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Locals convene to seek justice in Deloatch case BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
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Students board a bus at the College Hall stop on Cook/Douglass campus. Courtney McAnuff, vice president of Enrollment Management, says the University is at capacity with services like transportation.
U. plans to scale back incoming class BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
With a little more than 26,000 undergraduates students on the New Brunswick and Piscataway campus, the University welcomed its largest and most diverse incoming class this fall with increases in not only the number of first-year students, but also transfer and international students. After admitting the sizeable class, the University plans to cut the current 58 percent first-year admissions rate by 4 percent, said Courtney McAnuff, vice president of Enrollment Management.
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The University has 6,068 firstyear students to date enrolled in New Brunswick — 70 more students than last year, he said. “I think we’re at capacity with transportation, in classrooms and financial-aid wise,” he said. “We need to slow growth.” With the admittance of fewer first-year students, the University plans to become more selective, McAnuff said. “In New Brunswick, SAT I scores, with the average being 1,785, are up more than 7 points than last year and 300 points above the national average,” he said. “This is with three different sections: math, critical reading and
writing, with a possible 800 points in each section.” McAnuff said the University will continue growing, but in other ways instead of accepting more first-year students. “We are retaining more students, with 600 to 700 more returning students. We are graduating more, and more keep returning,” he said. “We are keeping this level consistent.” The student-faculty ratio is currently 13-to-1, but some lectures are more than 200 students, McAnuff said. Branden Fitelson, an assistant philosophy professor, said his class
About 200 community members congregated at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on Lee Avenue in downtown New Brunswick for a forum discussion on getting justice from the New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD) almost a week after an officer shot 47-yearold Barry Deloatch. Bruce Morgan, president of the New Brunswick chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), moderated the forum, which was sponsored in part by his organization and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). “I am very sorry we have to be here tonight under these circumstances,” he said. Deloatch was shot when a foot chase with two officers from the NBPD ended in a struggle in an alley near Throop Avenue and Handy Street. He was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital shortly after on Sept. 22 and died around 12:37 a.m., according to a statement from Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan. The investigation has not determined whether Deloatch had a weapon on him, Kaplan said. “I don’t know all the circumstances, but I do know the police stopped [Barry], he ran into an alley, and Barry isn’t with us anymore,” Morgan said. “I’m trying to bring people together tonight and I want us to … formulate a plan to make this the last death in our town.” Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the ACLU, said her
organization would focus on fighting for justice for New Brunswick residents. “Let’s face it, New Brunswick has had a troubled police department for a long time,” Jacobs said. “We wrote a manual on how to investigate your police department, we can do this with the power of the people.” Jacobs passed out cards to the congregation, with information about what citizens’ rights are when they are stopped by a police officer. “Read it and understand it and know what your rights are,” she said. “Your rights may not be respected, but if you remember to take a badge number down … we can file a complaint.” A number of community members offered their words to the congregation about corruption in New Brunswick and Deloatch’s case. Walter Hudson, a friend of the Deloatch family and a Salem County Community College student, said he came to New Brunswick when he heard a distress call. “I’ve been down to the crime scene. It’s quite strange that a man of small stature in a small space could get a bat and get a full swing on two officers,” he said. “Even if he did have something, they could have disarmed him.” Walter said the struggle for justice will be a long one but advised the congregation to continue. “It’s going to be a long drawnout process but we can’t get tired, people,” he said. “It’s time
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Project Civility continues second year on campus BY SARAH INTRONA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Project Civility has reached the halfway mark of its two-year endeavor in educating University students and faculOPINIONS ty on the importance of kindness and Google makes it good manners toward others. easier to search The initiative was a co-partnership for some celebrities’ between Senior Dean of Students Mark sexual orientations. Schuster and Kathleen Hull, former director of Byrne Seminars. Hull’s Byrne class, “Ain’t UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3 Misbehavin’” used Johns Hopkins University Professor P.M. Forni’s book METRO . . . . . . . . . . 7 “Choosing Civility: The 25 Rules of Considerate Conduct” as a textbook for OPINIONS . . . . . . . . 8 the class. The book ser ved as a model for the project’s mission, DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 10 Schuster said. “We originally wanted to have people CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 12 think more respectfully and act more SPORTS . . . . . . BACK respectfully,” he said. “We wanted to create a vocabular y and goal around civility and tr y to get students to ONLINE @ reframe the definition, making it fresh DAILYTARGUM.COM to move it for ward.”
In the wake of Tyler Clementi’s death last year, the University and Project Civility gained attention from the media and support from the campus community with themes focusing on bullying. But “Words of Hate: Can They Ever Be Used,” a debate discussing if hateful words used from a disenfranchised group are more civil, jumpstarted this semester’s scheduled events last week at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. “By raising issues of civility in the public forum, Project Civility enables students to reexamine assumptions offered to them by the mainstream media and come together for a more productive discussion,” said Storey Clayton, coach of the Rutgers University Debate Union. Future events include looking at athletes as a culture in cooperation with Dena Seidel, director of digital stor ytelling at the Writers House, where videos of athletes that have come out will be shown, Schuster said.
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Benny Deloatch attends a community meeting in Ebenezer Baptist Church last night in support of his brother Barry Deloatch.