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Students rally against Columbus Day legacy Bushra Hasan Staff Writer
After Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, one Rutgers student argues that the navigator launched a centuries-long genocide of Native Americans, and has a national holiday to show for it. A group of students in the All Mar xist-Leninist Union (AMLU) sought to raise awareness of the mostly unspoken histor y behind Columbus Day with a protest on the steps of Brower Commons on Monday afternoon, said Don Courter, the AMLU’s general secretar y and a School of Arts and Sciences senior. They were accompanied by Norman Markowitz, a professor in the Department of Histor y, who gave a brief monologue over a megaphone. The organization aims to create a forum on Columbus Day for organizations that represent oppressed peoples of all backgrounds, said Courter, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The AMLU stands for anti-imperialism, which is Courter said the group decided to host this Columbus Day protest. “We believe it is abhorrent to sanctify the legacy of a man who
initiated a centuries-long genocide against the Native American peoples — par ticularly the Taíno Indians — and historically-revisionist to claim that he discovered a land already inhabited by millions of people,” Cour ter said. The AMLU also stands in opposition to “modern imperialist countries that continue to mercilessly exploit and pillage the third world,” he said. Rutgers University does not cancel classes on Columbus Day, after a series of controversies that arose a couple of years ago regarding the nature of the holiday. The AMLU suppor ts the University’s decision to hold classes, Cour ter said. “To do other wise would spit on the memor y of millions of Native Americans who were exterminated during the Manifest Destiny era and those few Native Americans who remain to retain their peoples’ cultures,” he said. But the University does not educate students about Christopher Columbus’ crimes or about one of the largest genocides in world histor y, Cour ter said. Rutgers See legacy on Page 4
Donna Brazile, former and current Interim Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, spoke to Rutgers students on Monday night about their importance in the upcoming election, telling them that “millennials are in the driver’s seat of this election.” DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR
Interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile presents lessons on civic duties Sophie Nieto-Munoz Associate News Editor
Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui saw Donna Brazile for the first time about five years ago in Washington D.C. as she fixed the garden in her front yard. Monday night, he met her for the first time as she came to Rutgers to speak to
students about the importance of participating in this election. The night began with a standing ovation for Brazile, the Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman and a Georgetown adjunct professor, explaining her silver purple hair color as an homage to the late artist Prince. She started with an anecdote about the night she was asked to fill
Administrator breaks down meal plan prices Nicole Osztrogonacz staff writer
Despite calls from students, dining services will not implement meal swipes that roll over to the subsequent semester or year, said Joseph Charette, executive director for Rutgers Dining Services. Charette has worked with the University’s food services for 27 years and said rollover meal swipes are not something that is possible for dining services to do. Because Rutgers charges students for the average number of meals eaten, and not the number of meals bought, students do not own extra swipes that can be rolled over. “‘I want to donate my 35 meals to a community food bank or roll them over to the next semester.’ You never bought them. They don’t exist. See, the way things work at a university is that everyone is paying for the average,” Charette said. Rather, Charette said the University accounts for missed meals and figures a discount percentage into each of the meal plans. By straight math, 285 meals should cost about $3,697.50.
“A 285 meal plan costs $2,645.00. So if the average is, for example in this instance, 204 meals, we charge for 204 meals. That’s why it’s $2,645.00. A $1,052.50 discount of $3,697.50 is a 28.5 percent discount,” Charette said. There is constant confusion among students over the determination of meal plans, but he said everything comes down to simple math. “So Monday through Friday, three meals. That’s 15 meals. Saturday and Sunday, we do brunch and dinner. So that’s four more meals. There’s 19 meals a week. Fifteen times 19 is 285. And that’s how we create the numbers for each plan,” Charette said. If dining hall websites broke the numbers down step by step for students, students would not be left wondering where their money goes, said Snehal Butani, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “All of these numbers should be explained better. I feel like it’s all a big secret. I’m always unsure of how the pricing works. Does a meal swipe get deducted if you use a guest swipe? I don’t know. It just doesn’t
in as the DNC chairperson. In order to do this, she was forced to cut her ties with ABC, CNN and other forms of media, but insisted she was unable to cut ties to her students. Brazile is the first person invited to the University for a speaker series presented by Undergraduate Academic Affairs. See duties on Page 4
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compromise. We’re getting ripped off when we don’t use our meal swipes. If you had the option to carr y extra meal swipes over to the next semester, that’d be great,” Tibbetts said.
Facebook wants to increase voter turnout this November. The social networking platform has launched various tools dedicated toward encouraging voter registration, especially among young people who are less likely to vote, by sending reminders to users and placing a “register now” button at the top of their news feeds. The initiative began in September. The button redirects users to a federal government website that allows them to register. Users will then be guided through the registration process for their specific state. After registering, users can share the news with their friends with an automatic status update. Facebook has the unique ability and responsibility to remind people to vote so they can participate in the upcoming election, said Katie Harbath, Facebook’s director of
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Meal plans are priced based on how many meals students eat on average per plan. Students who buy a 285-meal plan only eat 204 meals per semester. GRAPHIC BY MICHAEL MAKMUR / STAFF DESIGNER make sense to me. They could make things clearer,” Butani said. The meal swipe system could use a few improvements, said Sabrina Tibbetts, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “Rutgers forces meal plans on you without any form of a
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