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May this be the year the youth vote blossoms
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| What makes for a hot national election? Hot issues, for one, like the war in Iraq, a swooning economy, the debate over health care, and global warming and U.S. energy policy. Those meaty topics are all front and center in the 2008 race for the White House. Still, not much on the big national tote board is especially new. So what makes this election different from those past? | |
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Monmouth U’s Water Watch to clean up Lake Takanassee
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| Monmouth University's chapter of N.J. Community Water Watch is expecting over 50 university students and community members to join in the cleanup of Lake Takanassee this weekend. | |
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Senate Passes Resolution to Help Cut Textbook Costs
- The Daily Targum (new window)
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| The U.S. House of Representatives passed the College Opportunity and Affordability Act. The resolution, passed Thursday, discourages publishing new editions without significant changes or additions. | |
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Young Voters Hit Polls for Louder Voice in Elections
- The Daily Targum (new window)
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| In a country where most young people spend more time concentrating on which of their favorite reality TV stars to vote for, University students proved they do care about political issues yesterday by heading to the polls. | |
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Youth and Decision 2008
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| Jill Gomex, NJPIRG Student Chapters' Cook Douglass chapter, joins fellow Rutgers students on the Today Show, to talk about why young people are voting. | |
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Students gear up for Super Tuesday
- The Daily Targum (new window)
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| With Super Tuesday less than a week away, student groups on campus mobilized campaigns to get out the vote and raise candidate awareness in anticipation of the largest-ever primary day in U.S. history. | |
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National Recycling Competion Challenges Students
- The Daily Targum (new window)
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| Next time you finish a refreshing bottle of soda, think twice before tossing that plastic bottle into the garbage can. Beginning Jan. 27, the University will participate for a third-consecutive year in Recyclemania 2008, a 10-week national competition between more than 285 colleges and universities to see which campus has the best recycling rates. | |
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RU Students Promote Green Cars
- New Jersey Record (new window)
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| Under cold, damp skies, a Rutgers environmental group fought global warming Thursday afternoon with a display of energy-efficient cars on the New Brunswick campus. | |
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Students Register to Vote By the Thousands
- Daily Targum (new window)
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| New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Student Chapters registered over 2,200 students to vote at the University last week and over 2,750 across the state in a mass effort to increase student involvement in the upcoming statewide election. | |
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Nature Comes Alive at Livingston Preserve
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| One of the University's best-kept secrets opened its trails for eager nature enthusiasts Sunday, as the Friends of the Rutgers Ecological Preserve, the Edison Wetlands Association, and the Highland Park Environmental Commission hosted a tour of the Rutgers Ecological Preserve. | |
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Volunteers Tackle Raritan's Trash
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| Getting covered in mud and dirt may not seem like the ideal Saturday afternoon to some, but to the group of 20 volunteers who joined forces and took on the daunting task of cleaning the Raritan River last Saturday, it was the perfect afternoon. | |
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Film Rallies Young Voters
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| As part of a major campaign to galvanize young voters to get to the polls, David Burstein, the 18-year-old director and producer of "18 in '08," screened his documentary and held a post-screening discussion with students, professors and alumni at the Eagleton Institute of Politics on Douglass campus Monday night. | |
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Scarlet Knights Going Green in Eco-Friendly Style
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| Rutgers University is joining the latest green revolution sweeping campuses nationwide with plans for a solar farm, biofuels and other eco-friendly projects. | |
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Thousands Gather In Washington Square Park To Hear Obama
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| Over 20,000 people gathered in Washington Square Park Thursday evening for a free public rally and a chance to see Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Some college-aged New Jersey residents were also on hand to hear Obama. | |
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Institute: Put a Cap on Carbon Emissions
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| In hopes of reducing carbon emissions from the New Brunswick campus to zero by 2030, the Rutgers Energy Institute is sponsoring a contest to get undergraduate students involved in devising a plan. | |
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SGA Hosts Book Swap Event
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| It gets worse every year. Text book prices continue to rise and students struggle to pay them. | |
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Brookdale students help fix Katrina damage
- Asbury Park Press (new window)
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| A group of students and faculty from Brookdale Community College's chapter of New Jersey Clean Water Watch saw it all when they visited New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward during their spring break to clean up the damage left from Hurricane Katrina. | |
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Local groups do their part to improve the environment
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| At the March 24 Pews Creek cleanup event near the Bray Avenue Bridge, about 15 volunteers from the Pews Creek group, the Watershed Council, the Middletown Environmental Commission and Brookdale Community College Water Watch spent two hours collecting trash that included shopping carts, tires, car parts, beer bottles and cigarette butts. | |
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Forfeiting the sun, gaining awareness
- The Star Ledger (new window)
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| Spring break: The two long- awaited words beckon thousands of college kids to Florida beaches and Cancun nightclubs. But a growing number of stu dents are skipping the sun and nightlife, swapping beer bottles for tool belts to spend their hiatus helping others. | |
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Locals revitalize Raritan using art
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| It's time for a New Brunswick Spring Cleaning. New Jersey Community Water Watch and Albus Cavus are teaming up to clean the banks of the "Old Raritan" with a little artwork thrown in. Actually, a lot of artwork. | |
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The Solemn Song of New Orleans
- The Montclarion (new window)
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| Almost 18 months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, the French Quarter and downtown areas are back in business, but the neighborhoods surrounding the city remain time capsules of the fateful date of Aug. 29, 2005. Besides the white FEMA trailers that grace some driveways as temporary housing for residents, nothing has changed. | |
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Student Group, Princeton Water Watch, Seeking Improved Area Water Quality
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| A group of dedicated Princeton University students have a solution to New Jersey's water quality woes: stewardship. We are members of the group, Princeton Water Watch, and we need your help. | |
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Helping Them Rebuild
- Asbury Park Press (new window)
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| Thirteen Brookdale Community College students plan to forfeit their would-be relaxing spring breaks for a chance to rebuild the storm-ravaged homes left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. | |
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Students pressure University to go green
- The Daily Targum (new window)
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| Students at the Douglass College Government Association meeting Tuesday night began to contemplate a new color for the University - green. Cook College senior Jeff McCurdy sought the Council's support for a new project on behalf of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Student Chapters. | |
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A joint effort to stop global warming
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| Global warming on campus has finally gotten some national attention. The work that the University and its students are doing to address the problem is getting noticed by powerful players like Rep. Frank Pallone who agreed to come to a screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" after being invited by students of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group. | |
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Sign up for cheaper books
- Rutgers Observer (new window)
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| The Campaign to Make Textbooks Affordable teamed up with the University College Student Governing Association and the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Student Chapters in an effort to gain 3000 student signatures to support a resolution to lower the costs of textboobs. | |
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Make a donation, help volunteers aid victims of natural disaster
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| On March 20 members of the Rutgers University Cook/Douglass chapter of New Jersey Community Water Watch, a nonprofit environmental AmeriCorps program dedicated to improving local water quality throughout the state, will be helping to reconstruct homes in Kenner, La., a town located approximately 30 minutes outside of New Orleans. | |
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Offshore drilling fails
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| Last week, an opinion piece argued the United States should expand domestic offshore drilling as a means to lessen our country's dependence on foreign oil. Indeed, the fact the United States imports 58 percent of the oil it consumes is a threat to our economic and physical security. But that's not the extent of the problem. That any oil - foreign or domestic - is in limited supply, yet is still the source of 40 percent of our energy is troubling. But even that is not the most important danger to consider. | |
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In midterm elections, youth flexes muscles
- The Daily Targum (new window)
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| Youth voter turnout Tuesday was the highest it has been in years, influencing crucial congressional and gubernatorial races across the country. | |
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Don't Forget to Vote
- The Daily Targum (new window)
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| Even in a so-called democracy, there are few chances to actually participate in that democracy. One of them should not be eroded - the chance to vote in an election. Today is such a day, and we encourage all who are registered to vote today. | |
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