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John Wisniewski talks about education at U. Nikhilesh De correspondent
As governor, Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-19) would support a student voting member on Rutgers’ Board of Governors. If it becomes too difficult to change state law dictating who can become a voting member, he would appoint a student to fill an existing spot on the board, he said during a town hall meeting on education Sunday night in the Douglass Student Center. “I’d like to change the law, but I also recognize that there’s a very complicated formula between the number of governors and trustees,” he said. “If we can’t do that, if we can’t get the law changed to create a student member on the Board of Governors, then I would take one of my appointments as governor to make sure we had a student representative.” The assemblyman laid out his views on education in New Jersey, and said that the Garden State does not currently fund its public schools at the levels it should. “We have not funded to the point where this year, we’re underfunding (public education) by $1.6
billion,” he said. “That is a travesty, not only for all of our children who go to public schools but for the teachers and those who pay property taxes which go up.” Higher education also needs to be reformed, particularly with state or other public institutions, Wisniewski said. College students should not be required to take on debt in order to graduate, nor should they be prevented from trying to study a field they are genuinely interested in. “The economics are different today,” he said. “There are young men and women not just in New Brunswick but across the country and across the state saddled with student debts, and what do they do? Their first obligation is not whether they can follow their career goals related to their major, their first goal is ‘I have student loans due in six months and I need to find a job.’” Wisniewski proposed offering free tuition to students whose families have a combined income of $125,000 or less if they attend a public university or college in New Jersey. See education on Page 5
In a town hall in the Douglass Student Center, Assemblyman John Wisniewski pledged to put a voting student member on the University Board of Governors. He also said he would work to minimize student debt in New Jersey for low-income families. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Non-profit holds volleyball game for Syrian refugees Camilo Montoya-Galvez staff writer
Over the weekend, two individuals received non-life threatening wounds after a gun was fired at the intersection of Church Street and Spring Street. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
3 arrested on Sunday in connection to murder ALEXandra DEMATOS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Three New Brunswick residents have been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of Enrique Perez Galindo, 29, early Saturday morning, according to the Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD). Manuel Maldonado, 20, Jose David Vasquez-Rivera, 18 and Xavier Sanchez-Parral, 18 were arrested
on Sunday and have been charged in connection with Perez Galindo’s murder, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. Around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday on Hamilton Street between Woodbridge and Bridge Streets, Perez Galindo, was approached by three men who demanded personal property outside of his home, according toTAPinto. See violence on Page 5
With her 8-year-old sister beside her, Zena Khoudeir, 21, watched several amateur teams face off in intense volleyball matches — all to raise funds for refugees of Syria, her parents’ native country. It was because of this personal connection that Khoudeir said she drove to the College Avenue campus gym on Sunday afternoon from her home in Princeton, New Jersey, to join dozens of Rutgers students for a volleyball tournament organized by the campus chapter of the national non-profit United Muslim Relief. “It’s amazing that there are people who do want to help us and that want to help them,” she said. “It makes me happy to see that people from other religions, cultures and races are out here to support Syrian refugees.” Ten teams made up of students, members from various Rutgers organizations and other New Jersey residents competed in the charity competition, which lasted for five hours.
United Muslim Relief held a volleyball game in the College Avenue Gymnasium over the weekend to provide food, water, healthcare and housing to Syrian refugees. CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ / STAFF WRITER Kulsum Khan, president of the Rutgers chapter of United Muslim Relief, said all of the proceeds will be sent to their national umbrella organization, which will use them to finance humanitarian aid. This includes food, water, healthcare and housing for Syrians displaced by the ongoing war. “They need help (the Syrians),” said Khan, a School of Arts and Sciences
junior. “They have no homes anymore. They are suffering.” Although the student group strives to help marginalized and impoverished groups in New Jersey and abroad, its members emphasized that the organization does not participate in political or religious advocacy. See refugees on Page 4