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Rutgers study finds LGBTQ students report poorer college experiences BRENDAN BRIGHTMAN STAFF WRITER
The Tyler Clementi Foundation, in celebration of New Jersey’s first Transgender Awareness Week, has shared its results from the largest study of LGBTQ+ college students in American higher education. The Tyler Clementi Center, a research partnership between Rutgers
and the foundation, partnered four premier postsecondary research institutions for the study — extrapolating responses from LGBTQ+ students from the data sets to better understand their experiences, according to the study. The study asked respondents about their gender identity and experience on campus. Respondents were generally divided into
four categories: queer-spectrum, trans-spectrum, heterosexual and non-transgender students. Queer-spectrum meant respondents are cisgender, and trans-spectrum meant they may not correspond with their birth gender. Queer-spectrum students were compared to heterosexual students SEE EXPERIENCES ON PAGE 5
Alumnus Richard N. Weeks stands alongside his son of the same name at the site of a dredging operation headed by his family’s company, Weeks Marine, Inc. RUTGERS.EDU
Busch engineering center named after benefactor RYAN STIESI NEWS EDITOR
More than 20 students lied on the floor outside the College Avenue Student Center during an LGBTQ+ rally for safer spaces and communal acceptance after Tyler Clementi died by suicide on Sept. 23, 2010. THE DAILY TARGUM
A 1950 School of Engineering graduate will make history today. Richard N. Weeks, donated significantly to the construction of new STEM facilities on Busch campus that opened this semester. Today, he will be honored as the University dedicates the new Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering to him. Established in 1864, this is the first time in the School of Engineering’s history that a building, Weeks Hall, will be named after an alumnus, according to a Rutgers press release. On top of his funding contributions, the alumnus is also chairman of Cranford, N.J.-based Weeks Marine, Inc.,
one of the leading marine construction, dredging and tunneling firms in North America. A 106,000-square-foot educational center featuring state-of-the-art laboratories, smart classrooms and faculty offices for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Weeks Hall was built as part of a plan to create a core of new STEM facilities at Rutgers, according to the press release. The dedication featuring University President Robert L. Barchi, Rutgers—New Brunswick Interim Chancellor Christopher Molloy, School of Engineering Dean Thomas Farris and Weeks’s son, President and CEO of Weeks Marine, Inc. Richard S. Weeks, will take place at 2 p.m. on Busch campus.
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