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The Rutgers men’s soccer team ended its regular season yesterday with a scoreless draw against No. 5 South Florida, finishing second in the Big East Red Division.
U. encourages faculty to team up with locals BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
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The Rutgers University Student Assembly recently passed a resolution that states the student body’s opposition to the city’s response to the shooting of Barry Deloatch, but some students feel they do not have the right to do so.
Students express views on RUSA stance BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Students had mixed reactions to a Rutgers University Student Assembly resolution that publicly states the student body’s opposition to New Brunswick’s response to the Barry Deloatch incident. There are two calls to action specified in the motion that passed in an Oct. 20 meeting, said Matt Cordeiro, RUSA president. “There was a call into the investigation into the New Brunswick police force, and an investigation and need to trial of the officers who shot Barry Deloatch [in the] resolution,” said Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The 46-year-old city resident was fatally shot on Sept. 22 during an alterca-
tion with the New Br unswick Police Depar tment. As a result, the NBPD and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Of fice must review all complaints filed against the depar tment. But some students are concerned with RUSA’s resolution since it allows the student government to represent students in an area outside the University sphere. Gennesis Carrion, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said although she is not following the case intensely, she does not think RUSA has the right to speak for the student body on issues outside of the University. “RUSA does not represent the entire student body,” she said. “They represent the majority, but not all voices.”
Alliance works to expand Indian higher education BY TABISH TALIB CORRESPONDENT
A new partnership between the University and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India aims to help more people in India gain access to higher education. The India Center for Sustainable Growth and Talent seeks to increase the availability of higher education in India to 20 percent of its population by 2020, said David Finegold, senior vice president for Lifelong Learning and Strategic Growth — the University counterpart of the joint initiative. “India does have a shortage of teachers at all levels, but the one we’re pointing to is the shortage of faculty [at the graduate level],” he said. More than half of the Indian population is under the age of 25, and because of the influx of student population and the 2020 deadline, India needs an additional 1 million instructors, said Alison Price-Rom, director of Global Advancement and International Affairs.
“India has a rapidly growing population — a young, youthful country, a huge workforce and a large number of students need to be educated,” she said. The joint initiative will aim to work to increase the faculty numbers at Indian universities through teacher training and technology exchanges with the business community in the country, Price-Rom said. The collaboration’s first project was polling 1,000 current or former graduate students, asking whether they wanted to work in India or the United States after obtaining their degrees, Finegold said. Results showed that the majority of foreign Indian graduate students wished to work in India while only 8 percent said they would definitely work in the United States, he said. To see if this was unique to Indian graduate students, the joint initiative will also poll Chinese students who come to study at U.S. universities, Finegold said.
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But Niti Patel, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, said she agrees with the action to condemn the actions taken against Deloatch by the New Brunswick Police Department. “I think it was right to condemn the case,” she said. “He wasn’t armed, he didn’t have a gun, so what they did is wrong. There was no need to shoot him.” Rania Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, also said the actions of the police department in the Deloatch case were unjust, and that RUSA has the right to speak on behalf of the students. “What goes on in New Brunswick affects all of us in the University. I mean, we are a
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The University will launch a series of initiatives to expand outreach to the city of New Brunswick in an effort to strengthen its relationship with the community. A chief goal in the outreach plan is funding more research grants for faculty members who will partner with a community member in areas that will benefit the community, President Richard L. McCormick announced last week in an email to faculty. McCormick enlisted a taskforce of community and University representatives, co-chaired by University Librarian Marianne Gaunt and New Br unswick Superintendent of Schools Richard Kaplan, to develop a best-practices model that faculty must follow when carr ying out their research. “A lot of expertise that our faculty has could be brought to the issues and needs in the community,” said Gaunt, vice president of Information Services. The taskforce surveyed the community’s needs and a finalized list of faculty research areas will be released in December, she said. Among the areas of research are wellness, landscaping, education and nutrition. “We asked [faculty] to submit grants to their areas of interest,” Gaunt said. “We’re hoping these actually develop longer term relationships with the community.” The first round of seed grants ranging from $2,500 to $25,000 will be awarded to faculty who will work within the bestpractices model by the end of the year, she said. To develop the guidelines for faculty to carr y out research in the community, the
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INDEX UNIVERSITY Faculty and students participate in focus groups to discuss the SCI building.
OPINIONS The Justice Department wants to alter FOIA so it can deny the existence of certain documents.
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The Rutgers Intercollegiate Quidditch Team sells butterbeer and other Harry Potter-related goods to earn funds for equipment and traveling yesterday at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus.
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