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The Rutgers women’s golf team placed third this weekend at the Lehigh Invitational, where freshman Kortnie Maxoutopoulis finished fifth in the field.
Rutgers-Newark voices input on presidential search BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
“What do we say about a system, in which people that we elect, are offered enormous campaign contributions for the positions they are taking on issues?” she said. “We call [them] campaign contributions, but we should call them bribes.” Mark Bray, a member of Occupy Wall Street’s press working group, said the movement is not just to protest for a solution but an opportunity to discuss what future
NEWARK — Some students, faculty and staff from RutgersNewark hope President Richard L. McCormick’s successor will give their campus more consideration. A forum held in the Paul Robeson Campus Center last night, hosted by four members from the Newark campus who sit on the Presidential Search Committee, welcomed recommendations for qualities in the new president at a public forum. “The president in place should have a vision of making Newark and Camden equal,” said Robert Snyder, an associate professor of visual and performing arts at Rutgers-Newark. “We shouldn’t be stepchildren in any sense.” Clement Alexander Price, a professor of history at RutgersNewark, said the committee enlisted a search firm to help recommend candidates for McCormick’s replacement. “A search firm … knows where the talent is and knows what other searches are in process,” said Price, who sat on the search committee that recommended McCormick to the Board of Governors. He said four or five other universities are also looking for new presidents, so the University will have to compete with these other institutions for the best candidates. In the last search, the names of candidates being considered were not released until a few hours before the Board of Governors made a decision. “A lot of people don’t want their home institution to know they’re in the market place,” Price said. “The search
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Mark Bray, a member of Occupy Wall Street’s press working group and a third-year Ph.D. student in history, speaks on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus to motivate students to take action.
Activists encourage students to ‘Occupy’ BY TABISH TALIB CORRESPONDENT
Instead of attending class in a traditional classroom, more than 50 students listened to lectures on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue from Occupy Wall Street “occupiers” and the impact of their social revolution. “Every significant social movement in our past redefined the political landscape,” said James Livingston, a professor of history and co-host of yester-
day’s Occupy New Brunswick TeachIn. “That is what is going on in Zuccotti Park right now.” Livingston said Occupy Wall Street, which protests the influence of money and corporations in government, is a momentous event that will foster change. Janice Fine, assistant professor of labor studies and employment relations at the University, said the corporate influences in government are akin to baseball players bribing umpires or lawyers paying off judges.
CLEMENTI FAMILY AGREES WITH SUPERIOR COURT RULING Following a hearing last week that set former University student Dharun Ravi’s official trial date, the Clementi family expressed their approval of a court decision that prohibits the defense from viewing Tyler Clementi’s personal documents. Ravi faces charges for using a webcam to spy on his roommate Clementi a year ago while he had an intimate encounter with another man. Clementi committed suicide days after the incident. Steven Altman, Ravi’s defense attorney, asked to view files stored on Clementi’s computer as well as a personal document he wrote before the incident in order to form a defense.
But after reviewing the pieces, N.J. Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman ruled they were irrelevant to the criminal charges, and there was no need for the defense to see them. “The family is grateful for the court’s sensitivity to victims’ privacy rights and for the vigorous efforts of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office to protect those right in this case,” said the Clementi family’s attorney Paul Mainardi in a statement. Contrary to media portrayals, the case is about whether Ravi’s conduct violated criminal law, not if his conduct caused Clementi’s death, he said.
Poll shows rising support for marijuana legalization BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Americans approving the legalization of marijuana reached its record high of 50 percent — up 4 percent from last year — while 46 percent say that marijuana use should remain illegal, according to an October Gallup survey. Gallup first addressed the topic in 1969, when 12 percent of Americans were in favor of it and 84 percent were against it. Through the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, support remained around 20 percent but has increased since then, according to the sur vey. It reached 30 percent in 2000 and 40 percent in 2009. While some students supported legalization, others said regulation should be coupled with the move. Marta Adamu, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she approved of the legalization of marijuana but warned that it possesses similar qualities to alcohol, a depressant.
“Drug dealers recognized the market. With regulation, government could take control of that market,” she said. Kevin Horton, a Mason Gross School of the Arts senior, said he thought that marijuana should be legalized because alcohol, which is also considered a drug, is legal. “You hear stories of people doing crazier things drunk than high. You have more crimes with alcohol,” he said. “I think it will make regulation safer.” Age played an important factor in the poll, with younger individuals leaning more toward legalization than older people. Among those sur veyed who were 18 to 29 years old, 62 percent approved, according to the sur vey. Of those who were 65 and older, 31 percent approved. Henna Parmar, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she does not think the legalization will make the drug any healthier to use.
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“[The ruling is important because] it reinforces the legal protection of what we hold most private and personal in our individual lives, particularly for our children whose private lives have become subject to powerful adverse conditions in the world of electronic communication in which they live,” Mainardi said. The family still believes there should be legal accountability for Ravi’s actions, he said. “But that legal accountability does not necessarily require the imposition of a harsh penalty in this case,” he said. — Kristine Rosette Enerio
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INDEX UNIVERSITY Three seniors gain global experience through studying marine science.
OPINIONS The U.N. launched an investigation into Moammar Gadhafi’s death.
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Zombies crowd in the Lipman House on Cook/Douglass campus yesterday night as part of the second annual “Haunting of Lipman House,” sponsored by the Oceanography Club.
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