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U. ranks low in graduate gender wage discrepancy CHRISTIAN ZAPATA NEWS EDITOR
Women’s wages in New Jersey stagnated last year as disparities between their equally educated male counterparts persist. Earlier this year, a repor t comparing the earnings of male and female graduates six years after they first enrolled in college ranked Rutgers 17th among the top 117 colleges with the smallest gender gap in graduate earnings, according to an ar ticle from Forbes. Rutgers—New Brunswick also ranked 14th for schools that showed a wage gap favoring men as the three schools to top the list — Clark University, Stevens University and Yale University — represented a percentage of female
graduates who earned more than their male counterparts. Rutgers–New Brunswick has approximately equal parts male to female undergraduates. All of the University’s campuses combined hold approximately 46.4 percent men and 53.6 percent women, according to its site. On average, male graduates from Rutgers make $48,500 yearly while female graduates receive $44,300 — an 8.7 percent dif ference, according to the ar ticle. “Female graduates from top U.S. colleges earn only $48,000, compared to $59,000 for male ones. Put dif ferently, females star t their careers earning 19 percent less than males, an SEE DISCREPANCY ON PAGE 4
Women in New Jersey have witnessed their wages compete with those of their male counterparts for decades. According to the report, the ratio of women’s to men’s earnings was 74.3 percent in 2004, and has since grown to more than 80 percent. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Rutgers reports increased drug, rape offenses in 2017 RYAN STIESI NEWS EDITOR
Rutgers released its 2018 Annual Campus Security & Fire Safety Report on Monday. In it are data and statistics ranging from reported crime and fire information between 2015 and 2017, to resources for students on campus. “’Safety Matters’ is prepared annually by the Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD),” said Chief of Rutgers Police Kenneth Cop. “The RUPD gathers statistics from various university departments at Rutgers and from the police agencies of the municipalities in which the University is located. This data collection process is designed to minimize multiple counting of the same criminal incidents and enforcement actions.” Below are some of the important facts and figures to come out of the report pertaining to Rutgers— New Brunswick.
SEXUAL OFFENSES
For sexual offenses, the data shows that there were 30 reported incidents of rape at Rutgers in 2017, seven more than the 23 reported in 2016. In 2015, there were 26 total reports. There were 14 total reports of fondling in 2015, followed by eight reported instances in both 2016 and 2017. One report of statutory rape occurred in 2015, followed by zero
reports in 2016 and 2017, and there were zero reports of incest across all three years.
VAWA OFFENSES
On March 7, 2013, former President Barack Obama signed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) which, among other provisions, amended the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), according to the report. The Cler y Act requires that University’s and other institutions of higher education comply with specific campus safety reporting requirements. Specifically, VAWA amended the Clery Act so that institutions had to report domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking, according to the report. It also mandated that these institutions include certain policies and procedures relating to these incidents in annual security and fire safety reports. Reported incidents of domestic violence decreased at Rutgers over the three years, from 114 in 2015, to 84 in 2016 and to 70 in 2017. Reports of stalking were at one in both 2015 and 2016, and increased to four in 2017. There were zero reports of dating violence across all three years.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL RELATED ARRESTS
The number of reported drug and alcohol arrests at Rutgers trended in opposite directions. Drug arrests
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went from 100 in 2015, to 172 in 2016 before reaching 271 arrests in 2017. Meanwhile, there were 57 alcohol arrests in 2015, 38 in 2016 and zero in 2017.
HATE CRIMES
The report also totaled the number of reported hate crime
incidents at Rutgers over the three year time period. In 2015, 11 incidents were reported, with one on-campus act of intimidation -- motivated by religious bias -- and 10 acts of criminal mischief and vandalism. Of the 10 vandalism acts, three were reported to have been
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motivated by a racial bias, six by a religious bias and one by a sexual orientation bias. There were less reported in 2016, with the total of reported incidents being three. Two of the acts were reported to have been motivated by SEE ARRESTS ON PAGE 4