THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 142, Number 51
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010
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Head coach Mike Rice kicks off his Rutgers career with a tough challenge: a road game against preseason Ivy League favorite Princeton and its patented offense.
Veterans center opens doors on Lafayette Street
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RUSA grants swipe funds to Future Scholars BY DEVIN SIKORSKI
BY REENA DIAMANTE
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
CORRESPONDENT
The house on 14 Lafayette St. in New Brunswick was in shambles just months ago. The remodeled home now serves as not only a place for veterans to receive assistance, but a representation of the University’s commitment to them. In honor of Veterans Day, members of the University community snipped the ribbon of the new Of fice of Veteran Ser vices yesterday, during its opening ceremony. “The success of our ef for ts is evidence of our 42 percent increase in the number of student veterans attending Rutgers since 2008 and our national rankings as a militar y friendly school in the Militar y RAMON DOMPOR / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Times and the GI Joe magazine,” said Veterans Dennis Moriarty, left, and Herman Terpstra attend yesterday’s opening ceremony
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The Rutgers University Student Assembly yesterday chose the next charitable organization to receive fundraising benefits from the meal sign-away program. In a room fit for no more than 40 people, RUSA members awarded the Rutgers Future Scholars program the oppor tunity to receive meal swipe donations from the biannual program. RUSA members assured representatives from Give Kids the World, an organization providing children with life-threatening illnesses free vacations to Florida, the decision was tough and the cause of their organization was just as important. RUSA President Yousef Saleh said although it was a difficult choice, the opportunity to invest in future University students must be acted upon.
of the Office of Veteran Services that will help student veterans transition to college.
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Military personnel share experiences BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Although she stands at just about 5 feet tall, one would be remiss to judge Major Gen. Maria FalcaDodson by her stature. The two-star general and first woman commander of the New Jersey Air National Guard spoke before a mixed audience of veterans and civilians last night in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Campus Center at an event entitled “Suppor t and Defend the Constitution: The Role of The Militar y in Democracy,” presented by Rutgers University Ser vices,
Education and Resources for Veteran Students. “We have had many people in the military say things like ‘The military’s at war and America’s at the mall,’” she said. “You want America to be at the mall if you’re in the military, trust me. Our economy needs people to be at the mall. But we also need the American public to acknowledge the fact that people in the military can’t be at the mall.” Throughout the event, Dodson talked about militar y histor y in America and how the state of the Armed Forces has changed over the years. She reminded audience members that the military plays a crucial
role in everyday life, even if many overlook it. “You have to remember that you can have a military without a democracy, but you can’t have a democracy without a military,” she said. After Dodson’s speech, a panelist comprised of student veterans answered questions regarding life in and after the military in a questionand-answer session. Although many would not be able to tell them apart from other members of the student body at the University, the panelists’ stories proved their lives were different
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James Jones, a University professor of religion, delves into how religion motivates individuals to join terrorist organizations.
UNIVERSITY Students experience living with disabilities as part of Days Without Hate.
Professor looks into terrorist psycholog y BY MAXWELL BARNA STAFF WRITER
Centering on the topic of religiously motivated terrorist groups, University Professor of religion James Jones delivered a presentation Wednesday where he discussed his paper, “Motivation and Terrorism: How Religion Makes Matters Worse,” which focuses people’s psychological reasoning behind joining terrorist organizations. “One of the things that psychology is interested in is motivation, and one of the things I became interested in was the
motivation of people to become terrorists,” he said. Jones also outlined how the motivation for contemporary terrorist groups is entirely different from their predecessors, whose focus was primarily on an ethnonationalistic or politically revolutionary level. But Jones did not single out any one particular type of fundamentalist group. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking to a Christian identity soldier in the West or a settler in the occupied
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OPINIONS Father sues his daughter’s school for teaching slave passages in preparation for Black History Month.
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Indie rock band Ra Ra Riot performs for students last night at the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room. The event was sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association. For the full photo spread, see PAGE 6.
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