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Soldier travels nation to inspire veteran students PERSON OF THE WEEK BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
It was just a routine day in late October for Spc. Bryan Adams. “I was on a regular mission that day. The mission was called an OP, which are obser vation posts,” said Adams, a Rutgers-Camden junior. “We were basically supposed to go out to abandoned buildings and over watch an area of town that had a lot of violence.” Adams and his reconnaissance team reported their findings and were ordered BRYAN to return to base. But there was no transADAMS portation available to pick his team up. “We developed our plan to walk back to our base, which was probably about a mile. We started moving back through the city, and we were cutting through people’s backyards,” Adams said. “We got to a point where we couldn’t cross any further and we had to get onto the street.” As Adams and his team moved into the street, Iraqi citizens began to disperse. “When people started clearing out, I had this gut feeling that something was about to happen,” he said. “I took probably about five more steps and I just heard a loud pop.” The loud pop Adams heard was gunfire and in an instant, he physically knew something was wrong. “It felt like somebody tried to kick my leg out from underneath me and that’s when I put two and two together,” he said. “I realized that we were getting shot at and I had been hit.” Adams was shot in the leg but didn’t fall down. He and his team started running in search of shelter from the spray of bullets. “They opened up on us and the whole time I was running, there were bullets flying past my feet. They waited until we were behind a 6-foot concrete wall so we couldn’t go any further,” he said. “When the bullets hit the wall, I could feel the concrete going into my mouth.”
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First-year students Sean Ryan and Thomas Chen participate in a first-year seminar, “Control of Gene Expression in Yeast,” yesterday on Busch campus. The University this year is offering 75 Byrne Seminars.
Seminars reach out to inspire 2014 class BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
New students may find the first days on campus a bit daunting, but two programs — Byrne Family First-Year Seminars and First-Year Interest Groups — are just a few ways the University aims to make the transition a little easier. There is a record 75 Byrne Seminars being offered this year to first-year students, Byrne Seminar program director Kathy Hull said. “The Byrne Seminars offer, for people who are new to Rutgers, an opportunity to know a senior professor in a small class setting, and what I’ve found is that first-year students don’t realize what a precious opportunity that is,”
New NJ Transit cars provide peace and quiet for passengers.
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PENDULUM Students share their opinions about the new LXc bus route.
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The New Brunswick Police Department is launching “Cops in Crosswalks,” a program that will put undercover cops on the streets to catch unsafe drivers violating pedestrian safety laws.
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professor or even their classmates, Hull said. “A professor shares with the students his or her scholarly passion — the thing that they really love to think, write and teach about,” she said. Many students who do not get involved in such seminars may never find out who to reach out to or which resources to seek when the time to do research arises, Hull said. “A lot of times people don’t find those things out for a long time or maybe not at all,” she said. Andrew Vershon, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry and director of the
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Hull said. “If you talk to juniors and seniors, they’ll say ‘How lucky is that?’” FIGS, on the other hand, allow upperclassmen the opportunity to run a small seminar on a specific topic for first-year students. Vice President for Undergraduate Education Barry V. Qualls said the goal is to get at least 50 percent of first-years involved in the programs. “It’s a great way for students to find an adviser among the faculty before they get anywhere near their majors, and I think that’s a great thing,” Qualls said. “I’m really grateful to the faculty. We’ve had a remarkable faculty interest.” Students in larger classes often do not get the chance to get to know the
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After finding the state in another economic slump, Atlantic City officials, Gov. Chris Christie and the state legislature are seeking solutions to help spur the economy and redevelop the struggling city — and a large portion of their inspiration is coming from New Brunswick. The Christie administration took notice of New Brunswick’s redevelopment programs and referenced the city as an example of how urban revitalization and redevelopment can be successful. “Atlantic City is a critical part of New Jersey’s economy as a whole,” said Kevin Roberts, the governor’s deputy press secretary. “As a result, what we’ve seen over the last few years — the last decade even — is a decline in Atlantic City in its business, its gaming revenues and its tourism.” New Brunswick since the 1970s has built affordable, market-rate and
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luxury housing and space for dormitories, offices, government buildings, research facilities and health care facilities, said New Brunswick city spokesman Bill Bray. “New Brunswick is a modern urban center and is one of the most successful examples of urban revitalizations in the nation and certainly the leader here in New Jersey,” Bray said. “In ever y neighborhood of this city, one [can] find successful redevelopment.” Two of Bray’s examples of successful redevelopment projects were the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and New Brunswick High School, which finished eight months ahead of schedule and $5 million under budget. Both projects were impetus for what the state called its “demonstration projects,” a new model for school construction.
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