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Package leads to late night library evacuation
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Anti-immigration flyers found at U. This past Thursday, Flyers calling for “white Americans” to report illegal aliens were found in front of the Douglass Student Center. Prior to their appearance on campus, the same flyers were reportedly spotted on George Street by a student in the Rutgers Class of 2018 Facebook page. The flyers read, “they are criminals, America is a white nation.” Listed on these flyers was the number for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — a 24/7 hotline steered by the Department of Homeland Security to report suspicious criminal activity, including illegal aliens, according to their website. Kathren Jones, a School of Arts and Sciences senior said she saw
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Alexander Library was evacuated late Thursday night in response to an unattended package. Police guided a K-9 unit that surrounded the inside and perimeter of the building. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR
Students were evacuated from Alexander Librar y shor tly after 10 p.m. due to a repor t of an unattended package, said a University spokesperson. “At approximately 10:10 p.m. this evening the occupants of Alexander Library on College Avenue were evacuated following the report of an unattended package in the building,” the spokesperson said in an email. The Rutgers University Police Department is working with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and the New Jersey State Police to investigate. The RU ALERT said, “Please evacuate Alexander Library due to a temporary issue within the building.”
Among rumors of bomb threats, students were evacuated and a K-9 unit was released around the perimeter and within the building. After the unit was finished searching through trash bins and the building, police reentered the building. “We were attempting to study,” Ally Angels, a School and Arts and Sciences junior said. “Some man came up to us and said we need to leave ... he said the fire department needed to come clear the building, and it’s going to take 15 minutes.” A second RU ALERT was issued around 12:50 p.m., stating Alexander Library was going to resume scheduled operating hours and is currently open. “The unattended package has been cleared and is not a threat,” the University spokesperson said.
Rutgers revives studio TV course in journalism roster Christian Zapata Correspondent
For the first time in six years, a broadcast television program, Specialty Camera Studio, was offered during the academic year. The course allowed students to experience various roles of the news room, culminating in a student-produced 30-minute production. Prior to this year, the University was the only school within the Big Ten Academic Alliance that did not offer a television studio course, said Peter Troost, assistant director of operations and production for Rutgers iTV. The program last surfaced between 2010 and 2011, but after a professor at the time retired, the television studio was no longer used. Since then, the School of Information and Communication has offered Broadcast Television as a summer session course. iTV has pushed for the program’s return, an effort that came to fruition this year when the half-semester course was piloted to students, Troost said. “All over the Big Ten and all over N.J., the major institutions and Universities have programs like this and let the students use studios to learn and to produce and to do the type of thing that we did tonight,” he said. Thursday night, students in the course used their newly-attained skills in directing, writing and working with audio-visual equipment to produce their own 30-minute show. The demonstration featured guest appearances from individuals well
established in journalism and the media industry. “The students should be here the entire semester, and you should also start earlier,” Troost said. “Because I think if you started your freshman or sophomore year, by your senior year, I mean this wasn’t a bad production, but imagine if you had two to three years of this. Imagine the kind of productions and journalistic content you could produce your fourth year in.” The initiative to reinstate the broadcast program was spearheaded by Troost, Juan Gonzalez, a professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Neal Bennett, a teaching instructor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, and more. Bennett taught the course this semester and oversaw Thursday’s show, he said. “It was great, it went smooth. I didn’t see anything go wrong,” he said. The hands-on experience students take away from working in a television studio builds tactile knowledge that helps their journalistic abilities, Bennett said. After hearing that the University had a television studio not utilized by students, he decided to play with the idea of introducing students to a new kind of learning. “I can show you the pictures. I can show you the switchers and all that, but until you put your hands on it, until we’re doing the count down, you don’t feel that stress,” he said. See ROster on Page 4
Joanna Gagis, Natalie Feldman and Maria Soccor were among a few of the people who guest starred in the 30-minute production led by Rutgers students. Instructors said it was a success and that students made minimal errors throughout the show. JILL BUHAIN / ASSOCIATE VIDEO EDITOR
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