LAURELS AND DARTS We dart the method of upgrading facilities that led to a power outage
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Tracy Morgan The SNL star returned to New Jersey with a revealing performance at State Theatre
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MEN’S SOCCER Rutgers hopes to get back on track against No. 23 Michigan
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New Brunswick breaks ground on performing arts center Christian Zapata Correspondent
Construction for the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) officially broke ground this past Wednesday and was celebrated by a series of speeches from esteemed leaders of the Rutgers and New Brunswick communities. The new building will be located in the space which currently occupies George Street Playhouse and CrossRoads Theater. The new center, which is set to open in the Fall of 2019, takes the collaborative efforts between the University and the New Brunswick Development Corporation (Devco), along with other affiliates, into the city’s theater district. The 22 story complex will include two theaters, three rehearsal stages and a multitude of added amenities pricing at $190 million. See center on Page 4
This week, New Brunswick broke ground on a state-of-the-art performing arts center, located between the College Avenue and Douglass campuses. The new center is slated to open in 2019 and it will feature spaces for Rutgers students to appreciate and perform live theatre, while becoming more immersed in the local culture. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR
‘Soup Bowl’ continues its 46-year-old U. tradition Kelly Kim Staff Writer
As the football team continues its season, the Glee Club and the marching band also kick off their season with the annual “Soup Bowl.” “Soup Bowl,” named after F. Austin “Soup” Walter, a former Rutgers music professor, is a yearly football event between the University’s Glee Club and marching band. Every November the two organizations meet at a Rutgers field and go head-to-head for a trophy and bragging rights. The marching band won in the first-ever “Soup Bowl,” but the victor has bounced back and forth since then, with the Glee Club now striving for its fourth-consecutive win. “(Walter) at the time was director of both Glee Club and Marching Band. The opportunity came around to perform at halftime at a football game, but only one could perform. (Someone said) ‘let’s settle this through a football game.’ They set up rules, similar to what we know as football but also adapted them to our needs,” said Joe Unkel, the alto saxophone section leader and a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. In terms of technicalities, eight people play per team in each rotation, with four collegiate referees overseeing and abiding by NCAA regulations, he said. Guidelines are slightly modified to accommodate for the lack of equipment.
Only cleats and mouthguards are allowed. Otherwise, the game follows as full-contact flag football. Having ingrained itself in tradition for at least 46 years, the “Soup Bowl” has entrenched itself into marching band and Glee Club culture. David Dizdari is the Glee Club public relations manager and a Rutgers Business School sophomore. “‘Soup Bowl’ is one of the most hyped events of the year and is as intrinsic a part of club culture in the fall as older traditions like the Christmas Carol and Song Concert Series,” Dizdari said. Fellow Glee Club member and School of Engineering sophomore Alec Pizarro agreed and said that he was unable to participate in the “Soup Bowl” last year, but he was so excited from conversations involving it that he had to ensure he could play this year. Unkel further emphasized the sense of unity and community he felt the “Soup Bowl” encourages. The marching band and Glee Club ver y rarely collaborate, and this event is their annual interaction. Even within each organization, individuals meet and become better acquainted. Because of marching band’s segmentation by instrumental sections, many people do not interact outside of their sections, he said. “(I love) that almost ever yone in Glee Club is involved in some See soup on Page 4
After the number of horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay declined from 2 million to 500,000 a group of Rutgers professors, students and interns came together to introduce a batch of new crabs into the ecosystem. RUTGERS.EDU
Rutgers faculty releases thousands of horseshoe crabs into local bay Max Marcus Correspondent
Rutgers professors and interns released about 10,000 3-month-old horseshoe crabs into the Delaware Bay earlier this month. The release was a public outreach event in a larger research project toward rebuilding the horseshoe crab population in that area. Thomas Grothues, a professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Studies, is currently working at Rutgers’ Aquaculture
Innovation Center (AIC) in Cape May and is one of the professors leading the project. Grothues said that there used to be approximately 2 million horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay, but due to various factors related to human involvement in the ecosystem, the population has been on the decline since the early twentieth century. There are now about 500,000 horseshoe crabs in the bay. The horseshoe crabs provide a necessary source of food for birds migrating from Tierra del Fuego
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on the southernmost tip of South America to the northern tundra of Canada, he said. The species of birds that make that annual trip have evolved so that their migration coincides with the horseshoe crabs’ egg laying. The birds fly without rest for six days, then stop on the beaches around the Delaware Bay to forage for the eggs, which are oily and fatty enough to sustain the birds for the rest of their journey. See crabs on Page 5