THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 19
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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
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Today: Showers
DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS
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The Rutgers defense shouldered the load for the Scarlet Knights, forcing five turnovers and scoring two touchdowns in the team’s 34-13 road win against the Maryland Terrapins.
McCormick outlines plans to improve U. BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
In his seventh annual state of the University address, University President Richard L. McCormick spoke of the school’s financial status, successes, areas of improvement and goals for the future. Standing in front of University senators, students, faculty and administrators in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center at a University Senate meeting Friday, McCormick began his address talking about the burden of the economy on the University. The decline in state support — now at about 40 percent, a decrease from 70 percent in 1990 — has made the situation harder to deal with, but it could be worse, he said. “Up to this point, the recession has not fundamentally changed the character of our institution,” McCormick said.
A comprehensive effort to find savings and efficiencies, federal stimulus funds, shared faculty sacrifices, good management and expanding revenue sources lessened the blow, he said. One saving this year came from the Livingston campus solar farm, which generates 10 percent of the electricity for the campus, he said. “These and other efficiencies are now saving Rutgers millions of dollars a year, and I thank all of you for participating in them. The next round of efficiency savings will be more difficult,” McCormick said. “They will require us to change the ways we do business and to give up some conveniences we cherish.” He thanked the faculty and their union for agreeing to defer their raises, preventing larger cuts to be made.
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President Richard L. McCormick speaks to the University community Friday about last year’s successes and shortcomings, along with goals for the year ahead at his annual address.
Union protests administration outside annual address BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT
Dressed in white jumpsuits, hard hats, construction vests and gas masks, Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers members
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stood in front of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus Friday, boycotting University President Richard L. McCormick’s annual address. Calling the address the “Toxic Incident Site,” the union was protesting against management
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although the University’s overall funding continues to increase. “The University’s management is not listening when we tell them that they are overreaching far beyond what thousands of committed workers at Rutgers might agree to as a fair trade-off between
deferred raises and job security,” Bender said. URA-AFT President Lucye Millerand said the annual address lacks substance and fails to address these issues.
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Web site acts as information hub BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The Alfa Art Gallery in downtown New Brunswick hosts a night of featured performances from local musicans and artists.
greed, which they said is hazardous to the University community. URA-AFT Executive Vice President Nat Bender said University management broke their contract and froze negotiated raises using the general economy and projections of next year’s budget as an excuse,
With the University’s 585 academic units and 27 schools, University Media Relations saw a need to bring cohesion to all the top news stories and features.
Today, they will launch Rutgers Today — a news center Web site that pulls together content from various sources around the University, said Rutgers Today Executive Editor Greg Trevor. “The goal is to better inform citizens about the University, and what
we hope Rutgers Today will become is a Web site people will turn to on a daily basis,” said Trevor, senior director of Media Relations. The site features news about University research, events,
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OPINIONS Parents and conservatives are upset by a recent video circulated on YouTube involving their children singing songs about Obama.
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RHA Vice President of Internal Affairs Becca Heller calls off the names of “RHA-Opoly” raffle winners yesterday at Leadership Development Day.
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Students and community members run at the seventh annual High Speed Chase for the Cure 5K Run/3K Walk yesterday in memory of RUPD officer Randy McIntyre and to fund cancer research.
Hundreds pound pavement for cure BY JOE BEGONIS
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More than 1,000 students, community members and officers from the Rutgers University Police Department hit the ground running to help raise
awareness and money for cancer yesterday despite the rain. The University’s seventhannual High Speed Chase for the Cure 5K Run/3K Walk — held at the Rutgers Athletic Center on Livingston campus — was created as a way to pay trib-
Students game for developing skills as RHA leaders BY DEIRDRE S. HOPTON CORRESPONDENT
ute to Randy McIntyre, a University police officer who lost his life to cancer. “I’ve been running since it started,” said Ron Cohen, an RUPD officer. “It’s about family.”
The Residence Hall Association paid homage to the Parker Brothers yesterday with their Monopolythemed Leadership Development Day, which they billed as “RHA–Opoly.” The day consisted of about 21 leadership-learning sessions with titles like “Building Your Monopoly” and “How to Prevent Your Time from Being Monopolized” with the goal of ensuring every elected leader in the residence halls is competent in their role, RHA Vice
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