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Campus bus route changes to increase service

Scratch one letter off the list of buses running at the University. Jack Molenaar, director of Transportation Services, made a decision to eliminate the L bus route, beginning Aug. 28, in an attempt to streamline campus bus service. “If you look at the L route, where it goes, is a relic,” Molenaar said.

 

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Students take advantage of textbook rentals

All campus bookstores are giving students the opportunity to save on textbooks with the introduction of the University’s rental program. Many students are taking advantage of the program this semester, said John Cusick, general manager for Barnes & Noble College Booksellers at the University. “It’s just one additional way to save students from the price of new textbooks,” he said. Rental books are 55 percent cheaper than new textbooks, and about one-quarter of all books at the University’s bookstores may be rented, Cusick said. There is a wide range of books available for rent, spanning introductory to graduate courses. Full story

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  At least the Rutgers football team had an excuse against Cincinnati. There are no top NFL Draft prospects on Norfolk State, no Brian Kelly and no undefeated season in store for the Spartans. But that didn’t stop the middle-of-the-road FCS squad from embarrassing the slow-starting Scarlet Knights for 35 minutes. Full story

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Campaign encourages female political participation

With constant headlines of female politicians like former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin and Justice Elena Kagan in the news, it would seem like women are becoming more active in politics. But only 24 percent of state legislators in the nation are women, according to the University’s Center for American Women and Politics. Since its inception in July, the 2012 Project hopes to be a catalyst for change. The 2012 Project is a non-partisan, national campaign created to encourage and inspire women over 45 years of age to run for office in 2012, said Deborah Walsh, director of the CAWP, who is leading the project. “We are partnering with a faculty of current and former elected women officials to attend meetings and networking events to recruit women and tell them, ‘Here, you’ve accomplished so much, you’ve broken the glass ceiling and running for office could be the capstone of your career,’” Walsh said. Full story

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Professors discover new way to preserve organs

Two professors at Rutgers-Camden have found a way to improve organ transplant by extending the shelf lives of organs. After many years of study, Daniel Shain and Nir Yakoby discovered a way to implement the key gene component responsible for ice worms’ ability to thrive permanently on glaciers. “We have genetically engineered bacteria to turn off a key regulatory gene associated with energy metabolism,” said Shain, a professor of zoology, via e-mail correspondence. “We will be trying to do the same thing in fruit flies and human cells.” These fruit flies, scientifically called Drosophila melanogaster, are appropriate model organisms in the biological sciences and particularly good for genetic manipulation and further research, Shain said. The flies serve as the closest model for human cells, as they have about the same number of genes and about the same number of different cell types as humans. Full story

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College ends in contradictions

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The first day of classes took on a new feeling for me this year, as well as the task of writing my first column. My brain has been a clutter lately with lists of all the things I needed to get done as the new school year approached rapidly. This was my fourth and hopefully final year at the University. Never had I been more excited to celebrate my last year of fighting with my mother about taking out loans, dealing with banks about getting the money and also waiting on hold for 20 minute intervals with the financial aid office.

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