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The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team moved to 18-0 all-time last night against visiting Villanova when it won, 13-10, over the Wildcats at Yurcak Field.
Hospital aims to improve mood with renovations BY CHASE BRUSH STAFF WRITER
As part of a $3 million renovation project, visitors to St. Peter’s University Hospital will find a new hospital gift shop, restaurant and remodeled lobby among the improvements to the ground floor. The project completed its final stage of a 10month-long planning and execution process last month, said Peter Connolly, the hospital’s chief marketing officer. Visitors, patrons and employees are now able to enjoy an expanded lobby featuring a water fall, imported tile flooring, natural wood paneling and a self-playing piano. “The aim was to create a refuge and a break from the hospital atmosphere for both employees and visitors,” Connolly said. “At the same time, we wanted [the lobby] to reinforce the fact that we are a progressive, modern hospital.” Daniel Schunkewitz, the project’s chief designer and architect, said the improvements draw heavily on aspects of feng shui and mark a growing trend in modern hospital design. The hospital, which also serves as a regional medical campus for Drexel University’s College of Medicine, consistently ranks high among top hospitals in national surveys, Connolly said. He hopes the project’s improvements will help keep the facility a leader in the field of cutting-edge health care and service. Schunkewitz said the goal of the project was to try to improve a visitor’s first impression of the hospital. “In the health care architecture field, it’s [recognized] that if you create a warm, welcoming environment for health care, it does improve the healing process with respect to patients … and has an overall positive effect on the facility,” he said. Schunkewitz said he used elements of nature and green architecture practices to create an environment that would relieve patients’ anxiety and afford family members and visitors who may be staying multiple days a more comfortable stay.
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Three to four Rutgers University Police Department security officers patrol the University campuses at night, concentrating on areas where incidents are more likely to occur, like the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.
Night security focuses on high-incident areas BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
With thousands of students living on campus, the Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) works to take specific measures at night to try to maintain a safe campus. There are eight police officers that work every night of the week from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., two of whom are nighttime supervisors, said Lt. Leonard Safko of the RUPD. Out of these eight officers, at least one officer is assigned to patrol each of the campuses, said Safko, a nighttime supervisor. “That number can increase depending on the volume of calls we get from each of the campuses,” he said. “We usually get the same [amount of] calls from all of the campuses.”
In addition to the police officers, Safko said the RUPD has three or four security officers on duty all seven nights of the week who are responsible for reporting suspicious activity. “They act as our eyes and ears on campus,” he said. The security officers monitor areas on campus where incidents are more likely to happen, like Alexander Library and the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus, or anywhere else the supervisor feels there needs to be additional patrol, said Rhonda Harris, chief of the RUPD. “They will do ever ything from provide escorts for people who are apprehensive or concerned for their safety, to jumpstarts for cars if someone’s batter y [doesn’t] start,” she said. “They help
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close the libraries and look for things that must be reported to the police.” Though Safko said the RUPD sees an increase in calls about incidents that occur on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, the number of officers on duty these nights does not change. But on these nights, the RUPD has a DUI patrol to look for offenders of drunk driving, which the state provides a grant for, he said. There are also student community service officers, including the mounted patrol on the Cook/Douglass campus, that work in the night hours to support suspicious activity, Safko said. Aside from the RUPD’s physical presence, technology plays a big role
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Rutgers College Republicans members Alex Cohen, left, and Alex Weiss consider issues like current national government initiatives with members of the Rutgers University Democrats in their annual debate yesterday in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.
Grain by grain, Tibetan Buddhist monks are creating a large Sand Mandala in anticipation of the upcoming New Jersey Folk Festival this weekend at the University. The monks will be building the mandala in the Busch Campus Center throughout the entire week and will deconstruct the mandala once the week is complete, said Angus Gillespie, a professor of American studies. “The mandala is a traditional aspect of Buddhism, which is both art and religion,” Gillespie said. The mandala is created by carefully placing grains of sand in a platter, he said. At the opening ceremony on Monday, the monks circled the blue wooden platform upon which the mandala is being constructed and engaged in a series of sacred chants, Gillespie said.
The blue board is the outline for the pattern, said Nikolai Burlakoff, a Folk Festival Board of Trustee’s member. “There’s a basic outline of the major circles of the mandala,” he said. “They will lay the basic pattern down, then they will layer on more sand. To create the intricate patterns, the monks release the sand through metal tubes.” Burlakoff said the monks use metal tubes with different diameters, so they can control the flow of sand. “They can control it almost like you can control the flow of ink in a pen by pressing down or being more light on the pen, so this is how they are able to draw, literally,” he said. The mandala on Busch campus is devoted to world peace, Gillespie said. Lobsang Dhondup, the Geshe Lharampa, which is the highest degree of scholarship within the traditional Tibetan monastic system,
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