THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 73
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Athletic Director Tim Pernetti appointed Dan Donigan to the position of head coach for the Rutgers men’s soccer team. Donigan will take over for Bob Reasso, who resigned in November.
Advocates urge Congress to back health care bill BY JOSHUA M. ROSENAU CONTRIBUTING WRITER
sound, I love the challenge, and I love giving people joy.” Yu, born in Wuhan, China, came to the United States in 1982 under a government exchange program. She attended the University of Cincinnati before receiving her bachelor’s degree and artist diploma from the Juilliard School. Yu performed with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra in Virginia for 10 years before moving to New Jersey with her husband, violist Honggang Li of the Shanghai Quartet and two children. In addition to performing both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, Yu teaches violin
In the wake of Scott Brown’s election to the Massachusetts State Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, New Jersey health care advocates spent Friday visiting the New Brunswick of fice of the state’s Congress members, urging the lawmakers to support reform. Representatives from New Jersey Citizen Action, a grassroots organization in support of health care reform, stopped at the district office of Reps. Robert Andrews, D-1, John Adler, D-3, and Frank Pallone Jr., D-6, Friday at 67 Church St. in Kilmer Square. “We’re here today to deliver a letter to the [representatives], and to give them a checkered flag as a symbol of this important moment,” said Central Jersey Organizer Adam Sherman. “We’ve made it so far — it’s time to cross the finish line.” Sherman praised the work of Andrews and Pallone, who both voted in support of health care reform and pressured Adler to change his current no-vote. Now, without the 60 Democratic votes needed to ensure the passage of a bill in the Senate, some champions of health care reform are urging members to push the bill into reconciliation, a rarely used legislative process that would allow the passage of a bill with just 51 votes instead of the 60 normally required, according to an article in the Washington Post. “We want to go with the reconciliation procedure,” said David Hopkins, a representative of Grassroots4Change, a nonpartisan citizen action group. “We want a public option, and we won’t need all those votes if they use reconciliation.” Catherine Stanford, staff representative for the Rutgers Council of the American Association of
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Violinist Yen Yu performs five different works at the “Art of Music” concert series at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Sunday on the College Avenue campus. Back by popular demand, this is Yu’s third performance at the Zimmerli.
U. strings in violinist for classical evening BY DAN ROGERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The crescendos of Antonin Dvorak’s “Sonatina in G Major” emanated through the halls of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus Sunday as violinist Yen Yu performed a recital entitled “The Violin Virtuosity of Yen Yu” as part of the museum’s “Art of Music” concert series. Accompanied by pianist Iris Chen, Yu performed to a full house in the Soviet NonConformist Art exhibit room that included audience member Gert Dobrin of Edison. “It was done beautifully,” she said. “If they’re here tomorrow, I’ll come again.”
Surrounded by por traits from the Nor ton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Yu and Chen per formed five works of Yu’s choosing by the composers Tommaso A. Vitali, W. A. Mozar t, Niccolo Paganini, Antonin Dvorak and Felix Mendelssohn. The recital was Yu’s third year performing at the Zimmerli, a venue with great acoustics, Yu said. “Once I start to play, the sound just rings and makes me want to make beautiful music,” she said. Yu’s father, also a violinist, introduced her to the violin, she said. “I didn’t like it at the beginning, but then I grew to love it,” Yu said. “I love the
FDA ban drives students to donate for awareness BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The Rutgers University Student Assembly and the University Queer Caucus are joining together to turn an average blood drive into a political statement. The groups are making sure every drop counts on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center, as the blood drive’s purpose is not only to collect blood, but to also voice opposition for a Federal Drug Administration ban on permitting men who have sex with men from donating blood. “It’s really positive, it doesn’t hurt anyone, [and] it helps people who really need blood and find the ban discriminatory,” said RUSA member Ben West. West, a Rutgers College senior, took on the cause last semester and arranged “Ever y Drop Counts” after working to have the ban revoked at the University, claiming it defies the University’s nondiscrimination policy, West said. While some research shows that men who sleep with men may be more
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INDEX UNIVERSITY Moe’s Southwest Grill makes its highly-anticipated debut in the Busch Campus Center.
likely to be HIV positive or have AIDS, there are other lifestyle factors that the sur vey excludes, and men who sleep with men are not always more likely to carr y the illness, said Shawnna James, co-president of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning People of Color Union at Rutgers. “They shouldn’t just ban a group of people because of a statistic,” James said. RUSA ultimately decided the ban was discriminatory, and since blood donation is in high demand in New Jersey, West launched the initiative. “We’re going to try to send this idea to other schools, and we’re going to try to make sure it happens at Rutgers every year,” West said. After donating, donors can sign an affirmation to donate in the name of a person that cannot donate due to the ban, he said. These letters will then be sent to the appropriate representatives in Congress as a means to express their opposition to the ban
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Members of the Rutgers Catholic Student Association participate in the “March for Life” Friday in Washington D.C., marking the 37th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision.
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