On January 31, students at Rutgers-Newark demonstrated that they want to get involved. NJPIRG and NJ Community Water Watch held a General Interest Meeting on Wed. January 31 on the R-N campus. An overwhelming turnout of 99 students came to the meeting ready to get involved! Dean Rodriguez, the guest speaker at the General Interest Meeting, challenged students to get involved with NJPIRG and Water Watch. She sited a number of reasons to get involved: involvement builds leaders for the future, students who get involved tend to do better in school, and most of all because students should want to bring about change. Students applauded Dean Rodriguez's message and responding to her challenge, each student picked a campaign that they were interested in, broke off into groups, and got involved immediately. Spring of 2007 looks like a promising semester of social change in Newark.
