NJPIRG in Rutgers Newark

NJPIRG Office

Located in Robeson Campus Center

Room 328

973-353-5021

Stop by the office to find out more about what we're doing to help lower the cost of textbooks, get politicians to pay attention to young people, help fight poverty, or even increase recycling on campus!  Core meetings are held on the 3rd floor of the Robeson Campus Center in the student lounge on Wednesdays at 4pm.

NJPIRG's New Voters Project asked students at a table to pretend that they were president and put 5 pennies in the issues that they cared about most.  Some of the issues  students cared about most were: the war in Iraq, healthcare, and affordable higher education.

Getting Involved

The semester we are excited about the issues we are going to be working on!  We really want you to get involved!  Take a look at some of the things we are working on:

• New Voter's Project- We are getting politicians to pay attention to young people by getting tons of young people out to the polls for the primary, working to educate them and register them to vote over the semester.  We are doing all this to prep for a massive voter registration and turnout for the 2008 Presidential Elections.
• Campus Climate Challenge- We are working to edicate students to the solutios to global warming and to work to get Rutgers to adopt a global warming policy on campus.
• Hunger & Homelessness- We are organizing the 24th Annual Hunger Cleanup at Rutgers Newark where we will fundraise thousands of dollars and serve hundreds of hours to help local poverty agencies.
• Affordable Textbooks- We are working to make textbooks more affordable for college students by educating professors and decision-makers on what they can do.
• Recycling- We are working to increase recycling on the Rutgers Newark campus by getting a solid recycling policy in place and working to educate students!
• Water Watch- We are working to help NJ's waterways by educating people about the problems associated with water quality in NJ and serving in the community to do something about these problems!

If any of these things interest you, you should stop by our office in Robeson Room 328 or contact the organizer, Anne at 973-353-5021.

Students pose with Senator Robert Menendez at the NJPIRG Global Warming Forum on March 26, 2008.  Senator Menendez has cosponsored a bill that will help fight global warming at the national level!