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ZOA Demands Rutgers Respond To Campus Anti-Semitism June 27, 2011 Contact Morton A. Klein at: 212-481-1500 Attn: NEWS EDITOR Jewish Student Receives Death Threats, University Official Refers to Him on Facebook as “That Racist Zionist Pig!!!!!!!!” ZOA Demands Rutgers Respond To Campus Anti-Semitism The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has demanded that Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, rectify the hostile anti-Semitic environment on campus, which has had a detrimental effect on Jewish students who have been physically threatened – even with death threats – and made to feel intimidated and unsafe. Middle East studies courses are so biased...

This time it was different for David Christian. Forty years ago, he attempted to pursue a law degree upon his return from Vietnam and rehabilitation in veterans' hospitals. He'd been through hell, and the last place he expected to face more of it was in academia. --snip-- Christian said certain of the deans had disputed the existence and severity of his war injuries, many of which are not obvious. "I was asked by the administration to disrobe in front of the student body because they didn't think I was a disabled veteran," Christian said.

TRENTON, N.J. -- A former Rutgers University freshman was indicted Wednesday on bias intimidation and other charges after allegedly using a webcam to spy on a same-sex encounter involving his roommate, who committed suicide shortly afterward in a case that started a national conversation on bullying. A 15-count indictment was handed up Wednesday by a Middlesex County grand jury against Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, who had already faced invasion of privacy charges along with another student, Molly Wei. The indictment charges Ravi with bias, invasion of privacy, witness and evidence tampering, and other charges stemming from the suicide of 18-year-old...

CAMDEN - Rutgers University in Camden will host a woman theologian next week whom the university describes as a "female Catholic bishop." "Roman Catholic Bishop Patricia Fresen, one of only three ordained female bishops in the world," will lecture at the university at 12:20 p.m. April 15, according to a Rutgers news release.Fresen was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church in 2008, according to www.CatholicCulture.org."Patricia Fresen is not a Roman Catholic bishop. That would be the position of the Diocese of Camden," said Peter Feuerherd, diocesan spokesman, on Monday when contacted about Rutgers' symposium.The lecture is being sponsored by Rutgers-Camden's...

Beware of polls, particularly when they are done by universities, distributed through their PR offices and given and disseminated by the media. “After reading polling questions and analyzing the data from a March 15 Rutgers Eagleton Institute Poll, the press release issued by the Rutgers Eagleton Institute does not tell the whole story,” Marie Tasy writes on Lifenews.com. “Unfortunately, the print media appear to be willing partners in this effort to mislead the public.” “Rutgers’ obvious purpose for this poll was politically motivated and designed to conclude that the Governor’s speech at our Rally hurt the Governor, but their own...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — New Jersey's largest university will offer a gender-neutral housing program in three dorms that aims to make the campus more inclusive for gay students. Starting this fall, gay, lesbian and transgender students at Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus can choose either male or female roommates under the pilot program. Heterosexual students will also be permitted to live in rooms with students of the opposite sex. Men and women will share bathrooms.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers University campus police tonight barred some 400 Jewish students and their supporters, including some Holocaust survivors, from attending what was billed as an anti-Zionist gathering at the state school tonight. The student-sponsored event was announced with an open invitation campus-wide, and Rutgers policy is for all student activities to be open to the public. However, when the sponsoring organizations of "Never Again for Anyone" saw they were outnumbered by Jewish students and their supporters by about 4-to-1, they asked campus policy to bar students wearing kippas – and eventually limited attendance to known supporters of...

CHALLAH @ WND (h/t ElderofZiyon) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers University campus police tonight barred some 400 Jewish students and their supporters, including some Holocaust survivors, from attending what was billed as an anti-Zionist gathering at the state school tonight. The student-sponsored event was announced with an open invitation campus-wide, and Rutgers policy is for all student activities to be open to the public. However, when the sponsoring organizations of "Never Again for Anyone" saw they were outnumbered by Jewish students and their supporters by about 4-to-1, they asked campus policy to bar students wearing kippas – and eventually limited...

Three Rutgers University scientists came to Trenton Tuesday to give Governor Christie a message: climate change is real, and it's man-made.  The State House forum, sponsored by several environmental groups, was held in response to Christie's recent comments at a Toms River town hall that he is skeptical that global warming results from human activity. "I've heard over 100 different arguments about why we shouldn’t accept global warming. They're all fallacious and I'd be happy to point out the errors in any of them," said Rutgers professor Alan Robock, a meteorologist.Responding to a question at the town hall last month,...

The Big East's football expansion plans leave the conference with 17 universities, including non-Football members. That's a terrible number for scheduling; the only way the basketball teams can schedule an even number of games is if they play every other team only once. 18 teams would allow three divisions of six teams each. Any team would play the other five teams in its division twice, and one half of the twelve other teams in the conference. 18 sounds like worsening the problem of too many teams, but having three divisions could actually restore some rivalries, and return the conference to...

This post is inspired by the tragic death of an 18 year old Rutgers University student, who committed suicide after his room mate secretly filmed him having sex with another man. Apparently, the student was so humiliated, that he felt he could not go on living. It is not known if the young man's family was aware of his sexual behavior. A link to the story: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20018574-504083.html I do not support the liberal gay agenda. But heterosexual men need to start talking openly about difficult issues, which they never talk about with other men. There is no denying that heterosexual...

Mourners at Rutgers University honored the memory of Tyler Clementi, whose death last week was one of five suicides by gay teenagers in the last three weeks. Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge Tuesday, days after his roommate allegedly posted video on the Internet of him having sex with another man. The recent eruption of gay teen suicides has been across the country, from the East Coast to Indiana, Texas to California, where 13-year-old Seth Walsh, who recently hanged himself, was memorialized Friday night. Walsh, whose family said he was harassed by bullies for being gay, died Tuesday, after...

Human Nature: A talented student jumping to his death after being victimized by a voyeuristic Web cam should be no shock. Our psyches demand that intimacy be private; the Internet, insanely, is destroying that norm. We all have a good laugh when we hear — almost weekly, it seems — of the latest celebrity whose bedroom antics are posted in cyberspace. But it's no laughing matter. Humanity — not just Americans, not just Westerners; the Internet knows no boundaries — is experiencing a mass psychosis without really knowing it. With a click of a mouse we can see the grainy...

Did 18-year-old Tyler Clementi—whose roommate live-streamed video of him "making out with a dude"—reach out for help before killing himself? A thread on a gay community message board apparently tells the story in Clementi's own words.

Gov. Chris Christie today called the suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi an “unspeakable tragedy,” but said he would let Attorney General Paula Dow figure out how to prosecute the case against two fellow students accused of recording him in a sexual encounter. “Well, first of all, as the father of a 17-year-old, I can’t imagine what those parents are feeling today – I can’t,” said Christie. “You send your son to school to get an education with great hopes and aspirations. Christie said his feeling on the case as a father “overwhelms whatever feelings I have as governor” and...

ABC News has the written story and the video from their broadcast. The stories are dramatically different. The print story is a reporting of the news, using facts and interview quotes to convey what just happened. ABC's broadcast, on the other hand, tells another story altogether. ABC's broadcast team decided to make this an issue on two fronts. First, they lightly touch on the callousness of kids, and then they go into a much more in depth discussion on persecution of homosexuals resulting from that callousness. But is this really the issue at hand in this story?

NEW JERSEY (WPIX) — A freshman at Rutgers University, first the victim of allegedly being secretly taped during a sexual encounter by two other students, is believed to have committed suicide. Fellow freshmen students Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro and Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton have been charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly placing a camera in the 18-year-old student's dorm room. Authorities say parts of the recording were placed on the internet. Ravi and Wei were charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for using a camera to view and transmit a live image of the...

A Rutgers University freshman apparently killed himself after two classmates used a hidden camera to air the teen's dorm room sexual activity on the internet, WPIX-TV reported. The distraught student's car - with his cell phone and computer inside - was found last Thursday near the George Washington Bridge, the television station reported. According to WPIX, authorities believe the unidentified 18-year-old plunged to his death in the Hudson River. New Jersey authorities have refused to provide his identity in an effort to protect the victim.. The stunning details emerged one day after authorities announced the arrests of two Rutgers freshmen...

NEW BRUNSWICK — Two Rutgers University students have been charged with invasion of privacy for secretly placing a camera in another student’s dormitory room and transmitting a sexual encounter on the internet, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan and Rutgers University Police Chief Rhonda Harris announced today. Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro and Molly W. Wei, 18, of Princeton have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for allegedly using the camera to view and transmit a live image of an 18-year-old student in Piscataway on Sept. 19.

NEW BRUNSWICK — A group of Rutgers University students repeatedly interrupted a speech by the school president today as they sought lower tuition for illegal immigrants at New Jersey colleges. Rutgers President Richard McCormick was forced by students to stop four times during his 32-minute State of the University speech at the student center in New Brunswick.

Mendham Township 16-year-old boy is among youngest to graduate from Rutgers UniversityBy Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger May 16, 2010, 7:00PM NEW BRUNSWICK -- At age 3, Kyle Loh shocked his nursery school teachers when he started reading to the class. At 5, he tested off the charts on his kindergarten IQ test. By 12, he was enrolling in college classes. At 14, he was spending his summer doing stem cell research at Harvard. Today, at age 16, he donned a cap and gown and became one of the youngest students to ever graduate from Rutgers University. But Kyle is quick...

Male Studies Vs. Men’s Studies Deborah Lambert, April 16, 2010 After more than 40 years of male-bashing by feminists from Betty Friedan to Gloria Allred, is there anything left to say on the subject? For some scholars, the answer is absolutely “yes.” That’s why they recently announced the formation of the Foundation for Male Studies, according to InsideHigherEducation’s Jennifer Epstein. The new group does not want to be lumped into the “gender studies” category as just another Women’s Studies offering. Rather, it is aimed at “exploring the triumphs and struggles of the XY-chromosomed of the human race” without feeling compelled...

If someone walked into a classroom or up and down College Avenue flaunting a Heinrich Himmler T-shirt, it would be sure to cause some stirs, and rightfully so. After all, it is deplorable for anyone to joyfully personify a genocidal mass-murderer. Yet for some reason, people worldwide — most notably, American college students — stand silent when their friends and fellow classmates don the image of the Marxist, murderous, Cuban parity to Himmler, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. I am going to make an optimistic, general assumption that the vast majority of Che admirers know little, if anything, about this terrible world...

Something very unlikely is happening. Months ago, I put it in a league with the chances of Carlos Mencia or Dane Cook making a comedy comeback. Let us put it this way, I am your 21st century version of Paul Revere and the Republicans are coming! It is time to take up arms. Day after day, I have logged onto the Internet to get my fix of news and The New York Times’ new pay model. After greedily consuming all the free news I can before I have to go to class, I think “Oh no! Already?” I know that...

For a decade now, Rutgers University has pushed hard to become a college football powerhouse.  But in trying to play with the big boys, New Jersey's state university picked up some of their bad habits. Two weeks ago a special university commission concluded the athletics department had been allowed to operate like a rogue agent, making secret deals and spending recklessly with little oversight. An internal audit concluded much the same.Full coverage from The Star-LedgerAfter months of revelations of hidden spending, no-bid contracts and growing funding problems with a costly stadium expansion project, Rutgers now is at a crossroad. Later...

Rutgers Daily Targum reports "about 50" demonstrators braved the weather to demonstrate on behalf of those "poor mistreated" Palestinians.

If Matt Drudge is correct, the briefly excommunicated Don Imus will not only be back on the radio in December, but has also been hired by the leading talk radio station in the nation. Deliciously, Imus is "particularly incensed by Senator Hillary Clinton's ‘shameless exploitation' of the Rutgers situation." Of course, it is safe to assume Imus is fully aware the group that disseminated transcripts of his broadcast concerning the Rutgers women's basketball team, Media Matters for America, is an organization that Clinton admitted in August she "helped start and support." The exclusive posted at the Drudge Report early Monday...

The quest for the perfect tomato began in New Brunswick nearly 50 years ago and ended, for now, in a field south of Tel Aviv, Israel. After eight years of taste tests from chefs and tomato lovers, agricultural scientists at Rutgers University say they have resurrected one of the most delicious Jersey tomatoes ever. The elusive "Ramapo" tomato seed has been reproduced in Israel and 572,000 certified organic seeds were shipped this month to New Brunswick. The Ramapo tomato, named after a New Jersey Indian tribe and developed at Rutgers in 1968, will be back for this summer's growing season...

Rutgers University is known as the birthplace of college football, but in the last few weeks it's seemed more like the deathplace of sportsmanship. On Sept. 7, Rutgers hosted Navy's football team. What respect was shown in the wake of the midshipmen's forthcoming service to the country and the approaching Sept. 11 anniversary? The rowdy student fans of Rutgers hurled obscenities at Navy, thoroughly embarrassing their college and their town. Rutgers won the game but lost any sense of honor and decency. Navy was booed and peppered with "You suck!" chants when they stepped on the field to start both...

It pays to be on the media’s approved victims list. After Don Imus made his “ho” comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team on April 4, the media went into a feeding frenzy. In the first week after the story broke, the three major networks aired a total of 19 segments. On cable, CNN had 60, with Fox News at 21 and MSNBC at 13. The New York Times ran 12 articles, USA Today and The Washington Post each ran nine, and Newark, New Jersey’s Star-Ledger ran 11. But after the Sept. 7 Navy-Rutgers football game, at which Rutgers fans...

It pays to be on the media’s approved victims list. After Don Imus made his “ho” comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team on April 4, the media went into a feeding frenzy. In the first week after the story broke, the three major networks aired a total of 19 segments. On cable, CNN had 60, with Fox News at 21 and MSNBC at 13. The New York Times ran 12 articles, USA Today and The Washington Post each ran nine, and Newark, New Jersey’s Star-Ledger ran 11. But after the Sept. 7 Navy-Rutgers football game, at which Rutgers fans...

A Rutgers University basketball player on Tuesday withdrew a slander and defamation lawsuit she had filed against Don Imus and CBS Radio, among others, after the shock jock called the team "nappy headed hos." Kia Vaughn had contended in the lawsuit filed in August in New York state Supreme Court that the comments made by Imus had damaged her reputation. The lawsuit also named various media outlets that broadcast Imus' show. Marti McKenzie, a spokeswoman for Vaughn's attorney, Richard Ancowitz, said in a statement that Vaughn had chosen to focus on her education at New Jersey's Rutgers University as a...

The play came late in the game, when Rutgers expanded its lead over Navy to a comfortable level after a tight three quarters. Navy's Reggie Campbell took the kickoff and ran full speed ahead up the middle with all the force his 168-pound body could generate. Campbell, almost always the smallest and fastest man on the field, hit a wall of XXXL-sized scarlet jerseys and was slammed to the ground at the bottom of the pile. He got up slowly, limping off. This gutsy kid, a slotback who already spent three quarters being chased and tackled by gangs of defensive...

The wind schusses through the grove of tall trees, rustling their soft, bright green needles that, strangely enough, are the color of inchworms. The morning sun spills down through the branches, casting the glade in a pale green light, a hue unlike anything the visitors have ever seen. These metasequoia trees -- all 360 of them -- are living fossils, the lonely representatives of a species that once filled the forests of the Americas, Europe and Asia when dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 60 million to 100 million years ago. The stand of trees, located on a Rutgers University...

Don Imus is facing his first lawsuit from a player on the Rutgers Women's Basketball team. Kia Vaughn, star center for the Rutgers Women's Basketball team, has filed a lawsuit against Imus for libel, slander and defamation. Vaughn is asking for monetary damages of an unspecified amount. "This is a lawsuit in order to restore the good name and reputation of my client, Kia Vaughn," said her attorney, Richard Ancowitz, in an exclusive interview with the ABC News Law & Justice Unit. Today's suit refers to terms used by Imus April 4 -- including referring to women on the team...

NEW YORK --Don Imus' former producer said Thursday that the radio exchange that got them both fired was wrong, but that it would be horrible if people could no longer poke fun at each other. Bernard McGuirk, a 20-year producer and on-air jester for the "Imus in the Morning" program, was fired a week after his boss for the banter in which members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team were called "nappy-headed hos." McGuirk, in an interview on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," said he "didn't get the memo" that the phrase 'hos' had reached the level of...

In the past week, Don Imus was fired, all charges against the Duke University lacrosse players were dropped, and almost everyone has offered a sermon about the racial and class issues involved in both cases. But we need look only to the Ancient Greeks for the best insight. The Greeks believed that insolence naturally leads to bullying, or hubris. This arrogance induces a mad behavior called ate . Finally, that recklessness earns well-earned destruction unleashed by the god Nemesis . In other words, what goes around comes around - big time.

Are universities spreading bigotry and hate more than anything Don Imus ever did? http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18247838&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

Oh Man! Anybody else catchin this???? :oD And the *crowd* reactions???? I am so proud of that audience.

If the Rutgers women's basketball players had spurned an invitation to meet with President Bush, do you think ABC might have told us about it? Natch. But when those same players blew off a chance to meet Hillary Clinton, ABC managed to put a positive spin on matters.View video here.As reported by Newsday in an article entitled Rutgers team skips Clinton meeting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally dropped by Rutgers to meet with the school's women's basketball coach -- but the players themselves skipped the half-hour meeting, citing their studies and Imus fatigue. "Many of the players were in study...

Hillary Clinton speaks at Rutgers Posted by The Star-Ledger April 20, 2007 1:21PM Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton praised the Rutgers University women's basketball team for its response to the Imus controversy during a speech earlier today on the Douglass campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Some 2,000 people, primarily Douglass students, attended. Though a presidential candidate, the New York senator did not address campaign issues and focused instead on the need for fighting discimination against women and minorities. Clinton was invited to Rutgers to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and the 35th anniversary of...

Rutgers University dismissed a highly regarded football recruit Monday, shortly after ESPN raised questions about the player's criminal record. Reggie Dixon, a wide receiver/running back from Plainfield High School in New Jersey, and a two-time state sprint champion, recently signed a letter of intent to play for Rutgers. But Dixon was found guilty last summer of two counts of aggravated sexual assault. According to copies of court records obtained by ESPN, Dixon twice assaulted his stepsister -- a non-blood relative -- the first time when he was 12 and she was 9, then again when she was 14 and he...

Corporate Ethics Group to Make Issue of Support of Jesse Jackson at Citigroup Annual Meeting in Wake of Duke Rape Case and Imus Controversy Date: April 16, 2007 Contact: Peter Flaherty 703-237-1970 Website: www.nlpc.org Peter Flaherty, President of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), will speak on Tuesday in support of the group’s shareholder proposal asking Citigroup to disclose its charitable giving. Citigroup’s annual meeting will take place Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 9 a.m. in Carnegie Hall in New York City. Flaherty’s statement reads, in part: “Let’s consider what Citigroup is subsidizing through Jesse Jackson’s organizations. Last April,...

Let's stipulate, uncourageously, that Don Imus' epithet toward the Rutgers women's basketball players was vile, offensive and despicable. That said, I am troubled that, as usual, certain race hucksters seized on the event and, as usual, our society has allowed itself to be bullied into conceding their legitimacy and emboldening them. But I am even more concerned about what the firestorm surrounding Imus' whirlwind demise portends for the future of political discourse in this nation I've grown suspicious of the sanctimonious types -- in the media and elsewhere -- who slobber all over themselves in self-congratulation when they publicly condemn...

NOTE: I just spoke with the news desk at the Daily Targum at Rutgers. Inclement weather has cancelled Hillary's appearance. Broomstick One must be grounded. ======================================================================== Team 'in the process of forgiving' Imus By: Joseph Shure / Staff Writer Posted: 4/16/07 At meetings of the Board of Governors, the action usually occurs around the table where members of the University's highest decision-making body sit. But at Friday's meeting, the cameras - whose presence was a novelty in itself - were pointed toward the audience, namely the rows occupied by women's basketball head coach C. Vivian Stringer and her players. The...

Nancy Pelosi always has something to say about unequal rights for women in America, while safely ensconced in America, yet she has no compunction in lowering her status abroad by covering up with one of the many headscarves she reportedly packed. She complains about the glass ceiling and inequality in America, but never about the plight of Muslim women being stoned to death for mere allegations of adultery, burned and disfigured with acid, subjected to genital mutilation, or any of the other uplifting cultural traditions that await many of them.

was at LaGuardia the other day. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just the usual four-hour delay brought on by yet another of these April snowstorms Al Gore has arranged as a savvy marketing gimmick for his global warming documentary. Anyway, as always when you're at the gate for hours on end, there's nothing to do but watch CNN. I gather air traffic delays now account for 87 percent of CNN's audience. If it's just a routine holdup of two or three hours because the gate agent hasn't shown up, you know you'll be out of there before Wolf Blitzer's said...

Gov. Jon S. Corzine was apparently not wearing his seat belt as required by law when his official SUV crashed into a guard rail, leaving the governor hospitalized in critical condition, two spokesmen said Friday.

TGIF peeps. In the wake of the Imus incident there has been somewhat of a backlash against Reverend Al Sharpton. As a proud liberal that has supported Reverend Al for years, I feel a responsibility to come to his defense. Why Al Sharpton is not a racist: He has "white" hair. Absolutely no nappiness. Reportedly was seen playing "hide the pickle" with Cindy Sheehan on more than one occasion. His limosine has whitewalls. Reverend Al, in conjunction with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, regularly accepts "donations" from large white-owned companies to leave them alone. Wears white silk underwear. Loves white rice....