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George Street truck crash delays University operations

A crashed delivery truck in front of the River Dorms on the College Avenue campus yesterday caused the replacement of a utility pole, the re-routing of University buses for the majority of the day and the delayed delivery of The Daily Targum to the entire University. Full story

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Hill to stay on as men's basketball head coach

Fred Hill Jr. is not got going anywhere — at least not next year. Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti announced Wednesday that Hill will remain the head men’s basketball coach. “Fred Hill is under contract as our men’s basketball head coach,” Pernetti said in a statement. Full story

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Symposium infects HIV awareness within U.

In Middlesex County alone, there are 2986 cases of AIDS and 971 cases of HIV as of June 30, 2009, according to Rutgers Health Services’ Health Outreach, Promotion and Education on HIV/AIDS outbreaks in New Jersey. To spread more awareness on the subject, HOPE hosted an HIV/AIDS Interactive Symposium Wednesday night in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenuen campus. Sattik Deb, an intern for the Center for Social Justice Education, explained the event was held for two main reasons. “The first reason is that it is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and the second is that we want to put a face on the awareness of HIV/AIDS,” said Deb, who is also affiliated with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, a co-sponsor for the event. Full story

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It has dawned on me recently that the creators of Facebook are out to ruin people’s lives. I am not talking about pictures from wild weekends of doing shots and peeing in the streets ruining careers or college acceptances, or the fact that there are probably support groups for Farmville addicts. The real life-ruining factor that Facebook has provided the world with is the pressure-building relationship status.

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