The response to my essay on Alexander Hamilton’s New Jersey exploits was very gratifying.
Rutgers University
By CHUCK O'DONNELL
April 25, 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK – Suck in your gut, shimmy into your old Scarlet Knights hoodie and get ready to party like it’s 1999. Or 2011. Or 1976. Thousands of alumni from graduating classes spanning the decades will make the pilgrimage to the Banks of the Old Raritan on Saturday for Rutgers Day. It’s a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The woman behind the counter at the furniture store was surprised when Atiya Aftab produced a tax-exempt form at checkout. The chairperson of Center for Islamic Life explained that several chairs and tables – not to mention religious items – had been destroyed during a recent ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A 24-year-old New Brunswick man has been charged in connection with last week’s break-in and robbery of the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers. Jacob Beacher, who is not affiliated with Rutgers, has been arrested in an investigation led by the FBI, according to a statement from ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – About 125 Rutgers faculty members brandished signs and chanted slogans on the College Avenue campus on Wednesday to protest the cutting of Writing Program classes and the elimination of adjunct lecturers who teach them. The Strikeiversary – so named by the faculty to mark the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – About 80% of Rutgers-New Brunswick students who participated in spring elections have voted in favor of referendums calling on the university’s administration to cut business and educational ties with Israel. In a vote conducted last month, 6,538 students agreed that Rutgers ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Rutgers University Police Department is investigating after the Center for Islamic Life on College Avenue was burglarized as the world’s Muslims began the celebration of Eid, the ending of Ramadan. The center was broken into and “several items of value” were taken during a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - At this solar eclipse party, expect to be handed eclipse glasses, folding chairs, books, a microphone – and apples. On Monday, April 8, as the moon hurtles through its orbit on a path that will inevitably lead it between the Earth and the sun, members of the Rutgers-New ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Following growing calls for Rutgers to distance itself from Lockheed Martin, Boeing and other companies with ties to Israel, university president Jonathan Holloway said the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement “is wrong.” Holloway also didn’t seem inclined to heed ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Soon after Rutgers student Agny Valle was assigned to the New Brunswick Free Public Library for her senior internship, she realized that many of the patrons were asking about housing. So, she created a bilingual workshop on affordable housing that offered information on ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Reported bias incidents at Rutgers-New Brunswick more than doubled in 2023 from the previous year, according to statistics released by state officials. There were 77 reported bias incidents in 2023, up from the 36 that were reported in 2022, according to data from Attorney ...
FRANKLIN – The battle line in the fight against sweeping reforms proposed to the state’s public records law was drawn, in all places, a cramped parking lot with freshly painted stripes and polished stone landscaping on Friday. Outside a stately, red-bricked building that houses the offices of ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers will continue to utilize a space in the Albany Street Plaza to prepare for the next generation of social workers through 2028. The university on Monday approved a five-year lease extension for the space at 120 Albany St. for the Rutgers University-New Brunswick School of ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Gary Taffet, who served as chief of staff for former Gov. Jim McGreevey in the early 2000s and has served on the Middlesex College Board of Trustees since 2017, has joined the Rutgers Board of Governors. Taffet, who did not respond to multiple messages left by TAPinto New ...
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY – Rutgers Dining Services employs an army to keep university staff, students and faculty well fed. For a few of those employees, their work preparing and serving meals isn’t just a job, it’s an opportunity to gain life skills – one that’s not always easy to come by for adults ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Miriam Brickman is positive there was a cup of squash soup around here somewhere. “Where did you put the soup?” she asks her brother, Buzzy. Before he can answer, the soup has reappeared right where she left it on the countertop. “Oh, I took it,” she said, with a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Rutgers University continues to face sharp criticism after it announced this week that it has lifted the suspension of the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on its New Brunswick campus. “For weeks, the Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine New Brunswick chapter ...
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - East Brunswick's Dr. Lauren Adamo, a Rutgers Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Director of the university's Geology Museum, wants you to listen to the stories that rocks tell. She wants you to hang out for a while with some mosasaurs. She ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Throwing caution to the wind, scientifically speaking, Rutgers is ready to embark on an ambitious project that could position the university and New Jersey as the global leaders in offshore wind energy. The university on Friday unveiled a new project that will be launched ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – A newly adopted, streamlined admissions process has been linked to a surge in undergraduate applications at Rutgers University – a school where the term RU Screw has been muttered in disgust by generations of students who’ve found themselves ensnared in bureaucratic red ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ -- Rutgers Police are investigating a series of burglaries that took place on the Livingston Campus in Piscataway and are searching for a suspect they said committed each crime. The break-ins happened overnight on Wednesday, the first one reported at 12:46 a.m. at the Rutgers ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - The Marching Scarlet Knights are accustomed to performing in front of tens of thousands of football fans at SHI Stadium, where they can rally enthusiastic Rutgers fans as The Pride of New Jersey. But on Thursday, the Rutgers band will perform in front of a much larger ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Not far from the glow of Broadway’s marquee signs, some of Rutgers’ 1,800 military-affiliated students will take center stage on Saturday. Several scarlet-clad veteran-students, along with about 20,000 other soldiers and sailors, will march in the annual New York City ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - A woman wearing baggy cargo pants and a sweatshirt with "Free Palestine" emblazoned in glittery, silver script writing screeched into a megaphone. "We're here for justice," she said, drawing cheers from others on the steps of Rutgers' Brower Commons on Thursday. About 300 ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Am Yisrael chai – Hebrew words that roughly translate to “the nation of Israel lives” – echoed across College Avenue. Several times during Monday night’s candlelight vigil, the 500 or so Rutgers students spoke those words as if in defiance against those who carried out ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The members of the Rutgers University Senate cited bitter feelings lingering from the spring faculty strike and the decision to replace the chancellor of the Newark campus among the reasons they voted to support a no-confidence resolution against President Jonathan ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Rutgers-New Brunswick has garnered a top-15 ranking among national public universities in a leading industry poll that measures 19 key academic metrics, including schools’ success at enrolling, retaining and graduating students from different backgrounds with manageable debt and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – This was a joyous moment for Cecelia Bowles, a proud mom who was helping her daughter, Taylar Spann, move into her new digs at Rutgers’ Honors College on Tuesday. After all, her daughter, with her stacks of clothes, bedding and bottled water, was about to embark on an exciting ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – A smattering of students were leisurely sipping Frappacinos at The Yard on College Avenue as Yang Lin and Weiyas Jiaiag, two students enrolled in Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences, scouted the food options. By the time classes begin for the fall semester on Sept. 5, this ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The Rutgers University Police Department is planning a night of fun and food for its first celebration of National Night Out, a nationally observed annual event aimed at building ties between communities and those who keep them safe. There will be live music, games, food and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Diana Vitkovska’s eight-year journey to begin her training in medicine was driven by a desire to extend her family’s legacy and turn their support – and sacrifice – into an impactful career of service to others. Vitkovska began the study of medicine at 17 while at a ...
