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The Rutgers softball team won all three games this weekend against Georgetown at the RU Softball Complex, improving its record to 16-15 overall.
Budget plan proposes cuts to Pell Grants
TAKING A STAND AGAINST CANCER
BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER NEWS EDITOR
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Dance Marathon raised $442,075.06 this past weekend for Embrace the Kids Foundation. Four hundred and forty six dancers pledged to stay on their feet for 32-hours at the College Ave Gym. See PAGE 4 for the full feature.
Local community gathers for vigil, addresses profiling BY AMY ROWE FEATURES EDITOR
About 60 community members gathered for a candlelight vigil last night to remember the death of a city man and to reflect on other race-related incidents that have recently cropped up in the media. Barry Deloatch, a 47-year-old New Brunswick resident, was shot and killed Sept. 22 during a chase involving two police officers, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. Deloatch had no weapons on him, but according to New Brunswick police, Deloatch allegedly used a wooden stick on one of the officers when the chase ended in an alley on Throop Avenue, near the intersection of Handy Street. Tormel Pittman, a community activist who has led protests against police brutality in the city ever since the shooting, announced at the vigil in front of Feaster Park that a Middlesex County Grand Jury is
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Sonia Szczesna, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, gathers with other New Brunswick community members at a vigil for Barry Deloatch.
Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan heads to the Senate, after it passed in the House of Representatives last week, 228-191. The $3.5 trillion Republican budget looks to cut research grants and Pell Grants for low-income college students, as part of a plan to limit discretionary funds. The plan also proposes tax cuts funded by changes in Medicare. “If the Ryan Republican budget is made a reality and the radical discretionary cuts fall across the board, by 2014, more than 9 million students would see their Pell Grants fall by as much as $1,100, and about 900,000 would lose their grants altogether,” according to a statement by the White House press secretary. Upon passage, the Wisconsin representative’s budget plan would reduce the number of slots in the Head Start education program available per year, and the amount of federal grants toward medical research and science program, according to the statement. John Connelly, Rutgers University Student Assembly vice president, said the budget is a step in the wrong direction. “[Ryan] claimed tuition aid increases tuition price, but to say that is to wager the future on what may bring tuition down,” said Connelly, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “At a state university like Rutgers, a huge population is on federal and financial aid.” Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America’s Future, said in a statement that college education is pricey and the way to solve the problem is not cutting student loan programs. “Today every element of the American dream — a good education and affordable college for the kids, a secure retirement, health care for the family — is growing out of reach for more and more Americans. If adopted, the Republican budget plan would not save the Dream, it would crush it,” Borosage said in the statement. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-N.Y., said in a statement that the proposal to make the budget would put the nation on a path of fiscal responsibility. “Congress must act to strengthen this nation,” Buerkle said. “This is accomplished when we stop
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U. history embedded in g ymnasium under Loree BY MATTHEW MATILSKY STAFF WRITER
Picture this — girls in uniform, gray dresses lined up in rows in front of a sixlane bowling alley and barefoot dancers analyzing their form in front of a wall-sized mirror in a brightly lit dance studio. This is not a scene that students and faculty would associate with Loree Hall on Douglass campus, but during the 1960s, it was a common one. The abandoned bowling alley and gymnasium in the basement of Loree Hall are standing reminders of cultural changes at the University since the founding of Douglass College. Left over from a period when physical education was a requirement for Douglass College women, Loree Hall, with its unused gym, is a small building commemorating a huge figure in the school’s histor y, Leonor Fresnel Loree.
Loree was chairman of the Board of Trustees committee responsible for establishing the New Jersey College for Women. Founded in 1918, the college later became Douglass College — now Douglass Residential College. “It’s sort of a shame that [for] someone who did so much for the University, the only recognition he got was [Loree Hall,] this little building,” said Elizabeth Reeves, assistant facilities planner. “He did so much for the University.” Reeves said bowling was a popular activity among the elitists of post-World War II society. Those with summer estates in the Adirondacks built bowling alleys into their homes, she said. “Loree was a big advocate of physical fitness for women. He made sure that they had athletic training to keep the mind active,” she said.
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INDEX UNIVERSITY RU Wanawake hosts a dinner to celebrate Women’s History Month through presentations, dances and poetry.
OPINIONS Racism may not be the only factor in Trayvon Martin’s fatal shooting.
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The Loree Hall gymnasium on Douglass campus houses six bowling lanes, a dance studio and an auxillary gym.
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