The Tampa Bay Buccaneers made a notable and poignant free-agent signing Wednesday when they added one of Coach Greg Schiano's former Rutgers players: defensive tackle Eric LeGrand, who was paralyzed after injuring his spinal cord in a game in 2010. ''Leading up to the draft, I couldn't help but think that this should've been Eric's draft class,''...
Irving Louis Horowitz, an eminent sociologist and prolific author who started a leading journal in his field but who came to fear that his discipline risked being captured by left-wing ideologues, died on Wednesday in Princeton, N.J. He was 82. The cause was complications of heart surgery, his wife, Mary Curtis Horowitz, said. Professor Horowitz,...
To the Editor: Re ''Jury Finds Spying in Rutgers Dorm Was a Hate Crime'' (front page, March 17): This case raises critical questions for the gay community and for us all. How do we balance justice and compassion? Should this young man be imprisoned for up to 10 years for a cruel and immature act that had a dreadful consequence he did not foresee...
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (også kendt som Rutgers University), er delstaten New Jerseys største institution for højere uddannelser med 36.888 bachelorstuderende og 12.872 kandidat -og Ph.d. studerende. Rutgers University har 2.636 videnskabeligt ansatte. Universitetet, som er i verdensklasse, blev oprindeligt stiftet som Queen's College i 1766, og er dermed USA's 8. ældste universitet. Efter USA's frihedskamp mod England gav sådanne royale betegnelser ikke mening, hvorfor universitetet i 1825 blev opkaldt efter revolutionshelten Colonel Henry Rutgers. Selvom universitetet blev stiftet som en privat institution tilknyttet den hollandske reformerte kirke og kun tillod mandlige studerende, er Rutgers i dag et statsligt drevet universitet for begge køn og alle religioner. Fold ud