THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 24
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Big East cellar-dwellers Syracuse shut out the Rutgers men’s soccer team Friday at home. The Knights used two goalkeepers whose miscues led to Orange goals and dropped RU to third place.
FATAL RT-18 CRASH CLOSES SOUTHBOUND LANES OVER RARITAN RIVER
RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
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METRO Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital unveils the Breast Cancer Connection program Thursday, offering breast health care and a full range of specialty services.
BY GREG FLYNN Unless the U.S. can manufacture 2.15 million private-sector jobs annually for the next 7.63 years, the job market will remain rough and overcrowded, according to the new University repor t,
“America’s New Post-Recession Employment Arithmetic.” Issued Wednesday and authored by Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Dean James Hughes and Professor Joseph Seneca, the study details an extraordinarily long and dif ficult recover y period.
Professor recounts accomplishments at University, abroad BY MATT REED CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Senior Director of Media Relations Greg Trevor referred all questions to the New Brunswick Police Department and Middlesex County Prosecutors Office. Traffic safety officials in the police department could not be reached for comment at press time. Fire, police and emergency officials from New Brunswick and Piscataway responded to the scene. Authorities closed the southbound lanes over the bridge following the accident. Updates on the accident will be posted on dailytargum.com as they become available. —John S. Clyde
Recession leaves job market in dire straits for seven years CORRESPONDENT
Students meet Thursday night to share their spoken word art pieces, on culture.
A fatal car accident occurred yesterday after 3 p.m. on the southbound lanes of Route 18 crossing the John A. L ynch Sr. Memorial Bridge. At least one person was killed in the crash and another was rushed to the hospital after a black car crashed on the bridge, which crosses the Raritan River, authorities confirmed. Police have not yet released the names of the driver and passenger as of press time. University bus 2123 was located on the side of the road about .1 mile away from the damaged car near the New Brunswick side of the river with its hazard lights flashing. Authorities photographed the bus.
At an age when most people would be sitting comfortably behind a desk dreaming of retirement, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the School of Communication and Information Jerome Aumente situated himself in war-torn Serbia in the midst of an impending hostage crisis. Aumente, founder and former chair of the University’s Department of Journalism and Media Studies, dreamed of a
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“Even if the nation could add 2.15 million private-sector jobs per year starting in January 2010, it would need to maintain this pace for more than seven straight years, or until August 2017, to eliminate the jobs deficit,” according to the report. “This is approximately 50 percent greater than the length of the average post-World War II expansion [of 58 months].”
In December of 2007, we had an unemployment rate of 4.9 percent and that’s an unemployment rate that shows a labor market in balance, Hughes said. “Because people are mobile and change jobs, you always have some
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MAIL-IN OPTION REPLACES ABSENTEE BALLOT FOR UPCOMING STATE ELECTIONS All New Jersey voters can now vote by mail in any election due to new legislation passed last summer by the state legislature. Registered voters can apply by mail for a ballot to be mailed for either one or all elections in that year, according to New Jersey Division of Elections’ Web site. Applications must be sent to the county clerk seven days before the election or given in person to the clerk by 3 p.m. the day before, according to the site. Since an original signature is required, applications cannot be accepted via e-mail or fax unless the voter is overseas or in the military, according to the site. While the mail-in ballot replaced the former absentee ballots, citizens can still vote in person, RU Voting Coalition volunteer Bobby Irven said.
“They changed it so there’s no absentee ballot this year, so you have to request the vote by mail form,” said Irven, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. He said absentee ballots had to be completed earlier than the new, mail-in ballots. Coalition volunteer Shaina Trudge said polling in person gives a sense of relief because voters can see their vote physically counted. When they mail it, they do not see where their vote goes. “It’s guaranteed that your vote will count,” said Trudge, a Livingston College senior. The last day to register to vote in the Nov. 3 general election is Oct. 13. Mail-in applications and more information are available at njelections.org. —Mary Diduch
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Equipment, labs cost science students more tuition BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT
While students may be struggling to pay tuition at the University, some pay more than others.
Full-time undergraduate students attending the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and the School of Engineering pay $1,054 more than students in other University schools,
according to the University admissions’ Web site. “It’s not unusual for schools to charge different tuition rates for different programs,” said Vice President for University Budgeting Nancy
Winterbauer. “It’s a function of [three] things: the cost of the program, the demand for those programs and the likely earning potential after graduation.”
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