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Students share thoughts on class requirements at Rutgers

With every school at Rutgers, there are requirements students must take in order to complete their degrees.

Group hosts panel discussing ethics of eating

The Internet is full of arguments between vegetarians or vegans and those who eat meat, but they rarely evolve past angry comments about which is superior.

RUSA moves to advance social issues in town hall meeting

A Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting that invited members of the New Brunswick community to participate in student governance was held on Nov.

Rutgers dance team holds symposium centered around Parkinson's

For those suffering from Parkinson’s disease, the Rutgers University Dance team held a free one-day public symposium on October 29th.Called “Moving Forward,” the symposium involved body movements, film related to Parkinson’s disease and dance, and also a panel discussion on the disease’s research.

Rutgers says 'no more' to sexual violence, domestic abuse

Two weeks ago on Oct. 1, Jake Comito gathered about 60 blue 3-by-2-foot poster boards with “NO MORE” printed at the top to Quad Circle on Livingston campus, where students were walking through and asked what the boards were all about.The Rutgers Business School junior and resident assistant would then explain that he and a few close friends have taken the initiative to align with the Joyful Heart Foundation’s campaign against sexual violence and domestic abuse, "NO MORE."

6 lesser-known historical facts, events about Rutgers

With Rutgers' 250th anniversary soon approaching, historian and alum Paul Clemens has released a book detailing the University's history since 1945.

Rutgers alumni discusses passion for engineering

A class of 2000 alumni, Andres Roda exercises his passion for civil engineering at Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation, a company that aims to nationally improve infrastructure and transportation.CAIT is the largest engineering research center at Rutgers. They have received over 17 million external grants and they train over 7,500 professionals each year. According to CAIT's official website, the center is one of five National University Transportation Centers because it is a research institution sanctioned and supported by the United States Department of Transportation.

Rutgers providing advances in senior health care

Rutgers School of Health Related Professions has created three new online programs with the intent to offer health care professionals the opportunity to learn more about health care for older adults, even if they are working full-time.The number of older adults in the country is growing, but at the same time many professionals are not trained as to how to care for these older adults.

Professor analyzes climate change reporting and impact

Professor discusses democratic field

Up until last week, most individuals were unsure what three of the democratic presidential candidates even looked like.With Sen.

New Brunswick Bike Exchange turns trash into treasure

Even something as simple as buying a bike nowadays can serve as a way to profit the disadvantaged members of one’s community.“Members of the Princeton Freewheelers bicycle club, led by Russ White, saw a need for affordable bicycles in the area and were able to meet that need by repairing old bikes, selling the bikes cheaply to cover costs of operations,” Leighann Kimber, program coordinator of The New Brunswick Bike Exchange said, via email.Russ took notice to the New Brunswick area, wanted to start an organization there, and with the help of other bicycling enthusiasts, created an organization.

Students bank on RUSA to improve course guidance

As course selection rolls around again, the Rutgers University Student Assembly is looking to make life easier for students with its introduction of ‘The Syllabus Bank.’By reassessing the synopsis option on the course catalog, RUSA is looking to implement new policies for next year to make a course syllabus bank available for every class so that students can view the course content of previous semesters.Matthew Panconi, president of RUSA, said students will be able view the most recent syllabi for the course under the new tab.

Students come together to support LGBT community

Using art to recognize the struggles the queer community faces is just one of the ways the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities raised awareness of these issues during Rutgers Ally Week.

Rutgers psychiatry professor uses classic Halloween movies to study psychopathology

In watching horror movies, Anthony Tobia, associate professor of Psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School said audiences see some part of themselves projected on the screen that may cause them to feel anxious.For the general viewer, Anthony Tobia, an associate professor of Psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School said, Night of the Living Dead (1968) is a recreation of an even older film titled The Earth Dies Screaming (1964).Through psychiatric analysis, Tobia saw the result of the film was that there was a deep, human dynamic in a time where people were threatened.

Rutgers doctoral candidate invites students to boost their birthdays by considering kindness

Stemming from her longtime passion for community service and public engagement that dates back to her days as a high school student, Alicia Raia-Hawrylak decided to celebrate her birthday differently from most.In celebration of her 30th birthday, the Rutgers doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology made it a goal of hers to contribute one act of kindness, called a “boost,” each day for every year that she has lived in a project called "30 At Thirty."She documented her daily efforts on her Twitter page, @30AtThirty, throughout her birth month of September, championing the hashtag #BoostYourBirthday.As a doctoral candidate, Raia-Hawrylak is in the process of writing her dissertation and is doing research on improving school climate, and believes projects like this can help improve the general social atmosphere in small ways.She said that she thought #BoostYourBirthday would be a great way to practice public sociology in her professional life and connect with organizations that she feels are doing great work.

Arab Cultural Club prepares to host banquet to help Syrian refugees

The Arab Cultural Club will host a banquet event in the Douglass Student Center’s Traye’s Hall to assist Syrian refugees on October 27th.The Syrian refugee crisis has been an ongoing problem for the past couple of years, and has escalated over the past couple of months, according to the page advertising the event.“The reason why we decided to do a banquet is because we want to have discussions about the Syrian crisis, but we also want to have other events, such as screening a documentary about it.” Said Nourin Abubaker, president of The Arab Cultural ClubA 3 year old Syrian boy washed up dead on a beach early last month, according to The Washington Post.

Rutgers to see transportation transformation with Transportation Master Plan

By December 2016, Rutgers students will be experiencing a brand new transportation system.Rutgers is expecting a transformation through the “University Physical Master Plan," said Jenn Stuart, Manager of Transportation Planning at the Rutgers University Department of Transportation (RUDOTS). She said the Transportation Master Plan is already in action.“The goal of the Transportation Master Plan is to create a transportation environment that enhances mobility alternatives for students, faculty, staff and visitors," Stuart said in an email.She said these alternatives include parking, transit, bicycling and walking.The Transportation Master Plan is available online and lists many of the changes the University will see across the Newark, Camden and New Brunswick campuses.“We have studied Rutgers’ far-flung transportation networks, the daily ebb and flow of students between their living spaces and classes, the ways in which classes are assigned and how technology might enhance time usage and reduce the need to travel," according to the online Master Plan.According to the Master Plan, the Raritan River is the center of the new system.

Rutgers considers use, implications of trigger warnings

In today’s college world, students have set out to make sure that all forms of language and behavior that could be construed as offensive.

Student petitions for tuition refunds after DDoS attacks

Another year, another attack on the University’s servers.Rutgers raised tuition and fees 2.3 percent for the 2015-2016 school year, and part of that money went toward $3 million on increasing cybersecurity and computer networks this year after four attacks on the computer networks last year. According to nj.com, Rutgers hired FishNet Security, Level 3 Communications, and Imperva to test the University’s computer network for vulnerabilities.On Sept.

Rutgers' annual Safety Matters Report shows increase in sex offenses

Last month, a year-long Rutgers survey called #iSpeak found that 1 in 5 undergraduate women at the University experienced unwanted sexual contact at least one point during their time on campus.Flash forward one month to a more recent statistic found in Rutgers’ Annual Security & Fire Safety Report.