The New Jersey Public Interest Research Group held a presentation yesterday targeting students who face the uncertainty of health care coverage upon graduation. Equipped with statistics, visuals and an endorsement from Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-6, the group urged support for health care reform. The student chapter set up shop in front of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus despite the chilly, overcast weather conditions. “The current health care system is failing America’s youth,” said NJPIRG intern Sophia Fishbane, a School of Arts and Sciences student. “Americans aged 18 to 24 are the most likely people in the country to lack health insurance.”
Former state Senator and New Brunswick Mayor John A. Lynch Jr. was released from federal custody this past Friday after serving a 39-month sentence for public corruption. After being incarcerated for three years, Lynch is looking forward to spending the holidays with his family, said Middlesex County Democratic Party Chairman Joe Spicuzzo, a close friend of Lynch. When it comes to politics, Spicuzzo believes Lynch, who is banned from holding public office, will not try to reestablish his power in Middlesex County. “I don’t think he’s going to push his reviews on anybody,” Spicuzzo said. “If he’s asked, he’ll give his opinion.”
Spurred by the tensions of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, the University in the late 1960s faced the beginnings of an era defined by protests, demonstrations and cries for change. As several on-campus groups demonstrated against the Vietnam War, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps’ presence on campus and for civil rights, the University’s president at the time, Mason Gross, welcomed dissent. “The students have every right in the world to object,” wrote Gross in the 1969 yearbook, the Scarlet Letter. “They should make their case clear and indicate the basis of their objection. Then the authorities in the college should jolly well listen to them.”
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