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Inside Beat dukes it out among 32 of hip-hop's leading artists. Through all of the upsets and close calls, only one can take the crown as 2011’s ultimate hip-hop emcee.
Health care laws up cost of tuition
CBS producer visits campus to talk news
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Rick Kaplan, executive producer of CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, disclosed his personal experiences of working with multiple television outlets during his Wednesday night question and answer session. The event, held at Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus, provided a platform for University students to network and learn from Kaplan, said Benjamin Davis, a professor in the journalism and media studies department. Topics of the night included recent developments in the Middle East and the direction of the news industry in the upcoming years. In the past, networks would hang onto news until 6:30 p.m. and would display it across the three networks for the 6:30 p.m. news. But now the news network is much faster paced, Kaplan said. “So until [the news anchors] would announce ‘Good evening, here is the news,’ you did not know it,” he said. “Today, when the news is presented, you’ve already seen it — it’s been on CNN, it’s been
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and an end point, and the app will tell you what bus to take.” Sherman said phone applications dealing with the University were lacking and as a result, he and School of Engineering seniors David Buchman, Joe Morreale, Dan Carew and Ryan Hennessy created the application for their software engineering capstone senior design project. “There are only six applications for Rutgers in the iPhone app store and one of
Although some students expect to see an increase in their tuition for next school year — what they may not be expecting is an increase to a cost of their University-provided health insurance. The new federal health care legislation, coupled with a N.J. state law that requires full-time students at colleges or universities have health insurance to cover basic hospitalization, will increase the cost of the minimum coverage provided by the University. “Effective this coming year, we are going to have a hard waiver program that has a minimum limit of $100,000,” said James Breeding, director of Risk Management and Insurance at the University. This will be an increase of between $600 and $800 from the mandatory coverage provided currently with a limit of $5,000 at about $170 per student, which anyone without insurance must pay, Breeding said. “If [students] don’t have health insurance, they will have to buy into this program, but the cost they are getting it at is very competitive,” he said. If students do have insurance, they will be able to avoid paying for the coverage through the hard waiver program, which allows students to opt out of the coverage if they can provide proof of insurance through another means, Breeding said. This is a change from the former policy of a mandatory fee on students’ term bills for what the University considered necessary coverage, he said. Breeding said on average about 39 percent of the approximate 100,000 students in the state colleges had to buy into coverage,
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Rick Kaplan, CBS Evening News executive producer, shares his 35 years of experience with students last night in the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus.
U. utilizes new media to reach students BY TABISH TALIB CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Various University departments are trying to communicate with students on popular forms of technology by creating smart phone applications and using social media websites like Twitter. An electrical and computer engineering senior project team created “RULost,” an iPhone application that provides University students with information and data about the University, project leader Kyle Sherman said.
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“The app brings everything together — Nextbus, dining hall menus, links for lots of the University departments and all the services within My Rutgers,” said Sherman, a School of Engineering junior. The application has five main features — links for the various departments, dining hall menus, numbers and contacts for University resources, a link to The Daily Targum mobile website and the Nextbus application, Sherman said. “For the Nextbus part of the application, we took away the hassle of picking a route and a direction,” he said. “You just pick a start point
Dancers warm up for 32-hour charity event
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METRO A Highland Park business this weekend will host a three-day festival for Earth Day.
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OPINIONS The University’s new commencement ceremony stirs up conflicting emotions.
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Douglass Governing Council members listen to Dean Marjorie Munson speak Tuesday night about Douglass College history. The council also decided to support the Save the Education Campaign. For the full story, see PAGE 3.
Students will dance the weekend away during the 13th annual Dance Marathon, the largest student-run philanthropic event in New Jersey. Dance Marathon is a 32-hour event that benefits the Embrace Kids Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps the nonmedical needs of families of children with blood disorders, said Danielle Bechta, Director of Community Outreach. Mark Inverso, director of Finance, said Dance Marathon’s goals have not changed, but the staff aims to improve efficiency this year with the hopes of raising more than last year’s total of $378,001.75. “We’re still trying to help the organization as much as possible financially and morally, have as many dancers as possible, and have as strong an event as ever,” said
Inverso, a Rutgers Business School junior. “Over the past 12 years, we have raised $2.3 million, so we have ambitious goals for this year.” Although Dean of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs JoAnn Arnholt offers support and guidance for the event, student volunteers make all decisions and plans, said Bechta, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The organization’s Board of Directors and Central Planning Team was hired in May 2010 and has been holding weekly meetings and various promotional events all year, she said. “So that tells you how much work we actually have to put into an event of this magnitude,” Bechta said. The board began planning for Dance Marathon 2011 over the summer and was broken down into seven main teams to manage the event — Community Outreach,
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