Bohn Hall residents like Tanja Rekhi have had problems with the building's elevators all semester, but it wasn't until this week that both failed to operate properly. The freshman psychology major found herself stuck in the elevators four times (three times in one day) so far this semester.
"Why must we wait even one more day for full equality?" asked MSU's Webmaster Cindy Meneghin in recent testimony at a Nutley hearing. Meneghin was a plaintiff in a landmark case over a year ago that guaranteed equal rights of marriage to same-sex couples in New Jersey.
Global Warming urgency was on display in front of a packed audience in the Kasser Theater at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The event was entitled "The Environment and Sustainability: The Next 100 Years." It was a forum, starting with a keynote by Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of Geosciences at Princeton University who sits on a Nobel Peace Prize-winning committee.
Gotta Be Green, a newly-chartered environmental student organization, is having trouble pushing forward its plan to collect food waste from the campus and compost it, as it continues its involvement in the nationwide RecycleMania competition. Currently, the group can only collect food waste from the kitchens on the seventh floor of University Hall and from the Student Center cafeteria.
A motion recommending that Student Government Association President Ron Chicken swear in seven prospective legislators at the upcoming March 26 general legislative meeting was passed Wednesday. SGA Attorney General Joe Specchio expressed concern that the seven undergraduates, all of whom have acquired the necessary 150 signatures as per SGA statutes, have waited three weeks for appointment.