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The Rutgers men’s soccer team welcomes a pair of ranked opponents to Yurcak Field this weekend, when it hosts Iona and Indiana.
Allocations board strives toward more transparency BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
In the process of finalizing more than $1 million of student funds in order to distribute them among the University’s 350 student organizations, the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) Allocations board is working this semester to become more transparent. “We’re really accessible through [Google Chat], and we’ve launched a Twitter account,” said Emmi Morse, the group’s external secretary. “We are really transparent as possible. If you follow us you can see how much we allocated during appeals meetings.” The Twitter account (RUSAAllocations) is updated every night with the amounts awarded to groups after these meetings.
Students can sign up for an appeals meeting, which is held every Thursday night in the atrium of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus through the RUSA Allocations website. “Students have the opportunity to talk for 10 minutes and could potentially receive hundreds,” Morse said. If a club changes its programs or adds more programs than the original two programs the Allocations board funds, then clubs are encouraged to schedule an appeal meeting. Vice Chair of the RUSA Allocations Board Tyler Seville said not everything in the Allocations guidelines is black and white and that the board was available to help with budgeting.
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COMMUNITY COOK OUT KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Members of the local community are unsure of how the city will change after the completion of the Gateway building, located on the intersection of Somerset Street and Easton Avenue.
Students, city residents raise concerns over Gateway project BY ALEKSI TZATZEV CORRESPONDENT
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Campus organizations table to recruit potential members on Cook/Douglass campus Wednesday afternoon as part of “Cook/Douglass Community Day.” Students also enjoy food and other refreshments. Read the full story on PAGE 3.
With months to go before the tallest building in New Brunswick building is finished, some people expressed their disagreement with the planning of the structure. The building is a part of the Gateway Transit Village, a $150 million project faces questions from New Brunswick residents and University students regarding traffic patterns, economic displacement and aesthetics. “My first concern would probably have to be traffic down there — pedestrian as well as vehicular,” said Charles Renda, lifelong resident of New Brunswick.
Renda said the intersection of Route 27 and Easton Avenue is already congested. “I can’t imagine how you are going to get 1,500, maybe 2,000 cars a day through and keep it safe,” he said. Taking traffic congestion and the scale of the project into account, Renda expressed his concern with pedestrian safety in particular. He said the major logistical problem would be the entrance to the parking garage on Wall Street at the foot of Easton Avenue. “I know that there’s been a parking problem on Easton Avenue, and I think this building addresses some of the problems the city had in the area, but it does it on such a
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Scholar assumes IWL director position
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PERSON OF THE WEEK BY CHASE BRUSH STAFF WRITER
With a longstanding record of advancing women’s issues, Alison Bernstein, scholar and former vice president of the Ford Foundation, is settling into her post as director of the University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL). Bernstein said the IWL, which represents a consortium of eight units at the University, has an array of focuses from science to the arts to politics, which is one of the many aspects that attracted her to the department. “There’s a set of programs and a residence college that run a spectrum of concerns from women in interdisciplinary research institutes to a PhD in women’s studies, which is rather unique,” she said. “They aspire to working more collaboratively. My challenge is to help them do that.” Throughout her career, Bernstein said she made it a point to understand
She also serves as a vice chair of how gender impacts and shapes the Bates College Board of Trustees social phenomena. and was chosen by Change maga“In my career, whether it was at zine as an Outstanding Leader in the City University of New York or Higher Education in 2000, said Princeton, I’ve always had an interest University President in what I call using a ‘genRichard L. McCormick at dered lens’ to understand yesterday’s welcome social dynamics, institutionreception for Bernstein. al structures,” she said. As an only child, Bernstein, a trained hisBernstein said she owes torian who earned her docmuch of her success to torate in histor y from her parents. Her father Columbia University, spent the first part of his began her career teaching career writing comic at Staten Island books, and her mother Community College. ALISON was a school teacher. She has held positions as BERNSTEIN “I like to say I get my the associate dean of faculty discipline from my mother at Princeton University and and my creativity from my father,” was a program and planning officer at she said. the Fund for the Improvement of Bernstein worked from 1996 to Postsecondary Education within the 2010 at the Ford Foundation — a U.S. Department of Education. philanthropic organization created Bernstein also served as the vice by Henr y Ford in 1936 dedicated president for the Education, to the preser vation of human welCreativity and Free Expression fare — to fund organizations like Program at the Ford Foundation.
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the New Jersey Preforming Ar ts Center and improve access to higher education for women and returning veterans. “[Ford] saw that it would make sense to create a philanthropy that would not just be a charity but would work to solve systemic social problems,” she said. In the end, Bernstein said she sees her return to a research university a fitting transition from her previous work, but said she is humbled by the show of suppor t and feels undeser ving of it until she makes some real strides within the depar tment. “I’ve come full circle,” she said. “I always had a kind of special perspective looking at how women were doing in any one of these programs. Now I get to devote all my attention to that.” Bernstein said much of her expertise is derived from her experiences
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Participants can play video games in a tournament for the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund.”
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