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Jewish fraternity organizes silent walk to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day Jillian Pastor contributing writer
This semester, New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) launched a sustainable energy campaign at Rutgers. NJPIRG
The brothers of Rutgers Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity (AEPi) hosted the “We Walk to Remember” event on Monday, which was a silent memorial walk remembering those lost in the Holocaust. Those who attended the event started at the AEPi house and walked around the College Avenue campus. Participants were urged to wear plain black or dark gray shirts with no designs on them. According to their website, AEPi is a Jewish fraternity at Rutgers that began in 1913 and served as a brotherhood for students who came from similar religious backgrounds and had experienced the same prejudices against their religious beliefs. Eventually, it broadened its role to include serving as the living quarters for some of its members. Over 93,000 men have graduated as brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi. Each
year, over 2,500 undergraduates perform the Initiation Ritual. The fraternity works with the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life and International Hillel to educate students about Judaism. Danny Jacobs and Adam Nachman were founding fathers of the Rutgers Rho Upsilon Chapter and helped bring the fraternity back to campus. Jacobs, a School of Environmental and Biological Science senior said, “My experiences as a Jew at Rutgers has been similar to many other Jews in some ways but different than others. Many of us have participated in various programs that are available for us.” He explained that while his experiences were individual, they were also similar to others. “I was a founding father of AEPi so that changed my experiences. And events like this one are very important to me, it’s very unfortunate I was unable to participate this year,” he said.
In high school, Jacobs spent a summer abroad and spent a week in Poland where he visited several concentration camps. “There are many who still deny the Holocaust and this is our attempt at fighting against that ignore. It is also a way to remember, war memorials or 9/11 memorials all have names of victims on them,” Jacobs said. Following the walk, there was the 4th annual “Unto Every Person There is a Name” program — a 24hour reading of names of those who passed in the Holocaust. “The book we read from for 24 hours is a list of several thousand children. Just children,” he said. “It’s one of the easiest ways for people to comprehend the magnitude of the loss of life.” Nachman is a School of Arts and Science senior and the organizer of the event. “Organizing our Holocaust remembrance events involved me See walk on Page 5
NJPIRG holds ‘10,000 Actions’ day at Rutgers Daniel Israel contributing writer
Throughout the spring semester, the New Brunswick chapter of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) led the push for renewable energy at Rutgers University. The campaign aims to convert the University’s energy supply into 100 percent renewable energy by 2020. During their renewable energy campaign of 2017, NJPIRG held “10,000 Actions” day. On Wednesday, April 12, Rutgers students were encouraged to raise awareness about the campaign by interacting with an NJPIRG informational video on social media. April Nicklaus, a sophomore in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, is the
NJPIRG state board chair and students chapter chair for Rutgers— New Brunswick. Nicklaus said the student group aims to tackle issues of public interest through the use of both online and in-person campaigns. “NJPIRG is a student-run, student-funded, non-profit organization,” she said. “We do non-partisan advocacy work in the areas of environment, public health, consumer protection, poverty relief and other things of that nature.” Amy Wang, a first-year student in the Rutgers Business School, is the NJPIRG state board vice chair and chapter secretary for Rutgers— New Brunswick. Wang said the non-profit organization campaigns for resolutions to See actions on Page 4
The Rutgers chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity (AEPi) silently walked through the College Avenue campus on Monday for Holocaust Remembrance Day. After the walk, the brothers participated in a 24 hour reading of the names of children who died in the Holocaust. COURTESY OF ADAM NACHMAN
Following march, U. professor discusses need for diversity in science Nikhilesh De correspondent
The New Jersey March for Science saw legislators, faith leaders, instructors and scientists from various backgrounds rally through Trenton on April 22. The event was designed to be inclusive to people of all backgrounds
and abilities, said Matthew Buckley, the event’s founder. Making the New Jersey March for Science inclusive to all people was important as traditionally, researchers tend to be white and male. “Science has, as a field, had a problem with not being as diverse as the population,” he said. “I personally believe that scientific ability
is evenly distributed across the population. I’ve seen no evidence for anything other than that, and it’s a real problem that science is mostly done by white men.” Part of the lack of diversity comes from underprivileged people not receiving the opportunities they need to become scientists, Buckley, a professor in the Department of
Physics and Astronomy, said. As a result, science, in general, has not been able to tap the full potential of the possible researchers who never entered the field. The march represented a political change, which is why it was important to let it be diverse, he said. “There are millions and millions of people who would be great scientists
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if they were given the opportunity,” he said. “The march needs to reflect that. We’ve tried our best to make sure that it does, and I think we have done a pretty good job of that, I always wish we can do better.” The March for Science in Washington, D.C. faced controversy See science on Page 5