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Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano kept it a secret last week, but he announced yesterday freshman quarterback Gary Nova will start at quarterback against Navy.
Seton Hall offers lower cost to equal University’s tuition BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Rising first-year students will have the opportunity to attend a private university for the price of a public one. Incoming full-time first-year students at Seton Hall University with strong academic backgrounds will receive the same tuition rate as University students. “Rutgers is the flagship school around the state,” said Alyssa McCloud, vice president of enrollment management at Seton Hall University. “People from Minnesota and California know about Rutgers. Say if we chose William Patterson, people may not be familiar with the school.”
The tuition break will save students $21,000 off their tuition and slash the tuition by two-thirds, she said. “The tuition is the same rate as the School of Arts and Sciences in-state tuition for the 2011-2012 school year for $10,104. [The break would split that in] half that for each semester,” she said. The University did not have a statement prepared, said E.J. Miranda, a University spokesman. To qualify, students must have a minimum of 27 on the ACT or a combined score of 1200 on the critical reading and math section, with no less than a 550 on either section, McCloud said.
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Residence Life officials Bill O’Brien, left, and Joan Carbone listen to student suggestions, such as an option regarding seniority in housing, last night in the Busch Campus Center.
Residence Life seeks input on housing lottery changes BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
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Seton Hall University, in South Orange, N.J., plans to cut the tuition for incoming first-year students with strong academic backgrounds to match the University’s rate.
Many options are under consideration for the spring 2012 housing lottery, like factoring in seniority during the process and allowing off-campus students to apply for oncampus housing. “Seniors have asked for seniority, which has been a concern for students over the years, so we’re thinking of adding it to the process,” said Joan Carbone, executive director for Residence Life, at a Residence Hall Association town hall meeting on Busch campus.
Jeffrey Mendoza, College Avenue Quads president for RHA, thinks students’ credits or years spent at the University should structure the seniority process. “I think there should be seniority based on the style of living,” said Mendoza, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “You should give seniors more priority in the apartment buildings over residence halls, where first-years should get priority.” Bill O’Brien, associate director of Administration and Graduate Students, said if
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Professor plays role in prize-winning research BY MITAL GAJJAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER
University Assistant Professor Saurabh Jha co-authored the High-z Supernova Search team’s discovery paper in 1998 that explained how the expansion of the universe was accelerating rather than decelerating. The same paper earned the research team’s leaders Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded last week. “What astronomers and physicists expected was that if you were to watch the galaxies for a long time, you would still see them move apart, but that expansion should be slowing down,” said Jha, an assistant professor for the Department of Physics and Astronomy. But the research showed the universe was in fact moving apar t faster, Jha said. Edwin Hubble, the Hubble Space Telescope’s namesake, discovered that the universe is expanding in 1929, he said. This means that distant galaxies are moving away from the Milky Way galaxy, demonstrat-
ing all galaxies are moving apart from measure it with telescopes to see what other galaxies. it was like in the past, Jha said. A useful analogy to understand the “We used many telescopes, both concept is to imagine throwing a ball on the ground, like at the Cerro up in the air and watching it rise, Jha Tololo Inter-American Observatory in said. The ball represents a galaxy, and Chile, as well as the Hubble Space as it moves away from us, it shows that Telescope, to measure the distance to the universe is expanding. the supernovas and the speed at Since we expect the ball to which their galaxies were slow down as it moves away, moving away from us,” we eventually expect the ball he said. to stop and come back down, It is possible to look all due to the force of gravity, into the past, because light he said. from objects that are bil“There is gravity between lions of light-years away all the galaxies, too, and so can be seen by capturing that’s why everyone expected pictures from telescopes, that the expansion of the uniJha said. verse should be slowing down, “We observed a certain SAURABH as well,” Jha said. class of objects, exploding JHA Scientists believed it was stars called type 1a superpossible for expansion to stop novas, which helped us at some point, resulting in the universe measure how fast the universe was collapsing in on itself — a scenario expanding in the past,” he said. called “big crunch,” he said. To everyone’s surprise, the hypothRather than waiting a long time to esis did not match the observation, and see what the expansion of the universe the universe expanded faster. does in the future, both the High-z “It was as if you threw a ball up in Supernova Search Team and fellow the air, and instead of it rising and researchers at the Supernova falling back down, it started speeding Cosmology Project went out to try to up faster and faster. A ball on earth
doesn’t do that, but the universe does,” he said. The third Nobel Prize laureate, Saul Perlmutter, who was the leader of the Supernova Cosmology Project team, reached the same conclusion and received the Nobel Prize independently, Jha said. One of the major implications of the research is the discovery that something has to cause the universe to expand faster, and no one knows what it is, Jha said. “From the measurements and subsequent work, we know that about 70 percent of the universe must be made of this, what we call, ‘dark energy,’” he said. “That is incomprehensible.” Eric Gawiser, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, said the research has raised more questions. “We still have no idea what dark energy really is or why it exists, so this discovery created the biggest current mystery in physics,” he said If the dark energy continues to act like it does today, the universe will continue to expand faster and faster, Jha said.
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