day parking tax

Rutgers had a record-breaking attendance of 53,774 at its first Big Ten Conference game against Penn State at High Point Solutions Stadium earlier this year. This turnout is often costly for the Piscataway Township, which supplies a police force and other municipal services for Rutgers events. Nov 19 2014

Veteran student talks transition to Rutgers

When he graduated high school in 2002, Matt Solowsky visited Rutgers with his girlfriend and knew it was the school he wanted to attend. “The problem was I didn’t have the means to go to Rutgers, nor did I have the confidence,” Solowsky said.Nov 14 2014

NJ Assemblywoman encourages responsible drinking awareness

Mary Pat Angelini did not know what a keg stand was when she was in college. The New Jersey assemblywoman, along with a group of panelists, spoke yesterday in the Livingston Student Center and brought up the cultural shift in alcohol consumption, which has increased in intensity and frequency since the panelists attended college.Nov 11 2014

Q&A with Hannibal Buress

Hannibal Buress, actor, musician and comedian at the Laugh Factory Comedy Network, performed for more than 500 students at the Busch Student Center last Thursday. Following the show, Buress spoke to The Daily Targum and offered some advice for aspiring comedians, his future plans and key moments in his career.Nov 11 2014

Comedian Hannibal Buress jokes about college life, family stories

If you’re stuck at the bottom of a well, do you want somebody who can relate to you, or do you want a motherf---er with a rope who can pull you out of Forever 21 debt? That was Clark Jones’ response when friends told him he should date someone who understood his struggles as a black man. Nov 7 2014

Rutgers offers new programs at Atlantic community college

Nearly 90 miles south of New Brunswick, students at Atlantic Cape Community College are earning four-year bachelor’s degrees from Rutgers without ever stepping foot on Rutgers’ campus. ACCC will offer a continuing education law class beginning on Dec. 12 and a tax assessment class in 2015 through Rutgers, according to the Press of Atlantic City. Rutgers will also offer summer courses at Atlantic Cape’s campuses in Atlantic City and Cape May Court House.Nov 4 2014

Doctor shares experience in Gaza

Rutgers community provides targeted Ebola aid for Liberia

Imagine walking into a Rutgers health care center with a high fever and finding the place nearly deserted. Most of the nurses and doctors are sick, dead or too afraid to show up. For the remaining few, there are no gloves, soap or disinfectant.Oct 29 2014

Award-winning professor shares her teaching philosophy, experiences

RUSA elaborates on future plans, budgeting process

In the last few weeks, Rutgers’ administration has experienced the brunt of numerous protests by dissatisfied students, faculty and staff. Amidst criticism ranging from the University budget for entrance into the Big Ten Conference to the elimination of tuition remission for school employees, the student government discussed some of its future budget and event plans for the University.Oct 24 2014

New MCAT aims to assess social science skills

Gender parity in RBS highlights growth of women in business

Early in their careers, many women start making room for a family, some even before they have a boyfriend, said Sharon Lydon, citing a story from Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In.” Lydon, executive director of the master’s in business administration program at the Rutgers Business School, is one of the many women who felt an impact from Sandberg’s stories, which expose the double standards women face in the corporate world.Oct 15 2014

Friends, family honor Caitlyn Kovacs at memorial

Collages in the shapes of hearts, paw prints and cats appropriately adorned the room as friends and family of Caitlyn Kovacs, an animal lover, trickled in to attend her memorial. Pictures of Kovacs filled the collage — smiling in an iridescent prom gown, making funny faces, surrounded by friends and family at a summer outing.Oct 13 2014

Rutgers hosts "Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism Conference"

Regina Austin could not get a prisoner’s story heard because the Department of Corrections rejected her for possible security risk. This is one of the many adversities she faced as a documentarian. Austin and Ann Schwartzman, executive director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, shared their difficulties coordinating prisons with the press yesterday at the “Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism Conference,” hosted by the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women. Oct 9 2014

Criminal Justice professor shares history in fighting terrorism

Fear of terrorism has dominated Western culture since the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and most Rutgers students probably do not remember a world where the encountering word “terrorism” was not a common occurrence. Yet in 1983, when John Cohen was a graduate student at the University of Southern California, he presented his prediction of the rise of international crime to a conference of academic experts — and his audience was scandalized. Oct 8 2014

Mayor Cahill addresses RUSA on city’s plans for future

Some Rutgers students felt a loss when Fresh Grocer went out of business last spring, but in the next few weeks, the city of New Brunswick plans to evaluate new supermarket options to bring convenient groceries back to students. New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill spoke at last night’s Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.Oct 3 2014

Rutgers Reddit online users meet in real world

Rutgers endows chair for feminist icon Gloria Steinem

Acclaimed writer reads work at Writer’s House

Imprisoned three times by the Nigerian government for being suspected of treason, Chris Abani has used his controversial writing to expose the devastating humanitarian crises in Nigeria. Abani, an acclaimed poet and novelist, read his excerpts from books as part of the “Writers at Rutgers” series, sponsored by the Department of English. The event that saw more than 150 students and faculty was held yesterday in the Multipurpose Room of the College Avenue Student Center.Sep 25 2014

Rutgers Cancer Institute celebrates 13 “Top Doctors”

An estimated 564,800 Americans will die this year from cancer — a little more than 1,500 patients a day, according to the Thomara Latimer Cancer Foundation. The disease has challenged scientists for years, not only in the painstaking searches for cures, but also in the caring of those whose lives and communities are forever altered by a single diagnosis.Sep 23 2014

Former Rutgers president launches memoir at Rutgers

When former University President Richard L. McCormick fought to secure financial support for Rutgers from the New Jersey legislature, he would use a combination of “bragging and begging,” touting Rutgers’ accomplishments while warning that any budget cuts would put them at risk.Sep 19 2014

Theta Chi honors lost brother with cancer-awareness fundraisers

Last spring, every brother of Theta Chi shaved his head in a show of solidarity for Nexhmi Klobucista, a recent pledge who was losing his hair to his cancer treatment. Klobucista, who was studying exercise science in the School of Arts and Sciences, planning to go into physical therapy, passed away on August 12, after six months battling testicular cancer.Sep 15 2014

RUPA ‘Wicked’ trip sold out before ticket sales began

Students have made complaints that members of the Rutgers University Programming Association sold tickets to their fall Broadway show ‘Wicked’ to their friends, depriving other students of a fair chance at the tickets.Sep 10 2014

Faculty, students find anti-date rape nail polish ineffective, victim-blaming

‘What was she wearing?’ has been a question directed at victims of sexual assault for years, but now some people are worried that it will refer to nail polish rather than provocative clothing.Sep 9 2014

Rutgers nontraditional students find work-life balance on campus

College students are often stereotyped as budding youths — inexperienced, impressionable and a little naïve. But not all undergraduates at Rutgers are students in the traditional sense.Sep 8 2014

Students, faculty weigh in on Rutgers grading policy for F’s

First-year students arriving on campus this semester might hear a curious rumor: If a student does poorly in a class, he or she should get an F so it can be repeated for a better grade.Sep 3 2014

Students storm Barchi's office to protest Condoleezza Rice's commencement invitation

Over 50 Rutgers students participated in a sit-in yesterday at University President Robert L. Barchi’s office in protest of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s commencement invitation. This was one of the largest sit-ins in Rutgers history, drawing police to the scene after a glass door was broken and a student allegedly cut their hand.Apr 28 2014

Congresswoman shares realities of political change for women

When Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-Md) rushed her feverish son to an emergency room, she realized that he had contracted meningitis at his daycare. The daycare was affordable, but not licensed. Reflecting on her struggles as a single mother raising a child, Edwards elicited laughs when she joked about constantly checking her watch before picking up her son at daycare because every minute meant paying overtime.Apr 24 2014

Rutgers initiates first Master’s program with United Nations concentration

In the past, becoming a fire chief in New York did not require a bachelor’s degree. Today, even a bachelor’s is not enough. Eric Davis, vice chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science, said employers demand both professional skills and technical knowledge in today’s increasingly competitive job market. Apr 23 2014

Grant seeks safety of Sandy victims

Following a natural disaster, con artists emerge under the guise of providing recovery services, leaving survivors feeling suspicious of others in a time when they need the most outside help. Nearly 18 months after Hurricane Sandy, many elderly and disabled victims of Sandy are still struggling, in part because they are prime targets for these moneymaking scams.Apr 22 2014

Scholar talks nonprofit political reform

Sayu Bhojwani lost her first job in the United States on her first day when her employer discovered that she did not have a green card. Under the strict deadline of an F-1 student visa, she had to start searching from scratch and eventually settled for a disappointing second-tier job. Apr 18 2014

Rutgers affiliates share opinion on Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Ban Bossy’ campaign

When Debbie Walsh gave her daughter a copy of “Lean In,” it was not to prepare her for a CEO position but for an interview in restaurant management. Walsh cautioned her to wait a day before replying to any offers. Walsh, instead, soon received an excited call from her daughter, who had immediately accepted the job without negotiating the salary.Apr 10 2014

Fox News correspondent shares his passion for politics at Rutgers

As a rookie reporter earning a salary of $14,500 in Odessa, Texas, Mike Emanuel was sent to cover an ostrich festival. Upon his arrival, he discovered there were no actual ostriches at the site. Instead of choosing to not cover the event, Emanuel, now the chief congressional correspondent for Fox News Channel, asked festival attendees to show him what an ostrich sounded like, returning with footage of adults making ostrich sounds.Apr 8 2014