THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 8
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The Rutgers football team returns to the field Saturday against Howard after just five days of rest. The Scarlet Knights are looking to erase the aftertaste of a 47-15 defeat to Cincinnati.
Groups advocate for health care reform BY COLLEEN ROACHE STAFF WRITER
While Washington weighs and considers President Barack Obama’s plan for health care reform, state and University groups brought the debate to New Brunswick at a health care rally. “Get Back to Work” rally Thursday at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus sought support for H.R. 3200, also known as America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Several organizations, including the Radigals, Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey and the University’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, chanted, gave speeches and sought signatures on petitions in favor of the plan to expand insurance coverage, sparking a debate among those in attendance. “There are so many people who are suffering … because the insurance companies
are standing in the way,” said Catherine Stanford, a staff representative of the Rutgers American Association of University Professors - American Federation of Teachers. “The combination of healthy competition in this health insurance exchange, with regulations, will make those insurance companies have to sit up and take notice that the American people want to hold them accountable for health care.” Stanford said she would like to see a single-payer health care system similar to Canada’s that can be adapted to the U.S. Vice President of the College Republicans Noah Glyn disagreed with Obama’s initiative. “I think that everybody who actually cares about the status of health care in America should be opposed to it … Government can really do nothing efficiently, and we’ve seen that time after time … The free market does do things more efficiently,”
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Rutgers AAUP-AFT representative Catherine Stanford speaks in favor of President Barack Obama’s health care plan at yesterday’s “Get Back to Work” rally on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus.
STUDENTS TO RING OLD QUEENS BELL IN MEMORY OF SEPT. 11 ATTACKS To commemorate Patriot Day, the eight-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students will ring the Old Queens Bell six times. Each ring will acknowledge the significant times during the attack. The first will ring at 8:46 a.m. for American Airlines Flight 11’s impact on the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the second at 9:03 a.m. for United Airlines Flight 175’s crash into the South Tower and the third at
9:37 a.m. for American Airlines Flight 77’s collision with the Pentagon. The fourth ringing will be at 9:59 a.m. for the collapse of the South Tower, the fifth at 10:03 a.m. for United Airlines Flight 93 crash landing in Shanksville, Pa. and the final bell at 10:28 a.m. for the fall of the North Tower. President Barack Obama issued a notice yesterday continuing the emergency declared eight years by former President George W. Bush.
“Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on Sept. 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond Sept. 14, 2009,” according to a White House press release. Sept. 11 was declared Patriot Day in October 2001 through Joint Resolution 71. It was passed by Congress unanimously and was signed by Bush not long after. — Sara Gretina
Minorities feel unemployment brunt, job loss risk doubles
INDEX UNIVERSITY Barnacles! Launched in the spring, the Scarlet Knight glider makes a pit stop for some cleaning before continuing to Spain.
BY CAGRI OZUTURK ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
METRO An organization supporting victims of Sept. 11 opens a new office in New Brunswick to commemorate loved ones and survivors.
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old. Before we can help students, we have to be known by them.” The meeting, which took place in the Student Activities Center at 7 p.m. yesterday, had
A double-digit unemployment rate may be around the corner for the United States as mass layoffs continue while job openings decrease. The School of Management and Labor Relations recently released their latest findings Monday on the state of the economy and job market. The unemployment rate increased in the past year by 3.5 points to 9.7 percent, and it is affecting minorities the worst, according to the study. “Most economists expect [the unemployment rate] to go up for the rest of the year and start going down by January or February,” said Douglas Kruse, a University professor and main coordinator of the study. “There is lots of uncertainty about that. [The rate] could easily reach 10 percent, though most believe it will peak at 9 percent.”
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Rutgers University Student Assembly Chair Werner Born speaks to about 25 people at yesterday’s meeting in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus. Born plans to make the assembly better known on campus.
Low turnout delays RUSA election BY CAGRI OZUTURK ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Werner Born, chair of the Rutgers University Student Assembly, challenged student representatives to work collective-
ly to meet the needs of students at the first meeting of the year. “I want to shift to be one collective, working as one task force and not scattered into groups,” he said. “I’d like to get our name out there. We are only three years
Gateway project on schedule, completion set for 2012 BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT
The Gateway project is now anticipated to be complete by 2012, and demolition and construction is on schedule, said New Brunswick
Development Corporation Communications Director Jean Holtz. Groundbreaking on the $160 million project is set to begin by the end of the year, as long as plans to move New Jersey Books to its new Easton Avenue location reach completion,
said Devco president Christopher Paladino. The move is anticipated for the spring semester. “We’re on target and right on schedule,” Paladino said. Although the Devco Web site anticipates project completion by 2011, the
facilities will not be open for public use until 2012, and some will not be available until 2013, Paladino said. “We’re hoping to open the [Rutgers University Bookstore] by
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