NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University's New Brunswick Faculty Council passed a resolution on Friday condemning the selection of Condoleezza Rice as the 2014 commencement speaker.
Rice, who is considered by many to be a controversial official in the administration of President George W. Bush, has not been well-received by the university community since she was announced as the graduation speaker last month.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—New Brunswick officials have decided on three dates for the next incarnation of a popular event where many streets are closed down to encourage cycling and other healthy activities.
Last fall, New Brunswick's first-ever Ciclovia took place over a five-hour period on a cloudy but pleasant Sunday.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Raised in the Hub City, two-time national champion boxer Leroy “Lucious” Davila will never forget his roots here.
Davila won the national title in 2013, and successfully defended the title going into the US National Boxing Championship on January 25.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Peter Rona, a well-known Rutgers professor who has traveled deep under the ocean's surface, passed away on February 19 at the age of 79 from blood cancer.
Rona was remembered as a frequent traveler aboard submersibles, and as a worker with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to fellow professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Ken Miller.
UPDATE (7:50pm): This article was updated to include information from police radio transmissions.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Police are investigating a shooting that took place around 3:24pm today on Seaman Street between Joyce Kilmer and Railroad Avenues in the city's Fourth Ward.
According to police on scene, there were two people injured, one of them seriously. Both have been taken to an area hospital.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University's administration has been extraordinarily quiet about the recent killing of a former student just blocks from campus, while a spokesman for New Brunswick police falsely claimed that Rutgers had alerted "all of their students" of the incident.
HIGHLAND PARK, NJ—Live From the Streets, a popular hip-hop video series, is the brainchild of two former locals, Brooklyn-based rap producer Mr. Green and filmmaker Sam Lipman-Stern.
Since the summer of 2011 the show has grown from a do-it-yourself project by two friends to a successful internet series supported by Noisey, the music channel of youth-oriented media behemoth Vice.
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