THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 142, Number 42
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The Rutgers men’s and women’s soccer teams’ conference seasons ended this weekend when the men fell at home to DePaul and the women lost on the road at West Virginia.
State introduces anti-bullying bill BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Whether it takes the form of pinches on the arm or offensive comments on a Facebook page, legislators in New Jersey are standing up to bullying. The “Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights,” a bipartisan effort that state lawmakers introduced last week, would make bullying and harassment causes for suspension or expulsion in schools, require teachers and administrators to go through training on bullying and mandate a policy against bullying in all public colleges and universities across the state.
“When we were growing up, bullying was pretty much accepted as a rite of passage, as something that you just tolerated,” Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono said. “This legislation will create a standardized way to identify and investigate incidents of bullying, and it will also train teachers, administrators and board of education members to identify and prevent bullying.” For students at the University, issues in the bill hit close to home. New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney said University
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More than 200,000 people join Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart in the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” Saturday in Washington, D.C. The rally infused comedy with politics in an effort to reach a range of Americans.
Rally addresses mainstream views BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO UNIVERSITY EDITOR
WASHINGTON — Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” attracted hundreds of thousands of people who crowded on the National Mall on Saturday in an effort to show a more “reasonable” side of Americans. Stewart promoted the rally since September as a “Million Moderate March,” pointing out on his show that only a select group of extremist citizens have outspoken the majority of Americans
who are not as passionate in their political views. At the rally, Stewart heavily criticized the media for focusing their attention on this select few and therefore presenting a false image of Americans as individuals incapable of compromise. “The image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false,” he said. “It is us through a fun house mirror.” Although Stewart does not blame the media for creating the country’s problems, he said their programming makes it much more difficult to come up with solutions.
“The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen,” Stewart said. “Or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire, and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected, dangerous flaming ant epidemic.” Regardless of this media impediment on progress, Stewart said the reality is that citizens are reasonable and willing to work together. “Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late
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DIVYA RATHI
RU Swara hosts two renowned vocalists, Ranjani and Gayatri Friday at “RanG” in the Cook Campus Center. The group intended to expose various types of Hindustani classical music.
‘Monster Mash’ attracts largest crowd in seven years
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BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER
UNIVERSITY
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Rutgers-Newark organizations come together for an all-day fundraiser to support Haitian children.
More than 1,000 children celebrated Halloween on Friday at the seventh annual “Monster Mash,” an event promoting a safe trick-or-treating environment hosted by the Residence Hall Association at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center. Children attended the event in their Halloween costumes and played games to win prizes offered by University organizations that participated voluntarily. “Monster Mash,” coordinated by the Residential Council of RHA, links Rutgers to the New Brunswick community and provides a safe environment for children to trick-or-treat, said RHA President Ryan Harrington. RHA won the National Program of the Year award from the National Association of College and University Residence Halls, Inc. in 2009 for its “Monster Mash” initiative. “There have been a lot of people every year, but this year is the most crowded I have ever seen it,” said Keith Everett, a New Brunswick resident. RHA expected the event to be bigger than ever before because of the record number of organizations involved this year, said Harrington, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior. Twenty-seven organizations were involved in the first “Monster Mash,” but participation grew to 97
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OPINIONS Schools resort to plastering lockers with advertisements in an effort to supplement their budgets.
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Desiree Altenor decorates cookies at the seventh annual “Monster Mash” Friday at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center. The event promoted a safe trick-or-treating environment for children.
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