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Rutgers email discloses death of sophomore
Professor returns amid sexual assault lawsuit BRENDAN BRIGHTMAN STAFF WRITER
Nabil Adam, who previously worked as the vice chancellor for Research and Collaborations at Rutgers University—Newark, will return to teach at the Rutgers Business School in New Brunswick this semester after a paid administrative leave, which began on Nov. 28, 2017 when the University began an investigation into whether he sexually assaulted and harassed one of his graduate students. According to a document originally sent to the student involved and obtained by The Daily Targum from Jerome Williams, the executive vice chancellor and provost at Rutgers— Newark, the two should have no contact of any kind with one another. This has been an order directed by the University since the investigation began. The document advised the student to contact the Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) if Adam attempted to contact her while she was on campus, in violation of Rutgers’ no-contact order. She is also required to alert Williams 48 hours in advance if the two are scheduled to attend the same departmental conferences, meetings or anywhere else they may meet at Rutgers—New Brunswick or Rutgers—Newark. The Daily Targum reported in March 2018 that the University had opened a sexual assault and harassment investigation into Adam. The student, who asked to remain anonymous, said she first began to work
with Adam as his research assistant when she came to Rutgers in 2015. Shortly after, on Jan. 14, 2016, Adam allegedly acted inappropriately. According to a recapitulation the student submitted to the Office for Civil Rights, “Professor Adam then started touching her inappropriately in between her legs and tried to pull her pants down. At that point, there seemed to be someone around in the building and Professor Adam realizes that the place was inappropriate, and both (the student) and him left thereafter. However, he then repeatedly asked her to go over to their Research Lab with him.” The two went to the lab at approximately 6:30 p.m., where Adam made unwanted sexual contact, according to the report. Similar behavior began again a few days after the initial incident, ultimately culminating in an 18-month sexual relationship between the two, the Targum reported. She attempted suicide on July 2, 2017. Adam’s paid administrative leave officially began on Nov. 28, 2017, the same day the student filed a report of her allegations to the Office of Employment Equity. The student, the Targum reported in Oct. 2018, brought a civil case against Adam, the University and Periklis Papakonstantinou, an assistant professor at the Department of Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS) for a Title IX violation and related failure to investigate her complaints among other grievances. The University has not replied to requests for comment on this story.
CATHERINE NGUYEN STAFF WRITER
Professor Nabil Adam allegedly had an 18-month sexual relationship with one of his graduate students. She has filed a civil case against him. RUTGERS.EDU
Members of the Rutgers community received an email from Interim Chancellor Christopher J. Molloy on Jan. 19 informing them of the death of Arianna Rodrigues, who died on Tuesday. “I offer my deepest condolences to Arianna’s family and friends for their loss, and ask that the entire campus and community keep them in our thoughts during these difficult days,” Molloy said. Rodrigues was a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, according to the email. She was also a Robeson Scholar and member of Douglass Residential College (DRC), living in a learning community at Busch Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) Hall. Jacquelyn Litt, dean of DRC and the Douglass campus, informed in a separate email that Rodrigues was previously in the School of Engineering and was part of the Reilly Douglass Engineering Living-Learning Community, as well as the BOLD Empower program. She recently transferred to the School of Arts and Sciences to pursue social work and help those in her community. Both emails specified that counselors are available to those needing grief counseling or general support.
‘Hamilton’ coauthor details his time with Lin-Manuel Miranda BRIANNA ROSARIO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
While getting tickets for the Broadway musical, “Hamilton,” has presented itself to be a challenge for many, that did not stop Rutgers— New Brunswick Summer and Winter Sessions from bringing a little piece of the musical to campus. Jeremy McCarter, coauthor of the book “Hamilton: The Revolution,” came to speak last Saturday evening, Jan. 19, on College Avenue. The other author of the book is composer, playwright and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda. Their Pulitzer Prize-winning book goes behind the scenes of “Hamilton,” a musical about the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, which Miranda wrote and composed.
At the talk, McCarter said 12 years prior to “Hamilton,” he worked as a theater critic for a magazine in New York. This career path led him to see the musical “In the Heights,” a musical Miranda also composed and starred in. Impressed, McCarter gave the show a positive review. Shortly after, a publicist from “In the Heights” brought McCarter and Miranda together to meet for drinks. “One drink became drinks plural. Neither of us are exactly sure what we talked about that night because of how plural those drinks got to be,” McCarter said. “But, in the emails that we exchanged in the next couple of days, we had pieced together that at some point I had asked him so, ‘what’s next?’”
Miranda then told McCarter that he was going to write a hip-hop mixtape about the life of Hamilton. “(The idea of) which I would of thought was insane. Because it is,” McCarter said. Two years later, McCarter began working for the New York Public Theater and found himself involved behind the works of “Hamilton.” McCarter said during a meeting, Miranda gave him a demo CD of approximately eight songs for the show. As a demo recording, Miranda sang all the roles. A specific memory McCarter said he had was listening to Miranda singing the song “Helpless.” In the demo for it, Miranda sang a SEE TIME ON PAGE 5
Jeremy McCarter, coauthor of the book “Hamilton: The Revolution,” worked 12 years as a theater critic before writing alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda. BRIANNA ROSARIO / CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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