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Rutgers will open ‘One-Stop Shop’ for non-academic services in next 2 years Chloe Dopico Associate News Editor
The University plans to open “One-Stop Shop” service center where students can access financial aid, student accounting, parking services and transcripts. JEFFREY GOMEZ / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
As a part of the University’s Strategic Plan, Rutgers announced they intend to revamp financial aid to eventually create a “One-Stop Shop,” where the Rutgers community can go to one location for all student services. The plan was initiated as a result of the University’s efforts to improve the student experience, said Neal Buccino, a University spokesperson. Buccino said students described a “pain point” as having to go from office to office, dealing with long lines and not reaching the right person to solve their problem. The University garnered results from a sur vey to find out what types of problems students were encountering.
Rutgers administrators hope to have the “One-Stop Shop” open by Summer 2019, he said. “Rutgers University—New Brunswick will build a ‘One-Stop Shop’ student service center on the present site of ASB1 on the Busch campus. ‘One-Stop Shops’ will eventually be built on all Rutgers campuses. This facility will be students’ focal point for answers or resolutions to non-academic services, such as financial aid, student accounting, parking matters or obtaining transcripts. This should significantly improve students’ experience,” Buccino said. Records Hall is currently the location for the Office of Dining Ser vices, main ser vices for facilities, financial aid, student accounting and the Office of Information Technology. Most students handle registration online.
Anarchists meet for 45th annual discussion at U. Stephen Weiss Associate News Editor
Last Friday, a group of progressive-minded people gathered in Alexander Library for the 45th annual Friends of the Modern School meeting and discussed alternatives to the conventional form of education. The Modern School was a democratic school and anarchist community located in the North Stelton area of Piscataway Township from 1915 to 1953. The Modern School provided an alternative to regular education and encouraged its students to be creative and self-reliant, according to the website. The school was based on the principles of a Spanish anarchist named Francisco Ferrer, who founded the first Modern School in Barcelona in 1901. In 1973, the Friends of the Modern School organization was established to celebrate and preser ve this legacy. One of the Friends of the Modern School’s first projects was the donation of the archives from the Modern School to Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers. According to the event’s Facebook page, Alexander Library, which is about 3 miles from the location of The Stelton Modern School, now contains the largest available collection of archival materials about the Modern Schools. One of the speakers at the event was Vivian Gornick, a wellknown writer who wrote a book in 2011 about Emma Goldman and how she helped found the Ferrer
Association which led to the organization of the Modern School. She has written for Village Voice, The Nation, The Atlantic and The New York Times. The other two speakers were Alexander Hilerio, a Rutgers alumnus who made a short film about the Modern School and Ferrer Colony, and Alex Khost, the vice president of Friends of the Modern School and an adamant children’s rights advocate and activist. Khost founded the Teddy McArdle Free School and cofounded Playground NYC, which is a nonprofit organization advocating for young people’s rights by providing physical environments that encourage risk-taking and experimentation through self-directed play, according to the website. According to the CDC, more than 6 percent of young people between the ages of 4-17 take medication to treat ADHD. “It’s funny because a lot of people come up to me and they’re like, ‘you’re crazy doing this with your kids,’ and I’m like, ‘no, what’s crazy is pumping your kids full of drugs to keep them in their seats.’ If you step back and look at it as not what most people are doing, the school model that looks crazy is actually the model that most people are doing,” Khost said. “I think that we really not to stop and look at what we’re doing to kids today. See how pent up and how depressed and anxious people are. And so much of that is because they don’t feel control over their own lives.”
Buccino said this building has limited parking and needs extensive repairs. In an interview with New Brunswick Chancellor Debasish Dutta, he outlined his plans for the “One-Stop Shop” and how the new initiative will impact students. “All student-related ser vices will be available — financial aid, registration, accounting, ever ything you utilize and now you have to go to multiple campuses for, will be available in one stop, in one facility,” Dutta said. “And more importantly, we are going to design it in a way so that it is the most mobile-friendly that it can be. Essentially, you can have online access to as many things as you can.” See SERVICES on Page 4
Race for governor will decide future of NJ property taxes Kayon Amos Staff Writer
to work on,” Khost said. “And therefore they become more responsible for their own lives and grow up more responsible.” Khost graduated from Rutgers in 1997 and said that since he had never been able to make a lot of his own decisions before college his new-found freedom led to irresponsible decisions. Khost said that a book his father gave him in high school, “Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing,” changed his perspective on conventional schooling.
New Jersey is consistently the state with the highest property taxes, according to NJ Advanced Media. With the gubernatorial election set to take place on Nov. 7, many are hoping the new governor may be able to change that. The Republican candidate is Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and the Democratic candidate is Phil Murphy. Murphy’s tax plan has been a key focus of the race. Guadagno has badgered him on it and has said that while he will raise taxes, she will cut them. But, Murphy has said the $1.3 billion increase will spare the middle class and instead hike taxes on wealthy residents, including taxes on legalized marijuana and close corporate tax loopholes, according to NJ Advanced Media. Guadagno calls her tax plan a “circuit-breaker” — which would reduce the amount homeowners pay on the school portion of their property-tax bill to 5 percent of their household income. Homeowners would receive a credit of up to $3,000 for any amount above that 5 percent threshold, according to NJ Advanced Media. Low education funding for grades K-12 is one of the reasons for New Jersey’s high property taxes, said Derek Roseman, a spokesman for Murphy’s campaign.
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For the last 45 years, progressive individuals have met to preserve the legacy of the Modern School — an anarchist community that used to exist near Rutgers. MALAIKA JAWED Among undergraduate college students today, 62 percent report feeling overwhelming anxiety as a result of being overworked in the conventional school system, according to The New York Times The idea behind free schools is trusting children to make their own decisions about their own lives, he said. This will, in turn, allow young people to grow into more responsible adults. “They learn how to negotiate, they learn their own interests and skills, they learn their strengths and weaknesses and what they want
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