THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 116
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MONDAY APRIL 5, 2010
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Today: Mostly sunny
LAST DAY LETDOWN
High: 73 • Low: 53
The Rutgers baseball team lost the last game of its three-game series with No. 24 Pitt Saturday after taking each of the first two contests.
Students, city revisit advisory committee BY NEIL P. KYPERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
As the semester draws to a close, student members picked for the New Brunswick Student Advisory Committee have yet to convene for the first time. The committee, a joint effort between city officials, residents, University administrators and offcampus students, was proposed to Werner Born, the chair of the Rutgers University Student Association, over the previous summer but has since been discussed one time. “A little late into the year, when it was getting closer to elections and voting time, obviously there was a lot of student involvement with Empower Our Neighborhoods and the ward campaign. That is when [Mayor Jim Cahill] came up with this and approached us,” said Born, a School of Engineering senior.
The committee, which is based off one from previous years, intends to connect the University with the city by creating a forum where each community could address issues. One selected committee member, John Aspray, hopes to find solutions to poorly lit streets and a lack of sufficient trash receptacles around residential areas. Born said the student committee members names were submitted to University President Richard L. McCormick who sent them to the mayor in early November. City Spokesman Bill Bray disagreed. He said the reason action was not taken last semester was because the names were received close to the fall semester final exam period. “At [the end of the semester], nothing was going to happen because students would be going away on
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NEIL P. KYPERS
Issues facing off-campus students, like lack of sufficient trash recepticals, hope to be tackled by bringing together elements of the University and city communities with the New Brunswick Student Advisory Committee.
Press secretaries give their spin on media accuracy
U. cuts back Rutgers Day 2010 costs
BY JEFF PRENTKY STAFF WRITER
BY REENA DIAMANTE STAFF WRITER
With 100 new programs, involvement of all University campuses and the state of the economy, the potential high costs of Rutgers Day is a cause for concern. The Office of Community Affairs is working to save money and keep expenses as low as possible. “Rutgers Day is a great outreach day. It is a showcase of all the talents at the University,” said Linda Bassett, senior director of community affairs. “The economy is making us very conscious of every penny we spend.” The Office of Community Affairs raised $100,000 last year from its sponsors. Costs last year were roughly $415,000 in total, Bassett said. It is still too early to determine the costs for Rutgers Day 2010 because program providers did not finish their final expenses. As an estimate, expenses will be roughly the same as last year’s, she said. A large portion of the money goes toward necessities, Bassett said. The office pays for tents for each program, golf carts in order to transport from program to program and public safety services such as emergency care services and medical services. The office found numerous ways to reduce the overall price of Rutgers Day, she said. One source they are using to save money is in the printing of the Rutgers Day booklets and programs. “We are using The Daily Targum’s printer [Evergreen Printing]. That saves us $20,000,” Bassett said. She said the Office of Community Affairs is thankful that the county will provide Rutgers Day with mobile stages. The portable stages save the cost and time of having to construct a stage. The office is also spending less money on advertising and repurposing signages, Bassett said. Rutgers Day advertisements are posted on train station platforms, fliers
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MARIELLE BALISALISA
Professor David Greenburg, left, former press secretaries Dana Penno and Mike McCurry discuss issues with today’s media Thursday in Hickman Hall on Douglass campus.
Former White House press secretaries Dana Perino and Mike McCurry thought their jobs of answering questions ended years ago. But they dusted off their skills at a question-and-answer session Thursday night at the Eagleton Institute of Politics’ lecture series “It’s All Politics” in Hickman Hall on Douglass campus. Both Perino and McCurr y answered questions on topics such as job responsibilities, their time alone
with presidents and the role of contemporary journalists in front an audience of more than 300 people. In line with the evening’s theme, Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies David Greenburg, who moderated the session, raised the complex issue of correcting false notions or spin that gets into the public and goes against the White House administration’s interest. Technological advancements have changed the way people get their
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Global panel talks sex education BY GLEN GABRIEL STAFF WRITER
Members of the Rutgers ONE Campaign Chapter along with Americans for Informed Democracy and Advocates for Youth worked together Thursday night to host an information panel on international sexual education. Pritti Gautam, of the Americans for Informed Democracy, said now is the best time to spread the message on family planning and sexual health. “Before [President Barack] Obama came into presidency, it was really a hard time for us because the [former President George W.] Bush administration was so conser vative,” Gautam said. “Now is the prime time to make a difference with Obama in office.” But another problem with the current struggle to spread information lies in the lack of care, Gautam said. Students often think if their major does not specifically coincide with
sexual issues, then there is no need to spread the word. The lack of sexual education, while devastating to this generation, can also have negative effects on the next generation as teen pregnancy climbs along with infantile death rates, according to an Advocates For Youth press release. Mimi Melles, of Advocates For Youth, argued that access to birth control is important. “If a woman gets pregnant at the age of 14 then her life is destined to have no education, to not be able to provide for her family and possibly her child not have access to education,” Melles said. Gautam and Melles both agreed that their time spent going around to various colleges in the United States opened their eyes to just how much sexual education reform is needed. Student activists Anna-Kaye Rowe, of Jamaica, and James Igomu Ngbede, of Nigeria,
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INDEX OPINIONS The U.S. Postal Service’s decision to cut back delivery does little for snail mail services.
SCIENCE In our new research section, University professors study how memory works in the mind using mice. UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3 SCIENCE . . . . . . . . . 5 OPINIONS . . . . . . . . 8 DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 10 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 12 SPORTS . . . . . . BACK RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Program speaker Mimi Ogbazghi Melles raises concerns about the lack of global sex education programs Thursday at the Busch Campus Center.
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