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U. president urges students to vote in Tuesday’s election Bushra Hasan Correspondent
Students experienced difficulties registering for classes on Sunday and Monday night due to two different errors with the WebReg system. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGETTE STILLMAN
OIT explains student registration issues Nikhilesh De News Editor
The Rutgers Web Registration (WebReg) system suffered from two errors this week, impacting student registration on Sunday and Monday, said University Director Frank Reda in an email. The Office of Information Technology dealt with two issues this
With four days until the general election, University President Rober t L. Barchi told a crowd of students at the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) meeting to go out and vote. “Vote. I don’t care what the choice looks like,” Barchi said. Barchi said he “fully expect(s)” there to be no protests regardless of the election’s outcome in response to a question about
potential riots when one side’s candidate loses. Students should engage in a civil conversation about the election. He referred to an Oct. 25 incident in which pro-Republican nominee Donald Trump slogans were written in chalk around the Livingston and College Avenue campuses. “That’s why we have a campus where free speech is the norm,” he said. Two days after the election, the school will celebrate its 250th
bir thday, with fireworks over the Raritan and a par ty at Deiner Park, he said. “(I want to) not make (the anniversar y) a glitzy celebration, but a thoughtful celebration,” he said. The day, titled “A Day of Revolutionar y Thinking,” will include 80 alumni presenting seminars on campus throughout the day. Some alumni will present in normal classrooms, while others will See election on Page 4
week. The first was a capacity issue that impacted performance, and the other was a coding error, he said. “On Sunday, Oct. 30, some students experienced degraded performance when using WebReg. This was related to the high initial demand at the 10 p.m. opening of registration,” he said. “OIT was See issues on Page 4
Officers tell students about school shooting protocols nicholas huber staff writer
With 52 school shootings nationwide in the last year, the Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) is working to prepare students. Ever y semester, sociology professor Lee Clarke has an RUPD of ficer come into his class and discuss what students should do in the event of an on-campus shooting situation. RUPD is happy to teach students the protocols Rutgers police follow in an active shooter situation and what students should do to stay safe, Clarke said. Clarke said recent lectures on shootings have been presented by Leo Tolosa, an RUPD of ficer and graduate of the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. “I started this about 10 years ago when teaching an honors class about disaster and culture, and as part of the class, I have always used a segment on the Virginia Tech shooter situation,” Clarke said. “At that time, I had the Chief of Police come in.” Clarke said, intellectually, his lectures teach that the real first responders are anyone
who is on the scene. Students and professors are usually the first real responders to shooting incidents. The of ficial responders, such as police, are important because they are more likely to have weapons and they are the ones who will deal with a situation when it escalates, he said. During the 2007 Virginia Polytechnic Institute campus shooting, it was students and instructors who barricaded doors, hid in closets and jumped out of windows. More than 30 people died during the attack, which remains the deadliest college shooting in American histor y. There is also a practical side to knowing what to do, Clarke said. “At Virginia Tech, there were students who never heard real gunfire,” Clarke said. “Some students went out into the hallway to find out what the commotion was about and they ended up getting shot.” He said it is important to make students aware of the potential scenarios that could occur in an active shooter situation. “If they come on the scene and a student is shot and bleeding, See protocols on Page 4
University President Robert L. Barchi addressed the Rutgers community on Thursday night at the weekly RUSA meeting, answering questions and discussing the state of the school. He also told every student to vote on Tuesday, regardless of who they vote for. GEORGETTE STILLMAN
Alumna leads New York health lab in efforts to combat Zika virus kayon amos contributing writer
After the Zika virus appeared in the U.S., affecting roughly 600 patients in New York City to date, one Rutgers graduate knew it was time to help. Jennifer Rakeman, a biotechnology major at Cook College, is now the assistant commissioner laboratory director at the New York City Public Health Laboratory. Late in 2015 and early in 2016 the lab started preparations to diagnose patients with Zika, which is spread mostly by the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito, Rakeman said. Although the mosquitoes are not in New York, Rakeman said preparation
was necessary because people are constantly traveling to and from New York City. Rakeman’s many responsibilities includes ensuring that all of the testing done at the laboratory meets government regulatory and reporting requirements. “New York City has many people that visit or have immigrated from countries that have been affected by Zika, so we know we have a lot of travelers that go back and forth between New York City and those areas, so we started gearing up very early and started preparing in the laboratories to perform testing to diagnose patients with Zika,” she said. The Zika virus has been known for decades, but it did not emerge
as a major public health threat until this year. Zika has affected around 600 total patients in the city, including around 70 pregnant women, she said. The patients in every case had recently traveled and all cases were associated with travel. There has been no local transmission in New York yet, she said. The laboratory always follows up with patients after they have been tested to monitor their results, she said. Dealing with a new disease such as Zika means continuously researching and processing new information. “We don’t really know everything yet, which is part of the
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