The Daily Targum 2011-02-07

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MONDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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Today: Partly Cloudy

BRING OUT THE BROOMS

High: 42 • Low: 33

The Rutgers women’s basketball team defeated Syracuse, 54-47, yesterday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center and in doing so, swept the season series against the Orange.

Council takes on engineering students’ issues BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO UNIVERSITY EDITOR

With the start of a new semester, the Engineering G o v e r n i n g Council is both beginning and continuing initiatives to address various concerns of the engineering student body. Through the Engineering Affairs Committee, the council is working to expand study abroad opportunities for engineering students, who find it difficult to do so without sacrificing graduating on time, said David Park, council president. The council originally thought there was a lack of study abroad options for engineers, said William Pan, Engineering Affairs co-chair.

Engineering Governing Council

JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Engineering Governing Council plans to increase study abroad opportunities and interdisciplinary projects for engineering students. They are scheduled to hold a meeting tonight at 8:10 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center.

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Professor links gender, race with mental health issues BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER

Students and staff engaged in interdisciplinary discussion about health, race, gender and women’s roles Thursday as part of the Institute for Research on Women’s (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture, “Race, Gender, and WellBeing: The Paradox of Women’s Mental Health,” was fourth in the six-lecture series and featured Associate Sociology Professor Sarah Rosenfield, IRW Director Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel said. As in previous years, the IRW built the Distinguished Lecture Series around a

central theme, “The Art and Science of Happiness,” a topic Rosenfield’s lecture covered appropriately, Mar tinez-San Miguel said. Part of the lecture focused on why black women generally are happier and have fewer mental health issues than women of other ethnicities through the lens of sociology, Rosenfield said. “I think one of the main concerns is tr ying to figure out which groups are the best off in mental health, which groups have the highest wellbeing and which groups have the worst and what conditions are best for people in terms of their mental health,” she said.

STREB performance takes flight downtown BY LAURA TRANSUE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

STREB, a traveling dance company, combined human body movement with formal dance techniques last Friday to create an acrobatic dance routine at the State Theatre. The show — called BRAVE — incorporated dance moves, gymnastics and extreme sports elements to put on a performance that was more than a dance recital, said Mark Jones, State Theatre president and CEO. “This is a wonderfully fresh and innovative movement to see in our community,” he said. Jones said he credits the intensity of a STREB performance to its creator, Elizabeth Streb, whose performances symbolize the beginning of a new movement altogether. “Elizabeth Streb is a movement pioneer,” he said. “I would-

n’t call it dance, I would call it movement.” Streb, the company’s founder, said the key to a good dance show is to explore human movement before formal dance techniques. “We explode our muscles and our muscles drag the skeleton,” she said. After training for years as a technical dancer, Streb said she has now created her own dance technique, which she calls Pop Action. “Rather than a skeletal-based system like ballet … I believe that action is abrupt and episodic rather than durational and smooth transitionally,” she said. “Transitions with action cannot be smooth the way they are with music.” Streb said her choreography was about tr ying to alter the audience’s point of view, by

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Rosenfield concluded that black women experience greater mental health and happiness because of a balance of self-salience and self-esteem that is unmatched by a majority of white women. Much of Rosenfield’s lecture dealt with the issue of self-salience, or the importance of the self as opposed to the importance of the group, and how dif ferences in culture breed the dif ferent levels of mental health and happiness among racial groups. IRW aimed to appeal to students and staff outside of the social sciences with the theme, Mar tinez-San Miguel said. By of fering an interdisciplinar y look at

women’s issues, the IRW hopes to draw larger, more diverse crowds to its lecture series, she said. “We realize that we are very good at attracting people from the social sciences and the humanities, but there’s a whole part of the University that isn’t participating fully in our events,” said Martinez San Miguel, noting that the IRW wants to appeal to those studying the sciences. Event attendees agreed with Rosenfield and expressed interest in applying the lessons learned to help more women have the opportunity to experience a stable,

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BOWL BASH

INDEX UNIVERSITY A speaker shows how books can enhance society and political freedom.

OPINIONS Gov. Christie used $9.2 million set aside to help the elderly and disabled pay their cable bills to close budget gaps.

UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3 WORLD . . . . . . . . . . 6 OPINIONS . . . . . . . . 8 DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 10 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 12 SCOTT TSAI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Students enjoy games, food and a free screening of Super Bowl XLV last night in the RutgersZone in the Livingston Student Center. The Rutgers University Programming Association sponsored the event.

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