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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....

Talk show host Don Imus has been suspended for two weeks from the CBS radio network and MSNBC has dropped its simulcast of that show altogether because the shock jock touched the "third rail" of free speech: He insulted African Americans, some of whose self-appointed "leaders" have a direct line to the media to express their outrage. In the past, networks have stood against onslaughts from conservative political and religious groups outraged by program content, but they quickly cave when confronted by campaigns led by the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Rutgers team: We accept Don Imus apology By DAVID PORTER, Associated Press Writer 43 minutes ago Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer said Friday the team had accepted radio host Don Imus' apology. She said he deserves a chance to move on but hopes the furor his racist and sexist insult caused will be a catalyst for change. "We, the Rutgers University Scarlet Knight basketball team, accept — accept — Mr. Imus' apology, and we are in the process of forgiving," Stringer read from a team statement a day after the women met personally with Imus and his wife....

Hillary discovers the Rutgers basketball team. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/?splash=1

Liberal Media Now Has to Deal with the Monsters They Created: Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Imus is Just the First Casualty Here is the link. If it does not work cut and paste to your browser: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18206661&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=580169&rfi=6

Excerpt - The duration and distance were short, but in those dizzying seconds and feet, Gov. Jon Corzine suffered injuries serious enough to land him in intensive care with a breathing tube down his throat and a doctor declaring him lucky to be alive. The 60-year-old governor underwent about two hours of surgery last night to repair multiple broken bones, including 12 ribs and a femur that protruded through the skin of his thigh following a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township. With two of his adult children by his beside, Corzine, sedated and on intravenous...

-snip- Press Release: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Visit Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics Women’s leadership will be in the spotlight when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey on Monday, April 16th to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and the 35th anniversary of Eagleton’s Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP). Addressing the theme “Because Politics Matters: Women and Public Leadership,” Senator Clinton will speak at noon at Trayes Hall in the Douglass College Center of Rutgers, 100 George Street in New Brunswick. (Directions here: www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/DCCdirections.html) “We’re delighted...

I had a discussion today with the Rutgers University newspaper, The Daily Targum. Well, actually it was a person, not the paper itself. It would be silly to talk to a paper. I challenged them to ask Hillary a question during her scheduled Monday appearance at the campus. Will anyone ask her to return the 800 grand she raked in at the home of rapper and record producer Timbaland. The person with whom I spoke had no idea about the 800 grand. He said they would consider publishing a guest op/ed piece. (Sure they will.) This was sent with the...

It isn't the Don Imus "hos" insult that has a lot of black people calling for his head. It is his use of "nappy-headed." After all, no one's saying that Bernard McGuirk, Imus' executive director, should be fired, even though it was McGuirk who started the on-air insult by referring to the Rutgers team as "hard-core hos." Frankly, not even the most popular rap artist could get away with calling black women "nappy-headed hos." Those are fighting words. Despite the fact that sisters of the '60s thought they had stomped out the nappy phobia, another generation ran back to the...

Barely 12 hours after being fired from MSNBC... 6:12 AM: On Imus' radio program (no longer simulcast on MSNBC) this morning, Chris Carlin, who covers sports for the program, discussed yesterday's dismissal of charges against the Duke lacrosse players. (rough transcript) DON IMUS: When will Al Sharpton be apologizing to them? (LAUGHTER) CARLIN: I'm unaware of such a press conference. IMUS: I'll be darned... UPDATE 6:28 AM: After a station break, Imus came back to discuss MSNBC's decision. He said he was recently chatted with "another big time broadcasting executive" who was "complaining that [MSNBC] had cancelled the simulcast twelve...

Tucker just read a news flash, announcing that they will no longer simulcast Imus at all, anymore.

Showing a candidate's keen instinct to exploit issues for personal political gain, Hillary sent out an email to supporters [yes, I'm on her list] today inviting them to send, via her website, a message of support to the Rutgers basketball team. What the heck does Hillary have to do with this issue? Hillary could of course have provided a direct link to the Rutgers team. Instead she's routing messages via her site, clearly trying to reap the credit. Is there nothing to which she won't stoop? For the record, here's Hillary's message: "When our children are young, we teach them...

Political Correctness: Former Virginia Sen. George Allen lost his seat and a chance at the presidency for a racially insensitive remark. Is a two-week suspension for Don Imus enough? It depends on whose ox is gored. We won't repeat what the "Imus in the Morning" host said about Rutgers' women's basketball team. Unlike the dust-up over [Joe Biden]'s observation that Sen. Barack Obama was "articulate," or Newt Gingrich's advocacy of English immersion, it was genuinely offensive and deserved condemnation. What struck us was that his most vocal accuser, the Rev. Al Sharpton, on whose show Imus begged forgiveness, is hardly...

The coach of the women's basketball team is speaking now.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists are preparing for a large clinical trial in 2008 which aims to use stem cells to help 400 patients with spinal cord injuries in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan grow new cells and nerve fibers. Stem cells from umbilical cord blood will be injected into the spinal cords of the participants, who will also be given lithium to help stimulate cell regeneration, said Wise Young, a leading neuroscientist and spinal cord injury researcher. "What we'd like to do is study a broad range of patients, not just (those with) complete (spinal cord injuries)," said...

It seems that a Rutgers student or employee [anonymously] has forwarded Phi Beta Con blogger Candace de Russy a lovely email about a "Course Curricula Workshop" to incorporate a "queer agenda" into classes. The email was sent to all Teaching Assistants at Rutgers: Integrating Sexual Identity Issues Into Your Course Curricula This session will help TAs integrate sexual identity issues (i.e., queer, lesbian, gay, bi, homosexual, in-the-life, gender queer, butch, femme, drag, etc.) into their course curricula. TAs may also bring syllabi in which they have integrated the "queer agenda." Cheryl Clarke, who will be facilitating the session, will also...

Better than Big 10, ACC, Pac 10, Big 12, SEC, and WAC combined, Go Big East, Go Rutgers Here is the link ( or cut and paste into browser) for all you Big Ten fans http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=17698455&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=580169&rfi=6

CINCINNATI - Nick Davila fought back tears while hugging his family and friends in the middle of a rare, raucous Cincinnati celebration. He had good reason to get choked up. The senior quarterback who had never started a game led the Bearcats to their biggest upset in school history Saturday night, a 30-11 victory over No. 7 Rutgers that ended the Scarlet Knights' perfect season and national title aspirations. "I'm just caught up in the moment right now," said Davila, who scored on a 1-yard run and threw an 83-yard touchdown pass. "I can't explain what's going on. It's so...

Richard Shindell has never loved science. Yet the Pennsylvania financier is about to become one of the most significant benefactors of public research in New Jersey. The world may see the silver-haired, 70-year-old Rutgers University graduate as another driven millionaire from the world of high finance. But inside, Shindell says, he's still the cash-strapped Kearny kid who had to sell a prized fishing boat he had built with his father -- for $241, a tidy sum at the time -- to finish his college education. Shindell has been a regular benefactor to Rutgers ever since, donating steadily to programs supporting...

No joke. Rutgers is ranked. The Scarlet Knights, long a college football laughingstock, moved into The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in 30 years on Sunday. No. 23 Rutgers (4-0), led by tailback Ray Rice, the fourth-leading rusher in the nation, is off to its best start since 1980 after beating Howard 56-7 on Saturday. "I'm not going to downplay it. It is significant considering where we started," Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said. "It shows we're making progress in the right direction." The Scarlet Knights were one of three new teams at the bottom of the new...

The researchers had come to Big Sky Resort, nestled high in the majestic Rockies, to ponder a topic as big as the Montana sky: the fate of the Arctic ecosystem. As the 25 scientists talked through 30 years of collected data from disparate fields, they soon sensed a menacing pattern. Polar bears were dying off, someone reported. Fields of sea ice, which deflect solar radiation back into space, were shrinking, allowing temperatures to rise, another said. It wasn't long before Jennifer Francis, a noted atmospheric chemist at Rutgers University, got the picture: The 10,000-year-old Arctic ecosystem was undergoing rapid change....

The fine people at The Brookings Institution are concerned; they are concerned with the inequality in income, the lack of opportunity in America, and the growing poverty rate. Furthermore, Isabel Sawhill, Co-Director of Center on Children and Families, is stupefied that the public doesn’t care more about these statistics, “The public in this country seems reasonably comfortable with the large degree of poverty and inequality.” Evidence? Simply, we haven’t done as much as other countries; America is just not European enough. This disinterest has led to a decline in opportunity and social mobility. Without opportunity an individual cannot secure the...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, JULY 22, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Life without children is a growing social reality for an increasing number of American adults. This is the conclusion of the 2006 edition of "The State of Our Unions" report on marriage, released last week by the National Marriage Project. The project is based at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Up until recently, for most people, the greater part of adult life was spent with young children forming part of the household. A combination of marrying later, less children and longer life expectancy means, however, that a significantly greater part of...

To get to the cutting edge of alternative energy in New Jersey, travel a two-lane mountain road, turn left at a cluster of old-fashioned mailboxes, amble across a wooden bridge and snake up a gravel driveway. There, on a 12-acre lot in East Amwell Township, sit 10 cylindrical fuel tanks – waiting for the day Mike Strizki's four-bedroom colonial will become New Jersey's first hydrogen-powered house. Once it's running, the home's solar-and-hydrogen system will make its own energy. Three years after receiving a state grant to design the system, Strizki is close to reassuring officials his project is safe –...

Trenton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Frustrated that the state legislature hasn't acted faster in getting a stem cell research bill approved, Gov. Jon Corzine said Monday he would use the bully pulpit of his office to press for its passage. Corzine said the bills have stalled because "the legislative process has the ability to tie it up in knots." The governor called it "unconscionable," according to a Star-Ledger news report, that New Jersey political leaders have "sat on our hands" on the legislation. He indicated the state would fall behind others like Maryland and California if the measure wasn't approved soon....

Former Governor and current State Senate President Dick Codey sponsors the legislation. He says, "We would be the first in the country to build a building dedicated solely to stem cell research." He adds, "We would be using existing tobacco bond monies so, we're not spending new money." $150 million dollars would be needed leading many critics to ask, "What else could that money be used for?" Codey says, "This is about saving lives in the future." He asks, "If the cure for diabetes or something else came out of this New Jersey facility, wouldn't that be a great legacy…it...