Rutgers

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The eleventh annual protest and campout on the main lawn at Rutgers campus, known as Tent State University, came to an end two weeks ago today, following a week of educational, political, and cultural activities.

The Tent State occupation protests predate Occupy Wall Street, having started in April 2003. The protests began in response to funding cuts to Rutgers and other higher education institutions.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University is holding its fifth annual Rutgers Day festival today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Rutgers Day includes exhibits, performances and activities from a variety of University clubs and student organizations.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Last Friday, Rutgers University’s Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates held their ninth annual university-wide Undergraduate Research Symposium.

The Symposium was at the Rutgers Student Center on College Avenue, and it featured the work of 450 student researchers from over 60 different departments.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers evaluated the presentations.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—John Krenos is one of the incumbents of the Board of Education, and is seeking election to keep his seat on the board for the first time.

Krenos has been a Rutgers faculty member for forty years, and he teaches honors chemistry.  Because a college professor has much say in how his or her classroom, the classes Krenos teaches are a way to gain insight into his views on education.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A pedestrian was struck and killed around midnight last night in a hit-and-run at the intersection of Route 18 and George Street, right next to the Rutgers Douglass campus.

NEW YORK, NY—Rutgers University's spoken word poetry group, Verbal Mayhem, was invited to the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) at Barnard College in New York earlier this month

Shireen Hamza, Alyea Pierce, Dennis Sholler, and Kate Thomas represented Rutgers-New Brunswick at the national competition.

There was a total of 59 teams invited to CUPSI, and each team performed at least twice in the preliminary bouts.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers director of intercollegiate athletics Timothy Pernetti resigned Friday following an embarrassing scandal involving the misconduct of head basketball coach Mike Rice.

Pernetti played football for Rutgers in the early 1990's, and he made the unusual jump from television executive to college athletics director in 2009 when he was hired to the $410,000 job by then-President Richard McCormick.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The Mabel Smith Douglass Library hosted an event Thursday evening that featured spoken word performances by members of Rutgers University's Verbal Mayhem, as well as a student-produced video that featured accounts from lawyers, historians, and prisoners released from Guantánamo Bay.

Attorney Yvonne Bradley said it is unbelievable "how fear and propaganda can make a difference on how people see things."

PISCATAWAY, NJ—Dr. Eddy Arnold, a professor at Rutgers University, was awarded an anticipated $10.1 million dollars in federal funding for his work in anti-HIV research, according to a report on NJ.com. 

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Tomorrow afternoon, Rutgers University's President Robert L. Barchi will be hosting the third of five University Town Hall meetings geared toward developing a strategic plan for the school.

The event is open to the public, and will take place in the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room at 126 College Avenue starting at 3pm.

Members of the public will get the opportunity to questions ask Barchi in between his PowerPoint slides, but only certain questions.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Benjamin Caturano, a 22-year-old New Brunswick resident, has been arrested, along with three other people. They were charged with participating in a conspiracy to purchase and distribute roughly two kilograms of one of the controlled substances commonly known as “bath salts.”

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The man who struck and killed Rutgers student Chelsea Traynor with his truck in 2010 has pleaded guilty to a count of death by auto, admitting he was driving recklessly.

A press release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office announced that Roger Hode, a 43-year-old man from South River, pleaded guilty in an agreement with Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Christopher L.C. Kuberiet.