THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 142, Number 29
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Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano named true freshman Chas Dodd his starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against Army while Tom Savage recovers.
Students discuss understanding of privacy issues BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Along with boxes of their belongings, most first-year students bring to campus concerns about being away from home for the first time and sharing the space between four walls with a complete stranger. Three members of the Class of 2014 — Tyler Clementi, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei — have become the center of much discussion about privacy in residence halls on campus, but many of their classmates said their situation is not reflective of the entire class. School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Kyle Rosa said setting rules is one way to prevent problems. “I think it’s about just getting to know ever yone on your floor more than anything,” said Rosa, who lives in the Quads on Livingston campus. “You can definitely set some boundaries. You shouldn’t have to tell your roommate not to record you doing personal things, but you can tell them you’re not comfortable with them bringing random people in the room.” Nakicha Veillard, a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student, said she gets along well with her roommate. The two students, who ENRICO CABREDO
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University first-year students in Davidson Hall on Busch campus discuss how to get along with and respect their roommates.
Senators question delayed higher education initiative BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
As the nation’s education system struggles in the dire economic times, Gov. Chris Christie is attempting to assess and improve this system in the Garden State. Christie formed the Higher Education Task Force in July to report on the status of higher education in New Jersey. Headed by former Gov. Thomas Kean, the task force is in the process of putting together its December report for the governor.
“The Higher Education Task Force has been meeting with the stakeholders,” said Sean Conner, a spokesman from the governor’s office. “It is an ongoing process in preparation for their December report that is due for the governor.” The role of the Higher Education Task Force is to make recommendations for the governor on how to improve the state’s higher education system, Conner said.
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University alumna swings back after tragic experience
Should the University make the Internet safer by implementing privacy settings?
Michael LaSala, associate professor in the School of Social Work, speaks out at National Coming Out Day yesterday on the College Avenue campus about the recent number of suicides among LGBT students.
BY DENNIS COMELLA
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Campus advocates LGBT issues
After jumping from a third-floor window to escape an intruder, University alumna Elizabeth Choi is using her experience and her love for tennis to give back to the community. Choi teaches tennis in Ridgewood, N.J., where she enjoys working with children and people with injuries. “It doesn’t surprise me that she has taken her situation and turned it into something that can help other people,” said Marian Rosenwasser, Choi’s head tennis coach when she was on the University’s team. Although she has fully bounced back from the 2008 incident, Choi underwent more than a year of rehabilitation, in which she had to relearn how to walk and speak because of a brain injury she sustained. Even after she recovered enough to return home, she continued to undergo months of therapy at the Rehabilitation Specialists Center in Fair Lawn, N.J. “She really had to overcome a lot,” Rosenwasser said. “She suffered life-threatening injuries and came back
MTV holds casting calls for town hall meeting with President Barack Obama.
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BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER
In accordance with National Coming Out Day, University graduate students and staff spoke out about the recent string of tragedies that have faced the nation. The “Come Out, Speak Out” event was held outside Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus yesterday and was tied intimately to both the recent suicide of first-year University student Tyler Clementi and National Coming Out Day.
Event organizer Gretchen Abbot felt that in light of recent events, National Coming Out Day was an opportune moment to have an open discussion about homophobia and gay rights. “We were inspired to take a par ticular kind of ver y public action today because of what happened with Tyler,” said Abbott, a teaching assistant. “It moved all of us a great deal, and as graduate students we were really tr ying to find a way that we could use our position at the University to reach out to other [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and question-
ing] people who are in our community who might need help.” With a week and a half of planning, the group of doctoral students organized an event that Alix Genter, a graduate fellow, described as a “teach-in,” where speakers were invited to talk from an academic perspective about LGBTQ issues in a public setting. Genter and the other event organizers chose such a public setting so passersby and attendees could hear their voices.
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