Rutgers University - Daily Targum

Student Public Interest Research Group Chapters announced Tuesday they have secured signatures from 1,000 professors across the country on a statement supporting free online textbooks known as open textbooks.

The 30-year-old Department of Africana Studies could become part of a new department next fall called African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures. The department seeks to expand and improve the teaching of languages, literatures and cultures.

In recent polls, one out of five Americans said the civil liberties of Muslims should be restricted for security reasons. In 2004, there were more than 1,500 civil rights complaints from Muslims, and from 2005-06, there was a 25.1 percent increase in complaints, said Afsheen Shamsi, the director for Community Relations at the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

The top debaters of the RU Democrats and the Rutgers College Republicans lined up in front of an audience of around 130 people yesterday evening in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus to discuss and debate important issues of foreign and domestic policy.

Gender violence, a universal problem, will be the topic of discussion for the next two weeks by members of the Center for Women's Global Leadership. The 16 Days Campaign, in an effort to recognize women's rights as human rights, is designed to symbolically link Nov

College students spend just shy of $1,000 on textbooks every year and, as a result, only a little more than half of them actually buy all of the books they are supposed to purchase. The Rutgers University Student Assembly voted unanimously Thursday to support the New Jersey Legislature's bill A994, which calls for the installment of a textbook renting program in New Jersey.

The days of Dewey Decimal Classification System are starting to fade away. University Libraries are making improvements to their existing system with the help of Andrea Simzak, who was recently selected to serve on the New Jersey State Library's Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Future

On a national level, University students hold one of the lowest percentages of academic integrity violations at less than one percent. But while it may be true that the University has one of the most ethical student populations in the country, some of the faculty said the problem is more likely due to a low percentage of faculty who officially report what they witness

The majority of people in prison don't have a high school diploma, and Newark mayor Cory Booker said fixing the latter might help prevent the former. "If you don't get a high school education - especially as a black boy - you will more likely end up in jail than have a full-time job," Booker said at a talk Thursday night at the Rutgers Club on the College Avenue campus.

The State Commission on Investigation's recent report on higher education has not only drawn ire from University officials, but Rutgers student leaders as well. Three days after University President Richard L. McCormick and Board of Governor's Chairman the Rev.

The State Commission of Investigation released a comprehensive report Thursday that detailed a series of alleged scandals and corruptive practices that occurred at public educational institutions in New Jersey.

A tantalizing aroma floated out of the doors of the Multipurpose Room in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus yesterday evening - a treat for 500 students who had fasted since dawn.

In these days of midterms, of suddenly-losing football teams and stressful grad school applications, studies have shown* that the issue most of concern on the average Rutgers student mind is, "What, exactly, do other people think of my Facebook profile?"

The New Jersey Campus Security Task Force unveiled a report submitted to Gov. Jon S. Corzine yesterday, which outlined recommendations for improving safety and security on all 59 college and university campuses across the state.

I ordinarily do not write into the The Daily Targum arguing about "big issues" like global warming, since I have more meaningful things to do, like stare at a wall. But the opinion editor's recent column, "Stop Global Whining," isn't just another smug, self-assured global warming denial.