THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 100
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The Rutgers men’s basketball team fell to Seton Hall 85-74 last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. It was the second loss to The Hall in as many weeks for the Knights.
Program swipes in support for Elijah’s Promise
Fulbrights offer rare opportunity
BY COLLEEN ROACHE CORRESPONDENT
BY MELISSA SORIANO
Operation Robin Hood, University alumnus Charlie Kratovil’s initiative to assist the hungry in New Brunswick, came to a close this Sunday after raising nearly $2,500 in donations for Elijah’s Promise. “We’re very glad that [Kratovil] has joined the University’s longstanding efforts to support Elijah’s Promise,” Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling said. “For many years, the University has donated food, and it also has set up charitable programs. … We’re glad that they’ve supported the University’s efforts and are also now supporting that effort.” The campaign collected a total of 743 meals throughout last month, University Spokesman E.J. Miranda said.
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
reach $10 million to finish construction, Carlebach said. Even with the immense renovations and extension, the house is expected to open this year. “We are negotiating with banks to receive some of the additional money because we, like most others, have learned that with this economy, fundraising is not the most conducive plan,” he said. The new center will allow more space in the Jewish students’ student center, but not
Nineteen students at the University have the potential to pursue a life-changing experience abroad. Of the 35 candidates at the University who applied for a Fulbright Fellowship this year, 19 students were selected as finalists, said Arthur Casciato, director of Distinguished Fellowships and Postgraduate Guidance. Casciato is the main man responsible for searching for potential Fulbright participants and encouraging them to apply. “It’s a wonderful opportunity and a lifechanging experience,” he said. Fulbright grants, funded by the U.S. Department of State, are designed to give graduating seniors, recent graduates and graduate students opportunities for personal development and international experience, Casciato said. If awarded a Fulbright grant, candidates can travel to one of more than 130 host countries to do independent research, field work, university coursework, business internships, special projects in the social or life sciences or teach English as a foreign language, he said. To determine which students would be excellent candidates for a fellowship, Casciato’s first step is reaching out and convincing potentials to apply. The amount of applicants has grown from eight students in his first year to 35 this year, he said. “The trick is to keep the level of support up,” Casciato said. “They have to be
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MARIELLE BALISALISA
Operation Robin Hood, an initiative headed by University Alumnus Charlie Kratovil, came to a close this Sunday after raising nearly $2,500 in donations through student meal swipes.
Chabad House expands center’s aspirations RINAL SHAH CORRESPONDENT
MARY CONLON
The Chabad House on the College Avenue campus is undergoing expansion and expects the project to be completed this year.
Obama grants more student possibilities BY ARIEL NAGI NEWS EDITOR
As more and more students prepare to walk across their high school graduation stage, President Barack Obama is working to make sure they get the chance to march at a college graduation as well, through the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. Melody Barnes, Obama’s domestic policy adviser and director of the Domestic Policy Council, and Secretar y of Education Arne Duncan on Tuesday held an open-for-questions session about the act. Duncan said the act is important because it gives more students the opportunity to not only be able to get into college and afford it, but for them to actually be able to finish and graduate with less debt. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime oppor tunity to dramatically increase money, put billions of dollars behind college students
who are working hard, almost $10 billion for childhood education, and to do without going back to taxpayers for a dime,” he said. The act, which already passed the House of Representatives, is awaiting action from the Senate, Duncan said. The act would make sure the maximum Pell Grant, which has doubled since the Obama Administration took office last year, is secure. It’s amount pays with inflation, Barnes said. “That is a critical bill,” she said. “One of the things that it does in the front end is it makes sure that we educate our youngest citizens, [and] that we’re educating small children. But on the other end of the spectrum, it makes sure that we are doing the best for students who want to go to college — to a fouryear or a two-year institution.” It would also introduce an access and completion fund,
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The Chabad House has been in New Brunswick since 1978, when it started as a small organization on the first floor of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. But even with the construction of a center adjacent to the student center, which was bought years ago, the organization has received so many interested members that they are in need of another expansion. Chabad has raised $4 to $5 million to date and hopes to
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INDEX OPINIONS Seven-year-old boy directs air traffic at JFK airport, assisting his father on “take your child to work” day.
SUMMER The University has more summer course options and students are willing to spend their time off in them. UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3 NATION . . . . . . . . . . 8 SUMMER . . . . . . . . S1 OPINIONS . . . . . . . 10 DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 12 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 14 SPORTS . . . . . . BACK MARIELLE BALISALISA
Local band 100% Cotton performs at a benefit concert last night at the Red Lion Café in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.
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