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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY—NEW BRUNSWICK
WEDNESDAY APRIL 17, 2019
RUSA starts initiative for mental health awareness
Strike is averted, union receives new faculty contract
NICOLE WOOTTON-CANE CORRESPONDENT
BRENDAN BRIGHTMAN NEWS EDITOR
The Rutgers American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers (AAUPAFT) announced they had reached an agreement on a new contract with the University and would not go on strike, according to an AAUPAFT press release. “We made histor y today. For the first time in the union’s nearly 50-year histor y, we won equal pay for equal work for female faculty, SEE CONTRACT ON PAGE 4
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Rutgers and the faculty union have agreed to terms on a deal that evaluates salary equity. The contract for part-time lecturers is still being debated. GARRETT STEFFE / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
The Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) has recently launched an initiative called “The Bandana Project,” which will show solidarity with students suffering from mental illnesses. The project distributes green bandanas to students on campus, which can be tied to backpacks as an open demonstration of support for those suffering from mental illnesses. The bandanas will also serve as indicators that the wearer is carrying resource cards with information about mental health resources on and off-campus. The resources on the card include Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program and
Psychiatric Services (CAPS), Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD), Scarlet Listeners, Rutgers University Dean of Student Offices, National Suicide Prevention Hotline and Do Something. There are currently several representatives from RUSA wearing these bandanas across campus. The initiative is headed by Chairwoman of RUSA’s Health and Wellness Committee Hinita Patel, as well as sponsored by RUSA’s Executive Committee. “The presence of mental illness has significantly risen on college campuses. Suicide is the second leading cause of death, after traffic accidents, among college students,” SEE AWARENESS ON PAGE 4
Student who began as 10-year-old graduates APARNA RAGUPATHI CORRESPONDENT
Ross Brown knew he loved mathematics from a young age, but decided when he was 10 years old to take a philosophy class at Rutgers because he was also interested in logic. He then took The Theory of Knowledge and Introduction to Number Theory afterward. COURTESY OF ROSS BROWN
Last semester, Ross Brown, 20, graduated from Rutgers with a double major in math and computer science. Unlike most students though, he has been taking classes at the University for almost a decade. Brown enrolled when he was 10 years-old through the Rutgers Summer and Winter program, which he said is very involved in encouraging young students to take courses at the University. His first course was Philosophy 201: Introduction to Logic. “I wasn’t really ready to take math classes at Rutgers at the time. I was still 10, but I knew I was pretty
interested in logic, so when I saw Philosophy 201, I decided to take it. I had a lot of fun in that class,” he said. From a young age, he knew that he loved mathematics and saw it as something he could always enjoy learning. “Being exposed to math, being told that I could learn it, and understanding that there would always be more that I cared to learn in that subject, I felt that math presented itself as a subject that I could always be interested in,” he said. Both Brown and his sibling did extracurriculars related to mathematics and eventually, he SEE 10-YEAR-OLD ON PAGE 5
New Jersey ranks in middle tier nationwide for gender wage gap MIA BOCCHER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
New Jersey’s wage gap between women and men ranks 25th nationwide and 51st for the wage gap between Latina women and white men. Elaine Zundl, research director for the Center for Women and Work (CWW), said the ranking comes from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC). “Essentially, the ones with the lowest pay gap are ranked highest.
So if you have the lowest pay gap in the group, you are ranked first,” Zundl said. New Jersey pays women $0.80 overall to ever y dollar paid to a man, according to the ranking. Black women roughly make $0.57 to ever y dollar paid to white men, and Latina women roughly make $0.42 for ever y dollar paid to white men. The state’s figures are lower than the national level’s, with Black
women typically receiving $0.61 and Latina women receiving $0.53. Zundl said comparatively, New York is higher-paying for Latina women at $0.56 and Pennsylvania is even higher at $0.57. There is no clear explanation for why New Jersey has a bigger gap than the neighboring states for Latina women. But the pay difference between white women, SEE GAP ON PAGE 5
The New Jersey State House is the capitol building for the state. It continues to be used for legislative purposes, such as signing the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. RUTGERS.EDU
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