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Congressional candidate speaks about campaign NIKHILESH DE NEWS EDITOR
A district clerk refused to tell Alex Law the process by which candidates on a ballot are listed, resulting in volunteer lawyers in a grassroots campaign taking government officials to court to ensure a fair election. Law, a progressive candidate running for Congress from New Jersey’s 1st District, spoke to the Rutgers community on Saturday at the Livingston Student Center about his platform, his campaign to date and the work required to be elected to office. Law is running on the Democratic ticket, challenging Democratic Rep. Donald Norcross of New Jersey’s 1st Congressional District in the primary. This is the only contested Democratic race in the 2016 election in New Jersey. “(Law) was the first candidate in New Jersey to endorse Bernie Sanders,” said Ben Silva, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “It’s important we support each other as progressives. I really want to make sure we can get the student vote.” Silva runs Rutgers for Bernie, an organization he said started in August to support Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) candidacy for President of the United States.
Part of Rutgers for Bernie’s goal in 2016 is encouraging students and people who typically do not vote to do so, Silva said. “Fundamentally it’s all about changing mentality, changing the way people think (of Congress) — ‘Oh, Congress doesn’t matter, I’m not going to vote’ — that’s how Republicans win,” Silva said. Law believes New Jersey does not encourage large voter turnouts, with restrictive voter ID laws and odd election dates. “We have off-year elections — we have one in 2017. Only (a few) other states do that,” he said. “In my town, Newton, we have elections in May.” Voter involvement before primaries was critical to effecting change, Law said. To encourage registered citizens to turn out, he began a campaign heavily dependent on door-todoor visits and phone banking. Law’s campaign has a website allowing residents from around the country to make calls for him, he said. They have volunteers from multiple states campaigning for him as well. His district typically has less than 40,000 people out of nearly 175,000 registered Democrats that are allowed to vote in a primary, Law said. SEE CAMPAIGN ON PAGE 6
Former presidential candidate and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) spoke at Rutgers on Saturday about his thoughts on the current state of the nation and some of the candidates running for President of the United States. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR
Former Rep. Ron Paul discusses libertarian values at convention CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Retirement from a more than 30year tenure in Congress has not wavered former Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s (R) lifelong libertarian vision for America.
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“In the last 100 years, it is pretty accurate to say that personal liberty has been diminished greatly. But not the spirit of liberty, not the understanding of liberty,” Paul said. SEE CONVENTION ON PAGE 5
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Korean Student Association hosts beauty pageant The new Korean beauty king has been chosen at the Rutgers Korean Student Association’s annual male pageant. On Saturday, the Rutgers Korean Student Association (KSA) held their annual crowning of Mr. KSA at the group’s male beauty pageant at the Busch Student Center. The goal of the event was to have all the organizations associated with the Asian-American Cultural center come together as one and have a fun time, said Jonathan Han, a Rutgers Business School junior and the club’s treasurer. “We invite representatives from these organizations to participate and kind of have the title of Mr. KSA,” he said. The contestants were Brian Ching from the Rutgers Cantonese Club, Daniel Jeon from Lambda Phi Epsilon, Anthony Hoang from
On Saturday night, Paul, a threetime U.S. presidential candidate, spoke about individual liberties, freedom of speech and what he sees as failed domestic and foreign policies in his address to a convention hosted by Young Americans for Liberty in the College Avenue Student Center.
The Muslim Student Association hosted members of Black Lives Matter to discuss Muslim African-Americans, and how the former can be more inclusive. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Groups have panel event on movement intersection BUSHRA HASAN STAFF WRITER
More than 100 people attended a panel hosted by the Muslim Student Association (MSA) and the Rutgers Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on Feb. 18 to educate MSA members about the modern Civil Rights Movement and how Muslims can support the cause.
“According to the Pew Research Center, about 23 percent of American Muslims are African-American,” said Taufeeq Ahamed, president of MSA. “Sadly the demographics of many of our Muslim communities, including the Rutgers MSA, do not hold true to that.” The purpose of the event was to address rarely discussed issues in SEE INTERSECTION ON PAGE 6
The Department of Psychiatry is inviting Rutgers students and surrounding community members to join them on their “March to Madness.” March to Madness is a tournament that will pit 64 monsters in head-to-head bouts. During each day of the tournament, Twitter users will decide which beast, fiend or devil will be named the better monster. The Student Committee on Resident Education and Media, a formal elective offered by the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, gathered iconic monsters and miscreants to compete in the tournament, said Anthony Tobia, an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry. “Horror movies capture motifs that are universally experienced by people over generations, and that’s why horror movies with these repeating motifs still resonate with us today. The babysitter that neglects the child because they invite the boyfriend in always turns out to be problematic,” he said.
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The monsters, in turn, can teach medical students about the vast array of psychological conditions their future patients will face, said Michael Ullo, a Robert Wood Johnson Medical School fourth-year student. “Horror monsters serve as an illustration for the psychopathology that we learn about in medicine,” Ullo said. “By relating famous characters from horror films to psychiatry, we hope to make a connection that will stick with our medical colleagues as they pursue their career of choice.” The impact is visceral and can seen by watching moviegoers, Tobia said. “As we see things … on the screen, we see things that we hide from our conscious awareness,” he said. “Some of us will walk out of a movie because we can’t tolerate the thought that we could do that and some of us actually will sit and watch this movie and really enjoy it.” The initial pool of monsters exceeded the amount of available slots, Tobia said. To help the tournament reach as many people as possible, some SEE CLASSES ON PAGE 4