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The No. 15 Rutgers women’s basketball team overwhelmed Boston College, 74-58, last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center with its patented 55-press.
U. merger takes shape with integration teams BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The University is moving forward with plans for a merger with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the University of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey School of Public Health and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Integration teams of various University and UMDNJ faculty were formed to discuss the key processes necessar y to complete the integration, said Christopher Molloy, interim provost for Biomedical and Health Sciences. But a UMDNJ advisor y group Gov. Chris Christie appointed will give a final recommendation about the merger in December. Molloy said he is corresponding with administrators at UMDNJ to discuss plans for the merger.
“I’ve already had relationships with the dean of the medical school and the head of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey,” he said. “I know the dean of the School of Public Health. I already know the important members of UMDNJ that would likely become part of Rutgers.” Molloy said he would also communicate plans between University officials and the integration teams. “It’s a ver y exciting opportunity for Rutgers in that it will really allow us to have a seamless integration of scientific education that spans from Rutgers’ undergraduate curricula all the way through to health care, wellness and clinical training at the highest levels of the medical school,” he said. He said the merger would also allow students to
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Student volunteer makes difference at St. Peter’s hospital PERSON OF THE WEEK BY TABISH TALIB CORRESPONDENT
Shereen Dahab, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, was able to combine her passion for volunteering with her interest in biological sciences while spending her Tuesday after noons at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick. While Dahab was a senior in high school, her grandmother suffered a stroke and spent her recovery period SHEREEN at Overlook Medical Center in DAHAB Summit, N.J. During this period, Dahab said her grandmother’s living conditions at the hospital were disappointing. “I noticed some things that should have been taken care of with my grandmother, like certain housekeeping things in her room which I was upset about,” she said. “So I wanted to see for myself how it was done, and there is a lot of work that goes into running a hospital.” Dahab said she always wanted to become a doctor and practice family medicine, but she wanted to volunteer to immediately help the hospital. Since she started working at Saint Peter’s in July 2009, Dahab spent 230 hours volunteering, said Stacy Siegelaub, manager of Volunteer Services for the hospital. Siegelaub said Dahab went beyond what was needed and made an effort to help in any way she could. Dahab’s schedule conflicted with normal volunteer hours last semester, but to accommodate her hours, Siegelaub gave her a position super vising high school volunteers on weekends.
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John Dean, former counsel of President Richard Nixon, discusses yesterday how the Watergate scandal increased criticism on presidential actions at the Douglass Campus Center.
Former Nixon counsel visits campus BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Almost four decades after the Watergate scandal, which brought an end to President Richard Nixon’s administration and marked the height of investigative journalism, John Dean thinks there are still lessons to be learned. Dean, a former counsel of Nixon and a central figure in the Watergate case, lectured last night at the Douglass Campus Center on ethics, law and government, connecting the scandal to contemporary issues. “It really was much more than a break-in,” Dean said. “It came to
define a whole mode of behavior. It was an abuse of power.” “Five Held in Plot to Bug Democratic Offices Here,” read The Washington Post headline on Sunday, June 18, 1972. Dean compared that day’s importance to the attacks on Sept. 11 as a time stamp people refer to. Dean said a number of lessons could be taken from the Watergate scandal. Post-Watergate, the people’s attitude toward the president was completely different, he said. “Presidents before Watergate were given the benefit of the doubt,” he said, referring to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s claims that a shot-
down U2 fighter was nothing more than a weather balloon. But for former President Jimmy Car ter, the situation changed, Dean said. “Jimmy Carter was assumed to be doing something wrong until proving otherwise,” he said. Dean turned to the present day and said public attitudes and government secrecy have reverted to pre-Watergate times. “It is back to the president largely being given the benefit of the doubt,” he said. “[Former President George W.] Bush and par ticularly [former Vice
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INDEX UNIVERSITY To Write Love On Her Arms founder talks about his inspiration behind starting the organization.
OPINIONS The House and Senate are entertaining acts that look to censor the Internet.
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City workers respond to a water main break yesterday night that flooded the northern part of College Avenue. Local and University bus traffic were disrupted on one side of the road for a few hours until it was fully repaired.
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