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New campus email server draws criticism from students, faculty Stephen Weiss
overlook everything taking place electronically at Rutgers, including student communications. “Old Queens says they would Rutgers’ adoption of a new email never read people’s emails, but system called Office 365 has creyou have to wonder why they ated tension between University would spend hundreds of thouadministrators and the Rutgers sands of dollars on gaining the faculty union. capacity to read our emails ver y In August, the administration easily,” he said. adopted the new Hughes said system Rutgers he moved off Connect, and in“Old Queens says they would never read people’s servsisted to faculty emails, but you have to wonder why they would spend Rutgers ers as soon as that all Univerhundreds of thousands of dollars on gaining the he became the sity business capacity to read our emails very easily.” union’s president be conducted because he asthrough it, said david hughes sumed his new David Hughes, President of Rutgers American Association of University Professors position would the president of make him a tarRutgers’ Ameriget of administracan Association of University Professors and the Rutgers Connect could potentially tive surveillance. “We encouraged all of our memAmerican Federation of Teachers jeopardize academic freedom by (AAUP-AFT) and a professor of the increasing the University’s ability bers to remove all of their commuto conduct surveillance on users. nications that were related to scholDepartment of Anthropology. “Office 365 is a cloud-based According to its website, Office 365 arship, pedagogy, research, union email and calendaring system that enhances the visibility of the work- matters and all kinds of personal and political matters,” Hughes said. will provide better collaboration place to managers. Hughes said that under the new within and between departments, improved email and calendaring server, managers would be able to See faculty on Page 4 Correspondent
services, excellent spam and virus filtering, a resilient system with 99.95 percent uptime and a service that provides many other useful collaboration, education and business tools,” according to the FAQ page of Rutgers Connect. Hughes represents the faculty union and said he believes
The faculty union, AAUP-AFT has openly criticized the new server for making it easier for administrators to monitor faculty and students. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CASEY AMBROSIO
Worst parts of N.B. to walk through late at night Samil Tabani contributing writer
Rutgers broke ground on the RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center in November. The facilities will accomodate the basketball, gymnastics, wrestling and volleyball programs and is expected to be complete in July. BRIAN FONSECA / SPORTS EDITOR / NOVEMBER 2016
U. outlines ‘R Big Ten Build’ plan for construction of new athletic facilities Marissa Scognamiglio contributing writer
Rutgers University has broken ground on the construction of a 295,000-square-foot, 4-storey athletic facility and parking deck on the Livingston campus.
The facility will be built adjacent to the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC) lot, and is a component of the “R Big Ten Build” master plan. This plan includes a comprehensive campaign to raise $100 million for premier Rutgers Athletic training facilities,
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Despite police presence in high-volume areas on campus, students still feel threatened by certain parts of Rutgers University. School of Arts and Sciences firstyear student Ryan Chung said that he feels Easton Avenue is the scariest place on the Rutgers campus, especially during weekends. He said he feels Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays are the most frightening times, especially because of all the parties going on. Chung said he has witnessed people partaking in suspicious activity late at night. “I have a friend who actually got drugged with Xanax in the past few weeks,” Chung said. He also said he feels more secure in an on-campus environment, rather than in New Brunswick itself, which he said feels is more of like an open-city environment. Chung said there is a lot of blame on students as well for acting irresponsibly at parties. “(The police) can’t be everywhere at every party, patrolling things,” Chung said. Chung tries to avoid the area because of the stories he has heard, he said. Sanika Kadam, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, also
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believes Easton Avenue is the scariest part of Rutgers, especially the parts further away from the Barnes and Noble on Somerset Street. “It’s dark and less lit and you know there’s not many Rutgers buildings, so you know there aren’t other people around to provide a more protective environment,” Kadam said. She believes that due to a large number of fraternities, you can noticeably observe people who are consuming alcohol, she said. “There was a freshman who was left alone by her entire group of friends and she was lost. Being in an unknown place, especially in that part of campus, was completely unsafe,” she said. Kadam said she lives relatively close to that part of the College Avenue campus, but her observations do not prevent her from looking for housing in the area. “Although people might think it is a buzzkill for parties, I do like that there are some cops around,” Kadam said. Chung said he would become more aware of his surroundings but would not completely avoid Easton Avenue. People seem to trust strangers too easily on these parts of the See night on Page 5