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RUPD investigating Easton Avenue assault Chloe Dopico Associate News Editor
A Rutgers-affiliated individual was hospitalized on Saturday around 1 a.m. after an altercation on Easton Avenue. Police are currently investigating the incident and ask that anyone with information come forward. JEFFREY GOMEZ / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
An aggravated assault outside of Olde Queens Tavern sent one man to the hospital around 1 a.m. Saturday, said Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) Captain Paul Fischer. The victim, who is affiliated with the University, was waiting in line outside of the tavern, Fischer said. He allegedly got into a verbal altercation with five other males, which then turned physical. The victim was struck several times before the perpetrators fled the scene. The description of the perpetrators is limited at this time, but one was said to be wearing a striped shirt, while another had a multicolored goatee. “(I) just saw this kid sitting outside of Hansel (n’ Griddle) and it looked like he was covered in
blood literally all over his chest,” said Samantha Raineri, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior. “There were cops ever ywhere … I also only walked by it, I didn’t stop and stare or anything. There was blood outside Hidden Grounds though.” No weapons were used during the altercation and the victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to a Crime Alert issued by Fischer. Anyone with information regarding the identity of the perpetrators is urged to contact the New Brunswick Police Department Detective Bureau at 732-745-5217. “I was just walking and the cops were like putting the caution tape in the whole block and telling everyone to keep it along and there was just a lot of blood,” said Katherine Marte, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.
U. student creates Napkn to modernize networking Max Marcus Correspondent
Austin Schlessinger, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, has designed an application that he said will revolutionize the way people connect with one another. The app, available only for iPhone, is called Napkn. Schlessinger expects it to launch in November. “I realized that the people that I connected with over multiple means of social media were the same people I reconnected with and the people that I had better relationships with,” he said. “At the end of my second semester, I was like, ‘I can solve this issue ... This can be solved by creating a mobile application that allows you to share your social media, email and phone number in one tap.’ ” Napkn can be linked to the user’s profiles on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter and Snapchat, as well as with the user’s phone number and email address. When a user wants to share their contact information with someone else, he or she selects which social network profiles they want the other to have access to. The information can be shared wirelessly via the iPhone’s Airdrop or with a QR code called a “Napcode.” Without leaving the app, the user can view their contacts’ social media profiles and recent posts, and
can get in touch with them directly via phone call, Facetime, iMessage, email or Facebook Messenger. Because Napkn unifies the diverse channels through which people now communicate, Schlessinger calls it “the redesigned contacts app.” Napkn can help people to avoid some of the social awkwardness associated with connecting over social media, he said. “One of the biggest struggles is that situation right there when you get someone’s phone number at a party or something and you go back to your dorm, and you’re like, ‘Should I follow this person on Instagram? Is that weird? Should I friend them on Facebook? Where do they think that this relationship could go?’” Schlessinger said. “This solves that issue because you exchange that information at hand, as opposed to making those decisions later when the person isn’t in front of you.” As a business major, Schlessinger initially had no knowledge of the technology industry, and had to learn from scratch how to flesh out his idea, he said. He said the development of an app involves two basic parts — the design of the user interface and the back-end programming. To save money, Schlessinger designed the See NETWORKING on Page 4
Rutgers administrators have come out in strong defense of undocumented students at the University. Since Sept. 5, over 13,000 emails have been sent to representatives in Congress from a Rutgers Advocacy website in support of DACA. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR
Future of Dreamers at Rutgers is still uncertain after bipartisan talks Abner Bonilla Contributing Writer
Late Wednesday night, reports of a bipartisan deal struck between President Donald J. Trump and congressional Democrats on a legislative replacement to the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program left Dreamers in hope and confusion after Trump discredited the agreement later that morning.
The latest news reports that Trump invited Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to dinner at the White House which ended in agreements of an outline to continue the protections offered under DACA but an official settlement has yet to be reached. Trump is selling the DACA-deal to Republicans as a way to pass an increase in funding for border security.
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“I literally feel like a political puppet because I’m being used by a president to get something for his party,” said Sergio Baron, a Dreamer who came from Colombia when he was 6-years-old. An estimated total of 690,000 immigrants that are currently shielded from deportation and have work permits under DACA face an uncertain future, according to statistics See dreamers on Page 4