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The Rutgers football team opens its Big East season this weekend at the Carrier Dome, where Syracuse sacked the Knights nine times in their last visit.
U. team builds solar house for national contest
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Panelists share experiences of being an ally
BY RACHANA KAMATH
BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER
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A team of University and New Jersey Institute of Technology students is representing the Garden State with their submission of an energy-efficient house to the 2011 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. The competition, held every two years by the U.S. Department of Energy, challenges students around the world to design and construct affordable houses that conserve energy. Teams from schools across the country assembled on Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C., to build their houses at the National Mall’s West Potomac Park. The competition, which began on Sept. 23 and ends on Sunday, is still in progress. Carolyn Worstell, the team’s communication director, said the most unique feature of the solarpowered house is the team’s use of concrete to bolster the structure’s energy balance. “We decided we really wanted to do something different. Concrete is not your typical residential building material for us Americans,” said Worstell, a graduate student in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. “It’s a really clean material and has great thermal properties, meaning that it has thermal mass.” When sun hits concrete, it stays cool longer because of its mass, she said. The team used pre-cast insulated concrete panels to construct the house, which are composed of three inches of concrete for the interior, six inches of insulation in the middle and another three inches for the exterior, Worstell said. “Concrete is the way of the future. We can’t continue to build houses out of wood, and other materials are just not sustainable,” she said. Concrete is low-maintenance and durable, and it does not require repair or replacement, according to the Team New Jersey’s website. It resists weather, chemicals, air infiltration, airborne moisture, abrasion and insects, and contains natural materials and recycled industrial byproducts like fly ash, which significantly reduces its carbon footprint.
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A panel of speakers from throughout the University community shared their stories of how they became allies during last night’s “Coming ‘Out’ as an Ally: Standing with the LGBTQ Community” at Livingston Hall in the Livingston Student Center. The event, co-sponsored by the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities and the Queer Student Alliance, gave students the opportunity to learn how to become an ally to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) community. “Tonight we’re flipping the switch on LGBTQ folks,” said Jenny Kurtz, director of the Center of Social Justice. “Tonight we are inverting the panel and inviting allies of the LGBTQ community to the challenge.” Panelists included Ji Lee, director of Asian American Cultural Center; Aamir Lalani, a peer mentor of the Livingston Social Justice Learning Community;
Panelists tell personal experiences about supporting the LGBTQ community in their own lives last night in Livingston Hall in the Livingston Student Center.
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Investigators collect evidence on Deloatch case BY GIANCARLO CHAUX CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Middlesex Country Prosecutor’s office is continuing its investigation of last week’s incident, where New Brunswick resident Barry Deloatch was shot and killed during an encounter with New Brunswick Police Department officers. Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan announced that 38 items have been marked as evidence, which were forwarded to outside labs for forensic and ballistics examinations. The officer’s gun used in the shooting and a single recovered bullet are among those items, he said.
Kaplan also announced that 24 investigators from his office have interviewed 37 people who were able to provide information about the Sept. 22 shooting. Many of the witnesses came forward after encouragement from community leaders, and some of Deloatch’s family members who are cooperative with law enforcement, he said. During the incident, two officers stopped and questioned Deloatch — who in the past pled guilty to drug possession and distribution charges and completed a rehabilitation program, according to nj.com — with two other men. Deloatch then fled into an alley near Throop Avenue and Handy Street.
The foot chase ended in a struggle where a bullet hit his left side, piercing his aorta. Deloatch died at 12:37 a.m. on Sept. 22 at Rober t Wood Johnson University Hospital, according to a statement from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. About 50 protesters gathered again at the intersection of Handy Street and Throop Avenue yesterday for the seventh day of peaceful protests following the death of the 46-year-old resident. Family members and some locals feel the incident was a case of police brutality.
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Group advocates for global-oriented thinking BY REENA DIAMANTE UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) began its eighth annual conference, “Shifting the Geography of Reason,” last night to challenge the conventional University framework. The performance and panel discussion at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus served as an invitation for Caribbean scholars around the globe to discuss the crisis of public education in the context of transforming the sources of reason, said Nelson Maldonado-Torres, CPA president. He said when most people typically think about where reason originates, Europe and other Western countries illuminate in their minds, not Africa, Asia or Latin-American regions. “We want to have productive conversations with the north and with Europe,” Maldonado-Torres said. “But we will not begin or end with the idea that we must imitate that. We want to enter with equal dialogical relation with other sectors of the world.” Usually when people are asked to consider the crisis of a university, they
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Los Guapos Planetas, featuring poet and scholar Urayoán Noel, performs for an audience last night in the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room.
think of a financial crisis because there is no money, but Maldonado-Torres said that is not the case. Instead, he said the face of the public is changing when it comes to public education, particularly in the United States, as 50 years ago the educated public was predominantly AngloSaxon whites.
The demographic of people shifted as minority populations have grown exponentially, MaldonadoTorres said. Now, there is an expectation that Anglo-Saxon whites will not be the majority of the United States anymore. “That public that can take advantage of the public institution is appearing more
colored,” he said. “We want to examine the significance of that money being taken away from public institutions precisely when the public is being more colored.” Maldonado-Torres believes issues surrounding educational institutions are something University students should be aware of because it concerns increases in tuition, lack of funding toward departmental research and privatization of universities. “[There is] admission of more out-ofstate students for state universities to get more revenue,” he said. “Right now, in many parts of the world, the universities are being challenged because of the lack resources, [which] are in a way, the lack of respect or confidence that societies or the states are having in them.” The goal of the conference is to deliver an understanding of the crisis of the public university education while promoting a model that combines artistry, activism and scholarship to address those issues, Maldonado-Torres said. To lead the welcoming of last night’s conference, the CPA invited Urayoán Noel, an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York at
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