As a humble employee of the College Avenue Dining Hall, I offer you the students, an article that I hope will give you a more intimate knowledge of and relationship with Brower Commons.  I will start by admitting that as a freshman, I too thought that Brower was quite inferior to the other Dining Halls on the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus.

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In Thursday’s Targum, Ysabel Gonzalez wrote an opinions article entitled Cracks in Another Red Tape System (found here). In this article Ms. Gonzalez points out the lack of personal attention given to students here at Rutgers, as well as in institutions for higher education in general. She claims that professors and the University at large are not interested in individual students and their needs, but rather in the statistics which represent them. She believes that professors need to take more of an initiative to connect with students …

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Last week Robert Tarantino wrote an article about the widespread conversion to digital music and the resultant poor sound quality. Reading his article, I was inspired to address some of the more cultural (and less technical) consequences of this popular technology. While I cannot deny the convenience of having every song you could ever want to listen to in the palm of your hand, I do feel that the current trend in music distribution takes away from the integrity of the medium, thereby encouraging the decreases in …

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West Virginia University 12/2/06: Mostly sober, red shirts discretely hidden under our hoodies, I felt this was the perfect disguise in the frigid night air; still we found ourselves surrounded by chants of “Fuck New Jersey!” Moments later, as we don our noble garbs in the befitting manner, these chants and profane remarks condemning the state of my birth and residency were aimed directly at us. What do these gas-pumping hicks know anyway? Tough loss that night, but if Townsend didn’t drop that pass in the Fourth, we …

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Everyone has a different definition of love. Some people say it means “to like a lot”. Some say you are in love when you would do anything for a person, even die for them. I’ve even heard that love is “the soul’s recognition of its counterpart in another” (I think that’s from Wedding Crashers or something). Whatever your accepted definition of romantic love, it seems to be an emotion that drives people to do all sorts of things—things that someone not under its influence would call …

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Eating disorders are rarely a topic of discussion other than as the punch line to a joke or a criticism.  They are often thought of as exclusive to skinny, spoiled rich girls with no real problems to worry about.  The truth is that eating disorders such as Bulimia and Anorexia affect people of all ages, body types and genders and are very serious problems.

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In the journey to adulthood, one of the major challenges facing us is the search for a mate. This job description takes on a multitude of characteristics depending on who defines it. Some of us guys are searching for the woman who will one day bear our children, others for someone with whom we can pass the time until we graduate and go our separate ways, and still others simply want a girl with whom we can share a night.

On March 8, Why Are They More Important? appeared in the opinions section of the Daily Targum’s website as part of Anna Norcia’s column, Just the Facts. The piece discussed the recent charges of domestic abuse against Chris Brown, but was more concerned with the public’s response.  In her article, the writer asks why the public is more concerned with the altercation between pop stars Chris Brown and Rihanna than with the wrongdoings of other celebrities.

The Scourge Within
For the last 8 years, our nation has suffered at the hands of an enemy within our own ranks. I’m talking of course about the show where America votes, American Idol. Now in the midst of its eighth season, American Idol continues to hypnotize millions of viewers nationwide, eating away at the integrity of our country. American Idol epitomizes much of what is wrong with our society. The top rated show is an almost horrifying example of sharp declines in the quality of the media as well as …

By Anthony Xerri

When asked about the relative crime problem in different countries, the average American might be surprised to learn that the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, with approximately 2.3 million criminals locked up. For every 100,000 citizens, 751 are in jail or prison; 1 in 100 American adults is incarcerated.