THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 99
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For decades, America has been importing British television and adopting it for all its own. Inside Beat sifts through the successes and failures that have come across the pond.
Women prove twice as likely to go abroad
THURSDAY
Snowstorms plow through U. funding BY DEVIN SIKORSKI
BY GREG FLYNN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
CORRESPONDENT
Visitors of the University’s study abroad Web site will find pictures of women smiling among fog-shrouded mountains in Ghana, palaces in South Korea and cobblestone streets in Spain. A 2009 University of Iowa study found that women are almost twice as likely to study abroad as men. The study analyzed data from about 2,800 students at 19 four-year and twoyear colleges and universities. The most common explanation of the difference is that women tend to major in the humanities, and curricular requirements in humanities facilitate study at schools and universities overseas, Study Abroad Dean Stephen Reinert said. “Conversely, men tend to major in fields like the sciences, engineering and business, where it traditionally has not been encouraged or even permitted for students to study at overseas schools and universities,” he said. Yet this may not necessarily be so. The gender gap is sometimes assumed to simply mirror the prevalence of women in the humanities, but the reality is it exists even in male-dominated majors, such as engineering and the hard sciences, according to the study. School of Environmental and Biological Sciences International Programs Dean Lily Young said it can be harder for science students to fit a study abroad experience into their schedules, but the school is addressing the issue. “We are working with our faculty to identify specific science programs at an international location that students can participate in and still fulfill all necessary course requirements,” she said. School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students can participate in summer abroad experiences, and the school is providing international summer scholarships to promote study abroad, Young
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NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI
The University spends more than half a million dollars clearing roads after snowstorms last year. hough figures for this year are not available, officials estimate it will cost more.
BY REENA DIAMANTE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Despite the unforeseen impact of Gov. Chris Christie’s anticipated budget cuts and the adoption of the new budget by the state legislature, the city of New Brunswick is committed to maintaining the Hub City’s development and growth. “We have been through two very tough years,” Mayor Jim Cahill said. “We have been able to keep every one of our programs that we had prior to 2008 in tact through 2008 and 2009. That’s a
goal that we are going to continue to do through 2010.” Cahill spoke yesterday at the annual “Brown Bag Lunch” program, sponsored by the Friends of the New Brunswick Free Public Librar y, where he discussed updates on current New Brunswick activities and events. Cahill said the state of the economy in the city remains a main concern for residents. “It is [the] third year of recession that we are going through,”
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JING YOU
Mayor Jim Cahill discusses plans to include more affordable housing yesterday in the New Brunswick Public Library.
Senator links youth to politics
FALLING FOR ART
BY ARIEL NAGI AND MELISSA SORIANO
The University ranks third so far in an international, 10-week long recycling contest.
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Mayor builds toward improved Hub City
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Even with the piles of snow Old Man Winter brought to the University this semester, students were still able to attend classes and sporting events after a few delays. But the task of removing the snow is not one that comes easy or cheap. Snow removal expenses for last year totaled about $535,000, Director of Environmental Ser vices and Grounds Dianne Gravatt said. This figure breaks down to around $164,000 for road salt and sand, about $28,000 for magnesium icemelt for sidewalks and entryways and about $280,000 in labor costs.
Shannon MacDowell “Dances within the Art” in front of Lalla Essaydi’s photographs last night in the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus.
While women only make up a small portion of today’s political leaders, state Sen. Loretta Weinberg came to the University to tell young women they can change that. Weinberg spoke yesterday at a “Women and American Politics” class in conjunction with the Douglass College Public Leadership Education Network For um, which provides students with the oppor tunity to learn about the experiences of three political women, including Weinberg. She stressed that becoming involved in politics is not impossible for young women, regardless of their political background. “Almost ever y woman in legislature was brought out of their homes with ever yday issues,” she said. Weinberg said she star ted from the bottom. Despite the stigma women held when
she was growing up, she was not afraid to challenge gender norms. “The people in charge at the time didn’t live up to my standards, so I decided to run myself,” she said. After she ran for office, she eventually became an assemblywoman and beat two other men — something she calls unbelievable. She said being a woman in politics often comes with a lot of stereotypes and sexism. “I was picked because I have an aura of standing against these type of things,” Weinberg said. She also aimed to falsify the stereotype that money is needed to run for office. She said many women become intimidated when they know they have to fundraise for a campaign. “You don’t need huge amounts of money to run,” Weinberg said. “You can get support by ringing door bells.”
School of Ar ts and Sciences junior Lauren Miller said Weinberg gave her a call to action. “She spoke a lot about the responsibility that our generation has to keep making positive changes in policy,” she said. “I feel that I have the responsibility to get involved in politics and government to insure that good changes are made and that there is more equality for women.” School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Courtney Lanza said Weinberg has a great presence as a woman in politics. “I think Sen. Weinberg has a great sense of herself and her accomplishments and how she is portrayed, especially as a woman politician,” she said. Miller said she gained a new perspective on electoral politics and values the honest advice
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