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Rep. Frank Pallone: We can't turn away from health care reform |
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Written by Frank Pallone Jr./ Star-Ledger Guest Columnist
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"The goal of health care reform is rather simple: to insure those who don’t have coverage, to hold down costs for those who do, and to abolish the abuses of the insurance industry. The status quo may be good for some special interests and their allies, but it is terrible for everyone else. Doing nothing doesn’t mean nothing happens; it means the situation will only get worse." http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2010/02/rep_frank_pallone_we_cant_turn.html |
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Rutgers Aims for Fourth Straight Gorilla Prize as RecycleMania 2010 Goes International |
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Written by Rutgers Media Relations
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"NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – RecycleMania has gone international in 2010, and more than 600 colleges in the U.S. and Canada (plus one in Qatar!) will be looking to unseat Rutgers, three-time defender of the prestigious Gorilla Prize for overall recycling. 
"The university community collected 2,131,378 pounds of recyclables in last winter’s 10-week, friendly collegiate competition, more than doubling the total recycling weights of the runner-up, according to the official RecycleMania website." http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/01/rutgers-aims-for-fou-20100129 |
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Written by Dzuylinh Brian Do, Daily Targum
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"It has been one year since President Barack Obama’s inauguration. His brief tenure in the White House has sparked praise along with stark criticism, some of which was warranted, however others have been absurd and baseless. Recently, we have been witnessing “referendums” to the Obama administration with the outcomes of elections such as those in Massachusetts and New Jersey. In response, pundits have readily been claiming that a “new revolution” is at hand. Political accomplishments aside, if the Obama administration has done something recently, it has supplied ample fodder for the partisan pundits, from the likes of Glenn Beck to even some of my peers at the University. In a recent opinion editorial in The Daily Targum, 'Obama leaves questions unanswered,' swipes were made against our standing president, some of which were unfair and with skewed rhetoric. These include the claims that American 'money and freedom were stripped' because of failures in the financial reform and health care and 'liberal property taxes [were driving] people from their homes.'" http://www.dailytargum.com/opinions/obama-makes-progress-1.2143169 |
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Students stand up to support Haiti victims |
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Written by By Colleen Roache, Daily Targum
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"For seven days, images of the rubble and distress in Haiti from last Tuesday’s earthquake have been displayed almost nonstop in newspapers, on television screens and online. In the midst of the tragedy, the nation and University students alike have been compelled to act...
"More than 1,000 miles separate students in New Brunswick from those suffering in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and the area surrounding the nation’s capital, but various University organizations, including the Haitian Association of Rutgers University, the Black Student Union, the Douglass Black Students’ Congress, the Pre-Law Society, the Latin-American Student Organization and a number of fraternities and sororities, are working to organize events to help." http://www.dailytargum.com/news/students-stand-up-to-support-haiti-victims-1.2137973 |
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Martin Luther King Jr. had more than one dream: His reach extended beyond civil rights |
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Written by Star-Ledger Editorial Board
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"The inspirational speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. ring out every year at this time, as they should. In their urgency — and undeniable beauty — his words embodied and galvanized the civil rights movement. "Yet in celebrating his life, it can be easy to forget how radical his vision was and to get too comfortable with what we think he stood for." http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2010/01/martin_luther_king_jr_had_more.html |
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