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Professors unhappy with immigrant’s detainment BRENDAN BRIGHTMAN STAFF WRITER
In a letter to University President Robert L. Barchi, 19 Rutgers professors voiced their opposition to the Rutgers University Police Department’s decision to detain a suspected undocumented immigrant until ICE was able to pick up and detain them. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Nineteen Rutgers professors, in a letter to University President Robert L. Barchi, voiced their opposition to the Rutgers University Police Department’s (RUPD) decision to detain a suspected undocumented immigrant until U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was able to pick up and detain them. The Daily Targum reported earlier this month that Luis Alberto
López was arrested on Sept. 29 by two officers for suspected driving under the influence (DUI) and handing over fake identification. University policy requires RUPD to notify ICE of any person found in connection to immigration issues when arrested for a serious crime such as a DUI. The letter alleges that RUPD made excessive and, in one case, duplicate charges against the suspected undocumented immigrant. SEE DETAINMENT ON PAGE 4
The religious student groups Rutgers Hillel, the Catholic Student Association and Ahlul Bayt co-sponsored Good Deeds Day, splitting volunteers into four groups who completed community service projects for the New Brunswick area. COURTESY OF SAM SNYDER
Rutgers faith groups come together for Thanksgiving community service BRENDAN BRIGHTMAN STAFF WRITER
In time for Thanksgiving, several Rutgers faith-based service groups came together on Sunday for Good Deeds Day, and spent 3 hours doing community service work for New Brunswick’s residents. The organizations that co-sponsored the event were Rutgers Hillel, the Catholic Student Association and Ahlul Bayt Student Association. Sam Snyder, a Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy senior, said that volunteers split into four groups that: cleaned
litter off streets in New Brunswick, sandwiched bags for Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen, wrote cards for patients at Saint Peter’s Hospital, made brownies for the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at Saint Peter’s Hospital. The event started two years ago when Snyder, then a sophomore, was the community service chair of Hillel. He said he wanted to have an event that got more student groups on campus involved. So, he reached out to his friend from his first-year residence hall, who was the community service chair for the Catholic Student Association. Together, they formed what would be the first Good Deeds Day, he said.
In their second year, Snyder said, they reached out to Ahlul Bayt as well. This year, all three organizations co-sponsored the event again, including volunteers from the Liberated Gospel Choir. He said this year they had 50 to 60 students come out to volunteer. The event, taking place right before Thanksgiving, is important to him, Snyder said. “We do it right at the start of the holiday because it is sort of the universal holiday, we can all appreciate what we have, right before Thanksgiving,” he said.
Numerous Rutgers faith-based service groups came together Sunday for community service in light of Thanksgiving. The groups represented three separate religions. COURTESY OF SAM SNYDER
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