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PIRG registers students to vote in upcoming presidential election nikhilesh de news editor
Rutgers Athletics spent $132,480 on hotel rooms and services for the football team. If they used Rutgers facilities, the school would charge about the same for rooms. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR
Team spends $130,000 on training camp hotel noa halff associate news editor
Hotel rooms, breakfast and a daily maid service were included in the three week training camp for
Rutgers football players, which cost Rutgers Athletics up to $132,480. Using a hotel for training camp is a standard practice for many See hotel on Page 5
Luca Trumbull believes that the 2016 election might be the most important, and the scariest, in recent years. The Rutgers chapter of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group registered more than 800 students through the first four days of their “New Voters Project,” which concludes today with registration tables on the College Avenue, Cook, Douglass and Livingston campuses. NJPIRG hoped to register 1,000 people over the course of the week, said Trumbull, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. This is part of a nationwide PIRG event, which began Monday on National Voter Registration Day. “(NJPIRG) is a non-partisan group that has a lot of campaigns that it focuses on … and this semester we’re focusing on getting people to register to vote because the 2016
election is extremely important and very scary,” he said. There are 58 schools nationwide working on this campaign, said Arielle Mizrahi, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The New Voters Project is NJPIRG’s only planned campaign for the Fall 2016 semester, and it is entirely student-run. NJPIRG members are registering voters through tabling and by visiting classes and greek houses, Mizrahi said. While the group is hoping for 1,000 registered voters this week, their ultimate goal is to register 2,650 students before Nov. 8, she said in an email. NJPIRG hopes to register 4,000 students state-wide before the election. The Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA), the Residence Hall Association, Rutgers University Democrats, the Rutgers University College Republicans and RU Progressives are all working with PIRG on the campaign.
“In this initiative to get as many Rutgers students registered as possible and increase voter participation, it’s incredibly important for the campus to work together,” she said. Trumbull tabled on the Brower steps Thursday afternoon, where he asked students whether they were registered. Those who were not already registered were encouraged to do so. Students who were registered were encouraged to change their registration to Rutgers. This would allow those students to vote on-campus in November, he said. Other students who wish to remain registered in their hometown could request an absentee ballot. “The millennial voting bloc is actually the biggest voting bloc in the nation, but we also show up to polls the least so we think it’s very important that kids our age are going out to the polls and that our voices See election on Page 4
U. receives $3 million grant for new program Hernan Guarderas contributing writer
A $3 million grant will kickstart a new program for graduate students interested in climate change and its impact on coasts. Rutgers received nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship Program for research and training in coastal resilience. The program is designed to create and instill “bold, new and potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training,” according to the NSF website. “Basically, these traineeship grants are to provide funding for these students. So that will include the cost of their tuition, the cost of a stipend they can live off of, and some additional costs in terms of health care,” said Rebecca Jordan, professor of Ecology, Evolution in Natural Resources and Human Ecology. The funding will set up a certificate program for graduate students in the natural and social sciences to build relationships between the different disciplines relating to coastal resilience, said Robert E. Kopp, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
The program will allow students to communicate with urban planners and stakeholders, such as municipalities, state governments and local parks, said Kopp, who is also the associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute. “That funding will support some basic program development and also support about 20 students over the next five years,” Kopp said. The program courses will have graduate students studying basic information of other natural and social sciences, learning the language of those other disciplines and understanding how to effectively communicate with decision makers, Kopp said. A summer field course will allow students to interact with counties dealing with coastal resilience to establish a better understanding of current real-world challenges, Kopp said. Additionally, a studio workshop course will have students with a client in the counties or cities to help them with coastal resilience planning. “The reason why we were able to get this grant is because it builds upon a lot of the distinctive strengths of Rutgers.” Kopp said. Rutgers received a top 10 ranking for its graduate urban planning See program on Page 5
Rutgers graduate Matt Valentine is studying to be a physician’s assistant after graduating this past May. The alumnus, who has cerebral palsy, credits the Office of Disability Services for assisting him with his undergraduate studies. NEWS.RUTGERS.EDU
Graduate with cerebral palsy studies to be physician’s assistant after school chloe dopico contributing writer
A defining moment in one’s life is typically an event that helps them confirm they took the right path in life. For one Rutgers alumnus, his defining moment came in the form of a nineyear-old boy and his crying mother.
Matthew Valentine, a recent School of Arts and Sciences graduate, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was an infant, and is now studying to become a physician’s assistant at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. “Once a month, they have a cerebral palsy clinic and I just happened
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to be shadowing her that day. Half way through this PA examining this nine-year-old boy, his mom stopped her and said to me ‘Hold on a second, do you have cerebral palsy?’ and I said ‘Yeah, I do’, and at that point the mom broke down See school on Page 4